Chatham News & Record Vol. 126, Issue 27

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Sierra Socks reinstates

‘Buy One, Give One’ campaign

Sierra Stocks in Pittsboro has announced that they are reinstating their “Buy One, Give One” Program. For every pair of socks purchased from their website, the company will donate a pair to temporary housing and food pantries in the area to distribute to those in need. This program will begin locally and branch out to neighboring counties. Among the homeless population, socks are one of the most requested items in shelters. A new pair of socks helps prevent the spread of disease and infection among this vulnerable population. Temporary housing and food pantries that serve the surrounding counties may email sales@sierrasocks.com to apply for the sock donation program. For additional information about this program or to purchase socks, please visit sierrasocks.com/.

Chatham Cooperative Extension to host Native Plant Sale this September

The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Extension will be hosting a Native Plant Sale on Sept. 8. This concentrated sale will run from 4-5 p.m. and be held at the Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center located at 1192 U.S. Hwy 64 West Business in Pittsboro. This is a great opportunity for Chatham residents to buy from four of the county’s native plant nurseries. Participating nurseries include Dutch Bu alo Farm, Growing Wild Nursery, Mellow Marsh Farm and Rachel’s Native Plants. An RSVP is required so the nurseries can plan accordingly, so please email Debbie Roos at dlroos@ncsu.edu if you anticipate attending. Doors will open promptly at 4 p.m.

Central Carolina Community College classes to start Sept. 12 Central Carolina Community College is set to begin its next set of 12-week classes on Sept. 12. Many of the classes are available in an online format.

To see a full list of available courses, visit ccc.edu/12and8. To register for courses, connect with your Education Navigator by visiting ccc.edu/admissions/ contacts/ or contact the Student Onboarding and Success

O ce at 919-718-7300 (Lee Main Campus), 919-545-8025 (Chatham Main Campus) or 910-814-8827 (Harnett Main Campus). You can also connect with an Education Navigator in person at any main campus, virtually or by appointment. For more information about CCCC, visit cccc.edu.

will be the areas only Jamaican food within 40 minutes

Kingston 99 Kitchen brings new avor to Pittsboro

By Chuck Thompson Chatham News & Record

A new eat-

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ery has opened in Pittsboro that is serving the unique sights, sounds and delicious avors of Jamaica.

Nestled in the commercial hub known as The Plant on Lorax Road, Kingston 99 Kitchen has created a unique opportunity to enjoy the avors and feel of Jamaica without leaving Chatham County.

Ordering is done by walking up to a window with the choice of enjoying your food at one of the outside tables or as a car-

ry-out. There is a walk-in area for the restaurant’s Sunday buffet.

“Sunday brunch is unique — every Sunday,” Jason Rhoden, Kingston 99 Kitchen general manager, said. “There’s not many brunch options in Pittsboro, so we brought that to you.”

Inside the bu et room at Kingston 99 Kitchen is a wall of several food-related Jamaican words along with their English translation as a fun way for customers to learn Jamaican words.

“There’s no better way to introduce you to Jamaican food

Superintendent continues tradition of riding school bus

on rst day of class

By Chuck Thompson Chatham News & Record

SUPERINTENDENT

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thony D. Jackson took his 13th annual rst-day-ofschool ride on Monday, “It’s a tradition he loves doing every year,” said Chatham County Schools Public Information O cer John Wood.

“This tradition dates back to my days as a building principal when I would annually ride the bus to meet students and families in the community,” Jackson said. “Since becoming a superintendent in 2008, I have ridden to the school with a kindergartener each year. There is nothing like experiencing and see -

ing a new school year through the eyes of a 5-year-old kindergartener.”

On Monday, the rst day of school in Chatham County, Jackson rode bus No. 35 from Pittsboro Elementary until it came to a stop where Lola Parks was waiting with her family to get on the school bus for her rst day of kindergarten. The superintendent exited the bus to speak with the Parks family and then rode with her to school Monday morning. They both made a new friend that day. They talked about her summer, her

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than a little bit at a time by having a bu et,” Rhoden said. “Jamaican food is what you might call soul food — it’s rich in avor. A lot of people think Jamaican food is spicy, but that’s not always true. You can decide your own spice avor, the way you want it.”

Kingston 99 Kitchen has plenty of authentic Jamaican options on its menu, plus a few that may have never crossed your mind.

“A lot of people judge a Jamaican restaurant by how they cook oxtails,” Rhoden said.” If you can’t get that right — there goes your standards.”

The bread pudding is a signature dessert item inspired by Rhoden’s mother, who made the favorite for her son.

Rhoden explained that all the dessert items are worth trying, but the bread pudding is one worth having if one can’t make up your mind the rst time.

Kingston 99 Kitchen also serves its own Jamaican drinks, including a Jamaican sorrel (hibiscus) drink and a pineapple ginger juice.

“But we don’t do just Jamaican food,” Rhoden added as he pointed to the menu showing that tacos, wraps and chicken tenders are also options among the Jamaican fare. Catering is also available for special events.

Rhoden said the variety of vendors at The Plant — including a clothing store, co ee, shop, brewery and venue space

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By Matt Mercer North State Journal

PITTSBORO — Domestic

and international visitors to and within Chatham County spent $75.72 million in 2022, an increase of 11.3% from 2021, according to new data.

The spending report comes from an annual study commissioned by Visit North Carolina, a unit of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina.

“Chatham County’s tourism and hospitality industry continues to grow, with predominantly small businesses o ering events and activities appealing to our visitors,” said Neha Shah, director of the Pittsboro-Siler City Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), which is the designated o cial destination marketing organization (DMO) for Chatham County.

State tax revenue generated in Chatham County totaled around $3.2 million through state sales and excise taxes, and taxes on personal and corporate income. About $2.8 million in local taxes were generated from sales and property tax revenue from travel-generated and travel-supported businesses.

The total payroll generated by the tourism industry in Chatham County was $23 million, the data showed.

Statewide, North Carolina set a record for visitor spending in 2022. As previously reported in May, travel statewide rose 15.2%,

an increase following a 2021 turnaround from the pandemic’s 2020 peak, which brought a devastating drop of 32% in visitor spending.

“As we celebrate a record $33.3 billion in visitor spending statewide, we’re pleased that counties that rely on business travel, as well as leisure trips, are doing well,” said N.C. Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders.

The travel and tourism industry directly employs more than 624 in Chatham County, according to the report.

The study was prepared for Visit North Carolina by Tourism Economics in collaboration with the U.S. Travel Association.

“Tourism is more than an essential industry for the state,” said Wit Tuttell, executive director of Visit NC. “It’s an economic development force in all 100 of our counties, the places where travelers experience our scenic beauty and adventure, our cuisine and unique culture, our history and the dynamic forces that create our enduring appeal. We look forward to continued success in welcoming people to experience places they won’t nd anywhere else.”

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General Manager of Kingston 99 Kitchen Jason Rhoden at The Plant

in Pittsboro.

Annual Chatham County visitor impact report shows 11.3% increase

Superintendent Anthony D. Jackson holds hands with Lola Parks.

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Gees Grove African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Gees Grove Annual Homecoming and Revival service will be begin on Sunday, Sept. 3 with Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. followed by morning service at 11 a.m. The Rev. Ricky Frazier will deliver the morning message. Service will continue on Tuesday, Sept. 5, and the guest speaker will be the Rev. Iris M. Jordan, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church in Cumnock, and Wednesday, Sept. 6 the guest speaker will be the Rev. Renwycke Harris, pastor of Paradise A. M. E. Zion Church in Broadway. First Missionary Baptist Church of Siler City and Oliver Chapel A. M. E. Zion Church of Staley will help render music during week service will begin each night at 7 p.m. Lunch will be served following morning service on Sunday.

ARREST BLOTTER

Chatham County Sheri ’s O ce

ON AUG. 23, Brandon Thomas Hill, 30, of 216 Coral Ave., Goldston, was arrested by Deputy Reid Allshouse for assault on a female. He was issued a $500 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in Chatham County District Court in Pittsboro on Aug. 30. On Aug. 23, Hill was also arrested by Allshouse for two counts of resisting a public o cer. He was issued a $500 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in Chatham County District Court on Aug. 30.

On Aug. 23, Lela Faye Partin, 54, of 3647 Alston Chapel Rd., Pittsboro, was arrested by Deputy Reggie Gri n for domestic

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violence protective order violation. She was issued a written promise to appear in Chatham County District Court in Pittsboro on Aug. 30.

On Aug. 23, Curtis Richard Koenigshofer, 31, of 201 Hickory Pond Rd., Chapel Hill, was arrested by Deputy Jonathan Frazier for failure to appear per release order. He was issued a $1,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in Halifax County District Court in Halifax on Oct. 6.

On Aug. 24, Corinne Morgan Meacham, 22, of 15 Weldon Dr., Chapel Hill, was arrested by Deputy Richard Gunter for assault and battery. She was issued a written promise to ap-

pear in Chatham County District Court in Pittsboro on Aug. 30.

On Aug. 24, Christopher David Hicks, 43, of 525 Sunny Slope Rd., Bear Creek, was arrested by Deputy Shannon Read for injury to personal property. He was issued a written promise to appear in Chatham County District Court in Pittsboro on Aug. 30.

On Aug. 25, Ashley Brian Covert, 49, of 7136 Pleasant Hill Church Rd., Siler City, was arrested by Deputy Brooke Roberts for possession of a stolen rearm. He was issued a written promise to appear in Chatham County District Court in Pittsboro on Aug. 28.

Here’s a quick look at what’s coming up in Chatham County:

Sept. 3

Local Historian to Present on coal mines

Local historian Forest Hazel will present a program from 12-4 p.m. on First Sunday (Sept. 3) at the Chatham Historical Museum on the old coal mines that once ourished in the southwest region of Chatham County. In addition, he will also present the Board program upstairs from 2-3. The museum also has an exhibit of the progression of lights used in the old mines, from candles to battery-operated headlamps. The museum is open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. It is located at the Historic Chatham County Courthouse, 9 Hillsboro St., Pittsboro. chathamhistory.com

Sept. 20

Reunion for Siler City and Pittsboro telephone company

There will be a reunion for all people who worked for the telephone company in Siler City and Pittsboro. It will be held at Best Food Cafeteria on Wednesday, Sept. 20th at 11:00 a.m. Each person will pay for their own meal. If you have questions, you may contact Helen Clark at 919742-3818.

Sept. 28

Small Business Resource Fair

This annual event hosted by Innovate Carolina is designed to provide valuable resources, expert guidance, and networking opportunities to help you thrive in the competitive business landscape. Check it out at the brand-new innovation hub and coworking space, 79°West. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Do you have a birthday, wedding, engagement or other milestone to celebrate?

Contact: advertising@chathamnr.com

ROCKY EVERETT RIVES

Rocky Everett Rives, born March 10, 1961, of Bear Creek, passed away on Sunday, August 20, 2023 surrounded by family. The funeral will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 24, 2023 at Pleasant Grove Christian Church with Pastor Don Edwards and Rev. Harold Reeves presiding. Visitation will be held from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at Joyce-Brady

Chapel.

Big Rocky, son of Billy Everett Rives and Shirley Wilson Rives, traveled the country from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the southern tip of Florida to New York and every state in between as a truck driver for 30+ years. He was a man who never met a stranger and would give a man the shirt o of his own back if they needed it. In his retirement, he spent every afternoon listening to music turned up loud and singing his favorite songs until 2:00 a.m. at times. He would spend his days rebuilding motorcycles, repairing lawn mowers and restoration projects in the shop/ man cave he built with his grandson, Tyler Rives. Three months later, their shop became “Rives Welding and Restoration”. Rocky loved good food and being with his family and friends. He especially loved his grandchildren. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three infant brothers, Gary, Christopher and Billy and foster brother, Butch Hefner.

Rocky is survived by his wife of 42 years, Anita Leonard Rives, of the home; sons, Rocky Rives II and Corey Rives, both of Bear Creek; grandchildren, Tyler Rives, Adrian Rives, Lydia Rives and Brandon Rives; father-in-law, Jesse Leonard; extended family, Maradith Gatens, Brandy Spivey, Neveah Testerman, Kelly Je ries, Olivia Lee and a host of family and friends.

Condolences may be o ered online at www.joycebradychapel. com. Joyce-Brady Chapel is honored to serve the Rives Family.

MELISSA MCCORMICK MARTIN

June 26, 1966– August 22, 2023

Melissa McCormick Martin passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of August 22, 2023, at her home on the family farm in Barbecue Township, North Carolina. Her long ght with cancer has come to an end, but her example as a strong, determined, and devoted wife, mother, friend, and servant to her community lives on brighter than ever.

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rented out for special occasions — along with an area where kids can play outside and people can walk back and forth while shopping and socializing — led to him choosing the location for his restaurant.

“This,” Rhoden said, holding

Melissa was born on June 26, 1966, in Asheville, North Carolina to Jimmy and Gwen McCormick. Ms. Gwen welcomed her into the world on her own while Jimmy was away serving his country in Vietnam. Jimmy would nd out three days later that he was the proud daddy of a healthy, wonderful little girl.

As a member of a military family, Melissa rst lived at Fort Polk, Louisiana until the summer of 1967 when they nally settled down back on the McCormick family farm in Barbecue Township in Harnett County, NC. Her life as a young lady growing up on a farm was lled with family, church, cows, hay, and tobacco. Melissa’s a nity for cows would never go away as she would keep cow art on her walls inside the house and feed donuts to the real cows outside. Her parents both worked in the Harnett County school system and provided the example that would spark her own career as an esteemed and highly respected educator later in life.

Melissa began elementary school at Johnsonville Elementary and went on to middle school at Benhaven. She attended Western Harnett High School where she graduated with honors in 1984. A tting note about her high school career is that she served as the North Carolina State President of the Future Homemakers of America (FHA). She was a natural at making anyone feel welcome in her home as those of us lucky enough to attend one of her many house parties can attest. She loved to celebrate anything and anybody, especially Christmas and Birthdays. She would go on to college at Campbell University from 1984 to 1988 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. She took her degree straight back to her home school of Johnsonville Elementary and began teaching rst grade where she would inspire the lives and minds of hundreds of children for over 20 years.

Melissa went back to Campbell University to earn her master’s degree in school administration in 2010. She then served as a curriculum and instructional coach for Harnett County Schools until she was named assistant principal at Benhaven Elementary School. She thrived at Benhaven Elementary as a leader and example to the students, parents, teachers, and sta alike. She sel essly served her community as an educator for over 31 years where her love and dedication to her kids would touch generations of families. As devoted as she was to her students, nothing was more important to Melissa than her family.

out his arms, “this reminds me of Jamaica.”

He added that the tightness of community, surrounded by woods in a rural yet very miniature urban-type setting, gave him a feeling of being back home, and he knew it was the best location for Kingston 99 Kitchen.

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She doted on Charlie and her boys from the moment her eyes opened each morning. Charlie and Melissa were married on November 27, 1993, at Barbecue Presbyterian Church where their 30-year love a air would begin. They were perfect partners for each other who always found reasons to celebrate life, no matter how small that reason might be. Their two greatest achievements were their boys, Phillip and Patrick. Melissa would stop at nothing to make sure her boys were safe, happy, and successful. She watched each of them graduate from North Carolina State University enroute to becoming ne young men with a world of promise ahead of them. Melissa will always be an incredible and loving mother.

Melissa was a good and faithful servant to God and her church family. She gave much of her time and talent to her home church at Barbecue Presbyterian Church where she served as an Elder, a Deacon, and the piano player whenever needed. She played the piano at Mount Pisgah Presbyterian Church for many years as well. Both of her churches cherished, admired, and loved Melissa as one of their own. She certainly left her mark of Christian love and service in both places. Even during a pandemic, Melissa would record hymns on her piano at home and send them into church for Sunday. There was no quit in her. Those recordings of her playing the piano still grace the halls and sanctuary of Barbecue as their back-up piano player from time to time! They are a perfect reminder of what Christian love looks…and sounds...like.

Melissa is survived by her husband, Charlie Martin; her two sons, Phillip and Patrick Martin; her parents, Jimmy and Gwen McCormick; and her sister, Molly McCormick Howsden. She was preceded in death by her grandparents Charles and Elizabeth Johnson and John and Mary Emily McCormick as well as her mother and father-in-law John and Beverly Martin.

Melissa’s family will celebrate her life at Barbecue Presbyterian church on Saturday, August 26th, at 11:00 am with a reception following in the church fellowship hall. The visitation will be the evening prior on Friday, August 25th from 6-8pm at the Smith Funeral Home in Broadway.

In lieu of owers, the family request that memorial donations be made to the Jimmy V Foundation. Online condolences can be made at www. smithfuneralhomebroadway.com Arrangements are by the Smith Funeral Home of Broadway.

“Kingston 99 wants to be a part of the community,” he said. And a community person he is, indeed. Rhoden seemed to already know all his business neighbors and customers. He was greeted several times with a “Hi, Jason” or “Hey how are you today, Jason!” as he walked by while giving Chatham News

TOWN OF PITTSBORO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Town of Pittsboro will hold a public hearing to obtain a Closeout Report on the Town’s 2019 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for Economic Development for Gilero LLC. The Town received a $300,000 CDBG grant to assist in the renovationsof a 40,000 squarefoot building located at 158 Credle Street in Pittsboro. These funds were loaned to Gilero in the form of a forgivable loan in exchange for job creation. To bring the building to the standards needed to operate Gilero, extensive renovations were necessary. Those renovations included internal walls and ooring, extensive HVAC, electrical and air quality work at a cost in excess of $750,000 Other project costs included $5,000 for environmental review and planning and $25,000 for grant administration. Gilero also invested $2 million for building acquisition and $2,176,943 in new machinery and equipment, furniture and building improvements.

The company intended to create 19 new jobs with 60% going to persons residing in low to moderate income households To date, Gilero had created 19 new jobs in Pittsboro with a total of 17 (89.5%) going to low to moderate income individuals.

A Public Hearing will be held on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 7:00 PM in the Pittsboro Town Hall at 635 East Street in Pittsboro.Written comments should be addressed to Carrie Bailey, Town Clerk, 635 East Street, Pittsboro NC 27312. Comments received by 4:00 p.m. on the day of the Hearing will be considered.

This information is available in Spanish or any other language upon request.Please contact Carrie Bailey at 919-542-4621 for accommodations for this request.

Esta información está disponible está disponible en español o en cualquier otro idioma bajo petición. Póngase en contacto con Carrie Bailey at 919-542-4621 de alojamiento para esta solicitud.

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“We have to balance environment with development and who we are,” Rhoden explained, “Kingston 99 Kitchen is very much community-oriented, and we want to serve the community to the best of our ability.”

Kingston 99 Kitchen is located at 192 Lorax Rd. in Pittsboro

and open Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is also open on the rst and third Wednesday of each month. For more information and up-to-date hours and menu items, visit kingston99kitchen. com.

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OPINION

Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor

Republican debate: Whatever happened in the debate, fundamentals could still matter

HAVING COMPLETED the rst presidential debate of the 2024 campaign cycle, it’s tempting to focus on minor but perhaps momentarily decisive details, such as whether Ron DeSantis was wise to outsource strategy to a committee that he’s legally barred from communicating with or whether it was wise for Trump campaign spokesmen to not be allowed in the Fox News spin room.

Reporters have an incentive to focus on such things. Being the rst to spot a change in course -- leading the pack -- is a source of professional pride. But the fundamentals remain potentially dispositive.

Jimmy Carter’s astute advisers were able to keep his campaign above water for months in the 1980 cycle. But when the election returns came in, his low job rating on most issues was re ected in his 41% share of the vote, enough to carry only six states.

One lesson of that campaign, and of many others, is that voters seek in presidential candidates qualities that they nd lacking in the current president. Voters in 1960, accustomed to what were then considered elderly incumbents (every president for the preceding 18 years was in his 60s, and Dwight Eisenhower turned 70 three weeks before Election Day), opted for the outwardly vigorous 43-year-old John F. Kennedy.

The fundamentals in this case are that majorities of voters are inclined to reject each of the two most recent incumbent presidents, even though they register hefty majorities in polls of their party’s primary voters, 64% for Joe Biden and 55% for Donald Trump.

Majority rejection of the 45th and 46th presidents is not a momentary phenomenon. In the 91 months since Trump was inaugurated, incumbent presidents have enjoyed majority approval in only seven months and have fallen short in 84 months.

That’s 92% of the time over the last seven years and seven months, an even higher percentage than during the seven years leading up to the 1980 election, during the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

It’s not hard to think of reasons why: Trump’s uncouth insults and vacillating policies, Biden’s visible aging and extreme policies, both men’s penchant for transparent untruths (or, in the opposition party’s parlance, lies).

Their support in primary polling seems to re ect a sincere inability on the part of their co-partisans, in a time of sharp partisanship, to understand why most of their fellow citizens do not appreciate their performance.

But not all partisans are blind to the views of others. In the early caucus and primary states, where candidates have been most active and voters most engaged, Trump has been polling below 50%, signi cantly below his national average -- 43% in Iowa, 44% in New Hampshire and 46% in South Carolina.

The Des Moines Register/NBC poll, conducted by the astonishingly good pollster J. Ann Selzer, showed Trump leading DeSantis by a 42%-19% margin. That sounds like a whopping lead, and in a general election poll, where most voters tend to support their party’s candidates, it would be.

But in primaries, and especially the Iowa caucuses, preferences are more uid. As the veteran poll analyst Nate Silver points out, since 2004, only one of the Republican or Democratic candidates leading in Iowa polling at this stage of the cycle has won the Iowa caucuses, and that candidate (Hillary Clinton in 2016) won by only 1%.

“The Selzer poll is good for Trump, but it’s not consistent with the view that his nomination is more-or-less inevitable,” Silver wrote. “Trump is ‘only’ 68% at prediction markets, which to me seems low, but lotta folks here are treating him at ~99%, which is de nitely too high.”

That suggests that Silver puts a Trump opponent’s chances of winning the Republican nomination somewhere around 29%, which his Fivethirtyeight. com estimated as Trump’s chance of winning the 2016 general election.

The problem Trump’s current opponents face is akin to the classic tension between the need to go right (or left) to win the party nomination and then go to the center to win the general election. To be Trump-like enough to win the nomination and to present, for the general election, a contrast with the untruthfulness and aging which, to varying degrees, a ict Trump and Biden.

That’s a di cult but not impossible task. Upsets or even surprisingly strong second-place nishes in early contests can, as in the past, change millions of votes in ensuing primaries. And a potential Republican nominee without Trump’s weaknesses could lead to ructions among Democrats suddenly terri ed that Biden could lose.

This week’s debates could change the course of the presidential contest. But so could the fundamentals.

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

Joe Biden Is a narcissist, not an empath

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. It is that empathy that brought him to the presidency -- his deep and abiding capacity to connect with others. In “What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s detailed blow-by-blow of the 1988 election cycle, Ben Cramer describes Biden’s ability to “connect” as his greatest supposed skill. This has been the pitch for Biden for decades: not much in the way of brains, not a tremendously resourceful politician, awkward on his feet -- but he cares. In the words of Mark Gitenstein, Biden’s 1988 speechwriter and a four-decade adviser, “His ability to communicate with people in pain is maybe his most powerful strength.”

Or maybe, just maybe, Biden was never an empathetic man. Maybe he simply tra cked in ersatz empathy, all the while feeding his own narcissism.

That story certainly looks more plausible these days.

Last week, Biden visited Maui. He did so nearly two weeks after the worst wild re in modern American history killed hundreds of Americans. Meanwhile, Biden vacationed in Delaware on the beach, telling reporters he had “no comment” on the situation; he then jet-set o to Lake Tahoe before nally heading to Lahaina. Once he reached Hawaii, he proceeded to explain that he felt the pain of those whose family members had been incinerated. After all, he said, one time he experienced a small kitchen re. “I don’t want to compare di culties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” he jabbered. “Years ago, now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the press’... Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the... air condition ducts. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ‘67 Corvette and my cat.”

In reality, back in 2004, lightning caused a kitchen re in Biden’s home that

was put out in 20 minutes with no other damage.

If this were an isolated incident, we could chalk it up to Biden’s encroaching senility. But it isn’t. After presiding over the botched pullout from Afghanistan that resulted in the return of the Taliban, the murder of 13 American servicemembers, the abandonment of hundreds of American citizens and thousands of American green card holders, and the subjugation of some tens of millions of women, Biden essentially shrugged. Then, when faced with the families of wounded and killed American soldiers, he attempted to “feel their pain” by invoking the death of his son, Beau. According to Cheryl Rex, whose son died in the Abbey Gate bombing of Aug. 26, 2021, “His words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill, and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a ag-draped co n.’”

Biden has cited Beau in similar instances multiple times.

In the Jewish community, death of a loved one is followed by shiva, a sevenday period of mourning. During shiva, mourners don’t leave their homes; they are instead cared for by the community, provided with food and communal prayer. Members of the community visit the shiva house to provide comfort.

The rst rule of visiting a shiva house: Don’t talk about your own experiences with death or pain. It’s gauche and irrelevant and trivializing.

Yet this is Biden’s rst move.

Empathy is the quality of putting yourself in the place of others. But Biden isn’t an empath. He’s someone who believes that everyone else’s pain is merely a re ection of his own.

COLUMN | MICHAEL BARONE

Ben Shapiro, 39, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+.

EDITORIAL | BEN SHAPIRO

Why young Americans are not taught about evil

MOST OF OUR SCHOOLS teach almost nothing of importance, and nothing is more important than the study of good and evil. In the United States today, nearly all schools, from elementary through graduate, concentrate on teaching about racism, sexism, preferred pronouns, homophobia, transphobia, climate change, diversity, equity, inclusiveness and white guilt. In other words, most of our educational institutions, including the most prestigious, do not educate.

Here are a few proofs.

It is almost certain that the great majority of American high school and college students (with the obvious exception of Christian students) could not name the Four Gospels (presuming they even know what they are); ve of the Ten Commandments (presuming they know what those are); or the names of two Shakespeare plays. Most American students know little about the American Revolution, let alone about the French or Russian revolutions. The same holds true for the Constitution and every other American founding document. It is doubtful that, other than George Washington and Thomas Je erson having owned slaves, American students know anything about these men or could name two other founders.

When it comes to evil, the ignorance is enormous, often almost total. For example, according to Pew, about half of Americans ages 18-39 cannot identify Auschwitz or any other Nazi death camp. And there is every reason to assume that much fewer than half could identify the Gulag Archipelago (20 million-plus murdered); the Ukrainian forced famine (5 to 6 million murdered in a little over a year); Mao’s Great Leap Forward (about 60 million murdered); or Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (about one in every four Cambodians murdered).

As noted, almost no one outside of Russia has ever heard of the Russian Civil War, let alone knows anything about it. One reason is that the winners, the communists, had no desire for people to know about it. Yet, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, about 10 million people, the great majority noncombatants, were killed.

Why don’t students know about evil?

The rst reason is that nearly all the genocides of the 20th century were committed by communists, and the Left, which runs virtually all educational institutions, has always had a soft spot for communism. If people were to recognize that communism has been the greatest source of evil in the modern age in terms of numbers murdered, number of lives destroyed, liberty stolen and the sheer amount of human su ering in icted (greater by those metrics than those of the Nazis before they were forcibly stopped), the Left would lose much of its appeal.

Another reason is the foolish notion that people are

basically good. This has been a left-wing belief since the French Enlightenment leader Jean-Jacques Rousseau came up with the idea. As he wrote in his book “On Philosophy, Morality, and Religion,” “Man is a naturally good being, loving justice and order; there is no natural perversity in the human heart. ... All the vices imputed to the human heart are not natural to it.”

This nonsense had been foreign to the Western mind. Its view of humanity was rooted in the Bible, and neither Bible-based religion — Judaism or Christianity — a rmed the goodness of the human heart. As Genesis states, “The will of man’s heart is evil from his youth,” and the rest of the Bible repeatedly warns us against following our hearts.

However, as the West began to abandon the Bible, including belief in the God of the Bible, Westerners began to believe in man. As Karl Marx put it, “Man is God.” People had no choice. For if there is no God to believe in, one must believe in man — or one has literally nothing to believe in. Therefore, belief in man’s inherent goodness became both psychologically and philosophically necessary.

A third reason follows from the second. Except for the mass murder of the Armenians (which was committed by Muslim Turks), the genocides and the other horrors of the 20th century were committed by secular regimes. Given the centrality of secularism to leftism, this fact has been kept from young people. Likewise, the fact that all these genocides were committed by big governments is not taught to young people because big government is also central to left-wing ideology. In other words, a true depiction of the evils of the 20th century would mean the end of the two pillars of left-wing ideology: secularism and big government. If you want to make a more moral world, you must begin with the study of evil. But, for the reasons enumerated here, the Left is not — and cannot be — interested in ghting real evil. So, the Left ghts made-up evils: American systemic racism, transphobia, capitalism, carbon emissions, sexism and former President Donald Trump, to name a few. This is why young people know almost nothing about evil. The Left doesn’t want them to know about it. Because knowledge of evil inevitably leads directly to rejection of the Left.

Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist. His commentary on Deuteronomy, the third volume of “The Rational Bible,” his ve-volume commentary on the rst ve books of the Bible, was published in October. He is the co-founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

Country Fan South of Boston

DESPITE A MASTER’S DEGREE in English Literature, and a job that does not require getting my hands dirty, I love country music.

Hank. Johnny. Jones. Haggard. Loretta. Tammy. Sturgill. Little Jimmy Dickens. Willie. Waylon.

It started when I was growing up in Missouri, and it stuck. Country, and its cousin, folk music, are what’s on my Spotify, along with some Cajun and a bunch of Delta blues. Hard times. Bad times. Loving. Working. Drinking. Cheating. Heartbreak. Jesus.

I love it all.

“Country tells a story,” they say, and the best of it does.

Bearded and more po’ than poor, Oliver Anthony oughta be just my kind of honky-tonk wail.

But he’s not.

Oh, I listened to “Rich Men North of Richmond,” but I didn’t hear any of country’s grace, none of its poetry. What I heard was unvarnished, personalized complaint, a straining for victimhood.

As near as I can tell, Oliver Anthony dropped out of high school, did a lot of drugs, ended up with the kind of job you get if you drop out of high school and do a lot of drugs, and now it’s everyone’s fault but his.

Railing against Congress, people on welfare and the shadowy visitors to Je rey Epstein’s island, Anthony nds every token of victimhood but fails to locate the golden ticket of personal responsibility.

That funny, too, because Anthony identi es as Appalachian. Until they invented welfare and OxyContin, Appalachia was an American monument of self-reliance, of no shoes and hard pride.

Done now, as the last son of the hollers reaches for his right to snivel. “We don’t take nothin’ from nobody” is dead as hell, and in its place is, “Pity me. Pity me. Pity me.”

BE IN TOUCH

Just “me.” Alone in the pines, insisting I have nothing to do with my own downfall and no interest in anyone else’s. Compassion for yourself is easy. Compassion for others is hard.

So, Woody Guthrie, lifelong complainer, wrote about Okies blown west by the dust storms, his own people, but took time to write about Mexican illegals killed when the plane ying them back to Mexico crashed and killed them all. Johnny Cash, white boy son of the South, sang of the Native American war hero Ira Hayes, dying drunk in a ditch.

A trade school diploma, no drugs and a job as a union carpenter would have saved Oliver Anthony, but he doesn’t know that, or he wants to turn his face away and look for someone to blame.

Chicago is full of people whose Black and white grandparents took their futures in their calloused hands and ran like hell from the one-room sharecropper’s shack and the noose. Their grandkids live in the suburbs now and work in air-conditioned o ces because Grandpa and Grandma came North. They had a choice. They could stand in a packed-dirt front yard and complain about the man they sharecropped for, or they could do what Americans do, which is pridefully shut up and outwork the problem.

I’ve defended country music for decades, explaining the rough, beautiful poetry of Hank Williams Sr. and Merle Haggard to disdainful hipster friends.

“It’s not just pickup trucks and my woman done left me,” I ‘d say. “Some of those boys can really write.” Oliver Anthony can’t.

Dion’s latest book, a collection of his best columns, is called “Mean Old Liberal.” It is available in paperback from Amazon.com, and for Nook, Kindle and iBooks.

To Editor, News & Record, In “County workshop gives updates on childcare, nutrition and climate change considerations” (August 23), reporter Chuck Thompson describes the recent Chatham County Commissioners’ work session, including a presentation on steps the County can take to address sources of climate change. Unfortunately, Thompson inaccurately claims I stated a “need to forcibly move to climate e cient homes.” While energy e cient appliances reduce utility bills and lessen energy waste, no one to my knowledge is trying to “force” homeowners to save money or cut greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, the In ation Reduction Act does provide incentives through tax credits and rebates for those wishing to upgrade their HVAC systems and households appliances like washers and dryers, improve weatherization for their homes, or buy an electric vehicle. No sticks involved, just carrots.

Robert Cox C-Chair, Chatham County Climate Advisory Committee

COLUMN SUSAN ESTRICH

About Hunter

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN loves his son.

That’s the long and short of it. The son’s a rst-class mess. Former drug addict. Peddled in uence he didn’t have. The laptop. The pictures. The child he denied. The plea deal that collapsed. Now the special counsel will do his business. Can it get any worse?

Sure. He could end up in prison. That would hurt the Bidens. As parents.

It’s not really a political problem. Hunter is not a voting issue. No one is going to vote against Joe because of Hunter. It’s what it takes out of Joe that is painful to watch. It’s a human issue. Presidents are people, too.

When you have kids who have troubles, it doesn’t matter if you’re president; actually, it makes it worse, far worse. It’s worse for them, obviously, because they’re under the microscope, and it’s worse for parents who love them, whether they have troubles or not.

But Hunter is a special problem both because the Bidens have lived their tragedies so publicly and because every time it seems like it’s almost gotten solved, something new jumps out to make it more complicated.

The Bidens, like the Kennedys, are a family steeped in grief. Joe Biden came to prominence when, as a newly elected young senator, he lost his wife and young daughter in a horri c car accident. Decades later, he faced tragedy again when he lost his son Beau to brain cancer. He has been open about facing tragedy and has shared the experience in a way that has shown his empathy and decency, and underscored his loyalty to his surviving son.

And then there is Hunter. It would be easy for the Bidens to keep him at arm’s length. They have not. He is their son. They have embraced him. He has stayed at the White House. Attended state dinners. Created embarrassing moments. Families are like that. Most families have a Hunter -- someone who lost their way, talked too much, made stupid mistakes. A blowhard for sure. Bad judgment all around. The collapse of the plea deal is just the latest and the biggest hiccup. Hunter doesn’t deserve any favors. He doesn’t deserve any leniency. I don’t know what he did wrong, but he should su er the same consequences anyone else would for his wrongdoing. He should get whatever he deserves.

And the president?

This is not a test of his presidency. It’s about his role as a parent. And his character. I would never punish a parent for loving his child unconditionally. I would never punish a parent for being too loyal to a child in trouble, never fault a parent for standing by a son in trouble, for trying to help a child who is struggling. If that is the test of the man, then Joe Biden passes the test. It is a matter of character, the character of a parent, and Joe and Jill Biden pass those tests of character with ying colors. Hunter is, in that regard, a very fortunate man.

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Nancy Elaine Pritchard Wilson

Nancy Elaine Pritchard Wilson, 88, of Siler City, passed into the arms of her Savior on Thursday, August 17, 2023, at UNC Hospital in Hillsborough.

Nancy was born in Cabarrus County on March 6, 1935, to William Hugh and Margaret Faye Payne Pritchard. She loved her family and becoming a grandmother and great grandmother, as well as her special sister bond and their sister trips. Her love of music was evident in not only her beautiful singing voice, but in her gifts of leading the church choir at First Wesleyan Church and later singing in a ladies group, HOPE at Oakley Baptist Church where she was a long time member and choir member until her health would not allow it. She was an amazing artist, loving oil painting, and could sew anything from making her children’s clothes to a wedding gown for her sister, Ellen. She also loved designing and painting sweatshirts and shoes for local festivals.

Nancy co-owned and operated The Pumpkin TreeChildren’s Clothing along with her sister, Judy. Later in life she graduated from Central Carolina Community College with an Associates Degree in Business. She retired as secretary of United Fire and Safety after many years of faithful service.

Nancy was preceded in death by her parents; sons Greg Wilson and John D. Wilson; daughter-in-law

Rachel Wilson; and brother Jack Pritchard.

Mrs. Wilson is survived by her son Marty Wilson (Sarah) of Bennett; daughters

Teresa Graves (Ricky) of Siler City, and Carolyn Wilson of Burlington; 8 grandchildren

Hillary Graves, Corey Wilson, Cli Graves (Ti any), Nicole Wilson, Adam Wilson, Jessica Ward (Victor), Josh Riggs, and Joel Riggs; 3 great grandchildren Norah Graves, Edith Graves, and Jackie Gri n; brothers Guy Pritchard, of Siler City, and Michael Pritchard (Martha) of Tampa, FL; sisters Marie Marsh (Dalton) of Siler City, Judy Marsh of Siler City, Ellen Holder (Dave) of Indian Lake Estate, FL, and Vicky Justice (PD) of Siler City; and many nieces and nephews.

A visitation will be held on Sunday, August 20, 2023, at Oakley Baptist Church, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM. Other times will be at the home of Teresa and Ricky Graves. The funeral service will follow at 3:00 PM, with Dr. Je Johnson o ciating. Burial will follow in the Church Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Lottie Moon Christmas Fund c/o Oakley Baptist Church.

Smith & Buckner Funeral Home is serving the Wilson family.

Online Condolences may be made at www. smithbucknerfh.com

James “Jimmy”

Braxton Terry

James “Jimmy” Braxton Terry, 84, of Siler City, passed away Wednesday, August 23, 2023.

Jimmy was born in Chatham County on August 6, 1939, to Thomas Braxton and Gretchen Green Terry. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Betty Mendenhall Terry and infant son Virgil Lee Terry. Mr. Terry was a truck driver for many years. He was a proli c cook, griller, and homemade ice cream maker for the family. He loved to joke and tell stories.

Jimmy is survived by his daughter, Kathy Terry, of the home; multiple cousins, and several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends from 1:00-3:00 PM on Sunday September 2, 2023, at Rocky River Baptist Church, and the funeral service will follow at 3:00 PM with Dr. Greg Burris o ciating. In lieu of owers, memorials may be made to the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill and American Legion Post 305, Snow Camp, NC. Smith & Buckner Funeral Home is serving the Terry family.

Online Condolences may be made at www.smithbucknerfh. com

Charles “Chuck” Leon Overman

Charles “Chuck” Leon Overman, 66, of Siler City, passed away Sunday, August 20, 2023. Chuck was born in Chatham County on October 16, 1956, to Calvin Leon and Betty Jean Cox Overman. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter Angel Overman Marsh, and his gol ng canine buddy Lucy.

Mr. Overman was a 1974 Graduate of Jordan Matthews High School. He worked as a steel building estimator in Sanford at Steel and Pipe, and later at Buckner Erection Steel in Graham. He was a member of Hickory Mountain Baptist Church where he was a deacon and a member the church choir. He loved to be outside whether it was working, playing golf or coaching his kids in all sports. He loved his dogs Bella and Betty.

Chuck is survived by his wife of 46 years, Elizabeth “Beth” Johnson Overman, of the home; son, Charles R. Overman and wife, Courtney, of Apex; son-in-law, Jonathon Marsh, of New Bern; grandchildren, Ava and Piper Overman, Layla, Gabriel, and Lily Marsh.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, August 26, 2023, at Hickory Mountain Baptist Church, at 3:00 PM with Rev. Lee Callicutt, Rev. Val Chadwick, and Rev. Casey Ray eld o ciating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family would like for you to visit with them in the church fellowship hall after the service.

Memorials may be made to Hickory Mountain Baptist Church or to the Alzheimer’s Association. Smith & Buckner Funeral Home is serving the Overman family.

Online Condolences may be made at www.smithbucknerfh. com

Stanley Curtis Horton

We are heartbroken to announce the death of our father, Stanley Curtis Horton. He passed away peacefully at the age of 72 in the care of the Veterans’ A airs hospital after a summer spent with his two sons and mother.

Stanley was born and raised in “the middle-of-nowhere Chatham county” and grew up working on a tobacco farm. He joined the Air Force after high school and served for several years before switching branches to the Navy. He was active military for a total of 14 years. He married Tracy (Tillman) Horton in 1977 with whom he raised two sons.

For the last two decades of his life, he continued his service in caring for his mother. Stanley played guitar his whole life, enjoyed gol.ng while he was in good health, and got a kick out of the card table later in life.

He had a very active sense of humor; in the hospital near the end of his life he would often come out of a procedure wearing a red clown nose just to get a laugh out of the hospital stay.

“These folks really need the joy,” he would say. He is survived by his mother Gertrude Horton and his two sons, Travis and Justin Horton.

Charles Hunter Fuquay

Charles Hunter Fuquay, 78, of Siler City, passed away Saturday, August 26, 2023, surrounded by his family. He had won his courageous battle with cancer and is resting in the arms of Jesus.

Charles was born on September 18th, 1944, in Mecklenburg County and was the son of the late Doyle Hunter and Annie Mae Herron Fuquay. He was preceded in death by his parent’s and brothers Norman, Mike, and Jerry Fuquay. He was a loving husband, father, pawpaw, and brother. Charles retired in 2008 from Car Quest Auto Parts in Greensboro. He was a member and a deacon and served on several committees at Rocky River Baptist Church. He was a 1963 graduate of Silk Hope High School. He was an

Weston (Wes) Lane Tally and Winona (Winnie) Dawn Tally were born silent on Sunday, August 20, 2023, at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill at 5:15 a.m. and 5:35 a.m. respectively. Weston was the treasured son and Winona the treasured daughter of Daniel and Laney (Fuquay) Tally of Carbonton. The twins are survived by their twin siblings Maxton (Max) Scott and Magnolia (Maggie) Erin Tally of the home.

outstanding athlete in basketball and baseball. He loved playing baseball, softball, golf, and shing (saltwater). He enjoyed watching the Atlanta Braves, college basketball. He rarely missed a baseball game at Jordan Matthews. He loved to help with chicken bene ts at all the churches. He had a servant heart and was always willing to lend a helping hand to those in the community.

He proudly served with his country in the Army reserves. He loved spending time with his granddaughters, family, and friends.

Charles is survived by his wife of 57 years, Brenda Teague Fuquay. He is also survived by his son Chad Hunter Fuquay, of Angier, granddaughters Leah Hunter Fuquay and Brooke Cameron Fuquay who were his pride and joy. His sisters Patricia F Mangum (Lonnie) of Pinehurst and Kimberly Dawn Fuquay (Natalie Dickins) of Gastonia.

The family will receive friends from 1:00-3:00 PM on Wednesday August 30, 2023, at Rocky River Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, and the funeral service will follow at 3:00 PM with Rev Jim Wall and Dr. Greg Burris o ciating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to Rocky River Baptist Church. Smith & Buckner Funeral Home is serving the Fuquay family.

Online Condolences may be made at www.smithbucknerfh. com

Other mourning their loss include maternal grandparents, Je and Glenda (Kiser) Fuquay; paternal grandparents, John and Sheila (Scott) Tally, great grandparents, numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.

“How very softly you tiptoed into our world. Silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts forever.”

– Author Unknown

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

HAVING QUALIFIED as Executor of the Estate of Wallace Roger Stone, Sr., late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 15th day of December, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

This the lst day of August, 2023.

Wallace Roger Stone, Jr., Executor of The Estate of Wallace Roger Stone, Sr.

1935 Goldston Carbonton Road

Goldston, North Carolina 27252

MOODY, WILLIAMS, ATWATER & LEE

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

HAVING QUALIFIED as Co-Executrix of the Estate of William Curtis Elmore, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

This the 17th day of August, 2023.

Sandra Elmore Siler

Executor of the Estate of William Curtis Elmore

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

HAVING QUALIFIED as Co-Executrix of the Estate of Willie C. Freeman, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

This the 17th day of August, 2023.

Tina Freeman Gaines

Co-Executrix of the Estate of Willie C. Freeman 1478 Delphus Stinson Road Goldston, NC 27252

Rachel Ann Freeman Ray Co-Executrix of the Estate of Willie C. Freeman 344 Barker Road Bear Creek, NC 27207 Au17,Au24,Au31,Se7,4tc

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY HAVING QUALIFIED as Executor of the Estate of Patricia Antoinette Brown, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

This the 17th day of August, 2023.

Derek Louis Brown Executor of the Estate of Patricia Antoinette Brown 1516 Consett Court Raleigh, NC 27613 Au17,Au24,Au31,Se7,4tc

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FILE NUMBER: 23 E 450

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

The undersigned, Rose M. Kincaid, having quali ed as Administrator of the Estate of Robert J. Kincaid, deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 31st day of August, 2023.

Name: Rose M. Kincaid Administrator 266 Autumn Chase Pittsboro, NC 27312 Au31,Se7,Se14,Se21,4tc

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

ROBERT LEE DANN CHATHAM COUNTY

FILE # 23 E 408

The undersigned, having quali ed as Executor for the Estate of Robert Lee Dann, deceased, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate to present such claims to the undersigned Executor c/o Ralph A. Evans, Attorney At Law, at P.O. Box 1145, Liberty, North Carolina 27298 on or before November 30, 2023 or this Notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate will please make immediate payment.

This the 25th day of August, 2023.

Je rey T. Hutcherson Executor 514

N. Candlewood Dr. Liberty, NC 27298

Ralph A. Evans Attorney At Law P.O. Box 1145 Liberty, NC 27298 (336) 622-5320

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

All persons having claims against Irma Jean Sa elle (a.k.a. Jean Neville Sa elle) of Chatham County, North Carolina are noti ed to present them to Milton F. Sa elle, Jr., Executor of the Estate of Irma Jean Sa elle, in c/o Dean P. Broz, Attorney for the Estate, at Higgins, Frankstone, Graves & Morris, P. A., 1414 Raleigh Road, Suite 203, Exchange West at Meadowmont, Chapel Hill, NC 27517-8834 on or before November 24, 2023. Failure to present a claim in timely fashion will result in this Notice being pleaded in bar of recovery against the estate, the Executor, and the devisees of Irma Jean Sa elle. Those indebted to Irma Jean Sa elle are asked to make prompt payment to the Estate.

Dean P. Broz Higgins, Frankstone, Graves & Morris, P.A. 1414 Raleigh Road, Suite 203 Exchange West at Meadowmont Chapel Hill, NC 27517-8834

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NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

The undersigned, Sonja L. Lee, having quali ed as Administrator of the Estate of Marilyn M. Bowden, deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 31st day of August, 2023.

Name: Sonja L. Lee Executrix 463 Stockyard Rd Staley, NC 27355 Au31,Se7,Se14,Se21,4tc

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FILE NUMBER: 23 E 335 NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

The undersigned, Laura Aiello, having quali ed as Administrator of the Estate of Matthews James Aiella, deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 31st day of August, 2023.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

23-E-443 NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

The undersigned, Jamelle Emerson, having quali ed as Administrator of the Estate of Michael L. Mineer, deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the day of November 22nd, 2023, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 24th of August 2023.

Jamelle Emerson Administrator c/o Marie H. Hopper Attorney for the Estate Hopper Cummings, PLLC Post O ce Box 1455 Pittsboro, NC 27312 Au24,Au31,Se7,Se14,4tc

PUBLIC NOTICE

State of North Carolina County of Chatham

The Annual meeting of the North Chatham Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., will be held at the North Chatham Volunteer Fire Station #1, U.S. 15501 North, on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of business that may properly come before the meeting. There are no Board of Director positions open for election during scal year 2023- 2024 at the annual meeting.

All residents of the North Chatham Fire Protection District eighteen (18) years of age or older and live in Chatham County are entitled to attend and vote at said meeting. The directors are residents of the North Chatham Fire Protection District in Chatham County and shall fairly be representative of the geographic areas and populations served by the corporation.

This the 28th day of August, 2023. Charles Quinlan, President North Chatham Volunteer Fire Department Au31,Se7,2tc

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

Sue Jean Luger, having quali ed as the Executrix of the Estate of LINDA JENKINS BARNARD a/k/a LINDA LEIGH BARNARD, deceased, in the O ce of the Clerk of Superior Court of Chatham County on August 18, 2023, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the Estate of said decedent to present them to the undersigned attorney on or before November 29, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms and corporations indebted to said Estate, please make immediate payment. Payments and claims should be presented to Austin C. Vandeveer, 101 Conner Drive, Suite 402, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514. This the 31st day of August 2023.

This Notice is given pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. 28A-14-1. Austin C. Vandeveer, Attorney of Record Averett Family Law 101 Conner Drive, Suite 402 Chapel Hill, NC, 27514

Publication dates: 8/31/2023; 9/07/2023; 9/14/2023; and 9/21/2023

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NORTH CAROLINA

NOTICE TO CREDITORS CHATHAM COUNTY

HAVING QUALIFIED as Administrator of the Estate of John Earl Church, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. This the 24th day of August, 2023. Julie Lynn Burkett, Administrator The Estate of John Earl Church 1329 Vernie Phillips Road Bear Creek, North Carolina 27207

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

HAVING QUALIFIED as Executor of the Estate of Joanna Elliott Pearce, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

This the 17th day of August, 2023.

Barry S Johnson Sr. Executor of the Estate of Joanna Elliott Pearce 3515 Silk Hope Lindly Mill Road Snow Camp, NC 27349 Au17,Au24,Au31,Se7,4tc

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

23-E-363 NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

The undersigned, Kimberly A. Carrigan, having quali ed as Administrator of the Estate of JAMES D. OBERLENDER, deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the day of November 25, 2023, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 24th of August 2023.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

23-E-407 NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

The undersigned, Lynn Coburn Green, having quali ed as Administrator of the Estate of Beverly J Lafoy Coburn, deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the day of November 25, 2023, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 24th of August 2023.

Lynn Coburn Green

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

All persons having claims against Arnold Ezdard Egbert Gelderman (a.k.a. Arnold E. E. Gelderman) of Chatham County, North Carolina are noti ed to present them to Carolyn Gelderman, Executor of the Estate of Arnold E. E. Gelderman in c/o Dean P. Broz, Attorney for the Estate, at Higgins, Frankstone, Graves & Morris, P. A., 1414 Raleigh Road, Suite 203, Exchange West at Meadowmont, Chapel Hill, NC 27517-8834 on or before November 24, 2023. Failure to present a claim in timely fashion will result in this Notice being pleaded in bar of recovery against the estate, the Executor, and the devisees of Arnold E. E. Gelderman. Those indebted to Arnold E. E. Gelderman are asked to make prompt payment to the Estate.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 55A-14-08 of the North Carolina Nonpro t Corporation Act, that Chatham County Council on Aging, Inc., a North Carolina nonpro t corporation (the “Company”), was dissolved e ective July 11, 2023. All creditors of and claimants against the Company are requested to present their respective claims and demands to the Company. With respect to all claims, please take notice of the following: 1. Claims must be in writing and include the name of the claimant, the amount of the claim, and a brief summary of the basis for the claim. 2. Claims should be mailed to the Company at P.O. Box 715, Pittsboro, NC 27312. A claim against the Company will be barred and no action thereon will be allowed, unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced in a proper forum within ve years after the publication date of this notice. This notice does not extend any applicable statute of limitations.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

All persons having claims against Anne Craig Barnes of Chatham County, North Carolina are noti ed to present them to Billy E. Barnes, Jr., Executor of the Estate of Anne Craig Barnes in c/o Dean P. Broz, Attorney for the Estate, at Higgins, Frankstone, Graves & Morris, P. A., 1414 Raleigh Road, Suite 203, Exchange West at Meadowmont, Chapel Hill, NC 27517-8834 on or before November 24, 2023. Failure to present a claim in timely fashion will result in this Notice being pleaded in bar of recovery against the estate, the Executor, and the devisees of Anne Craig Barnes. Those indebted to Anne Craig Barnes are asked to make prompt payment to the Estate.

Dean P. Broz Higgins, Frankstone, Graves & Morris, P.A. 1414 Raleigh Road, Suite 203 Exchange West at Meadowmont Chapel Hill, NC 27517-8834 Au24,Au31,Se7,Se14,4tc

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

HAVING QUALIFIED as Administrator of the Estate of Abbie Brice Cothren late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 15th day of December, 2023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. This the lst day of August, 2023. Patrick Cothren, Administrator of The Estate of Abbie Brice Cothren 477 Forest Lane Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312 MOODY, WILLIAMS, ATWATER & LEE

ATTORNEYS AT LAW BOX 629 SILER CITY, NORTH CAROLINA 27344 (919) 663-2850

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NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

CHATHAM COUNTY DISTRICT COURT

FILE NO.: 23-CVD-000565

Mirian Yamileth Reyes Gonzales Douglas Reynaldo Carbajal Reyes v. Luis Alberto Barahona

To: Luis Alberto Barahona

Take Notice that a Complaint has been led against you in the Civil Action described above, in the General Court of Justice, District Court Division, by the plainti herein, the nature of which is as follows:

The Complaint seeks an Order of Permanent Custody of your minor Child, Luis Alberto Reyes Gonzales. You are required to le an Answer including any defenses to this pleading within forty (40) days from the date of rst publication of this Notice with the Clerk of Court of Chatham County. If you fail to do so, you may not receive further notices, and the plainti will seek the relief sought herein.

Publication begins This is the 17th day of August 2023. Yesenia L. Polanco-Galdamez, Attorney for Plainti 411 Andrews Road, Suite 130 Durham, NC 27705 (919) 294-8032

Published August 17, 2023, August 24, 2023, and August 31, 2023.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

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NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of Margaret Hayes Jernigan of Chatham County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, rms, and corporations having claims against the decedent to present their claims to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Leonard T. Jernigan, Jr., Executor 3622 Haworth drive Raleigh, NC 27609 Au 10, Au 17, Au 24, Au 30, 4tc

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

23 E 434 NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of David L Burr of Chatham County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, rms, and corporations having claims against the decedent to present their claims to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons, rms, and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Sharon B Tuttle, Executor

5577 Hwy 42 New Hill, NC 27562

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE OF ELECTION

CHATHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

The municipal general election for TOWN OF CARY will be held on Tuesday, October 10, 2023.

Voters will be asked to show photo ID when they vote. All voters will be allowed to vote with or without ID. Voters who lack ID can get one for free from their county board of elections. Find out more at ncsbe. gov/voter-id.

Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Election Day. Precincts open will be 75 East Williams –New Hope Baptist Church 581 New Hope Church Rd, Apex, NC 27523 and 42 New Hope – Hollands Chapel AME Zion Church – 360 Burgess Rd, Apex, NC Apex, NC 27523. Only registered voters who live in Chatham County in these two precincts and are registered to vote in the Town of Cary are eligible to vote in this election

NOTICE OF HEARINGS TOWN OF SILER CITY

The following item will be considered by the Siler City Planning Commission on Monday, September 11, 2023. The hearing will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Siler City Court Room of the Siler City Town Hall at 311 N. 2nd Ave.

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NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of Michael Fred Wilson of Chatham County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, rms, and corporations having claims against the decedent to present their claims to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of November, 2023 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons, rms, and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Courtney Wilson, Executrix

1840 Bear Creek Ch Rd Bear Creek, NC 27207

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NOTICE OF HEARINGS TOWN OF SILER CITY

The following item will be considered by the Siler City Town Council on Monday, September 5, 2023.

The hearing will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Siler City Court Room of the Siler City Town Hall at 311 N. 2nd

Ave.

Legislative Hearings

R23-0801. Rezoning of a tract from Agricultural-

Residential (A-R) to O ce Institutional (O-I), parcel being 7.503 acres ±, addressed as unaddressed

W. Third Street (parcel number 13136), and being the property of Tim’s Farm & Forestry II, LLC., represented by Mark Ashness of CE Group.

R23-0802. Conditional Rezoning amendment of two parcels currently zoned as Agricultural-

Residential (A-R) to Highway Commercial/

Conditional (H-C-C), parcels totaling 9.779 acres ±, addressed as two (2) unaddressed parcels Piney Grove Church Road (parcel numbers 82177 and 13640), and being the properties of Dennis B and Susan E Hearn, represented by Casey Hearn.

The proposed item is available for review by contacting Jennifer C. Baptiste at jbaptiste@ silercity.org or 919-726-8626. All persons interested in the outcome of the item are invited to attend the legislative hearing and present comments, testimony, and exhibits on the above referenced item.

These are separate hearings: Interested parties may submit evidence and written comments. Written comments or evidence on these applications can be submitted by email to jbaptiste@silercity.org. Individuals desiring to speak must sign up by calling 919-726-8626 before 12:00 p.m. on or before the scheduled public hearing date.

The Town of Siler City will make appropriate arrangements to ensure that disabled persons are provided other accommodations, such arrangements may include, but are not limited to, providing interpreters for the deaf, providing taped cassettes of materials for the blind, or assuring a barrier-free location for the proceedings.

This information is available in Spanish or any other language upon request. Please contact Jenifer Johnson at 919-726-8624, 311 North Second Avenue, Siler City, North Carolina 27344, or jjohnson@silercity.org for accommodations for this request. Esta información está disponible en español o en cualquier otro idioma bajo petición. Por favor, póngase en contacto con Jenifer Johnson al jjohnson@silercity.org o 919-726-8625 o en 311 North Second Avenue, Siler City, North Carolina 27344 de alojamiento para esta solicitud.

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

FILE NO. 11 CVD 826

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION

COUNTY OF CHATHAM Plainti , vs. LYNWOOD P. DOWDY, JR., et al

Defendants.

TO: The HEIRS, ASSIGNS and DEVISEES of NORRIS CALVIN WICKER and spouse, if any, or any other person or entity claiming thereunder

A pleading seeking relief against you has been led in the above-entitled action and notice of service of process by publication began on August 31, 2023.

The nature of the relief being sought is as follows:

Foreclosure on tax parcel(s) more completely described in the Complaint, to collect delinquent ad valorem taxes (assessments). Plainti seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in said property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days after the date of the rst publication of notice stated above, exclusive of such date, being forty (40) days after August 312023, or by October 10, 2023, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service of process by publication will apply to the Court for relief sought.

This the 24th day of August, 2023.

ZACCHAEUS LEGAL SERVICES

By: MARK D. BARDILL/MARK B. BARDILL

Attorney for Plainti NC Bar #12852/56782

W. Jones St.

P. O. Box 25

Trenton, North Carolina 28585

Telephone: (252) 448-4541

Publication dates:

August 31, 2023, September 7, 2023, September 14, 2023

One-stop early voting will be held at the following locations from Thursday, September 21, 2023, to Saturday, October 7, 2023:

· Chatham County Board of Elections O ce, 984 Thompson Street, Suite D, Pittsboro, NC 27312

Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm

Sunday 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

· New Hope Baptist Church, 581 New Hope Church Rd., Apex, NC 27523

Monday – Friday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm

Sundays 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Absentee ballots will be mailed to voters who have requested them beginning September 8, 2023.

A voter can ll out an absentee ballot request at votebymail.ncsbe.gov, or by lling out a request form provided by the board of elections. The request must be received through the website or by the CHATHAM COUNTY Board of Elections by 5 p.m. October 3, 2023.

Registered voters who live in Chatham County within the boundaries of the TOWN OF CARY may vote in the municipal election. Municipal contests include the Mayor, Town Council At-Large, and Town Council District D (NOTE: Please check and make sure your county’s elections include these contests this year)

The voter registration deadline for this election is 5 p.m. Friday, September 15, 2023. Eligible individuals who are not registered by that deadline may register and vote at any early voting site during the early voting period. New registrants will be required to provide documentation of their residence.

Questions? Call the CHATHAM COUNTY Board of Elections O ce at 919-545-8500 or send an email to elections@chathamcountync.gov

Laura Heise, Chairman CHATHAM COUNTY Board of Elections

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

TOWN OF PITTSBORO, NC

On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 7:00 pm, the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners will hold legislative public hearings for the following requests at the Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center at 1192 Hwy 64 Business West:

A request from Patrick Bradshaw, on behalf of Chatham Park Investors, LLC, to consider text amendments to the Chatham Park Landscaping Element.

A request from CE Group, on behalf of Emgee, LLC, to revise the Bellemont Station Mixed Use Planned Development on parcels 72984, 84006, and 89786 (approximately 154.42 acres total).

A request from Bradshaw, Robinson, Slawter, & Rainer, LLP, on behalf of Chatham Park Investors, LLC, to rezone parcels 7199, 79148, and 79149 (approximately 128.51 acres total) from RA-2 and RA-5 to Multi-Family Residential Conditional Zoning (MR-CZ).

A request from Laura Holloman on behalf of AF Bynum, LLC and Jeremy Medlin with Greenhawk Development, to rezone parcels 7461, 7462, and 62581(approximately 140.74 acres total) from RA and M2 to the following conditional zoning districts: R10-CZ (Residential 10,000 SF Conditional Zoning), MR-CZ (Multifamily Residential Conditional Zoning), C2-CZ (Highway Commercial Conditional Zoning), and M1-CZ (Light Industrial Conditional Zoning).

The hearing will be held in person. The public can also watch the hearing live on the Town’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@ townofpittsboronc/streams. Members of the public must attend in person if they wish to speak at the hearing.

Contact the Town Clerk, Carrie Bailey, by 4 pm on September 11, 2023 with written comments or to sign up to speak at the hearing. You can contact Carrie Bailey at cbailey@pittsboronc.gov, (919) 542-4621 ext. 1104, or PO Box 759, Pittsboro, NC 27312.

8/31/23 - 9/7/2023

Legislative Hearings R23-0901 – Rezoning of one (1) parcel from Residential-20 (R -20) to Residential-3/Conditional (R-3-C), parcel totals 6.15 acres ±, addressed as unaddressed parcel of Lakewood Drive (parcel number 16215) and being the property of Sayantan Bhattacharyya, Premjit Pan and Alok Chatterjee. The proposed item is available for review by contacting Jennifer C. Baptiste at jbaptiste@ silercity.org or 919-726-8626. All persons interested in the outcome of the item are invited to attend the legislative hearing and present comments, testimony, and exhibits on the above referenced item. These are separate hearings: Interested parties may submit evidence and written comments. Written comments or evidence on these applications can be submitted by email to jbaptiste@silercity.org. Individuals desiring to speak must sign up by calling 919-726-8626 before 12:00 p.m. on or before the scheduled public hearing date. The Town of Siler City will make appropriate arrangements to ensure that disabled persons are provided other accommodations, such arrangements may include, but are not limited to, providing interpreters for the deaf, providing taped cassettes of materials for the blind, or assuring a barrier-free location for the proceedings. This information is available in Spanish or any other language upon request. Please contact Tammy Thomas at 919-726-8625, 311 North Second Avenue, Siler City, North Carolina 27344, or tthomas@silercity.org for accommodations for this request. Esta información está disponible en español o en cualquier otro idioma bajo petición. Por favor, póngase en contacto con Tammy Thomas al tthomas@silercity.org o 919-726-8625 o en 311 North Second Avenue, Siler City, North Carolina 27344 de alojamiento para esta solicitud. Au31,Se7,2tc

NOTICE

Answering the call to serve: Basic Law Enforcement Training at CCCC begins in September

By Chuck Thompson Chatham News & Record

FIRST RESPONDERS are the lifeline of civilization. In communities large or small, citizens rely on law enforcement, re ghters and EMS to be there at the drop of a hat when needed.

In order to have men and women serve in these capacities, they rst have to answer that call to serve their communities. And that rst step is enrolling in school.

That’s where the Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) program at Central Carolina Community College comes into the picture.

CCCC currently has 22 students in its program and a new class will begin in September. The date of the program is determined by the state once the roster is assembled with a minimum of 10 students enrolled before the class can begin.

NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION

FILE NO. 17 CvD 818

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION COUNTY OF CHATHAM Plainti , vs. MARIBEL MEDINA BECERRA, et al Defendants.

TO: MARIBEL MEDINA BECERRA’S SPOUSE, IF ANY, and any HEIRS, ASSIGNS or DEVISEES of MARIBEL MEDINA BECERRA’S SPOUSE, IF ANY, or any other person or entity claiming thereunder

A pleading seeking relief against you has been led in the above-entitled action and notice of service of process by publication began on August 31, 2023.

The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Foreclosure on tax parcel(s) more completely described in the Complaint, to collect delinquent ad valorem taxes (assessments). Plainti seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in said property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days after the date of the rst publication of notice stated above, exclusive of such date, being forty (40) days after August 31, 2023, or by October 10, 2023, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service of process by publication will apply to the Court for relief sought.

This the 25th day of August, 2023.

ZACCHAEUS LEGAL SERVICES

By: ____________________________________ MARK D. BARDILL/MARK B. BARDILL Attorney for Plainti NC Bar #12852/56782 310 W. Jones St.

P. O. Box 25 Trenton, North Carolina 28585

Telephone: (252) 448-4541

Publication dates:

August 31, 2023

September 7, 2023

September 14, 2023

REQUEST FOR BID FOR HOME-DELIVERED AND CONGREGATE NUTRITION MEALS

Chatham County is seeking bids from quali ed vendors to provide a nutritious meal that meets 1/3 of the Recommended Dietary Allowances and the established meal pattern for older adults ve days a week in accordance with the NC Division of Aging and Adult Services Nutrition Service Standards.

Sealed bids will be accepted by mail or delivery until 5:00 PM, on Tuesday, September 12, 2023.

Vendors must submit one hard copy and one electronic copy to one of the following addresses:

• Postal Address: Michele Peluso, Chatham County Finance O ce P. O. Box 608, Pittsboro, NC 27312 (all postal delivery)

• Street Address: Michele Peluso, County Finance O ce, Courthouse Annex 12 East Street, Pittsboro, NC 27312 (land delivery only)

All inquiries relating to this request must be received by Thursday, September 6, 2023, by 12:00 NOON.

Requests must be in writing and addressed to: Michele Peluso, Chatham County Finance O ce, P.O. Box 608; Pittsboro, NC 27312; or emailed to: purchasing@chathamcountync.gov.

This solicitation and others can be located on the Chatham County Current Bids and Proposals webpage at: https://www.chathamcountync. gov/government/departments-programs-a-h/ nance/bid-proposal-opportunities

Chatham County is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, marital status, race, color, creed, national origin, age or disability.

A day class is held at the Pittsboro campus location, and a night class is available at the Lee County campus, with accredited professionals — including some active law enforcement personnel from local departments — teaching the courses.

BLET curriculum prepares entry-level individuals with the cognitive and physical skills needed to become certi ed law enforcement ofcers in North Carolina.

“At BLET, we don’t teach the theories of crime — criminal behavior — we teach them skills; we give them knowledge and skills on how to deal with people and situations,” said Roy Allen, associate dean of public safety. “You come to the BLET program to learn technical skills that will provide you with a job to have a sustainable income to provide for your family and build a career from there.”

The BLET program is constantly updated with the newest procedures, laws and guidelines required for ecient training standards set forth by the state. Among the changes is an increase in the 640 instructional hours required by the program.

“In January, the required hours are going to increase to 860.” said Tracy Painter Kelly, BLET program director for CCCC, “and this number could go as high as 900 hours, possibly.”

An increase in the training hours for deescalation and mental health crises is on the rise, along with the standard training for all BLET cadets to be certi ed as rst responders with CPR certi cation.

With the population growth that Chatham and Lee counties are experiencing, the need for more law enforcement o cers is near a crisis level as the number of people pursuing a career in the eld is struggling to keep up with the demand for new employees to ll vacancies.

The program quali es a student for a job across the entire state, opening up possibilities for someone to accept a law enforcement position anywhere from the mountains to the Outer Banks.

“Department of corrections, law enforcement, EMS, can be a career for the next 30 years if you choose,” Kelly said. “It’s not just a job for you to do, it’s a calling, it’s a life.”

“If you want to be successful, you have to have a servant heart,” Allen added. “You’ll never get rich doing this, but the rewards for the di erence you make in other people’s lives is the ultimate reward, and I can’t imagine doing anything else.”

That includes the satisfaction BLET teachers get in seeing their former cadets succeed.

“It’s so rewarding for us when a former cadet thanks you for training them, and you see them enjoying and doing their best in their career,” said BLET coordinator Tammy Kirkman.

The cost of the program is waived if a student can get a sponsor from a law enforcement agency, but they are not required to work for that agency when they graduate.

For more information on Central Carolina Community College’s Basic Law Enforcement Training, visit cccc. edu/curriculum/majors/blet/ or contact Kelly at 919-777-7774 or Kirkman at (919) 777-7773.

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family and friends. They also talked about school and riding the bus.

Once all the kids had been picked up along the bus route and the school bus parked at the school, Jackson held Lola’s hand as he walked her to Ms. Elizabeth Sturdivant’s kindergarten classroom.

“Kindergarten students see the possibilities, they see

him or her a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed. Should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid at that time, he or shell shall remain liable on the bid. This sale shall be held open ten (10) days for upset bids.

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opportunities, and for many of them, they are realizing their rst educational milestone — going to ‘big school,’” Jackson said. “It is always a pleasure, experience and an honor to share this very special day with a student and their family. We are so very fortunate in Chatham County to have supportive and engaged parents who recognize the importance of the school and community connection.”

Seaforth volleyball puts together winning streak

Win last Thursday gave Hawks back-to-back W’s

By Asheebo Rojas Chatham News & Record

ON THE SURFACE, Seaforth volleyball’s 3-2 record to start the season doesn’t seem dominant.

Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference rivals Bartlett Yancey and Northwood have enjoyed better starts. The Buccaneers have won ve of their rst six matches and the Chargers won their rst four before dropping their two most recent matches.

Before last Thursday’s match against conference foe Chatham Central, Seaforth had yet to win twice in a row. The Hawks achieved that in a 3-0 win over the Bears, but a deeper look into how Seaforth’s season has gone

so far shows why the convincing win wasn’t at-all surprising.

Seaforth has yet to lose a set against a conference opponent this season, beating Graham, Cummings and now Chatham Central all by a score of 3-0.

The Hawks might not be dominating every team on their schedule, but their conference opponents don’t seem to have an answer for them.

According to Seaforth head coach Scott Green, that was the case Thursday largely due to the tougher competition the Hawks faced earlier in the season, speci cally their two losses against Orange and Apex Friendship.

“I wasn’t that concerned about two losses because they were against a 3A and a 4A,” Green said. “They gave us some really good experience. I think it really helped us (Thursday). The teams

Northwood earns rst win of season

Other area schools continue to search for rst victory

Asheebo Rojas

By

Chatham News &

Record

ALTHOUGH IT WAS a tough Friday night for most of Chatham County football, the county got its rst win of the 2023 season.

Northwood head coach

Mitch Johnson earned his rst win with the program in a close 20-19 victory over Union Pines.

The Chargers struck rst, scoring a touchdown on their rst possession. Down 7-6 just before halftime, Northwood took back the lead after a 21-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Carson Fortunes.

Northwood fell down again late in the third quarter after a Union Pines touchdown put the Chargers behind 19-14. Early in the fourth, Fortunes responded with a 12-yard touchdown pass which was ultimately the game-winning score.

Fortunes nished the game with 12 completions for 122 yards and two passing touchdowns. He also rushed for 84 yards and one touchdown. For

the year, he has three touchdowns passing and three rushing in two games.

Northwood is now 1-1 this season. The Jets will play away at North Moore on Thursday. Here are the other scores and stats from local Chatham County schools.

Jordan Matthews 13 –Carrboro 41

Jordan Matthews couldn’t stop the run in a 41-13 loss to Carrboro.

The Jets’ defense gave up 197 yards on the ground despite snagging three interceptions.

Turnovers were an issue for the Jets’ o ense too as they lost two fumbles, and quarterback Raje Torres threw two interceptions.

Other than those two mistakes, Torres was productive for Jordan Matthews. He completed 10 passes for 128 yards and two touchdowns.

Jordan Matthews is now 0-2 this season. The Jets will face Cummings at home on Friday.

Seaforth 7 –Southern Lee 55

we faced before now were much tougher hitting teams, so we were digging balls (against Chatham Central) pretty easily be-

cause we had seen much tougher attacks.” Green also credited his team’s “tough” and “accurate” serving in

Seaforth women’s tennis

Seaforth’s Maris Honeycutt sets the ball against Chatham Central during a conference match at Seaforth high school in Pittsboro, NC on August 24, 2023.

See VOLLEYBALL, page B3

coach resigns

mid-season, replaced by assistant

Team has won two straight under new coach Ed Aiken

By Asheebo Rojas Chatham News & Record

THE SEAFORTH women’s tennis team only had two days to adjust to a new head coach ahead of its fourth match of the season against Chatham Central.

It was an even shorter notice when nding out a new head coach was needed.

After beating Voyager Academy High School, 8-1, on Aug. 21, the team’s head coach, P.J. Petrides, suddenly resigned the next day due to an occupational con ict, per Seaforth athletic director Jason Amy.

Seaforth appointed assistant coach Ed Aiken as his replacement.

Aiken said he has no previous experience as a tennis head coach at any level.

“It was kind of surprising because it was a little bit unexpected,” Aiken said. “I was enjoying being an assistant coach, but I’m enjoying the new phase of my coaching career.”

For Aiken, he initially had some mixed feelings about the position because of his own occupational con icts. His main

gig is teaching third graders at Pittsboro Elementary, and with a tendency to stay a while after school, he only planned to help the high school tennis team two to three days out of the week.

“I was a little worried about the time commitment,” Aiken said.

The con ict even caused the team to cancel the game against Jordan High School on Thursday because Aiken had to attend his school’s open house.

But, as a former long-distance runner in his youth, Aiken hasn’t seemed to let crunch time knock his team o pace.

Since Aiken took over, the team has only practiced once, but it picked up its third consecutive win in a 9-0 victory over Chatham Central on Aug. 23.

On top of winning, Aiken said the team is also “rallying” around him and have been “very supportive” with his transition to head coach.

“It’s de nitely interesting because we’re changing over to a new coach who has only been to a few of our practices and games,” senior player Ellie Cook said. “But, I think it will come along.”

Aiken said he’s trying to keep things similar to how Petrides ran the team because he had more experience playing and coaching tennis. Petrides played on the UNC Tar Heels men’s tennis team from 2002-05.

Although he will add some of his own “twists” in his approach to coaching, Aiken plans to consider input from his team captains as well.

“The captains are very good leaders themselves,” Aiken said. “Obviously, I’m going to do some things I see t. But I feel like, since they’ve been on the team for a long time, and they’re very experienced, I’m leaning on them some to give me their advice — maybe a little more advice than P.J. let them have — because they’re so used to doing the lineups and knowing who they play well with.”

The good thing for this transitioning Hawks team is that there’s plenty of time to gure things out throughout the season. Seaforth has more than half

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beating Chatham Central. Seaforth recorded 15 service aces.

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Chatham Central’s Karaleigh Dodson spikes the ball against Seaforth’s Keira Rosenmarkle and Maris Honeycutt during a conference match at Seaforth high school in Pittsboro, NC on August 24, 2023.

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“I was a little worried about the time commitment.”

Ed Aiken

Preece gets medical clearance to return to NC after terrifying crash at Daytona

The Stewart-Haas Racing driver’s car ipped about a dozen times on Saturday night

The Associated Press

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Cup Series driver Ryan Preece, whose car rolled about a dozen times during a terrifying crash at Daytona International Speedway, was on his way home about 12 hours later after being discharged from a hospital Sunday.

Stewart-Haas Racing said Preece was headed back to North Carolina after getting clearance from doctors at Halifax Health Medical Center. The team earlier said Preece was “awake, alert and mobile” and “had been communicating with family and friends.”

The 32-year-old Preece was able to climb out of his mangled No. 41 Ford on Saturday night with help before emergency workers put him on a gurney and into an ambulance. He initially went to the track’s in eld care center before being transported to Halifax Health for overnight observation.

Preece tweeted about two hours after the race, posting: “If you want to be a race car driver, you better be tough. ... I’m coming back.”

Preece and SHR teammate Chase Briscoe made contact coming out of Turn 4, and Preece’s car turned hard left and then went into an uncontrollable barrel roll as soon as it slid from the asphalt to the ineld grass. The car came to a halt on all four tires with some minor damage to the roll cage.

Preece being able to climb out with help was a testament to NASCAR’s Next Gen car, which is considered the safest iteration in its 75-year history.

The car was roundly criticized following its debut in 2022 because rear-impact collisions wreaked havoc on drivers. Kurt Busch of 23XI Racing su ered a life-changing concussion during a qualifying crash at Pocono Raceway last summer, and Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman missed ve races because of a concussion.

Other drivers complained about the violence felt during what they considered routine hits and wondered if they too had su ered head trauma.

NASCAR spent much of last year and the o season testing and tweaking its car to try to limit the G-forces delivered to drivers. The changes were welcomed, resulting in considerably fewer missed races and no reported concussions in 2023.

Busch, meanwhile, formally retired from the Cup Series Saturday at Daytona. The 45-yearold Busch held back tears as he called it quits, saying his “body is just having a battle with Father Time.”

Busch added that he’s dealt with arthritis and gout while trying to shake lingering e ects of a brain injury that rocked stock car racing a year ago.

Preece’s accident harkened memories of Ryan Newman’s harrowing wreck in the 2020 Daytona 500. Newman was able to walk out of the hospital days later, another testament to NASCAR safety improvements made since Dale Earnhardt’s death on the nal lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.

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of its schedule left to play with a talented roster consisting of 12 returnees from last season’s team that went 11-2 overall and 8-0 in the Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference.

The Hawks will nish this

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Seaforth su ered another tough loss to Southern Lee on Friday, 55-7.

The Hawks didn’t have an answer for Southern Lee’s Tyrice Douglas who rushed for 206 yards and three touchdowns.

Seaforth senior running back Anthony Vecse had one of the more productive nights for the Hawks, breaking a 26-yard run and a total of 51 rushing yards on ve carries.

Vecse also caught two passes for 49 yards, one of which was the only touchdown for Seaforth.

The Hawks are now 0-2 on the season. They are on a bye week and will resume play Friday, Sept. 8 against Graham at home.

Chatham Central 0 –

South Davidson 40

Chatham Central also struggled to stop the run in a 40-0 loss to South Davidson.

The Bears gave up 288 yards and ve touchdowns

week with two home matches against North Moore on Wednesday and Raleigh Charter on Thursday. Both matches will start at 4:30 p.m.

“Next week or two, I can totally see us coming more together and being more unied,” Cook said.

Chatham County Week Three High School Schedule:

Thursday Aug. 31, 7:00 PM, Northwood Chargers (1-1) at North Moore Mustangs (1-1, 13-1 in 2022) *Conference Game*

Friday, Sept. 1, 7:30 PM JordanMatthews Jets (0-2) home vs. Cummings Cavaliers (1-1, 8-4 in 2022) *Conference Game*

Friday, Sept. 1, 7:30 PM, Chatham Central Bears (0-2) at Southeast Alamance Stallions (0-2, did not play in 2022) *Conference Game*

Bye week: Seaforth Hawks (0-2), next game Sept. 8, home vs. Graham *Conference Game*

on the ground. Chatham Central is now 0-2 on the year. The Bears will play away at Southeast Alamance on Friday.

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AP PHOTO Ryan Preece barrel rolls along the back stretch during Saturday night’s Cup Series race at Daytona.

“They really couldn’t run any type of o ense because they were scrambling around trying to get our serves back,” Green said.

Seaforth won each set against Chatham Central by 10 or more points, which is the same way the Hawks have won against

previous conference opponents.

On top of the serving, the Hawks made sure the ball hit the ground in opponent territory as each set was highlighted by numerous kills from sophomore Keira Rosenmarkle and freshman Ally Forbes.

Rosenmarkle, who’s leading the team with 4.1 kills per set and 57 total kills, recorded 18

kills against Chatham Central, including eight in the opening set. Forbes recorded eight total kills.

“It was a good game,” Rosenmarkle said. “(Chatham Central’s) defense has de nitely gotten better since last year, so it was good to have plays because they could get the ball back over.”

Now on a winning streak, the

Hawks are looking to build on the success from Thursday night and stay on top of the conference standings.

Following a non-conference outing at East Chapel Hill Monday, Seaforth will face six straight conference opponents, including a home match against Bartlett Yancey — the only other Mid-Carolina 1A/2A team

that has yet to lose a conference match as of Thursday.

For Green, continuing success in the conference will come down to continuing the stellar serving and the dominant outside hitting from Rosenmarkle and Forbes.

“As long as they’re generating kills for us, we should be in good shape.” Green said.

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Notre Dame thinking big after Hartman’s impressive debut

The former Wake Forest star threw for four touchdowns in his Irish debut

The Associated Press NO. 13 NOTRE DAME can forget about game-managing quarterbacks. It has a new star in Sam Hartman. He lived up to the billing on Saturday by going 19 of 23 with 251 yards while tying a school record for a debut with four TD passes, leading the Fighting Irish to a 42-3 rout over rival Navy. He celebrated the nearly perfect performance by putting his hands on a shillelagh.

“It’s kind of our new tradition, we’re going to get a new one each game,” Hartman said of the club after delivering Notre Dame’s most lopsided opening win in 11 years. “It’s used as a weapon, but I won’t be using it. I’ll be tucking it away.”

The victory was hardly a surprise.

After going 9-4 with Tyler Buchner and Drew Pyne splitting the job last season, second-year coach Marcus Freeman searched for a dynamic quarterback to lead the o ense. The answer was Hartman, who transferred from Wake Forest to Notre Dame and encouraged reporters to include teammates Jaden Greathouse and Marist Liufau at the postgame news conference.

“You’ve got to ask these guys questions, too,” he said.

Hartman understands, though, that the spotlight always shines on the Notre Dame quarterback — especially when you’re one of college football’s most proli c passers at one of the sports’ most storied programs.

“You feel it when you travel,” Hartman said.

He is an unusual quarterback, too, the kind Notre Dame has been chasing since at least the end of the Ian Book era in 2020, maybe the Tommy Rees era in 2013 or perhaps the Jimmy Clausen era in 2009.

Hartman came to South Bend after compiling an ACC career-record 110 TD passes and 12,967 yards. If he tops 4,100 yards for the second time in three seasons, he’ll be second all-time on the FBS list. Case Keenum had a record 19,217 yards with Houston from 2007-2011.

But with Notre Dame, it’s always about more than numbers.

“There’s no substitution for experience. None,” Freeman said. “I don’t care if you’re the head coach or a quarterback.”

Over the previous two years, Hartman threw for more than 300 yards per game, scored 89 total TDs and completed more passes of 20 yards or more than anyone else in the FBS.

“This moment isn’t too big. It’s about him going out there and just executing,” Freeman said. “What I really, really thought he did a great job was putting our o ense in good positions to execute plays.”

Hartman has been humbled by joining a small, prominent Notre Dame fraternity that includes familiar names such as the late John Lujack Jr., Joe Theismann, Brady Quinn, Tony Rice and Joe Montana.

And now Hartman’s rst game even has one of those guys raving.

“It’s been great watching him,” Montana said during the telecast. “I think it’s great for Notre Dame and he brings a little something — some juice to the o ense.”

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Notre Dame quarterback Sam Hartman throws against Navy during the Irish’s 42-3 win Saturday in Dublin.

Hovland wins FedEx Cup with record nish

Golf’s hottest player picked up an $18 million payout

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ATLANTA — Viktor Hovland knew he was playing the best golf of his life. Staked to a six-shot lead Sunday in the Tour Championship, he gured a steady diet of fairways and greens and plenty of pars would be the safest route to winning the FedEx Cup.

Xander Schau ele made him change his plans.

And then the 25-year-old Norwegian star performed even better. Hovland didn’t inch under a relentless challenge from Schauffele, matching birdies at East Lake from start to nish until he capped o the best two weeks of his career with his biggest trophy — a FedEx Cup title and the $18 million bonus.

He closed with a 7-under 63, the lowest score by the winner in Tour Championship history, and won the Tour Championship by ve shots over Schau ele.

“The game plan was to try to play as boring as possible — play it like Tiger back in the day when

he would post a 69 or 70 in a major championship and walk away with the victory,” Hovland said.

This was anything but boring golf — Hovland with a 63, Schau ele with a 62. A six-shot lead was cut to three shots on the

back nine until Hovland poured in a 25-foot par putt on the 14th hole that made an already steep hill all but impossible for Schauffele to scale.

“What he was doing today was very special,” Hovland said.

“It made this day more stressful than it should have been.”

So ended a season when Hovland won for the rst time in the United States at the Memorial, had a multiple-win season, and then capped it o with two

US learning to roll with hits at Basketball World Cup

The Americans are expecting the tournament to be physical

The Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines — It was late in the rst quarter of the U.S. team’s opener at the FIBA World Cup. Austin Reaves was in transition and tossed a lob to Cam Johnson, who got sandwiched in midair by two New Zealand defenders and took a hard fall.

Steve Kerr expected such plays to happen.

The U.S. coach knows that every opponent awaiting the Americans in this tournament will likely be very aggressive, hoping that tactic works to derail the only team in the World Cup with a roster composed entirely of NBA players. New Zealand tried; the U.S. shook o a slow start to win 99-72 and now faces Greece on Monday.

“I know everybody walked in this morning a little frustrated,” Kerr said Sunday as the Americans got loose for practice. “But we won by 27 points. And so, that’s the lesson. In FIBA, it’s so physical. Everybody is going to try to beat the crap out of us because that’s their best chance to beat us.”

It’s an adjustment for the Americans, but so far, so good.

“We understood that this would be part of the process,” Johnson said.

It wasn’t quite like that in the ve exhibition games the Americans played on their way to the World Cup because, well, they

were just exhibitions. A game against Spain earlier this month against the reigning World Cup winners and FIBA’s No. 1-ranked team — the U.S. is ranked No. 2 — got physical at times, but that was to be expected and nothing got out of hand.

But in the World Cup, the

stakes are higher and so is the intensity. Johnson, the former UNC forward, stayed down for a few seconds after the big hit, then made his way to his feet uninjured. He said Sunday that he was ne and didn’t show any aftere ects.

“That’s their way of playing,

weeks of such sublime golf that he won the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields and the Tour Championship at 36-under par.

“It’s pretty surreal to be standing here right now,” Hovland said after receiving the silver FedEx Cup trophy. “I played basically my best golf the last two weeks and it couldn’t have happened at a better moment.”

Schau ele made him work for that $18 million, ring at ags from the opening hole. He got to within three shots with seven holes to play and had momentum on his side. And then Hovland ended the suspense with that 25-foot par putt on the 14th hole, and he put Schau ele away with a 10-foot birdie putt on the 16th.

Schau ele and Hovland put on a superb show. Playing in the last group, on a day that was delayed nearly two hours by thunderstorms, they had the best scores of the day. The next best score was a 65 from players who never had a chance at winning.

“I thought 62 would have let me get close to him,” Schau ele said. “He played unbelievably well. He made important putts and he’s just played like a champ.”

that’s their way of trying to stay in the game and whatnot,” Johnson said. “It’s de nitely di erent than how we’ve been playing, but we’re all capable of adjusting and guring it out. I think the thing that’s important for us to keep in mind is what’s the legal limit of our physicality. You can go out there and ght and throw punches and all that all game, but if you get three, four quick fouls, your game is basically over.”

Kerr — as Gregg Popovich did before him as the U.S. coach and as Mike Krzyzewski did before that — nds himself reminding his team often about how the FIBA game isn’t the NBA game. It’s called di erently and defenders can be much more aggressive.

Kerr explains it to players like this: In the NBA, rules lean toward helping scoring, while in FIBA it’s the opposite. The solution, he says, is to weather the storms, rely on depth and keep cool.

So far, it’s working.

“Our threat is that we have 12 guys who are ready to make a great four- or ve-minute push,” Kerr said. “And we keep coming with another wave and another wave, another wave. So, teams can be physical with us, but they have to do that for 40 minutes. As long as our guys stay composed and poised like they did (Saturday), then we’re going to be tough to beat and I think that’s the lesson here early on.”

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Former Duke standout Paolo Banchero vies for the ball during the United State’s FIBA Basketball World Cup Group C game Satruday against New Zealand in the Philippines.

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Viktor Hovland celebrates winning the Tour Championship with the FedEx Cup trophy Sunday in Atlanta.

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