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In this Monday afternoon, Sept. 10, 2018 photo waves crash along Avon, N.C., in the Outer Banks ahead of Hurricane Florence. Hurricane Florence churned Tuesday, Sept. 11, toward the Eastern Seaboard as a storm of “staggering” size, forcing a million people to evacuate the coast.

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Nation readies to help after Florence Los Angeles Southern California firefighters and swift water rescue teams from Tennessee left for a staging area in Virginia as Hurricane Florence takes aim at the North and South Carolina. The task forces from the Los Angeles area are specialists in urban search and swift-water rescue. Vermont Emergency Management is also sending one of the state’s rescue teams at the request of the N.C. Division of Emergency Management. That team will be staged in Raleigh for 10 days to help with any emergency evacuations from dangerous flooding.

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Tree falls on house in Greensboro, kills woman inside Greensboro A man says a tree fell on his Greensboro home and killed his wife. On Sunday, 30-yearold Erin Beebe was killed while she and her husband slept in their bedroom. Her husband Charlie Beebe tells WGHP-TV he heard a crash and realized branches surrounded him. Beebe says he tried to save his wife after wiggling his arms free. He says that before jumping out a second-story to escape he reached for his wife’s hand but it was limp. Police spokesman Ron Glenn tells the WinstonSalem Journal that Beebe died at the scene. He says what caused the tree to fall is unclear.

Amazon to sell freshcut Christmas trees online New York The online retailer says that the trees, garland and wreaths will start selling in November and will arrive bound in a box. A 7-foot Frasier Fir from North Carolina will go for around $115. However, the National Christmas Tree Association says that only about 1 to 2 percent of the 27 million real Christmas trees purchased last year were bought online, mostly from grower’s own sites, and they’re skeptical that consumers will give up the experience of hand-picking their favorite tree.

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Vice President Mike Pence, center, speaks during the September 11th Pentagon Memorial Observance at the Pentagon on the 17th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018.

9/11 memories are as clear as the sky was that day While an impending hurricane darkened East Coast skies, mourners remember a clear, blue Tuesday morning 17 years ago By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — Gen. Hugh Shelton’s memories of Sept. 11, 2001, are vivid and firsthand. Originally from Tarboro, and a graduate of NC State, Shelton was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on that day. He lost friends and colleagues at the Pentagon, but also made history as one of the initial architects of the resulting global war on terror and “Operation Enduring Freedom.” “It was a horrific day,” said Shelton in an interview on WPTF radio. “I had taken off that day to

“I hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” President George W. Bush, Sept. 14, 2001 go to a NATO meeting overseas in Europe. I was about two hours out when I got the call that a civilian plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. That caused the hair on the back of my neck to rise because I knew the weather up and down the coast was great. “I told the Air Force pilot to turn around and go back and he See 9/11, page A2

‘Big and vicious’ Hurricane Florence closes in on Carolinas The impending hurricane is likely to reach historic proportions as schools cancel class and residents batten down the hatches

By Jonathan Drew The Associated Press WILMINGTON — Motorists streamed inland on highways converted into one-way routes Tuesday as more than 1 million people in three states were ordered to get out of the way of Hurricane Florence, a hair-raising storm taking dead aim at the Carolinas with 130 mph winds and potentially ruinous rains. Florence was expected to blow ashore late Thursday or early Friday, then slow down and wring itself out for days, unloading 1 to 2½ feet of rain that could cause flooding well inland and wreak environmental havoc by washing over industrial waste sites and hog farms. Forecasters and politicians pleaded with the public to take the warnings seriously and minced no words in describing the threat. “This storm is a monster. It’s big and it’s vicious. It is an extremely, dangerous, life-threatening, historic hurricane,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said. “The waves and the wind this storm may bring is nothing like you’ve ever seen,” he added. “Even if you’ve ridden out storms before, this one is different. Don’t bet your life on riding out a monster.” North and South Carolina and Virginia ordered mass evacuations along the coast. But getting out of harm’s way could prove difficult. Florence is so wide that a life-threatening storm surge was being pushed 300 miles ahead of its eye, and so rainy that a swath of states from South Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania could get deluged. People across the region rushed to buy bottled water and other supplies, board up their homes or get out of town. A line of heavy traffic moved away from the coast on Interstate 40, the main route between the port city of Wilmington and inland Raleigh, the few vehicle heading the other way only carried building supplies. Between the two cities, about two hours apart, the traffic flowed smoothly in places and became gridlocked in others because of fender-benders. Tuesday afternoon, the storm was southeast of Cape Fear, moving at 17 mph. It was a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm but was expected to keep drawing energy from the warm water and intensify to near Category 5, which means winds of 157 mph or higher. “This one really scares me,” National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham said. See FLORENCE, page A3

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9/11 from page A1 said, ‘We can’t, the FAA has closed the air space,’ so I said, ‘We will ask forgiveness not permission, turn around.’ So he pulled about a 9-G turn and headed back to the U.S. We flew right over the smoke that was billowing up to 10,000 feet, and you knew the way that Washington, D.C., had closed down — not a thing was moving — that this was something catastrophic.” Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden planned the attack. He was killed in a U.S. military operation in May 2011. Slated to retire in October, just weeks after the attacks, Shelton led the initial coordination of the military response against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan. “We got that underway pretty quickly,” he said. “We planned the attack toward Afghanistan. We had a few distractions from those who thought we ought to attack Iraq in the process, but there was no evidence to indicate that … so we developed our plan to go into Afghanistan, and I was there when we deployed the first troops.” Military operations were underway quickly, even as the nation was still in shock in 2011. On Tuesday, Americans remembered the day with similar shock and sadness, looking back on 9/11 with somber tributes. President Donald

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Heather and Tom LaGarde relax in the yard of their home near Saxapahaw, N.C., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. At first, the ramshackle North Carolina farm they spotted online in 2002 was only an occasional getaway from their home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. They’d started to want one after worrying about their 1-year-old daughter’s health in the 9/11 smoke.

Wake-up call: 9/11 prompted some to move away to new lives Families found solace in North Carolina’s small towns after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 By Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press NEW YORK — Heather and Tom LaGarde loved New York and didn’t want to leave, even after she watched the twin towers burn from their rooftop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. But over time, “we were very unmoored by 9/11,” Heather says. “Even though I wasn’t physically harmed, just to see it that close changes your perspective. ... Your priorities change.” The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks prompted the LaGardes and an uncounted number of others to move quietly away from their lives near the hijacked-plane strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. Some sought safety. Some placed a new importance on living near family. Others re-evaluated what they wanted from life. After 9/11, for the LaGardes it felt harder and harder to stay in New York. Their nonprofit work — hers in human rights, his running a roller basketball program for neighborhood kids he’d founded after playing for the Denver Nug-

Trump spoke at Shanksville, Pa., remembering the “band of brave patriots” aboard the fourth Sept. 11 flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, praising passengers and crew members who resisted hijackers. Trump is the first president in seven years to visit the rural field where the fourth airliner of the day crashed after those aboard realized what was happening and several passengers tried to storm the cockpit. The president praised those who “took control of their destiny and changed the course of history.” “A piece of America’s heart is buried on these grounds, but in its place has grown a new resolve to live our lives with the same grace and courage as the heroes of Flight 93,” Trump said. “This field is now a monument to American defiance. This memorial is now a message to the world: America will never, ever submit to tyranny.” In New York, seventeen years after losing her husband, Margie Miller came from her suburban home to join thousands of relatives, survivors, rescuers and others on a misty morning at the memorial plaza where the World Trade Center’s twin towers once stood. “To me, he is here. This is my holy place,” she said before the hours-long reading of the names of

gets and other NBA teams — depended on fundraising that lagged in the rocky economy after the attacks. Friends moved away. At first, the ramshackle North Carolina farm they spotted online in 2002 was only going to be an occasional getaway. But in 2004, the LaGardes moved into the farm near small-town Saxapahaw with two children, a few months’ consulting work for Heather and no plan beyond that. Having no plan evolved into starting an architectural salvage company; a popular free music series and farmers’ market; a humanitarian innovation conference; and the Haw River Ballroom, a music venue in an old mill the couple helped renovate. “We try to echo some of what we loved” in New York, Heather says, “but living in an easier, simpler, more natural place.” Scott Dacey, who recently came up short in a Republican primary effort to unseat Congressman Walter Jones in North Carolina’s third district, was among those many Americans who sought a different life after 9/11. Now, about 30 weeks a year, Scott Dacey drives from his home near New Bern to Washington, D.C., for a few days. The 350-mile trips are a price the federal lobbyist pays for peace of mind after Sept. 11. He and his wife, Jennifer, once expected to stay in the Washing-

ton area for years. Then came the strike on the Pentagon and the new feeling of living under heavy security in northern Virginia. “It really made us have a wakeup call: ‘How do we want to live our lives?’”Scott said. “Do we want to be up here in this rat race of Washington, D.C.?” Or raising kids somewhere less on-guard and closer to family? The couple’s 2002 move meant extra costs, including a Washington apartment. Jennifer, already a lawyer, had to take a second bar exam in North Carolina. But the move also opened new opportunities. Scott is a county commissioner and their children, 17 and 15, grew up in a town ranked among the state’s safest. “It would not be for everybody, but for us, it’s been the right fit,” Jennifer says. “We’re outside the bubble, and this is how America really lives.” On 9/11, Stephen Feuerman saw the World Trade Center aflame through the window of his Empire State Building office and watched, transfixed, as a second fireball burst from the twin towers. He ran through the 78th floor urging everyone to get out, thinking their skyscraper could be next. With transit hubs shut down, he couldn’t get home to his family in suburban Westchester for hours. Shaken by the experience, the apparel broker, his wife and their two small children moved within

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tour the September 11th Flight 93 memorial, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, in Shanksville, Pa. her husband, Joel Miller, and the nearly 3,000 others killed when four hijacked commercial planes slammed into the towers, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. Each of the 40 victims’ names was read aloud, followed by the tolling of bells. Trump was joined in remembrances by his wife, first lady Melania Trump, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and former Gov. Mark Schweiker, who was the state’s lieutenant governor on 9/11.

At the Pentagon, Vice President Mike Pence recalled the heroism of service members and civilians who repeatedly went back into the Pentagon to rescue survivors. The terrorists “hoped to break our spirit, and they failed,” he said. The images of 9/11 always include that of a new President George W. Bush standing at Ground Zero in New York, where the towers fell, wielding a bullhorn saying, “I hear you,” to the crowd. “The rest of the world hears you,

“It really made us have a wake-up call: ‘How do we want to live our lives?’”Scott said. “Do we want to be up here in this rat race of Washington, D.C.?” Scott Dacey, a former Washington, D.C. resident who moved to New Bern four months to a gracious South Florida suburb they figured would be safer than New York. It was safer, until this past Valentine’s Day, when mass violence tore into Parkland, Fla., too. “There really is no safe place,” says Feuerman, whose children survived but lost friends in the massacre that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He still feels the family made a good move after 9/11, and he feels all the more attached to Parkland since the shooting plunged him into a whirlwind of events and advocacy on school safety and other issues. “We’ve had a good life here,” he says. “And again, this could have happened anywhere.”

and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” Later, he would stand before Congress and issuing a challenge to the rest of the world: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” After a meeting with relatives of missing firefighters and police officers, a woman handed then-President Bush her son’s police badge. He promised he would never forget and carried the badge with him for the rest of his presidency. Today General Shelton runs the Shelton Leadership Center at N.C. State focused on instilling the next general with principal-based leadership skills that prepare them to lead with purpose in an unpredictable world. “We should never forget that the attack on the on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was the deadliest attack in world history and the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor,” said Shelton. “The young people today, those 17 and younger, weren’t even born then. We have to keep this as a part of our history.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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New Miss America Nia Franklin is NC native By Wayne Parry The Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Nia Franklin made her final statements on the Miss America stage Sunday night as a New Yorker but, her roots are in the Old North State. Franklin, a native of Winston-Salem who attended East Carolina University and the UNC School of the Arts, became the fourth Miss New York to be crowned Miss America since 2013. Franklin is the first woman to win the Miss America crown without having to don a swimsuit, and she said she’s glad the change was made. “These changes, I think, will be great for our organization,” she said. “I’ve already seen so many young women reaching out to me personally as Miss New York asking how they can get involved because I think they feel more empowered that they don’t have to do things such as walk in a swimsuit for a scholarship. “And I’m happy that I didn’t have to do so to win this title tonight because I’m more than just that. And all these women onstage are more than just that.” A classical vocalist whose pageant platform is “advocating for the arts,” Franklin sang an operatic selection from “La Boheme” on Sunday night. Franklin won a $50,000 scholarship along with the crown. She said during her onstage interview that she was one of only a small number of minority students in school growing up, but used her love for music and the arts to grow and fit in. The fourth runner-up was Miss Massachusetts Gabriela Taveras; third runner-up was Miss Florida Taylor Tyson; second runner-up was Miss Louisiana Holli Conway,

“I’ve already seen so many young women reaching out to me personally as Miss New York asking how they can get involved because I think they feel more empowered that they don’t have to do things such as walk in a swimsuit for a scholarship.” Nia Franklin, Miss USA and the first runner-up was Miss Connecticut Bridget Oei. North Carolina was well-represented on the stage in the preliminary competition. Miss North Carolina, Laura Matrazzo of Chapel Hill, is a recent Clemson graduate. Also hailing from N.C. were Miss Virginia Emili McPhail and Miss District of Columbia Allison Farris. McPhail, who won a preliminary interview award, is from Sampson County and was previously Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teen. Farris, of Charlotte, is a graduate of the University of Alabama and previously competed in the Miss North Carolina competition placing second runner-up in 2017. As a result of Franklin’s win in Atlantic City, another N.C. native will inherit a crown and sash. Fayetteville native Rahmeka Cox finished first-runner-up to Franklin at the Miss New York pageant. She will become Miss New York due to Franklin’s ascension to Miss America. Cox is an ECU alumna. The judges narrowed the field of 51 candidates during the pageant Sunday night from Jim Whelan

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Miss New York Nia Franklin, center, reacts after being named Miss America 2019, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, in Atlantic City, N.J. Boardwalk Hall. The decision to drop the swimsuit competition created a good deal of controversy and criticism of current Miss America leadership. Minutes before the nationally televised broadcast began, a comedian warming up the crowd mentioned that there would be no swimsuit competition this year, and was met with loud boos in the hall. The swimsuits were replaced by on-stage interviews, which have generated attention-grabbing remarks from contestants regarding President Donald Trump and NFL player protests, among oth-

er topics. Behind the scenes, a revolt is underway among most of the Miss America state organizations who demand that national chairwoman Gretchen Carlson and CEO Regina Hopper resign. Last year’s Miss America, Cara Mund, says the two have bullied and silenced her, claims that the women deny. Upon taking over at the helm of the Miss America Organization last winter following an email scandal in which former top leaders denigrated the appearance, intellect and sex lives of former Miss

Americas, Carlson and Hopper set out to transform the organization, dubbing it “Miss America 2.0.” Unhappy with how the swimsuit decision was reached, as well as with other aspects of Carlson and Hopper’s performance, 46 of the 51 state pageant organizations (the District of Columbia is included) have called on the two to resign. Mund only appeared at the very end of the pageant before the next winner was crowned. She was not allowed to speak live; instead a 30-second taped segment of her speaking was broadcast.

‘Disappointing’ 2017-18 school report raises questions for state ed leaders A slight decline in scores after years of improvement stuns officials By David Larson For the North State Journal

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Jim Craig, David Burke and Chris Rayner load generators as people buy supplies at The Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Wilmington, N.C. Hurricane Florence rapidly strengthened into a potentially catastrophic hurricane on Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds and water that could wreak havoc over a wide stretch of the eastern United States later this week.

Shelter opens in Raleigh for New Hanover County residents By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — On Tuesday evening, a shelter opened in Raleigh at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, on Rock Quarry Rd., for residents evacuated from New Hanover County ahead of Hurricane Florence. Residents of Carolina Beach and Kure Beach are under a mandatory evacuation order with Wrightsville Beach scheduled for a mandatory evacuation beginning at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. “This shelter in Raleigh should be the first shelter that our residents consider when evacuating,” said New Hanover County Emergency Management Director Steven Still. “Residents who are at risk of flooding and surge should heed the warnings and evacuate.” Buses began transporting evacuees on Tuesday afternoon from New Hanover County to the Raleigh shelter. It will accept evacuees traveling with cats and dogs in crates.

FLORENCE from page A1 Forecasters said parts of North Carolina could get 20 inches of rain, if not more, with as much as 10 inches elsewhere in the state and in Virginia, parts of Maryland and Washington, D.C. One trusted computer model, the European simulation, predicted more than 45 inches in parts of North Carolina. A year ago, people would have laughed off such a forecast, but the European model was accurate in predicting 60 inches of rain for Hurricane Harvey in the Houston area, so “you start to wonder what these models know that we don’t,” said University of Miami hurricane expert Brian McNoldy. Rain measured in feet is “looking likely,” he said. Florence could slam the Carolinas harder than any hurricane since Hazel, which was hit in 1954 with 130 mph winds. The Category 4 storm destroyed 15,000 buildings and killed 19 people in North Carolina. In the six decades since then, many thousands of people have moved to the coast. Florence’s projected path includes half a dozen nuclear power plants, pits holding coal ash and other industrial waste, and numerous hog farms that store animal waste in huge lagoons. Duke Energy spokesman Ryan Mosier said operators would begin shutting down nuclear plants at least two hours before hurricane-force winds arrive. Cooper has issued what he

called a first-of-its-kind mandatory evacuation order for North Carolina’s fragile barrier islands from one end of the coast to the other. Typically, local governments in North Carolina make the call on evacuations. Some, including those at the Outer Banks, had already issued orders for the island residents to leave. “We’ve seen nor’easters and we’ve seen hurricanes before,” Cooper said, “but this one is different.” However, some residents have decided to ignore the mandatory evacuation order. Liz Browning Fox in the village of Buxton is one of them. The 65-year-old Fox says her 88-year-old mother has refused to evacuate her house next door so she’s going to stay with her. She says her brother who lives nearby is also going to stay. Fox says she feels safe in her home but realizes that if she and her mother get in trouble during the storm, no first responders are going to arrive to help them. She says anyone who plans to stay “needs to be pretty well set up.” Despite her resolve to stay, Fox admits she woke up in the predawn hours asking herself why she had decided to stay. She says what she most fears are the tornadoes that often develop along with hurricanes. Those, she says, “can tear through anything.” The longtime resident is a volunteer for the community radio station, Radio Hatteras. She says she will help broadcast emergency messages during the storm.

RALEIGH — The state’s annual schools report has arrived for the 2017-18 year, and state education leaders are not holding back their frustration with the story it tells. One of the more disappointing data points was that after a lot of focus on third grade reading results by lawmakers, there was a slight decline in overall testing in this area. The trend for state reading scores had been up in recent years, with 12 consecutive years of increases. This latest report, however, showed testing on math, science and reading falling from 59.2 percent of students passing in the 2016-17 school year to 58.8 percent in 2017-18. “I guess it’s good that our results are relatively constant and didn’t drop a lot, but frankly, it’s a pretty sobering report,” Eric Davis, chair of the North Carolina Board of Education, told the North State Journal. Davis said the scores were “in a word — disappointing.” “These results show that social and economic factors are difficult for school districts to overcome,” he said. “We need to do much more at the state level to fight these often racial and social forces.” Davis said a lot of the issue surrounds per-pupil spending, which he said took a hit during the recession and hasn’t fully recovered. “More of our students come to school with greater needs than ever before,” he added. “Looking after their health would make a big difference, but also we need to start earlier and provide more early childhood education so they’re better prepared.” Rep. Craig Horn (R-Union), who is the chairman of several House education committees, including the Education Appropriations Committee and the K-12 Education Policy Committee, agreed with some, but not all, of what Davis had to say. “Yes, there are socio-economic policies at play,” Horn told the North State Journal. “But I don’t think the per-pupil spending is the problem. With a lot of teachers retiring and a lot of new teachers coming in anyway to deal with the increasing enrollments, that

brings a lot of teachers in at the bottom of the pay scale. This necessarily creates a lower per-pupil spending number. Horn argued that there had been a lot of momentum over many years and at some point, that momentum had to pull back slightly. “Now we just need to figure out how to get that momentum back,” he said. He said that one issue is an “urban versus rural, ‘have’ versus ‘have not’ divide” developing, with 6 percent of the state’s districts seeing large growth and the rest actually seeing decline. These mostly rural areas are struggling and may need different solutions than what has worked elsewhere, he argued. Horn outlined three areas that he thinks would help: teacher quality and training, education delivery system improvements, and the socio-economic issues. “It’s caused me to lose sleep,” Horn said. “I’m absolutely determined to turn this around. We let them down, and we have to do whatever it takes for these kids. I’m willing to go anywhere and talk to anyone.” Charter schools are another area of note, with these schools getting more A’s and B’s than traditional public schools, but also more F’s. “There are a few common characteristics among the eight charter schools that received F grades,” Dr. Terry Stoops of the John Locke Foundation explained to North State Journal. “One low-performing school, Grandfather Academy, is part of a group home that serves victims of social, emotional, sexual or physical abuse. A handful of others are relatively new schools that serve predominantly disadvantaged populations. In many cases, these struggling schools enroll fewer than 250 students, which leaves little margin for error in terms of state testing.” On the successful charters, Stoops said, “In terms of educational philosophy and student demographics, North Carolina’s most successful charter schools have little in common. The one attribute that they share is the prospect of charter revocation by the State Board of Education. If charter schools fail to meet the academic, financial and operational expectations set by the school leaders and reinforced by the parents, then closure is almost inevitable.” The yearly report, along with A-F grades for North Carolina’s public schools, can be found at ncpublicschools.org/src/.

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PIEDMONT Man arrested after four children eat marijuana brownies Iredell County The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office arrested 40-year-old Justin Neal French after four children ate marijuanainfused brownies that he had baked. His brownies were accidentally mixed with regular brownies and served to his relatives. A 4-year-old, two 6-year-olds and a 9-year-old ate them. Police were called out of fears that they had been poisoned. French was charged with four counts of misdemeanor child abuse, among other charges.

Man arrested for beating handicapped man, stealing his pills Richmond County Jamie Llord Harris of Rockingham was arrested after assaulting a handicapped man who was sitting in a recliner. The 35-year-old Harris grabbed the man from behind, choked and punched him and stole a knife, $15 cash and three pill bottles containing morphine, oxycodone and Neurotin. He’s being charged with felony counts of common law robbery and assault by strangulation, as well as misdemeanor assault of a handicapped person. YOURDAILYJOURNAL.COM

EAST Police shoot man who was firing gun into crowd Pitt County The Greenville Police Department confirmed that three officers shot a suspect who was firing a gun into a crowd early Sunday morning. Police responded to reports of a fight in progress with shots being fired and saw a man shooting a gun into a crowd of people. The three officers will be put on administrative leave, pending investigation. Two people shot by the gunman were treated at local hospitals for injuries that were not lifethreatening. AP

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Yancey County Four fire and EMS departments responded to a home explosion in Yancey County last Tuesday morning. A structure fire with reported explosions brought rescue units to Lower Browns Creek in South Toe, including Yancey EMS, Burnsville Fire, Newdale Fire and South Toe Fire and Rescue. The blaze was quickly brought under control.

Warren County Almeda Wortham of Warren County made the most of a chance celebrity meeting. Wortham was attending a funeral in New Jersey and saw talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who was attending a reunion across the street. She crossed the street, took Oprah by the arm and sang to her for close to a minute. She said it had always been her dream to sing on Winfrey’s show, and she serenaded her with the gospel song “I Won’t Complain.” Oprah posted video of the encounter on her Instagram account.

Stokes County The Belews Creek Steam Station in Stokes County and six other coal plants in the state will be closed over the next 30 years, as Duke Energy announced that it will move away from coal-fired generation. Slated to close are Allen Steam Station in Gaston County, Asheville Plant in Skyland, Marshall Steam Station in Catawba County, Mayo Plant in Roxboro, Rogers Energy Complex (Cliffside Steam Station) in Cleveland and Rutherford counties, and Roxboro Steam Plant in Semora. The last one will be shuttered by 2048.

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Landmark from ‘One Tree Hill’ reopening New Hanover County The brick warehouse on Wilmington’s South Front Street will reopen for a special weekend-long charity gala in February. The building is best known as the set of the Tric nightclub on the CW drama “One Tree Hill,” which was filmed in Wilmington. The building will host the “Weekend in Tree Hill” charity event Feb. 21-24, with proceeds going to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and The Girl Project. The weekend will feature a fashion show, concert, party and appearance by series star Sophia Bush. STARNEWS

Mayor, wife found dead in their home

Town to hire three employees to help with hurricane recovery

Edgecombe County The mayor of Leggett and his wife were found shot to death in their home last week. Mayor Gary Skelton and his wife, Jackie Dawn Shelton, were found on Thursday after Jackie didn’t show up to work at the hospital where she worked as an oncology nurse. Police arrested 25-year-old Keith Williams and 18-year-old Mitchell Brinson of Tarboro and charged them with firstdegree murder.

Columbus County As another storm approaches the North Carolina coast, the town of Fair Bluff received money from the state to help with recovery from Hurricane Matthew’s damage, done two years ago. Gov. Roy Cooper approved expenditures to hire three employees — a project manager, a land use planner and a police officer — to help with recovery initiatives and provide security for vacant and damaged businesses.

get their insurance policies, homeowners and other types of policies together and put them in a safe, waterproof box,” said Causey. “You’re going to need those numbers for any claims. Also, document the items in your home; just take a cell phone and video around your rooms. If you have any items with serial numbers, like firearms, it’s a good idea to have a list of those serial numbers.” The DOI recommends that N.C. residents make sure that batteryoperated carbon monoxide and fire detectors are working properly and that any generators have been maintained and are only used outdoors. Poisonous carbon monoxide from portable generators can kill in minutes. CO is an invisible killer; it’s colorless and odorless. More than 400 people die each year in the United States from CO poisoning, about 70 of those are related to portable generators.

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RALEIGH — Along with the state of emergency declared as Hurricane Florence moves toward the N.C. coast, laws against price gouging will also go into effect. Charging customers too much for goods during a time of crisis is illegal, says N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein. The N.C. Department of Justice is notifying businesses and consumers this week to be on the lookout for any issues. “My office is here to protect North Carolinians from scams and frauds,” said Stein. “That is true all the time — but especially during severe weather. It is against the law to charge an excessive

price during a state of emergency. If you see a business taking advantage of this storm, either before or after it hits, please let my office know so we can hold them accountable.” North Carolina has a strong statute against price gouging — under the law, the state can seek refunds for consumers who paid too much. The courts may also impose civil penalties against price gougers of up to $5,000 for each violation. The price gouging law remains in effect until the state of emergency is lifted. To report potential price gouging call 1-877-5-NO-SCAM or file a complaint at www.ncdoj.gov.

Insurance agent accused of embezzling funds NSJ Staff RALEIGH — Insurance agent Shylemu Wylemu Jones, 37, of Henderson, was arrested in July on charges of embezzlement by an insurance agent. According to the arrest warrant, Jones is accused of embezzling $1,439.69 in life insurance premiums from United Insurance Company of America. The offense occurred between Nov. 22, 2017, and Jan. 25, 2018. N.C. Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced the arrest Monday saying that special agents from the Department of Insurance’s Criminal

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Investigations Division arrested Jones on July 19. She was placed under $30,000 unsecured bond. “I am determined to stem the tide of insurance fraud in this state in order to save residents money,” said Causey. “That’s why I am dedicated to the mission of our NCDOI law enforcement officers who investigate and prosecute claims of insurance and bail bonding fraud.” According to a press release from the DOI, insurance fraud costs consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. Causey said fraud costs North Carolinians between 15 and 20 cents of every dollar paid on insurance premiums.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

Believe in something. Even if it means staying anonymous

Here’s our policy at the North State Journal: If you are not brave enough to sign your name to an opinion piece, we will not publish it.

HOW ODD WAS IT that in the same week Nike introduced its “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything” #JustDoIt campaign, the vaunted New York Times would publish an anonymous op-ed piece about the Trump White House by someone who felt so strongly about its dysfunction … they didn’t sign their name to it. Does this person not feel strongly enough about the dangers of the Trump White House to sacrifice their own job? Nike probably won’t sponsor this person. Or will they in absentia? Is this person old enough to remember the heroism of AG Elliot Richardson and Deputy AG William Ruckelshaus when they resigned instead of bowing to the pressure of President Richard Nixon in 1973 after he demanded they fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating Watergate? Does this person remember that John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence with 55 other delegates? Benjamin Franklin is attributed as saying after affixing his signature: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Had the founders stayed “anonymous” maybe they could have avoided the gallows noose had they lost The War. The publication of the anonymous op-ed piece in The New York Times by a “senior Trump Administration official” last week has broken new ground in the annals of journalism. Who in their right mind would ever publish such an anonymous document? How do we know it is even a “real” person who wrote it? What if some junior staff person at CNN drafted it and submitted it to The New York Times editorial board ,and they published it because they hate President Trump so much that they will do anything to take him down? After all we have seen in traditional and social media lately, are we 100 percent sure this is not some planted hit piece purely for political purposes? At the beginning of the republic, there were hundreds if not thousands of small newspapers around the 13 colonies. Hardly any of them pretended to be totally objective, totally nonpartisan journalistic news outlets. The more partisan they were, the better were sales of their newspapers. The more incendiary their attacks against the Federalists in power or the Democratic-Republicans who followed later, the more papers they sold to the people who agreed with their point of view. James Callender was a master of disaster when it came to publishing horrible and totally bogus claims against political opponents of his friends James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Most of the time, Messrs. Madison and Jefferson funneled the information they wanted Mr.

Callender to publish in the first place. The factual news was secondary to the spreading of their side of the story and their preferred points of political philosophy as it pertained to the new government. Have we gone back to the future where the venerated Grey Lady of American journalism that has operated under the banner “All The News That’s Fit To Print’ for a century has descended into being a mere propaganda arm of the left-wing progressive movement and “The Resistance To President Trump”? Here’s our policy at the North State Journal: If you are not brave enough to sign your name to an opinion piece, we will not publish it. We know that publishing such anonymous op-eds is wrong. It is dead wrong for the country, our body politic and for American journalism. Men and women of integrity in American politics over time have risen above such cowardly behavior and either challenged powers-that-be publicly and face-to-face or, as we saw in the case of Nixon’s Watergate fiasco, resigned rather than serve under corrupt leadership. We wish more men and women of integrity on both sides of the aisle would stand up for what is right. #JustSignYourName

EDITORIAL | PHIL VAN HOY

Voter ID amendment is common sense 34 other states presently have some form of voter ID.

On Nov. 6, North Carolina voters will decide whether to approve six changes to the state Constitution. The first proposal is a single but significant sentence: Constitutional amendment to require voters to provide photo identification before voting in person. This amendment would require voters to present photo ID before casting ballots. Our state had a voter ID law before it was struck down by courts as supposedly targeting black voters, the theory being that blacks are more likely than whites not to have personal photo ID. Experience in everyday life is that photo ID is necessary to carry on daily tasks. Examples include applying for public assistance, cashing checks, driver licenses, boarding airplanes, and so many other activities with which everyone is personally familiar. Why not then for the critically-important duty of voting? 34 other states presently have some form of voter ID. The potential for mischief is present when no voter ID is required. Examples abound and include double-voting, voting in the name of unregistered or even dead persons, and voting in the name of another person. Those opposing this amendment, such as the NAACP, contend that requiring voter ID adversely impacts black citizens, who they assert are less likely than others to have a photo ID. Fraudulent voting is real, not an abstraction. Various news reports show that in some places, often large urban areas, more people have voted than the total of registered voters. Chicago is notorious for dead people voting. The story is often told that some Chicagoans vote Republican their whole lives, then Democrat after they die. Nineteen people in North Carolina recently were charged in federal court for voting illegally because they were not U.S. citizens. Earlier this week, federal immigration officials subpoenaed from numerous boards of elections in the North Carolina Eastern District Federal Court the voting records of hundreds of thousands of people who have voted in North Carolina in various elections. Indictments and subpoenas are not proof of guilt, but the federal Department of Justice has a gracious plenty

of criminal activities to prosecute without chasing unfounded leads. In the Nov. 8, 2016 election, Gov. Pat McCrory apparently had been re-elected until 70,000 ballots from Durham County mysteriously appeared late in the evening. They were overwhelmingly cast for Democrat Roy Cooper and provided him with his victory margin. Durham County is notoriously Democrat, but it also has a decades-long history of electoral shenanigans. A personal example illustrates how commonplace photo IDs are to confirm one’s identity. A busload of us attended the Donald Trump Inauguration in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. We were lacking around 10 tickets that provided for seated attendance at the swearing-in ceremony. We asked a North Carolina Democrat member of the U.S. House for tickets hoping they would not be using their full allotment of tickets. The confirmation that we would receive the tickets was accompanied in writing with instructions that when we picked up the tickets, we were required to present photo IDs. While we were grateful for the cooperation of that Democrat in complying with our request, the irony of a liberal Democrat requiring photo ID apparently was not grasped. When the Democratic National Convention was held in Charlotte in 2012, I was assigned as a paid reporter to cover the festivities. I saw convention delegates showing two forms of ID in order to enter the arena where the convention was held in order to vote on various platform proposals, including one opposing voter ID. Again, the irony escaped those in attendance. Various polls have showed consistently that 70%+ of North Carolinians support voter ID. Sixty-five percent of black North Carolinians support voter ID. The votes of registered citizens who do show up to cast ballots on Nov. 6 will decide whether proposed Amendment One to the North Carolina Constitution will become law in our State. Philip M. Van Hoy is a Charlotte native and principal at Van Hoy, Reutlinger, Adams and Dunn, a law firm he started in 1989.

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 12, 2018 COLUMN | WALTER E. WILLIAMS

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Nike and corporate political correctness

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President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, looks over his notes during a third round of questioning on the third day of his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington, to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy.

It’s Our Constitution — Not Kavanaugh

If confirmed, Brett Kavanaugh will bring to the U.S. Supreme Court a vision closer to that of the Framers than the vision of those who believe that the Constitution is a ‘living document.’

ONE OF THE BEST statements of how the Framers saw the role of the federal government is found in Federalist Paper 45, written by James Madison, who is known as the “Father of the Constitution”: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.” Today’s reality is the polar opposite of that vision. The powers of the federal government are numerous and indefinite, and those of state governments are few and defined. If confirmed, Brett Kavanaugh will bring to the U.S. Supreme Court a vision closer to that of the Framers than the vision of those who believe that the Constitution is a “living document.” Those Americans rallying against Kavanaugh’s confirmation are really against the U.S. Constitution rather than the man — Judge Kavanaugh — whom I believe would take seriously his oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution. Was Madison misinformed or just plain ignorant about the powers delegated to Congress? Before we answer, let’s examine statements of other possibly “misinformed” Americans. In 1796, on the floor of the House of Representatives, William Giles of Virginia condemned a relief measure for fire victims, saying the purpose and the right of Congress is to attend to not what generosity and humanity require but instead what their duty requires. In 1854, President Franklin Pierce vetoed a bill intended to help the mentally ill, writing to the Senate, “I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity.” He added that to approve such spending would “be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.” President Grover Cleveland out-vetoed his predecessors by vetoing 584 acts

of Congress, including many congressional spending bills, during his two terms as president in the late 1800s. His often-given veto message was, “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.” By the way, President Cleveland was a Democrat. Were the Founding Fathers, previous congressmen and previous presidents who could not find constitutional authority for today’s massive federal government intervention just plain stupid, ignorant, callous and uncaring? Article 1 of the Constitution defines the role of Congress. Its Section 8 lists powers delegated to Congress. I examined our Constitution, looking to see whether an Article 5 amendment had been enacted authorizing Congress to spend money for business bailouts, prescription drugs, education, Social Security and thousands of other spending measures in today’s federal budget. I found no such amendment. Contrary to what our Constitution permits, Congress taxes and spends for anything upon which it can muster a majority vote. But I found a constitutional loophole that many congressmen use as a blank check, as well as justification to control most aspects of our lives — namely, the general welfare clause. The Constitution’s preamble contains the phrase “promote the general Welfare,” and Article 1, Section 8 contains the phrase “provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.” What did the Framers mean by “general Welfare”? In 1817, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated.” Madison wrote: “With respect to the words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” Case closed: It’s our Constitution that’s the problem for leftist interventionists — not Brett Kavanaugh. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

NUMBER OF THE DAY | SCOTT RASMUSSEN

70% of rural residents feel misunderstood by urban/ suburban residents

SEVENTY PERCENT (70%) of rural residents say that people who live in the suburbs or urban areas don’t understand the kinds of problems they face. A Pew Research study found that 65% of those who live in urban areas feel equally misunderstood. Just 52% of suburban dwellers hold that view. Sixty-three percent (63%) of rural residents have lived in their communities for 11 years or longer. Just 25% would move if given the chance. The numbers are more even for urban residents. Just 45% have been in their community for 11 years or more, and 37% would move if given the chance. Overall, about one out of five adults have always lived near the community where they grew up.

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Lorenda Overman’s grandson Wade, 2, drives his tractor around the backyard at Overman Farms in Goldsboro, N.C., Monday, March 6, 2017.

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politics, and technology and is published by Ballotpedia, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Encyclopedia of American Politics.

IT IS HARD TO FATHOM that there really exists a body of public opinion that supports Nike’s decision to make former NFL star Colin Kaepernick the center of its new “Believe in something” advertising campaign. This is the fellow who believes in wearing socks depicting cops as pigs and wears a pro-Fidel Castro T-shirt because he believes that under that murderous dictator, Cuba was a better country than his own, perhaps because he believes his country was founded on slavery and the “genocide of Native Americans.” Washington Post sports columnist Barry Svrluga gushed over the ad, saying: “Nike did what the NFL hasn’t been able to do: It chose a side. That it happened to be correct is all the better.” The full slogan Nike is unveiling is especially obnoxious when Kaepernick’s name is attached to it: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” He’s a pampered multimillionaire athlete, and even though his career is all but over, he still somehow commands a contract reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars. There’s sacrifice for you. You wonder what the families of fallen police officers are thinking right now. The inmates are running the asylum. This decision was beyond idiotic, and Nike deserves the punishment it’s receiving. Nike’s calculation is that what Kaepernick brings exceeds the money he’s being paid, for surely he has a following in America’s

“The inmates are running the asylum. This decision was beyond idiotic, and Nike deserves the punishment it’s receiving.”

fractured society. But enough to generate tens of millions of dollars in new sales to balance the books? Oops. Make that tens of millions plus $3,750,000,000. In one day, Nike lost almost $4 billion in valuation because of this, according to The Wrap. This decision has backfired so badly it should be made a case study in The Stupidest Marketing Plan Ever Devised. The public relations mess it has created is one for the books. A new Morning Consult survey of thousands of people showed that Nike’s favorability has collapsed. Before the announcement, Nike had a net +69 favorable impression among consumers, which has dropped 34 points to +35 favorable. And get this: “Among younger generations, Nike users, African Americans, and other key demographics, Nike’s favorability declined rather than improved.” The internet is ablaze in disgust. Actually, it’s people’s shoes that are being set on fire all over the country and posted on social media. Worse still, this disaster isn’t going to blow over, as Nike’s panicked marketing department is surely praying will happen. Every single time the public sees this arrogant, disgraceful ingrate’s face on a Nike ad, the determination not to purchase that company’s products will only grow. This is just another day at the office for that mess known as the NFL, once so embraced by the public and today held in disdain. It’s everything about it. It’s the spoiled players. The cowardly owners. The left-wing broadcasters. And now, with the NFL having signed a 10-year deal with Nike to make it an official sponsor, it’s the advertisers. It’s full-scale rot. And as a result, the numbers continue to plummet. Preseason ratings are down yet again. Sports Media Watch reported that NFL preseason viewership was down 9 percent across NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN and the NFL Network. Strangely, the Cleveland Browns drew a higher audience. Without the Browns games, preseason viewership crashed 18 percent. Viewers who did bother tuning in saw a lot of empty seats in the stands as well. The Sunday-night game on Aug. 26 featuring the Dallas Cowboys was the team’s leastwatched broadcast on a network since 2009. A game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals that same day was the least-watched preseason matchup on Fox since 2008. A recent poll commissioned at the Media Research Center found that 75 percent agreed with the statement “When I watch live sports or entertainment shows on television I am trying to get away from politics and do not want to be bombarded with partisan political messages.” What do you think that 75 percent thinks now? What will those people think every time they see a Nike commercial celebrating this man? Truth is, many won’t see that ad, because they’ll no longer be watching the NFL. “Believe in something really offensive. Even if it means sacrificing everything, including your own company. And the NFL, while you’re at it” -- that would have been a far more accurate tag line.

L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.

Pence: I’m confident no one on my staff wrote the NYT column Washington, D.C. Vice President Mike Pence says he’s “100 percent confident” that no one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York Times column criticizing President Donald Trump’s leadership. “I know them. I know their character,” Pence said in a taped interview aired Sunday by CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Some pundits had speculated that Pence could be the “senior administration official” who wrote the opinion piece because it included language Pence has been known to use, like the unusual word “lodestar.” The op-ed writer claimed to be part of a “resistance” movement within the Trump administration that was working quietly behind the scenes to thwart the president’s most dangerous impulses.

Case against officer who killed neighbor to go to grand jury Dallas The case against a white Dallas police officer who shot and killed a black neighbor will be presented to a grand jury, which could decide on more serious charges than manslaughter. Lawyers for the victim’s family questioned why it took three days for Amber Guyger to be charged and why she was so quick to use deadly force in her encounter with 26-yearold Botham Jean, who lived in the apartment directly above hers. She told authorities she mistook the neighbor’s unit for her own. An arrest affidavit prepared by a Texas Ranger says Guyger told investigators that she had just ended a 15-hour shift Thursday when she returned in uniform to her apartment complex. She parked on the fourth floor, instead of the third, where she lived. She found the apartment door unlocked and slightly ajar, the affidavit said. Inside, the lights were off, and she saw a figure in the darkness. She concluded her apartment was being burglarized and gave verbal commands to the figure, which ignored them. She then drew her weapon and fired twice, the affidavit said. She called 911 and, when asked where she was, returned to the front door to see she was in the wrong unit, according to the affidavit. The Dallas County medical examiner’s office said Jean died of a gunshot wound to the chest. His death was ruled a homicide.

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nation & world U.S. shutting PLO delegation office By Matthew Lee The Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank— The U.S. has notified the Palestinians it’s closing their mission in Washington, a senior official said Monday, the latest in a series of American blows to the Palestinians. The Trump administration notified the Palestinians last year it will shutter their office in Washington, D.C., unless they enter serious peace talks with Israel. “We have been officially informed that the U.S. administration will close our embassy in Washington as a punishment for continuing to work with the International Criminal Court against Israeli war crimes,” Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said. “This is yet another affirmation of the Trump administration’s policy to collectively punish the Palestinian people, including by cutting financial support for humanitarian services including health and education,” he added. The move comes after several financial measures the Trump administration has taken toward the Palestinians. The U.S. has announced it is ending its decades of funding for the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees, slashing bilateral U.S. aid for projects in the West Bank and Gaza and cutting funding to hospitals in Jerusalem that serve Palestinians. A provision in a U.S. law says the PLO mission must close if the Palestinians try to get the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis for crimes against

ALEX BRANDON | ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE

This Nov. 18, 2017 file photo shows the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The U.S. has notified the Palestinians it’s closing their mission in Washington, a senior official said Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, the latest in a series of American blows to the Palestinians. Palestinians. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in November that

the Palestinians crossed that line two months prior. Although the Israelis and Pal-

estinians are not engaged in active, direct negotiations, Trump’s administration has been working to mediate a peace deal that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Led by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a senior aide, White House officials have been preparing a peace proposal they intend to put forward at an unspecified time. Trump has promised to pursue the “ultimate deal” between the Palestinians and Israel. However, such a deal is unlikely given Palestinian mistrust of his administration. The Palestinians were angered by Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the U.S. Embassy there. They have since rejected the U.S. as peace broker. The Palestine Liberation Organization is the group that formally represents all Palestinians. Although the U.S. does not recognize Palestinian statehood, the PLO has maintained a “general delegation” office in Washington that facilitates Palestinian officials’ interactions with the U.S. government. The United States allowed the PLO to open a mission in Washington in 1994, a move that required then-President Bill Clinton to waive a law that said the Palestinians couldn’t have an office. In 2011, under the Obama administration, the United States started letting the Palestinians fly their flag over the office, an upgrade to the status of their mission that the Palestinians hailed as historic. There was no immediate comment from Israeli government officials.

Sessions: Immigration judges must be efficient with backlog By Michael Balsamo The Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va.— Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told a group of new immigration judges they have an obligation to decide cases efficiently in a system besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs. The largest class of new immigration judges in U.S. history gathered Monday in Falls Church, Va. The 44 new judges will be placed at courts around the nation. Sessions cautioned the jurists will face challenges because “we have a lot to do right now.” He says the system for seeking asylum in the U.S. has been “abused for years.” Sessions told the judges they should respect the rights of immigrants but “reject unjustified and sometimes blatantly fake claims.” Sessions says the government’s “zero tolerance” policy to prosecute people illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border will deter others from doing the same.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions outlines Trump administration policies as he speaks to new immigration judges, in Falls Church, Va., Monday, Sept. 10, 2018.

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Hurricanes open first camp under Brind’Amour, B6 Several college and pro sports teams canceled games for this weekend, meaning there won’t be a repeat of the NC StateNotre Dame splashfest from Oct. 8, 2016. The two teams managed just 13 points in the Wolfpack’s 10-3 win in the monsoon-like conditions at Carter-Finley Stadium caused by Hurricane Matthew.

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ACC broadcaster Hogewood dead at 63 Greensboro Longtime broadcaster Mike Hogewood, who was a fixture announcing ACC football, basketball and more, died in his sleep after suffering a heart attack last Wednesday at his home in Greensboro. He was 63. Hogewood, who retired in 2013 after 26 years behind the mic, announced everything from NASCAR and Monster Jam to being the voice for Jefferson-Pilot Sports and Raycom Sports. He was also sports director at Greensboro’s CBS affiliate, WFMY Channel 2, for 15 years before his retirement. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Nancy, his son and daughter, and three grandchildren.

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Duke CB Gilbert done for season, QB Jones out indefinitely Durham Duke quarterback Daniel Jones is out indefinitely with a broken collarbone and allAtlantic Coast Conference cornerback Mark Gilbert is done for the season with a hip injury. Both players had surgeries Sunday, the team said. Jones fractured his left clavicle while taking a blindside hit during the third quarter Blue Devils’ 21-7 victory at Northwestern on Saturday. Gilbert injured his left hip in the second quarter.

AP poll’s top-four teams remain unchanged New York Alabama is still college football’s No. 1 team, collecting 54 first-place votes in the third week of The Associated Press college football poll after the Crimson Tide beat Arkansas State 57-7. Clemson’s second game was much closer, a 28-26 win over Texas A&M that cost the Tigers half of their 12 firstplace votes from last week, but not their No. 2 ranking. Georgia and Ohio State held firm at Nos. 3 and 4, while Oklahoma and Wisconsin flip-flopped at fifth and sixth, though the No. 5 Badgers retained their one first-place vote.

The Category 4 hurricane is expected to reach the Carolinas in the coming days, leading to schedule changes for college, high school and even pro sports MIKE MCCARN | AP PHOTO

Panthers tight end Greg Olsen walks off the field after injuring his foot Sunday in Carolina’s win over Dallas in Charlotte. Olsen broke the same foot that hampered him last season, and the Pro Bowl tight end is considered month-to-month.

Darryl Williams The team went most of the preseason without the starting right tackle after he tore his MCL in late July. He worked his way back and was able to start the opener, only to be carted off the field with an injury to the same knee in the fourth quarter. Afterward, teammates appeared to be resigned to the fact that Williams had aggravated the injury. Initial reports from team doctors seemed to bring good news. “That’s the one thing I do know about Daryl is that it is not the re-injury,” Rivera said. “I’ll tell you that much. That’s the one thing I do know. … He got rolled up on the back of the legs. Again, we will take a look at that, and the one thing they did tell me is they don’t think it is anything similar to what he did the first time, so that’s good to hear.” That hope fizzled early in the week, when head trainer Ryan Vermillion announced that Williams would need surgery. “Daryl injured his right knee when a Cowboys player fell into the side of his knee,” Vermillion said. “After evaluation, it is team physician Dr. Pat Connor’s recommendation that Daryl undergoes surgery to repair the injury.”

WHAT PROMISED to be one of the better college football weekends in North Carolina this season, with a battle between potential Heisman Trophy candidate quarterbacks scheduled for Raleigh and a visit to Chapel Hill by the self-proclaimed defending national champions, has been wiped out by Hurricane Florence. Both North Carolina and NC State announced Tuesday that their respective home games — the Wolfpack against West Virginia and the Tar Heels against Central Florida — have been postponed because of the approaching Category 4 storm. Then East Carolina announced its game at Virginia Tech was also postponed. No immediate plans for rescheduling the nonconference games have been announced, although all three schools issued statements saying that efforts to do so are underway. There is also a possibility that replacement games against other opponents could be scheduled on each team’s current bye date. “Hosting a major college football game is a massive undertaking that on a good day involves fans and thousands of state, local and campus personnel, including public safety officials, traveling from all over the area,” UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement announcing the cancellation of his team’s game at Kenan Stadium, who urged fans to cancel hotel reservations so that the rooms might become available for evacuees and first responders. “The current forecast for both the impact and aftermath of the hurricane would require those officials to divert critical resources from what could be much more significant duties. We can’t know for certain the amount of damage the storm will inflict, but the sensible decision at this time is to not play the game.” NC State issued a similar statement saying that it was “in the best interests of the safety and well-being of fans, student-athletes and all parties involved” for Saturday’s game to be scratched. The decision not to play was an especially difficult one for the Wolfpack, which was anticipating a sellout crowd at Carter-Finley Stadium for the showdown between its quarterback Ryan Finley and West Virginia’s Will Grier — two of the nation’s most prolific passers. State also has a history of playing well in bad weather situations, having overcome the pouring rain and wind of Hurricane Matthew for a 10-6 victory against Notre Dame two seasons ago. That’s why coach Dave Doeren on Monday suggested that he wouldn’t be disappointed if

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See STORM, page B3

Olsen, Williams to miss time for Panthers Week 1 deals two blows to the Carolina offense By Shawn Krest North State Journal CHARLOTTE — The Carolina Panthers suffered three potentially major injuries in their season-opening win over Dallas. As the players began to go through evaluation and rehabbing, it appeared that at least two of them will result in fairly significant lost time. Luke Kuechly Panthers players, coaches and fans all held their breath when the All-Pro linebacker went down, holding his knee in the second half. By the next drive, however, Kuechly was back in the game, and initial reports are that he merely hyperextended the knee. “The best thing is I knew right away what had happened,” coach Ron Rivera said. “The doctors communicated that very well. Luke just wanted to come to the sidelines for a second to catch his breath, which he did. Once he got settled in, he was fine and ready to go back out there.” Immediately after the game, Kuechly downplayed any lasting implications from the injury. “I’m good,” he said. “I will be fine. I just got rolled up a little bit, but I’ll be good to go. … I went

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back in, and there were no issues with it.”

“We can’t know for certain the amount of damage the storm will inflict, but the sensible decision at this time is to not play the game.” Bubba Cunningham, UNC athletic director

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TRENDING

Mark Price: The former Charlotte 49ers coach is returning to the NBA, joining coach Michael Malone’s staff with the Denver Nuggets. Price had coached in North Carolina since 2013, first on Charlotte Bobcats and Hornets coach Steve Clifford’s staff until 2015, and then as the 49ers coach from March 2015 until he resigned last December with a 30-42 career record. Price, a four-time NBA All-Star as a player, previously coached as an assistant in Denver from 2007‑08 — his first NBA coaching job — and made subsequent stops in Atlanta, Golden State and Orlando before coming to Charlotte. Marquell Cartwright: The North Carolina A&T senior running back had 119 yards on just 15 carries as the Aggies reeled off the final 31 points in a 45-6 win over Gardner-Webb. NC A&T, the fourth-ranked team in FCS, improved to 3-0 and has won 15 consecutive games. The 5-foot-8, 203-pound High Point native is yet to score a touchdown after reaching the end zone 14 times last year when he rushed for 1,190 yards. Thayer Thomas: A freshman walk-on in the spring, the NC State receiver didn’t take long to show he’s earning the scholarship he was awarded in May. In just his second collegiate game, Thomas — helping fill in for injured Week 1 standout Jakobi Meyers — had nine catches in the Wolfpack’s 41-7 win over Georgia State on Saturday and was named ACC Rookie of the Week. His 114 yards was the most for an NC State freshman since 2011 and the earliest a freshman has had a 100-yard game.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

NFL

It would have been easy to write off 33-year-old Adrian Peterson, but the Redskins’ new running back turned back the clock in Washington’s 24-6 win over Arizona. Peterson looked like the workhorse of old, carrying the ball 26 times for 96 yards and a touchdown. Peterson also had two receptions for 70 yards, including a 52-yarder that ended with a fumble — the one blemish in an impressive debut.

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“It is special and means a lot to kiss the bricks today and get that first win for Team Penske and Roger.” Brad Keselowski after he gave car owner Roger Penske his first Brickyard 400 win on Monday. Peske has won the Indianapolis 500 17 times. ROSS D. FRANKLIN | AP PHOTO

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“That’s Cam’s blankie. ... It’s his security blanket.” Panthers receiver Torrey Smith on Greg Olsen, who was injured in the season opener, being quarterback Cam Newton’s most reliable target. PRIME NUMBER

166 Combined points for East Carolina in its last three games against North Carolina, all wins, after the Pirates beat the Tar Heels 41‑19 Saturday. In 2014, ECU topped UNC 70‑41 at home, and the Pirates won 55‑31 the year before in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels lead the series 12‑5, though one of those UNC wins was vacated from the Butch Davis era.

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New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge took on-field batting practice Monday for the first time since breaking his right wrist July 26. It was initially rumored Judge could rehab with Triple-A Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre for its Governors’ Cup series against the Durham Bulls, but New York manager Aaron Boone shot down that possibility.

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The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed free agent forward Luol Deng, the latest former Chicago Bulls player to reunite with coach Tom Thibodeau. Deng reportedly signed a one-year deal worth $2.4 million. Deng, the seventh overall pick out Duke in 2004, played 10 seasons for Chicago, but Minnesota will be his fifth team in six years.

TENNIS

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Serena Williams fell short of her record-tying 24th Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open, but she was still the story of the final. Williams was penalized a full game for arguing with chair umpire Carlos Ramos, sparking controversy while giving Naomi Osaka enough of an edge to win her first Grand Slam title, 6-2, 6-4 in New York.

PANTHERS from page B1 The Panthers are prepared for Williams to miss time, having spent all of camp getting ready to play without him. Amini Silato‑ lu will likely step into his spot at right tackle, as he did late in Sun‑ day’s game, with Greg Van Roten playing left guard. Greg Olsen The tight end’s prospects are probably the most dire of the three injured Panthers. For the second straight season, the Pro Bowl tight end went down with a foot injury in the Panthers’ home opener. Last year, Olsen broke the foot in Week 2 and went on injured reserve until Week 12. On Sunday, Olsen appeared to be ready to assume his spot as quarterback Cam Newton’s top target. He caught two of Newton’s first four completions, gaining 33 yards in the first quarter. He left the game a short time later, how‑ ever, and was on crutches and wearing a protective boot on the sideline during the second half. Vermillion confirmed on Tues‑ day that Olsen had refractured the foot. He won’t have surgery “at this time,” instead looking to rest and rehab the injury. “We will monitor his rehab and evaluate his progress on a monthly basis,” Vermillion said, seeming to indicate that he won’t be back any‑

“He’s been good with his blocking. He’s been good with his route-running. He’s been good with his receiving. But he’s got to get better as a blocker, route-runner and receiver.” Panthers coach Ron Rivera on rookie tight end Ian Thomas time soon. The task of replacing Olsen will fall on rookie tight end Ian Thom‑ as and third year pro Chris Man‑ hertz to pick up the slack at tight end. Thomas had two catches for four yards in the opener. “I think he’s pretty well pre‑ pared,” Rivera said. “There are some things obviously that he still has to learn, and he’s got a long way to go in terms of having that natural feel that Greg has, hav‑ ing that rapport that Greg has. So we’ll see. … He’s been good with his blocking. He’s been good with his route-running. He’s been good with his receiving. But he’s got to get better as a blocker, route-run‑ ner and receiver.” It appears that he’ll get the op‑ portunity over the next few games, at least.

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Panthers rookie tight end Ian Thomas, pictured in the preseason, will be counted on to help fill the void left by the injury to Pro Bowl tight end Greg Olsen.

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A&T’s McCain making a name for himself The Aggies cornerback, whose grandfather was one of the Greensboro Four, has become a defensive threat By Brett Friedlander North State Journal MAC MCCAIN III loves a good challenge. The problem is, he’s so good at what he does on the football field that opposing quarterbacks aren’t challenging him much anymore. Because of that, the NC A&T cornerback had just two thoughts on his mind as he saw the ball coming his way near the back of East Carolina’s end zone two weeks ago at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Catch it. And take it to the house. Those two things became McCain’s trademark during a freshman season in which he picked off six passes, three of which were taken back for touchdowns. He added to that growing legacy at ECU by returning his first interception this year 109 yards for a touchdown. It was a pivotal play that shocked the Pirates and catapulted McCain’s Aggies to a 28-24 upset win. But the only real surprise was that ECU chose to throw the ball anywhere near him in such an important situation. “I was a little surprised,” McCain said of the pick-six that was officially recorded as a 100-yard return. “I like it, though. That way I can make plays. I don’t like to be bored all game, not getting the ball come to my side. “I want to score. I want to get in the end zone, so anytime I get the ball my decision is to go.” Gardner-Webb didn’t give McCain any chances to “go” last Saturday by keeping the ball away from him for most of their game against the Aggies. He was only involved in a handful of plays, making two tackles. But it still didn’t help the Runnin’ Bulldogs, as A&T cruised to an easy win in its home opener for its 16th straight victory.

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NC A&T’s Mac McCain returns an interception for a touchdown against East Carolina during the Aggies’ win Sept. 2 in Greenville. McCain said he expects teams to try and “lull him to sleep” for the rest of the season by throwing to the opposite side of the field, then eventually trying to catch him napping with the occasional pass to his man. But according to his coach Sam Washington, a former NFL defensive back himself, even that might be a mistake considering the attraction the ball seems to have with McCain’s hands. “He has a lot of instincts and that’s stuff that you cannot coach,” Washington said. “It’s either you have it, or you don’t. He possesses

“I want to score. I want to get in the end zone, so anytime I get the ball my decision is to go.” Mac McCain III, NC A&T cornerback a lot of those things that gives him favor. You also need a little speed, and he can run.”

A 5-foot-11, 173-pound Greensboro native, McCain said his knack for being around the ball was “a gift from God.” He’s also blessed with 4.3 speed and a 34inch vertical leap. But even with those physical attributes, 109 yards in full pads in the heat of late summer can wear a player out. “I was good the first 60 yards,” he said. “When I got to about the 40 I started looking at the video board to see who was behind me. That guy (Blake Proehl) almost caught me. He must be on the

Postponed game gives brief respite for Larry Fedora and reeling Tar Heels UNC’s 0-2 start, including Saturday’s 41-19 loss to ECU, has the seventh‑year coach on the hot seat By Shawn Krest North State Journal CHAPEL HILL — It’s hard to imagine a team needing a week off more than Larry Fedora and UNC. While an approaching hurricane is hardly a reason to heave a sigh of relief, the reeling Tar Heels can definitely make use of an extra week to right the ship. After traveling to the West Coast for an opening weekend loss to Cal, the Heels went to Greenville to face an East Carolina team that was coming off of back-to-back 3-9 seasons. A home loss to FCS foe NC A&T appeared to be the final nail in the coffin of third-year coach Scottie Montgomery, who was likely facing a must-win season after promising a postseason appearance at the close of last year. Montgomery may have gotten the break he needed, and by leaving the hot seat, turned up the temperature on Fedora. The Pirates blew out Carolina, 41-19, sending the Heels home in search of answers. “Nobody’s happy with it,” Fedora said afterward. “Everybody’s disappointed, as they should be. These guys work hard and put a lot into it, and we didn’t get the job done. Again, that’s on me.” Angry Carolina fans demanded Fedora’s head following the loss, and it’s likely that the UNC administration is at least reading through his contract, trying to calculate what type of buyout they’d need to pay. Consider: The Heels are just 4-14 in their last 18 games, and that includes wins over FCS opponents The Citadel and Western Carolina. They’ve lost four straight to in-state rivals Duke and NC State, with two of those games ending in double-digit margins of defeat. The ECU loss was the eighth time in the last 14 games that UNC has lost by double digits and fourth time it has lost by more

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Coach Larry Fedora and the Tar Heels will get a much-needed week off after the school canceled Saturday’s home game against UCF due to Hurricane Florence. than 20 points. Carolina hasn’t beaten an FCS team at home since Nov. 5, 2016, also the last time it beat a team that ended the year with a winning record. It’s not just the losses that cause fans to throw up their hands in frustration, but the way the team has fallen to defeat. The Heels, at their worst, appear disorganized and undisciplined. Only two teams have more penalties and penalty yards through two games than Carolina. One — Arkansas State — is coached by former Fedora assistant Blake Anderson. The other — Maryland — currently has an interim coach. Aside from the on-field struggles, the Heels have had a rough offseason, and much of it can be traced to Fedora. Thirteen players had to serve a combined 42 games of suspension at the start of the season after they sold their special edition Air Jordan sneakers — one of the perks of the team’s high-profile endorsement deal with the school’s most-fa-

mous alumnus — some for several thousand dollars. Fedora also raised eyebrows with his comments at ACC Media Day about how football is under attack, and the sport — and America — may not survive. He went on to add that he was skeptical about the sport’s connection to head injuries and CTE. Finally, the Heels have struggled on the recruiting trail, losing several high-profile in-state prospects to NC State and coach Dave Doeren, a fact that doesn’t sit well with many Tar Heel fans and boosters. A fast start to the season would have gone a long way toward reducing pressure on Fedora. Instead, things could not have gone much worse. Now the Heels face a stretch of games, even with the matchup against ranked foe Central Florida wiped out by the storm, where it’s tough to find a likely candidate for a win. The new home opener will be against ACC foe Pitt on Sept. 22. That game is followed by back-to-

back ranked opponents in Miami on the road and a home encounter with Virginia Tech. The Heels then have back-to-back road trips to Syracuse and Virginia. “I hate the fact that we’re 0-2 right now, but it is what it is. You can’t dismiss it,” Fedora said. “You’ve got to fight, scratch and claw to overcome it. You go through the obstacle, not around it.” Fedora clearly isn’t ducking from the challenge. “This is not the first bit of adversity that I’ve ever faced as a football coach,” he said. “You lean on the lessons that you learn from the past. Hopefully, you’ve learned from the mistakes and you rally your team around what we need to do. And that is basically circle the wagons, believe in each other, believe in what we’re doing and not worry about anything else and stay focused on your job and do your job.” It’s a job that appears to be getting bigger, and less stable, by the week.

B3 track team or something because he was moving. I was so tired, I didn’t think I could play the rest of the game.” Mercifully, his coach (and former defensive coordinator) gave him the next couple of plays off to catch his breath, but he returned to the game to lead A&T with 11 tackles and three more pass breakups. Washington said he was apprehensive at first when he saw McCain take the ball out of the end zone instead of settling for the touchback. It was a feeling didn’t last long. “Initially you wonder do you come out of the end zone in certain situations? Fortunately, he was already downhill,” Washington said. “Once he hit it and I looked and saw the quarterback, I was like, ‘Yes, sir.’ It was a joy to watch.” McCain now has seven career interceptions for 374 return yards. The FCS record for most interception returns for touchdowns is seven by North Dakota State’s Marcus Williams. The career FCS record for most interception return yards is 682 by Bethune-Cookman’s Rashean Mathis. With two-plus seasons of eligibility remaining, the A&T sophomore has a reasonable shot at reaching both marks. No matter what, his knack for pick-sixes has helped him create a name for himself at A&T, which is saying a lot considering how much weight his name already holds at the HBCU school. His grandfather and namesake, Franklin McCain Sr., was one of the “Greensboro Four,” the courageous group of A&T students that staged a famous 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in protest that is credited with starting the modern Civil Rights movement. The elder McCain is immortalized on a statue on A&T’s campus. It’s a place of honor that’s included in the football team’s walk to Aggie Stadium before every home game. “Aggie Pride has always been around my family, so I always wanted to go to A&T,” McCain III said. “It kind of pushes me every time we go to the statue before the games, not only to fill his shoes but to make them bigger for the next generation under me.”

STORM from page B1 the game was played as scheduled despite concerns over the conditions. “It was a unique challenge two years ago,” Doeren said. “It would be hard to imagine playing in that again. But if we do, our guys will certainly have an experience like that to relate to.” Perhaps because of that experience, State was reluctant to give up the home date against the Mountaineers. According to WOWK-TV in Huntington, W.Va., Wolfpack officials reportedly rejected an offer from West Virginia to play the game at its home stadium in Morganton, with State getting all the profits. UNC officials did actually consider moving their game against Central Florida, either to the Knights’ home stadium in Orlando or to a neutral site such as Montgomery, Ala. But the logistics couldn’t be worked out. The cancellation could end up working in the Tar Heels’ favor. After two straight losses to open the new season, they will now have an extra week to prepare for their ACC opener against Pittsburgh next Saturday in Chapel Hill. “I would love for it to be sunny and 70 degrees out there every time we play the game, but we don’t control those things,” UNC coach Larry Fedora said. “Everybody would love to have the ideal situations, but unfortunately, it’s not like that in the game of football.” The UNC and State games aren’t the only ones around the state adversely affected by Hurricane Florence. Elon also announced that its game against William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., has been cancelled. Campbell’s game at Coastal Carolina was moved to Buies Creek and set to be played on Wednesday because of the storm, while the starting time for Wake Forest’s ACC opener against Boston College in Winston-Salem on Thursday was moved up two hours to 5:30 p.m. Duke’s game against Baylor in Waco, Texas, will be unaffected by the storm. High schools from across the state have also moved up or postponed athletic events in response. In baseball, the Durham Bulls’ Governors’ Cup Finals series will be played entirely at PNC Field in Scranton, Pa., home of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Games 3, 4 and 5 of the series were originally scheduled to be held at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

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hunting without a gun By Josh Pelletier For the North State Journal

PHOTOS COURTESY OF TYLER HAWLEY

Brother-in-laws Josh Pelletier and Travis Grimes were part of a group that took Grimes’ 5-year-old son, Jax (pictured), on his first openingday goose hunt, passing on a family tradition.

IN A SENSE, opening day was just like every other opening day. We pile together all the miles and scouting we’ve done the past few weeks, make the best decision and go from there. We pull the trucks and trailers into the field about 5:30 a.m. No one says a word — our jobs are second nature now. We have chased geese as hard as anyone for the past 15-plus years. Some guys jump on blinds, the rest on decoys. As I am grabbing some stuff out of my truck, I turn to the next truck and ask my brother-inlaw, Travis, “Do you need any shells?” He quickly replies, “I didn’t bring my gun.” While most crews would have probably started making jokes, out of the truck bounds my nephew, Jax. A few months past 5-years-old and he’s on his first ever goose hunt. Travis has one goal today, and it has nothing to do with killing a goose. The tone of the morning changes for everyone. While most opening days we are worried about our final number, today we were all worried about one thing. Jax was going to remember this day for the rest of his life, and it was our job to make sure it was a fond memory he would carry with him forever. Jax is stride for stride with everyone all morning. Toting decoys, helping brush blinds — he’s working just like the rest of us. Everyone pays close attention to Jax’s questions. We take pride in explaining the method to the madness that is goose hunting. Travis has Jax bring his Red Ryder to the blind. He is preaching gun safety to Jax just like our dads did to us and their dads before them. As we nestle in the blind and Jax takes his place on Travis’ knee, we all realize our end goal has changed from here on out. When the first group clears the trees, we all glance down at Jax to see his eyes fixed on what drives us each September. Twenty geese, gliding in from 200 yards out right to the end of our gun barrels. With his entire head covered in earmuffs, we ring out shots that bring these birds to the ground. When we are done, Jax hops out of the blind with such excitement, we are all 5-years-old again. We are slapping hands and he is watching his fourlegged buddy Huck, a XXXX [] do his thing on the retrieves. With each bird brought back, Jax watches and screeches in excitement. He takes his turn on the goose flag, the goose calls, sending the dog on retrieves and even making retrieves of his own. At one point, as I work Huck with Jax by my side, he says, “I think I hit four geese Uncle Josh.” “You sure did buddy, you sure did!” We sneak back to the blind and nestle in for the rest of the flocks. I am not sure who’s smile was bigger when the morning was drawing to an end, but father and son were sharing in something we are all getting ready to experience. Our measure of success is changing and by far for the better. It’s easy to replace any old hunt with the next hunt, or the hunt after that. A 40bird hunt is likely to be replaced by another 40bird hunt at some point or another. But, you cannot replace someone’s first experience. That happens once. We all have kids coming to the age of being able to experience what we all love. We have all grown closer because of our love for the outdoors. Nowadays, our kids are hunting or fishing for the first time almost every season. Their first experiences in this will help shape and mold our sons and daughters for years to come. I can tell you my drive to “be the best” has been replaced with a drive to “just be” for this next generation. I am sure over the next several years we will miss out on a few more birds or a few more fish, but I know it is going to be worth it as we make every effort to show our kids how to love and appreciate the pastimes our fathers handed downed to us. As we all watched Jax learn to love something that we all do, it made us swell with pride. I can’t imagine what Travis felt. I can speak for everyone when I say we are all ready for the next time one of us doesn’t bring a gun.

“Jax is stride for stride with everyone all morning. Toting decoys, helping brush blinds — he’s working just like the rest of us.”

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Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour takes questions from members of the media during the team’s media day last Tuesday.

Charlotte vs. Old Dominion Jerry Richardson Stadium Saturday, 6 p.m. ESPN3

Preview: Both teams are coming off of tough weeks. ODU (0-2) blew a 17-0 first-half lead to lose to FIU 2820. Charlotte (1-1) got pummeled at home by App State, 45-9. Players to watch: Charlotte kicker Jonathan Cruz set a school record with three field goals last week, including a 54-yarder that was the second longest in school history. ODU receiver Jonathan Duhart had three catches for 150 yards, including touchdowns of 4 and 83 yards.

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Welcome to Camp Brind’Amour As training camp begins, owner Tom Dundon has hitched the team’s success to his new coach — and the one man who led the team to the Stanley Cup By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — Rod Brind’Amour doesn’t want to be called “coach.” “The only time I ever called someone ‘coach’ was when I didn’t know their name,” the now 48-yearold joked after he was given that title by owner Tom Dundon back in May. But to Dundon, new GM Don Waddell and many in and around the Hurricanes organization, it was the name Brind’Amour that became the obvious choice to replace the departed Bill Peters and carry out a culture change centered on accountability. “Everything I think about the way people should act, the way people should treat other people, the way they should lead,” said Dundon at that news conference, with a nudge of his head in Brind’Amour’s direction, “this man does it.” In just over eight months, Dundon has ripped off many of the Band-Aids of Hurricanes’ past, hoping that he heals more wounds than the new ones he has inflicted. While Dundon has embraced the team’s past as the Whalers, he also jettisoned its two most recognizable figures. First, the longtime marriage to Ron Francis, a Hall of Fame player who spent the majority of his playing career with the franchise in

both Hartford and Carolina and ascended to general manager, ended in what was can best be described as irreconcilable differences when he was first demoted as GM in March and then let go altogether a month and a half later. Then fellow Hall of Famer Chuck Kaiton, the only radio voice Whalers and Hurricanes fans had ever had, departed after the sides couldn’t come to terms on a new contract. It was a bottom-line move for Dundon: the radio broadcast loses money, and Kaiton was its bigtag item. The new regime also parted ways with goaltender Cam Ward, ending the playing ties to the Stanley Cup-winning team from 2006 with two exceptions: Brind’Amour and his former linemate Justin Williams, who returned last season after winning two more titles in Los Angeles and a stint in Washington. “What better way to start with than to have a consummate pro and guy who’s going to work his butt off,” Williams said of Brind’Amour, an assistant with the Hurricanes the past seven seasons. “He worked his butt off playing hockey, and he’s going to work his butt off off the ice as well.” The message of perseverance, accountability and dedication — Brind’Amour, Williams, Dundon and anyone with the new-look Hurricanes say — is supported from the very top of the organization down. The split rosters for training camp, which truly begins Friday when the players hit the ice, are called Team Grit and Team Grind, a nod to the Hurricanes’ plan to be harder to play against and, as Williams puts it, become “relevant again.”

NC hosts World Equestrian Games The 13-day event, which started Tuesday night in Mill Spring with opening ceremonies, comes to North America for just the second time By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE TRYON International Equestrian Center in western North Carolina has become known as one of the finest facilities of its kind in the United States. Over the next two weeks, its reputation will grow to worldwide proportions when Mill Spring hosts the FEI World Equestrian Games. Tryon is only the second American venue to hold the major international championship event, joining the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, which hosted in 2010. Other previous hosts include Stockholm (1990), The Hague, Netherlands (1994), Rome (1998), Jerez de la Frontera, Spain (2002), Aachen, Germany (2006), and Normandy, France (2014). Held once every four years in the middle of the Summer Olympic cycle, the prestigious event features competition in eight core equestrian disciplines — show jumping, dressage and para-equestrian dressage, eventing, driving, endurance, vaulting and reining. With more than 800 human

athletes from 70 countries and their horses expected to compete, and upward of 500,000 spectators attending, the World Equestrian Games has the potential to be the largest sporting event ever held in North Carolina. “The vision of Tryon Resort was to create a world-class equestrian lifestyle destination, but also re-energize a community that was impacted by a relocation of the textile industry,” Mark Bellissimo, managing partner of Tryon Equestrian Partners, said in a statement. “Visions are plentiful, but the challenge is always in the execution and this collective team has gone above and beyond the call of duty to make this vision a reality.” The World Equestrian Games began with a gala opening ceremony on Tuesday, featuring remarks from Gov. Roy Cooper and a performance by country recording artist Hunter Hayes. Actual competition was scheduled to kick off on Wednesday with the Endurance race — a long-distance test using pace and navigational skills over an undulating 100-mile cross-country course. Also on the schedule over the next dozen days are medal events in: • Dressage, a highly skilled form of riding performed sometimes compared to ballet on horseback; • Driving, a high-octane sport

No one embodies the image of grit and grind more than Brind’Amour, who made a playing career out of outworking opponents and has the battle scars of a medieval knight to show for it. Make no mistake, the Hurricanes are still ahead of much of the pack in the analytics movement — they shrugged off concerns about defenseman Dougie Hamilton’s character to pull the trigger on a blockbuster trade that brought him and Micheal Ferland from Calgary for Noah Hanifin and Elias Lindholm — but also determined Jeff Skinner’s lack of defensive commitment was reason enough to ship out a three-time 30-goal scorer for unknown futures. “It’s been too much of average for too long, and things change when things don’t work,” Jordan Staal, a co-captain last season, said. “So unfortunately it was a great player like Jeff that got moved.” The team is pinning much of its expectations on two of hockey’s top prospects: 2017 first-round draft choice Martin Necas and 2018 second overall pick Andrei Svechnikov. The company line is both will be very good — even great — players down the line, and they can’t and shouldn’t be expected to carry the load and lead the Hurricanes back to the postseason in the spring. That doesn’t mean they’re not important to the here and now. “For us to be a great team, they’re going to have to be good players for us,” Williams said. “We know that.” In a locker room full of new faces and — for the first time in franchise history — a hands-on owner watching, the Hurricanes enter camp with hope and possibilities. And they’re coach isn’t willing to wait for success. “Patience,” Brind’Amour said, adding an exasperated sign and grimace, “I’m not a very patient person. I didn’t take the job not to win or try to win or expect to win. “Maybe I need to be a little more patient. I don’t know. We’ll see how that works out.”

involving a carriage pulled by four horses; • Eventing, one of the three Olympic equestrian disciplines and the triathlon of the equestrian world. It features a combination of dressage, cross-country and jumping over the course of three days; • Para-Equestrian Dressage, a Paralympic sport with riders competing in divisions based on their functional abilities; • Reining, a sport born in the American Southwest, featuring team and individual competitions in which riders guide their horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins and stops; • Show jumping, another Olympic discipline, features riders guiding their horses over a number of differing obstacles around a course held in Tryon’s 20,000-seat arena; • And Vaulting, which is similar to gymnastics on horseback with team, individual and freestyle on the back of a cantering horse, traveling in a circle. In addition to the games, the World Equine Expo will also be held at Tryon over the next two weeks, with demonstrations, seminars, clinics, panel discussions, equine art and film festival, concerts and other activities planned. As with most other events scheduled in North Carolina this weekend, organizers are closely monitoring Hurricane Florence. Updates on possible postponements, along with information on ticket sales and results, can be found at tryon2018.com.

Fast fact: ODU coach Bobby Wilder has a .728 winning percentage in games decided by one score, tying Urban Meyer for the best close-game record in FBS. Charlotte is 4-8 in one-score games since joining FBS. What to expect: Last week was ODU’s earliest-ever conference opener. This week, the Monarchs are playing their second CUSA game of the year. — Shawn Krest

Wake Forest vs. Boston College BB&T Field Thursday, 5:30 p.m. ESPN

Preview: The Thursday night matchup might be the ACC opener for both teams, but it will go a long way toward determining whether the Deacons (2-0) or the Eagles (20) will be a contender in the Atlantic Division. Players to watch: WR Greg Dortch returned two punts for touchdowns and scored another on a reception last week. CB Essang Bassey has an interception and four pass breakups through two games. Eagles RB A.J. Dillion is off to a fast start, averaging 123.5 yards per game. LB Connor Strachan has a team-leading 10 tackles. Fast fact: Wake and BC played for the first time in 1941, with the first two games played at Fenway Park. The Eagles hold an 8-5 lead in the series since joining the ACC. What to expect: Wake averages 37 points per game and BC averages 58.5 against lesser competition, but this game will come down to which defense can get the most stops. — Brett Friedlander

Appalachian State vs. Southern Miss Kidd-Brewer Stadium Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ESPN+

Preview: After nearly upsetting Penn State in the opener, App State pounded Charlotte last week. Now the Mountaineers host 1-1 Southern Miss in their home opener. Players to watch: Mountaineers QB Zac Thomas completed all 14 of his passes on Saturday for 295 yards and three touchdowns. Jaylond Adams had nine catches for 158 yards in the Golden Eagles’ loss, including a 75yard touchdown reception on the game’s first snap. Fast fact: Southern Miss is wearing a commemorative decal on its helmets to honor the memory of Owen Bowen III, who died in January. He had sounded the air horn ending each practice period since getting hired in 1973. What to expect: App State — a member of the Sun Belt Conference — could end up with a second Conference USA win in as many weeks after dismantling Charlotte. Southern Miss is hoping to bounce back from a tough loss to ULM. — Shawn Krest

Duke at Baylor McLane Stadium Saturday, 3:30 p.m. FS1

Preview: Duke (2-0) is coming off a big road win at Northwestern that resulted in the loss of starting quarterback Daniel Jones and cornerback Mark Gilbert, both of whom underwent surgery on Sunday. Baylor (20) has already doubled last season’s win total. Players to watch: Jalan McClendon is splitting time at Baylor quarterback after leaving NC State as a graduate transfer. He has also caught four balls for 20 yards. Duke’s Ben Humphreys won ACC linebacker of the week after getting 15 tackles and half a TFL at Northwestern. Fast fact: Baylor’s coaching staff has a combined 23 years of experience coaching in the NFL, sixth most in the country, including head coach Matt Rhule, who spent 2012 on the NY Giants staff. What to expect: Duke likely had this in the win column when schedules were released. It will be significantly more competitive with all the Blue Devils’ personnel losses. — Shawn Krest

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CMT honors Kidman’s metamorphosis in ‘Destroyer’ surprises even herself only women at annual Artists of the Year show “I might have a plan in my head but it’s usually wrong. So it’s better for me to just go with the flow. ... And that’s for life as well.” Nicole Kidman

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TORONTO — It was as she forcefully stuffed actress Tatiana Maslany into the trunk of a car that the sheer out-of-body experience of her role in the brutal L.A. noir thriller “Destroyer” came into focus for Nicole Kidman. “I was putting her in the trunk of that car going: ‘What the hell is this?’” Kidman recalled at the film’s Monday evening premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. As much as we’ve come to expect it, Kidman’s transformations can startle even herself. And just as has so often been the case, Kidman’s powers of metamorphosis again have a film festival buzzing and the 51-year-old actress back among the Oscar contenders. In Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,” Kidman is almost unrecognizable as Erin Bell, a haunted and hardened police detective with little will left for police work or life, at all. Her voice is a husky whisper, her skin a gaunt, sun-dried mask, her eyes cold and empty. She drinks heavily. The film, which Kusama characterized as in the spirit of Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” places a female anti-hero in the heart of a hardboiled genre usually the domain of men. Maslany, who plays a strung-out criminal in the film, said of the film: “It felt so not masculine. It felt really feminine in this genre to really bend the rules with how we normally see these stories.” What has turned Bell into a ghost is what drives “Destroyer,” which Annapurna Pictures will release in December. It cuts between a present murder investigation and an earlier, connected undercover operation that ended tragically. In the flashbacks, Kidman appears recognizably herself — beautiful, spirited — only further emphasizing her drastic changes in the role. “I was just sitting back watching the last 15 minutes of the film going: ‘God, is that me?’” said Kidman. “And it’s weird because I look at it and it feels almost like a dream because it was so different for me to exist in that place.” Kidman said the character’s inner darkness was more challenging than the exterior makeover. “The film was really hard for me. It’s so extreme, so different from who I am. I wanted it to be real and authentic. I didn’t want to be showing up and doing a performance,” she said. “So I kind of had to move into a place and exist in a place for a period of time that I didn’t like to be in — mentally, physically, all of it. I didn’t quite realize until I was in it what it was going to take.” Kidman co-stars in another film at the Toronto Film Festival:

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Tatiana Maslany, from left, Nicole Kidman and Sebastian Stan attend the premiere for “Destroyer” on day 5 of the Toronto International Film Festival at the Winter Garden Theatre on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Toronto.

“Boy Erased,” playing the mother of a young man (Lucas Hedges) forced into gay conversion therapy. While that film, too, has earned positive reviews, it appears more likely that her performance in “Destroyer” could land Kidman her fifth Oscar nomination. She won for 2002’s “The Hours” and was most recently nominated last year for “Lion.” Kidman has pledged to work with female directors at least once every 18 months. It’s her first time

working with Kusama, the director of “Girlfight” and “Jennifer’s Body,” and she pursued the part, penned by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. Kusama recalled Kidman’s layered, shivering performance in one dramatic scene where Bell realizes something awful has happened. “It was as if we were watching in real time a person going into shock,” said Kusama. “When you see an actor not acting anymore, just living in this very special, rarified space that we were given access to Erin’s (mind). That moment gives me chills every time I watch it. That was an awe-inspiring day.” The filmmakers chose to shoot the f lashbacks with a younger Bell second, a decision that Kidman acknowledged initially threw her. “But then I have this thing as an actor where I always say: ‘You go with it.’ I never try to fight whatever the circumstances are because I don’t know what’s best for me as an actor,” said Kidman. “I might have a plan in my head but it’s usually wrong. So it’s better for me to just go with the flow, Nicole. And that’s for life as well.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — CMT is changing their Artists of the Year show to honor only women, including Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris, Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum. The move comes as female artists in the genre have been outspoken about the lack of opportunities for them. Women have been shut out of nominations for major country awards, such as CMA’s entertainer of the year category for two years in a row, and men overwhelmingly dominate country radio charts. CMT senior vice president of music and talent Leslie Fram said she hopes dedicating the entire show to women in country music — past, present and future— will spark a “much-needed change in the industry.” The show airs on CMT on Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. “This year, we’re evolving the special to reflect what’s happening right now in culture and in the lives of our fans,” Fram said in a statement. The network started a “Women of Country” campaign in 2013 as a way to bring more airplay to female artists, including Ballerini and Morris, and has expanded it into a tour. The network is also doing a daylong “Women of Country Music” takeover across all CMT platforms leading up to their show. Three years ago, a radio consultant garnered national attention for recommending that stations limit the number of female country artists they play to boost ratings, using the analogy of tomatoes in a salad. Many female artists including Morris, Cam and Underwood have all spoken out against a prevailing opinion in the industry that female fans don’t want to listen to female artists. Underwood also recently announced a national tour next year that will include only female opening acts, including Maddie and Tae and Runaway June. Additional performers for the Artists of the Year show will be announced at a later date.

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In this June 22, 2018, file photo, Carrie Underwood attends the 2018 Radio Disney Music Awards in Los Angeles. CMT is changing their Artists of the Year show to honor only women, including Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris, Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum.

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Raleigh, N.C. – The North Carolina Main Street and Rural Planning Center reported that the program helped create 1,410 new jobs, 275 new businesses and nearly $230 million in investment in fiscal year 2017-2018. The program supports 63 designated Main Street communities and 16 designated Small Town Main Street communities. “The cities and towns represented in this report saw an increase of more than $30 million in investment over last year, demonstrating the health of communities that participate in the Main Street program,” commented N.C. Department of Commerce Secretary Anthony M. Copeland. NC Main Street Program Today, Main Street communities range in population from 1,760 – 88,815, but all had populations of less than 50,000 at the time of designation. Main Street programs are managed by a local public-private partnership made up of city and county staff, elected officials, a Main Street director, a board of directors and a host of community volunteers. Main Street communities reported the following results from their 201718 work: • $222,523,817 in downtown public and private investment • 1,288 new jobs • 247 new businesses • 255 building renovations • 373 façade improvements • 115,307 volunteer hours with a value of $2,699,337

RALEIGH — National General Insurance, a property and casualty insurance company, plans to expand its operations in Winston-Salem to create 626 jobs over five years, Governor Roy Cooper announced last week. The company, and a subsidiary of National General Holdings Corp., plans to invest $12.2 million in North Carolina by the end of 2022. “National General Insurance is a global insurance and technology leader that calls North Carolina home thanks to our talented workforce,” said Governor Cooper. “We’re excited to partner with National General as they expand and create 626 new, good-paying jobs in Forsyth County.” National General, formerly the GMAC Insurance Group, is based in Winston-Salem and was founded there in 1920. The company is planning to expand its current operations to provide customer service and grow the company’s technology operations. New jobs will be in the areas of accounting, sales, analytics, HR, IT, legal, operations and other business functions. National General currently employs 1405 people in North Carolina. “We are very excited to finalize plans for National General’s expansion in Winston-Salem,” said Barry Karfunkel, Chief Executive Officer of National General. “Winston-Salem has been a key market in our operations

since the company’s founding, and we look forward to continued growth in this location. Our local knowledge, expertise and deep North Carolina roots will enable us to continue to provide North Carolinians great rates on their auto insurance.” National General will add a variety of job functions with this project, with an annual payroll impact expected to be more than $30 million when all positions have been added and average salaries expected to be above the Forsyth County average. “North Carolina’s educated workforce and strong university and community college system make us a successful spot for finance and tech companies,” said North Carolina Commerce Secretary Anthony Copeland. “When companies like National General look to expand their operations, they select North Carolina for its strong business climate and unparalleled quality of life. We welcome the company’s investment in Forsyth County and the new jobs this project will bring.” The North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Partnership of N.C. (EDPNC) led the state’s support for the company’s selection. National General’s expansion project in Forsyth County will be facilitated, in part, by a Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) approved by the state’s Economic Investment Committee earlier today. Over the course of the 12-year term of this grant, the project will grow the state’s economy by an estimated $1.9 billion. Using a formula that accounts for the new tax revenues generated by the new jobs, the JDIG agreement authorizes the potential state reimbursement to the company of up to $5,600,700 spread over 12

“Winston-Salem has been a key market in our operations since the company’s founding, and we look forward to continued growth in this location.” Barry Karfunkel, CEO of National General Insurance years. State payments only occur following performance verification by the Departments of Commerce and Revenue that the company has met its incremental job creation and investment targets. Because National General chose to expand in Forsyth County, classified by the state’s economic tier system as Tier 2, the company’s JDIG agreement also calls for moving as much as $622,300 in new tax revenue generated through the grant into the state’s Industrial Development Fund – Utility Account. The Utility Account helps rural communities finance necessary infrastructure upgrades to attract future business. “The City is grateful for the strong working partnership we have with the State relative to economic development projects such as the National General expansion,” said Allen Joines, mayor of Winston-Salem. “These projects are only able to happen when there is collaboration between the City, County and the State.” Partnering with N.C. Commerce and the EDPNC on this project were the North Carolina General Assembly, the North Carolina Community College System, Forsyth County, the City of Winston -Salem, and the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce.

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C2 NC State professor named to White House economic advisory team Washington, D.C./Raleigh The NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences announced that Dr. A. Blake Brown has joined the Council of Economic Advisors at the White House. Replacing, Michael Adjemian, Brown will serve as a senior economist focusing on agricultural policy. The Council is a part of the Executive Office of the President. The Council of Economic Advisers is charged with offering the President objective economic advice on the formulation of both domestic and international economic policy. The Council bases its recommendations and analysis on economic research and empirical evidence, using the best data available to support the President in setting our nation’s economic policy. Blake Brown is the Hugh C. Kiger Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He has spent much of his career as a policy analyst working on farm policy, particularly tobacco policy. A major focus was working with policy makers on the $9.6 billion federal tobacco buyout. From 2008-2014 Brown directed efforts at NCSU to help farmers add or expand valueadded enterprises. From 2014 until joining the Council he was director of the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission Agricultural Leadership Development Program.

Lenoir-Rhyne University offers tuition reduction to college-bound Catawba residents Hickory, N.C. Lenoir-Rhyne University has announced an innovative, new program to provide a minimum of 50 percent off tuition for any first-year undergraduate student with a 3.5 or higher high school GPA who is a Catawba County resident or to a transfer undergraduate student from Catawba County with more than 30 attempted hours from an accredited college and a 3.5 GPA. Called the Catawba County Promise, the program will reward local high school and transfer students who have a B+ average with a guaranteed — and significant — minimum level of financial aid. Through this and other initiatives, LR hopes to build on the success of this year’s incoming class which enrolled more than 500 students for the first time in our history. “The Catawba County Promise is a game changer for local students,” said Dr. Fred Whitt, president of Lenoir-Rhyne University. “Many people think they cannot afford a private, liberal arts education like Lenoir-Rhyne, and I hope this will help local prospective students and their families realize that the small class sizes, personalized attention, and outstanding faculty that are the hallmarks of a LenoirRhyne education are well within reach.”

Despite Trump tweet, Ford says it won’t make hatchback in US Washington, D.C. Ford won’t be moving production of a hatchback wagon to the United States from China — despite President Trump’s claim Sunday that his taxes on Chinese imports mean the Focus Active can be built in America. Citing Trump’s new tariffs, Ford on Aug. 31 said it was dropping plans to ship the Focus Active from China to America. Trump took to Twitter Sunday to declare victory and write: “This is just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs!” But in a statement Sunday, Ford said “it would not be profitable to build the Focus Active in the U.S.” given forecast yearly sales below 50,000.

With the fall of a kingmaker, CBS is punished on Wall Street By David Bauder The Associated Press NEW YORK — Sizing up a future of a network without its kingmaker, Wall Street sent shares of CBS down sharply Monday, the first day of trading since the departure of Les Moonves. CBS said late Sunday, as more allegations of sexual abuse surfaced, that Moonves would be replaced and that the company was shaking up its board of directors. Shares are down more than 8 percent this year, and suffered their biggest downturn in nearly 7 years in July when details of the accusations surfaced. The stock tumbled close to 4 percent Monday. The #MeToo movement fighting sexual misconduct had already claimed one of Hollywood’s top movie moguls in Harvey Weinstein. Now it has done the same for Moonves, one of the television industry’s most powerful executives. CBS, just hours after The New Yorker magazine posted a story Sunday with a second round of ugly accusations against Moonves, said that the company’s chairman would step down. A total of 12 women have alleged mistreatment, including forced oral sex, groping and retaliation if they resisted him. Moonves denied the charges in a pair of statements, although he said he had consensual relations with three of the women. CBS said $20 million will be donated to one or more organizations that support #MeToo and workplace equality for women. That sum will be deducted from any severance due Moonves, a figure that won’t be determined until an outside investigation, led by a pair of high-profile law firms, is completed. The network’s chief operating officer, Joseph Ianniello, is taking over as president and CEO until the reshaped board of directors can find a permanent replacement, CBS said. It has been nearly a year since Pulitzer Prize-winning articles by The New York Times and the New Yorker exposed a pattern of misconduct by Weinstein, who now faces sex crime charges in New York. Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose and Kevin Spacey are among other figures that lost jobs after men and women came forward with their own stories, often on social media with the hashtag MeToo, about sexually inappropriate behavior by powerful men. Moonves ruled first the programming, then the full network and other corporate entities such as Showtime for two decades. CBS has consistently been the most-watched network on television, even as changes transformed the industry, first with cable networks investing in shows and then streaming services like Netflix. He’s been paid handsomely for his success, earning just under $70 million in both 2017 and 2016. Those paychecks made Moonves the second-highest paid executive in the S&P 500, according to an analysis by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. Accusations emerged against

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On Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, CBS said longtime CEO Les Moonves has resigned, just hours after more sexual harassment allegations involving the network’s longtime leader surfaced. the affable, raspy-voiced former actor last month, when six women accused him of misconduct similar to what came out Sunday. CBS announced an internal probe yet Moonves, who was also involved in a separate power struggle that threatened his future control of the company, remained in charge. In recent days, however, reports leaked that the CBS board and Moonves, 68, were formulating an exit plan. Reports that the severance could include a multi-million dollar payout provoked online anger. In a regulatory filing published Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, CBS said that $120 million will be placed in a grantor trust. If an internal investigation finds that Moonves employment cannot be terminated for cause, the money will be forwarded to him. Any decision could be subject to arbitration, according to CBS. One of the accusers who came forth in the New Yorker’s article on Sunday, Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb, also filed a complaint with the Los Angeles police last year, but no charges were filed because the statute of limitations had expired. She said Moonves, while an executive at the Lorimar production studio in the late 1980s, pushed her head into his lap and forced her to perform oral sex. At another time, she said an angry Moonves pushed her hard against a wall. When she resisted later advances, she began to be frozen out at the company, she said. “He absolutely ruined my career,” she told The New Yorker. Another woman, Jessica Pallingston, said Moonves forced her to perform oral sex on her first day working as his assistant at Warner Bros. productions. Other women told the magazine of unwanted touching or advances. The latest allegations were not addressed when CBS announced Moonves departure.

In a statement to the magazine, Moonves said the “appalling accusations” are untrue, but he acknowledged consensual relations with three of the women before he started working at CBS. Moonves was married at the time; he divorced his first wife and married CBS on-air personality Julie Chen in 2004. “I have never used my position to hinder the advancement or careers of women,” he said. “In my 40 years of work, I have never before heard of such disturbing accusations. I can only surmise they are surfacing now for the first time, decades later, as part of a concerted effort by others to destroy my name, my reputation and my career. Anyone who knows me knows that the person described in this article is not me.” In a second statement after his departure, Moonves said he was “deeply saddened” to be leaving the company and its employees. “Together, we built CBS into a destination where the best in the business come to work and succeed,” he said. With Moonves’ exit, CBS viewers will wonder what the future holds for Chen, who is a panelist on the daytime show “The Talk” and host of the summer series “Big Brother.” She stood in support of her husband when the first allegations hit last month. Organizations that have supported women coming forward with stories of abuse, including Time’s Up and Press Forward, said Sunday that CBS should be transparent about the findings of its internal investigation despite Moonves’ ouster. It’s difficult to imagine CBS without Moonves. The network was struggling when he took over as entertainment chief in 1995, hot from a job at the Warner Brothers studio, which developed hits such as “ER” and “Friends.” He quickly turned things around and churned out program-

ming appealing to the older, more tradition-bound CBS audience — broad appeal sitcoms such as “Everybody Loves Raymond,” ‘’Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory” and procedural dramas such as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “NCIS.” ‘’Survivor” was an early reality show hit, and continues to this day. Many CBS viewers knew Moonves from the relentless ribbing he took from former latenight host David Letterman. Moonves said there were legitimate hard feelings between the two in his early years, but the relationship warmed before Letterman’s retirement. Moonves was an advocate for the traditional broadcast network model when others worried it was becoming obsolete, but he also launched streaming services for CBS entertainment and news. He took over the broader CBS Corp. in 2006 but kept his hand in entertainment duties, down to casting decisions for new shows. His status as an industry king was never more evident than each year in May when CBS introduced the next year’s schedule before an audience of advertisers and media executives crammed into Carnegie Hall. He starred in each year’s presentation, often in elaborate filmed skits. Yet this spring there were already signs the end was near. Locked in a battle for corporate control with Shari Redstone of National Amusements, Moonves received a standing ovation from an audience that sensed it could be his last year. He even skipped an event he created and relished, an annual breakfast meeting with reporters dubbed “Lox with Les.” CBS’ board also announced Sunday that Redstone’s National Amusements will not propose a merger between CBS and Viacom, which Redstone had been urging, for two years. Six new CBS board members were also appointed.

To prep for Hurricane Florence, investors sell off insurers The Associated Press NEW YORK — Hurricanes almost always set off an orchestrated dance on Wall Street before they make landfall, with shares of property and casualty insurance companies dumped in favor of companies that sell construction supplies or portable generators. That routine began a week ago, though Hurricane Florence appears to be turning up the volume this time. The last time a hurricane of this size struck the middle of the East Coast, Texas Instruments had just introduced the first transistor radio. Since then, the region has been developed heavily and the potential damages may be exponentially higher. Karen Clark & Co., which produces models for catastrophes, said that if 1989’s Hurricane Hugo

had hit South Carolina in 2012, just 23 years later, insurance losses would have more than doubled to $10 billion when development and inflation are factored in. Forecasting where a hurricane will hit and with what level force is always tricky and there is a long history of false alarms. But the likelihood that Hurricane Florence will collide with Carolinas and neighboring states has created a sustained sell off of major property and casualty insurance companies, Allstate has a 6.9 percent market share for home, auto and commercial property coverage in the Carolinas and Virginia, according to Morgan Stanley. Berkshire Hathaway has a market share of 5.6 percent, and Travers is 4.3 percent. North Carolina has the highest property and casualty insured premiums of the three states at

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This Sept. 10, 2018 satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Florence as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. As mandatory evacuations begin, millions of Americans have been preparing for what could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the Eastern Seaboard in decades. $16 billion, followed by Virginia at $13.6 billion, and South Carolina at $9.5 billion, according to Citi. “In North Carolina, we estimate Travelers losses would be about $42 million for each $1 billion in insured losses, followed by Allstate at $37 million, Chubb at $25 million and Progressive at $21 million,” wrote Citi analyst James Naklicki.

On the other hand, companies that help people ride out a storm, or clean up afterward, are having an exceptional week. Shares of Generac Holdings Inc., which sells generators, are up almost 8 percent in just the past week. Shares of Home Depot Inc. and Lowe’s Cos. are both up more than 3 percent in the same period.

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 12, 2018

TAKE NOTICE CABARRUS 18 SP 428 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY

the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 19, 2018 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: Being Lots Nos. 59, 60 and 61 in Block “J” as shown on the map of WEST POINT, a map of said property being on file in the office of Register of Deeds in Map Book 8 at page 5.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Robert L Donahue and wife, Jacquline Donahue. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the

clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The

purchaser will have no further remedy.

possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 801 Irene

Avenue, Kannapolis, NC 28083. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Irving Torres and wife, Michelle Stedford Torres. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in

at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: LYING AND BEING IN THE CITY OF KANNAPOLIS, NUMBER FOUR (4) TOWNSHIP OF CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, AND BEING ALL OF LOT NUMBER FOUR (4) OF THE SUBDIVISION OF LYNNHAVEN ESTATES, AS SURVEYED AND PLATTED, A COPY OF WHICH PLAT IS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR CABARRUS COUNTY IN MAP BOOK 37, PAGE 97, TO WHICH PLAT MAP BOOK AND PAGE REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION THEREOF METES AND BOUNDS. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 941 Lynnview Court, Kannapolis, NC 28081. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statu-

tory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Delbert Ford and Evelyn Privette. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or

after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 11-06440-FC03

North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in No. 2 Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, on the South side of Grand Canyon Road and being Lot No. 43, SECTION TWO, of COUNTRY ACRES, a map of which is recorded in Plat Book 14 at Page 74, of Cabarrus County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more complete description as to metes and bounds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5001 Grand Canyon Road, Concord, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized

representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to

declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1234357 (FC.FAY)

following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in Number 4 Township, Cabarraus County, North Carolina, on the north side of Raintree Circle (formerly Rainbow Circle) and being Lot Number 81 in the subdivision of SPRING VALLEY as surveyed and platted a copy of which plat is filed in the office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County in Map Book 14, page 48, to which reference is hereby made for a complete description by metes and bounds; subject to the right-of-way for Raintree Circle as shown on said recorded plat; and subject to protective covenants dated December 27, 1971 and recorded in Deed Book 426, page 497. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6107 Raintree Circle, Concord, North Carolina.

certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of

For back reference see Deed Book 765, page 306. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party,

that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of

the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 26, 2018 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in the City of Concord, Number Eleven (11) Township of Cabarrus County, North Carolina on the North side of Plantation Place and Being all of Lot Number One Hundred Five (105) of OLD SOUTH, Section Two (2), as surveyed and platted, a copy of which plat is filed in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County in Map Book 17, Page 51, to which map book and page reference is hereby made for a complete description thereof by metes and bounds. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 2676 Old Plantation Drive Southwest, Concord, NC 28027. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

(5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are John J. Duyser.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser

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

in his capacity as Heir to the Estate of Pamela R. Rimer, deceased; FIA Card Services, N.A.; Discover Bank; Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC; Aurora Bank, FSB, as successor in interest to Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB, f/k/a Delaware Savings Bank, FSB; Bank of America, N.A., as successor in Interest to Nationsbanc Mortgage Corporation; Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Defendants.

by judicial sale pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. § 1-339.1, et seq., and that the Court appoint Jeremy Wilkins of Plaintiff’s Counsel the law firm Brock & Scott, PLLC, as Sale Commissioner to serve without bond, with proceeds of the sale applied as follows: To the cost of this action;

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jacqueline Donahue to Forquer, Lattimore & Calaway, P.A., Trustee(s), which was dated March 22, 2005 and recorded on March 28, 2005 in Book 5873 at Page 1, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or

BEGINNING at a stake in the edge of Echo Drive, corner of Lot No. 62, and runs thence S. 10-50 E. 143.2 ft. to a stake, back corner of Lot No. 62 in the back line of Lot No, 5, thence N. 81-10 E. 75 feet to a stake, back corner of Lot No. 58 in the back line of Lot No. 8; thence N. 10-50 W. 145.9 feet to a stake in the edge of Echo Drive, corner of Lot No. 58; thence with Echo Drive S. 79-10 W. 75 feet to the Beginning.

18 SP 112 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

FIRST TRACT Lying and Being in Number FOUR (4) Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, on the East side of Irene Avenue, and being Lots Nos. 85 and 86 of the GEORGE L. SHINN PROPERTY, a map of which is on file in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County, NC, is Map Book 5 at Page 95.

NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Irving Torres And Michelle Stedford Torres to R. Dale Fussell, Trustee(s), which was dated January 3, 2008 and recorded on January 4, 2008 in Book 08000 at Page 0098, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 19, 2018 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit:

18 SP 195 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Delbert Ford and Evelyn Privette to Constance R. Stienstra, Trustee(s), which was dated January 4, 2008 and recorded on August 1, 2008 in Book 08365 at Page 0330, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 19, 2018

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 122 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jerry Wayne Burgess and Brenda D. Burgess, (Brenda D. Burgess, deceased) to The Fidelity Company, Trustee(s), dated the 9th day of July, 2004, and recorded in Book 5439, Page 269, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of No. 2, in the County of Cabarrus,

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 381 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Donald D. Wiser, Charlene Wiser, Dale A. Wiser and Clara Jo Wiser, (Dale A. Wiser, Deceased) to Forquer & Green, Trustee(s), dated the 23rd day of October, 2001, and recorded in Book 3482, Page 161, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the

18 SP 445 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by John J. Duyser and Jennifer L. Duyser to Trste, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated August 29, 2008 and recorded on August 29, 2008 in Book 08402 at Page 0019, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CABARRUS GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 18 CVS 2279 Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Plaintiff, v. Patti Fletcher, in her capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Pamela M. Rimer, deceased; Courtney Rimer; Tate Rimer, in her capacity as Heir to the Estate of Pamela M. Rimer, deceased; Christopher Kyle Harrison,

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 748 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Dickson E. Sese to John C. Markey II PLLC, Trustee(s), dated the 8th day of December, 2004, and recorded in Book 5724, Page 157, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 24, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and

For back title see Deed Book 299, page 285. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 529 Echo Avenue, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

SECOND TRACT BEING a part of Lot Number 84 of the GEORGE L. SHINN PROPERTY as recorded in the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County, NC, in Map Book 5 Page 94 and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the North side of Irene Avenue and an iron stake in the edge of Irene Avenue and Lot Number 84; thence S. 69-40 E. for 200.29 feet to an iron stake in the back of Lot Number 84; thence 18-32 W. for a distance of 5 feet; thence N. 69-40 West and along the line of Lot Number 85 for 200.31 feet to an iron stake in the North edge of Lot Number 85 and Irene Avenue; thence N. 19-40 E. for 5 feet to the BEGINNING.

To: Aurora Bank, FSB, as successor in interest to Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB, f/k/a Delaware Savings Bank, FSB Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: That the Plaintiff’s lien on the Property be foreclosed

being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 35 of MONTROSE VILLAGE AT HIGHLAND CREEK, Phase 1, Map 2 as same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Map Book 39, Page 105, in the Cabarrus County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1208 Dunblane Court, Charlotte, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to

To the amount due to the Plaintiff under the Note and Deed of Trust, including fees and costs provided therein; and

2. That the Property located at 5700 Gold Hill Rd, Concord, North Carolina, 28025, shall be sold at a public sale to the highest bidder. 4. That Plaintiff have and recover its cost in this action including reasonable attorney’s fees; and 5. That the Court direct that any final order resulting from this action may be recorded in the public lands records of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, for the purpose of establishing record notice of this proceeding in the chain of title to the Property. 6. For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.

The surplus, if any, to be paid to the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Cabarrus County pending a determination of those persons entitled thereto.

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than October 23, 2018 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to

the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The

purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

To the compensation allowed by the Court for a person holding the sale pursuant to the N.C.G.S. § 1-339.11;

the court for the relief sought. This, the 4th day of September, 2018. BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC _____________________________ Renner St. John, NC Bar #33903 Attorney for Plaintiff 8757 Red Oak Boulevard, Suite 150 Charlotte, NC 28217 Phone: 704-643-0290 x1005

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TAKE NOTICE CUMBERLAND 18-SP-710 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Lenroy Gibson (Deceased) and Susan M. Gibson, in the original amount of $51,500.00, payable to MetAmerica Mortgage Bankers, dated June 15, 2004 and recorded on June 21, 2004 in Book 6564 at Page 692, Cumberland County Public Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Stone Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds

18 SP 1010 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Samantha Jo Smith and Emmanuel Poage to David W. Allred, Trustee(s), which was dated December 6, 2007 and recorded on December 11, 2007 in Book 7765 at Page 0244, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

18 SP 990 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Charlie B. Harris and Cynthia E. M. Harris to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated September 7, 2012 and recorded on September 13, 2012 in Book 08993 at Page 0415, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or

18 SP 991 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Sarah Anderson to Constance R. Stienstra, Trustee(s), which was dated September 27, 2007 and recorded on September 27, 2007 in Book 7709 at Page 0771, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

17 SP 1637 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Katherine Malachi and Darius Malachi to Constance Perrine, Trustee(s), which was dated October 9, 2008 and recorded on October 10, 2008 in Book 08001 at Page 0150, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county court-

18 SP 47 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jose Alexander Parrilla and Camelitha L. Parrilla to H Terry Hutchens, Trustee(s), which was dated June 15, 2011 and recorded on June 16, 2011 in Book 08663 at Page 0093 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on July 6, 2016 in Book 09894, Page 0492 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on June 2, 2017 in Book 10104, Page 0172, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the

17 SP 1638 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shirley P. Troy to Steve Penley, Trustee(s), which was dated May 29, 1998 and recorded on June 1, 1998 in Book 4871 at Page 0805, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or

17 SP 1206 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Frederick A. Fripp and Tijuana D. Fripp to H. Terry Hutchens, Trustee(s), which was dated March 27, 2003 and recorded on March 28, 2003 in Book 6038 at Page 323, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Heather Ann Wayne (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust Agreement) to John C. Morisey, Jr. and/or James A. Dinkel, Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of September, 2010, and recorded in Book 3899, Page 207, and Order in Book 5115, Page 832, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North

of Cumberland County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Cumberland County, North Carolina, on September 17, 2018 at 11:00 am, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: BEING all of Lot No. 9, in a subdivision known as Rollingwood, Section 1, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 34, Page 50, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Subject to restrictions, easements and rights-ofway of record. Tax ID: 0429-47-9696 Said Property is commonly known as 827 Durwood Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28311 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents

(0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner of the property is Susan M. Gibson. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Caroli-

na General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale

and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 19, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 115, in a subdivision known as SOUTHLAND PINES, SECTION 3, PART 2, according to a plat of the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 88 Page 28, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 4774 Deer Lakes Road, Fayetteville, NC 28311. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statu-

tory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Samantha Jo Smith and Emmanuel Poage. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser

and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a

bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 19, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: The following described property:

Being all of Lot 2B, containing 0.79 acres as shown on a Plat entitled “Subdivision for Charlie Harris” according to a Plat of same being duly recorded in Book 121, Page 7, Cumberland County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 4444 Huckleberry Road, Fayetteville, NC 28312.

county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 19, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Unit F, Briarcliff Condominiums, Building 10, Phase 9 Revised according to a Plat of same duly recorded in Condominium Plat 2, Page 11, Cumberland County Registry. TR: 5786-515 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1885 Tryon Drive, Unit 6, Fayetteville, NC 28303. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are im-

mediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Sarah Anderson. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the proper-

ty is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of

the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

house for conducting the sale on September 19, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: Beginning at a stake in the eastern margin of Progress Street at a point 360 feet from the southern margin of “B” street and runs thence southwardly with the Eastern margin of Progress Street 60 feet to a stake; thence eastwardly 150 feet to a stake; thence northwardly 60 feet to a stake; thence westwardly 150 feet to a stake in the eastern margin of Progress Street, the beginning corner, and being Lot No. 13 in Block B of the Subdivision of the David E. Ayer property as shown by plat recorded in Book R #6, Page 429 in the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1113 Progress Street, Fayetteville, NC 28306. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dol-

lars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Darius Malachi and All Lawful Heirs of Katherine Malachi. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser

Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 24, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 10 of the re-recording of the ACORN RIDGE, SECTION 8 SUBDIVISION, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 124, Page 143, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 2223 Puffin Place, Fayetteville, NC 28306. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statu-

tory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Jose Alexander Parrilla and wife, Camelitha L. Parrilla. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession

by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of

the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 26, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 30, in a subdivision known as UNIVERSITY HILLS, SECTION TWO, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 43, Page 20, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 3442 Bennett Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28301. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are

immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Shirley P. Troy. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the

the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 26, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot No. 32 in a Subdivision known as INVERNESS, PHASE TWO, PART ONE, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 107 Page 99, Cumberland County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 3513 Kennicot Court, Fayetteville, NC 28311. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHAS-

ERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Frederick A. Fripp and Tijuana D. Fripp. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the proper-

Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 25, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 152, Phase Four-A, Plantation Point subdivision, Part of Section IV of Flowers Plantation, as depicted in Map Book 66, Page 250-252, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 200 Worthington Court, Clayton, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dol-

lars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of

foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1243752 (FC.FAY)

All the certain tract or parcel of land situated in the City of Fayetteville in Eastover Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows:

Stone Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee By: __________________ Attorney At Law Stern & Eisenberg Southern, P.C. Attorneys for Stone Trustee Services, LLC Sarah Elizabeth Banks #44023 David R. DiMatteo #35254 Christopher J. Culp #13466 1709 Devonshire Drive Columbia, SC 29204 (803) 462-5006 (803) 929-0830

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TAKE NOTICE CUMBERLAND 18 SP 1029 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Kuinnlan C. Malone and Darlene Malone to David W. Allred, Trustee(s), which was dated March 19, 2004 and recorded on March 23, 2004 in Book 6465 at Page 751, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substi-

18 SP 497 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Michael J. Cochran to Jerone C. Herring, Trustee(s), which was dated September 26, 2003 and recorded on September 30, 2003 in Book 6291 at Page 356 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on July 2, 2018 in Book 10335, Page 240, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county court-

18 SP 1045 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Daniel M. Abner and Jeanie T. Abner to A. B. Chavis, Trustee(s), which was dated October 31, 2007 and recorded on November 1, 2007 in Book 7737 at Page 0224, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

18 SP 1011 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Julian L. Fontenette and Sable Fontenette to David W. Allred, Trustee(s), which was dated April 29, 2011 and recorded on May 3, 2011 in Book 08636 at Page 0777, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or

JOHNSTON 18 SP 375 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Bobby D. Townsend and Robin G. Townsend to Angela M. Burton, Trustee(s), which was dated September 11, 2013 and recorded on September 16, 2013 in Book 4354 at Page 429, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be fore-

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tuted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 26, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 87, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS REMINGTON, SECTION 2, PART 1, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 81, PAGE 47, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1183 Helmsley Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28314. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

sued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a

house for conducting the sale on September 26, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEGINNING at an iron pipe on the western margin of Ruth Street, said iron pipe being the Southeast corner of a Lot recorded in Deed Book 416, Page 184, Cumberland County Registry and running; thence with the said margin of Ruth Street North 09 degrees 42 minutes 18 seconds East 141.13 feet to a set iron pipe in the intersection of the western 44 foot right of way margin of Ruth Street with the southern right of way margin of Morganton Road; thence, with said margin of Morganton Road North 75 degrees 24 minutes 30 seconds West 51.83 feet to an iron pipe in the dividing line between Lots 22 and 23 of HOMELAND ADDITION PLAT BOOK 7, PAGE 109, Cumberland County Registry and running; thence with said dividing line South 07 degrees 33 minutes 55 seconds West 144.74 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 79 degrees 09 minutes 58 seconds East 46.25 feet to the point of beginning containing 0.16 acres, more or less and being the northern part of Lots 23 and 24 of the

above said Subdivision according to a new map of survey entitled Harold G. Furr, Jr. and Julia R. Furr prepared by George L. Lot, RLS, Fayetteville, North Carolina dated August, 1990. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1909 Morganton Road, Fayetteville, NC 28305. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made

subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Michael J. Cochran. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the

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

county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 26, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN CEDAR CREEK TOWNSHIP, CITY OF STEDMAN, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, STATE OF NC, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN BOOK 5621, PAGE 0766, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 12 WILLOW BROOK, RECOMBINATION OF LOTS 11-14, FILED IN PLAT BOOK 105 AT PAGE 122. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 5045 Berry Tree Lane, Stedman, NC 28391. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dol-

lars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Jeanie T. Abner. An Order for possession of the property may be is-

the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 26, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 101, as shown on a plat entitled, “ Arran Lakes, Section VII” duly recorded in Plat Book 44, Page 73, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 5639 McDougal Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Julian L. Fontenette and Sable Fontenette. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of

sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The

purchaser will have no further remedy.

closed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 28, 2018 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF TRACT 1 AS DEPICTED IN PLAT BOOK 52, PAGE 141, JOHNSTON COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 410 West Road, Angier, NC 27501. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR

THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Bobby D. Townsend and wife, Robin G. Townsend. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate

the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

county of JOHNSTON, and State of NORTH CAROLINA, being described as follows:

Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan

without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effec-

tive date of the termination.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Miguel Figueras and Jane Figueras to Timios Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of October, 2012, and recorded in Book 4199, Page 849, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 25, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain property situated in the

Being all of Lot 30, Richardson Place Subdivision, Section 2, Phase 1, as recorded in Plat Book 52, Page 17, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 603 Waterford Drive, Clayton, North Carolina.

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All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in Johnston County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Deanna Britt to Express Financial Services, Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of June, 2007, and recorded in Book 3368, Page 836, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 25, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEING all of Lot 7, Rockhurst Landing Subdivision, as recorded in Plat Book 57, Pages 464-465, Johnston County Registry. Being the same property conveyed to Deanna Britt by Deed recorded 5/14/2003 in Book 2451, Page 364. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 22 Rock Hurst Court, Raleigh, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or

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more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Four Oaks, Elevation Township, Johnston County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ronald Nearns and Kimberly Nearns to Stephen B. Millstein, Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of July, 2014, and recorded in Book 4484, Page 643, and Modification in Book 4877, Page 905, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 25, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being

Being the same property conveyed to Miguel Figueras and spouse, Jane Figueras by deed from Tedwil, Inc., Trustee of the Waterford Land Trust recorded 11/06/2009 in Deed Book 3777 Page 739, in the Register of Deeds Office of Johnston County, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the

BEING all of Lot 44 as shown on plat map dated January 18, 2006, entitled “Lakewood Estates, Section Two” and recorded in Plat Book 68, Pages 22 through 26, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 35 Whetstone Court, Four Oaks, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being

authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole

foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity

discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of

of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effec-

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North State Journal for Wednesday, September 12, 2018

TAKE NOTICE JOHNSTON NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 401

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Scott A. Schiller and Candi Schiller (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Scott A. Schiller and Candi Schiller) to Donald P. Eggleston, Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of December, 2012, and recorded in Book 4227, Page 822, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer

RANDOLPH 17 SP 370 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Frederick M. Rorie and Kathy S. Rorie to Lender’s Service, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated February 17, 1999 and recorded on February 17, 1999 in Book 1595 at Page 0928, Randolph County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

12 SP 457 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Michael Martin a/k/a Michael P. Martin to The law offices of Daniel A Fulco, PLLC, Trustee(s), which was dated March 23, 2007 and recorded on March 29, 2007 in Book RE2018 at Page 2092, Randolph County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

18 SP 219 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Tyler Randall Greene and wife, Angela Oliver Greene to The Law Office of Ben C. Morgan, Trustee(s), which was dated March 1, 2017 and recorded on March 1, 2017 in Book 2535 at Page 1048, Randolph County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 292

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Andrew J. Valko and Leah Brooke Valko (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Andrew J. Valko) to Vance C. Dalton, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of January, 2013, and recorded in Book RE2321, Page 114, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 25, 2018

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 105

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bentley P. Merritt and Patricia K. Merritt to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of May, 2012, and recorded in Book RE 2285, Page 692, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 25, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 265

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Judy Jenkins Roberts to Commonwealth Real Estate Information SVCS, Trustee(s), dated the 22nd day of February, 2013, and recorded in Book RE2328, Page 147, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 25, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Back Creek, in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and

UNION 17-SP-772 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Barry Michael Greene, husband and wife and Sandra B. Greene, in the original amount of $140,000.00, payable to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Solely as Nominee for America`s Wholesale Lender, dated January 26, 2007 and recorded on January 31, 2007 in Book 04445 at Page 0178, Union County Registry. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Stone Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Union County, North Carolina, on September 19, 2018 at 2:00 pm, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the

for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 25, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Clayton, in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The following described property: All that certain Lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Clayton, Clayton Township, Johnston County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 05G02059K Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-

ject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1244859 (FC.FAY)

50.24 feet to the Beginning, containing 0.179 acres.

BEGINNING at an existing iron pipe in the eastern right of way of Macon Street located North 13 degrees 55 minutes 59 seconds East 139.97 feet from the centerline intersection of Macon Street and William Avenue and being the northwest corner of Maisy L. Trogdon as described in Book 734, Page 78, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point along Trogdon, South 85 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds East 155.55 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence along D. Moore, North 04 degrees 44 minutes 54 seconds East 50.04 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence along W. Lee Roberts, North 85 degrees 25 minutes 37 seconds West 155.54 feet to an existing iron pipe in the eastern right of way line of Macon Street; thence along said right of way line, South 04 degrees 45 minutes 04 seconds West

This description is in accord with a survey entitled “Frederick M. Rorie”, dated January 11, 1999, prepared by Jerry King Surveying, Inc. and designated as Job No. 1773 R. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 941 Macon Street, Asheboro, NC 27203. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made

subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Frederick M. Rorie and wife, Kathy S. Rorie. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 28, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 16 OF OAK HOLLOW SUBDIVISION SUBDIVISION, MAP NO. 2, AS SHOWN BY PLAT THEREOF DULY RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 26, PAGE 24, IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, SAID LOT CONTAINING 5.17 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 3079 Oak Hollow Trail, Franklinville, NC 27248. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at

the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Michael P. Martin. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser

county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 28, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: Being Lots Nos. 1 and 2 of Chapel Heights No. 2 as shown on Plat recorded in Plat Book 9, Page 40, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 927 Ponderosa Heights Place, Asheboro, NC 27205. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are im-

mediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Tyler Randall Greene and wife, Angela Oliver Greene. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the

and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Liberty, in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Liberty Township, Randolph County, North Carolina:

holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability

to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant toa rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the land-

lord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1186915 (FC.FAY)

costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of

after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1238199 (FC.FAY)

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant

to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1244543 (FC.FAY)

Parcel ID(s): 7745829579

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

following described property, to wit: All that certain parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of UNION, State of NC, to-wit: Beginning at a point as evidenced by an iron stake, said beginning point being a common corner with Roger Mark Simpson (Deed book 364, Page 194) and Jeff E. Simpson (Deed Book 354, Page 391) Properties; thence from the beginning point North 24 Degrees 46 minutes 53 seconds West 219.67 feet to a point as evidenced by an iron stake on the Southernmost margin of a 30-footwide easement; thence North 24 degrees 46 minutes 53 seconds west 16.83 feet to a point in the center of a 3-foot right of way; thence north 46 degrees 12 minutes 39 seconds west 15.07 feet to a point on Huntley Line ( Deed Book 365, Page 602); thence along Huntley line north 46 degrees 12 minutes 39 seconds west 341.33 feet to a point as evidenced by an iron stake on the southerly line of Pear Hill, Jr., lot; thence with said Hill lot line North 73 degrees 27 minutes 51 seconds East 318.75 feet to a point as evidenced by an iron stake on Bartlett line ( Deed Book 363, Page 239); thence with Bartlett line South 01 degrees 17 minutes 26 seconds west 65.0 feet ; thence south 46 degrees 37 minutes 26 seconds East 238.0 feet to a point as evidenced by an iron stake, common corner with Jeff Simpson Property ( Deed book 354, Page 391);thence with Jeff Simpson line, south 22 degrees 30 minutes 16 seconds west 33.83 feet to the point and place of beginning, and containing 2.410 acres as shown upon map of survey dated

June 23, 1984, by William H. King, N.C.R.L.S. Subject to and together with the rights and privileges of that right of way described in the right of way agreement dated July 11, 1984, and recorded in Book 381, Page 232, Union County Registry. Less and Except Being all of Lot 2, containing 1.000 acre, of the property of Barry Michael Green and wife, Sandra B. Green as shown on map of survey prepared by Carroll L. Rushing, NCPLS, dated January 30, 2004, recorded in Plat Cabinet H File 975, Union County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular metes and bounds description. Tax ID: 08012016 Said Property is commonly known as 8401 Morgan Mill Rd, Monroe, NC 28110 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid peri-

od, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner of the property is Barry Michael Greene and Sandra B Greene. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes

§45-21.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Being all of Lots 5011, Lionsgate Subdivision, Phase 5A, as shown on Plat recorded in Plat Book 66, Page 340, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 127 Tuscarora Lane, Clayton, North Carolina. Being the same parcel conveyed to Scott A. Schiller and wife, Candi Schiller from LGV, LLC, by virtue of a deed Dated 7/15/2008, Recorded 7/15/2008, in deed Book 3575, Page 873, County of Johnston, State of North Carolina.

Being all of Lot Nos. 3 and 4, Section 1, Butler Acres, filed in Plat Book 15, Page 94, recorded 3/1/1973. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 8175 Old Liberty Road, Liberty, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the

following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 2, containing 5.36 acres, more or less, of a survey entitled “Final Plat for Family Division Estate, rerecorded of Plat Book 51, Page 29” as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book 85, Page 43, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Randolph County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6615 Maplegate Lane, Pleasant Garden, North Carolina. Together with a 50 foot easement for ingress, egress and regress to Whitt Hunt Road more particularly described as “50.0’ access easement for private road” on Plat recorded in Plat Book 85, Page 43, Randolph County Registry. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court

being more particularly described as follows: A tract or parcel of land, in Back Creek Township, Randolph County, North Carolina, described as follows: Being Lots Nos. 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45 of the Eugene E Brown Subdivision, Map No. 5, as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book 7, Page 87, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4154 Old Way Road, Sophia, North Carolina. Being the same premises that was conveyed unto Allen Thomas Roberts (now deceased, Certificate of Deed filed in Registration District 041-95, Certificate ID 001154 and State filed 119029, dated May 13th, 2005, in the State of North Carolina), and wife Judy Jenkins Roberts by Quitclaim Deed from Samuel William Linthicum and wife, Kathryn Diane D. Linthicum, dated November 20th, 1980, and recorded November 25th, 1980 at Deed Book 1123 and Deed Page 291 in the Records of the Randolph County Recorder’s Office, State of North Carolina.

Stone Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee By: _________________ Sarah Elizabeth Banks #44023 David R. DiMatteo #35254 Christopher J. Culp #13466 Attorney for Stone Trustee Services, LLC Stern & Eisenberg Southern, PC 1709 Devonshire Drive Columbia, SC 29204 Phone: (803) 929-0760 Fax: (803) 929-0830

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 12, 2018

TAKE NOTICE the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 21, 2018 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 76 of that certain subdivision known as Champion Forest, Map 3, as same as is shown on a map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet G at File 154 of the Union County Public Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Lester B. Luna signs this Deed of Trust (or Mortgage) for the sole purpose of conveying any present or future interest in the subject property. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, he is not a borrower and is not personally liable on the Note secured by this Deed of Trust (or Mortgage), said loan (Note) being adequate consideration.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1241 Waynewood Drive, Waxhaw, NC 28173. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances

or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Hollie Rougeaux-Luna and Lester Luna. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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ated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 116 of BROOKHAVEN, PHASE 1, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet H, File NO. 920, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Union County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1114 Lytton Lane, Matthews, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the

note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe

the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the

rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1235727 (FC.FAY)

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at 1:00 PM on September 20, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron stake in the edge of the sidewalk on Highway No. 74, a corner of Lot No. 2, and runs thence with a line of Lot No. 2, S. 52 deg. 43 min, W. 178.5 feet to an iron stake, in a line of Lot No. 5; thence with a line of Lot No. 5, N. 24 deg. 27 min. W. 89 feet to an iron stake; a corner of Lot No. 4; thence with a line of Lot No. 4. N. 52 deg. 15 min. E. 157 feet to an iron stake in the edge of the sidewalk on Highway No. 74; thence with said sidewalk S. 37 deg. 30 min. E. 88 feet to the BEGINNING, and being Lot No. 3 of the Lee Billingsley property as surveyed and platted by Ralph W. Elliott, Surveyor, December 31st, 1948. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1219 North Charlotte Avenue, Monroe, North Carolina.

effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1247306 (FC.FAY)

Tax ID No. 07-132-103 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this prop-

erty for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by pro-

viding written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1247732 (FC.FAY)

Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Wake County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on September 21, 2018, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: BEING all of Lot 20, Block H, Apollo Heights Subdivision, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1969, Page 167, Wake County Registry, previously known as Amanda Estates Subdivision. Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 1717 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Raleigh, NC 27610. Tax ID: 1713551756 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00),

whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owners of the property are Malissa M. Amons. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the

Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any

party, the Substitute Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

the sale on September 19, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL OF LOT 31, SUMERLYN SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, AS SHOWN ON A MAP THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK OF MAPS 2006, PAGES 11281130 (PAGE 1129), WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY, TO WHICH MAP REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF SAME. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 4262 Offshore Drive, Raleigh, NC 27610. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Tracey Ellerbee. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termina-

tion to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

uated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being situate in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 78, Riverside Subdivision, Tract 9, Phase 3, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2003, Page 2028, Wake County Registry Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5034 Brooke Lauren Lane, Raleigh, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers,

directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any

party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the

County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 147 in Broadlands Subdivision, Phase II as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1985, Page 834, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2808 West Jameson Road, Raleigh, North Carolina Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the

UNION 18 SP 445 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Hollie Rougeaux-Luna a/k/a Hollie Rougeaux Luna a/k/a Hollie Rougeaux a/k/a Hollie Luna and Lester Luna to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), which was dated March 18, 2016 and recorded on March 21, 2016 in Book 06635 at Page 0705, Union County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Luis Morales and Doreen M. Morales to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of September, 2004, and recorded in Book 3562, Page 884, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on September 20, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situ-

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joseph Bennett, (Joseph R. Bennett aka Joseph Bennett, Deceased) (Heirs of Joseph R. Bennett aka Joseph Bennett: Marilyn Bennett, Stephanie L. Anderson, Thomas J. Bennett and Unknown Heirs of Joseph R. Bennett aka Joseph Bennett) to Chris Cope, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of June, 2016, and recorded in Book 06702, Page 0107, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales,

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 431 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Annemarie R. Whitesel to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of January, 2004, and recorded in Book 3365, Page 653, and Modification in Book 6772, Page 278, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on September 20, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for

WAKE 18 SP 1728 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Malissa M. Amons in the original amount of $54,600.00, payable to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated December 22, 2006 and recorded on December 28, 2006 in Book 12333, Page 162, Wake County Registry. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anchor Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of

18 SP 108 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Tracey Glover Ellerbee to Allan B. Polunsky, Trustee(s), which was dated September 15, 2011 and recorded on September 19, 2011 in Book 014466 at Page 00115, Wake County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 2209 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Tamika Nicole Johnson to John L. Matthews or Timothy M. Bartosh, Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of March, 2004, and recorded in Book 010739, Page 01659, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate sit-

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Anthony Hodges and Felicia Forbes to Tryon Title Agency, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of May, 2015, and recorded in Book 016022, Page 02451, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the

Tax Parcel Number: 09-267-100 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party,

cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Indian Trail, in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in Indian Trail Township, Union County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 57 of Enchanted Forest Subdivision, as shown on plat recorded in plat cabinet B, File 184-B, in the Union County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more complete description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3822 Wonderland Drive, Matthews, North Carolina.

Anchor Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee By: _____________________ January N. Taylor, Bar #33512 McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC Attorney for Anchor Trustee Services, LLC 3550 Engineering Drive, Suite 260 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 404-474-7149 (phone) 404-745-8121 (fax) jtaylor@mtglaw.com

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TAKE NOTICE Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 1, Phase 1, RUSTIC COUNTY VILLAGE II SUBDIVISION, as depicted in Book of Maps 1997, Page 1789, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 10209 Fanny Brown Road, Raleigh, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice

of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the

return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be

stitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Wake County, North Carolina, on September 21, 2018 at 1:30 pm , and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: LOT 121, MITCHELL MILL SUBDIVISION, PHASE 3 BOOK OF MAPS 2001, PAGE 1458, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY Tax ID: 0295837 Said Property is commonly known as 3322 Deering Drive, Raleigh, NC 27616 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or major fraction thereof, of the the final sale price. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), a minimum Ten Dollar ($10.00) fee will be collected. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is more than Five Hundred Dollars

($500.00), a maximum Five Hundred Dollar ($500.00) fee will be collected. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner of the property is David M Page and Sandra P. Page. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser

and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the

trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 28, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lots 64 and 65 of KELLY HEIGHTS, as shown by map recorded in Book of Maps 1954, Page 11, Wake County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 4012 Memory Lane, Raleigh, NC 27604. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are im-

mediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Colon D. Jones. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession

county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 28, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 124, ARBOR CREEK SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1A, AS RECORDED IN BOOK OF MAPS 1996, PAGES 237 AND 238, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 205 Capello Court, Holly Springs, NC 27540. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS

MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Dwayne E. Bell and wife, Lacrecia M. Bell. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the

property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of

cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING MOST of Lot 17, Block H. Section Two Ridgewood Subdivision as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1954, Page 68, Wake County Registry and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the southern edge of the right of way of Leonard Street, said point being 361.38 feet to a westerly direction along the southern edge of the right of way of Leonard Street from the southern point of intersection with the rights of way of Leonard Street and Grant Avenue; runs thence South 2 degrees 58 minutes West 160 feet to a point; runs thence North 87 degrees 62 minutes West 91.8 feet to a point; runs thence North 2 degrees 58 minutes East 160 feet to a point in the southern edge of the right of way of Leonard Street; runs thence with said right of way South 87 degrees 02 minutes East 91.8 feet TO THE POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3465 Leonard Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay

the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price,

or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or

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ignated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 24, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 158, Heritage Wake Forest, Phase I, Section IIB, as shown on that plat recorded in Book of Maps 2000, Page 1693, Wake County Registry, which plat is incorporated herein by reference and to which plat reference is to be made for a more complete and accurate description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1213 Brewer Jackson Court, Wake Forest, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the

and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides

the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1243172 (FC.FAY)

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ber 24, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 308 as shown on that map entitled “Brighton Forest, Phase 4-A Lots 306-315, 404-416, 424, 437-446 and 468-469” by Withers & Ravenel, dated January 23, 2008 and recorded in Book of Maps 2008, Page 641 and 642, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4409 Brighton Ridge Drive, Apex, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder

of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bank-

ruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date con-

tained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 24, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 119, Moss Creek Subdivision, recorded in Map Book 2001, Page 774, Wake County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2944 Dargan Hills Drive, Wake Forest, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized repre-

sentative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any par-

ty, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a

WAKE AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 1910 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Grenetta Legette (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): G&L Living Trust) to Western Wake Law Group, Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of April, 2016, and recorded in Book 16357, Page 190, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute

18-SP-1633 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Sandra P. Page and David M. Page, in the original amount of $198,000.00, payable to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for FMF Capital LLC, dated August 3, 2006 and recorded on August 8, 2006 in Book 12105 at Page 1904, Wake County Public Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Stone Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Sub-

17 SP 1162 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Colon D. Jones and Florene M. Jones to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated May 3, 2002 and recorded on May 8, 2002 in Book 009409 at Page 02546, Wake County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

16 SP 1320 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Dwayne E. Bell and Lacrecia M. Bell to Lawrence A. Maitin, Trustee(s), which was dated July 7, 2004 and recorded on July 8, 2004 in Book 010913 at Page 00501, Wake County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1697

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Carlon Odell Fields, (Carlon Odell Fields, deceased)(Heirs of Carlon Odell Fields: Kaylen Nicole Fields aka Kaylen N. Fields and Unknown Heirs of Carlon Odell Fields) to James A. Dinkel of Wake County, Trustee(s), dated the 22nd day of November, 2013, and recorded in Book 15512, Page 710, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 24, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Thomas Morton Menaugh and Christina M. Menaugh (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Christina M. Menaugh, Thomas M. Menaugh and Sarah Kate Menaugh) to Affinity Title Corporation, Trustee(s), dated the 13th day of April, 2007, and recorded in Book 012507, Page 02080, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location des-

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Anthony Tangredi and Janine C. Tangredi to The Law Office of Jonathan Richardson PLLC, Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of July, 2013, and recorded in Book 15360, Page 414, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on Septem-

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 2546 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bruce Banks and Denise Banks (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): RS Cares Preservation Holding Trust) to Douglas Portnoy, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of September, 2006, and recorded in Book 012179, Page 02177, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE FC.FAY 1209624

Stone Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee By: ________________________ Attorney At Law Stern & Eisenberg Southern, PC Attorneys for Stone Trustee Services, LLC David R. DiMatteo #35254 Christopher J. Culp #13466 1709 Devonshire Drive Columbia, SC 29204 (803) 462-5006 (803) 929-0830

rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1196430 (FC.FAY)