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Legislators send letter to UNC officials over forced ‘equity, diversity and inclusion’ training Raleigh State Rep. Jon Hardister (R-Guilford) issued a letter of inquiry to UNC Chapel Hill and UNC System officials following “equity, diversity and inclusion” training that students within the Greek system were forced to attend.

Reactions from students reported by Carolina Review included criticism of the university funding such a program, that students were “uncomfortable,” and that the speaker was “was projecting her identity politics onto us.”

The letter also asks if the administration will be addressing concerns related to “politically motivated indoctrination,” both in classes and in university-sanctioned organizations.

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Looking at the leaves Colorful leaves in the Blue Ridge are seen in this Oct. 31, file photo, of mountains taken on the Blueridge Parkway.

The fall leaf season is still going strong in western North Carolina following prolonged warm weather.

Americans sour on economy amid inflation woes Washington, D.C. Americans’ opinions on the U.S. economy have soured noticeably in the past month, a new poll finds, with nearly half expecting economic conditions to worsen in the next year.

Just 35% of Americans now call the national economy good, while 65% call it poor, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The deterioration in Americans’ economic sentiments comes as the cost of goods is rising nationwide, particularly gas prices, and bottlenecks in the global supply chain have made purchasing everything from furniture to automobiles more difficult.

The Labor Department reported earlier this month that consumer prices in September rose 5.4% from a year earlier, the largest one-year increase since 2008.

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Rubio takes Big Business to task a year before election Orlando, Fla. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is taking Big Business to task.

In an op-ed published Monday, the Republican from Florida called corporate America “the instrument of anti-American ideologies.”

Rubio said changes to economic policies in recent decades have left many feeling divorced from the American Dream of obtaining good jobs and raising their families in safe neighborhoods. He added, “that has to be addressed, because that dream is at the core of our national identity.”

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Biden: Pope told me that I should ‘keep receiving Communion’ Rome Face to face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended talks with Pope Francis and came away saying the pontiff told him he was a “good Catholic” and should keep receiving Communion, although some have called for him to be denied the sacrament because of his support for abortion rights.

Biden said abortion did not come up in the meeting.

“We just talked about the fact he was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving Communion,” Biden said.

The president’s support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage has put him at odds with many U.S. bishops.

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Gov Roy Cooper vetoes Emergency Powers Act 65th veto rejects measure to include Council of State, General Assembly

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal

How Big Tech censorship of Parler, Trump birthed a ‘2nd internet’ RightForge providing web services for Trump’s TRUTH Social

By David Larson North State Journal

Tech and a lot of its excesses, a lot of its censorship. And that was even used as a defense of its censoring of a president of the United States, a democratically elected president of a free country being taken off the internet. They’d say, ‘Oh, well if you don’t like it, you can build your own.’ Well, Parler showed that was false because Amazon Web Services, which controls over 90% plus of web hosting in the country, combined with the Apple store and the Google Play store, said, ‘You’re not allowed on here.’”

Avila and Wagner wanted to create solid ground for alternative thinkers to build their companies so Big Tech couldn’t just erase all their work with the push of a button.

“They’re their own judge, jury and executioner,” Bedford opined, saying that Big Tech killed Parler “under completely false pretenses,” since he said that later reporting showed little organizing for the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol was done on Parler.

“If anything, Facebook was [where the organizing happened],” he said. “And they took it off the internet at a point when it was succeeding and it was the top downloaded app in those stores. They took it down and destroyed it.”

Wagner is a former Army Ranger, and Avila is a technologist who had worked in the California corporate world. They began pulling together clients who had been “canceled” from Big Tech’s platforms and other clients who simply wanted to know they wouldn’t be.

Their biggest client to date, announced in late October, is former President Donald Trump and his “TRUTH Social” social media project.

“It’s a great honor to be working with the president and Trump Media Group on this,” Bedford said.

Asked if they are ready to scale their operations if TRUTH Social grows rapidly, he said, “We have everything we need to keep everything online. But we are actively scaling up every day, acquiring more and more servers, because

RALEIGH — Christopher Bedford, chief communications officer for RightForge, recently spoke with NSJ, describing the company’s North Carolina roots, partnership with former President Donald Trump and plans for a “second internet” to push back against what they see as bias and censorship against conservatives by a Big Tech monopoly.

Bedford, who is also a senior editor at the popular conservative site The Federalist, says their company began the day alternative social media platform Parler was blacklisted by Amazon, Apple, Google and other Big Tech players.

“The next morning, bright and early, [Martin Avila, the CEO of RightForge] started his car and drove down to Raleigh to meet up with Aaron Wagner,” Bedford said.

“And the two of them and their friends, who were former Silicon Valley guys, got together and started meeting down in North Carolina to try to figure out how we’re going to do this, how we’re going to set up the servers. We need to get the second internet rolling. We have the intelligence; we have the skills; now it’s time to do the work and get the money.”

Bedford and those at RightForge use the term “second internet” to describe a separate infrastructure that can connect people to the internet but does not rely on the Big Tech companies. He said the banning of Parler was the moment many on the right fully realized that their speech was not protected online and that views that were mainstream to them were considered violations that could get them erased from the digital public square overnight.

“There was this whole idea that if you don’t like something you could just go and build your own,” Bedford said. “And that was constantly used as a defense for Big See BIG TECH, page A2

RALEIGH — On Monday, Nov. 1, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed House Bill 26, the Emergency Powers Act, which would have required the governor to obtain Council of State approval on future state of an emergency orders lasting more than seven days and legislative approval to extend an order beyond 45 days.

“North Carolina is emerging from a global pandemic with lives

saved and a strong economy because of effective statewide measures to protect public health under the Emergency Management Act,” Cooper wrote in his veto of the bill.

“Critical decisions about stopping deadly diseases, or responding to any other emergency, should stay with experts in public health and safety, not a committee of partisan politicians. We must be able to act quickly and thoroughly when deadly diseases, hurricanes, or any other dangers threaten people’s lives and jobs. An emergency needs decisive, quick and comprehensive action, not bureaucracy and politics.”

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FDA approves Pfizer emergency-use shot for 5-11-year-olds

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The Food and Drug Administration approved a kid-sized emergency use (EUA) COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech on Oct. 29.

The Biden administration said it plans to distribute enough doses for the nation’s 28 million 5- to 11-yearolds as soon as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gives its final decision anticipated to come as early as Nov. 2.

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval comes after the agency’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 17 to zero to approve child doses on Oct. 27. One member abstained, Michael Kurilla, the director of the Division of Clinical Innovation at the National Institutes of Health.

“A vote ‘no’ would have been interpreted as a vote against the vaccine itself rather than the administration of the vaccine,” Kurilla said of his abstention. “There clearly are children with risk factors who could potentially benefit from a vaccine, but I don’t see the need for ‘emergency use’ of this vaccine across the entire age group and would have preferred a more nuanced approach.”

Prior to the meeting, the advisory committee was supplied with an 82-page briefing document outlining the Pfizer pediatric age doses and related study information.

Kids will get two doses three weeks apart. The dose size is a third of the amount of a teen and adult dose. Pfizer’s study found the smaller doses had a more “favorable safety and tolerability profile,” and that side effects for kids aged 5-11 is “generally comparable to those observed in participants 16 to 25 years of age.”

During the meeting, multiple

members of the FDA advisory panel expressed concern about rushing to approve a vaccine for children, who represent the lowest COVID risk group.

Kim Witczak, the consumer representative on the FDA’s PsySee VACCINE, page A2

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VETO from page A1 Cooper vetoed the bill just hours before it would have become law without his signature. The veto is Cooper’s 65th since taking office, and he holds 65% of all vetoes issued by North Carolina governors.

It is not yet clear if lawmakers will attempt to override the veto.

Since Republicans lost supermajority numbers in 2018, Democrats in both chambers have consistently voted to uphold Cooper’s vetoes.

Cooper’s statewide state of emergency for COVID-19 is contained in Executive Order 116, issued in March of 2020. The order has no expiration date, and the governor has repeatedly refused to say when he will rescind it.

Lawmakers responded, noting the veto comes as the order passes 600 days old.

“North Carolina remains in a state of emergency, now for a total of 600 days,” said House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) in a statement. “During that time, many in our state have felt their individual liberties deteriorate under extreme mandates and policies as a result of unilateral decisions made by our governor in the midst of the pandemic.”

“I am disappointed that Governor Cooper is blocking a bill that simply allows for checks and balances, not just for him, but any governor, Republican or Democrat, in the future,” Moore said.

Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort), the bill’s primary sponsor, said in a statement that Cooper’s veto is “putting power and politics over our constitution and what is good for our state.”

“The governor’s veto undermines our constitution, the balance of powers and the rule of law. It also further shows the dangers of when power is centralized in the hands of one person,” said Kidwell.

House Majority Leader John Bell (R-Wayne), who is also a sponsor of the bill, similarly said the governor’s veto of the bill “is purely about maintaining power and authority over the citizens and their elected representatives.”

“It does not matter who is governor of North Carolina. Republican or Democrat. The governor was never intended to have such absolute authority, especially for an unlimited time,” said Bell in a statement.

Sen. Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick) also chastised the length of Cooper’s emergency order, saying it highlighted the need for checks and balances.

“There is no emergency — none — that lasts for nearly two years. At that point, it’s no longer an ‘emergency’ — it’s the new status quo,” Rabon said. “Yet for 19 months the Governor has held onto every iota of unilateral authority he has. It’s unhealthy, unsafe, and undemocratic.”

“House Bill 264 would have instituted common-sense checks and balances on the Governor’s executive authority, instead of consolidating power into one office,” said Rabon. “Every passing day that the Governor refuses to relinquish his ‘emergency’ power is a day that

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harms our constitutional order.”

On Oct. 27, a reporter asked when the statewide emergency order would end, citing the 35% drop in cases and the 37% drop in hospitalizations. They posited that “we haven’t held a COVID briefing in over a month… it doesn’t sound like an emergency.”

Cooper responded that “We don’t have statewide mandates in place.”

He went on to say, “However, we are still using the emergency order to allow healthcare providers to do things they otherwise could not do under the law… and helping us draw down funds. So, that is still an important part of the process.”

As he has done in past months, the governor offered no details about what things healthcare providers are not able to do without a statewide emergency order nor did he elaborate on what funds required such an order.

Cooper’s Oct. 27 response is similar to the one he gave in June of this year when North State Journal questioned why he had not yet ended his statewide State of Emergency order.

“The State of Emergency needs to continue. We need to continue to draw down federal funds,” Cooper said on June 2. “We need to continue to do things to make sure people get vaccinated and we still have mask mandates in places that are recommended by the CDC.” Just a few weeks later in midJune, Cooper issued a press release justifying his refusal to terminate the State of Emergency. By that time, Cooper had received inquiries from lawmakers about ending his State of Emergency order.

“We cannot find any truth to his statement that we must be in a state of emergency to draw down federal funds or the other reasons listed in his latest executive order,” Bell wrote at the time in an email to North State Journal. “As is the case with hurricanes and other natural disasters, we can continue to use federal funding long after the state of emergency has ended.”

In their veto reaction statement, Bell and Kidwell noted Cooper still has not responded to their June 8 letter asking for more details and what “metrics and data” have to be met for his state of emergency to end.

Cooper’s release claimed that under a state of emergency, the state has “easier access to federal funding, including FEMA Public Assistance reimbursements, and schools can follow uniform safety guidance under the StrongSchoolsNC Public Health Toolkit.”

North State Journal looked into those claims and found that the CARES Act and President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) do not have a requirement for a state of emergency to be in place for a state to qualify for funding.

FEMA’s Federal Lost Wages Supplemental Payment Assistance includes language about the delivery and administration of funds for the program through a “major disaster” declaration under the Stafford Act. That major disaster declaration, however, is made by the president of the United States.

VACCINE from page A1 chopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, was vocal about slowing down the push to give the COVID shots to kids.

“Is there really an emergency with this age group?” Witczak asked. “Or is it being driven by a larger political agenda?”

Dr. James Hildreth said, “It just seemed to me that in some ways we’re vaccinating children to protect the adults when it should be the other way around.”

“If 30 million children already have some form of immunity, they’ve made their contribution to herd immunity already and our focus should be to get the adults vaccinated to protect the children,” said Hildreth, who later added he supports vaccinations for kids who have heightened health concerns.

“I’m just worried that if we say ‘yes’, that the states are going to mandate administration of this vaccine to children in order to go to school, and I do not agree with that,” said Dr. Cody Meissner. “I think that would be an error at this time until we get more information about the safety.”

Other members of the FDA advisory committee were critical of Pfizer’s study in terms of the lack of data on adverse reaction risk factors like myocarditis.

“But I also think the risk of myocarditis is probably conservative, based on the natural history of myocarditis generally being less

common in this age group,” said advisory member Dr. Mark Sawyer, who is a pediatrician.

Sawyer went on to say that “the models are the best we have at the moment” and that “we are not going to get the data unless we start to use this vaccine.”

Dr. Eric Rubin echoed sawyer’s sentiments.

“We’re never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it, and that’s just the way it goes,” said Rubin.

“That’s how we found out about rare complications of other vaccines.”

According to the briefing document, Pfizer reported “No cases of myocarditis/pericarditis were observed during the vaccination period through approximately 3 months of follow-up post-Dose 2,” however, Pfizer admits the number of participants in the study was “too small to detect any potential risks of myocarditis associated with vaccination.”

Pfizer’s study tracked just 2,268 kids aged 5 to 11 who were given two shots three weeks apart of either the proposed low-dose vaccine or a placebo.

Additionally, the briefing document says, “long-term safety of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in kids aged 5-11 is unknown and will be studied at a later time.”

The FDA briefing document cites CDC numbers from the start of the pandemic in March of 2020 through Oct. 14, 2021, showing

BIG TECH from page A1 I anticipate his platform to be extremely popular with millions and millions and millions of users. And the infrastructure will be absolutely solid.”

Bedford said they now have servers “across the world,” including in California, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Europe, South America, Asia and Africa.

He said building this infrastructure is doable, but it is very difficult and can earn a lot of enemies. But he added as a response to those trying to stop them, “Well, guess what? You don’t control the patent on this technology. This is public technology. We can do this as well. We just have to work hard at it.”

People get “really, really upset” when you challenge their control, he said, “but if you are taking fire, that means you’re approaching the enemy. … There are plenty of ways they can make my life uncomfortable, but I’m going to make sure they can’t take your website off the internet.”

When they first began, Bedford said they could count the number of clients they had on two hands.

Now they have hundreds and are growing every day. With the addition of Trump as a client, their profile has grown quickly, too.

“There’s a huge amount of interest. Every time I talk to a newspaper or a local radio program, people are reaching out and saying they want to sign up.”

“There’s a huge amount of interest. Every time I talk to a newspaper or a local radio program, people are reaching out and saying they want to sign up.”

Christopher Bedford, chief communications officer for RightForge And they are not just targeting political and ideological sites run by conservatives. They want businesses, churches, nonprofits and any other site that needs access to the internet, saying some clients just “want to support it and be a part of it.”

“The internet is obviously a very diverse place; there are big actors and small actors, and we welcome all,” he said. “And it’s not just a conservative thing either. It’s pretty wild. If you would have told me, say, 10 years ago that you were going to have political thoughts that were in line with Glenn Greenwald and Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, I’d have said, ‘All of them? In the same room together?’ It turns out that the people who are more pro-freedom are getting drawn together.”

But getting this solid ground in place is just the first step. Next,

Verse 10 of Isaiah 41 has been an inspiration for many during troubling or uncertain times. The verse has inspired many hymns.

“How Firm a Foundation”

by John Rippon basically quotes the King James version of the verse. “The Right Hand of God” was written by Caribbean native Patrick Prescod and contains a litany of biblical references, including a title reference to Isaiah.

The anonymously written “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” is a frequently recorded, short hymn which ties to Isaiah 41:10.

The song references a “world of toil and snares” but reminds the listener that Jesus is with us so we should not be afraid. When we travel life’s journey, we will be satisfied as long as we walk close to Jesus and follow God’s path. The song reminds us that “none but Thee, dear Lord” can share the burden of life.

The walk with Jesus ends in heaven. But the journey is less fearful when Jesus is your guide.

around 1.8 million COVID-19 cases and 143 coronavirus-related deaths among the 5 to 11 age group nationwide.

According to NCDHHS’s COVID-19 dashboard, between March 2020 and Oct. 25, 2021, there have been 10 COVID-related deaths in children ages 5 to 17.

Since the start of the pandemic, the combined positive case rate in children aged 11 and under has been around 3% or less. Case rates increased alongside the return to school, likely due to an increased level of testing as part of quarantine rules in the StrongSchoolsNC toolkit.

The CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data released on Oct. 22 shows a total of 818,044 adverse event reports following COVID vaccines between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 15, 2021.

Included in the VAERS report are a total of 17,128 deaths, 840 of which were reported within one day or less of receiving a vaccine dose. The majority of those deaths (56%) are from those ages 65 and older.

For the 12 to 17 age range, 21,921 total adverse events were reported with 1,325 tagged as serious. Additionally, 25 deaths were reported including a 12-year-old who died following a Pfizer vaccine dose and a 15-year-old who died six days following the first dose of a Pfizer vaccine.

Bedford said an entire “second economy” has to be built on this foundation, including streaming video sites, social media platforms, entertainment, banking and much more. This is necessary, he said, because all the mainstream versions of these are controlled by people who are more than willing to publicly favor left-wing causes and views while stifling conservative and independent ones.

“As we speak right now, people and products are being denied credit cards based on political ideas,” he said. “Major banks in the United States, including most of the banks that your readers have their debit cards with, are refusing to give loans to gun stores and do business with gun manufacturers, something that is protected by the Second Amendment. There’s a huge amount that needs to be built.”

Without secure access to the internet, he believes conservatives would be at risk of being shut out of the economy entirely. But at least with this second internet, they can create a second economy where they are allowed to pursue their ends. However, he notes that “The second economy is not something that is a great thing. It’s a sadly necessary thing.”

Bedford summarized the project by saying, “What we’re trying to do right now is get the ground solid so that we can build our castles on rock, as opposed to on sand.”

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NCDHHS edited its school masking requirements FAQ. What does it say?

StrongSchoolsNC toolkit FAQ update ties mask wearing to community transmission rates and vaccination status

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — A frequently-asked-questions document related to K-12 school masking requirements was edited by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) according to an Oct. 25 update.

New language was added under the “Cloth Face Coverings and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)” section, tying community transmission and vaccinations to when schools should consider lifting masking requirements.

“Given that our student population is largely not yet vaccinated, face covering remain a critical tool for protecting children and keeping them safely in the classroom,” the section reads. “NCDHHS recommends that schools base their mask requirements on levels

of community transmission, as defined by the CDC. Community Transmission Levels are determined by two indicators- case rates and test percent positivity.

If the two indicators are categorized in different transmission levels, the higher level is selected.”

The new FAQ language goes on to say that depending on community-transmission levels, school officials can decide to make masks optional but only for vaccinated persons.

“NCDHHS recommends schools continue to implement a universal face covering requirement if they are located in a county with high or substantial levels as defined by the CDC,” the FAQ update reads. “When community transmission levels decline in your county to moderate or low levels for at least 7 consecutive days, school leaders can consider making face coverings optional for vaccinated individuals.”

“Face coverings school continue to be required for all unvaccinated individuals until community transmission is at low levels, when mask could be optional for

everyone,” reads the FAQ update.

The update also says that “NCDHHS will continue to re-evaluate this guidance as all schoolaged children become eligible for and get vaccinated.”

The September version of the frequently asked questions document (FAQ) did not have this language.

Gov. Roy Cooper and NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen held a COVID-19 briefing just two days after the edit to the FAQ document. At that briefing, Cohen was asked by a reporter about the language change, and she said there had been no change to mask guidance.

“There has been no change to mask guidance,” said Cohen.

“Where we are right now for our schools, you know, the vast majority of our students are unvaccinated.”

She also added that “when the vast majority of folks are unvaccinated, you gotta do other things to protect each other, and top of the list there is wearing a mask.

So right now, there is no change to our recommendation that all

schools should require masks in K through 12. And that has not changed.”

“We are going to be looking at the CDC guidance that says as you improve out on the horizon there are opportunities for us to think about stepping that back,” Cohen said. “But we are not close to that yet.”

Cohen went on to say that “we are reiterating that today in our guidance to say [that] as school boards are reevaluating things, they should keep mask mandates — the answer is yes, they should because nearly all of our counties are either red or orange. And while you are still in that place, you really shouldn’t be considering taking away mask mandates.”

Later in her response, Cohen said “for anyone who is unvaccinated, they need to continue wearing masks.”

The FAQ update and Cohen’s recent remarks likely will add to continued parent anger and protests over masking in the state’s K-12 schools.

During the Sept. 21 COVID-19 briefing, Cohen said there are “no

plans at this time” to ask the N.C. Commission on Public Health (NCCPH) to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of requirements for K-12 students but that “we’ll step through that [process] as we go forward.”

Cooper said he was “excited” that children ages 5 to 11 might be able to get the vaccine soon but did not answer whether or not his office would push for a K-12 immunization requirement.

During the NCCPH meeting in August, a few members expressed a desire to add the vaccine to the K-12 immunization requirements but tabled further discussion to a later date.

The commission met again virtually on Oct. 15, and audio obtained exclusively by North State Journal showed members of the body joking about public interest in child vaccination requirements and what some members referred to as anti-vax and mask “rhetoric.”

The next NCCPH meeting is scheduled for Nov. 3 but a time has not yet been announced on the commission’s website.

Supreme Court to hear case on New York’s gun permit law

By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court is preparing to hear a gun rights case that could curtain restrictions on guns in subways, airports, bars, churches, schools and other places where people gather in some blue states.

The case the justices will hear Wednesday could increase the number of people eligible to carry firearms as they go about their daily lives. The case centers on New York’s restrictive gun permit law and whether challengers to the law have a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.

Gun control groups say if a high court ruling requires states to drop restrictions, the result will be more violence. Gun rights groups, meanwhile, say the risk of a confrontation is precisely why they have a right to be armed for self-defense.

Gun rights advocates hope that the court with a 6-3 conservative majority is poised to side with them. They want the court to say the New York law is too restrictive, as are similar laws in other states.

Gun control advocates acknowledge the court’s composition has them concerned about the outcome.

“The stakes really could not be higher,” said Jonathan Lowy, chief counsel at the gun control group Brady.

The court last issued major gun rights decisions in 2008 and 2010. Those decisions established a nationwide right to keep a gun at home for self-defense. The ques-

tion for the court now is whether there’s a similar Second Amendment right to carry a firearm in public.

The question isn’t an issue in most of the country, where gun owners have little difficulty legally carrying their weapons when they go out. But about half a dozen states, including populous California and several eastern states, restrict the carrying of guns to those who can demonstrate a particular need for doing so. The justices could decide whether those “may issue” laws can stand.

The New York law the court is reviewing has been in place since 1913 and says that to carry a concealed handgun in public for self-defense, a person applying for a license has to demonstrate “proper cause,” an actual need to carry the weapon. When local officials issue a gun license, it’s either unrestricted — allowing the person to carry a gun anywhere not otherwise prohibited by law — or restricted, allowing the person to carry a gun in certain circumstances. That could include carrying a gun for hunting or target shooting, when traveling for work or when in backcountry areas.

The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and two private citizens challenging the law have told the Supreme Court that it “makes it effectively impossible for an ordinary, law-abiding citizen to obtain a license to carry a handgun for self-defense.”

Lawyers for the group say the text of the Second Amendment, along with history and tradition,

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New York State Rifle & Pistol Association president Tom King poses for a photo Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in East Greenbush, N.Y. supports their argument that there’s a right to carry a gun outside the home. The group also says that New York’s law has discriminatory origins, that it was originally intended to give officials wide latitude to keep guns out of the hands of newly arrived immigrants from Europe, particularly Italians.

New York, for its part, denies that and says that the Second Amendment allows states to restrict the carrying of guns in public. It, too, points to history, tradition and the text of the Second Amendment. The state says its restrictions promote public safety, pointing to research that says that places that restrict the public carry of guns have lower rates of gun-related homicides and other violent crimes. New York says its law isn’t a flat ban on carrying guns but a more moderate restriction.

Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, said in an interview that part

of the problem with New York’s law is that the chances a person will get an unrestricted permit depend on whether he or she is in a rural or more urban area of the state.

Both gun rights and gun control advocates say that it’s unclear how broadly the court might be willing to rule and that they will be closely watching arguments for clues, particularly from the court’s three newest members.

The three appointees of former President Donald Trump — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — are conservatives but were not on the court when the justices last issued major gun rights rulings. Their actions so far have given gun rights advocates reasons to be hopeful, however.

In 2011, as an appeals court judge, Kavanaugh argued in a dissent that the District of Columbia’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and its gun registration requirement were unconstitutional. Last

year, he urged the court to take up another guns case soon, saying he was concerned that lower courts were not following Supreme Court precedent.

Gorsuch, for his part, would have decided the 2020 gun case his colleagues threw out. And Barrett, as an appeals court judge, wrote in a dissent that a conviction for a nonviolent felony shouldn’t automatically disqualify someone from owning a gun; she said her colleagues were treating the Second Amendment as a “second-class right.”

Depending on what the justices ultimately say, other states’ laws could also be affected. The Biden administration, which is urging the justices to uphold New York’s law, says California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island all have similar laws. Connecticut and Delaware also have “may issue” laws, though they are somewhat different.

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November is American Indian Heritage Month

US House passes Lumbee Recognition Act

Gov. Roy Cooper signed a proclamation naming November as American Indian Heritage Month to observe and celebrate the history and heritage of American Indians in the state and nationwide.

North Carolina is home to eight state-recognized tribes: the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Sappony and Waccamaw-Siouan.

The state also has four urban Indian associations State and Federally Recognized Tribes including the Cumberland County Association for Coharie Indian People, Guilford Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians* Native American Association, Metrolina Haliwa-Saponi Native American Lumbee Association and the Triangle Native American Meherrin Association.

Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation More than 130,000 American Indians reside Sappony in North Carolina, making our state the secondWaccamaw Siouan largest American Indian *Federally Recognized population east of the Mississippi River and the seventh largest American Indian population in the nation, according to the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs.

WEST Police: Woman’s body in vacant restaurant probed as homicide Buncombe County Police say a woman’s body was found in a vacant restaurant building and that they are investigating it as a homicide.

The Asheville Police Department said in a news release that they were checking a vacant business west of downtown when they discovered the body on Wednesday.

They identified the woman as 49-yearold Kimberly Michelle Randall. Detectives believe foul play was involved. The police department said that the killing marks the 10th homicide the department has investigated in 2021.

Watauga County Authorities have accused a janitor at Appalachian State University of peeping on students in a residence hall bathroom after a cell phone was found in a vent of a third-floor bathroom in Eggers Residence Hall. The school started investigating immediately, and by the next day had inspected the entire building. Additional measures were taken to ensure there was no other access to bathroom vents. Police arrested Jerry Alan McGlamery, 49, of Wilkes County and charged him with secret peeping. McGlannery is on leave, has not worked on campus since Oct. 15 and is not allowed to return to campus.

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Alcohol agents arrest nearly 300 in crackdown Caldwell County North Carolina’s Alcohol Law Enforcement arrested nearly 300 people during operations at alcoholic beverage-licensed businesses and other locations as part of a Halloween crackdown. State alcohol agents working with local law enforcement officials arrested 286 people on 700 charges around the state. The agents executed 13 search warrants, seized guns and drugs and made arrests on a mixture of felony, alcoholic beverage and drug charges. Twenty-five licensed businesses were found in violation of state laws and regulations. A Lenoir business lost its alcohol permit after agents determined employees were distributing drugs to patrons.

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Urban Indian Organizations Cumberland County Association for Indian People Guilford Native American Association Metrolina Native American Association Triangle Native American Society

MAP ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMISSION OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

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Janitor at university accused of peeping

Two facing child sex-crime charges

Multi-car crash kills pedestrian, damages school bus Durham County The Durham Police Department say a crash killed a pedestrian and damaged a school bus with children aboard. A woman driving a Mazda hit a Hyundai sedan, which caused the second car to hit a pedestrian standing on a sidewalk. The pedestrian was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital. The Mazda also hit a charter school bus with eight students and a driver aboard.

No injuries from the school bus occupants were initially reported. The driver of the Mazda was charged with failure to stop at a red light and misdemeanor death by motor vehicle.

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Alexander County A man is jailed on multiple child sex-crime charges, and a woman he lived with is facing similar charges. The Alexander County Sheriff’s Office said Colan Lewis Swink, 44, of Newton, is charged with 109 felony counts of sex acts by a substitute parent or custodian and 25 felony counts each of statutory rape and sex offenses. Tammy Reedy Brown, 49, of Taylorsville, is charged with one felony count of conspiracy of a sex act by a substitute parent or custodian. Swink is accused of committing the sex crimes while he and Brown were living together in Taylorsville.

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Police: Pedestrian killed by train

Caldwell County Eight people face charges after a couple was kidnapped and assaulted. Caldwell County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a local hospital, where a 24-year-old man was dropped off at the emergency room after being shot twice in the torso. The man and his girlfriend were at an acquaintance’s home when a group of people assaulted them, tied them up and blindfolded them, then fired shots at them. The woman was not hit and flagged down a ride to the hospital. Deputies arrested eight people.

Four were charged with attempted murder, and all eight were charged with first-degree kidnapping.

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Wake County Police say that a man was killed after he was struck by an Amtrak train. The Raleigh Police Department issued a news release saying that the man was struck around 10 p.m. on Saturday night in a commercial area northwest of N.C. State University campus near Interstate 440. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The news release didn’t provide further information on the man’s identity or the circumstances of the collision. Authorities say that Amtrak is leading the investigation into what happened and referred questions to the train operator.

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RALEIGH — The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2758 on Monday, the latest bill designed to give full federal recognition to the Lumbee Indian Tribe in southeastern North Carolina.

Eight of the state’s 13 representatives sponsored the bill, which passed by a 357-59 vote. Sponsoring the bill were Democrats G.K. Butterfield (NC-01), Deborah Ross (NC-02) and David Price (NC-04), as well as Republicans Greg Murphy (NC-03), David Rouzer (NC07), Richard Hudson (NC-08), Dan Bishop (NC-09) and Ted Budd (NC-13).

“The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has waited for far too long to receive the full federal recognition it has long deserved,” Butterfield said on passage of the bill. “It is fitting that tonight’s overwhelming vote in favor of ending this historic wrong occurred on the first day of Native American History Month.

Now is the time for this Congress to stand on the right side of history by fully recognizing the Lumbee, and tonight’s vote is a critical step in that process.”

“The Lumbee have fought for federal recognition for generations, and passage of this bill is long overdue,” said Rep. Hudson. “I am proud to have worked with my colleagues from both sides of the aisle to once again help secure its passage in the House.”

“When Congress recognized the Lumbee in 1956, they were deemed ineligible to receive the full benefits provided to federally recognized tribes.

The Lumbee Recognition Act corrects this decades-long injustice,” said Bishop.

“The more than 60,000 North Carolina members of the Lumbee

Carteret County The Coast Guard says it has rescued two boaters after their small boat capsized off the North Carolina coast. The rescue occurred Saturday night near Cedar Island. They had received information from county dispatchers that the boaters needed help after their boat capsized after taking waves over its side. The Coast Guard used a helicopter and boat along with a local fire department vessel and two civilian boaters to locate the people and assist with the rescue. The two boaters were taken to emergency medical personnel at the Cedar Island Ferry Terminal.

Lenoir County A woman attempting to cross a five-lane highway was killed when she was struck by a car whose driver didn’t stop, the N.C. State Highway Patrol said. Amy Jo Tyndall, 43, and a second person were trying to cross N.C. Highway 11 near Ashland Drive juts outside of Kinston Tuesday. The highway has four travel lanes, a center turn lane and was not lighted.

Tyndall was in the roadway when a vehicle traveling north hit her and kept going. She died at the scene. The second pedestrian, who was not identified, wasn’t hurt.

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Guilford County Greensboro police are investigating two separate weekend incidents in which three people were shot and killed. Police responding to a report of a gunshot at an intersection early Saturday found two people with gunshot wounds. Delorion Deshawn Smith, 19, of Whiteville, and Kwashawn Jaleek Tyson, 20, of Chadbourn, were taken to a hospital where they died. A third victim is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Nearly 24 hours later, officers responding to a call found Mark Anthony Dickerson, Jr., 40, of Greensboro, with a gunshot wound. Dickerson died Sunday afternoon. So far, there have been no arrests.

Nanny seen on video trying to force-feed child

Methodist University receives record $14 million gift Cumberland County Methodist University has received the largest gift in its history, and most of it will go toward student scholarships. The gift of $14 million was given through the estate of Robert J. Chaffin of Fayetteville, who died in late May at 93. Chaffin was connected with financial institutions in the Fayetteville area. More than $12 million of the gift will go directly to student scholarships. The other $1.5 million is designated for the school’s nursing program and its state-of-the-art facility, which will be named in honor of Chaffin.

Craven County A nanny was charged with misdemeanor child abuse after the parents she works for caught her on video trying to force-feed their toddler and restraining one of the child’s arms. Max and Laura Oglesby were at work on Tuesday evening and used a break to watch their son on their nanny cam. The nanny is shown putting and holding food into the child’s mouth as he screamed and tried to get out of the high chair. The nanny is seen restraining the child’s right arm. The parents also found bruises on their son.

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Tribe have waited decades for federal recognition. They deserve the same rights, privileges, and respect granted to other Native American tribes throughout our country,” Budd added.

The vote marks the latest attempt by elected officials in the state to secure federal recognition for the tribe.

With the backing of former President Donald Trump, the U.S. House approved the measure unanimously on Nov. 16, 2020, but the bill did not receive a vote in the U.S. Senate. The state’s Republican senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, have cosponsored bills giving the tribe federal recognition, but those have not been scheduled for Senate votes in the last congressional session or the current one.

When Burr and Tillis reintroduced the bill in April, both sounded optimistic about its prospects.

“The Lumbee Tribe has been fighting for more than a century to gain federal recognition and, as long as I’m in the U.S. Senate, I’m going to continue my work to make sure this happens,” said Tillis. “I am proud to co-introduce this legislation again and continue my work with Senator Burr to get this legislation across the finish line.”

The bill, if approved by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden, directs the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop, along with the tribe, a determination of needs to provide services the members are eligible for, including taking land into trust for the tribe’s benefit.

The federal recognition would apply to members of the tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke and Scotland counties.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

Gary from China

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy…. (t)he inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

PROGRESSIVES want America to buy into their cartoonish vision about rich people.

They want voters to believe that only white people can get rich in America; rich white people have always been rich, and rich white people had ancestors who made their fortunes by owning slaves.

They think America is a caste system like India where no one can ever move up or down the socio-economic scale.

They need to meet Gary from China.

I met Gary from China at an event to raise funds for a Christian study center at one of UNC’s public university locations. Gary was born in rural south China 52 years ago. His family was literally dirtpoor which is sort of weird since progressive socialists such as Bernie Sanders say everyone who lives under collectivist government control such as in China, Cuba and the former Soviet Union lead great lives, not poverty-stricken ones.

Winston Churchill summed up collectivist government the best: “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy…. (t)he inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Gary’s mother raised her two boys alone. She moved them at a young age to the safe and extremely prosperous haven of Hong Kong.

However, when she saw the encroachment of communist Chinese control coming to Hong Kong, she followed legal immigration laws and moved her boys to inner-city Los Angeles when Gary was a young teenager.

Gary understood hardly any English when he moved to Los Angeles. He learned enough to do well in high school, especially in math and science, which are their own universal languages in many ways. He earned a 1/3 scholarship to attend the University of California, most likely paid for by a rich white Berkeley alum. He was on a work program which paid for 1/3 of his education, and he took out a loan to cover the rest.

No free college education for Gary from China. He worked for it.

Gary earned a degree in chemical engineering and went to work for the nuclear power division of General Electric. He gravitated into

the Silicon Valley biotech world, where he has taken two companies public and has just raised $71M for his most recent venture.

His brother is CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Despite all odds, Gary and his brother have achieved the American Dream in less 25 years with no “white privilege” and zero inherited wealth. All they had was a mom who did a herculean parenting job and helped them succeed through a lot of hard work and determination.

This should never have happened according to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and AOC. They believe America is a racist nation where only white people can succeed.

Everyone needs their Big Government to make it in this life. How dare anyone do it on their own and prove it did not take a village to make them successful?

“People such as AOC, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden who want us to live like communists don’t know how bad communism is because they have never had to live under it! If they did, they would be the most outspoken defenders of freedom in America — if they lived to tell anyone about it!” Gary emphatically said at the end of our discussion.

“And now they want me to pay 50% of my income to them to pay for whatever they want to spend it on? What have they ever done for me?” he asked plaintively.

According to a survey by a financial market research firm cited

by CNBC, 68% of very wealthy people in America today made their wealth themselves in their adult lifetime, not from an inheritance.

They did this by providing useful products and services the rest of us want and need. That is the true portrait of American wealth creation in a free market, not the Looney Tunes cartoon version progressives want you to believe.

Gary came to America from abject poverty in China. He has hired hundreds of employees, paid them great wages and benefits and is now working on a pharmaceutical solution to help cancer patients not lose their hair and throw up while undergoing treatment.

Isn’t that enough of a “fair share” for anyone to contribute to America?

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

NC man wins important court victory in workplace ‘diversity’ lawsuit

Duvall’s lawyer said Duvall himself was a proponent of diversity in the workplace, but obviously not if it meant you had to fire someone or pass over someone more qualified in order to do it.

North Carolina-based Novant Health got a rude awakening last week when a former executive whom they let go won the lawsuit he filed against them, which alleged a violation of the Civil Rights Act via a wrongful termination based on a “diversity” push within the company.

According to local news reports, David Duvall, who held an executive position with Novant for nearly five years before he was let go in July 2018, claimed in his case against Novant that he was pushed out of the company after they accelerated their efforts at diversifying their workforce.

Duvall’s lawyers told the court that “white male leaders were dismissed from employment without warning and replaced by women and/or minorities,” including him, per WBTV News. On top of that, he said his termination happened just days before his five-year anniversary, which allowed Novant to avoid “a claim for 18 months’ severance promised him when he was hired.”

The verdict forms from the jury show that jurors checked “yes” and “no” respectively on the questions of whether Duvall proved his race/sex motivated Novant’s decision and if Novant proved they’d have made the same decision regardless of his race/sex.

The jury awarded him $10 million in damages, and Duvall’s lawyer said more money could be coming depending on what a judge decides in terms of whether or not any

back pay is owed.

Novant said in a statement that they were “extremely disappointed” in the jury’s decision and would “pursue all legal options, including appeal, over the next several weeks and months.” During the case, they claimed in their defense that Duvall’s termination allegedly had to do with poor work performance.

Something else interesting about his case is that Duvall’s lawyer said Duvall himself was a proponent of diversity in the workplace, but obviously not if it meant you had to fire someone or pass over someone more qualified in order to do it.

I know workplace/college-campus “diversity” pushes have been done and put in place over the years in an effort to elevate people in so-called “minority” groups — women (like me), black people, Hispanic people, etc. — who historically have faced discrimination in our society.

But while there’s no doubt that discrimination continues to take place, such situations should not be used as grounds to put in place what effectively is another form of discrimination — the legal kind that says it’s okay to promote the “minority” over the white guy in order to be able to say you have a certain percentage of minorities in leadership roles or who passed this important test in college or whatever.

Putting a person’s physical characteristics

ahead of their actual qualifications is not just wrong, but it’s also extremely insulting to the person who, if they knew that’s what the employer/educator was doing, they’d be very upset. Most people want to advance in life based on merit and performance, not because of their female parts and/or the color of their skin.

In addition to all that, diversity pushes in these settings lead to bad blood with some people being left to feel they were passed over for reasons that had nothing to do with whether or not they were qualified for the job.

To say Duvall’s win is a big victory for merit/performance-based employment is an understatement. Assuming it stands up to Novant’s legal challenges, the case has the potential to set precedent for similar rulings in related cases that are winding themselves through the court system.

Let’s hope so.

Media analyst Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.

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COLUMN | ERICK ERICKSON

The day Facebook went dark In 2016, the Russians spent $20,000 targeting Americans with lies about Hillary Clinton on Facebook.

Republicans and Democrats spent 100 times as much on advertisements to tell lies about each other.

FACEBOOK IS CHANGING its company name to “Meta.” Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement last week after several weeks of terrible press and political attacks against the company. Zuckerberg wants the company’s focus to be on what he calls the “metaverse,” an online virtual reality world that connects to actual reality.

On Oct. 4, 2021, Facebook went dark. So too did its other outlets, WhatsApp and Instagram.

A friend texted me, “I cannot remember the last time I pooped without reading memes on Instagram.” The outage came as Congress began hearings on Facebook, complete with a whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Congress wants to know what to do with Facebook.

The answer is simple: nothing.

Leaked data from inside Facebook actually shows Facebook does not really prey on our children, as some allege. Kids think of Facebook as the place for old people. Kids are vastly more interested in YouTube videos, TikTok and Snapchat. Instagram, my favorite social media outlet, used to be a repository for photographic proof our families are enjoying life. Now, just as often, it is where we go for funny memes.

Our kids are leaving it behind for the hilarity of TikTok and the disappearing world of Snapchat pictures.

As for the rest of us on Facebook, we organize ourselves into communities of interest. We are incapable of moving on from Buggy, our thirdgrade best friend who keeps sending friend requests despite not having had a meaningful interaction in two decades. Our aunt posts memes equating Jesus to former President Donald Trump. Our mom becomes friends with our business colleagues and embarrasses us.

Then we get into groups and share trashy gossip, memes and conspiracy theories. We think we have far more in common now with Trevor the meme generator who hates the politicians we hate than the Smith family who lives next door and waves each time we come down the street.

Therein lies the problem for major American media outlets. They dislike that we might spread false information on Facebook because we trust Trevor more than them. In 2016, the Russians spent $20,000 targeting Americans with lies

about Hillary Clinton on Facebook. Republicans and Democrats spent 100 times as much on advertisements to tell lies about each other. But the media metastasized that small Russian ad buy into a global conspiracy to steal the election for Trump.

Facebook was a media darling as former President Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008 and 2012 used Facebook to digitally target potential new voters. Sasha Issenberg, an American journalist, came to fame chronicling Obama’s digital approach. Those of us who had run political campaigns recognized it as basic political voter targeting. The media made it sound exotic and mystical. Facebook just made it easy to target voters online instead of offline.

That was all.

When Trump did the same thing in 2016, suddenly the mysticism became a dark magic fueled by Russian money. It was not true.

Reporters took the Russian grievance and combined it with their own. Many news outlets made a pivot to video content because of a Facebook algorithm change. Reporters lost their jobs. News outlets went under. News publishers expected Facebook to help bail out the news industry. Then Facebook changed their algorithm again. Video never got the traction Facebook had claimed it would, and the company went back to prioritizing relationships between people who knew each other.

Media outlets were furious. With the Russian ad buying and your crazy aunt sharing memes on Facebook, the media had their narrative against the company. They combined it with partisans who hate a website where conservatives are not so easily banned as they are on Twitter. Facebook has become their menace.

Given the clear coordination between Frances Haugen and the Democrats — she is a Democrat donor and relied on a team of Obama-era officials before Congress — plus the media campaign around her, I assumed and still do that some malicious progressive activist within Facebook turned off the lights. In so doing, however, the outage proved why Congress should do nothing to Facebook. Life went on. It turned out Facebook has never been that indispensable, and people move on to other things.

COLUMN | STEPHEN MOORE

The wheels are coming off the Biden economy That then led to the term “misery index.” The sum of the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. It exceeded 18% in Carter’s last year in office.

A GOOD FRIEND who owns a major auto dealership in the Dallas area recently told me he typically has about 500 to 1,000 cars and trucks on his lot. Now, he has 15. That’s how severe the supply chain problem has become.

He said people are buying cars over the sticker price. You usually haggle down the price for a new car. Now, you haggle up the price!

Welcome to Bidenflation.

But now, the Commerce Department has reported that the high-flying U.S. economy with a 6.5% growth rate for the first half of this year has crash-landed in the third quarter with an anemic rate of just 2% growth. Those lousy numbers predate the supply chain crisis that emerged in October.

At the start of the year, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank predicted 7% growth. So, that’s quite a downgrade we are seeing.

Car sales, for example, are way down because of microchip shortages. The carmakers also don’t have the metals they need to make the cars. Don’t try to buy a used car either. Those prices in many parts of the country are up by more than 20% — even for clunkers. Many grocery stores now have empty shelves of produce and vegetables.

It means we have slow growth while inflation has hit its highest level in more than a decade at 5.6%.

In addition, consumer confidence in the economy has tumbled.

All of this is a bit reminiscent of the economy of the 1970s. Does anyone remember the term stagflation? Those under the age of 40 probably don’t even know what that is, and they’ve certainly never experienced it upfront and personally.

Here’s the definition from Investopedia: “Stagflation is characterized by slow economic growth while at the same time accompanied by rising prices (i.e., inflation).”

Under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, years of persistently high inflation triggered a surge in unemployment. That then led to the term “misery index.” The sum of the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. It exceeded 18% in Carter’s last year in office.

And then it was, “So long, Jimmy.” With the economy sagging, Carter lost a landslide election to Ronald Reagan.

The lesson here is straightforward: The witches’ brew of slow growth and higher prices is the ultimate curse for politicians.

Inflation, which had been relatively tame for 40 years, has been a cascading problem in President Joe Biden’s first 10 months in office.

The consumer price index suddenly galloped from

less than 2% in the Trump years to 5% and 6% in the past four months. The cross-your-fingers hope by the Federal Reserve Board and the White House that the sticker-price rises at the grocery store, the restaurant and the gas station were only “transitory” have melted away like an ice cream cone on an August afternoon. Inflation is accelerating, and Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, predicts hyperinflation.

Let’s hope he’s wrong, but there is no plan in Washington or by the Fed to slow it down.

In fairness to Biden, some of the steep rises in prices were bound to happen due to the depressed prices in 2020. As consumer spending popped like a cork from a champagne bottle when lockdowns ended and the economy returned to normal, there was a natural demand response to reopening.

But nearly every Biden policy has made inflation and the economic slowdown worse. The absurd $1.9 trillion blue-state bailout bill passed in March marinated the economy with $100 bills as if dropping like confetti from helicopters. According to Casey Mulligan at the University of Chicago, the expansion of welfare programs such as food stamps and unemployment benefits (not tied to working) is paying people up to $75,000 for not working a single hour in many states.

Big surprise that the labor force participation rate had shrunk and companies had 11 million jobs they couldn’t fill. Last month, nearly 200,000 people dropped out of the job market.

The income redistributionists who seem to be driving the Democratic Party agenda will soon learn that their pixie dust economic doctrine called modern monetary theory, which posits that Congress can spend and borrow ad infinitum, is a giant hoax. When the political class begins to plunder company profits indiscriminately in the name of “fairness,” the profits and the businesses start to disappear.

So, if Congress and the White House are afraid of the forces of stagflation, as they should be, what should they do?

The first and most urgent step to contain stagnation is to defeat Biden’s $4 trillion spend, tax, borrow and print money scheme.

This week’s GDP report is a five-alarm siren warning that the Biden debt binge has to stop now.

Hopefully, temporary stagflation doesn’t turn into runaway stagflation.

Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at FreedomWorks. He is also a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and a Washington Examiner columnist.

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Health and education elites forced to confess error CONFESSIONS OF ERROR are rare enough in woke America that they should be strictly construed against the speaker.

Two such confessions — the legal term is “admissions against interest” — suddenly appeared last week.

The first confession came in an Oct. 20 letter from Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health Lawrence Tabak. He admitted that a “limited experiment” conducted under an NIH grant but not reported on time was “testing if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”

This appears to have been, as Rutgers biologist Richard Ebright argued, “gain-offunction research,” creating viruses more contagious to humans. If so, it directly contradicts assertions by NIH’s Anthony Fauci and Director Francis Collins that that NIH was not funding such research.

Strictly construed, the confession means that Fauci and Collins lied or attempted to mislead the American people.

It also means that something here is rotten, and not in the state of Denmark.

Peter Daszak, the head of the NIH grantee in question, EcoHealth Alliance, was also the man who last year organized a letter to the British medical journal The Lancet dismissing as ridiculous the theory that the COVID virus was disseminated from a leak in the lab in Wuhan.

That led to Facebook’s suppression for months of the lab leak hypothesis, which now seems the most likely explanation for the virus’s spread.

If you want an example of how scientific, governmental and tech elites conspired to suppress embarrassing information, embarrassing to themselves and to China, there you have it.

The second apology came on Oct. 22 from the National School Boards Association for its Sept. 29 letter to President Joe Biden charging that parents protesting school board decisions should be investigated as possible “domestic terrorists.”

It turns out that the NSBA had discussed the earlier letter with White House staffers before sending it. Three business days after its release, Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the FBI and U.S. attorneys to investigate violence at school board meetings.

The September letter was inspired by protests at school board meetings in Loudoun County, Virginia, some 40 miles west of Washington. One parent who charged that his daughter was assaulted was violently hauled out of the meeting, at which Superintendent Scott Ziegler assured the audience, “To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.” He added, “the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.”

Ziegler lied. As radio station WTOP reported, Ziegler had emailed school board members on May 28 that a female student, the protesting parent’s daughter, had been sexually assaulted in a girl’s bathroom by a male student wearing a dress.

This student was charged with a similar offense in the school to which he was transferred Oct. 6 and was found guilty by a juvenile court judge on Oct. 25. On Oct. 15, Ziegler apologized for his June 22 statement and his board’s failure for years to report the assaults as required by state law.

Ziegler and his board seemed guided by the notion that they have superior expertise and enlightenment than angry parents.

On June 22, he cited a 2016 Time article and a 2019 Journal of Pediatrics report as evidence that “the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.”

The notion of superior expertise was inherent in the Sept. 29 televised debate in which Democrat Terry McAuliffe, seeking a second nonconsecutive term as governor, said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” It was also inherent, as his Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin pointed out, in his 2014 veto of a bill that would have informed parents of sexually explicit material in school libraries.

McAuliffe, with his characteristic slapdash regard for truth, said Youngkin favored banning books and said a Youngkin ad was a “racist dog whistle.” Biden, in an event in Arlington, just 3.7 miles from the White House, chimed in to the same effect.

Youngkin’s position that “parents should be in charge of their kids’ education” seems more popular, however. Despite the state’s Democratic tilt, four polls have shown the race tied, and one survey showed parents of school-age children favored Youngkin 56% to 39%.

Confession is supposedly good for the soul. But the NIH and NSBA confessions are also good for illuminating how and why ordinary people are increasingly skeptical of the motives and probity of the elites who feel entitled to rule over them.

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

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NATION & WORLD Pentagon rattled by Chinese military push on multiple fronts The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — China’s growing military muscle and its drive to end American predominance in the Asia-Pacific is rattling the U.S. defense establishment. American officials see trouble quickly accumulating on multiple fronts — Beijing’s expanding nuclear arsenal, its advances in space, cyber and missile technologies, and threats to Taiwan.

“The pace at which China is moving is stunning,” says Gen. John Hyten, the No. 2-ranking U.S. military officer, who previously commanded U.S. nuclear forces and oversaw Air Force space operations.

At stake is a potential shift in the global balance of power that has favored the United States for decades. A realignment more favorable to China does not pose a direct threat to the United States but could complicate U.S. alliances in Asia. New signs of how the Pentagon intends to deal with the China challenge may emerge in coming weeks from Biden administration policy reviews on nuclear weapons, global troop basing and overall defense strategy.

For now, officials marvel at how Beijing is marshaling the resources, technology and political will to make rapid gains — so rapid that the Biden administration is attempting to reorient all aspects of U.S. foreign and defense policy.

The latest example of surprising speed was China’s test of a hypersonic weapon capable of partially orbiting Earth before reentering the atmosphere and gliding on a maneuverable path to its target. The weapon system’s design is meant to evade U.S. missile defenses, and although Beijing insisted it was testing a reusable space vehicle, not a missile, the test appeared to have startled U.S. officials.

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the test was “very close” to being a Sputnik moment, akin to the 1957 launching by the Soviet Union of the world’s first space satellite, which caught the world by surprise and fed fears the United States had fallen behind

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Air Force Gen. John Hyten, outgoing commander of US Strategic Command, speaks during a change of command ceremony at Offutt AFB in Nebraska, Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. technologically. What followed was a nuclear arms and space race that ultimately bankrupted the Soviet Union.

Milley and other U.S. officials have declined to discuss details of the Chinese test, saying they are secret. He called it “very concerning” for the United States but added that problems posed by China’s military modernization run far deeper.

“That’s just one weapon system,” he said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “The Chinese military capabilities are much greater than that. They’re expanding rapidly in space, in cyber and then in the traditional domains of land, sea and air.”

On the nuclear front, private satellite imagery in recent months has revealed large additions of launch silos that suggest the possibility that China plans to increase its fleet of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists, says China appears to have about 250 ICBM silos under construction,

which he says is more than 10 times the number in operation today. The U.S. military, by comparison, has 400 active ICBM silos and 50 in reserve.

Pentagon officials and defense hawks on Capitol Hill point to China’s modernization as a key justification for rebuilding the U.S. nuclear arsenal, a project expected to cost more than $1 billion over 30 years, including sustainment costs.

Fiona Cunningham, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in Chinese military strategy, says a key driver of Beijing’s nuclear push is its concerns about U.S. intentions.

“I don’t think China’s nuclear modernization is giving it a capability to pre-emptively strike the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and that was a really important generator of competition during the Cold War,” Cunningham said in an online forum sponsored by Georgetown University. “But what it does do is to limit the effectiveness of U.S. attempts to pre-emptively strike the Chinese arsenal.”

Some analysts fear Washing-

ton will worry its way into an arms race with Beijing, frustrated at being unable to draw the Chinese into security talks.

Congress also is increasingly focused on China and supports a spending boost for space and cyber operations and hypersonic technologies. There is a push, for example, to put money in the next defense budget to arm guided-missile submarines with hypersonic weapons, a plan initiated by the Trump administration.

For decades, the United States tracked China’s increased defense investment and worried that Beijing was aiming to become a global power. But for at least the last 20 years, Washington was focused more on countering al-Qaida and other terrorist threats in Iraq and Afghanistan. That began to change during the Trump administration, which in 2018 formally elevated China to the top of the list of defense priorities, along with Russia, replacing terrorism as the No. 1 threat.

For now, Russia remains a bigger strategic threat to the United States because its nuclear arsenal far outnumbers China’s. But Milley and others say Beijing is a bigger long-term worry because its economic strength far exceeds that of Russia, and it is rapidly pouring resources into military modernization.

At the current pace of China’s military investment and achievement, Beijing “will surpass Russia and the United States” in overall military power in coming years “if we don’t do something to change it,” said Hyten, who is retiring in November after two years as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “It will happen.”

Taiwan is another big worry.

Senior U.S. military officers have been warning this year that China is probably accelerating its timetable for capturing control of Taiwan, the island democracy widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially catastrophic U.S.-China war.

The United States has long pledged to help Taiwan defend itself, but it has deliberately left unclear how far it would go in response to a Chinese attack. President Joe Biden appeared to abandon that ambiguity when he said Oct. 21 that America would come to Taiwan’s defense if it were attacked by China.

“We have a commitment to do that,” Biden said. The White House later said he was not changing U.S. policy, which does not support Taiwanese independence, but is committed to providing defensive arms.

Supreme Court rejects appeal over secretive court’s work Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal over whether the public should have access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.

The justices turned away the appeal filed by civil liberties and media rights groups arguing that the public has a constitutional right to see significant opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They also argued that federal courts, not the executive branch, should decide when opinions that potentially affect the privacy of millions of Americans should be made public.

Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Sonia Sotomayor said they would have heard the case. Gorsuch wrote that the case “presents questions about the right of public access to ... judicial proceedings of grave national importance.”

“If these matters are not worthy of our time,” he wrote, “what is?”

The Biden administration had opposed high-court review, arguing that not even the Supreme Court has the authority to review the case under federal law. In addition, the administration said much of the material sought in this case already has been made public through requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was established in 1978 to receive applications from the FBI to eavesdrop on people it suspects of being agents of a foreign power, such as potential spies or terrorists.

After Sept. 11, 2001, Congress expanded the court’s role to consider broad surveillance programs.

In recent decisions, judges ruled that opinions sought by the groups couldn’t be made public, even in censored form, and that they didn’t even have the authority to consider releasing the opinions.

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White House renews bid to end ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy The Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration launched a second bid to end a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, while also reaffirming a commitment to reinstate it under court order.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the “Remain in Mexico” policy likely contributed to a drop in illegal border crossings in 2019 but with “substantial and unjustifiable human costs” to asylum-seekers who were exposed to violence while waiting in Mexico.

The announcement came more than two months after a federal judge ordered that the policy be reinstated “in good faith,” while leaving an opening for the administration to try again to justify ending it.

The administration said earlier this month that it expected to reinstate the policy, known officially as “Migrant Protection Protocols,” around mid-November, subject to Mexican government approval. Mexico wants cases to generally conclude within six months, timely and accurate access to case information and better access to legal counsel for asylum-seekers.

Some of the administration’s most prominent pro-immigration allies say the opinion was overdue and that Mayorkas lacked a sense of urgency. U.S. officials deny slow-walking and point to the research that went into producing the 39-page memo.

Many U.S.-based legal aid groups who have represented asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico

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A woman seeking asylum in the United States waits with others for news of policy changes, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. say they will no longer take such cases, raising questions about how the U.S. can satisfy Mexico’s insistence on better access to counsel.

Administration officials say they believe there are enough other lawyers who will represent asylum-seekers sent back to Mexico.

About 70,000 asylum-seekers have subject to the policy, which President Donald Trump introduced in January 2019 and his successor, Joe Biden, suspended on his first day in office. Mayorkas ended the policy in June after an internal review, saying it achieved

“mixed effectiveness.”

Illegal border crossings fell sharply after Mexico, facing Trump’s threat of higher tariffs, acquiesced in 2019 to the policy’s rapid expansion. Asylum-seekers were victims of major violence while waiting in Mexico and faced a slew of legal obstacles, such as access to attorneys and case information.

Mayorkas said Friday that his second review assumed the policy caused a significant drop in border crossings, calling it the strongest argument to keep it. Still,

he said benefits do not outweigh costs in terms of relations with Mexico, resources and risks associated with exposure to violence while waiting in Mexican border cities. “[There] are inherent problems with the program that no amount of resources can sufficiently fix,” he wrote. “Others cannot be addressed without detracting from key Administration priorities and more enduring solutions.”

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments beginning Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by the states of Texas and Missouri. The administration is expected to ask that the case be returned to U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who ordered in August that the policy be reinstated.

The administration is rebuilding tent courts in Texas border cities of Laredo and Brownsville to handle “Remain in Mexico” cases.

The policy’s return and other recent enforcement-minded measures has tested the administration’s historically strong relations with pro-immigration groups. To protest, several advocates abruptly ended a Saturday morning call this month with White House officials to discuss “Remain in Mexico.”

Advocates and pro-immigration advocates generally welcomed the administration’s renewed effort.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said he hoped it addresses legal objections and ends a policy that he said is “willfully designed to punish and deter refugees from legally seeking safety in the United States.”

Tensions rise in Indian state after attacks against Muslims Gauhati, India Tensions were high in parts of India’s northeastern Tripura state after a string of attacks against minority Muslims, seen as retaliation for the violence against Hindus in neighboring Bangladesh earlier this month.

State authorities deployed police and paramilitary troops and banned the assembly of more than five people in areas where attacks were reported. Police said at least one mosque, several shops and homes belonging to Muslims in the northern part of the state had been vandalized. No deaths have been reported.

Muslim leaders said that Hindu mobs attacked mosques and torched their properties following a protest rally Tuesday by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or VHP, a hard-line Hindu nationalist group with ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. It is not known if the attackers were members of the VHP. In Bangladesh, at least six Hindus were killed and hundreds of houses and businesses torched on Oct. 13 after an image posted on social media was perceived as insulting to the country’s Muslim majority.

The violence also led to demonstrations across India.

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Duke center Mark Williams gets direction from coach Mike Krzyzewski during Saturday’s exhibition game against Winston-Salem State in Durham.

One more year: Duke looks to send Coach K off a winner COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Krzyzewski doesn’t want to focus on farewell

Wake Forest enters top 10 for first time

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

Indianapolis The Demon Deacons have their best ranking in program history, moving to 10th in Sunday’s The Associated Press college football poll to top the No. 11 they reached in 1947.

Wake Forest had been the only team in a Power Five conference that had never been ranked in the top 10. Wake Forest improved to 8-0 for the first time in program history after beating Duke 45-7 Saturday in Winston-Salem. Georgia, Cincinnati, Alabama and Oklahoma stayed first through fourth, while Michigan State jumped three spots to No. 5 after beating rival Michigan in a matchup of unbeatens. NC State (104 votes, 27th) and Appalachian State (23 votes, 33rd) both received votes.

DURHAM — Change is tough, especially when someone has done the same thing for more than four decades.

For Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, starting the final season of a tenure in Durham that dates back to 1980, it seems to catch him at random times.

After the Blue Devils blew out Winston-Salem State in Saturday’s exhibition game, Coach K discussed the Blue Devils’ long tradition of playing a warm-up game against an HBCU. “It’s very important because it’s a sign of respect, and these teams are very good,” Krzyzewski said. “The schools are outstanding HBCU schools. We have ultimate

NHL

Hurricanes goalie Andersen named Third Star of month Raleigh Frederik Andersen sure has made a good first impression. The Hurricanes’ new goalie was named the NHL’s Third Star for the month of October on Tuesday after going 7-0‑0 to help Carolina to a perfect 8-0-0 month and the best record in the league.

Andersen has a .956 save percentage and 1.29 goalsagainst average in his seven starts, all regulation wins, since signing a two-year contract this summer that will pay him a total of $9 million. Andersen was a seventh‑round pick of the Hurricanes in 2010 but never signed with the team, reentering the draft in 2012 and being selected in the third round by Anaheim.

The Herning, Denmark, native played three seasons with Ducks before being traded in June 2016 to Toronto, where he played the past five seasons.

respect for them. So, we’ll continue to do that.”

Coach K then caught himself.

“Well,” he added. “Jon [Scheyer] will determine what we do. I think that we will continue to do that.”

There are still five months to go before Jon Scheyer officially takes over the Duke program, but it’s clear that the Blue Devils are in transition, as Krzyzewski has one last go-round before stepping down.

Krzyzewski, who, in his 40plus years in Durham, has never met a media question he accepted the premise of, refuses to focus on the fact this is his final season.

“That’s not going through my mind,” he said. “My mind is on this season, and when it’s over, I’ll know that it’s my last. These guys deserve for me to be in their season, so that’s where I’m at.”

When asked about Scheyer’s role, Krzyzewski said, “Well, he’s

“They can’t play for me.

They have to play for us.”

Mike Krzyzewski, Duke coach not a coach-in-waiting, he’s my associate head coach. He’s been with me for eight years, and he’s basically going to do the same fantastic job that he’s always done and then take over and continue to do that job.”

Duke appears to have a strong team that will be on the short list of favorites to cut down the nets in March, potentially giving Krzyzewski a storybook ending to his career. Not that he’ll bite when asked about that narrative.

“They can’t play for me,” he said about the idea of giving him one last championship before he rides off into the sunset. “They’ve got to

play for us. We’re not going to be good unless we own it. Like you can’t do it for somebody. You’ve got to do it for you, for your group.

That’s the mentality that we’ve had and we’ll continue to have.”

While Coach K doesn’t want to discuss it, early returns on Duke this season seem to indicate that the Blue Devils could have a special season. Duke broke tradition and played a “secret scrimmage” in Washington, D.C., against No. 4 Villanova. While there are no official results, by all reports, the Blue Devils had the advantage over the Wildcats, led by freshman big man Paolo Banchero, who logged a double-double.

Banchero leads a top-rated freshman class that also features scorer Trevor Keels, wing AJ Griffin, who returned from a preseason injury to play in Duke’s exhibition win over Winston-Salem State, and guard Jaylen Blakes.

Unlike other freshman phenoms in Duke Blue, Banchero won’t be asked to do it all for the Blue Devils. He’s surrounded by a veteran group — something Duke has lacked on many occasions in the one-and-done era. Junior Wendell Moore is a do-everything See DUKE, page B4

Moving out: New coach Hubert Davis taking Tar Heels outside UNC is abandoning its focus on the post and embracing the three

By Shawn Krest North State Journal CHAPEL HILL — Armando Bacot made eight out of his 10 shot attempts in UNC’s win at Pitt on Jan. 26. One of his two misses in that game could be an indication of what this year will hold, however.

With 9:15 left in the first half and Carolina clinging to a fivepoint lead, Bacot put up a 3-point shot as the shot clock ran down.

The ball was off the mark and the rebound knocked out of bounds by the Panthers.

In two years at North Carolina, Bacot has attempted 461 shots.

That was the only one that came from 3-point range. If new coach Hubert Davis has his way, the junior big man will be firing away from long range far more often this year, and more than a few should go in the basket.

Like most teams under coach Roy Williams, the 2020-21 Tar Heels were built from the inside out. The team featured a rotation of four big men — in addition to Bacot, there was senior Garrison Brooks and freshmen Day’Ron

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New coach Hubert Davis plans to make the 3-point shot a focus of the Tar Heels’ offense in his first year leading UNC. Sharpe and Walker Kessler.

Bacot is the only one left as the 2021-22 season dawns. That includes the head coach.

“Last year we had four unbe-

lievable bigs,” Davis said, “but for the most part, we had four traditional bigs that posted up down low on the block.”

Davis, known for his outside

shooting during his UNC career and decade in the NBA, has rebuilt the team in his image, and that means a new focus on the perimeter — even for a player expected to be one of the top big men in the ACC. “One of the things from an offensive standpoint I’ve always loved is versatile bigs,” Davis said. “So with Armando coming back and being able to add (Virginia transfer) Justin McCoy and (Oklahoma transfer) Brady Manek and (Marquette transfer) Dawson Garcia, bigs that can handle the basketball, they can make plays on the perimeter, they can shoot from three. From an offensive standpoint, it’s going to give us the spacing and balance and movement that we wanted on the offensive end.”

That means a new role for Bacot.

“One of the things that people don’t understand, throughout the summer, every week he made a thousand threes,” Davis said of Bacot’s development. “We’ve had great discussion about him and his dreams and goals of playing at the next level in the NBA. And one of the things that I told him is in order for that to happen, you’re going to have to develop a perimeter game, being able to handle See UNC, page B4

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TRENDING

Will Shipley: The Clemson freshman running back hit the century mark for the first time, rushing for 128 yards on 25 carries and two touchdowns, including a go-ahead 21-yard score in the fourth quarter that helped the Tigers past Florida State 30-20 on Saturday. Shipley, a five-star signee from Raleigh, bounced back from a tough performance — one that included a drop on a potential touchdown pass — the week before in a loss to Pitt.

Calvin Ridley: The Atlanta Falcons receiver is taking a leave from the team, announcing on Twitter that he needed to “step away from football at this time and focus on my wellbeing.” Ridley was a last-minute scratch ahead of Sunday’s 19-13 loss to the Panthers in Atlanta, the second time this season he has missed a game for what the team described as a personal matter. The former Alabama star has 31 receptions for 281 yards and two touchdowns this season. Ridley had a breakout season last year, catching 90 passes for 1,374 yards and nine touchdowns.

Kevin Durant: The Brooklyn forward was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Saturday for throwing the ball into the stands, a play that a referee acknowledged should have led to the Nets star’s ejection. Durant was fouled in the third quarter of Brooklyn’s win over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.

He then grabbed the ball and threw it hard well past the basket into the crowd. Durant was called for a technical foul, but referee Sean Wright said after the game that he should have been thrown out.

Beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

NASCAR

The four contenders for the NASCAR Cup Series title are set. Defending champion Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. joined Kyle Larson as the four drivers who will race for the championship next Sunday at Phoenix. Larson had already qualified thanks to his wins during the Round of 8, while Truex (fourth), Elliott (16th) and Hamlin (24th) secured their spots with their finishes at Martinsville on Sunday, a race won by Alex Bowman.

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“Holy crap, I’m in the NHL.” Hurricanes rookie forward Seth Jarvis on his thoughts during his first shift in his NHL debut, a 2-1 win Sunday over the Coyotes in which he assisted on the winning goal.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

NFL

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“This is probably what we should’ve done last week.”

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PRIME NUMBER

TCU and longtime football coach Gary Patterson mutually agreed to immediately part ways Sunday before the completion of his 21st season. The announcement came a day after the Horned Frogs (3-5, 1-4 Big 12) lost 31‑12 at Kansas State, Patterson’s alma mater, for their fifth loss in six games.

Jerry Kill was named interim coach.

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MLB

Panthers coach Matt Rhule after Carolina rushed for 203 yards in Sunday’s 19-13 win at Atlanta.

Start to the season for the Carolina Hurricanes, their best in franchise history.

The Hurricanes have won all eight games in regulation and are the only undefeated team in the NHL. Carolina has outscored its opponents 33-12 so far this season and trailed after just two of the 24 periods it has played.

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Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold suffered a concussion in Carolina’s 19‑13 win at Atlanta. Darnold gained 8 yards on a bootleg deep in Atlanta territory but took a brutal shot from Falcons linebacker Foye Oluokun that nearly knocked his helmet off. P.J. Walker, who replaced an ineffective Darnold last week, finished the game.

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Jerry Remy, a Boston Red Sox second baseman who went on to become a local icon as a television broadcaster, died of cancer Saturday night. He was 68.

A former smoker, Remy — who spent 10 years in the majors, including his last seven in Boston — had a years-long battle with lung cancer, including surgery for the disease in November 2008.

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2021-22 COLLEGE BASKETBALL PREVIEW

Around the state’s hoops programs

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal After a 2021-22 season disrupted by COVID-19, college basketball in North Carolina is ready to return to normal when the new campaign tips off next week.

Or at least something resembling normal.

Fans will be back in the stands, coaches will be back in suits if they choose and schedules will begin on time with, hopefully, few if any pauses or cancellations.

And yet, there will be plenty of change among the state’s 18 teams playing in nine different conferences.

There are three new coaches, and NC A&T leaves the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league it helped found more than 50 yards ago, for a new start in the Big South.

While North Carolina’s four ACC schools will get most of the attention, 14 other programs from the mountains to the coast will begin play with exactly the same goal in mind — playing their way into the NCAA Tournament come March.

CONFERENCE USA CHARLOTTE 49ERS 2020-21 record: 9-16 (5-11, 5th C-USA) Coach: Ron Sanchez; 4th year, 33-50 record Top returning scorers: Jahmir Young 18.0; Brice Williams 9.7 247Sports class ranking: N/A The 49ers have retooled by adding five Division I transfers after ending a disappointing 2020-21 season with nine consecutive losses. The experienced newcomers include 6-foot-7 forward Robert Braswell, who contributed to Syracuse’s unexpected Sweet 16 run, Ohio State wing Musa Jallow and Clemson guard Clyde Trapp, both graduate students. Returning sophomore guard Jahmir Young has established himself as one of the top players in C-USA and is a preseason all-league pick. But for the 49ers to make a significant turnaround, they’ll have to improve on an adjusted defensive efficiency that ranked just 206th nationally last season.

Number to know: 52.9% — The 2-point shooting percentage allowed by the 49ers last season.

SOUTHERN

BIG SOUTH

UNC GREENSBORO SPARTANS

CAMPBELL FIGHTING CAMELS

22020-21 record: 21-9 (13-5, 1st SoCon) Coach: Mike Jones; 1st year Top returning scorers: Keyshaun Langley 10.0; Kaleb Hunter 8.6 247Sports class ranking: N/A The most successful decade in program history ended last spring when coach Wes Miller left for Cincinnati, taking four players with him. In his place, the Spartans turned to Mike Jones, a veteran coach coming off an equally successful 10-year run at Radford, where he led his teams to five 20-win seasons and three postseason berths. Jones will have to overcome an early obstacle with his top returning player, Keyshaun Langley, suspended until the end of the fall semester in midDecember. Among those taking up the slack is Robert Morris transfer Dante Treacy, last year’s Northeast Conference Tournament MVP. Number to remember: 81 — The number of Southern Conference wins UNCG has earned in 109 games since 2015-16, a winning percentage of .740.

WESTERN CAROLINA CATAMOUNTS

GARDNER-WEBB RUNNIN’ BULLDOGS

2020-21 record: 11-16 (4-13, 9th SoCon) Coach: Justin Gray; 1st year Top returning scorers: Travion McCray 9.2; Tyler Harris 6.3 247Sports class ranking: N/A When WCU lost Mark Prosser to Winthrop, the Catamounts returned the favor by hiring Winthrop assistant Justin Gray to replace him. The former Wake Forest shooting guard, who is getting his first crack at running his own program, wasted little time constructing a roster well-suited to his high-intensity, fast-paced, positionless style of play. Eight scholarship players, including standout junior college guard Vonterius Woolbright, are between 6-foot-3 and 6-foot-7 and can play multiple roles. Even the biggest man on the roster, 6-foot-10 Kansas State transfer Joe Petrakis, is a stretch four who can run the floor and shoot from the perimeter.

Number to know: 37 — The age of new Catamounts coach Justin Gray.

2020-21 record: 11-15 (10-10, T-5th Big South) Coach: Tim Craft; 9th year, 138-121 record Top returning scorers: Lance Terry 11.4; D’maurian Williams 10.8 247Sports class ranking: N/A Like many teams around the country, the Bulldogs have benefitted from the NCAA granting players an extra year of eligibility because of COVID-19. They have nine returning lettermen, including three starters. One of those not back is leading scorer Jaheam Cornwell, who transferred to Penn State. Sophomore Jordan Sears, who coach Tim Craft says is “wired to score,” fills the void at point guard. Gardner-Webb will continue to be dangerous from long range, where it led the Big South with 8.9 3-pointers per game last year. At 41.7%, it also had the best field goal defense in the league.

Number to know: .500 — The Bulldogs’ winning percentage in Big South play in each of the past nine seasons.

HIGH POINT PANTHERS

AMERICAN ATHLETIC

COLONIAL ATHLETIC

EAST CAROLINA PIRATES

ELON PHOENIX

2020-21 record: 9-16 (8-11, 11th AAC) Coach: Joe Dooley; 8th year, 87-104 record Top returning scorers: J.J. Miles 9.8; Brandon Suggs 9.6 247Sports class ranking: 107 The Pirates started 7-1 and looked ready to make a significant jump forward in the third season of coach Joe Dooley’s second tenure in Greenville. But then COVID hit, the team couldn’t practice for several weeks and things went south from there. ECU lost 10 of its final 11 games, with the only win coming against eventual Final Four participant Houston. Matters got worse after the season when leading scorer and rebounder Jayden Gardner transferred to Virginia. The other four starters return, however, led by point guard Tremont Robinson-White, while Dooley brought in three transfers to add depth and talent.

Number to know: 18.3 — points per game contributed

by Jayden Gardner in 2020-21.

ATLANTIC 10 DAVIDSON WILDCATS 2020-21 record: 13-9 (7-4, 3rd A10) Coach: Bob McKillop; 33rd year, 607-373 record Top returning scorers: Hyunjung Lee 13.5; Luka Brajkovic 10.9 247Sports class ranking: N/A The Wildcats lost their top scorer in Kellan Grady, who scored 2002 points in 113 games before transferring to Kentucky, but return five of their top seven scorers in a bid to get back to the top of the A-10. Sophomore Hyungung Lee shot better than 50% overall, 40% on 3-pointers and 90% on free throws last season, something not even Stephen Curry accomplished. Luka Brajkovic, a 6-foot-10 junior, heads a veteran frontcourt that should be the strength of the team, while Michigan State transfer Foster Loyer, a former top-100 prospect, arrives to fill the void left by Grady.

Number to know: 9 — Trips to the NCAA Tournament under McKillop.

2020-21 record: 17-10 (11-6, 3rd Big South) Coach: Kevin McGeehan; 9th year, 123-133 record Top returning scorers: Cedric Henderson Jr. 15.0; Jordan Whitfield 14.6 247Sports class ranking: N/A Armed with a roster that returns 99% of its scoring and minutes from a team that advanced to the conference tournament final, Campbell has been picked as the Big South’s preseason favorite. Wing Cedric Henderson, whose father played five seasons in the NBA, leads a group of five seniors that has averaged 18 wins a year in Buies Creek. The Camels can fill it up from long range, leading the Big South in 3-point percentage at 30.8% last season. But they ranked just 10th in rebounding, an area that must improve for them to fulfill their preseason prediction.

Number to know: .496 — Campbell’s overall shooting percentage in 2020-21, best in the Big South.

2020-21 record: 10-9 (4-7, 8th CAA) Coach: Mark Schrage; 3rd year, 23-30 record Top returning scorers: Hunter McIntosh 15.7; Darius Burford 8.9 247Sports class ranking: 137 The Phoenix have an overall losing record in two seasons under coach Mark Schrage but are 5-2 in the CAA Tournament during that span — including last year’s run from the play-in game to the final. This year’s team has the potential to build on that momentum, which also included four straight wins to end the regular season thanks to the return of 2020 CAA Rookie of the Year Hunter McIntosh. Elon will also get a boost from a healthy Jerald Gillens-Butler, a 6-foot-6 Butler transfer who averaged 15.6 points in three games last season before rupturing his Achilles tendon.

Number to know: 7 — Consecutive wins between Feb. 14 and March 9, Elon’s longest winning streak since joining the CAA in 2014.

2020-21 record: 9-15 (6-11, 8th Big South) Coach: Tubby Smith; 4th year, 34-53 record Top returning scorers: JohnMichael Wright 20.7; Jaden House 5.2 247Sports class ranking: N/A The Panthers didn’t accomplish much as a team in 2020-21, winning only nine games for the second straight season, But they did boast one of the top players in the Big South in John-Michael Wright. The sophomore guard led the league in scoring and was in the top 12 of 11 statistical categories. Despite the loss of second-leading scorer Ahmil Flowers to an offseason injury, coach Tubby Smith is hoping to give his star some help with the addition of St. John’s transfer David Caraher and freshman sharpshooter Brock Williams, who averaged 28 points as a senior at Burlington Christian.

Number to know: 12/31 — The date on which Tubby Smith will be honored at Rupp Arena before High Point’s game against Kentucky, the team he led to the 1998 national championship.

NORTH CAROLINA A&T AGGIES UNC WILMINGTON SEAHAWKS 2020-21 record: 7-10 (1-6, 10th CAA) Coach: Takayo Siddle; 2nd year, 7-10 record Top returning scorers: Jaylen Sims 17.8; Mike Okauru 14.2 247Sports class ranking: N/A Former Kevin Keatts assistant Takayo Siddle saw his first season back with the Seahawks derailed by injuries and COVID stoppages. The team played only once in February because of the pandemic. When UNCW did get onto the court, it spent most of the season without 2019-20 CAA All-Rookie team guard Shykeim Phillips because of a leg injury. Leading scorer Jaylen Sims also missed time late because of a knee problem. On the plus side, reliable wing Mike Okauro returns for his senior year, while Jaylen Fornes, who left UNCW for Nichols two years ago, has transferred back for his final season.

Number to know: 13 — The number of games UNCW had either postponed or canceled last season because of COVID-19.

2020-21 record: 11-10 (7-1, 1st MEAC Southern) Coach: Will Jones; 3rd year, 25-15 record Top returning scorers: Kameron Langley 10.6; Blake Harris 8.6 247Sports class ranking: 135 No one was more adversely affected by COVID-19 last season than the Aggies, who were poised to win the MEAC title and its automatic NCAA berth in their final season as a conference member. But before coach Will Jones’ top-seeded team could play Norfolk State in the league tournament semifinals, it was forced to withdraw because of a positive COVID test. This year’s team is picked to finish second in the Big South North thanks to the return of several key players, along with four Division I transfers and 6-foot-8 freshman Duncan Powell, the highest-rated recruit in program history.

Number to know: 757 — The number of career assists by graduate guard Kameron Langley, the most ever in school and MEAC history.

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2020-21 record: 17-12 (7-8, 4th Sun Belt East) Coach: Dustin Kearns; 3rd year, 35-27 record Top returning scorers: Justin Forrest 13.2; Adrian Delph 13.0 247Sports class ranking: N/A The Mountaineers got hot at just the right time by winning four games in four days at the Sun Belt Tournament to earn the conference title and their third NCAA Tournament bid. Despite losing a one-point heartbreaker to Norfolk State in the First Four, they enter 2021-22 with high hopes thanks to the return of their top 10 players. In addition to super senior guard Justin Forrest and wing Adrian Delph, graduate point guard Michael Almonacy (12.7) and undersized forward Donovan Gregory (10.7) also averaged in double-figure scoring. Almonacy, the league tournament MVP, led the team with 85 assists.

Number to know: 21 — Number of years between NCAA Tournament appearances for App State.

2020-21 record: 5-9 (3-5, 3rd MEAC Northern) Coach: LeVelle Moton; 12th year, 205-135 record Top returning scorers: Nicholas Fennell 7.8; Alex Caldwell 3.7 247Sports class ranking: N/A The Eagles played only twice each in November and December, and once last January — a disjointed schedule that contributed greatly to only their second losing season since 2011. With just three scholarship players from that team, coach LeVelle Moton will be working with an almost entirely new roster in hopes of returning NCCU to its usual winning ways. Among the newcomers, which include transfers from Georgia Southern, New Hampshire, Providence and College of Charleston, is guard Randy Miller, who returns to the Eagles — with whom he averaged 13.5 points from 2018‑19 before transferring to Indiana State last season.

Number to know: 13 — The number of times NCCU was able to practice in between COVID pauses last season.

2020-21 record: 10-10 (9-5, 4th Big South) Coach: Mike Morrell; 4th year, 29-53 record Top returning scorers: Tajion Jones 15.9; LJ Thorpe 11.6 247Sports class ranking: N/A Now in his fourth season, coach Mike Morrell has his Bulldogs poised to make a run at their first conference championship since 2016. All five starters return from last year’s team, which negotiated its way through the COVID-disrupted 2020-21 season with a winning conference record while ranking second only to Winthrop in scoring at 73.4 points per game. It’s a group led by high-scoring wing Taijon Jones, a preseason AllBig South selection. But thanks to the addition of more depth and size, including 6-foot-11 Tennessee transfer Drew Pember, the Bulldogs are better suited than ever to employ their preferred up-tempo, high-pressure style.

Numbers to know: 21 — The number of consecutive wins by Winthrop before the Bulldogs upset the eventual Big South champs last Jan. 29.

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Next man up: The ACC is hoping its younger coaches can keep the conference on top With Roy Williams retired, Mike Krzyzewski in his final year, and three other conference coaches in their 70s, the faces of the league are changing

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal The ACC built its reputation as the nation’s preeminent college basketball conference on the foundation of talented and charismatic coaches such as NC State’s Everett Case, North Carolina’s Frank McGuire, Duke’s Vic Bubas and Bones McKinney of Wake Forest.

The league only got better as those pioneers passed the torch to the likes of Dean Smith, Lefty Driesell and eventually an energetic young guy with an impossible to pronounce, let alone spell, name.

Mike Krzyzewski would go on to spend the next four decades at Duke, winning more games than any college coach in history while claiming five national championships. Along with fellow Hall of Famer Roy Williams at UNC, he also helped raise the already intense rivalry between the Tar Heels and his Blue Devils to unprecedented new heights.

But now as Krzyzewski prepares for his final season before following Williams off into retirement, and with fellow septuagenarians

Jim Boeheim, Leonard Hamilton and Jim Larrañaga also nearing the end of their careers, the question must be asked: Is there anyone among the next generation of coaches capable of stepping forward to replace those departing legends as the ACC looks to maintain its lofty status well into the foreseeable future?

“It’s just a matter of time that there’s going to be people retiring, that’s just normal,” said Georgia Tech’s Josh Pastner, who staked his claim as a leader of the new breed by guiding his Yellow Jackets to the ACC Tournament championship last March.

“I think the ACC is going to be strong, and whether Coach K or Coach Williams is there, or now (their replacements) Coach (Hubert) Davis or Coach (Jon) Scheyer, we’re still going to do our part.

The key now is how do you sustain?

You’ve got to get it done.”

Because both Davis and Scheyer are longtime assistants handpicked and groomed by their mentors to take over their respective programs, expectations are high that their transitions will be smooth and successful despite their lack of head coaching experience.

Each is off to an impressive start on the recruiting trail.

But as Matt Doherty and Pete Gaudet have proven, simply being the coach of either the Tar Heels or Blue Devils is no guarantee of

greatness. And even if things do work out, it might take a while for either or both Davis and Scheyer to adjust to their new responsibilities.

That would potentially provide an opening for others around the league to make a name for themselves.

Among those that figure to benefit most is NC State’s Kevin Keatts, a charismatic young coach who can finally step out of the considerable shadow Krzyzewski and Williams have cast over the Triangle and the ACC. Even if he’s not consciously trying to do it.

“As far as the opportunity, we look for opportunity from the day that I got here,” Keatts said. “We’re NC State. We don’t try to be Duke.

We don’t try to be Carolina. They have their own programs, and we fight for us.

“I like the brand that we’re building. We’re getting there. We’re putting some pieces on the floor that can be effective every night. I like the direction our program is going in.”

Joining Keatts and Pastner as the more established heirs to the ACC coaching legacy are Virginia’s Tony Bennett, Louisville’s Chris Mack, Virginia Tech’s Mike Young, Pittsburgh’s Jeff Capel and Clemson’s Brad Brownell.

But which one is the most likely to emerge as the new face of the league?

“Probably right now, the natu-

ral one is Coach Bennett,” Pastner said. “He has won a national championship and as long as nothing goes sideways, he’s probably going to go into the Hall of Fame and he might win another championship along the way.”

While Bennett might be the obvious choice to everyone, including his peers, he still has a hard time thinking of himself in those terms.

“I’m 52,” the former Charlotte Hornets shooting guard said, pointing to the increasing invasion of gray across his perfectly manicured head of hair. “I used to say that I’m not even a middle-aged coach, but I’m going into my 13th year as the head coach at Virginia.

There are still guys that are older than me, but I guess I am more experienced.”

Experience, however, can be gained in many different ways — as UNC’s Davis is quick to point out.

“Yes, I’ve not been a head coach at the University of North Carolina before,” he said. “But in terms of having these types of expectations, being on TV, being in the limelight, I’ve been there. We’re OK.” Given its history, the ACC will be just fine too.

“It’s no different than when Coach K and those guys that were in the league early on and built it into what it is,” Georgia Tech’s Pastner said. “There might be some younger guys now, but we’ll all have to figure it out and make the league even better.”

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Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, left, is one of four 70-something ACC coaches this season, while NC State coach Kevin Keatts, right, aims to take a leading role as the league’s older coaches slowly head into retirement.

Fighting yourself fit: My 6-week fitness challenge What happens when a middle-aged writer joins a boxing gym

By Shawn Krest North State Journal RALEIGH — I threw a punch and made solid contact with my opponent’s midsection. I felt the jolt up my arm to my shoulder. My technique was clean. It was a hard punch.

Dread descended on me almost immediately.

Oh no. I thought. I just killed Jennifer.

Jennifer was the amateur MMA fighter who taught our class. She was less than half my weight. Actually, if she lost a little — not too much — and I gained a little, she might be one-third of my weight, or close to it.

Jennifer stepped away from me and threw up her hands, signaling for my classmates to stop what they were doing.

“Everyone,” she announced, and I was relieved to hear that she could still speak.

“I want you to watch Shawn,” she continued. “This is how I want you to hit me. Don’t hold back.

Remember, real people hit me all the time.”

She turned and faced me again as she concluded her remarks.

DUKE from page B1 glue player. Senior Joey Baker is a deadly outside shooter who can also score at the rim. Sophomore big man Mark Williams could end up being Duke’s top option after Banchero. Duke also added a pair of grad transfers, including for-

“You can’t hurt me.”

I was in one of my first RockBox classes. The franchise had opened a gym around the corner from my house, and it appeared to be Peloton for fighting. Their gym didn’t have a ring or allow sparring. Heck, they didn’t allow you to just walk in and work out on your timeline. They offered 50-minute classes with a wireless mic-wearing trainer guiding you through workouts while music played and funky colored lights flashed overhead.

I’d covered combat sports for years and worked out in actual boxing gyms — dirty, gritty places located in the back of transmission repair shops. They were the types of places where the “Law & Order” detectives have to go to interview the wise, grizzled trainer who always seems to be sweeping up the gym late at night.

RockBox had a Roomba. This was going to be boxing aerobics for office workers — fancy Tae Bo. But it was close to my house and would get me in shape, so I signed up.

I didn’t make it through the first class.

Jennifer had us run. She made us do up-downs, high knees, shadow boxing.

Years ago, I was captain of my high school wrestling team and can vividly remember wondering

mer Marquette shot-blocker Theo John, giving Duke size and depth inside that has rarely been seen under Krzyzewski.

The smaller Blue Devils are also versatile and able to play the positionless basketball Coach K prefers.

“I think that one of the

UNC from page B1 the basketball, make plays on the perimeter, and Armando’s ability now to be able to handle the basketball, make plays on the perimeter and shoot the ball from the outside is going to work perfectly alongside those three transfers.”

Bacot is on board with the new plan for the offense.

“It was a thousand per week, but it ended up being a lot more than that,” he said. “I had to work on the speed of my shot and also getting the ball more in the middle. I was shooting more to the side.

And my follow-through.”

Bacot emphasized that he had to make 1,000 a week, not merely put them up. So, the natural follow-up question is: How many did he have to take to accomplish that?

“Depends on the week,” he laughed. “I try to be somewhere between the 65-70% range. A lot of shots though.

My arms got tired.”

Guard Caleb Love pointed out that the new emphasis wasn’t merely aimed at Bacot.

“Everybody had to make 1,000 threes a week,” he said.

“Everybody on the team.”

The focus on the 3-pointer isn’t limited to offense either.

“Just over the years, teams have just been able to lace it from three, and so we’ve got to do a good job not only taking away the three, but also being in a better position to be able to contest the three,” Davis said.

While the change in approach seems to be a major one for a program that prides itself on tradition, both Davis and Bacot disagree.

“One of the things that I talked about at the (introductory) press conference is the foundation of who Carolina is,” Davis said. “I believe in it. It’s been tried. It’s been tested. It’s been proven successful. I believe in what Coach (Dean) Smith taught.

I believe in what Coach (Bill) Guthridge taught. I believe in Coach Williams, how he ran the program. It’s something that — and I’ve said before, that I want to travel the same road. I’m just going to do it with my own personality and my own shoes.”

“Coach Davis is still about fundamental Carolina values,” Bacot said. “He’s just adding a twist to it, kind of like an iPhone update.”

The new software will need to work for a much larger coverage area, as the Tar Heels will be looking to dial long-distance this season.

why we did jumping jacks at every practice.

“They do nothing,” I can remember saying as my teammates nodded. “They’re not even an exercise.”

Now, deep into middle age, I take back everything I ever said about jumping jacks. At some point in the intervening years, while I was doing other things, jumping jacks became incredibly difficult. Jennifer seemed to know this and had us do them.

After about 20 minutes, I was out of breath, drenched in sweat and thinking this was a pretty good first class.

“OK,” Jennifer said. “Now that our warm-up is over, let’s get our gloves on.”

Midway through our actual boxing class, my vision began to telescope and I could feel the blackness closing in. I took a knee and drank some water.

The first few classes were held outdoors in a park because they were still finishing construction

on the “studio” (they don’t call it a “gym”).

Jennifer gathered us in a circle at one of those early classes and had us all introduce ourselves and explain why we signed up for the class. Most of us mumbled something about “wanting to get into shape”. Then, one woman spoke up loudly when it was her turn.

“I want a six-pack.”

As a group, we all decided that, yes, that was the best answer anyone could give, and it would become the goal for all of us.

When we finally moved inside, there were a few new twists to our workouts waiting for us. They had the giant ropes to lift and snap, which are a staple of every fighter-training highlight video.

They had weighted sleds to push, like football linemen. There were dumbbells, kettlebells, speed ladders (which always made me consider running for the door and paying the $12 cancellation fee) and, of course, row upon row of punching bags.

The coaches also gave us nutrition plans — suggested diets, shopping lists and recipes.

I’ve learned to make cauliflower crust pizza. (“It’s not as bad as it could be,” was the review from one of my daughters.) I’ve also cut bread out of my diet, replacing it with something called Ezekiel Bread — which, if you ever made

bird feeders in elementary school where you cover popsicle sticks with something sticky and roll them in seeds, that’s what Ezekiel bread is.

The trainers created a supportive, nurturing environment, often getting down on the floor next to you to help you do the last few reps. They’d also explain that if you don’t breathe while exercising, you’ll burst blood vessels in your eye (which I learned, by experience, is not pleasant, although it looks pretty fierce).

“Did you die, though?” they’ll ask as you collapse into a heap when the horn sounds ending each round.

It’s a bit tough to feel like we were making any progress because, as the class improved as a group, the trainers made things more difficult. So we always felt just as exhausted at the end.

But clearly, we were getting into shape. I can now do the sit-ups and throw the jab-cross at the top of each rep. I can also hold a plank for the entire 90-second round.

I’ve also lost 16 pounds in the first month and a half of class and can see muscle development in my arms and legs.

I don’t have a six-pack yet, but at the end of “core day” (a phrase I’ve come to dread as much as “jumping jacks”), I can see and feel where it will be — eventually.

Who knows, maybe someday I’ll even hit hard enough to make Jennifer worried. Just like a real person.

strengths of our team is in the group that starts, we really have four ball-handlers, including Paolo,” he said. “So that’s why we advance the ball fast. When one of those guys gets it, they don’t need to throw it to somebody to bring it up. They bring it up, and we’re very comfortable. So, we don’t

have a so-called point guard … and if Jaylen is in there, he can do that also. Those five guys are guys that you’d want with the ball.”

With size and depth inside and out, things look promising for Coach K’s send-off. Now, if only he could get the media to cooperate by asking the right questions.

“Just be the effervescent people that you’ve been for over four decades,” he advised reporters at media day. “Where it’s been so exciting to be with you and hearing your questions and reading what you actually think I said. No, just go for it and let’s see what the hell happens.”

“Real people hit me all the time. You can’t hurt me.”

Jennifer, RockBox trainer

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After and is a regular contributor to Re Powell has said that he would man, an economist at asset managell is admired on Wall Street and likeflu) the during job market showpandemic, further er MacKay Shields and a former sesuffering from thecircles H1N1 and virushas (swine theto 2009 in most economic nior staffer at the New York Fed. improvement before Fed be- up drawn praise for steering the econI’ve been trying to take extra precautions, because all ofthe this brings gins to raise its I’ key short-term rate. omytoo through recession,ofinapart way manythe memories painful experience d prefer not to repeat.Yet the risk is that the Fed might Economists expect himeveryone to use thehasend up raising rates too soon. Supthrough an array emergency Fedsleep But what also of makes me lose is how easily most news conference that follows the ply bottlenecks may loosen in the lending programs.

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Minutes from the Fed’s last is increasing,” Randal Quarles, a has run up against clogged ports, shut-down factories and labor meeting indicate that the central member of the Fed’s Board of Govshortages that have forced up pric- bank will likely reduce its month- ernors, said in a recent speech. “In es for autos, furniture, food, build- ly purchases of Treasury and mort- the worst case, we could depress ing materials, and household prod- gage bonds by $15 billion a month. the incentives for supply to return, By tapering the bond purchases leading to an extended period of ucts.

On Friday, the government said that quickly, the Fed would have sluggish activity.”

in economic aid as inflation risk rises

Tesla falls on Musk tweet saying Hertz deal not signed yet

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A Tesla electric vehicle, left, sits in a charging station at a dealership, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Dedham, Mass. reaction to our commitment to lead in electrification has been beyond our expectations.”

Hertz first announced the deal just more than a week ago, one of the largest purchases of battery-powered cars in history. Financial details of the deal — such

as how much Hertz was paying per car or the total price — were not revealed at the time. If Hertz were to pay the full $40,000 retail price for each Model 3, it would make the deal worth around $4 billion to the automaker.

News of the deal last week trig-

gered a rally in Tesla’s stock, driving the the world’s most valuable automaker’s market value over the $1 trillion mark for the first time. Before Tuesday’s dip, shares had risen about 33% in the week since the deal was announced.

Musk suggested in the same tweet reply on Monday night that Hertz would not be getting a discount and that the deal was inconsequential to his company’s bottom line.

“Tesla has far more demand than production, therefore we will only sell cars to Hertz for the same margin as to consumers,” Musk’s tweet continued. “Hertz deal has zero effect on our economics.”

In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Mark Fields, Hertz’ interim CEO, said that Teslas were already arriving at the company’s sites and should be available to rent sometime this month.

It’s not entirely clear why Musk would complicate or potentially sabotage the Hertz deal, but public comments like his tend to be about gaining leverage in negotiations.

Bill Selesky, a senior analyst with Argus Research, suggests Musk understands his brand’s value as a leader in electric vehicles and is trying to wring as much as he can out of Hertz.

“Hertz, if they do a deal with Tesla, will instantly be recognized as part of the EV revolution, not the problem,” Selesky said.

North State Journal for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

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Yahoo pulls out of China, citing ‘challenging’ environment The Associated Press

For the week ending 10/29

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$145,534,124 Less Disbursements

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$480.3M

HONG KONG — Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has pulled out of China, citing an increasingly challenging operating environment.

The withdrawal was largely symbolic, as many of the company’s services were already blocked

by China’s digital censorship. But recent government moves to expand its control over tech companies generally, including its domestic giants, may have tipped the scales for Yahoo.

“In recognition of the increasingly challenging business and leAP PHOTO gal environment in China, Yahoo’s suite of services will no longer be A woman walks past a Yahoo billboard in a Beijing subway accessible from mainland China in this file photo. as of November 1,” the company said in a statement. It said it “remains committed to the rights of company to exit China. Google ing an alternative internet with our users and a free and open in- gave up several years ago, and Mi- its own digital giants. The Baidu crosoft’s professional networking search engine has largely replaced ternet.”

The company’s move comes as platform LinkedIn said last month Yahoo and Google in China, and the American and Chinese gov- it would shutter its Chinese site, WeChat and Weibo are the leading ernments feud over technology replacing it with a jobs board in- social media platforms.

Yahoo’s departure coincided and trade. The U.S. has put restric- stead. The departures illustrate tions on telecom giant Huawei and the choices internet companies with the implementation of Chiother Chinese tech companies, al- face in a huge potential market, na’s Personal Information Protecleging that they have ties with Chi- but one where the government re- tion Law, which limits what inforna’s government, military or both. quires them to censor content and mation companies can gather and China says the U.S. is unfairly sup- keywords deemed politically sensi- sets standards for how it must be stored. pressing competition and trying to tive or inappropriate.

Chinese laws also stipulate that In their place, Chinese comblock China’s technological rise.

Yahoo is the latest foreign tech panies have filled the void, creat- companies operating in the coun-

try must hand over data if requested by authorities, making it difficult for Western firms to operate in China as they may also face pressure back home over giving in to China’s demands.

Yahoo was harshly criticized by lawmakers in the U.S. in 2007 after it handed over data on two Chinese dissidents to Beijing, eventually leading to their imprisonment.

Yahoo had previously downsized its operations in China, dropping a music and email service in the early 2010s and shuttering its Beijing office in 2015. Anyone who tried to access Engadget China, a tech news site that it had continued to operate, was greeted Tuesday with a popup saying the site would no longer publish content.

China has also blocked most international social media sites and search engines, such as Facebook and Google. Some users in China circumvent the block by using a virtual private network (VPN) that masks who you are and where you are logging in from.

Verizon Communications Inc. acquired Yahoo in 2017 and merged it with AOL, but later sold the entity off to private equity firm Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Apollo announced in September that its acquisition of Yahoo was complete.

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The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021.

Treasury report calls for stricter oversight of stablecoins The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would strengthen government regulation of stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency that has soared in popularity in the past year.

In a 22-page report issued Monday, the Treasury Department and several other regulators said the legislation should require that stablecoin issuers become banks, which would potentially subject them to a wide range of rules, including those requiring that banks hold sufficient cash reserves and implement measures to prevent money laundering and other illicit activities.

“The absence of appropriate oversight presents risks to users and the broader system,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

“Current oversight is inconsistent and fragmented, with some stablecoins effectively falling outside the regulatory perimeter.”

The highly-anticipated report was prepared by an interagency committee known as the Pres-

ident’s Working Group on Financial Markets, led by Treasury. It also includes the Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

“The agencies believe that legislation is urgently needed to comprehensively address the prudential risks posed by payment stablecoin arrangements,” the report said.

Until Congress acts, the working group said that the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a broader collection of financial regulators responsible for spotting risks to the financial system, could coordinate steps to protect investors and oversee stablecoin issuers’ reserves.

“It would force them into the regulatory perimeter, which is the thing that most people think is appropriate,” said Howell Jackson, a financial regulatory expert at Harvard Law School.

Some of those regulators have already taken a tough line, such as SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who has said stablecoins can be used for money-laundering, tax avoidance,

and to circumvent U.S. financial sanctions.

Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency that is pegged to a specific value, usually the dollar or another currency or gold. By keeping each digital token valued at $1, unlike better-known cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin that can fluctuate wildly in price, stablecoins are potentially better suited to commercial transactions. Many holders of Bitcoin see it as an investment and won’t spend something that could appreciate in value.

There are over 200 stablecoins worth nearly $130 billion, a sixfold increase from a year ago. They are mostly used on cryptocurrency exchanges to purchase other digital assets like Bitcoin. Many of those exchanges don’t have relationships with banks that would enable traders to use cash.

But the report noted that the coins could soon be used more widely to purchase goods or send money overseas, such as remittances by immigrants, which are currently done through expensive wire transfers.

The explosive growth of stablecoins and the risks they pose to the financial system have quickly concentrated the minds of government officials on what kinds of regulation might be needed. Large banks have also urged that stablecoins be required to abide by the same rules they do, and even some stablecoin issuers have called for clear regulations to bring some order to the industry.

The primary concern about the

“It would force them into the regulatory perimeter, which is the thing that most people think is appropriate.”

Howell Jackson, Harvard Law School regulatory expert coins is that they could be anything but stable. Should a large number of holders of a particular stablecoin decide to redeem them for dollars, they could create the equivalent of a “run on the bank.”

Stablecoin issuers typically say they hold a dollar in reserve for every coin, to facilitate redemptions.

Some issuers say they keep the dollars in cash and short-term Treasuries, which can be quickly converted to cash. But some hold their cash reserves in riskier assets, the report said, including short-term business loans known as commercial paper, corporate and municipal bonds, and even other cryptocurrencies.

If those assets were to plunge in value — as commercial paper did in previous market meltdowns, in 2008 and in 2020 — that could make it impossible for a stablecoin issuer to maintain its $1 peg. That could further fuel panic among investors.

The largest stablecoin issuer, Tether, has been fined by both New York state authorities and the CFTC for misleading investors by claiming that all its tokens were

backed by dollars and other fiat currencies, when they were not.

There are extensive webs of regulations that govern banks, securities exchanges, and investment funds, to protect consumers and avoid market collapses. Senior Treasury officials said that stablecoins were largely falling through gaps in those rules.

“If we’re going to have something that looks just like a money market fund or a bank deposit or a narrow bank and it’s growing really fast, we really ought to have appropriate regulation,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in congressional testimony earlier this year.

“And today, we don’t.”

Some progressive organizations have opposed the call for new legislation, because it will be subject to lobbying by well-funded companies and trade groups that support the broader use of stablecoins.

Legislation is also likely to take a considerable period of time, given the partisan polarization in Washington, even as stablecoins are growing rapidly.

The working group’s report represents a least a partial victory for Circle, a company that issues USD Coin, the second-mostly widely used stablecoin, with nearly $33 billion in circulation. Circle has announced that it is already taking steps to convert itself to a bank.

“We are fully supportive of the call for Congress to act and establish Federal banking supervision for stablecoin issuance,” said Jeremy Allaire, Circle’s CEO, in a statement. “This is huge progress in the acceptance of stablecoins.”

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 392 The most unnecessary Jeep ever made And thank goodness they did

By Jordan Golson North State Journal WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST, Colo. — No one asked Jeep to put a 6.4L V8 HEMI making 470 horsepower in a Wrangler.

The mere thought of it is preposterous. You want to put an engine designed for massive muscle cars like the Dodge Challenger in a short-wheelbase off-roader?

But preposterous is what the gearheads over at Jeep and Dodge specialize in, and so they got to work creating the Jeep Wrangler 392. The result is a fully-loaded Wrangler Rubicon with a snarling V8 under the hood and a 0-60 MPH time of 4.5 seconds.

And boy does it snarl. This HEMI is a beast, though a button underneath the climate controls allows you to adjust the butterfly valves in the exhaust to make it louder or quieter as needed. I left it in the louder mode.

All that power, 470 horses and 470 torques, runs through an always-on 4-wheel drive system, so it’ll actually set off without much wheelspin if you jump on it at a red light. And it’s hilarious every time, the front end rising up as the weight transfers to the rear wheels and the whole truck shaking slightly as it rockets forward with wholly unexpected speed.

Even knowing the engine that was inside and all the power, and

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after being warned, my passengers were still surprised at how quickly the big beast got underway. They laughed a lot too.

Of course, the whole thing is absurd. A big, torquey V8 is fun on the road, but on the trail, the torque comes all at once in a big whump. It’s not the easiest to control while rock crawling.

In my week with the 392, I managed 13.6 MPG. That seems crazily low, but it’s actually rated to 13 MPG in the city (17 highway,

a revelation.

Incredibly, the 4xe and the 392 both make the same torque: 470 lb-ft. But they get there in very different ways. The 4xe makes a lot of it through the electric motor at 0 RPM, ideal for slow-and-steady rock-crawling. And instead of a constant, rumbling throb of noise and anger like the 392, the 4xe is happy to cruise in near-total silence much of the time.

That means you can roll down the windows and enjoy a babbling brook or listen to the birds. Or you can until your annoying V8-driving adventure partner comes around the corner and scares them all away.

But I’m in awe of the 392. I love the chutzpah to put an enormous muscle car V8 in a Jeep Wrangler, simply because it’s there and they could. The 392 has a massive hood scoop and special badging to show people how unique and extraordinary your rig is. And when you fire it up, the bark is like no other Jeep around — and it’s far more exciting than the diminutive whirr that you get from the 4xe.

Jeep showed off a concept all-electric Wrangler earlier this year, and that truck is probably coming to fruition sooner rather than later. It makes too much sense, and Jeep is busy installing EV charging stations at off-road locals like Moab and the Rubicon trail in anticipation of future electrified adventuring.

But for a swan song, the 392 is a glorious thing and is the top of the off-road food chain for the internal combustion Jeep Wrangler. But I’ll let you in on a secret: I’d rather have the 4xe. Sometimes the future really is better than the past.

14 combined), so that’s about right.

But to folks who will shell out the big bucks to buy this car, that fuel economy is actually a feature, and so is the big whack of torque.

And big bucks it is: my test unit stickered out to $78,740, which is solidly into luxury SUV territory.

Of course, a Volvo XC60 wouldn’t have been able to tackle the offroad trails in the Rocky Mountains like the Jeep did, no matter how comfortable those Swedish seats are.

But the Wrangler 392 is a swan song, like so many over-the-top internal combustion cars we’re getting these days. It’s a fitting end to a remarkable run.

And I was able to see both the end of the old and the beginning of the new. On my day off-roading in the mountains, I brought a friend along who has a Jeep Wrangler 4xe. That’s the new plug-in hybrid Wrangler, and though it only gets 20-ish miles of all-electric range on the road, in the mountains, it’s

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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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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.

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.

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Michael L. Plummer and Sherry H. Plummer (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Michael L. Plummer and Sherry H. Plummer) to Dawn W. O’Dell, Trustee(s), dated June 1, 2001, and recorded in Book No. 3268, at Page 207 in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that

19 SP 506 AMENDED 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 Aphelia D. Trotter to Diedre Rhodes, Trustee(s), which was dated November 25, 2015 and recorded on November 25, 2015 in Book 11689 at Page 0143 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on November 13, 2018 in Book 01, Page 11689, 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

19 SP 766 AMENDED 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 Robert E. Smith and Carolyn K. Smith to Dale Fussell, Trustee(s), which was dated November 15, 2002 and recorded on November 19, 2002 in Book 4146 at Page 167, 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 November 17, 2021 at 01:00 PM,

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Vicki I. Conn (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Vicki I. Conn) to Ferguson & Scarbrough, Trustee(s), dated July 23, 2003, and recorded in Book No. 4721, at Page 249 in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on June 25, 2010, in Book No. 9199, at Page 230, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sharon H. Snipes (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Sharon H. Snipes) to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated November 30, 2006, and recorded in Book No. 7186, at Page 175 in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at

the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 17, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Kannapolis in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being Lot Numbers One (1) and Two (2) in Block “D” in subdivision of A.B. PALMER’S ADDITION TO ROYAL OAKS, as surveyed and platted by S. Glenn Hawfield, Jr., County Surveyor, in April 1944, a map of which is filed in the office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County in Map Book 7 at page 40. Together with improvements thereon, said property located at 1102 Oklahoma Street, Kannapolis, North Carolina.This is the same property which was conveyed from Arnold Hardwick and wife, Patricia Hardwick, to Michael L. Plummer and wife, Sherry H. Plummer.

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

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 November 17, 2021 at 01:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 115, as shown on Plat of Southside at Cannon Crossing, Map 1, recorded in Plat Book 66 at Pages 98 - 99, in the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Public Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 9996 Violet Cannon Drive Northwest, Concord, NC 28027.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars

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 NUMBER SIX (6) TOWNSHIP, CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, ON THE EAST SIDE OF GOLD HILL ROAD BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY MARGARET G. SCHUENEMAN, ON THE EAST BY GEORGE WHITLEY, AND ON THE SOUTH

BY MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE CENTERLINE OF GOLD HILL ROAD, THE NORTHWEST FRONT CORNER OF MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH, AND RUNS THENCE WITH THE CENTER LINE OF SAID ROAD N. 33-45-14 E. 159.05 FEET TO A POINT, A CORNER OF SCHUENEMAN; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF MARGARET G. SCHUENEMAN S. 59-22-18 E. (PASSING AN EXISTING IRON AT 30.04 FEET) FOR A TOTAL DISTANCE OF 263.43 FEET TO AN EXISTING IRON IN THE LINE OF GEORGE WHITLEY; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF WHITLEY S. 34-15-00 W. 158.99 FEET TO AN EXISTING IRON, A REAR CORNER OF MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF MT. CARMEL BAPTIST

for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 15, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Harrisburg in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in Number One (1) Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being Lot Number FIFTY (50) of CLARE HAVEN, Phase II, Map 1, a map of which is recorded in Map Book 34, page 104, Cabarrus County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a complete description thereof as to metes and bounds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 8568 Cabot Court, Harrisburg, North Carolina.

Parcel ID Number: 1/16D/50.00 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

12:00 PM on November 15, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Davidson in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 52 of FRAZIER ACRES, Phase III as the same is shown on map thereof recorded in Map Book 39 at Page 6 in the Cabarrus County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon said property being located 10450 Singletree Lane, Davidson, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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

($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 Alphelia D. Trotter.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

CHURCH N. 59-24-06 W. (PASSING AN IRON AT 232.02 FEET) FOR A TOTAL DISTANCE OF 262.07 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING .958 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AS SURVEYED AND PLATTED BY ROBERT D. FAGGART, R.L.S., DATED OCTOBER 13, 1997.

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

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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.: 18-10359-FC02

Being that parcel of land conveyed to ROBERT E. SMITH AND WIFE, CAROLYN K. SMITH, TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY from MICHAEL J. LUCENTI, DIVORCED AND SHEILA M. PURCELL, DIVORCED by that deed dated 10/16/1997 and recorded 10/17/1997 in deed book 1998, at page 282 of the CABARRUS County, NC Public Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 7012 Gold Hill Rd, Concord, NC 28025.

A certified check only (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 Robert E. Smith.

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.: 17-04374-FC01

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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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North State Journal for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

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CUMBERLAND IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP256 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY PAUL R. LAMBERT AND TAMMY C. LAMBERT DATED MAY 4, 2009 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 8147 AT PAGE 856 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

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and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on November 8, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Paul R. Lambert and Tammy C. Lambert, dated May 4, 2009 to secure the original principal amount of $160,000.00, and recorded in Book 8147 at Page 856 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

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conducting the sale on November 3, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

And Being more commonly known as: 8500 Sunning Ct, Saint Pauls, NC 28384 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Paul R. Lambert and Tammy C. Lambert.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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

EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

The date of this Notice is October 19, 2021.

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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.

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

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

Said property is commonly known as 921 Chester Cir, Fayetteville, NC 28303.

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 Larry Dee Lindsey, Jr. and wife, Angie Simmons Lindsey.

A certified check only (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

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,

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Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 62, in a subdivision known as Woodland Village, Section Two, Part A, according to a plat of the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 112, Page 6, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2059 Broadman Avenue, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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 N.C.G.S. 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 are expressly 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

said county at 11:00AM on November 12, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Rosie D. Grant, dated October 25, 1999 to secure the original principal amount of $57,600.00, and recorded in Book 5181 at Page 0848 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 1332 Essex Pl, Fayetteville, NC 28301 Tax Parcel ID: 0 4 2 8 - 8 24488 Present Record Owners: D. Rosie Grant And Being more commonly known as: 1332 Essex Pl, Fayetteville, NC 28301 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the

records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Rosie D. Grant.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY

DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is September 30, 2021.

LLG TRUSTEE LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109043

secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on November 17, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Daniel T. Hayes, Sr. and Sharon Hayes, dated June 2, 2009 to secure the original principal amount of $176,248.00, and recorded in Book 8166 at Page 811 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 2529 John McMillan Rd, Hope Mills, NC 28348 Tax Parcel ID: 0 4 3 1-2 75809

Present Record Owners: Daniel T. Hayes, Sr. and Sharon Hayes And Being more commonly known as: 2529 John McMillan Rd, Hope Mills, NC 28348 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Daniel T. Hayes, Sr. and Sharon Hayes.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and

assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or

after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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The date of this Notice is October 1, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 12-035136

secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on November 8, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Paul R. Lambert and Tammy C. Lambert, dated May 4, 2009 to secure the original principal amount of $160,000.00, and recorded in Book 8147 at Page 856 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

8 5 0 0 Address of property: Sunning Ct, Saint Pauls, NC 28384 Tax Parcel ID: 0 4 3 0 - 0 2-

0100Present Record Owners: Paul R. Lambert and Tammy C. Lambert And Being more commonly known as: 8500 Sunning Ct, Saint Pauls, NC 28384 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Paul R. Lambert and Tammy C. Lambert.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition

expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are

a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 19, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 18-102762 By: __________________

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 17, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, WITH A STREET LOCATION ADDRESS OF 2852 CHILLINGWORTH DR; FAYETTEVILLE, NC 28306 CURRENTLY OWNED BY CHAD LEMAIRE AND EDITH LEMAIRE HAVING A TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF 0405-73-7220 AND FURTHER DESCRIBED AS LT 52 MEADOWBROOK SEC 1 PT 1 (0.16 AC) AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 86 AT PAGE 85 OF THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 2852 Chillingworth Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

A certified check only (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 Chad Le Maire and wife, Edith Le Maire.

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.: 11-02814-FC01

Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman; Any Spouse of Alex Brantley, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman;

Blackman have any interest in the Subject Property located at 837 Brighton Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28314.

BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Larry Dee Lindsey, Jr. and Angie Simmons Lindsey to Robert W. Kraft, Trustee(s), which was dated October 17, 2012 and recorded on October 31, 2012 in Book 09031 at Page 0185, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by David Hudson and Laura Mary Hudson (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Laura M. Hudson and David M. Hudson) to Frances Jones, Trustee(s), dated April 5, 2010, and recorded in Book No. 8368, at Page 182 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 8, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20sp421 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ROSIE D. GRANT DATED OCTOBER 25, 1999 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 5181 AT PAGE 0848 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 21SP14 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY DANIEL T. HAYES, SR. AND SHARON HAYES DATED JUNE 2, 2009 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 8166 AT PAGE 811 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP256 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY PAUL R. LAMBERT AND TAMMY C. LAMBERT DATED MAY 4, 2009 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 8147 AT PAGE 856 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

21 SP 21 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 Chad Edward LeMaire a/k/a Chad Le Maire and Edith LeMaire a/k/a Edith Le Maire to TRSTE, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated August 18, 2006 and recorded on September 12, 2006 in Book 7360 at Page 199, 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

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 20 CVS 6453 Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee for GSAMP Trust 2006-FM3, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FM3 Plaintiff, v.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 559

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Matilda M. Angell (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Matilda Angell and Dena Wager dba D&S Services) to John Hunter, Trustee(s), dated August 11, 1995, and recorded in Book No. 4355, at Page 0241 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 15, 2021 and will sell to the

BEING ALL OF LOT 31 IN BLOCK C IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS, PLAT OF WHICH IS DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 11, PAGE 55, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Parcel ID Number: 9496-45-2795 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Christopher Blackmon, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman; Any Spouse of Christopher Blackmon, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman; Alex Brantley, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman; Any Spouse of Alex Brantley, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman Defendant(s).

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:

To: Alex Brantley, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a

The Court enter an Order declaring that neither Christopher Blackmon, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman nor Alex Brantley, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H.

highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot Number 9, in Block “V” in a subdivision known as ARRAN HILLS, Section VI, as shown on a plat recorded in Book of Plats 32, Page 62, Cumberland County North Carolina Registry. And being a portion of the property described in a deed dated February 13, 1973 from Arran Realty Inc to H.S. Floyd Construction Company Inc., recorded in Book 2371, page 452, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1083 Strickland Bridge Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 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 N.C.G.S. 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 are expressly 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

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.

That the Court enter an Order declaring title to the Subject Property should be quieted in the name of the Plaintiff Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee for GSAMP Trust 2006-FM3, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FM3,

File No.: 20-00917-FC01

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 Firm Case No: 1742 - 3570

Parkway,

Suite

400

___________/s/__________________ Thomas E. McDonald, NC Bar #40498 Attorney for Plaintiff 5431 Oleander Drive Wilmington, NC 28403 Phone: 910-392-4988 x 4080

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than December 14, 2021 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This, the 26th day of October, 2021.

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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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 Firm Case No: 4048 - 15279

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CUMBERLAND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 83

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James E. Taylor and Cori L. Taylor (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): James E. Taylor and Cori L. Taylor) to Kenneth C. Praschan, Trustee(s), dated September 10, 2009, and recorded in Book No. 8243, at Page 487 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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

DAVIDSON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 15 SP 567

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jaime K. Davis, Rhea Davis and John W. Davis (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Jaime K. Davis and John W. Davis) to Dennis P. Schwartz, Trustee(s), dated September 29, 2008, and recorded in Book No. 1888, at Page 633 in Davidson County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Davidson 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 Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:30 AM on November 10, 2021 and will sell to the

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 586

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Anthony Robert Ellington (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Anthony Robert Ellington) to Devan L. Shumway, Trustee(s), dated August 20, 2015, and recorded in Book No. 2192, at Page 444 in Davidson County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Davidson County,NorthCarolinaandtheholderofthenoteevidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:30 AM on November 10, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Lexington in the County of Davidson, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 536

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Brian E. Grubb and Stephanie E. Grubb (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Brian Eugene Grubb and Stephanie Everhart Grubb) to Dennis F. Hardiman, Trustee(s), dated May 20, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 2222, at Page 2439-2459 in Davidson County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Davidson 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 Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:30 AM on November 17, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Lexington in the County of Davidson,

18 SP 490 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Michael Dale Dudley and Melissa Jeanne Dudley to Union Service Corporation, Trustee(s), which was dated March 31, 2014 and recorded on March 31, 2014 in Book 2137 at Page 2397, Davidson 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 November 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit: PARCEL ONE TRACT I: BEGINNING at an existing iron pipe, said iron pipe being located at the southwest corner of the James C. Jerman property as described in Deed Book 312 at Page 456 and Deed Book 317 at Page 135 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Davidson County, North Carolina, the

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Linda E. Dollarhide (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Linda E. Dollarhide) to Laurel A. Meyer, Trustee(s), dated August 28, 2009, and recorded in Book No. RE 2910, at Page 971 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on October 1, 2019, in Book No. RE 3485, at Page 304,, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Mary Schambron (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Mary Schambron) to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated August 27, 2007, and recorded in Book No. RE 2780, at Page 3345 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Forsyth 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 Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Timothy Pope (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Timothy Pope) to Alexis Alan, Trustee(s), dated December 1, 2017, and recorded in Book No. RE 3380, at Page 3795 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Forsyth 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 Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 17, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder

courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 8, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 104 in a subdivision known as Hawthorne, Section Two, Part One, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 73, Page 16, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6837 St. Julian Way, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Lexington in the County of Davidson, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron found at the edge of the right of way of Happy Hill Road (NCSR 1231), said iron found also being located in the southern line of the tract of Harold G. Shook as described in Deed Book 745, Page 1233, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Davidson County, North Carolina; thence with the line of the tract of Harold G. Shook the following Two (2) courses and distances: North 84 deg. 49’ 15” East crossing an iron found at 433.04 feet and continuing on for an additional 438.55 feet for a total distance of 871.59 feet to an iron found and South 6 deg.

22’ 10” West 79.09 feet to an iron found at the northwestern corner of the tract of Coney V. Leonard as described in Deed Book 475, Page 589 and also being a new northeastern corner to the tract of R.C. Koonts and Sons Masonry as described in Deed Book 1158, Page 1737; thence the following two (2) new lines to R.C. Koonts and Sons Masonry South 82 deg. 55’ 50” West 445.09 feet to an iron set and thence South 64 deg. 37’ 50” West crossing an iron set at 339.86 feet and continuing on for an additional 28.59 feet for a total distance of 368.45 feet to an iron set in the right of way of Happy Hill Road (NCSR 1231); thence within the right of way of Happy Hill Road (NCSR 1231) North 25 deg. 22’ 10” West 233.70 feet to a point calculated in the right of way of Happy Hill Road, corner to Harold G. Shook as

described in Deed Book 745, Page 1233; thence with the line of the tract of Harold G. Shook North 84 deg. 49’ 15” East 15.57 feet to the point and place of beginning and containing 2.320 acres, more or less, as surveyed by David A. Craver, RLS L-2857, under date of December 14, 2006. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2434 Happy Hill Road, Lexington, North Carolina.

The above-described is subject to the right of way of Happy Hill Road (NCSR 1231).The above-described is a portion of that tract as more particularly described in Deed Book 1158, Page 1737, Davidson County Registry.

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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

BEGINNING at a pk nail set near the center of Parks Road, the point of beginning being the southeast corner of this tract and the southwest corner of Lot Number 1 as shown on unrecorded plat of Rodney B. Owens and SBG Enterprises prepared by David A. Craver, RLS 2857, on February 19, 1988; thence with the approximate center of Parks Road South 65 deg. 26 min. 45 sec. West 20.90 feet to a point; thence South 61 deg. 27 min. 22 sec. West 50.00 feet to a point; thence South 58 deg. 29 min. 10 sec. West 19.10 feet to a PK nail. corner to Lot Number 3; thence with the line of Lot Number 3, North 24 deg. S 1 min. 05 sec. West crossing an iron set at 30.20 feet and a second iron set at 255.93 feet and continuing a total distance of 286.07 feet to a PK nail set near the center of Hill Top Road; thence with the approximate center of Hill Top Road. North 59 deg. 38 min.

50 sec. East 6.79 feet to a point; thence continuing with the approximate center of Hill Top Road, North 52 deg. 56 min.

25 East 84.93 feet to a PK nail set. corner of Lot Number 1; thence with the line of Lot Number 1, South 24 deg. 51 min.

05 sec. East crossing an iron set at 30.69 feet and a second iron set at 270.76 feet and continuing a total distance of 299.35 feet to the point and place of beginning, the same being and containing .600 acre, more or less, and being Lot Number 2 as shown on unrecorded plat of Rodney B. Owens and SBG Enterprises dated February 19, 1988,

and prepared by David A. Craver, RLS 2857, and revised December 2, 1988. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 276 Lake Drive #10, Lexington, North Carolina.

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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Lexington, Lexington Township, Davidson County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:BEGINNING at an iron pin found at the northwest corner of Lot 4 of Block 5 of Fairview Heights, Plat Book 3, Page 12, Davidson County Registry, the southwest corner of this tract; running thence parallel with the east side of Kildee Drive North 17 deg 25’ 41” East 62.03 feet to an iron pin found at the common corner of Lots 2 and 3; running thence with the south line of Lot 2, South 72 deg 13’ 18” East 151.64 feet to an iron pin found; running thence South 17 deg 30’ 30” West 62.00 feet to an iron pin found at the northeast corner of Lot 4; running thence with the northern line of Lot 4, North 72 deg 13’ 57” West 151.55 feet to the point of BEGINNING, and being a portion of Lot 3 of Block 5 of Fairview Heights Subdivision, as platted and recorded in Plat Book 3, Page 12, Davidson County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 605 Kildee Drive, Lexington, North Carolina.This property is conveyed together with and subject to a joint driveway easement referred to in Deed Book 870, Page 231 and as described in Deed Book 528, Pages 261 and 287, which are incorporated herein by

reference.1112600050003Title to the above described property conveyed to Brian Eugene Grubb and Stephanie Everhart Grubb, husband and wife from Brian Eugene Grubb and Stephanie Everhart Grubb (f/k/a Stephanie Rae Evrhart) by General Warranty Deed dated April 5, 2002 and recorded April 11, 2002 in Book 1309, Page 1460 or Instrument No. 0010679.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

ForreferenceseeDeedBook312,Page456;Book837,Page 1041 and Book 839, Page 568, Davidson County Registry

Being those same realties described in Book 609, Page 893 See also Book 887, Page 1367, Davidson County Registry

TRACTTHREE:BEGINNINGatanironpostattheedgeofthe creekandonthewestsideofBurtonStreet;thenceSouth26 degrees 55’ West 207.94 feet to an iron post in the Jerman line; thence with the Jerman line North 04 degrees 33’ East 194.65 feet to an iron stake; thence South 83 degrees 45’ East 79.14 feet to an iron post, the beginning corner.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1031 Mendenhall Street, Thomasville, NC 27360.

A certified check only (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 Dale Dudley and Melissa Jeanne Dudley.

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.: 18-09191-FC01

Parcel Identification Number: 9487-13-3268 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 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 N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to

same also being on the east line of the Plyler property known as Lot 31 of the Plat of Huntsford Hills as recorded in Plat Book 10 at Page 39 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Davidson County, North Carolina; thence with the east line of Lot 31 of Huntsford Hills South 05 degrees 04’00” West 57.06 feet to an existing iron pipe, the southeast corner of Lot31andnortheastcornerofLot30ofthePlatofHuntsford Hills; thence South 83 degrees 15’09” East 129.64 feet to a new iron pipe on the west right of way of Mendenhall Street, a sixty foot right of way; thence with the west right of way of Mendenhall Street North 06 degrees 18’ 52” East 57.06 feet to the James C. Jerman southeast corner as described in Deed Book 312 at Page 456 and Deed Book 317 at Page 135; thence with the James C. Jerman south line North 83 degrees 15’45” West 130.88 feet to the point and place of Beginning and being designated as Tract “D” of 7431 square feet (or 0.1706 acre) on that property survey for H. Ray Hilliard, Jr. and William B. Mills, by E.M. Teer, Land Surveyor, dated December 12, 1991, Job Number 5667-99.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to

Same being a triangular shaped lot between the old road and new Burton Road.

For back reference see Deed Book 317, Page 135; Book 837, Page 1041 and Book 839, Page 568, Davidson County Registry PARCEL

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TRACT TWO: BEGINNING at an iron stake on the west side of Bridge on bank of creek; thence running in a westerly direction 132 feet to an iron stake, John Burton’s corner; thence in a southerly direction 326 feet to Josie B. Bower’s corner; thence in an easterly direction 158 feet to an iron stake on said road; thence in a northerly direction 325 feet to the point of beginning.

TRACT FOUR: BEGINNING at a point at the intersection of U.S. Highway 29-70 Bypass and Mendenhall Street in the City of Thomasville; running thence North 80 degrees 45’ West with the said right of way line 213 feet to a point; running thence South 07 degrees East 169.8 feet, more or less, to a point; running thence South 84 degrees 0’ East 106 feet to a point in the right of way line of Mendenhall Street; running thence North 28 degrees 15’ East 143.5 feet to a point; and running thence North 12 degrees 0’ East 90.4 feet to the point and place of Beginning, containing 0.70 acres, more or less.

Deeds Forsyth 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 Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 17, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Rural Hall in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lot 53 as shown on the map or Chestnut Trails, Section 1, recorded in Plat Book 25 at Page 11 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said property.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6500 El Rancho Drive, Rural Hall, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 17, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 3, as shown on the map or plat of SILVER CHALICE, SECTION 2, which is duly recorded in Plat Book 35, Page 142, Register of Deeds for Forsyth County, North Carolina, to which plan reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3845 Crusade Drive, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

BEING INFORMALLY known as Tax Lot 003, Block 3216D, Forsyth County Tax Records.

Parcel ID Number: 6856-06-4188 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lot No. 56, as shown on the Map of Forest Hill, Section 1, as recorded in Plat Book 7, Page 29, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 229 Forest Hill Avenue, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

For 1367,

reference see Davidson

Book County

887,

Page Registry

Property Address: 229 Forest Hill Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC 27105 Pin No. 6837-13-4670.000 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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North State Journal for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

B10 TAKE NOTICE

FORSYTH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 601

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Terri A. Martin (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Terri A. Martin) to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated June 26, 2003, and recorded in Book No. 2369, at Page 3387 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 811

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Karen D. Mitchell and Rodney D. Mitchell (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Karen D. Mitchell and Rodney D. Mitchell) to Andrew J. Rogers, Attorney, Trustee(s), dated October 28, 2002, and recorded in Book No. 2293, at Page 3483 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on December 15, 2009, in Book No. 2925, at Page 1844, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Forsyth 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 Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 527

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Valerie D. Triplett (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Valerie D. Triplett, Heirs of Valerie D. Triplett: Gabriel Gaines, Christopher Gaines a/k/a Chris Gaines) to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated May 27, 2005, and recorded in Book No. RE 2569, at Page 43 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Forsyth 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

JOHNSTON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 670

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Tabitha Kinch (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Tabitha Kinch) to Moore & Alphin, PLLC, Trustee(s), dated November 2, 2018, and recorded in Document No. 2018590707, in Book No. 5244, at Page 499 in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 19SP651 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY LILLIE M. HOLDER DATED JUNE 21, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 3147 AT PAGE 656 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 87

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Stephanie A. Learn and Richard R. Learn (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Richard Rollin Learn and Stephanie Ann Learn) to John W. Gaffney and Joan C. Cox, Trustee(s), dated January 15, 2013, and recorded in Book No. 3920, at Page 296 in Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Onslow 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 104

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Heather G. Harris and Anthony Kingdom (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Heather Gwendolyn Harris and Anthony L. Kingdom) to Commonwealth Land Title Company, Trustee(s), dated August 4, 2015, and recorded in Book No. 4344, at Page 525 in Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales,

RANDOLPH 19 SP 338 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 Charles T. Schaefer and Stacy L. Schaefer to Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. of New York, Trustee(s), which was dated November 23, 2005 and recorded on December 1, 2005 in Book RE1949 at Page 2459, 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 19sp120 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY THOMAS W. MCGEE AND MITZI B. MCGEE DATED JANUARY 31, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1909 AT PAGE 1303 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 17, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot No. 1 as shown on the map of BROADBAY HEIGHTS, as recorded in Plat Book 25, Page 123, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3000 Corry Circle, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

PM on November 10, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in Forsyth County, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron stake marking the Southwestern intersection of Franklin Street and Granville Drive, and running thence with the Western right of way line of Granville Drive, South 11 deg. 55’ 24” East 49.93 feet to an iron stake; running thence South 78 deg. 01’ 00” West 120.04 feet to an iron stake; running thence North 11 deg. 48’ 04” West 50.44 feet to an iron stake in the Southern right of way line of Franklin Street, running thence with the Southern right of way line of Franklin Street, North 78 deg. 15’ 27” East 119.93 feet to the point and place of Beginning, according to a survey prepared by W. Lee Comer, R.L.S. dated December 22, 1993, entitled “Survey for Rodney E. Austin,” bearing Job No. 93043 for further reference, see Deed Book 1218, Page 930, Forsyth County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 430 Granville Drive, Winston Salem, North Carolina. Being informally known as Tax Lot 109, block 606, Winston Township, Forsyth County Tax records. Also known as 430 Granville Drive, Winston-Salem

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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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 3, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lot No. 26, as shown on the plat of Pinebrook Manor, Section No. 1, as recorded in Plat Book 32, Page 124, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. For further reference see Deed Book 1841, Page 4082, Forsyth County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5708 Haweswater Road, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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

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that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on November 9, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Clayton in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in the Wilders Township, JOHNSTON County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 27 in River Dell East at Flowers Plantation, Phase One, as shown on the plat recorded in Plat Book 83, Pages 466-467, Johnston County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 11 Pearsall Farm Lane, Clayton, North Carolina.

PIN/PARCEL NUMBER: 16K05098F Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on November 9, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Lillie M. Holder, dated June 21, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $205,500.00, and recorded in Book 3147 at Page 656 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 423 Pecan Dr, Selma, NC 27576

Tax Parcel ID: 14A04004 Present Record Owners: Lillie M. Holder Trust, Dated May 21, 2007 And Being more commonly known as: 423 Pecan Dr, Selma, NC 27576 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Lillie M. Holder Trust, Dated May 21, 2007.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition

expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are

a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 20, 2021.

LLG TRUSTEE LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108162

door in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 18, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Jacksonville in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning on the Jacksonville and Swansboro Road at the corner of (now or formerly) WF Morton and known as the corner post, and running thence with (now or formerly) WF Morton’s line to a white oak in Sheep Pen Branch at the (now or formerly) Benjamin Farnell line, thence with the (now or formerly) Benjamin Farnell line to the head of Great Pond, thence with the edge of the glade to the low laural skirt, thence with the said skirt to (now or formerly) C Conway’s line, thence with said (now or formerly) C Conway’s line to the aforesaid Jacksonville and Swansboro Road, thence with said road westwardly to the beginning. Being all of Tax parcels 1126-1.4 and 1126-1.5. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1925 Rocky Run Road, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

500; Book 500, Page 774; Book 604, Page 32; Book 620, Page 107; Book 636, Page 43; Book 657, Page 539; Book 731, Page 482; Book 1344, Page 780; Book 1669, Page 834; Book 1730, Page 252; Book 1745, Page 952; Book 1782, Page 132; Book 1887, Page 34; Book 1956, Page 602 and Book 2030, Page 37, Onslow County Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly

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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment.

Laura Ann Cain 1742 Panther Creek Rd Asheboro, NC 27205

Executor Of the Estate of Deborah Lynn Shope AKA Deborah Sparks Shope AKA Deborah Sparks Garner

Charles T. Schaefer and Stacy L. Schaefer.

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.: 19-16091-FC01

all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order

for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is September 28, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 07-95543

Less and Except the following Deeds recorded in Book 508, Page 294; Book 530, Page 266; Book 548, Page 852; Book 550, Page 630; Book 563, Page 637; Book 574, Page 595; Book 583, Page 7; Book 593, Page 382; Book 598, Page

at 10:00 AM on November 18, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Jacksonville in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Onslow, STATE of North Carolina, and is described as follows:Being all of Lot 11, containing 1.47 acres, as shown on a map entitled, “Recombination Map showing Petteway Farms Lot 11 & 12 (Revised), Richlands Township, Onslow County, NC” prepared by John L. Pierce & Associates, P.A., dated February 15, 2002 and recorded in Map Book 42, Page 114, Slide K-1301, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 464 Briarneck Road, Jacksonville, North Carolina.Parcel ID: 061935Commonly known as 464 Brianeck Road, Jacksonville, NC 28540However, by showing this address no additional coverage is provided Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court

ALL PERSONS, firms and corporations having claims against Deborah Lynn Shope, AKA Deborah Sparks Shope, AKA Deborah Sparks Garner, deceased, of Randolph County, N.C. (2021-E-3715), are notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before January 21, 2022, or this 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 November 9, 2021 at 02:00 PM, 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 No. 22 of Evergreen Acres, Section 3, a map or plat of which is duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Randolph County, North Carolina in Plat Book 28 at Page 33 to which reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description as well as easements applicable thereto.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3928 Evergreen Drive, Trinity, NC 27370.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent

and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on November 12, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Thomas W. McGee and Mitzi B. McGee, dated January 31, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $207,000.00, and recorded in Book 1909 at Page 1303 of the Randolph County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 3898 Nelson Rd, Sophia, NC 27350

This 3rd day of November 2021.

(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

Tax Parcel ID: 7725360449 Present Record Owners: Thomas W. McGee And Being more commonly known as: 3898 Nelson Rd, Sophia, NC 27350 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Thomas W. McGee. 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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to

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 Firm Case No: 1976 - 4118

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 Firm Case No: 1289402 - 10378

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TAKE NOTICE

UNION IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION UNION COUNTY 20SP149 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY NEUGENE ANTON KELLY AND LINDA J. KELLY DATED MARCH 22, 2013 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 5970 AT PAGE 599 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default

WAKE 19 SP 148 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY

in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00PM on November 17, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Union County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Neugene Anton Kelly and Linda J. Kelly, dated March 22, 2013 to secure the original principal amount of $214,900.00, and recorded in Book 5970 at Page 599 of the Union County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 1 1 8 8 Stonedown Ln, Matthews, NC 28104

will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WAKE, STATE OF North Carolina, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

Said property is commonly known as 1528 Balfour Downs Cir, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526.

A certified check only (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 Clifton Wright.

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

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

dated December 13, 1993 and recorded on December 17, 1993 in Book 5928 at Page 0705 and rerecorded/ modified/corrected on May 3, 1994 in Book 6114, Page 0753 of the Wake County, North Carolina Registry. The Property shall be sold together with improvements located thereon, towards satisfaction of the debt due by Darryl B. Thompson and Penny E. Thompson, and secured by the lien against such property in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, successor by merger to Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as Trustee, f/k/a Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as Trustee for SACO1 Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 1999-2.

The Commissioner will offer for sale to the highest bidder at a public auction 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 November 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM the following described real property (including all improvements thereon) located in Wake County, North Carolina and described as follows: BEING ALL OF LOT 59 OF PHASE II OF NOTTINGHAM WOODS SUBDIVISION AS SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED IN BOOK OF MAPS 1986, PAGE 2151 AND RE-RECORDED IN BOOK 1987 PAGE 76, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY.

The above-described property will be sold, transferred and conveyed “AS IS, WHERE IS” subject to liens or encumbrances of record which are superior to such Deed of Trust, together with all unpaid taxes and assessments and any recorded releases. Neither the Commissioner nor the holder of the debt secured by such Deed of Trust, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Commissioner or the holder of the debt make any representation 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 and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.

The Commissioner shall convey title to the property by non-warranty deed, without any covenants or warranties, express or implied.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 1-339.29 (c) in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the judge or 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.

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 best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current record owners of the property as reflected on the records of the WAKE COUNTY Register of Deeds’ office not more than ten (10) days prior to the date hereof are Darryl B. Thompson and wife Penny E. Thompson.

A cash deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchasing price will be required at the time of the sale. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price of bid in cash or certified check at the time the Commissioner tenders a deed for the Property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price of bid at that time, said bidder shall remain liable on said bid as provided for under North Carolina law.

The sale will be reported to the court and will remain open for advance or upset bids for a period of ten (10) days as required by law. If the Commissioner is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such

inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Commissioner. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Commissioner, in its sole discretion, if it believes 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, Commissioner c/o 5431 Oleander Drive, Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 (910) 202-2800 Phone (888) 207-9353 Facsimile File No.: 10-18823-JUD01 Plaintiff, vs.

Darryl B. Thompson; Penny E. Thompson; The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; EMC Mortgage LLC f/k/a EMC Mortgage Corporation; Springcastle Credit Funding Trust; Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Defendant(s).

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM, 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 49, GRANITE RIDGE SUBDIVISION AS RECORDED IN BOOK OF MAPS 2007, PAGE 1779, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 313 Morgan Brook Way, Rolesville, NC 27571.

A certified check only (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 Dung Dinh Dang.

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.: 20-03787-FC01

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 November 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Land Situated in the City of Morrisville in the County of Wake in the State of NC BEING ALL OF LOT 103, DOWNING GLEN AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2001, PAGE 1823, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY, TO WHICH PLAT 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 103 Downing Brook Court, Morrisville, NC 27560.

A certified check only (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

Stephanie A Page.

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.: 17-14690-FC01

foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 8, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Raleigh in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Situated in Wake County and being described as follows:Being all of Lot 89, Phase I, Griffis Glen subdivision, as depicted in Map Book 2005, beginning at or including pages 1132-1137. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3954 Griffis Glen Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.Tax parcel identification number 0334825 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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 Firm Case No: 1258347 - 10253

and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on November 5, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed La Verne J. Carter, dated January 30, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $133,200.00, and recorded in Book 11798 at Page 2262 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 3075 Settle In Ln, Raleigh, NC 27614

Tax Parcel ID: 0312750 Present Record Owners: LaVerne J. Carter And Being more commonly known as: 3075 Settle In Ln, Raleigh, NC 27614 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are LaVerne J. Carter.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to

all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order

for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is September 17, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108438

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

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.

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.

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.

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bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Garner in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land, situated in Wake County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:

NOTICE OF JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF WAKE Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, successor by merger to Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as Trustee, f/k/a Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as Trustee for SACO1 Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 1999-2, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Commissioner, pursuant to the Order/ Judgment entered in the above-captioned case on September 13, 2021 (“Order”), and by virtue of the appointment, power and authority contained in that Order, has been authorized and ordered to sell the property commonly known as 849 Rawls Drive, Raleigh, NC 27610 (“Property”). Said Property is secured by the Deed of Trust executed by Darryl B. Thompson and Penny E. Thompson,

20 SP 763 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 Dung Dinh Dang to Seay & Horne, Trustee(s), which was dated April 10, 2014 and recorded on April 10, 2014 in Book 015626 at Page 02580, 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

15 SP 2160 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 Doug Alumbaugh and Stephanie A. Page to Mlchael Lyon, Trustee(s), which was dated May 8, 2012 and recorded on May 21, 2012 in Book 014771 at Page 02100 and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on December 8, 2014 in Book 015859, Page 00931, 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

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 2696

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Connie Nichole Cheek (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Connie Nichole Cheek) to McCullers & Whitaker PLLC, Trustee(s), dated July 24, 2012, and recorded in Book No. 014856, at Page 01002 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

The Deed of Trust was modified by the following:A Loan Modification recorded on April 16, 2014, in Book No. 015631, at Page 02288 A Loan Modification recorded on August 16, 2017, in Book No. 016878, at Page 02522, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 20sp403 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY LA VERNE J. CARTER DATED JANUARY 30, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 11798 AT PAGE 2262 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

18 SP 211 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY

the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 14, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-092573

notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment.

BEING ALL OF LOT 49, PHASES 2A & 3A OF SANDY SPRINGS AS PER PLAT AND SURVEY AND SURVEY THEREOF PREPARED BY JOHN Y. PHELPS, JR., DATED 5-13-92 AND NOW ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF WAKE COUNTY IN BOOK OF MAPS 1992 AT PAGE 776, TO WHICH MAP REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF SAME.

GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 19 CVS 5276

assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate

ALL PERSONS, firms and corporations having claims against JIMMY EUGENE WOOD, deceased, of Wake County, N.C. (2021-E-3715), are notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before January 21, 2022, or this

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by John Clifton Wright to Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated December 22, 2017 and recorded on December 28, 2017 in Book 17007 at Page 113, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM, and

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James Allan McManus and Emma Day McManus (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): James Allan McManus and Emma Day McManus) to Dave Brunk, Trustee(s), dated November 1, 2006, and recorded in Book No. 012253, at Page 01976 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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 Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 8, 2021 and will sell to the highest

Tax Parcel ID: 07144446 Present Record Owners: Neugene Anton Kelly And Being more commonly known as: 1188 Stonedown Ln, Matthews, NC 28104 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Neugene Anton Kelly.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and

Parcel

ID:

0194849

Commonly known as 1528 Balfour Downs Circle, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Being all of Lot 15, Lynnshire Subdivision, Phase II, as shown on that plat recorded in Book of Maps 1986, Page 1900, Wake County Registry. Tax Map or Parcel ID No.: 0163582.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 125 Chillingham Road, Garner, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Earl Brown and Janet Brown to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated March 18, 2005 and recorded on March 28, 2005 in Book 011281 at Page 02133, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Being all of Lot 32, Hidden Valley II, Part III, as show on map recorded in Book of Maps 1973, Page 189, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 6613 Secret Drive, Raleigh, NC 27612.

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

A certified check only (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

This 3rd day of November, 2021.

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 Earl Joseph Brown and wife, Janet Lynne Brown.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and

Angela Wood Olive, Executor, c/o Lisa M. Schreiner, Stam Law Firm, PLLC, 510 W. Williams St., Apex, NC 27502

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

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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.: 19-13477-FC01

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 Firm Case No: 4442 - 16116

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.: 18-19588-FC01

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Candidates and poll workers gather around the polling place at Sunset Avenue Church of God on Election Day. Left to right, Justin Lee, Asheboro school board candidate Hailey Trollinger Lee, Asheboro city councilman Walker Moffit, Laura King, school board members Baxter Hammer and Beth Knot and poll worker Nicki McKenzie.

Early voting draws more to polls

COUNTY NEWS White hospital executive wins $10M in discrimination case A former top executive in Novant Health, who claimed in a lawsuit that he lost his job because he is a white male was awarded $10 million by a federal jury. In his 2019 lawsuit, David Duvall said he lost his job as senior vice president of marketing and communication due to efforts to diversify top leadership positions. The jury said Novant Health failed to prove that it would have dismissed Duvall regardless of his race. Duvall was fired in 2018 without warning or explanation and replaced by two women, one black and one white.

Zoo offering COVID vaccine to apes The North Carolina Zoo began vaccinating its animals with the Zoetis shot to prevent the spread of COVID 19. The zoo is one of 70 across the country to participate in the program. The zoo began with its primates—seven gorillas and 15 chimps—who all received the shot last week. The big cats— lions and cougars—will be next to receive the vaccine, followed by wolves and bears.

NCDOT sets litter collection record The N.C. Department of Transportation’s crews, contractors and volunteers have collected more than 11 million pounds of litter from roadsides, exceeding the state’s record for litter collection set in 2019.

Since Jan. 1, NCDOT has collected more than 11 million pounds of litter, totaling more than $15.8 million on litter collection efforts.

In ​Division 8 ​ , which includes Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and Scotland counties, 425,520 total pounds were collected.

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By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO — Early voting turnout was higher this year than in recent municipal elections on odd-numbered years in Randolph County.

The 13 days of early voting drew a total of 1,288 voters to the Randolph County Board of Elections office in Asheboro.

That was in advance of Tuesday’s Election Day, when voters were required to cast ballots at their designated precincts.

In Randolph County, races were contested in Asheboro, Franklinville, Liberty, Ramseur,

Randleman, Seagrove, Staley, Trinity and, for some county residents, in Thomasville.

Yet areas outside of Asheboro were likely to have most of the voting done on Election Day. Most of the early voting was done in Randolph County came from Asheboro residents.

For instance, among the first 855 voters to pass through the early voting site, 85 percent of those were from what Melissa Johnson, director of the Randolph County Board of Elections, described as the four main precincts in Asheboro.

Early voting ended Saturday.

Unlike some other counties, there

wasn’t a primary earlier this fall in Randolph County.

The uptick in early voting for the general election was significant in the county.

In 2019, Randolph County had 256 voters in 13 days of early voting. In total, there were 1,796 ballots cast in the county for that fall election.

In 2017, there was a much larger turnout, with 863 voters in 13 days of early voting, according to data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. In total that year, there were 3,347 voters in Randolph County.

“The best comparisons would be between municipal elections

only, since the turnout is much lower and we only have one early voting site,” Johnson said.

In 2020, with the election including the presidential race and a U.S. Senate race among other contests, Randolph County had 73,462 residents cast ballots. Of those, 50,509 used the one-stop early voting.

This year across the state, there were 463 municipalities involving 91 counties with autumn elections that included almost 900 contests to determine mayors, council members, alderman and other local seats. Of those, more than 2,500 people filed to run.

County schools use federal COVID education funds for bonuses Randolph County Schools employees will receive $5,000

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Some North Carolina school boards have announced they will use federal COVID-19 relief funds to give bonuses to educators.

The Randolph County Public School System will pay every employee a $5,000 bonus, according to a resolution adopted by the school board on Oct. 25. The resolution described the bonuses as “retention” and “premium pay.”

Alamance County schools are giving full and part-time employees a $3,000 bonus while Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools employees will get a $1,400 bonus.

According to the American Rescue Plan’s ESSER “FAQ,” a district can use federal Elementary and Secondary Education Relief funds to provide “premium pay” or other additional compensation for teachers, principals, and other school personnel, including school nutrition staff and custodians.

Federal ESSER funds are appropriated by the General Assembly to the districts, but then the funds are typically handled by county managers.

Randolph County Schools has received nearly $50 million in ESSER funding which was includ-

“It is permissible, by the Department of Education, for locals to use their ESSER funds on recruitment and retention bonuses for teachers and/or school support staff.”

Jamey Falkenbury ed in the Coronavirus Aid Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to provide premium pay to employees and substitutes to address COVID-related disruptions and staff shortages.

Jamey Falkenbury, the director of government and community affairs for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, confirmed to North State Journal that these federal funds can be used for specifically for “recruitment and retention” bonuses.

“It is permissible, by the Department of Education, for locals to use their ESSER funds on recruitment and retention bonuses for teachers and/or school support staff,” Falkenbury said.

The bonuses have to be given to all employees and can’t just target a specific grade-level or type of teacher.

The ESSER funds can last up upwards of seven or eight years if the

money is encumbered per the district’s ESSER plan.

The idea of stretching out the long-term spending of ESSER funds is highlighted by a four-year monitoring scheme posted under the N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s ESSER informational webpage.

The state’s largest district, Wake County, is also considering using federal relief dollars to augment teacher pay.

Wake County has recently been dealing with bus driver sick-outs, which have forced parents to provide transportation. The bus drivers say they want more pay and they are stressed out over routes they drive being lengthened due to too few drivers.

Falkenbury mentioned Wake County’s plan as a good one to look at since the district seems to have plotted out the use of its funds as far out at four to five years.

The conservative John Locke Foundation reported in July that nearly ninety percent of the roughly $6 billion in COVID relief funds remained still unspent by North Carolina school districts.

In North Carolina, the Charlotte-Mecklenberg and Wake County systems has have received $459 million and $310 million, respectively, of the over $4.6 billion in funds received through the two most recent ESSER funding rounds. Asheboro City Schools received over $14 million and Uwharrie Charter received $1.4 million.

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To accommodate this increase, Hospital and 244 to other hosvis said.

The city school board will In a report to the county com- Davis said another ambulance pitals. These were patients with RANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE missioners at the October meet- crew should be added to the de- COVID symptoms or having testmeet at South Asheboro ing, Davis provided details on the partment. There hasn’t been ad- ed positive for COVD. Middle School.

An out-of-county transport challenges facing his department, ditional ambulance staffing added takes an average of two hours, Daparticularly with call loads in- since 2018.

Davis said a new ambulance in vis said. creasing.

Randolph Hospital isn’t always EMS staffing has become a con- circulation would be best served in cern, with Davis telling the com- the Randleman or Archdale areas. capable of accepting more paApple Cider 5K/10K There also are various trans- tients. missioners that staff members are

By Bob Sutton there’s enrollment beforecomponents those classes “It’s sion, basically to share the load,” of 915. to start. the amoften frustrated and / or exhaust- portation 9am Randolph Record That’s off slightly ef- said of what amountsfrom to ro-the usual bulanceWilliams pick-ups. said there’s an Davis ed.

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The Randolph County hadfor three. program is program. vices department has at shut down said. to pay it,”The RCC president Dr. Williams for student services RCC, said aForsyth group received one of the Excelhelping to cope with a shortage of some ambulance shifts because of Confederate Railroad | 7pm RCC held a one-week break decline in high school students in Robert Shackleford Jr. said. “We lence in Innovation Awards based drivers and record high number of staff shortages.

Davis said there’s a Nashville recording artists dual enrollment has been the big- meet students exactly where they earlier this month amid the sumemergency calls. The ambulance on its approach in opioid epidemstatewide paramedic shortage. are and help them go as far as they mer semester, which began May gest reason for a dip. will perform hits like “Queen The county has five full-time truck will be stationed in Ashe- ic outreach. Davis said it was a col24 and concludes July 26. Late possibly go.”

“Overall, we’re still seeing a de-borocan of Memphis” and “Daddy but service the entire county. laborative effort. openings among telecommuniBeginning with the fall semes- registration for the fall semester cline in enrollment comparing to Never was the Cadillac Kind.” previous years prior to the pan- ter, qualifying full-time students runs through Aug. 10, with classTickets start at $30, demic,” Williams said. “I don’t will be eligible for up to $1,000 es beginning Aug. 16.

Still dealing with adjustments know if we’ll get to numbers we’ve per semester.

That makes attending RCC made because of the coronavirus seen in previous fall semesters. …

We’re reaching out to every stu- the most enticing from a finan- pandemic, not all 2021 fall semesdent we can in every way we can.” cial standpoint in the 16 years ter classes will be in person. Some Fall Round-Up A fall semester at the two-year Williams has been at the school, will use a hybrid model with a Horse Parade school in Asheboro would often he said. He previously worked in mixture of face-to-faces sessions and virtual sessions. Many classhave 2,600 to 3,000 students en- RCC’s financial aid office.

3pm “There’s never a better time to es provide students with options rolled. At the beginning of this on how to attend and participate, week, that number stood at about go back to college,” he said.

The Annual Asheboro Fall For the current summer ses- Williams said.

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♦ Boggs, Matthew Harrison (M, 39), Arrest on charge of Misdemeanor Larceny, at 2587 Wayne White Rd, Pleasant Garden, on 07/14/2021. ♦ Bolton McKee, James Henry (M, 47), Arrest on charge of Possession of Stolen Goods, at 6469 Clyde King Rd, Seagrove, on 07/15/2021. ♦ Pugh, Robert Daniel (M, 39), Arrest on charge of Simple Assault (M), at 139 Drum St, Asheboro, on 07/14/2021.

Arrest on charge of Resisting Public Officer, 321 Kings Ridge Rd, Randleman, on 07/14/2021. ♦ Hazelwood, Elizabeth (F, 44), Arrest on chage of Misdemeanor Larceny, at Hoover Hill Rd/Slick Rodk Mtn, on 07/14/2021. ♦ Lynch, Detrick Lamont (M, 40), Arrest on charge of Misdemeanor Possession of Schedule VI CS, Possessiong of Stolen Motor Vehicle, at I-85 Exit 111, on 07/13/2021.

Round-Up Horse Parade will be held in Downtown Asheboro. Trailer parking will be at Sunset Avenue Church of God, 900 Sunset Avenue in Asheboro. For more ♦ Whitehead, GeorgeScott Alan (M, 52), 176 E. Salisbury St, Asheboro, ondetails, contact Sheila Arrest on charge of Misdemeanor 07/13/2021. at (336) 953-2884.

Possession of Schedule IV CS, ♦ Millikan, Bobby Wayne (M, 33), Possession of Stolen motor Arrest on charge of Assault on a vehicle, imporoper use of a dealer Female, at 8300 Curtis Power Rd, tag, failure to deliver title, failure to Bennett, NC, on 07/14/2021. Randolph County Board appear on felony, at I-85 Exit 111,

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of Health on 07/13/2021. ♦ Passmore, Casey Lynn, Arrest on charge of possession of marijuana 6pm ♦ Cheek, Helenia Spinks (F, 64), up to 1/2 oz., at Randolph Arrest on charge of Assault by The Randolph Courthouse, on 7/13/2021. pointing aCounty gun, Discharging a

Board firearm of Health will meet to cause fear, Reckless ♦ Roark, Justin Steven (M, 30), at the Randolph CountySeagrove, on driving to endanger, AP PHOTO Arrest on charge of Possession 07/12/2021. of Meth, Possession with intent Community College Training An ambulance transporting a patient is shown in this undated file photo Room 148. to manufacture, sell or distributeCenter, ♦ McQueen, James Allen Jr (M, 35), ♦ Richardson, Erwin Quint Jr (M, ♦ Helms, Chad Lee (M, 37), Arrest heroin, Simple possession of Arrest on charge of Possession 31), Arrest on charges of Felony on charge of Felony Sexual Schedule II, III, IV CS, Maintaining of Marijuana up to 1/2 oz., Larceny and Possession of Stolen Exploitation of a minor in the Place, Possession of Drug Possession of drug paraphernalia, Goods, at 5471 Needhams Trail, second degree (10 counts), 727 Paraphernalia, at 1029 High Point Failure to appeal on felony, failure Seagrove, on 07/14/2021.

McDowell Rd, Asheboro, NC, on WEEKLY CRIME LOG DEATH NOTICES Rd, on 7/13/2021. to appear on misdemeanor, at 07/12/2021. ♦ Seibert, Sarah Elizabeth (F, 32), ♦ Gomez, Christian (M,30) Arrest Paraphernalia, at NC Hwy 49 S @ ♦ Allmon, Shana Nichole (F, 31), ♦ Nellie Jean Groce Crews, on charge of Violating a Domestic New Hope Rd, on 10/19/2021.

Arrrest on charge of Assault and 90, died on Wednesday, Violence Protective Order, at 708 Battery, at US 220 BUS @ Leo October 27, 2021 at Clapps ♦ Laughlin, Travis Lee Sr (M, 43), Tall Pine St. on 10/27/2021.

Cranford Rd, on 10/20/2021.

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Communicating Threats, Injury ♦ Lawrence, Stephanie Marie of Gastonia died Thursday, to Personal Property, at 3446 ♦ Ashburn, Jessica Ann (F,35) (F, 47), Arrrest on charge of Oct. 28.

Fairview Farm Rd, Asheboro, on Arrest on charge of Felony Possession of Heroin, Possession 10/20/2021. ple cheering over him, or booing Larceny and Conspiring to of Drug Paraphernalia, at 6338 ♦ Alex Duran 19,into of different over himAlcaras, or going commit Felony Larceny at Hwy 311, on 10/18/2021. ♦ Driggers, William Henry (M, 55), Asheboro diedover on October directions him,” have benefit5022 Meadowbrook Dr. on Arrrest on charge of Resisting a 31, ed, 2021.

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PHILADELPHIA Triple H PRECIP—12% walked with his arms crossed like an X — his signature Degeneration X symbol — with his 7-foot SATURDAY NOV 6 tag-team partner, Joel Embiid, to ring a ceremonial bell last month before a Philadelphia 76ers playoff game.

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OPINION Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor VISUAL VOICES

COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend scheme

Rest assured, I oppose both bills because they are the wrong solutions and the wrong time.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN wisely said, “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”

Today, our national debt is an unfathomable $29 trillion, and President Reagan’s warning has never been truer.

It’s no secret that President Joe Biden and Washington Democrats are addicted to spending your hard-earned money.

Their so-called “Reconciliation Plan” is a prime example. This massive entitlement and climate change bill, a radical proposal written by Bernie Sanders, will transform our society into something we don’t recognize and will cripple our economy.

Washington Democrats have been working to finalize their bill behind closed doors — hiding details of the massive plan from you, the American people. Yet this is not the first time they have tried this trick. In 2010, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously said Democrats had to pass Obamacare into law for you to find out what was in it. Fast forward to 2021, and here we go again.

While their plan has changed throughout the last month, one thing is clear: it is a massive expansion of government control over your life from the cradle to the grave.

To pay for it, their proposals have included $2.1 trillion in new tax hikes. The plan would punish families by raising taxes on 75% of the middle class. It raises the business-tax rate to among the highest in the developed world, well above communist China’s. We all know these businesses will be forced to pass those costs along to you and it means less job opportunities. In fact, this tax increase will force lower and middle-income taxpayers to shoulder 66.3% of the huge corporate tax increases. It also raises taxes on 1.4 million small businesses which employ 12.5 million American workers.

While they have discussed numerous tax gimmicks to target billionaires, in reality their plan would give tax breaks to the wealthy, providing families earning $800,000 with $118,000 in

tax credits.

While their elite friends get tax breaks, Democrats plan to further punish you by raising the costs to fill your car or heat your home. Home energy bills are already expected to increase by 54% this winter! A new natural gas tax included in their bill would increase your heating bills by an additional $242 per year. Another new tax on energy producers could cost up to 90,000 Americans their jobs.

As if all of this wasn’t enough, President Biden’s proposal will use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. It would grant amnesty to more than 8 million illegal immigrants. $80 billion is spent to hire 85,000 new IRS agents to monitor your bank account if you spend just $28 a day.

What’s worse — President Biden has tied this massive entitlement bill to infrastructure legislation. There is massive bipartisan support for investing in our roads, bridges, ports and broadband. Yet just 10% of their $1.5 trillion ‘infrastructure’ bill is devoted to infrastructure, while the rest is devoted to propping up radical Green New Deal climate provisions.

Rest assured, I oppose both bills because they are the wrong solutions and the wrong time. Just last week we learned that economic growth in the last quarter slowed to a dismal 2% — the worst since our economy began to reopen after the pandemic. Gas prices in North Carolina jumped 14 cents per gallon, tied for the largest spike in the nation.

Supply chain issues and inflation are clearly taking a toll on families and our economy. I cannot support trillions in new spending and taxes that will only make Biden’s economic, energy and inflation crises worse.

We need to get government out of the way, get Americans back to work, encourage energy production here in the U.S., and cut government spending and taxes. While many in Washington argue how much to tax you and how large to grow government, I will always stand up for you and your family.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

The only thing Biden has left is Trump The more Americans get to know Biden, the less they like him. And the less they like him, the more he’s compelled to talk about Trump.

THIS WEEK, the president took a trip to Virginia to try to help salvage the gubernatorial prospects of fellow Washingtonlifer Terry McAuliffe. President Joe Biden used the appearance to liken the GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to Jan. 6 rioters, to lie about Republicans supporting “book bans” and to attempt to goad former President Donald Trump into coming to Virginia.

Biden wants to talk about one person these days, and that person isn’t Biden. Then again, what does he possibly have to brag about? Shutting down COVID? More Americans have died from the disease during his presidency than his predecessor’s, even with the emergence of vaccines. “I will not shut down the country,” Biden promised during his campaign. “I will shut down the virus.”

Now, of course coronavirus isn’t really the president’s fault.

But since Biden had no compunction blaming Trump personally for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens, no one can fault voters for using the same standard of culpability now.

Is Biden going to brag about overseeing what promises to be the weakest economic recovery since the last time he was put in charge of such things? Rather than looking for ways to create more opportunities for American workers, the president has been clamoring to put millions of them on the dole.

Is the president going to talk about the border? Is he once again going to explain how high inflation is actually a positive development for most consumers? Is he going to brag about his foreign policy? When was the last time an American president abandoned hundreds of U.S. citizens to a terror regime? After 13 service members were murdered by terrorists in Kabul, due in part to his administration’s stark incompetence, we proceeded to accidentally kill seven children in retaliation.

The terrorists disappeared only slightly faster than the media coverage.

No, Biden is going to talk about Trump.

It’s worth mentioning, as well, that while Democrats were in a constant state of feigned dismay over the lack of decorum during the Trump years — Biden often promised to “restore

decency” to the White House — they are just as guilty of corroding our public discourse.

On Youngkin, for example, Biden said, “Extremism can come in many forms. It can come in the rage of a mob driven to assault the Capitol. It can come in a smile and a fleece vest.”

It isn’t surprising to hear unhinged pundits conflating the Jan. 6 rioters with Republicans who have never uttered a word of support for the attack on the Capitol, but coming from the president of the United States, a president whose campaign was grounded on the promise of mending a frayed nation and normalizing political behavior, it’s particularly ugly.

This kind of rhetoric, though, is nothing new for Biden. In 2012, before Trump had allegedly coarsened our politics, the then-vice president told a crowd of African Americans that the milquetoast Republican and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, a man who had never embraced any form of racism, much less allied himself with segregationists, was going to “put you all back in chains” because he was in favor of some mild deregulation and economic reforms.

Well, Youngkin is apparently similarly disposed. His principal issue has been parents and their lack of control over school curricula. If you’re looking for an election conspiracy theorist in the Virginia gubernatorial race, though, you need not look any further than McAuliffe, who doesn’t seem to believe a Republican has won a presidential contest since 1988.

But, as the New York Times pointed out, even McAuliffe barely, if ever, mentions the former president in his ads or speeches. Biden’s appearance might fly in deep-blue northern Virginia, and it may or may not work in bringing Trump to the state, but it’s unlikely to save his presidency.

The more Americans get to know Biden, the less they like him. And the less they like him, the more he’s compelled to talk about Trump.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NBA

Pelicans’ Williamson ‘progressing pretty well’ New Orleans New Orleans Pelicans star forward Zion Williamson is running, cutting and “doing explosive work” as he recovers from offseason surgery to repair his broken right foot, but he is not yet involved in competitive five-on-five situations at practice, coach Willie Green said Monday. Green indicated Williamson would be sidelined for at least two more weeks before New Orleans has a more definitive timetable for his return to games.

Williamson is slated to have his right foot scanned again in two to three weeks,. The Pelicans have opened 1-6 without Williamson.

NFL

Henry will have surgery, Titans adding Peterson Nashville, Tenn.

NFL rushing leader Derrick Henry had surgery Tuesday morning on his right foot, and coach Mike Vrabel says the Tennessee Titans are not putting a timeline on when he will return. Henry had tests Monday to check the severity of the injury after he finished a 34-31 overtime win in Indianapolis. The Titans placed Henry on injured reserve Monday afternoon. The Titans (62) were finalizing a deal on Monday to sign 2012 MVP and four-time AllPro Adrian Peterson to the practice squad with plans to promote the 36-year-old running back to the active roster.

NHL

Rangers agree with Norris winner Fox on 7-year extension New York Adam Fox agreed to terms on a seven-year extension Tuesday with the New York Rangers, a deal that keeps the Norris Trophywinning defenseman under contract through 2029. Fox became one of the youngest players to win the award last season after putting up 47 points in 55 games. He joined Hall of Famer Bobby Orr as the only players to win the Norris in one of his first two NHL seasons.

The contract is reportedly worth $66.5 million with an annual salary cap hit of $9.5 million. Fox was acquired from the Hurricanes for a pair of second-round draft pick after the Harvard blueliner would not sign with Carolina.

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Alex Bowman won Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville.

Bowman wins as tension builds ahead of Cup Series title race Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. will race for the championship next week at Phoenix

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Alex Bowman was the only driver celebrating after the Cup Series set its championship four — and he’s not even racing for the title.

Bowman picked up the victory Sunday at Martinsville Speedway in the final elimination race ahead of the winner-take-all season finale.

Bowman wasn’t eligible to make the championship round and his overtime victory denied both Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski the final spot in the field.

The Cup will be decided next Sunday at sold-out Phoenix Raceway between favorite Kyle Larson and reigning champion Chase Elliott for Hendrick Motorsports, and Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. for Joe Gibbs Racing. It will pit a

pair of Hendrick Chevrolets against two JGR Toyotas.

“I think the four most deserving teams are probably in the final four,” said Larson, the regular season champion. “I’m proud we were able to do it and look forward to battling everybody next week.”

Ford was locked out of the championship when Keselowski and Team Penske teammates Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano failed to advance.

Busch finished second to Bowman, and Keselowski at last settled for third after a frantic push through the third stage. Truex’s car was damaged in several incidents and both Busch and Keselowski were trying to bump Truex out of the final transfer position.

It led to spirited racing up and down the grid, especially from Keselowski as he tried to bulldoze his way into the championship round for his final race driving for Roger Penske. He and Busch had hard contact after the checkered flag that caused Busch to spin on the cooldown lap, and Busch seethed after that he should beat up Keselowski.

“I think the four most deserving teams are probably in the final four.”

Kyle Larson His verbal threats were a milder approach than the one taken by JGR teammate Hamlin after Bowman spun Hamlin from the lead with six laps remaining to send the race into overtime.

Hamlin had led 103 laps with victory in sight when Bowman spun him. Hamlin after the race drove his car to the frontstretch and parked in front of Bowman to prevent Bowman from a proper celebration on Bowman’s fourth win of the season.

Bowman insisted the contact with Hamlin was accidental and wondered why Hamlin was so angry because Hamlin has done the same to him.

“He crashed me at Texas last year.

Texted me and apologized. Said

he’d give me a ride on his jet,” Bowman said. “We’re even, I guess, after that. He crashed the heck out of me there. He got loose underneath me, exactly same thing just on a bigger racetrack. My point is the shoe has been on the other foot, we’ve been on both sides of it.”

Hamlin, who already has five Martinsville grandfather clocks, still advanced into the championship on points. But his JGR crew had to radio Hamlin to back off as he confronted Bowman, who gave Hendrick Motorsports its 16th win in 35 races this season and fourth in a row.

“He’s just a hack, just an absolute hack who gets his ass kicked every week by his teammates,” said Hamlin.

Hamlin will try for a fourth time to win his first Cup title. Both he and Larson, the heavy favorite and a nine-race winner this season, have never won a Cup Sweries championship. Elliott is the reigning champion and Truex, who had to nurse a wounded Toyota to a fourth-place finish Sunday to stop teammate Busch from bumping him out of the finale, has one previous title.

NHL defends disciplinary decisions in Blackhawks scandal The league fined Chicago $2 million and Florida coach Joel Quenneville resigned in the aftermath of sexual assault allegations against a former video coach

“While it may have optically not been the best look, I was more concerned with the substance than the look.”

MLB

The Associated Press

Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner

Melvin gets 3-year contract to manage Padres

COMMISSIONER Gary Bettman on Monday defended the NHL’s decisions and discipline meted out following an investigation into the Chicago Blackhawks’ handling of sexual assault allegations in 2010.

Bettman called the organization’s $2 million fine significant and stood by decisions to let Joel Quenneville coach one more game and not discipline Winnipeg general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff based on his limited role in Chicago’s front office at the time. Quenneville resigned as Florida Panthers coach after meeting with Bettman last week.

In his first public comments since the report detailing the Blackhawks investigation was released, Bettman said he did not want anyone to think he was prejudging Quenneville, who was Chicago’s coach when allegations surfaced that video coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted prospect Kyle Beach 11 years ago.

responsibility for — that based on what was available to him in his minor, relatively, position at the time, he had no reason to believe that anything other than the right things were going on.”

Cheveldayoff was scheduled to address reporters Monday, though that was pushed back by the Jets because owner Mark Chipman suffered a bout of vertigo over the weekend and insisted on being there for the news conference.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Monday the NHL first got a heads up about a potential lawsuit in December, though it was downplayed by Blackhawks counsel. “(Blackhawks lawyers) claimed to have looked into it,” he said.

“They said there was no merit.”

The first time the league learned of the specific allegations was May when the first suit was filed, according to Daly.

San Diego The San Diego Padres hired veteran manager Bob Melvin on Monday, the franchise’s effort to bring stability to a talented team that stumbled down the stretch last season.

Melvin inherits a team that had five All-Stars — including Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Jake Cronenworth — but underwhelmed after the trade deadline and finished with a losing record for the 10th time in 11 seasons.

Melvin has 18 years of managerial experience and was still under contract for one year with the Oakland Athletics, where he spent the last 11 years.

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The scandal surrounding the alleged sexual assault of Kyle Beach by a Chicago Blackhawks video coach more than a decade ago has led former coach Joel Quenneville and team executives to resign their positions.

“While it may have optically not been the best look, I was more concerned with the substance than the look,” Bettman said.

Asked if Quenneville was given any kind of ultimatum, Bettman said, “Joel ultimately concluded that the most sensible course of action was for him to resign.”

Cheveldayoff is the only person in Blackhawks management at the time who still works for an NHL club. Cheveldayoff was pres-

ent at a meeting about Beach’s allegations in May 2010, but the report by former federal prosecutor Reid Schar indicated the former assistant GM was the only one who recalled he was even there.

“Kevin was such a minor player in this,” Bettman said. “He had been with the Blackhawks for nine months. He was an assistant general manager with fairly limited responsibilities. This was not something that he not only had no

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BEST OVERALL ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Zach Hazelwood

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Asheboro’s Salem Lee hits out of a bunker on the 18th hole during Day 1 of the Class 3-A state tournament at Foxfire Resort and Golf Club’s Grey Course on Oct. 25.

Asheboro’s Lee places fifth in state golf Randolph Record staff SALEM LEE of Asheboro placed fifth in the Class 3-A state tournament for girls’ golf.

Lee shot 88 in the second round Oct. 26 to finish with a two-day total of 20-over-par 164 at Foxfire Resort and Golf Club’s Grey Course.

After a first-round 76 on the first day, Lee was just one shot behind first-round leader Emily Mathews of Eastern Alamance.

Lee and Mathews are both juniors.

Mathews went on to win the title, posting 69 on Tuesday to win the championship for the second season in a row.

Second place went to Sanaa Carter of Jacksonville with 156 after a pair of 78s. Jullian Fatkin of South Brunswick was third at 157 and Emma Niebauer of High Point Central placed fourth at 163 In Class 1-A/2-A, the top fin-

isher from Randolph County was Providence Grove’s Carline Wright in ninth place at Longleaf Golf and Family Club.

Wright shot round of 81 and 86 for a 23-over 167.

The winner was Gray Stone Day School’s Katelyn Griggs at 153 (74, 79).

Randleman’s Paulina Palmer ended up tied for 28th after two scores of 95 for 190 total.

Providence Grove’s Morgan Heilig tied for 31st place with scores of 96 and 97 for 193.

Southwestern Randolph’s Lexi Auman tied for 47th with 208 (96, 112) and teammate Lindsey Auman was 68th with 225 (113, 112).

Girls’ tennis Wheatmore’s Kara Comer was the lone entry from Randolph County in the individual state tournament.

Hendersonville’s Olivia Purs-

ley defeated Comer 7-5, 6-1 in the Class 2-A first round Friday at Ting Park in Holly Springs.

This came just a few days after Hendersonville’s team did damage to Wheatmore’s postseason.

Oct. 26 at Hendersonville, Wheatmore’s bid for a title run in the Class 2-A dual team state playoffs ended with a 6-0 loss to Hendersonville.

Hendersonville won all six singles matches, with the Nos. 2-5 matches resulting in shutouts.

At No. 1 singles, Pursley topped Comer by 6-1, 6-3. At No. 6 singles, Reece Redden of Hendersonville defeated Carmen Turgeon by 6-1, 6-3.

Doubles weren’t contested because the team outcome had been determined.

Wheatmore finished with a team record of 12-3-1.

Hendersonville headed to this week’s third round with a 15-0 mark.

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Left, Danny Palma of Uwharrie Charter Academy makes a move against Avery County in the first round of the Class 1-A state playoffs. Right, Asheboro players celebrate a goal during their Class 3-A game Monday night.

Soccer playoffs start with mixed results for area teams Randolph Record staff ASHEBORO -- For all the good that Asheboro and Eastern Randolph did during the regular season in boys’ soccer, it was gone in a flash.

Both teams were upset in the first round of the state playoffs Monday night.

There was better news for Trinity and Uwharrie Charter Academy as both teams moved to the second round.

In Class 3-A, Asheboro fell 2-1 in double-overtime to visiting No. 29 North Lincoln in the West Region.

The Blue Comets entered the postseason as the No. 4 seed. They finished the season with a 14-2-3 record.

Asheboro scored in the first half on Daniel Gutierrez Resendez’s goal. North Lincoln (10-12) tied the

game on a penalty kick in the second half.

Asheboro gained the top spot for seeding out of the Mid-Piedmont Conference after it tied with Ledford in the regular season. Both teams had 8-0-2 records, though the Blue Comets won a postgame shootout after last week’s tie to determine a seeding tiebreaker should one be necessary. It turned out to be necessary after each team completed its regular season by winning again.

Asheboro and Ledford tied 1-1 in two overtimes last week with each team scoring second-half goals. Jose Cortes scored for the Blue Comets, who then won the next night.

Asheboro defeated visiting Montgomery Central 5-0 in last Wednesday’s regular-season finale, with two goals from Diego Valdez Plata and one each from Ju-

lio Ruiz, Gutierrez Resendez and Cortes. That put the Blue Comets at 8-0-2 in league play.

In Class 2-A, No. 9 seed Trinity topped visiting North Surry 1-0 to open the state playoffs.

Trinity improved to 12-6-1.

No. 28 seed Wheatmore’s season ended with a 6-1 loss at North Forsyth. The Bulldogs ended up with a 9-9 record.

In Class 1-A, No. 6 seed UCA wiped out No. 27 seed Avery County 5-0 behind two goals from Danny Palma. Brady Mowers, Max DeNamur and Carlos Parroquin also scored for the Eagles. Mowers had two assists.

UCA (11-3-1) and Eastern Randolph tied in Piedmont Athletic Conference play, splitting two meetings. Eastern Randolph won 3-1 and UCA claimed the rematch by 5-1.

But No. 12 seed Eastern Randolph didn’t follow that success in the postseason. The Wildcats suffered a home upset to Cornerstone Charter, falling 5-4 in double overtime.

Despite the setback, Eastern Randolph (10-5-2) reached the four-goal mark for the 10th time in its last 12 games.

Eastern Randolph lost for the first time this season in a home game after a 6-0-1 mark in the regular season.

COURTESY OF WHEATMORE HIGH SCHOOL

Wheatmore, cross country Zach Hazelwood of Wheatmore qualified for the state championships in Class 2-A based on his 11th-place finish in Saturday’s Midwest Regional.

Hazelwood, a sophomore, finished one spot ahead of Providence Grove’s Robert Burton in 18 minutes, 32.99 seconds at Fisher River Park in Dobson. Hazelwood’s time marked the third-fastest for 5,000 meters in school history.

Burton had a time of 18:42.39. Providence Grove advanced to states, which will be held Saturday in Kernersville, as the third-place team behind West Stanly and Wilkes Central.

The top girls’ finisher from a Randolph County school was Providence Grove’s Mia Bowder in 11th place in 22:13.98. She joined teammates Sarah Majors (15th, 23:07.24) and Caroline DuVall (21st, 23:20.90) to move on to states.

In Class 1-A, Uwharrie Charter Academy’s Jazmin Palma (15th 23:42.1) and Abbie Gudino (18th, 23:59.75) qualified for states based on their Midwest Regional finishes at Ivey Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville.

Cougars make it to regional final Randolph Record staff ASHEBORO — Southwestern Randolph’s volleyball team dropped its first set of the state playoffs but went on to defeat McMichael in the fourth round in Class 2-A on Saturday.

The home-standing Cougars prevailed 22-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-21.

The second-seeded Cougars (26-5) were headed to the regional final Tuesday night at top-seeded East Surry.

In the match with McMichael, Payton Shiflet had 23 kills, 20 digs and three blocks, Madelyn Smith had 12 kills, Josie Allred had 10 kills and four blocks, Coley Shiflet had 21 digs, Carleigh Whitson had 15 digs and Raegan LeRoy had 46 assists and seven digs. The Cougars will face the winner of East Surry Tuesday.

“McMichael beat us early in the season and knowing what they were capable of was helpful at times but also a struggle,” Southwestern Randolph coach Darby Kennedy said. “I think we started out playing not to lose and we had to adjust our mindset to ‘What needs to happen to win?’”

Kennedy said the Cougars “started out tight and nervous.”

They moved on from that mode.

“Our back row had a great performance against a strong hitting team which carried us through our offense struggles at times,” Kennedy said. “I couldn’t be more proud of these girls and the continued effort they put in each and every day.”

Last Thursday night, Southwestern Randolph beat visiting West Stanly 25-9, 25-18, 25-19 for its third sweep in the playoffs.

LeRoy was credited with

39 assists and four aces, Payton Shiflet had 15 kills and 10 digs, Smith racked up 10 kills, Whitson provided 17 digs, Coley Shiflet made 11 digs and Allred had seven kills and two blocks.

Southwestern Randolph won in the second round by topping visiting Patton 25-18, 28-26, 2514.

Also in Class 2-A, Randleman suffered a 25-18, 25-17, 1725, 25-9 loss at fifth-seeded Brevard in the third round. The No. 13 seed Tigers finished with a 20-7 record.

Two nights earlier, Randleman used a 21-25, 25-13, 16-25, 25-19, 15-12 triumph at Lincoln Charter in the second round to keep its season alive.

Class 1-A Uwharrie Charter Academy’s playoff run ended with a fourthround loss Saturday at Murphy.

The scores were 25-17, 22-25, 25-12, 25-20.

The Eagles (20-6) had a sixmatch winning streak end.

Murphy (23-2) moved on to this week’s regional final.

UCA reached the fourth round by defeating visiting Gray Stone Day School 25-21, 25-18, 24-14 last Thursday.

During the third set, Gabi Greene notched six straight service points. Greene also had 12 kills, Madi Duval supplied seven kills and two blocks, Bre Brooks posted six kills and two blocks and Dacia Lowery added four kills and two blocks.

That marked the third straight sweep in playoff matches for the Eagles.

UCA won the Piedmont Athletic Conference Tournament by winning three matches in three days prior to the state playoffs.

Southwestern Randolph players celebrate their victory against Michael on Saturday.

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6 MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAMPIONS

The Southwestern Randolph Cougars Middle School Softball Team finished 13-1 to win the regular season title. The Cougars also went 3-0 in the conference tournament to win the conference Championship and complete the incredible season at 16-1.

Bottom row left to right: Riley Clapp, Nauttica Parrish, Maddie Strider, Kami Dunn, Chelsea Eudy, Makayla Aaron, Katelyn Haltom

COURTESY PHOTO

Top row left to right: Coach Benjie Cole, Chloe Eudy, Alyssa Harris, Kinlin Hulin, Cheyenne Dixon, Chloe Reeder, Sara-Kate Marion, Joanne Willoughby-Ray, Coach Toby Strider

PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Wildcats complete unbeaten regular season Providence Grove sinks Southwestern Randolph with final points

Randolph Record staff EASTERN RANDOLPH completed an undefeated regular season by whipping host Randleman 46-0 on Friday night.

The Wildcats (9-0 overall, 5-0 Piedmont Athletic Conference) received four touchdowns from Na’heim Lilly and two touchdowns from Elias Alston in securing the outright league title.

Lilly’s 34-yard run opened the scoring in the first quarter. He added a 2-yard run in the second quarter. He finished with 174 rushing yards on 20 carries.

Alston caught two touchdown passes from Stratton Barwick, the latter on a 52-yard play.

The Wildcats have posted shutouts in back-to-back games.

Randleman (4-6, 2-3), which lost three of its last four games, was limited to 136 yards of total offense.

The Tigers had won the past three meetings with Eastern Randolph.

Providence Grove 66, Wheatmore 12 At Trinity, Luke Thomas threw for three touchdowns as Providence Grove won its third game in a row to complete the regular season.

The Patriots (8-2, 4-1) will be the top seed out of the PAC for the Class 2-A state bracket because Eastern Randolph is a Class 1-A team.

Zane Cheek and Caleb Rogers both scored two touchdowns for the Patriots. Zander Cheek, Zach Lohr and Lemuel Coltrane all caught touchdown passes.

Chase Whitaker and Logan Fox

had touchdowns on interception returns.

Providence Grove led 35-0 in the second quarter.

Wheatmore (3-6, 0-5) received touchdowns from Reece Linton and Perry Welch.

Southwestern Randolph 53, Trinity 6 At Asheboro, Easton Clapp scored three touchdowns and had a big game on defense as Southwestern Randolph capped the best regular season in school history with a home romp.

The Cougars (8-2, 3-2) ended up in third place in the PAC. Clapp scored on runs of 40, 33 and 20 yards as part of gaining 127 rushing yards. He also intercepted two passes and made a tackle for a safety. He was credited with 10 tackles.

Teammate Adam Cole compiled 107 yards of total offense, scoring on runs of 7 and 5 yards.

Keaton Reed, who threw for a touchdown and ran for a touchdown, passed for 150 yards.

Bryson Reid made a touchdown catch.

Trinity (4-6, 1-4) finished the season on a three-game losing streak.

Montgomery Central 32, Asheboro 14 Wednesday night at Troy, Asheboro ended its season with a road loss and its ninth straight defeat overall.

The Blue Comets (1-9, 0-5 Mid-Piedmont Conference) won their opener at Randleman but never repeated that kind of result.

Asheboro scored on a Charles Perry run and on Tyshaun Goldston’s touchdown catch on a pass from Khyland Hadley-Lindsay in the finale.

Montgomery Central (1-8, 1-4) snapped a 12-game losing streak.

Na’heim Lilly runs for a touchdown during Eastern Randolph’s road victory at Randleman on Friday night.

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Bryson Reid of Southwestern Randolph has accomplished a lot on and off the field.

Reid picked for honor at Panthers game

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO – Two members of Southwestern Randolph’s football team will go from the state playoffs to the pros this weekend.

That’s because senior receiver Bryson Reid of the Cougars was selected as a recipient of a Carolina Panthers Community Captain Award.

As part of the program that honors players who excel in the classroom and the community, Reid has been invited by the Panthers for Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

“My teammates were so excited for me,” Reid said.

He selected Cougars quarterback Keaton Reed to be his guest for the NFL game-day experience.

Reid is part of the Beta Club at school and he’s involved in youth mission programs with First Baptist Church of Asheboro. Because Reid is a recipient of the award, the Panthers will make a $500 donation to the Southwestern Randolph athletics department.

“His character is what separates him,” football coach Seth Baxter said. “A great leader, and one of those kids you want representing your school.”

Baxter said Reid also made an impact on youngsters when he has been a counselor for youth camps at the school.

Reid, 17, said this will be the first time he attends a Panthers game.

Before that, he’ll be suiting up at least one more time for the Cougars. He’s also a cornerback and is involved on punt and kickoff returns.

Southwestern Randolph (8-2), which has compiled a school-record win total this year, is set to open the Class 2-A playoffs with Friday night’s home game against Polk County.

“It has been a great season,” Reid said. “We’ve been together since middle school. We’ve never really had a winning season.”

Other than when he was on the sideline as a ball boy several years ago, Reid said he has never been part of a football playoff game.

Reid’s junior season was cut short because of torn ankle ligaments. That caused him to miss a couple of baseball games in the spring.

This season, he said his favorite experience was the 4230 home victory against Starmount because of the atmosphere -- a “Blue-Out” with fans wearing school colors. He said he was most fond of teammate Adam Cole chasing down a Starmount ball carrier and causing a fumble – and then the reaction from the Cougars defenders as they blocked for a big return.

Reid said he’s still assessing his college options. He intends to major in political science.

PLAYOFFS PREVIEW

Looking for history Providence Grove, Southwestern Randolph seek playoff breakthroughs

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record THREE FOOTBALL teams from Randolph County will play in home games to begin the state playoffs, though one of them will have to wait an extra week before playing.

Undefeated Eastern Randolph (9-0) is the No. 1 seed for the Class 1-A West Region, receiving a bye to the second week of the playoffs. That’s when the Wildcats will be slated for a home game Nov. 12 against the Draughn / Elkin winner.

The others will be getting started Friday night. Here’s a look at those matchups.

Forest Hills at Providence Grove Eighth-seeded Providence Grove (8-2) takes on No. 25 seed Forest Hills (6-4) in a Class 2-A West Region game.

Providence Grove is trying to break through in the postseason.

It is 0-9 all-time in football playoff games.

The Patriots are undefeated against Class 2-A competition this season. Their losses came to teams (Eastern Randolph and Ledford) with a combined 16-3 record.

Forest Hills won three consecutive games before falling 38-9 at Monroe in the regular-season fi-

nale. In each of the Yellow Jackets’ last three losses they’ve surrendered at least 38 points.

Providence Grove has scored 40 or more points in seven of its eight victories. Topping that list was last week’s 66-12 victory at Wheatmore, with seven players scoring at least one touchdown.

The Patriots have reached the eight-win mark in each of the past two full seasons (not counting the abbreviated 2020 season that was shifted to this past spring).

Friday night’s winner will advance to meet the winner of the Community School of Davidson / East Gaston game. Providence Grove will be home again if it wins in the first round.

Polk County at Southwestern Randolph Also in Class 2-A, 16th-seeded Southwestern Randolph (8-2) is amid a historic season. This just adds to it.

The Cougars have set a school record for wins. This will be the program’s first home state-playoff game.

The next thing to mark off the list: Win a game in the state playoffs for the first time.

“We’ve had a great year,” coach Seth Baxter said. “Anytime you’re the only one to do something, that’s special. This is new to this community.”

The Cougars have racked up the most points in a season in school history. Six times they’ve eclipsed the 40-point mark.

Baxter said the players have embraced the season.

“They work as hard on the practice field as they do on the game field,” he said. “They’re just looking forward to playing this week.”

This will be the first meeting between the Cougars and No. 17 seed Polk County.

“We’ve got our work cut out for us this week,” Baxter said.

The winner will face either

top-seeded Shelby or 32nd-seeded Black Mountain Owen in the second round.

Randleman at Reidsville Randleman (4-6) made the field as the No. 29 seed in the West Region in Class 2-A. The Tigers will go to fourth-seeded Reidsville (9-0), which has made 27 appearances in state championship games and has won state titles the past three seasons.

The chance to play another game is a reward for the Tigers.

They picked up some momentum in the middle of the season after beginning with an 0-3 start.

“We’re a better football team now than after that Asheboro game (to open the season),” Randleman coach Shane Timmons said.

The Tigers have lost three of their last four games.

Friday’s winner will face either Chase or Pine Lake Prep.

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obituaries

Natasha Lynn Smith February 1, 1979 ~ October 26, 2021

Natasha Lynn Smith, 42, passed away Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at Randolph Hospital.

Born February 1, 1979, she was the daughter of Kenneth Jarreth Smith II and Johnnie Henderson Elliott.

Natasha received her formal education from Southwest High School and later attended Beauty School. She enjoyed spending time with her children. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Carisha Lynn Smith; step father, Michael Lawrence Robert Elliott and grandmother, Ellen Hasty.

Natasha is survived by her parents; children, Michael Tarell Smith, Jayden Mitchell Hussey, Mattie Adayah Lynn Hussey, Howard John Easton Jarrett Hussey and Nevaeh Lynn Smith; granddaughter, Carisha Marie Smith; aunt, Charlene Cattoi; and cousins, Jami Hopkins and Kory Moody.

A celebration of life will be held at 5:00pm, Saturday, October 30, 2021, at Shadow of the Cross Church, 314 Crestview Church Rd, Asheboro, NC. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made directly to the family; Johnnie Elliott, 1133 Forest Oaks Dr, Asheboro, NC 27205.

Betty Hughes Davis

John Henry Strickland

1933 2021

1937 2021

Betty Auman Hughes Davis, age 88, of Asheboro, passed away on October 29, 2021 at Meridian Center in High Point.

Mrs. Davis was born in Randolph County on April 9, 1933 to Arcus and Edith Moore Auman. She was retired from Black & Decker with over 15 years of service and was a member of Flag Springs United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, Betty was preceded in death by her first husband, Frank Vestal Hughes, Sr., her son, Frank Vestal Hughes, Jr., and her second husband, Richard Alton Davis. Betty loved reading outside and spending time with her family.

She is survived by her daughters, Sonia Michael (James) of Richmond, KY and Leslie Isabel of Randleman; 9 grandchildren; and 9 great grandchildren.

A graveside service will be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 2:00 pm at Flag Springs United Methodist Church Cemetery, 5852 Zoo Parkway, Asheboro

John Henry Strickland, age 84, of Asheboro passed away on October 30, 2021 at High Point Medical Center.

Mr. Strickland was born in Robeson County, NC on June 27, 1937 to Herbert and Caddy Lowery Strickland. John was retired from Lowe’s Hardware and was a member of Fayetteville Street Baptist Church. John was a hard worker all of his life and loved to make everyone laugh. He loved providing for his family and spoiling his wife that he affectionately named “Fancy.” Most of all he adored his family and they loved him back unconditionally.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Frances Hoover Strickland; daughters, Dessaree Walter of Asheboro and Tonya Bivins (Louis) of Asheboro; grandchildren, Taylor Elizabeth Walter, Jonathan “Hunter” Walter (Kelsey), Anna Ashton Dawkins (Matthew), and James Breckenridge “Breck” Bivins; great grandchildren, Russell John Walter and Dallas Ashton Dawkins; and sister, Bernice Helvey of Florida.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, November 4, 2021 from 10:00-10:45 am at Fayetteville Street Baptist Church, 901 North Fayetteville Street in Asheboro. Funeral services will follow on Thursday at 11:00 am at Fayetteville Street Baptist Church with Rev. Randy Browder and Rev. Bruce McLanahan officiating. Burial will follow in New Hope Memorial Gardens.

Dwight Glenn Yow 1962 2021

Dwight Glenn Yow, age 59, of Seagrove passed away on October 30, 2021 at High Point Hospital.

Mr. Yow was born in Pinehurst on October 19, 1962 to Jerome and Mary Bullins Yow. He was employed with Technimark for 18 years. In addition to his parents, Dwight was preceded in death by his brothers, Jimmy and Doug Yow. Dwight liked to hunt, but mostly enjoyed spending time with his friends.

He is survived by his wife, Lorraine Inman Yow; sons, Kevin Yow (Tabitha) and Eric Yow; daughter, Lanna Trantham (Daniel); 6 grandchildren; and sisters, Becky Underwood (Danny) and Phyllis Jones (Jeff).

The family will receive friends on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 11:00-11:45 am at Lighthouse Baptist Church of Seagrove, 6220 US Hwy 220, Asheboro. Funeral services will follow on Wednesday at 12:00 noon at Lighthouse Baptist Church with Rev. Michael Poindexter officiating. Burial will follow at the Union Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, 7912 Union Grove Church Road in Seagrove.

Memorials may be made to Lighthouse Baptist Church of Seagrove, 6220 US Hwy 220, Asheboro, NC 27205.

Mac McCarty April 13, 1944 October 27, 2021

Charles Thomas McNeill 1963 2021 Charles Thomas McNeill, age 58, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 29, 2021 at Wake Forest Baptist - Wilkes Medical Center. He was a resident at Accordius Health - Wilkesboro in Wilkesboro, NC. Charles was the son of the late Daniel McNeill and Margaret Lamb McNeill. He was also proceeded in death by brother Robert McNeill, sisters Ruth Ann McNeill, Betty Coley, Belinda Conney and Wendy McNeill as well as special friends Joe & Lou Upchurch and Jerry Upchurch.

He is survived by sisters, Shirley McNeil and Peggy Sizemore of Galax, VA and Terri Bottoms (Charlie) of Bolivia, NC and several nieces and nephews.

He is also survived by special friends Margaret Upchurch, Jo Anne Ganey, Wayne Upchurch and Jamie Phillips and the activities team at Accordius.

Charles loved “working” (doing crafts at Accordius), anything to do with First Responders and listening to preaching or gospel music. He loved the Lord, his family and friends with the purest love known to man.

A graveside funeral will be held at Union Grove Baptist Church in Asheboro, NC on Tuesday, November 2nd at 1:00 p.m. with Dr. Ronnie Chaney officiating.

The family would like to thank the amazing caregivers at Accordius Health - Wilkesboro as well as Mountain Valley Hospice.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Activities Fund at Accordius of Wilkesboro, 1000 College Street, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

Elmer Leroy ‘Mac’ McCarty, Jr., of Asheboro, NC passed away on October 27, 2021 at the age of 77. Born April 13, 1944 at Providence Hospital in Columbia, SC, he was the son of the late Cornelia Katherine ‘Connie’ Rebatch McCarty and Elmer Leroy ‘Mac’ McCarty, Sr. Mac is survived by his son Elmer Leroy ‘Tripp’ McCarty, III (Nicole) of Bloomfield, NJ, his daughter Ruthanne McCarty Pratt (Nevin) of Huntsville, AL, 3 adored grandchildren (Samuel, Augustus, and Jaden), his sister Barbara Ann McCarty of Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the mother of his children, Dianne McIntosh McCarty of Columbia, SC. He was predeceased by his parents Cornelia and Elmer McCarty, Sr.; his grandparents, Charles and Jessie Rebatch; and beloved grandchildren Audra McCarty and Kaiden Pratt.

The family would also like to recognize Craig Smith of Asheboro, NC, Mac’s friend and neighbor, and thank him for the help he gave to Mac over the years and being with him till the end.

Mac was a member of St John’s Lutheran church in Asheboro, as well as a former member of Redeemer Lutheran church in Columbia. He was baptized and confirmed at Ebenezer Lutheran church, also in Columbia.

Memorial services will be at Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Columbia, SC on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021, at 11:00 am. The service will be conducted by Reverend Paul Aebischer and Vicar James Dahl. Burial will be private.

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Dennis Brandon Hill 1987 2021

Dennis “Brandon” Hill, 34, of Sophia died Thursday, October 28, 2021 in Asheboro.

Brandon was born in Orange County, NC to parents Dennis Brady and Lynne Hill and attended Southwestern Randolph High School. He was formerly employed Thompson Roofing Services. He was a loving husband and father. He loved being in the outdoors and enjoyed planting his sunflowers. He was never shy about lending a helping hand. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, April Charlene Brady and grandfather, Charlie Routh.

He is survived by his wife, Jennifer “Kaylyn” Alexander Hill; Children, Zoey Hill, Christopher “ Bubba” Hill, McKenzie Renee Alexander, and Keaton McLaughlin; Twin Sister, Bridgett Smith and her husband Ben; Mother in law, Lori A. Patterson of Sophia; Father in law, Roger Ammons of Asheboro; Step Father, Mark Jarrell of Asheboro; Grandmother, Rose Routh of Asheboro; Grandfather, Gene Brady and his wife Vonnie of Asheboro; Adoptive Mother, Christina Church; nieces, Aly and Avery; Aunts, Katherine Moore of Texas, Geraldine Latham of Asheboro, Rita Routh Johnson and her husband, Todd of Franklinville, and Teresa Kirkman of Randleman; Uncle, Tim Brady and his wife Wendy of Asheboro.

The family will receive friends on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue in Asheboro. A graveside service will be held on Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 2:00 pm at the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery, 5474 Pleasant Hill Road in Seagrove.

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Steve Alexander Campbell 1954 2021

Steve Alexander Campbell, age 67, died October 31, 2021, at High Point Hospital.

Steve was born January 8, 1954, in Moore County to William Alexander and Mary Bowman Campbell.

Steve was a longtime backhoe operator, the owner/operator of Campbell’s Mobile Home Park and Campbell’s Mulch, both in Asheboro. He enjoyed fishing and hunting and riding his grandchildren on the golf cart. They were the light of his life. Steve’s daughter, Christy Campbell preceded him in death.

Steve is survived by his: wife: Linda B. Campbell; sons: Jeremy Steve (Ellane) Campbell and Jason Alexander (Jenny) Campbell, both of Randleman, NC; grandchildren: Christina, Eric, David and Gabe, and his special K-9 companion: Bear.

The family will receive friends, Tuesday, November 2, 2021, at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Ave. Asheboro, NC from 6-8 PM. The funeral service will be in the funeral home Chapel on Wednesday, November 3, 2021, at 1:00 PM with Pastor Jon Shook officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memorial Park.

Doris Tally Lucas, 83, of Asheboro, NC, died Sunday, October 31, 2021, at her home.

Graveside services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Friday, November 5, 2021, at Oaklawn Cemetery with Pastor Boyd Byerly and Dr. J. F. Howard, Sr. officiating.

Born in Cabarrus County, NC, on September 30, 1938, Doris was the daughter of the late Albert Luther Tally and Elma Zorada Auten Tally. She received her BA in Education from High Point College, where she served as the editor of the year book Zenith.

She was a teacher at South Asheboro Junior High and then Asheboro High School for 33 years. Doris was a member of the NEA, Phi Mu Sorority and the NCAE. At an early age she started playing piano at her home church, Cold Springs United Methodist Church in Concord. She was a member of Central United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday school and Bible school.

Surviving are her husband, William Ronald Lucas, Sr.; sons, William Ronald “Ronnie” Lucas Jr. (Julie), Stephen Lucas and Michael Lucas (Allison); grandchildren, Ryan Lucas (Whitney), Paige Shaffer (Brian), Morganne Bowman (Jesse), Jordan Lucas; great grandchildren, Lillyanna Shaffer and Dawson Shaffer.

Doris will lie in repose from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m., Thursday, November 4, 2021, at Ridge Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to CUOC, 930 South Fayetteville St., Asheboro, NC 27203; Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen. P.O. Box 682, Asheboro, NC 27204; or to Family Crisis Center, P.O. Box 2161, Asheboro, NC 27204.

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Sen. Burr under investigation again for pandemic stock sales

By Brian Slodysko The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for potential insider trading, a case that stems from their abrupt sales of financial holdings during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent federal court filings.

Burr, a Republican, is among several lawmakers from both parties who faced outrage over their aggressive trading in early 2020, before the economic threat from the virus was widely known. That fueled accusations that the members of Congress were acting on inside information gained through their official duties to benefit financially, which is illegal under a law known as the STOCK Act. Burr was previously investigated by the Trump administration’s Justice Department for offloading $1.6 million from his portfolio in January and February 2020. The

department cleared him of wrongdoing almost a year later.

But the SEC continued to investigate Burr, according to court documents filed in the Southern District of New York that were first made public last week. The agency enforces federal securities law.

Attorneys for Burr as well as for Gerald Fauth, who is the brother of Burr’s wife, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Burr has previously denied any wrongdoing.

The filings stem from a case brought by the SEC to force Fauth to comply with a subpoena. The agency argued that his close relationship with Burr and a phone call between the two, followed by calls to Fauth’s brokers, made his testimony “critical.”

“Whether Fauth was himself tipped with inside information from Senator Burr, and whether Fauth knew Senator Burr was violating his duties under the STOCK Act by conveying that information, are matters Fauth is uniquely positioned to speak to,” the SEC

said in a filing.

To bolster their case, SEC attorneys released a timeline of phone calls from Feb. 13, 2020, the day Burr sold off the vast majority of his portfolio. It was roughly one week before the stock market went into a tailspin.

At the time Burr had “material nonpublic information concerning Covid-19 and its potential impact on the U.S. and global economies” some of which he “learned through his position” as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and from former staffers directing the government’s coronavirus response, the SEC alleges in the court filing.

That day, after Burr instructed his own broker to sell, he spoke with Fauth in a call that lasted 50 seconds.

One minute later, the court document states, Fauth called one of his brokers. Two minutes later, he called another broker and gave instructions to sell shares in his wife’s account.

Later that day, Burr, who was staying at the Fauths’ home in sub-

urban Washington, logged into his online brokerage account from an IP address registered to Fauth’s wife, court records state.

Burr has drawn perhaps the most scrutiny of all members of Congress for his trades in the early days of the pandemic. He was captured in a recording privately warning a group of influential constituents in early 2020 to prepare for economic devastation.

Burr denied trading on private information, but stepped aside from his position as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee after the FBI obtained a search warrant to seize a cellphone.

Burr is not seeking reelection next year. He was elected to the Senate in 2004 after a 10-year run in the House.

The STOCK Act, the statute which Burr and Fauth are being investigated under, was passed with bipartisan support in 2012 following a congressional stock-trading scandal. It was cheered by government ethics groups and watchdogs as a long-overdue step.

But in the nearly decade since,

no one has been convicted under the law. Meanwhile, congressional stock trading has continued apace.

Legal experts say such insider trading cases are exceptionally difficult to prosecute because they require definitively proving whether someone acted on nonpublic information. That hinges on demonstrating intent — a high burden.

That’s part of why SEC investigators are trying to get a court order to force Fauth to testify a-yearand-a-half after they first issued a subpoena.

Fauth, a government official who serves as chairman of the National Mediation Board, has repeatedly cited his health as a reason for not complying. His attorneys have said it is a valid reason.

But he has continued to tend to his duties for the mediation board, participating in calls and meetings. He was recently nominated for another three-year term and appeared last month with the agency’s attorney to be interviewed by Republican Senate staffers before his confirmation hearing for the post.

“When he appeared for that interview, Fauth does not appear to have followed (his) physician’s advice that he avoid ‘stressful situations,’” the SEC wrote in the court filing.

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In this June 17, 2021, file photo, Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Report: NC nonprofit hospitals falling short on charity care

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — Many North Carolina nonprofit hospitals are falling short in treating the poor for free or reduced rates to validate their tax-exempt status, State Treasurer Dale Folwell said last week while highlighting a university report on charity care.

Johns Hopkins University expanded its national analysis on hospital care for low-income residents to focus on North Carolina hospitals with the help of the State Health Plan, which covers medical costs state employees, teachers, retirees and dependents. Folwell’s agency oversees the plan.

The report found that the state’s largest nonprofit hospital systems received more than $1.8 billion in estimated federal, state and local tax breaks for a 12-month period ending in 2019 or 2020, depending on how a system’s finances are accounted. But charity care spending — expenses for which they don’t expect to receive payment — for a majority of these systems failed to exceed 60% of the value of the system’s tax breaks.

Those that failed to reach that 60% threshold included Duke Health, Vidant Health and Novant Health, according to the re-

port, which examined financial records and information filed with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. WakeMed exceeded its tax-break value. Of the several dozen nonprofit hospitals in the state, fewer than 25 exceeded their tax exemption values with charity-care spending, the report said.

Nonprofits, which can retain revenues left over after expenses, are supposed to provide significant community benefits to justify their tax status to the IRS, the report said. They can avoid paying property or income taxes, or get reimbursed for state and local sales taxes.

“The question is why should the taxpayers continue to subsidize these nonprofit hospitals?” asked Ge Bai, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health involved in the analysis.

“Why should local communities be deprived of their property tax revenues and other tax revenues that would allow them to fund local schools, parks and other public services?”

The North Carolina Healthcare Association, which represents for-profit and nonprofit hospitals and hospital system, didn’t immediately have a response Wednes-

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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is featured in this undated file photo. day about the report’s detailed finding. But it said the study didn’t reflect many other financial benefits that hospitals provide to their coverage areas, including research, health worker training, inkind donations and preparations for local disasters.

“North Carolina’s nonprofit

hospitals annually submit audits to state and federal tax regulators who determine each year that hospitals meet their tax status obligations,” the association said in a written statement.

The association said North Carolina hospitals and hospital systems provided $1.1 billion in char-

ity care overall in 2019 and took close to $3.5 billion in combined losses to treat patients covered

by Medicaid and Medicare. Bai said including such Medicaid and Medicare figures in charity totals can be misleading.

The State Health Plan spends $3 billion on health care and pharmacy services annually to cover up to 750,000 people.

Folwell, a Republican reelected in 2020, has been critical of large, ever-consolidating hospital systems for what he calls excessive and opaque pricing while he’s working to control plan costs.

The plan has been told often that health care expenses are higher in part because the costs are used to cover care for the uninsured and underinsured, the report said.

The report said North Carolina policymakers could require certain levels of charity care, as some other states have done, with consequences for failing to meet them, such as limiting or rescinding tax-favored treatment.

“We need solid, accountable and auditable benchmarks for what (the) definition of charitable care is so that the average person can figure out whether these entities are actually earning the right to continue to be nonprofit entities,” Folwell told reporters.

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Hay bales and spooky tales: Stanly residents celebrate all things fall at downtown Albemarle’s 2021 Autumn Extravaganza. After a scaled-back 2020 event, the festival was back in full swing, with music, movies, trick-or-treating and the costume contest.

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Nov. 12 declared Non-Instructional Professional Workday Stanly County The Stanly County school system announced, after a board of education meeting, that Nov. 12 would be a noninstructional professional workday for all schools in the district. This would apply to students whether they were in person or remote. “The SCS Board of Education clearly recognizes the fatigue, hard work, and unprecedented challenges the past year and a half have taken on our staff, students, and families throughout the community,” the announcement said. “As a Board, we believe that the well-being of everyone’s social and emotional health is crucial in continuing to push forward providing a safe, productive educational environment for our students. Please use this time to re-energize and plan for the coming days ahead. The Board of Education is truly thankful for all that you do and your diligent work has not gone unnoticed.” The district said they will still meet the required 1,025 instructional hours despite this additional time off, and athletic and extracurricular activities may still take place on Nov. 12 as scheduled.

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Former hospital executive wins $10M in discrimination case Mecklenburg County A former top executive in Novant Health, who claimed in a lawsuit that he lost his job because he is a white male, was awarded $10 million by a federal jury. In his 2019 lawsuit, David Duvall said he lost his job as senior vice president of marketing and communication due to efforts to diversify top leadership positions. The jury said Novant Health failed to prove that it would have dismissed Duvall regardless of his race. Duvall was fired in 2018 without warning or explanation and replaced by two women, one black and one white.

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Stanly County celebrates Halloween ALBEMARLE — Over the Halloween weekend, Stanly County celebrated a number of events across the area. While in 2020, events were largely scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 saw their full return.

The main event for the county, per tradition, was the Autumn Extravaganza, held Thursday, Friday and Saturday in downtown Albemarle. This annual event is a major feature of the year

and celebrates everything fall related — including Halloween costumes, pumpkins and ghost stories.

On Thursday, there was a costume parade, trick-or-treating, a costume contest and a haunted 5k race. There was some rain that evening, but the city of Albemarle said on social media that “The rain didn’t dampen the fun at last night’s Fall Festival!”

Friday saw a couple of events put on by the Stanly County History Center. First, at 5 and 6 p.m., there was a 45-minute Ghost

Walk tour of downtown Albemarle, which started at the History Center, and then afterwards, at the Historic Snuggs House, they held an event called “The Mourning of Ellen Snuggs.” According to the flyer, it said “This candlelight tour will explore the unusual and often bizarre customs and rituals of death and mourning during the Victorian era of 1886.”

Later that evening, at City Lake Park, the parks and recreation department played the 1988 movie “Beetlejuice,” featuring Alec Baldwin, Michael Keaton and Winona

Ryder. There was a food-truck rodeo on site for those gathered.

Also on Friday, the Stanly County Sheriff’s Office held their annual Trunk or Treat from 6 to 8 p.m. behind the courthouse, which was well attended.

The next day, for the big finale, there was a farmer’s market and craft fair in the morning, and then the main event — a street fair with music and food into the late afternoon. The band, “The Legacy Motown Revue,” brought people to their feet to dance to classic oldies hits.

Bus-driver protest Monday leaves Stanly parents scrambling Protest called for higher wages

Stanly County Commons,” one protestor, Ashley Garner, said in a Facebook Live video. “Take a look at our signs. My sign says ‘Bus Drivers Matter too.’ And I guess

By David Larson y’all are experiencing that we matStanly County Journal ter. We need a raise. We need a ALBEMARLE — Bus drivers raise. Some have been drivers for for Stanly County Schools decid- 20 years and are not at top pay. ed to stage a walk-out on Mon- Stanly County Schools is the lowest paid district for the day, Nov. 1, taking classified worker.” many students, parShe said she wished ents and administramore people would tors by surprise. The support their cause by protest was meant as “I’m sorry a call for higher wag- about having to honking their horns, calling their school es amid growing inboard members and flation and mimicked inconvenience by attending school similar bus-driver pro- parents. I’m meetings to detests in other North sorry about the board mand higher pay for Carolina districts, like kids, because classified workers.

Wake County.

“This is something The protestors we do care we had to come out called for raises for all here and do. If y’all classified workers in about the kids. are inconvenienced, the district, not just But you know we are sorry for that,” bus drivers. Classified Garner said to parents workers are those in what? We’ve support roles that don’t got to take care and others who were affected by the protest. need to be certified by of ourselves “But we had to come the state and include out here and stand up cafeteria workers, jan- too.” for our rights. itors, substitute teachGarner then handers and bus drivers.

Protester for ed it over to another On social media, protester, saying, “We many parents report- increasing wages got Kim right here, ed that they were not and she has led this given any warning that thing up. Kim, what the bus drivers would be missing, and their children did you want to say?”

The second woman then spoke, were left waiting at bus stops.

“Our kids are still standing at saying, “I want to say this. It has bus stops,” one mother fumed. been talked about since March per Gov. Cooper. Gov. Cooper prom“No phone call either!”

“Well no one has called and I ised us a pay raise and an acrosshope kids are not marked absent the-board COVID hazard pay. nor late because of no bus driv- Stanly County has not received eiers!” another mom said. “Stan- ther. We deserve more than what ly County ought to be shame not we get. Stanly County classified workers are always on the backpaying our bus drivers!”

But the missing drivers did burner. It is time for a change. It is show up on social media in videos time now. Y’all come support us.” and photos of their protest.

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This photo shows current Stanly Solar operations as they prepare to begin producing power for the region.

Renewable energy company announces Stanly Solar facility

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provide construction jobs to dozens of workers, infuse money into local businesses and provide tax revenue to the town of Albemarle,” Ben Catt, CEO of Pine Gate Renewables, said in an Oct. 20 press release. “We’re excited to secure yet another significant solar project in our home state.”

The new alternating current solar facility is financed by a 20-year power purchase agreement with the Competitive Procurement of Renewable Energy program through Duke Energy Carolinas. The Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group gave the construction and permanent loan, while John Hancock provided the preferred equity, and Churchill Stateside Group provided the tax equity.

Sean Andersen, Pine Gate Renewables’ director of project development, told SCJ that the first pre-construction activities for Stanly Solar began in January and the facility is on track to reach service and commercial

ALBEMARLE — Pine Gate Renewables, a nationwide provider of solar energy development, recently confirmed the ongoing construction of its second Stanly County project.

Earlier this year, Albemarle Solar — the company’s first facility within the county — went online with 2.78 megawatts of energy; Pine Gate Renewables’ upcoming project will be 25-times stronger in comparison.

Located 10 miles southwest of Albemarle on a property that flanks Old Aquadale Road, Stanly Solar is slated to generate 50MW of renewable energy that could power up to 10,000 homes in the Albemarle community. On average, the Solar Energy Industry Association estimates that one megawatt of energy can produce enough energy for about 200 homes on an annual basis.

“In addition to generating clean energy, Stanly Solar will See ENERGY, page 2

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South Carolina man indicted for 1985 NC murder The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM — A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted a man who admitted to an innocence panel that he broke into a woman’s house 36 years ago and killed her, adding that the man sent to prison for the crime was nowhere to be seen that night.

Darren Leak Johnson, 55, confessed to investigators with the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission that he alone killed Blanche Ragins Bryson, according to commission records.

On Monday, Johnson was indicted for first-degree murder in Bryson’s death.

Johnson told investigators and Winston-Salem police that Merritt Drayton Williams, who is

currently serving a life sentence for Bryson’s death, was not on the scene Dec. 10, 1985. Johnson’s DNA was found on Bryson’s nail clippings.

The Innocence Commission unanimously ruled in June 2019 that there was sufficient evidence that Williams did not kill Bryson. A panel of three superior court judges has to now schedule a hearing to determine whether Williams should be exonerated. According to court papers, the hearing had been scheduled for the week of Nov. 29, but Williams’ attorney, Julie Boyer, has asked that the hearing be rescheduled for February 2022, saying her ability to prepare has been hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Williams, 63, is currently serv-

ing two life sentences, plus 10 years in three separate homicides.

Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill has criticized the commission’s work and called it a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Bryson, a 65-year-old retiree who lived alone in a house in Winston-Salem, was found by her son strangled with a lamp cord wrapped around her neck. Her house had been ransacked and her car was found about a mile from her house.

The indictment moves Johnson’s case to Forsyth Superior Court, where either a date for a trial will be set or prosecutors and Johnson’s attorneys can negotiate a plea deal. It will be at least a year, if not more due to the pandemic, before the case is resolved.

Even though Johnson made

statements to investigators with the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission that he acted alone in killing Bryson and that Williams was not there, Forsyth County prosecutors have contended they believe Williams made consistent statements about his involvement. They also said Johnson has admitted he was on LSD at the time. Prosecutors argue that Johnson and Williams could have broken into Bryson’s house and that Johnson just does not remember because of his drug use.

The only other person convicted in Bryson’s death was Robbin Carmichael, who confessed to his role in Bryson’s murder after he was arrested on unrelated charges. Carmichael had some of Bryson’s stolen items and his fingerprints were on Bryson’s car.

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WEEKLY CRIME LOG ♦ Floyd, Arthur Lee (B /M/56) Arrest on chrg of 1) Larceny After Break/enter (F) and 2) Possession Of Burglary Tools (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 11/1/2021

♦ Tucker, Bradley James (W /M/53) Cited on Charge of Fail To Stop For Stopped Bus (202100837), at 323 S Main St/ivey St, Norwood, NC, on 10/27/2021.

♦ Payne, Anthony Earl (W /M/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Larceny Of Motor Vehicle (f) (F), 2) Poss Stolen Goods/prop (f) (F), and 3) Surrender By Surety (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/1/2021

♦ Brewer, Jacob Obrien (W /M/25) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F), 2) Felony Possession Sch I Cs (F), 3) Simple Possess Sch Iv Cs (m) (M), and 4) Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (F), at 126 S 3rd St, Albemarle, NC, on 10/26/2021

♦ Akers, Steven Edward (W /M/39) Arrest on chrg of Surrender By Surety (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/1/2021

Michael Timothy Forrest October 29, 1946 – October 30, 2021

Michael Timothy Forrest, 75, of Albemarle passed away on Saturday, October 30, 2021 at his home surrounded by family. Visitation will be held from 6-8PM on Friday, November 5, 2021 at Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Albemarle. A graveside service to celebrate Mr. Forrest will be held at 2PM on Saturday, November 6, 2021 in the Canton Baptist Church Cemetery officiate by Rev. Mark Forrest.

Mr. Forrest was born October 29, 1946 in Stanly County to the late Homer William Forrest and Lois Marie Hatley Forrest. Mike enjoyed being outdoors, gardening, fishing, carpentry, and raising all sorts of animals. His favorite joy in life was spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. He was known for his sense of humor. Mike could make anyone laugh and everyone who met him loved him.

Michael is survived by his wife of 55 years Sue Burleson Forrest, daughter: Angela Price (Terry) of Monroe, NC; sons: Todd Forrest (Tonda) of Albemarle, and David Forrest (Amanda) of Albemarle; grandchildren: Brantley Forrest (Elizabeth) of Norwood, Logan Forrest of Albemarle, Jordan Cheek (Victoria) of Aberdeen, Jessica McIntyre (Ryan) of Albemarle, Bradley Price of Akin, SC, Dillon Handy of Albemarle; great-grandchildren: Jace, Max, Branson, and Brody Forrest, Rylynn and Nolan McIntyre, Jade and Violet Cheek; brothers: Richard Forrest (Lynn) of Albemarle, Johnny Forrest (Phyllis) of Norwood; sisters: Vickey Newell of West Chester, PA, and Aleisa Crowder of Albemarle.

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♦ Davenport, Christopher Douglas (W /M/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female (M) and 2) Resisting Public Officer (M), at 36120 Rocky River Springs Rd, Norwood, NC, on 11/1/2021 ♦ Mullis, Kimberly Ann (W /F/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F), 2) Simple Possess Sch Vi Cs (m) (M), and 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at Us 52 Hwy, Norwood, NC, on 10/31/2021 ♦ Munoz, Lucio (W /M/28) Arrest on chrg of 1) Resisting Public Officer (M), 2) Felony Possession Of Cocaine (F), and 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 24/27-coble Avenue, Albemarle, NC, on 10/31/2021 ♦ Rummel, James Rolland (W /M/51) Arrest on chrg of Obtain Property False Pretense (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 10/30/2021 ♦ Wainwright, Barry Jay (W /M/34) Arrest on chrg of Resisting Public Officer, M (M), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 10/30/2021 H ♦ olmes, Brandon (B /M/38) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possession Of Stolen Firearm (F), 2) Pwisd Cocaine (F), and 3) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), at 24/27, NC, on 10/30/2021 ♦ Martinez, Beda Baza (W /F/33) Arrest on chrg of Surrender By Surety (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 10/28/2021

Concealment Goods, M(M), at 781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, on 10/25/2021 ♦ Smith, Paul Jason (W M, 39) Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired, M (M), at 412Homestead Ln, Albemarle, on 10/29/2021. ♦ Nicklin, Debra Michelle (W F, 38) Arrest on chrg of Obtain Property False Pretense(F), at 781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, on 10/26/2021

♦ Hammonds, David Keith (B /M/41) Arrest on chrg of Civil Order For Arrest - Child Support (M), at South 3rd Street, Albemarle, NC, on 10/26/2021

♦ Lynch, Kenzie Tyqwon (B M, 19) Arrest on chrg of Resisting Public Officer, M (M),at 521 Smith St/e Mcgill St, Albemarle, on 10/27/2021.

♦ Garney, James Nathaniel A (W /M/26) Arrest on chrg of Assault And Battery (M), at 39653 Matt Neal Rd, Albemarle, NC, on 10/26/2021

♦ Strother, Hal Davis (W M, 21) Arrest on chrg of Fail To Work After Paid (M), at 2322Us 52 North, Albemarle, on 10/27/2021

♦ Flemming, Walter Eric (B M, 56) Arrest on chrg of Robbery With Dangerous Weapon(F), at 1524 Amhurst St, Albemarle, on 10/30/2021 ♦ Kindell, Holly Rickera (B /F/32) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive From Justice, F (F), at 126 S. 3rd St., Albemarle, NC, on 10/26/2021 ♦ Willoughby, Trevor Matthew (W /M/20) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault With Deadly Weapon (m) (M) and 2) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), at 12247 Oak Grove Rd, Stanfield, NC, on 10/26/2021 ♦ Bennett, Mario Denard (B /M/38) Cited on Charge of Simple Possess Sch Ii Cs (202100828), at 323 S Main St/ivey St, Norwood, NC, on 10/26/2021 ♦ Hammonds, David Keith (B /M/41) Arrest on chrg of Fail Reprt New Address-sex Off (F), at Foodlion, Norwood, NC, on 10/25/2021 ♦ Evans, Christopher James (W /M/35) Arrest on chrg of Hit/run Leave Scene Prop Dam, M (M), at 201 S 2nd St, Albemarle, NC, on 10/25/2021 ♦ Harris, Lydia Reid (W F, 55) Arrest on chrg of Shoplifting

♦ Bennett, Berwyn Trey-mon (B M, 28) Arrest on chrg of Pwisd Marijuana, F (F), at 200Henson St, Albemarle, on 10/28/2021 ♦ Turner, Hayley Cheyanne (W F, 24) Arrest on chrg of Felony Larceny (F), at 1713Johnson St, Albemarle, on 10/28/2021 ♦ Turner, Hayley Cheyanne (W F, 24) Arrest on chrg of Obtain Property False Pretense(F), at 1713 Johnson St, Albemarle, on 10/28/2021 ♦ Martinez, Alexandra (A F, 29) Arrest on chrg of Resisting Public Officer, M (M), at2349 E Main St/ nc 24-27-73 Hwy, Albemarle, on 10/28/2021 ♦ Brown, Boyce Levon (B M, 35) Arrest on chrg of Simple Assault, M (M), at 126 SThird St, Albemarle, on 10/31/2021 ♦ Funderburk, Nathan Allen (B M, 39) Arrest on chrg of Resisting Public Officer (M), at157 S Morrow Av, Albemarle, on 10/30/2021 ♦ Blizzard, Mercedes Katherine (W F, 22) Arrest on chrg of Assault And Battery, M(M), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 10/29/2021 ♦ Smith, Paul Jason (W M, 39) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 412Homestead Ln, Albemarle, on 10/29/2021

DEATH NOTICES ♦ Cheryl Davis, 63, of Norwood, died October 20.

♦ Linda Haithcock Parnell, 78, of Norwood, died October 26

♦ Lester Leon Bryant, 68, of Norwood, died October 22.

♦ Raymond Skidmore, Jr. 88, of Norwood, died October 26

♦ Willie Thomas Ingram, 78, of Albemarle, died October 23.

♦ Richard Kimba Tobias, 68, of Norwood, died October 26.

♦ Jeffrey William Hatley, 55, of Albemarle, died October 24

♦ Sally Marvene Smith Hinson, 80, of Locust, died October 26

♦ Clinton Daniel Love, 67, of Stanfield, died October 24

♦ Betty Jean Hepler Honeycutt, 91, of Albemarle, died October 26

♦ Roy Lee Huneycutt, Jr. 70, of Locust, died October 25

♦ Jo Ann Howell, 76, of Norwood,

died October 27. ♦ Roscoe Lee Huneycutt, 93, of Albemarle, died October 27. ♦ Barbara Ann Tucker Baker, 71, of Stanfield, died October 27. ♦ Melanie Ann Huneycutt Baker, 59, of New London, died October 28. ♦ Kenneth Henry Furr, 85, of Albemarle, died October 28. ♦ Michael Timothy Forrest, 75, of Albemarle, died October 30.

operation by the end of this year.

“I will say it’s going to be all hands on deck over the next six to eight weeks to get this project in service. We’re cautiously optimistic based on our experience in our current timeline that we should have the flexibility to do exactly that,” Andersen said.

The project director explained that the solar energy industry has shifted toward more transmission-scale solar developments in order to achieve the necessary economies of scale, adding that “every six months,” there’s a major technological advancement that is making the facilities more efficient and cheaper to construct.

At this moment, Stanly Solar is just one of Pine Gate Renewables’ 15 projects under construction in North Carolina. When they are all completed and fully online, they represent 300MW of clean energy that will be added to the state’s energy grid.

Headquartered in Asheville, the company currently holds 907MW of energy in operational assets with more than 12 gigawatts in development. To date, Pine Gate Renewables has raised over $3.1 billion in capital, with solar facilities that span from Rhode Island to Oregon.

“When we put these projects online, it feels like we are moving the needle forward as far as changing the energy landscape of our country,” Andersen said.

“This project (Stanly Solar) is going to be operational for decades into the future.”

PROTEST from page 1 Kim later apologized, like Garner had, to any parents frustrated by the protest.

“I’m sorry about having to inconvenience parents. I’m sorry about the kids, because we do care about the kids. But you know what? We’ve got to take care of ourselves too.”

The crowd then started chanting, “We need a raise. We need a raise,” as the video ended.

Stanly County Schools has had a lot of difficulty this year hiring for classified roles, with Superintendent Jarrod Dennis telling SCJ in September, “We have a great need in really all of our classifieds — so bus drivers are a big need and so are child nutrition workers.”

SCJ reached out to members of the district school board to ask if part of the difficulty in hiring more classified workers was due to low pay, but did not receive any response by publishing deadline.

The following day, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, Albemarle Middle School posted on social media that “due to a shortage of bus drivers, buses 56, 85 and 67 will not be in operation today.” They recommended that parents “make appropriate arrangements to transport your student to and from school today.”

Millingport Elementary, North Stanly Middle, North Stanly High and Albemarle High all made similar announcements on canceled bus routes for Tuesday morning as well.

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

OPINION Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor VISUAL VOICES

COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend scheme

Rest assured, I oppose both bills because they are the wrong solutions and the wrong time.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN wisely said, “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”

Today, our national debt is an unfathomable $29 trillion, and President Reagan’s warning has never been truer.

It’s no secret that President Joe Biden and Washington Democrats are addicted to spending your hard-earned money.

Their so-called “Reconciliation Plan” is a prime example. This massive entitlement and climate change bill, a radical proposal written by Bernie Sanders, will transform our society into something we don’t recognize and will cripple our economy.

Washington Democrats have been working to finalize their bill behind closed doors — hiding details of the massive plan from you, the American people. Yet this is not the first time they have tried this trick. In 2010, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously said Democrats had to pass Obamacare into law for you to find out what was in it. Fast forward to 2021, and here we go again.

While their plan has changed throughout the last month, one thing is clear: it is a massive expansion of government control over your life from the cradle to the grave.

To pay for it, their proposals have included $2.1 trillion in new tax hikes. The plan would punish families by raising taxes on 75% of the middle class. It raises the business-tax rate to among the highest in the developed world, well above communist China’s. We all know these businesses will be forced to pass those costs along to you and it means less job opportunities. In fact, this tax increase will force lower and middle-income taxpayers to shoulder 66.3% of the huge corporate tax increases. It also raises taxes on 1.4 million small businesses which employ 12.5 million American workers.

While they have discussed numerous tax gimmicks to target billionaires, in reality their plan would give tax breaks to the wealthy, providing families earning $800,000 with $118,000 in

tax credits.

While their elite friends get tax breaks, Democrats plan to further punish you by raising the costs to fill your car or heat your home. Home energy bills are already expected to increase by 54% this winter! A new natural gas tax included in their bill would increase your heating bills by an additional $242 per year. Another new tax on energy producers could cost up to 90,000 Americans their jobs.

As if all of this wasn’t enough, President Biden’s proposal will use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. It would grant amnesty to more than 8 million illegal immigrants. $80 billion is spent to hire 85,000 new IRS agents to monitor your bank account if you spend just $28 a day.

What’s worse — President Biden has tied this massive entitlement bill to infrastructure legislation. There is massive bipartisan support for investing in our roads, bridges, ports and broadband. Yet just 10% of their $1.5 trillion ‘infrastructure’ bill is devoted to infrastructure, while the rest is devoted to propping up radical Green New Deal climate provisions.

Rest assured, I oppose both bills because they are the wrong solutions and the wrong time. Just last week we learned that economic growth in the last quarter slowed to a dismal 2% — the worst since our economy began to reopen after the pandemic. Gas prices in North Carolina jumped 14 cents per gallon, tied for the largest spike in the nation.

Supply chain issues and inflation are clearly taking a toll on families and our economy. I cannot support trillions in new spending and taxes that will only make Biden’s economic, energy and inflation crises worse.

We need to get government out of the way, get Americans back to work, encourage energy production here in the U.S., and cut government spending and taxes. While many in Washington argue how much to tax you and how large to grow government, I will always stand up for you and your family.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

The only thing Biden has left is Trump The more Americans get to know Biden, the less they like him. And the less they like him, the more he’s compelled to talk about Trump.

THIS WEEK, the president took a trip to Virginia to try to help salvage the gubernatorial prospects of fellow Washingtonlifer Terry McAuliffe. President Joe Biden used the appearance to liken the GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to Jan. 6 rioters, to lie about Republicans supporting “book bans” and to attempt to goad former President Donald Trump into coming to Virginia.

Biden wants to talk about one person these days, and that person isn’t Biden. Then again, what does he possibly have to brag about? Shutting down COVID? More Americans have died from the disease during his presidency than his predecessor’s, even with the emergence of vaccines. “I will not shut down the country,” Biden promised during his campaign. “I will shut down the virus.”

Now, of course coronavirus isn’t really the president’s fault.

But since Biden had no compunction blaming Trump personally for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens, no one can fault voters for using the same standard of culpability now.

Is Biden going to brag about overseeing what promises to be the weakest economic recovery since the last time he was put in charge of such things? Rather than looking for ways to create more opportunities for American workers, the president has been clamoring to put millions of them on the dole.

Is the president going to talk about the border? Is he once again going to explain how high inflation is actually a positive development for most consumers? Is he going to brag about his foreign policy? When was the last time an American president abandoned hundreds of U.S. citizens to a terror regime? After 13 service members were murdered by terrorists in Kabul, due in part to his administration’s stark incompetence, we proceeded to accidentally kill seven children in retaliation.

The terrorists disappeared only slightly faster than the media coverage.

No, Biden is going to talk about Trump.

It’s worth mentioning, as well, that while Democrats were in a constant state of feigned dismay over the lack of decorum during the Trump years — Biden often promised to “restore

decency” to the White House — they are just as guilty of corroding our public discourse.

On Youngkin, for example, Biden said, “Extremism can come in many forms. It can come in the rage of a mob driven to assault the Capitol. It can come in a smile and a fleece vest.”

It isn’t surprising to hear unhinged pundits conflating the Jan. 6 rioters with Republicans who have never uttered a word of support for the attack on the Capitol, but coming from the president of the United States, a president whose campaign was grounded on the promise of mending a frayed nation and normalizing political behavior, it’s particularly ugly.

This kind of rhetoric, though, is nothing new for Biden. In 2012, before Trump had allegedly coarsened our politics, the then-vice president told a crowd of African Americans that the milquetoast Republican and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, a man who had never embraced any form of racism, much less allied himself with segregationists, was going to “put you all back in chains” because he was in favor of some mild deregulation and economic reforms.

Well, Youngkin is apparently similarly disposed. His principal issue has been parents and their lack of control over school curricula. If you’re looking for an election conspiracy theorist in the Virginia gubernatorial race, though, you need not look any further than McAuliffe, who doesn’t seem to believe a Republican has won a presidential contest since 1988.

But, as the New York Times pointed out, even McAuliffe barely, if ever, mentions the former president in his ads or speeches. Biden’s appearance might fly in deep-blue northern Virginia, and it may or may not work in bringing Trump to the state, but it’s unlikely to save his presidency.

The more Americans get to know Biden, the less they like him. And the less they like him, the more he’s compelled to talk about Trump.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NBA

Pelicans’ Williamson ‘progressing pretty well’ New Orleans New Orleans Pelicans star forward Zion Williamson is running, cutting and “doing explosive work” as he recovers from offseason surgery to repair his broken right foot, but he is not yet involved in competitive five-on-five situations at practice, coach Willie Green said Monday. Green indicated Williamson would be sidelined for at least two more weeks before New Orleans has a more definitive timetable for his return to games.

Williamson is slated to have his right foot scanned again in two to three weeks,. The Pelicans have opened 1-6 without Williamson.

NFL

Henry will have surgery, Titans adding Peterson Nashville, Tenn.

NFL rushing leader Derrick Henry had surgery Tuesday morning on his right foot, and coach Mike Vrabel says the Tennessee Titans are not putting a timeline on when he will return. Henry had tests Monday to check the severity of the injury after he finished a 34-31 overtime win in Indianapolis. The Titans placed Henry on injured reserve Monday afternoon. The Titans (62) were finalizing a deal on Monday to sign 2012 MVP and four-time AllPro Adrian Peterson to the practice squad with plans to promote the 36-year-old running back to the active roster.

NHL

Rangers agree with Norris winner Fox on 7-year extension New York Adam Fox agreed to terms on a seven-year extension Tuesday with the New York Rangers, a deal that keeps the Norris Trophywinning defenseman under contract through 2029. Fox became one of the youngest players to win the award last season after putting up 47 points in 55 games. He joined Hall of Famer Bobby Orr as the only players to win the Norris in one of his first two NHL seasons.

The contract is reportedly worth $66.5 million with an annual salary cap hit of $9.5 million. Fox was acquired from the Hurricanes for a pair of second-round draft pick after the Harvard blueliner would not sign with Carolina.

WADE PAYNE | AP PHOTO

Alex Bowman won Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville.

Bowman wins as tension builds ahead of Cup Series title race Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. will race for the championship next week at Phoenix

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Alex Bowman was the only driver celebrating after the Cup Series set its championship four — and he’s not even racing for the title.

Bowman picked up the victory Sunday at Martinsville Speedway in the final elimination race ahead of the winner-take-all season finale.

Bowman wasn’t eligible to make the championship round and his overtime victory denied both Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski the final spot in the field.

The Cup will be decided next Sunday at sold-out Phoenix Raceway between favorite Kyle Larson and reigning champion Chase Elliott for Hendrick Motorsports, and Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. for Joe Gibbs Racing. It will pit a

pair of Hendrick Chevrolets against two JGR Toyotas.

“I think the four most deserving teams are probably in the final four,” said Larson, the regular season champion. “I’m proud we were able to do it and look forward to battling everybody next week.”

Ford was locked out of the championship when Keselowski and Team Penske teammates Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano failed to advance.

Busch finished second to Bowman, and Keselowski at last settled for third after a frantic push through the third stage. Truex’s car was damaged in several incidents and both Busch and Keselowski were trying to bump Truex out of the final transfer position.

It led to spirited racing up and down the grid, especially from Keselowski as he tried to bulldoze his way into the championship round for his final race driving for Roger Penske. He and Busch had hard contact after the checkered flag that caused Busch to spin on the cooldown lap, and Busch seethed after that he should beat up Keselowski.

“I think the four most deserving teams are probably in the final four.”

Kyle Larson His verbal threats were a milder approach than the one taken by JGR teammate Hamlin after Bowman spun Hamlin from the lead with six laps remaining to send the race into overtime.

Hamlin had led 103 laps with victory in sight when Bowman spun him. Hamlin after the race drove his car to the frontstretch and parked in front of Bowman to prevent Bowman from a proper celebration on Bowman’s fourth win of the season.

Bowman insisted the contact with Hamlin was accidental and wondered why Hamlin was so angry because Hamlin has done the same to him.

“He crashed me at Texas last year.

Texted me and apologized. Said

he’d give me a ride on his jet,” Bowman said. “We’re even, I guess, after that. He crashed the heck out of me there. He got loose underneath me, exactly same thing just on a bigger racetrack. My point is the shoe has been on the other foot, we’ve been on both sides of it.”

Hamlin, who already has five Martinsville grandfather clocks, still advanced into the championship on points. But his JGR crew had to radio Hamlin to back off as he confronted Bowman, who gave Hendrick Motorsports its 16th win in 35 races this season and fourth in a row.

“He’s just a hack, just an absolute hack who gets his ass kicked every week by his teammates,” said Hamlin.

Hamlin will try for a fourth time to win his first Cup title. Both he and Larson, the heavy favorite and a nine-race winner this season, have never won a Cup Sweries championship. Elliott is the reigning champion and Truex, who had to nurse a wounded Toyota to a fourth-place finish Sunday to stop teammate Busch from bumping him out of the finale, has one previous title.

NHL defends disciplinary decisions in Blackhawks scandal The league fined Chicago $2 million and Florida coach Joel Quenneville resigned in the aftermath of sexual assault allegations against a former video coach

“While it may have optically not been the best look, I was more concerned with the substance than the look.”

MLB

The Associated Press

Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner

Melvin gets 3-year contract to manage Padres

COMMISSIONER Gary Bettman on Monday defended the NHL’s decisions and discipline meted out following an investigation into the Chicago Blackhawks’ handling of sexual assault allegations in 2010.

Bettman called the organization’s $2 million fine significant and stood by decisions to let Joel Quenneville coach one more game and not discipline Winnipeg general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff based on his limited role in Chicago’s front office at the time. Quenneville resigned as Florida Panthers coach after meeting with Bettman last week.

In his first public comments since the report detailing the Blackhawks investigation was released, Bettman said he did not want anyone to think he was prejudging Quenneville, who was Chicago’s coach when allegations surfaced that video coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted prospect Kyle Beach 11 years ago.

responsibility for — that based on what was available to him in his minor, relatively, position at the time, he had no reason to believe that anything other than the right things were going on.”

Cheveldayoff was scheduled to address reporters Monday, though that was pushed back by the Jets because owner Mark Chipman suffered a bout of vertigo over the weekend and insisted on being there for the news conference.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Monday the NHL first got a heads up about a potential lawsuit in December, though it was downplayed by Blackhawks counsel. “(Blackhawks lawyers) claimed to have looked into it,” he said.

“They said there was no merit.”

The first time the league learned of the specific allegations was May when the first suit was filed, according to Daly.

San Diego The San Diego Padres hired veteran manager Bob Melvin on Monday, the franchise’s effort to bring stability to a talented team that stumbled down the stretch last season.

Melvin inherits a team that had five All-Stars — including Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Jake Cronenworth — but underwhelmed after the trade deadline and finished with a losing record for the 10th time in 11 seasons.

Melvin has 18 years of managerial experience and was still under contract for one year with the Oakland Athletics, where he spent the last 11 years.

TONY GUTIERREZ | AP PHOTO

The scandal surrounding the alleged sexual assault of Kyle Beach by a Chicago Blackhawks video coach more than a decade ago has led former coach Joel Quenneville and team executives to resign their positions.

“While it may have optically ent at a meeting about Beach’s alnot been the best look, I was more legations in May 2010, but the reconcerned with the substance port by former federal prosecutor Reid Schar indicated the former than the look,” Bettman said.

Asked if Quenneville was given assistant GM was the only one any kind of ultimatum, Bettman who recalled he was even there.

“Kevin was such a minor playsaid, “Joel ultimately concluded that the most sensible course of er in this,” Bettman said. “He had been with the Blackhawks for action was for him to resign.”

Cheveldayoff is the only per- nine months. He was an assistant son in Blackhawks management general manager with fairly limat the time who still works for an ited responsibilities. This was not NHL club. Cheveldayoff was pres- something that he not only had no

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

North Stanly wins season finale but falls short of playoff bid

The Denver Broncos have agreed to trade star linebacker Von Miller to the Los Angeles Rams for a pair of 2022 draft picks.

The NCHSAA’s new playoff formula, along with COVID-19, costs the Comets a spot in the postseason

JACK DEMPSEY

Broncos deal defensive leader Miller to Rams The trade is the end of an era in Denver and proof Los Angeles is aiming for a championship

The Associated Press ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The trade began to hit Von Miller as he toddled past the photo gallery of great moments that decorate the Denver Broncos headquarters.

The featured shot is the one of him knocking the ball and, in effect, the Lombardi Trophy, from Cam Newton’s grasp five years and nine months ago.

“Always have Super Bowl 50,” a choked-up Miller said on a gray Monday morning as snowflakes danced into the black Cadillac Escalade’s open back window and melted on his tie-dye hoodie.

“Seeing the pictures as I was walking out made me tear up.”

Miller is no longer the face of the franchise in Denver.

The loquacious linebacker is headed West to join Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey with the Los Angeles Rams in a trade that surprised him.

“It’s all kind of new,” said Miller, who insisted he didn’t ask out. “I’m on my way to L.A.” Where a Super Bowl contender awaits.

“Great team. Been a huge fan

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of Aaron Donald for a long time,” Miller said. “They’ve got a great defense. Jalen Ramsey, Leonard Floyd, all these guys. I’m excited.”

The Rams are sending the Broncos second- and third-round picks in the 2022 draft for the perennial Pro Bowler. The Broncos also are picking up $9 million of the $9.722 million left on his contract.

Miller’s trophy case includes his Super Bowl 50 MVP award for leading Denver to a 24-10 win over heavily favored Carolina following the 2015 season and 2011 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year honor.

“Von was the very first draft pick we made back in 2011 at a time when we needed an impact player to turn this team around,” said John Elway, the Broncos president of football operations. “Von dedicated himself to become an elite, record-setting pass rusher and future Hall of Famer while helping us to one of the winningest periods in team history.

“Von was always at his best when we needed him the most,” Elway added. “Our Super Bowl 50 win and playoff run that year would not have been possible without Von turning in one of the most dominant individual performances of all time.”

Broncos president Joe Ellis called Miller a “franchise icon” and general manager George Paton said, “I’ll always be a fan of his and I look forward to watching his

“You look at what it takes to be successful defensively and it’s about affecting and influencing the quarterback, and this guy does it as well as anybody over the course of his career.”

Sean McVay, Rams coach continued impact on our league.”

Miller is an eight-time Pro Bowl selection, seven-time AllPro and a member of the league’s 2010s All-Decade team. And he’s the Broncos’ franchise leader with 110½ sacks in the regular season and has another 6½ in the playoffs.

“We’re all in,” the Rams tweeted.

Miller joins a Rams team that’s tied with the Packers and Cardinals for the NFL’s best record at 7-1.

Rams coach Sean McVay said Miller will take his physical Tuesday, and he’s optimistic he will play Sunday night against Tennessee.

“You look at what it takes to be successful defensively and it’s about affecting and influencing the quarterback, and this guy does it as well as anybody over the course of his career,” McVay said.

Miller, who’s in the final year of his contract, was sidelined all of last year with a dislocated ankle tendon. He had a splashy comeback, winning the AFC Defensive Player of the Month honor in September.

NCHSAA has used MaxPreps rankings, winning percentage and conference finishes as deciding factors for playoff seeding. For this season, the association used an RPI system composed of three categories: winning percentage (30%), opponents’ winning perBy Jesse Deal centage (40%) and opponents’ Stanly County Journal opponents winning percentage (30%).

NEW LONDON One key factor in the — After North StanComets’ omission from ly easily took care the playoffs lies with the of Albemarle Fri- “It was Walkertown Wolfpack day night with a 42-0 (1-9, 1-5 Mid-State), a home shutout for their exciting to see because team that had to foreighth-consecutive victory over the Bull- we practiced feit four games this year due to COVID-19 protodogs, the Comets had cols. Because the Combuilt plenty of momen- that script ets and Wolfpack both tum. this week had the Mount Pleasant The Comets (5-4, Tigers as a mutual oppo4-1 Yadkin Valley) had and our nent, the Comets and Tifinished their season offensive gers both saw their RPI with a third-straight rating drop significantly conference win and a coordinator from the Wolfpack’s parsecond-place finish in and boys tial season. the conference stand- really stuck “Essentially, due to ings. their forfeiture, their polAgainst the Bull- with it.” icy violation became our dogs (2-7, 2-3 YVC), penalty,” the North Stanquarterback Luke Scott Crisco, ly Booster Club posted on Shaver and running Twitter Saturday. “Forback Karee Dykes led North Stanly feitures should be zeroed a Comets offense that coach out like they didn’t exist scored 42 unanswered for opponents’ winning points in the first half.

“It was exciting to see because percentage and opponents’ oppowe practiced that script this week nents winning percentage — like and our offensive coordinator and the games cancelled because of boys really stuck with it,” North COVID-19 except the team that Stanly coach Scott Crisco said. has to forfeit is penalized.”

While the Comets’ season has “We’re peaking at the right time for the playoffs. We’re probably ended, the other three Stanly going to sneak in with a No. 30 or County football teams all have a chance to continue in the postsea31 seed.”

Unfortunately for Crisco and son with first-round road matchthe Comets, that was not the ups on Friday.

In the 1A West Region, No. 25 case as the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Sat- Albemarle (2-7, 2-3 Yadkin Valurday afternoon release of the ley) will travel to No. 8 Mountain football playoff brackets did not Heritage (7-2, 5-1 Western Highlands), while No. 26 South Stanly include North Stanly.

The Comets were the only YVC will head to No. 7 Starmount (6team to not receive a playoff berth 4, 5-1 Northwest).

In the 2A West Region, No. 28 — even winless Union Academy (0-10, 0-5 YVC) found a spot in West Stanly (3-5, 1-3 Rocky River) the 1A West bracket with the 31st will take a trip to No. 5 Hendersonville (8-1, 5-0 Mountain Footseed.

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The SEA 2026 logo representing Seattle’s bid to become a host city for the FIFA World Cup in 2026 is displayed Nov. 1 at Lumen Field in Seattle following the official visit of a FIFA delegation to the facility as organizers try to be selected as a host city for the FIFA World Cup in 2026.

TED S. WARREN | AP PHOTO

FIFA wraps second set of visits to potential World Cup hosts Cities from all three North American countries are being considered The Associated Press SEATTLE — FIFA and CONCACAF are inching closer to making the final call on which cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico will host matches for the 2026 World Cup, with decisions expected sometime next spring.

The FIFA and CONCACAF delegation wrapped up its second set of site visits Monday in Seattle, which is seen as one of the strongest candidates for hosting match-

es due to its soccer history, favorable summertime weather and as the sole city in the Pacific Northwest to bid.

FIFA chief tournaments and events officer Colin Smith said all site visits should be completed by the end of November, with a decision expected sometime toward the end of March or early April.

“Certainly the decision is getting harder and harder with every stop, which I guess is a good problem to have,” Smith said.

The 2026 World Cup will be the first with 48 teams but it also presents a logistical challenge with the largest geographic footprint of any World Cup to date.

Games could be played from Edmonton, Alberta, to Mexico City and Seattle to Boston. Smith said they’re currently thinking 16 cities will be selected as hosts, but that is not set.

Seattle was at the tail end of a series of site visits that included Kansas City, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Monterrey, Mexico, and San Francisco. The delegation visited Boston, Nashville, Atlanta, Orlando, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami and the New York-New Jersey area in September.

Another series of visits is coming up this month to Mexico City, Guadalajara, Mexico, Los Ange-

les, Edmonton and Toronto.

“Ultimately, it’s a bit of a jigsaw puzzle of all these different areas,” Smith said. “To break down the magic of a World Cup is obviously incredibly difficult so the only way to do it is really to look at all the constituent groups.”

One of the big questions facing Seattle and some other bid cities will be what to do about their stadiums with synthetic fields. FIFA requires grass surfaces for the World Cup. “In business it’s about location, location, location,” CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani said.

“Well, football is about pitch, pitch and pitch.”

Seattle doesn’t seem likely to replace the synthetic field used by the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders of MLS at Lumen Field and had mixed results in the past with temporary grass surfaces. Most recently, Seattle used a temporary grass surface for the 2016 Copa America with great success, in part because it was set in place and used for several weeks.

“FIFA is looking at a lot of NFL stadiums. Most of them have synthetic,” Seattle Sounders owner and Seattle 2026 bid chair Adrian Hanauer said. “So in my mind this is not the most critical piece to the bid.”

ment. area.”

EMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced For Nutbush resident He also cited a widespread fear the threat of overburdened of being unnecessarily exposed to fear of contracting the itals, states across the country matched with the worry th the virus. onverting convention centers, Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 3, 2021 “All around, people are scared,” could lose stores that are ts facilities and performance the neighborhood. Offici he said. es into backup treatment sites Their fears are not unfounded. ven’t said if stores would oronavirus patients. border crossers, national security Immigration Reform, a staunch the Gateway facility was Inand this majority-black along What some Memphis, Tencritic of Biden policies, blasted the threats people who have com-city If they did, shopping wo the Mississippi River, lawmakers e, residents don’t get is why in mitted serious crimes. DHS also guidelines as a “handy list of safe come more difficult for re andlimits community been places from enforcement.” imposed on arrests leaders at court- have r city, a shopping center in the the new guidelines drew who ar housessounding when people showedover up whatBut especially for those the alarm they dle of a predominantly black, praise from advocates for immifor other matters and ended mass see as a disturbing trend of the vi- have no means of transpo income residential neighborgrants such as the American Imworksite raids. rus killing African Americans at a to stores located farther aw d has been chosen.

Mayorkas has argued that his migration Lawyers Association.

“For people who don’t higher rate. ty and state officials are conthat people agency does not have the resourc- “DHS is reaffirming car,inwhat doenforcethey do?” ask Nutbush resident Patricia Hared that By anBen influx not live fear of es to pursue all of the estimated 11 should Fox of patients ment actionsris, as they health million in the country The Associated Press whoaccess spoke to The Ass rispeople wondered aloud withif city officials m Memphis, as well as nearby places while of worship, and a bott out legal status and that it should care, schools, lugging were “trying to contaminate” the Press sissippi, Arkansas and rural institutions,” said of bott focus neighborhood. on those who pose the great- other important COLUMBUS, — Ohio’s tergent, a package Tennessee, will strainOhio hospiAILA President Allen Orr. est risk to society. toWASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. imand other Activist Earle Fisher, an Exceptions Afri- terinclude Their fears are echoed across whenitems the from t migration authorities will limit arADRIAN SAINZ | AP PHOTO In announcing the new poliA Lot to her car.

She note can American Memphis pastor, country:rests Governors, mayors cy guidelines, the secretary said action involves a national securiat schools, hospitals and other grocery store recently clos understands the anxiety.

“This health “protected” experts inareas numerous This Friday, April 3, 2020 photo, shows Gateway Shopping Centeragents and officers should consider ty threat; if there is an imminent under guidelines risk of death, violence or physical “broader societal interests” and the issued last week by the Departher house and she already is an honest and reasonable cones are also researching and in Memphis, Tenn. harm to a person; it involves impactcern of their on comof Homeland Security, part of traveliffarther tothe get to Gat andactivities skepticism,” Fisher said. tructingment makeshift medical “hot pursuit” of someone who poses munities. a broader effort to roll back the ap“When we do things “I think it’s par for the course for ities. proach to enforcement under Presi“We can accomplish our law en- a public safety threat and someone got to consider the black people to be righteously a Chinese restaurant and other Lee has disclosed a few: the Mun New York City, they’re turnforcement mission without denying who was personally observed cross- people dent Donald Trump. neighborhood,” she said. “W skeptical governmental sicdi-City Center in Nashville, the businesses. o the Javits Center the border without legal authoindividuals accessof to needed med- inginterAgents andconvention officers are being rization. ical care, children to their rected the to avoid making arrests or vention thataccess did not consult with need to make the neighb Locating a treatment center for Chattanooga Convention Center, in Chicago, McCormick Other exceptions would be if schools, the displaced access first.” to carryingCenter; out searches a range worse than it already is.” people on the ground theof Knoxville Expo Center — all coronavirus patients there e Convention andatin AP PHOTO posthere is an imminent risk that ev- Cohen, food andDoug shelter,McGowen, people of faith ac-city’s locations “to the fullest ex- away from residential neigh- es two problems, residents say: U.S. Rep. Steve the chief sites dy, Utah,sensitive the Mountain Amercess to their places of worship, and idence material to a criminal case tent possible,” according to a memo In this Sept. 24, 2021, file photo, Secretary of Homeland Security phis Democrat, said the d officer, said thewould GateIt acould potentially borhoods.

Expo Center. be destroyed or if a safe almore,”operating Mayorkas said. from DHS Secretary Alejandro Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during press briefing at theexpose White them doesn’t sense. way site was being considered beto the virus amid concerns that The Gateway Shopping Cenhe U.S. Mayorkas Army Corps of Engidoesmake not exist.

The list of protected areas in- ternative location outlining the policy.

House in Washington, D.C. “I’m sure there cause it could potentially accoms has beenIt scouting Otherwise, agents or officersare othe cludes broad categories such as “a is the latestlocations in a series ofter im-in the Nutbush neighborhood blacks are contracting COVID-19 would have to get would approvalwork, beforeand they place where children gather” and “a migration policies under President that Tennessee, and officials here of Memphis is different. The cen- at higher rates; and it could force modate hundreds of beds. He said taking an enforcement action “in orrather t place where disaster or emergency country illegally regardless of crimcenters as well as demonstrations Joe Biden aimed at taking a more compiled a list of 35 possi- ter features a Save A Lot grocery some of the stores they rely on to if it were converted to a treatment have used those near” a protected area, the memo response and relief is being providinal history or community ties, and rallies. relaxed approach to enforcement. site, it would hold only mildly ill into a residential neighbo backup sites. They haven’t re- store, a Rent-A-Center, a Fami- close.

It also further alienated Biden though DHS also operated under a ed,” an expansive policy that marks said.

The policy is similar to one under said. coronavirus patients who could Nutbush resident and commuly Dollar, a beauty supply shop, ed the whole list, but Gov. Bill Thebe BidenCohen administration has shift for an agency President Barack Obama that re- critics who say weaker enforcement sensitive locations policy that limit- a significant

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US limits immigration arrests at schools, ‘protected’ areas

stricted arrests at churches, schools and other locations.

The new policy includes not just schools but medical and daycare facilities, playgrounds and recreation

encourages migrants to seek to enter the country illegally. The Trump administration sparked criticism by left-leaning groups for seeking to arrest and remove anyone in the

ed enforcement actions in churches and other places.

Guidelines issued earlier this year for immigration enforcement directed agents to focus on recent

that includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which some immigrant advocates want to see abolished altogether.

The Federation for American

struggled to deal with large numbers of illegal immigrants seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, which has seen a marked increase since January.

PEC, oil nations agree McConnell backs ex-football star Walker for Georgia Senate o nearly 10M barrel cut

By Brian Slodysko

bin Salman, a son of King Salman, assented to the deal.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate “I go with the consent, so I UBAI, United Arab EmirRepublican Leader Mitch McConagree,” — OPEC, other nell Russia endorsedand Herschel Walker for the prince said, chuckling, drawing a round of applause from roducingthenations Sunday Senate inon Georgia, lending the of the highest-ranking those on the video call. ized an clout unprecedented pro- elected official 10 in the country to the But it had not been smiles and ion cut GOP of nearly million candidacy of a former footballlaughs star for weeks after the soels, or a 10th of global supply, whose turbulent personal history called OPEC+ group of OPEC opes of boosting crashing priccould create problems for his genmembers and other nations failed mid the coronavirus pandemic eral election campaign. in to March to reach an agreement a price war, officials Walker is thesaid. odds-on favorite winbe thethe Republican next production cuts, sending pricThis could largest primary re- on May and at from an initial glance seems es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply ion in production OPEC have a coveted political profile as Russia days earlier over perhaps atodecade, maybe lon- criticized he seeks the chance to unseat Demwhat it described as comments said U.S. ocratEnergy Raphael Secretary Warnock, the state’s of the kingdom, which Brouillette, who credited first black senator, and helpcritical the finds itself trying to appease ident Donald Trump’s GOP regain control ofperthe Senate.

Walker a football hero at the Trump, a longtime OPEC critic. l involvement in was getting duelUniversity of Georgia before a long Even U.S. senators had warned parties to the table and helpcareer. He’s a business owner to end aNFL price war between Saudi Arabia to find a way to whose chicken products are widedi Arabialyand Russia. distributed. And he’s a blackboost con- prices as American shale firms face far-higher production il prices servative have collapsed as the with backing from former Trump, a costs. long- American troops had been navirus President and theDonald COVID-19 SAUDI ENERGY time have friendlargely who repeatedly deployed to the kingdom for the ss it causes halt- urged Walker to run. lobal travel and slowed down first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minist But he also has a lengthy history attacks over concerns of Irani- Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit of the Group of 20 energy minister r energy-chugging sectors much of mental health struggles, of retaliation amid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to coordinate a response to plummet as manufacturing.

It has which Walker detailed in his an autostated the oil An industry in bysions. prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in global demand due to the pandem biography. investigation The Associated Press inmore July revealed “They’ve spent over the last U.S., which now pumps accusations that Walker reportedly month waging war on American e than any other country. threatened his ex-wife’s life, exagBEN GRAY | AP PHOTO oil producers while we are defend- that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the deal but its president, Andrés praise. ut some gerated producers have been claims of financial success “The pure size Manuel López Obrador, had said the United Arab Emirates would ing theirs.

This is not how friends ctant to and easealarmed supply. business The car-associates In this Sept. 25, 2021, file photo Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks during former President Donald Trump’s Save America rallyof the cu precedented, but, then ag Friday that he had agreed with cut another 2 million barrels of treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin nd otherwith nations on Sunday unpredictable behavior. in Perry, Ga. was initialCramer, a Republican from North oil a day between them atop the Trump that the U.S. will compen- is the impact the corona ed to allowMcConnell, Mexico toR-Ky., cut only ly cool a Walker candidacy.Dakota, But OPEC+ deal. The three countries sate what Mexico cannot add to having on demand,” said M before the OPEC+ deal.

000 barrels a to month, a stickthat “it wasmed time Ghulam, to stop running child. cuts. of Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson, ing, overweight they will spend endorsing him now, McConnell an energy an the proposed not immediately acknowledge U.S. said producers have whatever already it did point forby an accord initially The National Alliance on Men- and face some harsh realities.” He can sidestep what could have been a takes to keep Georgia blue,” Walk- who retired. He will have to run in Raymond James.

“The big Oil Deal with OPEC been reducing output. The Amer- the cut themselves, though Zanhed Friday after a marathon tal Illness describes the disorder as cited therapy and his Christian messy intraparty fight with Trump er said. “The stakes have never been 2022 for a six-year term.

But Ghulam and others Plus isbetween done.multiple This will hunattended the videoquickconferlaud-we ganeh o conference between na- ican faith as influences. “alternating iden-save A number of Republicans higher — if weInstitute all work together, that might have 23 complicated the Petroleum it may moment: not be enough. ofathousands energyHis jobswatershed ed Sunday’s global pact, saying it ence. s. The nations agreed drivleaving person with of “gaps ly lined up to enter the primary. But tities,”dreds will win next November, and take quest totogether retake a Senate majority. his car to confront man whoa tempo in memory every day events.”Trump It ing said who cryptically teased acuts back theother Senate.

Team Herschel “I am happy to endorse “This isaat least in theofUnited States,” Officials said other planned will help get nations’ state- is Walker, ut 9.7 million barrels a day Herschel “messed my energy schedule” notesin men with the“Idisorder candidacy forinmonths, effectively thankful for to Senator McConWalker U.S. Senate in Georlief up for the industry a tweet. would often like tohad thank stand the deal, meaning owned very oil production follow the would ughout May andforJune. thinking about whateconomy. it would This i “exhibit more violent behaviorPresident rath- and Puthe field because of his close cut McConnell saidjust in a statethe global and congratulate 8-million-barrel-per-day lead of nell’s U.S. support.” producers that are try- anfroze he groupgia,” reached the deal be like to shoot the man. Walker than amnesia.”

The 2022 Senate race is shap- affiliation with Trump. ment. “Herschel is the only one who too big be let to fail and Russia andacknowlKing Salman of is July through the end his of the In tin ing to adjust s beforecanAsian markets re- Senator er changed course, he to wrote, after his of book, Walker Walker formally launched ing up to as plunging one of the demand. most heavily from unite the party, defeat liance showed responsibil Saudi Arabia.” year and a 6-million-barrel cut for Brouillette said the U.S. did not ned Monday and as internaedged violent urges. He wrote that seeing a bumper sticker with the Warnock, and help us take back the contested races of the election cy- campaign in late August. this agreement,” said Per M The Kremlin saidre-President beginning in 2021. make commitments of its own message “SMILE. JESUS LOVES Russian roulette and al benchmark Brent crude Walker disclosed his mental ill- he played cle. Georgia, long solid GOP terri- 16 months Senate. I look forward to working YOU.” calledVladimir sitting at his kitchen tableainjoint in will a 2008 book,the “Breaking a topwas battleground withover Herschel get tory, became Putin held call Nysveen, the head of ana “This enable rebalancproduction cuts, but able toaf- ness ed at just $31inaWashington barrel to pledged 1991 with pointing a gun, and loaded with aKingWalker’s Free,” detailing a diagnosis of dister obvious Democrat—Joe Biden carried it ing the job done.” producers show the Rystad rivals Energy.

“Even tho Trump Saudi Sal- primary of the oil markets and the exthat plunging American shale Walker was effusive in his own last year in the presidential election sociative identity disorder. In that single bullet, at his head. “I wasn’t to forge on, despite McConnell’s endemand because of the pandem- pected rebound of prices by $15 man to express support of the production cuts are small ggle. statement, praising McConnell’s in November. Democrats then took account, Walker told of as many as suicidal,” Walker explained, but dorsement. needed a said as Putin spoke “We’re sep- inwhat barrel in the short is expected to slash oil proideo aired by the Saudi-owned this the race market to win it, “just deal. lookedItatalso mortality the ula dozen personalities — orterm,” “alters”said both Senate seatsU.S. in run-off elec- per “commitment to bringing the ic party postpone the(not stock arately with Trump about we’re the oil a —statement from Nigeria’s lite channel Al-Arabiya Georgia’s candidate the buildi timate challenge.” that he had constructed as a de- oil together toward the collectiveduction. goal tions in January.

Georgia’s agricul-the wor Walker pitched a turnaround fense mechanism against the bullyWarnock won a special election ministry. defeating Senator Warnock.” Iranian straints problem, market and other issues. Swamp’s),” said Oil Minister Bijan Zanwed the ofmoment that Saudi ture commissioner Gary Black. story, saying he decided in 2001 cautious he said he endured as a stutterfill out the remainder of the term ing “The Democrats have already now avoided.”

Analysts offered Mexico had initially blocked ganeh to also told state television rgy Minister Prince Abdulaziz

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obituaries Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020

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obituaries Roy Lee Huneycutt, Jr. October 17, 1951 – Jason October 25,2021

Efird

Jeffrey William Hatley Tony

January 13, 1966 – October 24,2021 Smith

Roy Lee Huneycutt, Jr. 70, of ASON EUGENE “GENE” ONY MONROE SMITH, Jeffrey William Hatley, 55, of72, of Locust passed away on Monday, EFIRD, 94, went home to be withAlbemarle Rockwell, NC, went to be with passed away Sunday, October 2021 at his home. his25, Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at his his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ October 24, 2021. A memorial A graveside service will be held home in Stanfield. on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at service will held 1 PMbyon at 3PM on Wednesday, October Gene was born October 9, 1925, in his homebe surrounded family. A 28, 2021 inheld.

27, 2021 at First Baptist Church Cabarrus County to the late Simeon Thursday, private October family service will be the Stanly Funeral Home Chapel. of Locust Cemetery officiated by Jason Efird and the late Sarah Ella Online condolences can be made at Burial will follow in Fairview Rev. John Lindsay.

Burris Efird. In addition to his stanlyfuneralhome.com he was preceded TonyPark. was born August 11, 1947 Royparents, was born October 17,in death byMemorial Born January 13,to1966 in Stanly wife, Jewell Little in Stanly County the late Pearlie 1951 inhis Stanly County toEfird; the sisters, Mary Fannie Asbury andthe Emmer County, NCSmith he was son ofLee the late Roy LeeLambert, Huneycutt, Sr.Almond, and Minnie Furr, Wilma Burleson and late Smith.

HeWinfred was the son in lawand of Pat William Hatley Lilly Talbert Huneycutt.

He Aileen Huskey; andafter brothers, andLowder Mick Cagle where heworked worked as at Hatley.

He enjoyed woodworking he HomerJoann Efird, Getus Efird and Wayne Efird, the fish house for many years until a satellite installer and repairman. retired from Norfolk Southern Sr. he opened House Seafood of theAnchor Christian faith and Railroad.

Mr. Huneycutt attended He was A private funeral service will be wasin Rockwell.

He and his wife Becky recently Baptized.

Poplinheld Grove Baptist Church in on Saturday, April 11, 2020 owned and operated Anchor House He is survived by his sister Albemarle and enjoyed spending at Love’ s Grove United Methodist for 25 years before retiring in 2009.

Melissa Bowden husband John time with his family.

His pride Church Cemetery in Stanfield Mr. Smith wasand a charter member brother and joyofficiated were his bygrandchildren.

Rev. Jim White. Burial of Albemarle, and deaconhalf at Open DoorSteve Baptist of Richfield, nephew Eric Mr.will Huneycutt is survived follow at the Love’s Grove UnitedHatley Church in Richfield.

He loved the and Melissa and greatby his Methodist wife of 49Church years Cemetery, Nancy 4360 Ingold Lord andwife his family abundantly.

Tony niece Leia, aunt Ozelle Lambert Broadaway Huneycutt; son: Polk Ford Road, Stanfield. was a wonderful husband, father, and andgrandfather Joe and uncle Hatley of Survivors include sonof Gerald andTed could fix anything Wesley Huneycutt (Jaime) Wayne (Gail) Efird of Jessica Albemarle; Albemarle he put his hands on. and numerous cousins.

Gastonia,NC; daughter: Efird (Mark) Hartsell Mr. Smith is survived by his wife Crosondaughter (Rick) Lisa of Wilmington, of Stanfield; granddaughters, Becky Cagle Smith of the home, NC; grandchildren: Jillian and Kelly Efird Barbee andand Lauren sons Walter Smith and Robbie Jayleigh Huneycutt, Mae Hartsell (Justin) Crump; Smith; daughter Kayla Henderson Zeke Croson; brother: Davidand greatgrandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, Huneycutt of Linwood, NC. He Elliot Jacob Simmons.

Dustin, and Steele Smith, Keaton is preceded in death bybebrother Memorials may made to Love’s and Ella Henderson; brother David Kenneth Huneycutt and sister Grove United Methodist Church, PO Smith; sisters Kay Kriechbaum, Joyce Currie.

Box 276, Stanfield, NC 28163-0276.

Karen Stevenson, Ruby Eudy, and

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Dorothy Smith (Nick).

He is preceded in death by brothers Joe Smith, Wayne Smith, Claude Smith, Wade Smith, Robert Smith, and sister Mary Morris.

Memorial contributions can be made to Open Door Baptist Church at 44563 Hwy 52, Richfield, NC 28137 or to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

Marvin Rickey Smith

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ERLE LORRAINE Marvin Rickey Smith,AUSTIN 64, of of Marshville, LocustHELMS, passed 72, away on October passed Wednesday, April 8, 17, 2021away at Atrium Health 2020 at McWhorter Hospice House Cabarrus.

His funeral service will inat Monroe. be 2 PM on Saturday, October bornFirst AprilBaptist 28, 1947 30, Lorraine 2021 at was Locust in Monroe to the late Homer David Church with Pastor Tommy Ross Austin and Jewell Delphia-Jane officiating. follow. in Austin. SheBurial was alsoto preceded Born October 9, 1957 death by brothers, A.D. andin Teddy Cabarrus County, NC, he was the Austin; and sister, Joy Austin. son The of the latewill Marvin family receiveCornelius friends Smith andpm Caroleen Elizabeth from 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Friday, Deal was a member AprilSmith.

10, 2020He at Hartsell Funeral of Locust First BaptistThe Church Home of Albemarle. funeraland service willat beCornerstone at 11:00 am on United he worked Saturday at Pleasant Hill Baptist at and formerly was an instructor Church in Marshville, officiated the NASCAR technical institute

by Rev.he John Miller and Rev.after Leon 19 where recently retired Whitley. She will lie in state for 30 years. minutes prior to service.by Shehis will Mr. Smith is the survived be laid to rest in the church cemetery. wife of 43 years, Brenda Whitley She is survived by her beloved Smith.

Other survivors include husband of 47 years, Paul Helms son Brandon Matthew Smith of the home; son, Alex (Deanna) and wife of Midland, Helms of Stephanie Pageland; daughter, Paula daughter LeslieHelms SmithofStephens (Cristin Brandt) Mint Hill; and husband Donny Locust, grandchildren, Mason,of Grant, and and Megan Smith ShueBoyce, and Raegan Helms; brothers, Royce, Tim Austin; and sisters, husband Matthew of Charlotte, Patricia Mullis, and Angel Tarleton. and 6 grandchildren Bryson Memorials mayStephens, be made toCara the Smith, Hannah Alzheimer’Natalie s Association, 4600 Park Stephens, Smith, and Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209.

Carson and Connor Shue.

Roscoe Lee Huneycutt

Pauline Tucker

P Richard Kimba Tobias

January 19, 1928 – October 27, 2021

Roscoe Lee “Skeeter” Huneycutt,

93, of Albemarle passed away AULINE ELIZABETH ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passedWednesday, October 27, 2021 in away peacefully at Trinity Place, his home. His funeral service will Albemarle, NC on April 11, 2020. be 3 PM Sunday in the Stanly Pauline was born on March 22, Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. 4, 1953County, – 1922July in Cabarrus NC to the Lee Church and Rev. Roger Moss lateOctober John Richard Almond and Alicepresiding. Burial will follow in 26, 2021 Ada Ann Lambert Almond.

Fairview Memorial Park. The SheKimba is survived by her three Richard “Kim” Tobias, family will receive friends from 1:30 daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), 68, of Norwood passed away PM at Stanly Funeral and Oak Island, NC; Rushing to 2:30HIRLEY 73, Tuesday, October 26,Pamela 2021 in Cremation CareMAE priorHAIRE, to the service.

(Foreman), Oakboro, NC; Kathy of Albemarle passed away on his home. His visitation will be Born January 19, 1928 in Stanly (Marc), Albemarle, NC; her April 11, 2020 at Atrium Health FridayHunt evening from 6 until 8 PM County, NCThe hefamily was the ofathe son, Chris Tucker (Chris Lear), Stanly. willson hold private at Stanly Funeral and Cremation Homer Huneycutt and Haire.

Maude Washington, DC. She will be greatlylate graveside service for Mrs. Care ofmissed Albemarle.

A private by her five grandchildren, Burris Huneycutt Roscoe Shirley was bornKersey.

December 12, Celebration ofRushing Life will be held at Heather Chaney (Shannon), was1946 a member of UnionDC Grove in Washington, to the a later Michael date. Rushing, Elizabeth Michel Baptist Church. He was a veteran late Charles Richard Bateman and BornHartzog July 4,(Craig), 1953 in Stanly Jack Michel, Jr. of the US Navy inMulligan WWII serving Elizabeth Mae Bateman.

County, NC he was the son of Bill (Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as on the Shirley

by He her husband U.S.S. is W.survived R. Rush. was and Laura Moose Tobias.She also proud sevenRose great-grandchildren. of 30 SmithCan of to years say heVaughn was a “Tin behind and cherished nieces and Sailor.”

He wasleaves the owner operator Albemarle; Sandra Roscoesister worked as aPainter truck nephews. of Bill Tobias Gun Shop. He loved of Gainesville, VA; half-brother driver with Overnite Transportation The family expresses its sincere shooting, fishing and hunting.

Robertyears.

Bateman of Stevensville, to the and caregivers for many He isgratitude survived by staff his children MD; step-children Smith He was preceded inHeather death by his Trinity(Sam) Place for care they ofMozelle Jacksonville, FL andHuneycutt David WendyatMabry ofthe Norwood, wife Barnhardt provided Pauline.

Smith of New London, NC; 4 Adam Tobias (Amy) of Albemarle, in 2003.

Survivors include daughter A private graveside service will be step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi and Brooke Rodden (Steve) of Linda Kimreyofand husband held on Monday, April 13, 2020. A Hentschel Leesburg, VA and Matthews, four grandchildren of Albemarle, grandson celebration of Pauline’s life and legacyWarren Cheryl Hardy of Aylett, VA; 16 grandTrey Mabry, Tylerthis Rodden, will be held summer.Alex Aaron Kimrey of Albemarle, nieces and nephews; and Gus the Mabry, and Stella Tobias.

In lieu of flowers, the family granddaughter Debbieand Moss and dog. Stanly Funeral Cremation requests donations be made to the husband Roger of Holly Springs, Care of Albemarle is serving the BrightFocus Foundation at www. two Haire great-granddaughters Annalyse family. brightfocus.org.

Moss and Kaylee Moss, and very

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Shirley Haire

Merle October 9, 1957 – October 17, 2021 Helms

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Linda Hatley

INDA TUCKER HATLEY, 69, of Albemarle, passed away Monday, April 13, 2020.

Linda was born September 18, 1950 in Concord to the late Jacob and Claris Tucker. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Terry Lee October 4, sister, 1950 Brenda – Tucker, and her twin October 27, Tucker Strickland.

We2021 know Brenda and Linda are in Heaven watching over us and Ann laughing.

Barbara Tucker Baker, Linda was a loving mother, sister, 71, of Stanfield, passed away and “Nana.” She was a very givingat Wednesday, October 27, 2021 and loving person.

Linda Atrium Health Main inwould Charlotte. always anything could Mrs. do Baker wasshe born onfor others, especially She October 4, 1950,her to family. the late Jacob enjoyed working at FastShop #5, Lorenzo and Christine Love Locust. Linda will be forever loved Tucker. and greatly missed.

Barbara up with Survivorsalways includekept her son, her friends and co-workers.

Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, of She retired brother, from Phillip-Morris Albemarle; Ronnie Tucker after overLinda, a decade of service. and wife, of Midland; She enjoyed gardening, cooking granddaughter, Leslie Hatley; 1 niece; and 2 nephews. and baking, watching her The family willwalking receive friends grandchildren, her dog, from 4:00spending pm - 6:00 pm, but loved timeThursday, with her April 16, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral family the most.

Home in Albemarle.

Linda Barbara is survived by will her be laid to rest during a private husband, John Roger Baker; committal service at Bethel daughters, Christy Baker,United Jennifer Methodist Church, Midland.

(Brian) Deaton; grandchildren, In lieu of flowers, please consider a Mallory and Madison Deaton; memorial donation to Bethel UMC, brother, Bobby Wayne (Joyce) 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC Tucker; 28107. granddog, Scooter.

Barbara Ann Tucker Baker

Betty Jean Hepler Honeycutt Danny September 6, 1930 – October 26, Luther2021

Sally Marvene Smith Hinson Jerry July 10, 1941 – October 26, 2021 Fincher

Sally Marvene Smith Hinson, Betty Jean Hepler Honeycutt, D 91, of Albemarle, NC passed away J 80, of Locust, passed away Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at her Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at

ANNY PAUL LUTHER, ERRY FINCHER passed from 65, of Norwood, passed away this life on April 3, 2020 at 8:05 unexpectedly Thursday, April 9, pm. He was surrounded by his family 2020 at Atrium Stanly in and holding home. the hand of the love of Trinity PlaceHealth in Albemarle.

Albemarle. his life. Jerry preceded death Sallyiswas born in July 10, 1941 Jean was born September Luther was born March 27,to by three siblings,County two brothers, in Stanly to theBilly late Roy 6,Mr. 1930 in Thomasville, NC 1955 to the late Robert Fulton and Fincher, and Larry Richard Sidney Smith and the late Eva the late Luther Charles Hepler, Gilbert Helen Tucker Luther.

Fincher, and one sister, Barbra Joyce Autie Bell Smith. She was also Sr. and the late Julia Anne Hill Moore.

Danny was survived by his wife, preceded byEleanor husband, Hepler.

Denise Burleson Luther of Norwood; He is survivedinbydeath his wife, Hinson. was(Karen) also preceded in death KateJohnnie sons,She Jeremy Luther and Fincher ofTitus the home, daughter, She loved heroffamily by her beloved husband of 54 Jody Luther; step-sons, Bryan Cindy Fincher Jacobs Wingateand was as the family years, and Marvin Honeycutt, Whitley GreggLeon (Anita) Whitley; NC.,known son and daughter in law,historian.

Tommy She Fincher enjoyedofspending her time Sr., who passed away in 2002; Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and (Tiffany) New London canning and watching daughter, Holt, whoNC.,cooking, Hunter Zado,Jennifer as well asJean his brother, Step Children, Jimmy (Lisa) Bob Luther Jr (Lorena), uncle Locust NC, Wanda (Bob)spent Sally oldoftime westerns. passed away in 2007; andJack siblings,Lanier Luther and several loved nieces, Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric and some weekends traveling L.C Hepler andother Eunice Lowder. nephews and cousins. by her sons, (Sharon) Laniertime of Charlotte NC.,sisters. spending with her She is survived Danny recently retired from Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) Whitson Survivors include sons, Leon Honeycutt and Mark Charlotte Pipe both and Foundry after of Midland, Step-grandchildren, Anthony Hinson, and Sidney Honeycutt, of Albemarle, aand dedicated 37 years and worked Zach (Brittney) Washington, Aaron and wife Cheri Hinson; one daughter, Beverly H. there with his sons and several other (Kinsey) Washington, Caleb (Nayeli) grandchildren, Cameron Hinson, McKinney of Lafayette, Indiana. friends and family members.

Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, Harley Hinson, and Christopher She leaves two much time beloved Danny loved spending at Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step Morgan. And many cherished grandsons, Justin his lake house with his(Alison) family andHolt great-grandchildren, Britlyn-Eve family and friends. of Charlotte Patrick with Holthis of Washington, friends as well asand vacationing Robert Setzer, George Albemarle; fourDenise wonderful family.

Danny and enjoyedgreat- (Sara) Setzer, Tracy (Rob) Setzer grandchildren, Alexander Holt, listening to beach music and loved to Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, Taylor Jean Holt, Maximus Holt, Andrew Underwood, Step great shag dance every chance they could get.

HeHollis was anHolt; amazing loving great grandchild, Waylon George and andfather, two brothers, grandfather and great friend to SC and Setzer and brother Donald Lewis Wilson Hepler of Sumter, many.

He will never be Marshall Hepler offorgotten.

Thomasville. Fincher of Albemarle, NC. A celebration of life will be Jerry Fincher will be laid to rest on announced once the current Wednesday April 8,2020 at 11:00 am COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. at Canton Baptist Church. Anyone Hartsell Funeral Home of interested in attending, please RSVP Albemarle is serving the Luther at 704-796-2412. Dr. Phil McCray family. and Pastor Tommy Fincher will officiate.

Melanie Ann Huneycutt Baker July 11, 1962 – October 28, 2021

Kenneth Henry Furr

Melanie Ann Huneycutt Baker, 59, of New London passed away on Thursday, October 28, 2021 at Atrium Health Cabarrus.

March 3, 1936 – Visitation will be held from October 28, 2021 5-7PM on Monday, November 1st at Stanly Funeral and Cremation Kenneth Henry Furr, 85, of Albemarle, passed away Thursday, Care in Albemarle. A memorial service to celebrate her life will October 28, 2021 at Woodhaven follow at 7PM in the Stanly Court in Albemarle Funeral and Cremation Care Ken was born March 3, 1936 Chapel. in Stanly County to the late John Mrs. Baker was born July 11, Henry Furr and the late Bertha 1962 in Cumberland County to Eudy Furr. He was also preceded the late Joe Duckery Huneycutt in death by wife of almost 39 and Willie Mae Hofner years, Elaine Almond Furr.

Fesperman. Melanie was a Survivors include daughter, graduate of Cabarrus Nursing Pamela (Todd) Hatley of School in 1982 and worked Norwood, NC; son, Darrell Celebrate the life of asyour a nurseloved for 39 years. She (Amanda) Furr of Richfield, NC; loved spending time with her grandchildren, Tyler, Whitney, ones. Submit obituaries andand traveling. grandchildren Kayce, Alex, Andrea, Brittany, Melanie was in survived by her death to be published and Brooke; eight notices greatsons: Chad Talbert (Laura) of grandchildren; and sister, Kay SCJ at obits@stanlyjournal.com Salisbury and Gregory Talbert (Hal) Harwood.

(Brittany) of New London; grandchildren: Garett, Piper, and Hallie Talbert; brother: Randy Huneycutt (Star) of Albemarle; sister-in-law: Judy Huneycutt of Mt. Pleasant. Preceded in death by her brother Chris Huneycutt.

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Sen. Burr under investigation again for pandemic stock sales

By Brian Slodysko The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for potential insider trading, a case that stems from their abrupt sales of financial holdings during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent federal court filings.

Burr, a Republican, is among several lawmakers from both parties who faced outrage over their aggressive trading in early 2020, before the economic threat from the virus was widely known. That fueled accusations that the members of Congress were acting on inside information gained through their official duties to benefit financially, which is illegal under a law known as the STOCK Act. Burr was previously investigated by the Trump administration’s Justice Department for offloading $1.6 million from his portfolio in January and February 2020. The

department cleared him of wrongdoing almost a year later.

But the SEC continued to investigate Burr, according to court documents filed in the Southern District of New York that were first made public last week. The agency enforces federal securities law.

Attorneys for Burr as well as for Gerald Fauth, who is the brother of Burr’s wife, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Burr has previously denied any wrongdoing.

The filings stem from a case brought by the SEC to force Fauth to comply with a subpoena. The agency argued that his close relationship with Burr and a phone call between the two, followed by calls to Fauth’s brokers, made his testimony “critical.”

“Whether Fauth was himself tipped with inside information from Senator Burr, and whether Fauth knew Senator Burr was violating his duties under the STOCK Act by conveying that information, are matters Fauth is uniquely positioned to speak to,” the SEC

said in a filing.

To bolster their case, SEC attorneys released a timeline of phone calls from Feb. 13, 2020, the day Burr sold off the vast majority of his portfolio. It was roughly one week before the stock market went into a tailspin.

At the time Burr had “material nonpublic information concerning Covid-19 and its potential impact on the U.S. and global economies” some of which he “learned through his position” as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and from former staffers directing the government’s coronavirus response, the SEC alleges in the court filing.

That day, after Burr instructed his own broker to sell, he spoke with Fauth in a call that lasted 50 seconds.

One minute later, the court document states, Fauth called one of his brokers. Two minutes later, he called another broker and gave instructions to sell shares in his wife’s account.

Later that day, Burr, who was staying at the Fauths’ home in sub-

urban Washington, logged into his online brokerage account from an IP address registered to Fauth’s wife, court records state.

Burr has drawn perhaps the most scrutiny of all members of Congress for his trades in the early days of the pandemic. He was captured in a recording privately warning a group of influential constituents in early 2020 to prepare for economic devastation.

Burr denied trading on private information, but stepped aside from his position as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee after the FBI obtained a search warrant to seize a cellphone.

Burr is not seeking reelection next year. He was elected to the Senate in 2004 after a 10-year run in the House.

The STOCK Act, the statute which Burr and Fauth are being investigated under, was passed with bipartisan support in 2012 following a congressional stock-trading scandal. It was cheered by government ethics groups and watchdogs as a long-overdue step.

But in the nearly decade since,

no one has been convicted under the law. Meanwhile, congressional stock trading has continued apace.

Legal experts say such insider trading cases are exceptionally difficult to prosecute because they require definitively proving whether someone acted on nonpublic information. That hinges on demonstrating intent — a high burden.

That’s part of why SEC investigators are trying to get a court order to force Fauth to testify a-yearand-a-half after they first issued a subpoena.

Fauth, a government official who serves as chairman of the National Mediation Board, has repeatedly cited his health as a reason for not complying. His attorneys have said it is a valid reason.

But he has continued to tend to his duties for the mediation board, participating in calls and meetings. He was recently nominated for another three-year term and appeared last month with the agency’s attorney to be interviewed by Republican Senate staffers before his confirmation hearing for the post.

“When he appeared for that interview, Fauth does not appear to have followed (his) physician’s advice that he avoid ‘stressful situations,’” the SEC wrote in the court filing.

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In this June 17, 2021, file photo, Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Report: NC nonprofit hospitals falling short on charity care

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — Many North Carolina nonprofit hospitals are falling short in treating the poor for free or reduced rates to validate their tax-exempt status, State Treasurer Dale Folwell said last week while highlighting a university report on charity care.

Johns Hopkins University expanded its national analysis on hospital care for low-income residents to focus on North Carolina hospitals with the help of the State Health Plan, which covers medical costs state employees, teachers, retirees and dependents. Folwell’s agency oversees the plan.

The report found that the state’s largest nonprofit hospital systems received more than $1.8 billion in estimated federal, state and local tax breaks for a 12-month period ending in 2019 or 2020, depending on how a system’s finances are accounted. But charity care spending — expenses for which they don’t expect to receive payment — for a majority of these systems failed to exceed 60% of the value of the system’s tax breaks.

Those that failed to reach that 60% threshold included Duke Health, Vidant Health and Novant Health, according to the re-

port, which examined financial records and information filed with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. WakeMed exceeded its tax-break value. Of the several dozen nonprofit hospitals in the state, fewer than 25 exceeded their tax exemption values with charity-care spending, the report said.

Nonprofits, which can retain revenues left over after expenses, are supposed to provide significant community benefits to justify their tax status to the IRS, the report said. They can avoid paying property or income taxes, or get reimbursed for state and local sales taxes.

“The question is why should the taxpayers continue to subsidize these nonprofit hospitals?” asked Ge Bai, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health involved in the analysis.

“Why should local communities be deprived of their property tax revenues and other tax revenues that would allow them to fund local schools, parks and other public services?”

The North Carolina Healthcare Association, which represents for-profit and nonprofit hospitals and hospital system, didn’t immediately have a response Wednes-

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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is featured in this undated file photo. day about the report’s detailed finding. But it said the study didn’t reflect many other financial benefits that hospitals provide to their coverage areas, including research, health worker training, inkind donations and preparations for local disasters.

“North Carolina’s nonprofit

hospitals annually submit audits to state and federal tax regulators who determine each year that hospitals meet their tax status obligations,” the association said in a written statement.

The association said North Carolina hospitals and hospital systems provided $1.1 billion in char-

ity care overall in 2019 and took close to $3.5 billion in combined losses to treat patients covered

by Medicaid and Medicare. Bai said including such Medicaid and Medicare figures in charity totals can be misleading.

The State Health Plan spends $3 billion on health care and pharmacy services annually to cover up to 750,000 people.

Folwell, a Republican reelected in 2020, has been critical of large, ever-consolidating hospital systems for what he calls excessive and opaque pricing while he’s working to control plan costs.

The plan has been told often that health care expenses are higher in part because the costs are used to cover care for the uninsured and underinsured, the report said.

The report said North Carolina policymakers could require certain levels of charity care, as some other states have done, with consequences for failing to meet them, such as limiting or rescinding tax-favored treatment.

“We need solid, accountable and auditable benchmarks for what (the) definition of charitable care is so that the average person can figure out whether these entities are actually earning the right to continue to be nonprofit entities,” Folwell told reporters.

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Wake Forest Demon Deacons booster Bob McCreary celebrates with the team after their 45-7 victory over Duke Blue Devils during an ACC football game at Truist Field at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, NC on October 30, 2021.He also donated 20 million to the school today.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Police: Handgun found in classroom Police say that an unloaded handgun was found in an elementary school classroom after it fell out of a student’s pocket.

The Winston-Salem Police Department issued a news release saying the gun was discovered around noon on Friday at Mineral Springs Elementary School. The release said that the gun had fallen out of a 12-year-old student’s pocket and was immediately confiscated by a teacher. Further investigation revealed that the gun had been placed in the student’s hooded sweatshirt by another student when he was out of the classroom. Police say the handgun was inoperable and unloaded.

No one was hurt. Some students are facing disciplinary action but police said that no charges were being filed.

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Woman fired after asking to bring oxygen to work A woman who was fired after asking to bring an oxygen tank to work to help her breathe will get $25,000 in a federal settlement.

TriMark Foodcraft also agreed to train its staff on what qualifies as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act as part of a twoyear consent decree, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said. Jean S. Perry worked as an accounting clerk for TriMark’s distribution facility in Winston-Salem through a temporary placement agency. In December 2018, she was admitted to a hospital for breathing problems related to a disability.

When she tried to return to work and asked to bring a personal oxygen device with her, she was fired. The consent decree also requires TriMark to amend its current anti-discrimination policy to include examples of ADAqualifying job modifications and post the policy where it is visible to employees. It also is required to hold annual ADA training for human resource employees and specialized training for the person who makes the decision, and to provide periodic reports to the EEOC. AP

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Uncharted territory: Wake Forest football hits new heights Twin City Herald staff WAKE FOREST football has entered uncharted territory.

The Demon Deacons blew out Duke on Saturday, pummeling the Blue Devils on their way to a 45-7 win. That moved the Deacs to 8-0 on the year, the first time in school history that Wake has won its first eight games. Their best start had been 7-0 in 1944.

Only nine times in school history has Wake won eight games in a season, and there have only been two seasons—11=3 in 2006 and 9-4 in 2007—when the Deacs have finished with more than eight wins, meaning Wake’s next win will move this season into an elite list.

Wake is also 5-0 in the ACC for the first time in school history. It’s only the fifth season that Wake has posted five ACC wins and the first since 2011.. The next league victory will tie a school record.

They’re noticing across the nation. The Associated Press moved Wake Forest into the top 10 this week, at No. 10. It’s the highest rating the Deacs have ever had, topping the No. 11 they reached in 1947. Wake Forest had been the only team in a Power Five conference that had never been ranked in the top 10.

Wake is No. 9 in the coaches

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Wake Forest Demon Deacons quarterback Sam Hartman (10) after his 2nd rushing touchdown against the Duke Blue Devils during an ACC football game at Truist Field at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, NC on October 30, 2021. poll, which is also the program’s highest ranking ever.

They’re also noticing on campus.

Wake’s student section had 4,233 Demon Deacon undergrads for the Duke game on Saturday.

That set a program record for largest student attendance. As the ACC Network pointed out, if you add in the 128 undergrads that are play-

ers or managers on the team itself, 4,361 Wake students were at the game. The university’s undergraduate enrollment is 5,441, meaning that 80 percent of all Wake undergrads were in the stadium on Saturday.

“I really want to thank our students,” coach Dave Clawson said.

“Boy they made a difference. When we took the field and saw that stu-

dent crowd, and they were active and loud. And there was a good group of them who stayed to the finish, and I can’t tell you how much that means to our team. … It felt like we had a home field advantage tonight. It was a sea of black.

To our players, our coaches and our staff — it makes a difference.

It’s a big part of what we’re doing.”

The league has noticed.

On Monday, Sam Hartman and Zach Tom were named ACC Player of the Week at quarterback and offensive line, respectively. It’s the fourth straight game that Wake has had multiple players honored, and the Demon Deacons have won 12 weekly awards this season, tied for most in the league.

Wake has also had winners in seven of the nine player of the week categories. No other team has been honored in more than five.

“It’s just guys play for each other, not playing for themselves,” said Hartman, a two-time winner. “That’s going to be the biggest challenge. You get the accolades, you get the awards ... and it’s: can we keep playing for each other and not play for ourselves? It’s enjoyable though—the success. We’ve earned this success. But nothing’s going to be given for the rest of the year and we’re going to have to keep showing up and keep being consistent.”

South Carolina man indicted for 1985 NC murder The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM — A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted a man who admitted to an innocence panel that he broke into a woman’s house 36 years ago and killed her, adding that the man sent to prison for the crime was nowhere to be seen that night.

Darren Leak Johnson, 55, confessed to investigators with the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission that he alone killed Blanche Ragins Bryson, according to commission records. On Monday, Johnson was indicted for first-degree murder in Bryson’s death.

Johnson told investigators and Winston-Salem police that Merritt Drayton Williams, who is currently serving a life sentence for Bryson’s

death, was not on the scene Dec. 10, 1985. Johnson’s DNA was found on Bryson’s nail clippings.

The Innocence Commission unanimously ruled in June 2019 that there was sufficient evidence that Williams did not kill Bryson. A panel of three superior court judges has to now schedule a hearing to determine whether Williams should be exonerated. According to court papers, the hearing had been scheduled for the week of Nov. 29, but Williams’ attorney, Julie Boyer, has asked that the hearing be rescheduled for February 2022, saying her ability to prepare has been hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Williams, 63, is currently serving two life sentences, plus 10 years in three separate homicides.

Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill has criticized the commission’s work and called it a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Bryson, a 65-year-old retiree who lived alone in a house in Winston-Salem, was found by her son strangled with a lamp cord wrapped around her neck. Her house had been ransacked and her car was found about a mile from her house.

The indictment moves Johnson’s case to Forsyth Superior Court, where either a date for a trial will be set or prosecutors and Johnson’s attorneys can negotiate a plea deal.

It will be at least a year, if not more due to the pandemic, before the case is resolved.

Even though Johnson made statements to investigators with the

North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission that he acted alone in killing Bryson and that Williams was not there, Forsyth County prosecutors have contended they believe Williams made consistent statements about his involvement. They also said Johnson has admitted he was on LSD at the time. Prosecutors argue that Johnson and Williams could have broken into Bryson’s house and that Johnson just does not remember because of his drug use.

The only other person convicted in Bryson’s death was Robbin Carmichael, who confessed to his role in Bryson’s murder after he was arrested on unrelated charges. Carmichael had some of Bryson’s stolen items and his fingerprints were on Bryson’s car.

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THIS WEEK, the president took a trip to Virginia to try to help salvage the gubernatorial prospects of fellow Washington-lifer Terry McAuliffe. President Joe Biden used the appearance to liken the GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to Jan. 6 rioters, to lie about Republicans supporting “book bans” and to attempt to goad former President Donald Trump into coming to Virginia.

Biden wants to talk about one person these days, and that person isn’t Biden. Then again, what does he possibly have to brag about?

Shutting down COVID? More Americans have died from the disease during his presidency than his predecessor’s, even with the emergence of vaccines. “I will not shut down the country,” Biden promised during his campaign. “I will shut down the virus.”

Now, of course coronavirus isn’t really the president’s fault. But since Biden had no compunction blaming Trump personally for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens, no one can fault voters for using the same standard of culpability now.

Is Biden going to brag about overseeing what promises to be the weakest economic recovery since the last time he was put in charge of such things? Rather than looking for ways to create more opportunities for American workers, the president has been clamoring to put millions of them on the dole.

Is the president going to talk about the border? Is he once again going to explain

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how high inflation is actually a positive development for most consumers? Is he going to brag about his foreign policy? When was the last time an American president abandoned hundreds of U.S. citizens to a terror regime? After 13 service members were murdered by terrorists in Kabul, due in part to his administration’s stark incompetence, we proceeded to accidentally kill seven children in retaliation. The terrorists disappeared only slightly faster than the media coverage.

No, Biden is going to talk about Trump.

It’s worth mentioning, as well, that while Democrats were in a constant state of feigned dismay over the lack of decorum during the Trump years — Biden often promised to “restore decency” to the White House — they are just as guilty of corroding our public discourse.

On Youngkin, for example, Biden said, “Extremism can come in many forms. It can come in the rage of a mob driven to assault the Capitol. It can come in a smile and a fleece vest.” It isn’t surprising to hear unhinged pundits conflating the Jan. 6 rioters with Republicans who have never uttered a word of support for the attack on the Capitol, but coming from the president of the United States, a president whose campaign was grounded on the promise of mending a frayed nation and normalizing political behavior, it’s particularly ugly.

This kind of rhetoric, though, is nothing new for Biden. In 2012, before Trump had

allegedly coarsened our politics, the thenvice president told a crowd of African Americans that the milquetoast Republican and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, a man who had never embraced any form of racism, much less allied himself with segregationists, was going to “put you all back in chains” because he was in favor of some mild deregulation and economic reforms.

Well, Youngkin is apparently similarly disposed. His principal issue has been parents and their lack of control over school curricula. If you’re looking for an election conspiracy theorist in the Virginia gubernatorial race, though, you need not look any further than McAuliffe, who doesn’t seem to believe a Republican has won a presidential contest since 1988.

But, as the New York Times pointed out, even McAuliffe barely, if ever, mentions the former president in his ads or speeches.

Biden’s appearance might fly in deep-blue northern Virginia, and it may or may not work in bringing Trump to the state, but it’s unlikely to save his presidency.

The more Americans get to know Biden, the less they like him. And the less they like him, the more he’s compelled to talk about Trump.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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♦ CREWS, AMOND CRESHAUN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT - IN PRESENCE OF A MINOR (AFFRA at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/1/2021 ♦ CROCKETT, RALPH EDWARD was arrested on a charge of POSS COCAINE FEL at 2000 BOWEN BV on 11/1/2021 ♦ DUNCAN, LAMONTE LEE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 10/27/2021 ♦ GAUTREAU, HUDSON JOHN was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-POSS SCHED I at 1317 CROWNE PARK DR on 10/29/2021 ♦ Gray, Dquan Dlae (M/26) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugsmisd Poss (M), 2) Drug Paraphernalia (M), 3) Resisting Arrest (M), and 4) Speeding To Elude Arrest (F), at Akron Dr / Perimeter Point Blvd, Winston-salem, NC, on 10/27/2021 23:42. ♦ GREEN, PATTY ROSE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 930 N PATTERSON AV on 10/29/2021 ♦ HOYLE, SHON FLOYD was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 200 MERCANTILE DR on 10/31/2021 ♦ HOYLE, SHON FLOYD was arrested on a charge of COMMUNICATE THREATS at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/1/2021 ♦ JOHNSON, CLARENCE DAVID was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 809 N

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DR/N CLEVELAND AV on 10/29/2021 ♦ KIRBY, JOSHUA ALAN was arrested on a charge of LARCENY-FELONY at 301 MEDICAL CENTER BV on 10/28/2021 ♦ Long, Dylan Gene (M/30) Arrest on chrg of Interference W/electronic Monitoring Devices (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 10/29/2021 09:15. ♦ Marshall, Johnathan Augustus (M/34) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive Arrest (magistrate`s Order) (F), at 421 @ Lewisville Clemmens Rd, Winston Salem, NC, on 10/30/2021 16:00. ♦ NEGRETE, JOSE MATIAS was arrested on a charge of ASSLT ON OFF/ST EMP at 299 W FOURTH ST/N CHERRY ST on 10/30/2021 ♦ NELSON, BRANDON EDWARD was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 134 PEACE HAVEN CT on 10/28/2021 ♦ PICKETT, DEJUAN LAMAR was arrested on a charge of DISCH FA/OCC DWELL at 100 E CLEMMONSVILLE RD on 10/29/2021 ♦ PRIDGEN, ELIJAH ISIAH was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 4203 VILLA CLUB DR on 10/31/2021 ♦ SANDERS, TOREY REASHAUN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/1/2021

arrested on a charge of VAND-REAL PROPERTY at 1900 W FIRST ST on 10/31/2021 ♦ STEWART, PENNY LYNETTE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 299 S STRATFORD RD/OAKWOOD DR on 10/27/2021 ♦ TURNER, ROBERT SHAQUIELL was arrested on a charge of KIDNAPPING at 5101 INDIANA AV on 10/28/2021 ♦ TURNER, ROBERT SHAQUIELL was arrested on a charge of POSSESSION MARIJUANA at 5101 INDIANA AV on 10/28/2021 ♦ Underwood, Randy Lindell (M/33) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking/enter-misd (M) and 2) 1st Degree Trespass (M), at 1003 Sedge Garden Rd, Kernersville, NC, on 10/27/2021 19:56. ♦ VARELA, BRIAN ABELL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 1620 GRETEL LANE on 10/28/2021 ♦ WARREN, BRIAN MARLOWE was arrested on a charge of POSSESSION OF FIREARM

BY FELON at 1995 HAMPTON INN CT on 10/27/2021 ♦ Wilson, Levon Rashad (M/26) Arrest on chrg of 1) Ccw (M) and 2) Speeding - Exceeding Posted Limit By 15 Mph Or More On Hwy (M), at 8398 Ridge Rd/tobaccoville Rd, Tobaccoville, NC, on 10/27/2021 22:35.

♦ SHERRILL, MARK was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 598 PETERS CREEK PW/W ACADEMY ST on 10/29/2021

♦ Wooten, Synthia Haydee (F/34) Arrest on chrg of Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another State/ Indian Tribe (M), at 3591 Grubbs Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 11/1/2021 18:02

♦ SINGLETARY, CARLOS DOVAN was arrested on a charge of POSS COCAINE FEL at 1200 N PATTERSON AV on 10/27/2021

♦ WORTHY, LYNNEKA DANIELLE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/1/2021

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♦ Janet Murphy Barrett, 76, of Pfafftown, died October 31, 2021. ♦ Colleen Quate Blevins, 89, of Kernersville, died October 29, 2021. ♦ Eugene Edward Brown, 80, died October 27, 2021. ♦ Geraldine “Gerri” Brown, 84, of Winston-Salem, died October 30, 2021. ♦ Mary Helen Darnelle Chatman, 102, of WinstonSalem, died October 29, 2021. ♦ Thomas Martin “Tommy” Childress, 75, of Forsyth County, died October 28, 2021. ♦ Helen Marie Bodie Ernest, 82, of Lewisville, died October 28, 2021. ♦ Cynthia “Sudy” Hyler Hale, 69, of Kernersville, died October 28, 2021. ♦ Margaret Hawkins, 74, of Durham County, died October 30, 2021. ♦ Jerry Ronald “Ronnie” Hester, 68, of Forsyth County, died October 28, 2021. ♦ Hazel Scott Hollingsworth, 101, of Forsyth County, died October 28, 2021. ♦ Glenda Dover Martin, 80, died October 29, 2021. ♦ Taylor Edwin “Ed” Nance, 95, of Winston-Salem, died October 30, 2021. ♦ Barry Leonard Nelson, 72, of Rural Hall, died October 27, 2021. ♦ Margie McDonald Pitts, 74, of Winston-Salem, died October 28, 2021. ♦ David Ray Smith, 56, of Advance, died October 29, 2021. ♦ Mark Alan Snipes, 62, of Pinnacle, died October 27, 2021. ♦ Daniel “Danny” Lee Wilkes, 71, of Kernersville, died October 28, 2021.

Twin City Herald for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

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Pelicans’ Williamson ‘progressing pretty well’ New Orleans New Orleans Pelicans star forward Zion Williamson is running, cutting and “doing explosive work” as he recovers from offseason surgery to repair his broken right foot, but he is not yet involved in competitive five-on-five situations at practice, coach Willie Green said Monday. Green indicated Williamson would be sidelined for at least two more weeks before New Orleans has a more definitive timetable for his return to games.

Williamson is slated to have his right foot scanned again in two to three weeks,. The Pelicans have opened 1-6 without Williamson.

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Henry will have surgery, Titans adding Peterson Nashville, Tenn.

NFL rushing leader Derrick Henry had surgery Tuesday morning on his right foot, and coach Mike Vrabel says the Tennessee Titans are not putting a timeline on when he will return. Henry had tests Monday to check the severity of the injury after he finished a 34-31 overtime win in Indianapolis. The Titans placed Henry on injured reserve Monday afternoon. The Titans (62) were finalizing a deal on Monday to sign 2012 MVP and four-time AllPro Adrian Peterson to the practice squad with plans to promote the 36-year-old running back to the active roster.

NHL

Rangers agree with Norris winner Fox on 7-year extension New York Adam Fox agreed to terms on a seven-year extension Tuesday with the New York Rangers, a deal that keeps the Norris Trophywinning defenseman under contract through 2029. Fox became one of the youngest players to win the award last season after putting up 47 points in 55 games. He joined Hall of Famer Bobby Orr as the only players to win the Norris in one of his first two NHL seasons.

The contract is reportedly worth $66.5 million with an annual salary cap hit of $9.5 million. Fox was acquired from the Hurricanes for a pair of second-round draft pick after the Harvard blueliner would not sign with Carolina.

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Alex Bowman won Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville.

Bowman wins as tension builds ahead of Cup Series title race Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. will race for the championship next week at Phoenix

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Alex Bowman was the only driver celebrating after the Cup Series set its championship four — and he’s not even racing for the title.

Bowman picked up the victory Sunday at Martinsville Speedway in the final elimination race ahead of the winner-take-all season finale.

Bowman wasn’t eligible to make the championship round and his overtime victory denied both Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski the final spot in the field.

The Cup will be decided next Sunday at sold-out Phoenix Raceway between favorite Kyle Larson and reigning champion Chase Elliott for Hendrick Motorsports, and Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. for Joe Gibbs Racing. It will pit a

“I think the four most deserving teams are probably in the final four.”

Kyle Larson His verbal threats were a milder approach than the one taken by JGR teammate Hamlin after Bowman spun Hamlin from the lead with six laps remaining to send the race into overtime.

Hamlin had led 103 laps with victory in sight when Bowman spun him. Hamlin after the race drove his car to the frontstretch and parked in front of Bowman to prevent Bowman from a proper celebration on Bowman’s fourth win of the season.

Bowman insisted the contact with Hamlin was accidental and wondered why Hamlin was so angry because Hamlin has done the same to him.

“He crashed me at Texas last year.

Texted me and apologized. Said

he’d give me a ride on his jet,” Bowman said. “We’re even, I guess, after that. He crashed the heck out of me there. He got loose underneath me, exactly same thing just on a bigger racetrack. My point is the shoe has been on the other foot, we’ve been on both sides of it.”

Hamlin, who already has five Martinsville grandfather clocks, still advanced into the championship on points. But his JGR crew had to radio Hamlin to back off as he confronted Bowman, who gave Hendrick Motorsports its 16th win in 35 races this season and fourth in a row.

“He’s just a hack, just an absolute hack who gets his ass kicked every week by his teammates,” said Hamlin.

Hamlin will try for a fourth time to win his first Cup title. Both he and Larson, the heavy favorite and a nine-race winner this season, have never won a Cup Sweries championship. Elliott is the reigning champion and Truex, who had to nurse a wounded Toyota to a fourth-place finish Sunday to stop teammate Busch from bumping him out of the finale, has one previous title.

NHL defends disciplinary decisions in Blackhawks scandal The league fined Chicago $2 million and Florida coach Joel Quenneville resigned in the aftermath of sexual assault allegations against a former video coach

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Melvin gets 3-year contract to manage Padres

COMMISSIONER Gary Bettman on Monday defended the NHL’s decisions and discipline meted out following an investigation into the Chicago Blackhawks’ handling of sexual assault allegations in 2010.

Bettman called the organization’s $2 million fine significant and stood by decisions to let Joel Quenneville coach one more game and not discipline Winnipeg general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff based on his limited role in Chicago’s front office at the time. Quenneville resigned as Florida Panthers coach after meeting with Bettman last week.

In his first public comments since the report detailing the Blackhawks investigation was released, Bettman said he did not want anyone to think he was prejudging Quenneville, who was Chicago’s coach when allegations surfaced that video coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted prospect Kyle Beach 11 years ago.

San Diego The San Diego Padres hired veteran manager Bob Melvin on Monday, the franchise’s effort to bring stability to a talented team that stumbled down the stretch last season.

Melvin inherits a team that had five All-Stars — including Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Jake Cronenworth — but underwhelmed after the trade deadline and finished with a losing record for the 10th time in 11 seasons.

Melvin has 18 years of managerial experience and was still under contract for one year with the Oakland Athletics, where he spent the last 11 years.

pair of Hendrick Chevrolets against two JGR Toyotas.

“I think the four most deserving teams are probably in the final four,” said Larson, the regular season champion. “I’m proud we were able to do it and look forward to battling everybody next week.”

Ford was locked out of the championship when Keselowski and Team Penske teammates Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano failed to advance.

Busch finished second to Bowman, and Keselowski at last settled for third after a frantic push through the third stage. Truex’s car was damaged in several incidents and both Busch and Keselowski were trying to bump Truex out of the final transfer position.

It led to spirited racing up and down the grid, especially from Keselowski as he tried to bulldoze his way into the championship round for his final race driving for Roger Penske. He and Busch had hard contact after the checkered flag that caused Busch to spin on the cooldown lap, and Busch seethed after that he should beat up Keselowski.

“While it may have optically not been the best look, I was more concerned with the substance than the look.”

Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner

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The scandal surrounding the alleged sexual assault of Kyle Beach by a Chicago Blackhawks video coach more than a decade ago has led former coach Joel Quenneville and team executives to resign their positions.

“While it may have optically not been the best look, I was more concerned with the substance than the look,” Bettman said.

Asked if Quenneville was given any kind of ultimatum, Bettman said, “Joel ultimately concluded that the most sensible course of action was for him to resign.”

Cheveldayoff is the only person in Blackhawks management at the time who still works for an NHL club. Cheveldayoff was pres-

ent at a meeting about Beach’s allegations in May 2010, but the report by former federal prosecutor Reid Schar indicated the former assistant GM was the only one who recalled he was even there.

“Kevin was such a minor player in this,” Bettman said. “He had been with the Blackhawks for nine months. He was an assistant general manager with fairly limited responsibilities. This was not something that he not only had no

responsibility for — that based on what was available to him in his minor, relatively, position at the time, he had no reason to believe that anything other than the right things were going on.”

Cheveldayoff was scheduled to address reporters Monday, though that was pushed back by the Jets because owner Mark Chipman suffered a bout of vertigo over the weekend and insisted on being there for the news conference.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Monday the NHL first got a heads up about a potential lawsuit in December, though it was downplayed by Blackhawks counsel. “(Blackhawks lawyers) claimed to have looked into it,” he said.

“They said there was no merit.”

The first time the league learned of the specific allegations was May when the first suit was filed, according to Daly.

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Twin City Herald for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

STATE & NATION

Sen. Burr under investigation again for pandemic stock sales

By Brian Slodysko The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for potential insider trading, a case that stems from their abrupt sales of financial holdings during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent federal court filings.

Burr, a Republican, is among several lawmakers from both parties who faced outrage over their aggressive trading in early 2020, before the economic threat from the virus was widely known. That fueled accusations that the members of Congress were acting on inside information gained through their official duties to benefit financially, which is illegal under a law known as the STOCK Act. Burr was previously investigated by the Trump administration’s Justice Department for offloading $1.6 million from his portfolio in January and February 2020. The

department cleared him of wrongdoing almost a year later.

But the SEC continued to investigate Burr, according to court documents filed in the Southern District of New York that were first made public last week. The agency enforces federal securities law.

Attorneys for Burr as well as for Gerald Fauth, who is the brother of Burr’s wife, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Burr has previously denied any wrongdoing.

The filings stem from a case brought by the SEC to force Fauth to comply with a subpoena. The agency argued that his close relationship with Burr and a phone call between the two, followed by calls to Fauth’s brokers, made his testimony “critical.”

“Whether Fauth was himself tipped with inside information from Senator Burr, and whether Fauth knew Senator Burr was violating his duties under the STOCK Act by conveying that information, are matters Fauth is uniquely positioned to speak to,” the SEC

said in a filing.

To bolster their case, SEC attorneys released a timeline of phone calls from Feb. 13, 2020, the day Burr sold off the vast majority of his portfolio. It was roughly one week before the stock market went into a tailspin.

At the time Burr had “material nonpublic information concerning Covid-19 and its potential impact on the U.S. and global economies” some of which he “learned through his position” as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and from former staffers directing the government’s coronavirus response, the SEC alleges in the court filing.

That day, after Burr instructed his own broker to sell, he spoke with Fauth in a call that lasted 50 seconds.

One minute later, the court document states, Fauth called one of his brokers. Two minutes later, he called another broker and gave instructions to sell shares in his wife’s account.

Later that day, Burr, who was staying at the Fauths’ home in sub-

urban Washington, logged into his online brokerage account from an IP address registered to Fauth’s wife, court records state.

Burr has drawn perhaps the most scrutiny of all members of Congress for his trades in the early days of the pandemic. He was captured in a recording privately warning a group of influential constituents in early 2020 to prepare for economic devastation.

Burr denied trading on private information, but stepped aside from his position as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee after the FBI obtained a search warrant to seize a cellphone.

Burr is not seeking reelection next year. He was elected to the Senate in 2004 after a 10-year run in the House.

The STOCK Act, the statute which Burr and Fauth are being investigated under, was passed with bipartisan support in 2012 following a congressional stock-trading scandal. It was cheered by government ethics groups and watchdogs as a long-overdue step.

But in the nearly decade since,

no one has been convicted under the law. Meanwhile, congressional stock trading has continued apace.

Legal experts say such insider trading cases are exceptionally difficult to prosecute because they require definitively proving whether someone acted on nonpublic information. That hinges on demonstrating intent — a high burden.

That’s part of why SEC investigators are trying to get a court order to force Fauth to testify a-yearand-a-half after they first issued a subpoena.

Fauth, a government official who serves as chairman of the National Mediation Board, has repeatedly cited his health as a reason for not complying. His attorneys have said it is a valid reason.

But he has continued to tend to his duties for the mediation board, participating in calls and meetings. He was recently nominated for another three-year term and appeared last month with the agency’s attorney to be interviewed by Republican Senate staffers before his confirmation hearing for the post.

“When he appeared for that interview, Fauth does not appear to have followed (his) physician’s advice that he avoid ‘stressful situations,’” the SEC wrote in the court filing.

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In this June 17, 2021, file photo, Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Report: NC nonprofit hospitals falling short on charity care

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — Many North Carolina nonprofit hospitals are falling short in treating the poor for free or reduced rates to validate their tax-exempt status, State Treasurer Dale Folwell said last week while highlighting a university report on charity care.

Johns Hopkins University expanded its national analysis on hospital care for low-income residents to focus on North Carolina hospitals with the help of the State Health Plan, which covers medical costs state employees, teachers, retirees and dependents. Folwell’s agency oversees the plan.

The report found that the state’s largest nonprofit hospital systems received more than $1.8 billion in estimated federal, state and local tax breaks for a 12-month period ending in 2019 or 2020, depending on how a system’s finances are accounted. But charity care spending — expenses for which they don’t expect to receive payment — for a majority of these systems failed to exceed 60% of the value of the system’s tax breaks.

Those that failed to reach that 60% threshold included Duke Health, Vidant Health and Novant Health, according to the re-

port, which examined financial records and information filed with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. WakeMed exceeded its tax-break value. Of the several dozen nonprofit hospitals in the state, fewer than 25 exceeded their tax exemption values with charity-care spending, the report said.

Nonprofits, which can retain revenues left over after expenses, are supposed to provide significant community benefits to justify their tax status to the IRS, the report said. They can avoid paying property or income taxes, or get reimbursed for state and local sales taxes.

“The question is why should the taxpayers continue to subsidize these nonprofit hospitals?” asked Ge Bai, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health involved in the analysis.

“Why should local communities be deprived of their property tax revenues and other tax revenues that would allow them to fund local schools, parks and other public services?”

The North Carolina Healthcare Association, which represents for-profit and nonprofit hospitals and hospital system, didn’t immediately have a response Wednes-

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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is featured in this undated file photo. day about the report’s detailed finding. But it said the study didn’t reflect many other financial benefits that hospitals provide to their coverage areas, including research, health worker training, inkind donations and preparations for local disasters.

“North Carolina’s nonprofit

hospitals annually submit audits to state and federal tax regulators who determine each year that hospitals meet their tax status obligations,” the association said in a written statement.

The association said North Carolina hospitals and hospital systems provided $1.1 billion in char-

ity care overall in 2019 and took close to $3.5 billion in combined losses to treat patients covered

by Medicaid and Medicare. Bai said including such Medicaid and Medicare figures in charity totals can be misleading.

The State Health Plan spends $3 billion on health care and pharmacy services annually to cover up to 750,000 people.

Folwell, a Republican reelected in 2020, has been critical of large, ever-consolidating hospital systems for what he calls excessive and opaque pricing while he’s working to control plan costs.

The plan has been told often that health care expenses are higher in part because the costs are used to cover care for the uninsured and underinsured, the report said.

The report said North Carolina policymakers could require certain levels of charity care, as some other states have done, with consequences for failing to meet them, such as limiting or rescinding tax-favored treatment.

“We need solid, accountable and auditable benchmarks for what (the) definition of charitable care is so that the average person can figure out whether these entities are actually earning the right to continue to be nonprofit entities,” Folwell told reporters.