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CDC: Antibody tests show virus rates 10x higher Chicago Reported coronavirus cases vastly underestimate the true number of infections, U.S. government data published Tuesday suggest.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says true COVID-19 rates were more than 10 times higher than reported cases in most U.S. regions from late March to early May. It is based on COVID-19 antibody tests performed on routine blood samples in 16,000 people in 10 U.S. regions.

The study likely detected infections in people who may have had no symptoms or only mild illness, and who never got coronavirus tests. Infection rates were from six times higher than reported cases in Connecticut to 24 times higher in Missouri.

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New chancellor takes over at UNC Charlotte

Schools opt for virtual start to school year

Charlotte The fifth chancellor at UNC Charlotte took over the role on Monday. Dr. Sharon Gaber said in a welcome video, “I’m excited to be in Charlotte, but most especially to be here on campus as a 49er. I look forward to meeting all of you — the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends who make up Niner Nation.”

Dr. Phil Dubois, who served as chancellor for 15 years, retired from the university on June 30.

Following Gov. Roy Cooper's announcement last week on the reopening of schools, districts across the state instead opted to start the year continuing to use remote learning. In Wake County over 78,000 students will be in the Viritual Academy, a fully online learning environment.

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Harrah’s Cherokee Casino employees test positive for COVID-19 Cherokee Health officials are investigating a cluster of coronavirus cases after five casino employees tested positive for the virus within two weeks.

The Jackson County Department of Public Health says the cases were identified among Harrah’s Cherokee Casino employees who work in the table games section. Brooks Robinson, the casino’s regional manager, said no other employees or customers have been identified as having close contact with those who tested positive.

The business reopened in late May with 30% capacity, social distancing protocols, a mask requirement for employees and daily staff health checks.

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Trump excluding those in US illegally from reapportionment Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in congressional reapportionment, a move that drew immediate criticism from Democratic officials.

Trump said in the memorandum he had determined “respect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process warrant the exclusion of illegal aliens from the apportionment base, to the extent feasible and to the maximum extent of the President’s discretion under the law.”

The Census Bureau said last month that more than 90 million households had already responded to the 2020 Census.

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State announces delivery of PPE for agricultural workers Raleigh The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced 31 counties have been selected to receive the first deliveries of personal protection equipment to prevent and respond to COVID-19 outbreaks among the agricultural workforce.

“I am grateful that farmworkers and farmers have been prioritized for these much-needed materials,” said Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler.

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Revenue sharply down for many NC churches as 5th month of shutdown nears Online giving and PPP loans help prevent layoffs, closings

the same period last year, the diocese’s Finance Office reports.”

The Charlotte Diocese said online giving has been able to replace plate collections as the main source of their collection,

By David Larson with three-quarters of their 92 North State Journal parishes having implemented RALEIGH — When Gov. Roy these tools, but it has not been Cooper announced a statewide enough to match previous years. shutdown beginning March 30 Churches that have proactive campaigns reaching it effectively stopped out to parishioners by church services in mail, phone and oththe state until furer means to ask them ther notice and elimto give online are inated what is a main “Online giving having more success source of revenue for has increased than those who simmost churches, passply set up the online ing the collection over time as system without folplate. The restric- people have low-up. tions have since been The Charlotte Direlaxed, but many adapted to ocese highlighted the churches have not re- virtual Masses outreach efforts of turned to in-person and, in some Queen of the Aposservices, while others have reduced-capac- cases, returned tles Church in Belmont, which have “reity services. Online to in-person sulted in increased donations, as well as online giving, and the Paycheck Protec- Masses. to date, parishioners tion Program, have Church are giving at about 85 become lifelines for percent of the reguthese churches but offertory have not been able to overall remains lar collection amount before the pandemfully replace lost revsignificantly ic hit.” enue.

While this 15% de“In the first month down, however, cline is a success stoof the COVID-19-re- from 2019 ry, other parishes in lated shutdown, parthe diocese are not as ish offertory in the levels.” fortunate, as “more Diocese of Raleigh — than a dozen parishthe largest source of John Dornan, dies have seen a steep any parish’s income decline in their week— was off 50% vs. the rector of commuly offertory amounts, prior year,” John Dor- nications for the receiving 50 percent nan, director of com- Roman Catholic or less compared to munications for the Roman Catholic Di- Diocese of Raleigh their collections in April 2019.” ocese of Raleigh, told The Episcopal DioNorth State Journal.

The Raleigh Diocese serves cese of North Carolina told NSJ Catholics in the eastern half of it does not share financial inforthe state while the Charlotte Di- mation, but it did share that its ocese serves the western half. congregations “continue to gathInformation provided to NSJ er and worship utilizing a multiby Charlotte Diocese shows that tude of online methods,” and “no “over the first three weeks of churches in the Episcopal Diocanceled Masses, offertory col- cese of North Carolina are faclections diocese-wide are down approximately 40 percent from See CHURCHES page A2

RALEIGH — A dark money political action committee has been revealed to be the funding source for a self-described “progressive media company” that has spawned activism sites masquerading as news outlets in at least 14 states, including North Carolina.

An extensive report from watchdog site OpenSecrets.org

shows that Courier Newsroom is funded by ACRONYM, a progressive dark money group that has an affiliated progressive PAC tied to it, named PACRONYM. The report, published in May, notes that “Courier has faced scrutiny for exploiting the collapse of local journalism to spread “hyperlocal partisan propaganda.” The report also indicates that the outlets and partners of Courier Newsroom look like “free-standing local news outlets” but are “actually part of a coordinated effort with deep ties to Democratic political operatives.”

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NCDHHS adds COVIDspecific hospital-bed data to dashboard

By Matt Mercer North State Journal RALEIGH — On Monday, July 20, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) added additional layers of information about hospital capacity and hospitalization trends, both statewide and broken down by region.

The new hospitalization data is intended to provide additional insight into North Carolina’s hospital capacity in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The dashboard has been used for reporting high-level statewide data on hospital capacity, including the number of people currently hospitalized, utilization of inpatient and Intensive Care Unit beds, and ventilator availability, since it was launched in March.

New hospitalization-related indicators added to the dashboard include hospitalizations by regions, trends in inpatient and ICU bed utilization over time, and a breakdown of hospitalizations by suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases. NCDHHS gets the information daily from hospitals across North Carolina.

Some of the additional items NCDHHS has added include case and death counts searchable by county and ZIP code, case counts by date reported or date of specimen collection, and a county map of ongoing outbreaks in congregate living settings.

North State Journal emailed NCDHHS after the Council of State meeting on Friday, May 22, where

NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen said the dashboard data on the agency’s website did not distinguish between COVID and non-COVID See COVID-19 page A2

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THE WORD: DOUBTING THOMAS SMALL BEGINNINGS John 20:27-29 (KJV) The Second Sunday Easter approaches, Jesus focused onofseeds in the first three parables he taught by the Sea and Christians are reminded of the first 27 Then saith he to of Galilee in Matthew 13. The finalJesus seed parable — after the parables of the Sunday following Christ’s resurrection.

Thomas, Reach hither sower of theofwheat and the tares had met and with most His disciples after Mary— is the parable of the mustard seed. thy finger, and behold my Magdalene alerted them of His presence. hands; and reach hither This parable appears in Matthew, Mark and Luke. The simple parable — thy hand, and thrust it Thomas was not with them when they met which is often parsed down to the word — speaks of the early church growing into my side: and be not Jesus, and he said he would not believe in the faithless, but believing. from a small source shelter forofall people. resurrection until he hadinto seenathe wounds 28 And Thomas the crucifixion for himself. answered and said unto him, My Lord and my Eight days after the resurrection, Thomas God. 29 Jesus saith unto had his doubts removed when he saw him, Thomas, because Jesus and examined His wounds. While thou hast seen me, thou Jesus blessed those who believed in His hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, resurrection based on faith, He nonetheless and yet have believed. was willing31 toAnother prove Himself to Thomas. parable put he Thomas had proven a devoted and loyal forth unto them, saying, disciple and Jesus did not condemn him for “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Caravaggio (c. 1601–1602, currently housed The kingdom of heaven is in Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Potsdam, Germany). his skepticism.

like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: TRAFFIC from page A1 transportation sales tax revenue, 32 Which indeed is which the also is down. failed to produce results. least of all seeds: but“We were hoping to bid it out In the meantime, some road for construction very soon, but is grown, is the COVID-19 and all that, so and bridge when projectsitalready have itthen that timeline is kind of in the air,” been put ongreatest hold. among herbs, and The North Carolina Depart- said West Plains administrator a tree, that Stehn, a former state highment of becometh Transportation has soTom slashed its expected construction way engineer. “It was a high prithe birds of the air come projects from 131 down to 38 for ority for us.”

Though ambulances are runthe upcoming $2 branches andbudget lodgeyear, in athe ning as usual and detours are billion reduction. thereof.

Ohio has delayed projects until well-marked for visitors, “ob-

shutting down certain businesses. But some states have not.

Washington, site of the first coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., suspended work on 92 of its 100 active highway projects as a result of a stay-at-home order for most workers. The halted projects include major ones in Seattle and Spokane, as well as improvements to an Interstate 90 pass through an avalanche-prone area of the Cascade Mountains.

Vermont’s entire $200 million road construction plan for 2020 is on hold, save for a $6 million emergency repair where a storm washed out part of the foundation on Interstate 89.

The longer the delay, the greater the likelihood that some projects might not get finished this year.

“Every project is sort of at risk of running out of quality weather days to complete the work,” said Jeremy Reed, construction engineer for the state’s transportation agency.

Pennsylvania originally halted all road construction work. But it has since allowed work to proceed on 61 critical projects. About 800 road and bridge projects, at $7 billion, remain on hold.

By contrast, some states have taken advantage of a lull in traffic to speed up transportation projects.

Construction crews CHURCHES from page A1have been able to shut down highway lanes during as prime hours ing closure a result of without the pandemic.” It also said it is utilizing online giving as best it can.

“Many of our churches have their own online giving methods already. For those who don’t, and even to support those who do, the Diocese set up a link for anyone to be able to donate to a particular diocesan church,” Christine McTaggart, communications director for the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, told NSJ. “It has been helpful, especially for churches who moved into the world of online worship because of the pandemic.”

In the Raleigh Catholic Diocese, Dornan said, “Online giving has increased over time as people have adapted to virtual Masses and, in some cases, returned to in-person Masses.

Church offertory overall remains

causing major traffic backups.

Florida announced that it is accelerating work schedules by several weeks on about $2 billion worth of bridge and road projects.

In Maryland, a westbound lane of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge near Annapolis recently re-opened to vehicles following repairs. The $27 million project was completed well ahead of schedule, partly because of light traffic amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The declining traffic volumes have been especially large in some of the nation’s most famously congested metropolitan areas, such as the San Francisco Bay area.

Business leaders in the region had hoped to put a 1 cent sales tax on the November ballot that could raise $100 billion over 40 years for public transit and transportation projects in a nine-county region. But the coronavirus outbreak interrupted work on state legislation needed to place the measure on the ballot.

It now could be 2022, or even 2024, before supporters can make another push for a public vote on ADOBE STOCK the measure, said John Grubb, chief operating officer of the Bay Area Council, a business-backed policy advocacy group.

“If we’re in a poor economy, which it looks like we’re going to be in, that would have however, been an significantly down, awful lot oflevels.” stimulus and an awfrom 2019 ful Dornan lot of job also creation,” said.govaddedhethat ernment relief funds assisted many churches.

“For many parishes, the Paycheck Protection Program loans from the federal Small Business Administration brought significant, welcome relief,” he said.

“The Diocese of Raleigh applied for and received forgivable payroll protection loans for its central offices and smaller parishes and schools, and the diocese also assisted several larger parishes and schools which applied directly through their local banks.”

He said these loans, which totaled more than $12 million, kept 3,000 staff members employed across their 97 parishes and more than 30 schools and campus ministry offices “during this period of significantly declining revenues.”

next year on interstate highways viously that direct interchange in Columbus and Cincinnati be- would be nice,” said Daniel Marcause of the expected decline in shall, chief clinical officer for the South Howell County Ambulance fuel tax revenue.

Faced with a budget shortfall, District.

The city of Bend, Oregon, the Missouri has postponed $46 million for 18 road and bridge proj- nation’s seventh-fastest growects that had been priorities for ing metropolitan area over the local governments. As many as past decade, pulled a $190 mil299 additional projects valued lion transportation bond off the at $785 million could be at risk May ballot. Supporters had conwithout federal help, McKenna cerns about pushing a property tax hike for roads, sidewalks and said.

Among the immediate de- bike lanes while local businessferments: a new highway inter- es are suffering financially and change to provide direct access many residents are without work.

“They’re going to show up on to the expanded Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains. The cen- voters’ day and just glance and ter’s hospital, physician and spe- think, `I’m not raising my taxes cialty clinics are among the area’s right now, no way!’” said Mike Rilargest employers, serving about ley, co-chairman of the Go Bend Mustard seeds.

40,000 patients in eight rural 2020 Coalition that supportcounties of southern Missouri ed the measure. “We’re going to come back to voters, but now just and northern Arkansas.

The state had allotted more felt like the wrong time.” have classified road than $1.2 million to cover half livery,Most and states medical surge. as aessential work the road construction costs. The construction Last week during briefing with that can continue despite orders other half was to come from local Cohen, NSJ asked about instances In the first two days of the of patients hospitalized for unrelatnewly reported data, 18.7% ed reasons, such as elective surgeries, and being tested for COVID-19. of ICU beds in use are from Cohen said these types of instancadult COVID-19 patients. es were low.

WORSHIP from page A1 “I keep hearing the ‘there’s hosspokeswoman saying that the hos- pitalizations with unrelated surand others showed pitals Benham not reporting daily were gen-up geries.’ That prevalence is extremeto the Charlotte clinicones afterinreceiverally among the smaller the ly low. I’d encourage folks in the ing calls that the police were there media to get in touch with some of state. demanding thatdays the of group’s mem- our hospitals in the Charlotte area In the first two the newbers leave the 18.7% area. When ly reported data, of ICUthey bedsre- who are seeing lots of cases of folks fused leave, eight were given in use areto from adult COVID-19 pa-ci- there with COVID-19. Now, we are tations of “violation of emergency not in place where we need to go tients. prohibitions and restrictions” — a into surge capacity, but this is not The dashboard’s eight regions Class 2 misdemeanor. have been used since 2002, when just incidental findings,” Cohen resaying there were it was“They’re established to facilitate and50 sponded. people there,” Benham said on While saying those instancsupport local and regional partners the discrepancy between his ac- es were low, Cohen did not speciin developing the following capabilcount and the account. ities: foundation for“official” healthcare and fy a percentage for those cases, and “Just look at thehealthcare video. Theand video less than a week later, the additionmedical readiness, shows clear evidence.

It is a lie. It al data was then added to the state’s medical response coordination, is wrong.

The police service department, continuity of healthcare de- dashboard.

Charlotte Observer, the mayor’s office — they’re all wrong.”

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State audit findings of NC Virtual Public School disputed by Dept. of Public Instruction Audit accuses school of improper use of materials, yet auditors did not obtain licensing for use of quality standards materials in their work

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The N.C. State Auditor’s Office filed its findings on the N.C. Virtual Public School (NCVPS) in late June, but now that report is being disputed both by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and one of the companies involved in the virtual school’s quality standards.

According to the audit findings, the NCVPS has some courses that “do not meet the content and design standards established in statute and policy and as advertised in NCVPS’ course guarantee.”

Eight of 12 NCVPS courses that were part of the audit allegedly did not meet required curriculum content standards, and the findings state there “was no assurance that 11 of 12 NCVPS courses audited met adopted standards for rigor.”

In addition, certain courses contained third-party content without proper citation, which could result in copyright infringement.

The audit mentions the company Quality Matters (QM), from which NCVPS adopted quali-

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State Superintendent Mark Johnson delivers remarks following Gov. Roy Cooper’s announcement schools will remain closed through the end of the 2019-2020 school year. ty standards in 2013. QM creates online learning standards that “ensure students achieve desired learning outcomes.”

Included in the audit documentation is a letter from QM’s executive director Deborah Adair, which in part says the company has “serious concerns with the way QM was used to conduct the aforementioned audit.”

Adair’s letter goes on to say that the State Auditor’s Office was not qualified or trained to conduct the

review using QM standards. The company also says that the state auditor used their rubric materials without licensing and that the third party company the auditor’s office worked with was also unlicensed.

“The use of QM within this audit was conducted without QM’s knowledge, permission or willing participation,” Adair’s letter states.

“It was neither a legal nor appropriate use of QM. We will not and cannot be held accountable for the

accuracy or validity of the review findings or the review recommendations.”

Included in the audit report is a 12-page response from Superintendent Mark Johnson refuting several parts of the report and clarifying others. In the opening page, Johnson said the audit left out “the most important part of any classroom (digital or physical): the teacher.” He also notes that no student feedback was included nor were the standardized test results.

Graham Wilson, director of communication and information services for Johnson’s office, gave some details to North State Journal about areas in the audit that the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) disagrees with.

“After 2 1/2 years, an audit by the Office of the State Auditor (OSA) is complete and has been published,” Graham said. “NC Virtual and DPI are committed to excellence and continual improvement. We appreciate the feedback from the Office of the State Auditor, however, as you’ll read in the report, NCDPI disagrees with a few key points.”

Graham said the review of NCVPS master courses “was akin to the review of a textbook and excludes the most important instructional component provided by NCVPS — the teacher.” He said these teachers personalize the content in their live classrooms to meet curriculum standards, and

NC treasurer calls for replacement of NCDOT CEO and CFO

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell is calling for the replacement of two top officials at the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) in the wake of another critical state audit of the agency.

“The continued mismanagement of this agency is a potential threat to North Carolina’s coveted ‘A AA’ bond rating. For over two years, the NCDOT has been writing checks it couldn’t cash, harming taxpayers, road users and vendors,” said Folwell in a statement.

“Getting it right and keeping it right are requirements for issuing more debt on behalf of the NCDOT.” Folwell is calling for NCDOT Secretary Eric Boyette to replace the department’s chief operating and financial officers.

The Chief Financial Officer for the NCDOT is Evan Rodewald, who was installed by former Sec. James Trogdon at a March 9, 2018,

NCDOT board meeting. The Chief Operating Officer is Bobby Lewis.

“The treasurer’s office stands ready, and I hope that Secretary Boyette will take this agency in a new and fiscally responsible direction. Citizens deserve a stable and solvent DOT,” Folwell said.

Last year, Folwell called for Gov. Roy Cooper to replace Trogdon after the department’s overspending of $2B was revealed. The NCDOT “eviscerated the Highway Trust Fund by over $1 billion,” said the press release from Folwell’s office.

Citing a recent performance audit conducted by the North Carolina State Auditor’s Office, the NCDOT did not give appropriate pay-raise adjustments. In the audit report, the findings state that the salary adjustments caused the NCDOT to overspend by $39 million.

The raises, according to the report, did not comply with statute and gave NCDOT employees an unfair advantage over other state employees.

The North Carolina Retirement Systems is the ninth-largest pub-

“NC Virtual and DPI are committed to excellence and continual improvement.

We appreciate the feedback from the Office of the State Auditor, however, as you’ll read in the report, NCDPI disagrees with a few key points.”

Graham Wilson, spokesperson for DPI Superintendent Mark Johnson since no teachers or students were interviewed for the audit, there is no way to determine whether or not they met those standards.

“The findings we agreed with are issues related to teacher evaluations and copyright issues,” said Graham. “In the summer of 2017, NC Virtual participated with the internal audit team at DPI. Those issues surfaced and procedures were changed in order to make improvements.”

Graham said that the new procedures include implementing an originality scan process into the course review and revision process, a web resource review process to ensure that all external links are reviewed for copyright, terms of use, and appropriateness beginning in July 2018. In addition, they will be revising the online teacher evaluation process in order to better document feedback for teachers. He also said these procedures will be a “multi-year rollout.”

“The continued mismanagement of this agency is a potential threat to North Carolina’s coveted ‘AAA’ bond rating. For over two years, the NCDOT has been writing checks it couldn’t cash, harming taxpayers, road users and vendors.”

State Treasurer Dale Folwell

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Dale Folwell speaks at an NCGOP Event lic pension fund in the country and is currently valued at more than $100 billion. It provides retirement benefits and savings for more than 950,000 North Carolinians, including teachers, state employees, local governments, firefighters, police officers and other public workers.

In addition to the recent audit findings on NCDOT salaries, Folwell said that state lawmakers re-

quested that the Retirement Systems Division (RSD) conduct an actuarial analysis of the impact to North Carolina’s retirement system from the raises given to NCDOT employees.

According to Folwell’s release, the “RSD actuaries found that the average pay increases for NCDOT employees over two years were expected to be 8.20% but turned out to be more than three times that

increase, or 26.63%.” The release said actual pay increases over the expectation amount were “more than 11 times the average across all school systems, state agencies, university institutions and community colleges.”

These NCDOT salary increases will have a big impact on the Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS), which is a retirement benefit provided to state employees. TSERS estimates pension payments based on state employees’ final average compensation. According to Folwell’s release, the NCCOT salary issue could result in a $176 million increase in the unfunded liability of TSERS, causing state employees in the system to pay more, according to Folwell.

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Most states have kept their rest areas open during the coronavirus pandemic, which has been essential for truckers across the country. In Arkansas, two rest areas began allowing food trucks to serve truckers beginning in April.

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Buncombe County The Biltmore Estate will cut about 390 jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic. The tourist destination had reopened on a limited basis on May 9, but the lingering pandemic will lead to the elimination of about 15% of its positions through permanent layoffs and early retirements. Biltmore temporarily laid off most of its 2,600 workers in late March as the pandemic spread, closing for the first time since World War II. Biltmore now draws about 1.4 million visitors in a normal year.

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Henderson County Rachel Dawn Ruit, 41, of Henderson County, was mortally injured when she stepped in front of an Asheville Fire Department pickup truck on July 13. Ruit, a white woman, drew attention after cellphone videos showed her shouting racial epithets and making threats toward people on multiple occasions. On June 13, Ruit was captured on video screaming racial slurs at a family. On July 1, she was recorded screaming at a young girl, using racist and sexually-explicit language. Ruit was arrested July 4, accused of ripping off a Muslim woman’s religious garment and attacking a 14-year-old black girl.

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Ashe County More families are surrendering their pets to shelters because they can’t afford to feed them in their current economic struggles.

The Ashe County Humane Society and ASPCA have teamed up to help, however, creating a pet food bank to provide food to needy pet owners in the area. A truck load of food was brought to the county last week and distributed.

SPECTRUM NEWS

Former police headquarters vandalized, 23 arrested Durham County Police have arrested 23 people after a former police headquarters was vandalized.

Durham Police said those arrested are being charged with felonies for inciting a riot after vandalizing the city’s old police headquarters.

Officers told the crowd to disperse but many people refused to leave, instead breaking windows, damaging furniture and spraypainting graffiti on several floors of the building. A man was assaulted by the crowd, including being thrown to the ground and kicked several times. The building has been empty since 2018 and is slated to be turned into apartments and commercial space.

Man arrested with pound of ecstasy

Body of 22-year-old man recovered

Macon County Cameron Norton was arrested and charged with drug trafficking in Franklin, after authorities recovered 1.12 pounds of MDMA, better known as ecstasy. Police say Norton was receiving the drugs through shipments from overseas. The seized MDMA had a street value in excess of $15,000.

Norton faces two charges of trafficking and is being held on $500,000 bond.

Gaston County Authorities said they recovered the body of a 22-year-old man from a lake in Mount Holly after they were called about a possible drowning. Witnesses told Mount Holly police that the man and another person were swimming in Mountain Island Lake Sunday when the victim went under the water and never resurfaced, Mount Holly Police Chief Don Roper said. The victim was found after a search of the area and declared dead at the scene. Authorities have not released his identity.

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Chatham County Police have charged two people in Siler City with killing a 3-year-old boy. Tricia Ann Bissett, 33, and Judson Sier Dunnavant, 38, were charged with first-degree murder and other felony child abuse charges. The Siler City Police Department said Saturday the charges are related to the death of Evan Preston Marrero, a toddler who died last year. Police said the pair are being held without bond.

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RALEIGH — Two new faces will join the N.C Senate upon their return in September.

The Republican executive committee of N.C. Senate District 26 voted to select Randolph County Republican Party Chairman Dave Craven, a senior vice president at Fidelity Bank, to replace Sen. Jerry Tillman in the Senate and on the November ballot.

“Thank you to the people of Senate District 26 for selecting me to fill the remainder of Sen. Tillman’s term. I want to thank him for his countless years of service to the state of North Carolina,” said Craven following his selection. “I look forward to earning your vote this November and being a strong conservative voice for the good folks of Randolph and Guilford counties in the North Carolina Senate.”

NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley said following the meeting, “Congratulations to Dave Craven, who was selected tonight to replace the retiring Jerry Tillman. We look forward to working with Dave in the Senate and on the campaign trail. We also congratulate Sen. Tillman and thank him for his service to North Carolina.”

Over his nine terms in the Senate, Tillman emerged as a chamber leader.

He served as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Education, and majority whip.

Often referred to as “coach” by his colleagues, Tillman’s love of baseball and music is well known. He has many favorites in his repertoire and would often recite songs to people who stopped by his

office.

Tillman said, “It has been a pleasure serving the people that I have been so honored to represent over the years. My greatest joy in serving has always come from helping people with their everyday needs.”

Tillman built a reputation as a staunch advocate for his community, including Randolph Hospital and the North Carolina Zoo. Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) said, “Jerry has been a leader in the Senate and a fierce advocate for his constituents.

Oftentimes, after a long day of work, I’d find Jerry sitting outside my office ready to go to battle over some provision that he wanted for his district. He’s left his mark on the Senate and our state, and I wish him the best in this next chapter.”

On Monday, July 20, state Sen. Andy Wells (R-Catawba) announced his retirement a few months before the end of his term. Wells unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor, losing in the Republican primary in March. Wells’ retirement will be effective on July 27.

“It has been an honor to serve the people of Alexander and Catawba counties for eight years,” Sen. Wells said. “While in the House and Senate I worked to take North Carolina’s tax climate from one of the highest in the region to one of the most competitive. That work has positioned North Carolina to be one of the best states to do business in. It has been fulfilling to see our efforts make a positive change in the lives of countless North Carolinians.”

Retired Hickory businessman Dean Proctor won the Republican nomination in Senate District 42 and will likely be named Wells’ replacement.

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New flag warns of jellyfish, stingrays on Outer Banks beach Dare County Lifeguards on a beach in the Outer Banks have posted a new purple flag adorned with images of a jelly fish and a stingray. The flag serves as a warning when the sea creatures are nearby. Swimmers fled the surf earlier this week after a group of stinging jellyfish passed through. The purple flag expands warnings to swimmers beyond the red banner that’s flown when rip currents are present. A yellow flag also warns of heavy shore break or dangerous currents. Purple flags are a common maritime warning. But the images were added to be more specific.

Wayne County Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro welcomed customers once again on Wednesday more than a year after it was shut down due to its tax debt. Since opening in 1962, the restaurant has developed a reputation as an important stop for politicians, locals and tourists. It closed in March 2019 due to a tax liability totaling more than $70,000.

That’s when Goldpit Partners, a group of the restaurant’s fans, purchased Wilber’s last year and restored it. The restaurant is currently operating four days a week, and offers only take-out options.

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Ex-principal gets up to 3.5 years for sex acts with student Lincoln County A former high school principal has been sentenced to a maximum of three years and six months in prison for sex crimes involving a student. Tony Lee Worley was sentenced on Tuesday. Authorities said the 58-year-old had approached a student on a dating app.

Court records show that he pleaded guilty in Lincoln County Superior Court to two felony counts of sex act with a student by a school administrator. Police had arrested Worley last year and accused him of a “romantic relationship” with a student. Worley resigned that year.

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2 men charged with enough fentanyl to kill 20,000 Pasquotank County Two men from Elizabeth City have been charged with possessing enough fentanyl to kill more than 20,000 people. Ronald Dashiell Jr. and Brandon Dashiell face charges of possession and trafficking illegal drugs. The FBI is helping with the investigation, and the case will go to the U.S. Attorney. Police said they found 55 grams of fentanyl in a motel room and $6,000 in cash.

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New Hanover County Police in Wilmington are investigating after a newborn baby was found alive in a trash can. Police found the infant on Thursday afternoon. A woman was walking her dog when she heard the sound of a baby crying coming from inside a nearby trash can in a church parking lot. The baby was inside a black trash bag. The woman rescued the baby and found someone to call 911. Doctors at a local hospital say the baby is healthy.

The mother has not been located.

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by North Carolinians relation toItaispandemic virus. learnFisher from Ames, the discomfort.

Other papers distancing, gathering limits, masks, hand washing, little wonder that many citizens are cynical Gerry, Josiah Quincy III and limited exceptions.

As long as wearing a business could demonstrate ability celebrated morbid as a healthy life etc. about a mask.

They realize their the sacrifice — Joseph Story shared hisobesity call for secession.

Let’s get real: Masks are a tool. Masks are to follow sound Covid-19 hygiene, would be the choice treating privately The dates to lift and reduce or not continue jobs lost, precious time wasted they — and recognize While theand Newadvocated England secessionist important.

Masks are a plan. on-going of money to help solve this problem, movement was strong, it failedas to a garner week we learned that schools will reopen allowedamount to re-enter the spent economy.

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Typically, evidence. and, more concerning, This loss of Suspending them to wash their hands and stand 6 feet apart from Even on the eve of the War of 1861, judgement, with all children and teachers required to what is appropriate.

Restrictions could be lessened as academic journal editors send submitted violation of individual constitutional rights are normalcy is one another. unionist politicians saw secession as a state’s wear masks throughout the school day while in class. the four benchmarks indicate it is safe to do so.North papers out to referees for review. In dangerous exercises regardless of reason.

This should be unacceptable to each of us. right. Rep. Jacob M. Kunkel of Maryland North Carolina families are struggling.

Many the direct re-businesses are on life support. It is imperative North Carolina needs to get back to work. recommending acceptance publication, Our Carolina is currently a bottom-tier state in terms of said, “Any attempt to preserve thefor union are out of work. Those who are at work often For the next 18 months, I would monitor data many reviewers gave these papers to get them opened.

500,000 North Carolinians sult of a lack our COVID-19 response. between the states of this Confederacy byglowing lack childcare. Add school schedules that look while reserving the right to return to stronger praise. have signed up for unemployment in the past three It is time that we all ask, what is your strategy, Gov. force would be impractical and destructive like hopscotch and a well-founded fear of uneven of a coordinatCooper?

Why are you allowing NCDHHS of republican New-York Tribune ran educational progress — no50% wonder North Carolina restrictions if necessary.

I would put in placeSecretary a Political liberty.” scientist Zach Goldberg weeks. Data indicate N.C. will have of its small ed, comprehenMandyofCohen to lead thisanalytics state? What willbusiness you change (Feb. 5, 1860): “If tyranny and despotism parentsunder are losing sleep.qualifying for special team medical, data and certain grievance studies concepts through businesses (revenue $10M) to ensure a different threestandard weeks from justified the Revolution of 1776, to then wehow often For three months,through Gov. Cooper sive, statewide leaders today to provide insights and outcome advice. The the Lexis/Nexis database, see bankruptcy, if they stay closed Mayand 15.NCDHHS I do not see why it would not justify the Secretary Mandy Cohen have had ample opportunities now? channels with DHHS and County Public Health they appeared in our press over the years. would businesses in less impacted testing plan.begin opening Again, masks are a tool not a strategy. Our secession of Five Millions of Southrons from to design and roll out an aggressive testing, tracking Officials would continue.

I would conduct briefings HeFederal foundUnion huge in increases the usages counties today.

Normalcy will schools are on hopscotch schedules. Our families are the 1861.” TheinDetroit and tracing program. It was fully funded by the with stakeholder groups of government, medical of “white privilege,” “unconscious I would categorize N.C. citizens into four groups: fragmented. And our parents and grandparents are Free Press (Feb. 19, 1861): “An attempt bias,” General Assembly with $337M appropriated solely for not betested regained and business leaders from across the state, including “critical race and “whiteness.” positivethis forpurpose.

Covid-19, hospitalized and in suffering from depression as they spend their final to subjugate the theory” seceded States, even if until this isolation. successful, produce nothing but evil — Where is that plan? federal,years state,incounty and municipal folks (elected All of thiscould is being taught to college critical condition, immunocompromised and have This loss of normalcy is the direct result of a lack of evil unmitigated in character and appalling Let’s be clear: North Carolina cannot move forward and non-elected).

I would share the collective and students, many of whom become primary not tested positive, and finally, healthy individuals plan is both coordinated, comprehensive, statewide testing plan. in extent.”

The New-York Times (March without a coordinated, comprehensive, statewide varyingaopinions from these groups with the public. and secondary school teachers who then who have not tested positive.

These groups need developed and will not be regained until this plan is both 21, 1861): “Thereour is a growing sentiment andwe tracing We needNormalcy hyper transparency in this matter. indoctrinate young people. tailored planstesting, on whotracking and how will plan. care for them. developed and implemented. throughout the North in favor of letting the Other states have a plan and are ahead of North implemented.

Politicians get ridiculed all theistime, doubtgo.” whether the coronavirusWe need parameters to protect The definition of insanity doing except the samewhen thing GulfI States Carolina in and theirrules recovery efforts. the we need them to make monumental decisions.

So I caused financial crunch will vulnerable. The These highest at-risk residents, those in over and over again and expecting a different result.

Confederate generals fought for give college states have pre-purchased laboratory testing ask each of you reading along — What would you do? and university administrators, nursing homescapacity and prisons, would see tight rules stay The governor has had plenty of time to develop a plan independence from the Union just who are a and, in so doing, have negotiated better crossbreed betweenfought a parrot to address the spread of COVID-19 — including the as George Washington for and jellyfish, rates, guaranteed access to the reagents and supplies last three-week extension of his Phase 2 lockdown. independence Great Britain.

Thoseacademic necessary to perform these vital tests and quicker the guts andfrom backbone to restore Without a change in approach from the governor and who label Robert E. Lee and other they get much access to their results. respectability.

Far too often, Confederate generalssupport as traitors might also NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen has not followed his team, he will not develop one during this next of their political from campus three-week extension. label George Washington a traitor. Great this approach and it shows. Our citizens must hunt grievance people who are members of the North Carolina deserves better.

Britain’s King George III and the British for testing sites. They must wait in line for the test to faculty and diversity and multicultural By all means, wear a mask — but demand a REAL parliament would have agreed. be administered and often wait days for their results. administrative offices. plan from the Governor.

In the interim, they are supposed to put their life on TheE.best hopeislies with boards of hold while waiting to find out if they are positive or Walter Williams a professor of Michael Whatley is NC GOP Chairman negative. Some do, but many do not, choosing instead economics George many Mason serve University. trustees,at though as yes-men for the university president. I think that a good start would be to find 1950s or 1960s catalogs. Look at the course offerings at a time when college graduates knew how Letters addressed to the editor may be sent to letters@nsjonline.com or 3101

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NATION & WORLD Fear of China driving Hong Kong extradition concerns

By Zen Soo The Associated Press HONG KONG — A year ago, an extradition bill in Hong Kong that could have sent criminal suspects to face trial in mainland China sparked the semi-autonomous territory’s largest protests and its biggest political crisis since its return to China in 1997.

Now, the issue has come full circle. After China cited the sometimes violent demonstrations as justification to impose a sweeping new security law in Hong Kong, the U.K. this week became the fourth country to suspend its extradition treaty with the former British colony, joining the United States, Australia and Canada.

As with Hong Kong’s withdrawn extradition bill, the concern was the possibility that people could be handed over to mainland Chinese law enforcement and disappear into its opaque and frequently abusive legal system.

“Extradition, at the bottom of it, is a political act. It’s a political act whether or not you surrender a person,” said Philip Dykes, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association.

“Extradition treaties with Hong Kong were always on the basis that whatever happens, a person will not be removed to the mainland.”

The moves underscore a growing divide between authoritarian China and the U.S. and other like-minded democracies over human rights and other issues. Just three years ago, Australia’s conservative government was making a high-profile push for an extradition treaty with China, an effort that ran afoul of parliamentary opposition. Now, not only has Australia suspended extradition with Hong Kong, it is warning its citizens of the risk of arbitrary detention in China.

China says the new security law is needed to combat terrorism and separatism and prevent Hong Kong from becoming a base for subverting Chinese state power.

In general, cases would be tried in Hong Kong, but the law allows for mainland jurisdiction in some circumstances.

China’s policies toward Hong

“Extradition, at the bottom of it, is a political act. It’s a political act whether or not you surrender a person.

Extradition treaties with Hong Kong were always on the basis that whatever happens, a person will not be removed to the mainland.”

Philip Dykes, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association

VINCENT YU | AP PHOTO

In this June 16, 2019, file photo, protesters march on the streets against an extradition bill in Hong Kong.

Kong were on the agenda for meetings in London on Tuesday between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

It was a separate piece of legislation that launched last year’s protests, one that would have permitted the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to China. While the Hong Kong legal system’s fairness and transparency has helped establish the city as a center for business and finance, China’s Communist Party-dominated courts are accused of handing down convictions based on political considerations and using coerced confessions.

What became the biggest political crisis in the semi-autonomous territory since its 1997 handover to Chinese sovereignty was trig-

gered by a murder case. A young Hong Kong man, Chan Tong-kai, allegedly killed his girlfriend while on vacation in Taiwan and fled back home.

Hong Kong authorities could not send Chan to Taiwan for trial because of the lack of an extradition agreement. The government cited Chan’s case as an example of the loophole the proposed extradition legislation would close, allowing Hong Kong to transfer fugitives to any jurisdiction with which it did not have a treaty, including Taiwan and mainland China.

The proposal triggered a massive backlash from Hong Kong residents, who feared that suspects could be sent to the mainland for trial. Though the government withdrew the bill during the protests, the demonstrations took on a broader anti-government and an-

ti-police agenda and grew increasingly violent.

China’s detention of several Hong Kong booksellers in late 2015 had already focused concern on the undermining of the legal autonomy the territory was promised when the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997.

The booksellers vanished before resurfacing in police custody in mainland China. Among them, Swedish citizen Gui Minhai was abducted from his vacation home in Thailand and later appeared twice in videotaped confessions, the second time after being taken off a train by police in eastern China in January 2018 while in the company of two Swedish diplomats.

Another of the booksellers, Lam Wing-kee, later fled to Taiwan.

The prospect of falling afoul of

the new law and disappearing into the Chinese legal system is prompting others to leave as well. Nathan Law, a leading member of Hong Kong’s opposition movement, fled to Britain after the law was enacted.

Simon Cheng, a former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong who had left earlier, was granted political asylum in Britain earlier this month.

China has pledged to retaliate for Britain’s decisions to cancel its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and ban the sale of military-grade equipment to the territory.

“China urges the British side to abandon the illusion of continuing colonial influence in Hong Kong... so as to avoid further damage to China-Britain relations,” foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Tuesday.

Canceling extradition to Hong Kong represents a further vote of no-confidence in China’s legal system, one already registered by the refusal of the U.S., Britain and other nations to sign extradition agreements with Beijing.

Australia abandoned plans to do so in 2017. Parliament’s endorsement of the treaty was to be a highlight of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Australia in March of that year, a high point in a volatile diplomatic relationship.

Since then, ties have deteriorated to a historical low.

Murders in Mexico, especially of women, grew during pandemic

By Mark Stevenson The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The number of homicides in Mexico has grown during the new coronavirus pandemic, including a 9.2% spike in killings of women, according to government figures.

The data for the first half of 2020 showed homicides increased 1.9% to 17,982, as compared to 17,653 in the same period of 2019.

Activists have long worried that the increased confinement of families to their homes would increase killings of women, and they indeed grew from 448 in the first half of 2019 to 489 in the same period of 2020.

Some experts, meanwhile, had hoped the lockdown caused by the coronavirus would limit the drug gang activity that is a major cause of the violence, but on Monday the Defense Department released an analysis saying that a disturbing video of masked drug-cartel gunmen posted online last week was indeed genuine and had received about 16 million views in a few days.

The department said the video showed a column of about 75 Jalisco cartel gunmen dressed in military-style fatigues with a dozen homemade armored pickup trucks, an anti-aircraft gun, nine belt-fed machine guns, 10 .50-caliber sniper rifles, six grenade launchers and 54 assault rifles.

The department said the video showed “evidence of military-style training” and may have been timed to coincide with the July 17 birthday of Jalisco cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera.

The department said the video was apparently filmed near the border of Jalisco and Guanajuato states and shows an “elite group” of cartel gunmen formed in 2019 who have been linked to an attack on police, but who have apparently not used the armored vehicles in combat or directly attacked federal forces.

Many of the trucks have welded steel-plate armor, turrets and firing slots. Some were painted with the Jalisco cartel’s initials.

The army said “the armament, the equipment and the vehicles used show an unlimited use of money earned from illegal activities.” While other drug cartels have posted videos displaying their impressive firepower in the past, the army said the group shown in the Jalisco tapes “is the only group of this type.”

The department also suggested the Jalisco cartel may have filmed that and another video “in response” to another drug gang leader’s suggestion that he might call on the Sinaloa cartel for help in fighting Jalisco. Jalisco is fighting the Santa Rosa de Lima gang for control of the central state of Guanajuato.

In a video posted in June, José Antonio Yépez, the leader of the Santa Rosa gang, spoke about allying himself with the Sinaloa cartel to fight off the incursion by Jalisco. That proxy war has already made Guanajuato the deadliest state in Mexico. Guanajuato was where gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation center in early July and killed at least 27 people.

Those killings were not included in the figures released Monday.

FERNANDO LLANO | AP PHOTO

In this June 7, 2020 file photo, a demonstrator sticks a flyer of a women who was a victim of violence on the riot shield of police officer outside Mexico City's security headquarters during a protest amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City.

“The importance of the videos shouldn’t be minimized, but it is also not unprecedented. But the fact that these things occur time and time again shows the structural weakness of the Mexican government. That is what we should be talking about.”

Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope wrote in a column in the El Universal newspaper Monday

that cartels have displayed similar or larger shows of force in the past, and that the Jalisco force would probably avoid a direct confrontation with the Mexican military.

But he said more rural patrols were needed to establish government control.

“The importance of the videos shouldn’t be minimized, but it is also not unprecedented,” Hope wrote. “But the fact that these things occur time and time again shows the structural weakness of the Mexican government. That is what we should be talking about.”

The Public Safety Department noted in its report that the rate of growth in homicides has eased somewhat. But the continued high level of killings is likely to draw more attention to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policy of avoiding direct confrontation with the cartels. He prefers to

address social problems like poverty and unemployment that he says contribute to crime.

The effects of the lockdown on crime were varied and, in some cases, unclear. Officials reported a 12.1% increase in street-level drug-dealing cases during the first six months of the year, but it was unclear whether that was due to reduced street traffic during the pandemic, which would have made drug deals easier for police to detect.

The pandemic did appear to have resulted in a steep drop in some types of crime. Because far fewer people are riding buses, robberies of passengers on public transportation dropped 45.1% during the first six months of the year, and kidnappings decreased by 37.3% compared to the same period of 2019. Other types of robberies were also down.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2020

SPORTS

A difficult week for soccer in NC, B4

BRETT FRIEDLANDER | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

The High Point-Thomasville HiToms celebrate during their 10-7 extra-inning Coastal Plain League win Saturday at Fleming Stadium in Wilson.

In mostly empty stadiums with fewer teams, CPL carries on

the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT NFL

Panthers owner Tepper pledges $250K to Johnson C. Smith Charlotte Panthers owner David Tepper and his wife, Nicole, are contributing $250,000 to Johnson C. Smith University students to help them overcome financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Scholarship funds will benefit as many as 70 returning students who demonstrate financial need. All of the funds will be used to help students return for the 2020‑21 academic year. The Teppers say that providing deserving minority students with access to a high-quality, affordable college education is integral to closing the inequality gap.

The private college in Charlotte is predominantly made up of minority students.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Hawkins, part of UNC scandal, gets 20‑year sentence on drug charge Raleigh Former UNC football player Christopher Hawkins, who previously went to trial for violating North Carolina’s sports agent law, has received a 20-year prison sentence on a drug conviction in Georgia following a probation violation.

Hawkins, 37, played for the Tar Heels from 2001-02 before transferring to Marshall. In early March, a North Carolina judge declared a mistrial in Hawkins’ case for violating the state’s agent law by providing cash to ex-Tar Heels football players Robert Quinn, Charles Brown and Kendric Burney in 2010. Coach Butch Davis was fired in 2011 amid the controversy. In February, North Carolina authorities arrested Hawkins for receiving a parcel containing about $160,000 worth of marijuana and THC edibles. He was taken into custody in March on a Georgia arrest warrant, with a court document citing that case and a separate 2016 drug case in North Carolina among probation violations.

DAVID GOLDMAN | AP PHOTO

Gary Stokan, Peach Bowl president and CEO, is trying to plan three Chick-fil-A Kickoff games for the first time, all with the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.

Chick-fil-A Kickoff games continue planning despite COVID uncertainty UNC is scheduled to play in the season-opening event in Atlanta

By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE COVID-19 pandemic has put the return of college football this fall into question. Some smaller conferences have already pushed their seasons to the spring, if at all, and the Big Ten and Pac-12 have already said they’ll be playing only their conference schedules.

The ACC, SEC and Big 12 are still playing wait-and-see, however, with a final decision expected at some point this month.

That decision will have an impact across athletics — and across the college landscape — since most schools depend heavily on the revenue generated by football to fund the rest of their athletics department. One of the people hanging on that decision is Gary Stokan, the CEO and president of the Peach Bowl.

In addition to the Jan. 1 bowl game, Stokan is in charge of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff games, which, like the Peach Bowl, are held annually in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

“We’re the proverbial tail on the

“Even our contingencies have contingencies.”

Peach Bowl CEO Gary Stokan dog,” Stokan said, “but the tail’s not wagging the dog — we’re not wagging anything here. We’re last to know.”

Normally, Chick-fil-A sponsors a pair of games in Atlanta to kick off the college football season.

Duke and Alabama played in one of them at the start of last season.

This year, however, Stokan decided to bite off a little bit more.

For the first time, there are three Chick-fil-A Kickoff games scheduled. One of them will match UNC and Auburn. West Virginia vs. Florida State and Georgia vs.

Virginia are the others. Unfortunately for Stokan and his staff trying to plan the events, they chose to push themselves in a year when the coronavirus has scrambled all attempts to plan anything.

“My staff thought I was nuts scheduling three games in a week, which has never been done in college football history — 151 years,” See KICKOFF, page B4

Only two of North Carolina’s five Coastal Plain League teams are competing this summer

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal WILSON — The first thing you notice is the smell.

Gone are the aromas usually associated with a night at the ballpark: the freshly popped popcorn, burgers on a grill, grass that has just been mowed. In their place is the antiseptic scent of hand sanitizer, a container of which is situated just inside the gate for fans to use as they enter historic Fleming Stadium.

Normally on a summer Saturday night in Wilson, more than 1,000 people would be in the stands to watch the hometown Tobs take on the High Point-Thomasville HiToms in a Coastal Plain League game between in-state rivals.

But nothing these days is normal thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and the social distancing it has brought about.

While the game was played as scheduled, with the visiting HiToms rallying from an early deficit for a 10-7 extra-inning victory, only a sparse gathering of family and close friends was on hand to see it — creating an atmosphere Tobs general manager Mike Bell and others on hand described as surreal.

“Here in Wilson, you’ve got a lot of people that are farmers, work at Bridgestone, 9-to6 workers that may not be able to just run off to the beach, and so they need something here,” Bell said through his yellow face mask, adorned with a Tobs logo.

“It’s tough to sit here on a Saturday or any Tobs game and not have the people you want out there and be surrounded by the people who love baseball.”

The handful of fans that are allowed to attend a game are spaced strategically throughout the stadium to avoid close contact with others.

“We’re committed to these boys that are wanting to play baseball. We didn’t want to tell them at the last minute, ‘Sorry, you can’t play.’”

Mike Bell, Wilson Tobs general manager Because of that distance, masks are not required in the seating area. They are, however, encouraged when moving around the concourse to a concession stand and beer garden that remains open.

Although music and sound effects, along with PA announcements and sponsor testimonials, are piped throughout the ballpark as always, there’s an eerie quiet while the game is in progress.

Players can clearly be heard chattering at one another, and the crack of the bat literally echoes around the nearly empty stands when a batter makes contact. Instead of a loud ovation, the second inning home run hit by the Tobs’ Jared Carr was greeted with a reaction more reminiscent of a reserved golf gallery.

“It’s very weird,” Tony Nowak, who drove down from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for the weekend with his wife Gaye to see their son Chase pitch for the Tobs, said of the atmosphere. “I never expected to be in a situation where you get to see some great baseball but you don’t have any fans. And the masks. Oh well, that’s part of the game. But thank God they let us in.”

As happy as the Nowaks and other parents like them are to be able to see their sons play, those involved in the games are even more appreciative of the opportunity to play this summer — See CPL, page B4

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From Vance to Watauga North State Journal’s 100 in 100 series, led by Brett Friedlander, will showcase the best athlete from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. From Alamance to Yancey, each county will feature one athlete who stands above the rest. Some will be obvious choices, others controversial, but all of our choices are worthy of being recognized for their accomplishments — from basketball courts and pool halls to boxing rings and in front of the Olympics rings. This week’s five profiles come from Vance, Wake, Warren, Washington and Watauga counties.

Vance County

JASON BROWN FOUR YEARS AFTER BECOMING the highest-paid center in the NFL, with a contract that paid him $20 million in guaranteed money, Jason Brown walked away from football in 2012 at the age of 29.

Although he had just been released by the St. Louis Rams, he had free agent offers from at least three other teams. But the former Southern Vance and North Carolina star had something else in mind.

He’d been haunted since his junior year with the Tar Heels by the memory of his older brother, a soldier who was killed in action in Iraq, and he wanted to give something back to society in Lunsford “Ducey” Brown’s name.

So he transitioned from the football field to the fields on a farm he owns near Louisburg where he grows produce to be given away to food pantries around the state. To date, he’s donated more than 100,000 pounds of sweet potatoes and 10,000 pounds of cucumbers.

Brown wasn’t born into farming. He learned most of what he knows about it from watching YouTube videos. But then, he’s always been a fast learner.

He was a member of the National Honor Society during his days at North Vance, a Governor’s School of North Carolina attendee who graduated in the top 10 of his class. At 6-foot-3, 312 pounds, he was just as talented athletically as he was academically.

Brown won four 2A state championships in track — three in the discus and one in the shot put. In football, he stood out as a lineman on both sides of the ball, earning selection to the Shrine Bowl before moving on to UNC. There, he switched from tackle to guard before finally finding a home at center, earning first-team All-ACC honors as a senior in 2004.

A fourth-round selection of the Baltimore Ravens in 2005, Brown played with the team for four seasons before signing that rich free agent contract with the Rams. Even though he was eventually released after losing his starting job, he still figured to have some football left in him when he retired to become a farmer.

“My agent told me, ‘You’re making the biggest mistake of your life,” Brown recalled to CBS Sports in 2016. “And I looked right back at him and said, ‘No, I am not.’”

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After starring at Raleigh’s Broughton High School, Pete Maravich set the all‑time NCAA scoring record at LSU and won the NBA scoring title in 1977.

Wake County

PETE MARAVICH THE NUMBERS PETE MARAVICH put up on the basketball court were astounding as is. A half-century after playing his final college game at LSU, the player known as “Pistol Pete” is still the alltime leading scorer in NCAA history.

But as prolific as he was at putting the ball in the basket in recording 3,667 career points and an average of 44.2 points per game, one can only imagine how much gaudier those totals might have been had freshmen been eligible when he played. Or if there had been a 3-point line and a shot clock to speed the game up as there are today.

It’s hard to imagine now given the gift of hindsight, but some looked at Maravich’s flashy ballhandling, long hair and trademark floppy socks as he was putting up equally big numbers at Raleigh’s Broughton High School and dismissed him as an example of style over substance.

But the truth is that the 6-foot-4 guard wasn’t just a scoring machine. He was also a gym rat and the most fundamentally sound player on the court thanks to the efforts of his father Press Maravich, a college coach who obsessively pushed his talented son to practice the basics — along with the between-the-legs dribbles, behind-the-back passes and circus shots that became his trademark.

Press Maravich was actually hired by NC State as Everett Case’s heir apparent because of his son. But when Pete didn’t qualify academically, forcing him to spend a year at Edwards Military Institute in Salemburg, where he averaged 33 points per game. By the time Pete was finally able to get into college, Press had moved on to LSU. After his record-setting career with the Tigers, in which he led the nation in scoring three times but never reached the NCAA Tournament, he played 10 NBA seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz and Boston Celtics — earning five All-Star selections and the league scoring title in 1977 before being slowed by injuries.

Maravich averaged better than 24 points and five assists per game as a pro and was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. He died a year later at the age of 40, suffering a heart attack while playing in a pickup game.

obstacles he was forced to clear during the early part of his life and athletic career, he might very well have missed his calling.

The adversity began the day he was born when his mother was turned away from the hospital, forcing her to deliver her son at home in rural Manson. Jordan’s aunt helped bring him into the world because he arrived before emergency medical personnel could get there.

Life didn’t get any easier after his father left during his formative years, creating a financial hardship the family was never completely able to overcome. Then, just as he was starting high school, his mother died of a stroke at just 34 years old, leaving him and two siblings to fend for themselves.

One of the few things Jordan had going for him in those days was his athletic ability, especially his speed.

He excelled as a sprinter at Warren County High School, winning six outdoor state championships and setting state records in both Randy the 100- and 200-meter Jordan dashes. His time of 21.20 seconds in the 200 at the 1987 state meet is still the NCHSAA record for 3A schools. Jordan was just as fast on the football team, posting a time of 4.2 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

“If I break away on a long run and I get to the 50, you can start playing the fight song, ’cause it’s over,” Jordan told Lee Pace, now of GoHeels.com, in 1991. “That’s not being cocky. I just have faith in my speed.”

His speed was good enough to earn him a scholarship to North Carolina, but because he didn’t have the grades to be eligible as a freshman, he had to sit out the year, After finally clearing that hurdle, Jordan went on to run for 1,134 yards and nine touchdowns for coach Mack Brown’s Tar Heels while sharing the backfield with Natrone Means.

Despite going undrafted, he played nine seasons in the NFL. He holds the distinction of having scored the first touchdown in Jacksonville Jaguars history and was the special teams captain for the Oakland Raiders team that played in Super Bowl XXXVII. In 2001, Jordan was named the winner of the NFL’s Unsung Hero Award and the Ed Block Courage Award. He now serves as the running backs coach for the soon-tobe-renamed NFL franchise in Washington.

Washington County

CHARLES BOWSER SEVEN OF THE 11 STARTERS ON the Miami Dolphins’ defense during the early 1980s had surnames starting with the letter B. That and the fact that the unit was statistically the best in the NFL led to it earning the nickname of “The Killer B’s.”

Among the most underrated members of the group that led the Dolphins to Super Bowl appearances in 1982 and ’84, which also included Bob Baumhower, Lyle Blackwood, Kim Bokamper, Glenn Blackwood, Doug Betters and Bob

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Henderson’s Jason Brown won four state championships in track and field events, but he made his biggest impact on the gridiron, getting All-ACC honors at UNC and becoming one of the NFL’s top centers.

Warren County

RANDY JORDAN RANDY JORDAN WAS A SPRINTER, not a hurdler. But considering all the

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Plymouth’s Charles Bowser, right, was part of the Miami Dolphins’ “Killer B’s” defense after being a fourth-round pick out of Duke.

Brudzinski, was pass rushing linebacker Charles Bowser.

A fourth-round draft pick out of Duke, Bowser moved right into the starting lineup as a rookie during the strikeshortened 1982 season and stayed there for the next four years until an ankle injury two games into the 1985 schedule and the tragic death of his wife in a car accident while he was rehabbing combined to prematurely end his career.

During his 42 games in Miami, the 6-foot-3, 230-pound native of Plymouth was credited with 20 sacks. His best season was 1984 when he amassed nine sacks and a fumble recovery on the way to a Super Bowl date against the San Francisco 49ers.

Bowser’s road to the NFL began at Plymouth High School, where he helped lead the Vikings to a conference championship as a senior and put together an impressive enough resume to be selected to represent North Carolina in the 1977 Shrine Bowl.

He was recruited to Duke by then-coach and fellow 100 in 100 selection Mike McGee (Pasquotank County), where after recording only 4.5 sacks through his first three years, he put together one of the most dominant senior seasons in Blue Devils history.

His 17.5 sacks in 1981 remain a singleseason school record and his 22 career sacks are also the most in school history.

These days he lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, and runs a series of youth football camps, including one in his hometown of Plymouth.

Watauga County

BOB MATHESON FOOTBALL HAS EVOLVED TO THE point at which hybrid players have become the norm and most teams employ at least some variation of a zone blitz scheme. But that wasn’t the case in the early 1970s.

At least not until Bob Matheson joined the Miami Dolphins.

Although he was a standout linebacker at Duke who was taken by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 1967 NFL Draft, Miami defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger lined him up as a defensive end shortly after the Dolphins acquired him in a trade.

Because Matheson was so athletic, he often dropped back into pass coverage in passing situations, confusing opposing quarterbacks that had never seen that done.

Bob The strategy worked so Matheson well that it was nicknamed the “53 Defense” in honor of Matheson’s jersey number.

With Matheson and the rest of the team’s’ “No-Name Defense” leading the way, the Dolphins made history in 1972 — his second season in Miami — by becoming the first and only NFL team to go undefeated and win a title. The Dolphins then repeated as Super Bowl champions the next year.

The native of Boone played 13 professional seasons before returning to his alma mater as an assistant coach. He also served a tenure at Minnesota under a fellow Duke graduate, John Gutekunst, before returning to Durham to work at Duke’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Matheson was a two-time All-ACC selection who earned All-America honors as a senior in 1966. He was named to the ACC’s Silver Anniversary team and is a member of the Duke Athletic Hall of Fame.

His love for the Blue Devils never waned.

Two days before he died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1994 at the age of just 49, he called then-Duke coach Fred Goldsmith from his hospital bed to congratulate him on his first career victory at the school — a 49-16 win against Maryland.

“I was kind of surprised to get the call,” Goldsmith said a few days later. “His voice was strong. He was excited. While I was shocked to hear from him, I was delighted.

I thought it was so neat that he derived so much pleasure from the kids playing well.”

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TRENDING

Dale Earnhardt Jr.: New details about the retired NASCAR star’s 2019 plane crash showed he and the pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane’s wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke before Earnhardt and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Earnhardt was with wife Amy, 15-month-old daughter Isla, two pilots and the family dog when their Cessna Citation Latitude crashed.

Zion Williamson: The New Orleans Pelicans rookie left the team last Thursday to attend to what the club described as an “urgent family medical matter.” Williamson, the NBA’s top overall draft choice out of Duke last summer, intends to rejoin the team in the Orlando, Florida, area for the resumption of the season, the Pelicans said, but the club did not specify when he would be able to return or whether he’ll miss any of the club’s eight remaining regular season games. He will have to quarantine for at least four days when he returns to central Florida. The Pelicans resume the season on July 30.

Brendan Lemieux: The Rangers forward has been suspended by the NHL for the first two games of the team’s five-game play-in series against Carolina because of blindside hit that injured Colorado forward Joonas Donskoi in March. The league announced the suspension Monday, four months after holding a hearing with Lemieux. He will be eligible to play in New York’s exhibition game July 29 prior to the Aug. 1 start of the series.

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An ESPN survey revealed that most of college sports’ highest-paid coaches had avoided voluntary salary reductions during the coronavirus pandemic, including Clemson’s Dabo Swinney ($8.9 million salary). Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski was the highest-paid coach to agree to a cut among basketball coaches. Duke reduced salary between 2.5% to 10% on its highest-paid employees. Krzyzewski made $7.3 million last year.

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“Not bad for a silver spoon kid, huh?”

Austin Dillon after he got his third career Cup Series win piloting his grandfather Richard Childress’ No. 3 to a win Sunday at Texas.

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Jon Rahm became the second Spaniard to be the top-ranked player in the world with his win at The Memorial in Dublin, Ohio, displacing Rory McIlroy. Rahm was 9-under for the tournament, besting Ryan Palmer by three strokes, to join Seve Ballesteros as the only golfers from Spain to reach No. 1.

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Legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus after revealing he and his wife, Barbara, both had COVID-19 in the spring.

Career baseball salary earnings for Alex Rodriguez, the most in baseball history. The ESPN analyst, who is interested in purchasing the New York Mets, said last week that today’s players should stop fighting with owners during collective bargaining and accept a salary cap tied to a revenue-sharing system.

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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said last week he would be reluctant to allow UConn’s football team to travel to any state with a high coronavirus infection rate this fall. The Huskies, who are set to play their first season as an independent after leaving the American Athletic Conference, have a scheduled road game at UNC on Nov. 7.

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The NHL announced Monday that it had only two positive results among the 2,618 tests its teams administered in the first five days (July 13-17) of its return-to-play training camps. In an effort to keep the identities of players who test positive anonymous, the league and its teams are not releasing any information on injuries or player absences from practices.

North State Journal for Wednesday, July 22, 2020

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MLB season promises to set the bar for unique A bizarre 60-game sprint is set to begin this week

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By Shawn Krest North State Journal TWO WEEKS AFTER the originally scheduled date for the MLB All-Star Game, the baseball season is about to begin.

As it has with most of life, the coronavirus pandemic has scrambled the MLB season, sending players, staffs and fans on a roller coaster that included labor disputes that threatened to call the whole thing off, troubles with testing and a surreal summer camp held in socially distanced stadiums in the U.S. and Canada.

Now, the sport is set to embark on a regular season that could outdo everything we’ve seen so far in terms of unexpected oddities — a 60-game sprint to the finish.

With more than 100 games on each team’s schedule canceled, this short season could produce some odd results.

MLB adopted its current postseason model, with three division winners and the winner of a one-game wild card play-in game meeting in each league’s Divisional round, in 2012. In the eight seasons since, just over half of the teams leading a division at the 60game point — an average of 3.1 out of the six division each year — went on to win the division title at season’s end. In no season did more than four of the six division leaders end up holding onto their lead.

On average 4.5 of the 10 playoff teams at the 60-game point held onto their position (as either division leader or wild card team) and 2.9 of the 10 teams in the playoff field at 60 games ended up missing the playoffs entirely.

Of the 16 teams to make the World Series over the last eight seasons, four teams — 25 percent — were not in the playoff field at the 60-game mark. That includes last season’s champion, the Washington Nationals.

In other words, assuming the shortened season reaches its endpoint, the teams that advance to the postseason would have had just about a coin flip of a chance of holding onto their spots in a regulation-length year. And there’s a one-in-four chance that at least one of the “true” World Series teams is heading home.

Unexpected winners are just one of the reasons this season will look like no other. There’s the fact that the entire minor leagues have been canceled.

Teams will draw on replacements for injuries from a travel squad of 30-plus prospects who are working out near each team’s stadium, waiting for the call. There’s also the fact that MLB has created a special injured list for players who test positive for COVID-19, but teams don’t have to report that they’ve placed a player on the list — out of concerns for players’ privacy. That means beat writers will need to essentially take attendance to see if someone is

Fewer regular season games that will be played by MLB teams this season with the 60-game schedule.

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missing from the clubhouse.

The odd rosters were scrambled even further by a small but significant number of players who chose to optout of playing this year out of fear of either contracting COVID-19 or passing it on to family members with health conditions. That list includes former Cy Young Award winner and former Durham Bulls pitcher David Price.

Between the opt-out players and the players who tested positive and have to miss time, several players find themselves with unexpected opportunities to make a big league roster. One of the best feel-good stories of the early season is former Tar Heel star Daniel Bard, who helped lead UNC to the 2006 College World Series then quickly reached the major leagues with Boston. Control problems seemed to force the premature end of Bard’s career, however. He last pitched in the majors in 2013 and last pitched in organized professional ball of any type in 2017, when he posted a 13.50 ERA with the Mets’ Double-A and Rookie Ball teams.

Now Bard is back, making the MLB roster for the Rockies.

Then there’s the Toronto Blue Jays.

With the country of Canada blocking travel from the United States, the team had expected to play the season under strict quarantine restrictions, with nearly seven-digit fines for players caught outside of their hotel rooms in Toronto.

Instead, with less than a week to go until Opening Day, Canada pulled the plug on the Jays, leaving the team scrambling to find a place to play home games in the U.S. Early options included Toronto’s Florida spring training home of Dunedin. Buffalo, the minor league city located closest to Toronto, was also an early favorite, and even Charlotte was mentioned as a possibility, which would have allowed former Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo, now the skipper of the Jays, to return to the state where he won several International League titles with Durham, a couple hours from his longtime home park.

Instead, Toronto seems to be focusing on an MLB park to play its games, with Pittsburgh being the most likely candidate in what will amount to an odd timeshare with the Pirates.

For a mini-sized season, there are plenty of storylines to follow. It may not look like anything we’ve seen in the last century and a half of Major League Baseball, but the madness is ready to begin.

Play ball.

MLS Commissioner Don Garber, left, and Charlotte MLS owner David Tepper, pictured Dec. 17 during the announcement that Major League Soccer will be coming to Charlotte in 2021, revealed last week that the team would push its debut back a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

MLS Charlotte pushed back; NC Courage suffer rare loss It was a tough weekend for soccer in North Carolina, with the state’s NWSL team getting upset in Utah and its expansion team moving its debut to 2022

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal IT WAS A GOOD week for soccer in general with the MLS Is Back tournament starting up and the National Women’s Soccer League’s Challenge Cup event reaching the knockout stage.

Friday, however, was a bad day for soccer in North Carolina.

At one end of the country in Utah, the defending NWSL champion North Carolina Courage were upset in the quarterfinals of their tournament despite dominating its game against the Portland Thorns.

A few hours later back home, Charlotte’s expansion MLS team announced that its planned launch in 2021 has been pushed back a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Courage’s demise came in the form of a 1-0 loss to a team it had beaten in the opening game of pool play two weeks earlier.

Making the result all the more disappointing was the fact that the top-seeded Courage outshot the Thorns 21-10 and had the better of play almost from start to finish.

The only lapse came in the 68th minute when Portland’s Rocky Rodriguez made a run into the box from the far cor-

ner. Although her path to the net was cut off by a defender, she was able to get off a pass that rookie teammate Morgan Weaver — playing in her first professional game — got to before the Courage’s Lauren Milliet.

Weaver redirected the ball into the open corner of the net for a stunning 1-0 lead.

It was only the second goal the Courage had allowed in five tournament games. But thanks to the effort of Portland keeper Britt Eckerstrom, who made eight saves, the Thorns were able to hold off a furious Courage attack for the victory.

Eckerstrom’s best saves came late in the game, the first off a free kick from just outside the box by Brazilian star Debinha and another a few minutes later when she robbed Debinha with a one-on-one save.

The loss was the Courage’s first since last Sept. 28 when it was beaten by the Washington Spirit. It was the only team in the tournament to go through the preliminary round with a perfect 4-0 record.

“We know how to win, and we know how to shut out games,” Courage captain Abby Erceg said after the disappointing result. “But, losing, you can still learn a lot from it as well. For us, I think this last game’s going to teach us a lot.”

While the Courage’s tournament run came to a premature end, the state’s new MLS expansion team will have to wait another year before its debut.

Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper, who paid a record $325 million entry fee to procure the league’s 30th franchise for Charlotte, announced

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even in an abbreviated CPL season — after their college seasons were cut short on May 12 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“It’s been really amazing getting to play so much and to see this kind of pitching,” said HiToms infielder DeAngelo Giles, an NC State freshman this spring. “It’s good to get back into it. Going out there is building my confidence. Hopefully I can keep it rolling into next season.”

While the lack of fans in the stadium has made things “a little different,” Giles said that it’s business as usual once the first pitch is thrown and the games begin.

That includes a lack of social distancing. Although the Tobs have marked spaces six feet apart with taped X’s on the benches, players still sit shoulder-to-shoulder when they’re not in the game.

There are also still meetings on the mound and congratulatory handshakes, high-fives and hugs among teammates.

Those are about the only instances of business as usual in the CPL this summer.

The wood bat league, which is an outlet for college players to get extra work and be seen by pro scouts during their schools’ offseason, was originally supposed to have 15 teams scattered from northern Virginia to south Georgia.

Because of the pandemic, many of those teams have opted out.

The Tobs and HiToms are the only two of North Carolina’s five CPL franchises that are still operating. The other active league teams are the Martinsville Mustangs and Peninsula Pilots in Virginia, the Lexington County Blowfish in South Carolina, and the Savannah Bananas and Macon

Stokan, a former basketball walk-on at NC State, said. “And then to have COVID-19 get on top of that, it’s led itself to some interesting work.”

It’s also led to some uncertain work. As Stokan said, the conferences will let everyone, including him, know their plans for the upcoming season in a week or two, which will obviously have a major impact on the marquee interconference matchups he’s planning.

“Our contingencies have contingencies,” he said. “We have modeled different scenarios, put in different protocols, deleted some things we ordinarily would do. So there’s a bunch of things — obviously, the tickets and the budget, there’s impact. Then there’s impacts as to what the field will look like with respect to people on the field. Will we have cheerleaders? Will we allow bands? How will people enter the stadium? We’ve modeled different capacities of 25, 30 and 50 percent, which has trickle-down ramifications to the budget and then the payout.”

Kickoff is less than two months away and virtually nothing is decided, including whether this has all been a wasted effort.

“There’s increased costs of potentially masks for everyone that attends the games,” he said. “So there’s a myriad of things and all with the hope that in late July, the Big 12, ACC and SEC decide to play more than just conference games, because if they decide to just play conference games, then all that work is for naught. Because we won’t be able to put on the Chick-fil-A Kickoff games.”

There’s also the possibility that the conferences decide to push

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Tape on benches at Fleming Stadium in Wilson marks player seating compliant with social distancing rules, though players were still often seated close together and participated in usual in-game interactions during Saturday’s game.

Bacon in Georgia.

In addition to games against one another, the teams have also picked up games from other, lesser college leagues in the region.

“It’s definitely different not playing a 52-game schedule this summer, but we’ve got about 35 games and we’re going to go out there and play hard,” Tobs coach Harry Markotay said. “Our front office has done a good job of getting us games.

“The schedule has changed a handful of times, but our guys don’t mind. They’re just happy to be here.”

They’re so excited that Markotay and his counterpart with High Point-Thomasville, Mickey Willard, had no trouble filling their rosters. While a few players chose not to play because of COVID concerns, even more inquired about openings after other leagues — including the prestigious Cape Cod League — canceled their seasons.

“These guys know now that any-

thing can happen,” Markotay said.

“Even when they’re done here for the summer, nothing is set in stone for their school season. They’re not taking anything for granted.”

Giving those players that opportunity, Wilson GM Bell said, is one of the main reasons why the Tobs decided to go ahead and play this season even though the inability to sell tickets — and with them, concessions and merchandise — will lead to a significant financial loss.

“We’re committed to these boys that are wanting to play baseball,” he said. “We didn’t want to tell them at the last minute, ‘Sorry, you can’t play.’

“It’s just a really awkward year.

People are doing everything they can to survive. Even if it means our ownership taking a little bit of a hit, I know that we have the backing of the community, the backing of baseball and the backing of the people that mean so much to us so that we can continue to exist moving forward.”

that the team will now play its first season in 2022 rather than next year as originally planned.

“We are committed to bringing Major League Soccer to our city and region,” Tepper said in a statement issued Friday. “The party’s still on. We are just delaying it a bit to ensure we have the best experience for our fans when we do start playing.”

The decision to delay Charlotte’s entry into the league was coupled with one-year waits, until 2023, for two more of the league’s expansion teams, St. Louis and Sacramento. Austin FC will join MLS in 2021 as planned.

MLS commissioner Don Garber issued a statement saying that the moves will help “make up for what has been a challenging 2020” because of sports shutdowns related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“These teams will be well-positioned for their debuts and for long-term success,” Garber said. “It’s important for each club to take the necessary time to launch their inaugural MLS seasons the way their fans and communities deserve.”

Although Charlotte will have to wait an extra year before taking the pitch at Bank of America Stadium, the team has already signed its first player. Sergio Ruiz, a 25-year-old Spanish midfielder who plays for the second division team Racing Santander in his home country, signed last Wednesday.

The team is also following through with the planned unveiling of its team name and logo, which remains scheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m.

the start of the season into October or later. Should that happen, Stokan envisions the Chickfil-A games taking place. They’ll just need to fit into the schedules of the other Mercedes-Benz Stadium tenants. That means they may not actually be kickoff games anymore but rather midor late-season contests.

“We don’t know what the conferences are going to do,” Stokan said. “If they pushed back, would they start with conference games or the nonconference games? We just don’t know. That’s one of the things you build contingencies on contingencies. If they go in this direction, we have to do this.

So we’re waiting until the end of July. Once we know, we can pull off whatever model we have to pull off.”

Still, Stokan is confident that we’ll have football — perhaps delayed — in the fall and that his three games will all be played.

He also is confident that the teams and conferences involved still have the appetite to play those games.

“I think all three conferences, in our conversations with them, they’d like to play the full schedule of 12 games,” he said.

“They’re also aware though that they may not be able to do that, due to potential testing issues or wanting some flexibility that if a (conference) game gets canceled, to have an open date to play that game.”

In the meantime, Stokan and the rest of his Peach Bowl staff are planning and waiting, the tail on the dog, hoping they get the opportunity to wag in front of the nation — three times in eight days.

“We just don’t know,” he said.

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CERTAIN; after this COVID-19 virus dissipates The cavalier manner in which China lied about the origin of the ONE OBINSON WITH MOST STATES nd in the United States, China will pay for this virus, covered up its spread and tried to tell the world there were only under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home around China lied about the origin of the ONE IS CERTAIN; after thisthanks COVID-19 virus cavalierofmanner in which orders to local ordissipates state governments,The a majority Americans ay or another.

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WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home fallen into place.

I understand the seriousness of the virus an he crisis caused by China in perspective, zero millions of Americans needlessly being thrown out of work.

In o and state and local governments, Americans hav orldwide panic, economic collapse and in it” (Psalm 118:24) catastrophe one way orofanother.

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ncdot UK coronavirus vaccine prompts CASH REPORT immune response in early test For the week ending July 17, 2020 Total Cash & Bond Proceeds:

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$38,934,241 Reserved Cash:

$669,333,792 Unreserved Cash Balance Total:

$386,883,793

CEO of parent company of Coach and Kate Spade resigns New York The parent company of the Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and Coach fashion brands said Tuesday that its chairman and CEO Jide Zeitlin has resigned from the company and board for personal reasons. Zeitlin, who had been chairman since November 2014 of Tapestry Inc. took over as CEO in September 2019 after the New York-based company ousted its thenCEO Victor Luis. Zeitlin was among only four Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Joanne Crevoiserat, chief financial officer, has been appointed interim CEO of Tapestry while the company searches for a successor. The company said it will look at both internal and external candidates. Todd Kahn, president and chief administrative officer and company secretary, will serve as interim chief executive officer and brand president of Coach.

Andrea Shaw Resnick, global head of investor relations and corporate communications, has been named interim chief financial officer. In addition, Susan Kropf, the company’s lead independent director, has been appointed chair of the board.

In the race to produce the first successful and approved vaccine, pharmaceutical companies around the globe vie for results and deals.

By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON — Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.

British researchers first began testing the vaccine in April in about 1,000 people, half of whom got the experimental vaccine. Such early trials are designed to evaluate safety and see what kind of immune response was provoked, but can’t tell if the vaccine truly protects.

In research published Monday in the journal Lancet, scientists said that they found their experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a dual immune response in people aged 18 to 55 that lasted at least two months after they were immunized.

“We are seeing good immune response in almost everybody,” said Dr. Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University. “What this vaccine does particularly well is trigger both arms of the immune system,” he said.

Hill said that neutralizing antibodies are produced — molecules which are key to blocking infec-

tion. In addition, the vaccine also causes a reaction in the body’s T-cells, which help by destroying cells that have been taken over by the virus.

The experimental COVID-19 vaccine caused minor side effects like fever, chills and muscle pain more often than in those who got a control meningitis vaccine.

Hill said that larger trials evaluating the vaccine’s effectiveness, involving about 10,000 people in the U.K. as well as participants in South Africa and Brazil are still underway. Another trial is slated to start in the U.S. soon, aiming to enroll about 30,000 people.

How quickly scientists are able to determine the vaccine’s effectiveness will depend largely on how much more transmission there is, but Hill estimated that if there were enough data to prove the vaccine’s efficacy, immunization of some high-risk groups in Britain could begin in December.

He said the vaccine seemed to produce a comparable level of antibodies to those produced by people who recovered from a COVID-19 infection and hoped that the T-cell response would provide even more protection.

“There’s increasing evidence that having a T-cell response as well as antibodies could be very important in controlling COVID-19,” Hill said. He suggested the immune response might be boosted after a second dose; in a small number of people, their trial tested two doses administered about four weeks apart.

Hill said Oxford’s vaccine is

designed to reduce disease and transmission. It uses a harmless virus — a chimpanzee cold virus, engineered so it can’t spread — to carry the coronavirus’ spike protein into the body, which should trigger an immune response.

Hill said Oxford has partnered with drugmaker AstraZeneca to produce their vaccine globally, and that the company has already committed to making 2 billion doses.

“Even 2 billion doses may not be enough,” he said, pointing to the ongoing surge of infections worldwide. “I think its going to be very difficult to control this pandemic without a vaccine.”

Hill said researchers were also considering conducting a “challenge” trial by the end of 2020, an ethically controversial test where participants would be deliberately infected with COVID-19 after being immunized to see if the vaccine is effective.

“This has been done before in 19 different infectious diseases to develop vaccines and drugs and is likely to happen for COVID-19 as well,” he said.

Numerous countries including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, U.S. and the U.K. have all signed deals to receive hundreds of millions of doses of the Oxford vaccine — which has not yet been licensed — with the first deliveries scheduled for the fall.

Chinese researchers also published a study on their experimental COVID-19 vaccine in the Lancet on Monday, using a similar technique as the Oxford scien-

tists. They reported that in their study of about 500 people, an immune response was detected in those who were immunized, although they couldn’t tell if people were protected from the disease because they weren’t exposed to COVID-19 afterwards.

CanSino Biologics’ vaccine is made similarly to Oxford’s except the Chinese shot is made with a human cold virus, and the study showed people whose bodies recognized it didn’t get as much of the presumed COVID-19 benefit. Still, China’s government already gave special approval for the military to use CanSino’s vaccine while it explores final-stage studies.

Britain announced Monday it had secured access to another 90 million experimental COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and others, a move some campaigners warned could worsen a global scramble by rich countries to hoard the world’s limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines.

Last week, American researchers announced that the first COVID-19 vaccine tested there boosted people’s immune systems just as scientists had hoped and the shots will now enter the final phase of testing. That vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna, produced the molecules key to blocking infection in volunteers who got it, at levels comparable to people who survived a COVID-19 infection.

The vaccine being developed by Pfizer also works to trigger a similar dual immune response as the Oxford shot. Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech also released an encouraging early report Monday.

Nearly two dozen potential vaccines are in various stages of human testing worldwide, with a handful entering necessary latestage testing to prove effectiveness.

LinkedIn laying off nearly 1,000 amid hiring slowdown New York LinkedIn is laying off nearly 1,000 employees, approximately 6% of its workforce globally, with unemployment in the U.S. above 13% and national economies from Europe and Asia, to the Americas, shrinking due to the pandemic.

The outbreak has disrupted commerce globally, closing thousands of businesses while forcing others to furlough large numbers of employees as they await a recovery. Hiring has slowed dramatically. The number of people applying for unemployment aid has remained stubbornly high in the past several weeks, a sign that many businesses are still shedding jobs and clouding the outlook for jobs. The overall U.S. unemployment rate in May was 13.3%, a decline from 14.7% in April, according to the Labor Department. In a note to employees at the professional networking site, CEO Ryan Roslansky said that the job cuts will hit global sales and hiring sections of the company.

He said no further layoffs are planned. LinkedIn employees in the U.S. will receive at least 10 weeks of severance pay and a year of continuing health coverage through COBRA. Those being laid off will continue in their roles through Aug. 21. The company, which is owned my Microsoft, is based in Sunnyvale, California.

JOHN CAIRNS, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD VIA AP

In this handout photo released by the University of Oxford samples from coronavirus vaccine trials are handled inside the Oxford Vaccine Group laboratory in Oxford, England Thursday June 25, 2020.

With stadiums, theaters closed, Coke 2Q revenue plunges 28%

By Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press ATLANTA — Coca-Cola’s revenue plunged 28% in the second quarter, though sales had begun to improve last month as lockdowns eased globally.

The pandemic has since gained momentum in parts of the U.S., India and elsewhere in the developing world. Surging infections across the U.S. Sunbelt have forced businesses to close again and potentially delayed a return to activities that fuel half of Coca-Cola’s sales.

Those sales come from stadiums, movie theaters and other places where people gather in large numbers, venues that have blinked out in the pandemic. Major League baseball will begin playing this week, but to empty stadiums with piped in crowd noise.

There were signs of improvement from earlier this year, at least last month. Case volume declines of 25% in and been more than cut in half, to 10% in June.

In China, case volumes actually rose for the quarter.

Coke said sales of water and sports drinks dropped 24%, while coffee and tea sales plunged 31% as the company temporarily closed its Costa coffee stores in Europe. Soft drink sales fared better, falling 12% globally. Coca-Cola Zero Sugar sales fell just 4%.

In North America, customers bought more Simply and Minute Maid juices and Fairlife milk, offsetting losses elsewhere. Case volumes in the region fell 16%.

Coke reported net income of $1.8 billion for the April-June period, down 32% from the same period a year ago. Excluding onetime items, the Atlanta company

JOHN BAZEMORE | AP PHOTO

In this July 20, 2019, photo a Coca-Cola billboard is shown over left field at SunTrust Park during a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Atlanta Braves in Atlanta. earned 42 cents per share. That tops Wall Street’s per-share expectations by 2 cents, according to analysts polled by FactSet. Coke’s revenue fell to $7.2 billion, matching expectations.

Shares rose 2% before the opening bell Tuesday.

In response to global protests

over the death of George Floyd, Coke has committed to spending $500 million with Black-owned suppliers in the U.S. over the next five years. It has paused spending on social media for the month of July in response to claims that Facebook is not doing enough to halt hate speech.

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By Jordan Golson North State Journal BOSTON — There’s a lot to like about most Lexus automobiles.

They’re invariably well built, quiet and comfortable, (mostly) reasonably priced for the competition and what you get — and then there’s the infotainment system controlled by an awful trackpad.

If you haven’t used it, you might not understand just how annoying it is. I mean, how bad can it be?

Let me give you an analogy: It’s like winning a free all-expenses paid trip to Maui and then finding out that your flight out there has two layovers and you’re sitting at the back of the plane and your seat won’t recline. It certainly doesn’t ruin the trip, but it does put a damper on proceedings.

The Lexus RX is the company’s best-selling vehicle for a reason. In 2019, Lexus moved more than 111,000 RX SUVs in the US, almost twice as many as the next closest model (the slightly smaller NX).

It’s the right size, with the right amount of power and capability and with the right price. Nearly everything about the RX is just right, and has been for a couple of decades now.

And for the 2020 RX, finally, Lexus had seen fit to add a giant touchscreen to accompany (though not entirely replace) that trackpad. And, even better, the optional 12.3-inch touchscreen that I had in my tester this week is so big and beautiful that you can ignore the trackpad completely.

It supports Apple CarPlay and, also new for 2020, Android Auto.

It’s also worth noting that the mediocre Lexus infotainment software remains and should be dispensed with immediately in favor of what comes with your smartphone.

Aside from the touchscreen, there‘s much appeal in the rest of the RX as well. My test unit was a fully-equipped RX 350 AWD F Sport weighing in at $61,130 and including a $200 cold weather package; a $600 heads up display (worth it); LED headlights, turn signals and fog lights ($1,675); a must-have panoramic moonroof ($500); and hefty $3,365 package that includes a delightful Mark Levinson sound system and that

all-important 12.3-inch touchscreen. Without that, you get a mere 8-inch touchscreen.

F Sport is, as the name suggests, the sporty trim for Lexus, though mostly these are visual tweaks and not anything super-performance oriented. Buyers get big 20-inch wheels, F Sport (the official nomenclature is „F SPORT“, but I don‘t work for the Lexus marketing department) badging on just about every surface imaginable, and a bunch of other tweaks to make things feel very SPORTy. There‘s a sound generator that pipes in a bit of extra engine noise, for example, which is a little absurd when I write it out, but sounds rather nice in practice.

The 3.5-liter V6 under the hood is paired with an 8-speed automatic complete with utterly pointless paddle shifters so you can change gear on your own, which you won‘t.

The safety system is excellent, checking all the right radar cruise control /automatic emergency braking / lane centering boxes, and there‘s an optional rear-cross traffic braking system that can automatically stop the car if you‘re backing out of a parking spot into oncoming traffic — a particularly useful feature that would be standard equipment if I had my way.

Fuel economy with this engine isn‘t terrific, hitting 19/26/22 city/ highway/combined, but it‘s adequate enough. If you‘re concerned about being green or you just have a long commute, Lexus is happy to sell you a RX 450h that comes with a hybrid system and a muchmore impressive 29 combined MPG. Lexus is also happy to sell you some kind of extended warranty package I‘m sure, though the car comes with a 4-year/50,000mile bumper-to-bumper and 6-year/70,000-mile powertrain coverage. It seems unlikely that your new Lexus will break down any time soon, but if it does, Lexus will also kick in for lodging if the breakdown occurs more than 100 miles from home. Lexus is nice like that.

However, it‘s that touchscreen that still has me enamored. But should I be that impressed? Many other brands have included touchscreens for the better part of a decade, though BMW and Mercedes are latecomers to the party as well.

No matter. It‘s here now, and the biggest drawback to the Lexus has been fixed. Maybe Lexus will sell 112,000 this year as a result.

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North State Journal for Wednesday, July 22, 2020

entertainment Review: ‘Jeopardy!’ host Trebek searches for answers in book

By Lynn Elber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — “The Answer Is ... Reflections on My Life,” Alex Trebek (Simon & Schuster) Alex Trebek is the one providing the answers and questions in a

new memoir that should reinforce his admirers’ expectations about the ever-steady “Jeopardy!” host.

The concise chapters, with titles including “What is a Mentor?” and “The Answer is Family” and ranging from a few paragraphs to a few pages, make for a readable but not

slapdash approach.

The sum of the parts echoes the public figure, the genial and even courtly man that viewers have been watching on the “Jeopardy!” quiz show since 1984.

The fan support and affection that greeted Trebek’s 2019 pancreatic cancer disclosure encouraged him to write about his life. But the illness and its toll, while honestly addressed, don’t dominate the book.

Instead, the Canada-born Trebek focuses on his roots as the child of an immigrant father and French Canadian mother, the work ethic that earned him TV success, and the contented marriage he shares with Jean, now also his caregiver as he undergoes treatment.

There are engaging tidbits about Trebek’s former love for flashy cars (he drives a more utilitarian pick-

up these days); the satisfaction he gets out of playing home handyman; the contestants he admires and the one he bonded with.

He is uniformly self-deprecating, including telling a story on himself that involves Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and suggesting modestly that he’s known but not celebrated.

Instead, he writes, he’s like a visiting relative that the audience finds “comforting and reassuring as opposed to being impressed by me.”

A couple of minor foes in his life get dinged, including a “martinet” of a priest at a church-run school and a producer who stiffed him, but if he’s harboring deep hostility it isn’t revealed here.

His even disposition appears to have served him well and consistently over his 80 years. He was

born July 22, 1940.

Trebek overcame the resentment he harbored over his mother’s decision to leave an ill-fitting marriage and move to the United States. He’s remained friendly with his ex-wife, Elaine, and devoted to her daughter, Nicky, with both part of an extended family circle that includes Matthew and Emily, his children with Jean.

Trebek’s philosophical bent emerges clearly in the memoir, as he shares his perspective on human nature, spirituality and the value of knowledge. The naturalized U.S. citizen only nibbles around the edges of politics and the polarization he condemns as self-defeating, leaving the impression he has much more to say on the topic.

Maybe those answers will come in the next book.

JEOPARDY! VIA AP

This image released by Jeopardy! shows Alex Trebek, host of the game show “Jeopardy!” Trebek’s memoir, “The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life,” will be released on Tuesday, July 21.

Fox’s Chris Wallace gets praise for his interview with Trump

By David Bauder The Associated Press NEW YORK — As veteran journalists who now teach the craft to college students, Tom Bettag and Frank Sesno both said they will use Chris Wallace’s interview with President Donald Trump to show how it’s done well.

“This was an ‘A-plus’ accountability interview,” said Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief who spoke to five presidents as a journalist and now teaches a class in the “art of the interview” at George Washington University.

Wallace’s interview on “Fox News Sunday” made news on several fronts, from the coronavirus to the presidential campaign, and his direct challenges to Trump were still being talked about a day later.

To some, its impact was exaggerated simply because Trump had so rarely put himself in that position during his first term as president.

When the president said that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden wants to defund police departments, Wallace replied, “No, sir, he does not.”

That led to a back-and-forth over whether Biden wanted to “abolish” police forces, with the president asking for help from press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, standing nearby. Because the interview was taped in advance, Wallace was able to add a voiceover that the White House could not provide evidence of the president’s claim, “because there is none.”

Wallace also came armed with statistics to challenge Trump arguments about the mortality rate

RICHARD DREW | AP PHOTO

Chris Wallace, of “Fox News Sunday,” left, interviews president-elect Donald Trump on Dec. 10, 2016 in New York. and testing for COVID-19.

Asked to respond to clips of him making too-rosy predictions about the spread of the virus, a flustered Trump responded: “I’ll be right eventually.”

“No one works harder on an interview,” said University of Maryland’s Bettag, the longtime producer of ABC’s “Nightline” when Wallace would occasionally sub for Ted Koppel as host. “He goes over and over on questions. He consults with as many people as he can. Most of all, he studies what his subject is likely to answer. He did a great interview because he worked his butt off getting ready.”

Sesno compared it to a lawyer preparing for every eventuality when cross-examining a witness.

At one point, Trump denied it when Wallace asked, “Why on

Earth would your administration be involved in a campaign to discredit Dr. (Anthony) Fauci?” Wallace then showed him a copy of an anti-Fauci cartoon shared on social media by a White House aide.

Wallace also kept many of his questions direct, less easy to slip away from: “Is the Confederate flag offensive?” “Would you consider a national mandate that people need to wear masks?” “Why wouldn’t you ... send more money so the schools would be safer?”

He asked Trump, “Is Joe Biden senile?” and the president answered, “I wouldn’t say that.” But later in the interview he described the Democrat as “mentally shot.”

“The way he asked the questions made for an interview that was very revealing,” said Jane Hall, a journalism professor at American

University. “You can confront people without being confrontational.”

Hall, a Fox News analyst when she covered the media for the Los Angeles Times, took students to an appearance by Wallace at the university in February. Some initially wondered what they would get out of it, believing that many Fox personalities are friendly to Trump and few of his appearances on the network are particularly challenging.

Wallace is old-school, however, a former White House correspondent, and a “Meet the Press” moderator while at NBC News. He’s been at Fox since 2003.

“He’s very good at this. He’s been doing this for a long time.

And he’s got the Wallace DNA,” Sesno said. Wallace is the son of

legendary “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace.

Meghan McCain said Monday on “The View” that “it was the first time I’ve really seen President Trump squirm.”

He’s not often in that position.

Trump has been interviewed 19 times as president by Fox’s Sean Hannity and 17 times on “Fox & Friends,” said CBS News reporter Mark Knoller, who keeps count of the president’s media appearances. Fox has been given 92 interviews overall — compared to 20 on NBC, CBS and ABC combined and none on CNN. Wallace may have done well, but tough questioning and fact-checking aren’t a reason to throw him a parade, author Steven Beschloss tweeted. It’s what every journalist should be doing, he said.

CNN’s fact-checker, Daniel Dale, said on Twitter that Wallace missed opportunities to correct Trump more.

Some Republicans said it was time for Biden to get the same treatment. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the interview a “big win” for Trump because “he proved he could take the heat.”

One White House staff member, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal thinking, said that Trump appeared to be caught off guard by the questioning and it did little to improve his standing with the public.

Even if the president doesn’t appear on “Fox News Sunday” again, there’s a strong chance Trump hasn’t seen the last of Wallace. He was one of the presidential debate moderators in 2016 and his performance Sunday can’t hurt his chances of being selected again.

North State Journal for Wednesday, July 22, 2020

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DAVID BIGELOW VIA AP

This July 20, 2020 photo provided by David Bigelow in Vineyard Haven, Mass. shows part of a boat that is being retrofitted to replicate the boat from the movie Jaws.

Going in the water again: ‘Jaws’ boat clone supports sharks

By Patrick Whittle The Associated Press THE ORCA is headed back to the waters of New England, but this time, its mission isn’t to hunt sharks. It’s to help save them.

A group of ocean advocates and movie buffs is turning an old lobster fishing vessel into a replica of the Orca, the boat captained by the grizzled shark hunter

Quint in “Jaws.” The work is taking place on Martha’s Vineyard, where Steven Spielberg shot the blockbuster movie in the 1970s.

The occasion doesn’t call for a bigger boat so much as one with a different purpose, said Vineyard native David Bigelow, who acquired the craft and is heading up the project. When finished, he said, Orca III will be used as an educational tool to help the pub-

West wants $1M for new moms, slams Tubman at campaign rally

By Meg Kinnard The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Self-declared presidential candidate Kanye West delivered a winding and unconventional campaign introduction speech in which he proposed a $1 million payout to each new mother and decried Harriet Tubman for her work on the Underground Railroad.

But whether the rapper and fashion designer is actually seeking the nation’s highest office remains a question.

West said Sunday before a crowd of several hundred in North

Charleston, South Carolina, that Tubman “never actually freed the slaves, she just had them work for other white people,” comments that drew shouts of opposition from some in the crowd.

Tubman, among the most respected figures in American history, escaped slavery, helped enslaved Black men and women travel north to freedom on the Underground Railroad and fought for the Union during the Civil War. She later became a supporter of women’s suffrage.

Despite Sunday’s event, West failed to qualify as a candidate for the South Carolina ballot. Accord-

lic understand sharks and as a research vessel for scientists.

The project is dear to the heart of Bigelow, who appeared as an extra in “Jaws,” and to that of his drama teacher Lee Fierro, who played the mother of a shark attack victim. Reports of shark sightings on some New England beaches in recent years moved him to take on the project.

“The need to educate people

ing to State Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire, neither West nor a campaign representative handed in 10,000 signatures by noon Monday, as required by state law to appear as a petition candidate.

“There was no petition at all,” Whitmire said, of any correspondence from the campaign.

Emails to an address purportedly for West’s campaign were not returned as of Monday afternoon.

West missed the deadline to qualify for the ballot in several other states, as well, and it was unclear if he was willing or able to collect enough signatures required to qualify in others. Last week, he qualified to appear on Oklahoma’s presidential ballot, the first state where he met the requirements before the filing deadline.

The entertainer, who is married to reality television star Kim Kardashian West, initially announced his candidacy on July 4. He said he is no longer a supporter of Pres-

about the new ecosystem we’re living in, because of climate change and the seal population, is probably our only defense,” Bigelow said, sighting two possible drivers of increased shark sightings. “We have basically taken on this role where the boat is going to be used for education.”

Bigelow said that he believes the retrofitting work can be completed by this fall and that the boat can start helping people study sharks by next spring. The boat will be called Orca III because there were actually two vessels in “Jaws” — Orca and Orca II. Orca is seen in much of the film, and Orca II was a prop vessel.

Others working on the mis-

LAUREN PETRACCA IPETRACCA/THE POST AND COURIER VIA AP

Kanye West makes his first presidential campaign appearance, Sunday, July 19, 2020 in North Charleston, S.C. ident Donald Trump’s.

Wearing a protective vest and with “2020” shaved into his head,

sion to bring back the Orca have a connection to “Jaws,” too. Joe Alves, production designer on the movie, is on board, as is Chris Crawford, who retrofitted a boat called Warlock into the original Orca in 1974.

The conservation group Beneath The Waves has signed on to use the new Orca on expeditions.

The group’s board of directors includes Wendy Benchley, widow of Peter Benchley, who wrote the 1974 novel on which the movie is based.

“The return of the Orca is a celebration for the fans of ‘Jaws,’ as well as an exciting new resource in the pursuit of a greater understanding about our oceans and the life teeming in it,” she said.

West on Sunday said that while he believes abortion should be legal, financial incentives to help struggling mothers could help discourage the practice, saying that his own father had wanted to abort him.

“Everybody that has a baby gets a million dollars,” he said as an example, adding, “I don’t have the funding for it. But I have the platform to share the idea.”

Speaking without a microphone, West became tearful at one point while talking about his mother, who died following plastic surgery complications in 2007.

He also decried the lack of minority representation on corporate boards and in sports team ownership, threatening to end his deal with Adidas and Gap if not named to their corporate boards.

“Risk or no risk of losing whatever deal possible, I am not on the board at Adidas,” West said. “I am not on the board at Gap. And that has to change today, or I walk away.”

TAKE NOTICE

CABARRUS AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 715

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bradfort B. Clinton and Lynette D. Clinton to Victoria L. Sprouse, PA, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of September, 2005, and recorded in Book 6280, Page 34, and Modification in Book 11306, Page 0195, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure

CUMBERLAND 19 SP 1113 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 Russell A. Klein to William T. Morrison and Philip M. Rudisill, Trustee(s), which was dated March 29, 2018 and recorded on March 29, 2018 in Book 10278 at Page 0614, 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

sales, at 12:00 PM on August 3, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 650 as shown on plat of Dominion Hills at Highland Creek Phase 3 Map 3, recorded in Plat Book 44 at Page 45, in the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1108 Elrond Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or

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 July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 7, in a subdivision known as Southview, Section One, and the same being duly recorded in Plat Book 88, Page 178, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Parcel ID: 0424-35-7953 Property Address: 5329 Miranda Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 5329 Miranda Dr, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

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

any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

($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.

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.

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 Russell A. Klein.

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

Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1256542 (FC.FAY)

c/o Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311

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.: 19-10582-FC01

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CUMBERLAND 20 SP 486 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 Thomas B. Pace a/k/a Thomas B. Pace, II and Brandy L. Pace to Jeff H. Adams, Trustee(s), which was dated July 21, 2005 and recorded on August 4, 2005 in Book 6965 at Page 023, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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 July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 132, ACORN RIDGE, SECTION ONE, as shown on map thereof recorded in Book of Plats 111, page 61, Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 2452 Saltwood Road, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

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

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

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property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Avery B. Green and Clariss Green a/k/a Clarissa Green to Jeff H. Adams, Trustee(s), which was dated October 12, 2006 and recorded on March 1, 2007 in Book 7517 at Page 326, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

BEING all of Lot 26, ASHTON FOREST SOUTH, as shown on map thereof recorded in Book of Plats 85, page 45, Cumberland County Registry.

Defaulthavingbeenmadeofthenotetherebysecuredbythe 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

Said property is commonly known as 5021 PAULSUN DR, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

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conducting the sale on July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by James B. Hardin And Shenika R. Hardin to Jeff H. Adams, Trustee(s), which was dated June 5, 2008 and recorded on July 3, 2008 in Book 07932 at Page 0243, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

20 SP 23 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 Estaban Arrona and Alexis L Arrona to Investors Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated April 12, 2018 and recorded on April 13, 2018 in Book 10286 at Page 0466, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20 SP 438

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

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Dillon L. Rankin, Cassie L. Rankin (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Dillon L. Rankin and Cassie L. Rankin) to Francis B. Simkins, III, Trustee(s), dated April 21, 2015, and recorded in Book No. 09633, at Page 0769 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 August 3, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20 SP 339 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Nicholas Alan Green Renovations Co., in the original amount of $377,700.00, payable to LendingHome Funding Corporation, dated May 10, 2019 and recorded on May 21, 2019 in Book 10505, Page 519, Cumberland County Registry.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anchor Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Cumberland County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on July 28, 2020, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: Beginning at a stake in the eastern margin of Woodcrest Road extended, at a point South 5 degrees 26 minutes West 413 feet from the intersection of the eastern margin

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DURHAM COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO. 20 SP 359 FOR

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 Avery B. Green and wife, Clarissa Green.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and

DEED.

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

and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 5, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland 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.

Being all of Lot Number One (1), in a subdivision known as Crossgates, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 40, page 16, Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 2901 Peacock St, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset

Address of property: Glenwick Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28304 Tax Parcel ID: 8516 Present Record Owners: Whitmore and Linda A. Whitmore

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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.

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

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

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

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Cortrelle Bivens to William Lockett Tally, Attorney at Law, Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of November, 2017, and recorded in Book 10197, Page 175, in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substitutedasTrusteeinsaidDeedofTrustbyaninstrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on August 3, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in 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,

Said property is commonly known as 5609 THACKERAY DR, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

BEING all of Lot 251, SADDLERIDGE, SECTION FOUR, as shown on map thereof recorded in Book of Plats 115, page 166, Cumberland County Registry.

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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 Thomas B. Pace, II and Brandy L. Pace.

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 Shenika R. Hardin.

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 August 3, 2020 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 Eric R. Whitmore and Linda A. Whitmore, dated October 30, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $84,000.00, and recorded in Book 7409 at Page 589 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.

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ERIC R. WHITMORE AND LINDA A. WHITMORE DATED OCTOBER 30, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7409 AT PAGE 589 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

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County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 261, Oakdale, Section III, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 36, Page 33, Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4707 Beaufort Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or

Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 60, in a subdivision known as MIDDLE CREEK, SECTION TWO, according to a plat of the same recorded in Plat Book 59, Page 83 Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 974 Rim 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

of Woodcrest Road, extended and the southern margin of Branson Street, extended, said point of beginning being the southwest corner of Lot number 166 and running thence with the eastern margin of Woodcrest Road extended South 5 degrees 26 minutes West 150 feet to a stake, the northwest corner of Lot Number 169; thence with the line of Lot number 169 South 84 degrees 34 minutes East 150 feet to a stake, the northeast corner of Lot number 169; thence North 5 degrees 26 minutes East 150 feet to a stake, the southeast corner of Lot Number 166; thence with the southern line of Lot number 166 North 84 degrees 34 minutes West 150 feet to the beginning point, being Lots numbers 167 and 168 in Pine Forest, Section three as per plat of the same by F. M. Averitt, Surveyor, registered in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cumberland County, North Carolina, in Book of Plats number 10, Page 35, and being the same land conveyed by W. W. Wallace and wife, Helen C. Wallace to Helene Mayo Slappy by deed dated January 20, 1954, recorded in the Cumberland County Registry in Book 627, Page 269.

Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 319 Woodcrest Road, Fayetteville, NC 28305. Tax ID: 0427-93-1686 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk

THE ADOPTION OF A MALE MINOR TO: The unknown father of Baby Boy Thorpe, a male child, born on June 14, 2020 in Durham, North Carolina.

Take notice that a Petition for Adoption was filed with the Clerk of Superior Court for Durham County, North Carolina

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 Esteban Arrona and spouse, Alexis Leann Arrona.

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

And Being more commonly known as: 1917 Glenwick Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28304 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Eric R. Whitmore and Linda A. Whitmore.

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

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 File No.: 10-24264-FC04

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.: 20-04945-FC01

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.: 20-04946-FC01

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.: 19-15283-FC01

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 July 13, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109977

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,

any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

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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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of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner of the property is Nicholas Alan Green Renovations Co. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1,

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

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in the above entitled special proceeding. The Petition relates to Baby Boy Thorpe, a male child, born on June 14, 2020 in Durham, North Carolina. The birth mother is Shaniah Thorpe, who is an 18 year-old Black female with brown curly hair, brown eyes and a height and weight of 5’2 and 125 lbs.

Ms. Thorpe reports that the identity and whereabouts of the biological father are Jaquan [Last Name Unknown]

of Fayetteville, NC. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that you are required to file a response to such pleading not later than 40 days from the first day of publication of this notice, that date being July 15, 2020, and upon your failure to do so the Petitioner will apply to the Court for relief sought in the Petition. Any parental rights you may have will be terminated upon the entry of the decree of adoption. This

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Anchor Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee January N. Taylor, Bar #33512 McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC Attorney for Anchor Trustee Services, LLC

the 15th day of July, 2020.

Kelly T. Dempsey, Attorney for Petitioners, 637 McNinch Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28208.

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DAVIDSON 20 SP 129 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 Alvin C. Reagan and Lois Elaine Reagan to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), which was dated February 20, 2012 and recorded on March 1, 2012 in Book 2048 at Page 1619, 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

JOHNSTON NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 567

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kimberly Dowdle and Christopher Dowdle to Kristoff Law Offices, Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of December, 2005, and recorded in Book 3035, Page 388, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 306

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Judith A. Lee to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of February, 2007, and recorded in Book 3291, Page 549, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on July 28, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 354

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Barbara Hockaday and Michael Ginn, (Barbara Hockaday, Deceased) (Heirs of Barbara Hockaday: Jerry Wayne Hockaday, Jr., Charles Hogan Hockaday, Alicia Rene HockadayBaronandUnknownHeirsofBarbaraHockaday) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Barbara Hockaday) to David Brunk, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of September, 2007, and recorded in Book 3424, Page 810, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure

UNION AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 762

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Deno Kanos, Heirs of Deno Kanos: Victoria Constance Kanos, Katherine Elaine Kanos, Demetri Konstantinos Kanos, Unknown Heirs of Deno Kanos, Demetri Konstantinos Kanos (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Deno Kanos) to Grady I. Ingle, Trustee(s), dated October 2, 2018, and recorded in Book No. 07246, at Page 0032 in Union 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 Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on July 30,

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION UNION COUNTY 19SP160 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY KATHRYN RICE MCGRAW DATED SEPTEMBER 29, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4319 AT PAGE 129 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 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

WAKE NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 771

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Christine Davis (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Christine Davis) to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated March 22, 2019, and recorded in Book No. 017394, at Page 00359 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 July 27, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 19SP1486 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY REGINA R SURLES DATED MAY 23, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 13115 AT PAGE 2138 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED JULY 9, 2013 AT BOOK 15351, PAGE 2007 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 and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on July 27, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit: Land Situated in the Township of Cotton Grove in the County of Davidson in the State of NC BEING LOT 1 AS SHOWN ON SURVEY OF ROBERT C. LAWS PROPERTY MORE DESCRIBED IN PLAT BOOK 23 AT PAGE 8, RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR DAVIDSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 2458 Old Linwood Road, Lexington, NC 27292.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset

in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on August 4, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 16, Walker Woods Subdivision, Section One, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 65, Pages 196-198, Johnston County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of said lot. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 240 East Walker Woods Lane, Clayton, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and

particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the right of way of the Southern Railway Corner of Lot No. 14; thence as the line of Lot No. 14 in a northeasterly direction for a distance of 231.0 feet to a point in the line of Lot No. 22; thence in an easterly direction for a distance of 50.7 feet to a stake, corner of Lot No. 12; thence as the line of Lot No. 12 in a southwesterly direction of 222.6 feet; thence as the right of way of Southern Railway for a distance of 50 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING and being Lot No. 13 of the Subdivision of the Pound Farm, as shown in map by R.T. Newcomb, Jr., Surveyor dated April 1947 and recorded in Book of Maps 5 at Page 3, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 132 Liberty Lane, Clayton, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to

sales, at 11:00 AM on August 4, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain property situated in the Township of Smithfield in the County of Johnston and State of North Carolina, being more fully described in a Deed dated 12/16/2003 and recorded 12/16/2003, among the land records of the County and State set forth above, in Deed Volume 2604 and Page 535. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 64 Williams Lane, Smithfield, North Carolina.

Tax Map or Parcel ID No. : 15I09043B Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor

2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Monroe in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: TRACT 1: BEING all of LOT 43 SERENITY HILLS as shown on that plat recorded in PLAT CABINET D, FILE 57, UNION County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

TRACT 2: BEGINNING at a point in the edge of a 20-foot wide Drainage and Utility Easement, the southernmost corner of Lot #43 of SERENITY HILLS SUBDIVISION (Plat Cabinet D, File No. 57, Union County Registry), and running thence with the western line of Lot #43, North 05 degrees 40 minutes 59 seconds West 254.07 feet to a point, the northwest corner of Lot #43 thence South 84 degrees 19 minutes 01 seconds West 197.52 feet to a point in a line of the ROCKY RIVER ESTATES SUBDIVISION (Plat Cabinet C, File No. 617, Union County Registry); thence with nine lines of the ROCKY RIVER ESTATES SUBDIVISION: (1) South 48 degrees 25 minutes 48 seconds East 63.68 feet; (2) South 49 degrees 26 minutes 37 seconds East 48.22 feet; (3) South 53 degrees 54 minutes 28 seconds East 35.07 feet; (4) North 88 degrees 49 minutes 14 seconds East 57.17 feet; (5) North 81 degrees 16 minutes 31 seconds East 45.36 feet;

cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:30PM on July 29, 2020 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 Kathryn Rice McGraw, dated September 29, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $344,435.00, and recorded in Book 4319 at Page 129 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: Potter Rd, Monroe, NC 28110 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: McGraw

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And Being more commonly known as: 306 South Potter Rd, Monroe, NC 28110

for cash the following real estate situated in Willow Spring in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The following described property: Situated in the City of Willow Spring, Middle Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 72 of Westmoor Subdivision, Phase 2, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2007, Page 20812083, Wake county registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 8228 Burgwyn Lane, Willow Spring, North Carolina.

Assessor’s Parcel No: 0367141 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

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 July 31, 2020 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 Regina R Surles, dated May 23, 2008 to secure the original principal amount of $136,918.00, and recorded in Book 13115 at Page 2138 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: Landreaux Dr, Raleigh, NC 27610 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Surles

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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 Alvin C. Reagan.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the

rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of

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

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

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

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(6) South 51 58 minutes 37 seconds East 38.28 feet; (7) South 48 degrees 05 minutes 05 seconds East 70.86 feet; (8) South 17 degrees 32 minutes 23 seconds East 66.14 feet; and (9) South 50 degrees 06 minutes 25 seconds East 4.96 feet to the BEGINNING, and containing 0.72 acres, more or less, according to a survey dated September 30, 1993 and updated January 7, 1997, by Derick L. Miles, NCRLS.

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.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 212 Meadow Wind Court, Monroe, 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

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Kathryn Rice McGraw.

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.

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.

And Being more commonly known as: 5324 Landreaux Dr, Raleigh, NC 27610

($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.

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

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The date of this Notice is June 29, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-094669

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.

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 record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Regina R. Surles.

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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.

The date of this Notice is July 10, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 16-080907

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF L.E.C.A., A Minor Female Child.

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TO: Any Unknown Birth Fathers – TAKE NOTICE THAT a Petition for Adoption for the adoption of a minor female child born on the 3rd day of December, 2019, in Dunn, Harnett County, North Carolina to Amelia Howard (a Caucasian woman, then 29 years of age, small-boned, 5’10” tall, approximately 125 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes) was filed in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Sampson

Countyonthe2nddayofJuly2020.Thechildwasconceived in the Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina area around March of 2019 and that the child’s biological father may be a biracial man, who met the mother at a party. You must file a response to the petition within forty (40) days of the first publication of this notice on or before August 31, 2020 in order to participate in and receive further notice of this proceeding, including notice of the time and place of hearing. IN THE EVENT YOU FAIL TO RESPOND, THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT WILL ENTER AN ORDER ALLOWING THE ADOPTION TO PROCEED WITHOUT

YOUR CONSENT. Any and all rights you may have with respect to the minor child will be extinguished and all aspects of any legal relationship between the minor child and you as her parent will be terminated with the entry of a Decree of Adoption. The address of the Court in which the Petition has been filed is Sampson County Clerk of Superior Court, Special Proceedings, 101 E. Main Street, Clinton, NC 28328, 919-596-6600.

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Dan Forest campaigning in Stanly Co. Dan Forest’s campaign talked to voters at the 6 Shooters Gun Show in Albemarle on Saturday, July 18.

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Inmate dies after getting coronavirus Stanly County An inmate at the Albemarle Correctional Institution who tested positive for the coronavirus has died. The unnamed male prisoner died at a hospital Tuesday from preexisting conditions complicated by the coronavirus. He was hospitalized last week and tested positive a few days later. The death marks the sixth coronavirus-related death involving a state prison inmate. Albemarle is among more than 20 state prisons where mass testing has been conducted, according to the department. About 100 inmates have tested positive there.

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Study: Charlotte losing tree canopy in part to development Mecklenburg County A study by the University of Vermont says Charlotte lost 8% of its tree canopy between 2012 and 2018. Charlotte still had 45% of tree canopy in 2018, but it is threatened.

The city gained about 2,200 acres of canopy through replantings but lost nearly 10,000 acres, much of it in large tracts of forest cleared for development. A study by the school commissioned by the city in 2014 characterized Charlotte’s tree canopy at 47% and holding steady despite surging development. The findings make Charlotte’s goal of 50% tree canopy by 2050 more difficult to reach.

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By David Larson Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — With less than a month until the state’s required reopening date of Aug. 17, Stanly County Schools is working to quickly implement the governor’s direction to have schools use both face-to-face instruction with social distancing measures, as well as remote instruction.

Interim superintendent Vicki Calvert and assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction Dr. Amy Blake-Lewis held a virtual call with SCJ to give details on the plan and how it would be implemented.

“Intent to return” forms They both said the most important thing for parents to be aware of

at his moment is the “intent to return” form, which can be found on the Stanly County Schools website.

One form for each student needs to be returned to the district by July 31 at 5 p.m. so they can know how many students to prepare for, how many staff will be needed, where to send buses and many other important decisions.

Not filling out the form can have a negative impact on the student as well, locking them into an option they did not want and reducing transportation options.

“So because our transportation is limited, if they do not complete this by July 31, they are not guaranteed a seat on the bus the first day of school,” Calvert said. “We want every family to complete one form for every child that is school aged. We ask, do they want the full remote learning or do you want to have the face-to-face instructions. And then depending on their selections, it will guide them through some questions. We’re going to ask them about their connectivity in their home,

whether they have a device that they can use for the remote learning. We’re going to ask them about transportation, do you need transportation in the morning, in the afternoon or you don’t need transportation.”

Calvert emphasized they “need 100% participation,” and if parents have any questions on how to fill out the form, they can contact their child’s school. Once a form is submitted though, the child will be committed to that decision for at least one semester.

“In other words, if you say you want full remote instruction, then two or three weeks later, you say, we’re going to send them back to school, we can’t do that because the staffing,” Calvert said. “So we’d ask for a full semester commitment, and then we can revisit at the end of that semester.”

Scheduling Each school can make adjustments to the plan in collaboration

with the district, but the “shell of a plan,” as Calvert called it, will be as follows: For Kindergarten through 4th grade, students will have full-time in-person classes at their usual schools. The students will be spaced out in the classrooms, so their desks will have 6 feet of distance from other students.

Those in 5th grade, who are usually included in elementary schools, will be moved to the middle school elective wings in order to create the necessary space in elementary schools for social distancing. The 5th graders will still be taught by elementary-certified teachers.

“So they’re still going to very much feel like they’re 5th graders in an elementary school setting, but we’re simply housing them at a middle school building,” Blake-Lewis said.

The 5th graders will, however, join the rest of those at the middle schools in being on an A/B schedSee SCHOOLS, page 2

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Richard Hudson talks with SCJ about 2020 race, legislative work

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — In a redrawn 8th District, Congressman Richard Hudson’s reelection bid for his fifth term in the United State Congress could be his most competitive yet — but when it comes to financial resources, the Republican congressman retains an advantage.

Last week, Hudson’s campaign announced that it has raised over $3 million cycle-to-date and has purchased a $1.5 million broadcast/cable TV ad buy with Spectrum.

Nearly 70% of “Hudson for Congress” contributions have come from individuals in North Carolina, according to an official campaign press release.

“We’re 100-plus days out, so it’s a good time to start laying out the structure of what the campaign is going to look like in the fall,” Hud-

son, a 48-year-old Concord resident who once worked as an aide to former GOP Congressman Robin Hayes, told SCJ on July 20.

Last year, a court-ordered redistricting changed the official map of North Carolina’s 8th District. The area, which stretches from Cabarrus to Cumberland counties, now includes all of Cumberland County and now excludes its previous share of Rowan County (where Hudson won 76% of the vote in 2018).

“With the changes to the district, it will be a more competitive election, but I’ve been in tough elections in the past — we’ve won some tough races in most of this district,” said Hudson, who has held the seat since 2013. “I just look forward to introducing myself to the new folks, and we feel pretty good about where we are.”

This fall, Hudson will face a new opponent: Democrat Patricia Timmons-Goodson, a 65-year-old Fay-

etteville native who became the first African American woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2006.

Although Timmons-Goodson outraised Hudson over the past three months ($846,000 to $329,000), she only has $619,000 cash in hand compared with Hudson’s $1.7 million.

On July 17, Cook Political Report, a non-partisan online newsletter, changed the 8th District’s rating from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican.” The Cook Report currently gives the district a partisan voting score of “R +8,” which predicts that Republicans will perform eight points better in the district than nationally.

“I’ve always looked at reelection as a referendum on my record, the job I’ve done, and what my vision is for the future,” Hudson said. “That’s my focus. If you do a good job, reelection will take

“With the changes to the district, it will be a more competitive election, but I’ve been in tough elections in the past — we’ve won some tough races in most of this district. I just look forward to introducing myself to the new folks, and we feel pretty good about where we are.”

Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-8) care of itself. I’ve remained focused on the concerns of my constituents: namely, getting this economy going again, taking care of our veterans, and taking care of our soldiers and their families in Fort Bragg.”

With Congress voting on the newest version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act See HUDSON, page 2

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DEATH NOTICES ♦ James Grover Burris, Sr., 86, of Albemarle, passed away July 11. ♦ Michael Lee Eudy, 70, of Endy, passed away July 13. ♦ Rev. Robert Alfred Jones, Jr., 70, of Albemarle, passed away July 18.

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HUDSON from page 1 this week, Hudson stated that he is proud to have inserted a provision in the bill; his contribution ensures that veterans who were exposed to dangerous chemicals in Syrian burn pits — many of whom were from Fort Bragg — will have access to care at United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Prior to Hudson’s efforts, Syria was not on the list of the countries that was being looked at for victims of burn pits.

“I work very hard to be a representative who’s in touch with his district and responds to its needs,” Hudson said. “I’ve worked across the aisle with Democrats and I’ll work with anyone to get things done for our district.”

In a topic that spans both healthcare and the economy, Hudson mentioned that he has questioned the direction that N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper has taken regarding the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m really concerned that the governor hasn’t been using science to make these decisions, and I’m concerned about the ability of our state to get tests processed quickly enough,” he said. “I’m concerned about some of the decisions of what to reopen and what not to reopen. I don’t understand why it’s okay to stand with a group of a thousand with no mask at a protest, but you can’t open a church.”

As far as his outlook on a potential coronavirus vaccine, Hudson said that he’s hopeful that it will be available to the general public by the first of next year, but no shortcuts will be taken “on the science and the safety” of the vaccine.

“We’re going to make sure that any therapeutics or vaccines that come to market have gone through the rigorous process of making sure they’re safe.”

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WEEKLY CRIME LOG ♦ Allen, Dmarius Obrian (B M, 29) Arrest on chrg of Simple Possess Sch Vi Cs (M), at 731 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr/lincoln St, Albemarle, on 07/17/2020. ♦ Allen, Ricky Lane (W M, 60) Arrest on chrg of Felony Possession Of Cocaine (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 07/14/2020. ♦ Aplin, Amber Lynn (W /F/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), 2) Pwimsd Sch I Cs (F), and 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at N Second St @ 1st St., Albemarle, NC, on 7/17/2020

♦ Crump, Marqueze Kawane (B /M/19) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Sch Vi Cs (F) and 2) Possess Marij Paraphernalia (M), at HWY 138/ 52, Albemarle, NC, on 7/18/2020 ♦ Davis, Gerrius Antoine (B /M/38) Arrest on chrg of Possession Of Firearm By Felon (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 7/15/2020 ♦ Dunn, Jamie Suzanne (W /F/40) Arrest on chrg of Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (F), at Bethany Road/old Salisbury, Albemarle, NC, on 7/19/2020

50) Arrest on chrg of Second Degree Trespass (M), at 641 Nc 24-27 Bypass E, Albemarle, on 07/19/2020. ♦ Lee, Nicholas Trumond (B /M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Stolen Motor Vehicle (F), 2) Carrying Concealed Gun (m) (M), 3) Alter/remove Gun Serial Number (F), 4) Fugitive From Justice (F), 5) Flee/elude Arrest W/mv (f) (F), and 6) Reckless Drvg-wanton Disregard (M), at Norwood/price, Norwood, NC, on 7/15/2020

83) Arrest on chrg of Trafficking In Cocaine (F), at 316 Hillside Ln, Albemarle, on 07/13/2020 ♦ Russell, William Jason (W /M/47) Arrest on chrg of 1) Fel Assault Indiv W/disab (F) and 2) Assault On Female (M), at 641 Lakewood Road, Oakboro, NC, on 7/16/2020 ♦ Simmons, Ronnie Lee (W /M/67) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F) and 2) Larceny After Break/enter (F), at 29589 Herrin Grove Road, Albemarle, NC, on 7/14/2020

♦ Lee, Nicholas Trumond (B ♦ Sims, Tirea Rashead Iquia (B /M/24) Arrest on chrg of Flee/ Stanly County for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 /M/28) Arrest on chrg of Assault ♦ Eaglen, Ryan James (W Journal M, elude Arrest W/mv (F), at 456 2 On Female (M), at 129 Carpenter 26) Arrest on chrg of Probation ♦ Baldwin, Darrick Vashon (B M, Carver St, Norwood, NC, on Rd, Mt Gilead, NC, on 7/15/2020 Violation, F (F), at 201 S Second 46) Arrest on chrg of Assault By WEEKLY WEDNESDAY 7/17/2020 FORECAST St, Albemarle, on 07/13/2020.

Pointing A Gun, (M), at 504 Arey ♦ Taft, Ashley Rachelle (W /F/27) ♦ Liles, William Leon (B M, 41) Av, Albemarle, on 07/18/2020.

Arrest on chrg of 1) First Degree ♦ Eury, Christina Faye (W F, Arrest on chrg of Assault On #129 Burglary (F), 2) Break Or Enter 32) Arrest on chrg of Larc ♦ Burris, Gerald Dale (W /M/71) Female (M), at 153 S Morrow Av, Merchant Prod Code Fraud (F), FRIDAYAlbemarle,SATURDAY Arrest on chrg of Driving While WEDNESDAY MONDAY (F), 3) Possess TUESDAY THURSDAY on 07/16/2020.SUNDAY Motor Vehicle APRIL 17 APRIL 18 APRIL 20 21 APRIL 15 LeonardAPRIL 16 APRIL 19 Methamphetamine (F),APRIL and 4) at 781 Av, Albemarle, on Impaired (M), at Little St., Fta Release Order (M), at 126 ♦ Mclaughlin, Kebriana Tinae (B 07/15/2020.

Norwood, NC, on 7/16/2020 HI 73° HI 75° HI 72° HI 73° HI 59° HI 67° HI 71° LO LO 50° of Assault LO Third St, 47°Albemarle, LO 50° LO 36° LO 42° LO 50° South NC, on F,55°23) Arrest on chrg 0% PRECIP 50% PRECIP 20% PRECIP 0% PRECIP 20% Whitney PRECIPRaven 0% (W PRECIP 50% ♦ Fisher, ♦ Condon, Melanie Elaine 7/15/2020 With Deadly Weapon (M),PRECIP at /F/31) Arrest on chrg of Simple (W F, 59) Arrest on chrg of 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on ♦ Williams, Robert Lee (B M, 47) Assault (M), at 126 S Third St, Misdemeanor Larceny (M), at 07/14/2020. the Arrest on chrg of Pwimsd Cocaine Albemarle, NC, on 7/15/2020 781 Leonard“Join Av, Albemarle, on conversation” (F), at 1006 Ridge St, Albemarle, ♦ Measimer, Randy Lee (W 07/13/2020.

WEEKLY CRIME LOG ♦ Foreman, Chad Eric (W /M/47) on 07/15/2020. /M/29) Arrest on chrg of 1) Break Arrest on chrg of Driving While ♦ Covington, Tavares Nmn Enter Motor Vehicle Stanly County Journal x Poplin, Derick Lynn (W M, Or (F) and 2) Assault On (F), 2) Fta - Release Order (M), at ♦ Wright, Johnny Wayne (B Impaired (M), at 10325 Richard(B /M/36) Arrest on chrg of ISSN: 2575-2278 (F),South and 3) Poss/ 29) Arrest on chrg of Pwimsd Felony FemaleLarceny (M), at 126 Stanly, NC, on 4/8/2020 sandy Rd/nc 138 Hwy, Oakboro, 1) Assault On Govt Official/ Stolen Prop CertNC, Felon (F), at 178 /M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Att Methamphetamine, F (F), at rcv Third St, Albemarle, Publisher x Oxendine, Misty Lee (I Robbery-dangerous Weapon NC, on 7/16/2020 emply (M), 2) Injury To Personal 781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, 4/13/2020 W Turner St, Norwood, NC, on Neal Robbins /F/34) Arrest chrg ofRobbery Fta (F), 2)onConsp Dangrs on 04/09/2020 Property (M), and 3) Disorderly 7/14/2020 Editor x Hill, James Wilson (W - Release Order (M), at NC ♦ Honbarrier, Caroline Annette (W Weapon (F), 3) Attempt First Conduct (M), at 453 N Main St, David Larson x Leggett, James /M/38) Arrest on chrg of 1) Hwy 24/27, Albemarle, NC, F, 26) Arrest on chrgTimothy of Possess Degree Burglary (F), and 4) ♦ Misenheimer, Sidney Dell (W Norwood, NC, on 7/14/2020 Sports Editor (W M, 32) Arrest on chrg Surrender By Surety (M), 2) on 4/8/2020 Heroin, (F),ofat 303 Possession Fairway St/ Cory Lavalette Conspire B&e Bldg-felony/ /M/26) Arrest on chrg Assault Felony Of Surrender

By Surety (F),of and x Oxendine, Misty Lee (I freeman Av, Albemarle, on W Main ♦ Crisco, James Cocaine (F), at 161 3) Female Surrender By at Surety Senior OpinionRobert Editor (W M, 51) larceny (F), at 126 South Third On (M), 8737(F), Swift Rd, /F/34) Arrest on chrg of Frank 07/14/2020.

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The high schools will be on an A/B/C rotation, so the students will have two weeks of remote learning for every week of face-to-face instruction. Which week will be in-person depends on if they are in Fincher, 85, of group A, xAlbemarle, BJerry orWayne C.died The teacher Aprilsame 3. will be responsible for instructing x Sylvester “Corey” Maske, 27, of Albemarle, died April 4. the student whether they are on a remote orx in-person week.

John Henry Connell, Jr., 91, of Stanfield, died April 6.

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Blake-Lewis also noted that both x Shirley Mae Haire, 73, of Albemarle, died April 11. middle and high schools will be x Betty Jane Keeverschedules, Rogers, 87, of rerunning abbreviated Albemarle, died April 11. leasing at 1:35 for high school and x Pauline Elizabeth Almond Tucker, 1:20 for middle school.

This 98, of Albemarle, died April 11. will allow the teachers to have office hours for those doing remote learning that See OBITUARIES, page 7 week.

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Some they need to start answering serious questions, or they will falldampened prey Act, a bipartisan package of measures to reduce America’s and the rest of the world, but it has not our fighting nue is representatives to hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for irus (swine flu) during the 2009 pandemic, ources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to which all other American dependence on foreign sources of critical medical supplies spirit or drive for innovation.

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We must boost domestic are doing in Congress, working with the administration to mies as in the It is about time they are expected to operate as responsible citizens of of a painful experience I’d prefer not to repeat.

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT MLB

Fauci to throw 1st pitch at Yankees-Nationals opener in D.C. Washington, D.C. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the first game of Major League Baseball’s pandemicdelayed regular season.

The Washington Nationals announced Monday that Fauci — a self-described fan of the reigning World Series champions — accepted the team’s invitation to have the pregame honor Thursday night. The Nationals host the New York Yankees to open the season nearly four months after it originally was scheduled to begin. Spring training was halted in March because of the COVID-19 outbreak and teams resumed preparing to play this month.

Austin Dillon leads 1-2 RCR finish in Cup race at Texas The Welcome native’s third career win earned him a spot in the NASCAR playoffs

By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Austin Dillon stayed in front after a restart with two laps to go and beat rookie Tyler Reddick to the checkered flag at Texas, giving Richard Childress Racing a 1-2 NASCAR Cup finish and quite a show for spectators spread out in the stands on a scorching Sunday.

Dillon raced to his third career win and first since Daytona at the start of the 2018 season. He stayed

in front on three late restarts, the first after an incident with 29 laps left that shuffled the fast car of Ryan Blaney to a lap back.

“Not bad for a silver spoon kid, huh?” said Dillon, the grandson of Childress. “Tyler Reddick, he raced me clean. 1-2 for RCR. This has been coming. We’ve had good cars all year. I’ve got my baby Ace back home, my wife. I’m just so happy.”

On the final restart, Dillon got a good jump and raced to the checkered flag ahead of his rookie teammate and some veteran drivers.

Joey Logano finished third, with Kyle Busch coming in fourth a day after he finished ahead of

the field in two races — having an Xfinity Series victory taken away after his car failed a postrace inspection before winning the Truck Series race at night. Series points leader Kevin Harvick was fifth.

There were an estimated 15,000-20,000 spectators at the track, where it reached 97 degrees late in the first summertime Cup race at Texas — it was supposed to be a spring race nearly four months ago, before the coronavirus pandemic postponed and then shuffled NASCAR’s schedule. Inside the cars, it was 130-140 degrees.

After leading six times for 150 laps, both highs for the race, Blaney finished seventh.

Blaney, who had given up the lead when he pitted on Lap 287, fell a lap down after the field got shuffled with 29 laps to go when rookie Quin Houff crashed hard out of Turn 4. That also put polesitter Aric Almirola and Chase Elliott, coming off a $1 million win at NASCAR’s All-Star race at Bristol on Wednesday night, a lap down.

It was 30 degrees warmer than it was on March 29, when the race had been scheduled before the pandemic. During a red flag, track workers took water to drivers in their parked cars because of the oppressive heat. Texas will host a playoff race Oct. 25.

It was the first major sporting event in Texas in more than four months, and one of the largest gatherings of any kind in the state during the pandemic. The spectators were spread out along the frontstretch, which was fully shaded late in the race, and there were also people in about 40 suites.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Gonzaga’s Petrusev to skip last 2 years, turn pro Spokane, Wash.

West Coast Conference Player of the Year Filip Petrusev announced Monday that he will pursue a professional career and not return for his final two years at Gonzaga, citing uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the upcoming college basketball season.

Petrusev tweeted that while his goal is to play in the NBA, he has signed with Mega Bemax of Serbia.

Petrusev averaged a teamhigh 17.8 points per game, which ranked third in the West Coast Conference last season, and he led the league in shooting percentage (56.5%) and was second in rebounding (7.7).

OLYMPICS

U.S. Olympic museum to open July 30 Colorado Springs, Colo.

A 60,000-square foot museum that will include a first-of-its-kind tribute to the 1980 U.S. Olympic team is scheduled to open July 30 in Colorado Springs after a three-year construction project. The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum will feature 12 galleries that include exhibits on athlete training, the Summer and Winter Games and the USOPC Hall of Fame. The Olympic Training Center, located a few miles from the museum in downtown Colorado Springs, draws more than 130,000 visitors a year but had limited exhibit space.

SOCCER

Portman group will bring NWSL to L.A. in 2022 Los Angeles Actress Natalie Portman and venture capitalist Kara Nortman lead a group that will bring an expansion National Women’s Soccer League team to the Los Angeles area in 2022. The team, tentatively named Angel City, will bring the league to 11 teams. Louisville FC will join the nine current NWSL clubs next season.

Portman and Nortman are joined by gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, the cornsortium’s president in the majority-female group.

Others involved include actors Eva Longoria, America Ferrera, Jennifer Garner and Uzo Aduba.

RAY CARLIN | AP PHOTO

Austin Dillon crosses the finish line to win Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Washington owner Snyder vows culture change amid allegations Fifteen former female employees claimed they were sexual harassed

“These matters as reported are serious, disturbing and contrary to the NFL’s values.”

By Stephen Whyno The Associated Press Washington NFL owner Dan Snyder said Friday he’s committed to improving the culture inside the team after allegations of sexual harassment, while the league will wait for a law firm’s review before taking action.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that 15 female former employees said they were sexually harassed during their time with the team. Snyder said the behavior described in the story “has no place in our franchise or society.”

He hired District of Columbia law firm Wilkinson Walsh to conduct an independent review of team policies, culture and allegations of workplace misconduct.

The league said in a statement it will meet with lawyers after the investigation is complete and will act based on the findings.

Snyder also pledged to make organizational changes.

“Beth Wilkinson and her firm are empowered to do a full, unbiased investigation and make any and all requisite recommendations,” Snyder said. “Upon completion of her work, we will institute new policies and procedures and strengthen our human resources infrastructure to not only avoid

Statement from the NFL

ALEX BRANDON | AP PHOTO

Washington owner Dan Snyder has hired a D.C. law firm to review the NFL team’s culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct. these issues in the future but most importantly create a team culture that is respectful and inclusive of all.”

He said the commitment to establishing a new culture and higher standard began with the hiring of Ron Rivera as coach this year.

Rivera told The Athletic he was brought in to change the culture and “create an environment of inclusion.”

The NFL said it expects the team and all employees to be cooperative but is not yet making its

own review of the team.

“These matters as reported are serious, disturbing and contrary to the NFL’s values,” the league said. “Everyone in the NFL has the right to work in an environment free from any and all forms of harassment.”

Director of player personnel Alex Santos, assistant Richard Mann II and longtime broadcaster and senior vice president Larry Michael are no longer with the team. Michael announced Wednesday he was retiring after

16 years.

Santos, Mann, Michael and former business executives Dennis Greene and Mitch Gershman were mentioned in the Post story.

The team on Friday named Eric Stokes its new director of player personnel and hired Don Warren as senior pro scout. Stokes and Warren follow Rivera from Carolina, where he was coach for eight years until he was let go this past offseason.

“Eric Stokes is one of the finest scouts I have been around during my time as a coach in this league,” Rivera said. “He is a man that knows what I expect and knows the culture that I want to instill here in Washington. His experience as an assistant general manager and his familiarity with my expectations make him an invaluable addition to our organization.”

The allegations come shortly after the team announced it would be shedding its Redskins name and logo and that Snyder and Rivera would work together to develop a nickname and design.

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NCDance’ high ‘The Last fall directorschool talks project sports season on Jordan’s Bulls delayed until September

The 10-part documentary will air over five Sundays

By Tim Reynolds The North Carolina High The Associated Press School Athletic Association

voted unanimously to push

JASON HEHIR was a kid in the stands in start the day that Boston Garden onback April the 20, 1986, Michael Jordan scored a playoff-record 63 points.

By Jesse Deal It was a Christmas giftCounty from his father, who Stanly Journal stuck a note promising “Two tickets to the Air Jordan Show” in his ALBEMARLE stocking that holiday sea— In summer of son. It’s a gift Hehir will never for for-high school athletuncertainty get, though his current seat for the North Caroliic departments, another Jordan show of is Athletic Associana Highsorts School considerably better.tion provided another “I wouldn’t curveball for Hehir is the director of the coaches and teamscall throughout it a the ESPN and Netflix production “The state last Wednesday.

I Last Dance,” a 10-part Justdocumenone day afterchallenge.

Gov. Roy Cootary series that debuts April 19 and per announced that Northcall Carowould it tells the story of Jordan’s final Chilina’s public schoolsa would be able privilege.” cago Bulls season to in 1997-98 that a hybrid reopen under plan of culminated in a sixth NBA title. in-person and remote learning, the Hehir’s task: Take NCHSAA 10,000 hours of Jason Hehir, informed its membership archived footage, that add practice interviews for falldirector sports will not “The with more than 100 people, anduntil at leastof be able to begin Sept.

1.

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North Carolina A&Tthe receiver picturedtoinshift 2017toagainst North Carolina Central, is among the HBCU draftover the lines, football players are required The Pac-12 became secondElijah majorBell, conference a conference-only fall schedule amid growing concerns “I wouldn’t call to it have a challenge,” hopefuls whopandemic, was affected by the canceled at least eight practice days coronavirus joining the Big 10. events due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hehir said. “I would call it a privilege.” (including three in full pads) before The series was moved months to pro-teams playingupatwo game.

Typically, vide content-starved fans with new beschedule two something weeks of practice to watch during fore the playing coronavirus pandemic. a game, but Sept. 10 ESPN was originally to release will planning now be the earliestthe possible documentary in June, coinciding with whatbe per date that a matchup could would have been this season’srules.

NBA Finals.

NCHSAA It will run over fiveInSundays 17, MLB’s return-to-play a media ending release, May Commissionwith two one-hour broadcasts each week. rules implemented the er Que Tucker announced that this “I’mand happy if we can bring a little of light latest update wasbit based on atounani“I’ll sit there and pitch designated hitter in both people in a dark time here,” Hehir said.

“Sportsboard mous vote by the association’s leagues it Darifor now. I are think The coronavirus pandemic Central defensive that’s lineman such an indelible part of our cultural fabric can’t compete.” of directors.

Athhas made it even harder and lacking that ... there’s a significant hole in steps But that opportunity never us Royster, the Mid-Eastern that’s obviously where “For now, we believe these “Just letic Conference offensive and enjoyment that people feel, the escape that peocame. for under-the-radar players provide hope for our student atheverybody wants the game the year, reple can feel from everyday lifethe that sports brings South Carolina State’s pro defensive players of because we to make an impression on letes, and possibility for playing By Mike Fitzpatrick us.” day and the HBCU combine be- spectively. to go, so it is what it is.” fall sports,” Tucker said in an email The Associated Press teams are from “Does extra exposure help?

The acceleratedto launch has only added to a “We came part of a growing list of NCHSAA membership.

Yes, it does.

But once it’s taken hectic time for Hehir and his team. events canceled because of the smaller know that many decisions are being THREE OR FOUR hours beMadison guys Bumgarner, to get There has been made much relative anticipation the plan coronavirus pandemic. While away it limits certain

By Kyle Hightower to theabout reopening fore a National League game, schools Diamondbacks pitcher their film out there,” said Mordocumentary, which in Hehir’s mind came to- each small school and borderline draft The Associated Press your school(s) will follow. After they’d be cackling around the doesn’t gan State coach Tyrone Wheatgether much faster than such a project usually prospects from across the counLEA has had an opportunity to forcage. by the New at least. does.

DE’MONTREZ Burroughs try will be hurt by a lack of sim- ley, a first-round pickNot mean in 2020, malize and finalize those reopening Madison Bumgarner and bud“Itget limits the “Normally, to doplans, an hourlong archival looked athome it as his best shot to ac- ilar events, HBCU players may York Giants in 1995. “I it for this year, but I hope the NCHSAA Staffdocwill surdies — or pitchers from any we can’t from start it takestoabout be hit hardest without them and pro scouts from actually complish his NFL dream. it doesn’tseeing continue,”umentary said Milvey to thefinish, membership determine team, really — taking batting look All-Star a year startfrom the inception of the idea to the re-can fit The South compete.” waukee toBrewers how sports should and/or practice under an afternoon sunCarolina State se- the Regional Combine Invita- these guys one-on-one, at them and physically place eyes search to doing all the shooting to getting it all tional that HBCU players in renior receiver had the dates cirer Brandon Woodruff, a .267 hitinto the various models that will exin an otherwise empty ballpark. of theseason ques- who homered together, off storyboarding it out, mapping it out, cled on drills, his calendar. First, the cent years had previously used to on them. To get some ter last ist across the state.”

After all the bunting De’Montrez PAUL SANCYA | AP PHOTO tions answered upClayton close and per- in the editing, getting notes back, it takes about aanothannual pro day on boost their draft stock.

Kershaw 2018 NL The NCHSAA provided when they finally Bulldogs’ got to swing sonal.” year,” Hehir said.

“We’re doing 10 of those.

And “When you’re coming out of an March 19, followed a week latBurroughs, Championship Series.

“I think er change to athletic schedules — some lumber, you’d hear oohs and Big Ten schools like Ohio State and Michigan will only play Aside from getting a chance to we had a little bit over two years to do it so we’re HBCU, you know that the teams er by the first-ever NFL combine Southhoots Carolina that’s pretty much the consensus workouts during the first five stuaahs, and hollers, boasting teams from their own conference in 2020. comworking atdent five times rate.”will not event for draft prospects are going to be looking at Divi- run the 40-yard dash for alland of our pitchers.already We like to days ofour thenormal school year and andheld laughStatebragging, receiver teasing and agilitythe game.”

The pandemic further complicates matters. from Historically Black Colleges sion I talent first,” said Kansas plete other strength hit. It changes be allowed.

Despite that, teams will ing. front of scouts from the Hehir his teamstill are be finishing up while City and Chiefs defensive Alex drills and occasional Universities I’ll whositdidn’t Of course, for every Zackand Greable tothings continue with limitseemsback a universal DH isincoming there reand pitch that’s Maybe even the franchises, players separated, throughconditioning Zoom meetings Brown, a SC State alum. ceive invitations it tofor thenow. national inke (.280,were three homers, eightconnecting ed summer guidelines soon that“With would NFL’s mean 32 pitchers I think that’s obviously wager or two. to interbut largely at their own laptops this HBCU combine, dif- going RBIs last year) or Adam Wain-in isolation that were mandated undertoPhase neverthat’s hit regularly again.to get the chance the game But that merrycombine pursuit inofIndianapolis. a where everybody wants view with team executives on the the last71pieces of theofstory ready to air. that when He left for wright (10 career get homers, One the NCHSAA’s return plan.

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It was gonna week before his pro day with evRBIs) or German Márquez (.300 Ultimately, the fate fall sports ed just like that.

Looking to protect pitchers endangered species in baseball. event.

98, are though is the overriding beconstruction a chance to have all theupset teams erything ready to and go. He had film doz-that season is subject to changetheme. based on “I’m I can’t get a Silver average in 2018), there simplify roster Under new rules for this abbrevistill ens conducting It also of Jordan’s bas-by the looking at those packages to distribute scouts. of otherin-pitchers whoserves ap- as a retrospective COVID-19 data provided Slugger,” joked SanTeams Diegoare Pain the to middle of a pandemic, Ma- guys.” ated season delayed by the coroby phonepear and video con- overmatched ketball life,atfrom his collegeaccording days at North Carofour HBCU players were terviews wasinclude also thinking about what completely DHHS, to Tucker. dres right-hander Chris Paddjor League Baseball Only players and navirus, all gamesHewill ferencing, but those cappedlevel with lina athrough NBA. selectedthe in DH the 2019 a .119 he would say in interviews withto expand the are big league bat in his rise atop “We the acknowledge that playing ack,draft whowith batted as a rookie owners agreed the designated hitter — knockat three per week, said agent AuHehir knows there is an ongoing and full predraft process, though 32 representatives from NFL teams their hands. certain sports arebuildup more problematic ing NL pitchers right out of the this year to the National League, last season. gustine Wiggins, whose clientsthe new anticipation the documentary, and TuckWeek 1 rosters.No more one-in-a-million and what to aska idols like Profor made For them, rule is a surrounding at any time without a vaccine,” surrule in place AL clubs since batter’s box. include Burroughs. still feels nervousness.

He met with Jordan sevThe 51 players invited to the Football Hall of Famer Deion er wrote. “However, we remain in prises from funny-looking pitch- welcome relief that saves some “Well, obviously my thoughts 1973. harder garner intereral times over the consultation course of thewith project, includ-MediHBCU combine were trying Sanders, be there. no guarantee our Sports at the plateto— like“It’s Bartolo Co- toembarrassment. the ers don’t really matter,” said a who smil-would There’s est and understand where the ining three sit-down interviews that are partmembers, of position themselves to do the “It was a chance to be able to “I don’t have to punch out evcine Advisory Committee ing Bumgarner, the Arizona Dia- change will stick beyond this lon’s rousing home run in 2016, terest is for clients than in years the documentary. same.

The list also included Florshowcase our talent,” Burroughs and they believe we can and should mondbacks newcomer who leads abnormal season sheared to 60 and Dae-Sung Koo’s long double ery time I go up there,” Washpast,” Wiggins “It’s a Nationals slightly pitcher “I hope that people like itprogram, as muchwith as we ida A&Mmight.

University said.19 “Just because we are fromit certainly ington Austin offerwill a sports all necoff quarterback Hall of Famer Randy Johnsonsaid. games — but active pitchers with career different pivot.” did,” Hehir said.

Ryan Stanley and North Carolina smaller schools doesn’t mean we Voth said. essary modifications, delays, etc.” home runs. “I do what I’m told. And even if not next year, it in 2005.

HBCU NFLponder hopefuls adjust NL pitchers season withafter no swings canceled pro days, combine

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US prisoncoronavirus populations down 8% amid coronavirus outbreak Backup hospital

in Memphis worries residents

By Denise Lavoie The Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation whenSainz she heard she’d be goBy Adrian ing three weeks Thehome Associated Press early because of COVID-19.

It made her feel bad—to Faced leave MEMPHIS, Tenn. when so few left at the with she the had threat of days overburdened Fluvanna Correctional Center for hospitals, states across the country Women.

She said she wasn’t sick are converting convention centers, and there were noand cases at the facilsports facilities performance ity.

But into therebackup were others still inside spaces treatment sites who could have used the reprieve. for coronavirus patients.

“I wouldsome have Memphis, helped someone What Tenwho had nine or don’t 10 months, somenesse, residents get is why in one needed theirwho city,absolutely a shopping centerit,” in she the said recently.

“There was a lady in middle of a predominantly black, there who was very elderly, and she low-income residential neighborhas bad health hoodvery has been chosen.problems. I would place are to her.”

Cityhave and given state my officials conTherethat has an been a major drop in cerned influx of patients the of people behind bars fromnumber Memphis, as well as nearby in the U.S. Between and Mississippi, ArkansasMarch and rural June, more thanwill 100,000 west Tennessee, strain people hospiwere released from and fedtals. Their fears are state echoed across eral decrease of 8%, acthe prisons, country:a Governors, mayors cording to aexperts nationwide analysis. and health in numerous The drops from 2% in Virstates are range also researching and ginia to 32% in Rhode Island.

By constructing makeshift medical comparison, the state and federfacilities. al In prison by Newpopulation York City, decreased they’re turn2.2% of 2019, according to a ing toin theallJavits Center convention report prison populations by the site; inonChicago, the McCormick Vera of Justice.

PlaceInstitute Convention Center; and in But this year’s decrease has not Sandy, Utah, the Mountain Amercome because of efforts to release ica Expo Center. vulnerable forof health The U.S. prisoners Army Corps Engireasons and to manage spread neers has been scoutingthe locations of virus raging prisons,here acin the Tennessee, and inofficials cording to detailed from have compiled a list ofdata 35 possieight states compiled byhaven’t The Marble backup sites. They reshall Project and AP. leased the whole list,Instead, but Gov.head Bill counts have dropped largely because prisons stopped accepting new prisoners from county jails to avoid importing the virus, court closures meant fewer people were receiving sentences and parole officers sent fewer people back inside for low-level violations, according to data and experts.

In Virginia, about 250 prisoners were released as corrections officials scrambled to minimize the spread of the virus, accounting for less than half of the decrease in The Associated Press population in that state between March and June, the news DUBAI, United Arab organiEmirates — OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday finalized an unprecedented production cut of nearly 10 million barrels, or a 10th of global supply, in hopes of boosting crashing prices amid the coronavirus pandemic and a price war, officials said.

By “This Jonathan Lemire could be the largest reThe Associated Press from OPEC duction in production for perhaps a decade, maybe lonWASHINGTON, D.C. Secretary — Presiger,” said U.S. Energy dent Trump’swho long-in-comDan Donald Brouillette, credited ing campaign shakeup rearranged President Donald Trump’s persome job titles but isn’t likely to sonalbig involvement in getting duelchange the identity of the ing parties to the table andperson helpmany as in of day-to-day ing tosee end a charge price war between operations: Jared Saudi Arabia andKushner.

Russia.

Kushner his influence Oil priceswields have collapsed as the quietly and is and rarelythe a presence in coronavirus COVID-19 the campaign’s suburban Washingillness it causes have largely haltton headquarters.

Inslowed a campaign ed global travel and down meeting Thursday, campaignsectors manother energy-chugging ager surrendered his suchBrad as Parscale manufacturing.

It has title to onetime Bill Stepien. devastated thedeputy oil industry in ouster reflects Trump’s theParscale’s U.S., which now pumps more willingness to shake his inner crude than any other up country. circle, Kushner remains at But even someifproducers have been the helm. to Some reluctant ease Republican supply. The Parcarty and nations outside on allies have telofficials and other Sunday been encouraging Trump agreed to allow Mexico toto cutlisten only to a broader array of political ad100,000 barrels a month, a stickvice, believing thataccord Kushner has ing point for an initially filled the Friday president’s voicreached afterear a with marathon es that conference echo Kushner’s. video between 23 naThatThe process began when Trump tions. nations together agreed first elevated Stepienbarrels to senior to cut 9.7 million a adday viser and returned Jason Miller to throughout May and June. theThe campaign last month. group reached theParscale, deal just for his before part, was oncemarkets the handhours Asian repicked of Kushner, but the openedchoice Monday and as internapresident’s son-in-lawBrent was among tional benchmark crude those soured in tradedwho at have just over $31onahim barrel recent weeks. and American shale producers Despite the deficits, the camstruggle. paign highlighted what it sees as Video aired by the Saudi-owned strengths. satellite channel Al-Arabiya “We have better team, showed the amoment that better Saudi voter information, a better ground Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz

ADRIAN SAINZ | AP PHOTO

nity volunteer Homer Osborne quickly transported to a hospital said he understands the need to should their conditions worsen.

Memphis officials said the Gatehelp coronavirus patients, but he questions why officials chose way site was put on the list in rethisthe July sponse to a requestIn from state’s Gateway.

9,identify 2020, large, “There are a lot of poor people coronavirus team to photo, a where an alterin this neighborhood that come available buildingsfile correctional could be lohere and shop,” said Osborne, who nate treatment facility officer closes was buying food at the center for cated. the main gateto “The task of finding space a home delivery service he’s proat San Quentin potential paviding during the virus outbreak. shelter hundreds of Prison in choice but ne“People won’t want to come over tients is not one ofState San Quentin, said in a statehere. It’s just going to kill this cessity,” the officials Calif. ment. area.”

For Nutbush residents, their He also cited a widespread fear of being unnecessarily exposed to fear of contracting the virus is matched with the worry that they the virus.

“All around, people are scared,” could lose stores that are vital to the neighborhood. Officials hahe said.

Their fears are not unfounded. ven’t said if stores would close if In this majority-black city along the Gateway facility was opened. the Mississippi River, lawmakers If they did, shopping would beand community leaders have been come more difficult for residents, sounding the alarm over what they especially for those who are old or see as a disturbing trend of the vi- have no means of transportation rus killing African Americans at a to stores located farther away.

“For people who don’t have a higher rate.

Nutbush resident Patricia Har- car, what do they do?” asked Harris wondered aloud if city officials ris, who spoke to The Associated were “trying to contaminate” the Press while lugging a bottle of detergent, a package of bottled waneighborhood.

Activist Earle Fisher, an Afri- ter and other items from the Save can American Memphis pastor, A Lot to her car. She noted that a RISBERG | AP PHOTO store recently closed near understands the anxiety. “ThisERIC grocery is an honest and reasonable con- her house and she already has to he needed find housPublic Safety. travelago, farther to get totoGateway. cern and skepticism,” Fisher said. years and apply services. we for do social things, we’ve “I Whether think it’sprison par forpopulations the courserise for ing“When over everything soin much once pandemic eases will de- He gotfretted to consider the people the blackthe people to be righteously he barely ate insaid. the days pend in part how the publicinterper- that neighborhood,” she “We leaddon’t skeptical of on governmental to to hismake freedom nearly had ceives people need theand neighborhood vention that who did are not released consult early with ing medical as ais.”result. He now, said Bertram, than crisis it already people onWanda the ground first.”spokes- aworse found woman the Prisonthe Policy U.S. Rep. Stevehousing Cohen, through a MemDougfor McGowen, city’sInitiachief eventually community program in tive, a nonpartisan thinkthe tankGatethat aphis Democrat,health said the decision operating officer, said North Carolina. focuses mass incarceration. doesn’t make sense. way siteon was being considered be- Durham, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, a senior reFor itexample, if people accomleaving “I’m sure there are other places cause could potentially analyst at and the they Sentencing prison little support end search that would work, should modatehave hundreds of beds.and He said a group advocates up Bertramtosaid she fears Project, have used thosethat rather than for go if ithomeless, were converted a treatment reform, neighborhood,” said that while they be more get arinto a residential site, may it would holdlikely only to mildly ill sentencing prison population decreases are rested for things likewho sleeping Cohen said. coronavirus patients could on be the the street, and the community may a step in the right direction, she is in turn associate early releases with disappointed by the numbers. Even if the COVID-19 release policies more crime.

Garland King, who will turn 78 work as intended, they might not in a few weeks, spent 12 years in a lower the prison population enough North Carolina prison for shooting because states often exclude vioand killing his son-in-law during lent offenders from such releases, an argument. Like many older pris- Ghandnoosh said.

“Even though we are sending too oners, he has mounting medical issues, including asthma and arthri- many people to prison and keeping them there too long, and even tis.

King was scheduled to be re- though research shows people who leased in June, but on April 17 he are older have the highest risk from became one of almost 500 prison- COVID-19 and the lowest risk of ers who were let go early for good recidivism, we are still not letting behavior. Since his wife died two them out,” Ghandnoosh said.

This Friday, April 3, 2020 photo, shows Gateway Shopping Center in Memphis, Tenn. the decrease in prison population, zations found.

In California, Gov. Gavin New- which suggests something else is the restaurant drop. According to som last disclosed week ordered thethe release a Chinese and other Lee has a few: Mu- driving Horn, professor emeritus at of to Center 8,000 people by the end businesses. sicup City in Nashville, the Martin Jay College of Criminal of August afterConvention a series of coronaLocating a treatment centerJusfor Chattanooga Center, John and a former corrections virus outbreaksExpo in theCenter state’s— priscoronavirus patients there composthe Knoxville all tice for New York City, say: the ons. mid-March andneighmid- missioner es two problems, residents sitesBetween away from residential has slowed the entire June, California’s prison population pandemic It could potentially expose them borhoods. justice system. dropped by more than 7,000. Cen- criminal to the virus amid concerns that The Gateway Shopping Before pandemic, parol57,000 prisoners blacks are the contracting COVID-19 terMore in thethan Nutbush neighborhood were rates; required meet force with have tested positive for theThe coronaat higher andto it could of Memphis is different. cen- ees in person. virus in facilities across the country some parole of the officers stores they rely onFor to ter features a Save A Lot grocery their last four months, those meetsince began. Of those, the close. store,the a outbreak Rent-A-Center, a Famihave mostly been phone, at least 34,000 have recovered, Nutbush resident andbycommuly Dollar, a beauty supply shop, ings and at least 651 have died, the data and people on parole are under less showed. Over 12,400 infections scrutiny and less likely to be rehave been reported among staff, in- turned to prison for violating the rules right now, Horn said. cluding 46 deaths.

Even many who have been senExperts and advocates said whether the public perceives a pub- tenced for crimes are not being lic safety threat from people who are transferred to state prisons. In released early because of COVID-19 North Carolina, the courts enactis likely to affect the larger criminal ed a two-month moratorium on justice reform movement, especial- accepting newly sentenced indily the push to decrease prison pop- viduals into prisons. By the time the moratorium was lifted in May, ulations.

Data from states such as North about 1,800 people were in county Carolina, Illinois New Jersey jails awaiting transfer to state prisbin Salman, a son and of King Salman, show coronavirus releases only ac- ons, said John Bull, a spokesman assented to the deal. count forwith less the thanconsent, one-thirdso ofI for North Carolina’s Department of “I go agree,” the prince said, chuckling, drawing a round of applause from those on the video call.

But it had not been smiles and laughs for weeks after the socalled OPEC+ group of OPEC members and other nations failed in March to reach an agreement way of life. on production cuts, sending pric“Jared is a very important voice es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply within President Trump’s orbit,” se- “We have a better team, criticized Russia days earlier over nior advisor Jason Miller said. “In better voter information, what it described as comments addition to being a very smart and critical of the kingdom, which creative thinker, he is someone who a better ground game, finds itself trying to appease always has President Trump’s back better fundraising, and Trump, a longtime OPEC critic. and looks out for him, not only as Even U.S. senators had warned most importantly, a better someone who is president of the Saudi Arabia to find a way to United States, but as someone who candidate with a better boost prices as American shale is family.” firms face far-higher production record. With 109 days left, Kushner originally hired Parcosts. American troops had been SAUDI MINISTRY — ENERGY to win scale to run the 2016 campaign’s our goal is clear deployed to the kingdom for the digital operation.

Rather than first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bineach Salman dayAl-Saud, we haveMinister left untilof parting completely, attacks over concerns of Irani- Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairsways a virtual summitParscale of the Group of 20 energy ministers at Day.” remain in to thecoordinate cam- Election an retaliation amid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will Friday, Aprilinvolved 10, 2020, a response to plummeting oil paign in that same role. sions. prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in global demand due to the pandemic.

While the Republican National Trump campaign manager “They’ve spent over the last Committee owns most of the cam- Bill Stepien month waging war on American voter modeling and praise. the dealdata, but its president, Andrés oil producers while we are defend- that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and paign’s tools, Obrador, Parscale ran “The pure size of the cut is unManuel López hadmost said ing theirs. This is not how friends the United Arab Emirates would outreach storm. the microtargeted precedented, but, then again, so Friday that he had online agreedadverwith ical treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin cut another 2 million barrels of of PATRICK SEMANSKY | AP PHOTO slidethe hascoronavirus also alarmed that Trump aides believe was is Trump’s the impact is Trump that the U.S. will compenCramer, a Republican from North oil a day between them atop the tising increasingly anxious years ago. Parscale In this Sunday, June 14, 2020, having on demand,” said Mohamsatefour what Mexico cannot left addthe to Republicans OPEC+Jared deal. Kushner, The threePresident countries key Dakota, before the OPEC+ deal. file photo, retainingancontrol the Senoffice Donald senior follows Trump med Ghulam, energyofanalyst at the proposed cuts.Thursday misty- about didadviser, not immediately acknowledge campaign U.S. Trump’s producersWhite haveHouse already DespiteJames. the campaign shakeup, about effort hadOPEC start- ate. across the South LawnThe of the Whitethe House in Washington, D.C., Raymond “The bighow Oilthe Deal with cut themselves, though Zan- eyed been reducing output.

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Jason Efird

ASON EUGENE “GENE” EFIRD, 94, went home to be with his Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at his home in Stanfield.DAWN HILL, TARLETTE Gene born October 9, 1925, in 31, ofwas Lexington, NC passed Cabarrus to the away JulyCounty 12, 2020 in late her Simeon home.

Jason Efird and the late Sarah Ella A memorial service will be held Burris Efird.

In addition to his at 4 PM on Saturday July 25, parents, preceded in death by 2020 athe Allwas N Christ Church, his wife,Danville Jewell Little sisters, 44311 Rd.,Efird; New London, Mary Lambert, Fannie Almond, NC with Rev. Joel Fesperman Minnie Furr, Wilma Burleson and officiating.

Aileen Huskey; and brothers, Born November 27, 1988Homer Efird, Getus Efird and Efird, in Stanly County, sheWayne was the Sr. daughter of Starkey Win Hill and A private funeral service be Dawn Renee Mason Hill will of New held on Saturday, 11, 2020of London.

She wasApril a member at Love’s Grove United Methodist Antioch Baptist Church and was Church Cemetery in Stanfield a Licensed Practical Nurse. She officiated

by Rev. Jim White.

Burial loved fishing and water sports will theitself.

Love’She s Grove andfollow lovedat life wasUnited a Methodist Church Cemetery, peacemaker and was loved 4360 by Polk Ford Road, everybody.

She Stanfield. leaves behind the Survivors include son Gerald impact of her testimony of the Wayne (Gail) of Albemarle; work she didEfird for her Lord. daughter Lisa Efird (Mark) Hartsell In addition to her parents she of granddaughters, is Stanfield; survived by her grandmother Kelly Barbee and Lauren PollyEfird Mason, 3 brothers Michael Hartsell (Justin) Crump; and greatMelton Jr. and wife Kendra, grandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and William Bradley Melton, Joseph Elliot Jacob Simmons.

Win Hill and wife Sharissa, Memorials may beMelton made to Love’s 2 sisters Stephanie Grove United Methodist Campbell and husbandChurch, JosephPO Box Stanfield, NC 28163-0276. and276, Crystal Hill Barringer and husband Aaron and 6 nieces and nephews, Chad Melton, Jena Campbell, Cheyanne Melton, Aiden Barringer, Daniel Melton, Aniken Barringer and Isaac Hill that she loved very much and special friend Kara Lanier and son Maximus. She was preceded in death by a nephew Jacen Campbell, grandfather Bobby Eugene Mason, Sr. and grandparents C. L. and Betty Hill.

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Tony Smith

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ONY MONROE SMITH, 72, of Rockwell, NC, went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ORIS RUTH on Wednesday, AprilBROOKS, 8, 2020 at94, of Charlotte, passed awayA his home surrounded by family.

Wednesday, 15, will 2020 Clear private familyJuly service beat held.

Creek & Rehabilitation OnlineNursing condolences can be made at Center in Mint Hill. stanlyfuneralhome.com Mrs. Brooks born11,March Tony was bornwas August 1947 24, 1926 County to the late John in Stanly to the lateHenry Pearlie and AdaSmith Leona Brooks.

Asbury and EmmerIn Lee addition herthe parents, sheofwas Smith. Hetowas son in law Pat also preceded death her at and Mick Caglein where heby worked husband, James Bradyyears Brooks; the fish house for many until son, JamesAnchor BradyHouse Brooks, Jr.; he opened Seafood daughters, Jean Preslar, in Rockwell.Betty He and his wife Becky Diana Brooks,Anchor Janet House owned Lynn and operated Lorraine Brooks; brother,in 2009. for 25 years before retiring Ford Brooks; Blanche Mr. Smith wassisters, a charter member Clark, Gladys Smith; greatand deacon at Open Door Baptist granddaughter, Katlyn McCann.

Church in Richfield.

He loved the A graveside service will be on Lord and his family abundantly.

Tony held 18, 2020 at and was aSaturday, wonderfulJuly husband, father, 11:00 am, atand Red Cross grandfather could fixBaptist anything Church he put hisCemetery, hands on. 112 West Red Cross Oakboro.

Mr.Rd., Smith is survived by his wife Survivors include: son, Daryl Becky Cagle Smith of the home, Scott (Lisa)Smith Brooks ofRobbie SC; sons Walter and daughter-in-law, Darlene Brooks Smith; daughter Kayla Henderson of Midland,grandchildren NC; grandchildren, (Brandon); Danielle, Angela McCann, Dustin, and Steele Brady Smith, Brooks, Keaton Timothy James Brian, Rachel and Ella Henderson; brother David Byers, Brooks, Alisa Smith; Joshua sisters Kay Kriechbaum, Walters, Tricia Brooks; 12 greatKaren Stevenson, Ruby Eudy, and grandchildren.

Dorothy Smith (Nick).

Memorial mayinbe made He is preceded death byto St. Jude Joe Children’s Research brothers Smith, Wayne Smith, Hospital, 2101Wade Rexford Road 165 Claude Smith, Smith, Robert West, NC. 28211.

Smith,Charlotte, and sister Mary Morris.

Hartsell Homecan of be MemorialFuneral contributions Midland is serving the Brooks made to Open Door Baptist Church family. at 44563 Hwy 52, Richfield, NC Online may beCare 28137 or tocondolences Hospice & Palliative made at www.hartsellfh.com of Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

Pauline Tucker

AULINE ELIZABETH ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed away peacefully at Trinity Place, Albemarle, NC on April 11, 2020.

Pauline was born on March 22, 1922 in Cabarrus County, NC to the late John Richard Almond and Alice Ada Ann Lambert Almond.

She is survived by her three daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), Oak Island, NC; Pamela Rushing (Foreman), Oakboro, NC; Kathy Hunt (Marc), Albemarle, NC; her son, Chris Tucker (Chris Lear), Washington, DC. She will be greatly missed by her five grandchildren, Heather Rushing Chaney (Shannon), Michael Rushing, Elizabeth Michel Hartzog (Craig), Jack Michel, Jr. (Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as seven great-grandchildren. She also leaves behind cherished nieces and nephews.

The family expresses its sincere gratitude to the staff and caregivers at Trinity Place for the care they provided Pauline.

A private graveside service will be held on Monday, April 13, 2020. A celebration of Pauline’s life and legacy will be held this summer.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the BrightFocus Foundation at www. brightfocus.org.

Merle Helms

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ERLE LORRAINE AUSTIN HELMS, 72, of Marshville, passed away Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at McWhorter Hospice OHN C. WYATT, JR. 88,House of in Monroe.

Asheboro, died Thursday, Lorraine was April 28, 1947 July 16, 2020 atborn Cross Road in Monroe toCommunity. the late Homer Retirement HeDavid was Austin and Jewell born October 27, Delphia-Jane 1931, to John C, Austin. Sr., Sheand was Ethel also preceded in Wyatt, Burkhead death by A.D.NC. andHe Teddy Wyatt inbrothers, Greenville, was and sister, Joy Austin. aAustin; Boy Scout, achieving the rank The family will receive friends of Eagle Scout.

Wyatt attended from 6:00and pm -Pfeiffer 8:00 pm, Friday, NC State College.

April 10, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral He married Peggy D. Redfern, Home of Albemarle.

The funeral and they had two children, Mike service will be 11:00he am on and Susan.

Inat 1955, worked Saturday Pleasant Baptist as a Park at Ranger II Hill at Morrow Church in Marshville, Mountain State Park.officiated In 1956

by Rev.was Johnemployed Miller andbyRev. Leon Wyatt ALCOA Whitley.

She will lie in state for 30 at Badin Works as an electrical minutes priordraftsman to the service.

She will engineering and be laid to rest in the church cemetery. designer.

He retired in 1987 is survived her beloved andShe continued toby enjoy teaching husbandSchool, of 47 years, Paulfishing, Helms Sunday flying, of the home; son, Alex (Deanna) traveling, and ham radio.

Helms of is Pageland; Wyatt surviveddaughter, by his Paula (Cristin Brandt) Helms of Mint children, 4 grandchildren, 5 Hill; grandchildren, Mason, Grant, and great-grandchildren, his brother, RaeganWyatt, Helms;and brothers, Boyce, Frank his sister Royce, TimWhite.

Austin;He and sisters, Margaret was preceded Patricia Angeland Tarleton. in deathMullis, by his and parents his Memorials may be madeservice to the wife.

A private graveside Alzheimer’ s Association, Park will be held at Fairview4600 Memorial Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209.

Park for family only. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Randolph County, 416 Vision Drive, Asheboro, NC 27203 or to Cross Road Retirement Community, 1302 Old Cox Road, Asheboro, NC 27205.

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Shirley Haire

HIRLEY MAE HAIRE, 73, of Albemarle passed away on April 11, 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly. The family will hold a private graveside service for Mrs. Haire.

Shirley was born December 12, 1946 in Washington, DC to the late Charles Richard Bateman and Elizabeth Mae Mulligan Bateman.

Shirley is survived by her husband of 30 years Vaughn Smith of Albemarle; sister Sandra Painter of Gainesville, VA; half-brother Robert Bateman of Stevensville, MD; step-children Heather Smith of Jacksonville, FL and David Smith of New London, NC; 4 step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi Hentschel of Leesburg, VA and Cheryl Hardy of Aylett, VA; 16 grandnieces and nephews; and Gus the dog. Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Albemarle is serving the Haire family.

Danny Luther

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ANNY PAUL LUTHER, 65, of Norwood, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, April 9, 2020EV. at Atrium Health Stanly in ROBERT ALFRED Albemarle.

JONES, JR., 70, of Albemarle Mr. Luther was born March 27, passed away Saturday, July 18, 1955 Robert Fulton and 2020tointhe hislate home.

His funeral Helen Luther. serviceTucker will be Wednesday, Danny was by his wife, July 22, 2020survived at the Albemarle Denise Burleson Luther Norwood; Wesleyan Church withofRev. James sons, (Karen) Luther Valk Jeremy officiating.

Burial willand follow Jody step-sons, Bryan in theLuther; Gold Hill Wesleyan Church Whitley andThe Gregg (Anita) Cemetery. family willWhitley; receive Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and friends at the Albemarle Wesleyan Hunter his brother, ChurchZado, fromas 10well amas until 11 am Bob (Lorena), uncle Jack priorLuther to theJrfuneral service.

Luther and several other Born September 13, loved 1949 nieces, in nephews and cousins.VA, he was the Accomack County, retired sonDanny of therecently late Robert A.from Jones Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and Martha Althea Whiteafter Jones. aHe dedicated 37Minister years and of worked served as Exmore there with his sons and several other Wesleyan Church in Exmore, friends and family members.

VA from 1978-1982, Smyrna Danny loved spending time at Wesleyan Church in Smyrna, his lake house with his family and DE from 1982-1985 and came friends as well as vacationing with his to Albemarle Wesleyan Church family.

DannyPastor. and Denise enjoyed as the Youth He then listening to beach music and loved to returned to Smyrna Wesleyan shag dance every chance they could Church in 1990 and retired from get. was an amazing loving thatHe pastorate in 2003.father, He served grandfather great friend to as Chaplainand of the Citizens Hose many.

He will neverfrom be forgotten.

Company #1 Inc. 1983 until A celebration of life will be 2003. He was a member of the announced the current Albemarle once Wesleyan Church.

COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

Rev. Jones is survived by his Hartsell Funeral Home wife Sarah Frances PooleofJones Albemarle is serving the Luther of the home, sons Robert Joseph family.

Jones (Carrie) of Arlington, TX, Randy Joe Jones (Lisa) of Rockwell, NC, and David Fletcher Jones (Jennifer) of Clayton DE, sister Wanda Althea Drobotan (Mike) of Hartley, DE, granddaughters Jordan Nicole Jones and Jasey Noel Jones and great-granddaughter Sadie Grace Jones.

Jerry Fincher

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ERRY FINCHER passed from this life on April 3, 2020 at 8:05 pm. He was surrounded by his family “JACKIE” andACQUELINE holding the hand of the love of 89,inof his MOCK life. JerryMASON, is preceded death Greensboro, NCtwo passed awayBilly by three siblings, brothers, Monday, July 20, Gilbert Fincher, and2020.

Larry Richard Jackieand was born onBarbra August Fincher, one sister, Joyce 12, 1930 to the late Robert Moore.

Blair Sr and thewife, lateEleanor He Mock, is survived by his AlyneFincher Hollingsworth Mock.

She Kate of the home, daughter, graduated from Greensboro Cindy Fincher Jacobs of Wingate Senior She loved to paint NC., sonHigh. and daughter in law, Tommy and was quite the artist.

She (Tiffany) Fincher of New London greatly selling her(Lisa) art at NC., Stepenjoyed Children, Jimmy numerous craftNC, shows through Lanier of Locust Wanda (Bob) the years. of Locust NC., Eric Krimminger In addition parents, (Sharon) Lanierto of her Charlotte NC., Jackie was preceded in death by Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) Whitson her husband, Billy D. Mason, her of Midland, Step-grandchildren, daughter, Barbara Degraffenreidt Zach (Brittney) Washington, Aaron and her brother, Robert Blair (Kinsey) Washington, Caleb (Nayeli) Mock, Jr. She is survived by Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, three daughters, AmandaStep Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Matthews (Neal), Kelly Loflin great-grandchildren, Britlyn-Eve (Ron), and Angela Clark Washington, Robert Setzer,(Lynn).

George She also leaves behind (Sara) Setzer, Tracy (Rob)seven Setzer grandchildren.

Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, ThereUnderwood, will be a graveside Andrew Step great service Wednesday, JulyGeorge 22, 2020 great grandchild, Waylon at 10:00am at Guilford Memorial Setzer and brother Donald Lewis Park with the Rev. Ron Fincher of Albemarle, NC.Loflin officiating.

Jerry Fincher will be laid to rest on The family wishes to at extend Wednesday April 8,2020 11:00 am their heartfelt thanks to Anyone Hospice at Canton Baptist Church. of Stanly & Uwharrie interested in The attending, pleasefor RSVP the wonderful care of their at 704-796-2412.

Dr. Phil McCray mother provided Reneewill and Pastor Tommyby Fincher Morton, Crystal Thomas, and officiate.

Beth Thomas. Special thanks to family friend, Karen McDaniel, for her numerous acts of love and kindness.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Stanly & The Uwharrie, 960 North First Street Albemarle, NC 28001.

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 Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda Tucker Strickland. We know Brenda and Linda are in Heaven watching over us and laughing.

Linda was a loving mother, sister, and “Nana.” She was a very giving and loving person. Linda would always do anything she could for others, especially her family. She enjoyed working Celebrate at FastShop #5, the life of your loved ones.

Locust. Linda will be forever loved Submit obituaries and death notices and greatly missed. to her beson, published Survivors include Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, of in SCJ at obits@stanlyjournal.com Albemarle; brother, Ronnie Tucker and wife, Linda, of Midland; granddaughter, Leslie Hatley; 1 niece; and 2 nephews.

The family will receive friends from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, April 16, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Home in Albemarle. Linda will be laid to rest during a private committal service at Bethel United Methodist Church, Midland.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to Bethel UMC, 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC 28107.

Celebrate the life of your loved ones. Submit obituaries and death notices to be published in SCJ at obits@stanlyjournal.com

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Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, July 22, 2020

STATE & NATION

To survive financial storm of virus, states turn to Congress

By Geoff Mulvhill The Associated Press STATE GOVERNMENTS trying to weather the financial storm brought on by the coronavirus are borrowing billions of dollars and desperately trying to slash costs by furloughing workers, delaying construction projects, cutting aid to schools and even closing highway rest areas.

For many states, as well as local governments, the main hope for avoiding even deeper cuts is to get help from Congress, which returns from vacation this week.

In Nevada, lawmakers contending with a $1.2 billion budget gap made deep cuts in a spending plan that was approved over the weekend after painful deliberations. They passed a resolution last week urging Congress to step in.

“We are forced to make impossible decisions regarding funding critical public health, education and more,” Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak said in a statement. “Congressional leadership must act to help us restore devastating reductions being made to fill this historic shortfall.”

Before the pandemic, states gen-

erally were meeting revenue goals for their budget years. Congress has already allocated more than $3 trillion in coronavirus aid to individuals, businesses and governments that went into financial shock last spring as much of the nation’s economy shut down.

Unlike most states, the federal government is not required to have a balanced budget. The deficit this year is already $2.7 trillion.

The House passed a bill in May to provide another $3 trillion, with about a third of it going to state and local governments. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, is calling for a more modest package worth around $1 trillion total. He has not announced details, but he has said that school funding is a priority.

Bipartisan groups including the National Governors Association and the National League of Cities, along with a long list of businesses, want a major aid proposal. If it does not come through, they foresee harsh consequences.

States face a cumulative budget gap of $312 billion over the next two years, and local governments would need nearly $200 billion to meet their expenses, Moody’s Analytics

DAVID ZALUBOWSKI | AP PHOTO

In this Thursday, June 18, 2020, file photo, a closed sign hangs in the door of The Market, a long-time restaurant and food store located in Larimer Square, that has closed because of the new coronavirus, in downtown Denver. said in a report last month.

Governments with higher debt and smaller reserves have the greatest needs. Many conservatives are in no hurry to help them.

A group of more than 200 current and former state lawmakers joined with tea party leaders in signing a letter circulated by the American Legislative Exchange Council warning that “a federal bailout would only encourage this cycle of debt and spending to continue.”

Meanwhile, state lawmakers, city councils and school boards are trying to balance their budgets with tax revenue dropping and expenses rising as the nation keeps fighting the virus.

In many cases, the answer has been furloughing or laying off em-

ployees.

By last month, there were about 1.5 million fewer people working for governments in the U.S. compared with February, according to seasonally adjusted data from the federal government. More than half the layoffs were in education.

Governments have also adopted budgets with an eye toward what may come out of Washington.

California, for instance, is requiring state government employees to take off two unpaid days each month, but those furloughs could be reduced or eliminated if federal help arrives.

New Jersey is one of a handful of states to authorize debt to keep basic services running, allowing borrowing of nearly $10 billion over

the next year, over the objections of some GOP lawmakers. The governor’s office said that figure might be reduced if aid arrives.

Similarly, New York, which also is borrowing, and Missouri have budgets that call for cuts if not enough federal aid shows up.

In Lexington, South Carolina, a community of more than 18,000, a park renovation has been put on hold, as have plans to buy new police cars as the town contends with lower local revenue and no word yet on how much it will get from the state government.

“Our municipal employees, who are awesome, will not be getting a raise this year, and that just breaks my heart,” said Kathy Maness, a member of the town council and vice president of the National League of Cities, which is calling for $500 billion in federal help just for cities and counties.

School districts across the country are wrestling with whether to hold classes remotely this fall or bring students back to campus.

They are weighing health concerns as well as the cost of reopening.

Teachers unions and the National School Boards Association have pegged reopening costs at more than $100 billion.

Other public agencies are struggling too.

Transit systems have seen fare collections evaporate amid stay-athome orders. Officials at Caltrain, a San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail line, said this week that they may have to end service after San Francisco supervisors blocked a tax increase to boost the agency’s subsidy.

Cost-cutting needed for Postal Service, some warn of possible delays

By Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mail deliveries could be delayed by a day or more under cost-cutting efforts being imposed by the new postmaster general. The plan eliminates overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and says employees must adopt a “different mindset” to ensure the Postal Service’s survival during the coronavirus pandemic.

Late trips will no longer be authorized. If postal distribution centers are running late, “they will keep the mail for the next day,” Postal Service leaders say in a document obtained by The Associated Press. “One aspect of these changes that may be difficult for employees is that — temporarily — we may see mail left behind or mail on the workroom floor or docks,” another document says.

The changes come a month after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, took over the sprawling mail service. In a memo titled “PMG Expectations and Plan,” the agency said the changes are aimed at “making the USPS fundamentally solvent which we are not at this time.”

The memo cites deep revenue losses from a decadelong decline in mail deliveries that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and says an overdue “operational pivot” is needed to ensure the agency’s health and stability.

Single-piece, first-class mail volume fell 15 to 20% week to week in April and May, agency leaders told Congress. Losses will increase by more than $22 billion over the next 18 months.

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Paul Falcon unloads a custom made “Priority Mail” box that organizers said contained two million signed petitions from postal customers asking Congress to approve emergency funding for the Postal Service, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Postal Service officials, bracing for steep losses from the nationwide shutdown caused by the virus, have warned they will run out of money by the end of September without help from Congress. The service reported a $4.5 billion loss for the quarter ending in March, before the full effects of the shutdown sank in.

Single-piece, first-class mail volume fell 15 to 20% week to week in April and May, agency leaders told Congress. Losses will increase by more than $22 billion over the next 18 months, they said.

Bills approved by the Democratic-controlled House would set aside $25 billion to keep the mail

flowing, but they remain stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Congress has approved a $10 billion line of credit for the Postal Service, but it remains unused amid restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

A spokesperson said the agency is developing a business plan to ensure it will be financially stable and continue to provide reliable, affordable and secure delivery of mail and packages. While the plan “is not yet finalized, it will certainly include new and creative ways for us to fulfill our mission, and we will focus immediately on efficiency and items that we can control,” said spokesperson Dave Parten-

heimer.

The memo cites U.S. Steel as an example that the Postal Service is far from “untouchable.” In 1975, the steel giant was “the largest company in the world,” the memo states.

“They are gone.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the Postal Service in a double crisis, said Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, which represents more than 200,000 postal workers and retirees.

The economic contraction has caused a dramatic drop in letter and other flat mail volumes. A spike in package deliveries that has buoyed the agency during the pandemic is likely to be temporary, Dimondstein said, adding that the outbreak has sharply increased expenses for personal protective equipment, deep cleaning of facilities and temporary workers to replace postal workers who get sick.

“Postal workers are tremendous-

ly dedicated to the mission of getting the mail out,” Dimondstein said, but the new policies could cause delays that will further drive down revenues.

“It’s the customer who will suffer if the mail slows down,” he said.

Trump has said that package shipping rates should be at least four times higher for heavy users like Amazon. The Postal Service says shipping and packages are actually a revenue generator, and critics say Trump is merely looking to punish Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in retaliation for unflattering coverage in The Washington Post, which Bezos owns.

For most Americans, mail deliveries to homes or post boxes are their only routine contact with the federal government. It’s a service they seem to appreciate: The agency consistently earns favorability marks that top 90%.

Esther Haynes, of Philadelphia, said she and her family get clothes, jewelry, perfume, food and more delivered by mail. “If it’s a day late, two days late, I’ll be looking for it,” she said Wednesday. “I’d be concerned.”

Haynes, 53, shares a home with her sister, her son and a family friend. Haynes likes to shop — which means she’s been busy ordering things online during the pandemic. “Everybody wants their mail on time,” she said.

The memo outlining potential mail delays was first reported by The Washington Post.

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Clash of beliefs A Black Lives Matter billboard is seen next to a Confederate flag in Pittsboro, N.C., Thursday, July 16, 2020. A group in North Carolina erected the billboard to counter the flag that stands along the road.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Board of Education approves Plan C Students will open school year in remote learning

Police charge 87-year-old man with murder Forsyth County An 87-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his neighbor. Hermon Lowell Aycoth was arrested in the death of Karla Ragsdale Essick, 54. Police said officers responding to 911 calls about a shooting found Essick dead of an apparent gunshot wound. Lt. Greg Dorn said Aycoth remained at the scene waiting for police to arrive and was taken into custody without incident. Dorn said a witness on the scene made one of the 911 calls that alerted authorities.

It isn’t clear what led to the shooting.

AP

Police department employee on leave after George Floyd post Davie County Christy Wikes-Jones, a police records specialist with the Mocksville Police Department, has been placed on administrative leave following a Facebook post about George Floyd. Wikes-Jones shared a post depicting Floyd portrayed in a drawing holding a gun in his right hand and his left arm wrapped around the neck of a pregnant woman. A comment suggested Floyd raped the women.

Wikes-Jones’ Facebook page could not be found Thursday evening.

The Mocksville Police Department issued a statement saying it did not condone or agree with the post, and it would investigate the incident.

AP

Horse rescue looking for help naming newborn foal Forsyth County HERO, the Horse Education and Rescue Organization, is reaching out to the public for help naming its newest member. For the second time in two months, one of HERO’s rescue horses gave birth to a foal.

The latest, a female, was born to Speckles. The organization is allowing the public to suggest names for the newborn if they submit their idea along with a $5 donation.

HERO will announce the winning name in an online video on Aug. 1.

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TCH staff WINSTON-SALEM/FORSYTH County students will begin the school year at home.

Last week, the WS/FCS Board of Education approved a plan to open the school year remotely, with all K-12 students following the model known as Plan C. School buildings will be closed with all students and employees off site.

Plan C will begin on the scheduled first day of school—August 17—and will continue through the first nine weeks of the school year.

At that point, the board will reconsider the possibility of some type of in-person model.

The school district went to remote learning for the last several months of the 2019-20 school year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I did not recommend this plan lightly,” WS/FCS Superintendent Dr. Angela Hairston said.

“I know this decision comes with frustration for parents who struggled with virtual learning in the spring, but we need more time for this virus to subside in order to return to school safely.”

Hairston hopes that the district will be able to implement some type of hybrid in-person and virtual learning model—most likely the one known statewide as Plan B—after the first nine weeks are complete.

“Going back to school for our communities and families is still of great concern to me,” Hairston staid. “Our community has one of the highest infection rates in our state. I see hard, scientific data that shows we are not through the worst of this pandemic. Our health experts say the risk of infection is still very high. Add that to an employee survey that shows us nearly 20 percent of our teachers say they are either fearful of or

grades. There will be more training for parents, students and staff, and multiple ways to learn, and “I did not recommend time for one-on-one conversations this plan lightly. I know with teachers. What is offered will not change. Art, music, physthis decision comes with ical education, languages, CTE, frustration for parents.”

AP, IB, STEM classes, and virtual field trips will be a part of the remote learning plan. Our instrucWS/FCS Superintendent tional team will work to make the Dr. Angela Hairston content robust and rigorous.”

Still, Hairston and the district need special accommodations in made it clear that the goal is to order to return to the classroom. get the children back in physical We must have their full support school buildings.

“I believe wholeheartedly that and endorsement if we are to rechildren need to be in school to open our schools safely.”

Addressing many of the par- learn best,” Hairston said. “Chilent complaints from the on- dren need time with teachers. … line schooling that ended the last School is an essential part of the school year, the district assured health and wellness of children. It parents that teachers and admin- is why we have worked to look at istrators are improving the online every way possible to make safely reopening school in the fall, a relearning model.

On the district website, a mes- ality. It is why we have presentsage told parents that, “Teachers ed multiple plans in recent weeks, will be teaching. The district will multiple ways to try and reopen be taking attendance and giving our schools.”

Courts get creative to restart jury trials amid pandemic

By Alanna Richer The Associated Press IT WAS New Mexico’s first jury trial since the pandemic crippled the U.S. criminal justice system, and defense attorney Roberta Yurcic was nervous.

The court had erected a plexiglass panel on the defense table as a shield against the coronavirus, and Yurcic could communicate with her client by passing notes through a hole in the barrier. But the man charged with drug trafficking could not read or write, so she felt she had choice but to get close.

“I basically had to prioritize effective assistance over his safety and my safety,” Yurcic said.

Similar dilemmas have arisen in courtrooms across the U.S. Even as confirmed virus cases climb in many states, some

courts facing a growing legal backlog are beginning to hold jury trials again. Some attorneys complain that added safety measures are not enough and that they infringe on the constitutional rights of the accused.

Many courts are mandating masks for everyone, screening people for fevers and spreading jurors out in seating typically reserved for the public. Some are limiting the number of people allowed in courtrooms and streaming video of cases to allow the public to watch remotely.

The problem began to take shape this past spring, when thousands of jury trials were put on hold because of the virus crisis. The moratorium remains in many places. To keep the wheels of justice turning, judges have turned to videoconferencing to hold some hearings, and at least

The first case to move forward since jury trials resumed yielded a notguilty verdict, hitting home the importance of holding trials despite the challenges. one civil jury trial was held via Zoom in suburban Dallas.

Courts in some communities are considering picking juries by video or moving jury orientation or the trials themselves to bigger spaces, like convention centers or schools. Others have installed plexiglass barriers around witness stands or in jury boxes.

In federal court in Charlotte,

North Carolina, a nurse hired to take people’s temperatures as they enter the building has the power to turn anyone away, said clerk Frank Johns. After each witness leaves the stand, a court worker cleans the Bible the witness placed their hand on when they took the oath and the chair they sat in.

When lawyers and the judge need to have a conversation out of the earshot of the jury, they used to huddle up near the bench. Now they stay seated and chat over a walkie-talkie-like system while court staff pump white noise into the room so no one else can hear, Johns said.

The first case to move forward since jury trials resumed yielded a not-guilty verdict, hitting home the importance of holding trials despite the challenges, Johns said.

The defendant in that case would “still be sitting in prison as we speak waiting if we hadn’t pushed through with these trials,” Johns said. “We all kind of looked at each other and said ’Wow, that’s why we have got to do this.’”

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OPINION | BEN SHAPIRO

Safety lies only in surrender... or resistance THIS WEEK, gadfly New York Times columnist Bari Weiss resigned her position at the so-called newspaper of record. She did so after years of fielding slings and arrows from her own colleagues and editors, who treated her as an ultra-conservative enemy — this despite the fact that her perspective on the world is an eclectic mix of social progressivism, skepticism toward regulation and foreign policy hawkishness.

(Personal disclosure: I, along with many people right, left and center consider Bari a friend.)

The pressure on Weiss from within the newspaper had reached extraordinary proportions: Excerpts of staff Slack chats revealed colleagues openly discussing why Weiss ought to lose her job, maligning her as a bigot and suggesting publicly that she is a liar.

So Weiss quit, and she burned the bridge behind her.

“The lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society — have not been learned,” Weiss wrote in her resignation letter. “Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”

This is the nature of the game: Mirror the perspectives of de facto Times editor Nikole Hannah-Jones and her woke colleagues, or find yourself ostracized, publicly shamed and pressured to leave. And the actual editors of The Times have caved to this nonsense time and again. As Weiss raged: “If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized.

Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome.”

Weiss is hardly the exception inside the bastions of leftist groupthink. At Vox.com, co-founder Matthew Yglesias was shamed into silence for suggesting — sin of

sins! — that cancel culture is wrong. His co-founder, Ezra Klein, subtweeted Yglesias, even as Yglesias remained quiet. At Princeton University, professor Joshua Katz wrote an open letter decrying demands from fellow Princeton faculty that the university engage in open racial discrimination in favor of minorities. He was quickly labeled a threat to decency, with fellow professor Eddie Glaude complaining, “Professor Katz, at times in this letter, seems to not regard people like me as essential features, or persons, of Princeton.”

The list goes on. And on and on.

In fact, there is only one way to avoid the blacklist: to surrender, utterly and completely. Any sign of remaining dissent must be purged. Bow before Zod, or pay the price. Thus, Ben Howe (again — personal disclosure — a friend), an anti-Trump Republican who edited videos for the pro-Joe Biden Lincoln Project, found himself fired from the project for two- and four-year-old tweets. Thus, Gary Garrels, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, was forced to resign his position after he insisted that the museum continue to acquire the odd piece from white artists. The mildest sign of unwillingness to become an “ally” in the Great Culture Purge of 2020 ends with your neck in the guillotine.

Have we finally reached the glorious age in which Absolute Truth is known with such fulsome certainty that our cultural betters should be trusted to wish dissenters away into the cornfield? Of course not. We’re just watching the latest cultural revolution in real time. Which leaves those who wish to not be purged with two simple choices: Stand up together against this round of Maoist purification, or hang separately.

Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

♦ Hattie Pegram Shaw Burton, 80, of King, died July 17, 2020.

Dorothy Carroll, 94, died July 20, 2020. ♦ Martha Ann Hodgens Clark, 88, of Winston-Salem, died July 18, 2020. ♦ William “Iya” Stephen Cronin, Sr., 75, of Clemmons, died July 16, 2020. ♦ Michael Wayne Cummings, 62, died July 15, 2020. ♦ Faye Robinson Everhart, 89, of Lewisville, died July 15, 2020. ♦ Eleanor Valeria Ford, 74, of Winston-Salem, died July 15, 2020. ♦ Barbara Jean Blanford Griffin, 84, of Walkertown, died July 17, 2020. ♦ Sylvia Ann VanHoy Hale, 80, of Winston-Salem, died July 15, 2020. ♦ Deborah “Sheila” Thompson Laughlin, 61, died July 15, 2020. ♦ Thad Roger Loggins, 91, of Kernersville, died July 16, 2020. ♦ Janet Elizabeth Morrison Havens, 83, died July 18, 2020. ♦ Joseph “Steve” Steven Kinnaman, Jr., 76, of WinstonSalem, died July 18, 2020. ♦ Marjorie McCachern, 106, of Winston-Salem, died July 16, 2020. ♦ John Vernon Pardon, Jr., 55, of Forsyth County, died July 19, 2020. ♦ Jimmie Lee Pruitt, 88, of Forsyth County, died July 19, 2020. ♦ Rufus Billy “Bill” Revis, 87, of Winston-Salem, died July 15, 2020. ♦ Jimmy Ray Smith, 62, died July 17, 2020.

Rosemary Shoaf Stewart, 83, of Forsyth County, died July 15, 2020.

WEEKLY CRIME REPORT ♦ ALZUHARI, SAMER SAMER was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 2313 BETHABARA POINTE DR on 7/19/2020

Present (M), 2) Breaking/larcfelony (F), and 3) Weap-poss By Felon (F), at 4700 Farm Bell Ct/ ebert Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/19/2020 15:10.

♦ Bassett, Brian Daniel (M/30) Arrest on chrg of 1) Robbery (F), 2) Breaking/larc-felony (F), and 3) B&e-vehicle (F), at 6022 Brentwood Park Pl, Rural Hall, NC, on 7/19/2020 18:30.

♦ Howard, David Lee (M/50) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 2346 Swindon Ln, Kernersville, NC, on 7/19/2020 12:00.

7/19/2020 21:45. ♦ Moore, Robert Austin (M/30) Arrest on chrg of Malicious Conduct By Prisoner (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/18/2020 09:27. ♦ NEWBILL, JESSICA JOMECA was arrested on a charge of AFFRAY at 1699 CHARITY LN/ HOPE LN on 7/19/2020

♦ BEAMAN, MICHAEL WILLIAM was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 165 HANES MALL CR on 7/18/2020

♦ Johnson, Dale Junior (M/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female (M) and 2) Assaultsimple (M), at 100 Woodbriar Path, Rural Hall, NC, on 7/15/2020 00:49.

♦ NIVENS, JACQUAN TEREZ was arrested on a charge of ADW - INFLICT INJURY at 900 NEW HOPE LN/N LIBERTY ST on 7/18/2020

♦ BECOAT, MARTRES DEJOHN was arrested on a charge of WEAP-POSS BY FELON at 600 BLK SUMNER PL on 7/20/2020

♦ Jordan, Eric (M/23) Arrest on chrg of 1) Ccw (M) and 2) Disorderly Conduct (M), at 6204 Ramada Dr, Clemmons, NC, on 7/18/2020 05:44.

♦ PANFILOESCUDERO, SIMON was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 1449 WEST FOURTH ST on 7/18/2020

♦ BLAKNEY, CHRISTOPHER LEON was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 730 FERRELL CT on 7/18/2020

♦ KIMBALL, JOSHUA ALLEN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 800 E HANES MILL RD on 7/20/2020

♦ BOWMAN, ZACHARY MARSHALL was arrested on a charge of DRIVE VEH. WHILE CONSUMING ALCOHOL OR WHILE ALCOHOL IN BODY at INDIANA AV on 7/20/2020

♦ Knott, Jeffery Scott (M/52) Arrest on chrg of 1) Impaired Driving Dwi (M) and 2) Speeding - Exceeding Posted Limit By 15 Mph Or More On Hwy (M), at Nb 421/ williams Rd, Lewisville, NC, on 7/16/2020 00:25.

♦ Patterson, Confucious Ledrell (M/40) Arrest on chrg of 1) Rec/poss Stole Mv (F), 2) Drugs-poss Sched I (F), 3) Possession Marijuana (M), and 4) Weap-poss By Felon (F), at 1300 Lewisville-clemmons Rd, Lewisville, NC, on 7/15/2020 12:37.

♦ BROOKS, ELIJAH MALIK was arrested on a charge of ROBBERY at 1600 N PATTERSON AV on 7/20/2020 ♦ COVINGTON, MICHAEL ANTHONY was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 401 JONESTOWN RD on 7/18/2020 ♦ COVINGTON, QUITON LAMONT was arrested on a charge of P/W/I/S/D MARIJUANA at BARBARA JANE on 7/18/2020 ♦ ENGRAM, JIMMY CHARLES was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-POINT GUN at 2261 NISSEN AV on 7/18/2020

♦ Winnie Werkman, 103, of Winston-Salem, died July 18, 2020.

♦ Gaines, Delono Antonio (M/31) Arrest on chrg of Drugs-poss Sched Vi, M (M), at Sb 421/lewisville-clemmons Rd_sb 421 Ra, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/16/2020 11:20.

♦ Michael Edward Wiles, 55, died July 17, 2020.

♦ Hopp, Daniel Steven (M/35) Arrest on chrg of 1) Adw Minor

♦ Kyle, Jacqueline Nicole (F/28) Arrest on chrg of Drugs-poss Sched Vi, M (M), at Sb 421/ lewisville-clemmons Rd_sb 421 Ra, Lewi, NC, on 7/16/2020 11:20. ♦ LABAR, JAIDEN ALEXANDRA was arrested on a charge of ASSLT ON OFF/ST EMP at 3300 ROBINHOOD RD on 7/18/2020 ♦ Lurty, Kimberly Ann (F/32) Arrest on chrg of Drugs-poss Sched I (F), at 5188 Reidsville Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 7/16/2020 04:20. ♦ Mcilwain, Cedric Wade (M/36) Arrest on chrg of Asslt On Off/st Emp (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/15/2020 18:29. ♦ Montelongo, Favio (M/59) Arrest on chrg of 2nd Degree Trespass (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on

♦ RHYNES, KATRINA RENEE was arrested on a charge of AFFRAY at 1699 CHARITY LN/ HOPE LN on 7/19/2020 ♦ ROSS, RAQUEENA NESHAY was arrested on a charge of CONTRIB DELINQ MINOR at 100 CAPITOL LODGING CT on 7/19/2020 ♦ Sapp, Larry Wayne (M/27) Arrest on chrg of 1) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 2) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 3) Probation Violation (M), 4) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 5) Probation Violation (M), 6) Fail To Appear/compl (F), 7) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 8) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 9) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 10) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 11) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 12) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 13) Fail To Appear/compl (M), and 14) Cause False Brdcast (M), at 3002 Old Hollow Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 7/17/2020 17:41. ♦ Saunders, Timothy Rahine (M/21) Arrest on chrg of 1)

Breaking/larc-felony (F), 2) Larceny After B&e (F), and 3) Mv Theft (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/17/2020 12:03. ♦ Sealey, James Michael (M/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault-simple (M), 2) Assaultsimple (M), 3) Communicate Threats (M), and 4) Vand-real Property (M), at 730 Cook Rd, Rural Hall, NC, on 7/19/2020 20:08. ♦ SIEHLER, MARC KEVIN was arrested on a charge of B&EVEHICLE at 2116 VIOLET ST on 7/18/2020 ♦ STANAVICH, JOSEPH DALE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 100 HANES MALL BV on 7/18/2020 ♦ STEELE, OTTO MOUZON was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT - INFLICTING SERIOUS BODILY INJURY at 321 GREGORY ST on 7/20/2020 ♦ THOMAS, CHASITY MARIE was arrested on a charge of P/W/I/S/D SCHED IV at 103 CLOISTER OAKS CR on 7/18/2020 THOMPSON, SHARON MARIE was arrested on a charge of PROBATION VIOLATION at 5710 SHATTALON DR on 7/19/2020 ♦ Watkins, Romelle Raekwon (M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Felon Adw/ser Injury (F), 2) Assault On Female (M), 3) Larceny/misdemeanor (M), and 4) Unauthorized Use Of Motor - Propelled Conveyance (M), at 2517 Lewis St, Winstonsalem, NC, on 7/16/2020 11:03. ♦ WATSON, CHRISHAWN TYQUESE was arrested on a charge of LARCENY-FELONY at 760 FERRELL CT on 7/19/2020 ♦ WILSON, JOHN ALAN was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 3331 THOMASVILLE RD on 7/18/2020

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Fauci to throw 1st pitch at Yankees-Nationals opener in D.C. Washington, D.C. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the first game of Major League Baseball’s pandemicdelayed regular season.

The Washington Nationals announced Monday that Fauci — a self-described fan of the reigning World Series champions — accepted the team’s invitation to have the pregame honor Thursday night. The Nationals host the New York Yankees to open the season nearly four months after it originally was scheduled to begin. Spring training was halted in March because of the COVID-19 outbreak and teams resumed preparing to play this month.

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Austin Dillon leads 1-2 RCR finish in Cup race at Texas The Welcome native’s third career win earned him a spot in the NASCAR playoffs

By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Austin Dillon stayed in front after a restart with two laps to go and beat rookie Tyler Reddick to the checkered flag at Texas, giving Richard Childress Racing a 1-2 NASCAR Cup finish and quite a show for spectators spread out in the stands on a scorching Sunday.

Dillon raced to his third career win and first since Daytona at the start of the 2018 season. He stayed

in front on three late restarts, the first after an incident with 29 laps left that shuffled the fast car of Ryan Blaney to a lap back.

“Not bad for a silver spoon kid, huh?” said Dillon, the grandson of Childress. “Tyler Reddick, he raced me clean. 1-2 for RCR. This has been coming. We’ve had good cars all year. I’ve got my baby Ace back home, my wife. I’m just so happy.”

On the final restart, Dillon got a good jump and raced to the checkered flag ahead of his rookie teammate and some veteran drivers.

Joey Logano finished third, with Kyle Busch coming in fourth a day after he finished ahead of

the field in two races — having an Xfinity Series victory taken away after his car failed a postrace inspection before winning the Truck Series race at night. Series points leader Kevin Harvick was fifth.

There were an estimated 15,000-20,000 spectators at the track, where it reached 97 degrees late in the first summertime Cup race at Texas — it was supposed to be a spring race nearly four months ago, before the coronavirus pandemic postponed and then shuffled NASCAR’s schedule. Inside the cars, it was 130-140 degrees.

After leading six times for 150 laps, both highs for the race, Blaney finished seventh.

Blaney, who had given up the lead when he pitted on Lap 287, fell a lap down after the field got shuffled with 29 laps to go when rookie Quin Houff crashed hard out of Turn 4. That also put polesitter Aric Almirola and Chase Elliott, coming off a $1 million win at NASCAR’s All-Star race at Bristol on Wednesday night, a lap down.

It was 30 degrees warmer than it was on March 29, when the race had been scheduled before the pandemic. During a red flag, track workers took water to drivers in their parked cars because of the oppressive heat. Texas will host a playoff race Oct. 25.

It was the first major sporting event in Texas in more than four months, and one of the largest gatherings of any kind in the state during the pandemic. The spectators were spread out along the frontstretch, which was fully shaded late in the race, and there were also people in about 40 suites.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Gonzaga’s Petrusev to skip last 2 years, turn pro Spokane, Wash.

West Coast Conference Player of the Year Filip Petrusev announced Monday that he will pursue a professional career and not return for his final two years at Gonzaga, citing uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the upcoming college basketball season.

Petrusev tweeted that while his goal is to play in the NBA, he has signed with Mega Bemax of Serbia.

Petrusev averaged a teamhigh 17.8 points per game, which ranked third in the West Coast Conference last season, and he led the league in shooting percentage (56.5%) and was second in rebounding (7.7).

OLYMPICS

U.S. Olympic museum to open July 30 Colorado Springs, Colo.

A 60,000-square foot museum that will include a first-of-its-kind tribute to the 1980 U.S. Olympic team is scheduled to open July 30 in Colorado Springs after a three-year construction project. The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum will feature 12 galleries that include exhibits on athlete training, the Summer and Winter Games and the USOPC Hall of Fame. The Olympic Training Center, located a few miles from the museum in downtown Colorado Springs, draws more than 130,000 visitors a year but had limited exhibit space.

SOCCER

Portman group will bring NWSL to L.A. in 2022 Los Angeles Actress Natalie Portman and venture capitalist Kara Nortman lead a group that will bring an expansion National Women’s Soccer League team to the Los Angeles area in 2022. The team, tentatively named Angel City, will bring the league to 11 teams. Louisville FC will join the nine current NWSL clubs next season.

Portman and Nortman are joined by gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, the cornsortium’s president in the majority-female group.

Others involved include actors Eva Longoria, America Ferrera, Jennifer Garner and Uzo Aduba.

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Austin Dillon crosses the finish line to win Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Washington owner Snyder vows culture change amid allegations Fifteen former female employees claimed they were sexual harassed

“These matters as reported are serious, disturbing and contrary to the NFL’s values.”

By Stephen Whyno The Associated Press Washington NFL owner Dan Snyder said Friday he’s committed to improving the culture inside the team after allegations of sexual harassment, while the league will wait for a law firm’s review before taking action.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that 15 female former employees said they were sexually harassed during their time with the team. Snyder said the behavior described in the story “has no place in our franchise or society.”

He hired District of Columbia law firm Wilkinson Walsh to conduct an independent review of team policies, culture and allegations of workplace misconduct.

The league said in a statement it will meet with lawyers after the investigation is complete and will act based on the findings.

Snyder also pledged to make organizational changes.

“Beth Wilkinson and her firm are empowered to do a full, unbiased investigation and make any and all requisite recommendations,” Snyder said. “Upon completion of her work, we will institute new policies and procedures and strengthen our human resources infrastructure to not only avoid

Statement from the NFL

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Washington owner Dan Snyder has hired a D.C. law firm to review the NFL team’s culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct. these issues in the future but most importantly create a team culture that is respectful and inclusive of all.”

He said the commitment to establishing a new culture and higher standard began with the hiring of Ron Rivera as coach this year.

Rivera told The Athletic he was brought in to change the culture and “create an environment of inclusion.”

The NFL said it expects the team and all employees to be cooperative but is not yet making its

own review of the team.

“These matters as reported are serious, disturbing and contrary to the NFL’s values,” the league said. “Everyone in the NFL has the right to work in an environment free from any and all forms of harassment.”

Director of player personnel Alex Santos, assistant Richard Mann II and longtime broadcaster and senior vice president Larry Michael are no longer with the team. Michael announced Wednesday he was retiring after

16 years.

Santos, Mann, Michael and former business executives Dennis Greene and Mitch Gershman were mentioned in the Post story.

The team on Friday named Eric Stokes its new director of player personnel and hired Don Warren as senior pro scout. Stokes and Warren follow Rivera from Carolina, where he was coach for eight years until he was let go this past offseason.

“Eric Stokes is one of the finest scouts I have been around during my time as a coach in this league,” Rivera said. “He is a man that knows what I expect and knows the culture that I want to instill here in Washington. His experience as an assistant general manager and his familiarity with my expectations make him an invaluable addition to our organization.”

The allegations come shortly after the team announced it would be shedding its Redskins name and logo and that Snyder and Rivera would work together to develop a nickname and design.

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STATE & NATION

To survive financial storm of virus, states turn to Congress

By Geoff Mulvhill The Associated Press STATE GOVERNMENTS trying to weather the financial storm brought on by the coronavirus are borrowing billions of dollars and desperately trying to slash costs by furloughing workers, delaying construction projects, cutting aid to schools and even closing highway rest areas.

For many states, as well as local governments, the main hope for avoiding even deeper cuts is to get help from Congress, which returns from vacation this week.

In Nevada, lawmakers contending with a $1.2 billion budget gap made deep cuts in a spending plan that was approved over the weekend after painful deliberations. They passed a resolution last week urging Congress to step in.

“We are forced to make impossible decisions regarding funding critical public health, education and more,” Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak said in a statement. “Congressional leadership must act to help us restore devastating reductions being made to fill this historic shortfall.”

Before the pandemic, states gen-

erally were meeting revenue goals for their budget years. Congress has already allocated more than $3 trillion in coronavirus aid to individuals, businesses and governments that went into financial shock last spring as much of the nation’s economy shut down.

Unlike most states, the federal government is not required to have a balanced budget. The deficit this year is already $2.7 trillion.

The House passed a bill in May to provide another $3 trillion, with about a third of it going to state and local governments. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, is calling for a more modest package worth around $1 trillion total. He has not announced details, but he has said that school funding is a priority.

Bipartisan groups including the National Governors Association and the National League of Cities, along with a long list of businesses, want a major aid proposal. If it does not come through, they foresee harsh consequences.

States face a cumulative budget gap of $312 billion over the next two years, and local governments would need nearly $200 billion to meet their expenses, Moody’s Analytics

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In this Thursday, June 18, 2020, file photo, a closed sign hangs in the door of The Market, a long-time restaurant and food store located in Larimer Square, that has closed because of the new coronavirus, in downtown Denver. said in a report last month.

Governments with higher debt and smaller reserves have the greatest needs. Many conservatives are in no hurry to help them.

A group of more than 200 current and former state lawmakers joined with tea party leaders in signing a letter circulated by the American Legislative Exchange Council warning that “a federal bailout would only encourage this cycle of debt and spending to continue.”

Meanwhile, state lawmakers, city councils and school boards are trying to balance their budgets with tax revenue dropping and expenses rising as the nation keeps fighting the virus.

In many cases, the answer has been furloughing or laying off em-

ployees.

By last month, there were about 1.5 million fewer people working for governments in the U.S. compared with February, according to seasonally adjusted data from the federal government. More than half the layoffs were in education.

Governments have also adopted budgets with an eye toward what may come out of Washington.

California, for instance, is requiring state government employees to take off two unpaid days each month, but those furloughs could be reduced or eliminated if federal help arrives.

New Jersey is one of a handful of states to authorize debt to keep basic services running, allowing borrowing of nearly $10 billion over

the next year, over the objections of some GOP lawmakers. The governor’s office said that figure might be reduced if aid arrives.

Similarly, New York, which also is borrowing, and Missouri have budgets that call for cuts if not enough federal aid shows up.

In Lexington, South Carolina, a community of more than 18,000, a park renovation has been put on hold, as have plans to buy new police cars as the town contends with lower local revenue and no word yet on how much it will get from the state government.

“Our municipal employees, who are awesome, will not be getting a raise this year, and that just breaks my heart,” said Kathy Maness, a member of the town council and vice president of the National League of Cities, which is calling for $500 billion in federal help just for cities and counties.

School districts across the country are wrestling with whether to hold classes remotely this fall or bring students back to campus.

They are weighing health concerns as well as the cost of reopening.

Teachers unions and the National School Boards Association have pegged reopening costs at more than $100 billion.

Other public agencies are struggling too.

Transit systems have seen fare collections evaporate amid stay-athome orders. Officials at Caltrain, a San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail line, said this week that they may have to end service after San Francisco supervisors blocked a tax increase to boost the agency’s subsidy.

Cost-cutting needed for Postal Service, some warn of possible delays

By Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mail deliveries could be delayed by a day or more under cost-cutting efforts being imposed by the new postmaster general. The plan eliminates overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and says employees must adopt a “different mindset” to ensure the Postal Service’s survival during the coronavirus pandemic.

Late trips will no longer be authorized. If postal distribution centers are running late, “they will keep the mail for the next day,” Postal Service leaders say in a document obtained by The Associated Press. “One aspect of these changes that may be difficult for employees is that — temporarily — we may see mail left behind or mail on the workroom floor or docks,” another document says.

The changes come a month after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, took over the sprawling mail service. In a memo titled “PMG Expectations and Plan,” the agency said the changes are aimed at “making the USPS fundamentally solvent which we are not at this time.”

The memo cites deep revenue losses from a decadelong decline in mail deliveries that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and says an overdue “operational pivot” is needed to ensure the agency’s health and stability.

Single-piece, first-class mail volume fell 15 to 20% week to week in April and May, agency leaders told Congress. Losses will increase by more than $22 billion over the next 18 months.

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Paul Falcon unloads a custom made “Priority Mail” box that organizers said contained two million signed petitions from postal customers asking Congress to approve emergency funding for the Postal Service, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Postal Service officials, bracing for steep losses from the nationwide shutdown caused by the virus, have warned they will run out of money by the end of September without help from Congress. The service reported a $4.5 billion loss for the quarter ending in March, before the full effects of the shutdown sank in.

Single-piece, first-class mail volume fell 15 to 20% week to week in April and May, agency leaders told Congress. Losses will increase by more than $22 billion over the next 18 months, they said.

Bills approved by the Democratic-controlled House would set aside $25 billion to keep the mail

flowing, but they remain stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Congress has approved a $10 billion line of credit for the Postal Service, but it remains unused amid restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

A spokesperson said the agency is developing a business plan to ensure it will be financially stable and continue to provide reliable, affordable and secure delivery of mail and packages. While the plan “is not yet finalized, it will certainly include new and creative ways for us to fulfill our mission, and we will focus immediately on efficiency and items that we can control,” said spokesperson Dave Parten-

heimer.

The memo cites U.S. Steel as an example that the Postal Service is far from “untouchable.” In 1975, the steel giant was “the largest company in the world,” the memo states.

“They are gone.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the Postal Service in a double crisis, said Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, which represents more than 200,000 postal workers and retirees.

The economic contraction has caused a dramatic drop in letter and other flat mail volumes. A spike in package deliveries that has buoyed the agency during the pandemic is likely to be temporary, Dimondstein said, adding that the outbreak has sharply increased expenses for personal protective equipment, deep cleaning of facilities and temporary workers to replace postal workers who get sick.

“Postal workers are tremendous-

ly dedicated to the mission of getting the mail out,” Dimondstein said, but the new policies could cause delays that will further drive down revenues.

“It’s the customer who will suffer if the mail slows down,” he said.

Trump has said that package shipping rates should be at least four times higher for heavy users like Amazon. The Postal Service says shipping and packages are actually a revenue generator, and critics say Trump is merely looking to punish Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in retaliation for unflattering coverage in The Washington Post, which Bezos owns.

For most Americans, mail deliveries to homes or post boxes are their only routine contact with the federal government. It’s a service they seem to appreciate: The agency consistently earns favorability marks that top 90%.

Esther Haynes, of Philadelphia, said she and her family get clothes, jewelry, perfume, food and more delivered by mail. “If it’s a day late, two days late, I’ll be looking for it,” she said Wednesday. “I’d be concerned.”

Haynes, 53, shares a home with her sister, her son and a family friend. Haynes likes to shop — which means she’s been busy ordering things online during the pandemic. “Everybody wants their mail on time,” she said.

The memo outlining potential mail delays was first reported by The Washington Post.