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Stein leads state in ’21 fundraising Raleigh Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein raised over $875,000 in the first six months of 2021, boosting his standing before a widely expected run for governor in 2024. Stein has over $1 million in cash on hand including $500,000 in personal loans to his campaign account. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was the top Republican fundraiser, pulling in $500,000 including a large number of small-dollar donors. NSJ STAFF

Pro-Biden groups to spend $100 million on August ad blitz Washington, D.C. An array of progressive and pro-White House groups plans to spend nearly $100 million to promote President Joe Biden’s agenda over the next month to pressure Congress while lawmakers are on their August recess. The push, coupled with a wave of travel by the president’s top surrogates, is meant to promote and secure passage of Biden’s two-track infrastructure plan. An outside coalition of progressive organizations launched a war room and is planning to host over 1,000 events and actions over the next six weeks. “Progressive groups are going on the offense as we lead into August recess,” said Danielle Melfi, executive director of Building Back Together, an outside group supporting the president. Biden will depart Washington next week for a vacation in Delaware. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Record number of NC Cash claims paid Raleigh The Unclaimed Property Division of the Department of State Treasurer announced that it had exceeded 125,000 claims paid amounting to almost $70.5 million during the 2021 fiscal year. Both the number of claims paid, and the total amount claimed, represent a historical record for UPD. “It’s amazing what NCCash has accomplished over the past year,” State Treasurer Dale Folwell said. “Let’s remember that this incredible performance was done during a difficult time dealing with the challenges surrounding the pandemic.” In 2020, the division paid out 56,787 claims valued at $39,900,902. In 2021, claims paid were 125,134 for $70,447,815. That represents a 120% increase in the number of claims paid and a 77% increase in the dollar amount. The Treasurer’s office encourages all North Carolinians to go to NCCash. com website and search for free. NSJ STAFF

Reese Witherspoon sells Hello Sunshine, joins new company Nashville, Tenn. Reese Witherspoon is selling the media company she founded to a newly formed company backed by private equity firm Blackstone Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal was worth about $900 million. Witherspoon, known for her roles in films such as “Legally Blonde” and “Walk the Line,” created Hello Sunshine in 2016. She will continue to oversee its day-to-day operations alongside the existing senior management team. Hello Sunshine, which focuses on putting women at the center of its stories, creates television shows, films, podcasts, and digital series — including “Big Little Lies,” “The Morning Show,” and “Little Fires Everywhere.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Gov. Roy Cooper talks with Carol and Carl Armano as they wait in line to get COVID-19 vaccinations at the Forsyth County Health Department in Winston-Salem.

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Government workers required to get vaccine or face weekly testing, masking Order also pushes, but does not mandate, increased masking, vaccines statewide By David Larson North State Journal

Federal unemployment subsidy will end next month Scheduled to end on Sept. 6, the added federal benefits for the unemployed are competing with RALEIGH — At the Aug. 3 private employers — impacting nearly every industry meeting of the North in North Carolina. Carolina Council of Already, 25 states State, Gov. Roy Coohave ended the exper indicated that tended benefits, a state unemployment Every business move the Generbenefits will return to owner — no al Assembly undernormal levels followmatter their took with the pasing the end of the fedsage of Senate Bill 116 eral unemployment race, creed, subsidy. color or political on June 24. Cooper, though, vetoed the State Treasurbill on July 2. er Dale Folwell made affiliation — is In a veto message, an impassioned plea asking how we Cooper said, “The in comments at the federal help that this meeting, detailing the can continue bill cuts off will only effect that the extend- to pay into a last a few more weeks ed benefits are consystem that and it supplements tinuing to have on North Carolina’s state employers across the forces us to benefits. Prematurely state. compete with stopping these bene“Every business owner — no matter federal benefits fits hurts our state.” Responding to their race, creed, col- by taxing Cooper’s then-veto, or or political affiliastate Sen. Chuck Edtion — is asking how people who wards (R-Henderson) we can continue to are working, said, “It’s a shame to pay into a system that and then using see Gov. Cooper inforces us to compete centivize people not with federal benefits the money to work instead of adby taxing people who for those who dressing our state’s are working, and then severe labor shortage. using the money for don’t” Thousands of jobs are those who don’t,” Folwaiting to be filled well said. “The poli- State Treasurer but this veto ensures cy is no longer about that ‘Help Wanted’ compassion and gen- Dale Folwell signs will remain up erosity, but justice for months to come.” and certainty. At the The NC Chamber also supend of the day, employers across the state who have suffered for ported SB 116, with president over a year during COVID can- and CEO Gary Salamido saying not operate without employees. We’re in an employment crisis.” See SUBSIDY, page A2 By Matt Mercer North State Journal

Children stopped at border likely hit record-high in July The Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The number of children traveling alone who were picked up at the Mexican border by U.S. immigration authorities likely hit an all-time high in July, and the number of people who came in families likely reached its second-highest total on record, a U.S. official said Monday, citing preliminary government figures. The sharp increases from June were striking because crossings

usually slow during stifling — and sometimes fatal — summer heat. U.S. authorities likely picked up more than 19,000 unaccompanied children in July, exceeding the previous high of 18,877 in March, according to David Shahoulian, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security. The June total was 15,253. The number of people encountered in families during July is expected at about 80,000, Shahou-

RALEIGH — An executive order from Gov. Roy Cooper, effective at 5 p.m. July 29, directed his Cabinet departments to begin verifying the vaccination status of all employees and for those not vaccinated to undergo a weekly testing regime and mandatory indoor masking. The order also changed N.C. Department of Health and Human Services guidance to strongly encourage, but not require, that schools, local governments and businesses tighten masking and vaccination protocols in response to rising Delta variant case numbers. “Until more people get the vaccine, we will continue living with the very real threat of serious disease, and we will continue to see more dangerous and contagious variants like Delta,” said Cooper at a July 29 press conference that he and NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen hosted to announce the order. This change in guidance for North Carolina came on the heels of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announcement that it was recommending increased masking and vaccinations due to the Delta variant. State Republicans also reacted to the CDC guidance, with Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) releasing a statement noting contradiction with comments by President Joe Biden two months earlier, when he said, “If you’ve been fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask. Let me repeat: If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.” Berger said that “whiplash on mask ‘guidance’ from the CDC may have the perverse effect of discouraging vaccination” because people will question whether the vaccine is effective if they need to put masks back on. While Cooper didn’t require

lian said. That’s shy of the all-time high of 88,857 in May 2019 but up from 55,805 in June. Overall, U.S. authorities stopped migrants about 210,000 times at the border in July, up from 188,829 in June and the highest in more than 20 years. But the numbers aren’t directly comparable because many cross repeatedly under a pandemic-related ban that expels people from the country immediately without giving them a chance to seek asylum but carries no legal consequences. The activity was overwhelmingly concentrated in the Border Patrol’s Del Rio and Rio Grande Valley sectors in south Texas, accounting for more than seven of 10 See BORDER, page A2

businesses to return to the mask mandates of past executive orders, he did strongly encourage them to “at a minimum, verify vaccination status for their workers as well.” He also called on people, both vaccinated and not, to wear masks when gathering indoors again, saying in the guidance, “Businesses are strongly encouraged to require guests to wear a face covering in indoor areas of offices, buildings and facilities.” Many companies have started requiring vaccinations from employees and masks for anyone inside their premises since the announcement by the CDC and subsequent orders from states like North Carolina. Weaver Street Market, a grocery chain with locations across the Triangle area, began requiring masks again in their stores on Aug. 3, a move being taken by many other retailers. Nationally, Disney announced they are joining other major companies like Netflix in requiring vaccinations for employees. Many of North Carolina’s hospital systems already announced last week that they are also requiring vaccinations for employees. Two bars in Asheville, the Double Crown and the Lazy Diamond, announced the day after Cooper’s order that they would begin requiring proof of vaccination “to participate in all activities, inside or out,” at their establishments. See COVID, page A2

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Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

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COVID from page A1 Masking in schools, which has been a particularly contentious area politically, was also covered in the order, with the guidance now saying that “all K-12 schools should require universal masking, regardless of vaccination status. NCDHHS is updating its guidance for schools to align with this recommendation.” Cooper and Cohen were clear at the press conference that this was not a mandate, even if school districts are being strongly encouraged to require masking. At least 23 districts have now announced that they will make masks optional in the fall, creating a possible conflict with the new guidance. NSJ asked Cooper during the Q&A whether there has been any clear data that children in schools are a significant cause of community spread of COVID. “I think the Delta variant has shown a pickup there, but I’m going to let Dr. Cohen address that,” Cooper answered.

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“Sodom and Gomorrah Afire” by Jacob de Wet II (circa 1680) is a painting in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.

“What we have seen is that when we use our safety protocols that we’ve been using, and we’ve had a number of researchers that have published their studies, that when we use those safety protocols, our schools are very low transmission spaces,” Cohen said in response. “I will say, as the governor alluded to, we’re now in this new moment. Delta is more contagious, not just for adults, but for children as well. We’re seeing more cases in our kids than we had before. So we want to make sure that folks are following those protocols in order to keep those viral levels low to make sure the kids can stay in the classroom.” During the press conference, Cohen went through slides showing increases in both infection rates and hospitalizations, but there was no data presented on whether mortality was up or down as the Delta variant continues to spread. Asked by NSJ if the Delta variant, despite being more highly transmissible, is less deadly than

“What we have seen is that when we use our safety protocols that we’ve been using, and we’ve had a number of researchers that have published their studies, that when we use those safety protocols, our schools are very low transmission spaces.” NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen in response to NSJ question on masking in schools. the original COVID-19 virus, Cohen seemed to suggest it was, or at least that mortality for COVID, in general, was dropping. “Do I think it is more dangerous? I don’t think we know that for sure. But because of the high

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In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, file photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. BORDER from page A1 people who came in families. In the Rio Grande Valley sector, the “epicenter of the current surge,” agents stopped migrants about 78,000 times in July, Shahoulian said, up from 59,380 in June and 51,149 in May. The government disclosures came in a court filing hours after immigrant advocacy groups resumed a legal battle to end the government’s authority to expel families at the border on grounds it prevents the spread of the coronavirus. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention renewed those emergency powers, known as Title 42 and named for a 1944 public health law. The Homeland Security Department said it would continue to enforce the ban on asylum for single adults and families despite growing pressure from pro-immigration groups that it isn’t justified on public health grounds. Unaccompanied children are exempt.

“Title 42 is not an immigration authority, but a public health authority, and its continued use is dictated by CDC and governed by the CDC’s analysis of public health factors,” the department said in a statement. The final count for July border arrests isn’t expected for several days, but preliminary numbers are usually pretty close. Over the first 29 days of July, authorities encountered a daily average of 6,779 people, including 616 unaccompanied children and 2,583 who came in families, Shahoulian said. The number of people stopped in families is expected to hit an all-time during for the 2021 fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, Shaoulian said, adding it will likely be higher if courts order that the pandemic-related powers be lifted. The rising numbers have strained holding facilities, Shahoulian said. The Border Patrol had 17,778 people in custody on Sunday, despite a “COVID-19 ad-

justed capacity” of 4,706. The Rio Grande Valley sector was holding 10,002 of them. The breakdown reflects growing tensions between advocates and the administration over use of expulsions and the government’s decision last week to resume fast-track deportation flights for families to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Last week, the International Rescue Committee and HIAS also said they were ending efforts to help the administration choose asylum-seekers to exempt from the pandemic-related ban. The asylum advocacy groups had been working on a parallel track with the ACLU to identify particularly vulnerable migrants stuck in Mexico. The CDC said Monday that the ban would remain until its director “determines that the danger of further introduction of COVID-19 into the United States from covered noncitizens has ceased to be a serious danger to the public health.”

The Book of Jude completes our look at the five shortest books of the Bible. The penultimate book of the Bible ranks the fifth shortest book behind Obadiah, Philemon, Third John and Second John. All five on the list are a single chapter, with Jude clocking in at 461 words in its original Greek and Hebrew form and 584 in the King James. The primary theme of the Book of Jude is a warning against false teachers who use God’s grace to encourage people to indulge in sin. Jude reminds the readers of his general epistle that God has punished his own people who have fallen into sin and deceit. The book references the curse of Cain, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the angels who fell from their exalted status. False prophets and opportunists have existed since the early days of the church, they exist today and they will continue their deceit until Judgment Day. The Bible and the words of the Apostles are the teachings that we should follow, according to Jude. He reminds us that followers of Christ should pray in the Holy Ghost, maintain their faith through the love of God, and wait for the eternal mercy of Jesus. Jude also encourages true Christians to “contend for the faith” and fight against the false teachers and those who deny Jesus.

rate of contagiousness, we’re going to have so many more cases, so I think we’re going to see more hospitalizations and more death,” Cohen said. “But I don’t know that in and of itself it is more deadly. But I would say that one of the other reasons that we all need to get vaccinated is that I don’t want this virus to change again. I think a combo that is very contagious and very deadly, that’s the worst combination. Right now, we know we have more contagious.” Cohen went on to say that better treatments, including monoclonal antibodies, are a major reason “we’re in a very different place in terms of mortality.” “We’ve also learned a lot about how to treat folks who do have severe COVID, new protocols, how to treat them, to prone them — meaning to put them on their belly — and how to use oxygen in different ways,” Cohen said. “I think we’ve gotten a lot smarter, and our doctors have done a great job. So I think overall we’ve seen the mortality rate, meaning the number

of people dying from COVID, going down over time. But, unfortunately, you see every day our death numbers do go up, so this is still a deadly disease. This is why we’re taking the steps we are today.” Republicans have pushed back against what they see as inconsistency and fear about a disease with dropping death numbers, even if the Delta variant is more transmissible. “Fewer North Carolinians died from COVID during the entire month of July than on a single given day in January. That’s because vaccines work, and most of the people at highest risk of death got the vaccine,” Berger said in his July 29 release. “That’s cause for relief. But all we’re getting from public health authorities are shifting rules and perpetual panic.” According to Cooper’s announcement, 9.8 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have now been administered in North Carolina, with 61% of adults receiving at least one dose and 86% of those 65 and over.

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in unemployment benefits that was enacted helped people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and who still may be in the process of getting vaccinated. But it’s going to expire in 90 days. That makes sense it expires in 90 days.” Folwell, who served as assistant secretary of Commerce and led the N.C. Division of Employment Security for two years, said in closing, “Letting these extended benefits expire is the best thing we could do to help employers get reopened. I get calls every day from small businesses that say they can’t get people to work because it’s more profitable for them to stay home.”

in June that the bill, “Embodies efforts by the House and Senate to provide workable solutions to our state’s acute workforce challenges, including solutions that seek to end our overreliance on federally enhanced unemployment programs and ensure businesses that already received COVID-related assistance funding to maintain their workforce can continue to receive targeted assistance.” President Joe Biden signaled on June 4 that the benefits will expire and Congress has no plans to take up an extension. In a statement on the economy, Biden said, “The temporary boost

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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is featured in this undated file photo

North State Journal for Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Biden administration backtracks on Critical Race Theory elements in K-12 history grants By A.P. Dillon North State Journal

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In this image taken from video provided by Office of the NY Governor, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes a statement on a pre-recorded video released, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in New York.

NY Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, probe finds By Michael R. Sisak The Associated Press NEW YORK — An investigation found that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed nearly a dozen women in and out of state government and worked to retaliate against one of his accusers, New York’s attorney general announced Tuesday, hastening calls for the Democrat’s resignation or impeachment. The governor remained defiant, saying in a taped response to the findings that “the facts are much different than what has been portrayed” and that he “never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances.” The nearly five-month investigation found that Cuomo’s administration was a hostile work environment “rife with fear and intimidation.” The probe, led by two outside lawyers, involved interviews with 179 people including accusers, current and former administration employees and the governor himself. Anne Clark, who led the probe with former U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, said they found 11 accusers to be credible, noting their allegations were corroborated to varying degrees, including by other witnesses and contemporaneous text messages. “These interviews and pieces of evidence revealed a deeply disturbing yet clear picture: Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed current and former state employees in violation of federal and state laws,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said at a press conference on Tuesday. The investigation’s findings, detailed in a 165-page public report, turn up the pressure on the 63-year-old governor, who just a year ago was hailed by some for his leadership during the darkest days of the COVID-19 crisis, even writing a book about it. Since then, he’s seen his standing crumble with a drumbeat of harassment allegations, questions in a separate, ongoing inquiry into whether state resources went into writing the book, and the discovery that his ad-

ministration concealed the true number of nursing home deaths during the outbreak. While James concluded the investigation without referring the case to prosecutors for possible criminal charges, local authorities could use its evidence and findings to mount their own cases. Albany District Attorney David Soares said he will be requesting material from James’ office and welcomed victims to contact his office with information. The investigation’s findings are also expected to play an important role in an ongoing state Assembly inquiry into whether there are grounds to impeach Cuomo. The Assembly has hired its own legal team to investigate myriad allegations regarding harassment, his book, nursing homes and special access to COVID-19 testing. Several Cuomo accusers demanded swifter action, calling on the governor to leave office immediately. Some Democratic and Republican state lawmakers joined them, along with one-time Cuomo allies including county executives and leaders of left-leaning political groups. “Resign, @NYGovCuomo,” Cuomo accuser and former aide Charlotte Bennett tweeted. On at least one occasion, the investigation found, Cuomo and his senior staff worked to retaliate against a former employee who accused him of wrongdoing. Cuomo was also found to have harassed women outside of government. The report detailed, for the first time, allegations that Cuomo sexually harassed a female state trooper on his security detail. It said that the governor ran his hand or fingers across her stomach and her back, kissed her on the cheek, asked for her help in finding a girlfriend and asked why she didn’t wear a dress. “These brave women stepped forward to speak truth to power and, in doing so, they expressed faith in the belief that although the governor may be powerful, the truth is even more so,” Kim said at the press conference. Cuomo’s lawyer issued a writ-

ten rebuttal to the investigation’s findings. Cuomo said he was hiring an expert to reform sexual harassment training for state employees, including the governor. In a taped response, Cuomo apologized to two accusers: Bennett, who said the governor asked if she was open to sex with an older man after she confided in him that she had been a victim of sexual assault, and a woman he kissed at a wedding — an incident reported in a front-page story in The New York Times. Still, Cuomo equivocated and lashed out at the investigative process, saying it was rife with “politics and bias.” He explained that he’s been physically embracing people his whole life, that his mother and father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, had done the same and that the gesture was meant to “convey warmth.” “For those who are using this moment to score political points or seek publicity or personal gain. I say they actually discredit the legitimate sexual harassment victims that the law was designed to protect,” Cuomo said. In an 11-hour interview with investigators last month, Cuomo admitted to certain behavior while denying other allegations, investigators said. For example, Clark said, he conceded asking Bennett whether she had been involved with older men and said he may have kissed the state trooper at an event but denied touching her. The revelations last winter led to a chorus of calls for Cuomo’s resignation from many top elected Democrats in New York, including U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. But Cuomo refused to quit and has been raising money for a fourth term in office. His position on the allegations has also hardened. Cuomo always denied inappropriate touching, but he initially said he was sorry if his behavior with women was “misinterpreted as unwanted flirtation.” He got more combative in recent months, saying he did nothing wrong and questioning the motives of accusers and critics.

RALEIGH — A blog post by U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona outlines the Biden administration is backing off from including elements from the controversial Critical Race Theory in grants related to teaching history in K-12 schools. The shift in position on the grants comes after more than 35,000 comments were submitted to the Federal Register, with the majority of comments opposing such action. “The goal of this program is to improve the quality of American history, civics, and government education in order to provide more students the opportunity to learn about the rich history of our nation and build the skills needed to fully participate in civic life,” Cardona wrote. He went on to say that the program “enables higher education institutions, non-profit organizations, and other interested applicants the opportunity to explore innovative and creative ways to support educators and the teaching of history to students, aiming to build a more active, engaged society.” Cardona also then claimed that the program never dictated specific materials be included. “This program, however, has not, does not, and will not dictate or recommend specific curriculum be introduced or taught in classrooms. Those decisions are — and will continue to be — made at the local level,” wrote Cardona. Cardona’s remarks on curriculum are contrary to that of the rule published by the Biden administration’s Department of Education in the Federal Register on April 19 of this year. The rule proposal had used the “1619 Project” as an example curriculum. This work has been widely criticized for historical inaccuracies, including the theory that the Revolutionary

War’s purpose was to keep Britain from ending slavery. The proposed rule also cited “antiracist activist” Ibram X. Kendi who has suggested incorporating “anti-racist practices into teaching and learning” on a national scale. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC5), a leader on the Education and Labor Committee, said in a statement that “The voices of parents and students were finally heard at the Department of Education.” “While I am doubtful that Secretary Cardona plans to abandon the administration’s crusade to push Critical Race Theory in our public schools, I applaud the move not to give overt preferential treatment to federal grant applicants seeking to advance anti-American agendas,” Foxx said. “But let me be clear: the Department of Education changed its approach to grant funding because parents, students, and Republican leaders stood up in defense of our nation’s history and legacy.” Foxx said she will “continue to keep a close eye on this process to hold the administration accountable and reject any proposals that divide us as a nation.” In mid-May, U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC9) announced he was backing a bill to stop federal funds from being used for promotion of Critical Race Theory. “Critical Race Theory is a poison to the psyche of our nation. This destructive ideology has no place in America’s institutions, and the bills I’m introducing will help ensure that our government isn’t spending resources on promoting it,” said Bishop in a statement. “But President Biden and the radical Left are committed to pushing this neo-Marxist propaganda into our classrooms, places of work, and even the military. Legislators on every level must fight back against this insidious effort to undermine the truths about our nation’s founding with everything we’ve got.”

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President Joe Biden speaks while meeting with an instructor and an apprentice in a classroom at the IBEW / NECA Electrical Training Center in Cincinnati, Wednesday, July 21, 2021.

Dems ask McCarthy to recant Pelosi taunt as tensions rise The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Several House Democrats have called on House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to apologize to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or resign after audio surfaced of him saying at a weekend fundraiser that it would be “hard not to hit her” with a gavel if he’s sworn in as speaker after the 2022 midterm elections. The comment is emblematic of the rising tension between the two leaders since the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol. Democrats responded quickly, noting the threats on Pelosi’s life on Jan. 6, when several protesters trespassed into her office, stole some of her belongings and

criticized her. “Threatening violence against the Speaker of the House is no joke,” tweeted New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. “This is the kind of reckless language that led to a violent insurrection.” The public strain between the two — extraordinary even by congressional standards — has moved beyond the protest into most every matter between them as McCarthy is eyeing the speakership and an election map that could be favorable to Republicans next year. McCarthy last week blamed Pelosi for a renewed mask mandate in the House as “a decision conjured up by liberal government officials who want to continue to live in a perpetual pandemic state.” Pelosi shot back

that he was a “moron.” On Saturday, McCarthy was attending a Tennessee Republican Party Fundraiser when he was gifted an oversized gavel with the words “fire Pelosi” on it, according to local publication Main Street Nashville, which also posted audio of the comments. McCarthy responded by saying that he wanted the crowd to watch Pelosi hand him the gavel if he wins the speakership, and “it’ll be hard not to hit her with it, but I will bang it down.” Asked about the comments, McCarthy’s office said in a statement that “he was joking.” Democratic Reps. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Eric Swalwell of California said McCarthy should step down. “I’ve

said it before & I’ll say it again— he should RESIGN!!” tweeted McGovern. While already disagreeing on most policy matters, McCarthy and Pelosi have also clashed in recent weeks over the mask mandate, which some Republicans have resisted and argued is not based on science. The requirement was re-instituted in the House after a recommendation from the Capitol Physician. Asked about her “moron” comment last week, Pelosi responded: “To say that wearing a mask is not based on science, I think is not wise, but that’s all I am going to say about that.” McCarthy also withdrew five members from a select committee established last month to in-

vestigate the protest after Pelosi rejected two of his members, saying they couldn’t sit on the panel because of their “antics” defending Trump after the attack. McCarthy called the move an “egregious abuse of power” and the committee a “sham.” Holding a news conference ahead of the committee’s first hearing, in which police officers spoke emotionally about their physical and mental pain after the rioting, McCarthy and his leadership tried to shift blame from the Trump supporters who laid siege to Pelosi herself. McCarthy said there were “questions into the leadership within the structure of the Speaker’s office” about delays in the National Guard’s arrival that day.

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Murphy to Manteo Currituck Beach Corolla

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RALEIGH — July 29’s state COVID-19 press briefing marked the final appearances of two state public-safety leaders. Eric Hooks, who had served as the secretary of the N.C. Department of Public Safety, announced his retirement from state government. Gov. Roy Cooper later announced that Casandra Hoekstra will serve as interim secretary at NCDPS. “Casandra is a talented leader who has dedicated her career to keeping the people of North Carolina safe,” Cooper said in a press statement. “Her legal background and experience within the Department of Public Safety have prepared her to serve in this role, and I’m grateful she agreed to step up.” Hooks appears to be on his way to Washington, D.C. after he was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the deputy administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Hoekstra most recently served as chief deputy secretary for administration within NCDPS, overseeing a variety of divisions, including legislative affairs, the Office of Special Investigations and the Governor’s Crime Commission. She previously served as legislative counsel for the N.C. Association of County

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North Carolina’s seven coastal lighthouses dot the state’s coast from Corolla to Oak Island. Each one has a unique history, whether it’s the red bricks of Currituck or the historic 1990s relocation of Cape Hatteras or “Old Baldy’s” patchwork look. Five are open to climb to the top and all provide adventure and scenic Instagrammable opportunities.

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Prison sentence for man that dragged officer while escaping traffic stop

Man ran over driver after stealing car Buncombe County Police are asking for help finding a man accused of assaulting a driver, stealing his car and running him over. Michael Lynn Hayes Jr. assaulted a driver on White Pine Drive in Asheville, then ran over the driver as he fled in the stolen car. The driver was taken to a hospital and is in critical-butstable condition. People are urged to be cautious if they see Hayes, as he is known to be armed. Hayes faces charges including felony hit and run inflicting injury, possession of a stolen vehicle, and felony larceny of a motor vehicle. AP

Indoor mask policy returns Haywood County Cherokee residents will need to return to wearing masks indoors as Haywood County officials reinstated the mask policy on Friday. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians chief also put a similar policy in place for the Native American lands in the area. The decisions came after COVID-19 cases surged in the area. Government offices and commercial buildings will all require masks be worn by anyone inside the buildings. WLOS

Young child among 3 shot in road rage shooting

Graham County Christopher Drew Hill, 41, of Robbinsville, was sentenced to at least one and up to three and a half years in prison after entering a guilty plea. Hill was stopped by police officers for a taillight violation. A police K9 alerted the presence of drugs in the vehicle, and Hill fled the scene, dragging an officer with him. The officer suffered minor injuries. WLOS

Granville County A young girl was among three people injured by gunfire during a road rage incident that erupted into shooting between two motorists. Both drivers have claimed self-defense. Both cars were driven by men. They had girlfriends and daughters as passengers. The men exchanged heated words before opening fire on each other. The exact nature of the dispute is unclear. One driver was shot in the neck and his young daughter sustained a wound to her leg. The other motorist was shot in the hand. The medical status of the youngster and the two men was not immediately clear.

Deputy: Woman took baby to break-in

McDowell County A woman is accused of taking her 7-monthold son to a break-in, where she was found with a number of items and pills. The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office charged Jenny Annette Skidmore Reel, 28, of Marion, with breaking and entering and child abuse. Deputies responded to a home in Marion after a report of a breakin and found Reel at the scene, with stolen medication, a power saw, coins, knives, socks and jewelry. Deputies say she had her son with her and pills in her possession. Reel is also charged with larceny and possession with intent to sell. AP

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Investigation into three deaths in house fire Iredell County Authorities are investigating a fire which killed three people and investigators are calling suspicious. The fire erupted Tuesday at a home in Troutman. When firefighters got to the house, it was engulfed in flames. The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said three people were in the house when the fire broke out and that there was a “domestic situation” hours before the fire, leading an adult son to leave the house. That adult son later appeared at his grandmother’s house in Mooresville. Two people were killed in the fire. On Thursday, a third body had been found in the home. AP

Vance County Tikeise Kenshaun Johnson, 20, of Richmond, VA, was arrested in southern Virginia and charged in the death of a woman whose body was found near the highway. Cierra Jackson, of Richmond, VA, was found by an exit ramp to I-85 in Vance County. She had suffered numerous gunshot wounds to her leg and neck. WRAL

Man placed racist stickers at Mexican restaurants Wake County A man was charged with ethnic intimidation after he placed stickers saying “I love being white” in and around two Mexican restaurants. Cary Police Capt. John Reeves said John Kantz, 60, was arrested after stickers were placed on cars outside one restaurant and in the restroom of two other restaurants. The stickers read “I love white people” with a heart replacing the word “love.” The incidents were reported between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. Reeves didn’t say whether there were additional suspects in the case. Ethnic intimidation is a misdemeanor offense in North Carolina. AP

Commissioners, general counsel for the Department of Public Safety and legislative counsel for former Gov. Michael Easley. In an already announced move, Mike Sprayberry retired from his role as N.C. Emergency Management director. In his place is Will Ray, who previously served as the chief of staff at N.C. Emergency Management. Ray will lead the state’s efforts to ensure preparedness and coordinate needed staff and resources to support local responses to, and recovery from, all hazards and threats. As director, he also will serve as the state’s deputy homeland security advisor. “We’re pleased that Will has been selected and agreed to lead N.C. Emergency Management,” said the retiring Sprayberry. “He’s proven that he’s the right person for the job and he’s earned the respect of the Emergency Management staff both at our agency and, just as importantly, with our county partners.” Before he joined the department, Ray served in several emergency response roles at the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, in local government and in the private sector. “I am especially grateful to Director Sprayberry for his leadership and contributions to the state as he approaches a well-deserved retirement,” said Ray.

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Baby’s death possibly due to drugs in breast milk Carteret County Two parents are charged in the death of a 6-week-old baby who may have been exposed to drugs through breast milk. Mellony McIver, 20, and Zackery Phelps, 26, each face a second-degree murder charge. Investigators are awaiting the infant’s toxicology report, but natural causes have been ruled out in the baby’s death. Evidence showed the baby would have ingested drugs introduced through the mother’s breastfeeding. Officers responding to a call about an infant in distress discovered the baby had died. The apartment where McIver and Phelps lived was littered with drugs and showed signs of extensive drug use. AP

Motorized lawn-mower rider killed in road collision Pitt County A road crash involving a motorized lawn mower and a delivery van resulted in a man’s death. The deadly collision occurred on NC 30, south of Stokes and close to WorthingtonWarren Road. The operator of the lawn mower died at the scene. The dead man was identified as David Wayne Pervis of Stokes. The driver of the van was taken to an area hospital. The investigation is ongoing. Evidence suggests that the mower was partially on the road and that the van may have traveled off the road slightly before the collision.

Man drowns after disappearing from campsite

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Columbus County A man has drowned after he disappeared from a campsite overnight. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were sent on Tuesday morning to a campsite at Lumber River Campground in Evergreen. Brian Thomas Lynch, 36, of Shallotte, was camping at a site near some water and was last seen by a fellow camper at around 1 a.m. Lynch was reported missing after he didn’t appear at the campsite in the morning. Lynch’s body was found in some water. No other details were available, including a cause of death.

RALEIGH — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC11) held a weekend fundraiser in Bedminster, New Jersey, at the property of former President Donald Trump — with Trump himself as the special guest. The event appeared to follow a meeting with business leaders. Cawthorn tweeted on July 31, “I hosted a round table with special guest President Donald Trump and several key business leaders to create a path forward to victory for the country and

to provide election security nationwide.” The fundraising invitation was circulated with an RSVP to Heather Whillier, an N.C.-based political fundraiser working for Cawthorn. She previously worked for former U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC9) and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest in his three statewide campaigns. The event was billed as a “birthday fundraiser” for Cawthorn, who turned 26 on Aug. 1. In his latest quarterly fundraising report, Cawthorn reported raising $651,000, and his joint fundraising committee raised another $500,000 from April through June.

NC Rep Jerry Carter dies after illness

Teen gets stitches after likely shark bite New Hanover County A 15-year-old visiting Wrightsville Beach needed more than a dozen stitches after he was bitten by what officials think was a shark. Lifeguards and emergency personnel tended to the boy’s injury on July 27. The teen’s family was visiting from Tennessee and he was in waist-deep water when he was bitten. After his wound on his right calf was tended to on the beach, the teen was taken to a hospital where he received 15 stitches. The doctor believes the wound was likely caused by a small shark about three or four feet long. AP

By NSJ staff RALEIGH — N.C. state Rep. Jerry Carter (R-Rockingham) has died following an extended illness. In July, the Greensboro News & Record reported that Carter was being treated at Duke University Medical Center for a rare gastrointestinal disorder. Carter’s wife shared that he had been diagnosed with idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins, or IMHMV. At the time, she said Carter would be hospitalized at Duke for a week or more while internal

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

Waving the bloody shirt of voter suppression

Close to 500,000 white adults who attend an evangelical church regularly in every state in the South over the age of 18 are not registered to vote.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN is waving the bloody shirt about legislative attempts in Texas and Georgia to clean up the voting process by saying they represent “the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War”. “Waving the bloody shirt” was a tactic used by Radical Republicans in post-Civil War elections to arouse the passions of their followers by invoking the “blood” of the mostly Republican Northern veterans that was shed to free the slaves and keep the Union intact. Any Democrat in the South should be careful about waving such a bloody shirt, since the worst impediment to our democratic republic since the Civil War was Southern Democratic Party domination of politics for over a century after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. It wasn’t just a “challenge” or a “threat” — it was actual physical and often brutal, bloody and deadly suppression of black voters so white Southern Democrats could control government at every level. If culture-cancelers ever figure out that most of the Confederate army were Democrats, they will have to cancel the use of “Democrat” nationwide. North Carolina Southern Democrats were infamous leaders in black voter suppression. Powerful racist Southern Democrats such as Josephus Daniels, Charles Aycock, Furnifold Simmons and Alfred Waddell made an art out of suppressing black, and while they were at it, white, Republican voters with threats and violence, such as the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. America is not even in the same universe today when it comes to talking about voter suppression as President Biden claims. Comparing the good government policies in Georgia and Texas to the denial of civil rights to blacks before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is not political hyperbole — it is a gross distortion of historical fact which shows an embarrassing lack of understanding of the trauma black people endured when it came to exercising their right to vote. Most voter suppression today is self-imposed, not administered by one party or one race over the other. Less than 3% of registered voters will vote in a primary during a municipal election in the off-off, odd-numbered election years in North Carolina.

Around 10% of registered voters will vote in any municipal office general election in off-off years. Less than 40% of all adults over age 18 will vote during congressional elections every other year during the off-year, even-numbered, congressional, non-presidential elections Roughly 60% of all adults who are eligible will vote in any presidential-year election. Close to 28% of the legal American citizen population are not even registered to vote. If a person doesn’t want to vote, no one can, or should, force them to do so. They have the constitutional right to not vote as much as everyone has the right to vote. Not all of the unregistered voters are black, Hispanic, poor or uneducated as the media tries to portray. Close to 500,000 white adults who attend an evangelical church regularly in every state in the South over the age of 18 are not registered to vote, many of them highly educated and successful people. The truth of the matter is that it is plain hard to get people to vote in any election outside of intense presidential elections such as 2020. It is a waste of time and money to try to suppress the other side’s vote when that money and energy could be far better spent on getting your side’s voters out to the polls. The new voting laws in Georgia and Texas are trying to restore confidence in the electoral system. The vast majority of Americans want two things: verification of identity of the voter and transparency of the vote-counting process. No one should have any doubt that any person who votes in any election is a legal citizen who can prove their identity. No one should have any doubt that ballots are counted in a fair, unbiased manner by completely non-partisan election officials. No one should have any doubt that results are bona fide and verifiable very shortly after polling sites close on Election Day. State legislative attempts around the country are efforts to save democracy, not destroy it, as Southern Democrats did for over a century in North Carolina. Democrats waving the bloody shirt has a hollow feel to it.

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

The no-good, horrible, very bad first 6 months for Vice President Kamala Harris VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS was her own worst enemy during her failed 2020 presidential campaign, and she continues to be as President Biden’s second-in-command. After she scored what looked like a knockout punch to Biden’s campaign during the first Democratic presidential primary debate in June 2019, she enjoyed favorable press and a rise in polling numbers. But soon it became apparent that her rise in stature in the large field of candidates would only be temporary. No one is coming Her numbers started to sink. Just a few weeks after that standout out and saying debate performance, fellow presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard she’s doing an destroyed her in the next debate by pointing out some inconvenient facts about Harris’ time as California’s attorney general. amazing job, The combination of Gabbard’s attack, subsequent poor debate because the first performances, and the fact that black voters did not appreciate that Harris question would insinuated Biden was a racist during that first debate — considering be ‘On what?’ former President Barack Obama trusted him as his vice president for eight years — proved catastrophic for her campaign. She dropped out in December 2019 before the first primary votes were cast. Though she’s been the recipient of a predictable amount of media fawning during her first six months as vice president, she’s also gotten a fair amount of bad press for which she has no one to blame but herself. Biden made Harris his point person on the border crisis in March. Over time she began being viewed as more a rhetorical figurehead on the issue, refusing to visit the Texas/Mexico border as the crisis worsened. Instead, she traveled to other parts of the country, giving speeches and limiting media interviews. She visited the “Northern Triangle” in Central America — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — purportedly to get to the “root causes” of the border crisis, but the trip proved disastrous when she grew visibly agitated with questions from the press about when she’d visit the border. It wasn’t until former President Trump upstaged the Biden administration by announcing in mid-June that he would be taking a trip

to the border that Harris made plans to visit. Even then, the city near the southern border she visited, El Paso, was not considered the epicenter of the border crisis, which led to the trip being viewed as a photo op and a way for the Biden administration to “save face” on the pressing issue. In the midst of all this have been stories leaked to the press that include allegations from former and current staffers that a diva-esque Harris is extremely difficult to work with and has her priorities askew, dating back to her time as attorney general in California. It’s gotten so bad that there are reports she will not be welcomed as a campaign surrogate for vulnerable Democrats going into the 2022 midterms. The Hill reported last week that “Harris’ polling numbers are raising questions about how she might be used as Democrats seek to hold on to slim majorities in the House and Senate.” They quoted one Democratic strategist who suggested that “As of right now, I think she has the potential of doing more harm than good for some of these candidates” in tight races. “No one is coming out and saying she’s doing an amazing job, because the first question would be ‘On what?’” the Hill quoted a Harris ally as saying. If these views hold, and Biden decides to only be a one-term president, this could spell bad news for her going into the 2024 presidential primary race. Time will tell, of course, as to how all of this ultimately plays out. But if she continues to be her own worst enemy, the presidential primaries could ultimately prove very embarrassing for her, especially considering vice presidents are usually considered immediate frontrunners for their party’s nomination. As they say, stay tuned. Media analyst Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.

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LETTER TO EDITOR | BOB LUDDY

Convention of States A recent poll indicates that 62% of North Carolinian voters, across party lines, support this approach.

CONSERVATIVES are frustrated by President Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget — nearly double the amount of projected revenue. U.S. debt is now $28 trillion and rising quickly, and we have an economy so riddled with technical regulations that it smothers ideas that would otherwise become successful small businesses. It is very frustrating when we send “good people” to D.C. and they fail. It is time for “We, the people,” to impose real, meaningful restraints on D.C. with a constitutional amendment. The best way to control spending is to use Article V of the Constitution. Article V allows the states to propose constitutional amendments. When 34 state legislatures agree, it triggers a meeting called a “convention for proposing amendments.” The proposals for amendments by the state delegations must then be ratified by 38 states. A few months ago, our North Carolina House passed a resolution (HJR 233) for a convention to propose amendments that do three things: impose fiscal restraints on Washington, limit its power and jurisdiction, and set term limits for federal officials (like judges and bureaucrats). That resolution is now pending in the North Carolina Senate.

The people of North Carolina overwhelmingly favor this practical and constitutional way to finally reduce spending and avoid inflation. A recent poll indicates that 62% of North Carolinian voters, across party lines, support this approach. This number is consistent with polling that has been done throughout the nation. The people’s support for this movement, known as “The Convention of States” (COS), is not only broad — it’s deep. In North Carolina alone, constituents have sent nearly 75,000 petitions to our state legislators, who are the only ones empowered to use this powerful reform tool and to work for the passage of HJR 233. The fate of the resolution now lies in the hands of our state senators. If COS passes, N.C. will join 15 other states that have already done so. We would be one state closer to the 34 required to trigger the meeting of the century. I imagine the Founders would be cheering for us, relieved that we finally had the courage to use the convention of states to provide a desperately needed “check” on federal growth. Please urge your N.C. state senator to vote yes on HJR 233. Bob Luddy is president of CaptiveAire.

COLUMN | STEPHEN MOORE

American tech sector keeps blowing away the rest of the world The value of America’s 12 most valuable companies today is well over $10 trillion — roughly as much as all of the Chinese publicly traded companies COMBINED.

TAKE A BOW, AMERICA. It’s official and irrefutable: The U.S. is blowing out the rest of the world in tech leadership. No other country in the world comes anywhere close in tech innovation and the dominance of our made-inAmerica 21st-century companies. The Nasdaq index of once-small technology companies reached 15,000 last week. Only a few years ago, that index stood at 5,000. Yes, these companies have tripled in their market cap value — and that doesn’t include the dividends that have been paid out to large and mom-andpop shareholders in America and across the planet. We are told constantly that China is catching up and achieving remarkable digital-age leaps forward in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, green energy, robotics, 5G technologies and microchips. My friend George Gilder, who has written the wonderfully thought-provoking book about the future, “Life After Google,” is high on Chinese tech companies. We should be ever vigilant. But the value of America’s 12 most valuable companies today in terms of stock valuation is well over $10 trillion. Those red, white and blue companies from Silicon Valley to the “Silicon Slopes” of Utah to Boston to northwest Arkansas are worth roughly as much as all of the Chinese publicly traded companies COMBINED. Firms such as Google — many of which didn’t even exist 30 years ago — have made millionaires of your next-door neighbor. Ordinary people are getting rich beyond anyone’s imagination 50 years ago, thanks to American innovation and inventiveness. Risktaking, old-fashioned can-doism is a hallmark of this unrivaled success story that has never been matched anywhere at any time in world history. Almost all of this is a tribute to American financial markets that allocate capital in hyperefficient ways. Capitalists doing a spectacular job of allocating capital efficiently is our secret sauce to financial and technological success. I am always mystified when highly successful Wall Street investors can’t explain how it is they add value and sometimes concede that they are just unnecessary middlemen. Even Warren Buffett, one of the greatest of all time, expresses guilt about his billions, as if he and other great financiers are economic parasites. No. Steering financial resources to winners like Google, not losers like Solyndra, makes everyone in America richer. Meanwhile, few politicians have any clue of how capital markets create wealth and jobs and shared prosperity in America. If they did, they would appreciate that without capitalists and capital, there is no enterprise — no material progress. They would instantly understand the economic lunacy of increasing taxes on capital gains and dividends, wealth taxes, and, worst

of all, death taxes that threaten the future survival of family-owned businesses. Cutting, not raising, the U.S. capital gains tax would be far wiser if we want America to maintain and widen our competitive lead and keep winning globally. Over a few decades, the returns to the government from more investment will pay a rich bounty to the coffers of the feds and states and cities. The arrogant fools in the Biden administration believe that to keep America No. 1 technologically, we need to have a multibillion-dollar government-run slush fund with the politicians picking winners and losers with other people’s money. China does this, and so does Japan, and it has never worked. One of the most famous stories of governmentas-investment banker was when the Tokyo government’s brain trust recommended that Honda not get in the business of making cars. Here in the U.S., the political class has made a $150 billion bet on wind and solar power since the late 1970s, and in return, that has produced only a small sliver of our energy needs. Even more inexplicable is the movement in America coming from senators, such as Democrat Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on the left and Josh Hawley of Missouri on the right, to break up our tech companies. Why? Because, evidently, they are TOO good at what they do. They make too much money. They have too many customers and too many advertisers. Put aside for a moment the rancid political persuasions of some of these leftist Silicon Valley CEOs. Somehow, the left and right agree that building a superior product and even crafting entire new industries is a punishable offense. God forbid. The rest of the world — the Chinese, Indians, Japanese and especially the technologically inferior Europeans — would love to hobble American titans and tax away their profits. The role of the U.S. government should be to repel the foreign attacks. Crazily, the Biden administration has given the green light to foreigners pillaging American companies. This doesn’t put America first. So, can America’s tech dominance continue to blow away the foreign competition for decades to come? Bet on it. Unless we are foolish enough to decapitate our own industries through regulation, antitrust policies and raising tax rates on success. The challenge for U.S. supremacy is coming from Washington, D.C. Not China. Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks.

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Smart deterrence and accommodating generals “TO WIN ONE HUNDRED victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” — Sun Tzu, Chinese military strategist, 544-496 B.C. Clearly, we have not paid close enough attention in 2500 years. The problem is that Sun Tzu’s prescription is lost advice on misguided policy makers, pundits and military leaders who limit their security calculations to how to make our military “things” better than the prospective enemy’s military “things.” And shallow thinking in national security is more than a debating point; it is potentially catastrophic. Our military has two essential tasks, and Sun Tzu’s counsel addresses the underappreciated second one. The nearly universal current national approach to security is limited to the first task — winning the nation’s wars. “The acme of skill,” though, is in the second task — deterring conflict by creating near certainty in the minds of potential enemies that the United States would win. But do not jump to conclusions; the standard for calculating effective deterrence is not in what we think constitutes national combat power, but what the enemy thinks. Wars occur when a nation or force calculates that they stand a good chance of prevailing whether it is a valid judgment or not. Deterrence, then, occurs when a nation or force fears the power of the other. What is lost in the current discussion of our national security is that our nation’s foes are losing the conviction that the United States has the will and toughness to prevail in a conflict. The prevailing method for assessing combat power is by technological standards. Not good enough. The adversaries who judge the military power of the United States respect our technology, but they also assess that “things” are not enough. In colloquial terms, “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” In military terms, another close observer of conflicts and strategy, Napoleon, said that in war, “The moral is to the physical as three is to one.” In this context, Napoleon’s counsel is that the greatest power is derived not from the physical domain of a force, but from its conviction, training and toughness. And that is where adversaries judge our terminal weakness. Our adversaries observe how social engineering has become deeply embedded in our military, and they conclude that we are weak with feet built from clay. They lampoon and deride our silliness (and so do many of our troops). When enemies read of male soldiers wearing pregnancy suits and high heels, required “sensitivity” training, “Emma and her two moms” recruiting videos, “safe spaces” from the pressures of introductory training, the dilution of our ground combat forces, and transgender special treatment, they judge these actions not by our standards, but by their own. These policies may play well in the salons on the U.S coasts, but they most decidedly do not impress the audiences in China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran. This was not the case even a dozen years ago, but the picture is different today, and the situation is worsening. Our current image of softness has not always been so. Here are just two examples to illustrate: “Panic sweeps my men when they face Marines.” — North Korean major from the Korean War. “We will not fight them. They are not normal. When we shoot at them, they run towards us. If we fight them, we die. They are worse than the sons of Satan.” — Taliban radio intercept. If you fail to see the value of these perceptions, you are part of the problem. The corridors of power and communication in our country have come to believe that what is appropriate and desirable in our civil society is also appropriate and desirable in our military. H.L. Mencken said, “An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup.” Perhaps this myopia is because such a miniscule percentage of our nation has served, but even current military leaders are accommodating measures that both weaken our image and deter the neo-Spartans among those who serve (or might). Whatever the rationale for accommodation, such thinking is both flawed and deeply dangerous. Test case: Will China be more or less emboldened to seize Taiwan if they misjudge the strength and grit of our military? Further test case: Will Vladimir Putin conclude that our forces are not as tough as the Russian soldier, and will that assessment further allow him to expand on his seizure of the Crimea from 2014? And don’t forget our allies and those nations sitting on the fence. If they perceive U.S. weakness, are they more or less likely to align with our foreign policy objectives? Former secretary of Defense Jim Mattis had it right. There should be only one measurable standard for our defense policies and priorities: Does the action make us more lethal or less lethal? If the acme of skill is to subdue the enemy without fighting, what would the great Chinese strategist say of a country whose policies aid and abet challenge and confrontation? I suspect that he’d conclude we will pay a severe price for delusion. If so, Sun Tzu’s only error is that “we” won’t pay the price; those who will then be 1820 years old will. G.S. Newbold is a retired lieutenant general, US Marine Corps Previously published in The Federalist

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Families urge using new DNA tech to ID Pearl Harbor unknowns By Audrey McAvoy The Associated Press HONOLULU — William Edward Mann enlisted in the Navy after graduating from high school in rural Washington state. A guitar player, he picked up the ukulele while stationed in Hawaii. He’s been presumed dead since Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor and set off a massive explosion that sank his battleship, the USS Arizona, launching the U.S. into World War II. Now, his niece is among some families of crew members who are demanding the U.S. military take advantage of advances in DNA technology to identify 85 sailors and Marines from the Arizona who were buried as unknowns. They say the military has disinterred and identified remains from other Pearl Harbor battleships and should do the same for their loved ones. “These men matter and they served. They gave their lives for our country. And they deserve the same honor and respect as any other service member past, present and future,” Teri Mann Whyatt said. The Arizona suffered more loss of life than any other ship at Pearl Harbor, with 1,177 dead. More than 900 went down with the ship and have remained entombed there ever since. As with remains on other sunken ships, the Navy considers those aboard the Arizona to be in their final resting place. The families are not advocating for them to be removed and identified. The issue is what to do with the 85 Arizona unknowns buried in a Hawaii cemetery. It emerged in February when the director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which is tasked with finding and identifying the remains of U.S. service members from past conflicts, was asked during a Facebook Live meeting when the agency would disinter them. Kelly McKeague said his agency had spoken to the Navy about exhuming the Arizona unknowns and moving them to the ship without identifying them first. McKeague said it didn’t make “pragmatic sense” to identify them. That outraged some families who feared the 85 remains would be placed on the sunken battleship without ever being identified.

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A piece of the USS Arizona Memorial, given to Teri Mann Whyatt as a child, is displayed at her home Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Newcastle, Wash. The agency has since said it doesn’t plan to move the cemetery remains onto the ship. Rear Adm. Darius Banaji, the agency’s deputy director, said that was just a possibility discussed informally a few years ago. Banaji also said the agency doesn’t plan to disinter the remains and try to identify them because it lacks sufficient documentation. The military has files on just half of those missing from the Arizona, he said. Of those, it has medical records — listing age, height and other information — for just half. It has dental records for only 130 men. Some documents are believed to have been destroyed with the battleship. Others may have been lost in a 1973 fire at a military-personnel records office. And the military only has DNA samples from relatives of just 1% of the missing Arizona crew members. McKeague told The Associated Press that what he said about identifications not being pragmatic referred to the lack of documentation, not the cost. “We must apply our limited resources in a manner that is equitable to all families and to do so as efficiently and effectively as possible,” he said in a statement. The agency, which aims to find more than 80,000 service members missing from World War II and on, has successfully identified unknowns from the USS Oklahoma, another battleship that cap-

sized during the Pearl Harbor bombing. In 2015, the agency dug up the remains of 388 Oklahoma sailors and Marines from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, the same graveyard where the Arizona unknowns are buried. It acted after the military drafted a new policy allowing the disinterment of groups of unknown servicemen if it expected to identify at least 60% of the group. The agency had dental records, age and height information for the vast majority of the Oklahoma unknowns. The military also had family DNA samples for more than 80%. The agency predicted it would identify 80% of the Oklahoma remains, which were buried comingled in 61 caskets. As of this month, it has identified 344, or 88%, and anticipates naming more. A group of families led by Randy Stratton, whose father, Donald Stratton, suffered severe burns as a sailor on the Arizona but lived to be 97, has drafted a petition demanding that the agency identify the 85 Arizona unknowns. He’s vowed to help families submit DNA samples. He’s also been pushing for the agency to use genetic genealogy techniques like those used by law enforcement to solve cold cases. Stratton said about 30 to 40 families of Arizona unknowns have joined him. From a scientific perspective,

there isn’t much stopping the military from identifying the Arizona remains, said Michael Coble, associate director of the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas. “It’s definitely going to be a huge undertaking. But I think the technology has evolved that this kind of work could be done,” said Coble, who was chief of research at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory from 2006 to 2010. The lab, which dates to 1991, has long used DNA to identify remains for the military. One newer method uses socalled SNPs, which are unique to an individual — except for identical twins — and provide a kind of fingerprint. The lab hasn’t been able to make much use of this technique because it’s been unable to obtain adequate SNP profiles from degraded remains. Last month, however, it completed a project to get those samples. This technique would help the lab distinguish between individuals even when it’s only able to extract tiny fragments of DNA. SNPs are the same type of DNA sample that services like Ancestry.com and 23andMe use to help match people with long-lost relatives or learn their propensity for certain diseases. DNA profiles from this technique could theoretically be used for the kind of investigative genetic genealogy work that Stratton advocates. Tim McMahon, head of DNA operations for the Defense Department, said researchers could take samples that failed to find matches in the lab’s in-house database and upload those to publicly available, private-sector DNA databases to look for potential cousins or other relatives. Genealogists could then study marriage licenses, birth records and other documents to make closer potential matches, which would then have to be confirmed with additional DNA tests. Using such databases raises privacy concerns because relatives of the missing may not want their family’s genetic information shared. The military would need to develop policies to protect privacy — for example, by potentially allowing researchers to upload an anonymous DNA profile of an unidentified serviceman. But first, the Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency would have to decide that it wants to identify the Arizona unknowns. For Stratton, it would be worth it. “Why wouldn’t you want to find out who these guys are?” Stratton said.

Outgoing Iran president says government not always truthful By Bouazza Ben Bouazza The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s outgoing president on Sunday acknowledged his nation at times “did not tell part of the truth” to its people during his eight-year tenure, as he prepares to leave office with his signature nuclear deal with world powers in tatters and tensions high with the West. President Hassan Rouhani’s comments, aired on state television, come as officials in his government have appeared rudderless in recent months amid a series of crises ranging from the coronavirus pandemic to parching droughts fueling public protests. After appearing just days earlier to be lectured by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei about their failures in the nuclear negotiations, Rouhani’s remarks appeared aimed at acknowledging the problems his government faced in its waning hours. President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Khamenei, will be inaugurated Thursday. “What we told people was not contrary to reality, but we did not tell part of the truth to people,” Rouhani said at his last Cabinet meeting as president. “Because I did not find it useful and I was afraid it would harm national unity.” He did not elaborate on what he meant by his remarks. However, during his tenure, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard mistakenly shot down a commercial airliner and killed 176 people onboard in January 2020, which the

IRANIAN PRESIDENCY OFFICE VIA AP

In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, outgoing President Hassan Rouhani speaks in the last meeting of his cabinet in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021. government refused for days to acknowledge until Western nations went public with their suspicions. Rouhani, a relative moderate within Iran’s theocracy, insisted he and his officials did their best. “If we have a defect, we apologize to the people and ask them for forgiveness and mercy,” Rouhani said. He pointed to the country’s

2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. However, that deal now sits in tatters after then-President Donald Trump withdrew America from the accord in May 2018. Rouhani blamed many of Iran’s current problems on Trump’s decision, which saw the value of the

Islamic Republic’s rial currency crash. The president said that while Iran had plans to upgrade its armed forces after the expiration of a U.N. arms embargo in October 2020, it couldn’t due to its financial woes. “We did not have the money to buy due to sanctions and not selling oil, but the contract is completely ready,” he said.

New law will effectively end immigrant detention in Illinois Chicago Illinois will effectively end immigrant detention and further restrict local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with federal immigration authorities under a plan Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Monday. The new law targets local government agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowing jails to house immigrant detainees awaiting court hearings. Current contracts must end by January 2022 and new agreements are prohibited. Currently, three Illinois counties — Kankakee, Pulaski and McHenry — have such agreements at local jails and house roughly 260 immigrant detainees overall, according to ICE. “Every family, every child, every human being deserves to feel safe and secure in the place that they call home,” Pritzker said at an event in Aurora where he signed several other immigrationrelated measures. The measure likely ends the federal agency’s power to detain immigrants in Illinois. Unless there’s a legal challenge or other exception, ICE’s options are to either transfer current detainees in Illinois to other states or release them. Agency officials have repeatedly declined comment on the Illinois plan. Immigrant rights activists plan to push for the detainees’ release, saying incarcerating people awaiting immigration proceedings is inhumane and costly. However, some local leaders say they’ll lose muchneeded revenue and necessary cooperation with federal authorities. In McHenry County, the agreement with ICE brings in roughly $10 million each year, according to board Chairman Michael Buehler. It’s a significant chunk of money for the northern Illinois county with a roughly $200 million annual budget. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ambassador: US orders 24 Russian diplomats out by Sept. 3 Moscow The Russian ambassador to the United States says Washington has ordered 24 Russian diplomats to leave the country by Sept. 3, a move that comes shortly after the U.S. said it had laid off nearly 200 local staffers working for its diplomatic missions in Russia. They are the latest in a series of measures taken by both sides that have strained U.S.-Russia relations, although the State Department denied that its move was retaliatory. “There’s a three-year limit on visa validity for Russians, it’s nothing new. When visas expire, as you might expect, these individuals are expected to leave the country or apply for an extension. That is what is at play here,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. Price did not say whether applications for extensions would be considered. The expulsions occurred in the context of U.S. sanctions imposed over Russian interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, the arrest of opposition figure Alexei Navalny and crackdown on his supporters, and Russian involvement in the SolarWinds hack of U.S. federal agencies. After the announcement of the ban, the U.S. Embassy in Russia suspended routine consular services and since May has been processing immigrant visas only in the case of life-or-death emergencies. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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SPORTS

5 key games for 2021 Panthers, B4

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Hornets general manager Mitch Kupchak, center, stands with 2021 first-round picks Kai Jones, left, and James Bouknight at Friday’s introductory news conference in Charlotte.

the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT NBA

Paul signs 4-year deal to stay with Suns Phoenix Chris Paul, the Winston-Salem native who reached his first NBA Finals with the Suns this season, agreed to a new fouryear contract to remain with Western Conference champion Phoenix. The deal is reportedly worth nearly $120 million if all four years are completed and would push Paul’s career earnings past the $400 million mark. He turned down a $44.2 million option for this coming season to negotiate a longer deal. The 36-year-old Paul averaged 16.4 points and 8.9 assists in his first season with the Suns, his fifth NBA team.

MLB

Dodgers get former NC State star Turner, ace Scherzer from Nats Los Angeles The Dodgers acquired three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and All-Star shortstop Trea Turner, finalizing the deal for the dynamic duo from the Washington Nationals shortly before Friday’s trade deadline. Turner, who starred at NC State, was batting .322 with 18 home runs and 49 RBIs, along with 21 stolen bases at the time of the deal. The 28-year-old was All-Star for the first time this season and tied a major league record by hitting for the cycle for the third time in his career, doing it last month on his birthday. Turner adds even more punch to a lineup that includes Mookie Betts, Max Muncy, Justin Turner and Cody Bellinger. Scherzer — an eight-time All-Star — joins a deep and talented pitching staff that includes Clayton Kershaw, Walker Buehler, Julio Urías, David Price and more. Scherzer was 8-4 with a 2.76 ERA in 19 starts this season for the Nationals, and he also started the All-Star Game for the National League last month.

Hornets remake roster with busy draft, free agency Several in-state players were chosen in last week’s draft By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CHARLOTTE Hornets had a busy NBA Draft night, and things haven’t slowed down much since as the team has embarked on an offseason makeover. General manager Mitch Kupchak has been busy on the trade front, acquiring an extra firstround pick and a veteran big man

on draft night, before continuing to deal as free agency opened. The first domino to fall came when the Hornets were on the clock with their own pick, at No. 11 overall. The team chose guard James Bouknight The scorer was mocked as high as just outside the top five in some projections but fell to 11th. He averaged 18.7 points with 5.7 rebounds and made first-team AllBig East with Connecticut last year. His season was interrupted by an elbow injury. “I just feel like I’m someone you

can give the ball to and ask him to go get a basket,” Bouknight said. “I’m unique and creative. Just because of the situation I was in at UConn, I wasn’t fully able to showcase my playmaking ability and my versatility as a two-way guard. I feel like here with this young team and the talent that we have in this organization, I’ll be able to maximize my abilities and really show my full potential.” He’ll pair with last year’s firstround pick, LaMelo Ball, to give the Hornets a dynamic young backcourt.

Kupchak was ready to move on from Ball’s backcourt mates from last season. The team didn’t qualify Malik Monk, making him an unrestricted free agent, and Charlotte negotiated a sign-andtrade deal Monday that sent guard Devonte’ Graham to New Orleans and reportedly netted the Hornets a 2022 lottery-protected firstround pick. The Hornets also discussed a trade for Ball’s brother, Lonzo, with New Orleans, but the Pelicans instead shipped him to Chicago. Ball will need to settle for a potential reunion with his other brother, as Charlotte added LiAngelo Ball to its summer league roster. Kupchak fielded plenty of offers for the 11th pick but waited until a little later to make a deal. See HORNETS, page B4

Time will tell if new-look Hurricanes will succeed Carolina avoided long and pricey contracts in free agency, instead hoping short-term bets will pay off

get out of their new group. Andersen — who was drafted by Carolina in seventh round in 2010 but never signed — has the highest ceiling of all six goalies. Since coming into the league in 201314, Andersen has won more games than all but four other goalies, and he’s has twice received votes for the Vezina Trophy. The flip side is Andersen lost his starting job to Jack Campbell in Toronto and had seemingly never regained the trust of Maple Leafs fans after the team’s 2018 first-round collapse in Game 7 against the Bruins. As for Raanta, he has battled injuries in recent years but proven he can carry a team when healthy. When he’s on, Raanta is undeniably one of the top goaltending talents in hockey. If injuries strike again, Lyon is not as good of an option as Reimer but comes cheap and has served in a similar role with Philadelphia for the past four seasons.

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal THE HURRICANES’ 2021 offseason will likely be judged more by how the players who left perform with their new teams over how Carolina’s new additions contribute. The losses of Dougie Hamilton and Jake Bean on defense, Brock McGinn and Warren Foegele up front, and drafted-and-developed Alex Nedeljkovic and veteran Petr Mrazek in net highlight an overhaul of the roster that is sure to be debated for years to come. But the Hurricanes didn’t come away from a crazy week emptyhanded either. Goaltending Who’s in: Frederik Andersen, Antti Raanta, Alex Lyon Who’s out: Petr Mrazek, Alex Nedeljkovic, James Reimer What it means: The combined NHL cap hits for the team’s three new goalies is nearly identical to last year’s trio ($7.265 million last year compared to $7.25 million this year), so the narrative that Carolina was “too cheap” to sign Nedeljkovic doesn’t really fly.

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The Hurricanes and Oilers swapped young players when forward Warren Foegele, left, was traded to Edmonton in exchange for Ethan Bear, right, a much-needed right-handed defenseman. The fact is, the Hurricanes are convinced that Nedeljkovic’s stellar 2020-21 campaign was an anomaly and that his performance going forward will more closely resemble the .904 save percentage he had in four AHL seasons. The team also knew what it had

in both Mrazek and Reimer — the first a streaky goalie who has struggled with injuries in recent seasons and the other a veteran backup who fell to No. 3 on Carolina’s depth chart. That said, the Hurricanes can’t be positive what they’re going to

Defense Who’s in: Ethan Bear, Ian Cole, Tony DeAngelo, Brendan Smith Who’s out: Jake Bean, Jani Hakanpaa, Dougie Hamilton What it means: Hamilton’s play throughout his seven-year, $63 million contract with New Jersey will determine whether or not Carolina made the right move in letting one of the game’s top See HURRICANES, page B4

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TRENDING

Anna Cockrell: The Charlotte native qualified for Wednesday’s final in women’s 400-meter hurdles, posting a time of 54.17 to finish second in her semifinal heat Monday and rank fifth among those who reached the final. Cockrell is one of three Americans — including world-record holder Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad — to make the eightperson field. Her brother is Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Ross Cockrell, who played at Duke and spent two years with the Panthers.

Beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

BMX

Three-time world champion Hannah Roberts won silver in the women’s BMX freestyle event, finishing behind Great Britain’s Charlotte Worthington. Roberts is one of several competitors in BMX — which is in its first year as an Olympic event — who trains at Dhers Action Sports Complex in Holly Springs. The facility’s owner, Daniel Dhers, won silver for Venezuela in the men’s freestyle event.

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“Just finish the race.” The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan on what she told herself during her gold medal win in the 5,000 meters, which took place just 12 hours after her dramatic fall and win in a 1,500 qualifier. BEN CURTIS | AP PHOTO

Jake Gibb: The four-time Olympian announced his retirement after he and teammate Tri Bourne were knocked out of the men’s beach volleyball tournament on Monday in their round of 16 match against Germany’s Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler. The 45‑year‑old Gibb teamed up with Bourne after his original partner, Taylor Crabb, tested positive for COVID-19 when he arrived in Japan. Gibb and Crabb advanced out of pool play with a 2-1 record despite having just three practices together. Shane Baz: The Durham Bulls pitcher recorded just five outs as the starter in the U.S.’s 7-6 loss to Japan on Monday in a Round 2 game in Tokyo. The 22-year-old Baz, a Rays prospect, allowed two runs on five hits and three walks but did not factor in the decision. The Americans used seven more pitchers after Baz, none recording more than four outs, and are now one loss away from elimination. The U.S. will face the Dominican Republic on Wednesday.

TRACK & FIELD

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“It just hasn’t flowed for us.” USWNT forward Megan Rapinoe after the U.S. lost 1-0 in their Olympic semifinal match, ending their shot at gold. PRIME NUMBER

8 Years that American swimmer Katie Ledecky has held the world record in the women’s 800-meter freestyle. Ledecky first set the mark on Aug. 3, 2013, with a time of 8:13.86 and has broken it four times, most recently at the 2016 Summer Games in 8:04.79. Ledecky won her third straight Olympic gold in the event in Tokyo with a time of 8:12.57 and now has seven Olympic gold medals and three silvers.

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Five years after she shockingly failed to make the U.S. Olympic team, Clayton’s Keni Harrison has her Olympic medal. Harrison finished second in the 100-meter hurdles Monday in Tokyo, giving the event’s world-record holder her first Olympic medal. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico won gold.

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Cary resident Katie Zaferes won her second medal of the Tokyo Games by teaming with fellow Americans Taylor Knibb, Kevin McDowell and Morgan Pearson to take silver in the first mixed triathlon in Olympic history with a time of 1:23.55. Zaferes also won bronze in the women’s individual triathlon.

SWIMMING

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Incoming freshman swimmer Noe Ponti hasn’t yet competed for NC State, but the Swiss 20-year-old has already continued a Wolfpack tradition. Ponti finished third in the 100-meter butterfly Saturday in a time of 50.74 to win bronze and extend NC State’s streak of winning swimming medals to four straight Olympics. Ponti’s time broke the Swiss national record he had set two days prior.

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Predicting the 2021 college football season with award watch lists NC State and Wake are poised for big years By Shawn Krest North State Journal LAST SEASON was a bizarre one in college football, with the pandemic wreaking havoc on virtually every aspect of the season. Schedules were scrambled both before and during the season, players were quarantined and stadiums were empty. Despite all the turmoil, one thing remained constant with previous years: If you want to know which team is going to win a given game, check the preseason award watch lists. Each July, the organizations that vote on college football’s end-of-season awards — honoring everything from top defensive player to best punter — release lists of several dozen players to watch. Taken as a whole, the 16 lists of more than 300 total players represent a fairly accurate preseason picture of which schools have the most talent on their rosters. This year, for instance, Clemson and Alabama each had 23 players on preseason watch lists. Duke had six. Elon had none. Obviously, saying that Alabama should be better than Elon this year doesn’t make this method infallible, but the model has been fairly accurate over time. Last year, even with schedules shifting constantly, it was fairly accurate for several teams around the state. Team North Carolina

Projected record 8-2 (1 toss-up game)

ber of watch-listers on each team, including an NC State roster that is packed with talent, a strong Wake Forest squad and a wide-open Coastal, as usual.

tinue their dominance. The non-ACC programs in the state have an easier road than any of the ACC squads

ATLANTIC DIVISION

Team Strength of schedule (opponents’ watch-listers)

Team Watch-Listers Clemson 23 NC State

Wake Forest

Boston College

Florida State

Louisville 6 Syracuse

App State

East Carolina

Charlotte 40

So, using a comparison of each team’s watch-listed players to determine who will win each matchup, here’s how the ACC season shakes out. PROJECTED ACC STANDINGS ATLANTIC DIVISION

COASTAL DIVISION

Team

Record

ACC Record

Team Watch-Listers

Clemson 12-0

Miami 13

NC State

10-1 (1 toss-up)

North Carolina

8-0 6-1 (1 toss-up)

Wake Forest

9-3

6-2

Pitt 7

Boston College

8-3 (1 toss-up)

5-3

Duke 6

Florida State

5-7

Virginia 6

Louisville

3-6 (3 toss-ups)

Actual record

Georgia Tech

Syracuse 3-9

8-4

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest

4-4 (3 toss-ups)

4-5

East Carolina

5-6

3-6

The model also accurately predicted a Notre Dame-Clemson ACC Championship Game, had Clemson’s league record at 10-0 (actually 8-1) and Notre Dame’s at 9-1 (9-0) and also hit on UNC, Wake, Louisville, BC and Syracuse. Of course, it wasn’t perfect, and when it missed, it missed big last season.

Despite dreary preseason predictions, Duke appears to be on a tier above the worst teams in the Coastal — Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech. Meanwhile, Florida State and Louisville are expected to continue to struggle in the Atlantic. Duke also caught a break on the schedule. The Blue Devils face fewer watch-listed players than any other ACC team: COASTAL DIVISION Team

2-6 1-5 (2 toss-ups) 1-7

COASTAL DIVISION Team

Record

Miami

9-1 (2 toss-ups)

ACC Record

North Carolina

9-3

7-0 (1 toss-up) 6-2

Pitt 9-3

5-3

Duke

5-5 (2 toss-ups)

2-4 (2 toss-ups)

Virginia

3-7 (2 toss-ups)

2-4 (2 toss-ups)

Strength of schedule (opponents’ watch-listers)

Virginia Tech

2-9 (1 toss-up)

0-7 (1 toss-up)

Actual record

Duke 71

Georgia Tech

1-10 (1 toss-up)

0-7 (1 toss-up)

1-10

8-4

Pitt 77

Duke

5-4 (2 toss-ups)

2-9

Virginia Tech

Charlotte

6-2 (3 toss-ups)

2-4

North Carolina

Team

Projected record

NC State

In the ACC, it overestimated Virginia Tech and Florida State while shortchanging Miami and Virginia. So what’s in store for the 2021 season? We pored through the watch lists and came up with four teams in North Carolina that should make bowl plans and another team on the cusp. Team

Watch-Listers

App State

Projected Record

Virginia 90 Miami

Georgia Tech

116

ATLANTIC DIVISION Team Strength of schedule (opponents’ watch-listers)

10-0 (2 toss-ups)

NC State

10-1 (1 toss-up)

North Carolina

9-3

Wake Forest

9-3

Syracuse 88

Duke

5-5 (2 toss-ups)

It will be a long season for the state’s other two FBS teams: Team

Watch-Listers

Projected Record

East Carolina

3-8 (1 toss-up)

Charlotte

2-8 (2 toss-ups)

Looking at the ACC, there are a few surprises in the num-

The big surprise in the Coastal is that Miami takes the divisional title ahead of preseason poll winner North Carolina. Despite the Tar Heels falling short in the Coastal race, it appears to be an up year for in-state programs, with NC State and Wake both putting together elite seasons and Duke, once again, flirting with a bowl bid until late in the season. Of course, they play the game on the field, not on spreadsheets filled with watch-list comparisons. So anything could happen.

Boston College

Coach Shawn Clark and the Mountaineers are again loaded with talent that should help them return to doubledigit wins in 2021.

Clemson 85 88

NC State

Louisville 97 Florida State

108

The Yellow Jackets face Georgia and Notre Dame in nonconference games and have a crossover game against Clemson, which explains their dire schedule strength. In addition to having the most talent in the conference, Clemson has one of the lightest schedules, which should help the Tigers con-

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NC State looks to overturn ‘Law of the Wolf’ The school’s misfortune on the field has taken on a life of its own, one the Wolfpack hope to squash on the gridiron

Grant Gibson, NC State center

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THERE’S A WIDELY HELD perception among NC State fans that the higher the expectations on one of their school’s athletic teams, regardless of the sport, the more likely that team is to underachieve. It’s known as the Law of the Wolf and identified by a hashtag not suitable for a family publication. Devin Leary has been around long enough to know all about the theory and what that means heading into a football season in which he and his State teammates have been picked to finish second behind Clemson in the ACC’s Atlantic Division. “Obviously we’re aware of it,” the redshirt sophomore quarterback said recently at the conference’s Football Kickoff event in Charlotte. “Not just myself but our whole team understands the expectations and how passionate NC State fans are. I think we owe it to them to give it everything we have on the field every game.” Effort, however, hasn’t always been the issue when it comes to the Wolfpack’s past disappointments. More times than not, it’s been injuries, bad bounces and other sometimes inexplicable circumstances — such as the COVID-19 outbreak that sent State home early from the College World Series this summer — that have led to its downfall.

“We understand that we can control only what we can control, so we’ve had long talks about execution.”

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Quarterback Devin Leary will need to stay healthy if NC State wants to live up to its high expectations in 2021. Because those pitfalls are so random, coach Dave Doeren and his team have focused their preparation on more tangible things such as conditioning, catching and throwing, blocking and tackling. “We understand that we can control only what we can control, so we’ve had long talks about execution,” junior center Grant Gibson said. “The emphasis this offseason has been the small details on the field like false starts and presnap penalties. We can understand that those things can cost you games. But at the end of the day, we all know that we just have

to go play our best.” Unburdened by the weight of high expectations, the Wolfpack managed to overcome the coronavirus pandemic, a season-ending injury to Leary and a disastrous performance against arch-rival North Carolina to win eight games and earn a Gator Bowl berth in 2020. With Leary back and healthy again as one of 20 returning starters (eight on offense, 10 on defense and both specialists) and key transfers added to plug holes on the defensive line and secondary, State has the potential to be even better this season.

Three State players — linebacker Payton Wilson, running back Zonovan Knight and offensive tackle Ickey Ekwonu — were selected to the preseason All-ACC team in a vote by the league’s media. If ever there was a State team equipped to quell its fans’ worst fears and defy the Law of the Wolf, Wilson said this is the one. “What I’d say to the fans is that they’ve had some tough luck as NC State fans, but this team is closer than any team I’ve ever been on and has more talent coming back than I’ve ever seen and a great coaching staff,” said the ACC’s

leading tackler in 2020. “We’ve all bought in and jelled well together, and we’ve worked harder than we’ve ever worked at NC State. It’s a goal of all of ours to be the best team in the ACC and in the nation.” Despite the abundance of experienced talent, improvement isn’t a given. And not just because of the Wolfpack’s history with high expectations. State benefited from a favorable schedule that gave it a oneyear break from having to play seven-time ACC champion Clemson a year ago. The elimination of nonconference play also canceled a potential date with Mississippi State of the SEC. With the league’s return to its traditional two-division format, the resumption of a full nonconference slate and a trip to highly regarded Miami all on this year’s slate, the Wolfpack’s road to double-digit wins is filled with obstacles. Not that the players are thinking that far ahead as they prepare for their season-opening test against South Florida on Thursday, Sept. 2 at Carter-Finley Stadium. “Everyone always wants to look at the big picture, to know about how we’re going to finish at the end of the year or what our final record is going to be,” Leary said. “For us players and our staff’s perspective, we don’t look at it that way. We’re worried about USF right now and the day-by-day, and when the season ends, we’ll see where the chips fall.”

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NORTH CAROLINA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

Rose smashed through glass ceiling as longtime Charlotte AD The retired administrator molded the 49ers’ program, adding several sports including football

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal RALEIGH — Judy Rose has served as a role model and mentor to countless young women in sports administration since she was named athletic director at Charlotte in 1990. It’s an advantage that wasn’t available to her when she was first getting started. “I was just the third female in the country at a Division I program, and the other two were on the West Coast,” she said. “I didn’t know them. I’d had no interaction with them, and I remember saying to our chancellor at the time, ‘I don’t have any mentors.’” That chancellor, Dr. Jim Woodward, was sympathetic to Rose’s situation and determined to help put her in the best position to succeed. So he introduced her to two of the most successful female business leaders in Charlotte and suggested he learn from them. One was Dale Halton, president of the local Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company. The other was Pat

BRETT FRIEDLANDER | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Longtime Charlotte athletic director Judy Rose was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame last month. Rodgers, the leader of a large construction company. “(Dr. Woodward) told me that they don’t have to be in athletics to be a mentor,” Rose said. “He told me, ‘They are CEOs. You are the CEO of the athletic department.’” That businesslike approach helped Rose become one of the nation’s most respected athletic directors, regardless of gender. During her 28 years in charge of Charlotte’s program, she oversaw more than $100 million in fa-

cility expansion and renovations, added seven new sports — including a football program that made it to a bowl game in just six years — and hired coaches that combined to earn 44 NCAA Tournament appearances and win 70 conference titles at the time of her retirement in 2018. It’s a list of accomplishments that earned her a place in the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Rose was inducted as a member of the shrine’s Class of 2021 last month at a ceremony in

5 key games for the 2021 Panthers Carolina’s season could hinge on these showdowns By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CAROLINA PANTHERS are just a week into training camp in Spartanburg, and there’s still plenty of time for players to make impressions — good or bad — before final cuts are made and the depth chart is set. Still, it’s only natural to look forward to September, when the games count for real. Coming off back-to-back 5-11 seasons and three straight losing campaigns, the Panthers will look to take a step forward as the young team continues to rebuild. While the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers — who return nearly their entire starting lineup — are the clear favorite in the NFC South, the Panthers could move up the standings quickly with both the New Orle-

ans Saints and Atlanta Falcons showing signs of the type of roster-clearing rebuild that Carolina started two years ago. A second-place finish and a run at a postseason berth seem to be reasonable goals for the 2021 Panthers, although there are enough question marks on both sides of the ball that a fourth straight losing season is also a danger for the team. Which direction will Carolina head in this year? Here are the five games on the schedule that could go a long way toward determining that. Week 1, Sept. 12, home against Jets The opening game is always a key early indicator of a team’s fate for the upcoming season. Carolina will be looking to go 1-0 for the first time in three seasons when it hosts the Jets. In addition to the momentum a season-opening win will provide

to the team, Carolina has much more riding on the matchup with the Jets. New starting quarterback Sam Darnold was New York’s quarterback of the future after being taken with the third overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. He struggled through three years with the Jets, however, and is now looking for a new start in Carolina. A strong performance against his old team could help rid Darnold of any lingering trauma from his time with the lowly Jets. If he struggles, however, it could be a damaging setback to the psyche of the team’s most important player on offense. Week 2, Sept. 19, home against Saints It didn’t take long for the next key game to come up on the schedule. The Panthers have started the last two seasons 0-2 and haven’t gotten off to a 2-0 start since 2017, their last playoff appearance. The Panthers also haven’t won their

Raleigh, along with fellow honorees Debbie Antonelli, Mack Brown, Dennis Craddock, Dr. Charles Kernodle, Mac Morris, Trot Nixon, Julius Peppers, Bobby Purcell, Tim Stevens and Donnell Woolford. “Humbling,” she said of the recognition. “I feel blessed to have had the opportunities, and I’m proud of what we did at Charlotte while I was there.” Rose’s contributions to college athletics reached far beyond the Queen City. Her national reputation began to grow in 1994 when Charlotte served as host for the men’s basketball Final Four. Her work there caught the attention of fellow athletic directors and NCAA men’s basketball committee members C.M. Newton, DeLoss Dodds and Les Robinson. Five years later, she became the first female member of the committee that selects and seeds the tournament bracket and manages all aspects of the event from the first round to the Final Four. Although she admits that there were times in which she “felt like I was on an island” as the only woman in the room, she added that those instances were few and far between. “That was the absolute best experience I’ve ever had,” she said. “They embraced me. They were wonderful. I’m still connected with those people.” For all of her strengths and knowledge of NCAA governmental issues, Rose’s ability to cultivate and maintain relationships may be her greatest asset. She said many of Charlotte’s

most prominent athletic donors have become lifelong personal friends. She has also remained close with her former players, several of whom surprised her by attending her Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Among those that couldn’t be there was Pat Summitt. The Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach, who won 1,098 games and eight national championships at Tennessee, was one of Rose’s earliest influences in college sports. She, Rose and former North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell all served on the same staff with the Volunteers in 1975 before Rose left to become the first women’s coach at Charlotte. As much as she enjoyed her 43 years with the 49ers, Rose said she has no regrets about stepping away when she did thanks to the changing landscape of college athletics — including issues such as name, image and likeness, transfers and a potential reorganization of the NCAA. “There’s no better time to be a retired athletic director because what’s going on in our industry is unsettling to me,” she said. “It’s not what (she and her contemporaries) signed up for. I’m not saying that it can’t work, but it’s different and I’m not sure we would have adjusted.” That doesn’t mean she’s stepped away from the game completely. She continues to serve as a mentor for younger women that have followed her into athletic administration. “I was so fortunate in so many ways,” Rose said. “I believe in paying it forward.”

NFC South opener in five years, not since the 2015 Super Bowl season, which was also the last time Carolina won the division. The Saints will try to replace Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees with Jameis Winston — last seen threatening a record for interceptions thrown with the pre-Super Bowl Tampa Bay Bucs. New Orleans also suffered offseason losses at tight end, defensive line and secondary. In other words, the Saints are there for the taking. While there’s still plenty of talent on the Saints roster, this game will determine which rebuilding team is ready to step up into the second spot in the division.

Atlanta, home against New England and at Arizona.

Week 8, Oct. 31, at Falcons The Panthers get their first shot at another team they’re hoping to leapfrog in the NFC South on Halloween day. The Falcons have a new coach and GM, and they traded arguably their best player — and a longtime thorn in the Panthers’ side — in wide receiver Julio Jones. The game comes in a fourgame stretch that looks like tossups on paper — at the Giants, at

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The Hurricanes’ 2021 offseason will likely be judged based on how well controversial defenseman Tony DeAngelo (77) replaces Dougie Hamilton. HURRICANES from page B1 right-handed defensemen leave. Like Nedeljkovic in net, the Hurricanes dealt away a player they had invested in with Bean, sending him to Columbus. Hakanpaa brought physicality to the team’s bottom pairing as a trade deadline acquisition. Bear, acquired from Edmonton in exchange for Warren Foegele, gives Carolina another right-handed defenseman who plays a more rounded game than the offensive-minded Bean. Cole is a fantastic locker room addition and reliable third-pairing guy with two Stanley Cup rings, and Smith — another righty — brings more snarl than Hakanpaa on a cheaper deal. But let’s be honest — the addition of the mercurial DeAngelo — who was bought out by the Rangers after an altercation last season

with a teammate proved to be the final straw — to replace Hamilton will determine whether or not the defensive rebuild will prove successful. Forwards Who’s in: Josh Leivo, Stefan Noesen, Derek Stepan Who’s out: Warren Foegele, Morgan Geekie, Brock McGinn, Cedric Paquette What it means: The Hurricanes made wholesale changes with their depth forwards. The word all along was only one of Foegele, McGinn and Jordan Martinook would return next season, and that proved true when Martinook received a three-year extension, while McGinn signed in Pittsburgh and Foegele was dealt to Edmonton. Geekie was lost in the expansion draft to Seattle. Leivo is a serviceable depth for-

ward who should be able to fill one of those vacancies, while Stepan is a reliable veteran center whose days as a solid complementary point producer are probably behind him. That said, Stepan should be an upgrade over Paquette, who never seemed to fit with the Hurricanes and signed with Montreal. Noesen is on a two-way deal and can fill in when needed. Smith, a defenseman by trade, has played some winger in his career. The Hurricanes still have plenty of cap space to make another addition up front, even with a new deal for restricted free agent Andrei Svechnikov not yet done. Carolina could dip its toe into the second wave of free agency or make a trade to add another top-nine forward. Don’t rule out one of the team’s prospects — Jack Drury, Seth Jarvis, Ryan Suzuki or someone else — winning a spot in camp.

“We are very glad we stayed there and got the player we got,” he said of Bouknight. Charlotte traded a future first-round pick to the Knicks to move into the No. 19 spot and took Texas center Kai Jones. The 6-foot-11 Jones was the Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year and averaged 8.8 points with 4.8 rebounds. He also hit nearly 40% of his 3-point attempts. Jones only started playing organized basketball in high school and is still raw, which sets his ceiling higher than most college sixth men. “My biggest strength is my versatility and ability to impact the game all around,” he said. While Jones develops, the Hornets will have a veteran big man in front of him. Kupchak also acquired former Duke Blue Devils center Mason Plumlee in a draft night deal with the Pistons. He averaged 10.4 points and 9.3 boards last year with Detroit. With two new big men, addressing one of the team’s biggest weaknesses in recent years, Charlotte will clear the contracts of departing free agent centers Cody Zeller and Bismack Biyombo. The Hornets also added forward JT Thor from Auburn and Florida guard Scottie Lewis in the second round. Around the state Several other players with ties to North Carolina were on the move after draft night. Trey Murphy, who played for Cary Academy before spending time in college at Rice and Vir-

Week 11, Nov. 21, home against Washington The four-game midseason stretch is followed by two more winnable games leading into the bye — home against former coach Ron Rivera and Washington, followed by a trip to Miami. The Panthers beat Rivera in Washington last year in Week 16 for their final win of the season. This game could have more at stake for both teams. Week 17, Jan. 2, at Saints In addition to being another key NFC South divisional game — the middle one of three straight to close the regular season — this appears to be Carolina’s best chance at a win in the final four weeks of the schedule. The Panthers close with a trip to Buffalo, considered a short-list contender for the Super Bowl, then play Tampa Bay twice in the final three weeks. The Saints are sandwiched in between the two games with the Bucs and a win could help to stave off a late-season tailspin.

ginia, was the first player from the state to get selected, getting drafted by Memphis with the No. 17 overall pick before being traded to New Orleans. “He had a really good workout, shot the ball really well,” Pelicans general manager Trajan Langdon said. “Really gives effort defensively and can really shoot the ball — high-character kid with a high IQ coming from a really, really good program.” Jalen Johnson, who opted out midway through his only season at Duke, will join Eastern Conference finalist Atlanta after the Hawks took him with the 20th pick in the first round. “They’re a crazy young talented group,” Johnson said. “Like it’s so fun to watch. Trae (Young), he was a bucket the whole playoffs and he was just entertainment, pure entertainment. I’m excited to play with him, the other guys, Cam Reddish. It’s just a great young talented group. I feel myself fitting in just great there.” Two other Blue Devils went undrafted but signed with NBA teams as free agents. Matthew Hurt joined the Houston Rockets on a two-way contract, while DJ Steward signed a training camp deal with the Sacramento Kings. UNC one-and-done freshman center Day’Ron Sharpe was also taken in the first round. He was drafted with the No. 29 pick by Phoenix and dealt to the Nets. Isaiah Todd, who played at Raleigh’s Word of God Christian Academy before becoming one of the first high school players to go pro in the G League, was selected with the first pick of the second round, going to Milwaukee with the No. 31 pick.

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Schumer has said a to be added to the legislation. Oth- publican negotiator, framed the and electric vehicle charging staMavhiya, works in the debone learn from the discomfort. Other papers final vote could be held “in a mater amendment votes, particular on legislation as something that would tions. department, Lumber Bridge, celebrated morbid obesity as a healthy life Paying for the package has been the issue of how to pay for the new help the U.S. better compete with ter of days.” NC. choice and advocated treating privately “Let’s start voting on amend- spending, are expected to be more China and would make the “econ- a challenge after senators rejected conducted masturbation as a form of omy more efficient, more produc- ideas to raise revenue from a new ments,” Schumer said as the Senate spirited affairs. Diem Nguyen a graduate of Typically, sexual violence is against women. Senators and staff labored be- tive” after years of struggle getting gas tax or other streams. Instead, opened work on Monday. “The lonRichmond Senior High School academic journal editors send submitted it is being financed from funding ger it takes to finish the bill, the lon- hind the scenes for days to write the a public works bill off the ground. and now attends Athens papers out to referees for review. In “People have talked about infra- sources that might not pass musmassive bill. It was supposed to be ger we will be here.” Technical College. Her father is recommending acceptance for publication, A key part of President Joe ready Friday, but by Sunday, more structure in this city forever,” Port- ter with deficit hawks, including rea broiler grower for Mountaire many reviewers gave these papers glowing purposing some $205 billion in unFarms in Lumber Bridge, NC. Biden’s agenda, the bipartisan bill glitches were caught and changes man said. praise. As the amendment process gets tapped COVID-19 relief aid, as well is the first phase of the president’s made. Political scientist Zach Hector J. Pacheco is a Goldberg ran Late Sunday, most of the 10 sen- underway, senators are weigh- as unemployment assistance that infrastructure plan. It calls for certain grievance studies concepts through graduate of Scotland Early $550 billion in new spending over ators involved in the bipartisan ef- ing how much to try to change was turned back by some states and the Lexis/Nexis database, to see how often College High School and now five years above projected federal fort rose on the Senate floor to the package and how hard to try, relying on projected future ecothey appeared our press over the years. attends North in Carolina State knowing it will be difficult to reach nomic growth. levels — one of the most substantial mark the unveiling of the text. He found huge increases in the usages University. His father, Hector “We know that this has been a the 60-vote threshold to approve expenditures on the nation’s roads, of “white privilege,” “unconscious bias,” Pacheco, is the Scotland bridges, waterworks, broadband long and sometimes difficult pro- any substantial changes. See INFRASTRUCTURE, page B6 “critical race theory” and “whiteness.” County Feed Mill Manager. All of this is being taught to college Marlene many Gomez a graduate students, ofiswhom become primary of Jordan Matthews and secondary schoolHigh teachers who then School and now North indoctrinate our attends young people. Carolina University. I doubtState whether the coronavirusHer mother, Rosa Lopez,will give college caused financial crunch is a Human Resources and university administrators, who are a Representative in Siler City, and jellyfish, crossbreed between a parrot under the newly established debt government to borrow as much as ed to only last until this fall. The Associated Press NC.guts and backbone to restore academic the “I respectfully urge Congress to limit, including halting investments needed to pay bills and service its respectability. Far too often, they get much WASHINGTON, D.C. — The in some pension funds for govern- outstanding debt. But under legisla- protect the full faith and credit of Garrett Brown is a graduate of their political support from campus tion passed two years ago, the limit the United States by acting as soon Treasury Department has unveiled ment workers. of Alexander Central High grievance people who are members of the School and now attends Wilkes The department said that its has gone back into effect at the level as possible,” Yellen said in her letter plans to borrow $673 billion in the faculty and diversity multicultural Community College.and His father, current quarter while employing plans for borrowing in the July-Sep- where the debt stood on Sunday — Monday to congressional leaders. administrative offices. Brandon Brown, is a Breeder She explained that she would emergency measures to keep the tember period assume Congress $28.4 trillion. The best lies Bridge, with boards of Manager inhope Lumber Yellen has said a failure to in- stop investing funds into the Civgovernment from an unprecedent- will pass either a suspension of the trustees, though many serve as yes-men NC. current debt limit or an increase in crease the debt limit would be cata- il Service Retirement and Disabiled default on the national debt. for the university president. I think that a strophic. She has said the emergen- ity Fund that are not immediately Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen the limit. good start would begraduate to find 1950s or 1960s Hailey Howell is a The debt limit had been suspend- cy measures to keep the government on Monday announced a new round catalogs. at the course offerings at of Grace Look Christian School of measures to keep the government ed for two years. That allowed the from breaching the limit are expect- See TREASURY, page B6 aand time when college graduates knew how now attends Sandhills to read, writeCollege. and compute, Community Her and make mother, Lori Howell, is an them today’s curricula. Another helpful Occupational Health Manager tool would be to give careful consideration in eliminating Siler City, NC. to all classes/majors/minors containing the word “studies,” such as ChkylleAsian, Boadoblack is a graduate women, or queer of studies. Westover High School I’d bet that by restoringand the now traditional attends the University of North academic mission to colleges, they would Carolina Charlotte. Her mother, put a serious dent into the COVID-19 Christine Johnson, works in budget shortfall.

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Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George University. Mary Overcash is a Mason graduate of Alexander Central High School and now attends Lees-McRae College. Her grandfather, Gale Smith, is a grower for Mountaire Farms in Lumber Bridge, NC.

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ncdot CASH REPORT For the week ending 7/30 Total Cash & Bond Proceeds:

$2,436,560,716 Add Receipts:

$266,967,868 Less Disbursements:

$113,590,152 Reserved Cash:

$597,262,323 Unreserved Cash Balance Total:

$5,540,759,158 Disaster Aid Reimbursement:

$4,486,455

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Some Republicans are wary of another large spending bill after a series of COVID-19 relief measures have boosted the national debt. “I’ve got real concerns with this bill,” said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. Bipartisan support from Republican and Democratic senators pushed the process along, and Schumer wanted the voting to be wrapped up before senators left for their August recess. Last week, 17 GOP senators joined all Democrats in voting to start work on the bill. That support largely held, with McConnell voting yes in another procedural vote to nudge the process along in the 50-50 Senate, where 60 votes are needed to overcome a filibuster and advance legislation. Whether the number of Republican senators willing to pass the bill grows or shrinks in the days ahead will determine if the president’s signature issue can make it across the finish line. The bipartisan bill still faces a rough road in the House, where progressive lawmakers want a more robust package but may have to settle for this one to keep Biden’s infrastructure plans on track. The outcome with the bipartisan effort will set the stage for the next debate over Biden’s much more ambitious $3.5 trillion package, a strictly partisan pursuit of far-reaching programs and services including child care, tax breaks and health care that touch almost every corner of American life. Republicans strongly oppose that bill, which would require a simple majority for passage. Final votes on that measure are not expected until fall.

TREASURY from page B5 needed to pay benefits. She said that she would take similar actions with a Postal Service fund and the Government Securities Investment Fund. All of these actions have been taken by previous Treasury secretaries in debt-service standoffs with Congress. The law requires all funds not invested or removed from the pension funds be restored with interest once the debt limit has been raised or suspended. Congress has always dealt with the debt limit before the government exhausted all of its maneuvering room. However, a 2011 standoff between Republicans in Congress and the Obama administration triggered the first-ever reduction in a portion of the government’s credit rating by the Standard & Poor’s rating agency. The $673 billion that the government plans to borrow this quarter is down from an estimate of $821 billion it made for the quarter back on May 3. The government borrowed $319 billion in the April-June quarter. The Treasury Department said it plans to borrow $703 billion in the October-December quarter, assuming that Congress has passed a new debt limit or suspension in coming weeks.

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In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, housing activists erect a sign in Swampscott, Mass.

As statewide eviction moratorium ends, tenants and landlords face challenges RALEIGH — A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year expired Saturday, after President Joe Biden’s administration extended the date by a month. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. Many of them lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and had fallen months behind on their rent. Landlords successfully challenged the order in court, arguing they also had bills to pay. They pointed out that tenants could access nearly $47 billion in federal money set aside to help pay rents and related expenses. Advocates for tenants said the distribution of the money had been slow and that more time was needed to distribute it and repay landlords. Without an extension, they feared a spike in evictions and lawsuits seeking to boot out tenants who were behind on their rents. Even with the delay, roughly 3.6 million people in the U.S. as of July 5 said they face eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. The survey measures the social and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic every two weeks through online responses from a representative sample of U.S. households.

Here’s the situation in North Carolina: What’s the status of eviction moratoriums in the state? North Carolina is one of several states that enacted a moratorium last year halting eviction proceedings. The directive from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper expired on June 30 after he unsuccessfully sought approval for a one-month extension from the GOP-controlled Council of State. What’s being done to help people facing eviction? North Carolina’s Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE) program offers rent and utility assistance to low-income renters in 88 of the smallest counties in the state. Twelve larger counties are managing their own programs. North Carolina has set aside roughly $1.3 billion to help tenants cover their housing and utility costs, with nearly $1 billion going to the HOPE program and $300 million to the 12 larger counties. The state estimates it has awarded a total of more than $305 million to 81,039 different households that qualify for the HOPE program. The 12 counties overseeing their own programs have expended approximately $64 million, according to state

officials. How are the courts handling eviction hearings? Eviction hearings are expected to be increasingly handled in person as more of the state reopens. Tenants rights advocates and realtors groups anticipate an uptick in hearings once the CDC moratorium expires. North Carolinians can still be evicted now for reasons unrelated to nonpayment of rent, such as property destruction. What is the affordability in the state’s major rental markets? Demand greatly outpaces supply in many of North Carolina’s rental markets, stemming from a shortage in affordable housing. Cathy Robertson, chair of the property management division for the North Carolina Association of Realtors and vice president of a Winston-Salem-based property management company overseeing 800 housing units, said she sees somewhere between eight and 12 applicants for every one property T.E. Johnson & Sons posts online. “We have the lowest inventory in history, and that’s a long history of our company,” Robertson said of the company that has served the Winston-Salem area since 1928. As of May, the median monthly rent in the Raleigh metropoli-

China sticks to goal of having carbon emissions peak by 2030 By Zen Soo The Associated Press HONG KONG — China will stick to its goal of having its carbon emissions peak by 2030 and will release more complete reduction plans soon, the country’s climate change envoy said Tuesday, even as U.S. and British officials urged it to do more to limit global warming. Envoy Xie Zhenhua said in an online webinar on climate change that China will release updated plans to reduce emissons soon and elaborate on its plans during a U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, later this year. China has said its carbon emissions should peak by 2030 and then decline, with a goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060. The country, the world’s largest carbon emitter, has argued that it is still a developing economy and should not be held to the same standards as developed countries in reducing carbon emissions. World leaders and climate negotiators are to gather in Glasgow in November for the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties summit, where nations will attempt to agree on carbon emission reductions to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) to prevent catastrophic effects from climate change.

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In this Tuesday, June 23, 2015 file photo, Xie Zhenhua, Special Representative for Climate Change Affairs of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, attends a press briefing at the US State Dept. in Washington, D.C. The former U.S. special envoy for climate change, Todd Stern, said at the same webinar, organized by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the think tank Our Hong Kong Foundation, that China has not announced plans to do enough in the 2020s. “Peaking (carbon emissions) by 2030 in China cannot get the job done, and I don’t think it represents a best effort to hold to 1.5 degrees Celsius,” Stern said. “Nor is China’s substantial planned ex-

pansion of its coal fleet in its 14th Five-Year Plan compatible with what needs to happen.” Stern said that what China does or does not do at home has a huge impact, not just on its own future but on the entire world, and that China’s global standing and reputation could be significantly damaged if it is seen as the main reason why the goal of keeping global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is not kept alive. Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the U.K. Energy Transitions

tan area had risen nearly 14% over the last year to $1,380, according to a report released June 16 by Realtor.com. Median rents for a two-bedroom apartment rose by more than 18% over the last year to $1,555. Are evictions expected to create a surge in homelessness? It’s difficult to say how much homelessness is likely to increase, though there are some data points that suggest a substantial rise may soon be on the horizon. According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey, about 1 in 13 North Carolina tenants have no confidence they’ll be able to make next month’s rent. Survey data shows 30% of respondents believe it is at least somewhat likely that they will be evicted within two months. Legal Aid of North Carolina, a nonprofit law firm that helps low-income renters facing the threat of eviction, has 12 workers who now take more than 2,000 calls a day, a fourfold increase in typical call volume before the pandemic. About 70% of the calls they receive are coming from tenants seeking help on housing matters. The organization expects legal assistance needs to only increase as the eviction moratorium deadline approaches and more people get sent to court for eviction hearings.

Commission, urged China to have its emissions peak before 2030 and achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050 — a decade earlier than its goal — as by then it will be a rich, developed country. “I think we need to face a simple mathematical fact that if China does not peak emissions until 2030, I do not think we have anything like a 50/50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade (Celsius), nor a 90% chance of keeping global warming below two degrees Centigrade,” Turner said. China’s Xie said countries have different national conditions, stages of development and historical responsibilities, and that China has a larger proportion of coal as a natural resource and less oil and gas. He said developed countries have already gone through industrialization for more than 200 years and are allowed longer timeframes to go from peak carbon emissions to carbon neutrality compared to China. “It is estimated the European Union would need some 60 years in its transition from carbon peak to neutrality or net zero emissions, and the U.S. would need 45 years, while China will strive to achieve this goal in about 30 years,” Xie said. “Therefore, in such a short period of time, China still faces many difficulties and challenges to achieve this,” he said. “This is a process, it cannot be achieved all of a sudden.” Xie urged countries to work together to implement their commitments instead of arguing whether the goal should be to keep global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius.

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Zoom to pay $85M for privacy miscues at start of pandemic The Associated Press

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This May 25, 2021, file photo, shows a U.S. Passport cover in Washington, D.C.

US passport delays lead to long lines of would-be travelers The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Britt Johnson showed up around midnight to the West Los Angeles Federal Building, hoping to apply for a rushed passport when the office opened at 7 a.m. Johnson, eager to visit a dying relative in Mexico, was in line with hundreds of wouldbe travelers midmorning Thursday when a security guard announced that walk-ins for passport applications would no longer be taken there. The disappointment in the crowd has been felt across the U.S. at passport offices, which have been overwhelmed by people ready to travel again as COVID-19 restrictions gradually have lifted in recent months. The pent-up demand for passports has swelled wait times to between 12 and 18 weeks, according to the State Department. That’s caused many like Johnson to seek expedited ap-

pointments at understaffed passport offices. Those now take up to 12 weeks. “It’s pretty urgent,” Johnson said of his travel plans. “It’s pretty important to me right now. So I’m gonna do my best to try to get this thing.” Now, his only options for an in-person appointment are to try to schedule it online or by phone. Marvella Carson, who was hoping to attend a cousin’s wedding in Jamaica, said she’s tried both, with no luck. “You can’t get through. You can’t get on their website. You can’t get through on the phone,” Carson said, waiting outside the federal building in Los Angeles. She’s resigned herself to the fact that she’s probably not going to make the wedding. After more than a year of pandemic-related lockdowns, people are ready to travel again, but the State Department closed many of its offices last year in an effort to keep employees safe,

creating an enormous backlog. That’s because of ripple effects from the pandemic that caused extreme disruptions to the process at domestic issuance facilities and overseas embassies and consulates. The department says a backlog of 1.5 million to 2 million passport requests means that most applications submitted now probably will not be processed until the fall. Rachel Arndt, deputy assistant secretary of state for passport services, said this month that the department is increasing staffing throughout the United States as pandemic restrictions are eased. But she said Americans needing to apply for or renew a passport should do so at least six months ahead of when they plan to travel. Those without immediate travel plans are encouraged to renew their passports by mail. Meanwhile, the State Department and Department of Homeland Security have taken steps to ease issues related to Americans abroad with expired passports who are trying to return home. The departments announced in May that U.S. citizens who are overseas and whose passports expired on or after Jan. 1, 2020, would be able to use their documents to reenter the United States until Dec. 31, 2021. That provision does not apply to travel between other countries unless it is a transit stop.

ZOOM WILL PAY $85 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that weak privacy controls opened too many peepholes into the personal information of users and that it was too easy for outsiders to disrupt video meetings during the early stages of the pandemic. The proposed agreement must still be approved by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. A hearing on the settlement is scheduled for Oct. 21 in San Jose, California. Millions of people in the U.S. who have used Zoom since March 31, 2020 could be eligible for a slice of the settlement that was reached over the weekend. The payment amounts are expected to average $34 or $35 for those who subscribed to Zoom’s paid version, and $11 or $12 for the overwhelming majority who used the free version, based on estimates in court documents. Zoom was bedeviled by security issues early last year after stay-at-home orders transformed the company’s videoconferencing service from a niche product into a cultural phenomenon. Almost overnight it became the goto venue for business meetings, schools, social gatherings and, in a deadly global pandemic, funerals. The lawsuit alleged that the Silicon Valley company violated the trust of millions of people by sharing the personal informa-

tion of users with platforms like Facebook, Google and Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. The case, which consolidated 14 different lawsuits filed since March 2020, also targeted the disruptive practice of “Zoombombing” — a term coined to describe hackers who broke into videoconferencing meetings being held by others. The company in a prepared statement Monday said that it acted quickly to tighten security after reports of Zoombombing began to surface. “We are proud of the advancements we have made to our platform, and look forward to continuing to innovate with privacy and security at the forefront,” Zoom said Monday. The company didn’t acknowledged any wrongdoing in the settlement. Security concerns did not prevent Zoom from permeating the daily lives of millions during the pandemic. The Zoom’s annual revenue quadrupled last year to nearly $2.7 billion and it ended April with 497,000 customers that employed at least 10 workers and subscribed to the premium version of its service, up from 81,900 customers before the pandemic hit the U.S. Its stock price has tripled and traded close to $380 Monday. The lawyers that pursued the case are seeking $21.25 million, or 25% of the $85 million settlement fund.

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This April 18, 2019, file photo shows a sign for Zoom Video Communications ahead of their Nasdaq IPO in New York.

US regulators step up scrutiny of IPO hopefuls from China The Associated Press NEW YORK — Chinese companies hoping to sell their shares in the United States must start making more disclosures about their potential risks before U.S. regulators will allow them to list their stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the move Friday after Beijing said it would step up its supervision of Chinese companies listed overseas, including reviews of their cybersecurity. SEC Chair Gary Gensler pointed in particular to Chinese businesses that use shell companies to get around Chinese rules blocking foreign ownership for their industries. Under these deals, the Chinese business forms a shell company in the Cayman Islands or somewhere else. The shell company then sells its stock to investors after listing in New York. The shell company has no ownership of the Chinese company. Instead, it has service contracts with it. These arrangements are called variable interest entities, or “VIEs.” “I worry that average investors may not realize that they hold stock in a shell company rather than a China-based operating company,” Gensler said. Gensler said he asked the SEC’s staff to make sure such companies make several disclosures before an initial public offering of stock. Among them: They must make clear investors are buying shares of the shell company, not the China-based operating company, and that future actions by the Chinese government could significantly affect financial performance. Gensler also said that all Chinese companies trying for a U.S.

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In this Aug. 5, 2017, file photo, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission building in Washington, D.C. IPO must disclose risks that approvals from Chinese authorities to list on a U.S. exchange could be rescinded, among other things. Several big-name Chinese com-

panies have seen their stocks tumble recently as Beijing has stepped up regulation of their data protection and security. U.S.-listed shares of ride-hail-

ing company Didi Global, for example, have been falling since they began trading at the end of June. They dropped nearly 20% in their fourth day of trading after

the company was ordered to stop signing up new users and remove its app from online stores while it increases security for customer information.

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2021 Ford Bronco Sport

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It’s the Bronco Sport, people A terrific little SUV By Jordan Golson North State Journal SAN DIEGO — I’m constantly amazed by people on the internet. We’ve created the most glorious communications platform the world has ever seen, and people use it to argue — with factually inaccurate statements, to boot — about cars (and politics and sports and a million other things). A few weeks back, I posted some videos of the new Ford Bronco on TikTok. Folks in the comments were furious. They wrote about how Ford had absolutely ruined the Bronco name by affixing it to such a wimpy vehicle and that they were so personally offended by it that they’d never buy another Ford product again. Except they were talking about the Ford Bronco Sport, which is an entirely different vehicle from the Ford Bronco. Now, Ford takes an awful lot of the blame for this confusion. In the view of Ford’s marketing department, naming one car the Bronco and another the Bronco Sport is a stroke of genius. Bronco is one of

the best-known and most beloved nameplates of all time, and obviously, you’d want to milk this and have as many Broncos as possible. Except the smaller Bronco Sport, based on the Ford Escape crossover and filled with much curvier design features than the old Bronco had, was released first — almost nine months before its bigger, badder brother. The fact that only the baby Bronco was at Ford dealers made many people think that the compact and affordable Bronco Sport was the

new Bronco. Quelle horreur! The Ford Bronco Sport is an excellent little SUV (and I’ll be getting to that more in a minute), but it’s a far cry from the original Bronco. And, were it the only vehicle to have the Bronco name, I’d be surprised and disappointed. Except it isn’t. There’s the Ford Bronco, which is a fantastic off-roader available in two- and four-door variants and is solid competition for the Jeep Wrangler. Then there’s the Ford Bronco

Sport, which competes with the Jeep Compass (and lots of other small SUVs) and will be popular with many folks who will probably never take it off the pavement. Confusing the two, while understandable, does leave Ford with a bit of a mess on its hands. But at least people are aware of the thing; half the marketing battle won right there. If you want to know more about the big boy Bronco, you’ll have to check my other review because this week I drove the baby Bronco and I absolutely loved it. My review unit was an almost fully-loaded $37,940 Badlands edition, which has all kinds of off-road capable equipment like off-road tires and underbody bash plates. I drove one off-road last year at a Ford event and came away impressed with its off-road chops. But after spending a week with one, I’m even more impressed by its on-road manners and how well-designed the truck is. It’s ridiculously practical. The back of the front seats have zippered pockets that are large and padded enough to safely store a laptop, and there are a few rows of MOLLE loops — those are military-derived loops that can be used to hook carabiners and all manner of helpful gear. One of the rear seats pops up to reveal a hidden storage compartment that would be perfect for a

firearm if one were so inclined. Up front, there’s a convenient storage bin in the dash beneath the (large and lovely) infotainment screen that I used to hold my sunglasses. Another bin below has a wireless phone charger, which is perfect because the Bronco Sport has wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. And there’s webbing on the side of the center console to hold maps or your phone or whatever else. And while there are two cupholders in the center console, there are two more in each front door. This is a seriously road trip-friendly SUV. The cargo area is spacious, and you can open just the tailgate glass if you want to grab something off the top without opening the entire liftgate. And, though the rear seats aren’t the biggest in the world, they’re plenty roomy for shorter drives, and the rear headroom and visibility are tremendous thanks to stadium-esque seating and a roof that rises up a bit. I’m not going to argue whether the Bronco Sport is an affront to all Bronco-dom. That’s for fanboys on the internet to debate — but I will say that the Bronco Sport is a terrific little SUV, and if you’re in the market, it’s well worth a look. Just be prepared to explain to people that it’s the Bronco Sport not the Bronco... or just drive off and don’t read the comments. That seems easier.

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Summer events across North Carolina return after closures during pandemic By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Many venues and events that were canceled during the summer of 2020 due to the pandemic have returned this summer. Here’s a look at some of the things to do in North Carolina this August. Most of these events have safety information that currently includes adhering to the state’s mask guidelines by not requiring masks indoors for fully vaccinated individuals. Fun for the whole family can be found in Fayetteville’s Dinosaur World at Sweet Valley Ranch and the everpopular “Lost Colony” outdoor drama event in Manteo in early August. Dinosaur World at Sweet Valley Ranch will take place up through Aug. 8. where guests can walk along a paved path to view 25 animatronic dinosaurs and explore an abandoned research lab. If you miss out on the dinosaurs, be sure to check out Sweet Valley Ranch’s fall offerings, the Haunted Hallows of Cedar Creek, and their Festival of Lights. More information on this event can be accessed by visiting: https://www.sweetvalleyranchnc.com/dinosaur-world KATIE WORKMAN VIA AP

This image taken on July 2021 shows lunch containers and wraps in New York.

Back-to-school gear: Thinking outside the (lunch)box The Associated Press LOOKING to put a fresh spin on things as kids head back to class after last year’s patchwork of remote and in-person learning? Start with a “perfectly them” lunch container and other on-the-go eating and drinking gear. There are lots of stylish and sustainable options, given the creative ways that lunch foods (and the way we tote them) have changed in recent years. Back in the day, a typical lunch being unpacked in the cafeteria might have consisted of a sandwich, a piece of fruit, some cookies, maybe a few carrot sticks or a bag of chips. These days, the food in packed lunches is much more diverse, as are the containers. Bento boxes, lidded bowls, insulated totes — it’s easy to find the right vessel for your food. One focus now is on Earth-friendly products: Single-use plastics are being subbed out for reusable versions. It’s up to us, parents, to train the next generation to remember to bring everything home to wash and reuse! You can find portioned boxes in all kinds of styles and all kinds of price points. Rubbermaid makes a no-frills version with a reliably tight lid. OXO has a leakproof Prep & Go divided container in their well-loved Good Grips collection. The world of bento boxes continues to grow. Bentgo’s assortment included brightly hued, BPA-Free bentos in various sizes and configurations, as well as leak-proof, stain-resistant glass bento boxes. Mepal offers minimalist, lightweight bento boxes in a flurry of cheerful colors. Bright, insulated OmieBox-

es are geared for younger kids, with a small thermos tucked inside. You can choose if you want to keep foods hot, cold or a combination. Some of these boxes have movable compartments or mix-and-match containers which can be filled with anything from pasta salad to dal to edamame. But these days, many people are thinking outside the (lunch)box. Porter makes modern, sleek, reusable lunch bowls in plastic, ceramic and silicone-wrapped glass. Mepal also makes a variety of insulated lunch vessels, as does Cheeki — perfect for keeping soups and stews and whathave-you warm until lunch. Onyx makes stainless-steel ice packs filled with water and safe to be packed next to food, so lunch can stay cold but not get soggy. And staying hydrated has never been so stylish – your water bottle is practically an accessory at this point! Klean Kanteen has a crazy variety of durable drink containers – did you know all the ways you can sip a drink? Pick from the chug cap, twist cap, cafe cap, sippy cap and more, and each style comes in up to 11 colors. Porter’s smart-looking water bottle comes in silicone-wrapped glass with a host of pattern choices, such as the singular, speckly Limited edition Terrazzo Collection. Takeya also makes a wide range of options in a rainbow of colors. As for lunch totes, choose anything from cute to urban chic. For older kids (or adults), consider the cool, waxed-canvas options, especially those made by family makers. Vermont-based Red House makes handmade and sturdy, lined, waxed-canvas totes in muted colors like Ash Grey

Flight attendants report high frequency of unruly passengers The Associated Press DALLAS — Nearly one in five flight attendants say they have witnessed physical incidents involving passengers this year, and their union is calling for criminal prosecution of people who act up on planes. A union survey supports what airlines and federal officials have been saying: There has been a surge in unruly passengers this year, who sometimes become violent. The most common trigger is passengers who refuse to follow the federal requirement that they wear face masks during flights, according to the survey by the Association of Flight Attendants. Alcohol is the next largest factor, with flight delays also playing a role, according to the union. The union said nearly 5,000 flight

attendants responded to its survey from June 25 through July 14 and 85% said they have dealt at least once this year with an unruly passenger. The union said 17% reported seeing a “physical incident,” including touching, slapping or striking a flight attendant or another passenger. Some said they were cursed or yelled at, and some said they were followed through the airport and harassed after the flight ended, said the union, which represents flight attendants at United, Alaska, Spirit and several smaller carriers. Airlines have banned a few thousand people for the duration of the mask rule, and the Federal Aviation Administration has announced proposed fines against dozens of people. But union President Sara Nelson said more passengers should face criminal prosecution.

and Forest Green. Or seek out Peg & Awl, based out of Philadelphia; their satisfying, waxed-canvas Marlow Lunchbags have a little pocket so the lunch packer can leave a note for the lunch eater. Sets of stainless-steel cutlery in little carry boxes are available from companies such as OXO, Porter and Mepal. Reusable chopsticks in sleek little containers of their own can be found online, or at Asian housewares stores. Metal and silicone straws abound for those who can’t give up the straw. ( Zoku makes reusable straws that telescope out for easy packing, including a jumbo pocket straw specifically for bubble tea.) Ditch the plastic wrap for multiuse, washable, beeswax food-safe wrappers, such as the ones made by Prepara or Bee’s Wrap. They come in different sizes, patterns and styles. Bee’s Wrap also makes a vegan, plantbased food wrap. The warmth of your hands allows the wrap to mold around your food and seal; when the food is eaten, just wash and reuse the wrap (which is also great for storing things in the fridge). Skip plastic bags in favor of more durable, reusable bags. Stasher makes platinum silicone storage bags that are safe for the dishwasher, microwave, freezer and even the oven. They come in many shapes, sizes, patterns, and colors, easy to toss in a tote bag or lunch box. Zip Top also makes “endlessly reusable” platinum silicone containers that stand upright in different shapes, like bags, cups and dishes. Whatever’s for lunch, there is clearly a great way to transport it to school.

“When people are facing jail time for acting out on a plane, we suddenly see some sobering up, and we need some sobering up,” Sara Nelson, the union’s president, told reporters. A few cases have led to criminal charges, and crews sometimes ask police to meet the plane when it lands. In May, a 28-year-old woman was arrested on felony charges in San Diego after a video showed a young female passenger punching a Southwest flight attendant in the face. Such cases are usually filed by local prosecutors — the FAA lacks authority to pursue criminal charges. The FAA said this week that airlines have reported more than 3,600 cases of unruly passengers this year — figures were not kept for prior years. Nearly three-fourths involved disputes over masks. The agency has announced dozens of proposed fines, the largest being $52,500 for a man who tried to open the cockpit door and then struck a flight attendant on a Delta Air Lines flight in December. The FAA said it is investigating 600 other cases this year — nearly double the number of investigations started in 2019 and 2020 combined. In January FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson announced a “zero-tolerance policy” in which passengers can face immediate enforcement action instead of warnings.

Other events happening around North Carolina in August: Blowing Rock Art in the Park Blowing Rock, NC. Come and enjoy handcrafted jewelry, pottery, fiber, glass, photography, and painting by local and regional artists and craftspeople. For those in the area, a free concert featuring soul/folk artist Ashley Heath will be hosted in the park the following day on Aug. 15 at 4 p.m. Dates: Aug. 14 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. This event is free. For more information, visit: https://blowingrock.com/artinthepark/ Yadkin Summer White Wines 2021 Yadkinville, NC According to the VisitYadkin website, the first weekend will feature four Yadkin County wineries and the following weekend will have five Yadkin County wineries. Each winery will pair its wines with a small serving dish. Dates: Aug. 14-15, 2021. Sat. 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. and Sun. 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Tickets start at $20. For more information, visit: https://www.visityadkin.com/ summer-whites-event Circle K Monster Truck Bash - Concord, NC Held at the Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS)”Sparks will fly as the metal-mashing, 2,000-horsepower machines of the Circle K Monster Truck Bash return to The Dirt Track at Charlotte for a night of high-flying action on the planet’s most diabolical outdoor course!” For early entry at 3:30 p.m., bring a donation of a school supply to the front gate. Opening Ceremonies begin at 6:45 p.m. and the tickets are mobile-only and can be managed immediately via the CMS App or Account Manager. Dates: Aug. 14, 4:00 p.m.- 9:30 p.m. Additional information is posted to the CMS website: https://www.charlottemotorspeedway.com/events/circle-kmonster-truck-bash/ Beaufort Pirate Invasion Beaufort, NC Have breakfast with Blackbeard and his crew at the Beaufort Hotel and later watch the attack on the hotel by pirates. Come see the pirates continue to advance through the town and attend the Beaufort Pirate Invasion Festival and Pirate Encampment, hit the Buccaneer dinner review, or visit some of the vendors in the area. Dates: Aug. 13-15. General Admission is $10 per person, but kids under 12 are free. For more directions, extra event pricing, and other information, visit: https://www.beaufortpirateinvasion.com/ Sourwood Festival - Black Mountain, NC A “Family friendly street festival” taking place in downtown Black Mountain. The event features arts, crafts, food, games, music, and carnival rides. Dates: Aug. 14, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Aug. 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit: www exploreblackmountain.com Faith Festival Wilkesboro, NC This is a live Christian music festival with a number of performers and musical acts lined up. The festival begins at 2 p.m. but the gates open at 12:45 p.m. Dates: Aug. 28 only. Individual tickets are $30, groups of 12 or more have a group rate of $25. For more information, including the lineup of musical acts, visit: https://www.faithfestnc.com/ Labors of Halifax: 18th Century Trades Fair Halifax, NC Attendees can learn about traditional crafts, labor, and trades of the 18th century which gave Halifax the title of “Hub of the Roanoke.” Dates: Aug. 28 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Historic Halifax, located at 25 St David Street. This is event is free to the public. No website information is available. Greensboro Food Truck Festival Greensboro, NC Take your pick from 50 food trucks, sample some craft beer, listen to live music, or check out the arts and crafts vendors. There are also activities planned for the kids. Dates: Aug. 29 from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. This event is free to the public. For more details, visit: https://www. greensborofoodtruckfestivals.com/

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Dating changed during the pandemic; apps are following suit By Urooba Jamal The Associated Press LONDON — Early in the coronavirus pandemic, Jennifer Sherlock went out with a few men she met through dating apps. The dates were “weird,” she said, and not just because they were masked, socially distanced and outdoors. One one occasion, a date remained masked while they were out for a stroll, but soon after invited her back to his place, a move Sherlock saw as reckless. “It was so off putting, and awkward,” she said. “So we wouldn’t be safe outside without mask(s), but we would be safe back at his place maskless?” She decided she needed a way to filter people, so she began arranging video chats before agreeing to meet anybody in person. Sherlock, 42, a PR consultant who lives in New Jersey, said it’s a practice she’ll continue post-pandemic. Sherlock isn’t alone in changing the way she used dating apps during the pandemic, prompting many to roll out new features. Despite the social distancing of the past 18 months, the use of dating apps in general has surged as people sought connections amid their isolation. Tinder reported that 2020 was its busiest year yet; this year, its users have already set two records for usage between January and March. Hinge tripled its revenue from 2019 to 2020, and the company expects it to double from that this year. In response to changing demands, Tinder announced new tools last month that will allow users to get to know people better online. People will now be able to add videos to their profile and can chat with others even before

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This Tuesday, July 28, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for the Tinder dating app on a device in New York. matching with them. “Historically consumers were reluctant to connect via video because they didn’t see the need for it,” said Jess Carbino, an online dating expert and sociologist who has worked for Tinder and Bumble. Post-COVID, however, many people expect a higher degree of screening, she said. “Online dating apps like Tinder are leaning into that.” The dating apps say their research shows video chats are here to stay, even as life starts to return to normal in some parts of the world. Almost half of Tinder users had a video chat with a match

during the pandemic, with 40% of them intending to continue them post-pandemic. Tinder says this is largely driven by Gen Z users in their late teens and early 20s, who now make up more than half of the app’s users. And a majority of Hinge UK users, 69%, also say they’ll continue with virtual dates after the pandemic. Tinder, alongside other popular apps including Hinge, OkCupid and Bumble, has in Britain and the U.S. partnered with the government to add a badge to profiles indicating that users have been vaccinated. Dating app users are also increasingly looking for deeper con-

nections rather than casual encounters, Carbino said. That’s what happened to Maria del Mar, 29, an aerospace engineer, who wasn’t expecting to end up in a relationship after she matched with someone on Tinder early in the pandemic last year. She started chatting with her now-boyfriend through the app in April 2020 during a complete lockdown in Spain, where she lives. Having moved back to her parent’s tiny town of León from Barcelona, del Mar was bored when she joined the app, but was surprised to find many things in common with her current partner.

After weeks of chatting, they finally met for a first date — a socially-distanced hike — after restrictions eased slightly in May 2020. Now the two have moved in together. “If it wasn’t for the app, probably our paths wouldn’t have crossed,” she said. Sherlock also expects some of her pandemic dating behaviors to carry into the post-pandemic world. She recently asked two men she was texting for Facetime chats before meeting in person, something she would not have done pre-pandemic. “It’s a crazy dating world out there, so saving time is necessary,” she said.

contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on August 9, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Charles Gregory Parham and Edeltraut Parham, dated December 21, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $55,250.00, and recorded in Book 7105 at Page 1 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 2 6 1 6 Sedgefield Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28306 Tax Parcel ID: 0415-17-8265 Present Record Owners: The Heirs of Edeltraut Marianne Parham And Being more commonly known as: 2616 Sedgefield Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28306 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Edeltraut Marianne Parham. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance «AS IS, WHERE IS.» Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities

arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that

an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is July 20, 2021. LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-110882

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CUMBERLAND IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 21SP297 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY CHARLES GREGORY PARHAM AND EDELTRAUT PARHAM DATED DECEMBER 21, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7105 AT PAGE 1 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority

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courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 11, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot Number 72 in a subdivision known as CLIFTON FORGE and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 40, Page 7 in the Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 3614 Lakeshore Drive, 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

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 Haven L. Crecelius and wife, Jessica L. Crecelius. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and

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

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and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 11, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot No. 17, Block “E”, in a subdivision known as Revision of Eaglewood Forest, Section Two, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 35, Page 46, Cumberland County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 3613 Yorktown Road, 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

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 Kevin Heath and wife, Ann Heath. An Order for possession of the property may be issued

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

of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-19659-FC01

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and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 11, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 81, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS LAFAYETTE VILLAGE, SECTION 2, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 14, PAGE 6, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 5212 Cypress Road, Fayetteville, NC 28304. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset

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

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Haven L. Crecelius and Jessica L. Crecelius to H. Terry Hutchens, Trustee(s), which was dated May 22, 2009 and recorded on May 26, 2009 in Book 08158 at Page 0482 and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on March 9, 2015 in Book 09606, Page 0833, 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

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Kevin W. Heath and Anne J. Heath to TRSTE, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated July 20, 2007 and recorded on July 26, 2007 in Book 7656 at Page 797, 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

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Kevin W. Heath a/k/a Kevin Heath and Anne J. Heath a/k/a Anne Heath to TRSTE, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated October 18, 2006 and recorded on October 20, 2006 in Book 7397 at Page 243, 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

1322681 – DRS 21-SP-166 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Fixed Rate Note executed by Gregory D. Rayty (hereinafter “Borrower”) and Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Gregory D. Rayty and Sreimao Rayty (hereinafter “Grantors”) recorded on March 28, 2016 and recorded in Book 9829 at Page 4 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina (hereinafter “Deed of Trust”); and because of the default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Cumberland County Courthouse, 117 Dick Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina on THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2021 AT 12:00 NOON, all of Borrower’s and Grantors’ rights, easements, appurtenances, royalties, mineral rights, oil and gas rights, all water and riparian rights, ditches, and water stock and all existing and future improvements, structures, fixtures, and replacements that may now, or at any time in the future, be part of the Property thereto belonging, and all other appurtenant rights and

privileges, situated, lying and being in Cumberland County, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING AT A RE-BAR SET IN THE SOUTHERN LINE OF THE ORIGINAL TRACT AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE WESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY (100’ R/W) MARGIN OF US 301, DUNN ROAD, SAID POINT HAVING THE FOLLOWING NC NAD83(2007) GRID DATA: NORTHING 22,489.3927’ EASTING 2,089,052.5941 US FEET. COMBINED FACTOR OF 0.9998715 AND RUNNING THENCE FOR A FIRST CALL WITH THE ORIGINAL SOUTHERN LINE NORTH 53 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 05 SECONDS WEST 236.16 FEET TO AN EXISTING IRON STAKE AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF DEED BOOK 4005, PAGE 339 AND THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF DEED BOOK 2708, PAGE 379; THENCE, CONTINUING WITH THE NORTHEAST LINE NORTH 53 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 05 SECONDS WEST 564.41 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE SET IN THE EASTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY (65 FEET FROM CENTERLINE OF THE NORTH BOUND TRACT) MARGIN OF THE CSX RAILROAD; THENCE THE FOLLOWING COURSES WITH SAID MARGIN: NORTH 42 DEGREES 36 MINUTES 20 SECONDS EAST 100.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 42 DEGREES 13 MINUTES 09 SECONDS EAST 100.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 40 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 40 SECONDS EAST 100.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 39 DEGREES 45 MINUTES 34 SECONDS EAST 100.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 39 DEGREES 13 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST 100.00 FEET TO A

POINT; THENCE NORTH 37 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST 22.09 FEET TO A SET IRON PIPE AT THE MOST NORTHERN CORNER; THENCE SOUTH 61 DEGREES 35 MINUTES 05 SECONDS EAST 744.55 FEET TO A RE-BAR SET IN THE WESTERN MARGIN OF US 301, DUNN ROAD; THENCE WITH SAID MARGIN SOUTH 31 DEGREES 54 MINUTES 02 SECONDS WEST 342.56 FEET TO A RE-BAR SET AT THE BEGINNING OF A CURVE THAT IS CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST HAVING A RADIUS OF l,533.17 FEET; THENCE IN A SOUTHWESTERLY DIRECTION 280.15 FEET ALONG THE ARE TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SAID ARC SUBTENDED BY A CHORD WHICH BEARS SOUTH 37 DEGREES 08 MINUTES 07 SECONDS WEST 279.76 FEET, CONTAINING 10.15 ACRES. Tax Parcel ID: 0582-82-9925 Property Address: 10.15 acres off of Dunn Road, Godwin, Cumberland County, NC Present Record Owners: Gregory D. Rayty and Sreimao Rayty The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to require a cash deposit or a certified check not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00). In the event that the note holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder may also be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax, and the tax required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. If the 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 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 declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units: 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 the 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. If you are an employee, director or officer of Cape Fear Farm Credit, ACA, or are an immediately family member or residing in the household of an employee, director or officer of Cape Fear Farm Credit, then are you not eligible to bid or purchase at this sale, unless prior written consent is obtained from the Association’s Standards of Conduct Official. Immediate family includes a parent, spouse, child, sibling, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, grandparent, grandchild, and the spouses of any of the foregoing. The foregoing restriction also applies to any business partner of, or any company which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by an employee, director or officer of Cape Fear Farm Credit and warrant to Cape Fear Farm Credit in the purchase contract that you are not a related party under the rules described. If you have questions, please contact: Summer Howard 910323-9188, Ext. 3250. Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee By: William Walt Pettit, Attorney 6230 Fairview Road, Suite 315 Charlotte, NC 28210 Telephone: (704) 362-9255

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CUBMERLAND 16 SP 887 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 Darlene Noble to Amy Mandari, Trustee(s), which was dated May 27, 2005 and recorded on June 1, 2005 in Book 6895 at Page 101, 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

DAVIDSON IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION DAVIDSON COUNTY 21sp197 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY EULEE JOHNSON AND CASSELL ASHE JOHNSON AKA INEZ CASSELL JOHNSON DATED MARCH 31, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1860 AT PAGE 1094 IN THE DAVIDSON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority

20 SP 87 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 Pamela Reeves Murdock a/k/a Pamela R. Murdock and Richard John Murdock to PBRE, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated December 19, 2006 and recorded on December 19, 2006 in Book 1752 at Page 0204, 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

FORSYTH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 357

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by John R. Chambers and Nan T. Chambers (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): John R. Chambers and Nan T. Chambers) to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated May 22, 2013, and recorded in Book No. RE 3125, at Page 1980 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for

RANDOLPH 21 SP 107 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Emily C. Brock and William D. Brock to Hugh M. Queener, Trustee(s), which was dated September 6, 2017 and recorded on September 6, 2017 in Book 2562 at Page 582, Randolph County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 225 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by John Anthony Gustaferro (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): John Anthony Gustaferro, Heirs of John Anthony Gustaferro: Erin Ahlstrom, Miranda Gustaferro) to Chris Cope, Trustee(s), dated June 19, 2018, and recorded in Book No. 7182, at Page 175 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION UNION COUNTY 19sp807

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY R. HAROLD BAKER AND EMMA LOU B. BAKER DATED JUNE 24, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 3826 AT PAGE 580 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

WAKE AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 850 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Richard J. Bandy and Michele Bandy to Thomas V. Choiniere, Trustee(s), dated the 21st day of July, 2014, and recorded in Book 015726, Page 00438, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1942 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Charmaine M. Morgan (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Charmaine M. Morgan) to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated April 26, 2007, and recorded in Book No. 012517, at Page 00673 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

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 August 11, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 246, IN SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS SOUTHVIEW, SECTION VII, PART ONE, AND THE SAME BEING DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 111, PAGE 119, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 2933 Piney Mountain Drive, 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 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

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

any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-07844-FC01

contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on August 9, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Davidson County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Eulee Johnson and Cassell Ashe Johnson aka Inez Cassell Johnson, dated March 31, 2008 to secure the original principal amount of $131,250.00, and recorded in Book 1860 at Page 1094 of the Davidson 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: 203 Heron Rd, Lexington, NC 27292 Tax Parcel ID: 11348A0000033 Present Record Owners: The Estate of Cassell Ashe Johnson And Being more commonly known as: 203 Heron Rd, Lexington, NC 27292 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Estate of Cassell Ashe Johnson. 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

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 August 9, 2021 at 11:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lots Nos. 58, 59, and 60 of Carter Heights, according to the plat thereof, which is duly recorded in Plat Book 4, Page 47, 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 603 Johnson St, Thomasville, NC 27360. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

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

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

but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 20-01881-FC01

foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on August 11, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a one-half inch existing iron pipe located in the southern right of way line of Robinhood Road, said point being also the northeast corner of Lot 7 as shown on the Map of Merry Acres as recorded in Plat Book 24, Page 1, Forsyth County Registry; running thence along the eastern line of said Lot 7 South 01 degrees 46 minutes 00 seconds West 186.69 feet to a one-inch existing iron pipe located in the southeast corner of said Lot 7; running thence along the southern line of said Lot 7 South 76 degrees 23 minutes 50 seconds West 115.92 feet to a point, said point being the southwest corner of said Lot 7 and the southeast corner of Lot 8 as shown on the Map of Merry Acres (Plat Book 24, Page 1); running thence along a new line North 08 degrees 53 minutes 00 seconds West 180.59 feet to a new iron pipe located in the southern right of way line of Robinhood Road; running thence along the southern right of way line of Robinhood Road North 76 degrees 22 minutes 56 seconds East 150.55 feet to the POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING, and containing 23,980.688 square feet as shown on the survey prepared by Harris Baker Gupton, PLS, dated June 5, 2000. Together with improvements located thereon;

said property being located at 2786 Robinhood Road, Winston Salem, North Carolina. The above-described tract consists of the major portion of Lot 7 as shown on the Map of Merry Acres as recorded in Plat Book 24, Page 1, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on April 2, 2019, in Book No. RE 3453, at Page 578. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for

sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued

pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 4581 - 16933

evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 10, 2021 at 01:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 4, Map 2, Trindale Forest Subdivision, as per plat thereof duly recorded in Plat Book 12, Page 86, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 4728 Roby Drive, Archdale, NC 27263. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

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

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 August 12, 2021 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: All of Lot 50 of the O.V. McGee Subdivision known as PINE DELL Subdivision as shown on plat made by Ralph W. Elliott, NCRLS, dated August 13, 1963, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Union County, in Plat Book 5, at Page 137, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1714 Sue Street, Monroe, North Carolina.

For informational purposes only: 1714 Sue Street, Monroe, NC 28110 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior

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

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

the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 1:00PM on August 9, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Union County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed R. Harold Baker and Emma Lou B. Baker, dated June 24, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $106,000.00, and recorded in Book 3826 at Page 580 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. 2 4 1 1 Address of property: Unionville Indian Trail Rd West, Indian Trail, NC 28079 Tax Parcel ID:

08300032 Present Record Owners: Emma Lou B. Baker And Being more commonly known as: 2411 Unionville Indian Trail Rd West, Indian Trail, NC 28079 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Emma Lou B. Baker. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance «AS IS, WHERE IS.» Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to

all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that

an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is May 21, 2021. LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-104594

ALL PERSONS, firms and corporations having claims against JAMES LACY TAYLOR, deceased, of Wake County, N.C. (2021-E-2725), are notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before November 15, 2021, or this notice

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

designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on August 16, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the City of Holly Springs, in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 133 in Twelve Oaks Pud, Phase 1A, as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 2007, Pages 1516, 1517, and 1518, Wake County Registry

directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior

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

in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm LLP 6230 Fairview Road, Suite 315 Charlotte, NC 28210 Phone No: (704) 362-9255 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1296582 (CFC.CH)

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

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

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

Being the identical property as conveyed to John Anthony Gustaferro, Unmarried, on 8/28/2012 in Book 05809, Pages 0702-0703, in the Union County Public Registry. Tax ID: 09342052

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,

1:30 PM on August 16, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Raleigh in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in the City of Raleigh, St. Mary’s Township, WAKE County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 70 Griffis Glen Subdivision, Phase 1, as shown on a map recorded in Book of Maps 2005, Pages 11321137 (with said lot being shown on a page 1135), Wake County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3955 Griffis Glen Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina. Parcel ID Number: 0334806 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

This 4th day of August 2021.

Alan S. Taylor, Administrator, c/o Lisa M. Schreiner, Stam Law Firm, PLLC, 510 W. Williams St., Apex, NC 27502.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 3023 - 7346

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Stanly Community College kicked off a year of celebrations for their 50th anniversary in July with local officials, staff and students attending events on campus and burying a time capsule to be opened in 25 years. Pictured are the guest speakers for the ceremony: state Rep. Wayne Sasser; Bill Lawhorn, chairman, Stanly County Board of Commissioners; Dr. John Enamait, SCC president; the Honorable Richard “Lane” Brown, III; and Dan Hazlett, retired SCC English instructor and current student life advisor.

WHAT’S HAPPENING COVID 19 community health program expands Stanly County The state’s department of health and human services has expanded the COVID-19 Community Health Worker program. Kepro, which served several counties, including Stanly, was one of six vendors initially selected to connect people affected by COVID-19 with support services. Two additional organizations have been added, expanding the number of counties and people that can now be served by the outreach program. WNCT

Student pilot lands safely after engine fails Anson County Brian Parsley was able to land his small plane in a field after he suffered engine failure. Parsley is a student pilot who was taking a solo flight from Concord to Florence to Anson County Airport and back to Concord as part of training for his pilot’s license. His plane unexpectedly ran out of fuel, and the propellors stopped as the engines shut down. He was able to safely put the plane down in a field in Harrisburg.

Grand opening on Saturday for new music store in Locust By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal LOCUST — After half a year of preparation, Ronnie and Christina Black’s plan to open up a music store in Locust is coming to fruition this weekend. The husband-and-wife owners of the upcoming rBc Music Store — along with representatives from the Stanly County Chamber of Commerce — are holding a ribbon cutting ceremony on Aug. 7 at 10 a.m. to celebrate the grand opening of what will be Locust’s first music store in many years. Located among the businesses that populate Locust’s Town Center at 150 Ray Kennedy Dr, Saturday’s kick-off event for the new business will feature a meet-andgreet with the Blacks, as well as a variety of food, t-shirts and other freebies. With raffle tickets at $5 dollars apiece, a Takamine acoustic guitar and a Ludwig snare drum will both be awarded to participants

in a random drawing. “I’m excited because we’ve been wanting to do the grand opening since April,” Ronnie Black told SCJ on Aug. 2. “It’s been hard getting all the work contracted out and finished. A couple weeks ago, we were able to get all the painting done so now we’ve been able to see a light at the end of the tunnel; now we’ve been working to get all the inventory done.” Ronnie and Christina Black first talked about the idea of collaborating to open a music shop back in January. A month later, their plan was set into motion as they began the long process of ordering inventory items — a strategy that left their home filled with boxes of guitars, drums and other instruments until now. “It’s nice to be able to get our house back,” Ronnie Black said. Over the past few months, they have transported their purchased musical equipment to their new showroom and have been busy

“We have a lot to offer — from band instruments for students to equipment for someone to play a gig on a Saturday night. We’re kind of a one-stop-shop, like a miniGuitar Center.” Ronnie Black setting up the final touches of the building’s arrangement and computer database. They have also designed a performance stage complete with lights and a sound system in order to host monthly open-mic nights as the year progresses. In addition to selling a selection of guitars, drums, keyboards, amplifiers and accessories, the shop is offering sign-ups for guitar and piano lessons by Ronnie Black and Drucie Eudy,

225 students have school debts discharged by Pfeiffer University

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Federal HEERF grants allowed for $425k in loan forgiveness

HBCU to pay off pandemic-related student debt Mecklenburg County Another historically black university will pay off all outstanding balances for students as a response to pandemic-related debt. Johnson C. Smith University will cancel about $300,000 in debts. Earlier, Livingstone College said it would forgive more than $2.8 million in debt. N.C. Central has cleared more than $10 million in student debt. Many of these programs are possible because of the federal CARES Act. The funds also provided all returning JCSU students with direct relief last fall: $2,500 for returning students, and $2,000 for new students, according to the university. AP

By David Larson Stanly County Journal Pfeiffer University, a private four-year college in Misenheimer, announced on Thursday, July 29, that they were eliminating debt for 225 of their past and present students. The money to forgive the loans came from federal grants through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF). To receive the grants, students had to have unpaid balances and had to have been enrolled at Pfeiffer between March 13, 2020, and July 19, 2021. The total amount of debt paid was $425,000. “Using the institutional share of Pfeiffer’s government aid was an easy decision for the University,” Shivon Lee, controller of Pfeiffer

University, said in the press release. “To me, this is significant: Generally, if a student has a balance from a semester, they can’t proceed to the next semester until that old balance is satisfied. I am pleased the University chose to use these funds to allow our students to continue their educational pursuits.” The announcement highlighted two students who received the grants. One of the profiled students, Jeremiah Darrell Schenck, a Gastonia native who plays on the school’s lacrosse team and is majoring in computer information systems, said the money couldn’t have come at a better time. Schenk was unable to pay his last semester’s tuition, which prohibited him from continuing to attend classes and play athletics at Pfeiffer. The release said that Schenk’s mother had been injured on the job and was not able to work. This made it impossible for the family to cover the bills, and Schenk would have had to take time off to work full time to pay

“Generally, if a student has a balance from a semester, they can’t proceed to the next semester until that old balance is satisfied. I am pleased the University chose to use these funds to allow our students to continue their educational pursuits.” Shivon Lee, controller of Pfeiffer University the tuition before returning. The other student, Mackenzie Deanna Swetnam, is part of the 3/2 program, which allows a student to get both an undergraduate and graduate degree in five years. Swetnam is close to completing the undergraduate degree in business management and leadership and has more work ahead of her

respectively. Another feature of the new business will be a partnership with Veritas Instrument Rental Incorporated (VIR), a program that will allow the store to help music departments in high schools throughout Stanly County refurbish their instruments in an attempt to give back to the community. Ronnie Black, a West Stanly High School graduate, said he recently visited his alma mater’s music department and that the trip inspired him to assist in updating the school band’s facilities and equipment. “We have a lot to offer — from band instruments for students to equipment for someone to play a gig on a Saturday night. We’re kind of a one-stop-shop, like a mini-Guitar Center,” he said. “When I was younger, my brother and I used to go to a music shop in Charlotte called Reliable Music, and we loved that place…. That store’s atmosphere has really stuck with me, and that’s where I got this idea.” This Saturday’s grand opening event (Aug. 7) for the rBc Music Store is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and run through 5 p.m.; promotional items and food will be available to the public while supplies last.

to complete the master of business administration. Swetnam, like Schenk, was in a position where she would have been unable to continue at Pfeiffer, and said it would have been “several months” before she could work off her summer bills with the university. The HEERF funding will make it possible for Swetnam to continue in the dual-degree program while working to earn money and stay on top of tuition. “I believe this validates Pfeiffer’s commitment to putting students first,” Lee said, adding that the students would not be required to stay enrolled with Pfeiffer to receive the funds. “This is not about Pfeiffer; it’s about helping our students continue their journey wherever that may lead.” The move comes amid debates nationally on the subject, with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) saying that “all President Biden has to do is flick his pen” and he can forgive $50,000 for all with student debt. Fellow Democrat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, disagreed, saying the move would be unfair to those who didn’t attend college and that any loan forgiveness would need to go through Congress rather than through a Biden executive order.

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Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers By Alan Suderman The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security staff this year, he said he got some advice on how to help keep his cellphone secure. Step One: Turn off phone. Step Two: Turn it back on. That’s it. At a time of widespread digital insecurity, it turns out that the oldest and simplest computer fix there is — turning a device off then back on again — can thwart hackers from stealing information from smartphones. Regularly rebooting phones won’t stop the army of cybercriminals or spy-for-hire firms that have sowed chaos and doubt about the ability to keep any information safe and private in our digital lives. But it can make even the

most sophisticated hackers work harder to maintain access and steal data from a phone. “This is all about imposing cost on these malicious actors,” said Neal Ziring, technical director of the National Security Agency’s cybersecurity directorate. The NSA issued a “best practices” guide for mobile device security last year in which it recommends rebooting a phone every week as a way to stop hacking. King, an independent from Maine, says rebooting his phone is now part of his routine. “I’d say probably once a week, whenever I think of it,” he said. Almost always in arm’s reach, rarely turned off and holding huge stores of personal and sensitive data, cellphones have become top targets for hackers looking to steal text messages, contacts and photos, as well as track users’ locations and even secretly turn on their video and microphones.

“I always think of phones as like our digital soul,” said Patrick Wardle, a security expert and former NSA researcher. The number of people whose phones are hacked each year is unknowable, but evidence suggests it’s significant. A recent investigation into phone hacking by a global media consortium has caused political uproars in France, India, Hungary and elsewhere after researchers found scores of journalists, human rights activists and politicians on a leaked list of what were believed to be potential targets of an Israeli hacker-for-hire company. The advice to periodically reboot a phone reflects, in part, a change in how top hackers are gaining access to mobile devices and the rise of so-called “zero-click” exploits that work without any user interaction instead of trying to get users to open something that’s secretly infected.

“There’s been this evolution away from having a target click on a dodgy link,” said Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, an internet civil rights watchdog at the University of Toronto. Typically, once hackers gain access to a device or network, they look for ways to persist in the system by installing malicious software to a computer’s root file system. But that’s become more difficult as phone manufacturers such as Apple and Google have strong security to block malware from core operating systems, Ziring said. “It’s very difficult for an attacker to burrow into that layer in order to gain persistence,” he said. “Adversaries came to the realization they don’t need to persist,” Wardle said. “If they could do a one-time pull and exfiltrate all your chat messages and your contact and your passwords, it’s almost game over anyways, right?”

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DEATH NOTICES ♦ Roderick Nathaniel West, II, 28, of Albemarle, died July 24. ♦ Roderick Dale Funk, 66, of Albemarle, died July 24. ♦ Kevin Ray Lundy, Sr., 44, of Albemarle, died July 24. ♦ William Charles Morgan, 59, of Albemarle, died July 25. ♦ David Mark Crisco, 67, of Albemarle, died July 26. ♦ Marshall Ray Andrews, 87, of Albemarle, died July 28. ♦ Jason Edward Washburn, 50, of Oakboro, died July 29. ♦ Dianne Cook Haynes, 71, of Albemarle, died July 29. ♦ Daisy Lee Smith, 74, of Albemarle, died July 30. ♦ Rocky Alson Key, 67, of Stanly County, died July 31.

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WEEKLY CRIME LOG ♦ White, Joshua Glen (W /M/37) Arrest on chrg of Dwi - Motor Boat/vessel (M), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 8/1/2021 ♦ Duncan, Aaron Hall (B /M/31) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault - Free Text (F), 2) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 3) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 4) Break Or Enter Motor Vehicle (F), 5) Break Or Enter Motor Vehicle (F), 6) Attempted Felony Larceny (F), 7) Attempted Felony Larceny (F), 8) Possess Stolen Motor Vehicle (F), 9) Injury To Real Property (M), 10) Injury To Real Property (M), 11) Other - Free Text (M), 12) Other - Free Text (M), 13) Other Free Text (M), 14) Other - Free Text (M), 15) Other - Free Text (M), 16) Other - Free Text (M), 17) Flee/elude Arrest W/mv (f) (F), 18) Reckless Drvg-wanton Disregard (M), and 19) Prearranged Speed Competition (M), at Frog Pond, Endy, NC, on 8/1/2021 ♦ Ferguson, Roger Wayland (W /M/19) Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired (M), at 24/27 And Cherokee Rd, Albemarle, NC, on 8/1/2021 ♦ Griffin, Joshua Mitchell (B /M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Carrying Concealed Gun (m) (M), 2) Other Free Text (M), 3) Other - Free Text (M), 4) Covering/disguising Reg Plate (M), 5) Speeding (M), and 6) Reckless Drvg-wanton Disregard (M), at 126 South 3rd Street, Albemarle, NC, on 7/31/2021 ♦ Shankle, Octavis Colson (B /F/64) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault With

Deadly Weapon (m) (M) and 2) Communicate Threats (M), at 35189 Dairy Farm Ln, New London, NC, on 7/31/2021 ♦ Harvey, Veronica Lynn (W /F/45) Arrest on chrg of Civil Order For Arrest - Child Support (M), at 24/27 Bear Creek Church Rd, Albemarle, NC, on 7/30/2021 ♦ Shaw, Debbie Lynn (W /F/49) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), 2) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (m) (M), 3) Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), and 4) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at Hwy 52, Albemarle, NC, on 7/30/2021

♦ Strother, Seth Aaron (W /M/33) Arrest on chrg of Larceny Of Motor Vehicle (f) (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 7/28/2021 ♦ Stearns, Benjamin Osullivan (W /M/31) Arrest on chrg of Simple Possess Sch Iv Cs (m) (M), at Scj, Albemarle, NC, on 7/28/2021 ♦ Rushing, Hasonn (B /M/20) Arrest on chrg of 1) Statutory Rape Of Child <= 15 (F) and 2) Statutory Rape Of Child <= 15 (F), at 126 South 3rd St, Albemarle, NC, on 7/27/2021

♦ Douglass, Cody Robert (W /M/22) Arrest on chrg of 1) Sex Offender Residence Viol (F) and 2) Fail Reprt New Address-sex Off (F), at Meadow Ridge Apts., Albemarle, NC, on 7/29/2021

♦ Ingram, Basil Wayne (W /M/54) Arrest on chrg of 1) Fta - Release Order (M), 2) Fta - Release Order (F), 3) Fta - Release Order (M), 4) Fta Release Order (M), 5) Fta - Release Order (M), 6) Fta - Release Order (M), and 7) Fta - Release Order (M), at 2535 Badin Road, Badin, NC, on 7/27/2021

♦ Smith, Eric Michael (W /M/41) Arrest on chrg of 1) Surrender By Surety (F) and 2) Surrender By Surety (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 7/28/2021

♦ Murray, Jennifer Lee (W /F/35) Arrest on chrg of 1) Resisting Public Officer (M) and 2) Assault On Govt Official/emply (M), at Hwy 138, Oakboro, NC, on 7/27/2021

♦ Hatley, Jimmy Darrell (W /M/55) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F) and 2) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 12082 Nc Highway 138, Norwood, NC, on 7/28/2021

♦ Strother, Seth Aaron (W /M/33) Arrest on chrg of 1) Resisting Public Officer (M), 2) Unauthorized Use Of Motor Vehicle (M), 3) Felony Possession Sch I Cs (F), 4) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), 5) Dv Protection Order Violation (M), 6) H/i Felony Probation Violation (F), and 7) Felony Probation Violation (F), at 24000 South Business 52, Albemarle, NC, on 7/27/2021

♦ Thomas, Micheal Dillion (W /M/19) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Methamphetamine (F), 2) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), and 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 12082 Nc Highway 138, Norwod, NC, on 7/28/2021

♦ Ingold, Mitchell Glenn (W M, 41) Arrest on chrg of Injury To Real

Property, M (M),at 447 Brown Av, Albemarle, on 07/26/202

Larceny, M (M), at781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, on 08/01/202

♦ Allen, Dmarius Obrian (B M, 30) Arrest on chrg of Possess Marijuana Up To 1/2Ounce, M (M), at 219 Morningside Av/amhurst St, Albemarle, on 07/27/2021

♦ Hatley, Bailey Alan (W /M/19) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possession Of Stolen Firearm (F), 2) Maintain Veh/dwell/ place Cs (f) (F), 3) Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), 4) Pwimsd Sch Vi Cs (F), 5) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (m) (M), 6) Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), 7) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), 8) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 9) Felony Probation Violation (F), at 100 Anwit St/anson Av, Norwood, NC, on 8/2/2021

♦ Gallimore, Michael Paul (W M, 41) Arrest on chrg of Littering Not > 15 Lbs, M (M),at 1199 Northeast Connector/rebel Rd, Albemarle, on 07/29/2021 ♦ Smith, Tiffanie Denise (W F, 32) Arrest on chrg of Surrender By Surety, F (F), at 126S Third St, Albemarle, on 07/30/2021. ♦ Smith, Tiffanie Denise (W F, 32) Arrest on chrg of Fta - Release Order (M), at 126 SThird St, Albemarle, on 07/30/2021 ♦ Owens, Laurel Del (W F, 37) Arrest on chrg of Possess Marijuana Up To 1/2 Ounce,M (M), at 339 Nc 24-27 Bypass E/wall St, Albemarle, on 07/30/2021. ♦ Martinez, Beda Baza (W /F/33) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Sch Vi Cs (F), 2) Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), and 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 100 Anwit St/anson Av, Norwood, NC, on 8/2/2021 ♦ White, Dyangelo Shamir O`brian (B M, 18) Arrest on chrg of Resisting Public Officer,M (M), at 737 Nc 24-27 Bypass E, Albemarle, on 08/01/2021 ♦ Mcclain, Cammie Lou G (W F, 58) Arrest on chrg of Misdemeanor

♦ Smith, Ryan Gage (W /M/27) Arrest on chrg of Break/enter Terrorize/ injure, F (F), at 25119 Millinport Rd, Locust, NC, on 8/2/2021 07:28. ♦ Shankle, Octavis Colson (B /F/64) Arrest on chrg of 1) Threatening Phone Calls (M) and 2) Communicate Threats (M), at 126 South 3rd St, Albemarle, NC, on 8/2/2021 ♦ Almond, Laura Elizabeth (W /F/40) Arrest on chrg of 1) Obtain Property False Pretense (F), 2) Simple Worthless Check (M), 3) Felony Probation Violation (F), and 4) Surrender By Surety (F), at 126 South 3rd St, Albemarle, NC, on 8/2/2021

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, August 4, 2021

OPINION

Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor VISUAL VOICES

COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

Democrats’ wild spending is causing prices to go up

Just on Friday, the latest inflation marker rose 3.5%, its biggest jump since 1991.

IF DEBT AND SPENDING were Olympic sports, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi would easily take home the gold medal. Now after a year of unprecedented and reckless spending, there is no relief in sight for hard-working taxpayers. Last week Nancy Pelosi and Washington Democrats passed yet another massive $600 billion spending package — a 21% increase in spending from the previous year. Even worse, this budget was the first in decades to scrap the Hyde Amendment, allowing taxpayer dollars to go towards abortions. The only thing they didn’t fund was the Defense Department and Homeland Security. This out-of-control spending is coming with a cost for you and your family in the form of higher prices at the grocery store and gas station. Inflation is a tax increase on all Americans and only getting worse. Just on Friday, the latest inflation marker rose 3.5%, its biggest jump since 1991. This, along with the highest consumer prices in 13 years, is the latest sign that reckless spending by Washington Democrats is driving inflation. For the sake of generations to come, we cannot afford to spend like this. While Washington Democrats were busy spending your tax dollars, last week I focused on defending our veterans and the Second Amendment. On Tuesday, I hosted a group of wounded combat veterans in Washington to discuss a new regulation on pistol-stabilizing braces proposed by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF). Under the regulation, an individual could become a felon unless they turn in or destroy their firearm, destroy their brace, or pay a tax. This regulation is a massive attack on our Second Amendment. But worse is that these devices were designed and are needed by wounded veterans to continue exercising their rights. Joining me last week was former police officer and U.S. Army veteran Rick Cicero, who was injured in Afghanistan in 2010 by an IED. After

losing his right leg and right arm, Cicero helped develop the original stabilizing brace. He now travels the country teaching disabled veterans how to shoot again and said stabilizing braces “are the foundation” for everything he does. Rick talked about the impact on self-esteem and the mental health improvements he sees in these veterans due to this training. I led 140 Members of Congress opposing this regulation. Forty-eight Senators also joined this effort. Now I am encouraging everyone to submit a public comment against this rule to the ATF before Sept. 8. Folks can visit my website at Hudson.House.Gov to go directly to the ATF’s comment portal. Veterans and others who rely on these braces deserve an equal opportunity to exercise the Second Amendment. I will not back down until we tell the ATF to defend them and our rights. Finally, last week, mask mandates returned to the halls of Congress and many communities across the country. Cases have risen, mainly among in those without vaccines. Yet last week, I asked for data from the CDC on why they reversed mask guidance for those who have been vaccinated. Vaccines work and I encourage everyone to consult with their doctor about getting one. But sweeping political mandates not based on science undermine our confidence in public health. Furthermore, updated guidance from the Biden administration comes as they continue to allow thousands of migrants to cross our southern border without COVID tests or vaccines. Solving this crisis should be step one to address any rise in cases. I am determined to keep our businesses and schools open this fall. Vaccines are helping us do this and we should not allow political agendas to revert us back to mask mandates and lockdowns that aren’t based on science. In addition to defending our veterans and Second Amendment, I will always fight for commonsense solutions to protect you and your family.

COLUMN | MICHAEL BARONE

Do we have to watch their wretched movie all over again? Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker raised interest rates and triggered a steep recession from which a low-inflation growth economy eventually emerged. Are we ready for that kind of pain again?

WHY DO I FEEL that I have seen this movie before? I would like to think that learning is cumulative. But I’m beginning to think that every generation or two, people need to learn all over again the lessons that have unaccountably been forgotten or tossed aside. The elderly among us can see this, even as young people are inclined to insist that they are experiencing things never before experienced by humans and that this time will be different. Let’s take it issue by issue: Inflation The consumer price index for June rose on an annual basis before seasonal adjustment by 5.4%. That’s higher than May, which suggests that inflation is accelerating. And it’s far above the 2% annual rate, which is the professed goal of the Federal Reserve. Treasury Secretary and former Fed Chair Janet Yellen insisted that the jumps in prices are just temporary adjustments to the COVID-19 economy, although she’s extended the period for adjustments. Current Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said he’s not worried and will keep interest rates low. They’ve got the bond market on their side. But those expressing alarm include not only the Wall Street Journal editorial page but also Harvard economist and Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. He’s been arguing for months that President Joe Biden’s administration is pumping too much money into the economy. Consumers may agree: A New York Fed survey showed they expect a 4.8% annual rise in prices over the next year. We learned in the 1970s that once people start expecting inflation, they start to feed it by raising prices and boosting wages to keep ahead of the trend. We know how to get rid of inflation. Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker — appointed by Jimmy Carter and supported by Ronald Reagan — raised interest rates and triggered a steep recession from which a lowinflation growth economy eventually emerged. Are we ready for that kind of pain again? Crime Calendar year 2020 saw a 25% increase in homicides, the highest since 1960 and higher than in any single year in the 1965-75 decade when the number of violent crimes almost tripled. They seem to be rising by similar rates this year.

Many people don’t like to admit it, but this is obviously a result of the de-policing movement urged by Black Lives Matter and cheered on by liberal editorial writers, corporate moguls and Silicon Valley monopolists. They applauded and declared exempt from COVID-19 restrictions the “mostly peaceful” demonstrations against supposed systemic police misconduct. Few, if any, deplored the nearly 600 violent riots that caused some $2 billion in damage. If the experience of the 1960s is a guide, this will severely damage modest-income neighborhoods for decades after. Once again, solutions are visible for those with sufficient memory. The intensive policing tactics of Rudy Giuliani and Bill Bratton in New York City in the 1990s — copied and adapted by many others around the country — cut violent crime rates by more than half. Thousands of black lives were saved — and the number of black people with prison records reduced. Neighborhoods once abandoned to criminals were revived with new jobs and opportunities. Can that happen again? Maybe Eric Adams, the ex-New York Police Department officer who seems sure to be elected mayor of NYC in November, can show the way. Or maybe we’ll have to wait out a couple of high-crime decades, as we did after 1965-75. Illegal immigration Does the United States need 1 or 2 million new illegal immigrants? The Biden administration apparently thinks so. It has opened the southern border to tens of thousands of supposed asylum seekers; not just from Central America and Mexico but also from Haiti, the Middle East and Africa. The illegal immigrant population increased from 3.5 million in the 1990s to 8.4 million in 2000 and peaked at 12.2 million in 2007, then dropped and leveled off at 10.5 million in 2017, according to Pew Research. The 2007-08 recession reduced low-skill immigration over the southern border to zero. Trump administration agreements with Mexico kept it down. As a result, low-skill Americans saw greater percentage wage gains than the rich, even as immigrant inflow became increasingly high-skill. What was so terrible about that? It may be that these problems will just solve themselves: Inflation will subside, as many economists expect; violent crime will subside, depolicing or not; recent border crossers will meet their court dates and legalize their status. But maybe not. In which case, doesn’t it make sense to go back and update policies that worked rather than watch this movie go on at agonizing length? Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, August 4, 2021

SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Fayetteville Statebound football player shot to death St. Pauls A standout St. Pauls High School football player who had signed to play at Fayetteville State was killed in a shooting, according to a sheriff’s office. The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Marqueise Coleman, 19, of St. Pauls was shot early last Thursday, news outlets reported. The news release said Coleman was taken to UNC Southeastern Medical Center in a private vehicle where he was pronounced dead. Coleman led the state in rushing yards and led St. Pauls High School to the state 2-AA high school championship game.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Syracuse women’s hoops coach resigns amid bullying probe Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse women’s basketball coach Quentin Hillsman resigned Monday amid an external review of his program over his alleged threats and bullying of players. Athletic director John Wildhack said in a statement Monday that both sides “agreed that parting ways is in the best interest” of the school, program and players. He said an interim coach will be named. Syracuse had 12 players enter the transfer portal after the season. Hillsman blamed their departure on attrition and COVID-19, among other issues. But then he was accused by former players and staff of threats, bullying and unwanted physical contact.

MATT YORK | AP PHOTO

Suns guard Chris Paul is staying in Phoenix on a new four-year deal.

Chris Paul resigns with Suns on 4-year deal The 36-year-old reached his first NBA Finals last year with Phoenix By David Brandt The Associated Press PHOENIX — Chris Paul proved to be an ageless wonder in his first season with the Phoenix Suns, leading the franchise to the NBA Finals for the first time in nearly three decades. Now he’ll get another chance to push the Suns — and himself — to a long-coveted champion-

ship. Phoenix is bringing back the veteran point guard on a fouryear deal that could be worth up to $120 million, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because free agent contracts can’t be announced until Friday. The new contract could keep Paul with the Suns until he’s 40 years old. The Suns won the first two games of this year’s Finals but then dropped four straight to the

Milwaukee Bucks. After the Finals loss, Paul spoke about wanting to return. “Everybody in that locker room knows we had enough, but it wasn’t enough,” the Winston-Salem native and Wake Forest standout said at the time. “So, we got to figure it out. I think for me I just look at myself and figure out how can I get better, what I could have done more and make sure I come back next season ready to do it again.” Paul’s backup will return as well. Point guard Cameron Payne agreed to a $19 million, threeyear contract, a person with knowledge of the deal told The AP on Monday. Payne, who turns 27 next week, was a revelation for the Suns over the past 1½ years. He was signed as a free agent just before the NBA returned in 2020 to the Florida bubble and contributed to eight straight wins. Over the past season, he played in 60 games and averaged 8.4 points and 3.6 assists. He was

even more valuable during the playoffs, filling in admirably when Paul was limited by a shoulder injury against the Lakers. Payne later started two games against the Los Angeles Clippers when Paul was out on the COVID-19 list; the Suns won both. The Paul deal wasn’t a big surprise, but it comes with considerable risk. Few NBA players, let alone point guards, have played at an All-Star level into their late 30s. But Paul is well known for taking care of his body, and at age 36 he made his 11th All-Star team while averaging 16.4 points and 8.9 assists. Paul’s decision to stay with the Suns means the team’s nucleus — which includes Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton, Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson and Jae Crowder —- should stay intact. Paul has said repeatedly he’s comfortable in Phoenix, teaming with fellow All-Star Booker in the backcourt and playing for coach Monty Williams, a close friend.

Carolina linebacker Denzel Perryman, pictured during his arrival at Panthers camp in Spartanburg, South Carolina, says he will not get vaccinated despite the NFL’s strict protocols.

SOCCER

U.S. upsets Mexico to win Gold Cup Las Vegas Miles Robinson scored on a header in the 117th minute, and a United States junior varsity lineup upset a mostly front-line Mexico team 1-0 on Sunday night to win the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Kellyn Acosta, one of two players in the U.S. starting lineup who gets playing time when the first-choice roster is together, took a free kick, and Robinson outjumped Edson Álvarez and headed the ball in on one hop to the right of goalkeeper Alfredo Talavera. Matt Turner got his fifth shutout in six matches of the Gold Cup, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean. The Americans won all three knockout matches by 1-0 scores.

MLB

Mets fail to sign 10th overall pick Rocker New York The New York Mets failed to sign their top pick from last month’s amateur draft, Vanderbilt pitcher Kumar Rocker, by Sunday’s 5 p.m. deadline, over concern about his medical scans. New York selected Rocker with the 10th overall pick and will receive an extra selection in next year’s amateur draft, the pick after the 10th choice, because of their failure to sign the 21-yearold right-hander. The Mets lost the $4,739,900 slot value available for draft signings that was assigned to Rocker’s pick. Rocker was a junior and is eligible to return to Vanderbilt for his senior season.

JEFF SINER / THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER VIA AP

Panthers’ Perryman will wear mask, won’t get vaccinated The linebacker signed with Carolina this offseason The Associated Press SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Denzel Perryman thinks everyone should be wearing a mask until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. But when it comes to getting the vaccination shot, the Carolina Panthers linebacker says no way. “Nothing against it. I mean, I know people that got the vaccination and still caught COVID, so to me it’s like, ‘what’s the point?’” said Perryman, who spoke to reporters Friday at training camp while wearing a mask. The NFL says 87.9% of its players have had at least one vaccination shot and that 19 clubs have better than a 90% vaccination rate. Seven clubs have 95% of their players vaccinated. The Panthers would not re-

lease their vaccination statistics, but in recent weeks they were listed among the teams with the highest vaccination rate. Perryman said no one within the Panthers organization has tried to coerce him into getting vaccinated but added he does hear some subtle jokes from Panthers coach Matt Rhule from time to time about getting the vaccine. “He doesn’t pressure us at all, but he does make some jokes like, ‘Hey, if you don’t get vaccinated you’re going to have to wear the mask,’ or ‘Hey, if you get vaccinated you will be able to do this,’” Perryman said. “I’m like, ‘Hey coach, I’m not doing it.’” Rhule said earlier this week there is “no doubt” in his mind that there is an advantage to having a highly vaccinated team. “The more guys that are vaccinated the closer we can be in meetings, the more we can be around each other,” Rhule said Tuesday.

“I know unvaccinated players can’t do this and can’t do that. … It doesn’t bother me. Like I said, it is my choice.” Denzel Perryman “But at the end of the day, it is everyone’s personal decision. So we provided information and made it clear, hey, this is best for us to operate. But you have to do what you’re comfortable with. I’m not here to tell anyone else what to do.” Under the protocols developed by the NFL and the Players Association, vaccinated players are currently required to be tested once every 14 days and aren’t subject to quarantines through contact tracing. On the other hand, unvaccinated play-

ers remain subject to daily testing, contact-tracing quarantines and several other restrictions. Unvaccinated players cannot leave the team hotel or interact with people outside the organization while traveling, while vaccinated players can. They must travel on a separate plane, cannot eat meals with teammates and may not use the sauna or steam room at NFL facilities. Perryman said he has no problems with the protocols. “At the end of the day it is my choice,” Perryman said. “I know unvaccinated players can’t do this and can’t do that. When it comes to family, you can’t do this or that. But it is what it is. It doesn’t bother me. Like I said, it is my choice.” Perryman spent his first six seasons with the Los Angeles Chargers before signing a two-year, $6 million contract with the Panthers this offseason. He’s expected to start for Carolina at inside linebacker.

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, August 4, 2021

West Stanly named Wells Fargo Conference Cup champion The Colts earned the honor for a fifth straight year By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal

MARTIN MEISSNER | AP PHOTO

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya alleged her Olympic team tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff Sunday at Tokyo’s main airport. An activist group supporting Tsimanouskaya said she believed her life was in danger in Belarus and would seek asylum.

Belarus Olympian plans to seek asylum in Poland “I was put under pressure, and they are trying to forcibly take me out of the country without my consent.” Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, Belarusian sprinter

State-run media in Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s home country lashed out against the sprinter By Graham Dunbar The Associated Press TOKYO — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter plans to seek asylum in Poland, an activist group said Monday, after the athlete alleged that her team’s officials tried to force her to fly home, where she feared she wouldn’t be safe from an autocratic government that recently was accused of diverting a plane in order to arrest a dissident journalist. Athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya received a humanitarian visa from the Polish embassy in Tokyo, according to a Polish Foreign Ministry official. The Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation, an activist group that is helping the runner, told The Associated Press that the group bought her a plane ticket to Warsaw for the coming days. The current standoff apparently began after Tsimanouskaya criticized how officials were managing her team — setting

off a massive backlash in staterun media back home, where authorities relentlessly crack down on government critics. Tsimanouskaya said on her Instagram account that she was put in the 4x400 relay even though she has never raced in the event. Tsimanouskaya was then apparently hustled to the airport but refused to board a flight for Istanbul and instead approached police for help. In a filmed message distributed on social media, she also asked the International Olympic Committee for assistance. “I was put under pressure, and they are trying to forcibly take me out of the country without my consent,” the 24-year-old runner said in the message. The rapid-fire series of events brought international political intrigue to an Olympics that have been more focused on operational dramas, like maintaining safety during a pandemic and navigating widespread Japanese opposition to holding the event at all. Belarus’ authoritarian government has relentlessly targeted anyone even mildly expressing dissent since a presidential elec-

tion a year ago triggered a wave of unprecedented mass protests. And it has also gone to extremes to stop its critics, including the recent plane diversion that European officials called an act of air piracy. In this context, Tsimanouskaya feared for her safety once she saw the campaign against her in state media, according to the sports foundation. “The campaign was quite serious and that was a clear signal that her life would be in danger in Belarus,” Alexander Opeikin, a spokesman for the foundation, told the AP in an interview. Tsimanouskaya’s next steps were not clear. Vadim Krivosheyev, also of the sports foundation, said she planned to seek asylum. Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek, a Polish deputy foreign minister, said the runner asked for the humanitarian visa for now and can still seek refugee status once in Poland. The Belarus National Olympic Committee has been led for more than 25 years by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and his son, Viktor. Both Lukashenkos are banned from the Tokyo Olympics by the IOC, which investigated complaints from athletes that they faced reprisals and intimidation during the crackdown following the wave of anti-government protests over the last year. A spokeswoman for the Belarus Olympic team did not respond to a request for comment.

OAKBORO — West Stanly claimed its fifth straight Wells Fargo Conference Cup title Tuesday after being named the 202021 Rocky River Conference 2A/3A champion by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. While two other Stanly County teams — Gray Stone Day and South Stanly — claimed a championship tie for the Yadkin Valley Conference 1A standings last year, the conference declined to participate in the Conference Cup this season due to COVID-19. The annual championships awarded by the NCHSAA are given to the top school in each North Carolina conference in terms of total athletic performance in each conference. Beginning in 1980, Wells Fargo (formerly Wachovia) has sponsored the program where points are Conference awarded based on standings and participation in confertitles for West ence play.  Stanly, including For this year’s edition of the outright cup, the final standings were generated while taking into acchampionships count the shortened seasons in boys’ crossthat some of the athletic programs faced. country, girls’ In the Rocky River Concross country, ference, the Colts were able to overtake runner-up Mount girls’ tennis, Pleasant by an 85.5-79.5-point volleyball, count with the assistance of six baseball and conference championships this year: boys’ cross-country, girls’ softball, and a cross-country, girls’ tennis, shared title in volleyball, baseball and softball. West Stanly also shared a boys’ basketball co-championship in boys’ basketball with Forest Hills. Central Academy (68), Forest Hills (47), Montgomery Central (44), and Anson (33) rounded out the rest of the RRC standings.  “In a year like none before, high school athletics managed to complete regular seasons and award conference championships, providing student-athletes across the state valuable opportunities to compete, grow and learn in an education-based setting,” the NCHSAA said in a release. “There were numerous schools that excelled across many sports in their conference competitions, and they have won the Wells Fargo Conference Cup award for their respective conferences.” The winners of the 2020-2021 Wells Fargo State Cup — a companion award to the Conference Cup — will be announced soon. Those awards are delegated to each of the state’s four classifications and recognize overall athletic performance with an added emphasis on postseason play. Last year’s winners were Lincoln Charter (1A), Carrboro (2A), Weddington (3A) and Cardinal Gibbons (4A).

Blackhawks pledge to release findings of abuse investigation A former video coach is accused of sexual misconduct against two Chicago players

The Associated Press THE CHICAGO Blackhawks pledged to release the findings of an independent investigation into allegations that a then-assistant coach sexually assaulted two players in 2010. CEO Danny Wirtz informed team employees of that plan in an internal memo sent Monday, adding that the organization is continuing a “process of self-evaluation” while awaiting the findings. “We will share results with you, our partners and our fans and will promptly implement changes to address the findings and any shortcomings of our organization,” Wirtz wrote in the memo. “I can assure you that we are using this process to engage in the self-reflection necessary to better our organization and ensure that our workplace is safe and inclusive.” President and general manager Stan Bowman said on a video call with reporters, “I think Danny was very clear on the direction the organization’s taking. … I intend to cooperate fully with the investigation like I said last time we met.” According to TSN, Bowman and other team executives were in a meeting about the allegations against Brad Aldrich in 2010 but nothing was reported at the time to the NHL or the police. He and coach Joel Quenneville, who was reportedly not at that meeting,

CHARLES CHURNEY | AP PHOTO

The Chicago Blackhawks are investigating allegations that the team’s video coach sexually abused two players in 2010. have each said they will cooperate. The investigation came after the filing of two lawsuits against the team. The first alleges sexual assault by Aldrich during the team’s run to the 2010 Stanley Cup title, and the second was filed by a former student whom Aldrich was convicted of assaulting in Michigan. A former player said Aldrich as-

saulted him, and that the team did nothing after he informed an employee. The lawsuit, filed on May 7 in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges Aldrich also assaulted another unidentified Blackhawks player. The former player who sued and is seeking more than $150,000 in damages is referred in the document as “John Doe.” The eight-page lawsuit says Aldrich, then a video coach for the

Blackhawks, “turned on porn and began to masturbate in front of” the player without his consent. It says Aldrich also threatened to “physically, financially and emotionally” hurt the player if he “did not engage in sexual activity” with him. According to TSN, two Blackhawks players told then-skills coach Paul Vincent in May 2010 of inappropriate behavior by Al-

drich. Vincent said he asked mental skills coach James Gary to follow up with the players and management. Vincent was called into a meeting with Bowman, then-team President John McDonough, hockey executive Al MacIsaac and Gary the next day, TSN reported, and said he asked the team to report the allegations to Chicago police, and the request was denied.

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Police officers become candidates as policing debate rages

for higher office to defend the need for public safety. The candidates are white, black and Latino and a mixture of Republicans and Democrats, whose political views mostly tack toward the center but sometimes defy traditional party lines. As violence J. SCOTT PARK/JACKSON CITIZEN PATRIOT VIA AP rises in cities nationwide, the outcome of these elections could send In this July 6, 2021, photo, retired Detroit Police Chief James Craig speaks at the Jackson County a strong signal about evolving at- Republican Committee “Under the Oaks” birthday celebration in Jackson, Mich. titudes on policing and crime in America. The first test came in the New police misconduct and founded a state with a Democratic governor the police.” His campaign video York City mayoral race, in which group that fought racial profiling seeking another term next year, decries “liberal politicians” who try in law aenforcement pushed Lombardo has both embraced to defund the police. former police officer Eric Adams bin Salman, son of Kingand Salman, Associated Press Laura Martin, the executive didepartments to diversi- the phrase and used it as a cudgel won the Democratic primaryassented in a police to the deal. fy their ranks. But he has also de- against the left as he competes in rector of the Progressive Leadlarge field of candidates. “I go with the consent, so I UBAI, United Arab EmirLike the other candidates with fended the controversial stop-and- a Republican primary while run- ership Alliance of Nevada, was agree,” thepolice prince said, as chuckling, — OPEC, and other strategy a useful tool ning a force of some 5,000 officers among the activists and organizers law Russia enforcement backgrounds frisk a has round applause from roducing nations on Sunday who met with Lombardo during in the Las Vegas metro area. beenof abused. campaigning for higher office,drawing Ad- that On his campaign website and last summer’s protests to discuss and call. Craig, who are both has been open topropolicing re- on Adams those the video ized anams unprecedented point to and reject Twitter account, Lombardo de- the demonstrations and police rebut made clear he doesn’t But black, it hadhave notmade beena smiles ion cut forms of nearly 10 million clares he “will stop all efforts to sponse. She said he made comthe calls from progressive activists approve of some of the most striels, or a 10th of global supply, laughs for weeks after the sodefund the police” and said, “The ments then indicating he was supto defund the police. dent calls for change. called OPEC+ group of OPEC opes of boosting pricIn Nevada, a political swing GOP is NOT the party of defund portive of the defunding the police Adamscrashing has spoken out against

PEC, oil nations agree o nearly 10M barrel cut

have been dogged by lingering criticism of their departments’ responses last summer, which included the use of tear gas and large-scale arrests that demonstrators and legal observers said were unjustified and carried out with excessive force. When Lombardo appeared at a recent panel on policing put on by the Las Vegas-area NAACP, he was repeatedly interrupted by audience members wearing T-shirts that read “Justice for Jorge Gomez,” a 25-year-old man who was fatally shot by police at a demonstration after Floyd’s killing. Police said Gomez carried guns and wore body armor, and the Democratic district attorney declared the officers who shot Gomez would not face charges. But the man’s family has called for police to be held accountable for his death, and a federal wrongful death lawsuit is pending.

mid the coronavirus pandemic members and other nations failed in March to reach an agreement a price war, officials said. This could be the largest re- on production cuts, sending pricion in production from OPEC es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply Secretary of State Brad Raffen- for the process. perhaps a decade, maybe lon- criticized Russia days earlier over Mashburn said Fulton has sperger expressed support. said U.S. Energy Secretary what it described as comments “I appreciate the General As- done some “great things,” but said Brouillette, who credited critical of the kingdom, which sembly finally supporting my that since he began working in ident Donald Trump’s per- finds itself trying to appease movement that something needs election law in 1988, “Fulton has to be done in Fulton County,” said been the problem, every single l involvement in getting duel- Trump, a longtime OPEC critic. Raffensperger. He has vigorous- election.” Even U.S. senators had warned parties to the table and helpMashburn called Fulton’s long ly defended Georgia’s 2020 electo end By a price war between Saudi Arabia to find a way to tion results, but frequently criti- lines in the June 2020 primary Jeff Amy boost prices as American shale di ArabiaThe and Russia. Press election a “watershed moment.” cizes Fulton. Associated il prices have collapsed as the firms face far-higher production Mallory Blount, a spokes- The county spent millions to alleperson for Kemp, said the Ful- viate those problems. ATLANTA — Republican costs. law- American troops had been navirus and the COVID-19 SAUDI ENERGY The State Election Board enton board has chronically shown makers in largely Georgiahalthave startdeployed to the kingdom for the ss it causes have tered into a consent order with “poor management and incompeed a process that could lead to a lobal travel and slowed down first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minist the county to make changes for tence.” takeover of elections in the state’s r energy-chugging sectors attacks over concerns of Irani- Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, a virtual of the Group of 20 energy minister general election, appoint“Thischairs review process willsummit hope- the most populous county. an retaliation amid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as manufacturing. has Dem2020, toing coordinate a response to plummet independent monitor Carter fully Friday, provide April greater10, transparFulton County,It a reliably sions. stated ocratic the oil industry in 11% prices due to an oversupply in the downturn inJones. global demand due to the pandem ency,market ensure and localaaccountabilicounty containing of After observing from Octoty and restore voter confidence,” all the state’s electorate, “They’ve spent over the last U.S., which now pumps morehas been ber through January, Jones wrote Blount said. plagued with problems for years month waging war on American e than any other country. Under the new law, the state that he witnessed “sloppy proand Republicans say it’s time for the deal but its president, Andrés praise. ut some answers. producers have been oil producers while we are defend- that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and election board must mount a pre- cesses” and “systemic disorgaState House Speaker pure size Manuel López Obrador, said He “The the United Arab Emirates would ing theirs. This is not how friends ctant to Pro ease supply. The carnization.” concluded majorof the cu liminary investigation and hold had Tem Jan Jones and four other precedented, but, then ag Friday that he had agreed with cut another 2 million barrels of treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin nd other nations on Sunday a hearing within 90 days of a re- changes and a managerial shakeGOP state representatives whose up were needed. quest.Trump The state board is the impact the corona that thecould U.S. suswill compendistricts include Fula Republican from North oil a day between them atop the ed to allow Mexico to cutparts only of Cramer, Democrats say Jones’ findings said M pend sate the county if itcannot finds ton submitted last Friday on demand,” what board Mexico add to having OPEC+ deal. The three countries Dakota, before the OPEC+ deal. 000 barrels a month,a letter a stickdon’t evidence officials to an the accord State Election Board demed problems Ghulam, an energy an the county proposed cuts.violated prove Fulton’s U.S. producers have already did not immediately acknowledge point for initially state election law or rules three merit a takeover. manding a performance review of Raymond James. “The big Oil Deal with OPEC been reducing output. The Amer- the cut themselves, though Zanhed Friday after aboard marathon “We already have a report from times since 2018 and haven’t fixed the county’s of registration and others Plus is Thisremove will save o conference between 23 na- ican Petroleum Institute laud- ganeh attended the video conferthehunsecretary But of Ghulam state’s handviolations. It done. could also and elections. BEN GRAY | AP PHOTO it may not be enough. dredsboard of thousands energy jobsconsultant s. The nations together agreed picked saying there the county if it finds of that “I wrote the letter as a ed rep-Sunday’s global pact, saying it ence. wassaid no malfeasance,” during least two elections resentative of constituents who help In this Nov. 25, 2020, file photo, Fulton “This is at Tindal least a tempo inatthe United States,”over Trump Officials saidCounty other Georgia. planned cuts getWednesday, other nations’ stateut 9.7 million barrels a day will two years the board has shown have expressed the in a tweet. “I would like toGhazal thanksaid.lief for the energy industry oil production to follow the would stand in the deal, meaning ughout May and June.concerns overowned Fulton Commission “nonfeasance, malfeasance, or Election Board removing Fulton’s cut plan forthat improvement,” manner which the global economy. This i and congratulate President Pu- County 8-million-barrel-per-day lead ofview U.S.and producers are try- an he groupsloppy reached the in deal justelections Chairman Robb Pitts, a Demowere conducted in Fulton Coun- state Sen. John Albers, also from five-member election board. But gross negligence.” is too big to be let to fail and tin of Russia and King Salman of from July through the end of the ing to adjust to plunging demand. s beforety in Asian markets reThe State Election Board, cur- crat, claims these are Republican there remains uncertainty about 2020 and in the years lead- north Fulton, wrote in an email. liance showed responsibil Saudi Arabia.” year and a 6-million-barrel cut for Brouillette said the U.S. did not ned Monday and as internarently with a 3-1 Republican ma- efforts to subvert Fulton County State Democratic Party Execu- how the process would work. ing up to then,” Jones, who repsaid Per M The appoint Kremlin said President beginning 2021. jority, would make tive commitments its said ownin 16 months elections in this 2022agreement,” and 2024. al benchmark Brent crude a temporary “The critics of it areinalleging Director Scottof Hogan resents a suburban north Fulton will not let them the get head away of ana Fulton this will allows the board just administrator a statement district, Nysveen, Vladimirto run Putin heldeleca joint“I call “This enable the to rebalanccuts, that but the wastakeover able toef- that ed at just oversaid. $31 a barrel production withSalthis circus unopposed,” tions with if it finds wrongdoing. TheKing willy-nilly takemarkets over boards fortobvious is “a shameless Republican ing Republican state senaRystad Energy.Pitts “Even tho Trump and Saudi of the oil and and the exshow the — that plunging AmericanThree shale producers tors representing parts of Fulton, power grab designed to suppress change the results of elections, county board could seek rein- said in a statement. “We are exdemand because of the pandem- pected rebound of prices by $15 man to express support of the production cuts are small ggle. as well as 24 other GOP senators, voters and inject partisan politics but there’s a lot of due process statement. If the state board re- ploring every legal option that is marketwe needed a It also said Putin sepbarrel thethis,” short term,” is expected slash U.S. oil pro- per ideo aired byathe Saudi-owned on the tablewhat and I the am hopeful fuses,deal. its administrator wouldspoke that’s built in into said State said into our to elections.” sent slightly different lettericthis theattacks stock buildi arately with aboutwill theprevail oil postpone statement Nigeria’s lite channel Al-Arabiya duction. Under the law that Georgia Re- aElection against these remain in place for Trump at least nine Boardfrom member Matt oil week. like political the-the wor months. Mashburn, a Republican. publicans passed earlier year, ministry. “The people deserve better and straints problem, market and other issues. that look more Iranian Oil Minister Bijanthis Zanwed the moment that Saudi ater than good governing.” The state board must set rules cautious GOP Gov. Brian Kemp blocked and letters leadtelevision to the State I wantPrince to see aAbdulaziz comprehensive re- the now avoided.” Analysts offered Mexico had initially ganeh also toldcould state rgy Minister

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California woman obituaries who fought to honor Rosie the Riveter dies The Associated Press

the workforce. Gould, a welder, was one of the first six women SAN FRANCISCO — Phyl- hired at a shipyard in Richmond lis Gould, one of the millions of in the San Francisco Bay Area for women who worked in defense the war effort. After the war, she became an plants in World War II and who later relentlessly fought for recog- interior decorator, married and nition of those “Rosie the Rivet- divorced twice, had five children and moved around before seters,” has died. She was 99. Gould, who lived in Fairfax, tling in Fairfax. She was “kind of like a hippie, north of San Francisco, died on July 20 from complications of a you know, where the wind blows,” Jason Tony stroke, the San Francisco Chron- her sister said. “She has been an ‘I can do icle reported. Efird Smith “She wants on her gravestone: it’ person all her life, and she EUGENE “GENE” ONYon MONROE SMITH, 72, of to all of us,” said ‘Mission ASON Accomplished,’” her passed that EFIRD, 94, went home to be with Rockwell, NC, went to be with 95-year-old sister, Marian Sou- her granddaughter, Shannon Akhis Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at his his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Potter April Valley in Mensa, toldhome the in paper on Monday. “I erstrom Stanfield. on Wednesday, 8, 2020 at docino County. “The Rosie thing think sheGene did it all.” was born October 9, 1925, in his home surrounded by family. A wasfamily reallyservice her.” will be held. During World Warto II,the the Cabarrus County lateU.S. Simeon— that private do welding on my —at createdJason a recruitment Efird and the campaign late Sarah Ella “I Online condolences canranch be made did — and so does for women fill defense jobs to like grandma Burristo Efird. In addition to his stanlyfuneralhome.com my daughter,” Akerstrom told replaceparents, men who were serving in by he was preceded in death Tony was born August 11, 1947 his wife, Jewell Little Efird; sisters, the Chronicle. in Stanly County to the late Pearlie “Grandma always the armed forces. An iconic postMary Lambert, Fannieshowed Almond, thought Asbury thatSmith was and veryEmmer cool.” Lee er from the campaign Minnie Furr, Wilma Burleson Smith. He was the son in law of Pat defense workers reRosie the Riveter, a woman in aand Women Aileen Huskey; and brothers, andlittle Mick notice Cagle where he worked at or appreciapolka-dotted bandana flexing Homer a ceived Efird, Getus and Wayne the fishthe house endforofmany the years war until but muscular arm as Efird she rolls up herEfird,tion after hefought opened Anchor Houseto Seafood Gould tenaciously honsleeve.Sr. funeral service will be or them. in Rockwell. and hispush wife Becky She He helped for Some A 6 private million women joined

held on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at Love’s Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery in Stanfield officiated by Rev. Jim White. Burial will follow at the Love’s Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery, 4360 Polk Ford Road, Stanfield. Survivors include son Gerald Wayne (Gail) Efird of Albemarle; daughter Lisa Efird (Mark) Hartsell of Stanfield; granddaughters, Kelly Efird Barbee and Lauren Hartsell (Justin) Crump; and greatgrandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and Elliot Jacob Simmons. The Associated Press Memorials may be made to Love’s Grove United Methodist Church, PO LOSBox ANGELES — Ron Popeil, 276, Stanfield, NC 28163-0276.

creation of the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, established in 2000. Gould and other Rosies met with former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden in 2014. She pushed for the declaration of national Rosie the Riveter Day, held annually on March 21, and before her death was helping deMerle sign a Congressional Gold Medal to be issuedHelms next year to honor the Rosies. ERLE LORRAINE AUSTIN “She really put the Rosies on Marshville, the map.HELMS, It was 72, herofletters — so passed away Wednesday, April 8, many of at them she wrote, to every2020 McWhorter Hospice House onein—Monroe. that did it,” her sister said. “Phyllis is, was in modern-day Lorraine born April 28,life, 1947 as in iconic as the Westinghouse Monroe to the late Homer David poster with the woman in the Austin and Jewell Delphia-Jane polka-dotted bandana,” said Rep. Austin. She was also preceded in Jackie Speier, whoA.D. led and the Teddy effort death by brothers, and sister, Austin. thatAustin; got the gold Joy medal authofamily willher receive friendson rized.The “She flexed muscles 6:00 pmevery - 8:00 pm, the from telephone dayFriday, telling April 10,to2020 at forward Hartsell Funeral Congress move on recHome of of Albemarle. The funeral ognition the Rosies.”

owned and operated Anchor House for 25 years before retiring in 2009. Mr. Smith was a charter member and deacon at Open Door Baptist Church in Richfield. He loved the Lord and his family abundantly. Tony was a wonderful husband, father, and grandfather and could fix anything he put his hands on. Mr. Smith is survived by his wife Becky Cagle Smith of the home, sons Walter Smith and Robbie Smith; daughter Kayla Henderson (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, Dustin, and Steele Smith, Keaton and Ella Henderson; brother David Smith; sisters Kay Kriechbaum, Karen Stevenson, Ruby Eudy, and Dorothy Smith (Nick). He is preceded in death by brothers Joe Smith, Wayne Smith, Claude Smith, Wade Smith, Robert Smith, and sister Mary Morris. Memorial contributions can be made to Open Door Baptist Church at 44563 Hwy 52, Richfield, NC 28137 or to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

service will be at 11:00 am on Saturday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Marshville, officiated by Rev. John Miller and Rev. Leon Whitley. She will lie in state for 30 minutes prior to the service. She will be laid to rest in the church cemetery. She is survived by her beloved husband of 47 years, Paul Helms of the home; son, Alex (Deanna) Helms of Pageland; daughter, Paula (Cristin Brandt) Helms of Mint Hill; grandchildren, Mason, Grant, and Raegan Helms; brothers, Boyce, Royce, Tim Austin; and sisters, Patricia Mullis, and Angel Tarleton. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 4600 Park Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209.

Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86

the quintessential TV pitchman and inventor known to generations of viewers for hawking products including the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone and the Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ, has died, his family said. Popeil died “suddenly and peacefully” Wednesday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement. He was 86. No cause of AP PHOTO death was given. Linda Popeil essentially invented the In this Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1982, file photo, Ron Popeil sits popular image Pauline of the American surrounded by his wares in his office in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hatley television pitchman, whose novel Tucker INDA TUCKER HATLEY, 69, of products solved frustrating probAULINE ELIZABETH Albemarle, passed away Monday, Food Dehydrator, Popeil’s lems viewers didn’t know they mic that was amplified through Electric ALMOND TUCKER, passed April 2020. Maker, the InPasta & 13, Sausage the nearest AM radio. had. He popularized much of98, the away peacefully at Trinity Linda was born September 18, Eggshell Egg Scrambler, “But wait — there’s more,” he’d side the vernacular of late-night TVPlace, ads Albemarle, NCwith on April 11, 2020. Concordthe to the late Jacob and the 1950 BagelinCutter, Hav-A-Maid and infomercials, lines like say in the ads. Pauline born you on March Claris was also preceded theTucker. SpeedShe Tufting Kit, The “Now how muchwas would pay?”22, Though Ronco Teleproducts Mop, 1922 in Cabarrus County, NC to the in death by her brother, Terry Lee went bankrupt in 1984, Popeil Whip-O-Matic. and “Set it and forget it.” late John Richard Almond and Alice Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda When home shopping netbottom again Popeil, whose father was also an started from the Shirley Ada Ann Lambert Almond. Tucker Strickland. We know Brenda works arose, heinfound natural and built himself and his compainventor-salesman, built his abiliShe is survived by her three and Linda are Heavenawatching helaughing. sold Showtime Rothe 1990s, as the home, ty to sell things as a Michel young (Jack), man in ny back up. By Haire daughters, Gay overand us and in droves on QVC. gained footing and tisseries the open-air markets of Chicago, Oak Island, NC; Pamela Rushing infomercial Linda was a loving mother, sister, HIRLEY MAE HAIRE, 73, Popeil was constantly parodied influence spread, where (Foreman), he movedOakboro, as a teen inKathy the cable television’s NC; and “Nana.” She was a very giving of Albemarle passed away on culture. He Linda was would sent up full-length shows in pop 1940s Hunt after(Marc), spending his earliest Albemarle, NC; her he was and loving person. Aprildoing 11, 2020 at Atrium Health in the days that Stanly. evangelized about sucha private de- by Dan years in New York and(Chris Miami. son, Chris Tucker Lear), alwaysAkroyd do anything sheearly could for The family will hold Washington, She willofbehis greatlyvicesgraveside others, especially family. She Nighther Live” with his as pastaservice makers, foodHaire. dehy- of “Saturday Building on an DC. invention for Mrs. missed her five grandchildren, enjoyed working at FastShop #5, “Bass-O-Matic” sketch. andwas “GLH” (Great-Lookfather’s, the byChop-o-Matic, he drators Shirley born December 12, Heather Chaney (Shannon), Locust.Al” Linda will be forever “Weird Yankovic had a loved song ing Hair), was commonly marketed theRushing slicing-and-chop1946 inwhich Washington, DC to the Michael Rushing, Elizabeth Michelcalledlate and greatly missed. on his “In 3-D” album titled “Mr. “hair in a can.” ping machine he called the VegCharles Richard Bateman and Hartzog Michel,he Jr. Survivors her son, Mae Mulligan Bateman. Popeil,” whose include lyrics said, “I need HeElizabeth appealed to consumers O-Matic, sold (Craig), by the Jack company (Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as Alan Hatley and wife, of Shirley is survived by her husband a pocket founded and named after himself in part because he was a classic a Veg-O-Matic! I needAngela, seven great-grandchildren. She also Albemarle; brother, Ronnie Tucker of 30 years Vaughn Smith American showman, equalofparts fisherman! I need a handy appli— Ronco. leaves behind cherished nieces and and wife, Linda, of Midland; Albemarle; sister Sandra Edison Painter ancegranddaughter, that’ll scramble anHatley; egg while and Thomas He nephews. would take the prod- P.T. Barnum Leslie 1 of Gainesville, VA; half-brother inside its shell! ... Help me, inventor and innovator, yes, it’s still uct-slinging style previousThe family expresses its sincere — anRobert niece; and 2 nephews. Bateman of Stevensville, popularizer as well, a man Mr. Popeil!” ly donegratitude at state fairs and to the staff andWoolcaregiversbut aMD; The family will receive friends step-children Heather Smith Popeil was take saw consumers’ needs and worth at stores toPlace television Trinity for the starting care they who of from 4:00 pm -happy 6:00 pm,to Thursday, Jacksonville, FL and David part in the parody himself, unfoundofaccessible ways to enin the provided late 1950s, offering view- then Smith Pauline. April 16, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral New London, NC; 4 derstanding and embracing his tice them into making purchases. ers a chance to skip stores service and buy A private graveside will be Home in Albemarle. Linda will step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi held on Monday, April 13, 2020. be laid to rest duringHe a private public image. played or a 1997 Associated straight from the source with a A InHentschel of Leesburg,Press VA andin- campy of Pauline’s life and legacy committal service at Bethel United himself on shows including terview, heHardy said of his drive simplecelebration phone call. Cheryl Aylett, VA;to16ingrand-voiced willinfluence be held thisgrew, summer. Methodist Midland. and X Files,”Church, “The Simpsons” more than mercantile; it “The As his he craft- vent was nieces and nephews; and Gus the In lieu of flowers, the family flowers, please consider a of lieu theof Hill.” was adog. bit Stanly obsessive. “I have enough “King In ed an enthusiastic, guy-next-door Funeral and Cremation requests made to the money memorial donation by to Bethel UMC, Care of Albemarle serving the Popeil is survived his wife of today,” he saidisat the time. presence that donations suffused be the 1970s BrightFocus Foundation at www. 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC I can’tfamily. stop. If there’s a need 25 years, Robin; daughters Kathwith commercials for such gad- “But Haire Lauren Contessa and Valengets asbrightfocus.org. the Popeil Pocket Fisher- for these things, I can’t help my- ryn,28107. tina; and four grandchildren. A man, a self-contained fishing ap- self.” He seemed always to have new fifth daughter, Shannon, died beparatus, and Mr. Microphone, a then-groundbreaking wireless products at the ready: the Ronco fore him.

Jason Washburn

Dianne Haynes

JASON EDWARD DIANNE COOK HAYNES, WASHBURN, 50, of Oakboro, 71, of Albemarle, passed away Thursday,Danny July 29, 2021 peacefully passed peacefully Jerry away on Thursday, July 29, 2021 at his in her home. homeFincher surrounded by his loving DianneLuther was born October 30, family. His funeral service 1949 in Surry County to the late ANNY PAUL LUTHER, ERRY FINCHER passed from will be life 11 AM on Tuesday, 3, John Cookpassed and the late Lois this 65,Willie of Norwood, away on April 3, 2020 at August 8:05 insurrounded the StanlybyFuneral Home Eugenia Cook. unexpectedly Thursday, April 9, pm. 2021 He was his family Albemarle Dr. Survivors loving 2020 at Atriuminclude Health Stanly in and Chapel, holding the hand of thewith love of Terrell officiating. husband of 53 years, Earl Haynes his life. Albemarle. JerryWatts is preceded in death Burial willsiblings, follow in Memorial Luther wasdaughters, born MarchValerie 27, by three twoFairview brothers, Billy ofMr. Albemarle; 1955 to the late Robert Fincher, and Larry Richard Park. The family will receive (Scott) Mauney andFulton Codyand (Jason) Gilbert Helen Tucker Luther. Fincher, and one sister,home BarbrainJoyce friends at their Oakboro Black; grandchildren, Colton Danny was survived by his wife, on Monday evening from 4 until Mauney, Landon Mauney, Piper Moore. Denise of Norwood; is survived by his wife, Eleanor 7 PM. Black,Burleson WestonLuther Mauney, and Kira He sons, Jeremy (Karen) Luther and sister,Kate Fincher the home, daughter, Born of November 27, 1970 in Black; brother, Roger Cook; Jody Luther; step-sons, Bryan Cindy Fincher Jacobs of Wingate Mecklenburg County, NC, he was Robin Hall; sister-in-law Jayne Whitley and Gregg (Anita) Whitley; NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy the son of the late Morris Edward Crotts; brother-in-law, Dana Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and (Tiffany) Fincher of New London and Patricia Haynes; and and Hunter Zado, as close well asfriend his brother, NC.,Washburn Step Children, Jimmy (Lisa)Vivian Evitt Bunn.NC, HeWanda was a(Bob) member of neighbor, Patty Furr. Bob Luther Jr (Lorena), uncle Jack Lanier of Locust First Baptist Church of Oakboro Memorials may beloved made to Luther and several other nieces, Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric and Lanier was a of biomedical technician St. Judeand Children’s nephews cousins. Research (Sharon) Charlotte NC., who did field service on Heart Hospital,2101 Rd #165W, Grandchildren-Trey Danny recentlyRexford retired from (Gera) Whitson and Lung Machines. He enjoyed Charlotte PipeNC and28211. Foundry after of Midland, Step-grandchildren, Charlotte, a dedicated 37Funeral years andHome workedof Zachgolf (Brittney) Washington, Aaron and politics and was a history Hartsell there with his is sons and several other (Kinsey) Caleb (Nayeli)of the buff.Washington, He was also a veteran Albemarle serving the Haynes friends and family members. Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, US Coast Guard. family. Danny loved spending time at be Matthew ) Wallace, He( April is survived byStep his wife of 23 Online condolences may his lake house with his family and great-grandchildren, years, ChassityBritlyn-Eve Speight Washburn made at www.hartsellfh.com friends as well as vacationing with his Washington, Robertson Setzer, George of the home, Zach Washburn family. Danny and Denise enjoyed (Sara) Setzer, Tracy (Rob) Setzer and daughter Hannah Washburn, listening to beach music and loved to Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, both of the home, sister Ellie shag dance every chance they could Andrew Underwood, Step great (Chad) of Oakboro, get. He was an amazing father, loving greatSmith grandchild, Waylon George and stepfather Richard grandfather and great friend to Setzer and brother Donald Bunn Lewis of Albemarle. many. He will never be forgotten. Fincher of Albemarle, NC. family thaton A celebration of life will be JerryThe Fincher willrequests be laid to rest memorials made to theam announced once the current Wednesday Aprilbe 8,2020 at 11:00 Pancreatic COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. at Canton BaptistCancer Church.Action Anyone Hartsell Funeral Home of interested in attending, please RSVP Network at www.pancan.org Albemarle is serving the Luther at 704-796-2412. Dr. Phil McCray or to the Stanly Community family. and College Pastor Tommy Fincher will Foundation, https://www. officiate. stanly.edu/college-information/ foundation.

Marshall Andrews MARSHALL RAY ANDREWS, 87, of Albemarle, passed away Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at Stanly Manor. Mr. Andrews was born May 31, 1934 in Stanly County, NC to the late Fred Marshall Andrews and Maude Bowers Andrews. He retired from Albemarle Spinning Mills. He enjoyed gardening and loved his tractor and his dog Max. Marshall is survived by his two daughters, Teresa Efird of Albemarle, NC and Sonja Beasley of Alabama; a stepson, Joe Morton of Albemarle, NC; two nieces, Denise Smith (Sherrill) of Albemarle, NC and Linda Johnson (Rick) of Albemarle, Celebrate the life NC; six grandchildren; numerous of your loved ones. great-great grandchildren. He Submit obituaries is also preceded in death by his companion, Shirley Morton. and death notices Celebrate the life of your loved Memorials may be made to the to be published in Stanly County Senior Center, 283 ones. Submit obituaries and SCJ at N 3rd St, Albemarle, NC 28001. death notices to be published in obits@stanlyjournal.com Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Albemarle is serving the SCJ at obits@stanlyjournal.com Andrews family.

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GOP govs, lawmakers supporting Mississippi anti-abortion law By Meg Kinnard The Associated Press A DOZEN Republican governors and more than 200 GOP members of Congress are wading into a court fight over a Mississippi law to restrict abortion, the outcome of which could have implications for similar measures across the country. Attorneys for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, leader of the gubernatorial effort, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Mississippi, which wants to enforce its 2018 law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Mississippi’s Republican attorney general filed papers last week asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic is challenging the legality of the 2018 law, arguing that it unconstitutionally restricts access to abortion. The nation’s high court will likely hear that case in the fall, with a decision probably in 2022. Arguing the issue of abortion is best left to the states, rather than federal-level entities, the attorneys

for the dozen Republican governors wrote that citizens have the ability to vote out state lawmakers with whom they disagree over abortion policies. “The Court should take this opportunity to correct the mistakes in its abortion jurisprudence and recognize that the text and original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment have nothing to do with abortion,” McMaster’s attorneys wrote. “Rather than creating a federal constitutional right, the Court should leave regulating abortion to the States, where the people may act through the democratic process.” McMaster’s attorneys also argued that the high court’s landmark abortion decisions have “upended the careful balance that the Constitution strikes between the Federal Government and the States.” The arguments are similar to the ones made by Mississippi’s attorney general. Also Thursday, an amicus brief from 184 U.S. House members and 44 U.S. senators, all Republicans, also argued in favor of delegating governance over abortion-related issues to the states, calling it “long overdue for this Court to return

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster listens as Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corp. CEO Lou Kennedy speaks, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in West Columbia, S.C. lawmaking to legislators.” About a dozen other states have passed similar or more restrictive abortion bans, which could take effect if the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade. Earlier this year, McMaster signed the “South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act,” which requires doctors to perform ultrasounds to check for a heartbeat in the fetus, something typically detected about six weeks after conception. If it’s found, the abortion can be performed only if the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest, or the mother’s life was in danger.

Planned Parenthood attorneys sued immediately, and the entire law has been blocked from taking effect during the lawsuit, which is on hold pending the Mississippi case. In 2019, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation that would outlaw almost all abortions, with no exceptions for cases of rape and incest. A federal judge has blocked that measure from taking effect. “There is nothing wrong with giving this issue back to the people,” McMaster’s attorneys wrote, adding that allowing states to handle the issue individually “should lower the proverbial temperature

in these debates,” lessening the consternation over abortion in judicial confirmations and presidential campaigns. Alexis McGill Johnson, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement that the Republicans “want to ban abortion outright,” something she called “deeply out of the step with the American public — 80% of whom support access to safe, legal abortion.” Also signing onto McMaster’s brief are the governors of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma and Texas.

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First evacuation flight brings 221 Afghans, many kids, to US By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The first flight evacuating Afghans who worked alongside Americans in Afghanistan brought more than 200 people, including scores of children and babies in arms, to new lives in the United States. The launch of the evacuation flights, bringing out former interpreters and others who fear retaliation from Afghanistan’s Taliban for having worked with American troops and civilians, highlights American uncertainty about how Afghanistan’s government and military will fare after the last U.S. combat forces leave that country in the coming weeks. Family members are accompanying the interpreters, translators and others on the flights out. The first evacuation flight, an airliner, carried 221 Afghans under the special visa program, including 57 children and 15 infants, according to an internal U.S. government document obtained by The Associated Press. It touched down in Dulles, Vir-

ginia, just outside Washington, D.C., after midnight, according to the FlightAware tracking service. The flight was “an important milestone as we continue to fulfill our promise to the thousands of Afghan nationals who served shoulder-to-shoulder with American troops and diplomats over the last 20 years in Afghanistan,” President Joe Biden said. He said he wanted to honor the military veterans, diplomats and others in the U.S. who have advocated for the Afghans. “Most of all,” Biden said in a statement, “I want to thank these brave Afghans for standing with the United States, and today, I am proud to say to them: ‘Welcome home.’” Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin lauded the Afghans for their work alongside Americans and said their arrival demonstrates the U.S. government’s commitment to them. The flight was all about “keeping promises,” said Will Fischer, an Iraq war veteran and an advocate on veteran’s issues.

But a refugee agency said the Biden administration appeared to be still scrambling to work out the resettlement of thousands more of the Afghans, and it urged Biden to bring them quickly to the U.S. or a U.S. territory, such as Guam. “To date, there is simply no clear plan as to how the vast majority of our allies will be brought to safety,” Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service resettlement agency, said of the Afghan interpreters. “We cannot in good conscience put them at risk in third countries with unreliable human rights records, or where the Taliban may be able to reach them,” the resettlement official said. The Biden administration calls the effort Operation Allies Refuge. The operation has broad backing from Republican and Democratic lawmakers and from veterans groups. Supporters cite repeated instances of Taliban forces targeting Afghans who worked with Americans or with the Afghan government. Congress on Thursday over-

whelmingly approved legislation that would allow an additional 8,000 visas and $500 million in funding for the Afghan visa program. The United States has been talking with Qatar and Kuwait about temporarily hosting thousands of other Afghan interpreters who are much further behind in their visa application process than Friday’s arrivals. But U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss negotiations, said Friday that no deal had been closed with those two countries. Concerns about housing Afghans who have not completed their security screenings and uncertainty on the American side about finding funding for the massive relocation effort have remained obstacles, the U.S. officials said. Biden announced earlier this year the U.S. would withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, honoring a withdrawal agreement struck by former President Donald Trump. He later said the U.S. military operation would end on Aug. 31, calling it “overdue.”

Some administration officials have expressed surprise at the extent and speed of Taliban gains of territory in the countryside since then. Biden said that although U.S. troops are leaving Afghanistan, the U.S. will keep supporting Afghanistan through security assistance to Afghan forces and humanitarian and development aid to the Afghan people. The newly arrived Afghan people will join 70,000 others who have resettled in the United States since 2008 under the special visa program. Subsequent flights are due to bring more of the roughly 700 applicants who are furthest along in the process of getting visas, having already won approval and cleared security screening. The first arrivals were screened for the coronavirus and received vaccines if they wanted them, said Tracey Jacobson, the U.S. diplomat running the effort. They were expected to stay at at a hotel on a base in Fort Lee, Virginia, for about seven days, completing medical exams and other final steps, Jacobson said. Resettlement organizations will help them as they travel to communities around the United States, with some bound for family members already here, she said.

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WinstonSalem’s Mission Pizza was included on a list of top pizza places in the U.S.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING Car crosses highway median, driver dies after crash Forsyth County The driver of a car that crossed a highway median and into oncoming traffic died in a crash involving five vehicles. An eastbound vehicle drove onto the median of Interstate 40 in Winston-Salem and through a wire barrier. In the highway’s westbound lanes, the vehicle sideswiped a Honda van and a Ford pickup, crashed head-on with a BMW, then hit another van. The wrong-way driver died at the scene. The BMW’s driver got out before it caught fire. The driver of one van and the BMW’s driver were taken to a hospital. Two drivers were treated at the scene. AP

Mocksville teen dies in Blue Ridge Parkway crash Davie County A teenager was killed when a vehicle left the road and crashed along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The fatal crash occurred Monday, not far from Standing Rock Overlook. Investigators say Alexis Bolduc, 18, of Mocksville, died at the scene. The driver, who has not been identified, was hospitalized with minor injuries. A preliminary investigation shows the vehicle was traveling southbound in a downhill curve when it left the road and landed on a guardrail. AP

Woman charged after 4-year-old shoots self Forsyth County A woman is charged with child abuse after her unattended 4-year-old boy picked up a gun while she drank and smoked marijuana and fatally shot himself in the head. High Point police said Jasmine E. Fagan, 29, of High Point and several other adults were at a home Sunday night when the 4-yearold found a firearm under a couch cushion in the living room and shot himself. He died at a local hospital. Detectives using a search warrant found two additional firearms, multiple firearm accessories, ammunition, marijuana and cocaine. The homeowner is also facing charges. AP

Winston-Salem’s Mission Pizza Napoletana named one of best in U.S. Peyton Smith’s restaurant the only Southeastern location included in top 50 TCH staff WINSTON–SALEM — The annual 50 Top Pizza USA list was released last month. As might be expected, New York City was well-represented, with 11 of the country’s top 50 spots for a slice. Chicago had six, and the West Coast had a dozen. The Southeast, however, was nearly an afterthought, with just one restaurant recognized in ACC and SEC country. Fans of elite pizza have just one option between Philadelphia and Miami, and that’s Mission Pizza Napoletana, on Trade Street in the Winston-Salem art district. The classic, oven-fired pizza served at Mission came in at No.

29 on the list. The criteria used by the staff at Top 50 Pizza, who paid anonymous visits to hundreds of pizza places around the nation over the last year, included quality of the dough, ingredients used as toppings, the service, the wine and beer lists and the attention and care given the customer. Mission was founded by Peyton Smith, a Winston-Salem native and Wake Forest graduate, in 2014, to “introduce the rich culture and beautiful simplicity of Neapolitan pizza” to his home community, according to the restaurant’s website. Smith bills Mission as the state’s first Napoletana pizzeria. Mission cooks its dishes in a handmade wood-fired oven that approaches temperatures of 1,000 degrees. The pizzas Smith crafts feature a creative combination of toppings, including hot honey, runny egg and fennel pol-

“If it doesn’t excite us, we don’t make it.” Peyton Smith len, as well as a variety of native Italian ingredients that will inspire guests to surreptitiously check Google, including guanciale, nduja and sopressata (jowl bacon, spreadable sausage and dry salami, respectively). The menu also includes salads, pastas and Italian appetizers. Smith refers to it as an osteria, rather than a pizzeria and offers a five-course prix fixe menu, with each of the courses selected by the chef. There’s also a “pizzakase” experience, which Smith describes as “a curated selection of unique off-

menu pizzas. It’s based on the Japanese custom of omakase, which translates as “leave it up to you.” Eating one of the top pizzas in the nation is a different experience for customers used to having a pie delivered in 30 minutes or less. Smith “reluctantly” offers takeout pizza—although Mission doesn’t deliver. He strongly suggests that first-timers sit down and enjoy the pizza in the restaurant “as intended” rather than starting with take out. Smith also doesn’t cut the takeout pizzas “to preserve their integrity.” Still, the creativity, effort and attention to detail is evident in Mission’s finished product—a light, flavorful combination of tastes. “If it doesn’t excite us,” Smith declares on the restaurant’s web site, “we don’t make it.”

Wake Forest hires Grammy and Oscar-nominated composer Joshuah Brian Campbell TCH staff Wake Forest University hired Grammy and Oscar-nominated composer Joshuah Brian Campbell as director of music and arts at the School of Divinity and director of the University Gospel Choir. Campbell’s original song “Sing Out/March On” was written in 2018 and performed for the late Congressman John Lewis. After that, he was asked to contribute to the film Harriet, and his composition “Stand Up” was nominated for an Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award. Campbell will collaborate with choral groups from across the university, including weekly worship at the School of Divinity and leading the university’s Gospel Choir with music inspired by African American sacred tradition. Campbell began working at Wake in the spring semester of this past school year, serving as an artist-in-residence at Wait Chapel. Among his responsibilities were working with the Gospel Choir for the chapel’s Easter

service. Campbell also contributed to the school’s undergraduate commencement ceremony. “Joshuah’s musical direction in the recent Easter service at Wait Chapel and his gifted vocal contribution at Commencement is an indication of the breadth and depth he will bring to the musical offerings on our campus, and demonstrates his commitment to creative, collaborative leadership and disciplined artistry,” said professor Christopher Gilliam, Wake’s director of choral activities. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with him as we develop the choral offerings on campus and ignite Music at Wait Chapel.” “I am elated that Joshuah Brian Campbell will bring his extraordinary gifts to benefit our students and the Wake Forest community,” said Jonathan Lee Walton, dean of the School of Divinity and Wait Chapel. “His appointment represents a commitment to ensure that this grand tradition of gospel music will continue on our campus at the highest levels.”

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Joshuah Brian Campbell poses for a portrait at the 92nd Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at the Loews Hotel on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in Los Angeles. Campbell sounds ready to hit the ground running. “I am looking forward to directing and mentoring the student artists in both the Gospel Choir and School of Divinity. I am positive that the learning experience will be mutual,” he said. “I come from many musical legacies and traditions birthed in community fellowship. Gospel is one of the richest and transformative forms of music because it causes people to relate to each other. I am excited to grow with the Wake Forest community as I help to facilitate faith expression and artis-

tic formation.” “I am ecstatic that none other than the incredibly gifted Joshuah Campbell will attain directorship of the choir to continue its strong legacy. I had the honor of meeting and being under the direction of Campbell for the Easter service choir ensemble. His dedication, musicality, and spirit are felt so deeply. I am sure Campbell will be of intangible value to the University Gospel Choir and the Wake Forest community!” added Deja Dobson, a member of Wake’s Class of 2021 and the most recent president of the Gospel Choir.

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OPINION | MICHAEL BARONE

Do we have to watch their wretched movie all over again? WHY DO I FEEL that I have seen this movie before? I would like to think that learning is cumulative. But I’m beginning to think that every generation or two, people need to learn all over again the lessons that have unaccountably been forgotten or tossed aside. The elderly among us can see this, even as young people are inclined to insist that they are experiencing things never before experienced by humans and that this time will be different. Let’s take it issue by issue:

once people start expecting inflation, they start to feed it by raising prices and boosting wages to keep ahead of the trend. We know how to get rid of inflation. Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker — appointed by Jimmy Carter and supported by Ronald Reagan — raised interest rates and triggered a steep recession from which a low-inflation growth economy eventually emerged. Are we ready for that kind of pain again?

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Calendar year 2020 saw a 25% increase in homicides, the highest since 1960 and higher than in any single year in the 1965-75 decade when the number of violent crimes almost tripled. They seem to be rising by similar rates this year. Many people don’t like to admit it, but this is obviously a result of the de-policing movement urged by Black Lives Matter and cheered on by liberal editorial writers, corporate moguls and Silicon Valley monopolists. They applauded and declared exempt from COVID-19 restrictions the “mostly peaceful” demonstrations against supposed systemic police misconduct. Few, if any, deplored the nearly 600 violent riots that caused some $2 billion in damage. If the experience of the 1960s is a guide, this will severely damage modest-income neighborhoods for decades after. Once again, solutions are visible for those with sufficient memory. The intensive policing tactics of Rudy Giuliani and Bill Bratton in New York City in the 1990s — copied and adapted by many others around the country — cut violent crime rates by more than half. Thousands of black lives were saved — and the number of black people

The consumer price index for June rose on an annual basis before seasonal adjustment by 5.4%. That’s higher than May, which suggests that inflation is accelerating. And it’s far above the 2% annual rate, which is the professed goal of the Federal Reserve. Treasury Secretary and former Fed Chair Janet Yellen insisted that the jumps in prices are just temporary adjustments to the COVID-19 economy, although she’s extended the period for adjustments. Current Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said he’s not worried and will keep interest rates low. They’ve got the bond market on their side. But those expressing alarm include not only the Wall Street Journal editorial page but also Harvard economist and Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. He’s been arguing for months that President Joe Biden’s administration is pumping too much money into the economy. Consumers may agree: A New York Fed survey showed they expect a 4.8% annual rise in prices over the next year. We learned in the 1970s that

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with prison records reduced. Neighborhoods once abandoned to criminals were revived with new jobs and opportunities. Can that happen again? Maybe Eric Adams, the ex-New York Police Department officer who seems sure to be elected mayor of NYC in November, can show the way. Or maybe we’ll have to wait out a couple of high-crime decades, as we did after 1965-75. Illegal immigration Does the United States need 1 or 2 million new illegal immigrants? The Biden administration apparently thinks so. It has opened the southern border to tens of thousands of supposed asylum seekers; not just from Central America and Mexico but also from Haiti, the Middle East and Africa. The illegal immigrant population increased from 3.5 million in the 1990s to 8.4 million in 2000 and peaked at 12.2 million in 2007, then dropped and leveled off at 10.5 million in 2017, according to Pew Research. The 2007-08 recession reduced low-skill immigration over the southern border to zero. Trump administration agreements with Mexico kept it down. As a result, low-skill Americans saw greater percentage wage gains than the rich, even as immigrant inflow became increasingly highskill. What was so terrible about that? It may be that these problems will just solve themselves: Inflation will subside, as many economists expect; violent crime will subside, depolicing or not; recent border crossers will meet their court dates and legalize their status. But maybe not. In which case, doesn’t it make sense to go back and update policies that worked rather than watch this movie go on at agonizing length? Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics.

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on 7/31/2021 ♦ Foster, Robin Eugene (M/45) Arrest on chrg of Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another State/ Indian Tribe (M), at I-40/ Kinnamion Rd, Winston Salem, NC, on 7/28/2021 13:36. ♦ GARCIAVILLALVA, JONATHAN was arrested on a charge of B&EVEHICLE at 900 WAUGHTOWN ST on 7/30/2021 ♦ GONZALES, CESAR GARCIA was arrested on a charge of VAND-PERSONAL PROP at 1604 TWENTY-SECOND ST on 8/1/2021 ♦ Gravely, Quentin Lance (M/48) Arrest on chrg of Poss Stolen Goods, F (F), at 1 Hayward Industrial Dr, Clemmons, NC, on 7/29/2021 13:12. ♦ GREEN, LARRY RAMEL was arrested on a charge of VIO. PROTECTIVE ORDER BY COURTS ANOTHER STATE/ INDIAN TRIBE at 1800 BURKE MILL RD on 7/31/2021 ♦ Hairston, Dominique Sade (F/35) Arrest on chrg of 1) Kidnapping (F), 2) Larceny-felony (F), 3) Probation Violation (M), and 4) Unlawful To Dwlr, After Notification, Or While Disquailified (M), at 400 Block Vineyard Park, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/31/2021 21:57. ♦ Harper, Courtney Kiana (F/26) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugsposs Sched Vi (M) and 2) Ndl - Suspended / Revoked (M), at 900 New Hope Ln/n Liberty St, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/30/2021 20:39. ♦ HONEYCUTT, BRYCE ALLEN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULTSIMPLE at 5230 BEAUCHAMP LN on 8/2/2021 ♦ Horn, Jeffery (M/44) Arrest on chrg of Affray (M), at 2405 Lewisville-clemmons Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 8/1/2021 09:16. ♦ INGRAM, SHAMONICA JANEE was arrested on a charge of AFFRAY at US HWY 52 N on 7/31/2021

♦ Jackson, Rayquan Lamont (M/25) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking/ enter-misd (M), 2) Alter, Destruct, Remove Serial Number Firearm; Poss Firearm (M), 3) Alter, Destruct, Remove Serial Number Firearm; Poss Firearm (M), 4) Possession Marijuana (M), 5) P/w/ i/s/d Marijuana (F), 6) 90-95asdm S&d Marijuana (F), 7) Drugs W/n 1000 Ft Of Park (F), 8) P/w/i/s/d Cocaine (F), 9) 90-95asdc S&d Cocaine (F), 10) 90-95asdc S&d Cocaine (F), 11) P/w/i/s/d Cocaine (F), 12) Drugs W/n 1000 Ft Of Park (F), 13) Drugs W/n 1000 Ft Of Park (F), 14) Weapposs By Felon (F), 15) Weap-poss By Felon (F), 16) Weap-poss By Felon (F), 17) Weap-poss By Felon (F), 18) Weap-poss By Felon (F), 19) Weap-poss By Felon (F), 20) Weap-poss By Felon (F), 21) Weap-poss By Felon (F), 22) Weap-poss By Felon (F), and 23) Dom Criminal Trespas (M), at 1300 N Liberty St, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/29/2021 19:12. ♦ Laylor, David King (M/33) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female (M) and 2) Communicate Threats (M), at 6915 Doral Dr, Tobaccoville, NC, on 7/29/2021 16:25. ♦ LEWIS, TAJ RIAL was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 301 MEDICAL CENTER BV on 7/31/2021 ♦ LEWIS, TAJ RIAL was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 201 N CHURCH ST on 7/31/2021 ♦ LONG, ALYSSA VANESSA was arrested on a charge of FELON ADW/SER INJURY at 172 HIGHLAND AV on 7/31/2021 ♦ LOVE, TREVIS TIANEIL was arrested on a charge of VIO. PROTECTIVE ORDER BY COURTS ANOTHER STATE/ INDIAN TRIBE at 3019 GREENWAY AV on 8/1/2021 ♦ MANSFIELD, ROBERT JOSEPH was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 3735 WYANDOTTE AV on 8/2/2021 ♦ MCKEE, LATRESSA YVETTE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 1499 NEW

WALKERTOWN RD on 8/1/2021 ♦ NICHOLS, DANIELLE ELIZABETH was arrested on a charge of LARC-SWITCH PRICETAG at 4550 KESTER MILL RD on 8/1/2021 ♦ NORTHINGTON, ROBERT LEE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 260 KENDALL FARMS CT on 7/31/2021 ♦ PERDUE, SABRINA NICOLE was arrested on a charge of DRUGSPOSS SCHED II at 430 SUMMIT SQUARE BV on 8/1/2021 ♦ Slade, Gregory Lee (M/60) Arrest on chrg of 1) Communicate Threats (M) and 2) Harassing Phone Calls (M), at 301 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/29/2021 14:30. ♦ SPARKS , KENNETH WAYNE was arrested on a charge of ADW INFLICT INJURY at 301 MEDICAL CENTER BV on 8/2/2021 ♦ SYMES, MICHAEL ANTHONY was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 100 HANES MALL CR on 8/1/2021 ♦ TOLLIVER, JAVARIE DAESHUN was arrested on a charge of BREAKING/LARC-FELONY at 100 CAPITOL LODGING CT on 8/2/2021 ♦ Watson, Winston Taron (M/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Cocaine Fel (F) and 2) Alter, Destroy, Or Steal Evidence Of Criminal Conduct (F), at E Twenty-fifth St/nb 52_e 25th St Ra, Winstonsalem, NC, on 7/29/2021 01:09. ♦ Wood, Patricia Nicole (F/30) Arrest on chrg of Speeding To Elude Arrest (F), at 4009 N Liberty St/lansing Dr, Winstonsalem, NC, on 7/28/2021 11:59. ♦ Wotring, James Allen (M/53) Arrest on chrg of Poss Stolen Goods, F (F), at 9248 Glen Cross Dr, Kernersville, NC, on 7/28/2021 12:30. ♦ Wotring, Stephanie Bowman (F/47) Arrest on chrg of Aid And Abet Larceny (over $1,000), F (F), at 9248 Glen Cross Dr, Kernersville, NC, on 7/28/2021 12:30.

♦ Reverend WanEtta Harris Belle, 84, of Winston-Salem, died July 28, 2021. Ralph Norman Carroll, 89, of Winston-Salem, died July 31, 2021. ♦ Loretta “Peanut” Temples Carter, 85, of Forsyth County, died July 31, 2021. ♦ Col. Michael G. Cheston, USMC, Ret., 68, of Forsyth County, died July 29, 2021. ♦ Leon Samuel Taylor Davidson, 41, of Winston-Salem, died July 29, 2021. ♦ Judith “Judy” Effler Driscoll, 79, of Winston-Salem, died July 28, 2021. ♦ Nancy Vest Green, 79, of Winston-Salem, died July 29, 2021. ♦ Bobby Allen Harrison,54, of Stokesdale, died July 29, 2021. ♦ Dana M. Hemric, 36, died July 29, 2021. ♦ Janeen Joy Longworth, 68, of Winston-Salem, died July 28, 2021. ♦ William “Mike” Orrison, 76, of Kernersville, died July 31, 2021. ♦ Joyce Jones Sellers, 91, of Kernersville, died July 28, 2021. ♦ Vancil Lanning Shaw, 86, of Winston -Salem, died July 31, 2021. ♦ Hazel Annetta Myers Sink, 81, of Winston-Salem, died July 29, 2021. ♦ Jane “Janie” Duckett Yates Smith, 73, of Winston-Salem, died July 31, 2021. ♦ Robin Ann Vitez, 56, of Winston-Salem, died July 29, 2021. ♦ Carrie Willena Martin Whitaker, 84, of Kernersville, died July 28, 2021. ♦ Nellie Gray Wilson, 86, of Kernersville, died August 1, 2021.

Twin City Herald for Wednesday, August 4, 2021

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