North State Journal Vol. 6, Issue 38

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Cam Newton triumphant in return to Panthers Cam Newton scored 2 TDs and helped lead to the team to a 34-10 win against the Arizona Cardinals.

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National poll gives GOP largest generic ballot lead on record Washington, D.C. Republican congressional candidates currently hold their largest lead in midterm election vote preferences in ABC News/ Washington Post polls dating back 40 years, underscoring profound challenges for Democrats hoping to retain their slim majorities in Congress next year, the broadcast network said.

Just 31% say President Joe Biden is keeping most of his major campaign promises, and 59% worry he’ll do too much to increase the size and role of government, up 6 points since spring.

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3 NC House members declare Senate campaigns Raleigh Rep. Gale Adcock of Cary, the No. 2 Democrat in the chamber, said she’ll run for a seat in western Wake County in 2022.

Adcock, the deputy Democratic leader, was first elected to the House in 2014.

Second-term Rep. Rachel Hunt of Charlotte also announced that she is running for a Senate district in southeastern Mecklenburg County.

Hunt and Adcock announced their decisions less than two weeks after the Republicancontrolled legislature approved new legislative district boundaries for the next decade, based on 2020 census figures.

House Republican Rep. Bobby Hanig of Currituck County already announced this month that he would run for a Senate seat covering 10 northeastern counties.

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SC GOP Rep. Mace’s bill would federally decriminalize marijuana Columbia, S.C. Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced legislation Monday to federally decriminalize marijuana, a measure she said would give states freer rein to pass their own laws and regulations without fear of federal reprisals.

Mace said a half-dozen GOP House members would be original co-sponsors of the bill, which she said would aim to regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol and prohibit its use for anyone under 21 years of age.

The measure would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. It would not change local-level restrictions, meaning states would still determine their own marijuana statutes.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 36 states and four territories allow medical cannabis use, while 18 states, two territories and the District of Columbia allow nonmedical, adult use.

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Fifth edition of NC scenic byways guidebook now available Raleigh The fifth edition of the Scenic Byways Guidebook is available from the N.C. Department of Transportation.

The Scenic Byways program was created in the 1994 to allow motorists to experience a bit of North Carolina’s history, geography and scenery while raising awareness for the protection and preservation of these areas. To help preserve the roads’ intrinsic qualities, designated routes do not allow for new billboards to be erected along them.

North Carolina has 62 scenic byways. Four of those byways are recognized by the Federal Highway Administration as national scenic byways. The Blue Ridge Parkway, which is included in the guidebook, is a recognized All-American Road but is managed by the National Park Service.

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Gov. Roy Cooper says he’ll sign compromise state budget

By A.P. Dillon and Matt Mercer North State Journal

Leandro judge’s $1.7 billion order asks state agencies to go around legislature Moore and Berger: ‘It’s a circus.’

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Last week the long-running Leandro case judge has ordered state agencies to go around the legislature to transfer $1.7 billion in funds from the state’s coffers to fulfill the court-approved remedial plan produced by WestEd. Superior Court Judge David Lee issued an order that directs the transfer to occur within 30 days. His order instructs the heads of the Office of the State Budget and Management, the Office of the State Comptroller, and the Office of the State Treasurer to turn over the money from the state›s coffers.

If the transfer happens, it will give the Department of Public Instruction the largest portion, totaling $1,522,053,000.

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services would get $189.8 million and the UNC System would receive $41.3 million.

“This is not a new or confusing concept: a bipartisan N.C. Supreme Court twice has ruled that the state is failing to guarantee the right to a sound, basic public education that’s enshrined in our state constitution,” said Gov. Roy Cooper in a statement posted on Twitter. “Legislators can’t simply erase this right because they don’t like it. We have an effective, court-approved roadmap for making education better in North Carolina and it’s time to get it done.”

When the Leandro case began in 1994, Cooper was a state senator at the General Assembly, serving in that capacity from 1991 to 2001. Before moving to the Senate, he served in the state House from 1987 to 1991.

“This case has devolved into an attempt by politically allied lawyers and the Governor to enact the Governor’s preferred budget plan via court order, cutting out the legislature from its proper and constitutional role,” said House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) and Senate

Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) in a joint statement.

Moore and Berger said, “It’s a circus.”

“If Judge Lee’s orders are followed, the legislature’s core duty is usurped by unelected county-level trial judge and an out-ofstate consultancy funded by the Governor and his political allies,” Moore and Berger said. “Thankfully, executive branch officials swear an oath to the Constitution, not to an unelected county-level trial judge.”

The General Assembly’s top leaders went on to say that a judge “does not have the legal or constitutional authority to order a withdrawal from the state’s General Fund.”

The joint statement points to Article V, Section 7 of the state constitution, which says, “No money shall be drawn from the State treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.”

The statement also cites previous confirmation that the legislature exclusively controls state appropriations by the N.C. Court of Appeals in the case of Richmond Cty. Bd. of Educ. v. Cowell. That affirmation also notes that “Because the State constitution vests the authority to appropriate money solely in the legislative branch, the Separation of Powers Clause prohibits the judiciary from taking public monies without statutory authorization.”

Additionally, in Cooper v.

Berger, the N.C. Supreme Court said, “The power of the purse is the exclusive prerogative of the General Assembly, with the origin of the appropriations clause dating back to the time that the original state constitution was ratified in 1776.”

“The only rebuttal to this clear precedent is an absurd theory developed by Attorney General Josh Stein, which argues that the Constitution, in 1868, ordered a specific funding level for the education budget in the year 2021, and that only an out-of-state consultancy called WestEd can divine the precise funding level the 1868 Constitution ordered,” said Moore and Berger, referring to a See LEANDRO, page A3

RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday he would sign the compromise state budget plan into law when it passes the General Assembly this week.

“I will sign this budget because, on balance, the good outweighs the bad. It moves North Carolina forward in important ways, many that are critical to our state’s progress as we are emerging from this pandemic,” Cooper said in prepared remarks.

The support from Cooper made the bill’s passage in the N.C. Senate

a certainty, as the budget passed by a bipartisan vote of 40-8.

The Democratic governor said that the budget got many things right, including expanding highspeed internet, funding for universities and community colleges, helping businesses recover from pandemic losses, and raises and bonuses for teachers and other state employees.

“This budget continues the Republican-led legislature’s decade-long commitment to low taxes and responsible spending. The multibillion-dollar surpluses these policies helped create are evidence See BUDGET, page A2

NC retailers, truckers say labor shortages are root of inflation, supply-chain issues

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — Prices in October 2021 were 6.2% higher than they were a year earlier, and this inflation is hitting gas, food and other goods in North Carolina, as it is across the country. Andy Ellen, president and general counsel of the North Carolina Retail Merchants Association, and Crystal Collins, president of the North Carolina Trucking Association, both told NSJ on Nov. 15, that they believe the labor shortage is at the root of it all.

“There are supply chain issues out there, obviously; in fact, it runs kind of the gamut from the ports all the way through trucking and the shortage of truck drivers, into the distribution centers and warehouses and getting those products to the stores,” Ellen said. “You have to have all of those components of the supply chain running smoothly in order to make sure we get goods where they’re supposed to go, and we have breakdowns in various parts of those right now.”

Collins agreed, saying, “We are experiencing the same things that you’re seeing nationwide; fortunately, our ports are not in the shape that California ports are in. That’s the one advantage that we have in North Carolina versus Georgia and California.”

Ellen said the retail industry is doing a lot better in getting goods on the shelves as compared to the height of COVID, even if the prices of those goods are now spiking.

“If you think about where we were in March of 2020 — when you couldn’t get toilet paper and you couldn’t get a lot of the types of meat or other things — on

that side of it, we’re light years ahead of where we were,” Ellen said. “So I think that you see that costs are increasing on things like gasoline and just normal components for things. And it’s See SHORTAGES, page A2

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BUDGET from page A1 that they’re working, and it means we can cut taxes even more,” Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) said in a statement following the Senate session.

The budget proposal comes in at $52.9 billion over the biennium.

The 2021-22 budget comes in at $25.9 billion, which is a 4% increase over the 2020-21 budget. In 2022-23, the budget calls for $27 billion or 4.1% increase.

Education spending, around $1.5 billion above the base budget in recurring funds, is a top priority with salary and hourly wage increases in K-12 and at the secondary levels.

The average raise for teachers over the biennium is 6.7%. Teachers will also be eligible for up to $2,800 in bonuses and the usual teacher pay step increases are also included.

State retirees will see a 5% boost over the biennium in a 2%range for 2021-22 and 3% in 2022-23.

The budget also allots $100 million to supplement salaries in lowwealth school districts.

Minimum wage rates for non-certified local school employees and community colleges will increase to $13 an hour in 202122 and then in 2022-23 to $15 an hour.

Over the biennium, community college faculty will receive a 6% increase.

Funding for the NC Promise Tuition Plan will receive $15 million for 2021-22 and $20 million in 2023.

The NC Promise Tuition Plan allows in-state students to pay only $500 and out-of-state students to pay $2,500 per semester at certain state schools. Schools currently part of the plan include Elizabeth City State University, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Western Carolina University.

Fayetteville State University has joined the plan, and around $11.5 million in additional funds will be added in 2022-23 to include the school.

State employees will see a 5% raise split evenly in half over the two-year budget period. Those employees will also get a $1,000 bonus.

Another topline item in the budget is healthcare-related spending, including extensions to post-partum benefits beginning in April 2022 and $150 million allocated for child advocacy centers. Another $150 million drawn from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund will go to address lead and asbestos in school and childcare centers.

Medicaid expansion is not in the budget. Cooper has vetoed all previous budgets presented to him that did not include Medicaid expansion. The budget, however, does include the creation of a joint legislative committee to study access to healthcare in the states.

That decision irked Cooper, who said real action to address extending health insurance coverage to hundreds of thousands via the federal program is still needed.

Roughly $5.9 billion in state funds is in the budget for infra-

Thousands of military families struggle with food insecurity

By Ashraf Khalil North State Journal SAN DIEGO — It’s a hidden crisis that has existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families.

That estimate by Feeding America, which coordinates the work of more than 200 food banks around the country, underscores how longterm food insecurity has extended into every aspect of American life, including the military.

The exact scope of the problem is a topic of debate, due to a lack of formal study. But activists say it has existed for years and primarily affects junior-level enlisted service members — ranks E1 to E4 in military parlance — with children.

The group estimates that 29% of troops in the most junior enlisted ranks faced food insecurity during the previous year.

“It is what it is,” said James Bohannon, 34, a Naval E4 (petty officer third class) in San Diego who relies on food assistance to keep his two daughters fed.”You know what you’re signing up for in the military, but I’m not going to lie.

It’s really tough.”

In addition to modest pay for junior enlisted ranks, the frequent moves inherent to military life make it difficult for military spouses to find steady work. Also, the internal military culture of self-sufficiency leaves many reluctant to speak about their difficulties, for

structure projects and capital projects, including $878 million to state agencies, $1 billion to the UNC System, and $400 million to community colleges.

A modified version of the various tax-cut plans that worked their way through the General Assembly this session also has a spot in the budget, which includes increasing the zero-tax bracket to $25,500.

Beginning in 2023, the state’s personal income tax rate will be incrementally decreased from the current 5.25% down to 3.99 % over the following six years. Additionally, child tax credits are increased by $500 per child.

Corporate taxes will see a similar declining sliding scale. That tax will be phased out over a six-year period beginning in 2025.

Military pensions will no longer be taxed. The estimate provided by the legislature for the impact on state revenues is around $30 million a year.

PPP loan forgiveness is also included in the tax-related items in the budget.

The state’s Savings Reserves, often called the Rainy Day Fund, will top $4.25 billion once the budget proposal is signed.

Other notable spending items include $338 million is set aside for economic development projects, $800 million in state funds for disaster relief, $215 million in federal COVID-19 funds to reimburse the State Health Plan for COVID-related expenses, and $750 million in federal funds to the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF) and the Land and Water Fund.

Policy items included in the budget include revisiting collusive settlement agreements and statewide emergency declarations. The legislature passed bills on both topics earlier this year only to have Cooper veto them.

Senate Bill 105 contains language limiting an ongoing state of emergency declaration beyond 30 days unless concurrence is received from the Council of State. If concurrence is received, at the 60day mark the state of emergency would expire unless action is taken by the General Assembly. The change would be effective Jan. 1, 2023.

A section is also included prohibiting collusive settlements by the N.C. Attorney General by including a new section in state statute stating in cases where lawmakers are a party or have intervened in a case, that a “consent judgment shall be jointly approved by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, or by and through counsel of their choice, before the judgment may be entered.”

Gov. Cooper said that signing the budget did not mean he consented to them being included, and hinted at future litigation, calling both items unconstitutional.

“However imperfect this budget is, our schools, our communities, our small businesses, our families need our help right now, especially as we recover from this pandemic,” Cooper said Tuesday.

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A man receives food at an Armed Services YMCA food distribution, Oct. 28, 2021, in San Diego. yet those who are on the lower rung of our military ranks are -- if they are married and have a child or two-- they’re hungry. How can you focus on carrying out the mission and defending our democracy.

If you’re worried about whether or not your kid gets dinner tonight?”

Perhaps the best indication of how entrenched the problem has become is that a robust network of military-adjacent charitable organizations such as the Armed Services YMCA and Blue Star Families has developed an infrastructure of food banks near most major domestic bases.

San Diego may be one of the epicenters of the phenomenon,

with high housing costs and multiple military bases within driving distance. For Brooklyn Pittman, whose husband, Matthew, is in the Navy, the move to California from West Virginia this year was a financial shock.

“We had a nice savings built up and then we moved out here and it was rough,” she said. “We still had student loans and everything on top of everything else.”

Their savings quickly disappeared and the small income she earns from dog-sitting didn’t come close to covering the shortfall. For a while, the couple considered sleeping in their car on the base grounds until the next paycheck.

“Right now, it’s the going up through the supply chain and you’re seeing that workforce shortage: period. reflected in food prices and prices of other goods. That’s We’ve got a shortage certainly something that we’re of people working in seeing, whether that’s items at a grocery store, another store warehouses and docks to or items at a restaurant. We’re unload and load and store definitely seeing inflation like and transport from one we haven’t seen in quite some trailer to another. It’s not time.”

He said a lot of businesses just a truck-driver shortage. are losing out simply because “they can’t find enough em- It’s the workforce.” ployees to run a store.” Many of his member stores are hav- Crystal Collins, president of the ing to reduce hours or even close the store for entire days NC Trucking Association due to a lack of employees.

“What they’re seeing profA bright side, though, Collins it-wise is often a reduction because they can’t be open the said, is that the state’s two sea entire time,” Ellen said. “The ports — in Morehead City and labor side of it is probably the Wilmington — at least have most important factor right more workers than ports in other states. now.”

“You want to talk about CalCollins also pinpoints the labor shortage as the key problem ifornia, that’s the whole issue affecting the supply chain and [lack of workers]. Our ports in North Carolina are in a better driving up prices.

“It’s just overall, all my mem- position, because they do have bers, everyone you talk to in dock workers. They do have trucking is having a problem crane operators. They do have hiring,” she said. “Right now, people working in distribution.”

Her message to the public it’s the workforce shortage: period. We’ve got a shortage of is, “We’re hiring,” highlighting people working in warehouses that many of the North Caroand docks to unload and load lina truck-driving companies and store and transport from that she represents are currentone trailer to another. It’s not ly searching for more drivers, just a truck-driver shortage. It’s and that “The pay is good. Drivers are paid very well.” the workforce.”

Ellen’s members in the retail industry are also aggressively seeking workers.

“For us in the retail sector, oftentimes it’s the person’s first job or first part-time job. And I think going back all the way through COVID, as an industry we lost an entire class of kids over the last 15 months,” Ellen said.

He said these might be the kids that worked a part-time job bagging groceries, and then went on to work other retail jobs, like seasonal jobs during Christmas, “And now we don’t have that anymore.”

Asked why he believes so many people are either leaving jobs or not taking new ones, Ellen said it could be partly because the stock market is doing so well. But he is not sure exactly what government can do at this point to bring people back, other than longer-term workforce development efforts.

“The federal unemployment benefits have gone away generally, and I’m not sure yet what other policies we can have that can convince people to go back to the workforce.”

And for Collins, she said, “I’m just appreciative that the general public has realized how essential trucking is to this country,” citing a stat that 87% of communities in North Carolina depend solely on a truck to deliver their goods — goods that this Christmas may be quite a bit more expensive.

fear they will be regarded as irresponsible.

The problem is exacerbated by an obscure Agriculture Department rule that prevents thousands of needy military families from accessing the SNAP government assistance program, commonly known as food stamps.

“It’s one of these things that the American people don’t know about, but it’s a matter of course among military members. We know this,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and former Blackhawk pilot who lost both legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq. “We’re the mightiest military on the face of the earth and

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Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif.

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Surry Co. commissioners unanimously pass resolution opposing US AG attack on parents Resolution: Parents should have total and complete control over what kids are taught

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School buses lined up at a maintenance facility.

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NC school districts use federal COVID-19 education relief funds for bonuses

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Some North Carolina school boards have announced they will use federal COVID-19 relief funds to give bonuses to educators.

The Randolph Record reported that the Randolph County Public School System will pay every employee a $5,000 bonus, according to a resolution adopted by the school board on Oct. 25. The resolution described the bonuses as “retention” and “premium pay.”

According to the American Rescue Plan’s ESSER “FAQ,” a district can use ESSER funds to provide “premium pay” or other additional compensation for teachers, principals, and other school personnel, including school nutrition staff and custodians.

Federal ESSER funds are appropriated by the General Assembly to the districts, but then the funds are typically handled by county managers.

Jamey Falkenbury, the director of government and community affairs for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, confirmed to North State Journal that federal Elementary and Secondary Education Relief Funds known as ESSER funds, can be used specifically for “recruitment and retention” bonuses.

“It is permissible, by the Department of Education, for locals to use their ESSER funds on recruitment and retention bonuses for teachers and/or school support staff,” Falkenbury said.

The bonuses have to be given to all employees and can’t just

target a specific grade-level or type of teacher.

The ESSER funds can last up upwards of seven or eight years if the money is encumbered per the district’s ESSER plan.

The idea of stretching out the long-term spending of ESSER funds is highlighted by a fouryear monitoring scheme posted under the N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s ESSER informational webpage.

The state’s largest district, Wake County, is also considering using federal relief dollars to augment teacher pay. At its next board meeting on Nov. 16, Wake County Public Schools will consider a $3,750 bonus for employees to be paid in three $1,250 installments and an increase in pay rates for substitutes. The board previously discussed a raising starting pay to $13 per hour.

Wake County has recently been dealing with bus driver sick-outs, which have forced parents to provide transportation.

The bus drivers say they want more pay and they are stressed out over routes they drive being lengthened due to too few drivers.

Falkenbury mentioned Wake County’s plan as a good one to look at since the district seems to have plotted out the use of its funds as far out as four to five years.

The conservative John Locke Foundation reported in July that nearly 90% of the roughly $6 billion in COVID relief funds remained still unspent by North Carolina school districts.

A number of other districts are also deciding to use federal relief funds for retention bonuses.

Alamance County schools are giving full and part-time employees a $3,000 bonus, while Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools employees will get a $1,400 bonus. Substitutes will get a $500 bonus if they work at least 20 days before Nov. 30.

Brunswick County will give out $1,500 bonuses to employees.

Using COVID relief funds, the Davie County school board will give all employees a $1,000 retention bonus that will be divided in two $500 payouts. That board also voted to raise the minimum bus driver wage to $15 an hour as well as giving bus drivers a 2% raise.

One of the largest bonuses so far has been Guilford County Schools July $20,000 signing bonus for newly hired teachers.

That district has indicated in its ESSER plan that it will allocate $32.8 million for recruitment and retention purposes.

Johnston County has approved a $2,500 bonus for teachers and staff hired before 2021 and a $1,250 bonus for those hired after March 1, 2021. The bonuses will be paid out in two installments in December and June.

Mooresville Graded School District employees will see a $3,000 bonus.

Rockingham County Schools is paying out a $4,000 bonus in two installments, one paid out this year and one next year.

Winston Salem/Forsyth schools approved $1,000 in October for all staff. The board also approved payments of $700 for teachers and $500 to all other employees for both December of this year and May of 2021.

RALEIGH — Surry County commissioners unanimously passed a resolution opposing U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memorandum instructing the FBI to investigate parents across the country protesting at school board meetings.

All five commissioners voted to approve the resolution, which was introduced by Commissioner Eddie Harris at their Nov. 1 meeting.

“This is a resolution in opposition to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s DOJ directive attacking parents,” said Harris.

The resolution cites the First Amendment and that “parents

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Ahead of Lee’s order, Carolina Journal reported that former Leandro Judge Manning had issued a memo to state education officials, the governor, and the legislature.

The memo harshly criticized an anticipated attempt to violate the N.C. Constitution.

“At the present time there is a media-induced frenzy about the Leandro judge proposing to enter an order requiring the General Assembly to appropriate over $1 billion for the educational establishment,” wrote Manning. “As the press is licking its lips for 15 minutes on the 6:00 news, I will refer all to the following decisions from our Supreme Court and other decisions relating specifically to the power of the Judicial Branch.”

In his closing paragraphs, Manning repeated a position he made in 2020 that the amount of money spent in education isn’t the issue, but instead how the majority of money is being spent on education employee salaries and benefits.

“Leandro requires that the children, not the educational establishment, have the Constitutional right to the equal opportunity to obtain a sound, basic education,” Manning wrote. “This has not and is not happening now as the little children are not being taught to read and write because of a failure in classroom instruction as required by Leandro.”

Manning squarely blamed the failure of students to read by third grade as a “failure of classroom instruction.”

Manning’s mention of a “sound, basic education” was also repeated in remarks by both Cooper and Stein. The “sound, basic education” line has been used as a mantra throughout the Leandro case’s history and in other education spending fights; however, the phrase does not appear in the state constitution.

This phrase actually comes from a 1997 Leandro-related ruling that said students should have the “op-

NC School Boards Association votes to drop membership in national parent organization

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — On Nov. 11, the North Carolina School Board Association (NCSBA) voted to withdraw its membership to the National School Board Association (NSBA).

The vote was first reported on Facebook and apparently took place at the NCSBA’s annual conference in Greensboro.

NCSBA president Amy Churchill and executive director Leanne E. Winner sent a letter to their membership announcing the termination of their membership with the NSBA. The letter says the decision will be effective as of June 30, which is the end of the term for which dues have already been paid.

“For a number of years, some of the state school boards associations, including North Carolina, have voiced concerns over

governance and financial issues at NSBA. During that time, little has been done to address these concerns,” the letter reads. “The September 29 letter from NSBA to President Biden, in both its inflammatory language and the request for federal agencies to intervene in our communities, was just one in a series of lapses in governance.”

The letter also said the decision to leave the NSBA “was not made lightly.”

The NCSBA’s move comes following the backlash over a letter sent by the NSBA to the Biden administration that characterized protesting parents as domestic terrorists.

According to Parents Defending Education, the group who discovered the NSBA’s letter as part of a records request, 11 states have withdrawn their membership or dues, including Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana,

Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Parents Defending Education had listed North Carolina among the 26 state school board associations as distancing themselves as of their Nov. 9 update.

Both state and national level North Carolina elected officials pushed back on the memo, which U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland used as a platform to send the FBI into local school districts around the country.

After pushback over its letter to the Biden Administration, the NSBA issued an apology to members on Oct. 22. The NSBA also removed the original Sept. 29 letter to President Biden from its website.

“On behalf of the NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter,” reads the NSBA board’s letter.

“To be clear, the safety of school board members, other school

through their elected school board should have total and complete control over what their children are taught and exposed to” during the time which kids are in school.

Chairman Mark Marion said he has full faith in the Surry County Sheriff’s Office, and “we don’t need the FBI coming in here and telling us what we can and can’t do.”

Marion suggested the language in the resolution that mentions the Biden administration should be changed to “any administration.”

Commissioner Van Tucker said he hopes to see the school districts in Surry County adopt a similar resolution as well as prohibit CRT and woke concepts in curriculum.

The resolution encourages the three local school boards in Surry County “to take appropriate action in kind expressing their disdain for this misguided and intolerant policy by the Biden Administration that attacks Surry County’s parents.”

officials and educators, and students is our top priority, and there remains important work to be done on this issue. However, there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter. We should have had a better process in place to allow for consultation on a communication of this significance. We apologize also for the strain and stress this situation has caused you and your organizations.”

It was later learned that NSBA president Viola Garcia and CEO Chip Slaven had sent the letter to the White House without the knowledge or approval of its members.

It was also learned that White House staff interacted with the NSBA regarding the letter prior to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s now-famous Oct. 4 memorandum directing the FBI to investigate “threats” to school boards and education per-

“If Judge Lee’s orders are followed, the legislature’s core duty is usurped by unelected county-level trial judge and an out-of-state consultancy funded by the Governor and his political allies.”

House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) portunity to receive a sound, basic education.”

Attention has also been drawn to the financial backers of WestEd’s report, which is the basis for Lee’s ruling. Raleigh media outlet WRAL reported Wested was paid around $2.05 million to produce their report by various agencies in the Cooper administration and by allies of the governor.

Cooper’s NC Department of Health and Human Services — $604,699 Cooper’s Department of Administration — $200,000 Goodnight Educational Foundation — $250,000 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation — $200,000 Spencer Foundation — $118,406 and $282,173 Belk Foundation — $100,000 A.J. Fletcher Foundation — $50,000 The Gates Foundation also gave at least $249,932 to the Friday Institute, the N.C. State University institute that helped WestEd draft the report.

sonnel in every state.

Lost in the news shuffle was Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s Oct. 13 appointment of the NSBA’s Garcia to the national board which oversees the Nation’s Report Card, commonly referred to by the acronym NAEP. The NAEP board oversees national testing and assessments of all K-12 public school students and is considered a prestigious appointment. Former North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue was also re-appointed to the same board by Cardona.

The USDOJ press statement announcing Garland’s memorandum said a task force would be set up to provide training and look into “criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.”

During congressional hearings held following the publication of the memorandum, Garland refused to give details on the task force as well as whether or not the FBI was already holding meetings with state education officials. Garland also admitted that he based his claims of “violent threats” to school boards and education staff using the now infamous letter.

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Gas prices stay high going into holiday season

Cawthorn announces run in new 13th Congressional District NC House Speaker announces re-election bid

By Matt Mercer North State Journal

Entering the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, gas prices have increased significantly compared to this time in 2020.

According to AAA Carolinas, which maintains an array of gas price comparisons, the average price of regular gasoline in North Carolina is $3.22. AAA says that one year ago, the state average was $1.96.

Prices for diesel are also higher, with the state average at $3.52, compared to $2.28 in ’20.

NC’s price is below the national average of $3.41. Two states have average prices above $4 per gallon: California and Hawaii.

WEST 2 people killed after car crash on Blue Ridge Parkway Buncombe County Authorities have begun an investigation after two people were killed in a crash on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Monday.

Dispatchers received a report of a vehicle off the road. Park service rangers, along with Buncombe County rescue personnel, responded to the scene to find two people dead inside the car. A preliminary investigation shows the car was heading south in a curve when it left the road and hit two trees. The identities of the two victims are being withheld until family members are notified.

Haywood County A curvy stretch of Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge will become a little more circuitous and take more time to navigate as a bridge is replaced. The N.C. Department of Transportation said one lane will be closed in each direction.

Crews are replacing the 56-year-old bridge on I-40 over Harmon Den Road and Cold Springs Creek. NCDOT and Tennessee transportation officials are considering options for dealing with delays, including a zipper-merge on I-40, or taking I-26 and I-81, which adds 45 minutes to a typical commute. The project is scheduled for completion in May 2024.

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RALEIGH — First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn upended an expected campaign by N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) for Congress with his announcement he would run in the new 13th District in the 2022 election.

In a video announcement last week, Cawthorn said that his district was split, and he faced a decision about where he felt he could best serve.

The decision, he said, was a “move to take more ground for constitutional conservatism” and to stop what he said was the political reality that an “establishment, go-along-to-get-along Republican” would win if he did not run.

That appears to be a shot from Cawthorn at Moore, the longtime Cleveland County state representative who has served in the General Assembly for 10 terms, including as speaker since 2015.

Sources say Moore has long planned to run for Congress.

As budget negotiations and redistricting stretched from summer to fall, speculation increased that Moore was building his profile to make a run for Congress. He became more active on social media and made frequent

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Wildfire hits rugged, remote area

UNC law students help Vietnam War veteran get Purple Heart

Stokes County Firefighters are trying to get control of a wildfire in a rugged and remote area at the southern tip of Sauratown Mountain. It’s not clear what started the wildfire. Crews used a bulldozer to create a fire break and protect homes in southwestern Stokes County. The fire covered about 3 acres after starting on the mountain’s ridgeline. The fire is in an area without access roads for vehicles.

Controlling the fire will be difficult because of warm, dry weather with low humidity.

Firefighters are using rocks and leaf blowers to create a fire line and keep flames from spreading.

Surry County When Army veteran John Spencer Jr. of Mount Airy returned from Vietnam at 21, instead of being recognized as a war hero, Spencer was given an other-than-honorable discharge. For more than 50 years, he was denied veteran status, military honors and education, job and health benefits. But all that changed, when Spencer, 73, was pinned with a Purple Heart, a combat infantryman badge and a Vietnam Gallantry Cross outside the law school at UNC-Chapel Hill. He never gave up the fight for that recognition and sought help from the UNC School of Law’s Military and Veterans Law Clinic.

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Troopers: Tow truck operator dies in hit-and-run on I-95

Drug investigation leads to 18 convictions of gang members New Hanover County Nearly 20 people have been sentenced in a multi-year drug investigation targeting gang members. The investigation, dubbed Operation Tiny Toons, began in 2017 and focused on the Gangster Disciples, including one person described as one of the largest suppliers of heroin and fentanyl in the Wilmington area.

Drug-related criminal activity over the years included the murder of one of the targets of the investigation in Greensboro, a high-speed chase in Wilmington. Among the 18 people sentenced was Darion Graham, 31, of Wilmington, who investigators say flushed a large quantity of heroin down the toilet. Graham was sentenced to 30 years.

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Man charged in TikTok rescue has charge upped to kidnapping Cherokee County The charge against 61-year-old James Herbert Brick, of Cherokee, accused of holding a 16-year-old girl captive until a driver on a Kentucky interstate noticed her using a distress signal made popular on TikTok, has been increased to kidnapping.

Brick was originally charged with unlawful imprisonment. The move came after police testified at the hearing that Brick threatened to kill the girl’s dog if she tried to get away. The girl’s parents reported their daughter missing from Asheville last week.

Two days later, her hand signal enabled Kentucky sheriff’s deputies to catch Brick.

Police: Street performer attacked, robbed Buncombe County Three people threw a street performer to the ground and stole his tip jar in downtown Asheville. Asheville police are looking for the robbers who attacked the busker on Sunday afternoon, the department said in a statement. The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries. The incident happened downtown near the Asheville Museum of Science. Local street performers say the city has a lively street music scene but it has been repeatedly silenced due to violence.

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Company fined $39k in trench collapse that killed worker

Airport recovering after hourslong power outage

Alexander County A construction company has been fined $39,200 by the Department of Labor for a trench collapse that killed a worker in May. Shane Anthony Sharpe, 38, of Taylorsville, was killed in the collapse of a 10-foot-deep trench at an Alexander County shopping center. Crews were working on a drainage line. The collapse occurred in a parking lot outside Big D’s Diner & Country Store on Highway 64/90. After a six-month investigation, the Department of Labor levied $39,200 in penalties against the contractor on the job, Barnes Backhoe & Grading Inc.

Wake County Raleigh-Durham Airport suffered an hourslong power outage at the main terminal Friday. The outage was reported shortly after 4 a.m. The airport wasn’t able to serve passengers in Terminal 2, the busiest terminal. Terminal 1, home to Southwest Airlines, was unaffected. The outage affected ticketing, security and other systems. Long lines stretched out the doors. Just before 9 a.m., two-thirds of Terminal 2’s operating systems were restored and some gates were operational. The power outage occurred when a cleaning crew spilled a large amount of water around 1 a.m. which seeped into the floor and damaged an electrical system.

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Infant killed in dog attack Johnston County An infant has died after being attacked by a dog, police said. Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson said in a statement that a pit bull attacked the infant around 5 a.m. Wednesday.

Police are investigating the infant’s death as an accident. Police said they weren’t releasing any information about what happened out of respect for the family. The dog is in Johnston County Animal Control custody. It is not known who the dog belonged to. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is also working on the case.

Robeson County South Carolina troopers are looking for the driver of a tractor trailer that struck and killed a tow-truck operator from North Carolina on Interstate 95. Steven Bullard was hit on I-95 in Dillon County as he was loading a vehicle on his tow truck, and the driver of the 18-wheeler did not stop. The cab of the tractor trailer is a 20042007 white Volvo VNL. The truck likely has damage to the right front and could be missing a headlight, part of the hood or the intake grill.

Bullard, 48, worked for Mitchell’s Towing in Robeson County.

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2 men serving time for murder freed from prison Washington County Two men imprisoned for 30 years for a murder they said they didn’t commit are free following plea deals. Brandon Jones, 49, and Leroy Spruill, 63, had to drop their long-running innocence claims as part of the deal. Jones and Spruill entered Alford pleas and were sentenced to time served. A Superior Court judge vacated the convictions. Jones and Spruill were convicted in the 1995 murder of Frank Swain, who was beaten, stabbed and had his throat cut in a robbery. A tire iron found at the scene had DNA from three people, but none from the accused.

appearances on The Pete Kaliner Show on WBT Radio, the Charlotte-area station that broadcasts widely in the greater Charlotte area — including most of the new 13th District.

Yet by Thursday night, Moore had told colleagues he was running for reelection in his state House seat and for his speaker position.

Cawthorn won’t be unopposed in the 13th District, although he is the favorite to win the primary. Former Mecklenburg County Commissioner Karen Bentley announced a run earlier this week for the seat.

The swift shift now leaves the new 14th District, which runs from Watauga County down to Cherokee County, as an open seat for both parties.

Several Asheville-area Democrats had already announced campaigns and appear likely to stay in the race, with the exception of Josh Remillard, who said he is following Cawthorn to the 13th.

A trio of state senators could eye the seat on the Republican side: Deanna Ballard, Chuck Edwards and Ralph Hise have all been mentioned as potential candidates. Ballard and Hise were double-bunked in the new state Senate maps. N.C. Republican Party 11th District Chair Michele Woodhouse has also been rumored as a potential candidate.

“This was a tactical move to ensure North Carolina’s conservative fighting spirit is strengthened,” Cawthorn added in the video.

NC Justice Hudson not running for re-election, Dietz announces for seat

By Matt Mercer North State Journal RALEIGH — N.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice Robin Hudson will not seek re-election to the seat she has held since January 2007. Current N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Dietz, who announced his campaign for the state’s highest court over the summer, said he will run for that seat. Two of the seven seats on the Supreme Court will be on the ballot in 2022.

Hudson, a Democrat, had the option of running for re-election, but a mandatory retirement age for justices and judges would see her give up the seat in early 2024 if she were to run and win another term. She was first elected to the N.C.

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Court of Appeals in November 2000, becoming the first woman elected to the appellate court without having been appointed beforehand.

Dietz, a Republican, was elected to the Court of Appeals in 2014 and is the third most-senior judge on the 15-member court.

Earlier this year, Democrat Lucy Inman, who ran for the Supreme Court in 2020 and lost to Republican Phil Berger, Jr., announced she was running for the Supreme Court again in 2022.

Sam Ervin IV, who was elected to the Supreme Court in 2014, is expected to seek another term. Two Republicans are expected to compete for that seat: Trey Allen and N.C. Court of Appeals Judge April Wood.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

A gross usurpation of legislative authority

Orange County residents contribute over five times as much money through elevated property tax values, roughly $5000/student, to augment local public education expenses than Tyrrell County residents do each year, at below $1000 per student.

“THE JUDICIARY is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power; it can never attack with success either of the other two...It equally proves…the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter…so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that ‘there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.’’’— Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #78 Mr. Hamilton circa 1788, meet former Superior Court-but-nowappointed Judge David Bell of Union County, North Carolina, of the year 2021. He begs to differ with your conclusion that the inherent sanctity of the judiciary will prevent judges with proper judicial temperament from impinging on the state legislature and usurping its appropriation authority.

Judge Bell, a retired Democratic Superior Court judge who was appointed to oversee the Leandro case, ruled last week that the North Carolina state legislature must allocate $1.7 billion out of its reserve-fund coffers to the state public education system to provide every child in the state a “fair and equal education”.

Leandro was intended to minimize the disparities in funding by counties in North Carolina for public education. Orange County residents contribute over five times as much money through elevated property tax values, roughly $5000/student, to augment local public education expenses than Tyrrell County residents do each year, at below $1000 per student to name one notable example.

Never mind the fact that no judge has any recognized legal authority to order the legislature to do anything with public taxpayer money. That right has long been ensconced in the legislative branch, primarily in the house of representatives at the state and federal level, since the birth of the American democratic republic in 1789.

Never mind the fact that the original Leandro decision was rendered in 1987 when North Carolina Democrats held massive majorities in the N.C. Senate and House and would do so until 2010. Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein both served long stints in the Democraticcontrolled NCGA before joining the executive branch. Any state legislative session under Democratic leadership during those 23 years could have properly authorized and then appropriated the money to comply with the intent and goal of the Leandro decision — but they didn’t.

Never mind the fact that Judge Lee is a single retired-but-now

appointed, unelected judge making this decision instead of a majority of the 120 duly-elected representatives of the people or 50 state senators.

One-person rule is exactly what North Carolinians feared the most when they rejected the ratification of the U.S. Constitution until it had the Bill of Rights attached to it. It is also the reason why, in 1996, North Carolinians were the last citizens in the United States to grant its governor veto power over state-legislature-passed bills.

North Carolinians instinctively oppose entrusting too much power in a single person’s hands. For good reason.

Judge Bell is making that reason crystal clear. If he and other judges, such as Judge Howard Manning who oversaw the Leandro case before him, really wanted to allocate $1.7 billion to the state public education program, they would have shed their judicial robes and run for the legislature, just like every other person who has run and served has done.

What is Judge Bell going to do to enforce his judicial edict from on high? Unless Gov. Roy Cooper orders the state’s National Guard to invade the legislative building and force the Republican majority at gunpoint to authorize and appropriate $1.7 billion to satisfy Bell’s Leandro decision, there is no way to make duly elected representatives and senators of the state of North Carolina do anything he says about public education.

He is just one unelected judge with no enforcement mechanism or authority.

Judges who want to legislate from the bench drive people who believe in legislative supremacy crazy. I didn’t like working for a Republican congressman for a decade in an 85-seat minority, but I still believe that the people should rule through control of the legislative bodies, not a kinglike executive or, worse, an unelected, appointed judge.

If single unelected, appointed judges are allowed to make appropriations decisions properly assigned to legislative bodies, we would never have to hold elections again. We would cease to be the United States of America.

Judge Lee has made a bad decision that must not be allowed to stand.

Statewide vouchers that follow the student and not the teachers or the school are looking better and better every day.

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

Kyle Rittenhouse trial brings out the absolute worst in Democrats

Maybe for Sellers, Jeffries, and those who agree with them, there are exceptions to the “we shouldn’t judge a defendant until all the facts come out” rule.

AS I WRITE THIS COLUMN, both sides are preparing to deliver their closing arguments in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, which is taking place in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Rittenhouse, who is now 18, is being tried for killing two and injuring one during an August 2020 protest-turned-riot. The unrest happened in the aftermath of the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, who is black. Blake was seriously injured but recovered, though he suffered some paralysis from the shooting.

The protest took place in the midst of the Black Lives Matter/Antifa-led protests that had been happening in other parts of the country after the officer-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Many of those protests also devolved into rioting and chaos.

Well before the trial started this month, it was clear from all the available evidence and video footage that Rittenhouse shot at protesters Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz, who are all white, in self-defense. Rosenbaum and Huber died from their injuries. Grosskreutz has said he’s “missing 90%” of his bicep, and has had several surgeries on his injured arm.

As the trial has played out on television and on social media, prominent Democrats who have proudly stated over the last couple of years that they are “criminal justice reform advocates” have reacted in ways you wouldn’t expect self-proclaimed proponents of criminal

justice reform to act.

For example, prominent South Carolina attorney Bakari Sellers, also a CNN commentator and former state co-chair for the failed 2020 presidential campaign of then-Sen. Kamala Harris, took to the Twitter machine last week to mock Rittenhouse after he took the stand and cried as he gave his testimony.

Retweeting a video of Rittenhouse crying on the witness stand, Sellers said that “He went with the ugly cry to win this Oscar. Gives me Tropic Thunder vibes.” Sellers, I should point out, is a criminal defense attorney who, more than most, understands the importance of presuming innocence until (if) proven guilty in a court of law.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), another selfdescribed criminal justice reform advocate, who is also chair of the House Democratic Caucus, tweeted last week that authorities should “Lock up Kyle Rittenhouse and throw away the key.” I should point out that in June 2020, Jeffries tweeted out the following message: “End. Mass. Incarceration. Defund the Prison Industrial Complex.”

Apparently to Sellers and Jeffries, that awful “prison industrial complex” is acceptable when it comes to Kyle Rittenhouse, who also, apparently in their view, is not worthy of the type of fair trial that they advocate for in their

criminal-justice-reform work.

Both Sellers and Jeffries are black.

Rittenhouse is white. Is the reason for their hostile treatment of Rittenhouse based in part on his race? Because one couldn’t possibly imagine them saying the same things about Rittenhouse if he were black. In fact, they’d very likely be demanding people wait until all the facts were out before casting judgment, something they obviously haven’t done in this case.

It’s almost as though Sellers and Jeffries are displaying racist tendencies towards Rittenhouse, which would be very troubling if true considering the powerful positions they hold.

I guess maybe for Sellers, Jeffries, and those who agree with them, there are exceptions to the “we shouldn’t judge a defendant until all the facts come out” rule. Unfortunately for them, the facts have long been established in the Rittenhouse trial, as the prosecution in fact has shown over and over again, although rather unintentionally.

As the old saying goes, you’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. As the modern version (via Ben Shapiro) goes, facts don’t care about your feelings, either.

And that goes double for pompous lawyers and elected officials who enjoy talking out of both sides of their mouths.

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

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COLUMN | MICHAEL BARONE

History has bad news for Biden Democrats Voters don’t like rising crime rates.

They don’t like surges of illegal immigration.

History shows they really don’t like inflation.

AS IN THE 1880S, we live in an era of polarized partisan parity, in which changes of opinion among independent voters can sweep election results. One year ago, Joe Biden was elected president with 51% of the popular vote. Now, with his job approval down to 42%, his party is in trouble.

That’s obvious from Republican Glenn Youngkin’s 51-49 victory for governor in Virginia, which Biden won by 10% in 2020, and Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy’s reelection by only 51-49 in New Jersey, which had been +16% for Biden. It’s obvious also that, barring an upward shift in public opinion, Democrats will surely lose their narrow House majority in the House and likely lose their current 50-50 parity in the Senate.

Historic precedents abound. Presidents’ parties almost always lose House seats in midterm elections for structural reasons. Presidents’ parties have gained House seats only three times in the past century (1934, 1998, 2002), all when incumbent presidents had unusually high job approval.

There are structural reasons for this. In an always diverse nation, presidents are only elected by amassing large coalitions with divergent views. Once in office, their actions and goals inevitably displease some previous supporters.

During midterms, members of the president’s party are stuck with the president’s record. That can hurt, even in governor’s races in times of strong partisan polarization. The opposition party, in contrast, has choice of terrain.

One example is the Biden Democrats’ proposal to increase the deductibility of state and local taxes. This is wildly popular — politically essential, actually — for some putatively moderate Democrats in high-tax, high-income places such as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California.

But the issue can work for Republicans elsewhere because the lion’s share of dollar savings goes to taxpayers earning $500,000 or more. That’s a hard sell in places where almost nobody earns that much.

Another historic perspective: Three decades ago, Americans emerged from a long era (1952-92) in which they mostly elected Republican presidents and Democratic Congresses. That often resulted in widely accepted bipartisan legislation since neither party’s politicians expected to have total control any time soon.

Since 1994, voters have become both increasingly partisan and more closely divided. So both parties’ politicians have reason to shun bipartisan compromise and wait to win a trifecta: the White House and both houses of Congress. When they get one, they push for, and sometimes pass, sweeping legislation, then promptly lose their majorities.

This happened in 1994 after Democrats failed to pass Hillarycare and in 2010 after they passed Obamacare.

It happened in 1966 after passage of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, when Republicans won the House popular vote outside the then-heavily Democratic South. If Biden’s approval remains low, it will probably happen again in 2022.

It happened to Republicans in 2018 after passage of the Trump tax package, and it might well have happened in 2002 if George W. Bush’s job approval hadn’t been so high after 9/11. In any case, Republicans were swept out of control in 2006.

Why have trifectas been repudiated? Partly for the structural reasons already mentioned. And partly because most voters apparently don’t want the significant economic and entitlement policies pushed by politicians and policy wonks of both parties.

That’s the conclusion one gets from maverick analyst Michael Lind’s two articles recommending how each party can win a lasting majority. His advice to both sides is essentially the same: Embrace popular programs such as Social Security and Medicare; reject left or right think tank solutions; avoid avoidable wars.

In other words, voters may be full of complaints and may respond favorably to what I call wouldn’t-it-begreat-if-we-had (free child care, free college, zero taxes) poll questions. But most actually don’t want severe disruption in a country where most people live in more security and affluence than ever heard of in human history.

Throw in some more issues. Voters don’t like rising crime rates. They don’t like surges of illegal immigration. History shows they really don’t like inflation. They overwhelmingly rejected Democrats amid postwar inflations in 1920 and 1946, and they rejected three consecutive presidents (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter) in the inflationary 1970s.

Further back in history, they resoundingly rejected the inflationary “free silver” of William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Sympathetic historians note that Bryan swept the then-lightly populated West but lost the previously marginal East and Great Lakes states, with 57% of the nation’s voters, to William McKinley by a solid 58% to 40%. All their 216 electoral votes, split between the parties in the five previous elections, went Republican.

Will surges in violent crime, illegal immigration and inflation continue in 2022? If so, that’s not good news for the Biden Democrats.

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.

COLUMN | BILLY WARDEN

PHOITOS VIA AP

Left, Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso. Right, this image released by Netflix shows promotional art for the upcoming “Tiger King 2” premiering Nov. 17.

The streaming guide to holiday dysfunction If you care about someone and you’ve got a little love in your heart, there ain’t nothing you can’t get through together.

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, the return to in-person family events promises drama and comedy, thrills and spills on a scale that would have the most hardened Hulu or Disney+ executive licking her chops. From climate change to “cancel culture,” vaccines to school curriculums, Americans face a feast of gamey dinnertable topics.

Now that politics has thoroughly blended with entertainment and our culture wars are marinated in the larger-than-life histrionics previously associated only with Joan Crawford movies, who better than popular streaming characters to teach us how to fight through, merely survive, or even transcend holiday family follies?

Whether you consider such gatherings a “Squid Game”-style dystopia or a bonding opportunity a la “Schitt’s Creek,” this rundown of streaming strategies has something for everyone — just like a good night on Netflix: “Tiger King”: Treachery, narcissism, dubious fashion choices — what could be more all-American these days?

The sworn enemies in this toothy true-life tale of rival zoo owners are noteworthy for the vivid personas they cultivate and their willingness to use any ammo available to take down their foes.

Joe Exotic, the bleach-blond, mullet-haired Tiger King himself, works overtime to personify the colorful individualism that powers his vision of the American Dream. His foil, Carole Baskin, is just as committed to a neo-hippie image of magnanimity; the queen of ‘virtue signaling.’ Lesson: If confrontation is your thing, enter the cage match not just with talking points, but the power of an outsize personality.

The “Tiger King” antagonists also embrace a scorched-earth approach, throwing anything and everything against their foil. When attempting to take down Carole on the matter of who is the more benign exploiter of animals, Joe publicly accuses her of murdering her husband. Somewhat off topic, sure, but a demonstration that all’s fair in love, war and, maybe, family squabbles.

“You know why animals die in cages?” asks the everphilosophical Joe. “Their soul dies.” “Tiger King” is the template for those fierce types who won’t have their opinions or impulses corralled.

“The Crown”: For those who want to avert all-out war, but who recognize that the nature of human

beings does not allow for long term peace — and who want to maintain some dignity during the inevitable tribulations — there’s “The Crown.” Through seven decades and counting, the Queen Elizabeth portrayed here delivers a master class in ruling the roost with passive-aggressive detachment.

And what a roost! But whether dealing with a petulant husband, a saucy sister or a certain pouty prince and princess, Elizabeth for the most part signals her thoughts with a mere wrinkle of the nose or tilt of an eyebrow, then continues on her royal way.

Despite her regal trappings, Her Majesty accepts imperfection in herself and others, noting, “One always has to accept one’s own part, I believe, in any mess.” And lest we hoi polloi wonder if she’s unfeeling, Elizabeth offers this bittersweet insight, perfectly tuned to family foibles: “That’s the thing about unhappiness: all it takes is for something worse to come along and you realize it was actually happiness after all.”

“Ted Lasso”: Eternal optimists and other brave souls seeking to bridge our cultural chasms can find no more upbeat exemplar than the titular character of the awards-sweeping “Ted Lasso,” who boasts, “I believe in ‘believe.’”

An American football coach attempting to lead an English soccer team, Ted makes no claims to vast knowledge, cheerily admitting, “You could fill two internets with what I don’t know ...” Instead, he lives by the Walt Whitman adage to “be curious, not judgmental.”

No matter how many handfuls of cranberries are hurled at folks following the tao of Ted, they’ll always see family gatherings through rose-colored glasses.

Because, as Ted himself says, “If you care about someone and you’ve got a little love in your heart, there ain’t nothing you can’t get through together.”

If all of this sounds like too much work, there is a final alternative: Baby Yoda, the otherworldly tiny tot who helped launch “Star Wars”-spin-off “The Mandalorian” into the streaming stratosphere.

Baby Yoda floats above the fray, present but inscrutable, empathetic but not dramatic, zen-like.

And on that note, may the Force be with you — even if family holiday time devolves into farce.

Billy Warden is a writer, founder of the Raleigh-based marketing firm GBW Strategies and a former executive producer at E! Entertainment Networks.

A7 LETTER TO THE EDITOR JON GAUTHIER

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From left, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., update reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.

Federal government revenues are soaring, don’t increase taxes now SOME PEOPLE would have you believe cutting taxes reduces government revenue. However, as evidenced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, individual and corporate tax rates were reduced, but federal revenues increased from $3.32 trillion collected in FY 2017 to a new record $4.05 trillion by FY 2021.

In fact, federal revenues increased to $3.34 trillion in FY 2018, rose again to $3.6 trillion in FY 2019, and plateaued during the FY 2020 pandemic at roughly $3.7 trillion.

After the 2017 tax cuts, and prior to the great cessation recession of 2020, the Census Bureau announced that the U.S. median household income increased 6.8% in 2019 to $68,709. In dollar amounts, the increase of $4,375 in just one year was approximately 50% of the entire eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The greatest beneficiaries of rising incomes were blacks (7.9% increase), women (7.8% increase), and Hispanics (7.1% increase). Poverty fell 1.3 percentage points to 10.5%, the lowest level since 1959. (Source: The U.S. Census) It’s always easy to point out a need for a new government program, but it’s difficult to find private dollars that are better spent by the government than by the private sector.

Inefficiency in providing grants, favoritism in providing grants to political supporters, and the inability of the government to reward the most productive uses of capital results in lower economic activity, waste, and, of all things, lower taxes than expected.

New tax revenues are soaring to the federal government under the tax cuts enacted in 2017. And increased economic activity is creating jobs and supporting wage increases and wealth creation for the lowest income households. Now is not the time to burden the economy with new tax increases.

Jon is president of Gauthier Wealth Management in Charlotte

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NATION & WORLD Andrew Mercado of Mercado Media monitors his streams of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial from his home setup in White Bear Lake, Minn., on Thursday Nov. 4, 2021.

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Rittenhouse trial highlights rise of livestreamed video The Associated Press WHEN ANDREW MERCADO found himself in the middle of a protest following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last year, he was just figuring out how to livestream on Facebook. A few months later, though, thousands watched as he streamed footage from the Wisconsin streets where Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people.

Mercado was just one of a number of people who caught snippets of Rittenhouse on that August 2020 night of turmoil and unrest in Kenosha when the 17-year-old from nearby Antioch, Illinois, shot three men, killing two of them, after being threatened, chased and struck multiple times.

Livestreamers such as Mercado have become ubiquitous at protests, seeking to provide an unedited view into movements that often reflect an angry and divided America. They may be near the heart of protests, adorned with “press” identification and protective equipment, holding glowing phones that offer a real-time view into some of the most dramatic and violent clashes.

Some say they are journalists

who follow the same principles of objectivity as traditional news outlets. Others are activists seeking to amplify the impact of the protests. But nearly all say they are providing an alternative to mainstream newsrooms that they don’t always trust.

Livestreaming “fits into a larger cultural moment that we’re in, where people seem to want authenticity,” said Seth Lewis, a journalism professor at the University of Oregon. “It seems raw and real.”

Mercado, who lives in a Minneapolis suburb, said a friend had to show him how to livestream from his Facebook account on his phone before he started documenting the protests. Soon, his video stream had more than 60,000 viewers.

As people sent him money through money transfer apps, he bought gear such as a protective vest and gas mask. He also set up accounts on YouTube and Facebook that paid him for his streams.

Less than three months after first pointing his phone at the Minneapolis protests, Mercado was traveling the country and try-

ing to make a living out of covering protests. He was on his way to a protest in Washington when he heard that a white Kenosha police officer had shot Jacob Blake, a black man. He immediately headed that way.

As protests in the Wisconsin city turned violent, Mercado said he found it hard to stay in his preferred role of observer. At one point, a fire threatening a church compelled him to put down his phone and extinguish the flames.

As shots rang out from Rittenhouse’s rifle that night, Mercado was on the street. He streamed video as Rittenhouse ran past between the first and second shootings.

“I jumped out of the objective observer mode and I grabbed people and tried to help them,” Mercado said.

Mercado was not the only one to capture footage of Rittenhouse.

Video streams have featured prominently at the trial so far, with several livestreamers and reporters taking the witness stand.

Kristan Harris, who hosts a web-based talk show “The Rundown Live,” testified Monday after video footage he shot that night

was shown earlier in the trial.

He told The Associated Press that he saw a livestream as “the most raw form of reporting” that would “allow people to make decisions for themselves.”

But even with plentiful video footage from the scene of the shooting, Rittenhouse’s case has been cast into a cultural wedge that has been used by powerful interest groups, extremists, politicians and others to push their own agendas.

“They are capturing snippets and slices of larger things occurring,” said Lewis, the journalism professor. “They still don’t provide all the pieces of the puzzle.”

However, Lewis pointed out that smartphones — and their ability to instantly capture video — have completely changed how the protests are documented.

“People would not believe us, so we had to document it,” said KingDemetrius Pendleton, a Minneapolis-based activist who can frequently be found at protests with a regular camera in one hand and a phone in the other.

For Pendleton, the livestream doesn’t just broadcast images to an audience, it also transports his audience to the scene of the protest. That’s especially important to him because he says black people from his community are not always able to take to the streets due to financial hardships or legal troubles.

“When I’m livestreaming, there are so many that can’t go out,” he said. “I’m showing them.”

EU to add airlines to Belarus sanctions as tensions mount The Associated Press BRUSSELS — The European Union ratcheted up pressure on Belarus by agreeing Monday to slap sanctions on airlines accused of helping Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko wage a “hybrid attack” against the bloc using migrants, as tensions mounted on the Polish and Lithuanian borders.

Up to 4,000 migrants are stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather in Belarus while Poland has reinforced its border with 15,000 soldiers, in addition to border guards and police. At least 11 migrants have died in recent weeks.

Polish authorities said Belarusian services had led a large group of migrants to a border crossing with Poland and made them believe they would be transported by bus to Germany. Polish police broadcast messages across the border telling the migrants that “they have been deceived.”

“The Belarusian side is deliberately escalating the situation,” Marcin Przydacz, a deputy foreign minister, said during a discussion organized by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. “The situation is unprecedented and unpredictable,” Przydacz said.

Belarus’ borders with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are also the eastern borders of both the EU and NATO. The EU says Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime has for months invited migrants, many of them Iraqis and Syrians, to Minsk, with the promise of helping them across the border.

Meanwhile, Lithuanian offi-

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Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gather at the checkpoint “Kuznitsa” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. cials said they were seeing a rising number of attempts by migrants to cross its border from Belarus.

“They try entering from many other places which previously were not used,” Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite told reporters.

The 27-country EU has already imposed four sets of sanctions on Belarus authorities and senior officials over the disputed election last year that returned Lukashenko to office and his government’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters that followed. Opposition leaders and Western nations have described the vote as a sham.

The EU is preparing a fifth lot of sanctions on Belarus. On Monday the bloc’s foreign ministers extended the scope of those measures

to add airlines, travel agents and others accused of helping to bring migrants to Minsk, the Belarusian capital.

“Today’s decision reflects the determination by the European Union to stand up to the instrumentalization of migrants for political purposes. We are pushing back on this inhuman and illegal practice,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.

The EU believes Lukashenko began luring migrants to Belarus as a retaliatory to destabilize the bloc, which has been deeply divided over how to manage migration since well over 1 million people entered the bloc in 2015.

Germany allowed in hundreds of thousands of people that year.

German Foreign Minister Heiko

Maas was asked in Brussels if he would support Germany taking in people now on the Belarusian side of the border if the flow of migrants to Belarus is stopped.

He replied: “No. I would argue for the people who are there, who were brought there under false pretenses by the Lukashenko regime, being taken back to their countries of origin, and for the countries of origin to take their share of the responsibility.”

Lukashenko, meanwhile, brushed aside the threat of fresh sanctions.

“We will defend ourselves. That’s it; there’s nowhere to retreat further,” he was quoted as saying by the state news agency Belta.

Lukashenko once again denied that his government organized the migrant influx, saying that “it isn’t worth the effort,” and he insisted the migrants are resisting Belarusian efforts to encourage them to return home.

“These people, I must say, are very stubborn. No one wants to return. And understandably so — they have nowhere to come back to. They have no place to live there, they know there’s nothing to feed their children with. Moreover, some are simply afraid for their lives,” he said.

Maas, the German foreign minister, said the EU was “far from the end of the spiral of sanctions.”

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said the EU must ensure that planes likely to be bringing in migrants bound for Europe “wouldn’t land in Minsk, or actually any Belarusian airport.”

Miami Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing a $25 million investment to repair Miami’s Freedom Tower, a historic building also known as the “Ellis Island of the South,” where Cuban refugees received government help after leaving the communist island.

The Republican governor said the 96-year-old tower needs urgent structural repairs, but the money also will be used to redesign the exhibits to welcome more visitors.

“Hundreds of thousands of people came right through here, the Freedom Tower in Miami, to be able to have a chance at freedom,” DeSantis said. “We need to be good stewards of this history.”

The announcement came on the day of a planned opposition protest march in Cuba. DeSantis called out the Biden administration for what he said was a lack of support for activists in Cuba following the July demonstrations.

“You’ve had almost no support whatsoever from the Biden administration,” said DeSantis, who is up for reelection and considering a 2024 presidential run.

“They are missing a historic opportunity to be able to make common cause with people who just want to be able to live in freedom.”

In July, the Biden administration announced new sanctions against Cuba’s national revolutionary police and its top two officials, as the U.S. looked to increase pressure on the communist government.

Ellis Island in New York Harbor was the nation’s busiest immigration station and welcomed more than 12 million immigrants to American shores before it closed in 1954.

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Gadhafi’s son announces candidacy for president of Libya Cairo The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month, Libya’s election agency said.

Seif al-Islam, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity related to the 2011 uprising, submitted his candidacy papers in the southern town of Sabha, 400 miles south of the capital of Tripoli.

Gadhafi’s son was captured by fighters in the town of Zintan late in 2011, the year when a popular uprising, backed by the NATO, toppled his father after more than 40 years in power. Moammar Gadhafi was killed in October 2011 amid the ensuing fighting that would turn into a civil war.

In a video shared by an election official, Seif al-Islam addressed the camera, saying that God will decide the right path for the country’s future.

The 49-year-old, who earned a PhD at the London School of Economics, wore a traditional Libyan robe, turban and spectacles. It was the first time in years that he appeared in public.

Libya is set to hold presidential elections on Dec. 24, after years of U.N.led attempts to usher in a more democratic future and bring the country’s war to an end.

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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton stiff-arms Cardinals linebacker Zaven Collins during a touchdown run in Carolina’s 34-10 win Sunday in Glendale, Arizona.

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Duke’s Banchero, Savarino charged in DWI arrest Durham Two Duke basketball players reportedly face charges following a drunk-driving traffic stop over the weekend.

According to multiple media reports, redshirt sophomore guard Michael Savarino and freshman forward Paolo Banchero were both arrested early Sunday morning. The pair were pulled over near Hillsborough at around 1 a.m. early Sunday morning.

Savarino, who was driving, registered a blood alcohol level of 0.08%. Savarino, 20, was charged with driving while impaired and driving after consuming under age 21. He was also cited for failure to yield at a stop sign or flashing red light. Banchero, 19, was charged with aiding and abetting impaired driving.

The legal definition of that charge is that he knowingly encouraged someone to drive while impaired. Banchero, expected to be a top pick in next year’s NBA Draft, has averaged 19.3 points in the first three games of the year. Savarino walked on to Duke in 2019 and is the grandson of coach Mike Krzyzewski. Both were released after being charged and have court dates in early December.

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Wake stays 13th, NC State down to 25th in AP poll Indianapolis Wake Forest remained 13th in The Associated Press college football poll released Sunday despite its 45-42 win over NC State on Saturday in Winston‑Salem. The Wolfpack stayed in the polls despite the loss, dropping four spots to No. 25. Appalachian State received 32 votes, the 28th‑most in the vote. Georgia stayed at No. 1, but Alabama moved past Cincinnati for No. 2. Oregon and Ohio State moved up one spot to fourth and fifth, respectively, after Oklahoma lost at Baylor.

By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CAROLINA Panthers’ season took an unexpected twist in the last week as former franchise quarterback Cam Newton made his triumphant return to the team.

Newton, released following an injury-plagued 2019 season, stepped in to help a team strapped for quarterback talent following an injury to its current starter, Sam Darnold.

Darnold, who has struggled in recent games and was in danger of losing his job, suffered a shoulder injury and was placed on injured reserve. That set the stage for Newton and his former team to kiss and make up.

“I called Cam Monday night and asked if he’d have any interest,” coach Matt Rhule said. “He emphatically said yes.”

There were no hard feelings between Newton and Rhule, who took over during the offseason when Newton was released.

“He understands that we made a football decision at the time, based on his health,” Rhule said.

“He’s healthy now.”

Newton showed that on Sunday.

While backup PJ Walker started the game and played most of the way, Newton took the field for a few snaps and certainly made the most of them.

On his first play from scrimmage, Newton ran two yards for the game’s first touchdown, then shouted, “I’m back!” in the end zone.

The next time he saw the field, he threw a two-yard touchdown pass to receiver Robby Anderson to put Carolina up 14-0 on their way to a 34-10 road win over NFC contender Arizona.

Newton, whose postgame press conferences were almost as legendary as his performance on the field, showed that he hasn’t slipped in that area either.

“I am just floating at an all-time high frequency.

It’s almost scary.”

Cam Newton, Panthers quarterback “I am just floating at an all-time high frequency,” he said. “It’s almost scary. The conversations that I’m having, the people that I’m meeting, the things that I am able to do.”

Newton also brought receiver Anderson with him to the press conference, “because I don’t want to be the last one on the plane.”

“It was so fun since the moment Cam got there,” Anderson said. “It’s like a dream come true. He came to Carolina, and then my brother came back. It’s like a dream come true.”

The return capped a tumultuous few months for Newton. After

playing for New England last season, he was surprisingly released prior to the start of this year as the Patriots gave the job to rookie Mac Jones.

Newton hadn’t garnered any interest — at least publicly — from other teams since then, and there were rumors that his unvaccinated status, and the NFL penalties that could be associated with a positive test of an unvaccinated player, were keeping him off the field.

Newton has since gotten the vaccine, however, and he made his return to the team where he set franchise records for passing and touchdowns, won a Rookie of the Year and MVP Award and led the Panthers to Super Bowl 50.

Despite that, he didn’t arrive looking for the star treatment.

“He came in, he put the work in on Thursday, Friday, Saturday to learn a package — we kind of came up with some things that he knew,” Rhule said. “He’s a veteran player, so his mind is, ‘Hey, on this play — See NEWTON, page B4

Death Valley awaits title-minded Deacons Wake Forest can clinch the Atlantic Division with a win Saturday at Clemson or the following week at BC

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE PARTY BEGAN when Wake Forest’s student section emptied onto the field after Saturday’s 45-42 win against NC State and was still going strong more than 10 minutes later when the Truist Field PA announcer interrupted DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win” to tell members of the team it was time to head to the locker room.

It was a celebration worthy of a championship, even though there’s still work left to be done before any trophies are handed out.

The 13th-ranked Deacons still need to win at least one of their final two games, Saturday at perennial ACC power Clemson or the following week at Boston College, to clinch the Atlantic Division and a spot in next month’s conference championship game.

But thanks to their hard-fought

victory against the Wolfpack, which improved them to 6-0 in the ACC (9-1 overall), they continue to control their destiny on the road to the title.

“Every ACC game we play, in my mind, is a championship game,” Wake coach Dave Clawson said after the emotional Senior Night victory in which quarterback Sam Hartman passed for three touchdowns and running back Justice Ellison scored three times.

“We knew that to win the Atlantic, this was a really critical game.

We were in first and they were second in the standings and if we didn’t win we’d need help. (Now) I view next week as a championship game. We have a chance to clinch.

Clemson is still in the running, so there’s still three teams that can win the Atlantic. And we’re one of them.”

While Clawson’s Deacons are clearly in the driver’s seat for the division title, there is still the possibility of a three-way tie at the top of the division should they not take care of their business and lose the final two games.

According to the ACC’s tie-breaking criteria, Wake would

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Tight end Brandon Chapman and the Demon Deacons can clinch the ACC Atlantic Division title with a win Saturday over Clemson. be the odd team out in a threeteam logjam at 6-2 because both of its losses will have come to divisional opponents. State (7-3, 4-2) would then earn the title based on its head-to-head win against Clemson.

The only way the Tigers (73, 5-2) can earn their seventh straight trip to the ACC title game

is for the Deacons to lose out and the Wolfpack drop one of its two remaining games.

All those scenarios become moot, of course, with one more Deacons victory — a goal senior safety Traveon Redd said is his team’s only focus.

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TRENDING

Justin Fuente: The Virginia Tech coach is out after six seasons with the Hokies, the school announced Tuesday. Athletic director Whit Babcock informed Fuente last week that his return for another season was far from certain.

Instead of remaining in limbo, Fuente “wanted to move on,” the AD said during a news conference Tuesday.

The Hokies (5-5) named defensive line coach and Hokies alum J.C. Price as the interim coach for the last two regular season games.

Lamar Jackson: The 2016 Heisman Trophy winner’s No. 8 was retired by Louisville on Saturday, joining Johnny Unitas as the program’s only players to have their jerseys retired. Their numbers were placed at opposite ends of Cardinal Stadium’s east upper deck, with Unitas’ 16 unveiled before Louisville’s win Syracuse, with a stiff wind ruffling the tarp over Jackson’s No. 8.

Jackson was drafted 32nd overall by the Baltimore Ravens in 2018 and was the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 2019.

Blake James: The Miami athletic director is leaving the school, two days after the Hurricanes’ football team lost at Florida State. Football — the biggest part of Miami’s athletic brand — has struggled again this season. Miami is 19-15 in Manny Diaz’s three seasons, including 5-5 this season. The Hurricanes wasted an eight-point lead in the final minutes of a 31‑28 loss to Florida State on Saturday. The move indicates more changes could be coming at Miami, including whether or not Diaz returns.

Beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

TENNIS

Greenville native Tommy Paul won the first ATP Tour title of his career, beating Denis Shapovalov 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 to capture the Stockholm Open on Saturday.

The 24-year-old beat Andy Murray and compatriots Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe before beating Shapovalov on his third championship point. The win will move Paul into the world’s top 50. He won the boys’ singles title at the French Open in 2015.

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“I love this bunch of kids. They are a bunch of warriors.”

ECU coach Mike Houston after the Pirates defeated Memphis in overtime to become bowl eligible.

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“You can’t give up 45 points and win.”

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Phil Mickelson birdied the final three holes Sunday to shoot a final round 6-under 65 to win the PGA Tour Champions’ season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix. The 51-year-old joined Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win four of their first six starts on the 50-and‑over tour.

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NHL

NC State coach Dave Doeren after the Wolfpack’s 45-42 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday.

Career wins for NC State women’s basketball coach Wes Moore, who reached the milestone when the fifth-ranked Wolfpack beat Florida 85-52 on Sunday. Moore is 190‑64 with NC State in nine years in Raleigh.

The 64-year-coach had previously coached at Chattanooga, Francis Marion and Maryville.

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Sam Huff, the hard-hitting Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the New York Giants reach six NFL title games from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s and later became a popular player and announcer in Washington, died Saturday of natural causes. He was 87. Huff had been diagnosed with dementia in 2013.

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Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin moved into sole possession of fourth place on the NHL’s all-time goals list, scoring his 742nd goal in Washington’s 4-3 win in Columbus on Friday. The 36-year-old Russian moved past Brett Hull and is now 24 goals behind Jaromir Jagr for third place on the all-time goal list. Gordie Howe (801) is second, and Wayne Gretzky is first with 894 goals.

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NC State wing Dereon Seabron has recorded back-to-back double-doubles in the two games the Wolfpack have played without the injured Manny Bates.

Next man up: NC State looks to overcome Bates’ season-ending injury The Wolfpack will move on without their most experienced big man

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE NC STATE basketball team had to reinvent itself last February when leading scorer Devon Daniels was lost to a torn ACL. This time, misfortune didn’t wait as long to visit the Wolfpack.

The season-altering event happened on just the third possession of State’s opener against Bucknell when star center Manny Bates made contact with an opposing player while chasing down a long rebound.

Although the collision didn’t appear to be serious, it was bad enough to dislocate Bates’ right shoulder, an injury that will force coach Kevin Keatts’ team to play the rest of its schedule without the

only experienced big man on its roster.

“As my statement said, my heart is broken,” Keatts said after the Wolfpack’s first full game without the 6-foot-11 redshirt junior, a 7774 win against Colgate on Saturday.

“You’re talking about one of the nicest kids you’re ever going to meet, one of the hardest-working guys that we’ve ever had in our program (and) a self-made guy.

He’s developed into a very good basketball player.”

This isn’t the first time Bates has been sidelined by a shoulder ailment. He missed both his senior year of high school and his first season at State with injuries that required surgery.

His latest malady ended a potential All-ACC season literally before it even started.

Bates has led the ACC in blocked shots in each of the past two years and was poised to become the

first player since Duke’s Shelden Williams in 2004-06 to lead the league three straight seasons. His 147 career blocks are fourth on State’s all-time list and are just three away from third place.

In addition to his shot-blocking prowess, Bates has vastly improved his rebounding and offensive skills.

His 61.1% field goal accuracy last season set a single-season school record, and he averaged 9.8 points per game.

Without him, Keatts may eventually have to switch to a smaller lineup. Until then, he’s decided to give untested second-year freshmen Ebenezer Dowuona and Jaylon Gibson an opportunity to play major minutes in hopes they’ll grow into their newly expanded roles by the time the ACC season hits its stride in January.

True freshman Ernest Ross, who is more of a stretch four, may also see some action in the low post if the need arises.

“We’re still trying to figure things out, especially with Manny going out,” said guard Casey Morsell, a transfer from Virginia who has made an immediate impact in his first two games with the Wolfpack. “With guys having to step up and play, we’re constantly trying to adjust and see what works.”

While the sample size is still small, Keatts has been encouraged with the way Dowuona has responded to the challenge.

The 6-foot-11, 225-pound native of Ghana set career highs with 10 rebounds and two blocks in the season-opening win against Bucknell before running into foul trouble in the Colgate game. He still managed to contribute four rebounds and four points, all on free throws, in 25 minutes.

“I thought he was tremendous.

More importantly, he didn’t hurt us,” Keatts said. “He got out there, he was solid. He made his free throws. He’s a young man who’s kind of been thrown into the fire, and what we’re asking him to do is just be solid right now. As he continues to get better, he’ll help us as we go along.”

The 6-foot-10, 220-pound Gibson also showed positive signs against Colgate with four points on 2-of-3 shooting from the field and three rebounds in 15 minutes off the bench.

But because both he and Dowuona are still in such an early stage of their development, Keatts is counting on others to increase their production to help fill the void created by Bates’ injury.

So far, Dereon Seabron has answered that call.

A versatile 6-foot-7 wing who can play every position from point guard to power forward, Seabron posted double-doubles in both games to earn this season’s first ACC Player of the Week award.

His work on the glass, where he’s pulled down a team-leading 22 rebounds, has been especially important.

“He’s tough. He’s going to make defenders uncomfortable,” Morsell said of Seabron. “Then on the offensive end, he’s so good at getting in the paint, putting a lot of pressure on the defense and creating a lot of opportunities for his teammates. He’s versatile and he’s aggressive, and that’s what we need from him.”

Seabron’s emergence as a leading contributor for the Wolfpack began last season after Daniels went down.

He improved his averages by four points and two rebounds to 9.4 and 5.6 over the final five games of the regular season, all wins, to join teammate Jericole Hellems and others in helping State salvage a winning record and earn an NIT bid.

It’s going to take even more of a team effort to overcome this latest, even greater, bout with adversity.

“We’ve got a lot of guys on our team,” Keatts said. “As they become comfortable with their teammates and the chemistry, I think you’ll see some better players.”

B3 DEACONS from page B1 “We’re going to keep it simple,” Redd said. “We’re not going to try to get into all the big things. It’s a one-game season.

Our main goal is to beat Clemson.”

First, the Deacons will have to come down from the high of their win against State and the euphoria that followed.

How do they plan to do that?

By doing exactly what they did to overcome the disappointment of the previous week’s loss in a potentially disheartening nonconference game against UNC. “We took that loss pretty hard,” redshirt senior receiver Donald Stewart said. “We came in, watched the film, made adjustments and after the 24hour rule, we were moving on the next week. We knew we had a big opponent coming in, we knew what was at stake and we knew we had to have a great week of practice.”

The Deacons will likely need an even better week this time around.

“It’s a one-game season.

Our main goal is to beat Clemson.”

Traveon Redd, Wake Forest safety Even though Clemson hasn’t been its usual dominant self this season, especially on offense, coach Dabo Swinney’s team remains a formidable obstacle standing in their way — especially in Death Valley.

Wake has lost 12 straight to the Tigers, including the past three by a combined score of 152-19. Its most recent victory in the series came in 2008, a 12-7 win that contributed to the firing of then-coach Tommy Bowden four days later.

Complicating matters for the Deacons is an injury situation that got even worse in the win against State.

Already missing starting cornerbacks Caelen Carson and Gavin Holmes, Wake lost top receiver Jaquarii Roberson during the game. Linebacker Ryan Smenda Jr. will also be forced to miss the first half at Clemson after being ejected for targeting.

It’s a situation Clawson said concerns him, although he added that he’s always concerned.

“It’s Week 11 of the college football season,” he said. “There aren’t too many teams right now that are healthy.”

Those bumps and bruises don’t tend to hurt quite as much when there’s a championship at stake.

“It’s fun to play in a game like this,” Clawson said. “It’s even more fun to win them.”

8 NC teams still kicking in NCAA Soccer tournaments Three women’s teams and five men’s teams are still alive in the race for the College Cup

By Shawn Krest North State Journal FOR THE FOURTH straight year, the NCAA Men’s College Cup will be held at Cary’s WakeMed Soccer Park. The Women’s Cup, meanwhile, is taking a break from Cary after three years at WakeMed, but North Carolina is threatening to have representation when that event tips off in Santa Clara, California.

Three teams from the state advanced to the second round of the NCAA women’s soccer tournament.

NC State beat South Florida 2-0 in the opening round and will now face No. 4 Pepperdine. State is 9-8-2 this season and was 4-6 in ACC play. The Wolfpack is back in the tournament after missing last season and snapping a string of four straight appearances.

Also in that region is Wake Forest, who shut out Harvard 3-0 in the first round. That earned the Demon Deacons a date with second-seeded Michigan in the next round. Wake is 16-5 on the year and finished 6-4 in the ACC, getting eliminated in the ACC Tournament semifinals by Florida State in overtime. The Deacs are making their first NCAA appearance since 2017.

Both State and Wake will take the field on Friday, with State starting at 2 p.m. and Wake at 5 p.m.

While both State and Wake will need upsets to advance from their region — especially with No. 1 Florida State still looming in both teams’ paths, Duke has earned a top seed in its region.

The Blue Devils are 14-3-1 and finished third in the ACC with a 7-2‑1 mark. They were knocked out of the ACC Tournament by Wake Forest in their first game.

This is Duke’s seventh straight appearance in the tournament and 12th in the last 13 years. The Blue Devils have made it to the Sweet 16 eight times over that span. In NCAA play this year, the Blue Devils beat Old Dominion 1-0 in the first round and next face Memphis at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.

North Carolina also made the women’s field and was seeded No. 2 in its region, but the Tar Heels suffered a 1-0 first-round upset at the hands of South Carolina. It was the first time in the history of the program that the Tar Heels lost an opening round match, and it snapped a streak of three straight trips to the College Cup. The UNC season ended at 12-3-3.

The men’s tournament starts Thursday, and five teams from the state will be competing.

Like the women’s field, Duke is the highest-seeded team from North Carolina. The Blue Devils’ men are No. 7 overall and received a bye into the second round, which will be played on Sunday. Duke will play the winner of UCLA and UC Santa Barbara.

This is the first bid for the Duke men since 2018 and just the third in the last decade. Duke earned the bye with a 13-4-1 regular season record, including 5-2-1 in ACC

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The NCAA men’s College Cup returns to WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary this year, while the women’s College Cup will be held in Santa Clara, California. play, which tied them for first in the Coastal Division. The Blue Devils lost to Notre Dame in the finals of the ACC Tournament, 2-0.

The other four local teams will all play in the first round.

North Carolina faces Loyola Maryland on Thursday. The winner of that game will move on to face No. 16 New Hampshire. The Tar Heels are making their second straight trip to the NCAA Tournament and 13th in the last 14 years.

UNC went 11-6-1 this year and 4-4 in the ACC.

Wake Forest rounds out the ACC teams from the state in the field. The Demon Deacons open at home with Mercer. The winner goes on to play No. 13 FIU. The Deacs are making their 11th straight trip to the tourney and hope to reach the College Cup for the third time in six seasons. They went 11-6-1 this year, including 4-3-1 in ACC play.

The Campbell Camels also make an appearance. They’ll open at Virginia Tech, with the winner going on to meet No. 11 West Virginia. It’s the third NCAA bid

in four years for the Camels, who won the Big South regular season and tournament. Campbell enters the tournament at 15-3-2 on the year and unbeaten in their last 10 at 9-0-1.

Charlotte rounds out the state’s entries in the tourney. The 49ers have the toughest road. After an opening round game with Georgia State, the winner will next face No. 3 Georgetown. The 49ers are making their third straight trip to the tournament and ninth in the last 11 years. Charlotte enters play at 10-5-1 on the year.

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Hurricanes head west as one of NHL’s top teams Carolina is off to an 11-2-0 start and hopes to keep rolling as it heads west for a six-game road trip

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour says he is always focused on the day at hand, but it’s worth looking back at what his team has accomplished in its 13 games this season.

Though Monday’s games, Carolina is 11-2-0 and first in the NHL in points percentage (.846), goals allowed (1.92), 5v5 goals allowed (15), faceoffs (55.9%) and goal differential (plus-20). Three Hurricanes — Andrei Svechnikov (17), Sebastian Aho (14) and Tony DeAngelo (13) — are on a pointper-game pace, and Frederik Andersen is among the league leaders in wins (nine), save percentage (.938) and goals-against average (1.78).

And they’ve accomplished much of this while battling with injuries or ailments to Brett Pesce, Nino Niederreiter, Martin Necas and Antti Raanta.

“It’s nice knowing if we do have a guy go down, it’s next man up and they’re gonna do the job and try and do it as good as the guy that went down,” alternate captain Jordan Martinook said Monday.

The Hurricanes’ stiffest test of the season begins late Tuesday night when the team plays its first of six straight games on the road in Vegas. It’s an every-other-day trek through the west that makes visits to all three California teams and a first-time trip at Seattle before circling back to the East Coast on the day after Thanksgiving for a stop in Philadelphia.

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Hurricanes defenseman Tony DeAngelo has 13 points in 13 games in his first season with Carolina.

From the start of November until the middle of December, Carolina’s schedule has 15 of its 20 games away from PNC, including 10 of its 13 this month. The cliche is that teams forge a bond on the road. It’s also when the players lean on each other the most.

“I feel like this group’s been pretty tight from the beginning,” Martinook said. “We’ve got a lot of guys with kids and families and stuff. I feel like toward the end you’re starting to miss your family, miss your kids, and I feel like that’s almost where you need each other the most. It’s toward the end of it where you’re trying to see the

light at the end of the tunnel type thing, and that’s when being close as a group can help you a lot.”

But as another adage goes, winning cures everything, and the Hurricanes have been so successful to start the season that it’s been easy to get the 11 new players on this year’s team acclimated to “The Hurricane Way” even before this extended trip.

“We’ve probably got 11, 12 guys that have been here for a good while now,” DeAngelo said. “Add in new guys, but all the new guys have experience playing elsewhere.

So it’s not like we have eight, nine rookies or anything. It’s nine guys

that have played elsewhere and played a lot of hockey, so you just jump right in. … It’s been an easy adjustment.”

Outside of Andersen, no addition to the Hurricanes’ lineup has made more of an impact than DeAngelo. The 26-year-old ranks in the top five in points among NHL defenseman and has quarterbacked a power play that has converted 23.5% of its chances — ranked ninth in the league and hovering near the 25.6% success rate from last season when Dougie Hamilton manned the point on the top power play unit.

Brind’Amour said he’s not sur-

prised by DeAngelo, who has two goals and 11 assists for 13 points heading into Tuesday’s game, has had success with his new team, particularly in filling Hamilton’s spot on the power play.

“He’s exactly what we thought we were getting,” the coach said.

“He’s delivered so far, which has been huge because, obviously, that was a big boy there, and he’s been everything that we hoped for.”

While there were never doubts about DeAngelo’s talent, his character has been thoroughly questioned. After a rocky junior career that saw him suspended three times, DeAngelo is with his fourth franchise since being drafted in 2014. Most recently, he was bought out by the Rangers when a fight with a teammate proved to be the final straw for the New York front office.

His one fight in Carolina, during the Hurricanes’ 6-3 win against Chicago on Oct. 29 drew cheers and chants from much of the PNC Arena crowd as he completed a Gordie Howe hat trick.

His lone indiscretion — a 10-minute misconduct at the end of Carolina’s first loss of the season in Florida — turned out to be overblown and not what many on social media suspected in its initial aftermath.

“I shot the rat away, the plastic rat,” said DeAngelo, referring to the celebratory rats Panthers fans often throw on the ice. “It went pretty far. … So I’m guessing that went a little too far, maybe in a spot it shouldn’t have. But it is what it is.”

As Brind’Amour said, DeAngelo has been exactly what the team thought he would be.

And the Hurricanes? They are in exactly the spot they want to be, too.

Rozier’s efficiency holds key to Hornets’ success Despite his shooting woes in the season’s first month, the Charlotte guard appears to be rounding into form

By Jesse Deal North State Journal CHARLOTTE — Now in his seventh season in the NBA, Terry Rozier has seen his career shift into a phase where it is guided by quiet-yet-determined confidence.

Nearly a month into Charlotte’s 2021-22 schedule, the Hornets guard has missed a third of his team’s 15 games due to an ankle injury and his numbers are down across the board in the 10 games he has played this season. Rozier is averaging just 15.2 points a game with a 37.8% shooting percentage and has made 28.2% of his 3-pointers.

Last season, Rozier — the No. 16 pick in the 2015 NBA Draft out of Louisville — led all Hornets scorers with a team-high 20.4 points per game while shooting 45% from the field and 38.9% from behind the arc.

But there is no panic or frustration from Rozier despite his early-season struggles, just an understanding of the ebbs and flows of a shooter at the NBA level.

“I’m not gonna make excuses. It is what it is. I’m not perfect,” Rozier said following the Hornets’ 106-102 home win over Golden State on Sunday night. “I told the guys in the timeout that I feel like everybody worries about me, if I’ll make shots. I’m human. But like I told them, you’ve got to let a scorer be a scorer. I’ll be all right, and I damn sure was.”

In the first half of that matchup, Rozier was ice cold from the field and had not scored. The case was building by the minute that Charlotte’s lineup might be more efficient without him in it.

After all, his return to the Hornets’ active roster coincided almost directly with a five-game losing streak in which Charlotte’s perimeter offense began to decline. In two of those contests, Rozier was a combined 5 for 26 from

NEWTON from page B1 I’ve run this 100 times — and it’s called this now. I think the credit goes to Joe (Brady, the Panthers’ offensive coordinator) and Sean (Ryan, the quarterbacks coach) as well. Cam put the work in with them and there was a good feeling down in that quarterback room.

Newton’s return likely means

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Despite a rough first half, Hornets guard Terry Rozier helped Charlotte upset Golden State on Sunday with big plays down the stretch. the field for five and nine points, respectively.

Midway through Sunday’s game, Rozier flipped a switch and returned to the form that made him such a scoring threat last season.

The Youngstown, Ohio, native responded to his first-half woes with 20 points, two late crucial free throws, and a jump ball win where the 6-foot-1 Rozier came out on top against 6-foot-6 Draymond Green to lead the Hornets to victory over Golden State and bring the crowd at the Spectrum Center to a full shout.

“I told Mason (Plumlee), ‘I’ll start doing the jump ball from now on.’ Not really,” Rozier joked during his postgame media session. “That (win) speaks for itself.

We’re playing the No. 1 team in the league, so we come out to get the win. And where we’re headed, we’re trying to go places, get our organization like theirs. Great step (tonight) to what we want to do.”

Hornets coach James Borrego said that Rozier deserved “a ton of credit” for his role in Charlotte’s win over the Warriors.

“Terry was fantastic for us to-

night. He got off to a slow start in the first half, but he showed his resiliency tonight and his character,” Borrego said. “I thought he was huge down the stretch, and that jump ball was the winning play for me. He willed himself to get that ball, and (that) really summed up his game tonight.”

Only time will tell if that performance will provide the spark to get Rozier’s shooting out of its month-long funk and help the Hornets (8-7) extend their current three-game winning streak.

LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges are both currently playing at

the highest levels of their careers, and Gordon Hayward is quietly averaging more than 18 points a night despite limiting his shooting output. Kelly Oubre Jr. and Cody Martin have both stepped up with P.J. Washington out due to a hyperextended left elbow.

In many ways, Rozier has been the missing link.

Throughout his career, his reputation around the NBA as a dangerous scorer has earned him the “Scary Terry” nickname. But for this season’s version of the Hornets, Borrego doesn’t need Rozier to always be scary — just efficient.

an early end to Walker’s tenure as the starter, but he welcomed the chance to share the job.

“It was awesome,” he said. “We’re building as we go. It’s my third day around him, so we’re building as we go, and it’s going to be a fun rest of the season.”

As for Newton, the emotions were as big as the plays he made.

“I wouldn’t even call it the new

me,” he said, “but I’m big on energy and that feeling on the sideline collectively as a team started with PJ, and the offense going out there … and the defense getting the turnover. That’s a combination of a great team win on the road. That was a great team that we played, and just for it to come to full circle, offensively, defensively, special teams, it was great work.”

Newton will also be assuming the leadership role he held for close to a decade.

“I’m here for a reason,” he said.

“One of those reasons is to hold everybody accountable. I told Robby that, I told DJ (Moore) that, I told C-Mac (Christian McCaffrey) that, I told D-Jac (cornerback Donte Jackson) that, I told (cornerback Stephon) Gilmore that, I told nu-

merous players as well as coaches, ‘I am no different than anybody else, and I want people to hold me accountable.’ I think the thing that I have learned as growth is ‘who cares who gets the glory’ because, at the end of the day when you have a game like this, we all win.

“I’ll put it like this,” he added.

“This time last week I was eating a bowl of cereal. You feel me?”

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More than two dozen Republireleased its rules on Nov. 4. weekly tests. state’s global reputation celebrated morbid obesity as a healthy life “This is an authority that we Administration lawyers said can state attorneys general, busiLawyers for the Justice and as a prime location treating for choice and advocated privately Labor departments filed a re- there is no reason to keep the vac- nesses, religious groups and conlife sciences companies,” conducted masturbation as a form of sponse Monday in which they cine mandate on hold while the servative associations sued on the See MANDATES, page B6 sexual violence against women. Typically, said Governor Roy Cooper. academic journal editors send submitted “This new investment papers out to referees for review. In in Mebane and Orange recommending acceptance for publication, County proves once many reviewers gave these papers glowing praise. again that North Political scientist Zach Goldberg ran Carolina’s biotechnology certain grievance studies concepts through sector is thriving in every the Lexis/Nexis database, to see how often corner of our state.» they appeared in our press over the years.

He“This foundis huge increases in the usages a tremendous of “white privilege,” “unconscious bias,” announcement, and “critical race theory” and “whiteness.” weof welcome thistaught to college All this is being expansion into citybecome primary students, many ofour whom and secondary school teachers who then Carolina,” and North indoctrinate our young people. ent Pool, said.

The Associated Press said Mebane Mayor Ed I doubt whether the coronavirusHe estimated that other drugHooks.financial “The presence of agive college caused crunch will LONDON — Drugmaker Pfizer makers would be able to start procompany of this magnitudewho areInc. and university administrators, a has signed a deal with a U.N.- ducing the pill within months, crossbreed between a parrot is greatly appreciated andand jellyfish, backed group to allow other manu- but acknowledged the agreement MARK LENNIHAN | AP PHOTO the guts and backbone to restore academic facturers to make its experimental wouldn’t please everyone. adds another world-class respectability. Far too often, they get much “We try to strike a very delicate The Pfizer logo is displayed at the company’s headquarters in New COVID-19 pill, a move that could organization to a significant of their political support from campusmake the treatment available to balance between the interests of York, on Feb. 5, 2021. industrialpeople lineupwho in our grievance are area. members of more the than half of the world’s popu- the (company), the sustainability Thermo faculty and diversity and multiculturallation. required by generic producers and administrative offices.

The decisions by Pfizer and MerFisher’s investment In a statement issued Tuesday, most importantly, the public health speed recovery and keep people out The best hope lies with boards of Pfizer said it would grant a license needs in lower and middle-income of the hospital. At the moment, most ck to share their COVID-19 drug in Mebane is part of a larger trustees, though many serve as yes-men COVID-19 treatments must be de- patents stands in stark contrast to for the antiviral pill to the Gene- countries,” Burrone said. strategy to buildpresident. flexible I think that for the university a Under the terms of the agree- livered intravenously or by injection. the refusal of Pfizer and other vacva-based Medicines Patent Pool, and redundant production good start would be to find 1950s or 1960s Britain authorized Merck’s cine-makers to release their vaccine which would let generic drug com- ment, Pfizer will not receive royalcatalogs.

Look at the capacity in the U.S.course and offerings at panies produce the pill for use in 95 ties on sales in low-income coun- COVID-19 pill earlier this month, recipes for wider production. A hub aacross time when countries, making up about 53% of tries and will waive royalties on and it is pending approval else- set up by the World Health Organikey college regionsgraduates globally.knew how to read, write and compute, and makethe world’s population. sales in all countries covered by where. In a similar deal with the zation in South Africa intended to Increased from them today’soutput curricula.

Another helpful The deal excludes some large the agreement while COVID-19 re- Medicines Patent Pool announced share messenger RNA vaccine recirecent sitebeexpansions tool would to give careful consideration in October, Merck agreed to let oth- pes and technologies has not enticed countries that have suffered devas- mains a public health emergency. to eliminating all ongoing classes/majors/minors is helping meet Earlier this month, Pfizer said its er drugmakers make its COVID-19 a single pharmaceutical to join. tating coronavirus outbreaks. For containing theCOVID-19word “studies,” such asexample, while a Brazilian drug pill cut the risk of hospitalization pill, molnupiravir, available in 105 Fewer than 1% of Pfizer’s demand for women, Asian, black or queer studies.company could get a license to make and death by nearly 90% in people poorer countries.

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Still, health officials said the fact ny’s study based on its promising re- able to the entire world, noting that ment to let other makers produce transport them to labs, as the agreement announced Tuesday its COVID antiviral, but he noted that the deal was struck even be- sults. well as for vital equipment, Walter E. Williams is a professor of fore Pfizer’s pill has been authorized Pfizer said it would ask the U.S. also excludes countries including that billions would still be left withsuch as single-use economics at George Mason University. out access, including to the compaanywhere, could help to end the Food and Drug Administration and China, Argentina and Thailand. technologies, used to “The world knows by now that ny’s vaccine. other regulators to authorize the pill pandemic quicker.

“This move also begs the importaccess to COVID-19 medical tools “It’s quite significant that we will as soon as possible. accelerate production and Since the pandemic erupt- needs to be guaranteed for every- ant question: If Pfizer can share be able to provide access to a drug allow flexibility for both that appears to be effective and has ed last year, researchers world- one, everywhere, if we really want data and intellectual property on a COVID and non-COVID just been developed, to more than wide have raced to develop a pill to to control this pandemic,” said Yu- medicine, why have they so far catvaccines and therapies.

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$0 MANDATES from page B5 believe the Department of Labor has,” Jean-Pierre told told reporters during a news briefing. “We are very confident about it.”

Jean-Pierre said the mandate was about keeping people safe and that Congress had empowered the Labor Department to act with the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Vaccine mandates, including those for certain federal employees, contractors and the military, are a key component of the Biden administration’s strategy for containing a pandemic that has killed 755,000 people in the U.S. It has said that widespread vaccinations are the quickest way out of the pandemic. But employers have pushed back, saying they fear the mandate would lead many of their workers to quit.

At a news conference Monday in Concord, New Hampshire, the president of Keller Companies, a manufacturer of building panels and plastics with 350 employees, described the OSHA rule as a “crushing blow to employers.”

Kathy Garfield, whose family has run the Manchester-based company for three generations, said it brought in a vaccination van to serve employees and gave workers paid time off to get the shots. Only about half have done so.

“We’ve had employees come forward and say if we mandate the vaccine, or this comes to be, they will not get the vaccine and they will not get tested. How can I run a business when I have no talent?” Garfield asked at a news conference with Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican.

She also said it’s difficult to find a place to get the virus test.

When they are available, they can cost $200.

“That’s the difference between eating and starving,” Garfield said. “So what are these employees going to do? They’re going to go to another employer with less than 100 employees.”

The administration announced plans for the workplace rule in September and unveiled the plans Nov. 4. Many Republican governors and state attorneys general signaled ahead of time that they would challenge it immediately, as they did with multiple federal lawsuits filed in the most conservative appeals courts in the country, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.

The 5th Circuit order read, “the Mandate is hereby stayed pending further action by this court” but did not specifically state whether it applied only to the five states. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said it applied nationally, but states that filed in different courts have asked for clarification.

“Thousands of employers and millions of working families will feel its impact immediately. The Court should act swiftly to forestall these illegal and unconstitutional injuries,” the groups said in court papers.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Joe Biden arrived in New Hampshire Tuesday for the first time since his 2020 primary-election shellacking, this time with a resounding win in tow: the newly signed $1 trillion infrastructure plan that he hopes to sell across the nation in coming weeks.

While Biden left the state in February of 2020 before polls had even closed on his fifth-place Democratic primary finish, he returns now as president, eager to talk up the billions in investments in upgrading America’s roads, bridges and transit systems that he signed into law Monday.

Biden is down in the polls but hopes to use the successful new law to shift the political winds in his direction and provide fresh momentum for his broader $1.85 trillion social spending package now before Congress.

The president held a splashy bipartisan bill-signing ceremony Monday for hundreds on the White House South Lawn, where lawmakers and union workers cheered and clapped.

“America is moving again, and your life is going to change for the better,” Biden promised Americans.

The president and members

of his Cabinet are moving, too — spreading out around the country to showcase the package.

Biden himself has stops Tuesday in Woodstock, New Hampshire, and Wednesday in Detroit to promote the new law as a source of jobs and repairs for aging roads, bridges, pipes and ports while also helping to ease inflation and supply chain woes.

“As he goes around the country, he’s really going to dig into how these issues will impact people’s everyday lives, what they talk about at their kitchen tables,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

Also this week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan will take a tour through the South, hitting Louisiana and Texas, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will visit Massachusetts, California and the state she represented in Congress, New Mexico, and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Ohio, among top administration officials on the road.

The president, whose poll numbers have continued to drop even after passage of the bill, is pleading for patience from Americans exhausted by the pandemic and concerned about rising inflation. The White House says the infrastructure funding could begin going out within months, and they say it will have a measur-

“Ensuring that roads get built, bridges get repaired, and drinking water gets improved will be even more challenging given the economic challenges Washington seems oblivious to.”

N.H Gov. Chris Sununu (R) able impact on Americans’ lives by helping create new, good-paying jobs.

Biden defeated Donald Trump by 7 percentage points in New Hampshire in the 2020 election, but his popularity has sagged in the state. In a University of New Hampshire Survey Center Granite State Poll last month, his overall favorable rating was 34%, with 53% having an unfavorable view.

On Tuesday, the president will visit a bridge that carries state Route 175 over the Pemigewasset River. Built in 1939, the bridge has been on the state’s “red list” since 2014 because of its poor condition. Another bridge over the river was added in 2018.

“The president is going there because there is a broken-down

bridge that needs to be repaired,” Psaki said.

New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who planned to greet Biden at the airport, sent a letter to the president Tuesday asking him to work with Congress to earmark even more infrastructure funding for the state. He also urged Biden to address supply chain issues, workforce shortages and the rising cost of construction materials.

“Ensuring that roads get built, bridges get repaired, and drinking water gets improved will be even more challenging given the economic challenges Washington seems oblivious to,” Sununu said.

Under the funding formula in the bill, New Hampshire will receive $1.1 billion for federal-aid highways and $225 million for bridges, the White House said.

The infrastructure bill overall contains $110 billion to repair aging highways, bridges and roads. According to the White House, 173,000 total miles or nearly 280,000 kilometers of U.S. highways and major roads and 45,000 bridges are in poor condition. The law has almost $40 billion for bridges, the single largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the national highway system, according to the Biden administration.

Many of the particulars of how the money is spent will be up to state governments. Biden has named former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu as the liaison between the White House and the states to help ensure things run smoothly and to prevent waste and fraud.

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This May 12, 2021, file photo shows an advertisement for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin displayed on a tram in Hong Kong.

Charities see more crypto donations. Who is benefiting?

The Associated Press As the biggest cryptocurrencies flirt with record high values, they’re increasingly becoming bigger sources of revenue for charities. However, the number of charities accepting the virtual currencies, known for their volatility, remains limited.

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, hit nearly $69,000 for the first time in its history last week, roaring back after sinking below $30,000 during the summer. The value of ethereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, also hit a record high.

Both cryptocurrencies have dropped from their record levels after helping push the overall market cap of cryptocurrencies past $3 trillion, according to CoinGecko pricing. As of Monday morning, CoinMarketCap, another popular measure, listed the market cap at $2.8 trillion.

So far this year, Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grantmaker, has received more than $274 million in cryptocurrency contributions — nearly quadruple its prior record of $69 million in 2017, according to a company spokesperson. And the cryptocurrency donation platform Engiven said last month it accepted what it called the largest single Bitcoin donation known to date: a $10

million Bitcoin gift to an undisclosed faith-based organization.

Many large charities and international aid agencies, like The American Red Cross and Save the Children, have set up mechanisms to accept cryptocurrencies or are using platforms that help them convert them into cash right away.

But smaller organizations — who make up the vast majority of registered nonprofits in the country — are attempting to figure out how to accept these currencies, or if it even makes sense for them to do so, said Rick Cohen, the chief communications and operating officer at the National Council on Nonprofits.

“For a lot of organizations, it feels a little bit scary because it’s not the contribution of dollars that they’re used to,” Cohen said.

“It’s not something that’s free and easy” to set up, he said. “And they need to figure out if there’s even demand from their current donors to be able to do it.”

The global humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger started accepting cryptocurrency donations last year after a group of donors approached them about taking the assets, said Aron Flasher, who manages corporate partnerships for the organization.

Since then, he says they’ve raised more than $1 million from virtual currencies.

“We feel like we’ve brought our issues to a very diverse cohort of supporters that we may not be reaching otherwise,” Flasher said.

“And so far, all of our projections show it’s just going to increase.”

A Pew Research Center survey released last week indicated 16% of Americans have invested, traded or otherwise used cryptocurrencies in some way. Driven by interest from millennials, the digital currencies have become more mainstream since Bitcoin’s creation in 2009 but skeptics say their use is just a passing fad.

Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said in September investors lacked enough protection in the cryptocurrency market, which he called “rife with fraud, scams and abuse” and compared it to the “Wild West.” Regulators have noted that the digital assets pose more risks for money laundering, terrorist financing and other crimes. And some countries have moved to outlaw the transactions.

Cryptocurrencies are an attractive asset to donate because they allow donors to bypass the capital gains tax. Donors would be subject to that tax if they convert the virtual currency into cash before giving it away, which means less money could go to their selected charity. Another bonus is an in-

come tax deduction.

Tax savings, according to the small number of cryptocurrency owners who donated some of their holdings to charity, was a driving force behind their crypto gifts, Fidelity Charitable reported in October. Many of those investors also reported difficulty finding organizations that accepted the virtual currencies, which could be volatile for charities to hold.

The volatility in the crypto world is the reason why some giving platforms and donor-advised fund sponsors, like Fidelity Charitable, convert them into cash right away.

Fidelity places the cash from crypto in a donor-advised fund, which allows donors to get tax deductions upfront before distributing any of the money to a working charity.

“You can have a situation where somebody donates cryptocurrency, and if we don’t sell it right away, it could lose 20% of its value in a day,” said Tony Oommen, a vice president and charity planning consultant at Fidelity Charitable.

“Or It could go the opposite direction,” Oommen added. “But we don’t try to speculate on that.”

Fluctuating prices aren’t the only concern. The environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace stopped taking Bitcoin earlier this year, citing environmental worries associated with mining the digital currency. Despite this pullback, James Lawrence, the CEO of the donation platform Engiven, says he believes the majority of nonprofits will begin accepting crypto donations within the next five years.

North State Journal for Wednesday, November 17, 2021

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2022 Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost

PHOTOS COURTESY ROLLS-ROYCE

Dark. Sinister. Unmatched.

The alter ego of the best car in the world

By Jordan Golson North State Journal SAN DIEGO — Rolls-Royce is one of the most exciting car companies in the world, and its cars are, perhaps, the least exciting part.

It’s the Rolls-Royce client that fascinates me. What type of person spends $500,000 on an automobile that gets from Point A to Point B in essentially the same way as a Honda Civic?

It’s easy (but incorrect) to dismiss them as simply obnoxious rich people, but there are plenty of obnoxious rich people that don’t buy wildly expensive luxury cars. And there are plenty of obnoxious not-rich people, too.

In fact, the Rolls-Royce buyer is a fascinating creature. They are wealthy, naturally. But the reason to buy a Rolls varies hugely. I spoke to one client — Rolls would never deign to call owners of its vehicles “owners” or “customers”

— who also owns a yacht and a Gulfstream, and I asked him why he bought his first Rolls-Royce.

“To show myself that I’d made it,” he explained. At first, I was surprised. Why would a successful entrepreneur need to prove anything to themselves? But thinking more, I realized that no matter how wealthy and successful someone is, we all need reassurance from time to time.

He’d always dreamed of owning a Rolls-Royce. And, for this client, going out to the garage and looking at his Ghost was a reminder that he was achieving those dreams. But a Rolls-Royce owner doesn’t have anything to prove to anyone else. That’s what Lamborghinis are for.

In 2016, Rolls-Royce debuted Black Badge. It’s a darker, more sinister alter ego for the storied brand, swapping shiny chrome for a darker alternative. When it launched, I wrote that RollsRoyce was elevating “murdered out” to an art form. It’s an oversimplification but gets the point across.

Black Badge is a stunning but

subtle change to the standard Rolls formula, as if anything about these cars can be standardized. The polished Spirit of Ecstasy statuette mounted high on the hood, and the Pantheon Grille are treated with a chrome electrolyte to darken the stainless-steel substrate. The result is a mirror-black chrome that somehow absorbs and reflects light simultaneously.

The wheels are made up of 22 layers of carbon fiber folded back upon themselves to make a total of 44 layers of ultra-strong fiber.

Usually, carbon fiber makes parts lighter, but Rolls-Royce craftsmen used it to make a rolling piece of engineering art.

The artwork continues elsewhere as well. The Illuminated Fascia sits above the glove box on the passenger side. At rest, it looks like a black piece of lacquered material. But behind it hides 152 LEDs exactly color-matched to the clock and instrument panel lighting. The light is scattered across 90,000 laser-etched dots to illuminate the Lemniscate, the infinity symbol that makes up the

Black Badge logo.

The cumulative effect looks simple — it’s illuminated from behind, dispersing a bit of light through the cabin. The execution is mind-boggling, and it illustrates the extreme lengths the craftsmen and women will go to make each Rolls-Royce a rolling sculpture.

In the press release for the new Black Badge Ghost, which I drove last week in San Diego, RollsRoyce says “Black Badge is not just an aesthetic — it is an experience.” This sounds absurd, but it makes sense when we think about the client’s explanation for why he bought a Rolls-Royce in the first place.

A Rolls PR rep told us about a doctor who bought a Black Badge and said that he played Mr. Nice Guy all week long, wearing a white lab coat and working in sparkling facilities. He wanted to adopt a new, darker, more sinister persona on the weekend, and Black Badge allowed him the space to do that.

This is the automotive equivalent of putting on a black tuxedo.

No matter who you are, slipping on a tux changes how you feel about yourself. You become a bit more James Bond or Frank Sinatra just by changing your outfit.

And so it is with the Black Badge.

The Black Badge Ghost takes some simple design tweaks and reengineers them into something far greater. With new color palettes, materials, and even engineering improvements to bring more power and a slightly tweaked ride, the choice to commission a Black Badge says much about the client.

Rolls says Black Badge is for “subversive clients” who “built their success by breaking rules, taking risks, and challenging conventions.” They “reject suits for streetwear” and “influence the analog world through their digital endeavors.”

It sounds absurd, but the company knows its clients, and Black Badge has been a hit. Before it launched, Rolls executives thought it might account for perhaps 15% of commissions.

It’s nearly double that, drawing a younger, hipper group of buyers.

There isn’t much to say about how the Black Badge Ghost drives. It feels identical to a standard Ghost, except for the glimpse of the dark, mysterious Spirit of Ecstasy on the very front of the hood. It’s a visual reminder of everything Black Badge represents.

The Black Badge Ghost is ready to conquer the world, just like its owners.

North State Journal for Wednesday, November 17, 2021

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CABARRUS IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CABARRUS COUNTY 20SP57 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RONNIE D. MOORE AND JUDY D. MOORE DATED SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7797 AT PAGE 90 IN THE CABARRUS 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

CUMBERLAND IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP1478 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RONALD L. BUCHANAN AND GLADYS BUCHANAN DATED FEBRUARY 11, 1999 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 5036 AT PAGE 0398 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in

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 November 24, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Ronnie D. Moore and Judy D. Moore, dated September 17, 2007 to secure the original principal amount of $82,500.00, and recorded in Book 7797 at Page 90 of the Cabarrus 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: Concord, NC 28025 Tax Parcel ID: 56129426280000 Present Record Owners: Ronnie D. Moore

219 Hahn St,

The Heirs of

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 saidcountyat10:30AMonNovember29,2021thefollowing 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 Ronald L. Buchanan and Gladys Buchanan, dated February 11, 1999 to secure the original principal amount of $50,470.00, and recorded in Book 5036 at Page 0398 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: Ave, Fayetteville, NC 28314

128

Leona

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19 SP 1473

undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Cumberland County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on November 30, 2021, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit:

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Dominique M. Tindal and Jackie Y. Britt, in the original amount of $112,425.00, payable to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Union Home Mortgage Corp., dated October 16, 2017 and recorded on October 16, 2017 in Book 10186, Page 817, Cumberland County Registry.

Being all of Lot 239, in a subdivision known as Cliffdale West, Section Four, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 49, Page 29, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anchor Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the

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

19 SP 461 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 Terry A. Kinkel and Sharon H. Kinkel to Kathryn Richards & Jerry B. Flowers, III, Trustee(s), which was dated June 22, 2015 and recorded on June 23, 2015 in Book 09672 at Page 0462, 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

20 SP 129 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 6958 Brockwood Street, Fayetteville, NC 28314. Tax ID: 9477-88-8246-NAD Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is

Certificates, Series 2006-FM3 Plaintiff, v.

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

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 1, 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 7, Cumberlane Subdivision, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 36 Page 1 Cumberland County Registry Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 5203 Tara Way Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY

and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 1, 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:

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shawntay Hagan to Amy E. Johnson, Trustee(s), which was dated June 4, 2007 and recorded on June 22, 2007 in Book 7624 at Page 0507, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

BEING ALL OF LOT 192, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS FARMINGTON VILLAS, REVISED PLAT, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 87, PAGE 81, 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

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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20SP110

holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on November 29, 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 Leamon Todd, dated May 10, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $48,823.00, and recorded in Book 7244 at Page 841 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY LEAMON TODD DATED MAY 10, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7244 AT PAGE 841 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 345

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kimberly Anderson Long (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Kimberly Anderson Long) to Laurel A. Meyer, Trustee(s), dated May 12, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 9859, at Page 150 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1663

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Charles M. Kaufmann (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Charles M. Kaufmann) to Jennifer Kirby Fincher, Trustee(s), dated February 27, 2017, and recorded in Book No. 10045, at Page 0397 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales,

Said property is commonly known as 1116 Hoke Loop Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

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

Address of property: Oleander Court, Stedman, NC 28391 Tax Parcel ID: 3557

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customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 22, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Stedman in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 19 in a Subdivision known as The Oaks at Windwood, Section Two, according to a plat duly recorded in Plat Book 125, Page 11, Cumberland County Registry.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 825 Blawell Street, Stedman, North Carolina.

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

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

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

at 12:00 PM on November 29, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot No. 39 in a subdivision known as Pebble Creek, according to a plat of same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 84, Page 166, Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2539 Silver Bell Loop, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

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

And Being more commonly known as: 219 Hahn St, Concord, NC 28025 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Ronnie D. Moore.

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

Tax Parcel ID: 6525Present Record Owners: Scott Buchanan

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And Being more commonly known as: 128 Leona Ave, Fayetteville, NC 28314 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Michael Scott Buchanan.

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

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

The date of this Notice is November 4, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-108991

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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.

after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-107878

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

greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owners of the property are Dominique M. Tindal and Jackie Y. Britt.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of

Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Blackman Defendant(s).

Blackmon, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman nor Alex Brantley, Heir of Scharleen D. Handon a/k/a Scharleen Dhandon a/k/a Scharleen Denise Handon Blackmon a/k/a Scharleen H. Blackman have any interest in the Subject Property located at 837 Brighton Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28314.

than December 14, 2021 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows:

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

The Court enter an Order declaring that neither Christopher

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later

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

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.

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.

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

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 Terry A. Kinkel.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

($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 Shawntay N. Hagan, a married person.

Present Record Owners: Leamon Todd

The Heirs of

And Being more commonly known as: 820 Oleander Court, Stedman, NC 28391 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Leamon Todd.

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

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

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,

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

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

This, the 26th day of October, 2021.

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-00683-FC02

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-20502-FC01

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 November 9, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109013

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conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition 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.

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

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

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

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

providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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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 contained in

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 21SP107 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ROBERT COLLINS AND ELIZABETH E. COLLINS DATED DECEMBER 21, 2007 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7777 AT PAGE 706 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will

DAVIDSON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 365

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Edward D. Emmons and Stacey P. Emmons (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Edward D. Emmons and Stacey P. Emmons) to Richard M. Pearman, Jr., Trustee(s), dated July 5, 2005, and recorded in Book No. 1624, at Page 1855 in Davidson County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on March 25, 2010, in Book No. 1965, at Page 810A Loan Modification recorded on April 24, 2013, in Book No. 2099, at Page 642A Loan Modification recorded on September 30, 2013, in Book No. 2119, at Page 2196, 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

FORSYTH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 608

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sherry A. Gunn (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Sherry A. Gunn, Heirs of Sherry A. Gunn: Frances Shultz) to American National Title, Trustee(s), dated September 28, 2006, and recorded in Book No. RE 2700, at Page 510 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on September 15, 2004, Document No. 2014033544 00079, in Book No. RE 3196, at Page 3116-3133 , default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 24, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Belews Creek in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situate in Forsyth County, North Carolina, Belews Creek Township, more particularly described as follows:

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ronald Todd Walker (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Ronald Todd Walker) to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated October 3, 2011, and recorded in Book No. RE 3022, at Page 4014 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Hope Prush Girard and Lawrence Carl Girard, II (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Hope Prush Girard and Lawrence Carl Girard, II) to Daniel D. Hornfeck, Trustee(s), dated December 8, 2015, and recorded in Book No. RE 3262, at Page 3124 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on August 20, 2019, in Book No. RE 3477, at Page 1730, 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Caroline C. Leftwich and Cecil Leftwich (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Caroline C. Leftwich and Carlton F. Leftwich) to Donald W. Courtney, Trustee(s), dated March 16, 2012, and recorded in Book No. RE 3050, at Page 587 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Thomas W. Kiger and Holly I. Kiger (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Thomas W. Kiger and Holly I. Kiger) to Frederick S. Lutz, Trustee(s), dated November 21, 2002, and recorded in Book No. 2300, at Page 3469 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15

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 saidcountyat10:30AMonNovember29,2021thefollowing 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.

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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 December 1, 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 Robert Collins and Elizabeth E. Collins, dated December 21, 2007 to secure the original principal amount of $63,000.00, and recorded in Book 7777 at Page 706 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: Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28306 Tax Parcel ID: 5633 Present Record Owners: Elizabeth E. Collins

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the Office of the Register of Deeds Davidson County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:30 AM on November 24, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Thomasville in the County of Davidson, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe in the Northern right of way line of NC Rural Road No. 2098, a new corner of George W. Kindley and being located North 59 degrees 34’ West 374.97 feet to a concrete monument marking the northern right of way line of NC Rural Road No. 2098; and North 43 degrees 06’ West 2.19 feet as measured along the northern right of way line of NC Rural Road No. 2098 from a stone, George W. Kindley and Carlos Kennedy estates corner; thence with the northern right of way line of NC Rural Road No. 2098 North 43 degrees 06’ West 115.00 feet to a new corner of Charlie R. Kindley; thence North 50 degrees 28’ East 210.00 feet to an iron pipe, a new corner of Charlie R. Kindley in George W. Kindley’s line; thence with two new lines of George W. Kindley South 43 degrees 06 East 115.00

Being of that certain 1.639 acre tract of land lying in Belews Creek Township, Forsyth County, North Carolina; and bounded by natural boundaries and/or lands owned by and/or in possession of persons as follows: on the north by now or formerly Oscar E. Hand; on the east by S.R. No. 1977 Pine Hall Road; and on the southwest, south and west

by James S. Joyce; said tract being particularly described by courses (according to the North Carolina Grid System as determined by solar observations) and distances according to a survey and plat prepared by H. Stephen Bowers Professional Surveyor No. L-2455 dated January 9, 2003, to which reference is hereby made, as follows: Commencing at the center line intersection of the actual pavement of N.C. Highway No. 65 and S.R. No. 1977 Pine Hall Road; thence S. 23 deg. 39’ 15” West 920.9 feet to a 7/8” outside diameter set new iron pipe, flush, in the westerly statutory right of way line (thirty feet from center line) of S.R. No. 1977 Pine Hall Road, and in the southerly line of now or formerly Oscar E. Hand and wife, Sarah Hand (See Deed Book 511, Page 103 of the Forsyth County Registry), and being the true point of BEGINNING: Thence with said westerly statutory right of way line South 23 deg. 19’ 05” West 228.09 feet to a 7/8” outside diameter found existing iron pipe, 1” subsurface, in the northeasterly line of James S. Joyce and wife, Traci S. Joyce (see Deed Book 1773, Page 1149 of said Registry) thence with the southwesterly, southerly, and easterly line of said James S. Joyce and wife, Traci S. Joyce the following four calls: (1) thence North 49 deg. 49’ 15” West , 96.18 feet to a 7/8” outside diameter found existing iron pipe, 2” subsurface; (2) thence North 41 deg. 34’ 20” West 121.71 feet to a 7/8” outside diameter found existing solid iron, with spread top, 8” high; (3) thence North 87 deg. 11’ 00” West 271.22 feet to a 1” outside diameter found existing iron pipe, flush; (4)

designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 24, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Pfafftown in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot 22 as shown on the Map of GRANDVIEW, SECTION 7, recorded in Plat Book 22, Page 63, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4171 Wedge Drive, Pfafftown, North Carolina.

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

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

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

Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in WinstonSalem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on December 1, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Pfafftown in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lot 29 on the Map of Grandview, Section 1, as recorded in Plat Book 19, Page 66(2) of the Forsyth County Register of Deeds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3504 Stimpson Drive, Pfafftown, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to

foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on November 24, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lot Number 28 as set out upon the Map of Shattalon Lake Estates, Section 1, as recorded in Plat Book 21, Page 23, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4130 Sewanee Drive, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to

PM on December 1, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Walkertown in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lot Number 148 of the R. Don Cain Property, Phase Three as recorded in Plat Book 33 at Page 138 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4360 Ben Lane, Walkertown, North Carolina.

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

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

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

Tax Parcel ID: 8265 Present Record Owners: Edeltraut Marianne Parham

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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

And Being more commonly known as: 2616 Horner 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 Elizabeth E. Collins.

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

feet to an iron pipe; thence South 50 degrees 28’ West 210.00 feet to the point of BEGINNING, containing 24,103 square feet more or less. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1080 Kindley Road, Thomasville, North Carolina.

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.

after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 7, 2021.

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

($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.

has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is September 28, 2021.

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

thence North 27 deg. 40’ 30” East 145.74 feet to a 1 1/4” outside diameter found existing iron pipe, 12” subsurface, in the southerly line of said now or formerly Oscar E. Hand and wife, Sarah Hand; thence with said southerly line the following two calls: (1) thence South 83 deg. 18’ 10” East 386.94 feet to a 1” outside diameter found existing iron pipe, 10” subsurface; (2) thence South 57 deg. 10’ 40” East 75.48 feet to the true point of BEGINNING said 7/8” outside diameter set new iron pipe, flush. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 7550 Pine Hall Road, Belews Creek, North Carolina.

Also conveyed are any reversion rights and/or interest in and to that certain land lying immediately between said 1.639 acre tract and the center line of said S.R. No. 1977 Pine Hall Road.

For reference see: that deed recorded in Deed Book 664 at Page 234 of said Forsyth County Registry; see also Deed Book 1684 at Page 969 (“Second Tract”) of said Registry.

The above described 1.639 acre tract was formerly known and designated as being all of tax lots 48J and 48W and is now tax lot 202 of tax block 5231 of Forsyth County Tax Maps as presently constituted, with property address of 7550 Pinehall Road, Belews, Creek, NC 27709 Tax ID#: 5231-202 Being the same lot or parcel of land which by, General Warranty Deed dated June 1st, 2005 and recorded June 10th, 2005 in Forsyth County Registry at Book RE 2573, page 1198 was granted and conveyed by Richard A. Clark (Divorced) and Mark E. Angel and wife, Patty C. Angel unto Sherry A. Gunn.

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.

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

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

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

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

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providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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JOHNSTON NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 527

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joyce Barbour and James P. Barbour (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Joyce J. Barbour and James Paul Barbour) to CB Services Corp., Trustee(s), dated November 22, 2011, and recorded in Book No. 4054, at Page 756 in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at

ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 174

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Terry D. Kimbell (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Terry D. Kimbell) to National Title Network, Trustee(s), dated June 20, 2013, and recorded in Book No. 4014, at Page 147 in Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Onslow County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Jacksonville, Onslow County,

RANDOLPH IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 19sp339 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMES I. WENTZ AKA JAMES WENTZ DATED AUGUST 3, 2004 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1880 AT PAGE 1623 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 20SP34

11:00 AM on November 23, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Clayton in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that real property situated in the County of Johnston, State of North Carolina:Being the same property conveyed to the Grantor by deed recorded 06/12/2007 in Book 3360, Page 588, Johnston County Registry, to which deed reference is hereby made for a more particular description of this property. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2489 Rock Pillar Road, Clayton, North Carolina.

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

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

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

North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on December 2, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Hubert in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Onslow, State of North Carolina, and is described as follows: Being all of Lot 203, The Villas At Creeker Town South, Phase 7, Building 700, as shown on map recorded in Map Book 54, Page 224, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 203 Jessie Circle, Hubert, North Carolina.

Parcel ID: 073643 Commonly known as 203 Jessie Circle, Hubert, NC 28539 However, by showing this address no additional coverage is provided Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

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

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 1:00PM on December 1, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed James I. Wentz aka James Wentz, dated August 3, 2004 to secure the original principal amount of $136,000.00, and recorded in Book 1880 at Page 1623 of the Randolph County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Randleman Rd, Randleman, NC 27317 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners:

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

NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

Address of property: Woodvery Dr, Liberty, NC 27298 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Williams

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 21SP197 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY LARRY SPEIGHT AKA LARRY D. SPEIGHT DATED JULY 12, 2007 AND RECORDED IN BOOK RE2033 AT PAGE 2172 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 20SP170 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMES E. WEAKLEY AND THERESA M. WEAKLEY DATED JULY 10, 1998 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1563 AT PAGE 453 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 21SP165

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cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 1:00PM on December 1, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Larry Speight aka Larry D. Speight, dated July 12, 2007 to secure the original principal amount of $93,887.00, and recorded in Book RE2033 at Page 2172 of the Randolph County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Dr, Trinity, NC 27370 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Larry D. Speight

3551 Allwood 7727618466 The Estate of

And Being more commonly known as: 3551 Allwood Dr, Trinity, NC 27370

said county at 1:00PM on December 1, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed James E. Weakley and Theresa M. Weakley, dated July 10, 1998 to secure the original principal amount of $115,663.59, and recorded in Book 1563 at Page 453 of the Randolph County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Circle, Thomasville, NC 27360 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Weakley

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And Being more commonly known as: 335 Gaddy Circle, Thomasville, NC 27360 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Theresa M.

NOTICE OF SALE

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 December 1, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Charles T. Griffin and Jennifer P. Griffin, dated May 25, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $93,600.00, and recorded in Book RE1923 at Page 557 of the Randolph County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

Address of property: Lane, Liberty, NC 27298 Tax Parcel ID: 6571 Present Record Owners:

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY CHARLES T. GRIFFIN AND JENNIFER P. GRIFFIN DATED MAY 25, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK RE1923 AT PAGE 557 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 31

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Clifford Tinsley (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Michael Tinsley) to Title Resource Group - NATL., Trustee(s), dated August 29, 2013, and recorded in Book No. 06090, at Page 0046 in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer

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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 December 2, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Matthews in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: A certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Union, and State of North Carolina, in Matthews Township and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot Number 84 of Emerald Lake Subdivision, Phase 1, as shown on that plat recorded in Plat Cabinet E, at File Number 404, Union County Register of Deeds to which plats reference is hereby made for a more complete description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2707 Dogleg Court, Matthews, North Carolina.

Tax ID#: 08324102 For information only: Property Address: 2707 Dogleg Ct, Matthews, NC 28104 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale

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

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are James I. Wentz.

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($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,

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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.

THISISACOMMUNICATIONFROMADEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

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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 December 1, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Martha C. Williams and Tommy Ray Williams, dated March 31, 2000 to secure the original principal amount of $42,750.00, and recorded in Book RE 1654 at Page 0151 of the Randolph County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY MARTHA C. WILLIAMS AND TOMMY RAY WILLIAMS DATED MARCH 31, 2000 AND RECORDED IN BOOK RE 1654 AT PAGE 0151 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

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

And Being more commonly known as: 4641 Woodvery Dr, Liberty, NC 27298 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Tommy Ray Williams.

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

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Estate of Larry D. Speight.

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

Weakley.

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

Charles T. Griffin And Being more commonly known as: 630 Logan Lane, Liberty, NC 27298 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Charles T. Griffin.

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

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

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(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.

prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 21, 2021.

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date

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.

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 November 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109008

Parkway,

Suite

400

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,

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.

agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is November 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 21-111591

Parkway,

Suite

400

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

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.

Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108177

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 November 11, 2021.

LLG TRUSTEE LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter

Parkway,

Suite

400

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

the 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 November 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 21-111752

Parkway,

Suite

400

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

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: 1257804 - 9652

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UNION 19 SP 570 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Deanna Guzman to Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated April 23, 2012 and recorded on April 30, 2012 in Book 05729 at Page 0188, Union County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION UNION COUNTY 20SP152 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY LINDA O. CRUMP DATED JULY 17, 2007 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4626 AT PAGE 138 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default

WAKE 18 SP 2004 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY

Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 30, 2021 at 12:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 229, Phase 2D of Cornerstone Subdivision, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Book G at Pages 639 and 640, Union County, North Carolina Public Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 5007 Revelation Way, Monroe, NC 28110-7894.

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

Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 1, 2021 at 10:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

(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.

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.

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.

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 LaVerne R. Gadsden and Anthony A. Robinson.

18 SP 2314 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 1, 2021 at 10:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

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.

BEING all of Lot 68, in The Park at Valley Stream, Phase Two, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2003, Page 975, Wake County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

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 Felecia Lenetta Worsley.

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMES A. WALL AND JUDITH N. WALL DATED OCTOBER 12, 2011 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 14499 AT PAGE 2271 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED MARCH 5, 2018 IN BOOK 17061, PAGE 517 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 18SP2431 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY NIKKI B. CLAYTON AND LAVEASTA P. CLAYTON DATED JUNE 28, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 12041 AT PAGE 1701 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 10SP4694 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY SARA BURNS AND JAMES BURNS DATED NOVEMBER 3, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 11670 AT PAGE 1943 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 17SP1916 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY MYRON TRIPLETT AND EUGENIA S. TRIPLETT DATED APRIL 28, 2009 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 13514 AT PAGE 2159 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 822

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Christine M. Thompson (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Christine M. Thompson) to National Corporate Research, Ltd., Trustee(s), dated June 25, 2007, and recorded in Book No. 12632, at Page 1926 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on January 25, 2016, in Book No. 16273, at Page 425, 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,

File No.: 14-28281-FC02

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 November 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 14-060928

Said property is commonly known as 3205 Marshlane Way, Raleigh, NC 27610.

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 20sp573

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

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

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

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

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.

Pageland Marshville Rd, Monroe, NC 28112 Tax Parcel ID: 03129003A Present Record Owners: Sean Outen And Being more commonly known as: 4612 Old Pageland Marshville Rd, Monroe, NC 28112 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Sean Outen.

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

BEING all of Lot 255, Chastain Subdivision, Phase 4, as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 2001, Page 355, Wake County Registry.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jared S. Worsley and Felicia L. Worsley to Jeanne White, Trustee(s), which was dated August 17, 2007 and recorded on August 23, 2007 in Book 012718 at Page 01678, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

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.

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 1:00PM on December 1, 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 Linda O. Crump, dated July 17, 2007 to secure the original principal amount of $44,000.00, and recorded in Book 4626 at Page 138 of the Union County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 4612 Old

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by La Verne R. Gadsden and Anthony A. Robinson to John H. Kornegay, Trustee(s), which was dated May 10, 2002 and recorded on May 13, 2002 in Book 009412 at Page 2440, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY

Lawful Heirs of Deanna Guzman.

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

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

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

Said property is commonly known as 4905 Tommans Trail, Raleigh, NC 27616.

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

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.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

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

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 11:00AM on November 19, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed James A. Wall and Judith N. Wall, dated October 12, 2011 to secure the original principal amount of $281,000.00, and recorded in Book 14499 at Page 2271 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

206 Address of property: Bon Marche Ln, Raleigh, NC 27615

0300412 Tax Parcel ID: James A. Wall Present Record Owners: and Judith N. Wall And Being more commonly known as: 206 Bon Marche Ln, Raleigh, NC 27615 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are James A. Wall and Judith N. Wall.

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

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 November 29, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Nikki B. Clayton and Laveasta P. Clayton, dated June 28, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $126,514.00, and recorded in Book 12041 at Page 1701 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Present Record Owners: Clayton and Laveasta P. Clayton

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

Address of property: Southampton Dr, Knightdale, NC 27545 Tax Parcel ID:

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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 November 29, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Sara Burns and James Burns, dated November 3, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $122,400.00, and recorded in Book 11670 at Page 1943 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Barringer Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners:

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bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on November 29, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Myron Triplett and Eugenia S. Triplett, dated April 28, 2009 to secure the original principal amount of $203,551.00, and recorded in Book 13514 at Page 2159 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Ct, Holly Springs, NC 27540 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Triplett and Eugenia S. Triplett

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North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 22, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Garner in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron in the southern right of way of Dubose Street at the corner of Edgebrook Drive; thence running along the right of way of Dubose Street South 47 degrees 20’ East 105.50 feet to an iron; thence continuing South 42 degrees 40’ West 163.89 feet to an iron; thence North 33 degrees 32’ 43” West 108.63 feet to an iron; thence North 42 degrees 40’ East 138.00 feet to an iron, according to a survey by Vernon Wayne Johnson, R.L.S., dated June 9, 2000, and being all of Lot 94 and a portion of Lot 93, Edgebrook Subdivision, as depicted in Map Book 1969, Page 315, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1211 Dubose Street, Garner, North Carolina.

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

Should the property be purchased by a third

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And Being more commonly known as: 506 Southampton Dr, Knightdale, NC 27545 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Nikki B. Clayton and Laveasta P. Clayton.

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

Management, Inc. And Being more commonly known as: 829 Barringer Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Burns Asset Management, Inc. 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

And Being more commonly known as: 205 Sawleaf Ct, Holly Springs, NC 27540 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are M. Neal Triplett and Eugenia S. Triplett.

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

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),

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

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

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

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

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.: 18-21120-FC01

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.: 18-11297-FC01

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 November 1, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109379

for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 13, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 16-085038

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purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 13, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 16-088177

Parkway,

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the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is October 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-093066

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

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Field of Honor Fly over with an invocation by pastor Boyd Byerly during the 2021 Field of Honor opening Ceremonies at South Asheboro Middle School’s ball field in Asheboro on November 11, 2021. See more photos on page 6.

COUNTY NEWS

County seeks to fill spot on planning board Randolph Record staff

City schools foundation receives record pledge The Asheboro City Schools Education Foundation announced last week it has received the largest pledge in the organization’s 30-year history. The anonymous donor made an estate pledge that will range from $270,000 $500,000. The pledge will go towards post-graduation scholarships for high school seniors. The foundation was established in 1991 and each year awards approximately 25 scholarships to deserving seniors ranging in amounts from $500 - $2,000.

County COVID cases continue to decline According to state and federal health officials, Randolph County saw 180 new positive tests results for COVID in the prior week. That was almost identical to the 182 cases recorded during the first week of November. The proportion of positive cases dropped from 6.4% to 6.1%. The CDC also reported that 84.7% of the county’s population over 65 had received at least one dose of the vaccine and 48.5% of the adult population was fully vaccinated.

Staff shortage impacts school lunch in Wake On Monday the Wake County public school system announced that 36 schools would be impacted by a “severe staffing shortage“ which meant students might not have food available in the school cafeterias. The crisis was averted in the state’s largest public school system when other school staff members and community volunteers stepped in to help serve meals to students, according to a public statement issued by the school system.

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ASHEBORO — There’s an opening on Randolph County’s planning board and zoning board of adjustment after the passing of Ralph Modlin.

Modlin, 69, was an Archdale man. He died Oct. 26.

Commissioners praised his dedication to the planning and zoning board along with his impact.

Commissioners chairman Darrell Frye said suggestions regard-

ing a replacement for Modlin on the board should be submitted to county manager Hal Johnson.

“He was always very diligent and had a great personality,” county attorney Ben Morgan said of Modlin.

Frye said funeral services for Modlin were among the highest attended that he could recall at Fairfield United Methodist Church.

There are eight members of the planning board and zoning board of adjustment. Each term is for

three years. Members may serve unlimited terms.

In other recent actions by county commissioners: • The county commissioners honored the retirement of Capt.

Chris Maness from the sheriff’s department. He served 29 years and 10 months for the county.

He’ll take a role as an active reserve deputy for the department.

• In October, the board celebrated the career of Traci Wil-

liams, who’s retiring from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department with 28 years of service to the county. Williams began her career with law enforcement agencies in 1991 as a telecommunicator with the Asheboro Police Department. She became a fulltime deputy with the sheriff’s department in 1999.

• Commissioners amended the 2002 meeting schedule to move the July meeting to July 11 instead of during the week of Independence Day.

Franklinville’s tight races Randolph County Schools lead to mayoral change keep masks optional

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record FRANKLINVILLE — A.C. Hurley has spent more than two decades in municipal government as a town commissioner in Franklinville.

He’s moving to another seat after an incredibly close election earlier this month.

“I want to get more for the people in the town,” Hurley said.

Hurley received 50 votes. Incumbent Perry Conner, who was seeking a fifth term as mayor, received 49 votes.

Hurley, who has been on the town board for about 28 years, didn’t file for the mayor’s seat until the final day of the filing period in the summer. He said he weighed the pros and cons of giving up his seat as a commissioner.

“I decided I’ll throw my name in there,” he said.

Now, he’ll no longer be a voting member of the board when the change takes place in December.

“I can bring up ideas,” he said.

“I’m hoping I can bring up more stuff.”

Hurley, 68, retired from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Asheboro. He runs a lawn mower repair shop in Franklinville.

One of his goals is to clean up Franklinville and make it more visually appealing, Hurley said.

He said he was surprised by the turnout, calling it a good race in that regard.

“A lot of people said they liked me and they liked (Conner) and they weren’t going to vote for mayor,” he said.

It wasn’t the only Franklinville race with close vote totals, though the margins in the other race didn’t have quite the consequences.

For commissioner seats, Richard Goodwin and Brandon Hurley, who’s the newly elected mayor’s son, both received 55 votes.

They were the top vote getters in a contest to select three commissioners, so they both remain on the board.

They’ll be joined by William (Billy) Farias, who received 41 votes in the six-person race.

Brandon Hurley also said he thought it was a high turnout for an election without a national or statewide race.

“I was shocked,” he said. “It was higher than I expected.”

Brandon Hurley ran unopposed when he first gained a commissioner’s seat four years ago. He said he would like to see more youth-oriented initiatives gain support in the community.

“What I’m trying to concentrate on is providing things for the children in the area,” he said.

“Where we make it affordable for all kids to be involved.”

He said that would mean an emphasis on sports and recreation programs in Franklinville.

The younger Hurley is owner of Carter’s Family Pharmacy in Asheboro.

County says they will cooperate with health department on contact tracing

North State Journal staff ASHEBORO — The Randolph County School Board voted again Monday night to keep masks optional in the county’s largest school system. The vote came two weeks after a special called meeting where the system voted to end mask requirements and to stop contact tracing.

Gathered in their regular meeting room, the elected officials were not wearing masks.

Superintendent Stephen Gainey, who has worn a mask during recent public meetings when seated with the board, was also not wearing a mask.

Following a lengthy closed session where the board consulted with its attorneys, the board retuned to its action item agenda. The group adopted a new mask policy Monday, weighing comments of lawyers who said certain federal laws required masks on buses and might impact certain classrooms where federal funding was used for specific students.

The board also addressed contact tracing. However, the board explained that contact tracing was not the responsibil-

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By Bob Sutton sion,Budd there’s enrollment before those classes start. awarded with the “De- of 915.

Free beer will be Randolph Record slightlyBusiness from the usual Williams said there’s an fender ef- That’s of off Small provided byhas GroundLion “There never been a number ranges up to 1,000, fort to bolster enrollment. He citAward” duringthat the event.

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The opening Williams job said. creators across ASHEBORO — Enrollment ed the RCC Commitment Grant,“I want better opportunity to attend North Carolina to know that numTraditional enrollment at Randolph Community Col- a program designed as a funding marks the first business RCCinand have to worry there bers are have men flattened, and women but it’s the lege isn’t likely to bounce back to mechanism to fill the gap that’s to open thenot Historic from Washington to Raleigh number of high schooltostudents about how to pay for it.” pre-pandemic levels right away not covered by federal or state aid Luck’s Cannery in who know their chalchair Darrell Frye, Asheboro North State Journal staff pointingcommission in programs designed for dual ento students. despite a school official Seagrove. lengesrollment and have backs,” Sen. Dave Craven anda betthattheir has dropped, has never been out unprecedented financial in-State “There said Budd.

“For as long as I hold State Rep. Allen McNeill.

PEMASHEBORO — Rep. Ted “We’re just not seeing the level RCC president Dr. Robert ter opportunity to attend RCC centives for potential students. public office, I will do mywe best MCO Manufacturing hosted Budd (R-NC) was in Asheboro that had seen,” Shackleford Jr. Chad Williams, vice president and not have to worry about how of engagement

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Tour in Pasadena, Calif.

A lot of that comes from the time we had to experiment inside the pay-per-view Sunday in Texas and former,” Reigns said. “As a live WWE then moved to its in-house ThunderDome.”

The first start is putting fans Dallas on Monday for the flagship performer, that simultaneous re- performance center in Florida on “Raw” TV show on USA. WWE sponse keeps you sharp. We had March 13, before setting up what — holding their homemade signs spruced up sets, brought back old to adjust and adapt to the times it dubbed The ThunderDome -- and wearing their catchphrase where fans registered for spots T-shirts — back in the seats. stars and hit the reset button on that were in front of us.”

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OPINION

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Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor

COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

They fought for us; let’s fight for them

Veterans Day shouldn’t be just one day a year. Today and every day, join me in thanking veterans for their service and remembering the liberties and freedoms they have defended for all of us.

JUST BEFORE VETERANS DAY in 1983, President Ronald Reagan said, “Veterans know better than anyone else the price of freedom, for they’ve suffered the scars of war. We can offer them no better tribute than to protect what they have won for us.”

On Veterans Day, we honor the best our nation has to offer. We honor those who served to keep America safe in times of peril. And we honor their families who have shared in their sacrifices. Without our nation’s veterans, we would not have the America we enjoy today. I can never thank them enough for their service to our great country.

On Thursday, I joined with veterans from World War II through the War on Terror in Kannapolis. We began the day at veteran-owned Local Patriot Roasting Company, followed by a program at Old Armor Beer Company, which is also veteran-owned. Supporting businesses like these, or hiring a veteran if you’re able, are among some of the best ways to honor our heroes.

While speaking Thursday, I acknowledged this year has not been easy for our veterans. Much of that stems from witnessing the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan that tragically led to the death of 13 servicemembers. Two of them were connected to our state and community — Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole Gee from Sacramento, California, was stationed at Camp Lejeune, and Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss from Pinebluff was stationed at Fort Bragg.

The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has impacted all of us.

Images of the Taliban with American military equipment and the fact that thousands of Americans and our allies have been left behind are infuriating. While the Biden administration must be held accountable for their decisions, let me say directly to veterans who served in Afghanistan — your sacrifice mattered! You did your job, you kept us safe from terrorists for 20 years, and our country is proud of you.

All of us must do all we can to support every man and woman who has worn our nation’s uniform, as well as their families. Throughout my time in Congress, this has been a top priority.

Working with my colleagues, we passed the largest budget in history for the VA. We passed the MISSION Act to improve health care for our veterans, whether they choose the VA or their own doctor. Last Congress, I secured provisions to expand access to VA health benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

To build on this progress, this year I have introduced the Care Veterans Deserve Act to expand veterans’ ability to choose to go to the VA or a private doctor. The Care for the Veteran Caregiver Act increases support for caregivers and streamlines the caregiver process. The VA Electronic Health Record Advisory Committee Act will help implement an electronic record system that is vital. And the Veterans in Parks Act grants free admission to our national parks for veterans and Gold Star families.

Working together with Republicans and Democrats, we have accomplished a lot to support our veterans. Yet there is more to do.

Active-duty suicides are up 46% from last year. Veteran suicides are not far behind. If you or someone you know is a veteran who needs support, call the veterans crisis line: 1-800-273-8255.

No veteran should ever feel alone or unsupported. That’s why in addition to the crisis line, this year I am encouraging another opportunity to reach out to veterans and active-duty troops.

I have cosponsored legislation designating Nov. 21 as National Warrior Call Day — a day to call a veteran you know and tell them how much you value their service. This small gesture may save a life, and it’s the least we can do to say thank you to those who have served.

I will never waiver on my commitment to support our veterans, and as President Reagan said, “protect what they have won for us.”

Veterans Day shouldn’t be just one day a year. Today and every day, join me in thanking veterans for their service and remembering the liberties and freedoms they have defended for all of us.

It’s an honor to be Fort Bragg’s congressman. It’s an honor to be your congressman. And it’s an honor to represent so many of you who have worn our nation’s uniform.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

Democrats have only themselves to blame for the inflation fiasco Biden defenders such as Paul Krugman, who have no compunction blaming Republican governors for seasonal variances in the spread of viruses, contend that Biden has no control over gas prices.

IT’S BEEN QUITE a spectacle watching people who credit Democrats with every job created and every percentage point gained in economic growth suddenly arguing that the White House is completely powerless in the face of our current economic predicament.

Presidents generally get far too much credit and/or blame for our fortunes, but they can certainly exacerbate existing problems. And our political class has certainly aggravated them with unbridled spending and support for policies that disincentivize work and inhibit energy production.

Wholesale prices rose 8.6% from a year ago in October, another record annual gain and the biggest spike in more than a decade. Inflation hit 6.2%, the highest rate of annualized inflation since the 1990s. Whereas once voters were promised “transitory” inflation, today, economists warn that we’ll be in this for a while.

“Reversing this trend is a top priority for me,” President Joe Biden said Nov. 10, after months of his administration’s dismissing inflation as a “high-class” and short-term predicament — there’s “nobody suggesting there’s unchecked inflation on the way — no serious economist,” the president promised a few months ago. Biden’s National Economic Council Deputy Director Brian Deese had argued that inflation was actually a good thing, and the entire administration had pushed the notion that the best prescription to alleviate inflation was more big progressive spending — part of a broader trend of Democrats saying utterly absurd things about the economy.

Democrats have seriously underestimated the frustration that voters, unable to get the things they desire nearly instantaneously, are going to feel, as people such as Jen Psaki crack jokes about supply-chain problems, “the tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed.” What about rising prices?

Last week, liberal punditry spent a day mocking a Texas mother of nine who groused about rising milk prices on CNN. I’m not sure if Krista Stotler had her all stats entirely correct, but I suspect most voters don’t really care to pinpoint price points. Inflation is something they feel.

Perhaps even more than the education issue that helped sink Democrats in Virginia, inflation remains the most consequential issue in politics right now. It’s hard to spin your way out of a wealth-destroying tax. There’s no one to accuse of racism. No Trump to blame. If we account for inflation, real average hourly earnings, for instance, have decreased

over the past year. And all Democrats want to do is spend more money — lots of it.

This week, Democrats, with an assist from some Republicans, approved another $1 trillion-plus infrastructure bill, even as they push through an unprecedented multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill. All this comes after $6 trillion of deficit spending during the pandemic, which many Democrats argued wasn’t even enough.

Meanwhile, a third of recent inflation increases has been propelled by energy prices, which spiked 6.7%. Biden defenders such as Paul Krugman, who have no compunction blaming Republican governors for seasonal variances in the spread of viruses, contend that Biden has no control over gas prices. Well, the first thing Biden did was freeze new oil and gas leases and shut down future pipelines. Biden now begs OPEC to increase production and help lower worldwide gas prices, but his domestic political goals and action run contrary to this position. Virtually every “green” plan in existence will intentionally, through mandates or bans or taxes or contrived “markets,” make fossil fuels more expensive or reduce use.

Expensive gas is their goal. So how can Democrats credibly maintain they have a plan to stop rising prices?

On top of all that, Democrats continue to push for a major expansion in the welfare state during a tight labor market. It is reminiscent of their insistence that unemployment insurance be expanded even after the pandemic had ebbed. Biden’s spending plan includes programs that disincentivize work. Typically, massive “safety net” programs are instituted by Democrats during times of recession, not of growth. There are more jobs than jobseekers in the country.

It’s true that governments caused much of the demand shock we are experiencing, needlessly shutting down entire economies during the pandemic. Yet, Democrats have allowed their strident ideological wing to take over the party, aggravating these underlying trends. Why Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema (or Biden, once considered a moderate himself) would follow progressives off into this quagmire defies logic — not only economic but political logic.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NFL

Washington’s Young suffers seasonending injury Washington, D.C. Chase Young will not play the rest of this season after injuring his right leg and is scheduled to undergo surgery. Washington coach Ron Rivera confirmed the prognosis for the 2020 second overall pick on Monday in the wake of the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year going down during the first half of an upset of defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay. Rivera did not reveal whether Young tore the ACL in his right knee and did not specify what the surgery is for.

NBA

NBA fines Timberwolves $250K for illegal offseason workouts Minneapolis The NBA fined the Minnesota Timberwolves $250,000 on Monday for violating league rules that prohibit teams from arranging or paying for offseason practice or group workout sessions for their players outside their home market. The punishment was connected to team activities that took place in the Miami area in early September, the league announced. Timberwolves coaches, players and staff gathered for on-court work and off-court bonding in south Florida, where new co-owner Alex Rodriguez resides.

MLB

Yankees hire former Mets manager Rojas as 3B coach New York The New York Yankees hired former Mets manager Luis Rojas as their third base coach on Monday, a month after he lost his job with the crosstown rivals.

Rojas managed the Mets for the past two seasons.

The team declined its 2022 option for him on Oct. 4, a day after finishing third in the NL East at 77-85.

Rojas will take the spot of Phil Nevin, who had been the Yankees’ third base coach since the 2018 season. Nevin was let go last month.

LM OTERO | AP PHOTO

NCAA President Mark Emmert is overseeing drastic changes in college sports' major governing body.

Emmert says NCAA efforts to reform not motivated by fear The governing body is proposing a scaled-down constitution that would separate powers among its three divisions

By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press THE NCAA’S MOVE to restructure college sports is not being driven by fear but rather a desire to seize an opportunity to tackle issues that have been building for decades, NCAA president Mark Emmert said Monday, “There’s few things that are being discussed right now that have been discussed off and on at least for the 10 years that I’ve been involved in the NCAA,” Emmert said during a brief news conference. “But yet at the same time, we’ve never had a moment where we had state legislators, congressional actors, the courts, the economic dynamics, and even the pandemic, all providing a very important catalyst for change.”

Emmert’s words came after the NCAA’s online constitutional convention, during which the entire membership of more than 1,100 schools in its three divisions weighed in on the proposed,

scaled-down version of the association’s foundational document.

Emmert called for the constitutional convention over the summer, not long after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt the NCAA a potentially crippling blow. In upholding a lower court’s ruling in an antitrust case, the high court left the association vulnerable to lawsuits any time it makes a new rule the impacts athletes.

Rewriting the constitution is the first step toward decentralizing college sports’ governance and deemphasizing the role of the NCAA. “It has been a long time, 50 years, a half a century, since there was this thorough a look at what college sports is and how it should function,” Emmert said. “The inaction of the association at this particular moment would be very, very poorly received and it should be, frankly. If you have that much change going on, you darn well be better be ready and willing and able to change.”

The college sports administrators who make up the constitution committee, including Georgetown President Jack DeGioia, who is the chairman of the NCAA’s Board of Governors,

“If you have that much change going on, you darn well be better be ready and willing and able to change.”

Mark Emmert, NCAA president spent about four hours presenting the proposal to members and taking questions.

“I ... thought it was a very successful first take, especially having never done anything quite like this in the history of the association,” Emmert said.

Last week, the NCAA unveiled a proposed 18-page constitution that more narrowly focuses the mission of the largest college sports organization in the United States while also providing a path for each of its three divisions to govern themselves more.

After two feedback periods, the proposed constitution could be amended. The plan is for the full membership to vote on it at the January NCAA convention in Indianapolis.

Then comes the hard part.

Leaders in each of the NCAA’s

Rays’ Arozarena, Reds’ India earn Rookie of Year honors Fellow Tampa Bay rookie Wander Franco, who started the season in Durham, was third in AL voting

“My mind and my goal was to have another good season and continue what I had done the year before.”

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NHL

Capitals extend Dowd for $3.9M over 3 years Washington. D.C. Nic Dowd signed a $3.9 million, threeyear extension with the Washington Capitals on Sunday, giving the reliable center some long-term security and a significant raise. Dowd, 31, will count $1.3 million against the salary cap each of the next three seasons, almost double his current $750,000 value. He’s coming off a shortened 2021 season in which he scored a career-high 11 goals, and said he wanted to maintain the roots he has grown in the D.C. area. He has 79 points in 316 regular-season NHL games with the Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and Capitals.

three divisions will dig into the task of restructuring and reimaging how college sports should be run.

At the Division I level, where college sports has also become a multimillion-dollar business for some schools, dramatic changes could happen. Everything from how revenue is shared, how schools and sports align, access to championship events and what is required to be a Division I member will be on the table.

That includes what to do with major college football, which largely operates independent of the NCAA and rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars that’s shared by 130 Bowl Subdivision schools.

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a group of former and current college sports administrators, has recommended FBS be separated from the NCAA altogether.

The new constitution continues to refer to college athletes as student-athletes, a term created decades ago as the NCAA tried to make a clear distinction between its amateurs and paid professionals.

Emmert said there was significant discussion about dropping the term from official NCAA usage, but the athletes themselves pushed to keep it.

“We were really, really passionate about that title,” former California University of Pennsylvania volleyball player Madeleine McKenna said during the convention Q&A session with membership.

IT DIDN’T FEEL like Randy Arozarena was a rookie this season.

Tampa Bay’s speedy and powerful outfielder certainly didn’t play like one either.

Arozarena won AL Rookie of the Year honors with a superb follow-up to his 2020 postseason heroics, while Cincinnati Reds second baseman Jonathan India earned NL Rookie of the Year on Monday night.

The standout years for Arozarena and India highlight the changing profile of a good MLB leadoff hitter. Both players have speed and a good eye but also considerable power. It’s the first time since 1953 that the rookie of the year winners were both primarily leadoff hitters. That season, Detroit’s Harvey Kuenn and Brooklyn’s Jim Gilliam won.

If it didn’t seem like this wasn’t Arozarena’s first year, there’s a reason. The 26-year-old Cuban provided a stunning lift for the Rays during the 2020 postseason with 10 homers in 18 games during their run to the World Series.

But Arozarena didn’t play enough during the 2020 regular season to lose his rookie status and was eligible for the award this year. He followed up his post-

Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay Rays outfielder

DAVID J. PHILLIIP | AP PHOTO

Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena was named AL Rookie of the Year on Monday night. season breakout with an excellent season in 2021, finishing with a .274 average, 32 doubles, 20 homers, 20 stolen bases and 69 RBIs while adding excellent defense, helping the Rays return to the postseason.

“I know I was favored to be the rookie of the year,” Arozarena said through a translator. “But for me, my mind wasn’t set on the award or winning the award. My mind and my goal was to have another good season and continue what I had done the year before.”

Arozarena earned 22 of 30 first-place votes in balloting by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, beating out Houston right-hander Luis

Garcia and Tampa Bay infielder Wander Franco.

Arozarena is Tampa Bay’s first rookie of the year since outfielder Wil Myers in 2013.

Five AL players received at least one first-place vote in this year’s tally, including Garcia, Franco, Texas outfielder Adolis García and Cleveland pitcher Emmanuel Clase. Garcia hit 31 homers this season while Clase had a 1.29 ERA in Cleveland’s bullpen.

The 20-year-old Franco, who started the season with the Durham Bulls, has the label as one of MLB’s future stars and his performance in 2021 did nothing to discourage that billing. The in-

fielder hit .288 with seven homers and 39 homers while playing less than half the season.

India won the NL award eight months after earning the team’s second base job during spring training and never letting it go during a stellar first season.

The 24-year-old India received 29 of 30 first-place votes, beating out Miami left-handed pitcher Trevor Rogers and St. Louis outfielder Dylan Carlson. Rogers got one first-place vote. India said it’s been an amazing journey from spring training, where he was a longshot to even make the regular-season roster.

India was the Reds’ first rookie of the year winner since pitcher Scott Williamson in 1999.

The 6-foot, 200-pound India was an all-around threat — particularly during the second half of the season — often batting leadoff and finishing with a .269 average, 34 doubles, 21 homers, 69 RBIs and 12 stolen bases. He also showed good discipline in the batter’s box, coaxing 71 walks to finish with a .376 on-base percentage, and scored 98 runs.

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Area athletes lock in next destinations Randolph Record staff SEVERAL ATHLETES from around Randolph County signed letters of intent or made college commitments when the early signing period began last week.

Some of these had been previously announced intentions.

Baseball players were among those most active.

From Randleman’s 2021 state-championship team, five players confirmed their intentions. They were Brooks Brannon to North Carolina, Kaden Ethier to Montreat, Braylen Hayes to UNC Greensboro, Trey Way to Virginia Tech and Ryan White to

Black claims victory in Mischa Sell Memorial Randolph Record staff SOPHIA – Tony Black was the winner in the Limited Late Models feature as part of the Mischa Sell Memorial racing card Saturday at Caraway Speedway.

Black led the 15-car field, with Mitchell Wright the runner-up and Casey Kepley in third place across the 100 laps.

Black also won the pole bonus.

The pole runner-up was Zack Clifton, who finished 10th.

In 602 Modifieds, Lee Jeffreys finished first, followed by Junior Snow and Carson Loftin among 10 drivers.

The UCars victory went to Allen Vance, with Daniel Hughes second and Steven Collins in third.

Western Carolina.

Randleman volleyball player Kylie Vaughan, an outside hitter, has committed to Guilford College.

Wheatmore’s Spencer Hall is heading to Milligan, where he’ll be on the swimming team for the Tennessee school. Hall has qualified for the state meet in each of his first three high school seasons.

Previously this fall, Wheatmore baseball player Robert Hales signed to play for NAIA member St. Andrews University.

Officials from some high schools said they expect to have athlete signings at later dates.

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BEST OVERALL ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Elias Alston COURTESY PHOTO

Spencer Hall, Wheatmore swimmer

UCA wrestling tourney to focus on veterans Randolph Record staff THERE ARE a couple of wrestling tournaments in Randolph County set for Saturday.

Uwharrie Charter Academy will hold the Wounded Warrior Challenge.

The UCA event will offer free admission to veterans. Arrangements have been made for veterans from the Wounded Warrior Project to be present.

During a pause in the competition, a recognition ceremony will be held for veterans.

Champions in each weight class will receive a custom Wounded Warrior singlet from MyHouse, which makes sports gear.

Also, the Wheatmore Warriors Duals will be held.

Randleman and host school Wheatmore will be among the

in-county entrants for that tournament.

Basketball The season began last week in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association for those schools without football programs, meaning Uwharrie Charter Academy was in action.

It was a good start for the Eagles.

On the girls’ side, Gabi Greene’s 18 points propelled a 68-39 victory against Clover Garden.

For the boys, UCA topped Clover Garden 76-22 behind 20 points from Jordan Harrison and 18 points from Alijah Baker.

Next week, all NCHSAA teams will be eligible to begin basketball competition.

PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Eastern Randolph, football Alston turned in yet another big game for the Wildcats, this time scoring four touchdowns in the team’s secondround game in the Class 1-A state playoffs. Alston scored on a pair of receptions as part of his 159-yard receiving out. He also returned a punt for a touchdown. Alston is a senior receiver who also plays as a defensive back.

PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Eastern Randolph’s Malachi Letterlough scores a touchdown against Draughn in the Class 1-A state playoffs in Ramseur.

Eastern Randolph faces reigning state champion next

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record

PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Eastern Randolph coach Burton Cates monitors a situation during last week’s game in the state playoffs against Draughn.

RAMSEUR — The state playoffs sure become interesting in a hurry for Eastern Randolph.

The Wildcats opened play in the Class 1-A West Region with a romp past No. 16 seed Draughn on Friday night.

That sends Eastern Randolph (10-0), the No. 1 seed, into a thirdround matchup this week with visiting Murphy.

Murphy (8-4) is the reigning Class 1-A state champion.

“We’ll go to work on it,” Eastern Randolph coach Burton said of the assignment. “We just take one game at a time. Everybody says that, but we really do.”

Eastern Randolph, which received a bye in the first round, had an overwhelming performance in

topping visiting Draughn by 5520.

Quarterback Stratton Barwick put up significant numbers for the Wildcats by passing for four touchdowns and 261 yards.

Elias Alston caught two of Barwick’s scoring passes and ended up with 159 receiving yards. He also returned a punt 45 yards for a touchdown.

Jake Fesmire hauled in the other two receiving touchdowns. He posted 85 receiving yards on three catches.

Running back Na’heim Lilly tacked on two touchdowns, gaining 140 rushing yards. Malachi Letterlough also ran for a touchdown.

“I thought offensively we really played well except for our own mistakes,” Cates said.

Lilly had 43- and 49-yard

touchdown runs to help Eastern Randolph build a 21-0 lead through one quarter.

One of Barwick’s touchdown throws came on a 61-yard yard play to Alston.

So the big plays kept flowing for Eastern Randolph.

“Too many penalties and we have to eliminate those,” Cates said. “The effort was there.”

The game against Draughn marked the first matchup of the season for Eastern Randolph against a Class 1-A opponent.

That’s because it played larger schools in non-conference games and it’s a member of the Piedmont Athletic Conference, with all the other football-playing schools at the Class 2-A level.

Ninth-seeded Murphy defeated eighth-seeded Mountain Heritage 22-10 in the second round.

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Southwestern Randolph high school U.S. Army JROTC during the Asheboro Veterans Day Parade in downtown Asheboro on November 11, 2021.

Left, Marine Corps League Semper Fidelis Detachment #1165 ride down Sunset Ave.

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Right, Asheboro High school marching band performs on Sunset Street during the Asheboro Veterans Day Parade.

Downtown parade honors veterans Bands, tanks, and war heroes were on display in downtown Asheboro last week. In one of the first parades since the pandemic, the town closed its streets and welcomed its residents to celebrate the men and women who have served our country in the armed forces. The Veterans Day parade was held on Thursday, November 11.

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Members of the Asheboro Junior Women’s Club Jennifer Durham, Hannah Wright, Sarah Myers, Beth Robbins, Anna Tucker, Emily Hayes, Kathryn Cook, Emma Aquino and Aislin Durham volunteered their Saturday morning to serve food at Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen in Asheboro.

Asheboro Junior Women’s Club volunteers Randolph Record staff ASHEBORO — The Asheboro Junior Women’s Club supplied volunteers last weekend to support Our Daily Bread Kitchen on East Pritchard Street in Asheboro. The women’s club, whose mission is to support women and children in the community, sponsors monthly service projects in support of local non-profits.

Our Daily Bread operates a community kitchen to serve hot meals and dessert to people in need. The group has seen traffic to the kitchen double during the pandemic. The organization also provides toiletries, clothes, coats and other personal items for people who have fallen on hard times.

The volunteers from the Junior

Women’s Club, along with volunteers from North Ridge Church, planned the lunch meal, purchased the ingredients and gathered at Our Daily Bread Kitchen to cook and serve the meal on Saturday.

“We are so grateful for all that Our Daily Bread does to meet our community’s physical and emotional needs,” said the club via its Instagram page. “What a blessing to prepare and serve a meal alongside some folks from North Ridge Church.”

If you would like to volunteer at Our Daily Bread, the group has an online sign-up form on their website at odbkitchen.org.

For more information about the Asheboro Junior Women’s Club visit their Instagram page at @ asheborojuniorwomens.

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Beth Robbins pours green beans into a pot in preparation for the meal at Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen in Asheboro, on November 13, 2021.

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James “Duncan” Garner 1933 ~ 2021

James “Duncan” Garner,88, passed away Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at First Health Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst, NC. Born in Moore County, NC, he was the son of the late John Early Garner and Maggie Clark Garner.

Duncan was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Joe John Garner and Bobby Josh Garner; and sisters, Susie Garner Sheffield, and Lucinda Garner.

He is survived by his sister, Marinda Garner Freeman of Robbins and several nieces and nephews.

A private burial will be held in Flint Hill Baptist Church Cemetery.

Carolyn Davis Cashatt 1938 - 2021

There was rejoicing in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday, November 11, 2021, as Carolyn Davis Cashatt entered into the presence of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Carolyn was preceded in death by her sweet husband, John “Gray” Cashatt of Randleman; her parents, Madge and Cullie Davis of Ramseur; two brothers, Lewis Thomas “Tommy” Davis and James Wesley Davis. She was also preceded in death by her step-son, Ronnie G. Cashatt.

Carolyn is survived by one daughter, Cynthia Edwards Denny (Steve) of Sophia; one grandson, Stephen L. Denny II (Rebecca) of Idaho; one granddaughter, Nina Denny Carowick (Tom) of Asheboro.

She was blessed with four grandchildren: Isaac, Micah & Thaddeus Denny and Kylie Carowick.Carolyn is also survived by one step-daughter, Sherry Cashatt Fonner (Bill) and stepson, Gary Cashatt. Five stepgrandchildren: Misty Hinshaw, David Hinshaw, Zachary Cashatt (Ashley), Andrea Cashatt and Matt Cashatt (Jessica). Seven step-great grandchildren: Gray Braica, Carly Hinshaw, Camden & Carter Cashatt, Madison & Alice Cashatt and Noah Turner.

Carolyn grew up in Ramseur, NC and was a member of the Ramseur Wesleyan Church. In 1971 she married Gray Cashatt and moved to Randleman.

Carolyn & Gray were married 44 years at the time of Gray’s death in 2015. She was a member of the First Wesleyan Church in Randleman for 50 years. She was very active in her church. She sang in the choir & quartet specials.

Today, Carolyn is celebrating with Gray, other family members and special friends that have gone on before her. “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.”

John 14:2 NIV Memorials may be sent to the Randleman First Wesleyan Church, 125 Tabernacle St., Randleman, NC 27317.

Brenda Routh Poindexter

Rachel Shaw Hilliard

1941 - 2021

1934 - 2021

Brenda Routh Poindexter, age 80, of Asheboro passed away on Thursday, November 11, 2021 at Forsyth Medical Center.

Mrs. Poindexter was born in Randolph County on August 26, 1941 to Marvin and Geneva Lewallen Routh and was a graduate of Asheboro High School. She was formerly employed as a telephone operator for Centel and was a retired CNA. In addition to her parents, Brenda was preceded in death by her sister, Janice Lee. Brenda never met a stranger. She was a very independent and talkative lady with a big heart. Brenda loved spending time with her grandchildren and eating delicious food.

She is survived by her husband, Clarence Poindexter; children, Tona Pierce of Asheboro, Tommy “Dean” Yates, Jr. (Elaine) of Asheboro, Kenneth Yates of Randleman, and Tammy Waugh of Asheboro; grandchildren, Talia Tennant, Jennifer Yates, Joshua Yates, Amanda Wery, Jade Yates, Azura Yates, and Giana Yates; 7 great grandchildren; and brothers, Larry Routh (Sally), Ted Routh (Toni), and Marvin Croker (Libby).

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue in Asheboro. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 2:00 pm in the Pugh Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Neil Poole officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memorial Park.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memorial Giving, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 or the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, 4217 Park Place Court, Glen Allen, VA 23060.

Rachel Shaw Hilliard, 87, of Asheboro, passed away on November 14, 2021 at Clapp’s Convalescent Nursing Home.

She was born in Cedar Falls on August 29, 1934 to Alexander and Lily Henson Shaw.

Mrs. Hilliard was a graduate of Franklinville High School and retired from Sew Special. She was a member of First Baptist Church. She loved her church and her family very much. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Hilliard was preceded in death by her husbands, Joseph S. Weedman and Curtis Leroy Hilliard; sister, Edith Benbow; and brothers, Odell, Dale, and David Shaw.

Mrs. Hilliard was survived by son, Adam Gooch and wife Corene; daughters, Terri Gooch, Lisa Gooch (Randy); grandson, Noah Gooch, who was her pride and joy; sister-in-law, Lenora “Squat” Shaw; and several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, November 18, 2021, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue in Asheboro. Funeral services will follow at 2:00 pm in the Pugh Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. John Rogers and Rev. Scotty Carpenter officiating.

Burial will be held in the Giles Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church, 133 N. Church St., Asheboro, NC 27203 or Hospice of Randolph, 416 Vision Dr., Asheboro, NC 27203.

The family would like to thank the 400 Hall nurses at Clapp’s Convalescent Nursing Home for the care given to Mrs. Hilliard during her stay there.

Harry Sills Kassel, Jr.

Tonja Swaim Robbins

1932 - 2021

1964 - 2021

Harry Sills Kassel, Jr., age 88 of Randleman passed away on Friday, November 12, 2021 at Randolph Hospice House.

Harry was born in Washington, DC on November 30, 1932. Harry served his country in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He graduated high school in 1951 and from the University of Maryland in 1961 with a Mechanical Engineering degree. He retired from Bechtel Corporation where he designed and built electric power plants and retired from Florida Power and Light. Harry was a member of Balfour Baptist Church. He loved all sports, but especially, the Boston Red Socks.

Harry is preceded in death by his father, Harry Sills Kassel, Sr. Harry is survived by his wife, Judy Routh Kassel; daughters, Brenda Lignelli (Rutledge Webb, fiance) of Annapolis, MD., Patricia Kassel of Murfreesboro, TN, and Jill Baker (Enoch) of Harpers Ferry, WV.; grandson, Dominick Lignelli (Paige) of Dover, DE., and great grandsons, Max and Luca Lignelli; step children, Brad Sink (Summer) and Heather Cusher (Jason) and step grandchildren, Shane, Brooks and Jordan Sink.

The family wishes to express their appreciation to Hospice House of Randolph and especially to Jennifer, Marie and Carmon for their excellent care and a special thank you to Richard McChesney with Hospice Volunteers.

A graveside service will be Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 11:00 am at Randolph Memorial Park with Rev. Mark Wilburn officiating and with military honors by the Randolph County Honor Guard. The family will receive friends following the graveside service.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Randolph, P.O. Box 9, Asheboro, NC 27204 or Homesforheroes. com and Randolph County Honor Guard, P.O. Box 1672, Asheboro, NC 27204.

Tonja was a native of Randolph County and employed with Bethany Medical in Kernersville.

She enjoyed reading and loved her fur babies.

A funeral service will be held Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 3:00 pm at Providence Friends Meeting, 2054 Providence Church Rd., Pleasant Garden with Rev. Kevin Rollins Officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memorial Park, Asheboro.

Tonja is survived by her husband of 20 years, Ken Robbins; sons; Justin Robbins and Ryan Fox; mother, Dottie Rollins; father, Kenneth Swaim; sister Anita Cole and her brother; Kevin Rollins.

Memorials may be made to Randolph County SPCA, 300 W. Baily St, Asheboro or Make a wish, 217 E. Tremont Ave, Charlotte.

2 Bill Martin, Jr 1929-2021

Lewis Joseph Yow 1942 - 2021

Lewis Joseph Yow, age 78, passed away on Saturday, November 13, 2021, at Forsyth Medical Center.

Mr. Yow was born in Moore County on December 29, 1942, to Walter Boyce and Josie Ann Williamson Yow. In addition to his parents, he is preceded by brothers, Olen Yow, Harold Yow, Walter Yow, Franklin Yow, Edward Yow, and Lacy Yow, sister Lela Yow. Mr. Yow is survived by his sisters, Rosa Murray of Asheboro; Ada Burghezi of Philadelphia, PA and Artie Jennie Pierce of Goldsboro.

Visitation will be held on Friday, November 19 from 5:007:00 pm at Phillips Funeral Home.

William “Bill” Robert Martin, Jr., age 92, of Asheboro passed away on November 9, 2021, at Randolph Health.

Bill was born on July 23, 1929, to William R. Martin, Sr. and Marie B. Alix Martin. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, where he worked as a cook. Following his time in the military, Mr. Martin worked for 50 years as a contractor. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Bill is survived by his son, Bob Martin, daughter Toni Martin, and two older daughters.

In addition, he is survived by brothers Edward Martin and Cyril Martin, along with his sister Doris Marano.

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Patsy Yow 1940 - 2021

Patsy Ann Spivey Yow, 81, of Asheboro, NC, died Friday, November 12, 2021 at her residence.

A native of Randolph Co., NC, Mrs. Yow was born November 9, 1940, the daughter of the late Purvis and Ruth Carter Spivey.

She loved to go to the beach and mountains, and spending time with her kids, grandchildren and great granddaughter. She also always supported her husband behind the scenes.

Patsy delivered newspapers for The Courier-Tribune for over 30 years.

In addition to her parents Mrs. Yow was preceded in death by her husband Elmer Leon Yow, her sister Betty Jordan, and her Randolp brother Jimmy Spivey.

Mrs. Yow is survived by her FORECAST sons,WEEKLY David Leon Morrison of South Carolina, Jeff Yow of WEEKLY FORECAST Asheboro; daughters, Michele Thompson of Denton, Sherrie Trotter and husband Rodney of Asheboro; sister, Louise Walker and husband Doug, of Greensboro; grandchildren, WEDNESDAY THURSDA Joshua Thompson, Cecily WEDNESDAY THURSDAY JULY 21 Thompson, Chris Thompson, JUNE 30 JULY 1JULY 22 Shane Trotter, Cameron Trotter, Trotter; HI 91° 8 HI HI Kathryn 91° 88° HI and great granddaughter, Sierra LO 70° LO LO 70° 67° LO 6 Thompson.

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STATE & NATION

Foreign students returning to US, but below pre-COVID levels

By Colin Binkley The Associated Press BOSTON — International students are returning to U.S. colleges in stronger numbers this year, but the rebound has yet to make up for last year’s historic declines as COVID-19 continues to disrupt academic exchange, according to a new survey.

Nationwide, American colleges and universities saw a 4% annual increase in international students this fall, according to survey results released Monday by the Institute of International Education.

But that follows a decrease of 15% last year — the steepest decline since the institute began publishing data in 1948.

Universities and U.S. officials hope this year’s uptick is the start of a long-term rebound. As international travel ramps up, there’s

optimism that colleges will see growth past their pre-pandemic levels.

“We expect a surge following the pandemic,” Matthew Lussenhop, an acting U.S. assistant secretary of state, told reporters. This year’s increase indicates that international students “continue to value a U.S. education and remain committed to pursuing studies in the United States,” he added.

Overall, 70% of U.S. colleges reported an uptick in international students this fall, while 20% saw decreases and 10% remained level, according to the institute. That’s based on a preliminary survey of more than 800 U.S. schools.

At least some of the increase is due to new students who hoped to come to the U.S. last year but delayed their plans because of the pandemic. All told, there was a 68% increase in newly enrolled in-

ternational students this year, a dramatic increase compared with last year’s decrease of 46%.

For many schools, even a modest upturn is a relief. Over the summer, officials at U.S. universities worried that the Delta variant would dash any hopes of a rebound. But for many, that did not come to pass.

In August, U.S. embassies and consulates in India reported that they had issued visas to a record 55,000 students even after starting the process two months late because of COVID-19.

The vast majority of U.S. colleges returned to in-person learning by this fall, but not all international students are physically on campus. After last year’s shift to remote learning, many schools have continued offering online classes to students abroad.

For some colleges, the new flex-

ibility of online learning helped avoid further enrollment setbacks.

In the past, students at the University of San Francisco might have been able to start the term a week late if they faced visa or travel problems. Now, those facing visa delays can arrive halfway through the term or later, and in the meantime study online from abroad.

That was the case for Vinh Le, who was unable to get to the airport in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City in time for the start of fall classes. Instead, the graduate student studied online for more than two months until he could get his first vaccine shot, which allowed him to travel. He arrived at the University of San Francisco on Nov. 1.

International students are seen as important contributors to U.S. campuses for a variety of reasons.

Colleges say they help provide a

diverse mix of cultures and views on campus. Many end up working in high-demand fields after graduating. And some colleges rely on the financial benefits of international students, who are typically charged higher tuition rates.

Although many colleges avoided a second year of declines, there’s still concern that the upturn may be isolated to certain types of colleges. The survey found that, last year, community colleges suffered much steeper declines than fouryear universities, with a 24% backslide nationwide.

Researchers are still analyzing this year’s data, but some worry community colleges may continue to lag behind.

There are also questions about whether the rebound will continue.

New vaccine requirements for foreign travelers could make it harder for some students to get here, and colleges are expecting continued competition from colleges in Australia, Canada and other nations looking to boost international populations.

Still, officials at many colleges are optimistic. More vaccines are being sent overseas, and newly lifted travel bans promise to reduce barriers to travel.

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With the Founders Library in the background, a young man reads on Howard University campus July 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

US urged to help more people escape Taliban-led Afghanistan

By Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of organizations working to evacuate people who could be targeted by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan appealed Monday for more assistance from the U.S. government as conditions deteriorate in the country.

Members of the AfghanEvac Coalition met in a video call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to press the case for additional resources to help tens of thousands of people get out of Afghanistan, now faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis in addition to a precarious security situation following the chaotic U.S. withdrawal.

“The State Department doing enough isn’t enough; we need whole of government solutions; we need the international community to step up and we need it quickly,” said Peter Lucier, a former Marine who served in Afghanistan who works with coalition-member Team America. “Winter is coming.

There is a famine already. “ Private groups, particularly with ties to the veteran community, have played an important role in the evacuation and resettlement of tens of thousands of Afghans since the U.S. ended its longest war and the government fell to the Taliban. Members of the coalition, which includes about 100 organizations, have been working to help

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room at the State Department, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C. people get on the scarce flights out of the country and helping them get settled in communities once they reach the United States.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the call included discussion of what he called “our collective efforts” to aid visa holders and applicants and to “facilitate the departure of these individuals who are at a stage where it is appropriate to do so.”

About 82,000 people have come to the U.S. so far under what the Biden administration calls Operation Allies Welcome. The Department of Homeland Security said 10% were American citizens or permanent residents.

The rest were a combination of people who had obtained special immigrant visas, for those who had worked for the U.S. government as interpreters or in some

other capacity; people applying for one of the visas but who hadn’t yet received it; or other Afghans who might be vulnerable under the Taliban, such as journalists or government officials, and qualified to come as refugees. Nearly half were children.

As of Monday, DHS said about 46,000 are still being housed at domestic U.S. military bases until they can be resettled around the country. Another 2,600 remain at overseas transit points, dubbed “lily pads,” as they undergo security vetting and health screening before coming to the U.S. The State Department said separately Monday that some people coming to the U.S. from countries other than Afghanistan under the broader refugee program would be temporarily delayed so refugee agencies can focus on resettling Afghans. The pause would run through Jan. 11 and won’t apply to certain categories, including urgent cases, family reunifications and those who have already made travel arrangements.

The AfghanEvac Coalition has urged the U.S. government to establish more of the “lilly pads,” and work with other nations to create more pathways for people to reach safety. It’s unclear how many people need to be evacuated but organizations have estimated the number conservatively in the tens of thousands. Aid agencies said about 300,000 have fled Afghanistan into Iran, including many mem-

bers of Shiite communities seeking refuge from both the Taliban and attacks by the Islamic State affiliate in the country.

The meeting takes place against a backdrop of intense criticism by some Republicans in Congress, attacking a frantic evacuation, for what they have alleged is insufficient vetting of refugees. They have also accused the administration of understating the number of American citizens left behind.

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote Blinken on Monday seeking interviews with more than 30 State Department officials to address what they called the “many unanswered questions about the planning – or lack thereof – that preceded the drawdown and evacuation.” Those include the number of American citizens and residents still in Afghanistan and mechanisms for continued evacuations.

Several hundred Americans are reported to still be in Afghanistan, though not all have indicated they want to leave, Biden administration officials have said.

The Gulf nation of Qatar has agreed to represent the United States in Taliban-run Afghanistan following the closure of the American Embassy in Kabul and will handle consular services for American citizens in Afghanistan and will deal with routine official communications between Washington and the Taliban government.

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215 acres adjacent to Morrow Mountain set aside in trust On Nov. 12, Three Rivers Land Trust announced that they had secured 215 acres near Badin to be set aside in trust.

They said in their release that the area had significance for Native American archaeology and as a forest buffer to protect water quality.

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Stanly’s member in US Congress to change under new map

Police add new K-9 Stanly County The Norwood Police Department added a new K9 officer. Rocco has joined the staff and will work with handler officer Martin Long. Rocco turns one year old on Dec. 15 and was purchased with proceeds from a fundraising dinner by Norwood residents. The event raised $20,000 to pay for the purchase of the dog, handler training and equipment. Rocco will spend six to eight weeks training for narcotics detection.

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Stanly Health Dept holds vaccination event for students Stanly County The Stanly County Health Department Still held a special vaccination event on the evening of Nov. 16. The event was for school-aged children who needed their required school immunizations. The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was also available for children 5 and up.

They asked that anyone under 18 be accompanied by a parent or have written permission to take the inoculations. The event was from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and required calling ahead for an appointment.

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Mecklenburg County A man shot to death managed to drive to a nearby gas station for help before he died. CharlotteMecklenburg police investigators said the shooting occurred on Monday evening on a street on the northern border of the Sugar Creek Community Park on the city’s northeast side. The victim, identified as Lester C. Acevedo, 42, was found Monday in the parking lot of a gas station on Sugar Creek Road, according to police. A person who saw the man called 911. The man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — On Nov. 4, the North Carolina General Assembly passed new congressional maps that are guaranteed to result in new representation for Stanly County in the U.S. Congress. The maps contain a 14th U.S. House seat in addition to 13 revised districts. The seat was added after the 2020 U.S. census data confirmed a statewide gain of over one million residents over the past decade.

The districts will shake up the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives midterm election cycle in North Carolina and here in Stanly County. Located entirely in the 8th Congressional District, Stanly was represented by Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson. But Hudson announced he will instead be

campaigning for the new 10th District, while U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, a Republican currently representing the state’s 9th Congressional District, will run for the new 8th District, which still includes Stanly.

Since 2013, Hudson has represented the 8th District, which extended from Concord to Spring Lake and included Stanly, Cabarrus, Montgomery, Moore and Hoke counties as well portions of Rowan and Cumberland counties.

The redrawn district is now made up of Stanly, Union, Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Moore, Hoke and Scotland counties, with a portion of Mecklenburg County.

With his Concord residence now included in the 10th District, Hudson has announced his plans to pursue that district instead.

“Today I announce my intention to run for re-election in the new 10th District,” Hudson said in a Nov. 8 press release. “I have a proven track record as a conservative who knows how to get things

done. Working together, we can stand up to the radical, big government policies coming out of Washington, DC, and work on solutions to grow our economy, defend our rights, and get our country back on the right track.”

Now, with Hudson leaving an open spot in the 8th District, Bishop — the current 9th District representative — will move so he can be better positioned to run in the 8th. While you legally do not have to live in the district you run in, opponents often make a campaign issue of candidates who do not.

Bishop released a statement on Nov. 10 confirming his next course of action: “It’s official, I’m running for re-election in NC-8 in 2022. North Carolinians have seen enough with Democrats in charge.

Together, we can win back the House and send a message to Joe Biden and the radical Left.”

Bishop is currently considered the frontrunner to become the next representative for the seat, consid-

Sasser reacts to new NC House district Stanly all in same district again

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Injured man dies after driving to gas station

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Hudson will run in NC10, Bishop in new NC8

ALBEMARLE — Now that new districts have been approved by the North Carolina General Assembly, Stanly County will once again be all in one N.C. House district rather than split into two as it was in the previous maps. Rep. Wayne Sasser, a Republican who represents the district in Raleigh, spoke with SCJ on his reaction to the new lines.

“I’m really happy to have all of Stanly back together,” Sasser said in a Nov. 12 interview with SCJ. “Just tickled to death to have all of Stanly back. It’s really difficult to take care of three counties.”

Districts further east and west in the state often have included several counties to create a large enough population to necessitate a district. But this can be more difficult for legislators, who then need to travel longer distances and work with multiple town councils and county commissions.

“It’ll be a lot easier to just have two full counties to take care of, and I just look forward to the opportunity,” Sasser said.

Sasser’s current district, NC House District 67, includes most of

Stanly County, but parts of northeastern Stanly and Albemarle are in District 66, represented by Rep. Ben Moss. In addition, Sasser’s current district includes much of eastern Cabarrus County and southern Rowan County.

The new District 67 will now represent all of Stanly and Montgomery counties and nothing else.

While Sasser, if reelected, will no longer represent Cabarrus and Rowan in the new district, he will have to quickly solidify relationships in Montgomery County. He says he’s already laid a lot of the groundwork for this.

“Yeah, I know those people well,” Sasser said on local leaders in Montgomery. “The judge district happens to be the same as Stanly’s, so I know all the judges over there. Back when I first started running in the first primary against Justin [Burr, the last H.D. 67 representative], it was part of Montgomery and all of Stanly, so I’ve been there four or five times to meet some of those people and introduce myself before the district got changed and I didn’t have Montgomery anymore. That’s the way I go to Raleigh and back at least twice a week, and I know a lot of those people and just look forward to spending a lot of time over there.”

Sasser also said the district makes more sense because Stanly

has more in common with Montgomery — a rural county that shares the Uwharrie National Forest — than Cabarrus and Rowan, which are more suburban-Charlotte counties.

“If you look at that budget [that the General Assembly is finalizing], I think you’ll see really fast that not only Uwharrie but also Morrow Mountain, that everything park-wise, we just have got a great resource there for people to come, spend their money and go back home,” he said of Stanly and Montgomery’s parks.

For those in the parts of eastern Stanly that Sasser has not represented, he said he’s also been working with them and is ready to represent them.

“It’s kind of been my goal and intention all along to take care of all of Stanly County even though some of it wasn’t in my district, and I think you’ll see that in the budget,” Sasser said.

Sasser added that he thinks the budget should get passed on Thursday and, “Then we’ll see what the governor does.”

Along with the positives of being paired with Montgomery County comes a challenge — the fact there is now a whole new crop of ambitious politically minded people that may decide to run for the seat.

“There are some rumors out there, and I just say to people, ‘It’s a

ering his well-established donor pool and his powerful allies from serving in Washington, including former President Donald Trump.

GOP state Rep. Wayne Sasser, who represents District 67, told SCJ that he is excited for the chance to serve Stanly County alongside Bishop if the opportunity arises.

“I look forward to working with Dan,” Sasser said on Nov. 12. “I knew him a little bit in the House and the Senate. So, I consider him my friend, and he runs hard and he’ll fit right in with Stanly County.”

Sasser reflected on the recent redistricting changes within Districts 8, 9 and 10 and how that will remove Hudson as the area’s representative.

“I hate to lose Hudson, but having relationships with two different representatives is not a bad thing,” he said. “Both of them are great people, and they’re in good districts I think.”

democracy. If you want to run, just sign up, and we’ll just let the voters decide,” Sasser said. “And win, lose or draw, it’s a good thing because we’re in a country where we have the right to vote. It’s not the guy who has the biggest gun or the most ammunition.”

He said the district is not quite as Republican as the last one — which he said was statistically one of the five most Republican N.C. House districts — but it is still conservative enough where the primaries are likely to be the most crucial part of the election.

“It’s not quite that strong this time, but it’s still strong enough. It might not be me, but it’ll be a Republican in that seat,” Sasser said.

“And we’ll see what happens in December whether I get primaried or not, and we’ll go from there.”

In terms of whether the districts will stand or court challenges will force more changes, as they did over the last decade to other maps, Sasser said. “Who can guess what a bunch of judges are going to do?

But, no, I think the districts are solid. You know, everybody had an opportunity to have input.”

He continued, saying, “Had the Democrats been in control, they would have drawn different maps because when you’re the party in the majority, the [N.C.] Constitution says you get to draw the maps.

But you could probably draw them up 100 different ways and nobody would ever be completely satisfied.

I think the maps are fair, and now the people get to vote, and we’ll see what happens.”

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Britney Spears got all to agree she needed to be freed The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — There were no more of the heated arguments or dueling court filings of the past few months, no more tearful testimony or angry accusations.

For one day at least, everyone surrounding Britney Spears agreed. She needed to be freed.

Most important among them was Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny, who at a hearing Friday terminated the conservatorship that controlled the pop singer’s life and money for nearly 14 years.

Spears did not attend the 30-minute hearing that was almost anti-climactic after the courtroom drama of recent proceedings, in which Spears demanded first the ouster of her father from power over her, then the removal of the legal shackles on her life.

It felt almost like a formality.

The celebration that followed was plenty dramatic, though.

“Best day ever … praise the Lord … can I get an Amen???” Spears said on Twitter and Instagram minutes after the ruling.

Jubilation erupted outside the courthouse, with fans cheering and shouting after the decision was announced. The crowd chanted “Britney! Britney! Britney!” and fans sang and danced to Spears’ song “Stronger.”

“Good God I love my fans so much it’s crazy!!!” Spears said in her posts. “I think I’m gonna cry the rest of the day!!!!”

The decision capped a stunning odyssey that saw Spears publicly demand the end of the conservatorship, hire her own attorney, have her father removed from power and finally win the freedom to make her own medical, financial and personal decisions for the first time since 2008.

Those surrounding Spears said she is equipped to make those decisions.

Jodi Montgomery, the court-appointed conservator who oversaw the singer’s life and medical decisions starting in 2019, developed a care plan with her therapists and doctors to guide Spears into the aftermath.

“There is no reason Ms. Spears can’t lead a safe, happy, fulfilling life after this conservatorship,”

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Jamie Spears, father of singer Britney Spears, leaves the Stanley Mosk Courthouse on Oct. 24, 2012, in Los Angeles, left, and Britney Spears arrives at the premiere of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” on July 22, 2019, in Los Angeles.

Montgomery’s attorney, Lauriann Wright, said at the hearing.

As recently as last spring, it appeared that Spears’ conservatorship could continue for years.

Then it unraveled with surprising speed.

Key to the unraveling was a speech Spears made at a hearing in June when she passionately described the restrictions and scrutiny as “abusive” and said “I just want my life back,” a line her lawyer repeated in court Friday.

In court filings last week, Britney Spears’ former business managers, Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group, pushed back against Rosengart’s demands for documents about the firm’s involvement in the conservatorship from 2008 to 2018. The group also denied any role in or knowledge of any surveillance of the superstar.

Britney Spears was a 26-yearold new mother at the height of her career when her father established the conservatorship, at first on a temporary basis, in February 2008 after a series of public mental health struggles.

It ends a few weeks before her 40th birthday, with her sons in their mid-teens and her career on indefinite hold, as she is engaged to be married a second time.

Britney Spears has indicated that she’ll focus on family and her newfound freedom for now. She may or may not resume making music.

“Whether Britney performs again will be up to Britney, at the right time,” Rosengart said.

DEATH NOTICES

♦ Raynell Rowland Cooke, 99, of Albemarle, died November 8.

♦ Donnie Joe Whitley Sr., 86, of Albemarle, died November 10. ♦ Bonnie Lou Utter, 74, of Oakboro, died November 11. ♦ Gwendolyn Ellis Barbee, 87, of Oakboro, died November 12. ♦ Bessie Marie Poplin Burris, 89, of Albemarle, died November 12. ♦ Calvin Burnette Honeycutt, 73, of Richfield, died November 13. ♦ Evelyn Lingerfelt Harris, 85, of Albemarle, died November 13. ♦ Beatrice Huneycutt Mason, 85, of Norwood, died November 14. ♦ Helen Thorpe, of Norwood, died November 14. ♦ Bobby Franklin Clodfelter, 58, of Albemarle, died November 15.

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♦ Johnston, Stephanie Michelle (W F, 49) Arrest on chrg of Misdemeanor Larceny, M(M), at 781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, on 11/08/202

♦ Retha Lewis Burleson, 88, of Albemarle, died November 9.

♦ Pamela Diane Trull Almond, 59, of Albemarle, died November 10.

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♦ James Burris, 87, of Red Cross, died November 9.

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♦ Bobby Leon Norman, 71, Badin, died November 5.

♦ Doris Ann Furr Barbee, 90, of Stanfield, died November 9.

MONDAY

Evelyn Lingerfelt Harris October 26, 1936 – November 13, 2021

Evelyn Lingerfelt Harris, 85, of Albemarle passed away Saturday, November 13, 2021 at Bethany Woods Nursing Center. Her funeral will be 2 PM Wednesday November 17, 2021 in the Stanly Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Flynn Richardson officiating.

Burial will follow in Stanly Gardens of Memory. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1 until 2 PM prior to the service.

Born October 26, 1936 in Stanly County, NC she was the daughter of the late George Lee Lingerfelt and Carrie Rogers Lingerfelt. She was a seamstress and was of the Baptist Faith. She was a Sunday School teacher, and she loved her cats and enjoyed traveling in her younger years.

She was preceded in death by her husband Willy Ray Harris.

Survivors include son Michael Hopkins, 4 sisters Jewel Surratt of Concord, Marie Williams of Albemarle, Elaine Richardson of Greensboro, Kay Carpenter of Mt. Gilead, a brother Wayne Lingerfelt of Stanley, NC, 4 grandchildren Angela Hopkins, Carrie Tucker, Kevin Hathcock and Anthony Hatchcock, and 6 greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter Brenda Renea Hathcock, as well 2 brothers and 3 sisters.

Bobby Franklin Clodfelter October 23, 1963 – November 15, 2021

Bobby Franklin Clodfelter, 58, of Albemarle passed away Monday, November 15, 2021 in Atrium Health Cabarrus. His funeral will be 2 PM Saturday, November 20, 2021 in the Stanly Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Darrell Thompson officiating.

Burial will follow in Stanly Gardens of Memory. The family will receive friends at Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Albemarle from 1 until 2 PM prior to the service.

Born October 23, 1963 in Stanly County, NC, he was the son of the late Woodrow Clodfelter and Barbara Bowers Bryson. He was a truck driver for Mauney Feed Mill for 25 years.

He enjoyed playing guitar.

Mr. Clodfelter is survived by son Travis and wife Britni of Richfield, daughter Jessica Clodfelter of Raleigh, sister Teresa Blackwelder and husband Jim of Harrisburg, and two granddaughters Emma and Mia. A brother Michael Todd Clodfelter preceded him in death.

Bonnie Rae Girolamo July 26, 1946 – November 9, 2021

Bonnie Rae Girolamo, 75, of Albemarle, affectionately known by her husband as Twinkie, passed away Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at her home.

Bonnie was born July 26, 1946 in New York to the late Frank Shultz and the late Inez Maxine Richard. She was also preceded in death by her loving husband, Anthony Girolamo, Jr..

Survivors include daughter, Christine Borga Montez, and Antoinette Girolamo; sons, Joseph Borga, Jimmy Borga and Anthony Girolamo, III; 20 grandchildren; and 5 greatgrandchildren.

Bonnie was a special woman who devoted her time to helping others. She worked as a phlebotomist, a bus driver for New London and a volunteer firefighter for Badin.

♦ Humphreys, James Edwin (W M, 49) Arrest on chrg of Simple Possess Sch Iv Cs (m)(M), at 1600 Canterbury Rd/ross Dr, Albemarle, on 11/08/202 ♦ Almond, Garrett Dean (W M, 33) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 206Eben St, Albemarle, on 11/11/2021 ♦ Snapp, Connie Louise (W F, 28) Arrest on chrg of Assault And Battery (M), at 206Eben St, Albemarle, on 11/11/2021 ♦ Ayala, Francisco Kalif (B M, 37) Arrest on chrg of Second Degree Trespass, M (M), at1439 Amhurst St/s Bell Av, Albemarle, on 11/11/2021. ♦ Masker, Denton Lee (W M, 22) Arrest on chrg of Possess Methamphetamine (F), at1050 Northeast Connector/ridge St, Albemarle, on 11/13/202 ♦ Owens, Charlie Dewayne (W M, 38) Arrest on chrg of Break Or Enter Motor Vehicle,F (F), at 435 Willow St, Albemarle, on 11/09/2021 ♦ Braley, Brandon Carl (W M, 36) Arrest on chrg of Consp Obtain Prop False Pret, F(F), at 435 Willow St, Albemarle, on 11/09/2021 ♦ Wall, Ariel Dashaye (B F, 30) Arrest on chrg of Break Or Enter Motor Vehicle (F), at1467 White Oak Av, Albemarle, on 11/09/2021. ♦ Braley, Brandon Carl (W M, 36) Arrest on chrg of Consp Obtain Prop False Pret (F),at 435 Willow St, Albemarle, on 11/09/2021. ♦ Quarles, Odell (B M, 61) Arrest on chrg of Identity Theft (F), at 403 Wall St/ gibsonSt, Albemarle, on 11/09/2021 ♦ Arias, Alex Virgen (W M, 55) Arrest on chrg of Burning Certain Buildings (F), at 126S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/14/2021 ♦ Arias, Alex Virgen (W M, 55) Arrest on chrg of Burning Certain Buildings, F (F), at126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/14/2021

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COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

They fought for us; let’s fight for them

Veterans Day shouldn’t be just one day a year. Today and every day, join me in thanking veterans for their service and remembering the liberties and freedoms they have defended for all of us.

JUST BEFORE VETERANS DAY in 1983, President Ronald Reagan said, “Veterans know better than anyone else the price of freedom, for they’ve suffered the scars of war. We can offer them no better tribute than to protect what they have won for us.”

On Veterans Day, we honor the best our nation has to offer. We honor those who served to keep America safe in times of peril. And we honor their families who have shared in their sacrifices. Without our nation’s veterans, we would not have the America we enjoy today. I can never thank them enough for their service to our great country.

On Thursday, I joined with veterans from World War II through the War on Terror in Kannapolis. We began the day at veteran-owned Local Patriot Roasting Company, followed by a program at Old Armor Beer Company, which is also veteran-owned. Supporting businesses like these, or hiring a veteran if you’re able, are among some of the best ways to honor our heroes.

While speaking Thursday, I acknowledged this year has not been easy for our veterans. Much of that stems from witnessing the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan that tragically led to the death of 13 servicemembers. Two of them were connected to our state and community — Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole Gee from Sacramento, California, was stationed at Camp Lejeune, and Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss from Pinebluff was stationed at Fort Bragg.

The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has impacted all of us.

Images of the Taliban with American military equipment and the fact that thousands of Americans and our allies have been left behind are infuriating. While the Biden administration must be held accountable for their decisions, let me say directly to veterans who served in Afghanistan — your sacrifice mattered! You did your job, you kept us safe from terrorists for 20 years, and our country is proud of you.

All of us must do all we can to support every man and woman who has worn our nation’s uniform, as well as their families. Throughout my time in Congress, this has been a top priority.

Working with my colleagues, we passed the largest budget in history for the VA. We passed the MISSION Act to improve health care for our veterans, whether they choose the VA or their own doctor. Last Congress, I secured provisions to expand access to VA health benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

To build on this progress, this year I have introduced the Care Veterans Deserve Act to expand veterans’ ability to choose to go to the VA or a private doctor. The Care for the Veteran Caregiver Act increases support for caregivers and streamlines the caregiver process. The VA Electronic Health Record Advisory Committee Act will help implement an electronic record system that is vital. And the Veterans in Parks Act grants free admission to our national parks for veterans and Gold Star families.

Working together with Republicans and Democrats, we have accomplished a lot to support our veterans. Yet there is more to do.

Active-duty suicides are up 46% from last year. Veteran suicides are not far behind. If you or someone you know is a veteran who needs support, call the veterans crisis line: 1-800-273-8255.

No veteran should ever feel alone or unsupported. That’s why in addition to the crisis line, this year I am encouraging another opportunity to reach out to veterans and active-duty troops.

I have cosponsored legislation designating Nov. 21 as National Warrior Call Day — a day to call a veteran you know and tell them how much you value their service. This small gesture may save a life, and it’s the least we can do to say thank you to those who have served.

I will never waiver on my commitment to support our veterans, and as President Reagan said, “protect what they have won for us.”

Veterans Day shouldn’t be just one day a year. Today and every day, join me in thanking veterans for their service and remembering the liberties and freedoms they have defended for all of us.

It’s an honor to be Fort Bragg’s congressman. It’s an honor to be your congressman. And it’s an honor to represent so many of you who have worn our nation’s uniform.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

Democrats have only themselves to blame for the inflation fiasco Biden defenders such as Paul Krugman, who have no compunction blaming Republican governors for seasonal variances in the spread of viruses, contend that Biden has no control over gas prices.

IT’S BEEN QUITE a spectacle watching people who credit Democrats with every job created and every percentage point gained in economic growth suddenly arguing that the White House is completely powerless in the face of our current economic predicament.

Presidents generally get far too much credit and/or blame for our fortunes, but they can certainly exacerbate existing problems. And our political class has certainly aggravated them with unbridled spending and support for policies that disincentivize work and inhibit energy production.

Wholesale prices rose 8.6% from a year ago in October, another record annual gain and the biggest spike in more than a decade. Inflation hit 6.2%, the highest rate of annualized inflation since the 1990s. Whereas once voters were promised “transitory” inflation, today, economists warn that we’ll be in this for a while.

“Reversing this trend is a top priority for me,” President Joe Biden said Nov. 10, after months of his administration’s dismissing inflation as a “high-class” and short-term predicament — there’s “nobody suggesting there’s unchecked inflation on the way — no serious economist,” the president promised a few months ago. Biden’s National Economic Council Deputy Director Brian Deese had argued that inflation was actually a good thing, and the entire administration had pushed the notion that the best prescription to alleviate inflation was more big progressive spending — part of a broader trend of Democrats saying utterly absurd things about the economy.

Democrats have seriously underestimated the frustration that voters, unable to get the things they desire nearly instantaneously, are going to feel, as people such as Jen Psaki crack jokes about supply-chain problems, “the tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed.” What about rising prices?

Last week, liberal punditry spent a day mocking a Texas mother of nine who groused about rising milk prices on CNN. I’m not sure if Krista Stotler had her all stats entirely correct, but I suspect most voters don’t really care to pinpoint price points. Inflation is something they feel.

Perhaps even more than the education issue that helped sink Democrats in Virginia, inflation remains the most consequential issue in politics right now. It’s hard to spin your way out of a wealth-destroying tax. There’s no one to accuse of racism. No Trump to blame. If we account for inflation, real average hourly earnings, for instance, have decreased

over the past year. And all Democrats want to do is spend more money — lots of it.

This week, Democrats, with an assist from some Republicans, approved another $1 trillion-plus infrastructure bill, even as they push through an unprecedented multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill. All this comes after $6 trillion of deficit spending during the pandemic, which many Democrats argued wasn’t even enough.

Meanwhile, a third of recent inflation increases has been propelled by energy prices, which spiked 6.7%. Biden defenders such as Paul Krugman, who have no compunction blaming Republican governors for seasonal variances in the spread of viruses, contend that Biden has no control over gas prices. Well, the first thing Biden did was freeze new oil and gas leases and shut down future pipelines. Biden now begs OPEC to increase production and help lower worldwide gas prices, but his domestic political goals and action run contrary to this position. Virtually every “green” plan in existence will intentionally, through mandates or bans or taxes or contrived “markets,” make fossil fuels more expensive or reduce use.

Expensive gas is their goal. So how can Democrats credibly maintain they have a plan to stop rising prices?

On top of all that, Democrats continue to push for a major expansion in the welfare state during a tight labor market. It is reminiscent of their insistence that unemployment insurance be expanded even after the pandemic had ebbed. Biden’s spending plan includes programs that disincentivize work. Typically, massive “safety net” programs are instituted by Democrats during times of recession, not of growth. There are more jobs than jobseekers in the country.

It’s true that governments caused much of the demand shock we are experiencing, needlessly shutting down entire economies during the pandemic. Yet, Democrats have allowed their strident ideological wing to take over the party, aggravating these underlying trends. Why Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema (or Biden, once considered a moderate himself) would follow progressives off into this quagmire defies logic — not only economic but political logic.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NFL

Washington’s Young suffers seasonending injury Washington, D.C. Chase Young will not play the rest of this season after injuring his right leg and is scheduled to undergo surgery. Washington coach Ron Rivera confirmed the prognosis for the 2020 second overall pick on Monday in the wake of the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year going down during the first half of an upset of defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay. Rivera did not reveal whether Young tore the ACL in his right knee and did not specify what the surgery is for.

NBA

NBA fines Timberwolves $250K for illegal offseason workouts Minneapolis The NBA fined the Minnesota Timberwolves $250,000 on Monday for violating league rules that prohibit teams from arranging or paying for offseason practice or group workout sessions for their players outside their home market. The punishment was connected to team activities that took place in the Miami area in early September, the league announced. Timberwolves coaches, players and staff gathered for on-court work and off-court bonding in south Florida, where new co-owner Alex Rodriguez resides.

MLB

Yankees hire former Mets manager Rojas as 3B coach New York The New York Yankees hired former Mets manager Luis Rojas as their third base coach on Monday, a month after he lost his job with the crosstown rivals.

Rojas managed the Mets for the past two seasons.

The team declined its 2022 option for him on Oct. 4, a day after finishing third in the NL East at 77-85.

Rojas will take the spot of Phil Nevin, who had been the Yankees’ third base coach since the 2018 season. Nevin was let go last month.

LM OTERO | AP PHOTO

NCAA President Mark Emmert is overseeing drastic changes in college sports' major governing body.

Emmert says NCAA efforts to reform not motivated by fear The governing body is proposing a scaled-down constitution that would separate powers among its three divisions

By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press THE NCAA’S MOVE to restructure college sports is not being driven by fear but rather a desire to seize an opportunity to tackle issues that have been building for decades, NCAA president Mark Emmert said Monday, “There’s few things that are being discussed right now that have been discussed off and on at least for the 10 years that I’ve been involved in the NCAA,” Emmert said during a brief news conference. “But yet at the same time, we’ve never had a moment where we had state legislators, congressional actors, the courts, the economic dynamics, and even the pandemic, all providing a very important catalyst for change.”

Emmert’s words came after the NCAA’s online constitutional convention, during which the entire membership of more than 1,100 schools in its three divisions weighed in on the proposed,

scaled-down version of the association’s foundational document.

Emmert called for the constitutional convention over the summer, not long after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt the NCAA a potentially crippling blow. In upholding a lower court’s ruling in an antitrust case, the high court left the association vulnerable to lawsuits any time it makes a new rule the impacts athletes.

Rewriting the constitution is the first step toward decentralizing college sports’ governance and deemphasizing the role of the NCAA. “It has been a long time, 50 years, a half a century, since there was this thorough a look at what college sports is and how it should function,” Emmert said. “The inaction of the association at this particular moment would be very, very poorly received and it should be, frankly. If you have that much change going on, you darn well be better be ready and willing and able to change.”

The college sports administrators who make up the constitution committee, including Georgetown President Jack DeGioia, who is the chairman of the NCAA’s Board of Governors,

“If you have that much change going on, you darn well be better be ready and willing and able to change.”

Mark Emmert, NCAA president spent about four hours presenting the proposal to members and taking questions.

“I ... thought it was a very successful first take, especially having never done anything quite like this in the history of the association,” Emmert said.

Last week, the NCAA unveiled a proposed 18-page constitution that more narrowly focuses the mission of the largest college sports organization in the United States while also providing a path for each of its three divisions to govern themselves more.

After two feedback periods, the proposed constitution could be amended. The plan is for the full membership to vote on it at the January NCAA convention in Indianapolis.

Then comes the hard part.

Leaders in each of the NCAA’s

Rays’ Arozarena, Reds’ India earn Rookie of Year honors Fellow Tampa Bay rookie Wander Franco, who started the season in Durham, was third in AL voting

“My mind and my goal was to have another good season and continue what I had done the year before.”

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NHL

Capitals extend Dowd for $3.9M over 3 years Washington. D.C. Nic Dowd signed a $3.9 million, threeyear extension with the Washington Capitals on Sunday, giving the reliable center some long-term security and a significant raise. Dowd, 31, will count $1.3 million against the salary cap each of the next three seasons, almost double his current $750,000 value. He’s coming off a shortened 2021 season in which he scored a career-high 11 goals, and said he wanted to maintain the roots he has grown in the D.C. area. He has 79 points in 316 regular-season NHL games with the Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and Capitals.

three divisions will dig into the task of restructuring and reimaging how college sports should be run.

At the Division I level, where college sports has also become a multimillion-dollar business for some schools, dramatic changes could happen. Everything from how revenue is shared, how schools and sports align, access to championship events and what is required to be a Division I member will be on the table.

That includes what to do with major college football, which largely operates independent of the NCAA and rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars that’s shared by 130 Bowl Subdivision schools.

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a group of former and current college sports administrators, has recommended FBS be separated from the NCAA altogether.

The new constitution continues to refer to college athletes as student-athletes, a term created decades ago as the NCAA tried to make a clear distinction between its amateurs and paid professionals.

Emmert said there was significant discussion about dropping the term from official NCAA usage, but the athletes themselves pushed to keep it.

“We were really, really passionate about that title,” former California University of Pennsylvania volleyball player Madeleine McKenna said during the convention Q&A session with membership.

IT DIDN’T FEEL like Randy Arozarena was a rookie this season.

Tampa Bay’s speedy and powerful outfielder certainly didn’t play like one either.

Arozarena won AL Rookie of the Year honors with a superb follow-up to his 2020 postseason heroics, while Cincinnati Reds second baseman Jonathan India earned NL Rookie of the Year on Monday night.

The standout years for Arozarena and India highlight the changing profile of a good MLB leadoff hitter. Both players have speed and a good eye but also considerable power. It’s the first time since 1953 that the rookie of the year winners were both primarily leadoff hitters. That season, Detroit’s Harvey Kuenn and Brooklyn’s Jim Gilliam won.

If it didn’t seem like this wasn’t Arozarena’s first year, there’s a reason. The 26-year-old Cuban provided a stunning lift for the Rays during the 2020 postseason with 10 homers in 18 games during their run to the World Series.

But Arozarena didn’t play enough during the 2020 regular season to lose his rookie status and was eligible for the award this year. He followed up his post-

Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay Rays outfielder

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Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena was named AL Rookie of the Year on Monday night. season breakout with an excellent season in 2021, finishing with a .274 average, 32 doubles, 20 homers, 20 stolen bases and 69 RBIs while adding excellent defense, helping the Rays return to the postseason.

“I know I was favored to be the rookie of the year,” Arozarena said through a translator. “But for me, my mind wasn’t set on the award or winning the award. My mind and my goal was to have another good season and continue what I had done the year before.”

Arozarena earned 22 of 30 first-place votes in balloting by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, beating out Houston right-hander Luis

Garcia and Tampa Bay infielder Wander Franco.

Arozarena is Tampa Bay’s first rookie of the year since outfielder Wil Myers in 2013.

Five AL players received at least one first-place vote in this year’s tally, including Garcia, Franco, Texas outfielder Adolis García and Cleveland pitcher Emmanuel Clase. Garcia hit 31 homers this season while Clase had a 1.29 ERA in Cleveland’s bullpen.

The 20-year-old Franco, who started the season with the Durham Bulls, has the label as one of MLB’s future stars and his performance in 2021 did nothing to discourage that billing. The in-

fielder hit .288 with seven homers and 39 homers while playing less than half the season.

India won the NL award eight months after earning the team’s second base job during spring training and never letting it go during a stellar first season.

The 24-year-old India received 29 of 30 first-place votes, beating out Miami left-handed pitcher Trevor Rogers and St. Louis outfielder Dylan Carlson. Rogers got one first-place vote. India said it’s been an amazing journey from spring training, where he was a longshot to even make the regular-season roster.

India was the Reds’ first rookie of the year winner since pitcher Scott Williamson in 1999.

The 6-foot, 200-pound India was an all-around threat — particularly during the second half of the season — often batting leadoff and finishing with a .269 average, 34 doubles, 21 homers, 69 RBIs and 12 stolen bases. He also showed good discipline in the batter’s box, coaxing 71 walks to finish with a .376 on-base percentage, and scored 98 runs.

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Tipoff: A look at Stanly County’s 5 high school basketball teams The boys’ and girls’ seasons begin next week

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal WHILE LAST season’s high school basketball action was limited to a shortened schedule that ran from January to February, the upcoming season is just around the corner with a full slate of games for Stanly County’s five schools. Here is a look at how the local varsity teams are shaping up ahead of their season openers.

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Senators forward Drake Batherson is one of 10 Ottawa players in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. The league postponed three of the Senators’ games this week because of the outbreak.

NHL postpones 3 games amid Senators virus outbreak Ottawa had 10 players in the league’s COVID-19 protocol and missed its first game Tuesday

By Stephen Whyno The Associated Press THE NHL postponed three Ottawa Senators games on Monday amid a COVID-19 outbreak on the team, the first time any North American major professional sports league has been hit by rescheduling this fall because of the coronavirus.

Games scheduled for Tuesday at New Jersey, at home Thursday against Nashville and at home Saturday against the New York Rangers were postponed. Ten Senators players are currently in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol.

While Ottawa played shorthanded Sunday in a 4-0 loss to Calgary, the depth of the outbreak led to the decision to postpone games, which the league said was made in light of evidence of con-

tinued spread in recent days. The Senators are shut down through at least Saturday, with their training facilities closed to players until then as a precaution.

“The Senators organization has, and will continue to follow, all recommended guidelines aimed at protecting the health and safety of its players, staff and community at large as set by the NHL, local, provincial and national agencies,” the league said in a statement.

Neither the NFL nor the NBA has had to postpone a game so far this fall. Major League Baseball had nine virus-related postponements among 2,430 scheduled games, down from 45 in last year’s shortened 900-game schedule.

The NHL postponed 51 games for virus reasons during its last regular season. All but one player, the Detroit Red Wings’ Tyler Bertuzzi, has been full vaccinated.

The league and Players’ Association have until Jan. 10 to withdraw from the 2022 Winter Olympics if pandemic circumstances force the cancellation of so many

games that a nearly three-week break in February is not feasible. The NHL was still looking at when to reschedule the Senators’ games against the Devils, Predators and Rangers.

Ottawa canceled practice Monday to try and contain the outbreak after forward Drake Batherson became the most recent Senators player to go into protocol. Besides the 10 players, associate coach Jack Capuano also is in protocol.

“The health and safety of the local community, the venue’s patrons and the organization’s staff and players is Senators Sports & Entertainment’s highest priority,” the team said.

A handful of other NHL teams have been hit by COVID-19 this season, including Pittsburgh and San Jose. Penguins star Sidney Crosby returned Sunday after an absence of more than 10 days because of the virus. Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon also missed time last month after testing positive, though he was asymptomatic.

West Stanly Colts (Rocky River Conference 2A/3A) 2020-21 Records: 11-2, 8-1 (boys) — 9-3, 8-2 (girls) Now in his 12th coaching year with the Colts boys, John Thompson returns with a much different team than the one that defeated Forest Hills to win the RRC tournament in February. Austin Medlin and Trevor Kelly were among the six players who played the majority of the Colts’ minutes but have since graduated, leaving behind a unit of seniors that include Jacob Lisk and Charlie Carpenter.

The team will begin its season on Nov. 22 North with a home game against Albemarle before facStanly boys’ ing South Stanly the following night in a second nonconference matchup. basketball’s On the West Stanly girls’ side of the court, record in fourth-year coach Chad Horn is hoping to build on the team’s success from last season. The Colts conference were unable to overtake Forest Hills for first play last place in the conference but still reeled off five consecutive wins to end the season with a secseason ond-place finish.

The girls will open their nonconference schedule with home games versus Albemarle on Nov. 22 and Charlotte Latin on Nov. 30 as seniors Lilly Hall and Maryn Mauldin hope to lead their team to its third-straight winning season.

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North Stanly Comets (Yadkin Valley Conference 1A/2A) 2020-21 Records: 11-3, 8-0 (boys) — 7-4, 6-2 (girls) In his first campaign as the coach of the Comets boys last year, George Walker led North Stanly to an undefeated conference record and first place in the YVC before losing to Pine Lake Prep in the first round of the state playoffs.

The junior season of YVC Player of the Year Dyson Bell — also an SCJ 2020-21 Student-Athlete of the Year winner — showed that the 6-foot-6 forward can lead his group to victory during his upcoming year. The Comets’ schedule begins with home matchups against Carolina International on Nov. 22 and Uwharrie Charter on Nov. 23.

Replacing Greg Speight, first-year coach Regan Allen will lead a Comets girls’ squad that climbed to third place in the YVC standings despite not having any seniors on the roster. North Stanly eventually reached the first round of state playoffs but was knocked out by Hiwassee Dam in a 64-35 road game.

Now with five seniors on the team, the Comets will look to uproot North Rowan at the top of the conference. The season will kick off on Nov. 23 with Uwharrie Charter at home before West Stanly comes to town on Dec. 1.

South Stanly Rebel Bulls (Yadkin Valley Conference 1A/2A) 2020-21 Records: 4-9, 3-5 (boys) — 4-6, 3-5 (girls)

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UNC quarterback Sam Howell is questionable for the Tar Heels’ final home game of the season on Saturday against Wofford.

UNC quarterback Howell’s status in question against Wofford The junior could miss what will likely be his final home game with the Tar Heels

By Aaron Beard The Associated Press NORTH CAROLINA quarterback Sam Howell is dealing with an upper-body injury that could sideline him for what coach Mack Brown said will be his final home game Saturday against Wofford.

Team spokesman Jeremy Sharpe said Monday that Howell is considered day-to-day with an injury to his non-throwing side after last week’s overtime loss at Pittsburgh and would be a game-time decision. Brown later said Howell would spend the week working with team doctors and it was unclear how much he might practice,

though the junior is expected to be ready for the regular-season finale at 25th-ranked rival NC State on Nov. 26.

“He wants to play Saturday,” Brown said. “If he can, he will.”

Brown had said in preseason that the team was treating this year as though it would be the last for Howell, who has started every game for the Tar Heels dating to his time as a true freshman during Brown’s second tenure in Chapel Hill. Howell has gone on to set the program’s career records for passing yardage, passing touchdowns, touchdown responsibility and total offense while making himself a high NFL draft prospect.

“I haven’t thought Sam was coming back since last year,” Brown said. “I have never had one thought about him coming back, and he’s going to be a first-round draft choice. So I think he should leave.”

Howell has never missed a college game and has thrown at least one touchdown pass in every one.

He currently is seventh in the Bowl Subdivision ranks in total offense (343 yards per game) thanks to an expanded running game that has seen him have six games with at least 98 yards rushing.

But he’s taken a beating this year behind a veteran offensive line that has struggled with injuries at center and inconsistency. UNC has surrendered 39 sacks, tied with Tennessee for the most allowed by any power-conference team.

If Howell can’t play, sophomore Jacolby Criswell or freshman Drake Maye would start for the Tar Heels (5-5) against the Terriers (19) of the Championship Subdivision’s Southern Conference.

If the Tar Heels can become bowl eligible with a win in at least one of their final two games.

Both the South Stanly boys’ and girls’ teams are hunting for winning records after each won only four games last season. Bulls athletic director Sean Whitley — a fifthyear boys’ coach and third-year girls’ coach — will once again lead the two groups.

Sophomore Drew Gaddy, junior Omaurion Eldridge and senior Carson Lowder will likely all see an increased role for the Bulls boys, whose season begins on Nov. 23 with a road matchup at West Stanly. That game is followed up by home games versus North Moore on Nov. 30 and Anson on Dec. 2.

The South Stanly girls’ schedule will kick off with a pair of home contests: Anson (Dec. 2) and Southwestern Randolph (Dec. 3). Last season, the Bulls lost four of their first six games but were able to finish the season by winning two of their final four games. Juniors Jacy Noble and Keeli Crisco both return for their senior campaign.

Albemarle Bulldogs (Yadkin Valley Conference 1A/2A) 2020-21 Records: 6-6, 3-5 (boys) — 0-7, 0-6 (girls) Albemarle coach Marc Raye is set to begin his seventh season with the Bulldogs boys as they hope to rise from the middle of the pack in their conference. During the 2020-21 season, the Bulldogs found their groove midway through their schedule but fell short in three of their last four games. The slate ended on a positive note, however, with a nonconference victory over Cabarrus Charter.

The team will start the season with matchups against West Stanly on Nov. 22 and Dec. 3.

Ninth-year coach Eric Davis and the Bulldogs girls failed to win a game last season and were outscored by a combined 401-205 in their seven matchups. This year’s lineup will again be on the young side with three sophomores and six freshmen.

Albemarle will face West Stanly on Nov. 22 before challenging Forest Hills in a home game the following night.

Gray Stone Day Knights (Yadkin Valley Conference 1A/2A) 2020-21 Records: 0-10, 0-8 (boys) — 4-4, 4-4 (girls) With two new coaches in the mix, this upcoming season will be a rebirth for a Gray Stone basketball program that has been stuck in a period of instability. Jaquan Goldston is taking up coaching duties for the Knights boys as Brittany Teller does the same for the Knights girls.

Coming off a winless season, the boys will jump immediately into conference play with an absence of nonconference opponents on this year’s schedule. The Knights are scheduled to play Mount Pleasant in a road game on Dec. 10.

The Gray Stone girls’ season is set to begin on Dec. 3 as North Moore comes to town before the Knights will travel to South Davidson five days later.

ment. area.”

EMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced For Nutbush resident He also cited a widespread fear the threat of overburdened of being unnecessarily exposed to fear of contracting the itals, states across the country matched with the worry th the 17, virus. onverting convention centers, Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 2021 “All around, people are scared,” could lose stores that are ts facilities and performance the neighborhood. Offici he said. es into backup treatment sites Their fears are not unfounded. ven’t said if stores would oronavirus patients.

In this majority-black city along the Gateway facility was What some Memphis, Tenthe Mississippi River, lawmakers If they did, shopping wo e, residents don’t get is why in and community leaders have been come more difficult for re r city, a shopping center in the sounding the alarm over what they especially for those who ar dle of a predominantly black, tackle big bury College, a likely choice By Lisa Rathke have and no means of transpo see as asaid disturbing trend ofger thethan vi- before income residential neighborto succeed Leahy would be Dem- challenges from broadband and The Associated Press to stores located farther aw rus killing African Americans at a d has been chosen. ocratic Rep. Peter Welch, the infrastructure to the opioid cri“For people who don’t higher rate. ty and state officials are constate’s lone member of the U.S. sis,” Scott said.

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Demodo Senate they do?” ask resident Patricia Leahy Har- is car, ed that cratic an influx of patients chairwhat of the House ofNutbush Representatives.

Sen. Patrick Leahy of VerAppropriations Committee Dickinson said that Welch’s mont,as thewell longest-serving ris, who spoke and to The Ass ris wondered aloud if city officials m Memphis, as nearby current member of both a bott fundraising is going well and not- the senior-most of theand Senate, said Monwhile lugging were “trying to contaminate” the Press sissippi, member Arkansas rural Judiciary aand Agri- of bott ed that the 74-year-old Welch has the Senate tergent, day he will not seek reelection package neighborhood.

Tennessee, will strain hospienjoyed consistently high approv- culture committees. Earlier this next year to the seat he has held andhis other Activist Earle Fisher, an AfriTheir fears are terms. echoed across year, Leahy, ter during thirditems stint from t al ratings. for eight ADRIAN SAINZ | AP PHOTO A Lot to her car.

She note can American Memphis pastor, country: Leahy, Governors, mayors “I think he would be the logical as president pro tempore of the 81, said he and his wife, grocery store recently clos understands the anxiety.

“This health Marcelle, experts have in numerous This candidate, and that would set up Senate, presided over the second concluded that “it Friday, April 3, 2020 photo, shows Gateway Shopping Center impeachment trial of then-Presithe musical chairs about who reis time to pass the torch to the her house and she already is an honest and reasonable cones are also researching and in Memphis, Tenn. dentsaid.

Donaldtravel Trump.

As president placescern him and in Congress,” DickinVermonter who will carry on farther to get to Gat skepticism,” Fisher tructingnext makeshift medical pro tempore, he is third in line to son said. this work for our great state. It’s “When we do things “I think it’s par for the course for ities. time to come home.”

It’s uncertain which Republi- the presidency after the vice presgot to consider the people black people to be righteously a Chinese restaurant and other Lee has disclosed a few: the Mun New York City, they’re turncan Party candidates might seek ident and House speaker.

The announcement marks the neighborhood,” she said. “W of governmental intersic City Center in Nashville, the businesses. o the Javits Center convention In September, Iowa Sen. Chuck their skeptical party’s nomination to run end of a political era. First elected Grassley, longest-serving in thevention November to make Rethe neighb to the Senate in 1974, Leahy isChattanooga the thatelection. did notPhil consult with theneed Locating a treatment center for Convention Center, in Chicago, the McCormick MARY SCHWALM Scott,people the state’s last of the so-called Watergate ba- Knoxville Expo Center — all coronavirus patients there posworsesaid thanheit would already is.” on Republican the groundgovfirst.”publican senator, e Convention Center; and in the seek an eighth U.S. term in 2022, giv- Cohen, ernor who frequently criticized were elected after PresiSen. from Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., hugs hiseswife Marcelle Pomerleau at Rep. Steve Doug McGowen, the city’s chief two problems, residents say: sites away residential neighdy, Utah,bies thewho Mountain Amerformer President Donald Trump ing the party more confidence in dent Richard Nixon’s resignation. the conclusion of a news conference at the Vermont State House said the d operating Gate-thatphis It could potentially borhoods.

Expo Center. seat Democrat, as it fights to and has called for officer, civility insaid poli-theholding During his nearly half-century in to announce he will not seek re-election, Monday, Nov. 15,expose 2021, them doesn’t make sense. way site was being considered beto the virus amid concerns that The Gateway Shopping Cenhe U.S. the Army Corps of Engitics, reiterated Monday that he is overtake the Democrats’ one-vote Senate, Vermont shifted from in Montpelier, V.T. “I’mtosure cause itincould potentially advantage accom- thanks ter in the Nutbush neighborhood blacks are contracting COVID-19 s has been locations Vicethere Presi-are othe not interested running. one scouting of the most solidly Republident Kamala Harris’ role as tie-and they “Governor Scott has been clear can states in the country to one of Tennessee, and officials here of Memphis is different. The cen- at higher rates; and it could force modate hundreds of beds. He said that would work, breaker. that he is not running for the U.S. Dead concerts, including viewing champion of the environment, its most progressive. compiled a list of 35 possi- ter features a Save A Lot grocery some of the stores they rely on to if it were converted to a treatment have used those rather t Leahy said he was proud of his neighbo Senate nextit year.

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Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy won’t seek reelection

next year’s midterm elections.

With the chamber evenly divided, the party can’t afford to lose any of its current seats.

Leahy will leave the Senate with a record of promoting human rights, working to ban landmines and protecting individual privacy rights. He has been a

New York.

He also is known for a quirky side, defined by his love for Batman and the Grateful Dead. He has appeared in five Batman movies, telling the Joker in “The Dark Knight” in 2008 that “We’re not intimidated by thugs.” He’s also attended at least a half-dozen

By retiring and creating the first vacancy in Vermont’s congressional delegation since 2006, Leahy sets up a scramble to succeed him among a number of the state’s up-and-coming politicians.

Matthew Dickinson, a political science professor at Middle-

Scott praised Leahy in a statement after the senator’s announcement, calling him an “incredible champion for Vermonters.”

“It is thanks to him, and the funding he’s secured for our state, that Vermont is in a position to come out of this pandemic stron-

of Vermont.

“I know I have been there for my state when I was needed most. I know I have taken our best ideas and helped them grow.

I brought Vermont’s voice to the United States Senate and Vermont values across the world,” he said.

PEC, oil nations agree o nearly 10M barrel cut NC man wrongfully imprisoned 24 years pardoned

bin Salman, a son of King Salman, assented to the deal.

“I go with the consent, so I UBAI, United Arab EmirBy Bryan Anderson agree,” the prince said, chuckling, — OPEC, Russia and The Associated Pressother roducing nations on Sunday drawing a round of applause from RALEIGH — North those on the video call. ized an unprecedented pro- Carolina Roy Cooper on Friday parBut it had not been smiles and ion cut Gov. of nearly 10 million a man who spent 24 laughs years for weeks after the soels, or a doned 10th of global supply, behind bars for a murder he has called OPEC+ group of OPEC opes of boosting crashing priclong said he did not commit. members and other nations failed mid the coronavirus pandemic Cooper’s pardon of innocence in for March to reach an agreement a price war, officials allows Dontae said.

Sharpe to apply compensation up to $750,000 production cuts, sending pricThis could be the largest re- onfor his wrongfulfrom conviction. ion in production OPEC es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply “Mr. Sharpe and others whocriticized have Russia days earlier over perhaps a decade, maybe lonbeen wrongly convicted deserve to what it described as comments said U.S. Secretary haveEnergy that injustice fully and pubcritical of the kingdom, which Brouillette, who credited licly acknowledged,” the governor ident Donald per- finds said in a Trump’s statement announcing he itself trying to appease had pardoned the man after aTrump, carea longtime OPEC critic. l involvement in getting duelfulthe review of the case.

Even U.S. senators had warned parties to table and helpIn 1995, Sharpe was given a life to end asentence price war between Saudi Arabia to find a way to at age 19 for the first-deboost prices as American shale di Arabiagree andmurder Russia. of 33-year-old George firms il prices Radcliffe, have collapsed the whom heas was accused of face far-higher production yearCOVID-19 earlier during acosts. drug American troops had been navirus killing and athe SAUDI ENERGY deal.have Sharpe had maintained his to the kingdom for the ss it causes largely halt- deployed innocence throughout and said in 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 a 2019 interview that his faith and over concerns of Irani- Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit of the Group of 20 energy minister r energy-chugging sectors knowledge he was innocent attacks guidamid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to coordinate a response to plummet as manufacturing.

It hasoffersan ed his refusal to accept of retaliation a stated the industry in sions. prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in global demand due to the pandem lighteroil sentence in exchange for a guilty plea.pumps more “They’ve spent over the last U.S., which now a virtual news conference Frimonth waging war on American e than anyAt other country. day just an hour after Cooper’s anoil producers while we are defend- that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the deal but its president, Andrés praise. ut some nouncement, producers have been Sharpe said he was “The pure size of the cu ing theirs.

This is not how friends the United Arab Emirates would Manuel López Obrador, had said ctant to in ease supply.

The cardisbelief when his lawyer called precedented, but, then ag Friday that he had agreed with cut another 2 million barrels of treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin nd otherhim nations on Sunday with the news. He said he was stillMexico processing it and was a Republican from North oil a day between them atop the Trump that the U.S. will compen- is the impact the corona ed to allow to cut onlyalsoCramer, thinking of thosea who had taken OPEC+ deal. The three countries sate what Mexico cannot add to having on demand,” said M Dakota, before the OPEC+ deal.

000 barrels a month, stickthe streets andinitially held vigils on his med Ghulam, an energy an U.S. producers have already did not immediately acknowledge the proposed cuts. point forto an accord behalf.

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“The big Oil Deal with OPEC been reducing output. The Amer- the cut themselves, though Zanhed Friday“I’m after marathon stilla in a haze kind of,” But Ghulam and others o conference 23 naSharpebetween said. “When you’re ican deal- Petroleum Institute laud- ganeh attended the video confer- Plus is done. This will save hunit may not be enough. dreds of thousands of energy jobs ed go Sunday’s global pact, saying it ence. s. The nations together ing with us humanagreed beings, it can DEBORAH GRIFFIN/THE DAILY REFLECTOR VIA AP, FILE any way, barrels yes and no. didn’t know “This is at least a tempo Officials said other planned cuts in the United States,” Trump said will help get other nations’ stateut 9.7 million a Iday what and to expect. for oil Dontae Sharpe breathes Pittin County Courthouse after a determined he could bethank set free, Thursday, 22, industry lief for theAug. energy injudge a tweet.

“I would like to would the stand the deal, meaning owned production to followthe theair outside ughout May June.I was believing a pardon.”

2019, in Greenville. he group reached the deal just lead of U.S. producers that are try- an 8-million-barrel-per-day cut and congratulate President Pu- the global economy. This i The government’s case against ing to adjust to plunging demand. from July through the end of the tin of Russia and King Salman of is too big to be let to fail and s beforeSharpe Asianrelied markets in part reon testimoliance showed Saudi Arabia.”Spearman, a he planned to and a 6-million-barrel Brouillette saidthat thethe U.S. did theory not year ned Monday and as internacelebrate Fridayresponsibil eveRev. Anthony urged Cooper to issue a pardoncut of for The er testified state’s ny from a 15-year-old girl at the this agreement,” said Per M said President months beginning in 2021. make commitments of not its medicalown 16innocence. al benchmark ning with his family and will conNorthKremlin Carolina NAACP In recent months, ra- longtimeThe of the shooting was time who Brent claimed crude she saw Sharpe tinuecall to press for other the inmates to of ana leaderVladimir who was among cial justice have ly or scientifically A judge kill over Radcliffe later recanted Nysveen, head Putin those heldwho a joint “This willgroups enable thedemandrebalancproduction cuts, but possible. was able to ed at just $31 but a barrel receive participated in a vigil outside theKing ed of thethe governor grant Sharpe the exsubsequently more evi- ing and said she wasn’t present at the the Rystad Energy. “Even tho with Trump and Saudi Sal-justice. oil markets and the show obvious —ordered that plunging American shale producers is still incomplete time of the shooting. She later said dence to be heard. Sharpe was re- clemency needed in order to apply Governor’s Mansion pushing for production cuts are small thefreedom demand because of the pandem- pected rebound of prices by $15 man to express support of“My ggle. her claims were made up, based on leased from prison in August 2019 for compensation for his wrong- a pardon, said, “This should have as long as there’s still people going what theifmarket needed a deal.a It also said sep- wrongfully, in the short slash U.S. oilthe proideo aired by the Saudi-owned to prison there’s still happened long time ago.”Putin spoke ful barrel conviction.

They held term,” vigils insaid after thetoprosecutor said state per what investigators told her. ic is expected postpone the stock arately with Trump the oilin prison a front statement from duction. lite channel Al-Arabiya wrongfully and buildi thanked Cooper about but people of Cooper’s stateNigeria’s residence oil Sharpe Sharpe was unsuccessful in his wouldn’t pursue a retrial. thatproblem, are waitingthe wor out a criminal justice sys- there’s still people in downtown Raleigh for several calledmarket had long pushed efforts a new trial unstraints and other issues.

IranianThe OilNAACP Minister Bijan Zan-for ministry. wed the repeated moment thatforSaudi on pardons,”now he said. tem he considers “corrupt.”

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obituaries obituaries Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Jason Betty Lorene Efird Hinson London

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ASON EUGENE “GENE” September 22,went 1932home – November EFIRD, 94, to be with 5, 2021 his Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at his home in Stanfield.

Betty Hinson London, GeneLorene was born October 9, 1925, in 89, of Albemarle away Cabarrus Countypassed to the late Simeon onJason Friday, November 5,Sarah 2021 Ella at Efird and the late Trinity Burris Place Efird. in In Albemarle. addition to his Betty was born September parents, he was preceded in death by 22, Stanly County the his1932 wife,in Jewell Little Efird; to sisters, late Martin Luther Hinson and Mary Lambert, Fannie Almond, Ola MaeFurr, Talbert Hinson.

Sheand Minnie Wilma Burleson Aileen Huskey; Homer formerly workedand as brothers, an inspector Efird, Getus Efird and Wayne and Efird, with the Wiscassett Hosiery Sr. Spread Mill and with East Bed A private funeral service will Apparel.

After retirement, shebe held onwith Saturday, April 11,County 2020 worked the Stanly at Love’cafeterias. s Grove United Methodist Schools Church Cemetery Stanfieldby Mrs. London is in survived officiated

by Rev. Jim White.

Burial her sons Gary Mitchell London follow at the AL, Love’and s Grove ofwill Birmingham, JeffUnited Methodist Church Cemetery, 4360 London (Anne) of Richfield, NC; Polk Ford Road,Mitchell Stanfield.London grandchildren: Survivors include son(Sarah), Gerald (Allison), Jack London Wayne (Gail) Sarah Efird ofLondon Albemarle; Ivey London, Shaw daughterMadalyn Lisa EfirdLondon (Mark) Hartsell (Justin), Jones of Stanfield; (Matt), Grey granddaughters, London (Taylor); Kelly Efird Barbee andAmelia Lauren great-grandchildren: HartsellShaw, (Justin) Crump; and greatLondon Nora London, Milo grandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and London, Macie Grey London, Elliot Jacob Simmons.

James London, Ellie London. may made She Memorials is preceded in be death bytoa Love’s Grove United Methodist Church, granddaughter Caroline Grace PO Box 276,sisters: Stanfield, NC 28163-0276.

London; Ramelle Hinson Calloway, Marcelle Hinson Page, Clara Mae Hinson Burkes, Ruby Hinson Herring; brothers: Herman Theo Hinson and James Calvin Hinson.

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Pauline Tucker

AULINE ELIZABETH ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed away peacefully at Trinity Place, Albemarle, NC on April 11, 2020.

Pauline was born on March 22, 1922 in Cabarrus County, NC to the late John Richard Almond and Alice Ada Ann Lambert Almond.

She is survived by her three daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), March 15, 1933 – Oak Island, NC; Pamela Rushing November 9, 2021 (Foreman), Oakboro, NC; Kathy Hunt (Marc), NC; Retha LewisAlbemarle, Burleson, 88, ofher son, Chris Tucker (Chris Lear), Albemarle, passed away at home Washington, DC. She will be greatly surrounded by family Tuesday, missed by her five grandchildren, November 9, 2021.

Heather Rushing Chaney (Shannon), Retha was born March 15, 1933 Michael Rushing, Elizabeth Michel in Stanly County to the late Homer Hartzog (Craig), Jack Michel, Jr. Cleveland Burleson and the late Ethel (Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as Efird Burleson.

He was also preceded seven great-grandchildren.

She also inleaves deathbehind by brothers, Hoyle Burleson, cherished nieces and Clegg Burleson, Max Burleson, and nephews.

Hazel Burleson; and sisters, The family expresses its Faye sincere Morton, Eunice Morton, Ramelle gratitude to the staff and caregivers Freeman, Carolyn at Trinityand Place for theSlack. care they A Graveside Service will be held provided Pauline.

Wednesday atgraveside 1:00 pm November A private service will be 17,held 2021 Canton Baptist onatMonday, April 13,Church 2020. A Endy Road, Cemetery, 24615 celebration of Pauline’ s life and legacy Albemarle, NC, officiated will be held this summer.by Pastor EvanIn Pajeker. lieu of flowers, the family Survivors include his lovingtowife requests donations be made the ofBrightFocus 68 years, Lois Johnson Burleson Foundation at www. ofbrightfocus.org.

Albemarle, NC, daughters, Denise (Danny) Luther, and Cheryl (Alan) Beaver; son, Randy (Terri) Burleson; sister, Sue (Harold) Page; 8 grandchildren, many greatgrandchildren and one great-greatgrandson, one on the way, and many nieces and nephews.

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Rockwell, NC, went to be with 1931Christ – his LordNovember and Savior7,Jesus November on Wednesday, April9,8,2021 2020 at his home surrounded by family. A Dorisfamily Ann Furr Barbee, 90,held. of private service will be Stanfield passed away Tuesday, Online condolences can be made at November 9, 2021 in Atrium Health stanlyfuneralhome.com Cabarrus.

Herborn funeral service will Tony was August 11, 1947 be November at 2 inSaturday, Stanly County to the 13, late2021 Pearlie PM at Carolina Presbyterian Church Asbury Smith and Emmer Lee inSmith.

Locust. will follow inofthe HeBurial was the son in law Pat church cemetery.

The family will at and Mick Cagle where he worked receive at the church the fishfriends house for many yearsfrom until 12:30 until 1:30 prior to theSeafood service. he opened Anchor House November 7, his 1931 in Stanly inBorn Rockwell.

He and wife Becky County, NC she was the daughter of owned and operated Anchor House the Roy Lee Furr and Odessa forlate 25 years before retiring in 2009.

Love Furr and a former cafeteria Mr. Smith waswas a charter member and deacon at Open Door Baptist worker at Locust School and also Richfield. loved the aChurch nursinginassistant at He Northeast Lord and his family abundantly. Tony Medical Center. was a wonderful husband, father, Mrs. Barbee was preceded in and grandfather and husband could fix anything death by her first Herman he put his handsand on.her second Jackson Barbee Mr. Smith is survived his wife husband Charlie Williamby Renfro.

Becky Cagle Smith ofDana the home, Survivors include son Bain sons Walter Smith and Robbie Barbee (Debbie) of Oakboro, Smith; daughter daughters WandaKayla Dahl Henderson and Gwen (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, Long (Bobby) both of Stanfield, Dustin,R. and SteeleofSmith, Keaton brother J. Furr Stanfield, 8 and Ella Henderson; grandchildren Alyssa brother Dallas ofDavid Smith; sisters Kriechbaum, Hillsboro, NC, Kay Kimberly Schwartz Karen of Stevenson, Eudy, and (Brian) Clayton, Ruby NC, Andrew Dahl Smith (Nick). ofDorothy Concord, Crystal Viar (Bill) of He is preceded in death by Harrisburg, Stacy Aldridge (Eric) of brothers Joe Smith,Griffin Wayne(Jeremy) Smith, Stanfield, Amanda Claude Smith, Wade Smith, of Locust, Anna Marie QuanRobert Smith,ofand sister Mary Morris.

(Zack) Harrisburg, Shelly Harris Memorial contributions can be (David) of Oakboro, and 16 greatmade to Open Door Baptist Church grandchildren. at 44563 Hwy 52, Richfield, NC 28137 or to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

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HELMS, Marshville, May72, 2, of 1922 – passed away Wednesday, April 8, November 8, 2021 2020 at McWhorter Hospice House in Raynell Monroe. Rowland Cooke, 99, of Lorraine was born April 28, 1947 Albemarle, passed away Monday, in Monroe to the late Homer David November 8, 2021 at Spring Arbor Austin and Jewell Delphia-Jane of Albemarle.

Austin. She was also preceded in Raynell was born May 2, 1922 death by brothers, A.D. and Teddy in Concord, NC to the late Samuel Austin; and sister, Joy Austin.

Cole Rowland and Bertha Jane The family will receive friends Rowland.

She-was from 6:00 pm 8:00also pm, preceded Friday, in death by husband, Harold April 10, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Craig Jr. and daughter, HomeCooke, of Albemarle.

The funeral Jan Cooke. service will be at 11:00 am on Survivors includeHill sons, Kent Saturday at Pleasant Baptist (Cindy) Cooke of Albemarle Church in Marshville, officiated and Alan Cooke ofand Concord;

by Rev. John Miller Rev. Leon granddaughters, Whitley. She will lieMaggie in state for 30 (John) minutesBird, priorLiza to the(Mike) service.Elsner, She will and Stacy (Jack) Lee; grandson, be laid to rest in the church cemetery.

Scott Cooke; nine She(Jessica) is survived by herand beloved great-grandchildren. 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.

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65, of Norwood,1,passed away November 1935 – unexpectedly Thursday, April November 10, 2021 9, 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly in Albemarle.

Donnie Joe Whitley Sr., 86, Mr. Lutherpassed was born March of Albemarle away on 27, 1955 to the late Robert Fulton and Wednesday, November 10, 2021 in Helen Tucker Luther. his home.

Danny was survived by his wife, Born November 1, 1935 in Stanly Denise Burleson Luther of Norwood; County, NC he was the son of the late sons, Jeremy (Karen) Luther and Alfred Whitley and Chloa Morton Jody Luther; step-sons, Bryan Whitley.

He was a retired supervisor Whitley and Gregg (Anita) Whitley; with Union Power Cooperperative Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and with 43 years of service andbrother, a Hunter Zado, as well as his member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Bob Luther Jr (Lorena), uncle Jack Church.

Mr.several Whitley wasloved a veteran of Luther and other nieces, the US Navy, former Stanly County nephews and cousins.

Commissioner for retired two terms, Danny recently fromand drove a truck the Rollingafter Hills Charlotte Pipefor and Foundry Cotton Gin.37 Heyears was and a Deacon, a dedicated workedRA Leader andhis Sunday School teacher there with sons and several otherat Pleasant Grove.

Hemembers. was an avid pilot friends and family andDanny loved loved flyingspending and dragtime car racing. at ishouse survived byhis hisfamily lovingand wife hisHe lake with of 64 years, Mary Loudene Hatley friends as well as vacationing with his Whitley of the and home, son Donnie family. Danny Denise enjoyedJoe Whitley of Albemarle listeningJr. to (Crystal) beach music and loved to and Julie Whitley shagdaughter dance every chance theyGriffith could (John) Albemarle, grandchildren get. Heof was an amazing father, loving that he loved,and adored, was grandfather great and friend to proud Smith-Whitley many. of HeGavin will never be forgotten.

(Ellen), Hunter Griffith (Allison), A celebration of life will be Payton Whitley, Griffith, announced once Brayden the current and Addison Whitley and COVID-19 restrictions are greatlifted. grandson Whitley.

He HartsellNate Funeral Home ofwas preceded bythe 7 sisters and 4 Albemarleinisdeath serving Luther brothers. family.

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this life on April6,3,1934 2020–at 8:05 April pm. He was surrounded his family November 9, by 2021 and holding the hand of the love of his life.

Jerry is preceded in death James “Clayton” Burris, 87, of by three siblings, two brothers, Billy Red Cross passed away on Tuesday, Gilbert Fincher, and Larry Richard November 9, 2021 at his home Fincher, and one sister, Barbra Joyce surrounded by family.

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Mr. Burris was born April 6, 1934 He is survived by his wife, Eleanor in Stanly County to the late James Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, Claud Burris and Mary Faye Smith Cindy Fincher Jacobs of Wingate Burris. Clayton was a member at Big NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy Lick Baptist Church where he was (Tiffany) Fincher of New London veryStep active.

He served as a(Lisa) previous NC., Children, Jimmy choir director, he was a deacon, a Lanier of Locust NC, Wanda (Bob) Sunday School teacher, and was Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric part of the building and grounds (Sharon) Lanier of Charlotte NC., committee.

Mr. Burris wasWhitson a very Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) worker, and he took much joy ofhard Midland, Step-grandchildren, in his(Brittney) work. HeWashington, was willing to help Zach Aaron anybody out no matter what they (Kinsey) Washington, Caleb (Nayeli) needed.

Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, Clayton is survived by his wife Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step of 67 years Irene Morton Burris; great-grandchildren, Britlyn-Eve daughter: Trina Burris Plowman Washington, Robert Setzer, George (Rodney) of Red Cross; (Sara) Setzer, Tracy (Rob)son: Setzer Randall C. Burris Red Cross; Bumgardener, KatieofUnderwood, grandchildren: Crystal Elizabeth Andrew Underwood, Step great McCall of Red Cross, andGeorge Zachary great grandchild, Waylon Dylanand Burris of Red Cross; sister: Setzer brother Donald Lewis Judy Love of Red Cross; Fincher of Albemarle, NC.many nieces and nephews. is be preceded in on Jerry FincherHe will laid to rest death by a brother Craigat Burris Wednesday April 8,2020 11:00and am sister Baptist Sue Burris Poplin. athis Canton Church.

Anyone interested in attending, please RSVP at 704-796-2412. Dr. Phil McCray and Pastor Tommy Fincher will officiate.

Bessie Marie Poplin Burris April 7, 1932 – November 12, 2021

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Bessie Marie Poplin Burris, 89, of Albemarle passed away on Friday, November 12, 202169, of INDA TUCKER HATLEY, at Trinity Placepassed in Albemarle.

Albemarle, away Monday, AApril celebration 13, 2020.of life service will be held atwas 11AM Saturday,18, Linda bornon September November 20, 2021 inlate theJacob Stanly 1950 in Concord to the and Funeral and Cremation Care Claris Tucker.

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by Rev. Tab in deathofficiated by her brother, Terry Lee Whitley.

Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda Mrs. Strickland.

Burris wasWe born April Tucker know Brenda 7,and 1932 in Stanly Countywatching to the Linda are in Heaven late and Vergie overFrank us andPoplin laughing.

Harris Poplin.

She taught Linda was a loving mother, sister, HIRLEY MAE HAIRE, 73, Sunday School over 60giving years, and “Nana.”

Shefor was a very October passed 25, 1932 – on of Albemarle away previous choir director, and was and loving person.

Linda would November 5, 2021 April 11, 2020 at Atrium Health lifetime at Lakeview do member anything she could for Stanly. The family will hold a private aalways Baptist Church. Mrs. BurrisShe others, especially her family.

Clyde Everett of graveside service Smith, for Mrs.89, Haire. enjoyed working FastShop #5, enjoyed sewing, at babysitting, and Albemarle, away Friday, Shirley was passed born December 12, Locust.

Linda forever loved was famous forwill herbechicken and November 5, 2021 atDC histo home.

1946 in Washington, the and greatly missed. dumplings.

Everett was born Bateman October and 25, late Charles Richard Survivors include her Bessie is survived byson, her sons: 1932 in North to the late Elizabeth MaeCarolina Mulligan Bateman.

Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, James Alan Burris (Gail) of of Clyde B. Smith and the late Etta Shirley is survived by her husband Albemarle; brother, Tucker New London, RickyRonnie Joe Burris Little of 30 Smith. years Vaughn Smith of wife, Linda, of Midland; ofand Albemarle; grandchildren: Everett issister survived byPainter his Albemarle; Sandra granddaughter, Leslie Hatley; Kimberly Bradley (Scott) of 1 wife, Shigako; VA; his half-brother sisters, of Gainesville, niece; andWesley 2 nephews.

Richfield, Burris (Sara) Laura NC, RobertHartsell BatemanofofConcord Stevensville, The family receive friends of Austin, TX,will Meredith Sawyer Owonna Clayton ofHeather Weddington MD; step-children Smith from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, (Timothy) of Albemarle, Rikki NC, Carolyn Kimrey of Jacksonville, FL and(Drag) David of April 16, 2020 at Hartsell greatFuneral Jo Burris of Albemarle; Laurinburg NC, Sharon Caudle Smith of New London, NC; 4 Home in Albemarle.

Linda will grandchildren: Lauren Caviness step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi (Ray) of Pawleys Island SC; and be laid toKalyn rest during a private (Dusty), Luther (Daniel), of Leesburg, VA and aHentschel host of nieces and nephews. committal service at Bethel Grace Caudle, ScottUnited Burris, Cheryl of Aylett, grand- Mary He was Hardy predeceased byVA; his16sister Methodist Church, Jordan Burris, KyleMidland.

Sawyer, and nieces and nephews; and Gus the Mildred Whitley of Statesville, In lieu of flowers,great-greatplease consider a Jacob Goodman; dog. Stanly Funeral and Cremation NC. memorial donation to Bethel UMC, Care of Albemarle is serving the grandchildren: Elias Caviness, The funeral service will be on 12700 Idlebrook Midland, NC Haire family.

Enoch Caviness,Rd, Elyn Caviness, Thursday, November 18, 2021 28107.

Jackson Luther; sister: Frances at 10:30am at Hartsell Funeral Home’s Lefler Memorial Chapel in Hathcock of Albemarle. She is preceded in death by her husband Albemarle officiated by Rev. Gary of 67 years: Bobby James Burris; Hunsucker. Burial will follow at son: Jeffrey Lynn Burris; and her the Salisbury National Cemetery brother: Richard Poplin. at 501 Statesville Blvd., Salisbury.

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Gwendolyn Ellis Barbee

Bonnie Lou Utter January 15, 1947 – November 11, 2021

Bonnie Lou Utter, 74, of Oakboro, NC passed away Thursday, November 11, 2021. Bonnie was previously a long-time resident of Gwendolyn Ellis Barbee, 87, of Whitney Point, New York.

Oakboro, passed away peacefully Bonnie was born January 15, in Friday, November 12, 2021 at Spring Broome County, New York to the late Arbor.

Alfred Aten and the late Ethel Louise Gwen was born January 22, Aten. She was also preceded in death 1934 in Columbus County to the by her partner, Thomas Schultz and late William Frederick Ellis and her brother Kirk Aten. the late Golia Jane Ellis. She was Bonnie’s family will receive friends also preceded in death by loving on Saturday, November 20th, 2021 husband of 56 years Billy Joe Barbee, from 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM at Hartsell Celebrate the of your granddaughter Crystal Barbee, son- lifeFuneral Homeloved of Midland (13575 in-law Ronnie Heafner, and sisters, Broadway Ave., Midland, NC). A ones. Submit obituaries and Mary Bass and Pauline Joyner. funeral service to celebrate Bonnie’s There will be a lie innotices state from to be life published will follow on site in at the Hartsell death 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Wednesday, Funeral Home Chapel at 3:00 PM. obits@stanlyjournal.com November SCJ 17, 2021at at Pleasant Grove The service will also be available Baptist Church, 17236 Frog Pond online through a link on the Hartsell Road, Oakboro. The funeral service website for those unable to attend will be at 2:00 pm officiated by Dr. in person https://video.ibm.com/ Shad Hicks and Pastor Trent Drye channel/hartsell-funeral-homewith burial at the Church Cemetery. midland-nc1 Survivors include sons, Russ Survivors include daughter, Lynn (Terry) Barbee of Oakboro, NC, Rod Marie (Steven) MacDonald; son, (Regina) Barbee of Albemarle, NC, Todd Utter; sisters, Linda Fuller, Ren (Robin) Barbee of Albemarle, Terri (Tim) Smacher, and Wilma NC, and daughter, Rena Heafner (Ed) Whittaker; granddaughters, of Oakboro, NC; 11 grandchildren, Nicole (Daniel) Welch, Allison many great-grandchildren; brothers, MacDonald, Tiffany Utter; great Buddy Ellis, James Ellis, and Larry grandchildren Abigail and Allison Ellis; sister, Hazel Coleman; and Utter and Luke Welch; along with a many loved nieces and nephews. number of nieces and nephews.

January 22, 1934 – November 12, 2021

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Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 17, 2021

STATE & NATION

Foreign students returning to US, but below pre-COVID levels

By Colin Binkley The Associated Press BOSTON — International students are returning to U.S. colleges in stronger numbers this year, but the rebound has yet to make up for last year’s historic declines as COVID-19 continues to disrupt academic exchange, according to a new survey.

Nationwide, American colleges and universities saw a 4% annual increase in international students this fall, according to survey results released Monday by the Institute of International Education.

But that follows a decrease of 15% last year — the steepest decline since the institute began publishing data in 1948.

Universities and U.S. officials hope this year’s uptick is the start of a long-term rebound. As international travel ramps up, there’s

optimism that colleges will see growth past their pre-pandemic levels.

“We expect a surge following the pandemic,” Matthew Lussenhop, an acting U.S. assistant secretary of state, told reporters. This year’s increase indicates that international students “continue to value a U.S. education and remain committed to pursuing studies in the United States,” he added.

Overall, 70% of U.S. colleges reported an uptick in international students this fall, while 20% saw decreases and 10% remained level, according to the institute. That’s based on a preliminary survey of more than 800 U.S. schools.

At least some of the increase is due to new students who hoped to come to the U.S. last year but delayed their plans because of the pandemic. All told, there was a 68% increase in newly enrolled in-

ternational students this year, a dramatic increase compared with last year’s decrease of 46%.

For many schools, even a modest upturn is a relief. Over the summer, officials at U.S. universities worried that the Delta variant would dash any hopes of a rebound. But for many, that did not come to pass.

In August, U.S. embassies and consulates in India reported that they had issued visas to a record 55,000 students even after starting the process two months late because of COVID-19.

The vast majority of U.S. colleges returned to in-person learning by this fall, but not all international students are physically on campus. After last year’s shift to remote learning, many schools have continued offering online classes to students abroad.

For some colleges, the new flex-

ibility of online learning helped avoid further enrollment setbacks.

In the past, students at the University of San Francisco might have been able to start the term a week late if they faced visa or travel problems. Now, those facing visa delays can arrive halfway through the term or later, and in the meantime study online from abroad.

That was the case for Vinh Le, who was unable to get to the airport in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City in time for the start of fall classes. Instead, the graduate student studied online for more than two months until he could get his first vaccine shot, which allowed him to travel. He arrived at the University of San Francisco on Nov. 1.

International students are seen as important contributors to U.S. campuses for a variety of reasons.

Colleges say they help provide a

diverse mix of cultures and views on campus. Many end up working in high-demand fields after graduating. And some colleges rely on the financial benefits of international students, who are typically charged higher tuition rates.

Although many colleges avoided a second year of declines, there’s still concern that the upturn may be isolated to certain types of colleges. The survey found that, last year, community colleges suffered much steeper declines than fouryear universities, with a 24% backslide nationwide.

Researchers are still analyzing this year’s data, but some worry community colleges may continue to lag behind.

There are also questions about whether the rebound will continue.

New vaccine requirements for foreign travelers could make it harder for some students to get here, and colleges are expecting continued competition from colleges in Australia, Canada and other nations looking to boost international populations.

Still, officials at many colleges are optimistic. More vaccines are being sent overseas, and newly lifted travel bans promise to reduce barriers to travel.

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With the Founders Library in the background, a young man reads on Howard University campus July 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

US urged to help more people escape Taliban-led Afghanistan

By Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of organizations working to evacuate people who could be targeted by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan appealed Monday for more assistance from the U.S. government as conditions deteriorate in the country.

Members of the AfghanEvac Coalition met in a video call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to press the case for additional resources to help tens of thousands of people get out of Afghanistan, now faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis in addition to a precarious security situation following the chaotic U.S. withdrawal.

“The State Department doing enough isn’t enough; we need whole of government solutions; we need the international community to step up and we need it quickly,” said Peter Lucier, a former Marine who served in Afghanistan who works with coalition-member Team America. “Winter is coming.

There is a famine already. “ Private groups, particularly with ties to the veteran community, have played an important role in the evacuation and resettlement of tens of thousands of Afghans since the U.S. ended its longest war and the government fell to the Taliban. Members of the coalition, which includes about 100 organizations, have been working to help

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room at the State Department, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C. people get on the scarce flights out of the country and helping them get settled in communities once they reach the United States.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the call included discussion of what he called “our collective efforts” to aid visa holders and applicants and to “facilitate the departure of these individuals who are at a stage where it is appropriate to do so.”

About 82,000 people have come to the U.S. so far under what the Biden administration calls Operation Allies Welcome. The Department of Homeland Security said 10% were American citizens or permanent residents.

The rest were a combination of people who had obtained special immigrant visas, for those who had worked for the U.S. government as interpreters or in some

other capacity; people applying for one of the visas but who hadn’t yet received it; or other Afghans who might be vulnerable under the Taliban, such as journalists or government officials, and qualified to come as refugees. Nearly half were children.

As of Monday, DHS said about 46,000 are still being housed at domestic U.S. military bases until they can be resettled around the country. Another 2,600 remain at overseas transit points, dubbed “lily pads,” as they undergo security vetting and health screening before coming to the U.S. The State Department said separately Monday that some people coming to the U.S. from countries other than Afghanistan under the broader refugee program would be temporarily delayed so refugee agencies can focus on resettling Afghans. The pause would run through Jan. 11 and won’t apply to certain categories, including urgent cases, family reunifications and those who have already made travel arrangements.

The AfghanEvac Coalition has urged the U.S. government to establish more of the “lilly pads,” and work with other nations to create more pathways for people to reach safety. It’s unclear how many people need to be evacuated but organizations have estimated the number conservatively in the tens of thousands. Aid agencies said about 300,000 have fled Afghanistan into Iran, including many mem-

bers of Shiite communities seeking refuge from both the Taliban and attacks by the Islamic State affiliate in the country.

The meeting takes place against a backdrop of intense criticism by some Republicans in Congress, attacking a frantic evacuation, for what they have alleged is insufficient vetting of refugees. They have also accused the administration of understating the number of American citizens left behind.

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote Blinken on Monday seeking interviews with more than 30 State Department officials to address what they called the “many unanswered questions about the planning – or lack thereof – that preceded the drawdown and evacuation.” Those include the number of American citizens and residents still in Afghanistan and mechanisms for continued evacuations.

Several hundred Americans are reported to still be in Afghanistan, though not all have indicated they want to leave, Biden administration officials have said.

The Gulf nation of Qatar has agreed to represent the United States in Taliban-run Afghanistan following the closure of the American Embassy in Kabul and will handle consular services for American citizens in Afghanistan and will deal with routine official communications between Washington and the Taliban government.

VOLUME 4 ISSUE 8 | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Twin City Herald

CHRIS CARLSON | AP PHOTO

Supporting the Deacs

Fans cheer during the first half of an NCAA college football game between Wake Forest and North Carolina State Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, in Winston-Salem.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

The Winston-Salem Symphony preparing for A Carolina Christmas with the Camel City Jazz Orchestra Twin City Herald staff

Eight wounded in weekend shootings Forsyth County Eight people were wounded by gunfire in Winston-Salem over the weekend, including three people who were shot while they were in their vehicles, according to police.

Winston-Salem police said four people were wounded early Saturday after gunfire erupted at a party. A 38-yearold man, whom police have not identified, was shot in the head Saturday night when someone shot into a home, police said.

A woman was shot multiple times after someone opened fire on her vehicle and she crashed into an unoccupied apartment building. Another woman suffered a gunshot wound to her lower leg after an SUV drove up alongside on U.S. 52 and shot at her vehicle.

An unidentified victim was also seriously injured Sunday when someone shot at their vehicle. The victim told police that while driving through a section of town, someone began shooting at their vehicle.

A 38-year-old man was shot by a resident after firing into a home. A man and a woman were inside the home, and police say the man left the home and shot the suspect in the head. No one inside the house was hurt.

THE WINSTON-SALEM Symphony is delighted to kick off the holiday season with A Carolina Christmas with the Camel City Jazz Orchestra. This popular holiday concert will be back in person this year and will be conducted by Guest Conductor William Henry Curry and Karen Ní Bhroin, Assistant Conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony. The concerts will take place on Thanksgiving weekend—Saturday, November 27 and Sunday, November 28, 2021.

Building on the enormous suc-

cess of the Big Band sounds of last year’s A Carolina Christmas Unwrapped streamed from The Ramkat, the Camel City Jazz Orchestra and guest soloist, baritone Timothy McDevitt, join the Symphony to spread holiday cheer. This year’s show will add the lush harmonies and colors of strings to the mix of festive Christmastime favorites.

A Carolina Christmas also includes a selection of popular and traditional holiday music including “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch,” “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “White Christmas,” “March of the Toys” from Babes in Toyland,

“March” from The Nutcracker Suite, a Christmas sing-along, and much more.

“The Winston-Salem Symphony’s A Carolina Christmas is a perfect start to the holiday season,” Maestro Curry said. “I am excited to help conduct these festive concerts because they present the best of the holidays. I am so excited that the Camel City Jazz Orchestra will join us, bringing their wonderful big band jazz sound to make the holiday music even more fun. And yes, there will be a visit from Santa Claus!”

This is the ninth season for the

Maestro William Henry Curry (left) and guest soloist Timothy McDevitt will help bring WinstonSalem “A Carolina Christmas.”

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Wake Forest Men’s CrossCountry wins regional Deacs headed to NCAA championship Twin City Herald staff THE WAKE FOREST men’s cross country team took the team title at the NCAA Southeast Region Championships in Louisville on Friday. It’s the best regional finish for the program in 28 years.

Seven Demon Deacon runners finished in the top 25 to earn All-Region status: Aaron Las Heras, Zach Facioni, Joaquin Mar-

Winston-Salem Symphony’s beloved holiday tradition A Carolina Christmas. Concerts will take place on Saturday, November 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 28 at 3 p.m. at historic Reynolds Auditorium, located at 301 North Hawthorne Road in Winston-Salem. Tickets begin at $25 and are available by calling the Symphony Box Office at 336-464-0145 or online at wssymphony.org. Please note, all patrons attending Winston-Salem Symphony events must present proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test, and masks are required.

tinez de Pinillos, Coen Roberts, Justin Robinson, Luke Tewalt and Thomas Vanoppen.

“I’m incredibly proud of our team,” said coach John Hayes. “The season had not gone the way we expected it to go up until today but our team never wavered through all of the adversity. Today they fought like warriors!”

By taking the top spot in the regional, the Demon Deacons Men’s team advanced to the NCAA Cross Country Championships for just the second time since 2001. The national meet is scheduled for Satur-

day, Nov. 20 at the Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida.

Entering the meet as the second-ranked team in the region, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons finished first with 47 points Friday morning. RV Wake Forest and No. 17 Furman claimed the top-two spots in the region to secure automatic bids to next week’s national championships.

Las Heras and Facioni finished in second and fourth place, respectively.

On the women’s side, junior Elise Wright finished 33rd to finish as the highest-ranked Demon Deacon. The Wake Forest women placed eighth out of 31 Division I teams from the Southeast region.

Wright turned in a time of 21:07.3 over the 6K course, leading the women’s team by 27 seconds.

Madeline Rehm (21:34.2) and Geb-

riella Castro (21:35.9) were the second and third fastest Deacs. Amy Harding-Delooze and Carolina Garrett rounded out the top five for Wake Forest.

“I’m proud of the effort and fight I saw from the women today,” said coach Ashley Bastron. “They competed hard and raced fearlessly. We had some adversity hit 24 hours before the race and the rest of the women stepped up to the challenge placed in front of them. It was great to watch them fight hard for each other and control what they could control. Our team finish wasn’t as high as we wanted it to be, but after the last 24 hours I’m so proud of what this group of women accomplished today. We have a lot of positive takeaways from this experience and it was inspiring to watch the men crush it and make NCAA’s. It was a great day to be a Deac!”

“I’m proud of the effort and fight I saw from the women today. They competed hard and raced fearlessly." coach Ashley Bastron

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Democrats have only themselves to blame for the inflation fiasco

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♦ Stokes Henry Alridge, Jr., 85, of WinstonSalem, died November 10, 2021. ♦ Rebecca Evans Bailey, 89, of Winston-Salem, died November 12, 2021.

IT’S BEEN QUITE a spectacle watching people who credit Democrats with every job created and every percentage point gained in economic growth suddenly arguing that the White House is completely powerless in the face of our current economic predicament.

Presidents generally get far too much credit and/or blame for our fortunes, but they can certainly exacerbate existing problems. And our political class has certainly aggravated them with unbridled spending and support for policies that disincentivize work and inhibit energy production.

Wholesale prices rose 8.6% from a year ago in October, another record annual gain and the biggest spike in more than a decade. Inflation hit 6.2%, the highest rate of annualized inflation since the 1990s. Whereas once voters were promised “transitory” inflation, today, economists warn that we’ll be in this for a while.

“Reversing this trend is a top priority for me,” President Joe Biden said Nov. 10, after months of his administration’s dismissing inflation as a “high-class” and short-term predicament — there’s “nobody suggesting there’s unchecked inflation on the way — no serious economist,” the president promised a few months ago. Biden’s National Economic Council Deputy Director Brian Deese had argued that inflation was actually a good thing, and the entire administration had pushed the notion that the best prescription to alleviate inflation was more big progressive spending — part of a broader trend of Democrats saying utterly absurd things about the economy.

Democrats have seriously underestimated the frustration that voters,

♦ Betty Lou Johnson Danner, 86, of WinstonSalem, died November 11, 2021.

WEEKLY CRIME LOG

♦ Betty Jackson Mendenhall Davis, 88, of Lewisville, died November 10, 2021.

♦ ALEXANDER, CAMERON PAUL was arrested on a charge of SEXUAL BATTERY at 1556 KILSTROM ST on 11/13/2021

♦ Betty Louise Domaracki, 98, of Winston-Salem, died November 11, 2021. ♦ Nancy Lackey Fulk, 89, of Winston-Salem, died November 10, 2021. ♦ Samuel Edward Hipsher, 62, of Winston-Salem, died November 12, 2021. ♦ Robert Joseph Huffman, 86, died November 11, 2021. ♦ Alice Ayres Idol, 82, of Winston-Salem, died November 12, 2021. ♦ Thad Gray Knight, 64, of Forsyth County, died November 14, 2021. ♦ Victoria “Tori” Anne Koller, 30, of Kernersville, died November 7, 2021. ♦ Daisy Robinson Lawson, 91, of Pilot Mountain, died November 11, 2021

♦ Baggett, Matthew Kendrick (W /M/45) Arrest on chrg of 1) Resisting Arrest (M) and 2) Fail To Appear/ compl (M), at 1055 Bethaniarural Hall Rd, Rural Hall, NC, on 11/14/2021 13:34. ♦ Bautista-velasco, Alejandro Geovanni (W /M/21) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 2513 Towergate Ct, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/15/2021 08:35. ♦ Beasley, Micaiah Jonathan (W /M/22) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugsposs Sched I (F), 2) Poss Marijuana Misd (M), 3) Drug Paraphernalia (M), 4) Fail To Appear/compl (M), and 5) Improper Lane Change (M), at Silas Creek Pw At Robinhood, Winstonsalem, NC, on 11/15/2021 04:30. ♦ Burgess, Barbara Charlene (W /F/60) Arrest on chrg of Impaired Driving Dwi, M (M), at 4800 New Walkertown Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 11/13/2021 23:50 ♦ CALLEJA NICASIO, DEYSI was arrested on a charge of CONTRIB DELINQ MINOR at 3200 SILAS CREEK PW/SB SILAS CREEK PW_ BOLTON ST RA on 11/14/2021 ♦ Carter, Raekwon Duan (B /M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Robbery (F) and 2) Robbery (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/15/2021 09:46.

unable to get the things they desire nearly instantaneously, are going to feel, as people such as Jen Psaki crack jokes about supply-chain problems, “the tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed.” What about rising prices?

Last week, liberal punditry spent a day mocking a Texas mother of nine who groused about rising milk prices on CNN. I’m not sure if Krista Stotler had her all stats entirely correct, but I suspect most voters don’t really care to pinpoint price points. Inflation is something they feel.

Perhaps even more than the education issue that helped sink Democrats in Virginia, inflation remains the most consequential issue in politics right now.

It’s hard to spin your way out of a wealthdestroying tax. There’s no one to accuse of racism. No Trump to blame. If we account for inflation, real average hourly earnings, for instance, have decreased over the past year. And all Democrats want to do is spend more money — lots of it.

This week, Democrats, with an assist from some Republicans, approved another $1 trillion-plus infrastructure bill, even as they push through an unprecedented multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill.

All this comes after $6 trillion of deficit spending during the pandemic, which many Democrats argued wasn’t even enough.

Meanwhile, a third of recent inflation increases has been propelled by energy prices, which spiked 6.7%. Biden defenders such as Paul Krugman, who have no compunction blaming Republican governors for seasonal variances in the spread of viruses, contend that Biden has no control over gas prices. Well, the first thing Biden did was freeze new oil

6600 Reynolda Rd, Pfafftown, NC, on 11/12/2021 22:00. ♦ Garab, Kevin Eugene (W /M/36) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 1271 Chickasha Dr, Pfafftown, NC, on 11/10/2021 08:30. ♦ HERNANDEZ, VICTOR VAZQUEZ was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 4175 N GLENN AV on 11/12/2021 ♦ Hooker, Justin Gray (W /M/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) Impaired Driving Dwi (M) and 2) Dwlr Imp Rev (M), at Jones Rd/south Stratford Rd, Winton Salem, NC, on 11/13/2021 01:51. ♦ KELLEY, ERIC MICHAEL was arrested on a charge of TRESPASS HUNTING at 901 WATERWORKS RD on 11/13/2021 ♦ KELLEY, GRIFFIN TYLER was arrested on a charge of TRESPASS HUNTING at 901 WATERWORKS RD on 11/13/2021 ♦ Lyles, Jaylen Lamont (B /M/22) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault-simple (M), 2) Breaking/larc-felony (F), 3) Breaking/larc-felony (F), 4) Larcenyfelony (F), 5) Fraud-obt Property (F), 6) Fraud-obt Property (F), 7) Poss Stolen Goods (F), 8) Poss Stolen Goods (F), 8) Order For Arrest (M), 9) Poss Marijuana Fel (F), 10) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 11) Fail To Appear/compl (M), and 12) Fail To Appear/compl (M), at 1099 N Martin Luther King Jr Dr/n Research Pw, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/15/2021 11:30.

♦ Timothy Paul Mayo, 54, of Kernersville, died November 13, 2021.

♦ DODD, MYRICK MALONE was arrested on a charge of CCW FIREARM at 1399 N TRADE ST/W FOURTEENTH ST on 11/12/2021

♦ Mata, Jesus Mata (W /M/32) Arrest on chrg of Assault-simple (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/14/2021 11:26.

♦ LTC. Donald Albert Price, USA Ret., 81, died November 11, 2021.

♦ Dodson, Tina Marie (W /F/57) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugs-poss Sched I (F) and 2) Ndl - Suspended / Revoked (M), at 3600 Reynolda Rd, Winstonsalem, NC, on 11/10/2021 01:45.

♦ Mccracken, Joseph Bryan (W /M/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugsposs Sched I (F) and 2) Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 6600 Blk Reynolda, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/13/2021 00:00.

♦ Phyllis Ruth Briggs Robertson, 97, of Winston-Salem, died November 11, 2021. ♦ James William “Jimmy” Voncannon, 76, of Surry County, died November 12, 2021.

♦ Engelkins, Shelley Renee (W /F/43) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Cocaine Fel (F), 2) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 3) Fail To Appear/compl (M), and 4) Fail To Appear/compl (M), at 1299 Lewisville-vienna Rd/robinhood Rd, Lewisville, NC, on 11/12/2021 22:02. ♦ Farrer, John Wilman (W /M/59) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive (F), at

♦ MCRAE, ELIJAH JAMELLE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 4000 BROWNSBORO RD on 11/14/2021 ♦ MONTGOMERY, SANTANNA MICHELLE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 133 COUNTRYSIDE CT on 11/13/2021

and gas leases and shut down future pipelines. Biden now begs OPEC to increase production and help lower worldwide gas prices, but his domestic political goals and action run contrary to this position.

Virtually every “green” plan in existence will intentionally, through mandates or bans or taxes or contrived “markets,” make fossil fuels more expensive or reduce use.

Expensive gas is their goal. So how can Democrats credibly maintain they have a plan to stop rising prices?

On top of all that, Democrats continue to push for a major expansion in the welfare state during a tight labor market.

It is reminiscent of their insistence that unemployment insurance be expanded even after the pandemic had ebbed. Biden’s spending plan includes programs that disincentivize work. Typically, massive “safety net” programs are instituted by Democrats during times of recession, not of growth. There are more jobs than jobseekers in the country.

It’s true that governments caused much of the demand shock we are experiencing, needlessly shutting down entire economies during the pandemic. Yet, Democrats have allowed their strident ideological wing to take over the party, aggravating these underlying trends. Why Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema (or Biden, once considered a moderate himself) would follow progressives off into this quagmire defies logic — not only economic but political logic.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

♦ NOYOLA PETATAN, EMERSON MANUEL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 5595 SHATTALON DR on 11/14/2021 ♦ OLIVER, AUSTIN LEE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 401 N MAIN ST on 11/13/2021 ♦ Parks, Norris Wayne (W /M/63) Arrest on chrg of 1) Impaired Driving Dwi (M), 2) Driving In Center Lane When Such Movement Is Not Allowed (M), and 3) Reckless Driving (M), at 6200 Yadkinville Rd, Pfafftown, NC, on 11/13/2021 15:42 ♦ Perez, Fredi Secundino (W /M/20) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Stolen Goods (F), 2) P/w/i/s/d Marijuana (F), 3) Poss Marijuana Fel (F), 4) Drug Paraphernalia (M), 5) Ccw (M), 6) Reckless Driving (M), 7) Unlawful To Dwlr, After Notification, Or While Disquailified (M), 8) Speeding Exceeding Posted Limit By 15 Mph Or More On Hwy (M), 9) Ndl - Fict/ rev/alter (M), and 10) Speeding To Elude Arrest (F), at 2700 Block Willard Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/12/2021 21:11. ♦ PRUDEN, SARAH TAKILAH was arrested on a charge of TRAFFICKING IN METHAMPHETAMINE OR AMPHETAMINE at 2566 GREEN OAKS CT on 11/12/2021 ♦ Richardson, Regina Marie (W /F/43) Arrest on chrg of Affray (M), at 5275 Shaddowfax Dr, Kernersville, NC, on 11/13/2021 07:53 ♦ Ritch, Matthew Douglas (W /M/26) Arrest on chrg of Vand-personal Prop, M (M), at 4151 Thomasville Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/13/2021 21:46. ♦ ROBINSON, RAYSHAUN DTONIO was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 2000 FANNING RD on 11/14/2021 ♦ SCHENCK, RASHONDA MARCHE was arrested on a charge of ADW INFLICT INJURY at 910 DELMONTE DR on 11/13/2021 ♦ SELLERS, CHRISTOPHER BROOKS was arrested on a charge of POSS MARIJUANA FEL at 2566 GREEN OAKS CT on 11/12/2021 ♦ Shreve, Zackery Dakota (W /M/29)

Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired (M), at 1551 Glenn Center Dr, Kernersville, NC, on 11/14/2021 01:43. ♦ SINGLETARY, TENEKIA SHANATE was arrested on a charge of URINATE OR DEFECATE ON PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY at 2825 NEW WALKERTOWN RD on 11/13/2021 ♦ SMITH, IVAN LEQUAN was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 3411 OLD VINEYARD RD on 11/14/2021 Smith, Jessica Dawn (W /F/31) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugs-poss Sched Ii (F), 2) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 3) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 4) Fail To Appear/compl (F), 5) Fail To Appear/compl (F), 6) Fail To Appear/compl (F), 7) Fail To Appear/ compl (F), 8) Fail To Appear/compl (F), 9) Fail To Appear/compl (F), 10) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 11) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 12) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 13) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 14) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 15) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 16) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 17) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 18) Fail To Appear/compl (F), and 19) Fail To Appear/compl (F), at 1055 Bethaniarural Hall Rd, Rural Hall, NC, on 11/14/2021 13:34 SMITH, WILBERT CLYDE was arrested on a charge of CHILD ABUSE (FELONY) at 5324 DORIS ST on 11/12/2021 Spease, William Conrad (B /M/47) Arrest on chrg of Interference W/ electronic Monitoring Devices (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/14/2021 10:51.

Stephens, David Edward (B /M/56) Arrest on chrg of 1) Driving While Impaired (M) and 2) Imp Regis - Expired, Suspended, Revoked, Altered Plate (M), at 6400 Blk Reynolda Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/12/2021 23:55.

WEBB, WILLIAM CURTIS was arrested on a charge of PROBATION VIOLATION at 1235 SILAS CREEK PW on 11/15/2021 WILSON, TAMEYIA CELESTE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 625 PETERS CREEK PW on 11/12/2021

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Washington’s Young suffers seasonending injury Washington, D.C. Chase Young will not play the rest of this season after injuring his right leg and is scheduled to undergo surgery. Washington coach Ron Rivera confirmed the prognosis for the 2020 second overall pick on Monday in the wake of the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year going down during the first half of an upset of defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay. Rivera did not reveal whether Young tore the ACL in his right knee and did not specify what the surgery is for.

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NBA fines Timberwolves $250K for illegal offseason workouts Minneapolis The NBA fined the Minnesota Timberwolves $250,000 on Monday for violating league rules that prohibit teams from arranging or paying for offseason practice or group workout sessions for their players outside their home market. The punishment was connected to team activities that took place in the Miami area in early September, the league announced. Timberwolves coaches, players and staff gathered for on-court work and off-court bonding in south Florida, where new co-owner Alex Rodriguez resides.

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Yankees hire former Mets manager Rojas as 3B coach New York The New York Yankees hired former Mets manager Luis Rojas as their third base coach on Monday, a month after he lost his job with the crosstown rivals.

Rojas managed the Mets for the past two seasons.

The team declined its 2022 option for him on Oct. 4, a day after finishing third in the NL East at 77-85.

Rojas will take the spot of Phil Nevin, who had been the Yankees’ third base coach since the 2018 season. Nevin was let go last month.

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Capitals extend Dowd for $3.9M over 3 years Washington. D.C. Nic Dowd signed a $3.9 million, threeyear extension with the Washington Capitals on Sunday, giving the reliable center some long-term security and a significant raise. Dowd, 31, will count $1.3 million against the salary cap each of the next three seasons, almost double his current $750,000 value. He’s coming off a shortened 2021 season in which he scored a career-high 11 goals, and said he wanted to maintain the roots he has grown in the D.C. area. He has 79 points in 316 regular-season NHL games with the Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and Capitals.

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NCAA President Mark Emmert is overseeing drastic changes in college sports' major governing body.

Emmert says NCAA efforts to reform not motivated by fear The governing body is proposing a scaled-down constitution that would separate powers among its three divisions

By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press THE NCAA’S MOVE to restructure college sports is not being driven by fear but rather a desire to seize an opportunity to tackle issues that have been building for decades, NCAA president Mark Emmert said Monday, “There’s few things that are being discussed right now that have been discussed off and on at least for the 10 years that I’ve been involved in the NCAA,” Emmert said during a brief news conference. “But yet at the same time, we’ve never had a moment where we had state legislators, congressional actors, the courts, the economic dynamics, and even the pandemic, all providing a very important catalyst for change.”

Emmert’s words came after the NCAA’s online constitutional convention, during which the entire membership of more than 1,100 schools in its three divi-

sions weighed in on the proposed, scaled-down version of the association’s foundational document.

Emmert called for the constitutional convention over the summer, not long after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt the NCAA a potentially crippling blow. In upholding a lower court’s ruling in an antitrust case, the high court left the association vulnerable to lawsuits any time it makes a new rule the impacts athletes.

Rewriting the constitution is the first step toward decentralizing college sports’ governance and deemphasizing the role of the NCAA. “It has been a long time, 50 years, a half a century, since there was this thorough a look at what college sports is and how it should function,” Emmert said. “The inaction of the association at this particular moment would be very, very poorly received and it should be, frankly. If you have that much change going on, you darn well be better be ready and willing and able to change.”

The college sports administrators who make up the constitution committee, including Georgetown President Jack DeGioia, who is the chairman of

“If you have that much change going on, you darn well be better be ready and willing and able to change.”

Mark Emmert, NCAA president the NCAA’s Board of Governors, spent about four hours presenting the proposal to members and taking questions.

“I ... thought it was a very successful first take, especially having never done anything quite like this in the history of the association,” Emmert said.

Last week, the NCAA unveiled a proposed 18-page constitution that more narrowly focuses the mission of the largest college sports organization in the United States while also providing a path for each of its three divisions to govern themselves more.

After two feedback periods, the proposed constitution could be amended. The plan is for the full membership to vote on it at the January NCAA convention in Indianapolis.

Then comes the hard part.

Leaders in each of the NCAA’s three divisions will dig into the task of restructuring and reimaging how college sports should be run.

At the Division I level, where college sports has also become a multimillion-dollar business for some schools, dramatic changes could happen. Everything from how revenue is shared, how schools and sports align, access to championship events and what is required to be a Division I member will be on the table.

That includes what to do with major college football, which largely operates independent of the NCAA and rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars that’s shared by 130 Bowl Subdivision schools.

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a group of former and current college sports administrators, has recommended FBS be separated from the NCAA altogether.

The new constitution continues to refer to college athletes as student-athletes, a term created decades ago as the NCAA tried to make a clear distinction between its amateurs and paid professionals.

Emmert said there was significant discussion about dropping the term from official NCAA usage, but the athletes themselves pushed to keep it.

“We were really, really passionate about that title,” former California University of Pennsylvania volleyball player Madeleine McKenna said during the convention Q&A session with membership.

Rays’ Arozarena, Reds’ India earn Rookie of Year honors Fellow Tampa Bay rookie Wander Franco, who started the season in Durham, was third in AL voting

“My mind and my goal was to have another good season and continue what I had done the year before.”

The Associated Press IT DIDN’T FEEL like Randy Arozarena was a rookie this season.

Tampa Bay’s speedy and powerful outfielder certainly didn’t play like one either.

Arozarena won AL Rookie of the Year honors with a superb follow-up to his 2020 postseason heroics, while Cincinnati Reds second baseman Jonathan India earned NL Rookie of the Year on Monday night.

The standout years for Arozarena and India highlight the changing profile of a good MLB leadoff hitter. Both players have speed and a good eye but also considerable power. It’s the first time since 1953 that the rookie of the year winners were both primarily leadoff hitters. That season, Detroit’s Harvey Kuenn and Brooklyn’s Jim Gilliam won.

If it didn’t seem like this wasn’t Arozarena’s first year, there’s a reason. The 26-year-old Cuban provided a stunning lift for the Rays during the 2020 postseason with 10 homers in 18 games during their run to the World Series.

But Arozarena didn’t play enough during the 2020 regular season to lose his rookie status and was eligible for the award this year. He followed up his post-

Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay Rays outfielder

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Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena was named AL Rookie of the Year on Monday night. season breakout with an excellent season in 2021, finishing with a .274 average, 32 doubles, 20 homers, 20 stolen bases and 69 RBIs while adding excellent defense, helping the Rays return to the postseason.

“I know I was favored to be the rookie of the year,” Arozarena said through a translator. “But for me, my mind wasn’t set on the award or winning the award. My mind and my goal was to have another good season and continue what I had done the year before.”

Arozarena earned 22 of 30 first-place votes in balloting by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, beating out Houston right-hander Luis

Garcia and Tampa Bay infielder Wander Franco.

Arozarena is Tampa Bay’s first rookie of the year since outfielder Wil Myers in 2013.

Five AL players received at least one first-place vote in this year’s tally, including Garcia, Franco, Texas outfielder Adolis García and Cleveland pitcher Emmanuel Clase. Garcia hit 31 homers this season while Clase had a 1.29 ERA in Cleveland’s bullpen.

The 20-year-old Franco, who started the season with the Durham Bulls, has the label as one of MLB’s future stars and his performance in 2021 did nothing to discourage that billing. The in-

fielder hit .288 with seven homers and 39 homers while playing less than half the season.

India won the NL award eight months after earning the team’s second base job during spring training and never letting it go during a stellar first season.

The 24-year-old India received 29 of 30 first-place votes, beating out Miami left-handed pitcher Trevor Rogers and St. Louis outfielder Dylan Carlson. Rogers got one first-place vote. India said it’s been an amazing journey from spring training, where he was a longshot to even make the regular-season roster.

India was the Reds’ first rookie of the year winner since pitcher Scott Williamson in 1999.

The 6-foot, 200-pound India was an all-around threat — particularly during the second half of the season — often batting leadoff and finishing with a .269 average, 34 doubles, 21 homers, 69 RBIs and 12 stolen bases. He also showed good discipline in the batter’s box, coaxing 71 walks to finish with a .376 on-base percentage, and scored 98 runs.

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Foreign students returning to US, but below pre-COVID levels

By Colin Binkley The Associated Press BOSTON — International students are returning to U.S. colleges in stronger numbers this year, but the rebound has yet to make up for last year’s historic declines as COVID-19 continues to disrupt academic exchange, according to a new survey.

Nationwide, American colleges and universities saw a 4% annual increase in international students this fall, according to survey results released Monday by the Institute of International Education.

But that follows a decrease of 15% last year — the steepest decline since the institute began publishing data in 1948.

Universities and U.S. officials hope this year’s uptick is the start of a long-term rebound. As international travel ramps up, there’s

optimism that colleges will see growth past their pre-pandemic levels.

“We expect a surge following the pandemic,” Matthew Lussenhop, an acting U.S. assistant secretary of state, told reporters. This year’s increase indicates that international students “continue to value a U.S. education and remain committed to pursuing studies in the United States,” he added.

Overall, 70% of U.S. colleges reported an uptick in international students this fall, while 20% saw decreases and 10% remained level, according to the institute. That’s based on a preliminary survey of more than 800 U.S. schools.

At least some of the increase is due to new students who hoped to come to the U.S. last year but delayed their plans because of the pandemic. All told, there was a 68% increase in newly enrolled in-

ternational students this year, a dramatic increase compared with last year’s decrease of 46%.

For many schools, even a modest upturn is a relief. Over the summer, officials at U.S. universities worried that the Delta variant would dash any hopes of a rebound. But for many, that did not come to pass.

In August, U.S. embassies and consulates in India reported that they had issued visas to a record 55,000 students even after starting the process two months late because of COVID-19.

The vast majority of U.S. colleges returned to in-person learning by this fall, but not all international students are physically on campus. After last year’s shift to remote learning, many schools have continued offering online classes to students abroad.

For some colleges, the new flex-

ibility of online learning helped avoid further enrollment setbacks.

In the past, students at the University of San Francisco might have been able to start the term a week late if they faced visa or travel problems. Now, those facing visa delays can arrive halfway through the term or later, and in the meantime study online from abroad.

That was the case for Vinh Le, who was unable to get to the airport in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City in time for the start of fall classes. Instead, the graduate student studied online for more than two months until he could get his first vaccine shot, which allowed him to travel. He arrived at the University of San Francisco on Nov. 1.

International students are seen as important contributors to U.S. campuses for a variety of reasons.

Colleges say they help provide a

diverse mix of cultures and views on campus. Many end up working in high-demand fields after graduating. And some colleges rely on the financial benefits of international students, who are typically charged higher tuition rates.

Although many colleges avoided a second year of declines, there’s still concern that the upturn may be isolated to certain types of colleges. The survey found that, last year, community colleges suffered much steeper declines than fouryear universities, with a 24% backslide nationwide.

Researchers are still analyzing this year’s data, but some worry community colleges may continue to lag behind.

There are also questions about whether the rebound will continue.

New vaccine requirements for foreign travelers could make it harder for some students to get here, and colleges are expecting continued competition from colleges in Australia, Canada and other nations looking to boost international populations.

Still, officials at many colleges are optimistic. More vaccines are being sent overseas, and newly lifted travel bans promise to reduce barriers to travel.

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With the Founders Library in the background, a young man reads on Howard University campus July 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

US urged to help more people escape Taliban-led Afghanistan

By Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of organizations working to evacuate people who could be targeted by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan appealed Monday for more assistance from the U.S. government as conditions deteriorate in the country.

Members of the AfghanEvac Coalition met in a video call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to press the case for additional resources to help tens of thousands of people get out of Afghanistan, now faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis in addition to a precarious security situation following the chaotic U.S. withdrawal.

“The State Department doing enough isn’t enough; we need whole of government solutions; we need the international community to step up and we need it quickly,” said Peter Lucier, a former Marine who served in Afghanistan who works with coalition-member Team America. “Winter is coming.

There is a famine already. “ Private groups, particularly with ties to the veteran community, have played an important role in the evacuation and resettlement of tens of thousands of Afghans since the U.S. ended its longest war and the government fell to the Taliban. Members of the coalition, which includes about 100 organizations, have been working to help

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room at the State Department, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C. people get on the scarce flights out of the country and helping them get settled in communities once they reach the United States.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the call included discussion of what he called “our collective efforts” to aid visa holders and applicants and to “facilitate the departure of these individuals who are at a stage where it is appropriate to do so.”

About 82,000 people have come to the U.S. so far under what the Biden administration calls Operation Allies Welcome. The Department of Homeland Security said 10% were American citizens or permanent residents.

The rest were a combination of people who had obtained special immigrant visas, for those who had worked for the U.S. government as interpreters or in some

other capacity; people applying for one of the visas but who hadn’t yet received it; or other Afghans who might be vulnerable under the Taliban, such as journalists or government officials, and qualified to come as refugees. Nearly half were children.

As of Monday, DHS said about 46,000 are still being housed at domestic U.S. military bases until they can be resettled around the country. Another 2,600 remain at overseas transit points, dubbed “lily pads,” as they undergo security vetting and health screening before coming to the U.S. The State Department said separately Monday that some people coming to the U.S. from countries other than Afghanistan under the broader refugee program would be temporarily delayed so refugee agencies can focus on resettling Afghans. The pause would run through Jan. 11 and won’t apply to certain categories, including urgent cases, family reunifications and those who have already made travel arrangements.

The AfghanEvac Coalition has urged the U.S. government to establish more of the “lilly pads,” and work with other nations to create more pathways for people to reach safety. It’s unclear how many people need to be evacuated but organizations have estimated the number conservatively in the tens of thousands. Aid agencies said about 300,000 have fled Afghanistan into Iran, including many mem-

bers of Shiite communities seeking refuge from both the Taliban and attacks by the Islamic State affiliate in the country.

The meeting takes place against a backdrop of intense criticism by some Republicans in Congress, attacking a frantic evacuation, for what they have alleged is insufficient vetting of refugees. They have also accused the administration of understating the number of American citizens left behind.

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote Blinken on Monday seeking interviews with more than 30 State Department officials to address what they called the “many unanswered questions about the planning – or lack thereof – that preceded the drawdown and evacuation.” Those include the number of American citizens and residents still in Afghanistan and mechanisms for continued evacuations.

Several hundred Americans are reported to still be in Afghanistan, though not all have indicated they want to leave, Biden administration officials have said.

The Gulf nation of Qatar has agreed to represent the United States in Taliban-run Afghanistan following the closure of the American Embassy in Kabul and will handle consular services for American citizens in Afghanistan and will deal with routine official communications between Washington and the Taliban government.