North State Journal Vol. 6, Issue 39

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Toyota poised to build new plant at Greensboro Randolph megasite Greensboro Toyota is expected to announce plans for a new manufacturing facility at the Greensboro Randolph megasite near the town of Liberty in December, according to news reports.

Bloomberg first reported the news over the weekend, saying that while the deal is not official, it is expected the Japanese automotive manufacturer will join with Panasonic to build an electric vehicle battery plant and would bring 1,750 new jobs to the area.

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Biden to keep Powell as Fed chair, Brainard gets vice chair Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden announced Monday that he’s nominating Jerome Powell for a second fouryear term as Federal Reserve chair.

Biden also said he would nominate Lael Brainard, the lone Democrat on the Fed’s Board of Governors and the preferred alternative to Powell among progressives, as vice chair.

“If we want to continue to build on the economic success of this year, we need stability and independence at the Federal Reserve — and I have full confidence after their trial by fire over the last 20 months that Chair Powell and Dr. Brainard will provide the strong leadership our country needs,” said Biden.

Powell’s re-nomination must be confirmed by the Senate, which is considered likely.

Thanksgiving event at Fort Bragg

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travel to Fort Bragg, N.C., to attend a Thanksgiving event with service members.

Multiple electionrelated bills see movement at legislature 4 bills working through legislature; 1 already sent to governor

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Federal prosecutor nominees confirmed by US Senate Raleigh President Joe Biden’s three nominees to become North Carolina’s top federal prosecutors were confirmed on Friday by the U.S. Senate.

The Senate voted unanimously for Michael Easley Jr., Sandra Hairston and Dena King to be the next U.S. attorneys for the state.

Easley, the Eastern District nominee, has been a partner at the law firm McGuire Woods and is the son of former Democratic governor and state attorney general Mike Easley.

Hairston had been serving as the acting U.S. attorney in the Middle District since March and King was previously in charge of prosecuting violent crime and narcotics cases in the Western District.

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Biden admin eases restrictions on Chinese journalists Beijing China and the U.S. have agreed to ease restrictions on journalists in an agreement reached ahead of the virtual summit between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden, the Chinese government-ran China Daily newspaper said.

Under the agreement, the U.S. will issue one-year multiple-entry visas to Chinese journalists and will initiate a process to address “duration of status” issues, China Daily said. China will reciprocate by granting equal treatment to U.S. journalists once the policies take effect.

“We hope that the U.S. will keep its promise to put the relevant measures and policies in place as soon as possible and work with China to create favorable conditions for both [nations’] media to continue to work and live in each other’s countries,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian in a statement.

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Here’s the list of NC lawmakers retiring ahead of 2022 elections

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Several North Carolina state lawmakers and two longtime congressional lawmakers have announced their retirement ahead of the 2022 election cycle.

Those in the North Carolina House of Representatives who are leaving include state Reps.

Charles Graham (D-Robeson), Verla Insko (D-Orange) and Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus).

Graham, who served for six terms, departs his seat at the legislature in order to run for Congress. Graham is a Lumbee Native American, and his first campaign ad detailing his county’s stand against the KKK has gone viral.

Prior to serving in the legislature, Graham was a special-needs teacher. According to his campaign site, Graham is the “owner of a companion home-health company.”

On Sept. 15, Insko announced on the floor of the House that she will be retiring at the conclusion of her current term. Insko, 85, has been considered a progressive leader at the legislature over the course of her 12 terms spanning 24 years. She was first elected in 1997.

During her tenure at the General Assembly, Insko’s work included health care policy, in particular, mental health issues and Medicaid Expansion. She also was active in policy, promoted additional education spending related to the long-ongoing Leandro case and was a proponent of the controversial Common Core Standards.

After five and a half terms in the House, Pittman has said he will not seek re-election in 2022.

Pittman was appointed to the District 82 seat in October of 2011 and was subsequently re-elected in 2012. During redistricting in 2018, his seat became District 83.

“I want to thank everyone who has supported me in this office. It has been my privilege to serve the people of my district and of this great state, and I will continue to do all I can to take care of constituent needs, protect our citizens’ rights, and uphold our State and

US Constitutions during these two years,” Pittman said.

During his tenure, the staunch conservative and pastor has been known as a constitutionalist and a constant protector of the Second Amendment, as well as a school-choice proponent.

In a Facebook post, Pittman threw his support behind Robert M. Freeman, who has filed to run for Pittman’s seat. Others running include North Carolina Federation of Young Republicans Chair Catherine Whiteford and Holly Grimsley, a Cabarrus County school board member.

In the North Carolina Senate, Sen. Ben Clark (D-Cumberland) will not be seeking another term at the conclusion of his fifth. He was first elected to the seat in 2013.

In a statement issued on Twitter, Clarke said serving Cumberland and Hoke County citizens was the “blessing and honor of his life.” He also stated his focus through the end of his current term will be on the state budget as well as drawing congressional and legislative district maps.

Following the publishing of new district voting maps, Clark has said he is exploring a run for the new Fourth Congressional District seat covering Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson and Wayne counties.

Prior to serving at the General Assembly, Clarke was an assistant professor of aerospace studies at North Carolina A&T State University and served in the United States Air Force for 20 years.

Both Clark and Graham have drawn fire from their party for voting with the Republican majority on topics such as abortion, the state budget and education-related bills.

Buck Newton, the former state senator for Wilson County is eyeing a return to the legislature. Newton is likely considering the newly drawn Senate district spanning Greene, Wayne and Wilson counties, which is currently held by Democrat Toby Fitch.

On the federal level, U.S. Rep. David Price (D-NC4) announced on Oct. 18 that he will not seek See RETIRING page A3

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The General Assembly’s House Rules, Calendar and Operations Committee discussed and approved multiple election-related bills during a Nov. 17 meeting.

The three main bills discussed were Senate Bill 326, Election Day Integrity Act; Senate Bill 724, Expand Access to Voter ID & Voting; and Senate Bill 725, Prohibit Private Money in Elections Admin.

Sens. Ralph Hise (R-Mitchell), Warren Daniel (R-Burke) and Paul Newton (R-Cabarrus) are primary sponsors on all three bills.

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Overdose deaths climb to record levels in NC, nationwide

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The effects of the coronavirus pandemic are now being seen in the record number of drug overdose deaths that have occurred between April 2020 and April 2021. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 97,990 people died of a drug overdose during that time period.

That data lines up with the estimate by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), that over 100,000 in the United States died from an overdose. NCHS’s estimate, when compared to CDC data, is around a 29% increase over the same period last year.

In April of 2020, North Carolina saw 2,576 predicted overdose cases according to the CDC. In 2021, the number of predicted cases is up to 3,526. That represents an almost 37% increase.

According to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Opioid Dashboard, between 2000 and 2020, over 28,000 North Carolinians died from drug overdoses. The dashboard also says over eight North Carolinians died each day from a drug overdose during 2020. Data from the dashboard also shows that drug overdose deaths had started to decline and level off prior to the pandemic.

Opioids seem largely the source of overdose and related death increases. The CDC has linked around a third of deaths to opioids, including deaths from fentanyl, a synthetic opioid known to be a particularly deadly and addictive.

The National Institute of Health’s estimates for opioid deaths in North Carolina are

pre-pandemic, but the agency estimated that 79% of drug-overdose deaths in the state involved opioids, causing the fatalities of 1,783 people.

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THE WORD: IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS

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Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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OVERDOSES from page A1 The surge in drug overdoses follows reporting in January of this year by the CDC which stated suicide and drug overdose deaths accelerated to a record high during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth” (1914) by Jennie A. Brownscombe is a painting in the collection of the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.

The CDC reported in December of 2020 that overdose-death rates were the highest ever recorded for a single 12-month period. The data showed that between May 2019 and May 2020, around 81,000 people in the United States died due to an overdose.

NCGA from page A1 Senate Bill 326 was passed by the House on Nov. 18 and was sent to Gov. Roy Cooper for signature the same day. Senate Bill 724 is still making its way through committees, but Senate Bill 725 was passed by the House along partisan lines on Nov. 18 and has been sent to the Senate to consider.

The Election Day Integrity act seeks to require all completed applications and marked mail-in absentee ballots be returned to the county board of elections by 5 p.m. on election day, regardless of postmark dates. The bill would also require both county and state board of elections to publish the dates that mail-in absentee ballots become available and when completed mail-in absentee ballot request forms need to be submitted by a county board of elections.

Additionally, county boards of elections will have to submit reports to the state board with totals of spoiled absentee ballots, outstanding absentee ballots, counted absentee ballots and voted provisional ballots.

The state board would then be required to make the report public on its website.

Expand Access to Voter ID & Voting seeks to do just what its title implies, including helping the visually impaired cast absentee ballots through a staterun online portal and helping citizens register and update their voter records online. It also has a provision for a fund to be set up by the legislature to run a program to identify and help voters who need a photo ID to vote in person. That provision was removed with an amendment during the meeting.

Prohibit Outside Money in Elections Admin. would prohibit state and county boards of elections, as well as county boards of commissioners, from accepting private funds or donations, either directly or indirectly, with regard to hiring individuals on a temporary basis or in the processes of conducting elections.

North State Journal recently reported on outside money in North Carolina’s 2020 elections that came from the Schwarzenegger Institute. The former California governor’s organization dropped almost $190,000 into 10 counties prior to the November 2020 election.

Jackson and Surry counties rejected the offer and Hert-

We celebrate Thanksgiving this week, and though our nation is still facing challenges, we have much to be thankful for. Since the dawn of our nation, we have suffered hardships but expressed our gratitude for the blessings we have received.

In his first proclamation celebrating Thanksgiving, President George Washington called it “the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.”

In all circumstances, we should give thanks.

As we gather with family and friends to celebrate — with traditions, comforts and feasts — we can all be thankful for what we have as citizens of the United States and residents of the Old North State.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, through its Center for Tech and Civic Life (CLTC), funneled over $419 million into states during the 2020 election. ford County’s total remains unknown, but the known amount accepted by counties in the state was $116,624. The combined worth of the funds to the two counties rejecting the funds was around $72,390.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, through its Center for Tech and Civic Life (CLTC), funneled over $419 million into states during the 2020 election. The cash went to upwards of 2,500 counties in 49 states, many of which showed increased voter turnout, and specifically increased Democrat turnout, reducing Republican vote margins.

In all, 35 North Carolina counties appear to have received CLTC funds in 2020.

The state overall received over $5.395 million. Most grants were under $100,000, but two counties, Wake and Durham, received large sums. Wake received a million and Durham received over $1.46 million.

A fourth bill, House Bill 259, was added at the last minute to the House Rules, Calendar and Operations Nov. 17 meeting agenda. The bill was originally filed in March and was titled “Protect Voting Systems/Foreign Interference and sought to require all voting machines used in the state be made in the United States and by U.S. owned companies. A preferred committee substitute (PCS) was filed on Oct. 6 changing the bill’s name to the Election Integrity Act and added to the contents of the bill.

Protect Voting Systems/Foreign Interference includes several provisions such as requiring jurors to be U.S. citizens, various jury-duty excuse powers for courts, as well as creating a process for maintaining voter rolls that would remove non-citizens from jury pool lists.

House Bill 259 passed the House on Nov. 18 without a single Democrat member voting for it. The bill was sent to the Senate where it passed a first reading and was referred to the Senate’s Committee on Rules and Operations.

NC turkey processor: Buy your bird now Soon, only larger birds may be available

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — On Nov. 19, the N.C. Farm Bureau posted on their social media that the estimated cost of Thanksgiving for a party of 10 would be $53.31, a 14% increase from 2020. The data came from an annual analysis done by their parent organization, the American Farm Bureau Federation. John Hott, a turkey-processing plant manager for Prestage Farms, said the price increases are due, in large part, to shortages in both labor and materials.

In order to process the turkey, plants like the one Hott manages in St. Pauls, North Carolina, need certain plastics for packaging, as well as CO2. But these, and other crucial materials, are in short supply and have increased steeply in price.

“The folks that supply our packaging materials, like plastic for whole birds or films that go over our tray-packed ground-turkey products or tray-packed parts, we’ve seen an increase in that pricing,” said Hott. “So I would say plastics, and those types of parts, we’ve seen a price increase of anywhere from 12 to 16%.”

He said there is such a shortage that the suppliers have put all the plants on a strict rationing system called “allocations.” If Prestage has a larger-than-usual order come in,

the plastic suppliers will not adjust the plastic order to match that need. This has left many plants with turkey, but no people or packaging to turn it into a finished product.

“Another thing that we just take for granted, because it’s just part of our processing, is CO2,” Hott said.

“We saw not only shortages, which have hampered our business a little bit, but price increases on CO2.

Every component that we’ve used to run our operation this year, we’ve seen price increases.”

The “main issue” that is causing this, Hott said, is the overall labor shortage. A lack of available workers is causing his suppliers to have to cut production, and in order to attract workers, they are “also having to pay people more,” which gets passed on in the cost of materials he has to buy.

“We had the time in the summer, and then going into the early fall, where there were some employment benefits, and folks weren’t going back to work,” Hott said. “And I think now it’s just huge competition for labor and you see it everywhere.”

He said that his processing plant has been able to find enough workers to get by, but his competitors have largely not. Hott said they met all their orders this year, but they were an industry exception, shipping 200 truckloads of 3,000 hens each this Thanksgiving fresh season.

“I know for a fact that [competitors] cut back their turkey production 30% because of labor.

And we’ve seen the effects of that because we’ve had people calling us trying to order products from us. Under normal years, that’d be a good thing. But we’re out of turkey.

When I hear of turkey shortages for Thanksgiving, I believe it.”

He said there are a lot of former customers, who had become clients of the bigger companies, who have been calling desperate for whatever they might have left.

“Where we’ve been able to [fill the excess demand], we have, but we’ve had to turn away a lot more than we’ve been able to take on,” Hott said. “We’re mainly a hen plant here, and you’re looking at 84 days to grow a light hen, which would be in that 14-pound range.

So you can’t just snap your fingers…”

Hott added: “My advice to anybody would be to go out there and get your turkey as soon as possible.”

While he believes it will be difficult for a lot of people to find a turkey this year, he suggests buying a bigger bird. In years past, about 60% of Thanksgiving turkey sales were for small 12- to 16-pound turkeys and 40% were for larger birds. But, possibly because of COVID decreasing the size of the average holiday gathering, this gap has widened.

“It seems like from what we’ve seen, that shift has gone to like 8020,” Hott said. “So if you wait to go to the store, you might find a turkey, but it’s going to be one of those bigger birds that will feed you leftovers for weeks.”

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Frozen turkeys sit in a refrigerated case Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, inside a grocery store in southeast Denver.

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Saule Omarova of New York testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington to examine her nomination to be the Comptroller of the Currency, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021.

GOP, banks worry Biden’s choice for bank regulator too radical

By Ken Sweet The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden’s choice to become one of the top banking regulators endured a contentious nomination hearing, with Republican senators warning she would nationalize the U.S. banking system and Democrats saying she’s eminently qualified and would be tough overseer of Wall Street.

Saule Omarova, 55, was nominated in September to be the nation’s next head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Omarova is a long-time academic, but many Republicans and the banking industry have taken issue with several papers published during her career where she’s proposed wholesale changes, including nationalizing the banking system.

Omarova fielded questions about her academic writings and whether she would have the power to implement those proposals. She was also asked by Republicans whether it was appropriate for banks to not lend to certain industries if they chose, such as the oil and gas industry and gun manufacturers. Democrats focused on blunting the GOP attacks.

“Taken in totality, her ideas do amount to a socialist manifesto for American financial services,” said Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.

Another Republican senator, referring to Omarova’s childhood in the former Soviet Union, said he did not know whether to call her “professor or comrade.”

The banking industry is overwhelmingly against the nomination, with opposition coming from both big Wall Street institutions and smaller community banks.

In an interview with The Associated Press this week, Omarova said their opposition is largely due

to fears that she would be a tough regulator for Wall Street and the banks.

During the hearing, Omarova said she would advocate for smaller banks and keep a close eye on the large banks who tend to outcompete smaller institutions.

“I wish the community bankers and their trade associations actually read more carefully what I have written,” Omarova said.

Republicans on the committee focused most of their questioning and statements on Omarova’s past writings and public comments.

Last year, she published a paper arguing for an overhaul of the nation’s banking system that would expand the Federal Reserve’s role by allowing the central bank to hold consumer deposits. Proponents of such a move say the Fed could extend credit more quickly when needed to individual accounts during times of economic downturns. Following the Great Recession, banks hoarded deposits and did little lending to rebuild their balance sheets.

“You’ve clearly scared the heck out of them,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, referring to the banking industry’s opposition to her based on her writings.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, a long-time critic of the big banks, called the criticism of Omarova “a vicious smear campaign, coordinated by Republicans who are doing the [industry’s] bidding.”

The nomination could hinge on Democratic senators who sit on the Banking Committee: Jon Tester of Montana and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Republicans are united in their opposition and Toomey and others tried to paint Omarova as a radical choice in order to dissuade Tester and Sinema from giving their support.

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Price was first elected in 1986 and served for four terms before losing his seat in the 1994 midterm elections. He took back the seat in 1996 and has held it ever since.

Price has been a fixture on the House Appropriations Committee and is one of the longest-serving members of Congress.

Within 24 hours, state lawmaker Sen. Wiley Nickel (D-Wake) had already thrown his hat into the ring for Price’s seat. Nickel, an attorney, opened a federal

campaign account long before the state was certain to even add a new seat following the 2020 census. His departure from the General Assembly opened a state Senate seat in Democratic-leaning Wake County.

Most recently, 74-year-old Democratic U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield announced his retirement, blasting the new maps on his way out the door.

Butterfield won a special election to replace Congressman Frank Balance in 2004, following Balance’s resignation during a corruption investigation.

ing he still had “significant concerns” about Omarova’s nomination even after meeting with her privately. Tester focused most of his questions on Omarova’s previous opposition to a bipartisan law that eased some of the restrictions placed on banks after the 2008 financial crisis. He was a co-sponsor of that law.

Omarova said her criticism of that law was narrow. She said she approved of how it lessened the regulatory paperwork required of small community banks.

Omarova was born in Kazakhstan when it was part of the Soviet Union and immigrated to the U.S. in 1991. She has worked primarily as a lawyer and, for the last several years, at Cornell University as a professor of law. Over the years she has testified numerous times as an expert witness on financial regulation.

Her origins in the former Soviet Union have become red meat for some members of Congress and their allies in the conservative press. Toomey requested a copy of a graduation paper she wrote about Karl Marx “in the original Russian” when she was an undergraduate at Moscow State University. Omarova said she no longer had a copy.

While some senators at the hearing tried to downplay this narrative, the issue was raised by Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana.

The senator inquired as to whether Omarova still had a membership with youth Soviet communist organizations.

“I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade,” Kennedy said.

“I am not a communist,” Omarova said at one point during the hearing. “I could not choose where I was born.”

Omarova’s nomination will likely go to a vote in front of the Banking Committee in December.

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In an Associated Press report, Butterfield said he would only run under a “fair map.”

“While I am hopeful that the courts will ultimately overturn this partisan map and see that a fair map is enacted, I have made the difficult decision that I will not seek reelection to the United States House of Representatives,” Butterfield said in a video announcement. “It is time for me to retire and allow the torch to be passed to someone who shares the values of the district and can continue the work I have labored so hard for the past 18 years.”

RALEIGH — The long session at the North Carolina General Assembly lived up to its name, with Gov. Roy Cooper signing his first budget as governor after three years of gridlock from the last enacted spending plan from the legislature.

The session also included massive redistricting efforts for state legislative and U.S. House districts, a landmark energy bill, a comprehensive Farm Act, education reform and several economic development projects.

Navigating the philosophical, ideological and political currents to promote and prevent bills during this session were over 750 registered lobbyists. They were all considered as the North State Journal sought to determine the top lobbyists in North Carolina for a second year.

The top lobbyists list this year also includes the top legislative liaisons, a group of legislative influencers who advocate for the policies of state institutions, cabinet agencies and council of state offices. The North State Journal staff surveyed legislators, staffers, reporters and business leaders and parsed data on the clients represented by the registered lobbyists this year.

The list, like last year’s, is in alphabetical order because defining a Top 10 and Top 25 is difficult enough without trying to figure out a fair way to determine who is No. 1. The list is primarily comprised of lobbyists with significant clients — both in number and in quality. We developed a metric for client quality based on many factors, including market capitalization, business trade publication rankings, legislative success and size. The factors in the rankings were legislator and staffer surveys and client quality scores. Less than 4% of all registered lobbyists made the list.

Top Agency Liaisons Laura Kilian N.C. Department of Agriculture Deans Eatman N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Sam Watts Office of the Treasurer Betty Doster UNC Charlotte Jamey Falkenbury N.C. Department of Public Instruction Top 10 Sarah Bales, Brubaker & Associates — Bales represented 31 clients this year, including major corporations, sports-betting interests, healthcare companies and nonprofits.

Harold Brubaker, Brubaker & Associates — The former speaker of the House represented 32 clients, including bluechip companies like Amazon, BlueCross and Blue Shield of NC, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo and SAP. In the trade association and non-profit areas, Brubaker represented the N.C. League of Municipalities, NC Beer & Wine Wholesalers and the High Point Market Authority.

Tom Fetzer, Fetzer Strategic Partners — The former mayor of Raleigh and state GOP chairman had 20 clients in 2021. Fetzer, who lives in Wilmington, carried the flag for his hometown representing New Hanover County, New Hanover Regional Medical Center and the Wilmington Regional Film Commission. His stable of top industry clients included Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC, Reynolds American, PepsiCo and Martin Marietta.

John Hardin, Manning Fulton & Skinner — Hardin, an attorney and lobbyist, represented 50

clients this year.

He represented national brands like Food Lion, SAS, Charter Communications and the Clorox Company. He also represented important state groups, including Durham Performing Arts, the N.C. Railroad Company and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Jim Harrell, Bode & Harrell — The former N.C. House member represented 34 clients this session.

His clients included the Motion Picture Association, Accenture, N.C. Retail Merchants and WakeMed. Tracy Kimbrell, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein — The former top lawyer for Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger represented 18 clients, including Apple, SAS Institute, Duke Energy, State Farm, LabCorp and Atrium Health.

Ches McDowell, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton — McDowell represented 56 clients this session with principals across an array of industries. He represented the PGA Tour, NBA, Charlotte Hornets, Churchill Downs and Major League Baseball. He also represented the City of Charlotte, City of Fayetteville, Piedmont Triad Airport Authority and RDU Airport Authority.

Ryan Minto, Duke Energy — Minto, who brings experience in the U.S. Congress and state government, managed lobbying efforts for Duke Energy this session. The highlight of Duke’s agenda was passage of the state energy bill, House Bill 951, with bipartisan support in the House and Senate.

David Powers, Powers Strategies — Powerbroker and member of the UNC Board of Governors, Powers represented 17 clients this session, including sports-betting interests FanDuel and DraftKings. He also represented Anthem and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC. Dana Simpson, Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan — Simpson has long been considered one of the top lobbyists and this year he represented 41 clients. His stable of interests included Accenture, Duke Energy, Gilead Sciences and Novartis. Simpson’s portfolio included several healthcare and technology companies, nonprofits and telecommunications firms.

Top 25 Daniel Baum (Navigator), John Cooper (Connect C LLC), David Ferrell (Nexsen Pruet), Nelson Freeman (Kilpatrick Townsend), Bryan Holloway (Holloway Group), Philip Isley (Blanchard, Miller, Lewis & Isley), Harry Kaplan (McGuireWoods Consulting), Doug Miskew (Public Sector Group), Will Morgan (Manning Fulton & Skinner), Andy Munn (EQV Strategic), Ashley Perkinson (Perkinson Law Firm), Jackson Stancil (Jones Street Consulting), Zane Stilwell (Stilwell Group), Susan Fetzer Vick (Fetzer Strategic Partners) and Kevin Wilkinson (EQV Strategic).

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RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly gave its final approval to a two-year state budget on Thursday and sent it to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who quickly signed it into law.

The House voted 101-10 earlier in the day in favor of the measure, the day after the Senate gave the chamber’s final OK to the bill by a vote of 41-7. Each chamber also held similar, preliminary votes backing the plan earlier in the week.

“This budget moves North Carolina forward in important ways,” Cooper said in a news release. “I will continue to fight for progress where this budget falls short but believe that, on balance, it is an important step in the right direction.”

The series of bipartisan votes for the plan that won wide favor came after Cooper announced last Tuesday he’d sign the measure into law, essentially releasing legislative Democrats loyal to him.

While some Democrats still voted no, support for the budget by a solid majority of the party’s members combined with all Republicans present represented a significant achievement. Two years ago, a comprehensive spending plan never got enacted due to Cooper’s veto and a negotiating impasse with the GOP legislative majorities.

“This will be a huge day for all of North Carolina,” House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain), said while holding the over 600-page ratified bill just before it was sent to Cooper.

The measure, which spends $25.9 billion this year, $27 billion next year and

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Johnston County Johnston County More detailed results from the 2020 census reveals the “center” of North Carolina’s population: and once again, it sits in Randolph County.

The midpoint of the state’s population sits just outside of the town of Seagrove. The center has moved westward by approximately 6 miles from the 2010 census — primarily reflecting growth in the Charlotte metro area.

Despite the westward move, the Triangle features the state’s largest county (Wake) and fastest-growing county (Johnston).

WEST Asheville baker wins Food Network’s holiday baking contest Buncombe County Asheville baker Linda Carney is the winner of Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown.”

Carney and baking assistant and fellow gingerbreader, Cheryl Filion, of Medina, Ohio, beat two other teams of two for $10,000 worth of prizes. Carney and Filion made a nostalgic gingerbread Christmas display including a gazebo, rocking horse and scenes of people sledding and ice skating. After deliberating, the judges selected Carney and Filion as the winners of a $10,000 cash prize.

Buncombe County Asheville police officers apprehended a man who broke into a downtown restaurant and apparently helped himself to some beer and ice cream. Officers responded to a business on Patton Avenue after a report of a forcible breaking and entering. The officers found open alcohol containers, and after a brief investigation, they found the suspect nearby. The man is charged with two counts of larceny after breaking and entering, and felony breaking and entering. The man was also served with an open warrant for second-degree trespass.

Buncombe County The state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award for Fine Arts, was presented to David Holt. Holt has spent more than 50 years collecting and performing the traditional music of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 1975, he founded and directed the Appalachian Music Program at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa. His many recordings have garnered numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards in 2002 in the Best Traditional Folk Recording category. As the host of several acclaimed television series, he has introduced traditional mountain music to the country and around the world.

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Robbery suspect killed after taking hostages Gaston County A suspect in an armed robbery was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after he took hostages. Gaston County Police said the suspect fled the scene of an armed robbery in Cleveland County. The suspect crashed the vehicle, and after a foot pursuit, Cherryville Police encountered the man again and shots were fired. Police learned the suspect had gone to a deli between Cherryville and Bessemer City and taken hostages. Gaston County law enforcement officers encountered the suspect and shots were fired, killing the suspect.

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Person County A police officer was justified in using deadly force and will not be charged with any crimes for fatally shooting a defendant scuffling with an armed bailiff in a courtroom. The Wake County District Attorney’s office concluded Roxboro police officer J.G. “Trey” Wright III reasonably believed he and others were in danger when he shot Christopher Thomas Vaughan, 35, in the Person County courtroom on Sept. 10. Vaughan threw a chair and rushed toward the judge. A courtroom bailiff blocked Vaughan and scuffled with him. When Vaughan reached for the deputy’s gun, Wright shot Vaughan in the head.

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Buncombe County A bear cub wandering around a neighborhood with a jug stuck on its head is free. Wildlife biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission spent two days searching for the bear cub. The bear likely got stuck while going through some trash and was wandering around an Asheville neighborhood. A combination of messages posted to NextDoor by the commission and direct calls to biologists led personnel to the bear cub. The bear was anesthetized before the jug was taken off its head. Biologists performed a health check before relocating it to a remote area in western North Carolina.

Guilford County A police officer shot and killed a man on Friday after responding to a caller’s report that somebody was trying to enter a home. Joseph Thomas Lee Lopez, 29, of Greensboro, died in the shooting. The name of the officer who fatally shot Lopez wasn’t immediately released. Officers were responding to “a wanted person call” around 10:30 p.m. at a residence when they encountered Lopez in a shed behind the caller’s home. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting. The officer who shot Lopez will be placed on administrative duty.

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New Hanover County Two men face charges in connection with what police describe as a road rage incident which led to a three-car crash that killed a man. Wilmington police officers arrested Thomas James Blyth, 25, and William Riley Gates, 43, and charged them both with involuntary manslaughter, reckless operation, and exceeding the posted speed.

An investigation showed the two men were involved in a road-rage incident on Nov. 7 that killed Peter Anstatt, 79, of Wilmington.

Hertford County James “Jimmy” W. Smith, 67, and his new wife, Linda Motley Smith, celebrated their wedding by giving a gift of their own. The couple got married on Oct. 16, and, as a wedding present to each other, they established a scholarship at Chowan University. The scholarship will be named in honor of the groom’s parents, John Lee Smith Sr. and Genevieve Brown Smith, and will support students looking to become science teachers.

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Wake County Wake County Public School System said none of its students went hungry despite a sickout by school cafeteria workers demanding better pay and improved working conditions.

The school system alerted families at 32 schools that they should bring their own lunch on Tuesday because the system couldn’t guarantee meal service. But the school district was able to provide meals to every student who wanted one. The school district provided bagged lunches to students.

Parents and local businesses and restaurants also brought in food for students on Tuesday.

several billion dollars more in federal COVID-19 relief aid, was the result of several weeks of negotiations between Moore, Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) and Cooper.

It wasn’t a consensus result, but the plan does reflect a lot of Cooper’s input.

Cooper announced that while he opposed many items in the final bill, including the elimination of the corporate income tax by the end of the decade and the absence of Medicaid expansion, the good in the bill outweighed the bad.

The budget contains nearly $6 billion for state agency and higher education construction projects, as well as $1 billion in federal funds for expanding broadband and $1.7 billion for water and sewer projects.

Teachers will receive average 5% raises over two years and bonuses of up to $2,800. Other teachers will receive much higher salary increased through a special supplement that emphasizes retaining instructors in rural counties.

Custodians and other non-instructional staff at schools also will be paid at least $15 an hour starting next year. Most state employees also get 5% raises and bonuses.

Cooper highlighted many of these provisions as “critical for our state to emerge from this pandemic stronger than ever.”

Legislators now plan to return to Raleigh on Nov. 29, with a goal of wrapping up most of this year’s business that week, which could include addressing Cooper’s vetoes on other legislation. The General Assembly convened the session in January.

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Bladen County A judge delayed when the key player in an absentee-ballot fraud case must report to federal prison, because of the defendant’s health issues. Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. of Bladen County was supposed to report to a South Carolina prison by Dec. 1 to serve a sixmonth term, but his lawyer asked that it be pushed back to April 1 because of his health problems. Judge Terrence Boyle granted the extension. Dowless, who is in his mid-60s, had a stroke in August and may have lung cancer. He needs time for follow-up medical appointments to determine his course of care.

Greene County Precision Graphics Inc., an electronics manufacturing solutions company, announced that it would be moving a production facility to Snow Hill in Greene County. Precision does work in the robotics, industrial, auto, telecom, aerospace and medical industries. The new facility will create 70 new jobs which are expected to have an average salary of $41,443, which exceeds the county’s average salary by more than $10,000.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

The Gettysburg Gospel, Thanksgiving and the rebirth of freedom

Thanksgiving should be celebrated more as a memorial covenant to the “born again” America that Lincoln talked about at Gettysburg than solely being remembered for Squanto’s kindness towards the Puritans.

WE HAVE THIS TRINITY of “holy” civic documents underlying our collective life together in America: the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Gettysburg Address.

We have the Fourth of July as our high-holy civic “Christmas” commemorating the birth of our republic through the Declaration.

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address makes sure July 4 will be forever intertwined with Thanksgiving, which essentially is our civic “Easter” for its role in the resurrection of freedom for all Americans.

Thanksgiving should be celebrated more as a memorial and covenant to the “born again” America that Lincoln talked about at Gettysburg than solely being remembered for Squanto’s kindness towards the Puritans.

American history can be divided metaphorically into the “Old Testament” — life when slavery was allowed under the Constitution — and the “New Testament” under the amended Constitution after slavery had been defeated. It was at Gettysburg 158 years ago that Lincoln announced the philosophical and spiritual “Good News” for what America was going to become after the horrendous conflict was over.

Author Gabor Boritt wrote “The Gettysburg Gospel” to explore the profound religious undertones and themes easily recognizable to 19th century Americans, which Lincoln adroitly deployed in his understated, yet immaculate Gettysburg Address.

He gave his address on Nov. 19, one week before the first national day of Thanksgiving while suffering from variola, a mild form of smallpox.

Two months earlier, he had declared the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens” for the Union victory at Gettysburg.

Lincoln was routinely derided as a hick from the Illinois sticks for his lack of formal education and awkward appearance and gait. But he knew exactly what he was doing when he delivered his 271-word speech around 3 p.m. on a clear crisp late autumn afternoon at the new Soldiers National Cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield, stillbloodstained four months after the previous July 4 weekend battle.

Lincoln used every literary tool in his arsenal of memorized quotations, themes and rhythms from the King James Bible; every Shakespearean play and Pericles’ “Funeral Oration” to paint a sublime portrait of the new “Born-Again” America to come.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the

proposition that all men are created equal.”

“Fourscore and seven” was a familiar reference from Psalms 90.

“Brought forth,” “conceived” and “shall not perish” in the closing line evoked biblical images of physical and spiritual birth, death and eternal life.

“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

Lincoln wanted the American people to look beyond the horrors of war and recognize the “unfinished work” they would have to accomplish together as free people, both North and South, white and black alike, in order to form “a more perfect Union” “with malice toward none, with charity for all.”

Lincoln knew about an 1858 lecture by transcendental abolitionist minister Theodore Parker of Massachusetts, who wrote: “Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.”

In Lincoln’s word construction, Parker’s observations became the closing line of one of the most powerful speeches in human history.

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Give thanks this Thanksgiving for the blessings of the rebirth of freedom in 1863. Pray for a new rebirth today. Amen.

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

The fascinating, unlikely victory of New Jersey’s Edward Durr

Durr launched a campaign in which he spent approximately $2,400, according to media reports, some of which was reportedly used to provide Dunkin’ Donuts to volunteers for their help.

In a story that is about as “American” as it gets, an unlikely election victory took place earlier this month in the state of New Jersey that both shocked and delighted the country, depending on which side of the political aisle you’re on.

It involved a furniture-company truck driver, around $2,400, some Dunkin’ Donuts, and the powerful long-time leader of the state’s Senate.

Republican Edward Durr is that truck driver.

He threw his hat into the ring against Democrat state Senate President Steve Sweeney because he didn’t like that he was denied a concealedcarry permit. Durr was also deeply concerned at the direction his state was headed in with the restrictive statewide COVID mandates put in place by Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy.

So Durr launched a campaign in which he spent approximately $2,400, according to media reports, some of which was reportedly used to provide Dunkin’ Donuts to volunteers for their help. In contrast, Sweeney spent between $300,000 to $500,000 (reports vary) on his failed re-election campaign. Quite the contrast, to say the least.

One tactic that might have helped Durr over the finish line — he won by a little over 2,000 votes — is that he took an old-school approach

to win over voters. He cut a simple yet humble campaign ad via the use of his mobile phone camera, put up a basic website, and conducted a shoe-leather campaign where he himself knocked on the doors of residents in the Third Legislative District to get their opinions on the issues.

In between his truck routes, of course.

In addition to running a campaign and displaying an authenticity that obviously appealed to New Jersey voters, Durr, a father to three and grandfather to six, was also no doubt helped by the fact that an apparent red wave was taking place in the state, similar to what happened in Virginia, although Gov. Murphy won his re-election campaign by a slim margin and the state legislature is still controlled by Democrats.

After it was clear the race was over, both Sweeney and Murphy in separate public appearances acted like they were at a funeral for a dearly beloved fallen mobster, clearly flabbergasted like many other Democrats were that the second most powerful man in the state went down in defeat to a guy who proudly boasted of his truck driving career and his prized Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Since the Associated Press officially called

the race for Durr and Sweeney conceded, Durr’s gotten a lot of media attention, including from the Washington Post. The paper seemed highly miffed that the media didn’t do much scouring of Durr’s social media posts, which they claimed might have kept him from winning.

Former President Donald Trump even called to congratulate him.

Gov. Murphy, while paying homage to Sweeney’s “leadership” during his decades in the state senate, declared Durr “dangerous” — because apparently in his view there is no need for a political outsider who has been highly critical of Murphy’s deadly handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic to come to the state’s capital to shake things up a bit.

“I don’t know if I truly am fearless or stupid.

Because who in their right mind would take on a person [like Sweeney] with that kind of power and clout?” Durr told NJ.com, adding that Sweeney’s high position in state government “did not scare me.” “…what chance did a person like me really stand against this man?” he wondered. “He’s literally the second-most powerful person in the state of New Jersey.”

But he’s not anymore, thanks to a plucky, unknown 59-year-old blue-collar guy from Gloucester County named Edward Durr.

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 | SARAH STEVENS

The most expensive Thanksgiving in history Biden’s righthand man, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, has called skyrocketing prices for food and gas a “highclass problem.”

As we look forward to celebrating Thanksgiving, there is so much to be thankful for: our family, friends, faith, health and so much more. I for one, am grateful for the opportunity to serve the folks of the Piedmont in Raleigh. Their hard work, tenacity and North Carolina pride doesn’t go unnoticed and neither do the hardships they are facing this holiday season.

Right now, Americans are predicted to experience the most expensive Thanksgiving in history. Our usual Thanksgiving turkey could cost up to 25% more than it did last year. In fact, nearly every traditional Thanksgiving dish will be more expensive this November.

That is, if we even get a turkey at all. Biden’s ongoing supply-chain crisis threatens the availability of goods across the board. As of Oct. 31, food supplies were “4% to 11% lower than normal,” which means many North Carolinians will be hardpressed to find Thanksgiving dinner ingredients at their local grocery store.

Unfortunately, Thanksgiving won’t be the only place we’re feeling Biden’s failures. Christmas is tracking to be just as painful. Gifts to loved ones might not make it under the Christmas tree this year as cargo ships loaded with goods stall at our ports, unable to unload, and as truckers nationwide threaten to resign. It’s possible they could possibly quit in droves, thanks to Biden’s unconstitutional forced vaccine mandate. In just 10 short months, Joe Biden has managed to break the systems that make our economy work.

All of these holiday woes are compounded by a winter where we will be forced to pay more to keep the heat on in our homes due to Joe Biden’s war on energy. During last year’s holiday season, Democrats became the Grinch who stole Christmas, with overreaching lockdowns and fear-mongering that kept families apart. Now, they’re up to no good again

by making holiday food and gifts more expensive.

The Biden administration and the Democrats have no idea what it’s like for everyday North Carolinians. Maybe that’s why they’re twiddling their thumbs instead of fixing the many crises they’ve created.

Rather than leading an economic recovery, Biden’s right-hand man, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, has called skyrocketing prices for food and gas a “high-class problem.”

I don’t know what Klain is thinking, but when a hardworking North Carolinian can’t afford to put gas in their car to go to work or buy food to feed their family, I call it an “everybody problem.”

Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm burst into laughter and called a question about the administration’s lowering gas prices “hilarious.”

Unlike Granholm, exorbitant gas prices are no laughing matter to me or my constituents.

The Biden administration is actively trying to make things worse. Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate would leave businesses scrambling, worsen labor shortages and push inflation even higher.

Something’s got to give when it comes to these economic crises we’re facing, and it’s clear that Biden and his elitist cabinet members won’t be the ones to do it.

While this holiday season may look different due to Biden’s skyrocketing inflation and supplychain crises, we must remember that we have an opportunity to make a change next November by electing pro-growth conservatives who know what it takes to create a booming economy. This Thanksgiving, I’m going to give thanks for the common-sense of North Carolinians, which will lead us to a Republican rescue in next year’s midterm elections.

Sarah Stevens is NCGA House speaker pro tempore.

COLUMN | MICHAEL BARONE

Biden stimulus failures could produce 1920s-style Republican victories Republicans could win more House seats next year than they have since the 1920s.

WHAT’S WRONG with the economy? Nobody seems quite sure, but it’s clear that the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed in March, on top of the $900 billion approved in December, the last full month of the Trump administration, has not had the intended results.

Yes, the economy has grown, and so have wages.

But the assurances of President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that inflation is just “transitory” grow less and less credible.

Warnings of this came not just from Republicans but from impeccably credentialed Democrats — from former Treasury secretary and Obama administration economic adviser Lawrence Summers and from Obama’s Council on Economic Advisers head administration lead economic adviser Jason Furman.

Similar apprehension was expressed this week by Clinton administration domestic adviser William Galston in the Wall Street Journal and from Obama consigliere Steven Rattner in the New York Times.

“Inflation isn’t going away” is the headline of Galston’s article. “Enough already about ‘transitory’ inflation,” read the lead sentence in Rattner’s.

Biden’s policies, including another trillion dollars in the recently signed “infrastructure” bill and another few trillion in the Building Back Better proposal, seem based on policies that became standard operating procedure in the decades after World War II. In those days, you got economic recessions when big auto and steel companies piled up inventories — they didn’t have computer tracking — and laid off their blue-collar workers. I saw this growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, when my physician father’s income dropped by half in the recession of 1957-58.

Recoveries occurred when money was pumped in by Federal Reserve interest rates cuts or the Kennedy tax cuts.

But the American economy no longer operates like one giant factory. A better description is economist Arnold Kling’s PSST theory, which argues the economy consists of numerous patterns of sustainable specialization and trade.

These were disrupted in two unfamiliar ways following the recession of 2007-09 and amid the COVID-19 restrictions of 2020-21. The recession came after 24 years of the “great moderation,” with low inflation and substantial growth only briefly interrupted by two mild recessions.

Over that time, many patterns of specialization and trade had grown flaccid and stale. The fall 2008 collapse prompted firms to slough off what economist Tyler Cowen called “zero marginal product” operations and workers.

Democrats Summers and Furman attribute the sluggishness of the post-2008 economic recovery to the Obama administration’s inability to pump more money into the economy. In contrast, they argue, this

year, Biden Democrats over-compensated by pumping in too much.

But it takes time for entrepreneurs, managers and workers to develop new sustainable patterns of specialization and trade. And the Obama stimulus, on the advice of feminists, de-emphasized jobs for “burly men” and instead subsidized public-sector jobs, many of which (e.g., university administrators) subtracted rather than added value to the larger economy.

These past 22 months have seen large parts of the economy severely disrupted, while others are preternaturally busy as affluent elites work comfortably in home offices over Zoom. Many have responded by exiting the workforce, as many women did after female workforce participation peaked in the 1998-2000 boom.

Thus, workforce participation hasn’t rebounded to pre-COVID levels, and many employers can’t find workers to take open jobs. The disruption of formerly sustainable PSST shows up in supply chain delays, truck driver shortages, computer chip nonavailability and record numbers of people quitting their jobs last month.

It reminds me of the song “Take This Job and Shove It,” which came out in 1977, another year of high inflation, sluggish growth and economic policy misfire.

One problem: Policymakers lack precedents of pandemic-triggered shutdown to learn from, though perhaps the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 amid raging inflation and then recession could provide useful instruction. There were only limited and local shutdowns, and the bedridden Democratic President Woodrow Wilson ignored macroeconomic ructions.

He was repudiated 60% to 34% in the 1920 election, and his successor, Republican Warren Harding, just let the recession burn itself out, as James Grant recounts in “The Forgotten Depression: 1921.” Americans quickly developed new patterns of sustainable specialization and trade. In the next dozen years, they were able to buy their first automobiles, refrigerators and washing machines.

My view is that economists, like political scientists, have been over-fixated on the Republican collapse and Democratic successes in the 1930s and have ignored lessons from the quantitatively greater Democratic collapse in 1918-21 and the Republican successes in the 1920s. Maybe it’s just coincidence of happenstance, but current polling suggests that if opinion stays fixed — a big if — Republicans could win more House seats next year than they have since the 1920s. Too much stimulus may be worse than no stimulus at all.

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

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A7 COLUMN TAMI FITZGERALD

The power of mama bears PARENTS HAVE a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed this right. Yet, education elites have been on a collision course with parental rights, exhibiting that they are intent on using public schools as a laboratory for social experiments like Critical Race Theory, gender fluidity, social justice and early sexualization of children.

This year in Virginia, parents finally had enough. What happened in Virginia won’t stay there. It’s exactly what parents in North Carolina have been battling for almost five years now. The uprising by parents who don’t want their children’s education usurped for social experimentation is shaping up to be a major influence on North Carolina’s elections in 2022.

During the recent race in Virginia, the Democrats chose not to woo the Mama Bear demographic but chose instead to attack this group, and did so at their own peril. Virginia’s past governor, Terry McAuliffe said during his recent campaign for a second term that “Parents have no right to tell teachers what kids need to learn.”

The results of the Virginia elections clearly proved that in a “very blue state,” moms (and dads) voted for candidates who took up their fight to protect their children from harmful indoctrination, with little regard to political affiliation.

For voting to protect their children, these parents were labeled as “Trumpers” by the mainstream media and “domestic terrorists” by the White House. The left awakened the “Mama Bears” in Virginia by going after their kids, and parents showed that they can become a motivated voting base when their children are attacked.

There is an old adage in western culture: “If you love sausage, don’t ever visit the sausage factory.” And I believe that adage holds true today, as caring and concerned parents are discovering what their children are actually being taught in our public schools. These parents love the idea of a quality public school education but have a growing sense that something just isn’t right.

For several years, our organization — the NC Values Coalition — has tried to make significant and meaningful changes to our state’s education system that would bring transparency about what children are being taught in our classrooms. Parents have a right to know. After Virginia’s political reversal this year, we hope that North Carolina’s leaders will take seriously the issue of harmful classroom indoctrination and make that a priority in the upcoming election. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has done an excellent job of exposing the harmful curriculum and books being used in our public schools, and his voice is resonating with parents across our state.

Parents are concerned that a welldisguised agenda is being driven by a small but vocal minority of teachers and administrators who deceive parents about what they are teaching, treat parents as obstacles, and deny that they are really teaching CRT and other harmful ideas. Fueled by radical leftwing groups, this movement provides free curriculum, materials, and teacher training to get a foothold in schools.

It has infiltrated every aspect of our children’s education.

Critical Race Theory is just the latest version, but it’s been preceded by Planned Parenthood-designed sex-ed curriculum, anti-bullying instruction written by the Human Rights Campaign, social-justice instruction by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a NCHSAA rule allowing biological boys claiming to be transgender to compete on girls’ sports teams and share their locker rooms. No wonder parents are frustrated and angry!

It’s time for parents in North Carolina to rise up and elect leaders who will stop classroom indoctrination that harms children and grooms them for left-wing political activism and sexual exploitation, while keeping parents at bay and in the dark. Our children are precious, not testing grounds for social experiments.

If candidates in North Carolina in 2022 don’t address this growing crisis, they may befall the same fate as the elite crowd in Virginia.

It is our duty, and our God-given right as parents and citizens, to absolutely ensure that all children are educated in the areas that matter — an accurate account of history, science, math, reading and writing — and that harmful indoctrination doesn’t replace real education in the classroom.

What a great nation we are truly blessed to live in. There is a reason why for more than a century America has been the nation millions have flocked to, legally, to create a better life for themselves and their families. With a foundation of life, liberty, justice, equality and freedom for all citizens, it’s a legacy we can’t afford to lose.

Tami Fitzgerald is executive director of the NC Values Coalition

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Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk speaks to the audience at the “Exposing Critical Racism Theory” tour held at the Mayo Clinic Health System Event on Oct. 5, 2021, in Mankato, Minn.

How a right-wing provocateur is reaching Gen Z The Associated Press MANKATO, Minnesota — For years, Charlie Kirk and his group, Turning Point USA, have built a following on college campuses.

Kirk thrived during President Donald Trump’s tenure — landing speaking spots at the Republican National Convention in 2016 and 2020 and occasionally counseling Trump on campaign messaging and tactics.

Now the 28-year-old is expanding his reach, trying to rally a next generation. On a recent tour of college towns, he blasts schools and local governments for teaching Critical Race Theory, with a confrontational style some left-wing activists call dangerous. Yet Kirk is drawing large crowds of millennials and Gen Zers, millions of online followers and donor cash, often with little media attention.

Like many leading Republicans, including Virginia Gov.elect Glenn Youngkin and Trump, Kirk seizes on opposition to Critical Race Theory. Kirk’s answer is a free K-12 alternative curriculum described as the key to a “reliable, honest and quality America-first education,” and is

aimed primarily at homeschooling parents.

It’s just one offering in Kirk’s buzzing conservative content portal designed to meet young people where they live online.

There’s also an array of podcasts hosted by Kirk and other conservative figures, and a “Professor Watchlist” to label instructors “who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda.”

“Turning Point Live” is a three-hour streaming talk show aimed at Gen Z and featuring 20-something host John Root.

Recent guests include Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, both Republicans.

And there’s plenty of swag: “Buy merch. Save America,” the site suggests.

Turning Point USA’s online audience is large and growing. It averaged 83,000 monthly unique visitors over the past three years, but it grew to a monthly average of 111,000 in the past year, according to the digital intelligence firm Similarweb. That’s more than three times the traffic for conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s website over the past

year.

That traffic is driven in part by at least a dozen social media accounts across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that, combined, have more than 10 million followers online.

Money into Kirk’s nonprofit network has followed the traffic.

Turning Point USA is a 501c3 nonprofit, meaning contributions are tax-deductible and its donors are not disclosed. But in 2019, the most recent year for which tax records are public, Turning Point USA raised more than $28 million, according to Internal Revenue Service filings. That’s almost twice what it raised in 2014, its first-year as a tax-exempt charity.

Kirk also leads a fundraising group aimed specifically at political advocacy. That group, Turning Point Action, has endorsed several congressional candidates for 2022. The list includes Washington’s Joe Kent, Illinois’ Catalina Lauf, Florida’s Anna Paulina Luna and Ohio’s Max Miller, all candidates who ran to oppose GOP House members who voted for Trump’s second impeachment.

Raised in the upper-income Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Kirk became politically involved young, volunteering in middle school and high school on political campaigns. His quick rise began shortly after high school when he quit attending Harper College, a Chicago-area community college, to pursue political activism and co-founded Turning Point USA with Chicago-area tea party activist and mentor Bill Montgomery.

Kirk’s “Exposing Critical Rac-

ism Theory” tour has promoted recent stops in Alabama, Idaho, Michigan, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and Vermont. Last month, he packed a convention-center ballroom in Mankato, Minnesota, with roughly 600 people — mostly teenagers and college students — on a Tuesday evening.

Once a prairie farming hub south of Minneapolis, Mankato has swelled into a diversifying mini-metro. Minnesota State University, food production plants and the Mayo Clinic’s satellite campus all have drawn African and Latin American immigrants, while the black population has grown steadily.

For 90 minutes, Kirk spoke forcefully and told them radical leftists want them to feel ashamed.

“Just because you’re a white person does not mean you have to begin apologizing simply for how God made you,” he said.

Rep. Jim Hagedorn, the local Republican congressman, was in the audience and later said in a Facebook post that he “enjoyed attending” and hearing Kirk “discuss the need to stand up and defend America and our founding principles.”

Riley Carlson, the campus coordinator for Turning Point USA at Minnesota State, said she didn’t know much about Critical Race Theory before the event.

“We’re just excited Charlie is here to explain it,” said the senior from St. Michael, a Minneapolis suburb. “There’s so many different ways you can look at it. And I’m looking for where I stand on it.”

Columbia, Mo. Conservatives railed against JPMorgan Chase after a subsidiary pulled out of a business deal related to a Missouri political fundraiser that was to feature Donald Trump Jr. Missouri political action committee Defense of Liberty was using online payment company WePay for ticketing for the Dec. 3 event in the suburban St. Louis city of St. Charles.

But state Sen. Bill Eigel, a co-host, said WePay cut off services to Defense of Liberty on Nov. 9.

According to a screenshot of an email provided by Eigel, WePay wrote that the PAC violated its terms of service against “hate, violence, racial intolerance, terrorism, the financial exploitation of a crime” or encouraging that behavior.

Chase representatives didn’t respond to Associated Press questions seeking more information on why WePay stated Defense of Liberty violated that policy.

After another organizer announced that the event would be canceled, Chase reversed course a day later.

“After further review, we determined that this organization didn’t violate the terms of service, and we are reaching out to the client to discuss reinstating the account,” a Chase spokesperson said in a statement. “To be clear, we have never and would never close an account due to a client’s political affiliation.”

Eigel said he wants to reschedule the event for a later date.

“The damage is done, no matter what happens moving forward,” Eigel said.

Republicans see the dispute as an example of “cancel culture” attacking conservatives.

Attorney General Eric Schmitt, as well as U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, each wrote letters to J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon questioning the decision.

“Missouri will not tolerate a powerful bank discriminating against political views with which it disagrees,” Schmitt wrote in his letter. “Missourians deserve an explanation for why this event was canceled.”

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Linebacker DJ Taylor and Wake Forest get one last chance to clinch the ACC Atlantic Division title when they visit Boston College on Saturday.

Win and you’re in: Wake needs ‘W’ to reach ACC title game COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Lenoir-Rhyne football player killed in shooting Hickory A tight end for the Lenoir‑Rhyne football team was shot and killed early Sunday outside of an apartment complex in Hickory, just hours after his team’s season-ending loss, officials said. According to WBTV-TV, Omari Alexander, 19, was shot multiple times while he sat in the driver’s seat of a black 2015 Chevrolet Camaro in Hickory.

Officers found him around 12:50 a.m. with the engine still running in the parking lot of an apartment complex.

Alexander was a redshirt freshman from Charlotte and went to high school at Mallard Creek, according to LenoirRhyne’s official website.

Deacons drop to 21st, Wolfpack up to No. 24 in latest AP poll Indianapolis Wake Forest slid eight spots in The Associated Press Top 25 college football released Sunday following its 48-27 loss at Clemson. The Demon Deacons can still win the ACC’s Atlantic Division with a win Saturday at Boston College. NC State, which moved up one spot to No. 24 with its win at Syracuse, could also win the Atlantic with a Wake Forest loss and a win over rival UNC on Friday at Carter-Finley Stadium. No. 20 Pittsburgh has already clinched a spot in the ACC Championship Game in Charlotte following its home win Saturday over Virginia.

Unbeaten Georgia remained No. 1 in the poll, while Ohio State moved up three spots to No. 2 following its blowout win over Michigan State. Alabama, Cincinnati and Notre Dame rounded out the top five. Ohio State will play No. 6 Michigan on Saturday in Ann Arbor for a spot in the Big Ten title game.

The Demon Deacons get their second chance at clinching the league’s Atlantic Division when they travel to Boston College for Saturday’s regular season finale

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal WAKE FOREST’S grip on the ACC Atlantic Division football championship isn’t as firm as it once was. But even after Saturday’s 48-27 loss at Clemson, the title and a trip to the conference championship game in Charlotte are still within the Deacons’ grasp.

All they have to do is take care of business in this week’s regular season finale at Boston College.

“They’re all big at this point in the year when you’re playing for a conference championship, but

“If you win it, you advance. If you don’t, get ready for a bowl game.”

Dave Clawson, Wake Forest coach clearly that’s a one-and-done,” Wake coach Dave Clawson said of the upcoming showdown with the Eagles. “If you win it, you advance.

If you don’t, get ready for a bowl game.

“We’ve got to have a great week of preparation and work hard.

Playing on the road is always a challenge.”

It has been recently for Clawson’s 21st-ranked Deacons.

After starting the season with eight straight wins and rising to a program-best No. 9 in the na-

tional polls, they’ve lost two of the past three games. Both losses were played away from Winston-Salem.

Because one of those setbacks was designated as a nonconference matchup — at North Carolina on Nov. 6 — Wake continues to control its destiny in the division.

But the margin for error it enjoyed before heading to Death Valley is gone.

The Deacons (9-2, 6-1 ACC) would lose a tiebreaker to NC State in a three-way logjam for the Atlantic title with the Wolfpack (8-3, 5-2) and Clemson. The six-time defending league champion Tigers (8-3, 6-2) would advance to the title game against Coastal winner Pittsburgh in the event of a twoway deadlock with the Deacons.

The only way Wake can secure its second division crown and a shot at its first ACC championship since 2006 is by beating BC on Saturday.

While the pressure is square-

ly on Wake against a 6-5 Eagles team that has played better since the return of starting quarterback Phil Jurkovic, Deacons quarterback Sam Hartman is confident in his team’s ability to handle the situation.

It helps that they’ve won their last three trips to Chestnut Hill dating back to 2015, including a 27-24 victory two seasons ago.

“If you tell me (at the start of the season) that we’re 9-2 going into Boston College playing for an ACC championship, I can’t tell you that I wouldn’t be excited or fired up,” Hartman said. “So that’s got to be the mentality.”

As much as it “stings and burns” to lose to Clemson, the fourth-year sophomore said he and his teammates should be able to get the disappointment out of their system quickly.

“You’d love to have got this one,” he said. “But it’s one week, 1-0 next week.”

The key to doing that is avoiding turnovers, something the Deacons haven’t been able to do lately.

They committed only seven in their first eight games combined, three fumbles and four interceptions. In the three games since, See WAKE, page B4

Blue Devils prepare for top-ranked Gonzaga Duke has a neutral site matchup with the Bulldogs on Friday in Las Vegas

By Shawn Krest North State Journal DUKE TRAVELS to Las Vegas on Black Friday to face its biggest challenge of this college basketball season. The Blue Devils will face No. 1 ranked Gonzaga.

The Zags finished one game shy of an undefeated national championship season last year and will be looking to finish the job this time around. Gonzaga may have a more talented roster this year than last year’s 31-1 squad.

Gonzaga lost a pair of All-Americans in Jalen Suggs and Corey Kispert, as well as starter Joel Ayayi, but coach Mark Few added one of the top incoming classes in the nation to a strong core of returning players.

The Zags added three five-star freshmen and a grad transfer. The gem of the class is 7-footer Chet Holmgren, who was the top recruit in the nation. Able to handle the ball like a guard, he’s been labeled a “unicorn” by NBA scouts who expect him to go near the top of next year’s draft.

He hasn’t sprouted a horn yet,

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Veteran forward Wendell Moore Jr., right, and freshman Paolo Banchero, left, have helped Duke to a perfect start and will be key to the Blue Devils’ game plan when they face No. 1 Gonzaga on Friday in Las Vegas. but he otherwise seems to be on his way to living up to expectations, averaging 11.3 points with 7.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.5 blocked shots. Duke’s Mark Williams and Theo John will likely share responsibility for keeping Holmgren in check during Friday’s game.

Freshman Nolan Hickman (7.8 points) and Hunter Sallis (6.8 points) are also in the Zags rotation, and all three freshmen are hitting 55% or better from the field as Gonzaga leads the nation in shooting.

The Zags also added Iowa State transfer Rasir Bolton. The veter-

an point guard is averaging 10.3 points and leads the team with 9-of-16 shooting from three, including a half-court buzzer-beater in a win over Texas earlier this season. He’s freed from the responsibility of running the offense thanks to returning senior Andrew Nembhard, who leads the team with 5.5 assists per night.

The newcomers have integrated well with the returnees from last season’s runner-ups. In addition to Nembhard, the Zags rely on All-American Drew Timme, who is averaging 20.8 points and 5.3 rebounds.

It’s tough to find a weakness on the Zags. Gonzaga has size, scoring wings and a deep, experienced backcourt. The Bulldogs have the most efficient offense in the country along with the No. 12 defense.

They rebound well and defend well inside and out.

Of course, Duke has also shown very few weaknesses this season, running out to a 4-0 record heading into Monday’s tune-up against The Citadel. The Blue Devils have won their last four by double figures and the last two by an average of 36.5 points.

Duke has a mythical creature of its own in power forward Paolo See DUKE, page B3

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TRENDING

Dan Mullen: Florida fired its football coach Sunday, a day after his sixth loss in nine games and just two months after the Gators went toe‑to‑toe with defending national champion Alabama.

Mullen finished 34‑15 over four seasons at Florida that included a trip to the SEC championship game last year and three New Year’s Six bowls. Special teams coordinator and running backs coach Greg Knox will serve as interim coach.

Brayden Point: The Tampa Bay center will be sidelined indefinitely because of an upper‑body injury, the two‑time Stanley Cup champion Lightning announced Sunday. Point appeared to favor his left shoulder or arm following a hard crash into the end boards after being tripped in Saturday night’s loss to New Jersey. He had an NHL‑best 14 goals in last season’s playoffs.

Alex Cora: The Red Sox have picked up the option on their manager for two more seasons, rewarding Cora for taking them to the AL Championship Series in his first year back after serving his one‑year sign‑stealing suspension. Cora, 46, is now under contract through 2024. A former infielder who was a member of Boston’s 2007 World Series championship team, Cora is 284‑202 in three seasons as manager. In his first year, 2018, he led the club to a franchise‑record 108 victories and a World Series title. Cora was let go a year later when he was identified as one of the ringleaders in the Houston Astros cheating scandal.

Beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

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Kelley O’Hara scored in the 97th minute to give the Washington Spirit the NWSL championship with a 2-1 extra time victory over the Chicago Red Stars on Saturday.

Six players from North Carolina schools are on the Spirit’s roster, led by starting goaltender Aubrey Bledsoe of Wake Forest (pictured). Paige Nielsen, Dorian Bailey, and Morgan Goff all went to UNC, Dunn native Bayley Feist attended Wake Forest, and backup goaltender Sydney Schneider played three seasons at UNC Wilmington.

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“I’m very disappointed, but I’m not discouraged.”

UNC coach Hubert Davis after the Tar Heels lost 89-72 to Tennessee on Sunday for their second straight defeat.

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“I felt good.

I really did.”

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West Virginia coach Bob Huggins got his 904th career victory Sunday, moving the longtime coach past former UNC coach Roy Williams for fourth place on college basketball’s all‑time win list. Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski (1,170), Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim (982) and former UConn coach Jim Calhoun (918) rank first through third.

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Washington Football Team coach Ron Rivera on cheers from the crowd in his return to Bank of America Stadium.

The date of Charlotte FC’s first home game at Bank of America Stadium. Major League Soccer announced Monday that the expansion team — originally slated to join the league in 2021 — will make its league debut Feb. 26 at D.C. United before hosting the LA Galaxy in its home opener on March 5.

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The Sacramento Kings fired coach Luke Walton on Sunday after a 6-11 start to the season that included losses in seven of the team’s last eight games.

Walton had a 68-93 record in two‑plus seasons as coach. Associate coach Alvin Gentry is taking over on an interim basis, his fifth time as an NBA head coach.

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NASCAR will return both practice and qualifying to its weekend schedule for all three national series in 2022. The on-track activity for the Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Truck series had been mostly scrapped the last two seasons during the pandemic. NASCAR will use a knockout-style format for qualifying in 2022 that will vary depending on both track type and series.

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B3 DUKE from page B1 Banchero, who will likely be matched up with Timme. Banchero is averaging 15.8 points and 8.0 rebounds, and he has shown the ability to handle the ball as well. He’s the centerpiece of an incoming class that rivals Gonzaga’s. Fellow freshman Trevor Keels is averaging 13.8 points and four rebounds while leading the team in outside shooting.

AJ Griffin has been slowed by a preseason injury, but he is showing signs of getting back to full strength. He lit it up from outside in Duke’s game last Friday.

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Wide receiver Thayer Thomas and NC State face rival UNC on Friday, and the Wolfpack still have a chance to win the Atlantic Division and play in the ACC Championship Game.

Double duty: NC State looks to stay alive in Atlantic race, dispatch rival Tar Heels The Wolfpack could still make the ACC title game with a win over UNC and loss by Wake Forest

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal DRAKE THOMAS ran back an interception for a pick-six and Thayer Thomas caught a scoring pass from Devin Leary in NC State’s 41-17 rout of Syracuse on Saturday. By doing so, they became the first set of Wolfpack brothers since Dave and Don Buckey in 1975 to score touchdowns in the same season.

But that’s not why Thayer is counting his blessings this Thanksgiving.

“I’m thankful that we still have a chance to play for an ACC championship,” the redshirt junior receiver said. “It’s been a special season, and it’s not anywhere close to over.

We’ve got a lot left in the tank.

We’re going to have a good run at the end of this thing.”

State kept its Atlantic Division hopes alive on Saturday with one of its most complete efforts of the season, scoring touchdowns through the air and on the ground, on defense and special teams while improving to 8-3 (5-2 ACC).

The problem is coach Dave Do-

eren’s 24th-ranked team is still going to need help to earn a trip to the ACC Championship game and a shot at its first league title since 1979.

Wake Forest can clinch the division with a win at Boston College on Saturday. A loss, however, would leave the door open for the Wolfpack.

That is, assuming State can take care of its own business 24 hours earlier.

Thursday might be the date on which people gather for the traditional Thanksgiving feast of turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings. For many football fans around the state, the main course won’t be served until Friday night when the Wolfpack takes on North Carolina at Carter-Finley Stadium in a rivalry game with even more at stake than usual.

Because of the intensity surrounding the matchup with the Tar Heels, Doeren is confident that his team will be locked in on the task at hand rather than being distracted by a goal it may or may not have an opportunity to achieve.

“We put ourselves in a position where we don’t control the finish, but we do control what happens if we can get a win here at home on Senior Day against our rival,” he said. “That’s what we’ll focus on.

Obviously, we’ll be Boston College

fans this week, pulling for them too.”

It’s no surprise that one of the teams in Friday’s regular season finale still holds championship aspirations. The fact that it’s the Wolfpack represents a reversal of expectations since it was UNC that began the year as the presumptive title contender.

The Tar Heels’ hopes all but ended before they could even get started with an opening week loss at Virginia Tech.

Coach Mack Brown’s team enters the game at 6-5 overall and 3-4 in the ACC. Having gained bowl eligibility with a win against Wofford last week, the most tangible goals left in an otherwise disappointing season are a mythical state title — UNC has already beaten Duke and Wake Forest — and the opportunity to deliver a heartbreaking blow to the Wolfpack’s Atlantic Division chances.

“It’s a huge rivalry game for our university and our fans, I understand that,” the Hall of Fame coach said. “Both these universities and fan bases are passionate about this game, and they want to win. It’s bragging rights for a year, and that’s very important.”

That’s not the only reason it’s important to Brown and the Tar Heels.

“We need to get better as a pro-

gram,” he said, adding that to elevate from good to great, his team needs to prove it can beat good teams away from home. “So this is a huge program game for us to win on the road and get better.”

It will help that starting quarterback Sam Howell is back at practice and expected to play after missing last week’s game with an upper body injury.

“He’s our face. He’s our leader,” Brown said of UNC’s all-time leader in passing yardage and touchdown passes. “Sam’s tough. He’s a competitor and he would want to play in this game because he knows how important it is to his team, his university and the state. He’ll be excited about Friday night.”

State’s players will be just as fired up both about the rivalry, a fact that may help in taking some of the emphasis off the bigger picture goals that are still on the table.

“You can’t look too far into the future,” said running back Zonovan Knight, who has run kickoffs back for touchdowns in each of the past two games. “You have to focus on that night, that game plan and just kind of keep pushing throughout. When the next week comes, you move onto them and let the past be the past and let the present be the present. Just live in the moment and go from there.”

Duke’s all-time record against Gonzaga.

The teams have split their two most recent meetings — a Bulldogs win in 2018 and a Blue Devils victory in 2015.

“He’s getting in shape,” said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“He was out for two and a half weeks, and just so you know, he didn’t play in high school for two years. It’s a big learning curve, but he’s in better shape now. It’s not just one or two plays, he can play multiple plays. Obviously he shot well, but he can shoot. He has one of the softest shots. Just keep coming and he’ll make us better.”

Big man John is one of two grad transfers who have added depth to the Blue Devils’ roster.

Duke also has an experienced core, something that has been lacking in previous one-and-done era teams. Point guard Jeremy Roach returns along with big man Williams.

Wendell Moore has been a surprise, leading the team in scoring at 16.6 points. He also has 6.0 rebounds and leads the team in assists. He’s the only power conference player averaging 16 points, six rebounds and five assists while hitting more than half of his shots from the field.

While Duke has plenty of talent on offense, the defensive performance has been even more encouraging. The Blue Devils held four straight opponents below 60 points, which is the second-longest streak in Coach K’s career. The Blue Devils are holding foes to .375 shooting, .255 from three and forcing 15.4 turnovers.

Both teams will be facing a huge early-season test in Las Vegas, and there’s a good chance it won’t be the last time Duke and Gonzaga see each other this year.

Red-hot Pirates target upset against No. 4 Cincinnati East Carolina has won four straight and has already clinched a winning record

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal EVERY WEEK, it seems, the East Carolina football team checks another goal off its to-do list.

There was the overtime win at Memphis that earned bowl eligibility for the first time since 2014.

That was followed by last Saturday’s dramatic victory at Navy that clinched a winning record, thanks to a last-second 54-yard field goal by freshman kicker Owen Daffer.

They are accomplishments that have made the 2021 season an unmitigated success regardless of what happens from here on out.

But the Pirates aren’t ready to start celebrating yet.

With a regular season finale against undefeated, fourthranked Cincinnati coming up at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Friday, coach Mike Houston and his team have an opportunity to take another quantum leap in their three-year building effort.

It’s a game few believe ECU has a chance of winning, let alone staying close with a Bearcats team looking to state its case for a spot in the College Football Playoff.

At this point, though, the Pirates aren’t concerned about what anyone else believes. According to their coach, the only thing that matters is that they believe in themselves.

“They think they’re going to win,” Houston said after the win in Annapolis. “I’ll tell you, the

good teams I’ve had, they think they’re supposed to win every time out, no matter what’s happened.

They believe in their teammates, they bet on themselves, and they make plays.”

It’s a belief that began to take hold on Sept. 18 at Marshall.

Trailing by 17 points heading into the fourth quarter and staring an 0-3 start square in the eye a week after letting another winnable game slip away at home against South Carolina, ECU scored three unanswered touchdowns to roar past the Thundering Herd for what turned out to be a landmark victory.

“I think that Marshall game flipped us in a lot of ways in the belief in the system and belief in the program,” quarterback Holton Ahlers said.

The Pirates (7-4, 5-2 American Athletic Conference) have only lost twice since that game, once on the final play of regulation to Central Florida and in overtime against a Houston team that is 10-1 and has already clinched the AAC’s Western Division title.

Cincinnati, however, presents the most difficult assignment yet.

The Bearcats (11-0, 7-0) are the highest-ranked team to come to Greenville since West Virginia in 2006. They rank first in the conference in both scoring offense at 40.0 points per game and defense at 16.0 points per game. Not only do they have a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate in dual-threat quarterback Desmond Ridder, but they also feature a 1,000-yard rusher in Jerome Ford.

Cincinnati also has a chip on its shoulder, knowing that it needs all

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Running back Keaton Mitchell and East Carolina will face their stiffest test of the season this Friday when No. 4 Cincinnati visits Greenville. the style points it can muster to convince the CFP committee that the Bearcats are good enough to deserve a shot at the national title.

“It’s going to be a challenge for us,” Houston said. “We’ve got to focus on us all being on the same page and being locked into whatever is called. The film study this week is going to be important to make sure our kids are prepared formationally, alignments and

things like that. We’ve got to go right at them. We’ve got to play our friggin’ tails off. We’ve got to play defense the way we’ve been playing it all year. We’ll see.”

ECU currently ranks third in the AAC in scoring defense at 25.5 points allowed per game, Sophomore cornerback Ja’Quan McMillian leads the league with five interceptions, including one picksix.

Offensively, the Pirates have become a much more balanced team with the emergence of running backs Keaton Mitchell (1,077 yards, nine touchdowns) and Rahjai Harris (557, four touchdowns).

The addition of that effective ground attack has helped Ahlers become a much more efficient passer and less of a runner — a factor that has helped him stay healthier at this point in the season than he’s been at any time in his career.

Ahlers, who has thrown for 17 touchdowns and run for six more, is one of several veteran players that have been with the program since Houston arrived, and the coach credits them for the turnaround that now finally appears to be in full bloom.

“Their play each week has made each ballgame bigger and bigger,” he said at his weekly press conference Monday.

At the same time, Houston emphasized that it’s important for his players not to put too much importance on Friday’s game because of the opportunity it presents.

“It’s exciting for them, but you can’t get beyond that this game is bigger than the last game,” he said.

“I understand that it is for everybody outside here. But as a coaching staff and players, you have to treat them all as the biggest game of the year. You’ve got to do the same things this week that you did last week, the week before that and the week before that.

“I think our team has grown throughout the year and they’ve learned some valuable lessons about what’s important and what’s not important.”

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New beginning has Cam Newton looking back The quarterback’s first two games back with the Panthers have offered opportunities for reminiscing

By Shawn Krest North State Journal CHARLOTTE — Cam Newton’s return to the Carolina Panthers for a second go-round has given everyone plenty of opportunities to reminisce, including the franchise quarterback himself.

Last week, Newton played his first game in his second stint with the team and produced touchdowns the first two times he touched the ball — one running, one passing.

He took note of the site of the game — on the road at the Arizona Cardinals’ home stadium in Glendale.

“Man, God is good. I can tell you that,” he said. “It is something about the significance of today.

Not only to return, this was the last college game that I played. …

This was the stadium I played it at.”

Newton led the Auburn Tigers past Oregon in the BCS National Championship Game on that same field in January 2011, capping an undefeated campaign during his Heisman Trophy season.

“This was the first NFL game I played at,” he added, “and for me to come back to it. … God is working in my life right now.”

In September 2011, Newton led the Panthers past the Cardinals in the same venue, passing for 422 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for another score on his way to winning NFL Rookie of the Year.

Now, just over a decade — and

countless narratives — later, Newton was back in a Panthers uniform, scoring touchdowns in Glendale.

“I’ll tell you this,” he said. “In this morning’s devotion I was reading about Moses, and God spoke to Moses in the desert. …

Where we at? The Red Sea. You know what I’m saying? Come on.

You have the desert, obviously the Cardinals speak on the Red Sea.” In his second game, Newton returned to another stadium where he’s had plenty of highlight moments. Making his first start at Bank of America Stadium since Sept. 12, 2019, 801 days earlier, Newton again produced two early touchdowns — one throwing and one running. After running the ball and finding the Charlotte end zone for the first time since Oct. 28, 2018, Newton ran to midfield and planted the ball on the Panthers logo at the 50-yard line.

“Today was a special day for me, for more reasons than one,” he said.

Newton was playing in front of the Charlotte fans for the first time in two years, and his former coach, Ron Rivera, was on the other sideline. But the day took him back to an even earlier time — when he was a promising college talent with an NFL future that was far from assured.

“It was my Resurrection Day,” he said. “Not that I am sure a lot of people know, Nov. 21st is a very special day for me. I took a big L in my life, I feel like. It was a big scar that ended up being my biggest star. I was incarcerated today.

When I was in the University of Florida and this day is always significant of where I came from.”

On that day in 2008, Newton was charged with burglary, larceny and obstructing justice after

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Quarterback Cam Newton is savoring every moment of his return to the Panthers. allegedly stealing a laptop from a dorm room at Florida. Although the charges were later dropped, he was suspended from the team and had to spend a year at Blinn Junior College before getting another opportunity at big-time football with Auburn.

In 2017, on the anniversary of his Resurrection Day, Newton posted his old mug shots on Instagram, saying, “I thought my life and my career was over, and the fact that I had shamed my family with the media coverage surrounding this situation. I vowed to myself on this day (nine years ago) that I will be better from this

“It was my Resurrection Day. ... I was incarcerated today.”

Cam Newton situation.”

Newton wasn’t able to lead the Panthers to a victory Sunday, coming up short on a pair of potential game-winning drives in the final minutes of the game. While he was disappointed by the result — admitting that his conversation

with Rivera was cut short because “Ain’t too much to say. I’m not in that warming mood right now, I’m not going to lie to you” — he wasn’t the same sullen, post-loss Cam he’s been in his previous life.

“I was just going to enjoy the moment,” he said. “Still am going to enjoy the moment. I think my life could be who knows where right now if the judge ruled, the way she did, he did, I’m not sure.

Man, God had favor over my life, and that’s the big picture. The realization of things that you could control, you know, I am enjoying the moment and we just, I have to be better.”

Flowers for Cutcliffe? Duke coach struggles on hot seat There have been reports of his possible retirement following another losing season in Durham

“I don’t think about job security. How can I do that and do justice to the players that I’m coaching right now?”

By Shawn Krest North State Journal IN THE CLASSIC story “Flowers for Algernon,” a learning-disabled man undergoes an experimental procedure to improve his intelligence. The story tracks him as he gradually transforms into a genius, only to discover that the effects are temporary, and his gains slowly slip away as he reverts back to his previous level.

In the eight years before David Cutcliffe took over as Duke football coach, the Blue Devils had as many winless seasons — three — as ACC wins. Cutcliffe took over a program that was unquestionably the worst of any Power Five school, if not all of FBS. Duke had gone 10-82 over the previous eight years, including 3-61 in the ACC. In his time at the helm, Cutcliffe has improved the facilities dramatically. He jokes that his early teams had trouble finishing drives because they didn’t have a practice field that was 100 yards long. They do now, one sprawling outdoor workout field and another indoor facility, all built under his watch, along with a face-lift for Wallace Wade Stadium.

The team improved dramatically on the field as well, ending nearly two-decade droughts for bowl appearances and wins over rival North Carolina.

Cutcliffe led Duke to six bowl games and doubled the program’s all-time total for bowl wins in a four-year span. He defeated the Tar Heels five times in a seven-year stretch, Duke’s best mark in the Victory Bell series in six decades.

Duke won the ACC Coastal Division in 2013 and was ranked in the final AP poll. The Blue Devils sent players to the NFL, including quarterback Daniel Jones, who was the sixth overall pick in the 2019 draft.

The team was recruiting NFL-caliber talent and winning

WAKE from page B1 they’ve given the ball up eight times. That includes two costly third quarter fumbles at Clemson that helped turn a one-possession game into another lopsided Tigers victory.

Wake has been outscored 200‑46 over its past four meetings

David Cutcliffe, Duke coach

in Durham, two things that had seemed impossible just a few years before. Cutcliffe had transformed Duke football from an afterthought at the school and a joke in the ACC to a force to be reckoned with on an annual basis.

Just like the main character in the story, the incredible gains were followed by an agonizing backslide.

Duke has lost its last 12 ACC games dating back to last season, and it hasn’t been competitive in most of them — the average score has been 49-18. That includes a

pair of 48-0 losses, to Miami and Virginia, a 45-7 loss to Wake Forest and a 62-22 loss to Louisville last week. The last five Duke opponents have all scored at least 45 points and won by 25.

Cutcliffe has continued to be the coach that turned the program around — relentlessly positive and ready to work. He extols the virtues of practice and talks of running toward a problem, not from it. But the problems persist.

“You try not to repeat yourself,” he said when asked about the message to his team after the

long string of losses. “Be genuine and be truthful. You can’t go in and just sing the same song. When you’re in there, you speak the truth of what you’ve seen.”

The hard truth is that this will be Duke’s third straight losing season, its sixth straight with a losing ACC record, and, if the Blue Devils don’t beat Miami this weekend, it will be Duke’s first winless ACC season since 2007, the year before Cutcliffe arrived.

It wasn’t long ago that it would have been unthinkable to consider Cutcliffe on a hot seat considering

the depths from which he brought the program, but we’ve arrived at that point. According to reports in the national media, he may be considering retirement in the offseason.

Cutcliffe denies the reports.

“I don’t think about job security,” he said. “How can I do that and do justice to the players that I’m coaching right now? … Why would I even consider focusing on that?”

Cutcliffe certainly doesn’t sound like someone about to call it quits.

“How many people have we never heard of that were that close to doing something great and they stopped?” he said. “I mean, we don’t know. We know others, like Abraham Lincoln, that didn’t stop. … Those are the kinds of things that I think about. I don’t think about failure, I think about success and talk to them about success. Why would you do it any other way? I’ve coached in far too many football games to count, know or remember and certainly have never won them all. But I know this, if you stop competing to win, you’re not going to win.

That has to be resolved. That’s inside of each one of us.”

If this is it for Cutcliffe, he leaves a complicated legacy — an impossible turnaround of the program, only to have it return to near the bottom. Like the story, the glimpse of what could have been makes the ending that much more painful.

“Don’t feel sorry for me,” the main character in “Flowers for Algernon” says. “I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I’m grateful I saw it even for a little bit.”

with its Atlantic Division nemesis.

“Turnovers get you beat,” said Deacons receiver Jaquarii Roberson, who returned from an injury to catch a team-leading six passes for 93 yards on Saturday.

So does spending most of the game playing behind the chains, a problem Wake created for itself with a chronic lack of first down

productivity against Clemson.

“It’s a good learning lesson,” Hartman said. “But again, you’d love to not be learning that this late in the season.”

One thing that’s almost inevitable in late November is injuries, and the Deacons are dealing with their share.

They played Saturday’s game

without starting center Michael Jurgens, the ACC’s Offensive Lineman of the Week in the win against NC State on Nov. 13, toptwo rushers Christian Beal-Smith and Justice Ellison, and cornerback Caelin Carson.

Clawson is optimistic Jurgens will be back for BC, an addition that would bolster an offensive line

that allowed seven sacks against Clemson. As for the others, he said his Deacons have no choice other than to do the best they can with what they have available.

“We have a championship game next week up at BC,” Clawson said. “So we’ve got to correct a lot of mistakes and hopefully get our guys to bounce back.”

GERRY BROOME | AP PHOTO

Duke coach David Cutcliffe turned around the program during his tenure, but the Blue Devils have regressed back to their previous form.

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CLIMATE from page B5 — $150 billion would be committed toward housing affordability with a goal of building more than 1 million new rental and single-family homes. The goal would be to reduce price pressures by providing rental and down payment assistance.

WASHINGTON — Many Americans have taken a darker view of the economy as inflation has worsened. Yet so far, they appear no less willing to spend freely at retailers — an encouraging sign for the crucial holiday shopping season.

Buoyed by solid hiring, healthy pay gains and substantial savings stemming in part from government stimulus checks and other relief, Americans ramped up their spending at retail stores and online shops last month. Some of the increase reflected the impact of higher prices, and there were signs that Americans have started to seek out cheaper options.

Yet the October gain the government reported Tuesday was solid enough for most economists to anticipate holiday shopping jumping by a record amount this year.

The data also illustrates a key factor behind the supply chain backups that have left dozens of ships waiting to unload at U.S. ports: Americans are buying a tremendous amount of goods, from appliances to electronics to furniture. Retail and food service sales have surged 16.3% compared with a year ago. That is a record high excluding several months during the spring when federal stimulus checks caused sharp spikes in spending.

From September to October, retail sales jumped 1.7%, the U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday. That was the biggest monthto-month gain since March and was up from a 0.8% increase from August to September.

The increase occurred just as retailers face a host of challeng-

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In this Dec. 10, 2020 file photo, a woman carries shopping bags in New York. es. Many have had to sharply raise pay to find and keep workers, thereby increasing their labor costs. And some are scrambling amid overwhelmed supply chains to keep their shelves stocked.

“Even with all these problems, we’re still on track here for a banner year,” said Tim Quinlan, an economist at Wells Fargo.

After adjusting for inflation, Quinlan estimates that retail sales in November and December will be 10% higher than a year earlier, which would be the biggest such gain in seven years.

Last month, sales soared 3.8% at electronics and appliance stores and 4% among online retailers.

Those increases suggested that many Americans are already doing their holiday shopping, possi-

bly to avoid higher prices and supply shortages closer to the holidays.

Tuesday’s retail sales figures aren’t adjusted for inflation, which rose 0.9% in October, the government said. In some categories, such as gas station sales, a jump in gas prices accounted for nearly all the gain. Gas sales rose 3.9% in October, while gas prices, before seasonal adjustment, rose 3.7% that month, according to the government’s inflation report.

Still, two major retailers reported robust sales increases Tuesday, another sign that high prices aren’t deterring many consumers from spending. Walmart and Home Depot reported rising sales and solid profits, although costs rose for both companies because of supply chain disruptions. Walmart said

its consolidated gross profit rate took a hit primarily because of increased supply chain costs.

Analysts will be monitoring earnings results from other major retailers like Target and Macy’s later this week for further clues about how inflation is affecting shopping habits.

There are signs, though, that rising inflation is starting to affect some consumers’ shopping patterns. Walmart executives said that grocery sales rose sharply in the fall, partly a reflection of purchases by some shoppers who had been stung by rising prices elsewhere. Customer traffic rose 5.7%.

In October, the government said sales at restaurants and bars were flat, even though restaurant prices surged last month by the most since 1981. Data from the OpenTable online reservation service indicates that consumers are slowly returning to restaurants. Both trends combined suggests that Americans are eating out at cheaper places, Quinlan said.

Behind the healthy retail spending are solid hiring, strong pay raises and healthy savings for many people. Most households with children have been receiving monthly payments from the Biden administration’s child tax credit. Wages and salaries jumped in the July-September quarter, compared with a year earlier, by the most in 20 years.

Still, inflation has eroded those gains for most Americans. Prices jumped 6.2% in October from a year earlier, the government said Wednesday, the most in 31 years.

Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, said he thinks many Americans are determined to spend what it takes to enjoy themselves as they make up for lost celebrations from a year ago.

“This suggests that the retail sector will be able to weather the impact of higher prices … at least in the near term,” Saunders noted. If inflation stays high, he said, it could undermine growth next year.

Tax breaks — An expanded child tax credit would continue for another year. As part of a COVID relief bill, Democrats increased the tax credit to $3,000 per child ages 6-17 and $3,600 per child 5 and under. Households earning up to $150,000 per year get the credit paid to them on a monthly basis.

— The expanded Earned Income Tax Credit that goes to 17 million childless, low-wage workers would continue for one year.

Taxes — Biden’s plan bolsters the IRS to improve collections and close the gap between taxes owed and taxes paid.

— A 15% minimum income tax would be applied to large corporations. The U.S. would also be aligned with an agreement reached by more than 100 countries designed to deter multinational companies from stashing profits in lowtax countries.

— The bill would create a new surtax on multimillionaires and billionaires and close a provision that allows some wealthy taxpayers to avoid paying the 3.8% Medicare tax on their earnings.

— A $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions would be raised to $80,000. Tax analysts say the change would largely benefit high-income households.

— A 1% surcharge would be imposed on corporate stock buybacks, which Democrats said are often used by corporate executives to boost their finances rather than investing in the business and its workers.

Immigration — Those who entered the United States prior to Jan. 2, 2011, and have continuously resided there since would be eligible for renewable parole grants for five years after paying an administrative fee and completing security and background checks. The parole status gives recipients authorization to travel and work in the U.S. and deems them eligible for a Real ID-compliant driver’s license or a state identification card.

What’s out of the bill — Democrats removed a proposal to expand Medicare to cover dental and vision care because of concerns about the cost.

— A proposal to allow for up to two years of free community college is also out.

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Vehicles are parked in front of a CVS Pharmacy in Mount Lebanon, Pa., on Monday May 3, 2021.

CVS Health to close hundreds of drugstores over next 3 years The Associated Press CVS HEALTH will close hundreds of drugstores over the next three years, as the health care giant adjusts to changing customer needs and converts to new store formats.

The company said Thursday that it will close about 300 stores a year for the next three years, nearly a tenth of its roughly 10,000 retail locations as it reduces store count density in some places.

CVS Health said it has been evaluating population changes, customer buying patterns and future health needs to “ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations.”

The company also has been expanding the health care services it provides at many locations.

The closings make sense as CVS Health seeks to remake many stores into more of a “one-stop shop” for care, Edward Jones analyst Ashtyn Evans said, adding that the company’s Aetna health insurance business should steer customers to those stores.

The company released no details Thursday on where the closings will occur. It did say they

“Too many stores are stuck in the past with bad lighting, depressing interiors, messy merchandising, and a weak assortment of products.” retail analyst Neil Saunders would start next spring.

Major drugstore chains routinely close underperforming stores or shutter locations for other business needs. CVS rival Walgreens, for instance, has closed several stores in San Francisco since 2019 due partly to problems with organized retail theft.

The growth of online shopping has blunted the need for CVS and Walgreens to operate a vast network of drugstores that are just a few minutes’ drive from most American homes.

CVS Health also has neglected its retail business and pushed some of its locations “into the downward spiral of irrelevance,” GlobalData Managing Director Neil Saunders said in an email.

“Too many stores are stuck in the past with bad lighting, depressing interiors, messy merchandising, and a weak assortment of products,” Saunders said in an email. “They are not destinations or places where people go out of anything other than necessity.”

CVS Health said Thursday its stores will be grouped into three models.

Some will be traditional pharmacies that offer retail products as well as some health care services. Others will be dedicated to customer primary care, and the company will break out an enhanced version of its “HealthHUB” locations.

The company started introducing those stores a few years ago. The stores are geared toward helping customers monitor chronic conditions like diabetes and stay on top of their health. Those locations can include health care workers like dietitians as well as community rooms for things like yoga classes.

Drugstores have been redesigning their locations as they try to become known as more than just places to pick up prescriptions and

cough syrup. They have become a key source of COVID-19 vaccines as well as annual flu shots.

The companies have dealt with staffing issues as they widen their focus. They’ve raised starting pay and hired thousands of additional workers for their stores.

But customers in markets like Kansas City and Indianapolis have complained recently to local newspapers about long waits or problems getting vaccinations at some Walgreens stores because of closed pharmacies.

A Walgreens spokesman said the company is always reviewing staffing levels and trying to minimize disruption to customers when a staffing shortages affect stores.

CVS Health said Thursday that it expects to take an impairment charge of between $1 billion and $1.2 billion in the fourth quarter for the closures. That charge won’t affect the company’s 2021 adjusted earnings forecast, which it raised earlier this month.

The company also said it will have an immaterial impact on adjusted earnings per share next year.

Aside from operating drugstores and selling health insurance, CVS Health also runs prescription drug plans for big clients like insurers and employers.

Shares of Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based CVS Health Corp. rose 3% to $95.55 Thursday afternoon while broader trading indexes were nearly flat.

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TAKE NOTICE

CUMBERLAND 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20sp204 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JERRY W. KING DATED NOVEMBER 16, 2018 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 10407 AT PAGE 475 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19sp1049

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY MARY W. HANSBRO DATED DECEMBER 18, 1997 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4777 AT PAGE 845 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on December 6, 2021 the following

19 SP 176 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 Lavedia M. Edwards and Nathan K. Edwards to H. Terry Hutchens, Trustee(s), which was dated August 15, 2013 and recorded on August 19, 2013 in Book 09272 at Page 0353, 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

20 SP 95 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 Krina Kenyon to Philp Mahoney, Trustee(s), which was dated December 27, 2012 and recorded on December 28, 2012 in Book 09076 at Page 0627, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

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

20 SP 129 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 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.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 1, 2021 at 01:30 PM,

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 courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for

ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 300

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Roland Rene Escalante (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Roland Rene Escalante) to Donna Bradford, Trustee(s), dated March 13, 2017, and recorded in Book No. 4588, at Page 576 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

of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 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

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 December 6, 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 Jerry W. King, dated November 16, 2018 to secure the original principal amount of $164,000.00, and recorded in Book 10407 at Page 475 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.

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),

And Being more commonly known as: 6024 Windflower Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28314 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Jerry W. King.

Jerry W. King

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

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 Mary W. Hansbro, dated December 18, 1997 to secure the original principal amount of $61,800.00, and recorded in Book 4777 at Page 845 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: 2518 Vestal Ave, Fayetteville, NC 28301 Tax Parcel ID: 0428-891283Present Record Owners: The Estate of Mary W. Hansbro And Being more commonly known as: 2518 Vestal Ave, Fayetteville, NC 28301 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Estate of Mary W. Hansbro.

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

Address of property: Windflower Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28314 Tax Parcel ID: 6970Present Record Owners:

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and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 8, 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 204 in a subdivision known as Sheffield Farms North, Section Three and being duly recorded in Book of Plats 122, Page 94, Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 4605 Scenic Pines Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

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 Nathan K. Edwards and Lavedia M. Edwards.

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

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.

(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.

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.

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: 3647 - 10854

The date of this Notice is November 16, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109450

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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

be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

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

The date of this Notice is November 16, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216

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

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee

(704) 333-8107 19-106462

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.: 19-00479-FC01

conducting the sale on December 8, 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 8 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS WYNNHAVEN, PLAT OF THE SAME BEING RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 129, PAGE 195, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3729 Badin Lake Lane, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

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 Krina S. Kenyon.

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

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

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

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee

Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 20-00612-FC01

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.

Address of property: 8 2 0 Oleander Court, Stedman, NC 28391 Tax Parcel ID: 0 4 97-2 73557 Present Record Owners: The Heirs of Leamon Todd 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 expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory

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

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

The date of this Notice is November 9, 2021.

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

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

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 ($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.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the

sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200

Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-20502-FC01

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 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 Terry A. Kinkel.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the

mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403

PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-00683-FC02

sale at the courthouse door in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on December 9, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Richlands in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of that 1.18 acre, more or less, tract of land known as Lot 11, as shown on that survey entitled, “Duffy Field Place, Section II for Walnut Hills of N.C., Inc.”, dated April 12, 2001

by John Wesley Parker, PLS and recorded in Map Book 41, Page 72, Slide K-1019, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 121 Indian Cave Drive, Richlands, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 3013 - 7293

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CUMBERLAND 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

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 the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on 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.

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.

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

Address of property: Ave, Fayetteville, NC 28314 Tax Parcel ID:

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

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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP181 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ARNOLD BOGERTY AND LINH BOGERTY DATED MARCH 1, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7166 AT PAGE 144 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED AUGUST 8, 2013 IN BOOK 9264 PAGE 396 AND FURTHER MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED JULY 21, 2017 IN BOOK 10134 AT PAGE 230 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in

FORSYTH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 600

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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 629

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

JOHNSTON NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 133

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ray Lawrence (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Ray Lawrence) to H. Terry Hutchens, Esq., Trustee(s), dated April 25, 2019, and recorded in Book No. 5338, at Page 100 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 290

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Robert R. Crossgrove and Diana F. Crossgrove (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Robert R. Crossgrove and Diana F. Crossgrove, Heirs of Robert R. Crossgrove: Margaret Crossgrove a/k/a Maggie Crossgrove, Kathryn Crossgrove a/k/a Kathy Crossgrove, James Crossgrove a/k/a Jim Crossgrove) to James D. Johnson, Jr., Trustee(s), dated October 26, 2006, and recorded in Book No. 3229, at Page 189 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

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Address of property: Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28306 Tax Parcel ID: 5633 Present Record Owners: Elizabeth E. Collins

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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

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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

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.

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

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

The date of this Notice is September 28, 2021.

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

The date of this Notice is October 11, 2021.

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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.

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

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

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.

Address of property: 2 6 1 6 Sedgefield Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28306 Tax Parcel ID: 0 41 5 -178265

Present Record Owners: The Heirs of Edeltraut Marianne Parham And Being more commonly known as: 2616 Sedgefield Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28306 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Edeltraut Marianne Parham.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and

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

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

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

The date of this Notice is October 7, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-110882

the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on December 6, 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 Arnold Bogerty and Linh Bogerty, dated March 1, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $152,101.00, and recorded in Book 7166 at Page 144 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: 2400 Gray Goose Loop, Fayetteville, NC 28306 Tax Parcel ID: 0415-852152Present Record Owners: Arnold E. Bogerty and Linh T. Bogerty And Being more commonly known as: 2400 Gray Goose Loop, Fayetteville, NC 28306 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Arnold E. Bogerty and Linh T. Bogerty.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being

offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are

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

The date of this Notice is October 22, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 16-087483

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

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

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

the courthouse door in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on December 7, 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: The Land referred to herein below is situated in the County of JOHNSTON, State of NC, and is described as follows: Being all of Lot 122, Phase Two, Bristol at Cobblestone Subdivision, as shown on map recorded in Plat Book 84, Pages 378 through 380, Johnston County Registry.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 58 Onyx Court, Clayton, North Carolina.

Being the same property as conveyed from Royal Oaks Building Group, LLC to Ray Lawrence, unmarried, as set forth in Deed Book 5092 Page 55 dated 12/21/2017, recorded 01/25/2018, JOHNSTON County, NORTH CAROLINA. Tax ID: 05H03044K

foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on December 7, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Selma in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 32 of the Edgebrook Estates, Phase II, Subdivision, as shown on plat by Ragsdale Engineering, P.A., dated March 1980, and recorded in Plat Book 22, Page 5, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 414 Bennett Drive, Selma, 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

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

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: 3085 - 7533

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: 5003 - 18992

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: 2813 - 6734

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: 2818 - 6757

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JOHNSTON 20 SP 142 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by George E. Cooley and Jacqueline T. Cooley to Getter Law Offices PA, Trustee(s), which was dated July 27, 2009 and recorded on August 6, 2009 in Book 3742 at Page 650, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be 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 7, 2021 at 12:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described

ONSLOW AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 791

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kiersten Harner and Ethan Allen (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Kiersten Harner and Ethan Allen) to Pamela S. Cox, Trustee(s), dated September 26, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 4516, at Page 118 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

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, 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 343

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Dakota L. Webb and Kaleigh A. Richards (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Dakota L. Webb and Kaleigh A. Richards) to Donna Bradford, Trustee(s), dated August 11, 2017, and recorded in Book No. 4658, at Page 721 in Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Onslow County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales,

property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: PREMISES IN CLAYTON TOWNSHIP, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING IN CLAYTON TOWNSHIP JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, AND BEING BOUNDED NOW OR FORMERLY ASFOLLOWS:ONTHEEAST BYW.G. MASSEY AND AN EASEMENT ON THE SOUTH BY R. GLENN POWELLANDONTHENORTHANDBYN.C.S.R.1560,AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE SOUTHEASTERN RIGHTOF-WAY OF N.C.S.R. 1560, SAID BEGINNING POINT BEING NORTH 32 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST 486.75 FEET FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE PROPERTY OF GLENN POWELL, A COMMON CORNER WITH WILLIAM A. HILL, AND THE LINE RUNS THENCE NORTH 32 DEGREES 00 SECONDS EAST 337.90 FEET AND ALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF SAID ROAD TO A STAKE A NEW CORNER WITH W.G. MASSEY, THENCE WITH MASSEY’S LINE SOUTH 51 DEGREES 46 MINUTES 05 SECONDS EAST 37.51 FEET TO A STAKE, A NEW CORNER WITH W.G. MASSEY; THENCE SOUTH 08 DEGREES 13 MINUTES 43 SECONDS WEST 283.89 FEET TO A STAKE, CORNERING THENCE NORTH 83 DEGREES 59 MINUTES 40 SECONDS WEST 168.71 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING

of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on December 9, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Jacksonville in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 480, Sterling Farms, Phase 2 as shown on a map of same duly recorded in Map Book 58 at Pages 7, 7A and 7B of the Onslow County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 102 Turquoise Drive, Jacksonville, 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

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

at 10:00 AM on December 9, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Jacksonville in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 22 Block D, as shown on that certain plat entitled “The Crossing At Country Club Section I,” prepared

by Parker and Associates, Inc., on November 1, 1993, and recorded in Map Book 30, Page 94, Slide C-282, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 304 Huff Drive, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Subject to restrictive covenants recorded in Book 1174, Page 861, Onslow County Registry.

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

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

NOTICE OF SALE

the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 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.

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in

Address of property:

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

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

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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 21SP165 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 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

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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 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.

Address of property: Woodvery Dr, Liberty, NC 27298

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0.694 ACRES MORE OF LESS AND BEING THE TWO NORTHERNMOST LOTS SHOWN ON A PLAT BY DENNIS R. BLACKMON, R.L.S., DATED NOVEMBER 30, 1978, DRAWING NO. 78-28, BEING STYLED PROPERTY OF GEORGE E. COOLEY AND WIFE, JACQUELINE T. COOLEY. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM W.G. MASSEY AND WIFE, CHRISTINE B. MASSEY TO GEORGE E. COOLEY AND JACQUELINE T. COOLEY, DATED 11/29/1978 RECORDED ON 11/30/1976 IN BOOK 845, PAGE 889 IN JOHNSTON COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF NC. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 209 Ranch Rd, Clayton, NC 27520.

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 George E. Cooley.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-19042-FC02

costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed

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

costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed

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

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.

Randleman Rd, Randleman, NC 27317 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Wentz

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.

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.

7758946778 James I.

And Being more commonly known as: 10922 Randleman Rd, Randleman, NC 27317 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are James I. Wentz.

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

Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Williams

8708610835 Tommy Ray

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

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: 1219565 - 10209

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: 2814 - 6741

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: 3014 - 7296

The date of this Notice is October 21, 2021.

Satterfield Legal, PLLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 16-084728

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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

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

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are

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

The date of this Notice is November 11, 2021.

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

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and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 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: 3551 Allwood Dr, Trinity, NC 27370

Tax Parcel ID: 7727618466 Present Record Owners: The Estate of Larry D. Speight And Being more commonly known as: 3551 Allwood Dr, Trinity, NC 27370 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 sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are

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

The date of this Notice is November 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 21-111591

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 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: 335 Gaddy Circle, Thomasville, NC 27360

Tax Parcel ID: 6783712163 Present Record Owners: Theresa M. Weakley 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. 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 be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are

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

The date of this Notice is November 11, 2021.

LLG TRUSTEE LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108177

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 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.

Address of property: 630 Logan Lane, Liberty, NC 27298 Tax Parcel ID: 8 7 3 7-2 0 -

6571 Present Record Owners: The Heirs of 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 assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the

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

The date of this Notice is November 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 21-111752

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Claude W. Pruitt (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Claude W. Pruitt and Imogene B. Pruitt) to Shapiro & Kreisman, Trustee(s), dated October 4, 2002, and recorded in Book No. 1785, at Page 0348 in Randolph 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 Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 21SP149 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY CHRISTOPHER EUGENE JARRETT AND GLENDA SIMMONS JARRETT DATED NOVEMBER 27, 2009 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2158 AT PAGE 1406 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 21SP124

the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on December 7, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Trinity in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 29, containing 3.643 acres, more or less, of Brookgreen Subdivision Map One, Section Two, as shown on plat recorded in Plat Book 55, Page 98, Randolph County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2416 Wildwood Road, Trinity, North Carolina.

This Conveyance is made SUBJECT TO the septic drain field easements and sewer line easements for Lots Nos. 26, 28, and 30 as shown on plat recorded in Plat Book 58, Page 71, Randolph County Registry.

This conveyance is subject to all easements and rights of way of record and to restrictions recorded in Book 1590, Page 1725, Randolph County Registry.

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

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

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 8, 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 Christopher Eugene Jarrett and Glenda Simmons Jarrett, dated November 27, 2009 to secure the original principal amount of $39,806.24, and recorded in Book 2158 at Page 1406 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: Walker Ave, Randleman, NC 27317 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Eugene Jarrett

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NOTICE OF SALE

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 December 8, 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 Wanda Spivey, dated March 4, 2002 to secure the original principal amount of $59,250.00, and recorded in Book 1754 at Page 2248 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 secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will

Address of property: 220 South, Seagrove, NC 27341 Tax Parcel ID: (PIN); 0013272 (REID) Present Record Owners: Wanda R. Spivey

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY WANDA SPIVEY DATED MARCH 4, 2002 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1754 AT PAGE 2248 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Wanda M. Phillips and David A. Phillips (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): NC-SDS, LLC) to Constance R. Stienstra, Trustee(s), dated November 1, 2004, and recorded in Book No. 3624, at Page 310 in Union County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on December 2, 2015, in Book No. 6577, at Page 72, 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

19 SP 800 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 Skyler Thomas Jones to Ryan Douglas Shoaf, Trustee(s), which was dated November 1, 2016 and recorded on November 9, 2016 in Book 06815 at Page 0348, Union County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of 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 10, 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:

9519 US Hwy 7664827295 The Heirs of

Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on December 9, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Indian Trail in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land with improvements thereon, situated in the County of Union, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:BEING all of Lot 33 in Block of BRAXTON AT BRANDON OAKS Map 3 as the same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet D, File #634, Union County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 117 Aylesbury Lane, Indian Trail, North Carolina.This is the same property conveyed to Wanda M. Chong (unmarried) and David A. Phillips (unmarried) by deed of Pulte Home Corporation, dated August 31, 1995 and recorded September 5, 1995 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Union County in Book 808, Page 448.Parcel Number: 07-117-115 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

North Carolina containing acres, more or less, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain parcel of land situate in the County of Union, State of North Carolina, being known and designated as follows: All that certain property situated in the Township of Sandy Ridge in the county of Union and State of North Carolina and being described in a deed dated 2/1/2001 and recorded 2/14/01 in Book 1503 Page 362 among the Land Records of the County and State set forth above and referenced as follows: Lot 5, Subdivision Ennis Woods Estates, Plat Book Cabinet G, Plat page File 25. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 730 Ennis Road, Waxhaw North Carolina. Being the same property as conveyed from Substitute Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as described in Book 5480 Page 358, dated 1/19/2011, recorded 1/24/2011 AND All that certain property situated in the Township of Sandy Ridge in the County of Union and State of North Carolina and being described as follows: Lot 5A, Ennis Woods Estates, Plat Book Cabinet G, Plat Page File 25, Together with improvements located thereon; said property being the designated drainage field for Lot 5, Ennis Woods Estate, which is located at 730 Ennis Road, Waxhaw, North Carolina.

costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Christopher Eugene Jarrett.

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

And Being more commonly known as: 9519 US Hwy 220 South, Seagrove, NC 27341 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Wanda R. Spivey.

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), 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

Said property is commonly known as 730 Ennis RD, Waxhaw, NC 28173.

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 U.S. Bank, National Association.

Lying and being in the City of Waxhaw, Union County,

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

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

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described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit:

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Deanna Guzman.

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 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

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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 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:

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 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

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.

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 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

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 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

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

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,

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 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

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: 1092 - 1696

The date of this Notice is September 16, 2021.

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

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 18, 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,

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

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.

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

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sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 14-28281-FC02

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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

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

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

The date of this Notice is November 11, 2021.

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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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Nicholas J. Santopietro and Dawn C. Santopietro (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Nicholas J. Santopietro and Dawn C. Santopietro) to CTC Foreclosure Services Corporation, Trustee(s), dated June 2, 1997, and recorded in Book No. 7493, at Page 0793 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on May 20, 2013, in Book No. 15277, at Page 212, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 125

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Lisa Depka and Ciara Conary (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Lisa Depka and Ciara Conary) to Roper & Taylor, P.A., Trustee(s), dated October 29, 2018, and recorded in Book No. 017279, at Page 00274 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County

18 SP 2004 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by 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.

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

18 SP 2314 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by 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.

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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 20sp138 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JOSEPH COLOMBO AND JENNIFER COLOMBO DATED SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 15448 AT PAGE 1871 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

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

19 SP 126 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by James Russell Brim and Jackie Lynn Brim to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated October 9, 2013 and recorded on October 15, 2013 in Book 015473 at Page 01270, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

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

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,theSalisburyStreet entrance in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 6, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Raleigh in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 163, Village Grove, Section 3 as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 1982, Page 1140, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2505 Village Grove Road, Raleigh, 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

Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 6, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Cary in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 5 in Briarcliff, Section 1 as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1967, Vol. 1 Page 6, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1205 Pond Street, Cary, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

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

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

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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.

EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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

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

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 December 10, 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 Joseph Colombo and Jennifer Colombo, dated September 20, 2013 to secure the original principal amount of $166,351.00, and recorded in Book 15448 at Page 1871 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.

7 Address of property: 3 8 Sycamore Springs Drive, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526 0356317 Tax Parcel ID: J o s e p h Present Record Owners:

Colombo and Jennifer Colombo And Being more commonly known as: 738 Sycamore Springs Drive, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Joseph Colombo and Jennifer Colombo.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax

associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

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

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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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 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:

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conducting the sale on December 8, 2021 at 12:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

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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

Triplett and Eugenia S. Triplett 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

Said property is commonly known as 7428 Pine Summit Drive, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526.

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 James Russell Brim and Jackie Lynn Brim.

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.

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

Being all of Lot 6, Pine Summit Subdivision, as recorded in Book of Maps 2002, Pages 1818-1819, Wake County Registry.

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

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

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

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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.: 18-11297-FC01

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 22, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108641

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.

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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 11, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-093066

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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.

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

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.

File No.: 18-24058-FC01

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The first Wounded Warrior Wrestling Tournament was held Saturday at Uwharrie Chater Academy.

Veterans from the Wounded Warrior Project were on hand the champion of each weight class received a custom Wounded Warrior singlet. UCA won the tournament with a score of 303.5 points. North Davidson placed second with 149 points.

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Left, Uwharrie Charter’s Byan Lackey works the back against East Davidson’s Michael Guy-Ramos in the 138 pound match during their first wrestling match of the season at Uwharrie Charter Academy, on November 18, 2021. Right, Uwharrie Charter’s Doug Bowles ties up against East Davidson’s Jacob Gammons in the 170pound match during their first wrestling match of the season

COUNTY NEWS

Asheboro parade set with a twist Holiday theme continues after one-year hiatus

COVID cases drop for ninth straight week Cases of COVID-19 dropped again this week to 166 new cases. Since a recent high of 847 new cases the week prior to September 17, new reported cases in Randolph County have fallen each week. Following last week, weekly case counts have dropped by over 80%. Randolph County has also experienced nine-straight weeks of lowering test positivity — the percentage of tests taken that are positive.

After last week, 5.8% of COVID tests taken were positive. That’s a drop from 13.2% following the week of September 17.

Randolph County DOT projects awarded The N.C. DOT announced last week that a $3.8 million contract to mill and resurface roads and grade shoulders in Randolph County had been awarded to the Thompson Arthur Division of APAC Atlantic. The department did not release exact locations but said the project would begin as early as March and included 10 sections of secondary roads totaling 21.4 miles. The projects should be completed by midsummer 2023.

Health department begins child vaccinations at city school site The Randolph County Health Department announced that it will begin vaccinating children ages 5-11 at Balfour Elementary on November 22. The Balfour Elementary Pediatric Vaccine Clinic will offer vaccines by appointment. The health department will administer the Pfizer vaccine with a follow up date for the second dose on December 13. The health department began offering COVID vaccines for children in early November at a drive-thru clinic. This is the first announced clinic at a school site.

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By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO – This time, parade spectators will be on the move instead of the parade displays.

The Asheboro Christmas Parade returns this year, but it will be a reverse parade from 7-9 p.m. Dec. 3 in downtown Asheboro.

Spectators will stay in their vehicles and drive through, while floats will be stationary and on display along the route.

Amy Rudisill, membership and events director for the Asheboro Chamber, said this should allow

families to attend to whatever degree they’re comfortable.

Planning began in the late summer, when the status of the pandemic was unknown.

“Something like this you have to plan well in advance,” Rudisill said.

“We wanted to plan something that could still go on.”

Rudisill said the anticipation is that many visitors for the parade will stop at downtown businesses and restaurants.

“Or they can just drive through and see (the parade sights),” she said.

In 2020, a parade was planned in a similar manner to next month’s scheduled parade, but that event was cancelled amid concerns for City of Asheboro workers. The

State budget includes county projects Randolph Record staff RALEIGH — The recently passed state budget was the first to be enacted in a span of over three years and marked the only budget bill signed by Gov. Roy Cooper.

The two-year state budget passed the state House with a vote of 104-10 and in the State Senate 41-7. Both of those vote totals would have been more than enough to overcome a gubernatorial veto.

The Randolph County’s three primary representatives in Raleigh — Rep. Pat Hurley, Rep. Allen McNeill, and Sen. David Craven — all have seats on budgetary committees in the legislature.

Hurley and McNeill both serve as vice chairs of the full appropriations committee in the House with Hurley chairing the subcommittee on Education funding and McNeill chairing the subcommittee on Justice and Public Safety funding. Craven, in his first full term in the Senate, serves on the appropriations subcommittee on Education/Higher Education.

Last week, the three members issued a joint release touting the impacts of the state budget on Randolph County and the state.

The group called the budget “historic” and highlighted “four critical areas: education, healthcare, infrastructure, and savings.”

According to legislative researchers, the budget includes the most money ever spent on education. The county delegation also said the budget puts North Carolina “in a stronger position to serve its citizens, secure its future, and compete globally.”

In Randolph County, one area related to global competition in the 1,825-acre megasite in the Northwest corner of the county.

The state budget includes $320 million for the site. Included in those funds is more than $5 million for Randolph Community College.

While the budget does not disclose which company might be moving to the megasite, it allocates $135 million to fund the new tenant. Bloomberg reported Friday that Toyota was the likely company and that the automaker would partner with Panasonic to build batteries in Randolph County.

Economic development projects of this size are typically kept secret until certain commitments and votes can be held at the state and local levels. The next scheduled meeting of the board of coun-

Asheboro Chamber and city work together to coordinate the event, which is normally held the first Friday in December.

There are spots for about 25 floats along the route, so the parade is reduced in size. Previous parades attracted more than 100 entries, Rudisill said.

The route will have one-way traffic. It will start at Academy Street and Church Street and travel north to Sunset Avenue. The route will then travel east on Sunset Avenue to Bicentennial Park and through the park and back to Academy Street.

Multiple trips through the route will be allowed as time and traffic permits.

Marching bands won’t participate this year. However, Rudisill

said area schools have been contacted to submit musical presentations that will air on WKXR-FM 94.9 and WZOO-FM 99.9 during parade hours.

Organizers said that Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Grinch, and Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus are expected to attend. Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and their elves will be at the final float on the route.

Spectators are encouraged to add to the festivities by decorating their vehicles. There will be an award for the best lighted vehicle to promote Light Up Asheboro.

In the past, the Asheboro Christmas Parade attracted an estimated 5,000 attendees, Rudisill said.

A rain date is set for Dec. 10.

ty commissioners is Dec. 6.

In addition to the megasite, the budget also includes $75 million in funding for the North Carolina Zoo’s long-planned Asia/Australia exhibits. The budget also includes $5 million to expand the zoo’s parking areas and to replaces the trams.

The state budget also includes $16 million in funding for a “Randolph County Farm, Food, and Family Education Center.” According to the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service, the center would be an agriculture center funded by the American Rescue Plan Act funds. In an August release in support of the funding, the extension service called the facility a hub for agriculture education.

Some of the largest line items included $6 million for water and sewer improvements in Trinity, $1.9 million for a third fire station in Asheboro, $1.5 million for the Acme-McCrary Textile Mill, $1.5 million for Asheboro downtown facilities, and $1.3 million for the Luck’s Cannery Project in Seagrove.

The towns of Archdale, Liberty, Ramseur, and Randleman also received funding for various projects.

The state budget also includes policy provisions, and Randolph County is affected directly by two provisions. The budget authorizes the City of Asheboro and Randolph County to establish a joint airport authority at the Asheboro Airport. The budget also exempts Randolph Hospital from the

certificate of need laws to allow it to establish behavioral health beds.

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“Weto see theRCC decline in Arts high school students in Robert 16 Randolph Guild Visitors are encouraged to walk sidewalks downtown business Christmas Follies displays, costumedexactly characterswhere and decorated Please enjoy a beverage, thisa meal, month amid the sumstudents theyfloats.earlier dual enrollment has been the big- meet 17 Candy Brooks Dance Studio get some your holiday shopping done.

A drivemer through parade route will add to began May semester, which areorand helpof them go as far as they gest reason for a dip.

The Randolph Youth 18 Santa & Mrs. Claus the festivities for those who would rather stay in their vehicles.

24 and concludes July 26. Late “Overall, still seeing a de- can possibly go.”

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COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

Democrats’ spending drives up the cost of Thanksgiving turkey

The three “B’s” in the Build Back Better bill should stand for bankrupting our economy, benefitting the wealthy, and building the bureaucracy.

TURKEY ON YOUR TABLE. Apple pie in the oven. Gas in your car to visit the grandkids…

All of these are essential to the Thanksgiving holiday. And unfortunately, all of them cost more now than they did last year.

Heading into Thanksgiving, our nation is facing real challenges. I’m sure you and your family have noticed that gas prices are at a 7-year high. Inflation is at a 30-year high. And increased costs at grocery stores are making this the most expensive Thanksgiving in history.

However, the troubles don’t stop there.

Last week, we learned the crisis on our border is continuing at a breakneck pace. In fact, border apprehensions last month were the highest October numbers ever recorded. Overall, 1.6 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended this year — the most ever.

Instead of addressing these problems, Washington Democrats spent last week advancing their spending and tax spree boondoggle that will make inflation and the border crisis worse.

Included in their package is amnesty for up to 10 million illegal immigrants. For our economy, their so-called “Build Back Better” bill includes trillions in tax increases on hard working Americans like you.

A natural-gas tax and the banning of domestic-energy production will make trips to the gas pump and home heating bills cost even more.

However, last week the left-wing Washington Post revealed the bill would provide a $285 billion tax cut to the wealthiest 10% of Americans.

This means you pay more and the rich get a big tax cut.

Additionally, this bill explodes entitlements and creates over 150 new government programs. Their plan doubles the size of the IRS to spy on your bank account and take money from you to pay for their spending.

Yet the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found even this would not be enough to pay for the spending in this bill. Overall, the three “B’s” in the Build Back Better bill should stand for bankrupting our economy,

benefitting the wealthy and building the bureaucracy.

While my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are focused on this radical agenda, I am focused on solutions — especially for our veterans.

As Fort Bragg’s congressman and representative of the fastestgrowing veteran population in the nation, supporting our veterans and military families is a top priority. Tragically however, we lose 17 veterans to suicide every day. A recent report from the Pentagon revealed suicides among Army active-duty forces jumped 46% earlier this year.

This is unacceptable.

As I’ve said before, in North Carolina, Veterans Day is not just one day a year. It is a year-long call to action. That’s why I joined with Sen. Thom Tillis last week in a press conference to bring awareness to veteran and active-duty military suicide.

First — if you or a veteran you know is in crisis, contact the Veterans Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255.

Additionally, I sponsored legislation designating Sunday, Nov. 21 as National Warrior Call Day. This is a time to reach out to a veteran or service member you know. Check in on them, and let them know how much their service matters. This small gesture may save a life, and it’s the least we can do to thank those who served.

Especially around Thanksgiving, I am so thankful for all who served or are serving, as well as their families. This week, thousands of men and women in uniform will be away from their families. Whether it’s Veterans Day, National Warrior Call Day, or Thanksgiving, remember them in your prayers and give thanks in any way you can.

It’s true our nation is facing many challenges right now. Yet there is often more that unites than divides us, and there is always more to be thankful for in our everyday lives. This week, I hope you’re able to reflect on your blessings and spend time with your family. From mine to yours, Happy Thanksgiving.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

There will be no media ‘reckoning’ over the Steele Dossier The most charitable explanation is that reporters had become such saps for Democrats that they were inclined to believe the most fantastical stories imaginable.

AXIOS SAYS there’s a “reckoning” in the media over coverage of the Steele dossier after the partisan oppo document’s primary source was charged with lying to the FBI. “It’s one of the most egregious journalistic errors in modern history,” writes Sara Fischer, “and the media’s response to its own mistakes has so far been tepid.”

Tepid is a nice way of putting it. While the Washington Post “corrected” some of its discredited reporting on the dossier, removing portions of reporting connecting former President Donald Trump to Russia, there has been virtually no other accountability. And, really, it’s become modus operandi for the news organizations to “correct” stories in which the entire premise is false. Any sort of “reckoning” would mean a retraction, followed by investigative deep dives, not only reporting the problems with the story themselves but outing the fraudulent sources who participated in the deception. Perhaps that’s going on as we speak, but it’s highly doubtful.

Those who perpetuated the Russia collusion deception — and this means editors and pundits, not only reporters — still hold premier jobs in political media. Many, in fact, have been rewarded with better gigs.

Is anyone at the Washington Post or New York Times going to return a Pulitzer? Is anyone going to explain how multiple alleged independent sources regularly buttressed the central fabulistic claim of the dossier?

Journalism is ostensibly about transparency and truth, yet not one of these sentinels of democracy has explained how they were supposedly fooled for years, exhibiting not a modicum of skepticism — one of the most vital components of good journalism. When asked by Axios about the Steele dossier, the two outlets that churned out some of the most sensationalistic and conspiratorial content of the Trump era, CNN and MSNBC, wouldn’t even comment.

The most charitable explanation is that reporters had become such saps for Democrats that they were inclined to believe the most fantastical stories imaginable. The more plausible explanation, considering the lack of any genuine accountability and self-reflection, is that they were in on it.

There’s the argument out there that contends that Trump and his associates did and said things that made the dossier’s claims plausible.

Well, Trump’s words could have been a big enough story on their own.

The president made no secret of his personal admiration of Vladimir Putin before the election. The notion that a Russian asset (since 1987, even!) would need to go on TV and ask the Russians to ferret out Hillary Clinton’s lost emails seems a stretch.

To excuse what came next from the media would be tantamount to excusing widespread coverage of birtherism simply because so many of former President Barack Obama’s abuses of executive power or inability to say America was exceptional was antithetical to the Constitution he swore to protect. The press exists to avoid the proliferation of faulty information and conspiracies, not to perpetuate them because of their partisan assumptions.

Would Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith, now media reporter for the New York Times, have published an uncorroborated “dossier” on birtherism or, for that matter, Biden’s dealing with his corrupt son, giving it undo attention and credibility? The media and tech companies wouldn’t even allow a properly sourced New York Post story about Hunter Biden be shared in the run-up to the election. Just more proof of malfeasance, not sloppiness. The chances that every single alleged mistake skewed in the same direction is, of course, infinitesimally small.

What difference, at this point, does it make? Well, for one thing, the full truth is opaque, and the historical record has yet to be corrected. It still says that “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops,” a story that spawned from the environment created by the Steele dossier, on the New York Times website. This piece, like so many others, is incorrect. The “intelligence officials” who spread that story were running what amounted to a shadow government using a partisan concoction, illegal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests and a pliant media to sink the foreign policy of the elected president. It’s one of the least democratic things I can think of.

It’s worth knowing how it happened — yet the public gets no explanation.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NBA

LeBron ejected after bloodying Stewart Detroit LeBron James was ejected for drawing blood from Isaiah Stewart’s face, sending the superstar to the locker room early in the third quarter in the Lakers’ 121-116 win over the Pistons on Sunday. James’ Flagrant 2 foul ended his night after his left elbow and hand appeared to make contact with Stewart’s face when they were tangled up while boxing out for a rebound.

Detroit’s center, who was called for a foul before James hit him, had to be held back more than once to keep him separated from the NBA superstar and was also ejected.

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SOCCER

White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón, a former standout at NC State, will be among the top free agents this offseason.

Lyon-Marseille game abandoned after water bottle hits player

Correa, Freeman, Scherzer among baseball’s top free agents

Lyon, France A French league game between Lyon and Marseille was abandoned on Sunday after Marseille midfielder Dimitri Payet was hit on the head by a bottle of water thrown from the stands while he was taking a corner kick in the latest fan violence to strike French soccer. Payet collapsed to the ground in the fifth minute of the match at Lyon, with the score at 0-0, but was able to get up after receiving treatment. The referee ordered players to head back to the locker room with play suspended.

CYCLING

Cavendish suffers “small collapsed lung” at Belgian event Brussels British cyclist Mark Cavendish broke two ribs and suffered a “small collapsed lung” during a crash at a track event in Belgium, his team said on Monday. Deceuninck - Quick-Step said in a statement that Cavendish spent Sunday night in the Ghent University Hospital following the incident at the Ghent Six Day. The 36-year-old Cavendish has enjoyed a revival this season, equaling Eddy Merckx’s all-time record of 34 Tour de France stage wins in July.

WINTER OLYMPICS

Shuster wins U.S. curling trials, will defend gold in Beijing Omaha, Neb. Defending Olympic curling champion John Shuster is going back to the Winter Games for a fifth time.

The 2018 gold medalist skipped his team to victory over Team Dropkin at the U.S. trials on Sunday night, winning 5-4 to take the best-of-three finals two games to one and earn a spot in Beijing.

John Landsteiner and Matt Hamilton will also return to the Olympics after winning it all in Pyeongchang. Chris Plys joined the foursome to replace Tyler George, who retired. The Americans had never earned an Olympic curling medal until 2006, when Shuster was the lead on Pete Fenson’s bronzewinning team.

Former NC State pitcher Carlos Rodón is among the top starters available

By Noah Trister The Associated Press WITH A POSSIBLE lockout on the horizon, it’s been mostly business as usual on the free agent market — so far.

Detroit signed left-hander Eduardo Rodríguez. Houston retained star righty Justin Verlander. Noah Syndergaard went from the Mets to the Angels on an expensive one-year deal.

The deadline to accept qualifying offers came and went last week, further clarifying who was heading to the open market.

It remains to be seen whether the uncertainty about the next labor agreement will affect offseason moves for the top players available, but it’s clear there are plenty of good options for teams looking to upgrade.

Here’s a look at some of baseball’s top free agents

Carlos Rodón, White Sox, left-handed starter: It’s a toss-up between Rodón and Robbie Ray. Rodón, 28, didn’t really threaten Ray in the Cy Young vote, but his ERA was about a half a run lower and he’s also younger. And Ray received a qualifying offer while Rodón did not, so that may make Rodón a more enticing target.

Aaron Loup, Mets, left-handed reliever: The 33-year-old Loup went 6-0 with a 0.95 ERA in 65 appearances. Opponents hit .192 off him.

Max Scherzer, Dodgers, right-handed starter: No signs yet of any major decline for the 37-year-old Scherzer despite his age. He’s had an ERA at 3.15 or lower in eight of the last nine seasons — the only time it was higher was in the shortened 2020 campaign.

Raisel Iglesias, Angels, right-handed reliever: Iglesias, 31, saved 34 games for Los Angeles, and things did not go smoothly for the Cincinnati bullpen after he left. He’s had at least 30 saves in each of the past three non-short-

0.95 ERA last season for Mets lefthanded reliever Aaron Loup ened seasons.

Yan Gomes, Athletics, catcher: There aren’t any star catchers available this year, but the 34-year-old Gomes can provide a bit of pop.

Freddie Freeman, Braves, first base: Losing Freeman, 32, would be a major downer for the World Series champions, but the fivetime All-Star and 2020 MVP will obviously command a big price.

Even at first base it’s hard to find this kind of consistent production.

Marcus Semien, Blue Jays, second base: Let’s list Semien, 31, as a second baseman — where he mostly played this season — and avoid a tough decision at shortstop. Semien hit 45 home runs this year while playing all 162 games, and he finished third in the MVP

vote. He has the most WAR of any player in baseball since the start of the 2019 season, according to Baseball-Reference.com.

Eduardo Escobar, Brewers, third base: The 32-year-old Escobar hit 28 home runs this year in the first full season since he slugged 35 in 2019. He played a bit at first, second and shortstop in addition to third.

Carlos Correa, Astros, shortstop: Correa, 27, made his big league debut at age 20 and reaches free agency well shy of his 30th birthday. That makes him a good bit younger than some of the other top players on this list, and he may be the most sought-after name this offseason.

Starling Marte, Athletics; Kris Bryant, Giants; Nick Castellanos, Reds, outfield: Marte did what he could to help the A’s down the stretch, and he ended up with an .841 OPS this year for Oakland and Miami. Bryant doesn’t turn 30 until January and can obviously play third base in addition to the outfield. Castellanos set career highs in homers (34), batting average (.309) and OPS (.939) this year.

Nelson Cruz, Rays, designated hitter: The 41-year-old Cruz may finally be slowing down, but only a little. He hit 32 homers this year but posted an .832 OPS, his lowest since 2012.

Chamberlain, Russell headline AP’s 1960s alldecade NBA team The league is celebrating its 75th anniversary

The Associated Press THE 1960S All-Decade Team for the NBA as voted on by AP Sports staffers directly engaged with the season-long NBA At 75 series. The team members are: Elgin Baylor Baylor was the game’s first high flyer, known for his dunks and his hanging jump shot. The 10time All-NBA first-team selection was a versatile player who averaged 27.4 points and 13.5 rebounds per game in his career. In 1960, he scored a then-NBA record 71 points against the New York Knicks. His NBA Finals record of 61 points set in 1962 still stands. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1977.

Wilt Chamberlain Chamberlain was larger than life, and the muscular 7-foot-1 center put up numbers to match his frame. He averaged 50.4 points in 1959-60, 27.2 rebounds in 196061 and scored 100 points in a game in 1962 — all records that still

stand. He was a four-time MVP who won three in a row from 1966 to 1968. In 1960, he was the AllStar MVP, rookie of the year and league MVP. He was a seven-time scoring champion and 11-time rebounding champion who led the league in assists in 1968. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979.

Oscar Robertson Robertson averaged a triple-double in 1961-62 — a feat that wasn’t duplicated until Russell Westbrook achieved it in 201617. He made point guard more of a scoring position, averaging 25.7 points in his career. He was Rookie of the Year in 1961, league MVP in 1964 and a three-time All-Star MVP. He was All-NBA first-team nine times and led the league in assists six times. The 12-time AllStar was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Bill Russell A game-changing defender and rebounder from the center position, Russell won 11 NBA titles, including eight in a row from 1959 to 1966. He was a five-time league MVP, claiming three in a row from 1961 to 1963. He was a four-time rebounding champion and was

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Elgin Baylor was a 10-time NBA All-Star and averaged a doubledouble for his career. named All-Star MVP in 1963. He closed out the decade in style, winning his last NBA title in 1969 as a player-coach. The 12-time AllStar was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Jerry West The sharpshooting guard known as “Mr. Clutch” averaged 27 points in his career. In 1969, he became the only player to win Finals MVP on a losing team after delivering 42 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists in a Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics. He didn’t stop at the end of the decade — he was named to the All-Defense first team four times in the 1970s. The 10-time All-NBA first-team selection was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

50.4 Scoring average for Wilt Chamberlain in 1959-60, still an NBA record

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It all came down to Randolph Co. gyms Revisiting 2021 basketball title games held at Providence Grove, Wheatmore

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By Bob Sutton Randolph Record WITH ANOTHER high school basketball season ramping up for many schools this week, it comes full circle for a couple of Randolph County schools.

That’s because when North Carolina High School Athletic Association basketball left off from the 2020-21 school year, it concluded at Providence Grove and Wheatmore.

Those were schools selected to hold the NCHSAA championship games as part of the revamped season, which had been shortened because of the pandemic.

So suddenly the goal for teams across the state had been to make it to Randolph County.

“It was a lot of work,” Wheatmore athletics director Rick Halo said. “It was neat to kind of showcase our place to the whole state.

Just about everybody in the state knows where Wheatmore High School is now.”

Providence Grove athletics director Calvin Brown said it was good for schools not familiar with Providence Grove to check out the facility. Across the state, Wheatmore and Providence Grove became more identifiable.

“As soon as they asked me, I was all for it,” Brown said. “Just for our school and our community to get some exposure.”

It also became a major undertaking for personnel at the schools.

“I thought it went great,” said Wes Luther, the boys’ basketball coach at Providence Grove.

“We had all our coaches involved.

There was a lot that went into it.”

Indeed, the schools called upon many of their resources in order to pull it off.

“I had to get a lot of people to help,” Brown said. “People not even involved with basketball were willing to jump right in.”

Randolph County School System superintendent Stephen Gainey said it was a good situation for the schools selected to serve as hosts.

“It was a big deal,” Gainey said.

“They didn’t have to ask me twice.”

The NCHSAA made the move

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Carson players celebrate winning the Class 3-A state championship in girls’ basketball by defeating Asheboro in March at Providence Grove High School. to secure high school venues for the 2021 championships, announcing the selection of Providence Grove and Wheatmore in early February. College facilities that normally had been used weren’t available because of COVID-19.

It was the first time since 1980 that high school venues were used for NCHSAA basketball title games.

NCHSAA commissioner Que Tucker said the goal was to make the “state championships a truly memorable experience for everyone involved.”

The people involved at Providence Grove and Wheatmore were part of that.

“It was crazy to see what went on in that gym in 24 hours,” Luther said. “It was wild.”

Luther said the transformation went from having physical education classes in the gym one day to seeing the facility prepared for the championships. For instance, that meant cables and wiring needed for the games to be televised.

“The toughest thing was meeting all the COVID protocols,” Brown said.

The games – for both boys’ and girls’ basketball -- were held March 6. Class 2-A and Class 3-A games were assigned to Providence Grove. The championships for Class 1-A and Class 4-A were contested at Wheatmore.

Providence Grove’s gym seats

about 1,500 spectators, but capacity was limited to about one-sixth of that because of the guidelines established. That was the case at Wheatmore, which seats about 1,600, as well.

So even though Asheboro’s girls’ team, which was in the Class 3-A title game, was among the participants at Providence Grove, that factor didn’t generate a huge crowd as it would normally if a team was playing for a state title in its home county. The only benefit for the Blue Comets, who lost to Carson, was that they didn’t have far to travel for the game.

While the game-day route for the Blue Comets was relatively simple, those from other schools probably had to check for directions.

“To have it at little Providence Grove out in the middle of nowhere, that’s a pretty good deal,” Luther said.

Gainey said he was proud that Providence Grove and Wheatmore could be part of providing the championship-level experience.

“It really worked out quite well,” Brown said.

Wheatmore pulled double-duty during the last school year. The school also was the site for the Class 2-A wrestling state tournament in another case of alternate venues being used.

“Hopefully, we get a little breather now,” Halo said.

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Asheboro, wrestling Tyson won six matches during the week, one of several Blue Comets to sweep their bouts.

Tyson, a senior, completes in the heavyweight division. He posted victories in matchups with Ragsdale and East Chapel Hill as part of a trimeet with the Asheboro team winning in each case as well.

Then in Saturday’s Forbush Falcon Duals, Tyson won four more times as Asheboro posted a 2-2 record in the event. The Blue Comets defeated North Stokes 66-18 and Forbush 70-12, while falling to Ashe County by 42-36 and to St. Stephens by 37-23.

Asheboro’s Julio Ruiz, Yu Chen, Luke Lambeth and Logan Lambeth were also 4-0 in the Forbush Falcon Duals.

Tyson is coming off the football season. He was a lineman for the Blue Comets.

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Eastern Randolph quarterback Stratton Barwick throws the ball against Murphy during the third-round game of the Class 1-A state playoffs Friday night in Ramseur.

Wildcats bow out of state playoffs Randolph Record staff

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Eastern Randolph running back Na’heim Lilly scores one of his touchdowns during Friday night’s game against Murphy.

RAMSEUR – All season it was Eastern Randolph that captured momentum and carried that to football victory after victory.

But that wasn’t the case in the third round of the Class 1-A state playoffs.

It was Murphy that built on its success and abruptly ended the Wildcats’ season.

“We didn’t play our best,” Eastern Randolph coach Burton Cates said. “Needless to say, it just was not our night.”

So Eastern Randolph, which was the No. 1 seed in the West Region, tumbled by a 64-31 score to ninth-seeded Murphy, which is the reigning state champion.

It was a rough go of it in the postseason for Randolph County teams. They had a combined record of 1-4.

The lone victory among four entrants came by Eastern Randolph, which received a firstround bye and then drubbed Draughn in the second round.

Eastern Randolph’s dominance faded fast Friday night.

“We gave up 79 points in 10 games and we gave up 60-whatever in 48 minutes,” Cates said.

The Wildcats (10-1) won the Piedmont Athletic Conference with a strong combination of offense and defense.

Even the offense had kinks in the matchup with Murphy.

Running back Na’heim Lil-

ly ran for three touchdowns and Elias Alston racked up 123 receiving yards and a touchdown.

But Stratton Barwick was intercepted three times. He threw for 119 yards and a two-point conversion.

Delonte Glover threw a touchdown pass. Yane Jaimes booted a 29-yard field goal.

Lilly posted 108 rushing yards on 16 carries.

While there were good moments for Eastern Randolph’s defense, those didn’t last long against Murphy.

Murphy converted on five fourth-down plays in the first half.

“We didn’t play well at all on fourth down,” Cates said.

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Enjoy the holiday festivities with health in mind

By Jeannie M. Leonard Randolph Record staff ASHEBORO — Six is the number of pounds the average American gains between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Between family dinners, parties with friends and co-workers, cookie exchanges and New Year celebrations, the year-end holidays have a way of expanding our waistlines. Here are some tips to help you enjoy the holiday festivities and avoid the dreaded post-holiday bugle.

Eat breakfast. You’ll have more energy to get through the morning and won’t be as likely to nibble on snacks before lunch.

Breakfast doesn’t have to be fancy, but it should include some protein and fiber.

Take a morning walk. It’s a great way to start the day, get your body moving and let go of the stresses that come with the holidays.

Drink plenty of water. Even though it’s cold outside and you don’t feel that thirsty, you still need six to eight glasses of water and other fluids each day. Water

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is the best choice for keeping hydrated.

Also, set realistic goals for what and how much you’ll eat at

holiday buffets and parties. If you know your downfall is the dessert table, decide how many different desserts you’ll try and then take

a small portion of each. Provide for this in your day’s meal plan.

Once you’ve made your choice, enjoy the desserts and don’t feel guilty.

If the holiday party is a potluck affair, make sure your dish is light in calories and low in fat.

That way, you can count on at least one nutritious choice.

At dinner parties, keep helping sizes on the smaller size. If multiple choices are offered, select between mash potatoes and candied yams, for example, or between pumpkin pie and pecan pie, not both.

At cocktail parties, arrive fashionably late with a stomach that not growling with hunger.

An empty stomach will sabotage even the strongest willpower.

Take only a small plate through the buffet or snack table and make lower fat choices such as fresh vegetables, boiled shrimp and fruit over fried canapés, meat balls, and cheese. Once through the line, move away.

Even if you’re not hungry, the act of eating is contagious. Setting up court next to the buffet table can be deadly.

Rethink your drink at cocktail parties. If you drink alcohol, limit yourself to one drink an evening. Keep your glass filled with mineral water or ice water doused with a splash of lemon.

If you prefer soda, choose a diet one. These no-calories drinks will keep your whistle wet, and your stomach satisfied without adding to your waistline.

Shy away from cookie exchanges. Share the cookies and candies you receive as gifts with neighbors or co-workers.

Plan holiday outings that include some type of activity. Go to a dance. Take part in a hayride. Go skating, or take the kids sledding. Organize a cross-country skiing or snowshoeing outing.

You’ll have fun and burn calories.

Above all, enjoy yourself. Remember, it’s the socializing, not the food, that make the holidays so special. Savor them as an opportunity to spend time with family and friends.

Jeannie M. Leonard is a Family & Consumer Sciences Extension Agent with the N.C. State Cooperative Extension – Randolph County Center.

Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill limiting vaccine mandates

By Anthony Izaguire The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Private businesses in Florida must let workers opt out of coronavirus vaccine mandates after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping legislative package to combat White House virus rules.

DeSantis, a Republican, signed the bills into law at a ceremony alongside leaders of the GOP-controlled statehouse and other state officials who said they were protecting people from burdensome federal vaccination requirements.

“We’re making sure that people have a right to earn a living, people have a right to have protections in their place of employment and that parents have protections to be able to direct the upbringing of their kids,” DeSantis said to cheers.

The new law prevents businesses from having vaccine mandates unless they allow workers to opt out for medical reasons, religious beliefs, immunity based on a previous infection, regular testing or an agreement to wear protective gear. The state health department, which is led by Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who opposes mandates, will have authority to define exemption standards.

“It completely pushes back against this belief that some of

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As supporter holds up a Brandon, Florida sign as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, speaks to members of the media before a bill signing Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. our leadership has been trying to put forward, that you don’t control your body, that your body belongs to Doctor Fauci, and he gets to decide what you do with your body, what you put on your face, what your kids get to do,” Ladapo said of the legislation.

The bill also includes fines for businesses that fire a worker with-

out allowing the exemptions. Additionally, it bars schools and governments from having vaccine mandates and allows parents to sue schools with masking requirements. A separate bill blocks the public release of records regarding state investigations of vaccine policies in businesses.

Democrats have criticized the

bills as politically motivated and dangerous to public health.

“Laissez-faire epidemiology and outright disinformation have contributed to Florida’s horrific death toll, and it’s shameful that some choose to politicize an epidemic for their own ambition,” said Rep. Evan Jenne, a Democrat.

Another bill signed by DeSan-

tis prevents the state health officer from being able to mandate vaccines during a public health emergency. He also approved a bill directing the state to begin considering a withdrawal from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which drafted White House vaccine requirements for private businesses with more than 100 employees.

The location of the bill-signing ceremony itself represented another jab at Biden. DeSantis held the event at a car dealership in the Tampa suburb of Brandon, a reference to the chants of “Let’s go Brandon” that have become a coded stand-in for “F--- Joe Biden” among conservatives. The governor smiled when asked if the location was a move to troll the president, saying “I think that Brandon, Florida, is a great American city,” as a crowd of about 250 supporters chanted “Let’s go Brandon.”

The new legislation, which passed easily in the statehouse, came as the state simultaneously wages legal battles against federal vaccine mandates. Florida has sued the White House over a requirement that federal contractors be vaccinated against COVID-19 and over the vaccine mandate for businesses. This week, the state filed another suit in an attempt to block a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers.

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obituaries

Norman Arthur Jordan, Sr. 1927 – 2021

Norman Arthur Jordan, Sr., 94, died November 20, 2021, at his home in Siler City. He was the youngest child of Claude Womble Jordan and Blanche Jones Jordan.

He graduated from Siler City High School in 1947, where he was a three-sport athlete, and from N.C. State College in 1952, where he earned a B.S. degree in dairy husbandry. It was during his time at N.C. State as a member of the college dairy judging team that he was introduced to Brown Swiss dairy cattle and decided to develop a purebred, registered Brown Swiss herd on his family’s dairy farm west of Siler City. Brush Creek Swiss Farms continues today under the management of his son, Norman Jordan Jr. It was also during his time at N.C. State that he met Beverly Smith, a student nurse at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. They were married for 67 years until her death in 2019.

Norman was preceded in death by his parents, wife Beverly and brother Henry. He is survived by three children, Sheila Jordan and husband, Jerry Washington, of Sunset Beach; Penny Jordan Wofford and husband, Bill, of Greensboro; and Norman Jordan Jr. and wife, Dr. Karen Jordan, of Siler City. He is also survived by his granddaughter, Rebekah Wofford of Morrisville; his sister, Mary Ellen Harris of Raleigh; and Sheila and Jerry’s children Kristi Haas of Hampstead and Robert Washington of Vidalia, Ga., and grandchildren Olivia and Delia Haas.

The family will receive friends on Saturday, November 27, 2021 from 1:00-2:00 PM outside of Moon’s Chapel Baptist Church, 175 Moon’s Chapel Rd., Siler City, with a graveside service following at 2:00 PM at the church cemetery with Dr. Patrick Fuller officiating.

George Daniel “Danny” Pike 1959 – 2021

George Daniel “Danny” Pike, 62, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on Monday, November 15, 2021.

Danny was a native of Chatham County. He was born in Siler City on July 23, 1959 to George Edward Pike and the late Mary Hurlene (Pickard) Pike.

Danny was a graduate of Jordan Matthews High School, class of 1977. He was a member of Rocky River Baptist Church. He was a beloved neighbor and friend to many in the Silk Hope community where he grew up and lived his entire life. As a young man Danny was an Eagle Scout of Silk Hope Troop 911. Danny was a dedicated fire fighter with Silk Hope Volunteer Fire Department for 26 years and was recognized as 1988 Fireman of the Year. The Silk Hope Ruritan Club recognized Danny as the 2015 Agri-Business Person of the year. He retired from NC DOT and owned and operated Roadside Grill. He was a cattle farmer and a top producing poultry farmer for 33 years.

He is survived by his loving wife of 18 1/2 years, Pamela Sheets Pike; children, Kristen Horton (Davide) of Hawaii, Nathan Pike of Mebane, Carolyn Chafin (Chris) of Siler City, and Richard Green of Siler City; siblings, Sarah Gardner (Frankie) of Siler City, Diane Wright (Tony) of Siler City, Manuel Pike (Andrea) of Siler City, Chris Pike (Catie) of Siler City; grandchildren, Makayla Horton, Skylar Horton, Gabriel Horton, Trey Horton, Grayson Daniel Horton, Kenzie Chafin, Riley Chafin, and Decklyn Chafin; many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews. A very dear and loved friend and employee to Danny and Pam, Danny (Pedro) Harrison.

The family will receive friends from 12:30-1:45 pm in the fellowship hall of Emmaus Baptist Church on Friday, November 19, 2021 followed by the funeral service at 2:00 pm at Emmaus Baptist Church, 2430 Silk Hope Gum Springs Rd., Pittsboro, NC 27312 with Pastor Steve Moore officiating.

Entombment will follow at Chatham Memorial Park, 13260 Hwy 64 W., Siler City, NC 27344.

Harry Sills Kassel, Jr. 1932 - 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, fiancee) 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.

David Colon Hancock, Jr. 1968 - 2021

David Colon Hancock, Junior, 53, of Winston-Salem, NC passed away on November 16, 2021, at his family home in Asheboro, NC. David was born in Randolph County on February 27, 1968, to David and Sheryl Lucas Hancock.

David was a talented artist and enjoyed music and sharing his faith in God. The most important part of his life was being with his family. David was preceded in death by his parents.

David is survived by his wife Betty Coleman-Hancock; step daughters, Tamieka and Brya Coleman; brother, Chris Hancock; nieces Brittany and Kyndal Hancock; nephew Gabriel Hancock; and great niece Blakeleigh Hancock

David T. Cornelison

February 26, 1944 November 15, 2021 David Theodore Cornelison, 77, of Asheboro, died Monday, November 15, 2021 at Wilkes Medical Center in North Wilkesboro.

A funeral service will be conducted at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, November 20, 2021, at Ridge Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Robbie Stephens officiating. Burial will follow at Suggs Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.

David was born on February 26, 1944, in Randolph County, to the late Theodore Cornelison and Maie Davis Cornelison. He retired from Holiday Tours and enjoyed gardening, watching racing, working on small engines, and collecting Snoopy memorabilia.

In addition to his parents, David was preceded in death by his wife, the love of his life, Joyce Bullins Cornelison; and his brother, Harvey Cornelison.

He is survived by his son, David Wayne Cornelison and wife Tonia of Morganton; sister, Lois Davis of Concord; brothers, Paul Cornelison of Salisbury, Jerry Cornelison and wife Phyllis of Biscoe; and several special nieces and nephews.

Wade David Barker 1936 - 2021

Wade David Barker, age 85, of Asheboro passed away on November 15, 2021 at Atrium Health Stanly in Albemarle.

Mr. Barker was born in Southern Pines on March 24, 1936 to Henry Gaston and Lelia Bolton Barker. Wade worked numerous years for S.E. Trogdon Construction and retired from J.H. Allen Construction with whom he built numerous businesses and buildings in Asheboro. He was a member of West Asheboro Baptist Church where he formerly sang in the choir and was Sunday School Superintendent. In addition to his parents, Wade was preceded in death by his wife, Glenda Barker, and brothers, Amon, Jack, and Chuck Barker. Wade enjoyed fishing, loved being out on the water, and traveling to the beach.

He is survived by his children, Yogi Barker (Annette) of Asheboro, Matthew W. Barker (Jennifer) of Ramseur, Tonya B. Bowers (Michael) of Asheboro, Kyle S. Barker of Mt. Gilead, and Kevin Barker of Asheboro; grandchildren, Gindy B. Beane (Michael), Eric Bowers (Kali), Mara Barker, and Ethan Barker; and great grandchild, Cameron Beane.

Hazel Pegram Kidd

Rachel Shaw Hilliard

1926 - 2021

1934 - 2021

Hazel Pegram Kidd, 94, of Randleman, passed away on November 17, 2021 at her home.

She was born on December 15, 1926 in Guilford County and was retired from Pinehurst Textiles. Mrs. Kidd was a kind and loving woman who was always willing to help a person in need. She was a Christian woman and a member of Central Falls United Methodist Church where she taught the children’s Sunday School class for 50 years. She had a green thumb and loved bird watching. She was preceded in death by her husband of 76 years, Dewitt Kidd.

Mrs. Kidd is survived by daughter, Janie Meadows Little of Randleman; grandson, Jason Allred; granddaughter, Winona Stalvey; great-grandchildren, Jenee Ford and husband Matt, Erik Davis. Caleb Allred and wife Veronica, Patrick Allred, Nicholas Allred; great great granddaughters, Krystal and Arianna Ford.

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.

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.

Phillip E. (Gene) Bumgarner 1932 – 2021

Phillip E. (Gene) Bumgarner, 89, of Seagrove passed away Friday, November 19, 2021 at Randolph Hospice House. In addition to his parents, Gene was preceded in death by brothers: Clyde, Bill, “Boots”, Sonny and sisters Lucille, Frances and Darlene. He was also preceded in death by a daughter Lisa Bumgarner Briles.

Mr. Bumgarner was born in Taylorsville, NC on October 19, 1932 to Ralph and Mamie Bumgarner. Gene was a graduate of Seagrove High School and Coyne Electrical School in Chicago, Illinois. He was a veteran of the US Army.

Gene owned and operated Electronic Service Company in Asheboro for forty years. In recognition of his volunteer work with Randolph Hospice, Gene received the WFMY-TV “To Those Who Care” Award which recognized special volunteers in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina. Mr. Bumgarner and his wife Betty were also volunteers for Meals on Wheels until his declining health.

He was a life-long member of Seagrove Christian Church serving as a Deacon, Sunday School teacher and on numerous committees. Gene is survived by his wife of 65 years Betty of the home, daughter Beverly Beck (Stan) and son-inlaw Strader Briles both of Asheboro. He is also survived by four grandchildren Kent Beck (Margaret), Joshua Beck both of Asheboro, Allison Winters (Drew) of Greenville, NC and Strader Allen Briles II (Reanna, fiancee) of Denton, NC. In addition, he is survived by three greatgrandchildren: Emerson and Charlotte Beck and Elise Winters.

Ruth (Hunt) Brady May 4, 1952 ~ November 16, 2021

Sophia- Ruth Hunt Brady, 69, passed away Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at Moses Cone Hospital. Born in Randolph County on May 4, 1952, she was the daughter of the late Bim and Frances Hunt.

Ruth received her high school diploma from Farmer High School in Asheboro. She was a member of Christian Fellowship Church, and enjoyed spending time with her grandson Jonah.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Ruth is survived by her husband of 49 years, Roger Brady; daughter Olivia Blanton and her husband Jody; grandson, Jonah Blanton; siblings, Brenda Thomas and her husband Paul, Sam Hunt and his wife Janet, Clifford Hunt and his wife Virginia, David Hunt and his wife Kathy, Gail Bailey and her husband Darrell and Lucy Lucas and her husband Bobby; as well as a host of nieces and nephews.

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Randolph Record for Wednesday, November 24, 2021

STATE & NATION

Biden’s political standing fuels Democratic worry about 2024

By Steve Peoples The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — It was supposed to be a moment of triumph for Joe Biden.

The Democratic president had just signed into law the most significant infrastructure package in generations. And he had done it by bringing Democrats and Republicans together, just as he promised during last year’s campaign.

But when Biden arrived in New Hampshire last week to promote the $1 trillion package at the foot of a crumbling bridge, not all of his VIP guests were in the mood to celebrate.

“Democrats are concerned,” former state House Speaker Steve Shurtleff, a longtime Biden supporter who attended the ceremony, told The Associated Press when asked about Biden’s political standing. “I’m concerned about where we may be in another couple of years when people really start to gear up and start making trips to New Hampshire.”

Shurtleff was openly saying what a growing number of Democrats have been whispering for

months: Biden’s political standing is so weak less than a year into his presidency that he may not be able to win reelection in 2024 if he were to run again. Such anxiety-fueled parlor games are common among Washington’s political class, but this one has spread to the states and constituencies that will play a central role in the next presidential election.

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing her own political conundrum with polls suggesting she may be less popular than her unpopular boss. A dynamic leader who made history by becoming the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to step into her office, Harris has been given few opportunities by the Biden White House to shine.

She delivered her first solo speech to promote the new infrastructure law on Friday in Ohio’s capital city, addressing a mostly empty union hall largely absent of political dignitaries at roughly the same time Biden was issuing the White House’s annual turkey pardon in Washington.

“In America, we have the courage to see beyond the crisis — to be-

lieve that the future and a future we imagine is possible — and then, to build it,” Harris said to a smattering of polite applause in Columbus.

At least for now, there’s little to suggest the legislation, which will strengthen infrastructure in every state and potentially create hundreds of thousands of jobs, will quickly improve Democrats’ political standing.

As Biden struggles, speculation has intensified about the short list of would-be successors should Biden not seek reelection, although the 79-year-old president has said publicly and privately that he will.

The list is led by Harris, of course, but includes other 2020 presidential candidates such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Just last week, Booker announced plans to appear at a party fundraiser next month in New Hampshire, which traditionally hosts the nation’s first presidential primary election.

Booker’s team sought to tamp down chatter that he was positioning himself to run in 2024, and allies say he is very close to Harris and would not challenge her in the event Biden retires. Still, the mere

existence of such conversations so soon into a new presidency is unusual.

The White House is working to quash speculation that Biden may not seek reelection in 2024 given his current struggles.

Noting that Biden has declared his intent to run publicly and privately, his aides say the Democratic National Committee and Biden’s political team inside the White House are actively moving forward with the assumption he will seek a second term.

They believe Biden’s position will improve as voters digest the new infrastructure law and the $2 trillion social spending and climate bill currently moving through Congress. Already, the DNC and its allies are focusing significant resources on selling the Democrats’ accomplishments in key states before the 2022 midterm elections — states such as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that will also be top battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election.

Despite their optimism, tensions inside the White House are real as the new leadership team learns to

work together.

Harris’ allies are especially frustrated that Biden seems to have limited the vice president to a low-profile role with a difficult policy portfolio — led by voting rights and immigration.

And when she delivered her speech on the infrastructure law, there was little sign of Democratic enthusiasm.

The crowd of invited guests barely filled one-quarter of a local union hall. Almost none of Ohio’s top Democrats attended the event, including Sen. Sherrod Brown or the high-profile Democrats running for governor. Rep. Joyce Beatty, who represents the district where Harris spoke, was the only member of Congress in attendance.

“Because of our work together, America is moving forward,” Harris declared, explaining that the infrastructure law would “make the most significant investment to fix our road and bridges in 70 years.”

But just as in New Hampshire, the White House’s message was clouded by frustration over Biden’s presidency.

“The question becomes, ‘Why am I helping you to hold to power, when the power you have right now you’re not using on my behalf?’”

Ohio Democrat Nina Turner, who served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, said of Biden. “That’s called insanity — asking me to vote for you, asking the Black community to come out for you in 2022 or 2024 when you ain’t doing nothing in 2021.”

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President Joe Biden signs the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" during an event on the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Pentagon boosts housing money for troops, as hunger persists

By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon will increase housing payments for troops in key areas and look for ways to combat hunger across the force, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced, in the department’s latest effort to address food insecurity among service members.

Austin told reporters that troops have enough to worry about and that “basic necessities like food and housing shouldn’t be among them.”

According to an estimate by Feeding America, as many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. The group, which coordinates the work of more than 200 food banks around the country, estimates that 29% of troops in the most junior enlisted ranks faced food insecurity during the previous year.

He said the department will immediately provide a temporary increase in the housing allowance for troops who live in areas where rent costs have gone up by at least 10% this year. Temporary lodging

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting with Norwegian Minister of Defense Odd Enoksen at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Washington, D.C. reimbursement will be extended for those moving into communities with housing shortages.

Austin said he has given the undersecretary for personnel 90 days to develop a longer term strategy.

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.

“It’s a shocking truth that’s

known to many food banks across the United States,” said Vince Hall, Feeding America’s government relations officer. “This should be the cause of deep embarrassment.”

Lower-ranking enlisted troops receive modest pay, and their frequent moves make it difficult for spouses to find steady work. The problem is exacerbated by an Agriculture Department rule that prevents thousands of needy military families from accessing the SNAP government assistance program, commonly known as food stamps.

Service members who do not live on bases get a housing allowance, which is counted as income in calculating their eligibility for food stamps. That additional amount, which is not counted as income for other federal programs, often enough to disqualify families for the food assistance.

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, a former Blackhawk pilot who lost both legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq, has sponsored a bill that would establish a Basic Needs Allowance payment for military families in need.

Rep. James McGovern,

D-Mass., has sought a Pentagon study of the problem and a repeal of the USDA’s Basic Allowance for Housing regulation.

Colleen Heflin, a professor of public administration at Syracuse University, said the lack of Pentagon interest has led to a critical shortage of proper study or data. “In my experiences, it’s hard to explain this to Department of Defense officials,” she said. “They find it embarrassing and something they would not like to acknowledge.”

In addition to the immediate actions, Austin said in a memo that the department should look into a number of other steps to increase stability for service members. They would include extending the tour length for troops deploying to some locations overseas, when they are accompanied by their families.

Where possible, he said the department should consider extending the three-year time limit on assignments at bases within the United States.

Austin also said the Pentagon should take steps to improve financial education and counseling for troops.

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COURTESY OF THE STANLY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Cops for Tots Stanly Sheriff’s Office deputies, Oakboro Police officers and Santa Claus spend time on a roof and on street corners gathering donations for Toys for Tots, a charity run by the U.S. Marine Corps that provides toys to children from low-income households.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Construction begins on new library

Celebration begins at 4 p.m. Nov. 27

Union County Last week, officials held the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Union County Southwest Regional Library, which will be located on Cuthbertson Road in Waxhaw. The new building will be 19,000 square feet and will have meeting rooms and expanded collections of materials. It will be located conveniently close to the local middle and high schools.

Planning for the new library began in 2018 and the site was chosen a year later.

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Man sent to prison on dog fighting, gun charges Cabarrus County Delontay Moore, 26, of Concord, was sentenced to 75 months in prison for his part in a dog fighting operation.

Moore pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit dog fighting offenses and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Moore trained and sponsored a dog in a dog fight in December 2019.

The dog lost and died of injuries. In February, agents seized 25 dogs from Moore which showed evidence of having been in fights and suffering from gross neglect, including infections, inflamed or infected wounds and dehydration. Three of the dogs required emergency treatment.

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City of Albemarle to combine annual downtown event with Christmas parade

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — After a hiatus last year due to health and safety concerns, the annual Albemarle Christmas Parade and “An Albemarle Downtown Christmas” event will both be back in action on Nov. 27.

Presented by the Albemarle Downtown Development Corporation, the parade will begin at 4 p.m. and then transition into the downtown event until 9 p.m., creating opportunities for local businesses and vendors to open their doors to the public.

While both events have landed on different days in prior years, the Albemarle City Council decided that the two could be combined into one larger event for 2021’s holiday cycle.

“We had several businesses that expressed the desire to combine the two events into one day,

so we brought that idea to the city council and they approved it,” Joy Almond, Main Street manager for the City of Albemarle and Albemarle Downtown Development Corporation, told SCJ. “We thought that Small Business Saturday would also be a really great day to host these events.”

Following the conclusion of the parade, Albemarle Mayor Ronnie Michael will kick off the 28th annual “An Albemarle Downtown Christmas” at 5:30 p.m. with the annual tree-lighting ceremony in front of City Hall.

During that same time slot, the City of Albemarle is hosting two Christmas movie showings with free popcorn and hot chocolate provided — event attendees can watch “Elf” on a projector screen next to City Hall or have the option of watching “The Polar Express” at The Gathering Community Church.

“We’re really eager to host these events and have visitors come in so we can make

“We weren’t able to do anything last year because of COVID-19, so we’re looking forward to getting back to normalcy this year with our events.”

Joy Almond, Albemarle Main Street manager them feel welcome,” Almond said. “They can see all the exciting things and positive changes that are happening downtown as they come through and enjoy the festivities. We weren’t able to do anything last year because of COVID-19, so we’re looking forward to getting back to normalcy this year with our events.”

Down the street at Courthouse Square Park, lines of people wanting to get their picture taken with Santa Claus can form. Multiple hayrides

What Stanly County got in the state budget

By David Larson Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — On Thursday, Nov. 18, a bipartisan state budget easily passed both chambers of the General Assembly and was then signed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The two-year budget allocates $25.9 billion for 2021-22 and $27.0 billion 202223. Included in that is almost $32 million for Stanly County, funding a number of crucial areas.

“After months of good-faith negotiations with the Governor, I’m proud to see the compromise budget pass,” Sen. Carl Ford, a Republican who represents Stanly and Rowan counties in the state’s Senate, said in a press release.

Ford said that Republicans’ fiscal responsibility over the past

decade has resulted in billions of dollars in surpluses, which has created the opportunity to be able to fund vital priorities while also maintaining money in reserves for future needs.

Funds secured for the county, according to Ford’s release, include, $125,000 for repairs and renovations at the Stanly Agri-Civic Center, $28 million for improvements at the Stanly County Airport, $1 million for marina improvements on Badin Lake, $800,000 for water and sewer improvements for the Town of Locust, $250,000 for improvements at the Badin Conference Center, $860,215 to Pfeiffer University, $144,750 for the Stanly County Health Department and $500,000 additional funds to the Stanly County government.

State Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) praised Ford for his work, saying, “Sen. Ford was instrumental in getting critical infrastructure and other projects approved for his district.”

Rep. Wayne Sasser, a Republican who represents Stanly County in the state House, was also instrumental in pushing for each of these projects.

Sasser, in an interview with SCJ a week earlier, noted that the area’s parks were one major winner, saying, “If you look at that budget, 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.”

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wrapped up in Christmas lights will circle the downtown area, riding by a pair of live ice-carving displays set up on the street.

Meanwhile, dining options will be available at Food Truck Corner, located at the parking lot of First and Main Streets.

What-a-Burger #13, Higgins & Son Barbecue, Mottzarellas, and J&M Food Shack will join other vendors along with a station offering beverages from the Badin Brews taphouse.

Local downtown restaurants such as Off the Square, Five Points, Goody Shop Café, and Tiffany’s At The Boardroom will be open with extended business hours during the night. Stanfield country music singer Dustin Curlee — a recent American Idol contest — is set to hold a performance at Tiffany’s At The Boardroom.

Additionally, the Stanly County History Center, Stanly County Public Library, and Albemarle Music Store will each be open with special Christmas displays and activities for kids.

Stanly County Republican Party praised the two for their efforts in this biennial budget, saying, “Senator Ford and Rep. Sasser have worked hard to bring more money to improve and grow Stanly County.”

In terms of state-wide impact, the budget will kick-off a decade-long $16.1 billion plan to rebuild North Carolina’s infrastructure, gradually reduce personal income taxes to 3.99%, grow the “zero-tax bracket” to $25,500 for those who are married-filing-jointly, increase the child tax deduction by $500 per child, maintain a $4.25 billion RainyDay Fund and provide $1 billion to expand broadband internet.

Public employees will also see increased wages in the new budget. Both teachers and state employees will see about 5% in pay increases. Non-certified staff, like the bus drivers and cafeteria See BUDGET, page 2

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In this Dec. 31, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, D.C.

Trump photo book ‘Our Journey Together’ coming next month NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s first post-White House book will be, like so much else about him, a departure from other former presidents.

Trump is publishing a hardcover collection of hundreds of photographs from his administration, featuring his own captions, some handwritten. “Our Journey Together” is scheduled for Dec. 7, but not through a traditional New

York publisher. It will instead be released by a new company formed by son Donald Trump Jr. and campaign aide Sergio Gor, Winning Team Publishing. “’Our Journey Together’ features unforgettable moments from our time in Washington: building the Southern Border Wall; cutting America’s taxes; confirming almost 300 federal judges and 3 Supreme Court justices; rebuilding our military; creating Space Force; dealing with Kim Jong-Un, President

Xi, President Putin, and many other world leaders,” the former president said in a statement Friday.

While Barack Obama, George W. Bush and other recent predecessors of Trump wrote memoirs and announced multi-million dollar deals with Penguin Random House and other publishing houses soon after leaving office, New York publishers have resisted working with Trump — especially after the Jan. 6 protest of the U.S. Capitol by some of his supporters. Simon & Schuster dropped a book by one Trump backer, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, and faced widespread anger within the company for reaching a deal for a memoir by Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence.

Trump has referred at times to publishing a memoir, “the book of all books,” but has otherwise granted interviews to Michael Wolff, Jonathan Karl of ABC News and

workers that have been striking in Stanly and across the state, will see a minimum wage increase to $15 starting in 2022. Federal funds will be used to provide a $2,800 bonus to most teachers, as well.

Lower-wealth counties will get additional funds from the budget to retain and recruit teachers, with

Stanly receiving over $1 million, amounting to a $1,375-increase per teacher.

Two additional provisions in the budget challenged executive-branch powers, and even though Cooper signed the bill, he signaled that he did not consider these particular items to be constitutional. The first would limit a governor’s power to declare a per-

petual state of emergency without getting approval from the Council of State (which includes the lieutenant governor and other top state officials). Republicans included the measure after complaints that Cooper gave himself unprecedented, unchecked power during COVID by maintaining a state of emergency.

The other item prohibits what

Republicans called collusive settlements. They cried foul a number of times when Democratic allies would sue the governor and then settle with him, allegedly as a strategy to change state laws without the legislature’s approval. The new budget would require the attorney general to include legislative leaders in any agreements of this kind.

DEATH NOTICES

WEEKLY CRIME LOG

♦ Oscar Hinson, III, 53, of New London, died August 25.

♦ Mcauley, Dewarren Torress (B /M/31) Arrest on chrg of Nonsupport Child (M), at 38836 Nc 740 Hwy, New London, NC, on 11/18/2021

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♦ Johnny Lee Helms, 72, of Locust, died November 2. ♦ Bruce DeBerry, 70, of Albemarle, died November 15. ♦ Anabael Williams Speight, 79, of Oakboro, died November 18. ♦ James Adam Howell, 82, of Albemarle, died November 18. ♦ Margaret Almond Shepherd, 86, of Albemarle, died November 19. ♦ Melvin T. Harper, 89, of Norwood, died November 19.

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Mistach, Brittany Leigh (B /F/27) Arrest on chrg of Surrender By Surety (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Carver, Kenny Earl (I /M/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Dv Protection Order Violation (M) and 2) Fta - Release Order (M), at 6815 Us 52 Hwy S/riverview Rd, Norwood, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Hetland, James Terry (W /M/46) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Methamphetamine (F) and 2) Probation Violation (M), at 7005 Riverview Rd/mt Zion Church Rd, Norwood, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Shelton, Sheila Revis (W /F/61) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Methamphetamine (F), 2) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), and 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 7005 Riverview Rd/mt Zion Church Rd, Norwood, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Heidel, Cristal Cathleen (W /F/39) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 2) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 3) Felony Larceny (F), 4) Felony Larceny (F), 5) Injury To Real Property (M), 6) Conspire To Commit Felony Larceny (F), and 7) Conspire To Commit Felony Larceny (F), at 39169 Derrick Dr, Albemarle, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Compton, Stephen Andrew (W /M/39) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Tresp Enter/ remain (M), at 9788 Briarwood Dr, Stanfield, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Little, Cherelle Amber (B /F/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking Or Entering (m) (M) and 2) First Deg Tresp Enter/remain (M), at Mabrys Hotel, Albemarle, NC, on

11/17/2021 ♦ Liles, Leo Thomas (B /M/38) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Tresp Enter/remain (M), at 20713 Us 52 Hwy S, Albemarle, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Robertson, Joseph Wayne (W /M/46) Arrest on chrg of 1) Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (F), 2) Simple Possess Sch Vi Cs (m) (M), and 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 36367 Old Salisbury Rd/austin Rd, New London, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Johnson, Charles Earl (B /M/52) Arrest on chrg of Civil Order For Arrest - Child Support (M), at 3rd St @main St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Hopkins, Crystal Gail (W /F/38) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 2) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 3) Felony Larceny (F), 4) Felony Larceny (F), 5) Injury To Real Property (M), 6) Conspire To Commit Felony Larceny (F), and 7) Conspire To Commit Felony Larceny (F), at 39169 Derrick Dr, Albemarle, NC, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Benson, Benjamin (W /M/30) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F) and 2) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 52 Lanier Rd, Norwood, NC, on 11/16/2021 ♦ Lewis, Carlos Sylvester J (B /M/32) Arrest on chrg of Felony Probation Violation, F (F), at 425 Colston St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/16/2021 ♦ Leake, Harvey Lee (B M, 59) Arrested on Citation of Driving While Impaired(21-04745), at Martin Luther King Jr Dri/heath Street, Albemarle, on 11/20/202 ♦ Lewis, Michael Eugene (B M, 60) Arrest

on chrg of Misdemeanor Larceny, M (M), at126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/15/2021 ♦ Little, Richard Allen (B M, 38) Arrest on chrg of Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), at 520Washington Ln, Albemarle, on 11/19/2021 ♦ Stanback, Antonio (B /M/49) Arrest on chrg of 1) Flee/elude Arrest W/mv (f) (F), 2) Dwlr Not Impaired Rev (M), and 3) Speeding (M), at Main Street, Norwood, NC, on 11/21/2021 ♦ Blalock, Michael Lewis (W /M/60) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault With Deadly Weapon (m) (M), 2) Assault With Deadly Weapon (m) (M), 3) Communicate Threats (M), and 4) Communicate Threats (M), at Norwood, NC, on 11/21/2021

others writing about him. Should he release a memoir through Winning Team, it would be a test for how a new publisher could manage sales and distribution for a book which could well sell millions of copies.

Gor declined to discuss Winning Team’s plans, but says that additional authors have been signed.

Winning Team Publishing continues a wave of conservative imprints, among them the Daily Wire’s DW Books and All Seasons Press, formed this year by those who allege they are being “silenced” by mainstream publishers.

Trump’s statement included a link to the company site, where the book can be preordered for $74.99 in standard format (new photo books have been known to sell for anywhere from $40 to more than $150) and $229.99 for a signed copy.

“Senator Ford and Rep. Sasser have worked hard to bring more money to improve and grow Stanly County.”

Stanly County GOP

(m),M (M), at 1421 Amhurst St/west Dr, Albemarle, on 11/17/2021 ♦ Willoughby, Eric Lamont (B M, 31) Arrest on chrg of Statutory Rape Of Child <= 15(F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/18/2021 ♦ Liles, Leo Thomas (B M, 38) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Tresp Enter/remain (M), at126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/18/2021 ♦ Braley, Brandon Carl (W M, 36) Arrest on chrg of Obtain Property False Pretense (F),at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/18/2021 ♦ Sinclair, Allen David (W M, 56) Arrest on chrg of Awdw Intent To Kill (F), at 301Yadkin St, Albemarle, on 11/18/2021

♦ Mauldin, Douglas Wayne (W M, 28) Arrest on chrg of Break Or Enter Motor Vehicle(F), at 1320 Old Parker Rd, Albemarle, on 11/19/202

♦ Watkins, Gregory Nmn (B M, 59) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Tresp Enter/remain, M(M), at 1211 Pee Dee Av, Albemarle, on 11/18/2021

♦ Mistach, Brittany Leigh (B F, 27) Arrest on chrg of Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (F), at309 Arey Av/gibson St, Albemarle, on 11/17/2021.

♦ Allen, Jennifer Nicole (W /F/43) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 2) Larceny After Break/enter (F), 3) Injury To Personal Property (M), and 4) Felony Conspiracy (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/21/2021

♦ Allen, Jennifer Nicole (W /F/43) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 2) Larceny After Break/enter (F), 3) Injury To Personal Property (M), and 4) Felony Conspiracy (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/21/2021 ♦ Helms, Constance Evonne (W /F/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F), 2) Larceny After Break/ enter (F), and 3) Felony Conspiracy (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/21/2021 ♦ Strong, Marquis Lashion (B M, 25) Arrest on chrg of Simple Possess Sch Vi Cs

♦ Helms, Constance Evonne (W /F/37) Arrest on chrg of Felony Conspiracy (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/21/2021 ♦ Smith, Timothy James (W /M/33) Arrest on chrg of Felony Conspiracy (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/21/2021 ♦ Black, Liquese (B /M/43) Arrest on chrg of Felony Possession Of Cocaine (F), at Hwy 49, Albemarle, NC, on 11/21/2021

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 24, 2021

OPINION

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

COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

Democrats’ spending drives up the cost of Thanksgiving turkey

The three “B’s” in the Build Back Better bill should stand for bankrupting our economy, benefitting the wealthy, and building the bureaucracy.

TURKEY ON YOUR TABLE. Apple pie in the oven. Gas in your car to visit the grandkids…

All of these are essential to the Thanksgiving holiday. And unfortunately, all of them cost more now than they did last year.

Heading into Thanksgiving, our nation is facing real challenges. I’m sure you and your family have noticed that gas prices are at a 7-year high.

Inflation is at a 30-year high. And increased costs at grocery stores are making this the most expensive Thanksgiving in history.

However, the troubles don’t stop there.

Last week, we learned the crisis on our border is continuing at a breakneck pace. In fact, border apprehensions last month were the highest October numbers ever recorded. Overall, 1.6 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended this year — the most ever.

Instead of addressing these problems, Washington Democrats spent last week advancing their spending and tax spree boondoggle that will make inflation and the border crisis worse.

Included in their package is amnesty for up to 10 million illegal immigrants. For our economy, their so-called “Build Back Better” bill includes trillions in tax increases on hard working Americans like you. A natural-gas tax and the banning of domestic-energy production will make trips to the gas pump and home heating bills cost even more. However, last week the left-wing Washington Post revealed the bill would provide a $285 billion tax cut to the wealthiest 10% of Americans. This means you pay more and the rich get a big tax cut.

Additionally, this bill explodes entitlements and creates over 150 new government programs. Their plan doubles the size of the IRS to spy on your bank account and take money from you to pay for their spending.

Yet the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found even this would not be enough to pay for the spending in this bill. Overall, the three “B’s” in the Build Back Better bill should stand for bankrupting our economy,

benefitting the wealthy and building the bureaucracy.

While my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are focused on this radical agenda, I am focused on solutions — especially for our veterans.

As Fort Bragg’s congressman and representative of the fastest-growing veteran population in the nation, supporting our veterans and military families is a top priority. Tragically however, we lose 17 veterans to suicide every day. A recent report from the Pentagon revealed suicides among Army active-duty forces jumped 46% earlier this year.

This is unacceptable.

As I’ve said before, in North Carolina, Veterans Day is not just one day a year. It is a year-long call to action. That’s why I joined with Sen. Thom Tillis last week in a press conference to bring awareness to veteran and active-duty military suicide.

First — if you or a veteran you know is in crisis, contact the Veterans Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255.

Additionally, I sponsored legislation designating Sunday, Nov. 21 as National Warrior Call Day. This is a time to reach out to a veteran or service member you know. Check in on them, and let them know how much their service matters. This small gesture may save a life, and it’s the least we can do to thank those who served.

Especially around Thanksgiving, I am so thankful for all who served or are serving, as well as their families. This week, thousands of men and women in uniform will be away from their families. Whether it’s Veterans Day, National Warrior Call Day, or Thanksgiving, remember them in your prayers and give thanks in any way you can.

It’s true our nation is facing many challenges right now. Yet there is often more that unites than divides us, and there is always more to be thankful for in our everyday lives. This week, I hope you’re able to reflect on your blessings and spend time with your family. From mine to yours, Happy Thanksgiving.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

There will be no media ‘reckoning’ over the Steele Dossier The most charitable explanation is that reporters had become such saps for Democrats that they were inclined to believe the most fantastical stories imaginable.

Axios says there’s a “reckoning” in the media over coverage of the Steele dossier after the partisan oppo document’s primary source was charged with lying to the FBI. “It’s one of the most egregious journalistic errors in modern history,” writes Sara Fischer, “and the media’s response to its own mistakes has so far been tepid.”

Tepid is a nice way of putting it. While the Washington Post “corrected” some of its discredited reporting on the dossier, removing portions of reporting connecting former President Donald Trump to Russia, there has been virtually no other accountability. And, really, it’s become modus operandi for the news organizations to “correct” stories in which the entire premise is false. Any sort of “reckoning” would mean a retraction, followed by investigative deep dives, not only reporting the problems with the story themselves but outing the fraudulent sources who participated in the deception. Perhaps that’s going on as we speak, but it’s highly doubtful.

Those who perpetuated the Russia collusion deception — and this means editors and pundits, not only reporters — still hold premier jobs in political media. Many, in fact, have been rewarded with better gigs.

Is anyone at the Washington Post or New York Times going to return a Pulitzer? Is anyone going to explain how multiple alleged independent sources regularly buttressed the central fabulistic claim of the dossier?

Journalism is ostensibly about transparency and truth, yet not one of these sentinels of democracy has explained how they were supposedly fooled for years, exhibiting not a modicum of skepticism — one of the most vital components of good journalism. When asked by Axios about the Steele dossier, the two outlets that churned out some of the most sensationalistic and conspiratorial content of the Trump era, CNN and MSNBC, wouldn’t even comment.

The most charitable explanation is that reporters had become such saps for Democrats that they were inclined to believe the most fantastical stories imaginable. The more plausible explanation, considering the lack of any genuine accountability and self-reflection, is that they were in on it.

There’s the argument out there that contends that Trump and his associates did and said things that made the dossier’s claims plausible.

Well, Trump’s words could have been a big enough story on their own.

The president made no secret of his personal admiration of Vladimir Putin before the election. The notion that a Russian asset (since 1987, even!) would need to go on TV and ask the Russians to ferret out Hillary Clinton’s lost emails seems a stretch.

To excuse what came next from the media would be tantamount to excusing widespread coverage of birtherism simply because so many of former President Barack Obama’s abuses of executive power or inability to say America was exceptional was antithetical to the Constitution he swore to protect. The press exists to avoid the proliferation of faulty information and conspiracies, not to perpetuate them because of their partisan assumptions.

Would Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith, now media reporter for the New York Times, have published an uncorroborated “dossier” on birtherism or, for that matter, Biden’s dealing with his corrupt son, giving it undo attention and credibility? The media and tech companies wouldn’t even allow a properly sourced New York Post story about Hunter Biden be shared in the run-up to the election. Just more proof of malfeasance, not sloppiness. The chances that every single alleged mistake skewed in the same direction is, of course, infinitesimally small.

What difference, at this point, does it make? Well, for one thing, the full truth is opaque, and the historical record has yet to be corrected. It still says that “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops,” a story that spawned from the environment created by the Steele dossier, on the New York Times website. This piece, like so many others, is incorrect. The “intelligence officials” who spread that story were running what amounted to a shadow government using a partisan concoction, illegal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests and a pliant media to sink the foreign policy of the elected president. It’s one of the least democratic things I can think of.

It’s worth knowing how it happened — yet the public gets no explanation.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 24, 2021

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NBA

LeBron ejected after bloodying Stewart Detroit LeBron James was ejected for drawing blood from Isaiah Stewart’s face, sending the superstar to the locker room early in the third quarter in the Lakers’ 121-116 win over the Pistons on Sunday. James’ Flagrant 2 foul ended his night after his left elbow and hand appeared to make contact with Stewart’s face when they were tangled up while boxing out for a rebound.

Detroit’s center, who was called for a foul before James hit him, had to be held back more than once to keep him separated from the NBA superstar and was also ejected.

PAUL SANCYA | AP PHOTO

SOCCER

White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón, a former standout at NC State, will be among the top free agents this offseason.

Lyon-Marseille game abandoned after water bottle hits player

Correa, Freeman, Scherzer among baseball’s top free agents

Lyon, France A French league game between Lyon and Marseille was abandoned on Sunday after Marseille midfielder Dimitri Payet was hit on the head by a bottle of water thrown from the stands while he was taking a corner kick in the latest fan violence to strike French soccer. Payet collapsed to the ground in the fifth minute of the match at Lyon, with the score at 0-0, but was able to get up after receiving treatment. The referee ordered players to head back to the locker room with play suspended.

CYCLING

Cavendish suffers “small collapsed lung” at Belgian event Brussels British cyclist Mark Cavendish broke two ribs and suffered a “small collapsed lung” during a crash at a track event in Belgium, his team said on Monday. Deceuninck - Quick-Step said in a statement that Cavendish spent Sunday night in the Ghent University Hospital following the incident at the Ghent Six Day. The 36-year-old Cavendish has enjoyed a revival this season, equaling Eddy Merckx’s all-time record of 34 Tour de France stage wins in July.

WINTER OLYMPICS

Shuster wins U.S. curling trials, will defend gold in Beijing Omaha, Neb. Defending Olympic curling champion John Shuster is going back to the Winter Games for a fifth time.

The 2018 gold medalist skipped his team to victory over Team Dropkin at the U.S. trials on Sunday night, winning 5-4 to take the best-of-three finals two games to one and earn a spot in Beijing.

John Landsteiner and Matt Hamilton will also return to the Olympics after winning it all in Pyeongchang. Chris Plys joined the foursome to replace Tyler George, who retired. The Americans had never earned an Olympic curling medal until 2006, when Shuster was the lead on Pete Fenson’s bronzewinning team.

Former NC State pitcher Carlos Rodón is among the top starters available

By Noah Trister The Associated Press WITH A POSSIBLE lockout on the horizon, it’s been mostly business as usual on the free agent market — so far.

Detroit signed left-hander Eduardo Rodríguez. Houston retained star righty Justin Verlander. Noah Syndergaard went from the Mets to the Angels on an expensive one-year deal.

The deadline to accept qualifying offers came and went last week, further clarifying who was heading to the open market.

It remains to be seen whether the uncertainty about the next labor agreement will affect offseason moves for the top players available, but it’s clear there are plenty of good options for teams looking to upgrade.

Here’s a look at some of baseball’s top free agents

Carlos Rodón, White Sox, left-handed starter: It’s a toss-up between Rodón and Robbie Ray. Rodón, 28, didn’t really threaten Ray in the Cy Young vote, but his ERA was about a half a run lower and he’s also younger. And Ray received a qualifying offer while Rodón did not, so that may make Rodón a more enticing target.

Aaron Loup, Mets, left-handed reliever: The 33-year-old Loup went 6-0 with a 0.95 ERA in 65 appearances. Opponents hit .192 off him.

Max Scherzer, Dodgers, right-handed starter: No signs yet of any major decline for the 37-year-old Scherzer despite his age. He’s had an ERA at 3.15 or lower in eight of the last nine seasons — the only time it was higher was in the shortened 2020 campaign.

Raisel Iglesias, Angels, right-handed reliever: Iglesias, 31, saved 34 games for Los Angeles, and things did not go smoothly for the Cincinnati bullpen after he left. He’s had at least 30 saves in each of the past three non-short-

0.95 ERA last season for Mets lefthanded reliever Aaron Loup ened seasons.

Yan Gomes, Athletics, catcher: There aren’t any star catchers available this year, but the 34-year-old Gomes can provide a bit of pop.

Freddie Freeman, Braves, first base: Losing Freeman, 32, would be a major downer for the World Series champions, but the fivetime All-Star and 2020 MVP will obviously command a big price.

Even at first base it’s hard to find this kind of consistent production.

Marcus Semien, Blue Jays, second base: Let’s list Semien, 31, as a second baseman — where he mostly played this season — and avoid a tough decision at shortstop. Semien hit 45 home runs this year while playing all 162 games, and he finished third in the MVP

vote. He has the most WAR of any player in baseball since the start of the 2019 season, according to Baseball-Reference.com.

Eduardo Escobar, Brewers, third base: The 32-year-old Escobar hit 28 home runs this year in the first full season since he slugged 35 in 2019. He played a bit at first, second and shortstop in addition to third.

Carlos Correa, Astros, shortstop: Correa, 27, made his big league debut at age 20 and reaches free agency well shy of his 30th birthday. That makes him a good bit younger than some of the other top players on this list, and he may be the most sought-after name this offseason.

Starling Marte, Athletics; Kris Bryant, Giants; Nick Castellanos, Reds, outfield: Marte did what he could to help the A’s down the stretch, and he ended up with an .841 OPS this year for Oakland and Miami. Bryant doesn’t turn 30 until January and can obviously play third base in addition to the outfield. Castellanos set career highs in homers (34), batting average (.309) and OPS (.939) this year.

Nelson Cruz, Rays, designated hitter: The 41-year-old Cruz may finally be slowing down, but only a little. He hit 32 homers this year but posted an .832 OPS, his lowest since 2012.

Chamberlain, Russell headline AP’s 1960s alldecade NBA team The league is celebrating its 75th anniversary

The Associated Press THE 1960S All-Decade Team for the NBA as voted on by AP Sports staffers directly engaged with the season-long NBA At 75 series. The team members are: Elgin Baylor Baylor was the game’s first high flyer, known for his dunks and his hanging jump shot. The 10time All-NBA first-team selection was a versatile player who averaged 27.4 points and 13.5 rebounds per game in his career. In 1960, he scored a then-NBA record 71 points against the New York Knicks. His NBA Finals record of 61 points set in 1962 still stands. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1977.

Wilt Chamberlain Chamberlain was larger than life, and the muscular 7-foot-1 center put up numbers to match his frame. He averaged 50.4 points in 1959-60, 27.2 rebounds in 196061 and scored 100 points in a game in 1962 — all records that still

stand. He was a four-time MVP who won three in a row from 1966 to 1968. In 1960, he was the AllStar MVP, rookie of the year and league MVP. He was a seven-time scoring champion and 11-time rebounding champion who led the league in assists in 1968. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979.

Oscar Robertson Robertson averaged a triple-double in 1961-62 — a feat that wasn’t duplicated until Russell Westbrook achieved it in 201617. He made point guard more of a scoring position, averaging 25.7 points in his career. He was Rookie of the Year in 1961, league MVP in 1964 and a three-time All-Star MVP. He was All-NBA first-team nine times and led the league in assists six times. The 12-time AllStar was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Bill Russell A game-changing defender and rebounder from the center position, Russell won 11 NBA titles, including eight in a row from 1959 to 1966. He was a five-time league MVP, claiming three in a row from 1961 to 1963. He was a four-time rebounding champion and was

AP PHOTO

Elgin Baylor was a 10-time NBA All-Star and averaged a doubledouble for his career. named All-Star MVP in 1963. He closed out the decade in style, winning his last NBA title in 1969 as a player-coach. The 12-time AllStar was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Jerry West The sharpshooting guard known as “Mr. Clutch” averaged 27 points in his career. In 1969, he became the only player to win Finals MVP on a losing team after delivering 42 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists in a Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics. He didn’t stop at the end of the decade — he was named to the All-Defense first team four times in the 1970s. The 10-time All-NBA first-team selection was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

50.4 Scoring average for Wilt Chamberlain in 1959-60, still an NBA record

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Pfeiffer men’s basketball starts season with 2-2 record

Out of public view for almost three weeks, Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai appeared Sunday in a live video call with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.

The Falcons are coming off a USA South East Division title MARK SCHIEFELBEIN | AP PHOTO

IOC call with Chinese tennis star raises more questions Peng Shuai had been missing for three weeks after accusing a Chinese official of sexual assault

By Stephen Wade The Associated Press A video call between Olympic officials and Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose nearly threeweek disappearance from public view sparked an outcry, was meant to reassure the world that she was safe — but it instead has raised more questions.

Concern grew in the last week for the former No. 1-ranked doubles player — who hadn’t been seen since accusing a senior Chinese official of sexual assault on Nov. 2. Tennis stars and fans alike demanded to know #WhereIsPengShuai, and the head of the Women’s Tennis Association threatened to pull lucrative events from China.

On Sunday, the International Olympic Committee said Peng spoke to officials, including IOC President Thomas Bach, in a 30-minute video call from Beijing. According to the organization’s statement, she reassured them that she was well and thanked them for their concern — while asking for privacy.

The IOC posted a photo that shows Bach facing a screen on which Peng appears but did not release video of the call. On the same day, China Open posted videos and photos of her appearance

at a youth tennis tournament in Beijing that morning.

The IOC’s short statement, which offered few details and no follow-up on her allegations, seems unlikely to close the door on Peng’s case — and it’s leading to increasing criticism of the sports body, which was already facing calls for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics that begins Feb. 4.

Even after the statement was published Sunday, the WTA repeated what chairman and CEO Steve Simon has been saying for more than a week, calling for a full, fair and transparent investigation “without censorship.”

The IOC was already under pressure because of allegations that China has committed human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans and other minorities. China denies the accusations. “We are firmly opposed to any words and deeds that politicize sports in violation of the Olympic spirit,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Monday, when asked about a possible boycott.

The Olympic body has responded to criticism by saying its policy is “quiet diplomacy” and it may argue that its access to Peng shows that works.

But critics say the move makes the body an active partner in delivering Beijing’s message — while not providing Peng with an open forum to discuss her allegations.

Yaqiu Wang, a spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch, tweeted that the IOC is now “actively

playing a role in the Chinese government’s enforced disappearance, coercion and propaganda machinery.”

An email seeking comment on criticism of the IOC’s handling of its contact with Peng was sent to the Olympic body.

Peng is just one of several Chinese businesspeople, activists and ordinary people who have disappeared in recent years after criticizing party figures or in crackdowns on corruption or pro-democracy and labor rights campaigns.

While the ruling Communist Party is quick to blot out any criticism, that this time it came from an athlete made it especially sensitive. State media celebrate athletes’ victories as proof the party is making China strong — and the party is vigilant about making sure they cannot use their prominence and public appeal to erode its image.

The tennis star accused a former member of the Communist Party’s ruling Standing Committee, Zhang Gaoli, of sexual assault in a social media post that was removed quickly.

She wrote in part: “I know that to you, vice minister Zhang Gaoli, a person of high status and power, you’ve said you’re not afraid.

With your intelligence, you certainly will deny it or you can even use it against me, you can dismiss it without a care. Even if I’m destroying myself, like throwing an egg against a rock, or a moth flying into a flame, I will still speak out the truth about us.”

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal MISENHEIMER — Four games into its nonconference schedule, the Pfeiffer men’s basketball team has split its first four games.

Under the leadership of fourth-year coach Pete Schoch, the Falcons (2-2, 0-0 USA South) opened the year on Nov. 13 with an 83-76 home win over Covenant but sustained a 77-75 home loss to Berry the following night.

Pfeiffer also won one of its next two.

Pfeiffer traveled to Charlotte on Nov. 19 and defeated Johnson & Wales 108-95. The road trip continued the next night into Salem, Virginia, where the Falcons fell 96-72 to Roanoke.

Last season, the Falcons ended their condensed season on a seven-game winning streak, defeating Averett on March 7 to win the men’s basketball program’s first-ever USA South Conference East Division title. It marked the Falcons’ first men’s championship since they were a member of Conference Carolinas (NCAA Division II) in 2017.

The Falcons have retained many of the key players from last year’s championship-winning roster.

Senior Jerome Savoy currently leads his team in scoring with 14.5 points per game while also grabbing 5.3 rebounds per game. He leads the Falcons with 12 3-pointers made.

In two of the Falcons’ four games, guard Craig Sabb led the team in scoring. The graduate student notched 15 points versus Berry and 21 points against Johnson & Wales, and he is averaging 12.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.

Sophomore forward Doran Miles — coming off a rookie campaign where he had team-highs in field goals made (54) and rebounds (8.2 per game) — has averaged 11.5 points and 7.3 rebounds so far this season.

With 17 different players who have scored points, Pfeiffer has spread the ball around with a heavy reliance on 3-point shooting and quick substitution cycles. The Falcons have made 40.6% of their long-range shots, converting 10.8 3-pointers per game.

Four other seniors — forward Sean Scott and guards Donnie Haith, D.J. Bradsher and Taylan Rowe — have contributed to Schoch’s rotation.

The Falcons were set to play at Virginia Wesleyan on Monday. It will be Pfeiffer’s last game until regular conference action begins with a road trip to Southern Virginia on Dec. 4.

17 Players who have scored points for Pfeiffer through four games

Chad Knaus, right, has run a sports car team that Jimmie Johnson, center, and Hendrick Motorsports put together in partnership with Action Express for four IMSA endurance sports car races this year.

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Knaus thriving in management role at Hendrick Jimmie Johnson’s longtime crew chief was elevated to VP of competition last year

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press BRASELTON, Ga. — Back on top of the pit stand in his natural habitat, Chad Knaus rattled off a list of instructions to his crew ahead of qualifying for the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.

“Make sure we don’t have upside down windshield wipers,” he radioed. “One thing I don’t like is to look like a fool.”

Yup, same old CK. But also, maybe a little different?

It has been a full year since Knaus was promoted from crew chief at Hendrick Motorsports to vice president of competition, and his intensity and attention to detail have not waned.

Only he seemed looser at Road Atlanta, over a three-day weekend that culminated with a 10-hour endurance race. He partnered with Jimmie Johnson for a NASCAR record-tying seven Cup championships, but this version of Knaus isn’t so rigid.

He makes jokes — a lot of ‘dad jokes,’ but Knaus is now a 50-yearold father of two toddlers — and

generally seems more easygoing.

Knaus once dumped his pit crew in the middle of a playoff race with Johnson. When they won the 2008 championship, his celebration was delayed because he first had to gather the sheets of his meticulous notes that had been swept away in the wind. But at Road Atlanta, this version of Knaus allowed The Associated Press to sit atop the pit stand and access nearly everything.

Including a nearly unobstructed view of his notes.

Meet IMSA Chad.

“That’s not Chad Knaus down there, no way. That’s a whole new Chad, racing sports cars and having fun Chad. Different guy alto-

gether,” said Steve Letarte, a former crew chief for Jeff Gordon and thus Knaus’ closest partner at Hendrick Motorsports. But they were rivals, too, and the Johnson vs.

Gordon 2007 championship battle is considered one of the greatest in NASCAR Cup Series history.

Letarte walked away from the grind after the 2014 season — he never led Gordon past Johnson for a title — for a less-stressful job as an NBC Sports analyst.

Knaus never slowed.

He remained atop the No. 48, the team he built from scratch around Johnson in 2002, for another four years. And when his and Johnson’s up-and-down working

relationship finally fractured beyond repair, Knaus left the No. 48 after the 2018 season for a two-year stint as crew chief for William Byron.

Then he went into management, less weekends away from home, not so much pressure to keep everything running at the high level he demands. This time in IMSA? It’s four endurance races in the No. 48 with Johnson in a collaboration between Hendrick and Action Express Racing. The stress level has been kicked down several notches.

“I probably look more relaxed, I’m a little older. But I don’t have my hands in everything,” Knaus told the AP. “I’m here to help support and work with Jimmie and the guys, but the Action Express guys, they do the meat of the work and they ask me to do the strategy.

Which is cool, you know?”

EMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced the threat of overburdened itals, states across the country onverting convention centers, ts facilities and performance es into backup treatment sites oronavirus patients.

What some Memphis, Tene, residents don’t get is why in r city, a shopping center in the dle of a predominantly black, income residential neighbord has been chosen. ty and state officials are coned that an influx of patients m Memphis, as well as nearby sissippi, Arkansas and rural Tennessee, will strain hospiTheir fears are echoed across country: Governors, mayors health experts in numerous es are also researching and tructing makeshift medical ities. n New York City, they’re turno the Javits Center convention in Chicago, the McCormick e Convention Center; and in dy, Utah, the Mountain AmerExpo Center. he U.S. Army Corps of Engis has been scouting locations Tennessee, and officials here compiled a list of 35 possibackup sites. They haven’t reed the whole list, but Gov. Bill

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area.”

He also cited a widespread fear of being unnecessarily exposed to the24, virus.

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 2021 “All around, people are scared,” he said.

Their fears are not unfounded.

In this majority-black city along the Mississippi River, lawmakers and community leaders have been sounding the alarm over what they see as a disturbing trend of the virus killing African Americans at a higher rate.

Nutbush resident Patricia Harris wondered aloud if city officials were “trying to contaminate” the neighborhood.

Activist Earle Fisher, an AfriADRIAN SAINZ | AP PHOTO can American Memphis pastor, understands the anxiety. “This This Friday, April 3, 2020 photo, shows Gateway Shopping Center is an honest and reasonable conin Memphis, Tenn. cern and skepticism,” Fisher said.

“I think it’s par for the course for Lee has disclosed a few: the Mu- a Chinese restaurant and other black people to be righteously skeptical of governmental intersic City Center in Nashville, the businesses.

Locating a treatment center for vention that did not consult with Chattanooga Convention Center, the Knoxville Expo Center — all coronavirus patients there pos- people on the ground first.”

Doug McGowen, the city’s chief sites away from residential neigh- es two problems, residents say: It could potentially expose them operating officer, said the Gateborhoods.

The Gateway Shopping Cen- to the virus amid concerns that way site was being considered beter in the Nutbush neighborhood blacks are contracting COVID-19 cause it could potentially accomof Memphis is different. The cen- at higher rates; and it could force modate hundreds of beds. He said ter features a Save A Lot grocery some of the stores they rely on to if it were converted to a treatment site, it would hold only mildly ill store, a Rent-A-Center, a Fami- close.

Nutbush resident and commu- coronavirus patients who could be ly Dollar, a beauty supply shop,

ment.

For Nutbush resident fear of contracting the matched with the worry th could lose stores that are the neighborhood. Offici ven’t said if stores would the Gateway facility was If they did, shopping wo come more difficult for re especially for those who ar have no means of transpo to stores located farther aw “For people who don’t car, what do they do?” ask ris, who spoke to The Ass Press while lugging a bott tergent, a package of bott ter and other items from t A Lot to her car. She note grocery store recently clos her house and she already travel farther to get to Gat “When we do things got to consider the people neighborhood,” she said. “W need to make the neighb worse than it already is.”

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, phis Democrat, said the d doesn’t make sense.

“I’m sure there are othe that would work, and they have used those rather t into a residential neighbo Cohen said.

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PEC, oil nations agree Florida Govbarrel DeSantis o nearly 10M cutsigns bill limiting vaccine mandates As supporter holds up a Brandon, Florida sign as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, speaks to members of the media before a bill signing Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla.

By Anthony Izaguire The Associated Press

to be able to direct the upbringing of their kids,” DeSantis said to cheers.a son of King Salman, bin Salman, Associated Press The new law prevents busiTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — assented Prito the deal. vate businesses in Florida must nesses from having vaccine man“I go with the consent, so I UBAI, let United Arab Emirworkers opt out of coronavirus dates unless they allow workers to agree,” theout prince said, chuckling, — OPEC, Russia and after otherGov. Ron opt for medical reasons, relivaccine mandates a round applausebased fromon roducing nationssigned on Sunday beliefs,ofimmunity DeSantis a sweepingdrawing leg- gious a previous infection, package to combat those on the video call. regular testized anislative unprecedented pro- White or an agreement to wear provirus rules.

But ing it had not been smiles and ion cut House of nearly 10 million tective gear.

The state health deDeSantis, a Republican, signed els, or a 10th of global supply, laughs for weeks after the sothe bills into law at a ceremony partment, which is led by Surgeon called OPEC+ group of OPEC opes of boosting alongsidecrashing leaders of pricthe GOP-con- General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who and other nations failed mid the coronavirus pandemic mandates, will have autrolled statehouse and other members state opposes March to to reach anexemption agreement a price war, officials said.they were in thority define stanofficials who said prodards. tecting people from burdensome cuts, sending pricThis could be the largest re- on production “It completely pushes back federal vaccination requirements. es tumbling.

Saudi Arabia sharply ion in production from OPEC against this days beliefearlier that some “We’re making sure that people Russia overof perhaps a decade, maybe lon- criticized have a right to earn a living, peo- our leadership has been trying to what itputdescribed asyoucomments said U.S. Energy Secretary forward, that don’t control ple have a right to have proteccriticalyour of body, the that kingdom, Brouillette, whoplace credited your bodywhich belongs tions in their of employment finds to itself trying to heappease ident Donald perDoctor Fauci, and gets to deand that Trump’s parents have protections

l involvement in getting duel- Trump, a longtime OPEC critic.

Even U.S. senators had warned parties to the table and helpto end a price war between Saudi Arabia to find a way to boost prices as American shale di Arabia and Russia. il prices have collapsed as the firms face far-higher production navirus and the COVID-19 costs. American troops had been ss it causes have largely halt- deployed to the kingdom for the lobal travel and slowed down first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, r energy-chugging sectors attacks over concerns of Iranias manufacturing. It has an retaliation amid regional tenstated the oil industry in sions.

“They’ve spent over the last U.S., which now pumps more month waging war on American e than any other country. bandwidth not taken up by TV Cedar Attanasio while we are defendut some By producers have been oil producers show broadcasts and dedicate it The Associated Press This is downloadable not how friends ctant to ease supply. The car- ing theirs. to broadcast digital treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin nd other Santa nations on Sunday Fe, N.M. — Internet prob- files. pilot program in Taos relies lemsMexico continueto tocut slowonly down many Cramer, aThe Republican from North ed to allow a broadcast northern students in the U.S. state of Dakota, New onbefore the from OPEC+ deal.New 000 barrels a month, a stickPBS affiliate while Mexico, but a pilot project using U.S.Mexico producers haveKNME, already point for an accord initially TV signals to transmit computer two others are planning to roll out output. The Amerhed Friday after a marathon been reducing pilot programs in the cities of Silver files may help. ican Petroleum Institute laudo conference 23 naCity and Portales.

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The boxhe group reached the deal just lead of U.S. producers that are try-uses the size of a deck of cards allow ing paper packets while their peers to plunging demand. s beforedigital Asian markets re- to ing could participate in virtual lessons television receivers con-to adjust Brouillette said the U.S. did not ned Monday and as internanect with computers using technol- via video chat. ofback its toown al benchmark crude make commitments Even with schools offerogy called Brent datacasting. ing in-person classes, of New Mexiproduction cuts, but wasinternet able toined at justMany overrural $31areas a barrel equality persists afterplunging class when co areshale too far producers from internet infrashow the obvious — that American structure like fiber cables and cell students do homework, and for studemand because of the pandemggle. dents being quarantined due to vitowers but do get TV reception. ic is expected to slash U.S. oil proideo aired by Saudi-owned rus concerns.

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New Mexico sees TV tech as one fix to K-12 internet divide

cide what you do with your body, what you put on your face, what your kids get to do,” Ladapo said of the legislation.

The bill also includes fines for businesses that fire a worker without allowing the exemptions. Additionally, it bars schools and governments from having vaccine mandates and allows parents to sue schools with masking requirements. A separate bill blocks the public release of records regarding state investigations of vaccine policies in businesses.

Democrats have criticized the bills as politically motivated and dangerous to public health.

“Laissez-faire epidemiology and outright disinformation have contributed to Florida’s horrific death toll, and it’s shameful that some

choose to politicize an epidemic for their own ambition,” said Rep. Evan Jenne, a Democrat.

Another bill signed by DeSantis prevents the state health officer from being able to mandate vaccines during a public health emergency. He also approved a bill directing the state to begin considering a withdrawal from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which drafted White House vaccine requirements for private businesses with more than 100 employees.

The location of the bill-signing ceremony itself represented another jab at Biden. DeSantis held the event at a car dealership in the Tampa suburb of Brandon, a reference to the chants of “Let’s go Brandon” that have become a cod-

ed stand-in for “F--- Joe Biden” among conservatives. The governor smiled when asked if the location was a move to troll the president, saying “I think that Brandon, Florida, is a great American city,” as a crowd of about 250 supporters chanted “Let’s go Brandon.”

The new legislation, which passed easily in the statehouse, came as the state simultaneously wages legal battles against federal vaccine mandates. Florida has sued the White House over a requirement that federal contractors be vaccinated against COVID-19 and over the vaccine mandate for businesses. This week, the state filed another suit in an attempt to block a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers.

nology that won’t allow it to replace the internet. For one, the datacasting is currently one-way and won’t allow students to send data backSAUDI to ENERGY schools.

That means no video chats In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minist with teachers or access to email.

Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit of“Until the Group of 20 energy minister fiber optic cables bring his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to broadband coordinate a response plummet internet to everyto corprices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn inner global demand theto pandem of New Mexico, due we’reto going need a patchwork of solutions, and it sure looks like datacasting could be one,” New Mexico Education praise. that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the deal but its president, Andrés secretary Kurt Steinhaus said.

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Billy Hinsche, longtime Beach Boys collaborator, dead at 70 Jason Efird James Adam EUGENE “GENE” EFIRD, 94, went home to be with JhisASON Howell Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at his

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ly,” Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love said via Twitter.

“All of us who had the pleasure DENVER — Billy Hinsche, a singer-songwriter and musi- of knowing him will miss his jocian in a 1960s pop band with vial nature and immense talent ANNY PAUL LUTHER, FINCHER passedLove from said. and sense of humor,” Dino Martin Jr. and Desi Ar- ERRY 65, Norwood, passed away and this lifeFriend. on AprilWe 3, 2020 at 8:05 “RIP Love You AlnazofJr. who later recorded unexpectedly Thursday, Aprilwith 9, He was surrounded by his family toured for decades Thepm.ways.”

2020Beach at Atrium Health Stanlyaccording in and holding hand ofBilly the love of “Love the & Mercy Hinsche,” Boys, has died, Albemarle. life. Jerrythe is preceded in death band’s Brian Wilson. to friends and former associates.his tweeted Mr. was born March 27, by three siblings, two brothers, Billy According to his website, HinHeLuther was 70.

1955 to Hinsche the late Robert Fulton andof can-Gilbert and Larry Richard scheFincher, composed music for his died Saturday Helen Tucker Luther. oneknown sister, Barbra Joyce 1960sand band as Dino, Desi cer, actress Lucie Arnaz, a long-Fincher, Danny survived by his wife, & Billy and had numerous other time was friend and brother of DesiMoore.

Denise Burleson Luther Norwood; is survived byincluding his wife, Eleanor contributions, co-writArnaz Jr., said inofan Instagram He sons,post.

Jeremy (Karen) Luther and Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, Wilson.

She also wrote that Hin- ing “Away” with Dennis Jodysche’s Luther; step-sons, Bryan Finchercollaborated Jacobs of Wingate Hinsche with Warmother, Celia, passed awayCindy Whitley and Gregg (Anita) NC., sonZevon, and daughter law, Tommy ren Joan in Jett, America Saturday at age 95. Whitley; Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and (Tiffany) Fincher of New London It wasn’t immediately known and many other artists over his Hunter Zado, as well as his brother, Step Children, lengthy career. Jimmy (Lisa) where Hinsche, a resident ofNC., Bob Luther Jr (Lorena), uncle Jack Lanier of Locust NC, Wanda (Bob) Born June 29, 1951, in MaHenderson, Nevada, died. MesLuther and several other loved nieces, Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric sages left by telephone, social nila, Philippines, Hinsche moved nephews and cousins.

(Sharon) Lanier of Charlotte NC., media and email for Lucy Ar- with his family to Beverly Hills, Danny recently retired from Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) Whitson naz and music and commer- California, where he met Dean Charlotte Pipe and Foundry after of Midland, Step-grandchildren, Martin Jr. and Desi Arnaz Jr. in cial agents for The Beach BoysZach a dedicated 37 years and worked (Brittney) Washington, Aaron high Washington, school. Their band opened weren’t immediately returned there with his sons and several other (Kinsey) Caleb (Nayeli) for The Beach Boys, Paul Revere Sunday. friends and family members.

Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, & The(Raiders and others “One the finest humans,Matthew Danny lovedofspending time at April ) Wallace, Step before Hinsche began Britlyn-Eve recording and friends, storytellers his lake house with his familyand and musi-great-grandchildren, performing withSetzer, The Beach Boys cians, onasthe entire planet friends as well vacationing with hisjustWashington, Robert George in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. went home to rest,” Arnaz said, family. Danny and Denise enjoyed (Sara) Setzer, Tracy (Rob) Setzer Hinsche’s sister, Annie Wilnoting she had known Hinsche listening to beach music and loved to Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, son, was marriedStep to the late Carl were likeAndrew shagsince dance childhood. every chance“We they could Underwood, great Wilson, who died in 1998 of canbrother and sister,” she said. get. He was an amazing father, loving great grandchild, Waylon George cer.and Hinsche sat on Lewis the board “We and lostgreat a great friend, fam-Setzer grandfather friend to brother Donald of the Carl Wilson ilyHemember, forever mem-Fincher many. will neverand be forgotten. of Albemarle, NC.Foundation, which fundswill cancer research and of TheofBeach A ber celebration life willBoys be band on Jerry Fincher be laid to rest on assists those theatdisease.

Saturday. miss him great-Wednesday announced onceWe’ll the current Aprilwith 8,2020 11:00 am COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. at Canton Baptist Church. Anyone Hartsell Funeral Home of interested in attending, please RSVP Albemarle is serving the Luther at 704-796-2412. Dr. Phil McCray family. and Pastor Tommy Fincher will officiate.

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ONY MONROE SMITH, 72, of Rockwell, NC, went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ home November in Stanfield.20, 1938 – on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at GeneNovember was born October surrounded family.

September 11, by 1942 – A 18, 20219, 1925, in his home Cabarrus County to the late Simeon private family service will be November 18, 2021 held.

Jason Efird and Howell, the late Sarah Online condolences can be made at James Adam 82, ofElla Burris Efird.

In addition to his stanlyfuneralhome.com Anabel Williams Speight, 79, of Albemarle passed away November parents, he was preceded in death by Tony was born away August 11, 1947 Oakboro passed November 18, 2021 in his home, surrounded wife, Jewell Little He Efird; sisters, in Stanly County to the Her late Pearlie 18, 2021 in her home. funeral byhis his loving family. was a Mary father, Lambert, Fannie Almond, Asburywill Smith Emmer Lee service beand 4 PM Tuesday, loving grandfather and Minnie Furr, Wilma Burleson and Smith. He was sonatinBig lawLick of Pat November 23, the 2021 great-grandfather. His funeral Aileen Huskey; and brothers, Homer Baptist and Mick Cagle where he worked Church with Rev. Jeff at will be 2 PM on Wednesday, Efird, Getus Efird and Wayne Efird, Springer, the fish house many Hamilton, years until Rev.for Shirley November 24, 2021 in the Sr. he opened Anchor House Rev. Jesse Herring, Rev.Seafood Jordan Stanly Funeral Home Chapel in A private funeral service will be in Rockwell. and his wife Becky Caddell and He Rev. Shannon Powell Albemarle with Rev. Ed Lowder held on Saturday, April 11, 2020 owned and Burial operated Anchor House officiating. will follow in officiating.

Burial will follow at Love’s Grove United Methodist for 25 years before retiring in 2009. the church cemetery. The family inChurch the Mission Baptist Church Cemetery in Stanfield Mr. Smith was a charter member will receive friends at Stanly Cemetery.

The family will receive officiated by Rev. Jim White.

Burial and deacon at Open Door Baptist and Cremation Care of friends from until 1:30United prior Funeral will follow at Noon the Love’ s Grove Church in Richfield. He loved the Albemarle on Monday evening toMethodist the service at Stanly Funeral Church Cemetery, 4360 Lord and his family abundantly. Tony 6 until 8 PM. and Cremation of Albemarle. from Polk Ford Road,Care Stanfield. was a wonderful husband, father, and Born September 11,fix 1942 Born November 20, 1938 in Survivors include son Gerald grandfather and could anything in Oakboro, NC she was the Stanly County, NC he was the Wayne (Gail) Efird of Albemarle; he put his hands on. of the late Claud son of the Lisa late Efird James Alexander daughter (Mark) Hartsell daughter Mr. Smith is survived by his wife Williams and VilliofAnne Little Howell and Nellie Cropsie Treece of Stanfield; granddaughters, Becky Cagle Smith the home, Williams.

She was a member Howell.

He was a member of Kelly Efird Barbee and Lauren sons Walter Smith and Robbie of Big Lickdaughter Baptist Kayla Church and was Pine Grove United Methodist Hartsell (Justin) Crump; and greatSmith; Henderson a retired school teacher with the Church and was a retired grandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, Stanly Schools. was employee of Simpson Elliot Jacob Simmons.Eggs in Dustin,County and Steele Smith,She Keaton in Henderson; leading thebrother Fellowship Monroe.

He taught at s active Memorials may beelectronics made to Love’ and Ella David Christian at West Central Cabarrus High School.

Grove United Methodist Church, PO ofSmith; sistersAthletes Kay Kriechbaum, Stanly School forEudy, 40 years.

He enjoyed flying planes and Box 276, Stanfield, NC 28163-0276.

Karen High Stevenson, Ruby and She was on the board of in his later years he enjoyed Dorothy Smith (Nick). directors of the Museum and was birdwatching and fixer-upper TV HeOakboro is preceded in death by inducted in the Dixie Youth Girls shows. He loved country music brothers Joe Smith, Wayne Smith, Softball Hall of Fame and Robert started and enjoyed mowing his yard Claude Smith, Wade Smith, the veryand first fast-pitch softball and plowing with his John Deere Smith, sister Mary Morris. team in Stanly County.

She tractor.

Memorial contributions canwas be awarded Teacher ofBaptist the Year and Mr. Howell is survived by his made to Open Door Church Coach of Hwy the Year for the Rocky wife of 61 years, Betty Crayton at 44563 52, Richfield, NC River 28137Conference. or to Hospice & Palliative Care Howell. Other survivors include Speight is survived by ofMrs. Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice daughters Detria H. Turner (Ron) her husband of 61 NC years, James Lane, Kannapolis, 28081. of Norwood and Ann Howell Edward Speight Sr. of the home.

Mauldin (Danny) of Albemarle, Other survivors include sons a sister Catherine Taylor of SC, James E. “Chip” Speight (Amber) four grandchildren Anna Kaye Frick, Angela Casey Frick, Andrea of Oakboro, Bryan Evans Speight (Candra) of Edwardsville, IL, Nicole Frick, and Lacey Melynn sister Loudivene Eubanks of Turner, and one great-grandchild Oakboro, 7 grandchildren: Rilynn Jayde Frick.

Trey Speight, Dalton Speight, AULINE ELIZABETH Drew Speight, Kendyl Speight, ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed Jayde Speight, Adelyn Speight, away peacefully at Trinity Place, and Carissa Speight. A sister Albemarle, NC on April 11, 2020.

Gwendola Williams Willis Fowler Pauline was born on March 22, preceded her in death.

1922 in Cabarrus County, NC to the late John Richard Almond and Alice Ada Ann Lambert Almond.

She is survived by her three daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), Oak Island, NC; Pamela Rushing HIRLEY MAE HAIRE, 73, (Foreman), Oakboro, NC; Kathy of Albemarle passed away on Hunt (Marc), Albemarle, NC; her April 11, 2020 at Atrium Health son, Chris Tucker (Chris Lear), Stanly. The family will hold a private Washington, DC. She will be greatly graveside service for Mrs. Haire. missed by her five grandchildren, Shirley was born December 12, Heather Rushing Chaney (Shannon), 1946 in Washington, DC to the Michael Rushing, Elizabeth Michel late Charles Richard Bateman and Hartzog (Craig), Jack Michel, Jr. Elizabeth Mae Mulligan Bateman.

(Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as Shirley is survived by her husband seven great-grandchildren. She also of 30 years Vaughn Smith of leaves behind cherished nieces and Albemarle; sister Sandra Painter nephews. of Gainesville, VA; half-brother The family expresses its sincere Robert Bateman of Stevensville, gratitude to the staff and caregivers MD; step-children Heather Smith at Trinity Place for the care they of Jacksonville, FL and David provided Pauline.

Smith of New London, NC; 4 A private graveside service will be step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi held on Monday, April 13, 2020. A Hentschel of Leesburg, VA and celebration of Pauline’s life and legacy Cheryl Hardy of Aylett, VA; 16 grandwill be held this summer. nieces and nephews; and Gus the In lieu of flowers, the family dog. Stanly Funeral and Cremation requests donations be made to the Care of Albemarle is serving the BrightFocus Foundation at www.

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ERLE LORRAINE AUSTIN HELMS, 72, of Marshville, passed away Wednesday, April 8, July 12, 1951 – 2020 at McWhorter Hospice House November 15, 2021 in Monroe.

Lorraine was born April 28, 1947 of David in Bruce MonroeDeBerry, to the late70, Homer Albemarle passed away November Austin and Jewell Delphia-Jane 15, 2021 in Atrium Health Austin. She was also preceded in University City. His will death by brothers, A.D.funeral and Teddy be graveside will be 2 PM on Austin; and sister, Joy Austin.

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Susan DeBerry, brother Memorials mayof beAlbemarle, made to the Ronald DeBerry Alzheimer’ s Association, 4600 Park three sisters Dorothy Almond Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209. of Albemarle, Geneva Morris of Troy, and Odessa Furr of Stanfield, a grandson Jake Honbarrier.

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Linda was born September 18, 1950 in Concord to the late Jacob and Claris Tucker. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Terry Lee Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda Tucker Strickland. We know Brenda and Linda are in Heaven watching over us and laughing.

Linda was a loving mother, sister, and “Nana.” She was a very giving and loving person. Linda would always do anything she could for others, especially her family. She enjoyed working at FastShop #5, Locust. Linda will be forever loved and greatly missed.

Survivors include her son, Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, of Albemarle; brother, Ronnie Tucker and wife, Linda, of Midland; granddaughter, Leslie Hatley; 1 niece; and 2 nephews.

The family will receive friends from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, April 16, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Home in Albemarle. Linda will be laid to rest during a private committal service at Bethel United Methodist Church, Midland.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to Bethel UMC, 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC 28107.

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Rock had heart bypass surMick Rock, whose iconic portraits of rock stars including Da- gery and a kidney transplant in vid Bowie, Lou Reed and Debbie the 1990s after years of rock ‘n’ Harry saw him dubbed “the man roll excess.

“I lived the life,” he said later. who shot the 70s,” has died. He “As well as taking the pictures, I was 72.

A statement posted Friday on lived the life.”

He gave up cigarettes and Rock’s official social media accounts said: “It is with the heavi- drugs and carried on working, est of hearts that we share our taking images of musicians inbeloved psychedelic renegade cluding Pharrell Williams, Lady Mick Rock has made the Jung- Gaga and Miley Cyrus.

“Those who had the pleasure ian journey to the other side.” No of existing in his orbit, know that cause of death was given.

Born in London in 1948, Rock Mick was always so much more studied at Cambridge Universi- than ‘The Man Who Shot The ty, where he met Syd Barrett, a 70s,’” the statement announcing founding member of Pink Floyd, his death said. “He was a phowho became one of his first sub- tographic poet — a true force of nature who spent his days doing jects. exactly what he loved, always in He was Bowie’s official phoCelebrate the life of your loved tographer in the early 1970s, his own delightfully outrageous way.” helping toones. make the singer’s alter Submit obituaries and Sharon Osbourne tweeted: ego, androgynous alien superdeath notices to be“We published ina true artist lost a legend, star Ziggy Stardust, a sensation.

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SCJ at music obits@stanlyjournal.com Queen guitarist Brian May the most famous photos of the era: a topless Iggy Pop on the said he was “sad and shocked to cover of the “Raw Power” album; hear of the passing of our friend, a spectral Lou Reed on “Trans- photographer Mick Rock.”

He said the “Queen II” covformer”; the members of Queen, their faces part-shadowed, for er picture “gave us an enduring image, inspired part of the ‘look’ the cover of “Queen II.” “People say, ‘Man, how did of our Bohemian Rhapsody vidyou get all these pictures?’ Well, eo a couple of years later, and has because no one else was inter- been widely imitated by others ested,” Rock told the Associat- over the years since then.”

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Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, November 24, 2021

STATE & NATION

Biden’s political standing fuels Democratic worry about 2024

By Steve Peoples The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — It was supposed to be a moment of triumph for Joe Biden.

The Democratic president had just signed into law the most significant infrastructure package in generations. And he had done it by bringing Democrats and Republicans together, just as he promised during last year’s campaign.

But when Biden arrived in New Hampshire last week to promote the $1 trillion package at the foot of a crumbling bridge, not all of his VIP guests were in the mood to celebrate.

“Democrats are concerned,” former state House Speaker Steve Shurtleff, a longtime Biden supporter who attended the ceremony, told The Associated Press when asked about Biden’s political standing. “I’m concerned about where we may be in another couple of years when people really start to gear up and start making trips to New Hampshire.”

Shurtleff was openly saying what a growing number of Democrats have been whispering for

months: Biden’s political standing is so weak less than a year into his presidency that he may not be able to win reelection in 2024 if he were to run again. Such anxiety-fueled parlor games are common among Washington’s political class, but this one has spread to the states and constituencies that will play a central role in the next presidential election.

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing her own political conundrum with polls suggesting she may be less popular than her unpopular boss. A dynamic leader who made history by becoming the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to step into her office, Harris has been given few opportunities by the Biden White House to shine.

She delivered her first solo speech to promote the new infrastructure law on Friday in Ohio’s capital city, addressing a mostly empty union hall largely absent of political dignitaries at roughly the same time Biden was issuing the White House’s annual turkey pardon in Washington.

“In America, we have the courage to see beyond the crisis — to be-

lieve that the future and a future we imagine is possible — and then, to build it,” Harris said to a smattering of polite applause in Columbus.

At least for now, there’s little to suggest the legislation, which will strengthen infrastructure in every state and potentially create hundreds of thousands of jobs, will quickly improve Democrats’ political standing.

As Biden struggles, speculation has intensified about the short list of would-be successors should Biden not seek reelection, although the 79-year-old president has said publicly and privately that he will.

The list is led by Harris, of course, but includes other 2020 presidential candidates such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Just last week, Booker announced plans to appear at a party fundraiser next month in New Hampshire, which traditionally hosts the nation’s first presidential primary election.

Booker’s team sought to tamp down chatter that he was positioning himself to run in 2024, and allies say he is very close to Harris and would not challenge her in the event Biden retires. Still, the mere

existence of such conversations so soon into a new presidency is unusual.

The White House is working to quash speculation that Biden may not seek reelection in 2024 given his current struggles.

Noting that Biden has declared his intent to run publicly and privately, his aides say the Democratic National Committee and Biden’s political team inside the White House are actively moving forward with the assumption he will seek a second term.

They believe Biden’s position will improve as voters digest the new infrastructure law and the $2 trillion social spending and climate bill currently moving through Congress. Already, the DNC and its allies are focusing significant resources on selling the Democrats’ accomplishments in key states before the 2022 midterm elections — states such as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that will also be top battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election.

Despite their optimism, tensions inside the White House are real as the new leadership team learns to

work together.

Harris’ allies are especially frustrated that Biden seems to have limited the vice president to a low-profile role with a difficult policy portfolio — led by voting rights and immigration.

And when she delivered her speech on the infrastructure law, there was little sign of Democratic enthusiasm.

The crowd of invited guests barely filled one-quarter of a local union hall. Almost none of Ohio’s top Democrats attended the event, including Sen. Sherrod Brown or the high-profile Democrats running for governor. Rep. Joyce Beatty, who represents the district where Harris spoke, was the only member of Congress in attendance.

“Because of our work together, America is moving forward,” Harris declared, explaining that the infrastructure law would “make the most significant investment to fix our road and bridges in 70 years.”

But just as in New Hampshire, the White House’s message was clouded by frustration over Biden’s presidency.

“The question becomes, ‘Why am I helping you to hold to power, when the power you have right now you’re not using on my behalf?’”

Ohio Democrat Nina Turner, who served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, said of Biden. “That’s called insanity — asking me to vote for you, asking the Black community to come out for you in 2022 or 2024 when you ain’t doing nothing in 2021.”

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President Joe Biden signs the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" during an event on the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Pentagon boosts housing money for troops, as hunger persists

By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon will increase housing payments for troops in key areas and look for ways to combat hunger across the force, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced, in the department’s latest effort to address food insecurity among service members.

Austin told reporters that troops have enough to worry about and that “basic necessities like food and housing shouldn’t be among them.”

According to an estimate by Feeding America, as many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. The group, which coordinates the work of more than 200 food banks around the country, estimates that 29% of troops in the most junior enlisted ranks faced food insecurity during the previous year.

He said the department will immediately provide a temporary increase in the housing allowance for troops who live in areas where rent costs have gone up by at least 10% this year. Temporary lodging

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting with Norwegian Minister of Defense Odd Enoksen at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Washington, D.C. reimbursement will be extended for those moving into communities with housing shortages.

Austin said he has given the undersecretary for personnel 90 days to develop a longer term strategy.

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.

“It’s a shocking truth that’s

known to many food banks across the United States,” said Vince Hall, Feeding America’s government relations officer. “This should be the cause of deep embarrassment.”

Lower-ranking enlisted troops receive modest pay, and their frequent moves make it difficult for spouses to find steady work. The problem is exacerbated by an Agriculture Department rule that prevents thousands of needy military families from accessing the SNAP government assistance program, commonly known as food stamps.

Service members who do not live on bases get a housing allowance, which is counted as income in calculating their eligibility for food stamps. That additional amount, which is not counted as income for other federal programs, often enough to disqualify families for the food assistance.

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, a former Blackhawk pilot who lost both legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq, has sponsored a bill that would establish a Basic Needs Allowance payment for military families in need.

Rep. James McGovern,

D-Mass., has sought a Pentagon study of the problem and a repeal of the USDA’s Basic Allowance for Housing regulation.

Colleen Heflin, a professor of public administration at Syracuse University, said the lack of Pentagon interest has led to a critical shortage of proper study or data. “In my experiences, it’s hard to explain this to Department of Defense officials,” she said. “They find it embarrassing and something they would not like to acknowledge.”

In addition to the immediate actions, Austin said in a memo that the department should look into a number of other steps to increase stability for service members. They would include extending the tour length for troops deploying to some locations overseas, when they are accompanied by their families.

Where possible, he said the department should consider extending the three-year time limit on assignments at bases within the United States.

Austin also said the Pentagon should take steps to improve financial education and counseling for troops.

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Deacs in Clemson Football fans flood the field after an NCAA college football game between Clemson and Wake Forest, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in Clemson, S.C.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Gov. Cooper encourages families to get vaccinated at Forsyth County family vaccination site

4 juveniles hurt after crashing stolen vehicle

NCDHHS opens nine walk-in family vaccination sites

Forsyth County Four juveniles riding in a stolen vehicle were injured when they crashed into a home. Winston-Salem Police said one of the juveniles was listed in serious condition with non-life-threatening injuries. Officers arrived at a location on the city’s south side on Tuesday afternoon and found a 2006 Toyota Tacoma had run off the road and struck a home. Witnesses told police that they heard multiple gunshots in the area before the pickup hit the home, but no one was injured from the gunfire, according to police.

The other three juveniles were taken to a local hospital, where their conditions were listed as stable. Police didn’t identify the juveniles because of their age. The home sustained minor damage, police said.

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Man charged after teen’s body found near road Forsyth County A man has been arrested in the death of a teenager whose body was found on a roadside. The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jaylen Lyles, 22, of WinstonSalem on Tuesday. Lyles is charged with murder in the death of a 17-year-old boy who was found dead on a road in Stokes County. The boy was a resident of Forsyth County, but the sheriff’s office declined to release his name because of his age. The Stokes County Sheriff’s Office said its communications center received a call about the body lying on the side of the road.

Authorities said at the time that the teenager didn’t have any identification on him.

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Twin City Herald staff Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. visited and toured the family vaccination site at St. Peter's Church & World Outreach Center in Forsyth County. The family vaccination site, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, offers vaccines for children ages 5 and up and adults.

“It’s important that people of all ages continue to get vaccinated and these clinics are a one stop shop for the entire family,” said Governor Cooper. “We’re grateful for local organizations that are partnering with the state to make sure everyone can get a life saving shot."

“The family vaccination sites make it easier for the whole family to get vaccinated. These sites, in areas with less access to pe-

diatric services, have extended hours, Spanish language interpreters, and community health workers to answer vaccine-related questions,” said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. “We know that kids can get sick from COVID, and the vaccine is a tested, safe and effective tool for protecting against serious illness in adults and children.”

St. Peter’s Church & World Outreach Center has long been focused on serving the Winston-Salem community through various service projects. In addition to hosting a vaccination site and getting people vaccinated, the church provides food and produce to neighboring communities and is holding a turkey and coat drive for the holidays.

“COVID-19 was a travesty to our world. Immediately the church had to determine how it would position itself to respond to this deadly virus. The Black church was placed in a precarious situation because of the virus’ polarizing impact on Black and brown communities,” said Pastor Mia Sloan, Executive Pastor at

“The family vaccination sites make it easier for the whole family to get vaccinated. These sites, in areas with less access to pediatric services, have extended hours, Spanish language interpreters, and community health workers to answer vaccine-related questions.”

NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D St. Peter’s Church & World Outreach Center. “As a result, it was vitally important for Senior pastor, Dr. James C. Hash, Sr. and the SPWOC congregation to become agents of advocacy, education and awareness pertaining to this virus. Because of that, the church committed to strategically collab-

orate its efforts to provide space for families who chose to be vaccinated. We often say that we do not fear the virus but we do respect it, and for that reason we commit our space and resources for great efforts like the vaccination clinics.

As a church we are committed to the long haul of this work to ensure safety for all.”

The North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services is working with sites across the state to distribute vaccines to historically marginalized communities. All family COVID-19 vaccination sites (pop-up sites) include formulations for people ages 5-11 and 12+ as well as booster shots, weekend/evening hours, Spanish interpretation services, partnerships with local transit, community health workers, coordinated communications outreach and physical access support. Now through Thanksgiving, any adult who brings someone to one of the nine Family Vaccination Site for their first dose will receive a $25 prepaid Mastercard to offset the time and transportation costs of getting vaccinated.

Public asked to report monarch butterfly sightings in South The Associated Press ATLANTA — Researchers are calling on the public to report monarch butterfly sightings in eight southern and Gulf states to try to better understand the insect’s migration and wintering behavior.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources announced the effort on Thursday. Scientists want to hear about sightings from December 1 to March 1 in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. The observations should be reported at journeynorth.org.

The information may help conservation efforts by determining if the butterflies can spend the winter as non-breeding adults in the southern U.S., Sonia Altizer, an ecology professor at the University of Georgia, said in a news release.

It could also shed light on how breeding during the winter may be affecting the butterfly’s annual migration to Mexico.

Monarch populations have declined significantly over the past

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Butterflies land on branches at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. two decades. Last year, the insect became a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Monarchs in the eastern U.S. and Canada generally stream

across the South each fall on their way to wintering grounds in central Mexico. They then return in the spring to breed. But a similar reporting effort last winter led

to more than 5,800 observations of monarch butterflies in southern and Gulf states, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

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There will be no media ‘reckoning’ over the Steele Dossier

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DEATH NOTICES

♦ Annie Lee Bason, 56, of Pfafftown, died November 18, 2021. ♦ John Sherwood Spain Coore Sr., 72, of McLeansville, died November 17, 2021. ♦ Eva Litt Cruse, 84, of Clemmons, died November 18, 2021. ♦ Linda Nichols Fisher, 78, of Winston-Salem, died November 18, 2021. ♦ Athena Pappas Gallins, 93, of Winston-Salem, died November 18, 2021. ♦ Sharon Ann Wilmurth Hale, 78 of Advance, died November 17, 2021. ♦ Virginia Priddy Hall, 95, of Winston-Salem, died November 17, 2021. ♦ Myran Morris Hartman, 64, of Kernersville, died November 17, 2021. ♦ Marcus Lee Key, 14, of Kernersville, died November 17, 2021. ♦ Kenneth James Long, 93, of Clemmons, died November 18, 2021. ♦ Mary Lyons Rearden, 85, of Winston-Salem, died November 19, 2021. ♦ Richard Joseph Reynolds, 73, of Winston Salem, died November 19, 2021. ♦ Lisa Calloway Saunders, 52, of Winston-Salem, died November 17, 2021.

AXIOS SAYS there’s a “reckoning” in the media over coverage of the Steele dossier after the partisan oppo document’s primary source was charged with lying to the FBI. “It’s one of the most egregious journalistic errors in modern history,” writes Sara Fischer, “and the media’s response to its own mistakes has so far been tepid.”

Tepid is a nice way of putting it.

While the Washington Post “corrected” some of its discredited reporting on the dossier, removing portions of reporting connecting former President Donald Trump to Russia, there has been virtually no other accountability. And, really, it’s become modus operandi for the news organizations to “correct” stories in which the entire premise is false. Any sort of “reckoning” would mean a retraction, followed by investigative deep dives, not only reporting the problems with the story themselves but outing the fraudulent sources who participated in the deception. Perhaps that’s going on as we speak, but it’s highly doubtful.

Those who perpetuated the Russia collusion deception — and this means editors and pundits, not only reporters — still hold premier jobs in political media.

Many, in fact, have been rewarded with better gigs.

Is anyone at the Washington Post or New York Times going to return a Pulitzer? Is anyone going to explain how multiple alleged independent sources regularly buttressed the central fabulistic claim of the dossier? Journalism is ostensibly about transparency and truth, yet not one of these sentinels

of democracy has explained how they were supposedly fooled for years, exhibiting not a modicum of skepticism — one of the most vital components of good journalism. When asked by Axios about the Steele dossier, the two outlets that churned out some of the most sensationalistic and conspiratorial content of the Trump era, CNN and MSNBC, wouldn’t even comment.

The most charitable explanation is that reporters had become such saps for Democrats that they were inclined to believe the most fantastical stories imaginable. The more plausible explanation, considering the lack of any genuine accountability and selfref lection, is that they were in on it.

There’s the argument out there that contends that Trump and his associates did and said things that made the dossier’s claims plausible. Well, Trump’s words could have been a big enough story on their own. The president made no secret of his personal admiration of Vladimir Putin before the election.

The notion that a Russian asset (since 1987, even!) would need to go on TV and ask the Russians to ferret out Hillary Clinton’s lost emails seems a stretch.

To excuse what came next from the media would be tantamount to excusing widespread coverage of birtherism simply because so many of former President Barack Obama’s abuses of executive power or inability to say America was exceptional was antithetical to the Constitution he swore to protect. The press exists to avoid the proliferation of faulty information and conspiracies,

not to perpetuate them because of their partisan assumptions.

Would Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith, now media reporter for the New York Times, have published an uncorroborated “dossier” on birtherism or, for that matter, Biden’s dealing with his corrupt son, giving it undo attention and credibility?

The media and tech companies wouldn’t even allow a properly sourced New York Post story about Hunter Biden be shared in the run-up to the election. Just more proof of malfeasance, not sloppiness. The chances that every single alleged mistake skewed in the same direction is, of course, infinitesimally small.

What difference, at this point, does it make? Well, for one thing, the full truth is opaque, and the historical record has yet to be corrected. It still says that “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops,” a story that spawned from the environment created by the Steele dossier, on the New York Times website. This piece, like so many others, is incorrect. The “intelligence officials” who spread that story were running what amounted to a shadow government using a partisan concoction, illegal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests and a pliant media to sink the foreign policy of the elected president. It’s one of the least democratic things I can think of.

It’s worth knowing how it happened — yet the public gets no explanation.

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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♦ Hill, Roy Davis (M/58) Arrest on chrg of 1) Child Abuse (M), 2) Impaired Driving Dwi (M), and 3) Open Beverage (M), at 4798 Hampton Rd/dock Davis Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 11/18/2021 21:43.

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♦ MCGUIRE, KEENAN DENZEL was arrested on a charge of POSS STOLEN GOODS at 700 FERRELL CT on 11/17/2021

♦ HUNTER, DASEAN AARON was arrested on a charge of WEAP-POSS BY FELON at 1705 ROLLING MEADOW CT on 11/17/2021

♦ Montano Barrera, Michael (M/23) Arrest on chrg of 1) Burglary-1st Degree (F), 2) Dom Criminal Trespas (M), 3) Resisting Arrest (M), 4) Malicious Conduct By Prisoner (F), 5) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 6) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 7) Fail To Appear/compl (M), and 8) Fail To Appear/compl (M), at 3085 Old Sides Mill Rd, Winstonsalem, NC, on 11/18/2021 21:37.

♦ JOHANN, JAMIE LYNN was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at PETERS CREEK PW_WB 40 RA/ WB 40 on 11/18/2021

♦ SOLIS, EVER was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 3798 WABASH BV on 11/20/2021 ♦ SQUIRE, TAMEKA MELKEISHA was arrested on a charge of OFA-FTA-M-MISDEMEANOR STALKING at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/20/2021 ♦ THOMAS, MICHAEL GREGORY was arrested on a charge of WEAP-POSS BY FELON at 912 WINSTON PARK DR on 11/18/2021 ♦ WELCH, DANNY LEE was arrested on a charge of FALSE IMPRISONMENT at 2100 BLOOMFIELD DR/JUNIA AV on 11/17/2021 ♦ WELLS, INDIA LOUISE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 1499 NEW WALKERTOWN RD on 11/20/2021

♦ JORDAN, STEPHON BERNARD was arrested on a charge of VIO. PROTECTIVE ORDER BY COURTS at 3022 WALSH ST on 11/19/2021

♦ MORRISON, GREGORY DENZEL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 2319 WATERBURY ST on 11/18/2021

♦ West, Deandre Lamonte (M/33) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive, F (F), at 201 N Church St, Winstonsalem, NC, on 11/20/2021 11:26.

♦ KELLUM, JACQUESE CHANTE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/18/2021

♦ Pope, Troy Allen (M/22) Arrest on chrg of Affray (M), at 480 Williams Rd, Lewisville, NC, on 11/19/2021 21:05.

♦ WILLIAMS, AMONT RAJSHAAD was arrested on a charge of WEAP-POSS BY FELON at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/19/2021

♦ KNOX, SEAN ORLANDO was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 408 W FOURTH ST on 11/18/2021

♦ Roberts, Deborah Ann (W /F/48) Arrest on chrg of Misuse Of 911 System, M (M), at 7001 Mason Place Ct, Clemmons, NC, on 11/19/2021 04:00.

♦ SALAZAR, JUAN SABES was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 730 ANSON ST on 11/20/2021

♦ Williams, Ronnie Lenard (M/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Asslt On Off/ st Emp (M), 2) Vand-personal Prop (M), 3) Vand-real Property (M), 4) Vand-real Property (M), 5) Vand-real Property (M), 6) Drugs-poss Sched Ii (F), 7) Drugs-poss Sched Ii (F), 8) Drug Paraphernalia (M), 9) Impaired Driving Dwi (M), 10) Resisting Arrest (M), and 11) Speeding To Elude Arrest (M), at 6399 Stadium Dr/lewisvilleclemmons Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 11/18/2021 00:58.

♦ SMITH, IVAN LEQUAN was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 3411 OLD VINEYARD RD on 11/18/2021

♦ WINSLOW, STEFONE ANDRE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/18/2021

♦ LEE, ROBERT LEWIS was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 1330 C CLEMMONSVILLE on 11/19/2021 ♦ LEGRAND, WILLIAM JERRODE was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 2499 REYNOLDS PARK RD/QUARRY RD on 11/20/2021 ♦ LYLES, DARRELL ANDRE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 402 N CHERRY ST on 11/17/2021

♦ ROBINSON, TESS LUNSFORD was arrested on a charge of POSS COCAINE FEL at 1200 VICTORIA ST on 11/20/2021

Twin City Herald for Wednesday, November 24, 2021

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LeBron ejected after bloodying Stewart Detroit LeBron James was ejected for drawing blood from Isaiah Stewart’s face, sending the superstar to the locker room early in the third quarter in the Lakers’ 121-116 win over the Pistons on Sunday. James’ Flagrant 2 foul ended his night after his left elbow and hand appeared to make contact with Stewart’s face when they were tangled up while boxing out for a rebound.

Detroit’s center, who was called for a foul before James hit him, had to be held back more than once to keep him separated from the NBA superstar and was also ejected.

SOCCER

Lyon-Marseille game abandoned after water bottle hits player Lyon, France A French league game between Lyon and Marseille was abandoned on Sunday after Marseille midfielder Dimitri Payet was hit on the head by a bottle of water thrown from the stands while he was taking a corner kick in the latest fan violence to strike French soccer. Payet collapsed to the ground in the fifth minute of the match at Lyon, with the score at 0-0, but was able to get up after receiving treatment. The referee ordered players to head back to the locker room with play suspended.

CYCLING

Cavendish suffers “small collapsed lung” at Belgian event Brussels British cyclist Mark Cavendish broke two ribs and suffered a “small collapsed lung” during a crash at a track event in Belgium, his team said on Monday. Deceuninck - Quick-Step said in a statement that Cavendish spent Sunday night in the Ghent University Hospital following the incident at the Ghent Six Day. The 36-year-old Cavendish has enjoyed a revival this season, equaling Eddy Merckx’s all-time record of 34 Tour de France stage wins in July.

WINTER OLYMPICS

Shuster wins U.S. curling trials, will defend gold in Beijing Omaha, Neb. Defending Olympic curling champion John Shuster is going back to the Winter Games for a fifth time.

The 2018 gold medalist skipped his team to victory over Team Dropkin at the U.S. trials on Sunday night, winning 5-4 to take the best-of-three finals two games to one and earn a spot in Beijing.

John Landsteiner and Matt Hamilton will also return to the Olympics after winning it all in Pyeongchang. Chris Plys joined the foursome to replace Tyler George, who retired. The Americans had never earned an Olympic curling medal until 2006, when Shuster was the lead on Pete Fenson’s bronzewinning team.

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White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón, a former standout at NC State, will be among the top free agents this offseason.

Correa, Freeman, Scherzer among baseball’s top free agents Former NC State pitcher Carlos Rodón is among the top starters available

By Noah Trister The Associated Press WITH A POSSIBLE lockout on the horizon, it’s been mostly business as usual on the free agent market — so far.

Detroit signed left-hander Eduardo Rodríguez. Houston retained star righty Justin Verlander. Noah Syndergaard went from the Mets to the Angels on an expensive one-year deal.

The deadline to accept qualifying offers came and went last week, further clarifying who was heading to the open market.

It remains to be seen whether the uncertainty about the next labor agreement will affect offseason moves for the top players available, but it’s clear there are plenty of good options for teams looking to upgrade.

Here’s a look at some of baseball’s top free agents

Carlos Rodón, White Sox, left-handed starter: It’s a toss-up between Rodón and Robbie Ray. Rodón, 28, didn’t really threaten Ray in the Cy Young vote, but his ERA was about a half a run lower and he’s also younger. And Ray received a qualifying offer while Rodón did not, so that may make Rodón a more enticing target.

Aaron Loup, Mets, left-handed reliever: The 33-year-old Loup went 6-0 with a 0.95 ERA in 65 appearances. Opponents hit .192 off him.

Max Scherzer, Dodgers, right-handed starter: No signs yet of any major decline for the 37-year-old Scherzer despite his age. He’s had an ERA at 3.15 or lower in eight of the last nine seasons — the only time it was higher was in the shortened 2020 campaign.

Raisel Iglesias, Angels, right-handed reliever: Iglesias, 31, saved 34 games for Los Angeles, and things did not go smoothly for the Cincinnati bullpen after he left. He’s had at least 30 saves in each of the past three non-short-

0.95 ERA last season for Mets lefthanded reliever Aaron Loup ened seasons.

Yan Gomes, Athletics, catcher: There aren’t any star catchers available this year, but the 34-year-old Gomes can provide a bit of pop.

Freddie Freeman, Braves, first base: Losing Freeman, 32, would be a major downer for the World Series champions, but the fivetime All-Star and 2020 MVP will obviously command a big price.

Even at first base it’s hard to find this kind of consistent production.

Marcus Semien, Blue Jays, second base: Let’s list Semien, 31, as a second baseman — where he mostly played this season — and avoid a tough decision at shortstop. Semien hit 45 home runs this year while playing all 162 games,

and he finished third in the MVP vote. He has the most WAR of any player in baseball since the start of the 2019 season, according to Baseball-Reference.com.

Eduardo Escobar, Brewers, third base: The 32-year-old Escobar hit 28 home runs this year in the first full season since he slugged 35 in 2019. He played a bit at first, second and shortstop in addition to third.

Carlos Correa, Astros, shortstop: Correa, 27, made his big league debut at age 20 and reaches free agency well shy of his 30th birthday. That makes him a good bit younger than some of the other top players on this list, and he may be the most sought-after name this offseason.

Starling Marte, Athletics; Kris Bryant, Giants; Nick Castellanos, Reds, outfield: Marte did what he could to help the A’s down the stretch, and he ended up with an .841 OPS this year for Oakland and Miami. Bryant doesn’t turn 30 until January and can obviously play third base in addition to the outfield. Castellanos set career highs in homers (34), batting average (.309) and OPS (.939) this year.

Nelson Cruz, Rays, designated hitter: The 41-year-old Cruz may finally be slowing down, but only a little. He hit 32 homers this year but posted an .832 OPS, his lowest since 2012.

Chamberlain, Russell headline AP’s 1960s alldecade NBA team The league is celebrating its 75th anniversary The Associated Press THE 1960S All-Decade Team for the NBA as voted on by AP Sports staffers directly engaged with the season-long NBA At 75 series. The team members are: Elgin Baylor

time MVP who won three in a row from 1966 to 1968. In 1960, he was the All-Star MVP, rookie of the year and league MVP. He was a seven-time scoring champion and 11-time rebounding champion who led the league in assists in 1968. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979.

Oscar Robertson

Baylor was the game’s first high flyer, known for his dunks and his hanging jump shot. The 10-time All-NBA first-team selection was a versatile player who averaged 27.4 points and 13.5 rebounds per game in his career. In 1960, he scored a then-NBA record 71 points against the New York Knicks. His NBA Finals record of 61 points set in 1962 still stands. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1977.

Robertson averaged a triple-double in 1961-62 — a feat that wasn’t duplicated until Russell Westbrook achieved it in 2016-17. He made point guard more of a scoring position, averaging 25.7 points in his career. He was Rookie of the Year in 1961, league MVP in 1964 and a threetime All-Star MVP. He was AllNBA first-team nine times and led the league in assists six times.

The 12-time All-Star was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Wilt Chamberlain

Bill Russell

Chamberlain was larger than life, and the muscular 7-foot-1 center put up numbers to match his frame. He averaged 50.4 points in 1959-60, 27.2 rebounds in 1960-61 and scored 100 points in a game in 1962 — all records that still stand. He was a four-

A game-changing defender and rebounder from the center position, Russell won 11 NBA titles, including eight in a row from 1959 to 1966. He was a five-time league MVP, claiming three in a row from 1961 to 1963. He was a four-time rebounding champion

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Elgin Baylor was a 10-time NBA All-Star and averaged a doubledouble for his career. and was named All-Star MVP in 1963. He closed out the decade in style, winning his last NBA title in 1969 as a player-coach. The 12time All-Star was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Jerry West The sharpshooting guard known as “Mr. Clutch” averaged 27 points in his career. In 1969, he became the only player to win Finals MVP on a losing team after delivering 42 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists in a Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics. He didn’t stop at the end of the decade — he was named to the All-Defense first team four times in the 1970s.

The 10-time All-NBA first-team selection was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

50.4 Scoring average for Wilt Chamberlain in 1959-60, still an NBA record

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STATE & NATION

Biden’s political standing fuels Democratic worry about 2024

By Steve Peoples The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — It was supposed to be a moment of triumph for Joe Biden.

The Democratic president had just signed into law the most significant infrastructure package in generations. And he had done it by bringing Democrats and Republicans together, just as he promised during last year’s campaign.

But when Biden arrived in New Hampshire last week to promote the $1 trillion package at the foot of a crumbling bridge, not all of his VIP guests were in the mood to celebrate.

“Democrats are concerned,” former state House Speaker Steve Shurtleff, a longtime Biden supporter who attended the ceremony, told The Associated Press when asked about Biden’s political standing. “I’m concerned about where we may be in another couple of years when people really start to gear up and start making trips to New Hampshire.”

Shurtleff was openly saying what a growing number of Democrats have been whispering for

months: Biden’s political standing is so weak less than a year into his presidency that he may not be able to win reelection in 2024 if he were to run again. Such anxiety-fueled parlor games are common among Washington’s political class, but this one has spread to the states and constituencies that will play a central role in the next presidential election.

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing her own political conundrum with polls suggesting she may be less popular than her unpopular boss. A dynamic leader who made history by becoming the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to step into her office, Harris has been given few opportunities by the Biden White House to shine.

She delivered her first solo speech to promote the new infrastructure law on Friday in Ohio’s capital city, addressing a mostly empty union hall largely absent of political dignitaries at roughly the same time Biden was issuing the White House’s annual turkey pardon in Washington.

“In America, we have the courage to see beyond the crisis — to be-

lieve that the future and a future we imagine is possible — and then, to build it,” Harris said to a smattering of polite applause in Columbus.

At least for now, there’s little to suggest the legislation, which will strengthen infrastructure in every state and potentially create hundreds of thousands of jobs, will quickly improve Democrats’ political standing.

As Biden struggles, speculation has intensified about the short list of would-be successors should Biden not seek reelection, although the 79-year-old president has said publicly and privately that he will.

The list is led by Harris, of course, but includes other 2020 presidential candidates such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Just last week, Booker announced plans to appear at a party fundraiser next month in New Hampshire, which traditionally hosts the nation’s first presidential primary election.

Booker’s team sought to tamp down chatter that he was positioning himself to run in 2024, and allies say he is very close to Harris and would not challenge her in the event Biden retires. Still, the mere

existence of such conversations so soon into a new presidency is unusual.

The White House is working to quash speculation that Biden may not seek reelection in 2024 given his current struggles.

Noting that Biden has declared his intent to run publicly and privately, his aides say the Democratic National Committee and Biden’s political team inside the White House are actively moving forward with the assumption he will seek a second term.

They believe Biden’s position will improve as voters digest the new infrastructure law and the $2 trillion social spending and climate bill currently moving through Congress. Already, the DNC and its allies are focusing significant resources on selling the Democrats’ accomplishments in key states before the 2022 midterm elections — states such as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that will also be top battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election.

Despite their optimism, tensions inside the White House are real as the new leadership team learns to

work together.

Harris’ allies are especially frustrated that Biden seems to have limited the vice president to a low-profile role with a difficult policy portfolio — led by voting rights and immigration.

And when she delivered her speech on the infrastructure law, there was little sign of Democratic enthusiasm.

The crowd of invited guests barely filled one-quarter of a local union hall. Almost none of Ohio’s top Democrats attended the event, including Sen. Sherrod Brown or the high-profile Democrats running for governor. Rep. Joyce Beatty, who represents the district where Harris spoke, was the only member of Congress in attendance.

“Because of our work together, America is moving forward,” Harris declared, explaining that the infrastructure law would “make the most significant investment to fix our road and bridges in 70 years.”

But just as in New Hampshire, the White House’s message was clouded by frustration over Biden’s presidency.

“The question becomes, ‘Why am I helping you to hold to power, when the power you have right now you’re not using on my behalf?’”

Ohio Democrat Nina Turner, who served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, said of Biden. “That’s called insanity — asking me to vote for you, asking the Black community to come out for you in 2022 or 2024 when you ain’t doing nothing in 2021.”

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President Joe Biden signs the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" during an event on the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Pentagon boosts housing money for troops, as hunger persists

By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon will increase housing payments for troops in key areas and look for ways to combat hunger across the force, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced, in the department’s latest effort to address food insecurity among service members.

Austin told reporters that troops have enough to worry about and that “basic necessities like food and housing shouldn’t be among them.”

According to an estimate by Feeding America, as many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. The group, which coordinates the work of more than 200 food banks around the country, estimates that 29% of troops in the most junior enlisted ranks faced food insecurity during the previous year.

He said the department will immediately provide a temporary increase in the housing allowance for troops who live in areas where rent costs have gone up by at least 10% this year. Temporary lodging

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting with Norwegian Minister of Defense Odd Enoksen at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Washington, D.C. reimbursement will be extended for those moving into communities with housing shortages.

Austin said he has given the undersecretary for personnel 90 days to develop a longer term strategy.

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.

“It’s a shocking truth that’s

known to many food banks across the United States,” said Vince Hall, Feeding America’s government relations officer. “This should be the cause of deep embarrassment.”

Lower-ranking enlisted troops receive modest pay, and their frequent moves make it difficult for spouses to find steady work. The problem is exacerbated by an Agriculture Department rule that prevents thousands of needy military families from accessing the SNAP government assistance program, commonly known as food stamps.

Service members who do not live on bases get a housing allowance, which is counted as income in calculating their eligibility for food stamps. That additional amount, which is not counted as income for other federal programs, often enough to disqualify families for the food assistance.

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, a former Blackhawk pilot who lost both legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq, has sponsored a bill that would establish a Basic Needs Allowance payment for military families in need.

Rep. James McGovern,

D-Mass., has sought a Pentagon study of the problem and a repeal of the USDA’s Basic Allowance for Housing regulation.

Colleen Heflin, a professor of public administration at Syracuse University, said the lack of Pentagon interest has led to a critical shortage of proper study or data. “In my experiences, it’s hard to explain this to Department of Defense officials,” she said. “They find it embarrassing and something they would not like to acknowledge.”

In addition to the immediate actions, Austin said in a memo that the department should look into a number of other steps to increase stability for service members. They would include extending the tour length for troops deploying to some locations overseas, when they are accompanied by their families.

Where possible, he said the department should consider extending the three-year time limit on assignments at bases within the United States.

Austin also said the Pentagon should take steps to improve financial education and counseling for troops.