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Storm leaves damage in its wake Residents shaken; no one reports injuries

Deidre Miller was on Old Mocksville Road when a large tree fell on her car Saturday.

Her 5-yearold son was in a car seat in the back, but he got out safely along with Miller and her aunt.

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STRIVING TO RAISE AWARENESS, PREVENT

CHILD ABUSE Brutality shocks even veteran investigators in some cases

BY SHAVONNE POTTS spotts@salisburypost.com

ALISBURY — Lt. Brian Stallings remembers the day a woman claimed her infant’s fractured upper arm resulted from falling out of a crib. But medical workers told officers the type of injury suffered by the child wouldn’t have been caused by a fall.

The infant had a spiral fracture, caused by someone twisting the arm with so much force the bone snapped.

On any given day, emergency rooms across the country see children whose breaks and bruises STALLINGS are not the result of accidents or clumsiness, but harm inflicted by a caregiver. And that harm, regardless of intent, is considered abuse.

Warning signs Every 10 seconds a reof abuse, 4A port of child abuse is made, according to Child File, a database of the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System.

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stances in which abuse is likely to occur is also an element of abuse, the law says.

A month ago, authorities arrested a Rowan County couple who investigators say allowed their four children to live in filthy conditions, with little education or medical attention.

David and Angela Lore, who own Pet Place in Salisbury, each face multiple child abuse charges. The children, who range in age from 7 to 16, have been removed from the home by the Rowan County Department of Social Services.

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, during which communities nationwide promote the awareness and prevention of child abuse and neglect.

• • • One of the worst child abuse cases Stallings recalled during a recent interview involved DeMallon Krider, an 18month-old who died in 1997 at the hands of his mother, Tamanchies Krider, officials said.

Stallings became a child abuse investigator shortly after Tamanchies Krider was accused of throwing her son in a bedroom. The child’s head hit the railing of a bed, and he died a short time later.

The baby had previous injuries, including bite marks, on his body. Tamanchies Krider is serving a life sentence for the murder of her son.

The Krider case was one of a series of child deaths in 1997 that led to statewide legislative changes and changed the protocol by which investigations are conducted.

Even when children survive, though, the brutality of abuse can be shocking.

Stallings recalled a case in which a

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SALISBURY — Each month, an average of nine children are in the custody of the Rowan County Department of Social Services.

Most of these children are victims of some sort of abuse, whether physical or sexual, or neglect.

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The nationwide symbol for child abuse prevention is Breakfast on a blue pinwheel. Advocates April 29 among are spreading the word activities, 4A about the Pinwheels for Prevention campaign, focusing on making sure abuse never occurs.

“Pinwheels promote the good part of childhood,” said Kristine Craig, a family advocate with Prevent Child Abuse Rowan.

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In fiscal year 2010, Rowan Social Services took 2,786 reports of abuse or neglect. Of those 1,817 were investigated. There were 969 that were not investigated but referred to other agencies such as mental health facilities.

Law enforcement submits nearly half the reports of abuse and neglect. The school system submits about half. A small percentage come from anonymous callers or family members.

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VICTIMS FROM 1a A social worker makes an assessment during a screening process that must take place before an investigation can begin. The social worker has a mandated amount of time to initiate contact with the child and parents.

A social worker meets regularly with other agencies to discuss the progress.

“The types of cases have changed. They are not as simple as they used to be,” said Child Protective Services Supervisor Wendy Baskins.

Even so, the goal remains to reunite a child with his or her birth family.

“If we can keep the family intact that is preferable in most cases,” said Social Services Attorney Cynthia Dry. If the child can’t be reunified with a parent, the agency works to place them with a relative in an effort to keep the family dynamic intact, said Lisa Berger, a supervisor with the Child Protective Services division.

“We are obligated to move toward a plan up to including terminating the parental rights,” said Tom Brewer, a program administrator for the children’s services division of Rowan County Social Services.

Baskins often sees a rise in the number of abuse cases reported following a period of education.

She talks to day care centers, school counselors and future teachers about the warning signs and how to report abuse.

“We help them feel comfortable reporting,” Baskins said.

Multiple agencies in Rowan County work together to investigate abuse cases.

Guardian ad Litem volunteers receive 30 hours of training and a criminal background check. No special degree or outside training is required to become a guardian.

There are currently 40 volunteers with the Rowan County Guardian ad Litem program.

DA’s Office The prosecutors take abuse cases very seriously, especially sex abuse cases, said District Attorney Brandy Cook.

“We want to do everything the law allows in order to aggressively prosecute sexual offenders,” she said.

These types of cases can be particularly challenging due to the unique nature of these offenses, Cook said.

“We have to weigh the potentially traumatic effect a child having to testify in court in front of their abuser will be.

It can be extremely difficult for a child to testify in a room full of strangers about the intimate details of how they were molested or abused,” she said.

Another factor to consider, she said, is the opinion of the child’s parents on whether they agree that their child should testify and be subject to cross-examination by a defense attorney.

Additionally, it’s important to carefully “consider the strength of the case and the admissible evidence in the event that a child cannot or does not testify,” Cook said.

Can the laws ever be tough enough when a child has been sexually abused?

“Clearly, a tough penalty is warranted in cases where children have been sexually abused, raped or molested. In many cases involving sexual offenses against children, the only charge that can be punished more severely by law is first-degree murder,” she said.

RALEIGH (AP) — A brutal spring storm raged across North Carolina on Saturday, flattening businesses, flipping cars and destroying homes, leaving at least four dead from a system already blamed for killing 17 people in four states.

The death toll was likely to rise.

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue said there were fatalities in four counties but would not confirm an exact number, saying officials wanted to wait until Sunday morning.

Earlier, officials in Raleigh said more than one person died in Wake County, one of the counties Perdue mentioned. Urban search and rescue teams were also looking for residents who might be trapped in damaged buildings.

Perdue said the 62 tornadoes were the most since March 1984, when a storm system spawned 22 twisters in the Carolinas, killing 57 people — 42 in North Carolina — and injuring hundreds.

This year’s spring storm was easily the deadliest of the season, but there were stories of survival, too.

In South Carolina, a church with six people inside collapsed after it was hit by a tornado, but somehow no one was

injured. And in Sanford, N.C., the manager of a Lowe’s hardware store was credited with saving more than 100 workers and employees by ushering them to the back of the store, which acted as a makeshift shelter as the weather rolled in.

The storms began in Oklahoma on Thursday, then roared through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

Seven people each were killed in Arkansas and Alabama, which was hit a day earlier. A father, his son and his daughter were killed near Montgomery; a mother and her two teenage sons died in a mobile home in the southwest part of the state, and the storm claimed the life of an elderly man whose trailer was tossed nearly a quarter of a mile across a state highway.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley visited some of the devastated areas and declared the entire state a disaster.

Things looked similar in North Carolina. Roofs were ripped off stores, trees were plucked out of the ground and “scores” of homes were damaged, emergency management director Doug Hoell said. Police in Raleigh evacuated residents at a mobile park, and emergency crews went door-to-door looking for people injured or trapped by the storm that

flipped mobile homes from one side of the street to the other.

Guillermo Villela, 34, said he saw two young children at the park trapped under fallen trees.

“I see a lot of disaster. It’s bad,” Villela said.

In Sanford, what could have been a catastrophe was averted when a Lowe’s manager saw the approaching storm. The front of Lowe’s was flattened by the storm, with cars in the parking lot tossed around and flipped on their roofs.

“It was really just a bad scene,” said Jeff Blocker, Lowe’s regional vice president for eastern North Carolina. “You’re just amazed that no one was injured.”

Blocker credits his store manager and the other 40 to 50 employees in the store at the time with getting the as many as 70 customers safely to the rear.

Cindy Hall, a Red Cross volunteer and outreach minister at First Baptist Church in Sanford, said dozens of homes in the area were damaged. “It wiped out our St. Andrews neighborhood, which includes about 30 homes,” she said.

To the west, hikers were rescued after being briefly stranded by flash floods brought on by the heavy rains. Hundreds of thousands of people were without power in the Carolinas.

National Park Week includes free admission to sites in NC KILL DEVIL HILLS (AP) — Visitors to national parks on the North Carolina coast can save a little money during National Park Week.

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While entrance fees for passengers in both private

and commercial vehicles will be waived, recreation “user fees” such as permit fees, camping fees and lighthouse tour fees are not waived.

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Entrance fees are not regularly charged at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site or Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

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Guardian ad Litem Guardian volunteers investigate the alleged abuse independently of law enforcement or Social Services. The volunteers’ findings are given to the judge to help determine the outcome of the case. The Guardian ad Litem program, often confused with a Social Services program, is in fact a separate entity. The Guardian program is a nonprofit agency that receives funds from the state.

“We represent cases from the child’s point-of-view,” said Lissa Pence, Guardian ad Litem program supervisor.

The Guardian ad Litem volunteer sticks with the child until the case reaches a permanent resolution.

Guardians regularly meet with the child and with other agencies related to the case including Social Services. A court hearing is held every 90 days to review the case with a judge, attorneys and the parents.

Guardians inform the judge of their findings based on the expressed preferences of the child, “even if we don’t agree,” Pence said.

Prevent Child Abuse The nonprofit agency operates the local child advocacy center, the Terrie Hess House, which addresses the needs of child sexual assault victims and their non-offending family members.

Family Advocate Kristine Craig is the first person a family meets when they arrive at the center, located on Woodson Street.

She is with the family throughout the investigation and any subsequent court hearings.

“I like being part of the solution. It makes a huge difference that we are here,” Craig said.

Children receive a forensic exam done by a nurse who specializes in child abuse cases and it includes a physical by a local doctor. The forensic exam is recorded and observed by law enforcement to ensure children aren’t “revictimized” by having repeated statements and interviews by multiple investigators.

“I look at, what can I help them with that will get them through this?” Craig said.

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Residents and emergency personnel gather along Newport Drive in Farrington Meadows subdivision off Old Mocksville Road to survey the damage after a powerful storm rolled through Saturday afternoon. The storm toppled trees, blocking roads.

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School board to discuss layoff policies SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will consider amending a number of personnel policies at its meeting Monday.

Among the policies being considered are those dealing with how school administrators are selected, how the board determines which employees to lay off if budget cuts make that necessary, and how employee grievances are addressed.

The board will meet at 5 p.m. at school system administrative offices, 110 S. Long St. in East Spencer.

Other policies to be discussed deal with promotions, demotions, resignations, terminations and suspensions, evaluation of work performance and employee assignments or reassignments.

The board will also consider proposed changes to the Code of Conduct and the policy on students bringing prescription medications to school.

The board will also: • Consider a request from West Rowan FFA to attend a national competition in Oklahoma City, Okla.

• Receive “state of the school” reports from Principal Kelly Sparger of East Rowan High School and Principal Kelly Withers of Jesse Carson High School.

• Hear a presentation by Darrell Blackwelder about programs the Cooperative Extension Service has initiated in the schools.

• Hold a closed session to discuss a personnel issue.

County may take over planning for China Grove SALISBURY — Rowan County soon may provide planning and zoning services for China Grove.

The Rowan County Board of Commissioners plans to approve a contract between the two governments at 6 p.m. Monday on the second floor of the J. Newton Cohen Sr. Rowan County Administration Building.

In a memo to county commissioners, County Planning Director Ed Muire wrote that the town manager asked the county Planning and Development Department if it could provide services to China Grove.

“Staff is of the opinion that addition of these duties can be successfully administered by current staff while also creating an additional revenue source,” Muire wrote.

“This additional revenue, combined with other departmental budget cuts for (fiscal year) 2011-12, will remove the need to eliminate a position within the department.”

County staff would provide administrative planning functions and enforcement activities and inspections within the town and its extraterritorial jurisdiction for $1,500 per month.

In addition to county commissioners, the China Grove Town Council must approve the contract before the new arrangement begins.

Also at the meeting, commissioners plan to: • Set a date and time for a public hearing on the county’s 2011-12 budget.

• Consider approval of a few budget amendments.

• Donate a surplus stretcher to the Rockwell Rural Fire Department.

• Give final approval to a lease for Piedmont Skydiving with changes made at the March 7 meeting.

• Proclaim May 15-21 as Law Enforcement Week.

5The roar of chainsaws will likely be heard again as the cleanup

continues in areas hit by the storm.

High winds sheered off utility poles along Old Mocksville Road. 4

Residents carry in chainsaws and tarps to make temporary repairs to homes and buildings that sustained damage.

Before the storm, shoppers hit the Farmer’s Market

BY CYNTHIA HOOPER For the Salisbury Post

The gray skies and rain may have kept some people away from opening day at the Farmer’s Market Saturday morning, but there were plenty of smiling vendors there to greet the customers who braved the weather.

Locals had been waiting all winter for their favorite area farmers to return to the Farmer’s Market and a little bad weather was not going to keep them away from the produce they had been looking forward to.

“We have been waiting since they closed in December, I love getting the organic beef,” Shelly Deneen said.

Deneen and her daughter, Heavenly, were pleased to see T&D Farms back at the market this year.

Doyle Mauldin of China

Grove’s T&D Farms was happy to be there. They offer grass fed and finished beef, pork and chicken as well as free range eggs.

“My son Todd started about six years ago with the idea in his mind to provide healthy meat for his friends and neighbors around China Grove and that is what he has done,” Mauldin said.

The market features plants, vegetables, baked goods, meat and more.

Carla Anne’s Homestyle Bakery brought a variety of baked goods, from their sugar-free line of pastries to home made peanut butter.

There was a wide selection of breads, Danish pastry and fresh coffee in addition to their award winning chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies.

Carla Anne and husband, Mark Whaley, from Spencer,

once lived in California and learned the secret to making a perfect sourdough. They quickly sold out of their San Francisco sourdough bread on Saturday, but this year offer a sourdough starter so people can bake their own bread right at home.

“It is not an easy venture,” Carla Anne said of the sourdough starter, “but well worth it.”

Bluebird Acres Farm also braved the weather on Saturday.

“I knew my loyal customers would be here,” Cathy Reynolds said.

When Reynolds retired from teaching, she started growing plants. Bluebird Acres Farms offers a variety of plants, including a romaine lettuce that can be eaten right out of the planter, with continual harvesting for another two to three weeks.

Reynolds said customers can bring gently used plant containers to her for reuse, as the recycling center does not recycle them and when they are in good shape she can put them to good use.

By 10 a.m. the sun started peeking out from behind the clouds, just in time for the “Page Girls” arrival at the farmer’s market. Judy Page and her mother, Alice, of Salisbury, came out looking for some plants as well as some sweets. Once they got there they headed right towards Kristine Turco’s minivan and the smell of sweet delights.

Turco, who operates How Sweet It Is, has been selling her fresh baked goods at the local farmer’s market for the past 17 years.

Keeping dry in the back of Turco’s van were a selection

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STORM FROM 1A the pouring rain, when she heard a loud crack. She hit the brakes to look behind her and saw that a large tree had fallen. Just then, another one slammed onto the back of her car.

Her 5-year-old son was sitting in the backseat.

“The first thing I did was turn and yell back there, ‘Caden, are you OK?’ ” Miller said.

He was, and the mother was flooded with relief.

Miller said she and her aunt, who also was in the car, helped the boy get out. The roof was crushed by the tree, and the doors were blocked by branches.

“I had to climb out the window,” she said. Looking at the carseat peeking out from thick tree limbs, she said, “Oh, God. My heart is still racing.”

Miller lives just off U.S. 601. Several other trees fell across that highway — and power lines — between Deal Creek Drive and Hidden Valley Road.

Emergency Services Director Frank Thomason said six or seven houses were damaged in the 6000 block of U.S. 601. Another 12 to 15 homes were damaged in the 6000 block of Old Mocksville Road and in the nearby Farrington Meadows subdivision, he said.

The storm snapped trees, shattered windows and ripped off parts of the roof at the Old Mocksville Road home of Omar and Paloma Monroy.

“We saw the (front yard) tree coming this way, and we ran to get away from the window,” Paloma said. “As soon as we were going toward the living room, that’s when all the windows broke. We got down to the floor and tried to cover our baby.”

The couple shielded their 3-week-old boy from the flying glass and debris until the storm passed. The wind tossed and overturned some items in the house, while others in the same room seemed untouched.

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At least six trees came down at David Potts’ Farrington Meadows subdivision home Saturday afternoon.

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Omar and Paloma Monroy take in the damage to their Old Mocksville home Saturday afternoon. Omar said they huddled in the living room, shielding their 3-week-old from debris. could think of was to cover my son and wife,” Omar said. “I was thinking about my family, not worried about my house.”

The three were shaken but unharmed, and they likely will stay with family until the debris is cleaned up and the windows and roof are fixed. Neighbors helped to make temporary repairs to the roof at the Monroys’ house and others nearby, covering open spots in case more rain came.

Old Mocksville Road remained closed between Young Farm Road and Baymount Drive on Saturday night. Power poles fell during the storm and crews were working to replace them. U.S. 601 reopened, but crews are still working to fix utility poles along the road.

As of 11:30 p.m. Saturday, 555 Duke Energy customers in Rowan County remained without power, down from 6,000 outages reported earlier. Most were clustered near those two areas, with others scattered east of Granite Quarry and throughout the county.

On Newport Drive, which runs through Farrington

Meadows off Old Mocksville Road, the home of David and Nadine Potts could barely be seen through a tangle of large trees. Several had fallen on the house, all in different directions.

“He was downstairs and I was upstairs, and all I saw was white rain,” Nadine said.

“I felt a thud, and I knew a tree had hit the house... It came through and it was gone, just like that.”

When the rain stopped after just a few minutes, the couple walked outside and

carefully picked their way through the branches.

When first asked if the couple lived in the home, David laughed and said, “We used to.” They have insurance that should cover the costs, but it may take a while to repair the busted roof, cracked ceilings and other damage.

“We have a motor home out back that’s not damaged,” Nadine said. “I think we’ll stay in that ... with our little Maltese dog.”

The couple continued to laugh and joke as they

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Residents of Farrington Meadows subdivision off Old Mocksville Road spent the afternoon making temporary repairs to their homes after the storm ripped through the area.

talked. When David pointed this out, Nadine told him quietly, “Well, you’ve got to. If you don’t laugh, you cry.”

Emergency responders went door to door checking on residents in Farrington Meadows, where the road into the subdivision was completely blocked by downed trees.

Thomason said it appeared no one had been injured during the storms locally.

“There is some significant damage to the structures,” he said.

The green metal roof of a house on Newport Drive was torn apart, mangled and strewn across neighboring yards. One piece was caught in a tree next door. All but one small section of the shingles and wood underneath remained.

The metal pole holding a basketball net was bent on an Old Mocksville Road house, which also sustained roof damage.

Thomason said authorities didn’t yet know how many people lived in the homes.

Those who can’t stay in their homes will be helped by the Red Cross, he said. If enough have been displaced, the county will open an emergency shelter.

Thomason said he will call in the state emergency management officials and the National Weather Service to determine if the damage was caused by tornadoes.

“We can’t confirm at this point whether it was an actual tornado or not,” he said.

“We’ll be assessing that going forward.”

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Rowan County Emergency Services Director Frank Thomason talks about the storms that roared through.

The storm caused other damage around Rowan County, including a downed tree on Fifth Street in Spencer and power lines down in the 9000 block of Cool Springs Road, according to emergency radio communications.

There were also reports of damage from a possible tornado in Davie County near Point Road.

The storms also caused the cancellation of events around the area. The Touch a Truck event for children in Salisbury was postponed to May 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Viva Verde Earth Fest in Cabarrus County was canceled and won’t be rescheduled, according to an email from organizers.

Have you seen other storm damage? Let us know in the comments section or call reporter Karissa Minn at 704797-4222. Post your photos in the SalisburyPostables section of our website.

Scott Jenkins contributed to this report.

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Prevent Child Abuse Month events • Annual Prevent Child Abuse Rowan breakfast, Park Avenue Community Center, 632 Park Ave., Salisbury, April 29 at 8 a.m.

The event is open to the public.

• Horse Around: A Special Day for Special Kids, Saving Grace Farm, 565 Trexler Loop, Salisbury. This event is open to children with

special needs and will include horseback riding, t-ball, music and a raffle. Donations benefit, Prevent Child Abuse Rowan.

Contact Prevent Child Abuse Rowan for the required registration at 704639-1700.

For more information about Saving Grace Farm, contact 704-637-2216.

n Has unexplained burns, bites, bruises, broken bones, or black eyes n Seems frightened of the parents and protests or cries when it’s time to go home n Shows sudden changes in behavior or school performance n Displays overt sexualized behavior or exhibits sexual knowledge that is inconsistent with their age n Has not received medical attention for a physical injury that has been brought to the parents’ attention n Reports injury by a parent or another adult caregiver n Is overly compliant, passive or withdrawn n Comes to school or other activities early, stays late and does not want to go

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ABUSE FROM 1A child was partially submerged in a pot of boiling water. The baby had severe lower-body burns.

He also remembered a mother who burned her child’s upper leg and genitals with a hot curling iron because the child would not stop crying.

Some abuse cases that remain ingrained in Stallings’ memory are too graphic to recount. Investigating those cases can be mentally and emotionally overwhelming, Stallings said.

“You remember the kids you couldn’t help,” he said.

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When abuse is suspected, DeSantis and a case worker from the Rowan County Department of Social Services conduct an initial interview with the child to discuss the allegations.

The crimes those investigators It can be difficult, because the see day after day weigh heavily on child is already unlikely to trust them. It’s hard to “unwind” after adults, he said. seeing children who suffer at the In a recent investigation, Dehands of an abuser.

Santis spent nearly half such an inStallings said investigating terview getting a child to open up child abuse takes someone who can and trust him. The child did not be objective and compassionate at look at him for much of the enthe same time. He praised Social counter.

Services workers and child abuse “It’s harder to gain their trust,” investigators who “genuinely care” he said. But when they do trust, about what they do every day. children “are very truthful.”

Detective Russell DeSantis, who DeSantis said working with Sohas been in law enforcement for cial Services is essential, because more than 20 years, investigates investigators can “play off each child abuse cases with the Salisother’s strengths.” bury Police Department.

He said being a father makes The hardest cases, he said, inhim a better investigator of crimes volve young children and those against children. And being an inthat involve sex offenses. vestigator makes him appreciate “They can’t defend themselves,” his life. he said. “They can’t fight for them“I guess I draw strength from

the good my job does for the community, my co-workers, but most of all my family (wife and children) and my belief in God,” he said.

“Sometimes you hug your kids a little longer,” DeSantis said.

• • • The worst kind of case is when the abuser is a parent, DeSantis said.

Children, he said, “should be able to look at their parent for safety, not harm.”

Sometimes, an investigator brings an end to the cycle of abuse.

In one case, DeSantis discovered a history of abuse that spanned generations.

Even when the abuse has ended, its effects have “a lasting impact” on a child, Stallings said.

He still receives phone calls from child abuse victims who are now adults. They call to say they are OK, but he knows “it’s still on their minds.”

The other side of helping a child is when they don’t understand, and

presence of child abuse or neglect or mean something else or nothing at all.

However, a cluster of two or more should raise a red flag and involve a talk with the child and/or parent and Social Services. *Provided by the North Carolina Division of Social Services.

all they see is the officer who ripped their family apart.

“It’s something that turns their lives upside down. They have to go to court. It can be embarrassing.

There’s all these emotions,” Stallings said.

An abuser can be anyone — a mother, father, a grandmother, grandfather, a babysitter.

There is no profile of a child abuser, Stallings said.

“But family members can be the ones to cause the worst crimes. It’s an issue of trust,” DeSantis said.

“Abuse is more apt to happen within a family,” Stallings said.

• • • An abuser isn’t someone who one day got angry and spanked their child a little too hard.

Substance abuse and anger issues are things that can increase the likelihood of abuse, but there is an underlying issue present, Stallings said.

“Those are excuses. There’s something there. It was always there,” DeSantis said.

Abuse doesn’t necessarily mean the abuser, particularly in the case of sexual abuse, is trying to fulfill a sexual impulse.

“All abuse is about power, control — having the control over somebody is the main driving factor,” Stallings said. And, he said, once a sex offender, always a sex offender.

Physical abuse, is slightly different, DeSantis said. In his opinion, the abuser can learn to redirect anger and others improve through counseling, but the ten-

dency to re-abuse is always there.

The investigators say they believe actual instances of abuse, like rapes, are severely underreported.

DeSantis said things are changing. This generation is more likely to report abuse because of education and an openness to talk about it.

Legally any person or institution who has cause to suspect a child has been abused or neglected is obligated to report that to Social Services.

“People should be aware of what’s going on around them. The smallest thing a child might say may indicate possible abuse,” DeSantis said.

Contact reporter Shavonne Potts at 704-797-4253.

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payments are stopped could recover the money later if legislators and Perdue later agree to change the eligibility formula.

GOP leaders said they combined the two issues to ensure that schools, state agencies and contractors know how much state spending they could count on if budget negotiations drag beyond the start of the new budget year.

“We ratified a bill that appropriates about $18 billion (after July) and provides continuity for teachers, state employees and those on unemployment insurance,” House Majority Leader Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake, said after Saturday’s four-minute House meeting.

Senate leader Phil Berger said Perdue should be ashamed of her decision.

“Republicans voted to extend unemployment benefits and prevent a government shutdown, but the governor is too addicted to state spending to support either of those efforts,” Berger, R-Rockingham, said in a statement.

Perdue’s decision means Debra Koonts, 55, and Charles Koonts, 51, of Lexington will

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Perdue’s announcement came PERDUE hours after a handful of House members met to start the clock on a choice the Democratic governor had to make before authorization for the federally funded jobless benefits ran out later Saturday.

The legislation changed a formula for calculating unemployment benefits that would have allowed the federally funded program to continue for people out of work for up to 99 weeks. But poison-pill language added by Republican lawmakers would have forced the Democratic governor to also accept a 13 percent cut from the spending plan she proposed as a starting point for negotiations over the budget year starting in July.

Perdue had called the linkage extortion.

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KANNAPOLIS — Sharon Baker read about the Center for the Environment’s EnviroMingle at the Old Cabarrus Bank Building in Kannapolis and traveled from Richmond, Va., Thursday to attend. “It’s wonderful that there is an organization working to make people aware of the importance of supporting our local farmers and clean air and organic gardening,� she said. “We should all be working together to do what we can to make people aware of what’s happening with our earth and what we can do to live sustainably.�

Baker, who works for a company that helps local farmers, did her part to help improve air quality by riding a train to the event. “It’s very affordable,� she said, “and you can work and read, and I know I’m doing it for the environment.�

Dr. John Wear, director of the Center for the Environment at Catawba College, welcomed everyone to the ecofriendly mingling and networking event and thanked them for their support of the Center. Wear spoke highly of Kannapolis. “There’s so much going on here,� he said. “Every one of us in here shares common values.�

Other staff members were on hand to talk about the Center’s programs, causes and events.

Many of the people at the EnviroMingle had a specific interest in the environment.

Others were there to learn more.

Tamera Ann Waller-Drye, a licensed massage/bodywork therapist, heard about the EnviroMingle through her membership with the Kannapolis Business Alliance. She picked up some Center for the Envi-

ronment newsletters to take home and read, saying “I want to learn more about what I can do to help.�

David Cooper of Harrisburg said the EnviroMingle was right up his alley as he’s an organic farmer. “I hate pesticides,� he said, adding that he even refuses to walk down aisles with pesticides at stores.

Cooper said he was excited to learn about the Center for the Environment. “I didn’t know there was anything like it out there,� he said. “I’m going to stay in touch with this group.�

Shannon Johnson, sustainable local economy project manager for Concord, said she was pleased to see such a diverse group turn out for the EnviroMingle. “That’s always refreshing at this type of event,� she said.

After reading about how the Center for the Environment helped with China Grove Middle School’s successful no idling project for parents dropping off and picking up children, Johnson said she helped get one started at her child’s charter school in Harrisburg.

David Miller, president of the Kannapolis Business Alliance, said last year’s EnviroMingle was also well attended. “A lot of it has to do with the impact the Center for the Environment has in our community,� he said. “They do such a phenomenal job at what they do. When they show up, people show up because they are respected by the community, especially the business community.�

Miller said the alliance plans to hold its third EnviroMingle next year.

Miller said there is a lot of concern about the environment in Kannapolis, particularly the area’s poor air quality.

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Wild weather doesn’t deter runners for Fit Community 10K When most runners and volunteers awoke Saturday morning, many thought of just rolling over and catching some more sleep.

Heavy rain and wind gusts made the pre-dawn hours daunting for those who later would brave the rolling streets of Salisbury for the Inaugural Fit Community 10K. There was a 5K Health Walk and a Fun Run to accompany the longer race.

Those hearty runners who came out for the race seemed to really enjoy the morning, and the accompanying break in the weather. Precipitation was reduced to a scattered drizzle and light rain, and only an occasional gust of wind hampered the participants.

Race activities were headquartered at the City Park building on Lake Drive where displays from sponsors, as well as food and drink, welcomed runners and volunteers.

The Fit Community 10K was a cooperation between many Salisbury organizations that endorse a healthy and active lifestyle.

The city of Salisbury, Salisbury Parks and Recreation Department, Rowan Regional Medical Center, Catawba College, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Sportrax, Rowan Partnership for Community Health, Earth Grains and Sara Lee, State Employees’ Credit Union, Salisbury Academy, Whimziggy and the Salisbury Rowan Runners sponsored and promoted the event.

The course highlighted the North Main area and the Salisbury Greenway system.

Josh Readling from Salisbury was the overall winner as he covered the 6.2 mile route in 38 minutes and 44 seconds.

Readling had tested the course earlier in the week and found it challenging.

Several short but significant hills dominated the first two miles of the course, but Readling said, “The course was great, but the wind and the rain were tough.�

Runners felt the breeze as a headwind as they climbed Mocksville and West Henderson after passing the 5 mile mark, but were soon rewarded with a long downhill and flat finish on Confederate, Clubhouse and Annadale.

Salisbury has numerous races each year, but this was the first 10K in 15 years.

The longer distance and hills were welcomed by Aileen Visser of Advance and first overall female. Visser is a wellness coach at the Davie County YMCA in Mocksville.

She just completed recovery from foot surgery and wanted to challenge herself on the rolling course.

Visser led the whole way, and took advantage of the hills to widen her gap over other contenders. “I had been looking for a good 10K, and really enjoyed this one. I give glory to God for healing and my ability today,� Visser said.

Her time was 51 minutes and 27 seconds.

J.T. Bumgarner won the Fun Run in a time of 9 minutes and 10 seconds.

Race director Elaney Hasselmann from the city of Salisbury thanked all the volun-

teers and volunteer coordinator Rob Holmes. “We expected problems based on the early weather conditions, but our volunteers turned out and did their jobs.

Street corners and turns were monitored throughout the route by the Salisbury Police Department and our volunteers. They did a great job.

Rob made sure that volunteers were placed correctly and even brought many of them ponchos to wear. Our PD is awesome, and our appreciation goes out to all of them,�

Hasselmann said Race proceeds will go to Rowan County Relay for Life.

Long time Relay volunteer Tisha Goodwin worked one of the water stops, and enjoyed the morning’s activities. “We have several other activities going on today, but the runners and volunteers here are helping a great cause.

Thanks to everyone involved,�

Goodwin said.

Local runners were glad to see a 10K again in the area. In the 1980s and early ’90s, 10Ks were abundant and nearly as popular as the shorter 5Ks. Ben Harrison of Salisbury was especially glad to participate in the more challenging distance. “I had been looking to run some longer races. This was fun and it’s going to help me in my training,� Harrison said.

Hasselmann, who is leaving her job at Salisbury Parks and Recreation to join the city of Salisbury on Monday, was instrumental in the success of the event.

She gave credit to Amy Smith, Rowan County Wellness Coordinator, and Janet

Gapen, city of Salisbury planner, for their work on the Fit Community Committee. “Thanks to the many volunteers and staff who contributed countless hours of preparation for this event.

The Fit Community 10K was a great success despite the curveballs that Mother Nature threw at us. Overall the runners enjoyed the race and we were able to raise money for a good cause. That is all that really matters,� Hasselmann said.

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SALISBURY — Pansy Hampton Overcash Hinson, 82, passed away Friday evening, April 15, 2011, at the Lutheran Home at Trinity Oaks.

Born August 29, 1928 in Stanly County, she was the daughter of the late David Samuel and Ida Furr Hampton. Educated in the Rowan County schools, Pansy was a 1945 graduate of Rockwell High School, a graduate of Salisbury Business College and retired after many years of service as office manager with Premtec, Inc. A former member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, she was a faithful and loyal member of Grace Lutheran Church, where she was active in many church functions and organizations, and had been awarded life membership of the Grace Women of ELCA. She had also been proudly active in the Women's Auxillary and American Legion.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Leland Richard Overcash, her second husband, Richard "Chub" Hinson and her son, Donald R. "Don" Overcash.

Family members left to cherish her memory include her daughter, Karen Freedle and husband, Darrell of Lexington; daughter-in-law, Jane Edwards and husband, Jeff of Salisbury; sister, Carrie Brown of Rockwell; grandchildren, Amanda Reece and husband, Jake of High Point, Kyle Freedle, of Lexington, Chase Overcash and wife, Ashley of Salisbury and Luke Overcash; and great-grandchildren, Charlie Reece and Victoria Overcash.

Visitation & Funeral Services: The family will receive friends Monday 2-3 p.m. with the funeral service 3 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, conducted by the Rev. Jerome Cloninger, Pastor. Burial will follow in West Lawn Memorial Park.

Memorials: May be made to Grace Lutheran Church, 3020 Grace Church Rd., Salisbury, NC 28147.

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Kingsport, Tenn. — Mr. James Michael (Mike) Steele, 65, of Kingsport, Tenn., formerly of Spencer, went to be with his Lord on Thursday, April 14, 2011, at Carolinas Medical CenterNorthEast in Concord, following an illness of several weeks.

Born June 1, 1945 in Rowan County, he was the son of the late Louise DeBoe Steele and E.W. Steele. He was educated in Rowan County and set numerous football rushing records at the newly created North Rowan High School in the early 1960's, and was featured recently in a Legends article in the Salisbury Post. He was awarded a scholarship and graduated from North Carolina State University where he was a member of the '65 Wolfpack team that had recently been belatedly declared champions of the ACC for that year.

Mike operated a sporting goods store in Salisbury in the 70's and later held management posts at Food Lion, Wal-Mart and Harris Teeter before retiring in 2003. Mike was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle and had a jovial spirit about him. In recent years, he was honored to be on the board of Mustard Seed Ministries of Kingsport, Tenn.

He became passionate about making and distributing his carved, wooden cross pendants as his special outreach ministry all over the world.

Survivors include his wife, Sally Lebair Steele; daughters, Jamie (Kevin) Pruitt of China Grove, Christie (Dan) Page of Kingsport, Tenn., and Heather (Robert) Greenleaf of Scott Depot, W.Va.; step-sons, Samuel Lebair of Kingsport, Tenn., and Harry Lebair of Memphis, Tenn.; and step-daughter Lisa Lebair of Asheville; sister, Betty S. Morgan of China Grove; nieces, Jodie (Michael) Conway of Salisbury, and Jennifer (Kirk) Hall, of China Grove; grandchildren, Sarah and Zachary Pruitt, MacKenzie Greenleaf, Daniel and Sydney Page; as well as step-grandchildren, Simon and Sally Lebair; great-nephew, Aidan Hall and great-niece, Ella Conway; and his beloved dachshund, Bacall.

Services: Mr. Steele will be cremated. The family will receive friends beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 23, at Colonial Heights Christian Church, 105 Meadow Lane, Kingsport, Tenn. 37663 and a memorial service will follow at 3 p.m. at the church.

Memorials: Mustard Seed Ministries, 214 East Wanola Ave., Kingsport, TN 37660. Web: mustardseedkingsport.org.

Lady's Funeral Home & Crematory is serving the Steele family.

SALISBURY — Homer Laverne Kepley, 87, of Salisbury, died Monday, April 11, 2011, at his home.

Born Aug. 30, 1923, in Rowan County, he was the son of the late Jacob Wesley and Annie Belle Cranford Kepley.

Educated in the Rowan County schools, Mr. Kepley was a salesman for Thomas & Howard Company for over 42 years before retiring in 1988.

He was a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Andrew Jackson Masonic Lodge 576, AF&AM and Scottish Rites.

Those left to cherish his memory are his wife of 66 years, Ella Marie Beeker Kepley, whom he married Nov. 25, 1944; daughters Jewell Broadway and husband Gerald of Salisbury and Phyllis Shepherd and husband Noel of Charlotte; brother Billie Eugene Kepley and wife Kathleen of Salisbury; grandchildren Candice Teuber and husband Peter, Kendra Meacham and husband Michael and Stephanie Broadway; and seven great-grandchildren.

Service and Visitation: A memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Tuesday (April 19) at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Frederick Clarkson, minister, and the Rev. Craig Sigmon, minister of St. James Lutheran Church, Rockwell, officiating.

Interment will be at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Cemetery.

The family will receive friends following the service at the church.

Memorials: May be made to St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 4401 Statesville Blvd., Salisbury, NC 28147; St. James Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 486, Rockwell, NC 28138; or Newell Baptist Church, 9115 Newell Baptist Church Road, Charlotte, NC 28213.

Summersett Funeral Home is assisting the family with funeral arrangements.

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SALISBURY — Glenda Dale Carlton Smith, 65, passed away Friday morning, April 15, 2011 at her residence following a period of illness.

Born Dec. 22, 1945 in Rowan County, she was the daughter of the late Eddie Lee and Garnet Smith Carlton.

A 1964 graduate of South Rowan High, Glenda was of the Christian faith, loved her family and friends, had been a faithful employee of McKenzie Taxidermy and was owner of Goodtimes Lounge for several years.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son, Derrick Ray Driver and a sister, Norma Lee Carlton Kimball.

She is survived by her husband, Edward M. "Will" Smith, Jr. whom she married March 17, 1999; daughters, Kristie Berrier Motley and husband, Todd and Gabrielle Marie Royal, both of Salisbury; step-daughter, Carolyn McElhaney and husband, Virgil of Nebr.; daughter-in-law, Matilda Scully of San Antonio, Tex.; brothers, Larry Carlton and wife, Betty of Advance, Phillip Carlton and wife, Polly of Salisbury and Buck Carlton and wife, Jackie of Winston-Salem; her sister, Ovella Carlton Turner and husband, Frank of Statesville, Ga.; her much loved grandchildren, Bransyn and Sierra Motley of Salisbury, Joe Edward Medlin, San Antonio, Tex., Alexus and Seth McElhaney of Nebr.; and her great-grandson, Joey Medlin of San Antonio, Tex. Visitation: The family will receive friends Monday, April 18, 11-12:30 p.m. at Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home in China Grove, and will be at the residence at other times.

Funeral: A graveside service will begin 1 p.m. Monday at Brookhill Memorial Gardens in Rockwell, conducted by the Rev. Chris O'Guin, Senior Pastor, North Kannapolis Baptist Church.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1901 Brunswick Drive, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28207 or Hospice and Palliative Care of Cabarrus County, 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28210.

On-line condolences may be made at www.linnhoneycuttfuneralhome.com Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home in China Grove is serving the Smith family.

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Donald Monroe Shue KANNAPOLIS — SPC. Donald Monroe Shue, age 20, died in battle during the Vietnam Conflict on Nov. 3, 1969. He had been missing in action for 41 years.

Born Aug. 29, 1949, in Cabarrus County, he was the son of the late Wesley Monroe Shue and Nellie Mae Lefler Shue. He attended A.L. Brown High School in Kannapolis. Donald entered the United States Army in 1967, where he served one tour of duty until his untimely death.

His family fondly remembers his friendly ways, always loving to smile, and the vast number of friends he easily made throughout his short life. His sister, Peggy S. Hinson reflected on the following comments about him. "Donnie would always come to us for money always smiling with his hand out - Now who could ever turn that down?? If I could only do that again.

The first thing I thought about when they told us they found Donnie's remains was, The 'Lord' told us that 'He' would bring him home - not our time, but in 'His' time. God didn't say he would be alive or dead, but this 'word of knowledge' was true and did come to pass after 41 years. Praise the Lord for 'His' word never fails!!! And with Donnie's Daddy, Mama, Billy, and Helen looking down at all of us at this memorial in honor of their son and brother. Also in honor of 'the Green Beret's, the MAC V SOG, and all our veterans that paid a huge price for our freedom."

In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by a sister, Helen B. Blackwelder and a brother, Billy James Shue, who died of diphtheria at age 10.

Survivors include his 3 sisters, Betty S. Jones and Peggy S. Hinson, both of Kannapolis, and Nancy S. Hinson of Monroe; and two nephews, Micky B. Jones and Harold H. Hinson.

Funeral & Burial Services: A funeral service to celebrate his life will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at Whitley's Funeral Home Main Chapel, 1748 Dale Earnhardt Blvd., Kannapolis, officiated by a United States Army Chaplain. Burial will follow at Carolina Memorial Park, Kannapolis, with full military honors provided by the United States Army. His body will lie in state 4-6 p.m., Saturday, April 30, at Whitley's Funeral Home and on Sunday, May 1, until the time of the service.

Memorials: May be made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, P.O. Box 13483, Tampa, FL 33681-3483 or the Rolling Thunder, Chapter 2 NC or the Patriot Guard at the following address, P.O. Box 7171, Statesville, NC 28677.

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- Army Spc. Keith T. Buzinski, 26, of Daytona Beach, Fla., died April 7 in Logar province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire.

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- Army Sgt. Jose M. Caraballo Pietri, 32, of Yauco, Puerto Rico, died April 10 in Badghis province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire.

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SALISBURY — Robie Lee McBride, Sr., 60, went home to be with his Heavenly Father on Friday, April 15, 2011.

He died unexpectedly at his home.

Born Jan. 7, 1951 in Rowan County, he was the son of Katherine (Kat) Foster McBride of Linwood and the late Willie (Nick) Lee McBride.

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Graveside Service: 11 a.m.

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Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Rowan Regional Hospice, 720 Grove Street, Salisbury, NC 28144.

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Gadhafi forces bombard rebel city Obama: GOP budget ‘wrong for America’

Raul Castro gives harsh economic talk HAVANA (AP) — President Raul Castro drew a line in the Caribbean sand across which Cuba’s economic reforms must never go, telling delegates to a key Communist Party summit on Saturday that he has rejected dozens of suggested reforms that would have allowed the concentration of property in private hands.

But he also strongly backed a lineup of economic changes which together represent a sea change for Cuba’s socialist system, including the eventual elimination of the ration book and other subsidies, the decentralization of the economy and a new reliance on supply and demand in some sectors.

In a long speech, Castro said the country had ignored its problems for too long. He made clear Cuba had to make tough decisions if it wanted to survive.

“No country or person can spend more than they have,” Castro said. “Two plus two is four. Never five, much less six or seven — as we have sometimes pretended.”

Dressed in a white guayabera shirt and speaking forcefully to 1,000 delegates at a cavernous Havana convention center, the Cuban leader alternated between reassurance that the economic changes were compatible with socialism, and a brutal assessment of what has not worked in the past.

Emergency rule may end in Syria BEIRUT (AP) — Bowing to pressure from a popular uprising, Syria’s president promised Saturday to end nearly 50 years of emergency rule this coming week but coupled his concession with a stern warning — that further unrest will be considered sabotage.

The protest movement has been steadily growing over the past four weeks, posing a serious challenge to the 40year ruling dynasty of President Bashar Assad and his father before him. A Britishtrained eye doctor who inherited power 11 years ago, Assad acknowledged Saturday that Syrians have legitimate grievances.

But he warned there will no longer be “an excuse” for organizing protests once Syria lifts emergency rule and implements a spate of reforms, which he said will include a new law allowing the formation of political parties.

“After that, we will not tolerate any attempt at sabotage,” Assad said in a televised meeting with his Cabinet.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets before and after Assad’s speech in a sign that his promises were unlike-

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Libyan rebel fighters load a truck with ammunition. ly to appease a movement that night’s concert. has grown bolder in demanding sweeping changes. More Experts: Mothers kill than 200 people have been killed over the past four more often thought NEW YORK (AP) — “How weeks as security forces tried to crush the protests using could she?”

It’s the headline du jour live ammunition, tear gas and whenever a horrific case batons. emerges of a mother killing her kids, as Lashanda ArmAnother air traffic strong did when she piled her controller sleeping children into her minivan and WASHINGTON (AP) — drove straight into the frigid Another case of an air traffic Hudson River. controller falling asleep on Shock at such stories is unduty — this time in Miami — derstandable: They seem to go prompted the Federal Avia- against everything we intution Administration on Satur- itively feel about the motherday to acknowledge it has a child bond. widespread problem with faBut mothers kill their chiltigue and to institute changes dren in this country much in controllers’ work sched- more often than most people ules. would realize by simply read“We are taking important ing the headlines; by consersteps today that will make a vative estimates it happens real difference in fighting air every few days, at least 100 traffic controller fatigue. But times a year. Experts say we know we will need to do more mothers than fathers kill more. This is just the begin- their children under 5 years ning,” FAA Administrator of age. And some say our reRandy Babbitt said in a state- luctance as a society to bement. lieve mothers would be capaOn Monday, Babbitt and ble of killing their offspring is Paul Rinaldi, president of the hindering our ability to recogNational Air Traffic Con- nize warning signs, intervene trollers Association, will be- and prevent more tragedies. gin visiting air traffic control And so the problem refacilities to hear what con- mains. trollers have to say and to remind them that sleeping on Martha Stewart touts the job won’t be tolerated.

Their first stop is Atlanta, hard work in speech HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) — home of the world’s busiest Martha Stewart tells graduairport.

The latest sleeping incident ates from a New York culi— the fifth to be disclosed by nary school that the keys to FAA since late March — oc- success are generosity, pascurred just before 5 a.m. Sat- sion and hard work.

The homemaking maven urday morning at a busy regional radar facility that han- gave the commencement addles high altitude air traffic dress Friday at the Culinary for much of Florida, portions Institute of America in Hyde of the Atlantic Ocean and the Park.

The institute gave the 69Caribbean Sea. According to a preliminary year-old Stewart an award review of air traffic tapes, the called Master of Aesthetics of controller did not miss any Gastronomy, along with an ofcalls from aircraft and there ficial chef’s jacket.

She told students that many was no impact on flight operations, the FAA said. The con- people don’t know how much troller, who was working an hard work it takes to build a overnight shift, has been sus- business, but that any good idea is only as good as the efpended. fort behind it.

About 80 graduates reSuicide attack kills 5 ceived degrees in baking, pasNATO troops, 4 Afghans try and culinary arts. Hyde KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Park is about 90 miles north — Like hundreds of thousands of New York City. of Afghan men, he volunteered in the national army, Man kills wife, 3 kids ran drills in the mud, carried an automatic rifle, and worked in Ohio farm house OAK HARBOR, Ohio (AP) alongside coalition mentors struggling against a hardcore — A part-time farmer told a 911 dispatcher that he killed insurgency.

But he was not one of them. his wife and three young chilOn Saturday, he walked dren and was “getting ready into a meeting of NATO train- to kill myself” inside their ers and Afghan troops at For- farmhouse on land tended by ward Operating Base Gam- his family for at least four beri in the eastern province of generations.

His grandmother, who Laghman and detonated a vest of explosives hidden under- lives just steps away, watched through her blinds as deputies neath his uniform.

Five NATO troopers, four swarmed around the house.

Afghan soldiers and an inter- She desperately tried to reach preter were killed in the dead- 31-year-old Alan Atwater by phone just after midnight on liest sleeper agent assault.

Four Afghan soldiers and Saturday after hearing on a three interpreters were police scanner that her grandwounded in Saturday’s attack. son had shot everyone inside.

She then went to the home Philly Orchestra board with the sheriff in hopes they alive.

OKs Chapter 11 filing were “They were all gone,” said PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joan Atwater.

The world-renowned PhiladelDeputies in northern Ohio phia Orchestra will be filing said the bodies of Atwater and for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the rest of the family were found together with gunshot protection.

Orchestra board chairman wounds in an upstairs bedRichard Worley says the deci- room. The youngest, 1-yearsion was made after an emo- old Brady, was in a bed. The tional meeting of the board other children, Ashley, 4, and Saturday. Officials say they’ll Isaac, 2, were found on the make the filing in a federal floor near their mother, Dawn, bankruptcy court in Philadel- 30.

The only hint of trouble phia.

Worley says the orchestra came recently when Atwater is running low on cash and has confided in Joan Atwater’s been running a deficit. But of- husband that he and his wife ficials say concerts and busi- of five years were having ness operations will continue, marital problems.

It was nothing, though, that and a fundraising campaign is planned to try to save the 111- caused any alarm, Joan Atwayear-old orchestra, tradition- ter said.

Atwater had no criminal ally considered one of the best record, and the Ottawa Counin the nation.

Orchestra musicians who ty Sheriff’s office wasn’t object to a bankruptcy filing aware of any disputes bedistributed leaflets to the au- tween Atwater and his wife, a dience before Thursday stay-at-home mother.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is promoting his new deficitreduction plan by drawing sharp contrasts with a House Republican budget that he says offers a vision that “is wrong for America.”

In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama contended that Republicans want to dismantle venerable safety net programs and cut taxes for the wealthy at the expense of students paying for college and older adults relying on Medicare.

“To restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice, but we don’t have to sacrifice the America we believe in,” Obama said.

The criticism echoed his speech Wednesday in which he outlined a $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan over 12 years. It’s a goal, he said, that he can achieve through spending cuts, changes in government health care programs and tax increases.

Obama’s message represents his clearest attempt to place ideological distance with Republicans after months spent negotiating a compromise six-month spending bill that trimmed more than $38 billion from the government. Obama signed that legislation Friday.

Obama plans to continue his plan’s pitch throughout the upcoming week, holding town halls in Northern Virginia Tuesday and in Palo Alto, Calif., and Reno, Nev., later in the week.

While Obama tries to cast the debate in his own terms, his attention to fiscal discipline signals a watershed in national politics. After two years devoted to priming an anemic economy with new spending and passing an overhaul of health care, Congress and the White House are beginning a debate about how to tame longterm deficits and a crushing debt of more than $14 trillion.

In the Republicans’ weekly address, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma called that turning point “a monu-

mental shift for Washington.”

Obama said Friday that fundamental questions about how to change benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid or the tax system might have to wait until after the 2012 presidential election.

He said he would have to

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AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s forces poured rocket fire after dawn Saturday into Misrata, the only western city still in rebel hands, and weary residents who have endured more than a month of fighting angrily lashed out at NATO for failing to halt the deadly assault.

Five civilians were killed in a 30-minute barrage of shelling that heavily damaged a factory for dairy products and sent up a thick column of black smoke, a doctor said. A human rights group has accused the Gadhafi regime of using cluster bombs in Misrata — munitions that can cause indiscriminate casualties and have been banned by most countries. The Libyan government and military denied the charge.

In eastern Libya, fierce fighting left seven rebels dead, 27 wounded and four missing as the anti-Gadhafi forces sought to push toward the strategic oil town of Brega, according to Mohammed Idris, a hospital supervisor in the nearby city of Ajdabiya.

The battle took place on a road halfway between Ajdabiya and Brega.

Frustration was growing among residents in Misrata, where Gadhafi’s troops have intensified their long siege of the city in recent days. The doctor sharply criticized NATO for failing to break the assault with its month-old campaign of airstrikes.

“We have not seen any protection of civilians,” the doctor said. “NATO airstrikes are not enough, and the proof is that there are civilians killed every day here,” he said.

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Six horses killed in trailer fire on I-95 ROCKY MOUNT (AP) — Authorities are looking into whether a discarded cigarette from a passing vehicle on Interstate 95 sparked a fire in a trailer that killed six thoroughbred horses.

North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper K.B. Heath said the drivers of a tractor-trailer traveling from Florida to New York pulled the vehicle over after discovering smoke coming

from the trailer Friday evening on I-95.

He said straw and hay inside the trailer ignited and the men were unable to get the horses out. The co-driver of the vehicle suffered minor burns.

Heath said a preliminary investigation indicates the possibility the fire started from a discarded cigarette as no electrical problems with the truck were found.

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Pass the Plate benefits Helping Ministries The fifth annual Pass the Plate event was held Saturday night at the Norvell Theater to raise funds for Rowan Helping Ministries.

More than 100 packages and services were donated for people to bid on during the silent auction.

Items up for bid ranged from artwork to weekend spa treatments.

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Food Lion was the presenting sponsor. Owen and Bo

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Pass the Plate’s goal is to help Rowan Helping Ministries through the next fiscal year. According to Kyna Foster, executive director, it costs $6,300 per day to operate the nonprofit, and at least 45 volunteers each day help to provide services to those in need.

The event raised nearly $100,000 last year. This year’s tally isn’t yet known.

CARY (AP) — Cary is among 22 communities across the country getting a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Ronnie Gallagher, Sports Editor, 704-797-4287 rgallagher@salisburypost.com

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Bostian, Catawba surging

BY DAVID SHAW dshaw@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — There’s a compelling story unfolding at Newman Park this spring, one that is worth a listen.

It begins with Catawba baseball coach Jim Gantt, the 15th-year mentor with 515 career wins printed on the back of his baseball card.

“It has to begin with him,” longtime Tusculum coach Doug Jones insisted prior to Saturday’s rainGANTT delayed doubleheader.

“He does a great job recruiting and he’s probably the best guy in the league in terms of player development. His program has been the model of consistency.”

Indeed, the 2011 Indians are an easy

story to tell. They’re the UPS of the South Atlantic Conference — no tatoos, no wild hair-do’s, no raunchy locker room music.

Just a plainly wrapped package that always delivers on time.

“It’s gonna sound cliche,” Gantt said.

“But these players are doing what they’re capable of. They prepare themselves and then go out and get it done.”

So far they’ve done it extremely well.

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Catawba has run away with the conference reguBOSTIAN lar-season title, the 18th in school history. When junior outfielder Ryan Bostian lined an eighth-inning, run-scoring single to secure a 9-8 win in yesterday’s opener, the 15th-ranked Indians (35-8, 22-4) owned a six-game lead and a season-best, ninegame winning streak.

Win No. 36 came later in the day when Bostian was one of four Indians with two hits in a 6-4 victory.

“That’s the way we are,” said Bostian, a South Rowan graduate. “It doesn’t matter if we’re down or up. We always seem to find a way to win.”

It’s a good thing the word “panic” doesn’t appear in Catawba’s vocabulary. It has made a habit of staging late-inning rallies that leave opponents deflated — and an-

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For all the awards and all the illustrious writings of Mel Durslag, perhaps his most signature accomplishment was to pen columns for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner for an astounding 50 consecutive years.

Durslag was born in Chicago, then found his way to Los Angeles to begin his journalism career in 1939. Every morning for five decades, Durslag greeted sports fans in Los Angeles with his columns Durslag also wrote as a correspondent for The Sporting News from 1950 to 1984, was a writing editor of TV Guide for 30 years and penned articles for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Sports Illustrated and Esquire magazines from 1947 through 1990 Durslag retired in 1991 as a seven-time sportswriter of the year winner in California.

He was inducted into the NSSA Hall of Fame in 1995.

The 52nd NSSA awards weekend will be May 14-16 in Salisbury

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All eyes on Pack’s Glennon

Three ring circus

BY JOEDY MCCREARY Associated Press

RALEIGH — Mike Glennon’s untested arm got quite a workout Saturday at North Carolina State’s spring game.

The heir apparent to Russell Wilson at quarterback threw for 182 yards during the Wolfpack’s final scrimmage of the spring.

Glennon was 21 of 40 for a White team that consisted of the starting offense and the No. 2 defense. Keyed by the firststring defense, the Red won 13-3 in a game shortened to roughly 90 minutes because of severe weather threats.

But the final score was largely irrelevant. With 2010 starter Russell Wilson playing minor league baseball at the other end of the state, all eyes this spring were on the redshirt junior who figures to take his place.

Coach Tom O’Brien has said the team plans to move on without Wilson — who’s playing second base for the Colorado Rockies’ farm team in Asheville — and with Glennon.

“I think I definitely improved as a player, and more importantly, I think all the other guys on the team, I got comfortable with them and they got comfortable with me,” Glennon said. “My goal coming in was to take control of this offense, and I think that’s what I did.”

Terrell Manning returned an interception 53 yards for a touchdown and Tyler Brosius threw a short touchdown pass to Tyler Purvis for the Red. J. Ellis Flint’s 33-yard field goal provided the White’s only points in a scrimmage called with 4:17 left in the third quarter as a severe storm system made it way toward the Raleigh area.

West celebrates a 3rd championship

BY RYAN BISESI rbisesi@salisburypost.com

MOUNT ULLA — Herff-Jones might as well have the ring sizes of the West Rowan football team on file.

Three straight 3A state championships have given West’s players and coaching staff a legion of jewelry, the latest of which was added Saturday night at the school’s ring ceremony for the 2010 championship.

Dubbed “the third annual” championship ring ceremony by athletic director Todd Bell, West’s  Three Salisbury newest ring was teams celebrate with their rings deemed its best.

“This is my favorite,” West coach Scott Young said. “It feels different on your hand and it’s bigger height-wise, if you will.”

West wasn’t afraid of heights in 2010, rising to the occasion time and time again with little hesitation as it marched to another undefeated season.

Forty-six straight wins got the Falcons national notoriety, but their dominance got the ultimate validation with another championship ring.

Departing quarterback B.J. Sherrill prominently displayed all three of his rings on a necklace after the ceremony.

Hey, if you’ve got it, flaunt it.

“They’re all great-looking rings,” said Sherrill, who never lost a game at West.

“Not many people in the entire country, let alone North Carolina, can say they won three consecutive state championships.

It’s a pretty big deal and I’m pretty proud of it. ”

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Quarterback B.J. Sherrill shows off his three title rings. Sherrill was 46-0 as West Rowan’s starter.

Gordon leads Hendrick sweep

Busch wins a wild one

BY PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press

BY PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Kyle Busch won under a yellow flag in a wild finish Saturday, taking the Nationwide race at Talladega Superspeedway when the last of 10 crashes sent Mike Wallace’s car flipping upside down.

Busch captured his fourth win in seven Nationwide races — and 47th of his career — on a day when tandem racing produced a series-record 56 lead changes, 11 cautions and two red flags to clean up all the debris.

Even Busch got caught up in the mayhem. He spun out in the biggest crash of

the day, a 21-car melee just 28 laps from the scheduled finish of the Aaron’s 312.

Busch drove his battered Toyota onto pit road and figured he was done for the day. Instead, his crew patched up the damage, yanked off the pieces they couldn’t fix and sent him back onto the track without losing a lap.

He hooked with Joey Logano in a powerful duo, somehow finding a narrow gap to get past leader Trevor Bayne and his pusher, Carl Edwards, on the second attempt at a green-white-checkered finish.

Bayne and Edwards didn’t have a chance at payback. When Wallace’s car

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drivers Mike Bliss (19) and Joey Lagano (20) collide in Turn 1.

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Jeff Gordon put himself in select company. So did Rick Hendrick.

Too bad they didn’t get there a little faster.

Gordon won his 70th career pole Saturday and led a Hendrick Motorsports sweep of the top four spots at Talladega Superspeedway — only the third team in NASCAR history to monopolize the first two rows for a Cup race.

Gordon turned a two-lap

qualifying average of 178.248 mph for the Aaron’s 499. He broke a tie for third place on the career list with Cale Yarborough and trails only Richard Petty (123) and David Pearson (113).

As for Hendrick, he joined Pete DePaolo (Charlotte, 1956) and Jack Roush (California, 2005) as the only car owners to have the four fastest cars in qualifying for a top-division race. Jimmie Johnson claimed the outside of the front row with a speed of 177.844, with Mark Martin (177.807) and

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TV Sports Sunday, April 17 AUTO RACING Noon FoX — nAsCAR, sprint Cup, Aaron’s 499, at talladega, Ala. BOWLING 1 p.m. espn — pbA, dick Weber playoffs, championship round, at indianapolis COLLEGE BASEBALL 1 p.m. espn2 — Vanderbilt at south Carolina COLLEGE SOFTBALL 4 p.m. espn — oklahoma at missouri GOLF 1 p.m. nbC — Champions tour, outback steakhouse pro-Am, final round, at lutz, Fla. tGC — pGA tour, texas open, final round, at san Antonio 3 p.m.

Cbs — pGA tour, texas open, final round, at san Antonio 7 p.m. tGC — nationwide tour, Fresh express Classic, final round, at hayward, Calif.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. tbs — toronto at boston 3 p.m.

WGn — Chicago Cubs at Colorado 8 p.m. espn — texas at n.y. yankees NBA BASKETBALL 1 p.m. tnt — playoffs, first round, game 1, memphis at san Antonio 3:30 p.m.

AbC — playoffs, first round, game 1, new orleans at l.A. lakers 7 p.m. tnt — playoffs, first round, game 1, new york at boston 9:30 p.m. tnt — playoffs, first round, game 1, denver at oklahoma City NHL HOCKEY 3 p.m. nbC — playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Washington at n.y. Rangers 6 p.m.

VeRsus — playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Anaheim at nashville 8 p.m.

VeRsus — playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Vancouver at Chicago

Area schedule Sunday, April 17 INTIMIDATORS BASEBALL 5:05 p.m. hickory Crawdads at Kannapolis COLLEGE SOFTBALL 1 p.m. lincoln memorial at Catawba (dh)

College baseball Standings SAC SAC Overall *Catawba 23-4 36-8 17-10 30-20 *Wingate *tusculum 16-11 31-14 *lincoln memorial 16-11 28-20 15-12 20-26 *Carson-newman *newberry 14-13 22-25 mars hill 10-15 21-25 10-17 19-30 Anderson lenoir-Rhyne 6-18 12-33 brevard 5-21 13-28 *top 6 qualify for league tournament in Forest City.

Saturday’s games lenoir-Rhyne at mars hill (dh), ppd. newberry 15, Anderson 4 Anderson 6, newberry 5 Wingate 24, brevard 4 Wingate 11, brevard 0 Catawba 9, tusculum 8 Catawba 6, tusculum 4 lincoln memorial 20, Carson-newman 3 Carson-newman 6, lincoln memorial 5

ACC Atlantic ACC Overall 10-7 25-10 Florida state Clemson 9-9 22-13 n.C. state 7-10 20-16 6-11 13-20 boston College Wake Forest 6-11 14-22 maryland 3-13 16-19 Coastal Virginia 14-2 34-3 miami 12-3 23-11 13-4 26-10 Georgia tech north Carolina 12-5 30-7 duke 4-12 20-17 4-13 19-17 Virginia tech Saturday’s games Florida state 15, Virginia tech 11 Clemson 7, boston College 5 Clemson 9. boston College 2 Wake Forest 6, Georgia tech 4 n.C. state 8, north Carolina 7 Sunday’s games miami at maryland (dh) Florida state at Virginia tech duke at Virginia (dh) north Carolina at n.C. state Georgia tech at Wake Forest

Prep baseball Standings 1A Yadkin Valley Overall YVC south stanly 11-2 12-4 north moore 10-2 12-3 10-2 12-4 North Rowan Albemarle 8-6 9-7 West montgomery 7-6 7-9 4-7 8-8 east montgomery Chatham Central 4-8 4-11 south davidson 2-11 3-13 0-12 0-13 Gray stone Friday’s game north Rowan 15, Albemarle 6 Monday’s game Albemarle at north moore Tuesday’s games south stanly at Chatham Central Gray stone at Albemarle north Rowan at West montgomery south davidson at east montgomery

2A Central Carolina CCC Overall West davidson 5-1 11-5 Central davidson 4-2 10-4 Salisbury 4-2 9-5 east davidson 4-2 9-7 thomasville 1-5 1-11 lexington 0-6 2-13 Friday’s games Central davidson 10, thomasville 4 West davidson 16, salisbury 3 (6 inns.) east davidson 13, lexington 0 Monday’s game Glenn at east davidson Tuesday’s games salisbury at Central davidson thomasville at east davidson lexington at West davidson

3A North Piedmont NPC Overall East Rowan 9-1 13-4 West iredell 8-2 9-5 Carson 8-3 11-6 South Rowan 5-4 8-7 north iredell 3-7 5-7 West Rowan 2-8 3-15 statesville 0-10 0-17 Friday’s games east Rowan 10, West Rowan 0 Carson 8, south Rowan 5 north iredell 12, statesville 2 lake norman 7, West iredell 2 Tuesday’s games statesville at south Rowan West iredell at Carson mount tabor at West Rowan east Rowan at north iredell

3A South Piedmont SPC Overall nW Cabarrus 11-1 14-3 Robinson 9-3 11-6 hickory Ridge 8-4 11-7 mount pleasant 7-5 10-6 Central Cabarrus 5-7 9-8 Cox mill 4-8 8-10 Concord 3-9 6-11 A.L. Brown 1-11 2-17 Friday’s games nW Cabarrus 13, A.l. brown 2 hickory Ridge 11, Concord 0 mount pleasant 9, Robinson 0

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SCOREBOARD Central Cabarrus 9, Cox mill 2 Monday’s games Robinson at hickory Ridge A.l. brown at Concord nW Cabarrus at mooresville Central Cabarrus at mount pleasant Tuesday’s game Cox mill at nW Cabarrus

4A Central Piedmont Overall CPC Davie County 7-1 14-2 north davidson 6-2 11-4 5-3 13-4 West Forsyth mount tabor 2-5 4-11 R.J. Reynolds 2-5 10-8 1-7 9-7 Reagan Friday’s games davie 14, north davidson 1 West Forsyth 9, Reagan 2 R.J. Reynolds at mount tabor Monday’s games north surry at Reagan east Rowan at Forsyth County day Tuesday’s games West Forsyth at st. stephens mount tabor at West Rowan

Prep soccer Standings 1A Yadkin Valley Overall YVC east montgomery 12-0 12-0 Gray stone 9-1-1 9-3-1 6-3-2 6-4-2 north moore North Rowan 6-5 7-7 Albemarle 5-5-1 6-6-1 3-8-1 3-8-1 south stanly West montgomery 3-8 3-8 south davidson 1-7 1-12 1-8-1 1-9-1 Chatham Central Monday’s games east montgomery at south stanly Chatham Central at Gray stone north moore at south davidson Albemarle at north Rowan Tuesday’s games north moore at north Rowan Albemarle at West montgomery

2A Central Carolina CCC Overall 6-0 11-0-2 Salisbury Central davidson 4-2 13-3 east davidson 4-2 6-4-4 2-3 9-6 West davidson thomasville 1-4 4-5-1 lexington 0-6 7-7 Monday’s games salisbury at Central davidson thomasville at east davidson Tuesday’s game ledford at salisbury

3A North Piedmont NPC Overall West Rowan 9-0 13-1 7-1 11-2-1 statesville West iredell 6-3 10-6 north iredell 2-5 4-6 2-5 3-9 East Rowan Carson 2-8 4-11 South Rowan 0-6 2-11 Friday’s game West iredell 2, north iredell 1 Monday’s games statesville at West Rowan south Rowan at West iredell Cox mill at Carson Tuesday’s game lake norman at north iredell

Prep softball Standings 1A Yadkin Valley YVC Overall 12-0 14-1 south stanly Chatham Central 7-1 7-2 North Rowan 7-3 8-4 4-5 6-7 east montgomery Gray stone 4-5 4-6 West montgomery 4-6 6-8 north moore 3-6 5-8 2-6 2-8 Albemarle south davidson 0-11 1-13 Friday’s games south stanly 9, east montgomery 8 south davidson at north moore north Rowan 15, Albemarle 5 Gray stone at Chatham Central Monday’s games north stanly vs. Albemarle Gray stone at east montgomery south davidson at trinity West stanly at south stanly Tuesday’s games Chatham Central at south stanly Albemarle at Gray stone West montgomery at north Rowan east montgomery at south davidson

3A North Piedmont NPC Overall 8-0 13-1 East Rowan north iredell 7-2 10-4 West iredell 4-4 5-6 4-4 5-8 Carson West Rowan 3-5 5-7 South Rowan 2-5 3-9 0-8 0-8 statesville Friday’s games West Rowan 8, east Rowan 0 north iredell def. statesville Monday’s games nW Cabarrus at West Rowan north iredell at lake norman Tuesday’s games east Rowan at north iredell south Rowan at statesville West iredell at Carson

Minor leagues South Atlantic Northern Division W L Pct. GB Kannapolis (White sox) 7 2 .778 — hagerstown (nationals) 6 3 .667 1 6 4 .600 11⁄2 hickory (Rangers) 1 delmarva (orioles) 5 5 .500 2 ⁄2 lakewood (phillies) 4 4 .500 21⁄2 3 West Virginia (pirates) 4 5 .444 Greensboro (marlins) 3 7 .300 41⁄2 Southern Division W L Pct. GB Asheville (Rockies) 6 4 .600 — Greenville (Red sox) 6 4 .600 — Charleston (yankees) 5 5 .500 1 lexington (Astros) 5 5 .500 1 1 savannah (mets) 4 5 .444 1 ⁄2 Augusta (Giants) 3 7 .300 3 Rome (braves) 3 7 .300 3 Saturday’s Games lexington 13, Asheville 7 savannah 6, Greenville 5, 14 innings lakewood at hagerstown, ppd., rain delmarva 6, Greensboro 5 hickory 9, Kannapolis 5 West Virginia 8, Augusta 5 Charleston, s.C. 6, Rome 3 Sunday’s Games lakewood at hagerstown, 1:05 p.m., 1st game lexington at Asheville, 2:05 p.m.

Greenville at savannah, 2:05 p.m.

West Virginia at Augusta, 2:05 p.m. lakewood at hagerstown, 3:35 p.m., 2nd game delmarva at Greensboro, 4 p.m.

Rome at Charleston, s.C., 5:05 p.m. hickory at Kannapolis, 5:05 p.m.

ML Baseball Late Friday Tigers 8, Athletics 4 (10) Detroit

Oakland

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ton (6). hr—mi.cabrera (5). sb—Crisp (6).

Cs—pennington (2). s—santiago.

IP H R ER BB SO Detroit porcello 6 7 1 1 1 4 Alburquerque 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 schlereth 3 3 3 0 0 Villarreal W,1-0 2⁄3 benoit 1 1 0 0 0 0 Oakland 2 6 0 0 1 7 mcCarthy 6 ⁄3 breslow h,11⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 balfour h,3 1 2 6 4 3 1 Fuentes l,0-2 1 ⁄3 2 ⁄3 2 2 1 0 0 Ziegler Alburquerque pitched to 1 batter in the 9th. Villarreal pitched to 3 batters in the 10th. t—3:28. A—21,853 (35,067).

Cardinals 11, Dodgers 2 St. Louis ab theriot ss 6 Rasms cf 5 pujols 1b 5 hollidy lf 5 motte p 0 brkmn rf 4 1 Jay rf Freese 3b 5 ymolin c 4 shmkr 2b 4 lohse p 3 miller p 0 Greene lf 1

Los Angeles h bi ab r h bi 1 1 Gwynn lf 4 0 1 0 3 0 blake 3b 3 1 1 0 2 3 hwksw p 0 0 0 0 2 1 Guerrir p 0 0 0 0 0 0 deJess ph 1 0 0 0 2 2 Cormir p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ethier rf 3 1 1 0 3 0 Kemp cf 4 0 2 1 4 0 loney 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 uribe 2b 4 0 1 0 1 0 barajs c 4 0 0 0 0 0 Carroll ss 4 0 1 0 1 2 Garlnd p 1 0 0 0 Jansen p 0 0 0 0 thams ph 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 miles 2b Totals 43111910 Totals 34 2 7 1 St. Louis 030 120 104—11 Los Angeles 000 200 000— 2 dp—los Angeles 1. lob—st. louis 8, los Angeles 6. 2b—Rasmus 3 (5), holliday (3), Gwynn (4), blake (2). hr—pujols 2 (4), berkman 2 (6). s—lohse.

IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis 71⁄3 6 2 2 1 6 lohse W,2-1 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 miller motte 1 0 0 0 0 2 Los Angeles Garland l,0-1 4 9 5 5 0 2 Jansen 1 3 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 1 0 1 hawksworth Guerrier 1 2 0 0 0 0 Cormier 1 4 4 4 2 0 Garland pitched to 1 batter in the 5th.

Wp—lohse. balk—Garland. t—3:04. A—36,282 (56,000). r 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 0

NHL PLAYOFFS (Best-of-7) Friday, April 15 tampa bay 5, pittsburgh 1, tied 1-1 Washington 2, n.y. Rangers 0, Washington leads series 2-0 Vancouver 4, Chicago 3, Vancouver leads series 2-0 Anaheim 5, nashville 3, series tied 1-1 Saturday, April 16 detroit 4, phoenix 3, detroit 2-0 philadelphia 5, buffalo 4, tied 1-1 montreal 3, boston 1, montreal 2-0 los Angeles at san Jose, late Sunday, April 17 Washington at n.y. Rangers, 3 p.m.

Anaheim at nashville, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Chicago, 8 p.m.

NBA PLAYOFFS (Best-of-7) FIRST ROUND Saturday, April 16 Chicago 104, indiana 99, Chicago leads series 1-0 miami 97, philadelphia 89, miami leads series 1-0 Atlanta 103, orlando 93, Atlanta leads series 1-0 dallas 89, portland 81, dallas leads 1-0 Sunday, April 17 memphis at san Antonio, 1 p.m. new orleans at l.A. lakers, 3:30 p.m. new york at boston, 7 p.m. denver at oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m.

Playoff boxes Hawks 103, Magic 93 ATLANTA (103) smith 6-12 2-7 15, horford 7-14 2-2 16, Collins 0-1 1-2 1, hinrich 6-10 0-0 13, Johnson 9-16 7-8 25, pachulia 0-1 2-2 2, Crawford 7-14 5-6 23, thomas 0-2 0-0 0, Williams 2-3 2-2 6, powell 1-1 0-0 2. totals 38-74 2129 103.

ORLANDO (93) turkoglu 2-9 1-2 6, bass 0-4 0-0 0, howard 16-23 14-22 46, nelson 10-18 3-4 27, J.Richardson 2-8 0-0 4, Anderson 0-2 0-0 0, Arenas 2-5 1-2 6, Redick 2-6 0-0 4, Q.Richardson 0-0 0-0 0. totals 34-75 19-30 93.

Atlanta 17 38 30 18 — 103 19 29 23 22 — 93 Orlando 3-point Goals—Atlanta 6-14 (Crawford 4-7, smith 1-2, hinrich 1-3, Johnson 0-1, horford 0-1), orlando 6-22 (nelson 4-7, Arenas 1-2, turkoglu 1-4, howard 0-1, Anderson 0-2, Redick 0-2, J.Richardson 0-4). Fouled out— Collins. Rebounds—Atlanta 42 (smith 8), orlando 54 (howard 19). Assists—Atlanta 19 (Crawford, Johnson 5), orlando 15 (turkoglu 5). total Fouls—Atlanta 28, orlando 24. technicals—howard. A—19,108 (18,500).

Heat 97, 76ers 89 PHILADELPHIA (89) iguodala 2-7 0-0 4, brand 8-14 1-1 17, hawes 2-4 0-0 4, holiday 5-12 6-6 19, meeks 3-6 1-2 9, young 9-20 2-4 20, Williams 3-10 2-2 10, turner 1-2 0-0 2, nocioni 0-3 0-0 0, battie 0-0 0-0 0, speights 2-7 0-0 4. totals 35-85 12-15 89.

MIAMI (97) James 4-14 13-14 21, bosh 8-17 9-11 25, ilgauskas 4-5 0-0 8, bibby 3-9 0-0 8, Wade 6-13 5-8 17, Anthony 0-3 3-4 3, Jones 4-8 0-0 9, miller 0-3 0-0 0, Chalmers 2-2 1-2 6. totals 31-74 31-39 97.

31 18 20 20 — 89 Philadelphia Miami 19 35 26 17 — 97 3-point Goals—philadelphia 7-19 (holiday 3-5, meeks 2-3, Williams 2-6, young 01, iguodala 0-2, nocioni 0-2), miami 4-17 (bibby 2-7, Chalmers 1-1, Jones 1-4, Wade 0-1, James 0-2, miller 0-2). Fouled out— none. Rebounds—philadelphia 43 (young 11), miami 61 (James 14). Assists— philadelphia 22 (iguodala 9), miami 15 (Wade, James 5). total Fouls—philadelphia 25, miami 16. technicals—philadelphia defensive three second. A—19,600 (19,600).

Bulls 104, Pacers 99 INDIANA (99) Granger 10-20 0-0 24, hansbrough 1019 2-3 22, hibbert 4-7 3-4 11, Collison 7-15 1-3 17, George 1-2 0-0 2, Rush 2-3 1-2 7, mcRoberts 1-6 2-2 4, dunleavy 0-3 0-0 0, price 3-6 0-1 8, Foster 1-3 2-2 4. totals 3984 11-17 99.

CHICAGO (104) deng 7-13 2-4 18, boozer 4-11 4-5 12, noah 5-12 0-1 10, Rose 10-23 19-21 39, bogans 0-3 0-0 0, brewer 1-3 0-0 2, thomas 3-4 0-0 6, Gibson 1-2 0-0 2, Korver 4-7 1-1 13, Asik 0-0 0-0 0, Watson 1-4 0-0 2. totals 36-82 26-32 104.

Indiana 27 28 24 20 — 99 Chicago 23 28 20 33 — 104 3-point Goals—indiana 10-18 (Granger 4-8, Collison 2-2, Rush 2-2, price 2-3, George 0-1, dunleavy 0-2), Chicago 6-20 (Korver 4-4, deng 2-3, Watson 0-1, bogans 0-3, Rose 0-9). Fouled out—none. Rebounds—indiana 40 (hibbert 8), Chicago 63 (noah 11). Assists—indiana 21 (Collison 9), Chicago 18 (Rose 6). total Fouls—indiana 25, Chicago 21. technicals—indiana Coach Vogel, deng. A—22,986 (20,917).

Mavericks 89, Blazers 81 PORTLAND (81) Wallace 4-13 0-0 8, Aldridge 12-20 3-4 27, Camby 2-3 0-0 4, miller 7-13 4-5 18, matthews 1-3 0-0 2, batum 6-14 1-2 14, Roy 1-7 0-1 2, Fernandez 2-3 1-1 6. totals 3576 9-13 81.

DALLAS (89) marion 2-6 2-2 6, nowitzki 7-20 13-13 28, Chandler 1-1 2-2 4, Kidd 9-14 0-0 24, stevenson 2-4 0-0 5, terry 2-5 6-8 10, stojakovic 2-7 0-0 6, barea 1-7 2-2 4, haywood 1-2 0-2 2, Cardinal 0-0 0-0 0. totals 27-66 25-29 89.

Portland 22 15 20 24 — 81 Dallas 21 26 14 28 — 89 3-point Goals—portland 2-16 (Fernandez 1-2, batum 1-7, matthews 0-1, Wallace 02, miller 0-2, Roy 0-2), dallas 10-19 (Kidd 6-10, stojakovic 2-4, nowitzki 1-1, stevenson 1-2, terry 0-1, barea 0-1). Fouled out— none. Rebounds—portland 45 (Camby 18),

dallas 43 (nowitzki 10). Assists—portland 22 (miller 6), dallas 14 (Kidd 4). total Fouls— portland 26, dallas 16. technicals—dallas defensive three second. A—20,541 (19,200).

Racing Nationwide Aaron’s 312 lineup Race Saturday Talladega, Ala. 1. (22) Kyle busch, toyota, 124 laps, 107.6 rating, 0 points, $42,345.

2. (7) Joey logano, toyota, 124, 97.9, 0, $31,650.

3. (20) Joe nemechek, toyota, 124, 85.6, 42, $41,093.

4. (16) brad Keselowski, dodge, 124, 109.1, 0, $25,900.

5. (1) elliott sadler, Chevrolet, 124, 112.6, 40, $36,643.

6. (5) trevor bayne, Ford, 124, 122.7, 40, $27,593.

7. (17) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 124, 78.3, 37, $25,668.

8. (3) dale earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 124, 101.8, 0, $18,900.

9. (13) Reed sorenson, Chevrolet, 124, 104.8, 36, $24,393.

10. (10) Aric Almirola, Chevrolet, 124, 97.9, 35, $25,118.

11. (23) brian scott, toyota, 124, 80.2, 33, $24,518.

12. (35) scott Wimmer, Chevrolet, 124, 62.5, 32, $17,550.

13. (12) sam hornish Jr., dodge, 124, 101.7, 32, $17,775.

14. (34) timmy hill, Ford, 124, 60, 30, $25,168.

15. (9) Jason leffler, Chevrolet, 124, 96.1, 29, $24,218.

16. (32) blake Koch, dodge, 124, 64.4, 28, $18,450.

17. (6) Carl edwards, Ford, 124, 102.2, 0, $17,050.

18. (27) mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 124, 75.7, 27, $23,193.

19. (8) michael Annett, toyota, 122, 80.8, 25, $23,068.

20. (31) donnie neuenberger, dodge, 121, 46.2, 24, $23,668.

21. (36) danny efland, Chevrolet, 121, 44.3, 23, $16,300.

22. (2) Clint bowyer, Chevrolet, 120, 77.2, 0, $16,700.

23. (15) James buescher, Chevrolet, accident, 118, 68.5, 0, $22,868.

24. (41) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 110, 49.7, 20, $22,318.

25. (19) Kenny Wallace, toyota, electrical, 109, 72.2, 20, $22,793.

26. (25) eric mcClure, Chevrolet, 109, 55.2, 18, $22,018.

27. (38) derrike Cope, Chevrolet, 104, 48, 18, $22,293.

28. (26) Robert Richardson Jr., dodge, 103, 53.5, 17, $21,768.

29. (43) dennis setzer, Chevrolet, 100, 33.5, 15, $21,618.

30. (40) morgan shepherd, Chevrolet, rear axle, 98, 38.8, 14, $21,693.

31. (39) Josh Wise, Ford, accident, 92, 53.6, 13, $21,343.

32. (18) steve Wallace, toyota, accident, 88, 68.7, 12, $21,268.

33. (24) michael Waltrip, toyota, accident, 87, 61.2, 0, $21,228.

34. (4) Jamie mcmurray, Chevrolet, accident, 87, 99.2, 0, $14,975.

35. (29) mike bliss, Chevrolet, accident, 87, 56.4, 9, $21,158.

36. (21) tim George Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 87, 40.1, 8, $14,630.

37. (33) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, accident, 87, 33.9, 7, $14,595.

38. (14) Ricky stenhouse Jr., Ford, accident, 68, 85.3, 7, $21,028.

39. (11) Kevin harvick, Chevrolet, engine, 21, 63.9, 0, $14,525.

40. (28) mike harmon, Chevrolet, ignition, 11, 31, 4, $14,425.

41. (42) tim Andrews, Ford, rear end, 4, 28.4, 3, $14,380.

42. (37) Carl long, Ford, electrical, 2, 27.8, 2, $14,345.

43. (30) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, vibration, 1, 26.4, 1, $14,284.

Race Statistics Average speed of Race Winner: 126.618 mph. time of Race: 2 hours, 36 minutes, 18 seconds. margin of Victory: under Caution.

Caution Flags: 11 for 38 laps. lead Changes: 56 among 18 drivers.

Talladega lineup Aaron’s 499 lineup saturday qualifying; race sunday 1. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 178.248 mph.

2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 177.844.

3. (5) mark martin, Chevrolet, 177.807.

4. (88) dale earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 177.765.

5. (27) paul menard, Chevrolet, 177.702.

6. (09) landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 177.685.

7. (6) david Ragan, Ford, 177.438.

8. (22) Kurt busch, dodge, 177.379.

9. (83) brian Vickers, toyota, 177.369.

10. (33) Clint bowyer, Chevrolet, 177.353.

11. (21) trevor bayne, Ford, 177.353.

12. (15) michael Waltrip, toyota, 177.317.

13. (42) Juan pablo montoya, Chevrolet, 177.182.

14. (00) david Reutimann, toyota, 177.143.

15. (47) bobby labonte, toyota, 177.12.

16. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 177.087.

17. (16) Greg biffle, Ford, 177.074.

18. (78) Regan smith, Chevrolet, 177.061.

19. (2) brad Keselowski, dodge, 177.032.

20. (99) Carl edwards, Ford, 177.006.

21. (1) Jamie mcmurray, Chevrolet, 176.872.

22. (87) Joe nemechek, toyota, 176.695.

23. (39) Ryan newman, Chevrolet, 176.659.

24. (9) marcos Ambrose, Ford, 176.575.

25. (17) matt Kenseth, Ford, 176.519.

26. (56) martin truex Jr., toyota, 176.477.

27. (31) Jeff burton, Chevrolet, 176.461.

28. (38) travis Kvapil, Ford, 176.425.

29. (11) denny hamlin, toyota, 176.37.

30. (14) tony stewart, Chevrolet, 176.347.

31. (4) Kasey Kahne, toyota, 176.298.

32. (97) Kevin Conway, toyota, 176.195.

33. (35) steve park, Chevrolet, 176.162.

34. (18) Kyle busch, toyota, 175.939.

35. (36) dave blaney, Chevrolet, 175.806.

36. (20) Joey logano, toyota, 175.41.

37. (71) Andy lally, Ford, 175.349.

38. (29) Kevin harvick, Chevrolet, 175.154.

39. (34) david Gilliland, Ford, 175.134.

40. (13) Casey mears, toyota, owner points.

41. (32) terry labonte, Ford, owner points.

42. (7) sam hornish Jr., dodge, owner points.

43. (46) bill elliott, Chevrolet, past champion. ^Failed to Qualify@ 44. (60) mike skinner, toyota, 175.09.

45. (37) tony Raines, Ford, 175.

46. (66) michael mcdowell, toyota, 174.84.

Golf Texas Open Saturday’s third round At TPC San Antonio Purse: $6.2 million brendan steele 69-72-68—209 Cameron tringale 71-71-68—210 Kevin Chappell 68-73-70—211 brandt snedeker 69-72-70—211 pat perez 71-74-67—212 Charles howell iii 71-73-68—212 Adam scott 68-74-70—212 Charley hoffman 68-73-72—213 Rich beem 71-70-72—213 Fredrik Jacobson 72-75-67—214 J.p. hayes 73-73-68—214 Vaughn taylor 68-75-71—214 Ricky barnes 73-70-71—214 Jeff maggert 71-72-71—214 dean Wilson 70-72-72—214 steve Flesch 71-76-68—215 martin laird 72-74-69—215 martin piller 70-75-70—215

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the salisbury track teams celebrate at Western Carolina on saturday.

Hornets win at WCU From staff reports

Salisbury boys and girls track teams won the Western Carolina High School Invitational meet in Cullowhee on Saturday.

Salisbury’s girls scored 129 points to top A.C. Reynolds (88), North Buncombe (87) and 15 other teams, mostly from the mountains.

Salisbury’s Summer Taylor won the long jump (15 feet, 11 inches) and triple jump (33-0), while Alisha Bradshaw took the shot put (42-8) and discus (120-8).

Katherine Shields won the 1600 (5:23.17), and the 4x400 relay team also finished first in 4:16.89.

Emily Shields placed third in the 800 (2:27.06), Ayanna Holmes was third in the high jump (4-6), and Cheyenne Gloster was third in the shot (29-6). Salisbury also was third in the 4x200 relay.

Najwa Allison added fourth places in the 100 (13.29) and 200 (27.95).  Salisbury’s boys scored 132 points to top Asheville (92), Morganton Patton (74) and 15 other teams.

Salisbury piled up 32 points in the relays, with first places in the 4x100 (45.15) and 4x400 (3:39.17) and seconds in the 4x200 (1:35.97) and 4x800 (8:42.80).

Romar Morris returned from a hamstring injury to win the 400 (52.02 seconds), while Darien Rankin won the high jump (6-4) and took third in the long jump (20-73⁄4).

Keion Adams placed second in the shot (43-3) and discus (118-3).

Davie’s Ricky Bell won the shot (49-3) and discus (121-11) to give 11thplace Davie its 20 points.

• Salisbury’s girls scored 92 points and won a recent CCC meet against Central Davidson (48) and East Davidson (26).

Winners for the Hornets included Bradshaw (discus and shot put), Jessica Heilig (100 hurdles), Allison (100), Katherine Shields (1600), Emily Shields (800), Katelyn Storey (3200) and Taylor (long jump).

The 4x200 relay team of Briuanna Gibbs, Jericho Rippy, Allison and Marlaweh Cole won, as did the 4x100 relay team of Gibbs, Alexander, Zacola Hamilton and Allison and the 4x400 relay team of the Shields sisters, Talina Ross and Taylor.  Salisbury’s boys scored 76 points and topped CCC rivals Central Davidson (56) and East Davidson (16) in a recent meet.

Salisbury winners included Rankin (high jump and long jump), Justin Lewis (110 hurdles), John Jarrett (100), William Brown (400), Blayne Johnson (200) and Keion Adams (shot).

Relay winners were Andrew Kennedy, Dominique Dismuke, Jarrett, and Freeman Payton in the 4x200; Justin Ruffin, Hanson Saryee, Dismuke and Jarrett in the 4x100, and Luke Hutton, Corey Murphy, Tyler Downs and William Brown in the 4x400.

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lege, while Zach Smith (East) is hitting 351.

n College track Local athletes at Western Carolina had strong meets in the Western Carolina Invitational on Saturday.

Wayne Parker (East Rowan) won the pole vault (14-5 1⁄4 inches) and placed second in the javelin (155-11).

Ryan Pless (East) won the shot put (49-9) and took second in the discus (140-11). Garrett West (NW Cabarrus) was second in the 800.

Olivia Jacobs (South Rowan) was second in the women’s 5000 meters (19:24.96).

Lenoir-Rhyne’s Alex Folk (Davie) won the women’s high jump (5-1).  Lees-McRae’s Evan Webb (East) won the pole vault at Saturday’s Conference Carolinas Meet.

n Prep softball North Rowan defeated Albemarle 17-7 in five innings in a YVC game played on Friday.

Taylor Sells pitched four innings and struck out four. Lindsey Hinson pitched one inning and fanned two.

Samantha Jacobs went 3-for-4 with a triple. Sells had two hits, including an inside-the-park homer. Jennifer Oakley and Anna Lingle added two hits each for the Cavaliers (8-4, 7-3).

n Pro baseball New York Mets pitcher Bobby Parnell pitched two scoreless innings against Atlanta in a 4-2 loss on Saturday. Parnell struck out three, walked two and allowed one hit.  The Kannapolis Intimidators lost 9-5 to Hickory on Saturday.

Trayce Thompson hit his third homer for the Intimidators, but Kannapolis couldn’t overcome the Crawdads’ six-run first inning.

The teams play today at FCS, with the first pitch at 5:05 p.m.  Winston-Salem’s Daniel Wagner (South Rowan) smacked a triple in Saturday’s 5-2 loss to Kinston.  Ryan Query (A.L. Brown, Catawba) got only two at-bats in Double A — he was 2-for-2 with a homer — before being reassigned to the Danville Braves roster. The Braves sent down a catcher (Matt Kennelly) from Triple A to Double A, and that move bumped Query back down.

n Middle school golf The Sacred Heart golf team was defeated in a tough match against Southlake Christian. Michael Childress led Sacred Heart with a 44. Other scores were Spencer Storey (48), Alex Antosek (53), Brandon Fortin (55), Chris Queen (59) and Caroline Parrott (60).

n Middle school baseball Matt Saul’s pitching and hitting led Southeast to a 6-2 win against China Grove. The Patriots improved to 5-3.

Navy senior Dylan Parrott (South n West boys basketball Rowan) competed in the NCAA NaKey dates for prospective West tional Championships on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the final meet of Rowan High players for the 2011-12 his career. Parrott was 19th in the school year.

• There’s a May 3 meeting for floor exercise, tied for 20th on paralmiddle school prospects and their lel bars and 42nd on the high bar. parents at the West gym from 6-7 p.m.

• West will attend the Guilford n College football Basketball Camp on June 23-25 and Chris Smith (West Rowan) made June 27-29. four solo tackles in Arkansas’ Red• Falcons Basketball Camp is set White spring game on Saturday. for July 25-28. Rising second graders  Receiver Ben DeCelle (East through sixth graders (boys and girls) Rowan) and linebacker Cadarreus will have camp from 9 a.m. until noon Mason (South Rowan) were two of the while grades 7-9 are boys only at the standouts in UNC Pembroke’s recent same time. spring game.

There is a $50 fee for four days DeCelle had six catches for 67 with coach Mike Gurley and his playyards and scored a touchdown on a ers. Each camper gets instruction and fumble recovery. a Falcon t-shirt.

Mason was credited with five solo For more information, call Gurley tackles and two assists. at 704-798-2074.

Jonathan Efird (A.L. Brown) was 7-for-14 passing for 41 yards and n Music and wrestling tossed one interception.  Josh Patch (East) had a sack in The Joe Davis band will be playWingate’s Blue-Gold spring game on ing at the Rowan County Fairgrounds Saturday. on June 11, and there will be a wrestling tournament including many OSWA superstars such as the Rock & n College baseball Roll Express, Weapon X and The Third-ranked Mount Olive beat Wise Guys will be in action.

30th-ranked Limestone 11-8 in the There will be a mini-carnival, plus Conference Carolinas Tournament on food and fun.

Saturday and advanced to the chamCall Steve for info at 704-680-2318. pionship game.

Tickets are $25 for adults and  Micah Jarrett (East Rowan) is $12.50 for kids 13 and under. The batting .395 for Pitt Community Col- event lasts from 2-11 p.m.

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West rowan head football coach scott Young addresses the crowd before handing out rings for the Falcons’ third straight state championship.

RINGS FroM 1B The school and the booster club did most of the heavy lifting when it came to acquiring the rings.

“We try and leave it up to the seniors, but of course price comes into it,” Young said. “You let the senior guys pick the ring they want that’s most cost-efficient.”

When at the podium, Young made sure everyone involved with the program got their due, including parents, coaches’ wives, faculty, trainers and cheerleaders.

“It creates a perfect storm with the entire school working together for one common goal,” Young said.

As much winning as the Falcons have done during the last three years, the rings have yet to lose their luster.

“We do practice hard and work hard,” Trey Mashore said. “This is well-deserved.”

Catawba coach Chip Hester, a friend and former teammate of Young’s at Guilford, was the guest speaker for the event and spoke to three of his future players in Sherrill, Mashore and tight end Patrick Hampton.

“I hope three in particular out here are playing for college championships,” Hester said.

Hester challenged the

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West assistant tim dixon was having fun during the Falcons’ ring ceremony. players in attendance to not let athletics define them and strive for greatness in all facets of their lives.

“Don’t let athletic achievements be the most important thing you do in your life,” Hester said.

Young was presented a Shrine Bowl ring after coaching the N.C. team in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas in 2009.

“A lot of people last year said we wouldn’t be doing it again this year and we were,” Young said. “You lose four allstate players and I think everyone expected us to come back to the pack a little bit.”

The returning Falcons are back to practicing four days a week and will attend a prestigious Elite 32 7-on-7 passing camp in Hoover, Al. in July.

• Young said a Doubleheader Saturday of football on Sept. 10 at West is still in the works.

North Rowan and University Christian (Fla.) would be the proposed first game with West taking on South Pointe (S.C.) in the finale. West was orignally scheduled to take on Cocoa (Fla.) before Cocoa backed out for higher-profile opponent. South Pointe was a state finalist last year and produced blue-chip recruit Jadeveon Clowney, a South Carolina signee.

“We’re trying to get South Pointe in for Cocoa,” Young said. “It probably won’t be as high-profile because South Pointe’s not the 27th-ranked team in the nation, but it’ll still be a big deal for Rowan County.”

The game would happen when Catawba plays at Coastal Carolina, not threatening to take away potential attendance from the Indians.

• Young confirmed defensive back Quentin Sifford and defensive back Eric Cowan will sign with Division II West Liberty in Wheeling, W. Va. shortly. the guest speaker was chip Hester, head coach at catawba.

Stories are upcoming.

Defensive switch looks OK in ECU spring game Associated Press

GREENVILLE — East Carolina’s defense looked lost last season, giving up chunks of yardage and a record-setting number of points to undermine the big totals put up by its own offense.

The Pirates are hoping a new defensive scheme will change that.

After moving from a 4-3 to a 3-4 alignment, the defense held the offense to two scoring plays in 17 possessions during Saturday’s spring game. While starting quarterback Dominique Davis played just one series, it was a solid enough way for the unit to close the last major workout of offseason drills.

“We played with good leverage,” defensive coordinator Brian Mitchell said. “We didn’t give up any deep balls, had few missed assignments, didn’t miss a lot of tackles in open space — and that’s what this defense is designed to do.”

More than anything, it’s designed to get better results.

East Carolina ranked as one of the nation’s worst defenses last year, allowing 44 points and nearly 480 yards per game. Those struggles were more pronounced in the second half of the season, when the Pirates allowed the final

six opponents to score at least 42 points — including 76 in an ugly home loss to Navy’s triple-option running attack — and average 54 points.

In fact, the Pirates set an NCAA record by allowing 572 points, ending with the 51 by Maryland in the Military Bowl loss. With those totals, it didn’t matter that East Carolina had one of the nation’s top passing attacks that head coach Ruffin McNeill brought from his days as an assistant to Mike Leach at Texas Tech.

A year ago, the installation of that spread attack created a buzz that attracted curious fans to the spring game. This time, the defense was likely on the minds of the smaller crowd that braved windy, overcast conditions before the arrival of strong afternoon storms that swept through the state.

Mitchell said that the coaching staff believes that the switch means the Pirates “have guys that on two legs can make more plays than if we were to have another Dlineman on the field.”

“Our kids played fast because we’re going to be very simple,” he said. “If we don’t give up big plays and missed tackles, this defense is designed to make the ball go sideline to sideline, and you saw that quite a bit today.”

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ruffin McNeil talks to his east carolina pirates.

Davis played only the opening series, going 4-for-4 for 29 yards with a 3-yard scoring pass to Joe Womack. The Pirates rotated backup quarterbacks Brad Wornick, Rio Johnson, Shane Carden and Cody Keith the rest of the day, and the offense didn’t score again until Johnson connected with Reese Wiggins for an 18-yard touchdown on the final completed drive of the game.

Redshirt freshman linebacker Jeremy Grove led the defense with seven tackles, while sophomore defensive end Derrell Johnson had a pair of sacks.

“I think today we played a lot faster, but it’s all still new,” defensive back Damon Magazu said. “We’re all still thinking and playing a little slower than we’d like to be.”

McNeill said the defense has worked almost entirely on

its base package so far with only a few wrinkles mixed in.

The coaches will have more to work with in the fall when linemen Michael Brooks, Robert Jones and Chrishon Rose, as well as outside linebackers Justin Dixon and Marke Powell, return from injuries that sidelined them for all or some of spring practice.

The Pirates may be without both starting linebacker Lamar McLendon (quit the team) and Leroy Vick, a projected starter on the defensive line who could miss the season with a knee injury.

“Only the tip of the iceberg is in on defense,” McNeill said. “We purposely went into spring just introducing them to the base package. Over the summer in twoa-days, we’ll put more in and I think they’ll be excited to do that.”

“The defense made some plays, which is good,” O’Brien said. “It shows their experience and that they’re growing up a little bit. We still have some things to work out on offense, but I think we can solve those problems.”

Wilson had been the face of N.C. State’s program during the past three seasons, winning the Atlantic Coast Conference’s rookie of the year award in 2008.

Last year, he led the league with averages of 274 yards passing and 307 1⁄2 total yards.

He led N.C. State to a 94 finish — its first nine-win season since the Philip Rivers era in 2002 — and was the MVP of the Wolfpack’s 23-7 win over West Virginia in the Champs Sports Bowl before going back to baseball. While he has kept open the option to return, O’Brien has said N.C. State must be prepared to move on without him.

That’s where Glennon — and, for that matter, redshirt freshman Tyler Brosius — come in.

“The ball’s there,” O’Brien said of Glennon’s passing acumen. “Michael’s going to be fine.”

During a first half that more closely resembled game conditions with two

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15-minute quarters and normal clock stoppages, Glennon threw for 139 yards on 18-of-37 passing. Had this been a game that counted, he would have been on pace to threaten Shane Montgomery’s 22-year-old single-game record of 73 attempts.

“I think I have control of the offense and I think all the guys on the team have trust in me that I can be the quarterback and win games with us,” Glennon said.

Of course, there were a few he would like to have back. He threw a quick pass on fourth-and-2, and linebacker D.J. Green got a finger on it. Manning — with both arms wrapped around an offensive player’s head — then pulled down the interception and raced downfield with it to put the Red team up 6-0.

“He’ll definitely show up to the party during the season,” Manning said of Glennon, whose two interceptions came on tipped balls in a 56-second span.

Linebacker Audie Cole pulled down the second interception three plays later to give the Red team a short field and set up the day’s only offensive touchdown — Brosius’ 1-yard scoring flip to Tyler Purvis that made it 13-0 on the fourth play of the second quarter.

Brosius finished 11 of 17 for 95 yards before the game was halted with 4:17 left in the third.

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Dorty, defense look good in Wake Forest spring game Associated Press

The spring football notebook ...

WINSTON-SALEM — Things looked better for former West Rowan star Tristan Dorty and the Wake Forest defense in Saturday’s spring game at BB&T Stadium.

Defensively, the Deacons — ranked 11th in the ACC last season — held the offense to three or fewer plays on half of the possessions, and had six different players record sacks. Dorty, who has suffered injuries during his career, is hoping this senior will be his best.

Offensively, running back Josh Harris knows the Demon Deacons have a lot to prove after suffering their worst finish in 10 years.

Harris showed Saturday why he’s expected to be a key player in a turnaround, rushing for 85 yards and the only touchdown during

Wake Forest’s spring scrimmage.

Harris, a redshirt sophomore who led the Demon Deacons with 720 rushing yards and 7 TDs last season, found a hole and bounced outside for a 45-yard scoring run midway through the scrimmage.

Instead of a traditional spring game, Wake Forest (3-9, 1-7 ACC) went with a controlled scrimmage and primarily worked the offense and defense, with very little special teams work.

“I liked our physical play,” said Demon Deacons head coach Jim Grobe. “Our guys don’t seem to be shy at all about contact, which was a problem last year. Both sides of the ball had an attitude, which I liked to see.”

Sophomore quarterback Tanner Price, who started nine games at quarterback for the Deacons last season and is this year’s projected

starter, went 7-of-14 for 49 yards.

“I thought he had four or five nice throws today that we didn’t do anything with,” Grobe said. “That’s going to be a big thing for us — we’ve got a guy who can get you the football, but we’ve got to catch it and do something with it.”

Redshirt junior Ted Stachitas, who started three games in 2010 before going out with an injury, was 8-of-11 for 73 yards. He led Wake Forest on its deepest drive Saturday, moving the ball to his opponent’s 10-yard line before the drive stalled.

FLORIDA STATE TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Without three offensive linemen who are projected as starters in the fall, Florida State's offense often struggled to sustain drives.

So it was natural that the defenses made some of the biggest

plays.

Greg Reid returned an interception for a touchdown and forced a fourth-quarter fumble that led to a Dustin Hopkins 33-yard field goal with 2:48 left in the game as the Garnet defeated the Gold 19-17 in FSU's spring football game on Saturday.

AUBURN AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn coach Gene Chizik said fans shouldn't read too much into the final score of the defending national champions' spring game.

He might have been talking about the game itself, too.

The Tigers' A-Day scrimmage Saturday before an announced crowd of 53,209 featured plenty of new faces, only one touchdown and a quarterback competition that will apparently continue into fall camp.

It didn't feature many big plays or

Hansbrough, Pacers give Bulls a scare Associated Press

CHICAGO — Never mind what every104 one else Bulls Pacers 99 was thinking, Derrick Rose insisted he didn’t expect the Chicago Bulls to roll over the Indiana Pacers.

They certainly didn’t in Game 1.

Rose scored 39 points and found Kyle Korver for a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 48 seconds left, helping top-seeded Chicago stage a late rally to beat the Pacers 104-99 in their playoff opener on Saturday.

“We knew it was going to be a hard game,” Rose said.

“From the beginning I guess we weren’t prepared for it.

Next time I think we’ll be ready.”

For the Pacers, the loss was tough to accept. They controlled most of the game, but couldn’t put it away.

They’d make little runs, Chicago would come back, and the Pacers would pull ahead again. With Rose staring at them, Danny Granger never felt safe.

“With Derrick Rose on the other team? No,” Granger

said. “With Derrick Rose on the other team, no. It’s like a crazy stalker ex-girlfriend.

Everytime you tell her you don’t want to talk to her, she’ll show up at your door again.”

Trailing 98-88 in the final period, the Bulls showed the resolve that carried them to a league-best 62-20 record, closing with a 16-1 run over the final 3:38.

Game 2 in this best-of-7 series is Monday night at the United Center.

Rose again showed why he is an MVP favorite even though he was off target. He missed each of his nine 3-point attempts but made 19 of 21 at the foul line and finished with six rebounds and six assists.

Granger led Indiana with 24 points, and Tyler Hansbrough shook off an elbow from Kurt Thomas to finish with 22. Darren Collison scored 17, but had just two in the second half, and the Pacers came up just short in their first playoff game in five years.

Even so, they gave the Bulls all they could handle.

The Pacers were concerned late in the third quarter when Hansbrough was elbowed by Thomas as he was

Future Tar Heel shines in East win Associated Press

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indiana pacers' tyler Hansbrough (50) shoots over chicago Bulls' Joakim Noah (13). trying to rebound a miss by Rose. Hansbrough stayed down for several minutes and, still woozy, had to take a seat in the tunnel.

He eventually walked to the locker room on his own power. He returned with 5:33 remaining, and it looked as if he might lead the Pacers to a win.

Instead, the Bulls came surging back, erasing that deficit after Hansbrough hit back-to-back jumpers and converted a three-point play to make it 98-88. Now, they can breathe a little easier after a hard, physical game.

“Right now I’m feeling good and can’t wait to go eat,” Rose said.

First playoff upset: Hawks beat Magic Associated Press

The NBA playoff roundup ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Atlanta Hawks' dominance over the Orlando Magic this year is not just a regularseason phenomenon.

For now, it also includes the postseason.

Joe Johnson scored 25 points, Jamal Crawford finished with 23 and Atlanta beat Orlando 103-93 in Game 1 of their playoff series on Saturday, overcoming a monster night by Dwight Howard.

Atlanta was eliminated by Orlando in last year's playoffs in the most lopsided four-game sweep in NBA history, but this one was much different. The Hawks led by as many as 18 points while running multiple bodies at Howard all night, and the rest of the Magic failed to step up.

"It's a seven-game series and anything can happen," Hawks coach Larry Drew said. "All I wanted us to come in here and do is play hard and maintain our composure. ... I could tell our guys were ready for tonight's game."

Howard tied a career high with 46 points, to go along with 19 rebounds.

Jameer Nelson had 27 points but no other Orlando player reached double

figures.

The Hawks had five players with at least 13 points, earning their fourth straight victory against the Magic and erasing the sting of a six-game losing streak to close the regular season. Al Horford scored 16, Josh Smith had 15 points and eight rebounds and Kirk Hinrich added 13 points.

Heat 97, 76ers 89 MIAMI — Chris Bosh and LeBron James watched from afar when Dwyane Wade controlled the final portions of games during the Miami Heat's championship run in 2006.

They got a closer look Saturday, when Wade helped save Miami from a Game 1 collapse.

Bosh had 25 points and 12 rebounds, James added 21 points and 14 rebounds, and Wade scored five of his 17 points in the final 1:34 as the Heat held off a huge Philadelphia comeback try and beat the 76ers 97-89 in the opener of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.

"The only number that matters right now is 1-0," Wade said. "That's all it's about."

Game 2 is Monday night.

Thaddeus Young had 20 points and 11 rebounds for the 76ers, while Jrue

Holiday added 19 and Elton Brand finished with 17. It was the second time in 22 days that Philadelphia blew a big second-quarter lead in Miami: On March 25, the 76ers led by 16, and on Saturday, the margin was 14.

The Heat won both, and are now 4-0 against the 76ers this season.

Mavericks 89, Trail Blazers 81 DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki scored 18 of his game-high 28 points in the fourth quarter and the Dallas Mavericks defeated Portland 89-81 Saturday night in Game 1 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series.

Even though Nowitzki struggled from the field most of the night, he came through when the Mavericks needed him most.

Nowitzki scored 12 consecutive points in the game-turning spurt in the closing minutes when Dallas tied the game and eventually went ahead to stay.

Jason Kidd added 24 points, including a playoff career-best six 3-pointers.

Soon after Portland had its largest lead (six points), the Mavericks got back within 72-70 when Nowitzki made two free throws with 4:49 left. His a 3pointer from the right side with 3:40 left to put the Mavs ahead to stay.

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BOSTON — Michael Cammalleri and Mathieu Darche scored in the first 2:20 of the game, and Carey Price stopped 34 shots Saturday night to lead Montreal to a 3-1 victory over the Boston Bruins and give the Canadiens a 2-0 lead in the first-round playoff series.

A No. 3 seed in the East after winning the Northeast Division, the Bruins coughed up home-ice advantage and need a victory in Montreal on Monday or Thursday just to bring the series back to Boston for a fifth game.

Boston has never, in 26 tries, won a playoff series after losing the first two games.

traditional TDs. ALABAMA USCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama's football team may have been split into Crimson and White sides for the annual spring game, but it was the players in black who received the most attention Saturday.

In addition to the two quarterbacks competing for the starting job, which will continue into the summer and fall, safety Mark Barron had two fumble recoveries including one for 96 yards for a touchdown even though he couldn't hit anyone while recovering from a torn pectoral muscle. All three wore black, non-contact jerseys.

Nevertheless, the Crimson team, which had the first-team offense, pulled out a 14-10 A-Day game victory in front of 92,310 fans at Bryant-Denny Stadium as Alabama concluded spring practice.

Tim Thomas made 23 saves as the Bruins played without captain Zdeno Chara, who was scratched minutes before the opening faceoff because of dehydration.

Flyers 5, Sabres 4 PHILADELPHIA — Brian Boucher made 20 saves in relief of rookie Sergei Bobrovsky, and Ville Leino and Danny Briere scored in a 1:51 span in the second period to help Philadelphia beat to even the Eastern Conference series 1-1.

Boucher took over midway through the first period after Bobrovsky allowed three goals on seven shots.

After Philadelphia's James van Riemsdyk tied it at 3 with 6:46 left in the first, Leino beat Ryan Miller on a power play with 6:24 remaining in the

second and Briere made it 5-3 with 4:33 to go in the period.

Game 3 is Monday night in Buffalo.

Red Wings 4, Coyotes 3 DETROIT — Pavel Datsyuk had a goal and two assists in the first period — including a marvelous move to set up Darren Helm's goal — and Detroit held off Phoenix to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference series.

Brian Rafalski and Tomas Holmstrom also scored to help Detroit take a 4-0 lead in the second. Phoenix rallied with three power-play goals. Radim Vrbata scored in the second, and Shane Doan had two in the third.

The Red Wings were again without Henrik Zetterberg, sidelined by a left knee injury.

Game 3 is Monday night at Phoenix.

CHARLOTTE — James McAdoo can't wait to move on from high school, North Carolina fans may be just as eager for his jump to the next level after his performance in Saturday night's Jordan Brand Classic.

McAdoo had 26 points and 14 rebounds and hit the clinching free throws with 1.6 seconds left to the lead the East squad to a 113-109 victory over the West on Saturday night in his final basketball act before joining North Carolina's deep front line in the fall.

"High school kind of got boring. After a while it's just the same thing over and over," the 6-foot-8 Norfolk, Va., native said. "So just getting on campus there and kind of being put back at the bottom of the totem pole is just going to be get me to work harder and proving myself once again."

Duke product Austin Rivers added 16 points six rebounds and four steals for the East, which held off a late West rally in the freewheeling high school All-Star game devoid of much defense.

Anthony Davis led Kentucky's impressive foursome of prospects with 29 points and 11 rebounds to pace the West. Tony Wroten Jr., who is headed to Washington, added 16 points and 10 assists.

After the West cut a once 14-deficit to two, McAdoo calmly sank both free throws and was voted co-MVP with Davis.

McAdoo and fellow future Tar Heel P.J. Hairston played stretches with Rivers, set to become a fierce rival in the fall.

McAdoo would seem to demand playing time even with North Carolina definitely returning big men John Henson and Tyler Zeller.

Another North Carolina forward, Harrison Barnes, attended the game and said he remains undecided on whether he'll enter the NBA draft.

"I see myself fitting in very well," McAdoo said.

SHAQ OUT WALTHAM, Mass. — Shaquille O'Neal will miss the Boston Celtics' playoff opener against the New York Knicks today night with a right calf injury.

General manager Danny Ainge made the announcement during practice Saturday and said "we don't know when he'll be ready." Game 2 of the bestof-seven Eastern Conference series is in Boston on Tuesday night O'Neal received therapy before the practice then ran briefly before stopping because of the pain.

• NEW YORK — NBA Commissioner David Stern said the league plans to submit to the players' union a revised proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement within the next couple of weeks.

GOLF SAN ANTONIO — PGA Tour rookie Brendan

Steele birdied Nos. 17 and 18 for a 4-under 68 on Saturday, grabbing sole possession of the Texas Open lead after beginning the day tied with a whopping six other players for the top spot.

The 28-year-old Californian put his third shot within 15 feet on the par-5 18th, then sunk the putt for his sixth birdie — offsetting a pair of bogeys.

• LUTZ, Fla. — First they battled the wind, now they'll battle each other.

John Cook shot a 6-under 65 take take a onestroke lead at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am on Saturday. Cook sits at 11-under, one ahead of Russ Cochran. The first-day leader shot a 3-under 68.

TENNIS MONACO — Six-time defending champion Rafael Nadal reached the Monte Carlo Masters final with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 victory Saturday over Andy Murray, who needed a cortisone shot in his right arm before the match.

Nadal will play fourthseeded David Ferrer in Sunday's all-Spanish final.

Ferrer defeated seventhseeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-3, 6-2 to advance to his second Masters title match. He lost his first in Rome to Nadal last year.

BASEBALL BOSTON — Adrian Gonzalez signed a $154 million, seven-year contract with the Red Sox then turned his attention to an elusive reward — winning.

Gonzalez is making $6.3 million in the final year of the contract he had when the Red Sox obtained him from the San Diego Padres for three prospects on Dec. 6.

• HACKENSACK, N.J. — Former major league baseball star Dwight Gooden has been sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty in New Jersey to child endangerment.

• WASHINGTON — The law firm that investigated drugs in baseball said that former All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens shouldn’t be allowed to see notes or evidence used to produce a report that accused him of using steroids and human growth hormone.

• LOS ANGELES — Former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra was arrested for investigation of grand theft, a day after he was charged with a federal bankruptcy crime, authorities said.

Dykstra, 48, was arrested Thursday night by Los Angeles police at his Encino home on suspicion of trying to buy a stolen car, police reports said.

CYCLING ROME — Lance Armstrong and a banned Italian physician have met repeatedly in Europe since severing formal ties in 2004, including as recently as last year before Armstrong’s final Tour de France, a high-ranking Italian law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

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Expanded Standings New York toronto Baltimore tampa Bay Boston

W 8 7 6 6 3

L 5 7 7 8 10

cleveland Kansas city chicago detroit Minnesota

W 10 10 7 7 4

L 4 4 7 8 10

texas Los angeles oakland seattle

W 10 9 7 4

L 4 5 8 11

philadelphia Florida atlanta Washington New York

W 9 8 7 6 4

L 4 5 8 7 11

cincinnati Milwaukee chicago st. Louis pittsburgh Houston

W 9 7 7 7 6 5

L 5 6 7 7 8 10

colorado san Francisco Los angeles san diego arizona

W 11 8 6 6 5

L 3 6 8 8 8

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2011 • 5B

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .615 — — .500 11⁄2 3 .462 2 31⁄2 .429 21⁄2 4 .231 5 61⁄2 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .714 — — .714 — — .500 3 3 .467 31⁄2 31⁄2 .286 6 6 West Division Pct GB WCGB .714 — — .643 1 1 .467 31⁄2 31⁄2 .267 61⁄2 61⁄2 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .692 — — .615 1 — .467 3 2 .462 3 2 .267 6 5 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .643 — — .538 11⁄2 1 .500 2 11⁄2 .500 2 11⁄2 .429 3 21⁄2 .333 41⁄2 4 West Division Pct GB WCGB .786 — — 1 .571 3 ⁄2 .429 5 21⁄2 .429 5 21⁄2 .385 51⁄2 3

L10 6-4 4-6 3-7 6-4 3-7

Str Home Away W-1 7-3 1-2 L-1 4-2 3-5 L-6 3-3 3-4 W-5 3-5 3-3 W-1 3-4 0-6

L10 8-2 7-3 5-5 5-5 3-7

Str Home Away W-2 6-2 4-2 W-4 7-2 3-2 L-3 4-5 3-2 L-1 3-3 4-5 L-4 2-3 2-7

L10 6-4 8-2 6-4 2-8

Str Home Away L-1 6-0 4-4 W-4 4-2 5-3 W-1 2-4 5-4 L-4 2-4 2-7

L10 6-4 7-3 4-6 5-5 1-9

Str Home Away L-1 5-2 4-2 W-3 3-3 5-2 W-2 4-4 3-4 W-1 3-4 3-3 L-7 1-6 3-5

L10 5-5 7-3 5-5 6-4 3-7 5-5

Str Home Away W-1 6-2 3-3 L-1 5-2 2-4 W-1 3-3 4-4 W-3 2-4 5-3 L-1 1-5 5-3 W-1 4-5 1-5

L10 8-2 7-3 3-7 3-7 4-6

Str Home Away L-1 4-2 7-1 W-4 4-2 4-4 L-4 3-3 3-5 L-1 3-5 3-3 L-3 3-5 2-3

Amazing Indians roar past Baltimore Associated Press

CLEVELAND — Josh Tomlin delivered yet another quality start for Cleveland, Orlando Cabrera drove in four runs and the first-place Indians won their sixth straight at home, 8-3 on Saturday over the Baltimore Orioles, who have lost six in a row and are having trouble scoring.

Tomlin (3-0) gave up two runs — solo homers to Jake Fox and Luke Scott — and six hits in six innings.

Cleveland’s starters have been making it look easy. In the last 12 games, they’re 81 with a 1.91 ERA, not bad for a five-man rotation of virtual unknowns.

Shin-Soo Choo homered off Jeremy Guthrie (1-2) and Matt LaPorta had two RBIs for the Indians, who are 10-4 and off to their best start in nine years.

Red Sox 4, Blue Jays 1 BOSTON — Josh Beckett had his second straight strong start, holding Toronto to one run over seven innings, and Jed Lowrie provided a spark at the top of Boston’s lineup with a two-run homer.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Red Sox, who have the majors’ worst record at 3-10.

Beckett (2-1), coming off a dominant outing in which he shut out the Yankees with 10 strikeouts over eight innings in a win last Sunday, struck out nine and walked two.

Royals 7, Mariners 0 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Gordon added three hits to his league-leading total and drove in two runs and Sean O’Sullivan out-pitched Felix Hernandez, leading Kansas City past Seattle.

Mike Aviles had two hits and three RBIs as the Royals beat the Mariners for the third straight day and handed them their 11th loss in 13 games.

Yankees 5, Rangers 2 NEW YORK — Freddy Garcia allowed two hits over six innings in his first start of

NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Games Milwaukee at Washington, ppd., rain cincinnati 11, pittsburgh 2 atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets 2, 1st game Houston 5, san diego 3 Florida at philadelphia, ppd., rain atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets 0, 2nd game chicago cubs 8, colorado 3 san Francisco 5, arizona 3 st. Louis at L.a. dodgers, late Sunday’s Games pittsburgh (Karstens 1-0) at cincinnati (Volquez 2-0), 1:10 p.m.

Florida (ani.sanchez 0-1) at philadelphia (Hamels 1-1), 1:35 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 1-0) at Washington (Marquis 0-0), 1:35 p.m., 1st game N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-0) at atlanta (Hanson 1-2), 1:35 p.m. san diego (richard 1-0) at Houston (Myers 1-0), 2:05 p.m. chicago cubs (dempster 1-2) at colorado (a.Johnson 0-0), 3:10 p.m. san Francisco (Bumgarner 0-2) at arizona (enright 0-1), 4:10 p.m. st. Louis (carpenter 0-2) at L.a. dodgers (Billingsley 1-1), 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (estrada 1-0) at Washington (L.Hernandez 1-1), 5:05 p.m., 2nd game Monday’s Games Milwaukee at philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. pittsburgh at cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. san diego at chicago cubs, 8:05 p.m. san Francisco at colorado, 8:40 p.m. atlanta at L.a. dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday’s Games cleveland 8, Baltimore 3 N.Y. Yankees 5, texas 2 Kansas city 7, seattle 0 Boston 4, toronto 1 L.a. angels 7, chicago White sox 2 tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 3 oakland 6, detroit 2 Sunday’s Games Baltimore (Bergesen 0-1) at cleveland (carmona 0-2), 1:05 p.m. toronto (Litsch 1-0) at Boston (Lester 0-1), 1:35 p.m.

Minnesota (duensing 0-0) at tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-1), 1:40 p.m.

L.a. angels (Haren 3-0) at chicago White sox (Buehrle 1-0), 2:10 p.m. seattle (pineda 1-1) at Kansas city (Francis 0-0), 2:10 p.m. detroit (penny 0-1) at oakland (cahill 1-0), 4:05 p.m. texas (ogando 2-0) at N.Y. Yankees (sabathia 0-1), 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games toronto at Boston, 11:05 a.m. chicago White sox at tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

L.a. angels at texas, 8:05 p.m. cleveland at Kansas city, 8:10 p.m. detroit at seattle, 10:10 p.m.

associated press

the tampa Bay rays celebrate Johnny damon’s game-winning hit on saturday. the season, Mark Teixeira drove in three runs and the Yankees held off Texas.

With temperatures in the mid-40s, Garcia (1-0) worked through steady rain showers and winds gusting to 30 mph to shut down the Texas offense. The only hits the veteran right-hander allowed were to Adrian Beltre in the first and David Murphy in the fourth.

Robinson Cano hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning, and Mariano Rivera closed out the ninth for his sixth save.

Derek Holland (2-1) pitched well for Texas, allowing five runs in 7 2-3 innings.

Rays 4, Twins 3 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ben Zobrist

led off the ninth with a tying home run off Twins closer Joe Nathan (0-1) and Johnny Damon ended the game with a two-out single for Tampa Bay. Angels 7, White Sox 2 CHICAGO — Tyler Chatwood pitched seven impressive innings for his first major league win and Hank Conger hit a threerun homer to lead the Angels over the White Sox. After the start was delayed more than 2 hours by rain, the 21-year-old Chatwood (1-1) allowed just one run and five hits.

The lone blemish was Carlos Quentin’s fifth-inning homer, his third of the season and the 100th of his career.

Howie Kendrick homered for L.A.

Hernandez propels Reds with grand slam Associated Press

Zito leaves with injury

CINCINNATI — Ramon Hernandez broke open a close game with his sixth career grand slam and the Cincinnati Reds overpowered the Pirates 11-2 on Saturday, sending Pittsburgh to its fifth loss in six games.

Hernandez’s fifth-inning homer was his third hit off James McDonald (0-1), who let a tied game get away quickly.

The Reds sent 10 batters to the plate for seven runs in the inning, capped by Drew Stubbs’ two-run homer.

Jonny Gomes also had a solo shot and a two-run homer. The Reds’ four homers matched their season high.

Mike Leake (2-0) was a little off with his control in an unexpected start. He filled in for Edinson Volquez, who was pushed back a day because of a stiff neck. Leake gave up four hits and walked four in six innings.

National League MVP Joey Votto had a triple among his

Associated Press PHOENIX — San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito has left a start against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second inning because of a right mid-foot sprain.

The left-hander was hurt Saturday while making a lunging catch of a bunt by Diamondbacks pitcher Joe Saunders.

The Giants said X-rays were negative.

Arizona had scored two runs earlier in the inning to tie the game.

Zito appeared to catch his spike in the turf on the play. 

NIGUA, Dominican Republic — Washington Nationals prospect Yewri Guillen was laid to rest Saturday while the team tried to figure out how the 18-year-old shortstop contracted the bacterial meningitis that killed him.

Guillen was buried in a Nigua cemetery near the small home he shared with his father and two sisters. The Lerners, owners of the Nationals, said they would pay for the funeral and Nationals players donated money to help Guillen’s family. 

DENVER — Alan Johnson is expected make his major league debut on the mound Sunday when the Colorado Rockies wrap up their three-game series against the Chicago Cubs.

three hits, raising his average to .451.

Astros 5, Padres 3 HOUSTON — Pinch-hitter Joe Inglett had a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning and Houston beat San Diego.

With the score tied 3-all, Inglett hit the first pitch from Chad Qualls for an RBI single.

Angel Sanchez also had a runscoring single in the seventh.

Giants 5, Diamondbacks 3 PHOENIX — Freddy Sanchez doubled home the tying run in the sixth inning, then put San Francisco ahead for good with a two-run single in the seventh and the Giants won their fourth in a row by beating Arizona.

San Francisco starter Barry Zito sprained his right foot lunging for a bunt in the second inning and left the game. Giants reliever Guillermo Mota pitched a career-long 4 1-3 innings to get the victory. Mota (1-0) allowed one run and three hits, striking out four with no walks.

The Diamondbacks tied a franchise record by converting five double plays to erase a big share of San Francisco’s 13 hits.

Buster Posey hit an early two-run homer off Joe Saunders (0-3), who gave up five runs and 12 hits in 6 2-3 innings.

Brian Wilson pitched a perfect ninth to give him a save in each of the Giants’ four straight wins. The reigning World Series champions have won seven of nine after opening 1-4.

Braves 4, Mets 2, 1st game Braves 4, Mets 0, 2nd game ATLANTA — Jair Jurrjens threw seven sharp innings in his return from the disabled list and Atlanta shut out the struggling New York Mets on two hits to complete a doubleheader sweep.

In the opener, Alex Gonzalez hit two of Atlanta’s four solo homers and the Braves finally provided some offense for Derek Lowe.

The Mets were swept in a doubleheader for the second time in three days to extend

their losing streak to seven games, their longest since dropping 11 straight in 2004. Colorado swept the Mets in New York on Thursday.

The Mets (4-11) have matched the third-worst start in franchise history, according to STATS LLC. They opened 3-12 in 1962 and 1964.

They also lost 11 of their first 15 games in 1974 and 1981.

New York has lost 10 of 11 after winning three of its first four games under new manager Terry Collins.

Jurrjens (1-0) looked strong in his return from a right oblique strain, facing the minimum 15 batters through five innings. He gave up two hits with one walk and seven strikeouts.

Mike Pelfrey (0-2) allowed 11 hits and four runs in five-plus innings.

Chipper Jones and rookie Freddie Freeman also homered for the Braves in the opener.

Derek Lowe allowed two runs in six innings.

S AT U R D AY ’ S B O X S C O R E S American Yankees 5, Rangers 2 Texas

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IP H R ER BB SO Toronto Jo-.reyes L,0-2 3 7 4 4 5 3 Villanueva 3 0 0 0 2 2 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 dotel 1 1 0 0 0 2 L.perez 1 ⁄3 Boston Beckett W,2-1 7 3 1 1 2 9 Bard H,2 1 1 0 0 0 1 papelbon s,2-2 1 1 0 0 0 1 Jo-.reyes pitched to 2 batters in the 4th.

HBp—by Jo-.reyes (ellsbury). Wp—Jo-.reyes. t—3:12. a—37,310 (37,065).

Toronto

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Royals 7, Mariners 0 Seattle

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IP H R ER BB SO Seattle Hernandz L,1-2 5 6 5 2 2 6 Laffey 1 0 0 0 0 1 Lueke 1 0 0 0 0 0 League 1 2 2 2 1 0 Kansas City o’sullivan W,1-1 5 5 0 0 2 4 collins 1 1 0 0 1 3 Jeffress 2 1 0 0 2 2 crow 1 0 0 0 0 1 Wp—League. t—2:46. a—22,364 (37,903).

Indians 8, Orioles 3 Baltimore ab Brorts 2b 5 Markks rf 5 d.Lee 1b 5 Guerrr dh 4 scott lf 4 adJons cf 4

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Cleveland h bi ab 1 1 Brantly cf 5 0 0 acarer ss 5 1 0 choo rf 4 1 0 csantn c 3 1 1 Hafner dh 4 1 0 ocarer 2b 4

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IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore Guthrie L,1-2 5 10 6 6 1 2 Jakubauskas 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 1 M.Gonzalez Berken 1 0 0 0 0 0 Cleveland 6 6 2 2 0 4 tomlin W,3-0 pestano 1 2 1 1 1 1 sipp 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 durbin pB—Fox 2. t—2:36. a—10,714 (43,441).

Athletics 6, Tigers 2 Detroit

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Lob—detroit 9, oakland 7. 2b—Mi.cabrera (4), V.martinez (4), crisp (3), dejesus (2), Willingham (2), Matsui (4), Kouzmanoff (3). 3b—sweeney (1). cs—Boesch (1). sf—Kouzmanoff.

IP H R ER BB SO Detroit Verlander L,1-2 6 8 4 3 3 6 thomas 1 0 0 0 0 0 e.Gonzalez 1 1 2 2 1 0 Oakland Braden W,1-1 5 3 1 0 2 5 Ziegler H,1 1 1 0 0 0 0 Breslow H,2 1 0 0 0 1 0 Balfour H,4 1 2 1 1 2 0 Fuentes 1 0 0 0 1 0 t—3:02. a—16,265 (35,067).

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e—al.ramirez (4). dp—Los angeles 3. Lob—Los angeles 5, chicago 3. 2b—M.izturis (5), V.wells (2), conger (1), Br.wood (1). Hr—H.kendrick (5), conger (2), Konerko (4), Quentin (3). cs—pierre (5).

IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles 5 1 1 2 3 chatwood W,1-1 7 F.rodriguez 1 1 0 0 0 1 thompson 1 1 1 1 0 0 Chicago Floyd L,1-1 6 8 6 6 2 3 1 ⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 ohman 22⁄3 1 0 0 0 3 t.pena Wp—Floyd 3. t—2:35. a—21,250 (40,615).

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IP H R ER BB SO Pittsburgh 9 7 6 2 2 Mcdonald L,0-1 41⁄3 2 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 crotta Beimel 1 2 2 2 0 2 resop 1 0 0 0 1 1 Meek 1 2 0 0 1 1 Cincinnati Leake W,2-0 6 4 2 2 4 6 Jor.smith 1 1 0 0 1 0 Bray 1 1 0 0 1 0 Masset 1 0 0 0 1 2 t—2:59. a—26,418 (42,319). r 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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2b—dan.murphy (4), prado (6). sb—prado (1). cs—Harris (2), dan.murphy (1). s—pelfrey, Mclouth, Jurrjens.

IP H R ER BB SO New York pelfrey L,0-2 5 11 4 4 1 3 Beato 2 0 0 0 0 3 t.Buchholz 1 0 0 0 0 1 Atlanta Jurrjens W,1-0 7 2 0 0 1 4 sherrill 1 0 0 0 0 2 Linebrink 1 0 0 0 0 3 t—2:29. a—31,383 (49,586).

Astros 5, Padres 3

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IP H R ER BB SO New York 4 3 3 3 2 carrasco L,0-1 32⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 igarashi Misch 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 2 3 parnell Atlanta d.lowe W,2-2 6 5 2 2 2 4 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 2 1 o’flaherty H,2 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Linebrink H,1 Venters H,4 1 0 0 0 1 2 Kimbrel s,4-4 1 1 0 0 0 1 HBp—by d.carrasco (McLouth). t—2:47. a—0 (49,586).

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r 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0

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Qualls p 0 0 0 0 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 denorfi ph 1 0 1 0 inglett ph 1 0 1 1 Fulchin p 0 0 0 0 Bourgs lf 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 3 8 3 Totals 30 5 6 5 San Diego 200 100 000—3 Houston 100 200 20x—5 e—Figueroa (2), M.downs (1). Lob—san diego 8, Houston 4. 2b—Headley 2 (4), pence (6). Hr— c.johnson (1). sb—Venable (2), Bourn (7).

IP H R ER BB SO San Diego 1 4 5 5 2 6 Latos L,0-2 6 ⁄3 2 0 0 1 1 Qualls 12⁄3 Houston 6 3 2 2 5 Figueroa 62⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Melancon W,1-0 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 1 Fulchino H,1 Lyon s,3-4 1 2 0 0 0 0 t—2:34. a—28,100 (40,963).

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Lob—san Francisco 5, arizona 2. 2b—rowand (3), F.sanchez (4), c.young (4), Montero (6), Mora (1).

Hr—posey (2). cs—Ford (1), r.roberts (1).

IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco 2 3 2 2 1 0 Zito 1 ⁄3 3 1 1 0 4 Mota W,1-0 41⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 affeldt H,3 11⁄3 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 romo H,4 Br.wilson s,4-5 1 0 0 0 0 1 Arizona saunders L,0-2 62⁄3 12 5 5 2 2 demel 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 paterson J.Gutierrez 1 0 0 0 0 1 d.Hernandez 1 0 0 0 1 0 demel pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. t—2:45. a—25,590 (48,633).

Calendar July 12 — all-star game, phoenix.

July 24 — Hall of Fame induction, cooperstown, N.Y. July 31 — Last day to trade a player without securing waivers. aug. 15 — Last day to sign selections from 2011 amateur draft who have not exhausted college eligibility.

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Jeff Gordon waves to fans after qualifying first for today's Aaron's 499. in the 200 mph range during qualifying.”

That used to be the norm at Talladega, but no one has eclipsed 200 mph in qualifying since 1987. Gordon suggested that teams be allowed to remove the plate during qualifying, or at least use one that doesn’t drain as much power.

“In this day and age, to have the slowest qualifying lap we’ve ever had at this place — come on, that’s crazy,” he said.

The first non-Hendrick starter in Sunday’s race will be Paul Menard (177.702) of Richard Childress Racing.

Landon Cassill gave Chevrolet the top six spots in the 43car field with a career-best qualifying effort.

Failing to qualify were Mike Skinner, Tony Raines and Michael McDowell.

By starting up front, Hendrick’s four cars will be able to pair off right from the green flag — Gordon working with Martin, Johnson with Earnhardt.

“That’s as good as we could possibly ask for,” Gordon said. “If we could write the script, we couldn’t have written it any better.”

If only he could’ve gone a lot faster.

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Trevor Bayne has yukked it up with Ellen and chatted with the vice president.

One thing he hasn’t done is come close to repeating his stunning win in the Daytona 500.

Talk about a reality check.

“I wouldn’t say I’m disappointed,” the 20-year-old Bayne said Saturday, having just crawled from his car after a strong qualifying run at Talladega Superspeedway.

“Sure, the standard got raised for us a little bit when BAYNE we won our second race in the Cup series and our first Daytona 500. But this year is normal for any new driver coming into a series.”

Indeed, since winning NASCAR’s Super Bowl, he’s turned in a string of finishes that are more in line with someone of his age and experience.

Bayne hasn’t finished higher than 17th in six races since Daytona, but this might be the week for another strong finish. Talladega is NASCAR’s other restrictor-plate track, leading to the same sort of tandem racing he adapted to so well in the season opener.

On Saturday, he was at it again, leading late in the Nationwide race until a late pass

by Kyle Busch and a crash on the last lap brought out a finishing yellow. Bayne wound up sixth.

Now, it’s on to the big one.

“I’ve been looking forward to this race for a while now,” Bayne said. “This is fun for me.

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“I got hit in the door. My bumpers are falling off,” he said. “It was crazy out there.”

Joe Nemechek, who paired with Wallace to contend with the better-funded teams, wound up third. Brad Keselowki was fourth, pole-sitter Elliott Sadler took fifth and Bayne, who led a race-high 23 laps, slid all the way to sixth.

After the race, Bayne asked Busch how he was able to get through such a small gap for the decisive pass, actually sliding between two pairs of cars.

“I didn’t think it was wide enough, but I guess I made it wide enough,” Busch said. “I closed my eyes, held my foot on the floor and prayed for the best.”

It worked out fine, and now Busch is just two wins away from tying Mark Martin’s record of 49 Nationwide victories. The way things are going, that mark is likely to fall in the next month or two.

Busch is running away from everyone else in the series.

“I’ve definitely got a good opportunity here to win three more races before June,” he said.

“If everything goes right, maybe I can do that.

If it comes this year, great. If not, we’ll see if we can do it next year.”

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“We’ve been down quite a bit throughout the year,” senior catcher Josh Hohn said. “And we always make it back. It’s like there’s no pressure, no worry, because we’ve done it before and we can do it again. We know we can.”

Hohn is a perfect example. The twice-injured backstop missed the fall season but has gutted his way to a .309 batting average and handled Catawba’s top-shelf pitching staff like a seasoned vet. “He’s done things that don’t go down in the stats,” Gantt said. “All the wild pitches and passed balls he’s saved. He does the intangibles.”

Others have shared Hohn’s sacrifice. Freshman Chris Dula — a former outfielder for Mooresville’s American Legion team who was recruited as a pitcher — has hurled a total of four innings. Instead, he’s spent his time toiling as a converted third-baseman with a linedrive bat.

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Lomascolo, meanwhile, has enjoyed a kid-at-Disneyland sophomore season. His Friday-night win over Tusculum gave him an 8-1 record with a 2.45 ERA. “There’s been a sense of FURR HOHN urgency every game,” he said. “Last season, there we didn’t have anyone to were times we didn’t take take that position. But then games seriously. We were Chris Dula stepped in and more laid back. It’s not like has really come around. We anybody threw a switch this didn’t expect that from a year, but things are very diffreshman. He’s probably go- ferent.” ing to be (SAC) Freshman of They are — and they the Year.” aren’t. Catawba will be the The Dula experiment has clear-cut favorite to win the paid off handsomely. His av- conference tournament beerage has hovered near .390 ginning Wednesday in Forand the three-run homer he est City. A fourth consecustroked in the third inning of tive berth in the NCAA ReGame 1 yesterday was his gionals is also a good, seventh of the season. odds-on bet. But the Indians “Playing third (base) was remain confident-yet-caudifficult at first,” Catawba’s tious, well aware that better RBI-leader (52) said. “But teams have been felled. As I’m used to it now. I do it for always, it’s rarely about the the team because I love to start for this team. It’s alwin. We all do. And we all ways about the finish. know that anybody can do “We know that,” Gantt it.” said. “But this has been a That includes DH Garrett good, solid team all year.

Furr, lights-out reliever Wil The wheels might fall off toHuneycutt and ace starting morrow, but that’s the way pitcher Nick Lomascolo. its been.”

Furr is hitting .333 with a • team-high nine homers.

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got clipped on the last lap going down the backstretch, spinning onto its roof, the yellow came out and Busch was assured of the win. Wallace’s car wound up back on its wheels and he actually drove it to the finish line of a race that lasted seven laps beyond its scheduled 117.

Busch’s No. 18 car looked better than Wallace’s.

Not by much, though.

“I got hit a couple of times. My steering wheel got knocked out of my hands,” Busch said. “I thought the thing was killed. Things were dragging and smoking. The sparks were flying.”

After his big wreck, Busch actually planned to drive straight behind the wall. Fortunately for him, his pit box came up before the entrance to the garage, giving his crew a chance to assess the damage and reassure him that he could make it to the finish.

Winning was another matter.

“Who would’ve thought we could finish first?” Busch marveled.

But in this new style of restrictor-plate racing, where cars go much faster when they pair off rather than drafting in a big pack, it’s essential to have a good partner.

For Busch, that was Logano.

“I wish we could’ve gotten to the checkered flag,” the runner-up said. “Maybe we could’ve done something with Kyle. But we were committed to push him. It’s a bummer that a caution came out there at the end. All I know is I saw a car go upside down in my mirror.”

Logano’s car was all beat up, too, looking as though it had just been through a shorttrack brawl at Martinsville instead of a race on the longest oval in the Sprint Cup series.

smart with it. It’s a little bit different style of race. There’s not the high intensity, even though you’re running 200 mph hooked to another car. It’s still not the adrenaline rush to me that you get at most other races. You can be more calm, think through things. It’s a little easier.”

Nothing has been easy for Bayne since Daytona.

The following week, he wrecked at Phoenix and finished 40th. There were a string of three straight finishes in the 30s before he improved to 17th at Texas last weekend.

Bayne is more confident about his chances at Talladega, which is a little longer and wider than Daytona but essentially the same trioval layout, with the same style of two-bytwo racing. He’ll start 11th in the Aaron’s 499, the best qualifying effort of his young career, and shouldn’t have any problem finding drivers willing to work with him.

“We’ve got a really good shot here at Talladega, as good as any,” Bayne said. “Our superspeedway program is really good. We’ve got an awesome car.”

It’s not the same machine he had at Daytona; that one is now on display in the track museum. His new Ford looks different, too, switching to a red-and-yellow paint scheme instead of the throwback Woods Brothers design that was on the car in the season opener.

Four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon teamed up with Bayne at Daytona, feeling perfectly comfortable leading the way with the kid pushing him from behind, or vice versa when it was time to swap.

“If that scenario pops up again, I’d be thrilled to work with him, whether it’s being the pusher or being pushed,” Gordon said.

“He did a great job in Daytona.”

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. (177.765) taking the second row.

“I had no idea what to expect, and neither did the team.

We certainly didn’t expect to go out and do 1-2-3-4 for Hendrick,” Gordon said. “It’s funny how a plan comes together when you least expect it.”

But the four-time series champion wasn’t all that thrilled about another landmark: the slowest speed ever to claim the pole at Talladega.

It wasn’t even close. Gordon was more than 6 mph slower than the previous mark, a pole-winning speed of 184.640 by Clint Bowyer for the fall race last year.

“I felt like I could’ve walked faster than I was going,” Gordon said. “Anybody could drive that car at that speed. We need to make it a little more interesting.”

The horsepower-sapping restrictor plates are more limiting than ever. With the teams figuring out they can go faster driving in tandem rather than drafting in larger packs, NASCAR mandated a smaller plate at this highbanked track to keep speeds under control during the race.

But that made qualifying “just a snoozer” from Gordon’s perspective.

“We need to make it more entertaining for the fans and for us. We’re not doing anything out there right now,” he said. “I don’t see why we couldn’t get out there and go

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STATESVILLE — Two officials from EnergyUnited have been recognized for their years of service and dedication to the electric cooperative. N. Mack Shoaf and Dr. W. Max Walser were each honored for 35 years of service.

The commendable s e r v i c e awards were presented during the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperat i v e s ’ (NCAEC) annual meeting April 6-7 in Raleigh. The association honored 35 individuals for their commitment and dedication to 17 of the state’s electric cooperatives. NCAEC is the trade association for the state’s 26 electric cooperatives, including EnergyUnited.

“This recognition is well deserved and demonstrates the level of dedication and leadership these gentlemen have provided to our cooperative and to our members,” said H. Wayne Wilkins, Energy SHOAF United’s chief executive officer. “We are very fortunate to have Mack Shoaf and Max Walser serve on our board of directors. They personify EnergyUnited’s core values of integrity, commitment and excellence.”

Shoaf has served on the EnergyUnited Board of Directors since 1998, the year Crescent Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and Davidson EMC merged to form EnergyUnited. He is a retired executive from R.J. Reynolds and Carswell Distributing Co. Shoaf and WALSER his wife, Peggy, live in Winston-Salem.

Walser has also served on the EnergyUnited Board of Directors since the cooperative’s inception in 1998. A retired superintendent of Davidson County Schools and past chairman of the Davidson County Board of Commissioners, Walser and his wife, Peggy, live in Lexington.

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Make sure someone close knows where your will is Catawba College has been offering a one-hour-credit personal finance course led by retired (2002) Catawba College Professor Al Carter and Food Lion cofounder Ralph Ketner. The Post continues its coverage of the weekly class and presentations from guest speakers today.

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Wills and other legal documents important when someone dies or suffers severe injury are effective only if someone knows you have them and where you keep them, an attorney said.

Attorney Susan Shumaker said she advises her clients not to talk about what’s in their will while they are still alive. But children need to know if their parents have a will, she told a Catawba College basic finance class.

“Don’t go home and ask your parents to see the will,” she said. “But it’s a loving question to say, ‘If something happens to you, how would I find out these information?’ ” Children also should know the location of and some details about their parents’ insurance policies, mortgage papers, credit card information, bank and investment accounts, she said.

Shumaker advised against completing a will online.

“You don’t cut your own hair, you probably don’t change your own oil, I don’t know why you would think you could draft a legal document yourself,” she said.

Students should ask their parents if they have a power of attorney, which gives someone the power to make legal and financial decisions on your behalf.

Husbands and wives usually name each other, and older parents often name an adult child.

Shumaker said she advises newlyweds to wait a few years before they sign a power of attorney if they haven’t known each other for long.

“You have to be very careful who you grant those powers to,” she said. “There is a lot of trust involved.”

If someone becomes incapacitated by a car accident or a disease like Alzheimer’s, a power of attorney will allow a trusted friend or relative to continue making mortgage payments, for example, retired Catawba College professor Al Carter said.

Shumaker warned students to proceed with caution if they are ever named a power of attorney.

“Money does strange things to people,” she said. “You don’t have to be an evil person or even a bad person to do a bad thing if you have money troubles, you just have to have a weak moment and the opportunity.”

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Ace the exam, get dinner with Ketner Are you man or woman enough to take a yearend, 51-question exam from the personal finance class of Catawba College professor Al Carter and Food Lion co-founder Ralph Ketner?

There’s a prize involved — dinner for two at a local restaurant with Ketner.

Answers to the exam should be emailed to acarter@catawba.edu, or mailed to Ketner School of Business, care of Catawba College, Attention: Angelia Bates, 2300 W. Innes St., Salisbury, NC 28144.

Deadline for entries is April 26.

You also can take the exam on the Catawba website at www.catawba.edu/financeexam.

Be sure to answer the tiebreaker question at the end, in case it is needed. The Post will publish answers on Sunday’s Business page May 1.

True or False (T or F): _____(1) The Roth IRA offers advantages over the traditional IRA. _____(2) Most bonds have a par value, maturity date, and a fixed interest rate. _____(3) An annuity must have a maturity date and a minimum return. _____(4) Mutual funds are available only for those over age 59½. _____(5) A stock option allows one to purchase common stock at a fixed price. _____(6) A stock with a high price-earning ratio usually indicates investors think the stock has a bright future. _____(7) Annualcreditreport.com is only available for those who have a checking account. _____(8) Your employer must, by law, offer health and disability insurance to all employees. _____(9) The interest rate on student loans is 2% above the prime interest rate. _____(10) FICO score can range between 300-

850. _____(11) FDIC insurers each bank account up to $250,000. _____(12) Credit problems usually remain on your report for less than three years. _____(13) It is desirable to keep 15 percent cushion in your account in case of an emergency. _____(14) Your credit score cannot be considered in interest rates used on credit cards. _____(15) The year of your college graduation you and your parents can claim you on the Federal Tax 1040 form. _____(16) The traditional IRA shelters the amount you contribute from taxes until the money is withdrawn. _____(17) An annuity may have a fixed or variable feature, but an annuityinvestment will not be sheltered from income taxes. _____(18) The condition of dying without a will is called intestate. _____(19) The executor of your will must not be a family member. _____(20) One can give up to $13,000 per year to another person without the recipients reporting the gift as income. _____(21) A power of attorney is a legal document granting a person the power to make specific decisions for you if you are incapacitated. _____(22) The difference between what you pay for a stock and what you receive when you sell is called capital gain. _____(23) The majority of stock sold is issued as preferred stock. _____(24) Almost all mutual funds are balanced funds. _____(25) Annuities can be both fixed and variable.

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18 — Chamber of Commerce board of directors – Chamber – noon 19 — Chamber Speed networking – Chamber – 9-10 a.m. – Call 704-6334221 or email info@rowanchamber.com to RSVP 20 — Chamber Workforce Development Alliance – Chamber – 8 a.m.

21 — Chamber Leadership Rowan “Leadership” Day – 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

27 — Rowan Partners for Education Board of Directors – Chamber – 7 a.m.

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KANNAPOLIS — Pat Putnal has joined One Property Source as the new broker in charge.

Putnal’s role is to support and ensure compliance of the 12 agents. She has worked in Mecklenburg, Cabarrus and Rowan counties for more than 26 years.

“Having known Pat Putnal for some time and admiring her skills as an experienced broker, I was extremely pleased to welcome her to the OPS team,” Ed McAfee, CEO of One Property Source, said.

Putnal’s duties include overseeing agents, check- PUTNAL ing and processing all listing and sales paperwork, handling earnest money deposits, answering questions about real estate transactions, and handling any issues that arise on transactions.

OPS and sister company Locus Real Estate Advisors, a commercial firm with a large presence in Cabarrus County, now have 13 brokers.

For more information contact Paul Bessent, Chief Operation Office of One Property Source at 704-934-2227 or visit

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Couple open Salisbury Grill George and Carrie Liapis have a lot to celebrate lately.

They recently bought the former Rick’s BBQ restaurant at 1617 S. Main St. and took three months to completely renovate and update the kitchen and dining areas, opened their new Salisbury Grill three weeks ago, and then on April 12 were thrilled with the birth of their first child, a son, George.

We happened to be at the grill when young George made his first visit to dad’s place along with mom, Carrie, and proud grandparents. The 4-day-old seemed quite content at his parent’s new

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FROM 1C Multiple choice: Circle the letter that best answers the question or completes the sentence: 1. The U.S. is what percent of the world market capitalization of equity investment?

(A) 80% (B) 54% (C) 42% (D) 31% 2. Bonds have: (A) par value (B) maturity dates (C) interest rate (D) All of these 3. A primary advantage of a mutual fund is: (A) guaranteed returned (B) diversitification (C) low interest rates (D) no expense factors 4. In purchasing a home the price should not exceed: (A) Your gross income.

(B) Two and a half times your gross income.

(C) A loan that requires 45% of your gross income.

(D) Two times the closing cost of the loan.

5. If your loan is for $90,000 and the lender is charging 2 points on the loan, your charge

CARRIE AND GEORGE LIAPIS breakfast and were so glad we did.

The menu is full of choices for breakfast such as omelettes, pancakes, French toast, egg dishes and sandwiches. We thought we’d be adventurous and tried the Greek omelette. It is my new favorite type of omelette! Three eggs with Feta cheese, diced tomatoes and onions served with home fries or grits and toast or biscuit ($5.25) was delicious. You’ll want to try the home fries with breakfast too as they are becoming a favorite with many customers. George makes them fresh each day and they do taste great. He has specials that change daily for breakfast too such as: The $2.89 special — two eggs, sausage, grits or home fries and toast or biscuit; a ham and cheese or mushroom and cheese omelette with the choice of sides for $4.49 each or a pork chop, two eggs and choice of sides for $5.39.

The French toast ($3.95) was also melt in your mouth tasty with just the right amount of powdered sugar sprinkled on top. A chef’s special offers two pancakes and two eggs served with bacon or sausage for $4.95. He even has a children’s special of 2 pancakes with a slice of bacon or sausage patty and milk for $3.45.

The lunch and dinner menu has quite a variety of choices from salads to subs, pasta and seafood or items from the grill and signature plates.

Some of his Greek specialties have been pop-

is: (A) $900 (B) $1,800 (C) $90 (D) Points are not allowed in a North Carolina loan.

6. Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) protects the ...

(A) Homeowners (B) Lender (C) FDIC (D) Federal Reserve 7. You find three homes in your area have sold for A) $120,000 with 1,400 sq. feet B) $110,000 with 1,300 sq. feet and C) $130,000 with 1,600 sq. feet. Your home has 1,500 sq feet. What is the estimated value of your home?

(A) $116,000 (B) $126,000 (C) $132,000 (D) None of these 8. The difference between a 5% and a 7% loan on a $100,000, 30 year loan is about $140 per month. Over the life of the loan, you paid an additional: (A) $1,680 (B) $10,080 (C) $50,400 (D) $60,800 9. If you purchase a home for $80,000 at 6% interest for 30 years you will pay a total of __________ in mortgage payments?

(A) $86,000

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Green Goat Gallery offers Mother’s Day photo session

KidsBloom at Salisbury Academy on April 30 KidsBloom at Salisbury Academy is Saturday, April 30, from 4-7 p.m.

The school at 2210 Jake Alexander Blvd., North, will have a silent auction, games, book fair, vendors and a chance to win items such as an electric scooter, Xbox 360 with Kinect or a gift certificate to the Apple store for an iPad2.

Raffle tickets are $10 or three for $25 and proceeds will go to seating and sound system in the gym.

Admission is $5 and children under 3 years get in free. Call 704-636-3002 for tickets.

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than __________% of your credit limit.

A. 10% B. 20% C. 50% D. 80% 15. One can receive a free credit report once a year from ...

A. annualcreditreport.com B. freecredit.org C. credithistory.com 16. If you have four credit cards, each with a limit of $5,000 but currently use only one with an average balance of $2,000, the bank can consider your debt limit is ...

A. $2,000 B. $2,000 x 5 or $10,000 C. $20,000 D. Only your current credit card balance.

17. Credit problems remain on your credit report usually for: A. One Year B. Three Years C. Seven Years D. For Life 18. Overdraft protection offered by most banks is: A. Required on all checking accounts.

B. Only available to accounts with the bank for more than two years.

C. Can not be required by most banks.

D. Usually tied to your

said. Soles4Souls has partnered with other organizations in Japan to transport and distribute aid. For more informaMOORESVILLE — Homesley & tion, visit www.giveshoes.org.

Wingo Law Group PLLC will host its first Business After Hours on Tuesday, April Freightliner recalling 50 26, at 5 p.m. at the firm’s office in the historic Isaac Harris House, 330 S. Main St. workers in Gaffney Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. is This event will allow businesspeople throughout our community to network recalling 50 workers to its manufacturwith members of the public, as well as ing facility in Gaffney, S.C. The hourly assembly line workers will Chamber of Commerce members and return in two phases beginning May 2, prospective members. and will be fully in place by mid-May. First Bank in Albemarle in on Daily build rates are rising due to strong 2011 order activity for delivery vans, Teach Children to Save Day RVs and buses. The recall will boost toALBEMARLE — First Bank’s branch tal employment at the plant to approxioffice in Albemarle recently joined oth- mately 550. ers in the Teach Children to Save Day, a Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. is project of the ABA Education Founda- a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North tion. The bank partnered with area America LLC. schools and youth organizations to give local students important lessons on fi- Funeral home support staffs nancial literacy.

The bank offers a Looney Tunes Sav- certified for volunteer efforts The volunteer support staffs of Rutings Club for children 12 and younger. It requires at least a $10 opening deposit ledge and Bigham Mortuary in and encourages good savings habits by Statesville and Clyburn and Bigham rewarding children with a special ac- Mortuary in Mooresville have teamed count opening package, birthday cards with the White House to become a certiand a treasure chest prize each time they fying organization for the President’s Volunteer Service Award, a national promake a deposit.

To learn more, visit teachchildren- gram recognizing Americans who have demonstrated a sustained commitment tosave.com.

The Albemarle branch is at 2317 N.C. to volunteer service.

Established in 2003, the award was 52 N. created by President George W. Bush to Thorlo donates to Soles4Souls give recognition to individuals, families and groups meeting requirements for for Japan relief effort volunteer service, measured by the numThor-Lo will donate nearly 4,000 pairs ber of service hours performed over 12of socks to Soles4Souls, an international months.

The group honored 72 volunteers shoe charity that is working on relief efforts after the devastation in Japan in Thursday at a banquet.

For more information about volunMarch.

“We wanted to stand with the Japan- teering, contact Bernardeane H. Moton, ese people in their time of sorrow and at 704-873-3611. need. Thousands of families are homeSubmit information about new busiless due to the earthquake, tsunami, and their aftermath, and our donation is a nesses, honors and management promogesture of sympathy and fellowship,” tions to bizbriefs@salisburypost.com. InThorlo spokesperson James Jesserer clude a daytime phone number.

She encouraged students to consider a living will, both for themselves and their parents.

Life support? Organ donation? Cremation? A living will spells out these choices.

“They are instructions,” Shumaker said. “Then you don’t have to hope your family remembers what you wanted.”

Even siblings who have gotten along for years can end up fighting over a parent’s end-of-life issues.

“They both have good intentions, but they have their own opinions,” Carter said.

Unlike a will and power of attorney, a living will should not be kept in a safe deposit box, Shumaker said.

“You can’t get in there at 11 p.m. when the doctor needs to know what to do,” she said.

Shumaker urged students to find out if their parents have a healthcare power of attorney, which gives someone else the power to make healthcare decisions on your behalf, such as consent to surgery.

“Life is full of surprises,” Shumaker said. “Things happen, and they’re not all good.”

If you love someone, she said, it’s important to talk to them about a will, power of attorney, living will and healthcare power of attorney.

“They all have distinct functions and they can work together,” Shumaker said. “But they’re only helpful if people know where they are and if they can get a hold of them.”

credit card balance.

19. Credit bureau facts include: A. There are three credit bureaus.

B. Each credit bureau must have the same credit score.

C. A credit score of 400 is considered good.

D. A credit score often does not indicate a person’s credit worthiness.

E. All of these are true.

20. Your credit score is often used in: A. Credit card interest rates.

B. Insurance rates.

C. Employment records.

D. All of these.

21. Your employer must provide every employee A) Health Insurance B) Disability Insurance C) Two weeks of Paid Vacation D) All of the Above E) None of the Above 22. FICO scores can range from A) 3-10 B) 300-850

C) 100-1000 D) 10-100 23. The major factor in your credit score is A) Annual income B) Age C) Payment History D) Credit Card Balance 24. The interest rate on a student loan is A) Always 2% less than the prime interest rate.

B) Can change each year.

C) Is usually 1% higher than the prime interest rate.

D) Established by the college granting the loan.

25. In North Carolina one cannot drive a vehicle without a: A) Liability Insurance B) Collision Insurance C) Under Insurance Coverage D) None of these Tiebreaker: What do you think the closing Dow Jones Industrial Average will be on April 27? ________________

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SPENCER — Award-winning photographer Sean Meyers will offer Mother’s Day mini-photography sessions at the Green Goat Gallery from 1 to 4 p.m. May 1. Each May Day photo mini-session will last about 30 minutes and cost $75. Reservations are required.

Since earning his photojournalism degree in 1991 from the University of Florida's School of Journalism, Meyers has worked for daily newspapers from Florida to Ohio to Missouri, including the Salisbury Post.

A 2009 recipient of the North Carolina Regional Artist Grant, his work has been exhibited at several regional art centers, including Waterworks Visual Art Center, the Bascom and Iredell Museums’ Court Street Gallery. He lives in Salisbury with his wife and their newborn daughter.

The Green Goat Gallery is located at 516 S. Salisbury Ave. in Spencer. For more information and to reserve an appointment, call 704-639-0606.

(B) $172,800 (C) $180,000 (D) $210,400 10. The difference in the total mortgage ($75,000) payment between a 6% 30-year loan and a 15 year 6% loan is how much over the duration of the loan: (A) $30,000 (B) $38,000 (C) $49,000 (D) $58,000 11. The minimum liability limits on your automobile policy in North Carolina is: A) 10,000/20,000 B) 30,000/60,000 C) 100,000/300,000 D) None of these 12. Uninsured motorist coverage includes: A) Bodily injury B) Property damage C) Theft protection D) All of these E) All but one of these 13. The maximum points one can have on their driver license and continue to drive are: A) 4 B) 8 C) 12 D) No limit since insurance is required in North Carolina 14. To balance your debt ratio it is best to keep your credit card balance to no more

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place of business. George and Carrie are excited to start their own restaurant and family in Salisbury.

It is always fascinating to learn how folks get into the food service industry, and how, in particular, they find their way to Rowan County to open a business.

George’s story does not disappoint. He grew up in Australia, Tasmania to be exact. His parents are Greek and lived there until he was 25.

They then all moved to Greece. Twelve years ago, George came to the United States to work with family in their restaurant endeavor — a chain of 25 fish camps throughout the Southeast.

He then worked with several family restaurants in the Charlotte area, where he met Carrie and they were married three years ago. Carrie is a Rowan County native and has worked in a variety of restaurants. They both wanted to have a business of their own, and came across this opportunity on South Main Street — the one with the red roof. After a significant investment of time, energy, resources and elbow grease, their dream came true. They make their home in Faith.

George enjoys cooking, using his varied experience and some of his Greek heritage to make fresh, homemade dishes in the right portions and right price. “You either love the restaurant business or hate it,” he says, “and I love it.” He loves being in Salisbury too. “The people here have been so responsive and friendly,” he said.

“We’ve gotten lots of congratulations on the restaurant and the new baby,” he says, somewhat overwhelmed. They already have quite a few “regulars.”

The Salisbury Grill serves breakfast from 6 a.m. until 11 a.m. Monday through Saturday and lunch and dinner until 8 p.m. We got there for

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ular, such as the gyros. A gyro is a pita sandwich filled with lamb or beef or chicken, onions tomatoes, lettuces and their special tzatziki sauce- a cucumber sauce ($5.89) The chicken souvlaki platter is also popular, an open faced gyro over rice with a Greek salad ($7.89).

The cheeseburger club has been a favorite with customers too, two cheeseburger patties (6 ounce fresh) with lettuce, tomato, mayo, bacon and fries for $5.99. The steak salad is a Greek salad topped with marinated beef strips ($8.45) and the flounder filet is hand breaded Canadian flounder, boneless and skinless, fried golden brown with hushpuppies and slaw and potato for $8.25 Lunch and dinner specials change each day and can include such items as the half barbecue chicken with two sides for $5.85; fried grouper with potato choice for $6.95; baked spaghetti with salad and bread for $6.29 and chicken tips over rice with onion, peppers and his special marinade with a choice of potato or vegetable for $6.95.

The homemade cornbread they serve has become a favorite with many too. Carrie makes the desserts — specialties including chocolate pie and mandarin orange cake.

George has decorated the grill with photos from Salisbury — past and present. He wants to keep with that theme and even has some photos of the place when it was Kay’s Diner years ago. He has added a map of his native Tasmania in the back dining area, just to have a little touch of his home there. The back area is available for private parties and groups.

The Salisbury Grill will have a grand opening celebration Thursday through Saturday, offering many specials. Some include hot dogs for 79 cents, the barbecue half chicken, and the Greek omelette at a discounted price among others. Every day he has free drinks for those in uniform.

In celebration of their new son, George, they are offering a kids-eat-free special Thursday through Saturday from 5-8 p.m.

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DENVER (AP) — Lowe’s faces fines over alleged safety violations at a Colorado store.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Friday it cited the Wilkesboro, N.C.-based company with 13 alleged violations and proposed $82,700 in penalties.

The violations allegedly occurred at the home improvement chain’s store in Castle Rock, south of Denver.

Lowe’s is accused of having inaccuracies in records on worker injuries and illnesses, electrical safety issues involving access to equipment, and damage to wire insulation.

OSHA says three alleged serious violations were related to issues with emergency exits, machine guarding and installation of proper electrical receptacles.

Lowe’s spokeswoman Karen Cobb says the safety of employees is the company’s highest priority. She says Lowe’s dedicates “substantial” resources to its safety programs and looks forward to formally responding to the citations.

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Fortunately, North Carolina never did succumb to the “fast and easier” argument.

We remained true to the original purpose of notarization — accurate identification of the document signer.

It is true that loan defaults do occur for a variety of reasons, and the rule of law affords due process to those borrowers. Due process can also help to make sure the correct property or the correct party or the lender who actually owns the loan is identified. Protecting notary law and its personal appearance requirement goes a long way to avoiding identity fraud.

So, to answer the question, “Could it happen here?” It is unlikely, but if such document scams did pop up here, they would not last for long, because there would be serious consequences thanks to our tough notary public laws.

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would know better, but without education, exam, a guidebook, or fear of committing specific notary crimes, perhaps not. In the “60 Minutes” story, one employee said she knew she was notarizing bogus documents but gave the camera a “so what” look.

North Carolina faced a challenge to eliminate its “personal appearance” requirement in our notary law several years ago. Then, we did not fully understand the origins of that challenge. Now, in hindsight, we have seen the rise of a “document mill” industry that has gotten lenders in trouble and traumatized homeowners. At that time, we had no idea what was driving the effort to eliminate “personal appearance,” but we knew North Carolina businesses did not need to undermine basic document integrity to be successful. Now, the picture is clearer.

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The April 3 episode of CBS’ “60 Minutes” news show featured an important story titled, “Mortgage Paperwork Mess: Next Housing Shock?”

That story by Scott Pelley was an eye-opening analysis of the current situation regarding mortgage foreclosures. The story documented multiple cases of fraudulent misrepresentation, fraudulent documentation, forgery, and false notarization.

And it left the North Carolina viewer asking, “Could it happen here?”

The story detailed how a Georgia-based company hired individuals to process lending documents for $10 an hour and had those employees signing at times more than 300 documents an hour using someone else’s name. One interviewed employee admitted the name he was signing was not that of a bank vice president and that he used the name for signing paperwork for five to six different banks all on the same day, and that he had no personal knowledge about the paperwork he was signing — all of this meaning the documentation and the signatures were a sham.

All of the actions described above are wrong. All should be punishable either civilly or criminally. It should be against the law to “bogus up” documents for convenience sake. It is illegal in North Carolina, especially the forgeries and the false notarizations. In North Carolina, notaries are commissioned by the state and are “officers” of the state.

North Carolina has the nation’s most developed law on notaries, all within the North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State.

North Carolina requires a six-hour class and every applicant must pass a test in order to be commissioned as a notary public, so the more than 150,000 notaries in this state know the law. This instruction is primarily conducted through the North Carolina Community College system. Instructors are trained and tested by the Department of the Secretary of State.

North Carolina requires notaries to have access to a Notary Public Guidebook, printed by the UNC School of Government, that sets the “Do’s and Don’ts” of notarization.

Why all this effort to create a strong notary public? Because a notarized document is given a higher level of legal status and acceptance in the United States and abroad. A notary acknowledgement has legal significance.

As I often tell notary instructors, “In North Carolina, notary is a zero-tolerance activity. You must do it correctly.” Just ask the husband of a notary public in Charlotte who was recently charged with 20 felony counts of acting as a notary without being commis-

sioned after he allegedly forged his wife’s name and used her notary acknowledgement on car titles at his auto sales business. He was also arrested for motor vehicle title fraud and his wife lost her notary commission for failing to protect the exclusive use of her notary seal.

In many states, the maximum penalty is only revocation of commission, and in some states, there are no specific notary penalties, but rather just basic criminal law concepts such as forgery or fraud. In Georgia, notary misconduct is handled by the individual county Superior Court Clerk, who has the authority to award commissions, investigate complaints, and revoke commissions. Georgia has neither a notary course nor exam. One would hope the notary who affixed a false notary over a forged signature on a fraudulent document

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Drive Shaft Shop is looking for an experienced drive shaft builder.

Applicants must have drive shaft manufacturing background or at least manual machining experience. Job will include building & balancing drive shafts along with stock placement & welding.

Full time position. Applicants fax resume to: 704-633-2385 or fill out application in person at 1531 S. Main St., Salisbury.

Insurance

INSURANCE AGENTS Looking for motivated agents to sell final expense policies to the senior market. We offer: Qualified Lead Program, Same-Day Advances, Ins. Benefits for you & family, Unique, Exclusive Product, Liberal Underwriting, No MIB - no medical exam.

Requirements: Valid driver's license A Nationwide Criminal Record Background check

ELECTRICIANS & HELPERS Want to work for an industry leader? Find out why we lead and others follow...

Growing Electrical Contractor seeks seasoned candidates for full-time opportunities in the Greater Greensboro area. Electricians must have 3-5 years demonstrated electrical background, a full set of personal tools and a strong working knowledge of electrical trade. Helpers must have one year of relevant experience. Outstanding benefits include medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401-K, disability, paid vacation and holidays.

A High School graduate/college degree is preferred. Supervisory experience, 2 to 5 years, in a warehouse environment or its equivalent is preferred. Knowledge of Manhattan Associates PKMS or WMS is preferred. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, excellent interpersonal communication, organization and problem solving skills and strong MS Word, and Excel skills are preferred. Bilingual (English and Spanish) are a plus.

Interested candidates send resume to:Hrsearch-hrteam@usa.net.

Refer to N910 when applying to this ad.

We are committed to creating a work environment where our employees feel supported in not only doing their best - but in growing their own career as well.

For consideration, please send resume to: Jockey International, Inc. Attn: Michelle Stowe - Manager, Human Resources, to michelle.stowe@jockey.com.

All resumes must be submitted by Monday, April 25, 2011. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

“We conduct pre-employment drug screening” EOE M/F/D/V Professional

Salisbury Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc. (SRCAA), a non-profit agency seeks qualified applicant for:

Executive Director

The Rowan Arts Council has an immediate part-time salaried position available as Executive Director. For job description, qualifications & skills required, pleas see RowanArts.org or contact racsecretary@aol.com.

Deadline is May 1st.

Skilled Labor

Forklift driver with Class A CDL. Full time, good benefits, no overnight travel.

Send resume to Cardinal Container Services, PO Box 1866, Lexington NC 27293

Applications can be obtained on our website: www.srcaa.com and will be accepted at SRCAA - Search Committee, P.O. Box 1227, Salisbury, NC 28145 through May 6, 2011.

Rich past.

Rewarding future!

Lexington/Welcome Mocksville

www.temporaryresources.com

Healthcare

Performance Improvement RN

Job Description: Develop automated actionable reports & provide analysis, insights on business trends, opportunities leading to sales & margin increase, lower shrink while optimizing resources & retail, category operations.

Troubleshoot, track, I.D. systems, process issues, errors, undertake complex analytics. Develop algorithms & automate w/DSS, MSOffice, SAS/other stats tools.

Requirements: Masters in Econ/Stats/Business Admin w/Stats coursework & coursework/thesis research includes building predictive commodity supply & demand models. 18 months stats experience developing regression & time-series models for revenue, margin forecasting; Excel, PowerPoint, MS-access, SAS/SPSS & Matlab focused on revenue, shrink, margin; develop, implement adv econometric/stats response models; 6 months Micro-strategies SW & complex test & industrial/retail setting control analysis. Domestic travel 10%.

Send Resume to kmistry@foodlion.com Ref job #9683 EOE Hide While You Seek!

Our ‘blind boxes’ protect your privacy. $10 to start. Earn 40%.

Call 704-607-4530 or 704-754-2731

Transportation/Logistics

Dispatcher assistant.

Exp. req., computer friendly, get loaded exp. a plus. M-F 9-5.

Call Curtis 704-2783532 ext 202

Seeking Employment Caregiver. Christian & loving, seeking clients, 10 years exper, refs, 704-798-1737

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If this sounds like just what you are looking for in a career as well as a lifestyle simply call:

Staff Mooresville Center Receptionist Forr more information on specificc requirements, how to apply, and preferrred dates for applications, visit www.mitchellccc.edu/hr.

AA/EOE

Sr. Analyst Delhaize America Shared Services Group LLC Salisbury, NC

Psychiatrists

Faculty Accounting Art Biology Computer Cosmetology Criminal Justice English Eng glish - Developmental p History Math Math - Developmental Office Administration Sociology

All job details are listed on TR website Apply online

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We are currently recruiting for

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TR will be interviewing at the Salisbury ESC – 1904 S. Main St. on Monday 4/18 from 9am-12 noon

Apply In Person 4412 South Main Street, Salisbury, NC 28147 No Phone Calls Please

Professional

Benefits: medical, dental, life insurance, short-term disability and 401(K).

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS with lots of positions!

Is now seeking Experienced: Staff Development Coordinator Must be an RN with experience in MDS preferred

Visit our website at www.jockey.com

Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Business Administration, Public Administration, Planning or related field (Master's degree preferred) and 5 years experience as a Senior Administrative Officer, of which 2 must have been at a supervisory level, is required. Must have working knowledge of non-profit administrative and fiscal management and ability to create, develop and monitor budgets. Responsible for overall Agency operations including personnel and budget plans and promoting the Agency and Community Action program to public groups, special interest groups and the press.

Other

The North Carolina State Veteran's Home has an opening available for a Performance Improvement RN. This high-profile position is responsible for auditing clinical records for accuracy and completeness through our facilities monitoring tools and initiating corrective measures in areas of deficiency. Successful candidate will assist the Director of Health Services in overseeing, maintaining and assessing performance of Clinical systems to ensure quality of resident care and services.

We offer a competitive salary with a generous benefits package.

If interested, please contact Sally Davis or Deborah Clayton at: NC State Veterans Home, 1601 Brenner Ave. Bldg 10, Salisbury, NC 28144. EOE/M/F/D/V

This position will be responsible for effective delegation of production orders to ensure that customer orders are picked properly and production deadlines are met and proper departmental inventory tracking is maintained. This position has the responsibility of supervising a staff of 15 to 20 full-time employees and additional seasonal temporary employees, which may range from 1 to 20 temporary employees. Additional responsibilities include maintaining positive employee relations, safe work environment, and staff retention in the department.

To apply, fax resume to: 704-636-7772 or call: 704-633-3211 or 704-633-8233 ext. 20 to schedule an interview

LIFE INS. LICENSE REQ. Call Lincoln Heritage: 1-888-713-6020

"Where we care with Compassion"

Jockey International, Inc. Distribution Center Supervisor, Order Picking 2nd Shift

WE OFFER:

ACTIVITY DIRECTOR

Liberty Commons Nursing & Rehab

Management

*Excellent Starting Pay *Insurance Benefits *Paid Vacation

Healthcare

Healthcare

Human Resourcces 500 W. Broad Street Statesville, NC 28677-5264 (704) 878-4341 phone www.mitchellcc.edu

C47850

Kathy Hoke, Medical/Psychology Staff Coordinator 828-433-2567 or email kathy.morris@dhhs.nc.gov An Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer C48052

SALISBURY POST

Yard Sale Area 2 Salisbury Inside Week Long Multi-Family Yard Sale, 451 Roseman Rd., (corner of Roseman Rd & Double J Lane), April 16 thru April 23, 8am-7pm.

New miscellaneous items daily.

DON'T MISS! RAIN OR SHINE! Salisbury.

1047 Theodore Lane (Hwy 29 to Dollie Circle, turn right to Theodore Lane, turn left). Moving Sale. April 17th & April 18th, 8am-5pm. 48” TV, bed & dresser, kitchen items.

Antiques & Collectibles Pottery, Blue Ridge, Poinsettia pattern, 58 pieces $300 Rockwell 704-202-5022

Clothing & Footwear

Flowers & Plants

Women's Suit, 3 pc., size 9-10, navy blue, great cond. $15. 3 pc.

Womens suit, sz 6, multinew cond.; colored, women's red dress & jacket, sz. 8, worn once. $10. 704-636-6437

Blackberry Liliesyellow/orange, 1 gallon size pots, $3 each or 2 for $5. 25 available. Call 704-798-2953

Women's Suite, 2 pc., size 8, Navy Blue, new condition. $15; great Easter dress, sz 6, new with tags, Navy Blue with white polka dots, $30.

704-636-6437

Consignment

Bed for todder, white Cosco, complete with bedding. $50. Call 704637-0336 Crib - Honey Belle by Babys Dream Furniuture -converts to toddler and full size bed...Matching 52" hi dresser $475 call 704 213-9811

Building Equip. & Supplies Garage door. 9 x 7 metal garage door, includes automatic opener. $175.

704-640-5750

Clothing & Footwear

Furniture & Appliances Air Conditioners, Washers, Dryers, Ranges, Frig. $65 & up. Used TV & Appliance Center Service after the sale. 704-279-6500 Bakers Rack, green, metal. Good Condition $55 Rockwell. Call 704-202-5022 Bedroom suite, new 5 piece. All for $297.97.

Hometown Furniture, 322 S. Main St. 704-633-7777

All-Around Consignments & More, 201 S. St., Richfield, Main “Quality” clothes, accessories, home décor, vintage furniture, tools, and more! 704-850-4099 Growing Pains Family Consignments Call (704)638-0870 115 W. Innes Street

Sweet Peas 2127 Statesville Blvd.

704-636-8574 Earn cash through consignment for baby equip.

Fully Stocked for Spring _________

Baby Items

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2011 • 5C

CLASSIFIED

Electronics Magnavox 24" TV with CD & VCR. Samsung SLIM 27" TV. Both digital. $75 ea. 704-245-4536.

Farm Equipment & Supplies Farm Equipment, new & used. McDaniel Auction Co. 704-278-0726 or 704798-9259. NCAL 48, NCFL 8620. Your authorized farm equipment dealer.

Kubota BX 2630 Tractor 4 wheel drive, front end loader, aerator, front bucket, scrape blade, 60” mowing deck $16,000.

704-209-3106

Flowers & Plants

Leyland Cypress

Chairs. Six (6) maple ladder-back kitchen chairs.

Good Condition. Phone $75. 704 279-5482.

Dishwasher, Bosch.

Almond. Very quiet. $300.

Whirlpool over range combo. microwave/fan Almond, $100 obo. 336492-6322 Freezer, large, chest type. $75. Please call 704-279-3990 for more information.

Powell Twin Monster Loft Bed with built in shelves and desk.

Excellent condition. $350. Call 336-357-7861.

Lawn and Garden Holshouser Cycle Shop Lawn mower repairs and trimmer sharpening. Pick up & delivery. (704)637-2856

Lawn Mower, 20” Eddleman. New parts. Good condition. $400. Please call 704-639-0251

Lawn mower, riding.

Craftsman. 42”. 21 hp. $500. Please call 704279-5765 for more info.

Misc For Sale

Lost & Found

Benches, wood, backless. 24 are 4.5 ft long, $13 each. 1 is 5 ft. long, $15. 704-754-8837

HYPNOSIS will work for you!

Stop Smoking~Lose Weight It's Easy & Very Effective.

Decide Today 704-933-1982

Trailer Axle (1), 114” long, no brakes plus 2 tires. $60. Please Call 704-857-7186

Jet lathe 20", $800. Miller Bobcat 225 generator/ welder, $2,600. Please call 704-279-6973

Water Heater, New 40 gal. American ProLine Natural Gas. High quality $400 Rockwell. Call 704-202-5022

DOG FOUND, 1 week ago, Black/brown mix, near High Rock Lake .

Call 336-239-2921 or 704-637-3790.

Kitchen Hutch, Good condition, plenty of storage room. $50. Call 704-6333975, ask for Ken

Wax auto buffer, $8.

Umpire equipment, $20.

Mic stand, $10. 24” side table, $11. 704-642-0512

BINGHAM-SMITH LUMBER CO. Save money on lumber.

Treated and Untreated.

Round Fence Post in all sizes. Save extra when buying full units.

Call Patrick at 980-234-8093.

Trimmer/weedeater Husqvarna 225L. Good condition. $125. Call for details, 704-806-7405.

Machine & Tools Mortar Mixer, Muller, 2 bag, with Wisconsin motor.

Works great. $490. 336-492-6322

Misc For Sale

Sofa and matching love seat.

Blue/ green/ burgundy striped. Excellent condition. $200 704 279-5482

Air Compressor Charge Air Pro, 5hp, 20gal tank, twin cylinder, oil lubricated. $300 or best offer. 336-940-3134

Wardrobe, old, cedar, needs refinishing and new back panel. Has mirrors on doors. $100.

Call 704-636-7488, leave message.

ANDERSON'S SEW & SO, Husqvarna, Viking Sewing Machines. Patterns, Notions, Fabrics. 10104 Old Beatty Ford Rd., Rockwell. 704-279-3647 Bikes, 2 Ross 26”, $20 ea.; treadmill $20; Ab Lounger $25; 2 glass lamps $25; 2 20” TVs $20 ea; Total Gym Pro $45; Slam Man Boxing $60. 704-279-2463

Bouncy Horse, Todays Kids, for toddlers. $15 Please Call 704-636-6437

METAL: Angle, Channel, Pipe, Sheet & Plate Shear Fabrication & Welding FAB DESIGNS 2231 Old Wilkesboro Rd Open Mon-Fri 7-3:30 704-636-2349 Motor, Briggs & Stratton.

3 hp. New, never used.

Horizontal shaft. $50.

Call 704-633-6654

Line trimmers, 4 @ $25 each, riding mower 42” $175, hedge trimmer $50, blower $35. 704932-3331

4 Bose speaker stand, $60. Computer desk, $50. 42” ceiling fan with light, $25. 704-797-8810

Games and Toys

Misc For Sale

Lawn Mower, 18” Eddleman. New motor & parts. Good condition. $400. 704-639-0251

Refrigerator/freezer. GE white. side-by-side. 12 old.

Excellent years condition. $375. Please call 704-637-2562

Washer/dryer set $350; 30” electric range $175; refrigerator $225. Excellent shape. 704-798-1926

Misc For Sale

Building, used, for sale 10' x 12' metal building with wood frame. Like new will sell for much less than new retail cost.

Can be seen at 250 Auction Dr. at Webb Rd exit 70 off 85 south. Call 704-798-0634 Chevrolet 1984 Cavalier runs good $500. Call 704-224-5219 for more information.

Desk. Executive desk, Lshaped with upper cabinets. Has a cherry In excellent finish. condition. $495. Call for details, 704-806-7405.

Entertainment center, will hold up to 30 in. TV. $50. OBO. 704-633-3975 ask for Ken

Lumber All New!

2x4x14 $3 2x6x16 $7 2x4x16 $4.75 2x6x8 studs $3.25 2x4x93” $1.75 2x10x14 $5 D/W rafters $5 Floor trusses $5 each 704-202-0326

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With our

Send us a photo and description we'll advertise it in the paper for 15 days, and online for 30 days for only

30*!

Sporting Goods Golf Balls, 100, USED, CLEAN. $ 25.

Please Call 704-202-9192.

Want to Buy Merchandise All Coin Collections Silver, gold & copper.

Will buy foreign & scrap gold. 704-636-8123 Timber wanted - Pine or hardwood. 5 acres or more select or clear cut.

Shaver Wood Products, Inc. Call 704-278-9291.

Watches – and scrap gold jewelry.

704-636-9277 or cell 704-239-9298

704-797-4220 *some restrictions apply

STEEL, Channel, Angle, Flat Bars, Pipe Orders Cut to Length. Mobile Home Truss- $6 ea.; Vinyl floor covering- $4.89 yd.; Carpet- $5.75 yd.; Masonite Siding 4x8- $14; 12”x16' lap siding at $6.95 ea.

School Desks - $7.50 ea.

RECYCLING, Top prices paid for Aluminum cans, Copper, Brass, Radiators, Aluminum.

Davis Enterprises Inc. 7585 Sherrills Ford Rd. Salisbury, NC 28147 704-636-9821 Toddler Bed, white, $55; 2 sets of bedding Thomas & Cars, $10 each; child's organizer, $15. 704-279-8571.

Business Opportunities J.Y. Monk Real Estate School-Get licensed fast, Charlotte/Concord courses. $399 tuition fee. Free Brochure. 800-849-0932

Nurse uniforms. Most still have tags, sizes 24 to 28, & also regular clothes $2 and up.

704-433-2483

Hunting and Fishing 14' DEEP V ALUMINUM BOAT 8hp Merc motor, trolling motor, fish finder, many extras. $1500.

336-425-6973

Bingham Smith Lumber Co. !!!NOW AVAILABLE!!!

Metal Roofing Many colors. Custom lengths, trim, accessories, & trusses.

Call 980-234-8093 Patrick Smith

SUNRISE EASTER SERVICE Grace Bible Church Rockwell will host a Sunrise Easter Service at 7am with a FREE pancake breakfast to follow. Please join us in this celebration!

6725 Hwy. 152 E. Rockwell, NC 28138 704-279-6820

Cross training for persons with healthcare (direct care, mgmt., admin, support, ancil. services, EMS) or Computer technology experience. Fed (US HHS ONC HIT ARRA) funded. Placement assistance provided. Visit www.cvcc.edu/hitwd or call 828327-7000-x 4816

Found dog. Mixed breed female. 40lb. White face, golden brown coloring.

Crescent neighborhood.

Please call to identify.

704-267-0106 Found Husky in Spencer area. Please call 704-213-3801 to identify

REWARD! Lost Chihuahua in Tanglewood. Male, tan and white, wearing blue collar, needs medication.

704-490-5830

Rowan Memorial Pk., two plots in Roseland Section, $2800 OBO for both. 336-239-3981

China Grove

OWNER FINANCING

For Sale by Owner. 3BR, 2BA. Nice house and neighborhood. New paint, blinds and appliances. Possible owner financing with small down payment. $109,000 with payments approx. $775/month. Please call 704-663-6766

CLEVELAND 35 ACRES

Very private, 6-yr. old home on 35 acres.

New paint, Pergo flooring, HVAC and metal roof. Gas logs.

Huge master suite w/ jacuzzi. Sun room.

Double garage. 172 Rocky Pt Dr. MLS# 51546 $270,000. Call April at 704-402-8083.

Homes for Sale

ACREAGE! Salisbury. Providence Church Road. 3BR/2BA, garage, two car carport, new roof, new interior paint, washer, dryer and dishwasher, 3 large lots, 3 outbuildings, central air & heat. $109,000. 704637-6950

Free Stuff

Instruction

Electronic Health Record Specialist Training

Found dog. Little brown Dachshund, male. Found at City Park on Tuesday April 12th. 704-633-1569

Community Events

Cleveland. Beautiful, pristine brick home on 25 acs. 3BR/2BA with bonus room and basement. Has fenced pasture land great for horses & a garden spot. If you want privacy & a great neighborhood along with a beautiful home, wait no more. Call today. $575,000. Motivated Sellers. Dream Weaver Properties of NC LLC 704-906-7207 www.dreamweaverprop.com

Alexander Place

Education / Training

Makes a beautiful property line boundary or privacy screen. One gallon three ft., $10. Seven gallon six ft. & full, $40. 14 ft. B&B, $200.

All of the above includes mulch, special fertilizer, delivery and installation!

704-274-0569

Found dog.

Jack Russell, male, Sunday, April 10 off Fisher Road in Rockwell. Call to identify. 704-280-7649

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However, some fraudulent ads are not detectable. Please protect yourself by checking the validity of any offer before you invest money in a business opportunity, job offer or purchase.

Monument & Cemetery Lots

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Call today about our Private Party Special!

Found dog. Hound mix.

Male. Grove St. area on Sunday April 10. Please call 704-245-5109

Homes for Sale

Cats, free, 2 adult cats, male, white female, calico must go to same home, both fixed and house trained. Call 704239-8591ask for Annette Lab mixed with golden retriever, free to a good home. He is 8 months old, good with other dogs and kids. 336-284-5064

E. Spencer

Bring All Offers

China Grove, 2 new homes under construction ... buy now and pick your own colors. Priced at only $114,900 and comes with a stove and dishwasher. B&R Realty 704-633-2394

3 BR, 2 BA, newer kitchen, large dining room, split bedrooms, nice porches, huge detached garage, concrete drives. R51548 $82,000. Monica Poole 704-245-4628 B&R Realty

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6C • SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2011 Homes for Sale

Homes for Sale

Rockwell, 3 BR, 2 BA. Cute brick home in quiet subdivision. Outbuilding, wooded lot, nice deck off back. Kitchen appliances stay. R51385 $129,900 B&R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663 East Rowan

Homes for Sale

Reduced!

Lovely 3BR/ 2BA brick ranch in great location.

Hardwood floors, large rooms, sun porch, attached garage, big fenced back yard. $123,900.

MLS #976913 for details 704-202-0091 Rankin-Sherrill House, Mt. Ulla

Wonderful Home

Homes for Sale Salisbury

Rockwell

East Rowan

Homes for Sale Salisbury

Motivated Seller

Unique Property

3 BR, 2 BA in Hunters Pointe. Above ground pool, garage, huge area that could easily be finished upstairs.

R51150A. $164,900.

B&R Realty 704-633-2394

Cute 1 BR 1 BA waterfront log home with beautiful view! Ceiling fans, fireplace, front and back porches. $189,900. Dale R51875 Yontz 704-202-3663 B&R Realty Salisbury

Mechanics DREAM Home, 28x32 shop with lift & air compressor, storage space & ½ bath. All living space been completely has refurbished. Property has space that could be used as a home office or dining room, deck on rear, 3 BR, 1 BA. R51824A $164,500 B&R Realty, Monica Poole 704-245-4628

Convenient Location

Beautiful 3 BR, 2 BA in a great location, walk-in closets, cathedral ceiling, great room, double attached garage, large lot, back-up generator. A see.

R51757. must $249,900. B&R Realty, 704-202-6041 Fulton Heights

Rockwell

Reduced

REDUCED

Motivated Seller Timber Run Subdivision, 4 BR, 2.5 BA, granite countertops, wood floors, rec room, screened porch, deck. R51603 $349,900 B & R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663 Salisbury

3 BR, 2 BA, Well established neighborhood.

All brick home with large deck. Large 2 car garage.

R50188 $163,900 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

3 BR, 2 BA, up to $2,500 in closing. Attached carport, Rocking Chair front porch, nice yard. R50846 $114,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Salisbury

Awesome Location

New Home

3 BR, 2 BA home in wonderful location!

Cathedral ceiling, split floor plan, double garage, deck, storage large building, corner lot.

R51853 $154,900 Monica Poole 704-2454628 B&R Realty

Forest Creek. 3 BedNew room, 1.5 bath. home priced at only $84,900. R48764 B&R Realty 704.633.2394 Salisbury

New Listing

Salisbury

Lots of Extras Gorgeous Remodeled 4 BR home in Country Club Hills.

Large kitchen, Granite Counters, Huge Master Suite, Family Room, Wide Deck, Attached Garage, & Fenced Back Yard with Great In-Ground pool. $235,000.

704-202-0091 MLS# 986835

Price Reduced

3BR, 2BA. $3,500 in closing. New hardwoods in master BR and living room. Lovely kitchen with new stainless appliances.

Deck, private back yard.

R51492 $124,900 Poole B&R Monica Realty 704-245-4628 Salisbury

Convenient Location Granite Quarry. 1112 Birch St. (Eastwood Dev) 3BR, 2BA. 1,900 sq. ft. w/ in-ground pool. Beautiful home inside with open floor plan, hardwood floors, large master suite, cathedral ceilings and sunroom. Tastefully landscaped outside. A MUST SEE and owner is ready sell! $179,800. to $169,900. 704-433-0111

Very nice 2 BR, 2.5 BA condo overlooking golf course and pool! Great views, freshly decorated, screened in porch at rear. T51378. $96,500. Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

Homes for Sale

Salisbury & Shelby, 2, 3 & 4 BR, starting at $29,900! Must see! Call today 704-633-6035

Salisbury. 2 or 3 bedroom Townhomes. For information, call Summit Developers, Inc. 704-797-0200

Land for Sale E. Rowan res. water front lot, Shore Landing subd. $100,000 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628

3 BR 2.5 BA has many extras! Great kitchen w/granite, subzero ref., gas cooktop. Formal dining, huge garage, barn, greenhouse. Great for horses or car buffs!

R51894 $439,500. Dale Yontz.

704-202-3663 B&R Realty

3 BR, 2 BA brick home in Woodbridge Run subdivision. Storm doors, double pane windows, screened porch, attached double garage. 52136 $169,500 B&R Realty 704-202-6041 Salisbury

Over 2 Acres

Salisbury

Lots of Room

Hurry! Gorgeous 4 BR, 2.5 BA, fantastic kitchen, large living and great room. All new paint, carpet, roof, windows, siding. R51926 $144,900 Poole B&R Monica Realty 704-245-4628

No. 61290 The Town of Landis will be taking Sealed Bid Proposals for contracted solid waste collection through May 4, 2011 at 2 p.m. This contracted service shall be done in accordance with specifications provided by the Town and proposals shall be submitted on forms furnished.

MODEL-LIKE CONDITION Salisbury. Windmill Ridge. 137 Browns Farm Rd., Two story, 4BR, 2½BA. 2640, cathedral ceilings, custom decorating, gas logs, great room, hardwood flooring, ceramic tile, open & bright, security system, jacuzzi, 2½ car garage, 0.6 acre. upgrades throughout! $219,900

(704) 640-1234

Salisbury. 3BR, 2BA on 1.26 acres. All new appliances, updated bathrooms (new toilets, sinks, etc.) Two car garage, well water.

Septic system drained summer 2010.

Electric heat, air conditioning. Large workshop/ garage. $75,000 obo. Call Kellie at 704-701-9468

3 BR, 2.5 BA, wonderful home on over 2 acres, horses allowed, partially fenced back yard, storage building. $154,900 R51465 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

FOR SALE BY OWNER 36.6 ACRES AND HOME

Salisbury

Small budget Lots for Space

4/5 BR,2 BA, move-in ready. Updated with lots of space, great city location, neighborhood park across the street, large kitchen, sunny utility room. Priced over $20,000 BELOW TAX List Value. R52017A Price: $94,900 B&R Realty Monica Poole 704.245.4628

Spencer

Reduced Salisbury. 925 Agner Rd. Below tax and appraisal value at $399,000.

3 BR/2BA brick home w/sunroom and 2 car garage sits in the middle of this beautiful property. Open and wooded pasture areas w/barn. 704-603-8244 or 704-209-1405 4 BR, 2BA, like new Craftsman Style, huge front porch, renovated kitchen and bath, fresh paint. R51516 $124,900 Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704-202-3663

2,500 total sq. ft.

Appliances Included Built on your lot $126,900

Western Rowan County

Do you want first shot at the qualified buyers, or the last chance?

Description brings results!

Homes for Sale

$500 Down moves you in. Call and ask me how? Please call (704) 225-8850

3 BR, 2 BA True Modular Ranch. Over 1600 sq.ft. $129,000 value. Quick sale $107,900 set up on your land. 704-463-7555

A Country Paradise

Land for Sale

Genesis Realty 704-933-5000 genesisrealtyco.com Foreclosure Experts

1 OR 5 ACRES CLEVELAND

For Sale by Owner

In the Reserve, next to Salisbury Country Club. A lovely 3BR, 2BA six year old home.

Custom features throughout. Too many extras to list. View by appointment only.

704-212-2636. First offer over $203K gets it!

What A Deal!

1 & 2BR. Nice, well maintained, responsible landlord. $415-$435. Salisbury, in town. 704-642-1955

Condos and Townhomes

403 Carolina Blvd. Duplex For Rent. 2BR,1BA. $500/mo. Please call 704-279-8467 AAA+ Apartments $425-$950/mo.

Chambers Realty 704-637-1020 Airport Rd., 1BR with stove, refrig., garbage pickup & water incl.

Month-month lease. No pets. $400/mo+$300 deposit. Furnished $425/mo.

704-279-3808

Available now! Spacious and thoughtfully designed one bedroom apartment homes for Senior Citizens 55+ years of age. $475 rent with only a $99 deposit! Call now for more information 704-639-9692.

We will welcome your Section 8 voucher!

BEST VALUE

704-746-4492

Cleveland, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1600 SF on first floor, 1100 SF basement, in ground pool, outbuildings, 4.13 acres, $189K (22K below new tax value) 704-9285062

Salisbury

Barnhardt Meadows.

Quality home sites in setting, country restricted, pool and pool House complete. Use your builder or let us build for you. Lots start at $24,900. B&R Realty 704-633-2394

Manufactured Home Sales

New Cape Cod Style House

www.applehouserealty.com

Lots for Sale

1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Available Now! Ro-Well Apartments, Rockwell.

Central heat/air, laundry facility on site, nice area.

Equal Housing Opportunity Rental Assistance when available; handicapped equipped when available.

704-279-6330, TDD users 828-645-7196.

Southwestern Rowan Co.

Knox Farm Subdivision.

Beautiful lots available now starting at $19,900. B&R Realty 704.633.2394

VERY NICE HOUSE!

Bank Foreclosures & Distress Sales. These homes need work! For a FREE list:

East Rowan. 10 acres.

160 ft. road frontage on Gold Knob Rd. Wooded.

Paved road. Near East Rowan High School $94,500. 704-279-4629

Apartments

1, 2, & 3 BR Huge Apartments, very nice. $375 & up. 704-754-1480

Salisbury

Great Location 2 BR, 1 BA, hardwood floors, detached carport, handicap ramp. $99,900 R47208 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Homes for Sale

SALISBURY

Salisbury

3BR/2BA Beautifully renovated historic brick, 2 story antebellum home, 2880 SF, 2 acs. double detached garage. Old smokehouse converted to workshop & storage. Just reduced to $195,000 MLS#51617. April Sherrill Realty 704-402-8083.

SALISBURY POST

CLASSIFIED

Cleared, level land on Chenault Rd. 1.34 acs $12,750, 5 acs $41,800.

Call April Sherrill Realty 704-402- 8083 Bringle Ferry Rd. 2 tracts.

Will sell land or custom build. A50140A. B&R Realty, Monica 704-245-4628

Condos and Townhomes

Special Financing

15 minutes N. of Salisbury. 2 BR, 2 BA singlewide on large treed lot in quiet area with space to plant flowers. $850 start-up, $450/mo incl. lot rent, home payment, taxes, insurance.

RENT or RENT-TO704-210-8176.

OWN. Call after noon.

American Homes of Rockwell Oldest Dealer in Rowan County. Best prices anywhere. 704-279-7997 Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850

Real Estate Services Allen Tate Realtors Daniel Almazan, Broker 704-202-0091 www.AllenTate.com

Quiet & Convenient, 2 bedroom town houses, 1½ baths. All Electric, Central heat/air, no pets, pool. $550/mo.

Includes water & basic cable.

West Side Manor Apts.

Robert Cobb Rentals Variety World, Inc. 2345 Statesville Blvd.

Near Salisbury Mall

704-633-1234 China Grove. 2BR, 2BA. All electric. Clean & safe.

No pets. $575/month + deposit. 704-202-0605 China Grove. One room eff. w/ private bathroom & kitchenette. All utilities incl'd. $379/mo. + $100 deposit. 704-857-8112 CLANCY HILLS APARTMENTS 1, 2 & 3 BR, conveniently located in Salisbury.

Handicap accessible units available. Section 8 assistance available. 704-6366408. Office Hours: M–F 9:00-12:00.

TDD Relay 1-800-735-2962 Equal Housing Opportunity.

Clancy-hills@cmc-nc.com

B & R REALTY 704-633-2394

No. 61300

www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Public Notice - Town of East Spencer Special Meeting Notice of the Town of East Spencer Board of Alderpersons is called for Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the East Spencer's Municipal Building in the Aldermanic Chambers located at 105 South Long Street East Spencer, North Carolina.

The purpose of this meeting is for the Executive Session for the purpose of Personnel Matters.

Attest: Anneissa J. Hyde, Town Clerk

Brand new! 3 BR, 2 BA, home w/great front porch, rear deck, bright living room, nice floor plan.

Special financing for qualified buyers. Call today! R52142 $90,000 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628

Landis. 1BR/1BA home, 900 sq ft on 1/3 acre, natural gas heat, partially remodeled. $55,000. Call 704-223-1462

Want to get results? 

See stars

Century 21 Towne & Country 474 Jake Alexander Blvd.

(704)637-7721

Colony Garden Apartments 2BR and 1-1/2 BA Town Homes $585/mo.

Call about our

Spring Move-in Special 704-762-0795

PRIOR TO RENTING VISIT or CALL Dogs

Dogs

Dogs

Pit Bull mix puppies free to a good home only!

Call Paul 704-232-9535

Rowan Animal Clinic is having a Horse Coggins & Vaccination Clinic onsite on April 27th, 8am-6pm.

RSVP: 704-636-3408

Birds

Cats

CKC Chihuahua babies. $400.

Up-to-date on shots. Deworming & crate training started.

Looking for loving indoor homes only. Please call 704-279-7165

Cat, neutered male, free to a good home. Rabies and annual vaccines are due this month. Call 704-640-5562

Kittens. 3 orange and white, 2 gray and white kittens. 5 weeks old.

704-278-2722 after 3:00

Dogs

Cane Corso Mastiff / American Pit Bull Terrier mix puppies.

Shots and dewormed. $125. 704-762-6301

Cocker Spaniels, AKC. 8 weeks old. 1 male, 1 female. Have had 1st shots and wormings. Will be very small dogs.

Reduced Prices. $250 & $275. Different colors available. 704-856-1106

Found puppy. A cute puppy has been found off Briggs Road. If you lost a puppy in the area, call 704-213-7667 for more information.

Free dog to good home.

Full blooded Boxer, 2 years and 8 months old, good with kids, just very hyper. Needs room to run 704-210-9125 Free dog.

German Shepard Mix. Free to good home. Female.

Fixed & shots. 8 months old. 704-575-0158

2BR ~ 1.5 BA ~ Starting at $555

Senior Discount

Water, Sewage & Garbage included

Golden Retriever Puppies, papers, first shots, four males $250 each, parents on site.

Born January 11. Ready for their new home! 704638-9747

Golden Retriever/ Cocker Spaniel mix, female, not fixed, 1 yr old; Dachshund mix approx.

3 yr. old, male. 704-6386441 or 704-798-7547

Cat, white, free. One blue eye, one brown. Spayed & rabies shot. Approx. 7 months old. Prefers to be the only pet. Call Katie @ 704-213-6631.

Giving away kittens or puppies?

SWEET PUPS!

PRICE~QUALITY~LOCATION

Shih-Tzu, Full Blood. CKC registered.

Very cute, playful, good w/kids, black & white. 8 wks old & ready to go home. 1st shot, wormed. 1 male left.

Parents on-site. $300 Cash.

704-640-4528, Salisbury

SWEET BABES O' MINE!

Got puppies or kittens for sale?

www.rebeccajonesrealty.com

Rowan Realty www.rowanrealty.net, Professional, Accountable, Personable . 704-633-1071 William R. Kennedy Realty 428 E. Fisher Street 704-638-0673

Wanted: Real Estate

704-637-5588

Located at Woodleaf Road & Holly Avenue www.Apartments.com/hollyleaf

Call 24 hours, 7 days ** 704-239-2033 ** $$$$$$

2205 Woodleaf Rd., Salisbury, NC 28147 Chow Puppies for sale.

AKC Registered. 5 males & 2 females, black and cinnamon. Ready April 28. $250 each. Call 704279-7520, leave message or 704-640-4224

Rebecca Jones Realty 610 E. Liberty St, China Grove 704-857-SELL

*Cash in 7 days or less *Facing or In Foreclosure *Properties in any condition *No property too small/large

WITH 12 MONTH LEASE

C46365

Free Cockatiel bird including cage. Probably about two years old.

704-224-5219

A PA R T M E N T S We Offer

KEY REAL ESTATE, INC. 1755 U.S. HWY 29.

South China Grove, NC 28023 704-857-0539

To advertise in this directory call

704-797-4220

Other Pets HHHHHHHHH English Bulldog Pups AKC. One female and one male. Fawn and White.

Ready to go. Champion Pedigree. $1700 each Cash. 704-603-8257.

Great Family Dog!

SWEET BABY FACES!

Check Out Our April Special! Dentals 20% discount. Rowan Animal Clinic. Please call 704636-3408 for appt.

Free Pot Belly Pig, male, approximately 1½ years old to good home.

704-224-5219

Pets & Livestock Supplies & Services Puppies, Alaskan Malamutes. Very beautiful!

Will be ready April 25th.

1st shots & worming.

Mom weighs 110 lbs.

Dad weights 125 lbs.

Both on site. 5 females $450 each. 1 male, $400.

Call 704-492-8448

Puppies and kittens available. Follow us on FaceBook Animal Care Center of Salisbury. Call 704-637-0227

“A Good Place to Live” 1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms Affordable & Spacious Water Included 704-636-8385 Duplexes & Apts, Rockwell$500-$600. TWO Bedrooms Marie Leonard-Hartsell Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 marie@sellingsalisbury.com Eaman Park Apt. 2 BR, 1 BA, newly renovated. $400/mo. No pets. Please call 704-798-3896 East Rowan area. 2BR, $450-$550 per month.

Chambers Realty 704-239-0691 Eastwind Apartments Low Rent Available For Elderly & Disabled.

Rent Based on Social Security Income *Spacious 1 BR *Located on bus line *Washer/Dryer Hookups Call Fisher Realty at: 704-636-7485 for more information.

Faith, 2 BR, 1 BA. Has refrigerator and stove.

Yard maintenance and garbage pickup furnished. All electric.

Rent $475, deposit $400.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

Granite Quarry, 2 BR, 2 BA. Very nice, gas heat.

Rent $525, Deposit $500.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

Pet Grooming Clippers, Andis Professional. Used 2 times. $50. Please Call 704-636-6437 Puppies. Shih-Tzu, AKC registered just in time for the Easter Bunny! Born February 21. All shots, one female & four males.

704-637-7524

Colonial Village Apts.

Fleming Heights Apartments April & May Special Get $50 off your 1st 6 months rent 55 & older 704-6365655 Mon.-Fri. 2pm5pm. Call for more information. Equal Housing Opportunity. TDD Sect.

8 vouchers accepted.

800-735-2962

C47860

Dogs

Forest Glen Realty Darlene Blount, Broker 704-633-8867

Clean, well maintained, 2 BR Duplex.

Central heat/air, all electric. Section 8 welcome. 704-202-5790

P.O. Box 1621 Concord, North Carolina 28026 Ph: 704-239-2074 jlbarch@ctc.net

S42814

Lovely Duplex Rowan Hospital area. 2BR, 1BA. Heat, air, water, appl. incl. $675. 704-633-3997

SALISBURY POST Apartments East Spencer - 2 BR, 1 BA. $400 per month.

Carolina-Piedmont Prop.

704-248-2520 Moreland Pk area.

2BR all appliances furnished. $495-$595/mo. negotiable.

Deposit Section 8 welcome.

336-247-2593

Houses for Rent

Houses for Rent

Houses for Rent

Available for rent – Homes and Apartments Salisbury/Rockwell Eddie Hampton 704-640-7575

Salisbury 2BR/1BA, H/A, H/W floors, new paint, $475/mo + $475 dep. NO PETS! 828-390-0835

Salisbury. 3 & 2 Bedroom Houses. $500-$1,000. Also, Duplex Apartments. 704636-6100 or 704-633-8263

Salisbury

Salisbury. 4 rooms. 71 Hill St. All appls furnished. $495/ mo + dep.

Limit 2. 704-633-5397

E Rowan area 3BR/2BA, central heat and air, remodeled like new, no pets. 704-279-6139

Moving to Town? Need a home or Apartment?

We manage rental homes & apartments.

Call and let us help you.

Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462

E. Lafayette, 2 BR, 1 BA, has refrigerator and stove. Gas heat, no pets.

Rent $595, deposit $500.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

www.waggonerrealty.com

NICE DUPLEX WITH CARPORT Roomy 2 BR/1 Bath. East Rowan area. $550. Call 704-239-8386 Salis. 1BR/2BR. Wood floors, appls, great location. Seniors Welcome. $375-$450/mo. + dep. 704-630-0785 Salis. 523 E. Cemetary St. 1BR, 1 BA, No Pets, $330/mo + $330/dep. Sect 8 OK. 704-507-3915.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2011 • 7C

CLASSIFIED

E. Rowan. 3BR, 2BA. Carport, living room, great room. Central heat & air, credit check, lease, $895/ mo + deposit. No pets. 704639-6000 or 704-633-0144 East Rowan area. 2BR, 1BA house. 1BR apt. No pets. Deposit required.

Call 704-279-8428

Adorable!

Salisbury. 4BR, 2BA. Gas heat/air conditioning.

Hardwood floors. No pets. $700/mo. + $700 deposit. 704-633-5067 Salisbury. 1018 West Horah St. 4BR, 3BA with 2 kitchens. $750/mo. Please call 919-519-7248

Salisbury. 4BR, 3½BA executive home. $1,750/mo with deposit & 1 year lease.

Must have references. Call 704-202-0605

Salisbury apt. houses for rent 2-3BRs. Application, deposit, & proof of employment req'd. Section 8 welcome. 704-762-1139

Salisbury. 922 N. Main St. 3BR. $650/mo. 550 Hopehill Rd. mobile home. $325/mo.

704-645-9986

Salisbury East Liberty Street, 3BR/1½BA, gas heat, $590 per month.

704-633-0425 Lv msg Salisbury

Great Location!

Salisbury/Spencer 2, 4 & 5 BR $450-$850/mo. 704202-3644 or leave message. No calls after 7pm SPENCER 2 BR, 1BA $440/Month Appliances & Storage 910-508-9853

Office and Commercial Rental Furnished Key Man Office Suites - $250-350.

Jake & 150. Util & internet incl. 704-721-6831 Numerous Commercial and office rentals to suit your needs. Ranging from 500 to 5,000 sq. ft. Call Victor Wallace at Wallace Realty, 704-636-2021

Office and Commercial Rental

Manufactured Home Lot Rentals South Rowan area.

Attractive mobile home lots.

Water, garbage, sewer furnished. $160/mo. 704636-1312 or 704-798-0497

Prime Location 309 North Main St. Ground level, newly redecorated. 765 sq. ft.

Utilities, janitorial & parking incl. 704-636-3567

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Rockwell. Nice retail or office building. $400/ mo.

Call 704-279-6973 or 704-279-7988

3 BEDROOM 1½ BATH Salisbury~Singlewide on 1 Acre~NO indoor pets~ $450 month-$450 deposit 704-309-5017 Cooleemee. 2BR $100 / wk, $400 dep on ½ ac lot.

336-998-8797, 704-9751579 or 704-489-8840

Spencer Shops Lease great retail space for as little as $750/mo for 2,000 sq ft at. 704-431-8636

East Area. 2BR, water, trash. Limit 2. Dep. req.

No pets. Call 704-6367531 or 704-202-4991

Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Water, trash, lawn maint. incl. No pets. Ref. $425. 704-2794282 or 704-202-3876

HIGH TRAFFIC AREA IN ROCKWELL!

Salisbury Airport Rd, 1BR / 1BA, water, trash collection incl'd. All elec. $395/mo. 704633-0425 Lv Msg Salisbury, near hospital. 2 BR, 1BA. Central heat & air, W/D hookup. $450/mo. No pets. 704-279-3518 Spencer. 2BR/1½ BA, appls w/ W/D hook up, security lights, no pets, Sect. 8 OK. 704-279-3990 WELCOME HOME TO DEER PARK APTS. We have immediate openings for 1 & 2 BR apts.

Call or come by and ask about our move-in specials. 704-278-4340 for info. For immediate info call 1-828-442-7116

Condos and Townhomes Kannapolis. 2 story townhouse. 2BR, 2BA brick front. Kitchen/dining combo, large family room. Private deck. $600/mo. 704534-5179 / 704-663-7736

Houses for Rent 2/1 DUPLEX NICE NEIGHBORHOOD Clean and cozy duplex in Fulton Heights. $450/mo.

1117 Fries. 704-797-6130 3 BR, 1 BA, has refrigerator, stove & big yard. No pets. $625/rent + $600/dep. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446 3 BR, 2 BA, close to Salisbury Mall. Gas heat, nice. Rent $695, deposit Call Rowan $600.

Properties 704-633-0446

N. Salisbury in the Country, 2 BR, 1 BA, limit 3, no pets. Dep. & ref. $375/mo. 704-855-2100

East Spencer, 608 Sides Lane. Brick ranch style house with 3BR, 2 BA, LR, DR & Den. Eat in kitchen, laundry room, Central Heat & A/C. Carpet in all rooms. Sec 8 only. No pets. Rent $750. Dep $500. Call 732-770-1047.

Fairmont Ave., 3 BR, 1 ½ BA, has refrigerator & stove, large yard. Rent $725, dep. $700. No Pets.

Call Rowan Properties, 704-633-0446 Granite Quarry. 3BR, 2BA. Fireplace, appliances, 2 car garage.

Brick house.

Please call 704-638-0108 Houses: 3BRs, 1BA. Apartments: 2 & 3 BR's, 1BA Deposit required.

Faith Realty 704-630-9650

Near China Grove. 2BR, 1BA. Limit 3. No pets. $600/mo. Dep. & credit check req. 704-279-4838 Spencer and Near Salisbury, 2 bedroom, one bath house in quiet, nice neighborhood. No pets. Lease, dep, app and refs req. $600/mo, $600 dep, 704-797-4212 before 7pm. 704-2395808 after 7pm.

RENT - 2 BR - $650, Park Area; 4 BR, 2 BA, 2,000 sq', garage, basement, $1195. RENT TO OWN 3 BR, 2 BA, 2000 ± sq', country. $3000 dn; 5 BR, 2 ½ BA, 3400 ± sq', garage, basement, fenced. $6000 dn. 704-630-0695

Lippard Garage Doors Installations, repairs, electric openers. 704636-7603 / 704-798-7603

Auction Thursday 12pm 429 N. Lee St. Salisbury Antiques, Collectibles, Used Furniture 704-213-4101 Carolina's Auction Rod Poole, NCAL#2446 Salisbury (704)633-7369 www.thecarolinasauction.com

Heritage Auction Co. Glenn M.Hester NC#4453 Salisbury (704)636-9277 www.heritageauctionco.com

We Build Garages, 24x24 = $12,500.

All sizes built! ~ 704-633-5033 ~

Cleaning Services Complete Cleaning Service. Basic, windows, spring, new construction, & more. 704-857-1708

R. Giles Moss Auction & Real Estate-NCAL #2036.

Full Service Auction Company. Estates ** Real Estate Had your home listed a long time? Try selling at auction. 704-782-5625

Elaine's Special Cleaning Sparkling Results, Reasonable Rates.

Free Estimates & References Given.

704-637-7726

Rowan Auction Co. Professional Auction Services: Salis., NC 704-633-0809 Kip Jennings NCAL 6340.

Salisbury, 2 BR houses & apts, $525/mo and up.

704-633-4802

Office and Commercial Rental 450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd.

Call 704-279-8377 5,000 sq.ft. warehouse w/loading docks & small office. Call Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011

Salisbury, near Ellis Park. Old Mocksville Rd. 3BR, 2BA double-wide.

Electric heat & air. Well water. Storage building with small shed. Garbage service included. $750/ mo. + $750 deposit. No Section 8. 704-279-5765

704-636-8058

Beaver Grading Quality work, reasonable rates.

Free Estimates 704-6364592

Heating and Air Conditioning

OLYMPIC DRYWALL

Piedmont AC & Heating Electrical Services Lowest prices in town!!

704-213-4022

704-279-2600 Since 1955 olympicdrywallcompany.com

Fencing Free Estimates Bud Shuler & Sons Fence Co. 225 W Kerr St 704-633-6620 or 704-638-2000 Price Leader since 1963

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Since 1985.

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Industrial/ Warehouse

1.87 acres of land. 5,000 sq. ft. metal building with 15 ft. ceilings, three roll up doors and two regular doors, office, and two bathrooms. Service road to I-85.

(Exit 81, Spencer). Call 704-2024872 after 5 pm.

Drywall Services

New Homes Additions & Repairs Small Commercial Ceiling Texture Removal

Office and Commercial Rental

Salisbury

Backhoe work, lots cleared, ditches, demolition, hauling. Reasonable prices. 704-637-3251

Home Improvement A HANDYMAN & MOORE Kitchen & Bath remodeling Quality Home Improvements Carpentry, Plumbing, Electric Clark Moore 704-213-4471 Around the House Repairs Carpentry. Electrical. Plumbing. H & H Construction 704-633-2219

Including carpentry, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, roofing, flooring.

Free Estimates, Insured ....

Our Work is Guaranteed!

~704-637-6544~

Office Space

We have office suites available in the Executive Center. First Month Free with No Deposit! With all utilities from $150 and up. Lots of amenities.

Call Tom Bost at B & R Realty 704-202-4676

Garages, new homes, remodeling, roofing, siding, back hoe, loader 704-6369569 Maddry Const Lic G.C. HMC Handyman Services. Any job around the house. Please call 704-239-4883

Salisbury. 3/4BR, 2BA. F/P, garden tub, 4 skylights, 2,250 sqft., 2 car carport. Section 8 welcome. School bus picks up in front of house for elem., middle and high school. $850/mo + $850 dep. Please call 704-245-4191 or 704310-5990

Salisbury/Spencer

West & South Rowan. 2 & 3 BR. No pets. Perfect for 3. Water included.

Please call 704-857-6951

Cadillac Seville SLS Sedan, 2001. Cashmere exterior with oatmeal interior. Stock #F11236B. $7,987.1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

MILLER HOTEL Rooms for Rent Weekly $110 & up 704-855-2100

www.bostandrufty-realty.com

China Grove Two prilots available vate immediately. Call 704855-0160 for information.

Salis./China Grove area, whole house use included. $105/wk + dep. Utilities pd.

Call Marty 704-496-1050.

Home Improvement

Junk Removal

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Hometown Lawn Care & Handyman Service. Mowing, pressure washing, gutter cleaning, odd jobs ~inside & out. Comm, res. Insured. Free estimates. “No job too small” 704-433-7514 Larry Sheets, owner

CASH FOR cars & trucks. Will pick up cars within 2 hours of your call. $275 & up. Call Tim at 980-234-6649

Brown's Landscape

James Bogle Home Repairs Floors, Paint, Pressure Wash, Baths, Kitchens.

Call 704-639-9324 or 704-798-4911

Remodeling, Room Additions, Garages & Decks, Foundation & Crawl Space Repairs kirkmanlarry11@ yahoo.com

Remodeling. Hardwood & Vinyl flooring, carpet, decks added. Top Quality work! 704-637-3251

Kitchens, Baths, Sunrooms, Remodel, Additions, Wood & Composite Decks, Garages, Vinyl Rails, Windows, Siding. & Roofing. ~ 704-633-5033 ~

_ Bush Hogging _ Plowing _ Tilling _ Raised garden beds Free Estimates

CASH FOR JUNK CARS And batteries.

Call 704-279-7480 or 704-798-2930

Extra Nice

Buick Rendezvous, 2002.

AWD, leather interior, heated seats, all extras.

156K miles. $5800. 704-638-0226

Earl's Lawn Care 3Mowing 3Yard Cleanup 3Trimming Bushes

3Landscaping 3Mulching 3Core Aeration 3Fertilizing

I will pick up your nonrunning vehicles & pay you to take them away! Call Mike anytime. 336-479-2502

FREE Estimates

704-636-3415 704-640-3842 www.earlslawncare.com

I buy junk cars. Will pay cash. $250 & up. Larger cars, larger cash! Call 704-239-1471

GAYLOR'S LAWNCARE For ALL your lawn care needs! *FREE ESTIMATES* 704-639-9925/ 704-640-0542

Lawn Equipment Repair Services

Outdoors By Overcash Mowing, shrub trimming & leaf blowing. 704-630-0120

Lyerly's ATV & Mower Repair Free estimates. All types of repairs Pickup/delivery avail. 704-642-2787

HONDA, 2003, ACCORD EX. $500-800 down, will help finance. Credit, No Problem! Private party sale. Call 704-838-1538

Ford Crown Victoria LX, 2001. Toreador Red clearcoat metallic exterior with medium parchment interior. Stock# F11241A. $6,987. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Focus SE, 2010.

Natural neutral metallic exterior with medium stone interior. Stock # P7638. $14,687. 1-800542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Masonry and Brickwork

Mercedes S320, 1999 Black on Grey leather interior, 3.2, V6, auto trans, LOADED, all power ops, low miles, SUNROOF, chrome rims good tires, extra clean MUST SEE! 704-6034255

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Summer Special!

Plumbing Services

See me on Facebook

Miscellaneous Services Basinger Sewing Machine Repair. Parts & Service – Salisbury. 704-797-6840 or 704-797-6839

Moving and Storage TH Jones Mini-Max Storage 116 Balfour Street Granite Quarry Please 704-279-3808

Painting and Decorating Bowen Painting Interior and Exterior Painting 704-630-6976.

Cathy's Painting Service Interior & exterior, new & repaints. 704-279-5335

Mow, Trim & Blow $35 Average Yard Ask for Jeffrey

Complete plumbing repairs.

Rotten floors & water damage. $45 service calls.

Senior Citizen's discounts.

Call today!

Immediate Response!

336-251-8421 Roofing and Guttering SEAMLESS GUTTER Licensed Contractor C.M. Walton Construction, 704-202-8181

Guttering, leaf guard, metal & shingle roofs.

Ask about tax credits.

~ 704-633-5033 ~

Tree Service Graham's Tree Service Free estimates, reasonable rates. Licensed, Insured, Bonded. 704-633-9304

~ 704-245-5599 ~ Steve's Lawn Care We'll take care of all your lawn care needs!! Great prices. 704-431-7225

~ 704-202-2390 ~

Nissan Altima 2.5 S Coupe, 2009. Code Red Metallic w/Charcoal interior. Stock #F10363A. $19,687. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

High quality work.

Good prices on all your masonry needs.

John Sigmon Stump grinding, Prompt service for 30+ years, Free Estimates. John Sigmon, 704-279-5763.

Complete crawlspace work, Wood floor leveling, jacks installed, rotten wood replaced due to water or termites, brick/block/tile work, foundations, etc.

704-933-3494

Quality work at affordable prices NC G.C. #17608 NC Home Inspector #107. Complete contracting services, under home repairs, foundation & masonry repairs, light tractor work & property maintenence. Pier, dock & seawall repair. 36 Yrs Exp. 704-633-3584 www.professionalservicesunltd.com Duke C. Brown Sr. Owner

Mercedes Benz C Class Sport, 2006.

6 speed manual V6.

704-603-4255

Hodges Plumbing Services

BowenPainting@yahoo.com

Mowing, seeding, shrubs, retainer walls.

All construction needs.

Sr. Discount. 25 Yrs. Exper. Lic. Contractor

Professional Services Unlimited

Lexus IS 300 Sedan, 2003. Graphite gray pearl exterior with black interior. Stock #T11202B. $12,787. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Financing Available!

704-224-6558

Billy J. Cranfield, Total Landscape

The Floor Doctor

Jaguar S-Type, 2005.

Black w/black leather interior, 6 sp. auto trans, 4.2L V8 engine, AM/FM/CD Changer, Premium Sound.

Call Steve today! 704-6034255

Rooms for Rent

Manufactured Home Lot Rentals

Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc.

Insured. 704-798-8199 Browning ConstructionStructural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC

Salisbury. 2BR, 2BA. Large singlewide mobile home. Fenced yard. $400/mo. 850-527-7958

Newly constructed S.E. Collins Corporate Building located at 1817 E. Innes St, Salisbury. 2 Professional Business Office Suites available on ground level.

1,375 and 1,425 sq ft each or combine for 2,800 sq ft.

Plenty of parking. Will upfit interior to suit. Ideal E. Innes location ½ mile from I-85 and 1 mile from downtown Salisbury. Negotiable lease terms. Call 704-638-6337 or email cbasinger@scollinseng.com

Office Complex

Grading & Hauling

All types concrete work ~ Insured ~ NO JOB TOO SMALL!

Rockwell.

3BR, 1BA. Private, Kitchen appls. & W/D hook-ups. $500/mo + deposit. 704-279-6529

EASY ACCESS TO I-85!

Concrete Work

Salisbury. 120 Proctor Dr. 3BR, 2BA. Appl. Incl. $725/mo. + deposit. Call 704-798-3108

“We can remove bankruptcies, judgments, liens, and bad loans from your credit file forever!”

Cleaning Services

Rockwell. 2BR, 1BA. Appl., water, sewer, trash service incl. $500/mo. + dep.

Pets OK. 704-279-7463

Office Suite Available.

Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011

Salisbury. 2BR, appls., storage bldg., $425/mo. + deposit. 704-279-6850 or 704-798-3035

Salisbury, North Shaver Street, 2BR/1BA, gas heat, $425 per month.

704-633-0425 Lv msg

Financial Services

www.perrysdoor.com

Nr. Carson H.S., 2BR / 1BA, $400 + dep., & Faith, 2BR/1BA, $375 + dep. NO PETS! 704-239-2833

Beside ACE HARDWARE, #229 E Main St Hwy 52, 2,700 sq ft finished store front combined with 2,100 sq ft warehouse. Call 704-279-4115 or email thadwhicker@cozartlumber.com

Granite Quarry-Comm Metal Bldg units perfect for contractor, hobbyist, or storage. 24 hour surveillance, exterior lighting and ample parking. 900-1800 sq feet avail. Call for spring specials. 704-232-3333

Salisbury. Perfect location near Court House & County Building. Six individual offices. New central heat/air, heavily insulated for energy efficiency, fully carpeted (to be installed) except stone at entrance, conference room, employee break room, tile bathroom, complete integrated phone system with video capability in each office & nice reception area.

Want to lease but will sell.

Perfect for dual occupancy.

By appt only. 704-636-1850

Reliable Fence All Your Fencing Needs, Reasonable Rates, 21 years experience.

(704)640-0223

Perry's Overhead Doors Sales, Service & Installation, Residential / Commercial. Wesley Perry 704-279-7325

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Park Ave, 2 bedroom, 1 Bath, Central air, gas heat, washer and dryer hookup. $450 a month 704-340-8032

B & L Home Improvement

Carport and Garages

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Spencer, 3BR/2BA, 7 years old, downstairs bonus room, gas logs in livingroom, includes all including appliances washer & dryer. Nice neighborhood, convenient to schools, 2 car $1,000/mo., garage, $950 dep. 704-202-2610

Cadillac Deville, 2005, Light Platinum w/Shale leather interior, 4.6L, DOHC, V8, Northstar, AUTO transmission, AM/FM/CD, all power, LOW MILES, nonsmoker, all books, alloy rims, RIDE OF LUXURY!! 704-603-4255

North Salisbury in the country, 3BR/2BA, no pets, dep. & refs. $475/mo. 704-855-2100

Spencer. 2BR, 1BA. Central heat/air. No pets. $500/mo. + $500 deposit.

704-633-5067

Call Curt LeBlanc today for Free Estimates

KEN WEDDINGTON Total Auctioneering Services 140 Eastside Dr., China Grove 704-8577458 License 392

www.gilesmossauction.com

Salisbury

Kannapolis-202 Allen St, 3BR, 1BA, $750/mo.

Enochville-5837 Christy Cir., 3BR, 3BA, DW $795/mo.

KREA 704-933-2231

Carport and Garages Auctions

Townhome. Impressive entry foyer with mahoghany staircase. Downstairs: L/R, country kitchen w/FP, island & appliances. Laundry room, ½ bath. Upstairs: 2BR, lots of closets, jacuzzi bath. Uniquely historic, but modern. 704-6914459

Honda Accord, 2004.

Automatic, leather. V-6.

Sunroof. Extra clean! Call Steve at 704-603-4255

East Rowan.

2BR. trash and lawn service included. No pets. $450 month. 704-433-1255

Warehouse space / manufacturing as low as $1.25/sq. ft./yr. Deposit.

Call 704-431-8636

Salis. Nice modern 1BR, energy efficient, off Jake Alexander, lighted parking lot. $395 dep. 704-640-5750 Salis., 2BR/1BA, W/D conn. $500/mo. Total remodel. All elec. Sect. 8 OK. 704-279-8333

Autos

Manufactured Home for Rent

Salisbury, Kent Exec.

Park, $100 & up, 1st month free, ground floor, incls conf rm, utilities, & ample pkg. 704-202-5879 Rowan County. Nice block building for lease or sale. Great location for a community type use or a small business. Has two baths, a kitchen and office area.

Call for details. Dream Weaver Properties of NC LLC 704-906-7207

Autos

Johnny Yarborough, Tree Expert trimming, topping, & removal of stumps by machine. Wood splitting, lots cleared. 10% off to senior citizens.

704-857-1731

• Don’t take chances with your hard earned money. Run your ad where it will pay for itself. Daily exposure brings fast results.

Manufactured Home Services Mobile Home Supplies~ City Consignment Company New & Used Furniture. Please Call 704636-2004

Stoner Painting Contractor • 25 years exp.

• Int./Ext. painting • Pressure washing • Staining • Mildew Removal • References • Insured 704-239-7553

MOORE'S Tree TrimmingTopping & Removing. Use Bucket Truck, 704-209-6254 Licensed, Insured & Bonded TREE WORKS by Jonathan Keener.

Insured – Free estimates!

Please call 704-636-0954.

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Autos

Motorcycles & ATVs

Autos

Transportation Dealerships

Toyota Yaris, 2009.

Barcelona red metallic exterior with dark charcoal interior. Stock # P7667. $14,287 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Focus SE 2000, red exterior, four door, very clean, great gas New tires, mileage. automatic, $3,800 obo.

Please call 704-798-4375

2009 Motofino Scooter, RAD-10 (50cc), 4-stroke engine, orange. Scooter is like new. Only 1327 miles. Paid $1200, asking $900 obo. Call 704-2791277 for more info. In Gold Hill area.

ATV. 2007 Arctic Cat 400, auto, 4x4, dark green, gun racks on front, padded seats on back with packs, 5x8 trailer, mesh bottom tailgate from Tractor Supply, 2 years old. 704-791-9910.

We're Moving!!

Nissan Sentra SE-R, 2003.

Vibrant blue metallic exterior with black interior. Stock# F11088A. $6,887.

1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Transportation Financing

TEAM CHEVROLET, CADILLAC, BUICK, GMC. www.teamautogroup.com 704-216-8000 Tim Marburger Dodge 287 Concord Pkwy N. Concord, NC 28027 704-792-9700

We're Moving!!

Transportation Financing

We are the area's largest selection of quality preowned autos. Financing avail. to suit a variety of needs. Carfax avail. No Gimmicks – We take pride in giving excellent service to all our customers.

Call Steve today! 704-603-4255 www.JakeAlexanderAutoSales.com

There is a NEW group of people EVERY day, looking for a DEAL in the classifieds.

Inventory Reduction Sale!

Toyota Corolla LE, Super white 2010. exterior with ash interior.

Stock# P7625. $14,987.

Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Autos ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 5:30 pm.

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

GMC Yukon SLT, 2004.

Summit white exterior with gray leather interior, 5.3 V8 auto transmission, Bose radio, full power ops, 4x4, alloy rims, RUNS & DRIVES AWESOME! 704-603-4255

Motorcycles & ATVs

Eddie Bauer Ford Expedition, 2006. Oxford white/ tan cloth interior. 5.4 V8 auto trans, all power ops, AM/FM/CD changer, Sunroof, alloy rims. Lighted running boards, 3rd seat. LIKE NEW !!!! 704-603-4255

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Ford Escape XLT, 2001. exterior with Yellow medium graphite interior.

Stock# F10556A. $6,387.

1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Motorcycles & ATVs

We're Moving!!

BMW X5, 2001. Alpine White / Tan leather interior 3.0 v6 tiptronic trans.

AWD, AM/FM/CD. Sunroof.

Alloy rims, all pwr options.

WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR!!!! Call Steve at 704-603-4255

Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer Ed., 2003 True Blue Metallic/ Med Parchment leather int., 4.0L (245), SOHC SEFI V6 AUTO, loaded, all pwr, AM/FM/CD changer, steering wheel controls, alloy rims, heated seats, rides & drives great! 704-603-4255

(moving to former Sagebrush location)

Rentals & Leasing

Rentals & Leasing

Chevrolet Avalanche 1500 LTZ, 2007. Black w/ebony/light exterior cashmere interior. Stock #F10336A. $24,687. 1800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

We're Moving!!

Weekly Special Only $14,995

2001 BMW 330ci Convertible, Steel Blue Metallic/Gray Leather, 3.0L V6, AM/FM/Tape/CD changer, all power ops, alloy rims. Rides & drives as good as it looks!

Call Steve today! 704-603-4255

Toyota, Tundra SR5, 2004. V8 (4.7 liter), 4x4.

All power. 89,500 miles.

Transferable warranty up to 100,000 miles. Excellent condition. $13,250.

704-728-9898

GMC Yukon XL 1500 SLT SUV, 2003. Green exterior with neutral/shale interior, Stock #F10528C2. $13,387. 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com Jeep Wrangler Limited, 2005. Bright silver metallic exterior w/black cloth interior. 6-speed, hard top, 29K miles. 704-603-4255

Ford Explorer XLT, 2004. birch clearcoat Silver metallic exterior with parchment medium interior. Stock# F10380A. $8,887. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Inventory Reduction Sale!

Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD LS Crew Cab, 2005.

Summit white exterior with dark charcoal interior.

Stock #P7656$14,587. Call 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

(moving to former Sagebrush location)

Motorcycles & ATVs

Service & Parts

Ford F-150 Super Crew Lariat, 4x4, leather interior, must see! Call Steve at 704-603-4255

Toyota FJ Cruiser, 2007.

Sun Fusion exterior with dark charcoal interior.

Stock# P7668. $25,387.

1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Honda Odyssey EX-L, 2007. White exterior with ivory interior. Stock# T10673A. $23,787. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Jeep Wrangler X, 2003, Bright Silver Metallic/ Gray Cloth, 4.0L HD 5speed manual transmission, AM/FM/CD, cruise, cold AC, 20 inch chrome rims, ready for Summer!

Please call 704-603-4255 Toyota Highlander Limited, 2003, Vintage Gold Metallic/Tan Leather, 4.0L 4speed auto trans. w/Snow Mode AM/FM/Tape/CD, all power, SUNROOF, dual power & heated seats , extra clean, ready for test drive.

Call Steve at 704-603-4255

Honda Pilot EXL, 2005, Redrock Pearl w/Saddle int., VTEC, V6, 5-sp. auto., fully loaded, all pwr opts, AM/FM/CD changer, steering wheel controls, pwr leather seats, alloy rims, 3RD seat, sunroof, nonsmoker, LOADED! 704-603-4255

Jeep Cherokee Classic SUV, 2001. Stone white clearcoat exterior with agate interior.

Stock #F11124B1. $8,287. Call 1-800-542-9758.

Now www.cloningerford.com

CASH FOR YOUR CAR! We want your vehicle! 1999 to 2011 under 150,000 miles. Please call 704-216-2663.

Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, 2003. Automatic, 4x4, CD, heated seats, sunroof. Must See! Call 704-603-4255

Nissan Xterra S SUV, 2006.

Solar Yellow Clearcoat exterior with charcoal interior. Stock #T10409A. $10,887 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

PRIVATE PARTY SALE

Inventory Reduction Sale!

VW Jetta GLX-VR6, 2002.

Automatic, sunroof, leather interior. One of a kind. Call Steve 704-603-4255

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Boats & Watercraft

(moving to former Sagebrush location) Saturn SL, 2002, Cranberry with Gray Cloth interior 1.9L AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION W/OD all power, AM/FM/CD, alloy rims, nonsmoker, GAS SAVERRRR!!

704-603-4255

Dodge Durango SLT, 2001. 4x4, leather, 3rd row seat, heated seats. Call Steve 704-603-4255

Troutman Motor Co. Highway 29 South, Concord, NC 704-782-3105

(moving to former Sagebrush location)

Nissan Versa 1.8S, 2007. Blue onyx metallic exterior with charcoal interior. Stock# T11316A. $10,987. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Tim Marburger Honda 1309 N First St. (Hwy 52) Albemarle NC 704-983-4107

Inventory Reduction Sale!

Boats & Watercraft

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.”

511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321

Wow! Great Gas Mileage!

Nissan Maxima, 3.5 SE, 2006. Majestic Blue metallic exterior with frost interior.

Stock # T10767A. $11,287.

1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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CLASSIFIED

Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, 2004. Stone white clearcoat exterior with taupe interior. Stock # P7669. $10,487. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Lincoln Navigator, 2002.

Oxford White/Tan Leather interior, 5.4L, auto trans, AM/FM/Tape/CD changer, DVD, heated & air cooled seats, all power, 3RD seat, rims, lighted chromes running boards, DRIVES AWESOME! 704-603-4255 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner, 2007. Silver on Lt. Gray cloth interior, 4 cylinder, 5 speed, AM/FM/CD, cruise, toolbox, rhino liner, chrome rims, MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE! 704-603-4255

Nissan Pathfinder LE, 2002, Sahara Beige Metallic/Tan leather, 3.5L auto trans, all power options, Dual HEATED & POWER seats, AM/FM/Tape/CD changer, sunroof, homelink, LOW MILES, extra clean DON'T LET THIS ONE SLIP AWAY! 704-603-4255

FULLY LOADED!

We're Moving!!

2001 SUZI 800CC MOTORCYCLE

Candy Apple Red 4,200 miles. Looks and run great. Cash $3,000. Call Larry at 704-267-2688

EZGO Authorized Dealer. 30 years selling, servicing GOLF CARS Golf Car Batteries 6 volt, 8 volt. Golf car utility sales. US 52, 5 miles south of Salisbury.

Beside East Rowan HS & Old Stone Winery.

Look for EZGO sign.

704-245-3660

Dodge Dakota Sport, Regular Cab, 1999.

White exterior with gray interior. Stock #F10461A. $4,987. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Nissan 2010 Frontier SE, Power windows, auto-matic transmission 4 door crew cab, red, 7,200K miles, $23,000.

704-857-6216

Toyota Tundra Double Cab, SR-5, 2008. Only 13k miles. Extra Clean!

Must See! Call Steve 704-603-4255

Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, 2006. Red rock crystal pearlcoat exterior with medium slate gray interior.

Stock# F11243A2. $16,387. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Inventory Reduction Sale! (moving to former Sagebrush location)

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2011

JUST ADDED FOR 2011...NEW WATERSLIDE!

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Happy Birthday sweetheart, Clay Shoaf Jr. We love you very much. Love, Judy, Queenie and your Beagle Buddies

EXIT 76 WEST OFF HWY 85!

• Birthdays • Community Days

WHATEVER THE OCCASION… GIVE YOUR KIDS SOME JOY!

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Half Ham Half Ham 4 lbs minimum 7 lbs minimum Salisbury only

Fax: 704-630-0157 In Person: 131 W. Innes Street Online: www.SalisburyPost.com

FUN Parties, Church Events, Etc.

www.TeamBounce.com 704-202-6200

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Inflatables Available!

(under Website Forms, bottom right column)

with every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need.

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Salisbury only

Team Bounce We Deliver

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Hours: Mon-Fri: 10-7; Sat 10-6; Sun 11-2

Must present ad. Not valid with any other offer. Exp. 5/30/11

Please Fax, hand deliver or fill out form online 18 WORDS MAX. Number of free greetings per person may be limited, combined or excluded, contingent on space available. Please limit your birthday greetings to 4 per Birthday.

www.kidsofjoy.net

THE HONEYBAKED HAM CO. & CAFE 413 E. Innes St., Salisbury of Salisbury 704-633-1110 • Fax 704-633-1510

www.honeybakedham.com

Inflatable Parties

We want to be your flower shop!

Salisbury Flower Shop 1628 West Innes St. Salisbury, NC • 704-633-5310

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You’ll be surprised how REASONABLE our prices are!

We Deliver

704-640-5876 or 704-431-4484

Hours of daily personal attention and doggie fun at our safe 20 acre facility. Professional homestyle boarding, training, and play days with a certified handler/trainer who loves dogs as much as you do.

Call Me!

Arturo Vergara

2324 S. Main St. / Hwy. 29 South in Salisbury

638-0075

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KIDS OF JOY

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Happy Birthday Jordan F. Wishing you many more. Your LCC family and friends

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Happy Birthday Candie! I hope all your wishes come true. I love you! From Junnie

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Michael Jackson’s mom, estate, clash over charity LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Heal the world. Make it a better place for you and for me.”

So sang Michael Jackson in his mega-selling 1992 anthem for change.

Now the singer’s estate and Jackson’s mother could use a little healing themselves as they fight each other over the nonprofit Heal the World Foundation, which claims it’s the successor to the pop star’s defunct charity inspired by the song. At stake in the skirmish are trademarks worth millions of dollars and a piece of Jackson’s legacy.

The dispute, which is playing out in a federal court in Los Angeles, is the latest example of the sometimes strained relationship between Jackson’s family and his estate, which has already earned hundreds of millions of dollars.

But the fight against the new incarnation of the Heal the World Foundation has also raised questions about which causes the singer would want to focus on if he hadn’t abandoned his charity to fight off allegations of child sexual abuse.

His mother, Katherine Jackson, left little doubt about her sentiments in a recent court filing: “It is not my desire, nor would it be the desire of my son Michael, to continue this lawsuit against Heal the World Foundation.”

Her attorney, Perry R. Sanders Jr., said Friday that Katherine Jackson supports the charity but hopes that a more civil relationship between her and the estate can be restored. Sanders was hired late Thursday after Katherine Jackson’s former

attorney publicly cast doubts about the authenticity of her filing.

“Bottom line — I am going to do anything in my power to try to tone down the rhetoric that has happened to date to the extent possible,” Sanders said.

Last year, Jackson’s mother and father joined Heal the World’s board of directors and placed their three grandchildren on a youth board. Jackson’s mother and his children were prominently featured on a recent “Good Morning America” story that also included footage of Heal the World giving a $10,000 donation to a shelter in Los Angeles.

It was a high-profile plug for an entity that according to tax filings reviewed by the Associated Press has done little fundraising or charitable giving, but has fought to stake its claim to several Jackson-related trademarks and likeness rights that the singer’s estate maintains it should own.

Jackson’s estate wrote in a statement to the AP that the new Heal the World Foundation “has no relations to Michael Jackson’s charity that touched so many lives before becoming inactive several years before Michael’s death.”

The estate did not say whether Katherine Jackson’s involvement with the charity was costing the estate money, but said the “costs would be far greater if the estate did nothing to protect (Michael Jackson’s) name and his trademarks because others would be profiting from intellectual property that rightfully belongs to Michael’s children.”

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Katherine Jackson and the estate of Michael Jackson are clashing over Michael Jackson’s foundation.

Melissa Johnson, claims the pop singer handed her control of Heal the World through intermediaries in 2005, when he was defending himself against child molestation accusations.

Despite never having personally met the singer, Johnson’s attorneys claim she has the right to manage the charity, use various trademarks and that the permission now comes from the Jackson family itself.

“Mrs. Jackson has been told that Ms. Johnson’s foundation is Michael’s but that is not the truth,” Jackson’s estate said in a statement. “The estate hopes Mrs. Jackson will eventually understand the true facts and cooperate with the estate executors in selecting worthy charities as Michael would have wished.”

The singer’s estate coun-

ters that even if Michael Jackson granted Johnson rights to the charity, which it denies, the estate has revoked the permission and Johnson should be barred from using rights it owns to Jackson’s name and, likeness.

“People are saying I have been manipulated by Melissa Johnson and that we are exploiting my grandchildren because we joined Heal the World, all while the executors convince people they are only doing what Michael wanted or what is in my best interests by suing everyone who help (sic) us,” states Katherine Jackson’s declaration, which was offered as sworn testimony in the case. “Please do not believe them. It’s not true.”

Complicating Katherine Jackson’s involvement with the foundation is her business relationship with Howard Mann, a businessman who obtained some of Jackson’s recordings years ago. Mann, who is paying to defend Heal the World in court, is also being sued by the estate in a separate lawsuit that accuses him of infringing on estate copyrights.

In the meantime the estate has worked to repair major financial damage incurred by Michael Jackson during his lifetime.

The “Thriller” singer died more than $400 million in debt, but in the first 17 months after his death earned more than $310 million, court records show.

More than $9 million has been paid to and for Katherine Jackson and her son’s children, nearly $4 million of which went to pay off the family’s longtime home.

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Today’s celebrity birthdays Composer-musician Jan Hammer is 63. Actress Olivia Hussey is 60. Singer-guitarist Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks is 56. Actor Sean Bean (“Lord of the Rings”) is 52. Singer Maynard James Keenan of Tool is 47. Actress Lela Rochon is 47. Actress Kimberly Elise is 44. Singer Liz Phair is 44. Rapper-actor Redman is 41. Actress Jennifer Garner is 39.

Singer Victoria Beckham of the Spice Girls is 37. Actress Lindsay Korman (“Passions”) is 33. Actress Dee Dee Davis (“The Bernie Mac Show”) is 15.

Nicolas Cage arrested after arguing with wife NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor Nicolas Cage was arrested after he got drunk in the city’s French Quarter and argued in the street with his wife over whether a house they were in front of was theirs, police said Saturday.

The couple was in front of a home that Cage insisted they were renting, police said. When she said it wasn’t theirs, Cage grabbed her arm, according to a police news release.

Cage started hitting vehicles and tried to get into a taxi, police said. An officer saw that Cage was drunk and told him to get out of the cab.

Cage then started yelling at the officer.

The actor has been booked on charges of domestic abuse battery, disturbing the peace and public drunkenness. He was released on $11,000 bond

Saturday.

Representatives for Cage could not immediately be reached Saturday.

Cage has been a frequent visitor to New Orl e a n s , where he has owned property and shot movies. He has also had financial CAGE troubles, despite being one of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood.

He had been behind on taxes and has said he’s had to sell numerous assets because of his finances. He sued his former business manager in October 2009 for $20 million, claiming the man’s advice led him to financial ruin.

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The average price of gas rose to $4.003 per gallon in the nation’s capital Saturday. The New York average is $3.996.

For American drivers, the $4 mark harkens back to the summer of 2008, when oil rose to $147 per barrel and gas prices topped out at $4.11 per gallon before the economy went into a tailspin.

The rapid increase at the

pump follows a parallel rise in oil. Since Labor Day, oil has risen 48 percent and U.S. gas prices have gone up 42 percent.

The increases gained momentum in Mid-February when a popular rebellion built in Libya, eventually turning violent and shutting down the country’s exports. Crude has jumped 30 percent since then, with gas prices gaining 22 percent.

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The average price for gas in New York could top $4 by early this week. Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois and Connecticut already have pump prices above that mark, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge. Hawaii has the highest price in the U.S. at $4.47 per gallon.

The website for AAA Carolinas showed prices in Salisbury at $3.79 and $3.80 per gallon.

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WEATHER UNDERGROUND’S NATIONAL WEATHER The storm that brought severe weather to the eastern half of the country earlier this week will finally move off the eastern seaboard Sunday, but not before providing a last shot of precipitation to many areas. The hardest hit on Sunday will be New England as early morning rain will give way to showers in the afternoon. This area can expect thunderstorms, but nothing as severe as what has occurred the past few days. Windy conditions will continue as the storm leaves, especially from the Upper Midwest through the Northeast. High Wind Watches will remain posted for this area. Meanwhile, a high pressure system will build over the Southeast, allowing the region to dry from an active week. In fact, the entire southern half of the country will remain dry to end the weekend. A weak storm in the Northwest may provide scattered rain from Oregon through the Dakotas. This activity, however, will not be heavy in nature. The Northeast will rise into the 40s and 50s, while the Southeast will see temperatures in the 70s and 80s. The Northern Plains will rise into the 30s and 40s, while the Southwest will see temperatures in the 80s and 90s.

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Was the Civil War necessary?

Book questions its inevitability

BY DEIRDRE PARKER SMITH dp1@salisburypost.com

uthor David Goldfield’s new book, “America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation,” may cover the same topic as myriad previous books, but he hopes his ideas about the origin of the war and its aftermath are new.

“I ask two questions: One, was this war necessary, and two, could we have found a better way to achieve the two great objectives, freeing slaves and preserving the union.”

He says the Civil War was a war of choice. “It would be very difficult to compromise; the issues of slavery had become moral issues; evangelicals had raised the stakes of politics.”

This country, indeed, democracy, Goldfield says, “work best in compromise and moderation.”

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Dave Foreman, a longtime advocate for wilderness conservation, says that habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change and other factors are driving many species toward extinction.

‘Rewilding’ can save species, help ecosystems

BY JUANITA TESCHNER Center for the Environment

ave Foreman, an internationally acclaimed conservationist and founder of the Wildlands Project, will speak Tuesday at the Center for the Environment at Catawba College.

His topic will be “Overpopulation, Mass Extinction and Rewilding.”

Foreman is a longterm advocate for the preservation of wilderness areas. The Wildlands Project seeks to bring together grassroots activists and conservation biologists to design and establish linked areas of wilderness extensive enough to support large animals.

Foreman talked about conservation and his passion for wild places in a recent interview. This is an edited transcript.

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Q: What motivated you initially to become so involved in conservation?

A: I have no idea except that I was always fascinated by wildlife and wild places. Aldo Leopold, who probably wrote the most important conservation book in the last century — “A Sand County Almanac” — says there are “those who can live without wild things and those who cannot.” I don’t know why “those of us who cannot” can’t live without wild things. That’s mostly what conservationists are.

What: Dave Foreman, It’s just something inherent in us that founder of the Wildmakes us love lands Project, will speak at the Center for wildlife and wild places and care the Environment at about them.

Coming up

Catawba College.

When: 7 p.m., Tuesday Where: Room 300 More info: Reservations required. Call 704-637-4727 or visit www.centerforthe environment.org

Q: Did you have wild places nearby when you were growing up?

A: Oh, yeah. I’m from Albuquerque, N.M., which is where I live now.

I’ve always been in love with the Sandia mountain range right outside of Albuquerque, which is a 40,000acre wilderness area right on the city limits.

Today I live two blocks away. I can look out my front window right now and see a part of the wilderness area, so I’ve been very fortunate in that. When I was a little kid, that’s what fascinated me.

Q: When did global mass extinction first begin?

A: In my view, it has been going on for 50,000 years since we first left Africa and moved around the world. It has come in three waves. The first wave was with the extinction of the megafauna like the wooly mammoth, when human beings showed up in new places. The second wave was when Europeans began to explore the world about 1500. And the third wave began probably about 1970 with huge populations and growing technology. In each of those cases, different kinds of creatures became vulnerable to extinction at our hands.

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Juanita Teschner is director of communications for the Center for the Environment.

“Our government governs best from the center ... when we have polarization,” not so well.

Goldfield points out the years before the Civil War were an era of polarization. “If someone disagreed with you, they were a sinner, they were to be condemned.”

That sounds strangely like our current political condition.

“It’s not as serious,” Goldfield says, “but what’s happening in Washington is what happened in late 1850s and leading up until Fort Sumter.”

He says “the center mostly has eroded. People are erecting barricades on the right and left ... We’re at that point of gridlock.”

In 1861 the version of a government shutdown was the Civil War. “Hopefully, we will not reach that.”

His book explores the dangers of ideology. “We govern from ideas, not ideology. When we become rigid in politics and religion ... the thing with religion is you can’t compromise with sin. If a political issue is

central to your faith, you can’t compromise; you demonize your opponent and your opponent demonizes you.”

With the coming of the Civil War, there were many opportunities for compromise. The war was not inevitable, it was a war of choice, not necessity. “If you say slavery is a central fact of the coming of war, OK, but you had a compromise over slavery in the Constitution, a compromise in 1820 for Missouri, a compromise in 1850 over California becoming a state.

“Polarization is a result of the evangelization of politics; it made it more difficult to compromise; at the last moment there were two or three major compromises floating around.

Jefferson Davis begged not to fire on Fort Sumter. Lincoln could have withdrawn troops from Fort Sumter.”

Goldfield says Lincoln believed, as a matter of faith, that the country could not exist half slave and half free. He used quotes from the Bible that a

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“If a political issue is central to your faith, you can’t compromise ...”

DAVID GOLDFIELD Author of “America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation”

Captive costs As prison budgets soar, states look for options

BY GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press

s costs to house state inmates have soared in recent years, many conservatives are reconsidering a tough-on-crime era that has led to stiffer sentences, overcrowded prisons and bloated corrections budgets.

Ongoing budget deficits and steep drops in tax revenue in most states are forcing the issue, with law-and-order Republican governors and state legislators beginning to overhaul years of policies that were designed to lock up more criminals and put them away for longer periods of time.

“There has been a dramatic shift in the political landscape on this issue in the last few years,” said Adam Gelb, director of the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States. “Conservatives have led the charge for more prisons and tougher sentencing, but now they realize they need to be just as tough on criminal justice spending.”

Most of the proposals circulating in at least 22 state Capitols, including North Carolina, would not affect current state prisoners, but only future offenders.

Republican governors and lawmakers pushed for many of the policies that put low-level drug offenders and nonviolent felons behind bars and extended sentences for many convicted criminals. But with the GOP in control of more financially strapped state governments, a growing number of Republican elected officials favor a review of the sentencing laws that contributed to a fourfold increase in prison costs over two decades.

The total cost of incarcerating state inmates swelled from $12 billion in 1988 to more than $50 billion by 2008.

Newly elected Republican governors in Florida and Georgia are among those pushing sentencing reforms. Brent Steele, a Republican state senator in Indiana, concedes that lawmakers share the blame for driving up state prison costs in recent years. High-profile crimes prompt lawmakers and governors to adopt evertougher criminal sentencing, such as three-strikes laws that impose minimum mandatory sentences for those convicted of a third felony, no matter the offense.

“But with that eventually

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A corrections officer looks on as prisoners move through the state prison in Jackson, Ga. Conservative legislators who once heralded strict three-strikes laws and other tough measures that led to bloated prisons are now considering what was once deemed unthinkable: Reducing sentences for some drug and non-violent offenders.

“Conservatives have led the charge for more prisons and tougher sentencing, but now they realize they need to be just as tough on criminal justice spending.”

ADAM GELB Director, Public Safety Performance Project, Pew Center on the States

comes the time when we run out of prison space,” said Steele, who is sponsoring a criminal justice overhaul in his state, prompted by budget concerns. “So what do you do? You concentrate on incarcerating those we’re afraid of and not those we’re just mad at.”

Fall election gains put Republicans in control of 25 state legislatures and 29 governor’s offices, and many have pledged not to raise taxes even as they face budget shortfalls. Reforming laws to send fewer low-level offenders to state prison or reduce their sentences is a more politically palatable way to save money than cutting spending for schools or health care programs.

“Conservatives are about limited government, lower taxes and personal responsibility.

And the reforms that we advocate advance those principles,”

said Marc Levin of the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “We’re not saying conservatives were wrong 30 years ago. But the pendulum swung too far.”

The proposals vary by state, but the hallmarks include ways to reduce sentences for lowerlevel offenders, direct some offenders to alternative sentencing programs, give judges more sentencing discretion and smooth the transition for released prisoners. In many states, the Republican measures parallel Democratic efforts that stalled long ago.

The push to reform sentencing laws has forged uneasy alliances between law-and-order politicians and activists who have long argued that many laws went too far.

“Everyone is looking at the bottom line — where can we

cut?” said Angelyn Frazer, state legislative affairs director for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

“And if they can cut to make sure that some people can come home earlier and they don’t have to serve these long, draconian sentences, that’s great.”

Congress also is wrestling with criminal justice reform.

U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, a Virginia Democrat, has proposed creating a panel to review the federal system. A similar proposal passed the House last year but never reached a vote in the Senate.

Backers of the state measures almost always refer to Texas, which began implementing sentencing changes six years ago. Faced with the prospect of housing 17,000 more inmates by 2012, the state poured money into drug treatment, while putting more drug abusers and petty thieves on probation.

The overhaul slowed the growth of the state’s incarceration rate and led to a 12.8 percent drop in the state’s serious crime rate since 2003, according to a January 2010 state report. The state also saved more

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OPINION

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Mooresville is ready to play ball

Salisbury Post T “The truth shall make you free” GREGORY M. ANDERSON Publisher 704-797-4201 ganderson@salisburypost.com

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CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION

Rowan must not forget e nosy. Ask questions. Don’t accept excuses for suspicious injuries. Call Social Services and law enforcement.

These are a some of the ways everyone can help fight child abuse, a crime that happens far more often than most people know or want to think about. Every 10 seconds a report of child abuse is made, according to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System.

Not every case is confirmed.

But authorities believe countless more cases go unreported.

Rowan County residents became painfully aware of child abuse in 1997. That was the year three young children died in separate incidents after being beaten and battered by the people who were supCLARK posed to be taking care of them. Budde Clark, 6, died at the hands of his stepmother.

Christopher Jones, 19 months, was killed by his mother’s boyfriend. DeMallon Krider, 2, died after being thrown and beaten by his mother.

The Post never had a photo KRIDER of Christopher, but photos of Budde and DeMallon show two happy-looking boys posing playfully for the camera.

For them, there should have been many more photos, many more years.

The community grieved and vowed to never look away again when signs of child abuse and neglect surface. There were other lessons, too — such as the need for communication among hospitals, social workers and law enforcement when abuse is suspected. Local agencies developed a formal protocol to make sure that happens.

Even more important, we learned that the Department of Social Services’ child protection unit must have enough social workers to adequately investigate and monitor the incidents reported to them.

That is especially crucial this year as state and local governments trim budgets. We must not cut corners on protective services for those most vulnerable to abuse — children and the elderly. We have experienced the consequences.

Law enforcement investigators see it all, and they have words of advice. “People should be aware of what’s going on around them,” says Salisbury Police Detective Russell DeSantis. “The smallest thing a child might say may indicate possible abuse.”

The community failed Budde, Christopher and DeMallon. That must not happen again.

To report abuse, call Child Protective Services at 704-216-8498 during the work day; after hours call 911.

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Common sense

(Or uncommon wisdom, as the case may be)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

— Anne Frank

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hey say you have to have money to make money.

America’s Park may be one of those cases, as far as Rowan County is concerned.

Mooresville officials broke ground Tuesday on a $25 million youth baseball facility that might have come to Salisbury, Charlotte or a number of other places instead.

The 170-acre ELIZABETH complex will COOK have 25 lighted baseball fields, dozens of cabins to house teams and more.

Investors say it could pump more than $80 million a year into the local economy as players and families travel to the park from all over the country.

Yep, you have to have money to make money. But determination and teamwork can overcome a lot of obstacles, and Mooresville-Iredell leaders seem rich in that way, too.

Project investors reportedly travelled to 32 cities in 13 states to hear pitches for the park, and Mooresville came out on top.

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Lou Presutti, the mastermind behind America’s Park, has called Salisbury home since he moved here in 1985.

“I view Salisbury as the best little town in America,” Presutti says.

From his office at 330 S. Main St. here, Presutti has developed and run a youth baseball center in Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, since 1996. It’s called Cooperstown Dreams Park.

For several years, he’s been looking for a site in the middle of the country for a bigger park. He says he tried to put together a deal in Rowan, but to his disappointment it never

time to suggest committing millions to a baseball park.

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Hundreds turned out at the groundbreaking for America’s Park, a 170-acre youth baseball center to be built near Mooresville. worked out.

Why not Rowan? The talkative Presutti goes quiet for a moment. “You’ll have to talk to the city and county about that,” he says.

But his words flow freely on the subject of Mooresville’s Town Board of Commissioners and Iredell County officials — words like “wonderful, “incredibly helpful” and “positive.” The planning board, he says, is “second to none.”

Presutti has millions of reasons to be impressed with Mooresville. The Mooresville Convention & Visitor’s Bureau committed $5.4 million to finance America’s Park. The South Iredell Economic Development Corp. also chipped in $1 million.

Presutti’s partners in the venture include Todd Hines, a Mooresville native who owns Carolina’s Baseball Center, an indoor training facility in Charlotte.

The other partner is the owner of the property where the park will be built off Rankin Hill Road, between Mooresville and Troutman — Jeff Cernuto of Mooresvillebased Princeton Management.

Local government kicked in

incentives, too.

The stars aligned for Presutti in Mooresville — the stars and the financing and the property.

• • • The people I contacted with the city of Salisbury and Rowan county government didn’t recall talking to Presutti about his plans. But Robert Van Geons and James Mecham, directors of our local economic development and tourism agencies, did.

Presutti looked at several possible sites for the park in Rowan, Van Geons says.

“We would have loved to have had them,” he says. “We didn’t have those kind of resources.”

Mecham, whose agency is funded by hotel occupancy tax revenue, came to the same conclusion — as much as he’d like to have thousands of people crowding into local motels.

When Mecham and Van Geons initially met with Presutti more than a year ago, local governments already had obligations for school construction, a jail annex, communications towers, fiber to the home.

It didn’t seem like a good

Van Geons and Mecham’s assessment is probably right for Rowan. Baseball has been a sore subject here ever since the county built Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium and attendance fell so far short of projections.

But Presutti has a track record and a business model that Iredell leaders believe in.

Several of them have travelled to Cooperstown, N.Y., to see his park there.

Ron Johnson, chairman of the Mooresville Convention and Visitors Bureau, says he was impressed with what he saw in Cooperstown and is excited about landing a center like that in Iredell County.

The tract is on the eastern side of Lake Norman in an area that has yet to be developed — a prime spot.

Mooresville’s competitive edge goes beyond location and money. The sense of cooperation among the local governments and agencies is strong, Johnson says. “We’re just like one person,” he says. “Everybody was saying, ‘What can we do to make it work?’ ... That is a plus for us. We all work together.”

Officials in Newberry, Fla., have also pulled together to land a Presutti project. In early March, they held a groundbreaking ceremony for the 16field Nations Baseball Park that was very similar to Mooresville’s, judging by news accounts.

Presutti says his desire to promote baseball goes back to his youth and his family’s love of the game. And now it reaches out to Cooperstown, Mooresville and Newberry — all from an office in Salisbury.

• • • Elizabeth Cook is editor of the Salisbury Post.

Mook’s Place/Mark Brincefield

Trump’s birther buzz may backfire on bid EW YORK — As presidential sweepstakes go, one couldn’t find an odder — and yet more predictable — candidate than Donald Trump, whose name needs no burnishing. One can hardly walk a block in this city without stumbling into an edifice bearing his name. He towers over all others on the Monopoly game board.

Trump is inevitable in the same way that Barack Obama was. That is to KATHLEEN say, each presiPARKER dent tends to be a reaction to the previous commander in chief.

George W. Bush was the opposite of Bill Clinton, and Obama was certainly nothing like Bush. At least not as a candidate.

This presidential formula, largely consistent through the years, has become exaggerated recently owing to cultural developments unique to our times, including our infatua-

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tion with celebrity and our attraction to extreme forms of expression. From movies to sports to politics and punditry, everything is big, loud and over the top.

If people have wearied of Obama’s cerebral serenity and an approach to governance that seems overconsidered, then who better than The Donald to seize the alternative?

Trump, live-and-in-living-color, is a Muhammad Ali of Main Street — bombastic and boastful, a provocateur with money to put where his mouth is. In a poll-driven punditocracy, the mind spoken so freely offers a tonic to toxicity.

Except when it doesn’t.

About that birther thing.

Trump entered the presidential fray with the headlinesnatching pronouncement that Obama should produce proof of his birth on U.S. turf. This same ol’ same ol’ nonsense, which has been amply resolved by nonpartisan entities, nonetheless received the requisite attention.

Trying to convince birthers that Obama is a legitimate citizen rather than a closet ji-

hadist is like trying to convince a terrified child that there’s no monster under the bed. No amount of reasoning will do, though there is one bit of logic that seems to have escaped mention and that ought to provide relief to the mostfevered minds.

Herewith: If there were even one iota of evidence suggesting that Obama was not born in this country, does anyone really think that Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have raised it during the campaign? Really?

The Clintons don’t just have people; they have armadas of political machinery. If Obama were born anywhere but where he says he was born, we’d all be saying, “Madame President.”

A cynic might ponder the possibility that Team Obama keeps the birther meme in circulation. As the president told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Republicans who embrace the birther movement are hurting themselves.

In saner times, we’d recognize and dismiss the ravings of madmen, self-promoters and false prophets. Today, thanks

to the democratization of the megaphone, any old canard can enjoy 15 minutes of credibility.

Sure enough, Trump’s challenge to Obama’s natural-born citizenship has gained traction among a disturbing number of believe-anythingers, outscoring others in GOP presidential preference polls.

While the new head of the Republican Party, Reince Priebus, is urging birthers to take their meds, some have wondered whether Trump’s rant is mere stunt. In the age of celebrity, it doesn’t matter what people are saying about you as long as they’re talking about you, goes the “thinking.”

By this calculus, the more ridiculous one is, the more likely one is to benefit from buzz. And then, who knows, one may become a sensation in the Twitterverse, and then pop goes the weasel, and th-th-ththat’s all, folks!

Until the next cycle begins, even sooner than the last.

• • • Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.

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GOP searching for a candidate who can connect itt Romney’s face looks as if it should be chiseled in stone. But he has all the warmth of a slab of granite.

Team Romney rolled out Mitt 2.0 in a taped message announcing — surprise! — that he’s preparing to run for president.

An open collar under a casual leather jacket replaced the somber dark suits and starchy white shirts from his failed run in 2008.

But in this case, clothes do not STEVE & — or COKIE ROBERTS make makeover — the man. He was as boring as ever.

His video lasts less than three minutes but seems endless. Romney himself barely stays awake, repeating the same old refrain — jobs and business, business and jobs — with all the passion of a fourth grader reciting a poem in English class.

This is not a trivial point; it’s central to understanding the politics of 2012 — or any year. Personality is not a sideshow; it is absolutely essential to the success of any presidential candidate. Just ask Al Gore, the Democratic version of Romney, who had trouble generating enough juice to light up a 100-watt bulb. Remember the joke Gore told about himself: He was so dull that his Secret Service code name was “Al Gore.” Perhaps Romney’s security detail will simply call him “Willard,” his real first name.

Romney brings a lot of baggage into the race. In a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, almost half of all voters expressed reservations (unfairly in our view) about supporting a Mormon, Romney’s faith tradition. Then there’s health care — as governor of Massachusetts, he supported an insurance plan that closely resembles the Democratic bill enacted last year. And his sharp shift to the right on social issues is well documented on YouTube.

But those are not his main problems. We’ve covered 12 presidential elections and stood outside of countless voting booths, and one thing we’ve hardly ever heard is

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some version of this line: “I voted for Gore because of his 16-point program on global warming.” Instead, as voters explain their choices, we’re much more likely to hear, “I like him ... she understands me ... he knows where I’m coming from.”

The most successful politicians of our age — Reagan, Clinton, Obama, even George W. Bush on a good day (with Laura by his side) — connected to individual voters on a personal basis. Gore didn’t.

Neither did John McCain. One way to explain this quality is the old cliche: Whom would you rather have a beer with? You can only imagine having a beer with Romney at your farewell party, after he’s fired you.

This is why Republicans are so worried about next year. Romney is the clear front-runner in the early polls, drawing 21 percent of Republican primary voters in the Journal survey (but jumping to 40 percent when only the top-five candidates were listed). And Republicans have long followed a royalist tradition, nominating the candidate who is “next in line,” and Romney certainly fits that bill.

But when Republicans look around for an alternative, many find the options, well, appalling. In the Journal poll, Donald Trump tied for second (with Mick Huckabee) at 17 percent.

“I don’t see anyone in the current field right now, and people say that to me, as well,” Rep. David Dreier, a shrewd California Republican told Politico. “Everybody’s looking for a Ronald Reagan, and they don’t see one.”

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia added: “We think we can beat the president, but we have to have somebody to beat him with.”

She’s right on both counts. Obama is hardly invulnerable. His average approval rating stands at 47.5 percent, according to Real Clear Politics, and anything under 50 percent is a warning to any incumbent. But whom is that “somebody” that can lead the charge?

Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi is a self-described “fat redneck” with a long history as a wellpaid Washington lobbyist. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich has to explain two divorces, three wives and

TO THE EDITOR Think the checks are in the mail?

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Salisbury

Water bill woes

Republicans contemplating presidential campaigns for 2012 include former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (top), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (left) and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.

“We’re going to see other folks.”

SEN. RICHARD BURR Commenting on the potential GOP presidential candidates

one very loose tongue. Former Sen. Rick Santorum lost his re-election bid by 18 points. In 2008, Huckabee could never expand his base beyond evangelical Christians. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty makes Romney look colorful. Sarah Palin has the magnetism the men lack, but her negative ratings top 50 percent.

No wonder GOP insiders are dreaming about a governor —

Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey —or even Gen. David Petraeus. “We’re going to see other folks,” Sen Richard Burr of North Carolina told Politico. But that sounds more like a prayer than a prediction.

• • • Steve and Cokie’s new book, “Our Haggadah” (HarperCollins), has just been published. Email: stevecokie@gmail.com.

Fuel options can help solve oil dependence Drivers need more choices when filling up il is selling for close to $110 a barrel and gasoline for about $4 a gallon. Bad news for motorists. Marvelous news for jihadis.

Iran’s rulers are using oil money to develop nuclear weapons and fund terrorists, including Hezbollah, now staging a slowmotion coup in Lebanon, and Hamas, which is committed to the extermination of Israel. A generous share of the money CLIFFORD that goes to Saudi Arabia and other MAY Gulf nations ends up in the coffers of the Taliban and alQaeda. Hugo Chavez spends Venezuela’s petro-dollars to expand his influence, and that of his Iranian allies, throughout Latin America.

The war we are fighting in many parts of the world is unconventional but our enemies are not so different from those we have fought in the past. In the 20th century, free nations were threatened by Nazis, whose goal was global rule by a race, and communists, whose goal was global rule by a class. The challenge today comes from regimes and movements committed to global rule by members of a religious group.

In World War II, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill understood that Adolf Hitler could not prevail if Allied troops denied him access to the oil fields of North Africa and Central Asia. In the Cold War, Ronald Reagan’s use of economic weapons was key to bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Of course, we can’t deny oil to OPEC, the cartel that sits on more than three-quarters of the world’s

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The Open Fuel Standard Act would require new cars to run on a variety of liquid fuels in addition to gasoline. conventional reserves. But we could implement policies designed to break oil’s virtual monopoly as a transportation fuel, stabilize and even reduce fuel prices and diminish the ability of hostile oilproducing regimes to wage economic warfare against us.

Such polices would include increasing domestic oil production, and speeding the pipeline project that would bring oil mined from Canadian sands to the U.S. Conservation is good, too. But these measures can be only part of the solution. Why? As Jim Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence and current

Regardless of where you come down on the budget, debt and deficit debate, you must have noticed all the affluent people, the president included, saying how they don’t need a tax cut and that, in fact, they can afford to pay more.

I don’t know exactly how it would work but I’m sure the IRS would accept checks from these people who think they should and/or could pay more.

For me, I believe the old saying that doing the same thing and expecting a different result is insanity. The government does not have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. And for our president to say the choices are between the rich getting richer and Down Syndrome children going without help is demagoguery beneath the office that he holds.

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chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Anne Korin, co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, recently noted, OPEC is “a conspiracy in restraint of trade.”

That means that when non-OPEC countries “drill more, OPEC simply drills less and drives prices back up.” If demand is reduced through conservation, “OPEC again drills less and prices zip back up.”

What we desperately need: a competitive transportation fuel market. If the price of Coke goes up, you can switch to Pepsi. If the price of beef climbs

When the price of gasoline goes up, you have no choice but to pay or change your lifestyle — in some cases dramatically.

too high you can eat chicken. But when the price of gasoline goes up, you have no choice but to pay or change your lifestyle — in some cases dramatically.

Congress can begin to bring about consumer choice at the pump by adopting the Open Fuel Standard Act, soon to be reintroduced with bipartisan support. Woolsey and Korin emphasize: “An Open Fuel Standard would require new cars to include a $100 tweak that would allow them to run on a variety of liquid fuels in addition to gasoline. Such fuels would include methanol, which is easily made from natural gas and biomass (and, less cleanly, from coal). Enabling vehicles to use natural gas, whether directly or via liquid fuels that are made from it, allows consumers to benefit from the very large cost advantage that natural gas holds today over oil.”

What about wind, solar and nuclear power?

At this point, they cannot be part of the solution because they cannot substitute for liquid transportation fuels. Eventually, we probably will see electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles come on line in sufficient numbers to make an impact.

But we can’t wait. There’s a war on.

To avoid losing that war we must reduce the power of oil, but not by limiting our mobility. Instead we can introduce fuel competition that will lead to fuel diversity and abundance.

Last week, President Barack Obama ridiculed those concerned about the rising cost of gasoline.

“If you’re getting eight miles a gallon you may want to think about a trade-in,” he said. Yes, but it’s not our clunker cars that need to be traded in.

It’s our clunker energy policies and the clunker politicians responsible for them.

• • • Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. E-mail: cliff@defenddemocracy.org.

Seems Salisbury is short of money. I’m sure this had nothing to do with a dramatic increase in my water bill for last month. Still, it makes one wonder. What better way to bring in additional revenue? It’s probably just paranoia on my part. Still, I have to ask, how many others are experiencing a noticeable increase in their water use “rate”?

When I went by the Main Street office, it was closed.

Two city employees directed me to the new location. I remarked, “Odd they have money to move all the way across town to a new expensive building, but not enough money to keep from laying off employees.”

This got a big smile but a “we can’t comment” reply.

Imagine freedom of speech being restricted in America!

To continue on about the laid-off city employees, Salisbury says only four have been laid off. Of course, they didn’t say for how long.

They also didn’t say anything about the other employees who received letters offering early retirement and urging this instead of possible unending layoffs.

When I got to the new, swank office complex to inquire and complain about my water bill, I got the usual double-talk and “I don’t know.” So I asked to speak to a supervisor. I was told he was out and would call me. A week later, I’m still waiting on the call.

Seems to me, if the supervisor was out or was too cowardly to talk to a customer, he should be getting a retirement letter.

After all, Salisbury still needs to afford City Manager Dave Treme, even if there have been a few scandals in the police and fire departments. Gee, I hope this hasn’t spread to the water department.

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Q: What do you mean by interactive species?

A: Certain species play a greater role in the ecosystem than do others. For example, there are some key species that pollinate plants, and those plants would disappear without those birds or butterflies pollinating them. Same thing with large carnivores. Then things like beavers create wetlands and control floods and a whole host of things.

So there are a lot of different species that are highly interactive. They need to be restored not just enough to keep from being extinct but in what Michael Soulet calls an effective population size, which means they are able to do what they need to do. In Yellowstone National Park, if you just had three or four wolves they would not be able to move the elk population around the way a couple of hundred wolves do.

Q: What are, in your words, the “the seven ecological wounds”?

A: These are the different ways we drive extinction: direct killing or overkill; habitat destruction; fragmentation of habitat; helping exotic species invade; disrupting ecological and evolutionary processes, like hydrology, predation, pollination, pollution, biocide; and greenhouse gases. The underlying drivers are overpopulation and overconsumption.

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The reform proposals vary by state, but the hallmarks include ways to reduce sentences for lower-level offenders, direct some offenders to alternative sentencing programs, give judges more sentencing discretion and smooth the transition for released prisoners.

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In Florida, lawmakers are considering a similar overhaul to help close a $3.6 billion shortfall. The state’s new governor, Republican Rick Scott, campaigned on a promise to cut prison spending by $1 billion and has since proposed more money to fight drug and alcohol abuse.

Georgia’s newly elected Republican governor, Nathan Deal, didn’t talk much about the state’s high incarceration rates during his 2010 campaign, but he turned sentencing reform into one of his major platforms once he took office.

Leaders from all three branches of Georgia state government — and both political parties — appeared together to back a study of reforms that would provide alternative sentences for nonviolent offenders and reduce prison costs. Legislation to create a commission that would rewrite the state’s sentencing laws is moving through the statehouse.

“For those who would say this is somehow being soft on crime, I say it is exercising sensible and responsible leadership,” said House Speaker David Ralston, a Republican.

In North Carolina, lawmakers are currently discussing the Justice Reinvestment Act (House Bill 642), a proposal designed to cut the state’s prison costs by limiting inmate populations and putting more emphasis on community-based supervision and rehabilitation programs for those released from prison.

Although the bill has bipartisan support, authorities in Rowan and other counties are worried that it will require them to house more inmates, strain pretrial release programs and require additional resources.

The Justice Reinvestment Act follows recommendations from the Council of State Governments Justice Center, the Pew Center on the States and the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance, which collaborated on a yearlong study.

In North Carolina, the study found, 85 percent of those released from state prisons return to the community without any active supervision, including those convicted of violent felonies.

If the state’s prison population continues to grow at its current rate, officials say it will cost an additional $267 million by 2017 to build new prisons.

a move designed to save the state money.

A sentencing commission proposed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger died in the Legislature in 2009.

Early release While most states are examining sentencing reforms that would target only future convicts, Oklahoma and Texas are examining changes that would release some inmates early to save money.

In Oklahoma, some offenders could be eligible for electronic-monitoring.

Texas, facing a $15 billion budget deficit, is considering whether to transition some elderly prisoners to nursing homes, house arrest or hospices.

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Q: What are other threats?

A: With the ice melting in the Arctic Ocean, we see the loss of places for walruses and polar bears to rest to get to their food. Some people see the invasion of exotic species, which is helped by global trade, as a major threat. And the spread of disease – for example, the American chestnut, which was vulnerable to the chestnut blight in the first part of the last century — is another threat.

Q: Obviously, it’s a worldwide issue. What do we need to do, then, to turn this crisis around?

A: There are a whole range of things we need to do, some of which are very difficult and some of which are not that difficult. At the bedrock, of course, is stopping population growth and controlling consumption and how much greenhouse gas we emit. Also, what I’ve been more involved in is how do we do conservation on the ground to protect species? That’s where rewilding comes into it.

Q: What is rewilding?

A: That was developed by Michael Soulet and some other leading conservation biologists, like John Terborgh at Duke University as well as conservationists like me that said let’s look at what we need to do to make national parks and wilderness areas more effective.

Rewilding can basically be seen as the three C’s: core protective areas, like national parks and wilderness areas; connectivity — wildlife movement linkages; and

Q: You mentioned the wolves being reintroduced in Yellowstone. Have you had other successes along those lines?

A: The sea otter reintroduction on the Pacific Coast was a success. When sea otters were trapped out, their main prey, which was sea urchins, overpopulated and grazed away the kelp forest, which was an important habitat for all kinds of species.

But when the sea otters were restored, they began to control the sea urchins and the kelp forest came back.

Musk oxen have been reintroduced in a number of places – in Siberia where they were eliminated and in Alaska where they were wiped out. I was nearly trampled and gored by a musk ox last summer in Alaska. I was trying to sneak up on it but it snuck up on me. They were gone by 1900 but the reintroduction has been very successful.

The buffalo is another example. They played a major role in the health of the Great Plains. They were also back in places like North Carolina. People don’t really understand what the woodland bison did or how it lived because they were killed out so early. Black bears certainly have been recovered throughout the eastern United States. They were largely eliminated from most of the eastern U.S. a hundred years ago.

Q: So clearly conservationists have had some distinct successes.

A: Yes. There have been some successes and there have been some failures and a lot has been learned. It’s an area that gets a lot of research these days all over the world.

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In Kentucky, lawmakers from both parties are touting a new law that would bolster treatment programs and offer alternative sentences to keep more nonviolent criminals from prisons. After the state’s Republicanled Senate and Democraticcontrolled House passed the legislation, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear signed it into law in early March, saying it enables the “state to continue to be tough on crime but at the same time to be smarter about it.”

California runs the nation’s largest state prison system, with 152,000 inmates, and is under a federal court order to reduce its inmate population as a way to improve medical treatment.

It primarily has done so by shipping more than 10,000 inmates to prisons out of state.

A law that took effect last year makes some moneysaving changes. It allows those convicted of less-serious offenses to go unsupervised after their release and increases early release credits for inmates in county jails and state prisons. Last week, lawmakers sent newly elected Gov. Jerry Brown a bill, at his request, that would shift tens of thousands of lower-level offenders to counties’ jurisdiction,

led to reduced crime.

Jim Reams, a prosecutor in New Hampshire’s Rockingham County, said an early release program in that state has been a disaster because probation and parole officers are overwhelmed by the number of newly released prisoners flooding the system.

“The budget crises are being converted into a public safety crisis,” said Reams, who is president of the National District Attorneys Association. He worries that releasing more prisoners might have negative consequences.

Crime rates have fallen in nearly every state, he said, because of the push toward tougher penalties.

“And now it’s being punished for its success,” he said. “And we’re probably going to see crime rates go back up again.”

Q: What are some of the more vulnerable species that have really suffered as a result of this third wave?

A: Certainly, the African lion, which has crashed from over 100,000 to 20,000 or fewer in the last 10-15 years. The tiger in India, which in the last century has gone from an estimated 100,000 to about 1,800 at the last count. The great whales, which suffered really heavy hunting in the 1930s-1950s. The whole range of other species from amphibians and island birds and various other creatures that are vulnerable to us spreading around.

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Weathers Creek plans summer school for writers CLEVELAND — The Farm at Weathers Creek continues its Writers’ Series with a “Summer School” workshop with novelist Lynn York, food writer, cookbook author Debbie Moose and social media guru Jeff C. Elder.

Weathers Creek workshops offer a one-day getaway to a farm between Cleveland and Mooresville. Class size is kept small which allows for more individual interaction.

York is the author of two novels, “The Piano Teacher” and “The Sweet Life.” These companion novels are set in the foothills of the Blue Ridge where York grew up. Educated at Duke University and the University of Texas at Austin, she worked in the international telecommunications industry before returning to her native North Carolina.

“Writing Up a Storm,” York’s workshop on May 14, is designed to help increase productivity as a writer, with strategies on “figuring out what it takes to get into the flow of our work and stay there.”

York lives in Chapel Hill and teaches at N.C. State, High Point University and Duke Continuing Ed. Her website is www.lynnyork.com.

Raleigh’s Moose writes columns on food and cooking for the News & Observer, in addition to contributing to other publications and websites.

She teaches classes in writing and cooking. She is a first place winner of the Association of Food Journalists’ essay writing competition.

Her June 11 workshop at Weathers Creek, “Cooking with Words,” will address several aspects of writing about food. Moose will talk about approaches for researching and creating a family cookbook and how to write recipes as well as how to integrate accurate food writing and descriptions for fiction, essays or poetry.

Moose is the author of several cookbooks, including: “Potato Salad: 65 Recipes from Classic to Cool” and “Deviled Eggs: 50 Recipes from Simple to Sassy.” Find her at www.debbiemoose.com or follow her on Twitter: @DebbieMoose.

Elder, former columnist with the Charlotte Observer, will teach a workshop on “Writing For Social Media” on July 9. He says “there are many opportunities developing for writers to develop their craft on Facebook, blogs, even Twitter. The best part? You have a captive audience that is immediately engaged.”

Elder, who most recently led social media for a Fortune 50 company, will explain writing to engage a social audience, writing tight, developing a voice for social media, and elevating writing beyond text-speak. Students are encouraged to have their social accounts and blogs available to work on for immediate attention.

Elder studied journalism at San Jose State University and blogs at www.jeffelder.net. You can follow him on Twitter: @Jeffelder.

The writers’ weries grew out of talks between area writer/editor Ann Wicker, photographer and writer Susan Campbell, and marketing and sales specialist Cindy Campbell.

Sessions are $75 each. All sessions include a homemade lunch. Deadline for registration for the May 14 session is May 6. Registration for June 11 ends June 3. Register for the July 9 session by July 1. Classes are limited to 14 people. Discounts are offered if you sign up for more than one session.

Gift certificates are available. All sessions will start promptly at 10 a.m. and end at 3 p.m.

See www.weatherscreek.net for a registration form, directions and other information.

‘America Aflame’ considers cause, effect of war WAR

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1. Georgia Bottoms, by Mark Childress.

2. One Island, by Gretchen Steele Pratt.

3. Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle, by Ann B. Ross.

4. Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, by Rob Bell.

5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.

6. Green Daughters, by Diana Pinckney.

7. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand.

8. The Watery Part of the World, by Michael Parker.

9. Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers.

10. Stoneman's Raid, 1865, by Chris Hartley.

IndieBound bestsellers Fiction 1. The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean M. Auel.

2. The Tiger's Wife, by Téa Obreht 3. The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace.

4. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain.

5. The Fifth Witness, by Michael Connelly.

6. The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell.

7. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, by Alexander McCall Smith.

8. Horoscopes for the Dead, by Billy Collins.

9. A Lesson in Secrets, by Jacqueline Winspear.

10. She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy, editor.

Nonfiction 1. Bossypants, by Tina Fey. 2. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand.

3. The Social Animal, by David Brooks.

4. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable.

5. Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell.

6. Blood, Bones & Butter, by Gabrielle Hamilton.

7. Moonwalking With Einstein, by Joshua Foer.

8. Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff.

9. The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results, by Dr.Mike Moreno.

10. Love Wins, by Rob Bell.

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“If you believe that and you’re president, it can become a selffulfilling prophecy.”

Mary Chestnut in Charleston wrote about everyone being so excited about the war, Goldfield said. She felt sorry for people who couldn’t see the war, not realizing the carnage that followed.

“Fighters in this war were individuals, they had no idea what they would be doing. ... They were used to farming, or small shops ...

They didn’t know anything about modern weaponry, about what war could do.

“The horror they saw was unbelievable ... post-traumatic stress disorder was first diagnosed with Civil War veterans,” though it wasn’t called that. “The soldiers who survived were maimed in body and mind; 620,000 died, and those who mourned them must be taken into account, as well,” he says.

“The deaths don’t trump what came out of the war, but the freedom of slaves and saving the union result has been overexaggerated. It took African-Americans over a century to win their rights.

“The union would have been saved anyway. After the union reconstructed the South, it was a millstone around the nation because it was not very productive.”

It took the South 60 years, until 1920, to recover the growth it had in 1860, Goldfield says.

“The good results of the war were not as glorious as one would think. One of the questions is, was there a better way?

“We’ll never know.

“I certainly hope we honor the men who fought and commend their courage, but the greater tribute would have been if they had lived,” Goldfield says.

When the Irish began immigrating to America, they were not welcome, especially in the cities, where they clashed with Protestants over jobs, housing, “over what the Irish Catholics did on a Sabbath — go to pubs and sing.”

The U.S. was the only democratic government in the world.

Goldfield says, “People looked upon it as an experiment. People were concerned that the Catholics owed allegiance to the pope, that they might undermine democracy.”

The Republicans were the only party in history against a particular religion, represented by the Irish immigrants, he says.

Before then, evangelicals were not only concerned with individual conversion, but also with the reform of society, “that Jesus would not come until society was free of sin. One way to do that was to get rid of Catholics and slavery; anti-Catholic and anti-slavery forces merged in 1840 and the political parties

David Goldfield will be at Literary Bookpost at 6 p.m.

Thursday to discuss and sign his book, “America Aflame.” A reception will precede the event.

Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His other books include “Still Fighting the Civil War,” “Black, White, and Southern” and “Promised Land.”

“The good results of the war were not as glorius as one would think. One of the questions is, was there a better way?”

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tried to introduce those ideas into the political process,” Goldfield says.

The evangelical Christian parties were valid, but the majority still moved to the center; on the local level, it was successful, but on the national it was not real significant. As Irish immigration accelerated and people moved West, it brought slavery more into the political arena.

“The Republican party was the anti-Catholic, anti-slavery party.

Not all Republicans were evangelicals, but ... a vote for Republicans was a vote for God.” In 1858, the Lincoln-Douglas debates brought on the slogan twin despotisms. They wanted to wipe out Catholicism and slavery.

Lincoln was not a religious bigot, but that was his party.

Where do Southern evangelists come in, Goldfield asks.

Some advocated keeping religion out of politics, “but eventually they came to view slavery as a God-given institution; it was OK to bring slaves to Jesus and to protect the African and lift him up from babarity. There was

a paternal and religious dimension. Northerners said slaveholders were sinners, Southerners said Northerners were sinners.”

In 1860, the Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians split along sectional lines on slavery. “Political issues were raised to a religious level. Remember, our government works best in moderation and compromise. It’s difficult to formulate policy otherwise,” Goldfield reiterated.

“Versions of history are too emotional. I tried to write the book to get over that. I asked why and tried to show it. ... The Civil War was the greatest American political failure. We’ve had crises throughout, but usually our political system has risen to the challenge.”

Southerners have been highly critical of Goldfield’s books.

“They’s still fighting the Civil War, but I’m a Southern historian. It’s about how Southerners have remembered the war — a lot of it is myth. They haven’t been in my corner, but this book, the response has been more guarded,

but more positive. I’m applying a more even-handed approach. I’m not anti-Southern or anti-South, but anti-war.”

The North developed a reputation of virtue, the South became the evil empire, Goldfield says. “I say a curse on both of them. Lincoln said both sides were responsible for the war.”

Goldfield said not many books look at it this way. “In terms of looking at the origins of war from an evangelical perspective, we’ve been in this ditch and we can’t get out. Was it slavery or states rights? We’re not asking the right questions. ...

“I always tell my students to leave 2011 behind, but that’s why we’re still fighting the war today, not replaying history.

It’s a vindication for who we are today. I wanted to get away from what presents false dichotomies. I wanted to look at what people at the time were talking about, what they were interested in. On the streets of New York what concerns you is Catholics or Protestants — not slavery. ... People think we were always talking about slavery; but Lincoln won because he got his Protestant workingclass base in the North,” where Goldfield says they were frightened about the Irish Catholics and free black people. ... Lincoln won the Northern states because Protestant men wanted to keep their superior place.”

The book tells a story through real people who lived at that time, such as Walt Whitman and Stephen Douglas, Goldfield says.

“It’s not a textbook. ... It becomes very personal.” Readers can see themselves and their society today in this book: the gridlock, ideology over ideas, some of the same erosion of the center and same religious self-righteousness.

Because it is the 150th anniversary of the war, his book has garnered national interest. He’s been interviewed on NPR and will be at Washington’s famous bookstore, Politics and Prose, and he’ll do a program for the Treasury Department. “I have a mission to get people to read the book, but I want to take it to the people of the Southeast. I really want to bring this message.”

Good reads for mothers and daughters at the library

BY LAUREL REISEN

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Rowan Public Library has some great, quick reads, perfect for mothers and daughters and just in time for Mother’s Day. The first title is “The Goodbye Quilt” by Susan Wiggs. Linda is a quilter and owner of a local fabric store. When her daughter, Molly, earns a scholarship to a prestigious college on the East Coast, a mother/daughter road trip is in order. As Molly drives, Linda quilts squares, reflects on her life and wonders in amazement at the capable young woman her daughter has become.

“Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder” by Joanne Fluke is the first in the Hannah Swenson Murder Mystery series. Her well-meaning mother is trying to marry her off, but Hannah is busy managing The Cookie Jar, a popular bakery in Minnesota. Unfortunately, a dead body ends up behind her store, a surefire killer to any business. Hannah intends to solve the murder and keep her business afloat. The Hannah Swenson Murder Mystery series also includes fabulously yummy recipes in each book.

In “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” by Aimee Bender, Rose Edelstein discovers an unwanted talent, days before she turns 9 years old. She can actually taste the cook’s emotions in any prepared food. She can feel the sadness in the foods her mother prepares. If she eats a piece of toast made by her older brother she feels his teenage angst. The feelings are so palpable she is driven to eating prepared food in order to avoid the tangible feel-

ings that grip her. “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” is a story entwined in a family of special gifts and secrets.

In “Georgia Bottoms” by Mark Childress, the title character is a modern day Scarlett O’Hara from a small town in Alabama. Her genteel life is a balancing act of keeping up appearances, taking care of her mother and entertaining six suitors. Her life is about to get more chaotic when her most recent lover decides to confess to the entire church congregation. Not willing to upset the delicate balance, Georgia launches a distraction. Hilarity mixed with very serious topics ensue throughout the book.

Fiction titles are a great window to family relationships. Stop

by Rowan Public Library for these titles and others that offer a glimpse into family life and mother/daughter dynamics.

Computer classes: Classes are free. Sessions are approximately 90 minutes. Class size is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. Dates and times at all locations are subject to change without notice.

Headquarters — Monday, 7 p.m., Internet Basics.

South — April 28, 11 a.m., Introduction to Gmail Children’s Storytime: Now through April 29, weekly story time. For more information, call 704-216-8234.

Headquarters — Toddler Time (18-35-month-olds), Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.; Baby Time (6-23month-olds), Wednesdays, 11 a.m.

Preschool Time (3-5-year-olds), Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.; Noodlehead (4-8 years), Thursdays, 4 p.m.

South — Noodlehead, Mondays, 4 p.m.; Baby Time, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.; Preschool Time, Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.; Toddler Time, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.

East — Preschool Time, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.; Toddler Time, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.; Baby Time, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.

Chris Hartley, author of “Stoneman’s Raid 1865”: Headquarters, Tuesday, 7 p.m., Stanback Auditorium. Rowan citizens will be able to relive the past when Chris Hartley shares his book, “Stoneman’s Raid 1865” at RPL. Copies of Hartley’s book will be available for purchase. The program is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow the pro- CHRIS HARTLEY gram.

An interview with Hartley, whose book includes information about the raid in Rowan County, is available at www.salisburypost.com by searching for “Chris Hartley.” He came to Salisbury last October to sign his book, which was a bestseller locally for weeks, and continues to sell well.

Book chats for children: South only; Thursday, 4:15 p.m.

“Granny Torrelli Makes Soup” by Sharon Creech; grades three and four. Children in grades two through five (different grade each month) are invited to participate in “Book Chats” at RPL’s

South Rowan Regional Library in China Grove. Registration is required and space is limited.

Please call 704-216-7728 for more information.

Book Bites Club: South only; April 26, 6:30 p.m., “A Reliable Wife” by Robert Goolrick. Book discussion groups for both adults and children will meet the last Tuesday of each month.

The group is open to the public; anyone is free to join at any time. There is a discussion of the book, as well as light refreshments at each meeting. For more information please call 704-216-8229.

JR’s Adventure Club: Headquarters, April 30, 11 a.m. The club will choose a project to build, and have books from the library and recommended websites that go along with the project. The club is open to all school age children.

Light refreshments will be served. Call 704-216-8234 to learn more.

Teen program: Enjoy board games and video games.

East — Monday, 5:30-7 p.m.

Headquarters —Tuesday, 5:307 p.m.

South — April 26, 5:30-7 p.m.

Holiday closing: All library locations will be closed April 22-24 for Easter.

Displays: Headquarters — Lee Street Theatre and National Library Month; South — watercolors by Caroline Marshall; East — Ann Furr 4-H. Literacy: Call the Rowan County Literacy Council at 704-2168266 for more information on teaching or receiving literacy tutoring for English speakers or for those for whom English is a second language.

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Dr. David Smith, an internist who works at the Community Care Clinic of rowan County, takes a blood pressure reading for Martin Hannah.

‘It’s a godsend’ Community Care Clinic sees great need — and plenty of gratitude

BY KATIE SCARVEY kscarvey@salisburypost.com

hose who work at the Community Care Clinic of Rowan County will tell you that the patient demographics there have changed in recent years.

A homeless person without a high school education might be sitting in the waiting area next to someone with a college education who has been laid off and can no longer afford the cost of health insurance.

With high unemployment and a dismal economy, more and more people are turning to the Community Care Clinic of Rowan County for basic medical and dental care.

Different circumstances have led them there, but what they have in common is a deep appreciation for what they receive from the clinic.

Those who attended a fashion show fundraiser for the clinic recently heard the story of Mari Phillips, who had enjoyed a comfortable life with her husband but found herself in the years following his unexpected death falling into financial insecurity. She began coming to the clinic in 2008.

“I am the new face of the clinic,” she said. “We’re people who have never had to ask for help, who are here just because of circumstances. It can happen to anybody.”

She works, but it’s part-time, for minimum wage, she says.

The clinic has “meant everything” to her.

“I would not have been able to even take my maintenance medication for high blood pressure and diabetes,” she said. Had it not been for the clinic she also probably would not discovered a blood disorder that is now being closely monitored.

James Sparger has been coming to the clinic for several years.

He comes every six weeks or so to keep up with his diabetes, high blood pressure and rheumatoid arthritis.

Like many who use the clinic, Sparger works — he’s a truck driver — but does not have a full-time job.

And that means that he doesn’t have any health insurance.

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He’s incredibly grateful to the clinic. “It’s a godsend that there’s something like this in this community,” he says.

“Connie (Antosek) and Rachel (Wieder) are two of the finest people you will meet,” he said. “They go over and beyond.

They do more than meets the eye for everyone.”

Sparger sees Dr. Gordon Senter for his rheumatoid arthritis and says the improvement in his health has been remarkable.

In fact, he says, if it weren’t for the clinic, he’s not sure where he’d be right now.

“I’m so thankful they’re there to help me and others.”

The medication he’s taking for his arthritis costs about $1,800 a month, he says, adding that there is no way he would be able to “out of pocket” that.

Before being treated, he says, there were days when he couldn’t even get out of bed because of his arthritis. Now, he’s able to work when he he’s called on.

Sparger, who is 49, says he’s been without health insurance since he lost his full-time job, which has been a little more than 10 years ago.

“They don’t know how much I appreciate them,” he says of the clinic staff. “The people are just fantastic who work there. They treat you like you’re one of the family.

That’s a sentiment echoed by Daniel Teasley, who’s been coming to the clinic for about four years now.

“I’ve developed a relationship with those people,” he says.

“The clinic is like a breath of fresh air on a bad day, for real.”

Teasley is being treated for hypertension and diabetes and gets his medication at the clinic.

He also uses the clinic as his primary care giver for “whatever comes up” during the year, he says.

He began going to the clinic after his skyrocketing blood pressure led to a trip to the emergency room. He goes to the clinic about every three months, if he’s not having problems.

Teasley, 44, is also without insurance. He used to work at Cracker Barrel, but like many of the employees there, he worked 28-30 hours a week and

“There is more and more demand for our services. Our numbers are getting bigger and bigger.”

CONNIE ANTOSEK executive director of the Community Care Clinic of Rowan County

thus didn’t qualify for benefits, he says.

He recently got a job as a cook at Catawba College, he says. He looks forward to being able to secure health insurance through his new job.

The people at the clinic are compassionate and “understand what’s going on out there,” Teasley says, with people losing jobs and being unable to replace them because of the economy — or only finding part-time work with no benefits.

Libby Nafziger has her diabetes and hypertension managed at the clinic.

She learned about the Community Care Clinic from Social Services, she says, when she went to inquire about getting Medicaid.

She didn’t qualify, so they referred her to the Community Care Clinic, where she applied for services and was accepted.

“I didn’t know that Rowan County had anything like that,” she said.

Nafziger, who lives in Rockwell, has a full-time job but says she can’t afford to buy into her employer’s health insurance plan.

She’s been with the clinic for about four years, she says, and she goes monthly.

“I get wonderful care,” she says.

“They are very compassionate

medical people who don’t make you feel like you’re not worthy of anything because you don’t have insurance. Everyone I’ve seen has been wonderful.

“Without them I wouldn’t be getting any medicine or seeing doctors becasue I couldn’t afford to go. They are a great group of people. I could never repay them.”

• • • The clinic was founded in 1996 by Rowan Regional Medical Center in an effort to provide health care to a qualifying segment of needy residents.

Day and evening clinics offer basic healthcare for adults, chronic disease management, medications, vision care and dental care.

Last year, the clinic provided services to 2,328 patients, says clinic director Connie Antosek.

The clinic’s in-house pharmacy dispensed almost 18,000 prescriptions and provided individual counseling for every patient. All of these services are free to the patients.

“The demands for our services have increased over the last two years due to the unemploy-

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have decided that when I become king of the world, a few changes will be made.

I will, of course, be a benevolent king, but my kingdom will technically be a dictatorship, so I’ll get to do whatever I want. You KENT BERNHARDT probably won’t like all of the changes I make, but in time you will realize that I have your best interest in mind, and you will embrace even the changes you have trouble understanding.

If you don’t, well, then off with your head.

A few of my rulings will be simple housekeeping items; the banning of David Caruso in TV and movies, the removal of Russell Stover candies from the marketplace (too many unpleasant surprises), and the designation of an official holiday in honor of the Three Stooges where you get to slap and poke anyone you want to all day.

Other changes will be more profound and farreaching in scope.

For example, I will forever eliminate the practice of restaurant wait staff singing happy birthday songs to unsuspecting guests in eating establishments.

It’s time to forever ban this practice. Let’s face it; it’s no longer a novelty. As a matter of fact, it’s been done to death.

To begin with, it’s technically illegal to sing the traditional “Happy Birthday to You” in a public performance anyway. The last I heard, someone owns the rights to the song, and public performances of it are forbidden unless royalties are paid.

To get around this little snafu, restaurants have taken to composing their own often nauseating tunes which they perform four or five times during your typical restaurant experience.

They’re usually forced at gunpoint by the management to do it, and it shows on their faces. They might as well be singing “It’s your birthday and I cannot lie…right after you tip, I hope you die.”

I find myself cringing every time my birthday rolls around, and my family invites me to a restaurant for dinner. I know what’s coming at the end of the meal – some insipid song followed by a bowl of cheap ice cream posing as your “free” dessert.

Many years ago when the practice was new, it was amusing. Now it happens so often it’s become like a passing thunderstorm. You just sort of wait it out, and you’re glad when it’s over.

Enough already. Consider that practice banned when I take over. It’s gonea-roo, along with political ads.

That’s right…I’m also banning political ads from the face of my kingdom. As a benevolent dictator, most of my underlings will be appointed by me anyway, so there will be little need for them. For the few positions that will be designated by an open election, ads will be unnecessary.

Why? Because they never really meant anything anyway. Most are filled with promises that never see the light of day, so let’s

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Is friend’s query about other guests rude?

Dear Frustrated: You have dodged this question, and so far it has not eased your frustration. You might as well point out to your friend that her question puts you on edge.

You can do so nicely by saying, “I never really know how to respond when you ask me this because it sounds as if you are considering whether you want to come over based on who else will be there. Is there someone in our circle you are avoiding, or is there another reason you do this?”

I agree with you that this is a bad habit. You can help your friend break herself of this by conveying honestly how it makes you feel.

Dear Amy: My husband and I are both in our late 70s and have been married for six years.

For some reason he feels it is an unwritten law that a couple should watch all movies together.

We have very different taste in television programs.

We also have three TV sets in our small house, so it makes more sense for each of us to

watch what we want to as individuals.

Most nights we wind up in an argument. Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

— Johnnie in Florida Dear Johnnie: Your husband wants to be with you!

I gather it is not the togetherness that bothers you so much as his taste in movies does. Don’t argue about this. Compromise.

You two could divvy up the week into one day when he chooses what to watch and a day when you choose.

For instance, he can record and ask you to suffer through “Cougar Town” with him on a Wednesday, and you can ask him to share “The Dirty Dozen” with you on a Thursday.

You should also agree to have times when you’re not joined at the hip and be able to retreat to your separate Barcaloungers.

You should also both spend time outside the home with friends or hobbies.

It’s all about balance — and you two can find it with the help of a calendar, a recording device and some tolerance for each other’s choices.

Dear Amy: “Perplexed” wrote to you expressing frustration when blind dates gas on about their previous relationships on the first date.

Here’s another slant on this problem, taken from my own experience: I was on a blind date — my first after being divorced. I was warned by friends not to talk about my divorce or daughter on the date.

The man skillfully questioned me all evening about both.When I tried to even find out what he did for a living, he evaded the questions.

The story’s ending? We have been happily married for 48 years.

What did he do for a living? Insurance investigator!

— No Longer Blind Dear No Longer: Some “rules” cry out to be broken.

Given your husband’s skill at drawing you out, I’m not surprised you agreed to a second date.

Fortunately, he stopped bobbing and weaving so that you could to get to know him too.

—Tribune media services

Costco now selling wedding gowns NEW YORK (AP) — A quickie wedding is no excuse for anything less than a fabulous dress — especially now that Costco is selling designer gowns that will be ready for the aisle in just a few days.

The mass-market retailer partnered with bridal designer Kirstie Kelly to develop a capsule collection of six gown styles to be sold at pop-up salons during wedding-themed sales events the discount warehouse club is hosting across the country.

The dresses range in price from $699 to $1,399, and are offered in sizes 2 to 24.

“When I was designing this line, and when I thought about what this line represented, I wanted to create a small, tight collection that represented every type of bride and type of wedding,”

Kelly says. “There’s a gown for the destination bride, one for the bride who likes a clean look, one who is bohemian, and the bride who is traditional and having a ballroom reception.”

No, Kelly says, the gowns aren't exactly cheap — neither in quality or price — but they are being sold for hundreds less than her signature label and there is the convenience of receiving your dress almost immediately. Almost every gown will still need a few fit alternations, but she recently helped sell a dress on a Saturday for a Monday wedding.

In a more typical bridal shop, the gown shoppingalteration process could be weeks, even months.

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Tom and Debbie Todd of Salisbury are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Rose Todd, to Zachary Mitchell Riggan, both of Monroe.

The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Dick and Joy Dietrich and John and Glenna Todd, all of Cape Coral, Fla. A 2002 graduate of West Rowan High School, Courtney graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. She is a paramedic in Charlotte.

The future groom is the son of Sherry and Sam McDonald of Sanford and Mr. Jody Riggan of Butner. He is the grandson of Mr. Johnnie Riggan of Butner and Worth and Joyce Shaw of Lumberton.

A 1999 graduate of Cary High School, Zach is an Air Force veteran who served three deployments during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recipient of the John L. Levitow Leadership Award presented during Airman Leadership School, Zach is a police officer with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

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Walt and Linda Brummett of Bostic are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacy Lynn Newton, to Joshua Wayne Overcash of Salisbury.

Stacy is the granddaughter of Charles and the late Irene Vandyke of Bostic and Jasper and the late Gerill Newton of Casar. A 2004 graduate of East Rutherford High School, Stacy received a degree from Gardner-Webb University School of Nursing in 2008. She is a nurse at Cleveland Regional Medical Center.

Joshua is the son of Max and Brenda Overcash of Salisbury and the grandson of Hallie Arvey of Salisbury, the late Frank Myers of Gaffney, S.C., and the late Clint and Lucille Overcash of Salisbury.

A 2005 graduate of East Rowan High School, Joshua will receive a degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2012. He is employed by Harris Teeter Pharmacy.

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BIRTHS Landon Morgan A son, Landon Scott, was born to Matthew and Natalie Jones Morgan of China Grove on February 28, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Grandparents are Ken and Judy Jones of Mt. Ulla, Alan and Sharon Bare of Cleveland and Robin and Janet Morgan of Mt. Pleasant. Great-grandparents are Wayne and Anne Jones of Mt. Ulla, JoAnn Alessandrini of Salisbury, Larry Cobb of Landis and Barbara Morgan of China Grove. Great-great-grandparent is Sarah Jones of Mt. Ulla.

Lillian Phillips A daughter, Lillian Irene, was born to Chris and Elisabeth Phillips of Linwood on March 8, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 6.5 ounces. Grandparents are Carl and Deborah Phillips of Linwood, Kathey Coggins of Lexington and the late Dr. George M. Coggins Jr. Great-grandparent is Alma Allen of Greensboro.

Hayley Palmore A daughter, Hayley Marie, was born to Nicholas and Stephanie Palmore of Cleveland on March 16, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces. Grandparents are Paul and Linda Gaylor of China Grove, Dick Palmore and Jayne and Steve Land, all of Salisbury, and the late Amy Collins. Great-grandparents are Barbara and Russell Phillips of Concord, Cleo Collins of Canton and Woodie and Dee Palmore of Florida.

The South Rowan Class of 1963 held its 47-1/2 year reunion on April 9 at South Rowan High School. Classmates and guests gathered at the school cafeteria. Greeting participants as they arrived were refreshments that were popular in the 50s and 60s as well as period music. The entertainment for the evening was provided by Elvis (Michael “Mailvis” Thomas) with a program presented in memory of deceased classmates.

Classmates attending from out of state were Charles London of Burlington, Vt. and Mike Ritchie of Rock Hill, S.C. Classmates attending from

North Carolina were Lucy Overcash Oliver of Greensboro; Ruth Thomas Rowe of Wingate; Suzanne Bland Williams and Tisha Schenck Wiley of Charlotte; Luther Collins, Carolyn Compton Dale, Margaret Edwards Bost, Bob Eidson Jr., Jimmy Hastings, Sue Jones Baumgartner, Barbara Miller Collins, Pheobie Moore Castor, Gareth Overcash of Salisbury; Ranetta Allmon Sweatte, Judy Cress, Ronnie Lipe, Walter Moore, Ruth Sechler Calhoun, Dianne Sloop Heilig, Brenda Smith Seamon, Richard Wallace of China Grove; Tom Easterling, J.C Holt, Elaine Storey Hyatt, Wayne Wilhelm of Kannapolis; Robert Brown, Gene Miller of Landis; Charles Honeycutt, Linda Deal

Raymond McGowan of Dunkirk, Md., and Carrol McGowan of Las Vegas, Nev., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Catherine Ruth McGowan of Salisbury, to Clayton Reid Honeycutt, son of Timothy and Deana Honeycutt of Mount Pleasant.

The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Ruth Liebermann of Las Vegas, Nev. A 2004 graduate of Southern Senior High School, Catherine graduated from Wake Forest University in 2008, where she was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Sigma Delta Pi. She is employed by Living Arts Institute in Winston-Salem.

The future groom is the grandson of J. David and the late Annie K. Honeycutt of Albemarle and James and Libby Cline of Granite Quarry. A 2005 graduate of Mount Pleasant High School and 2009 graduate of Wake Forest University, Clayton received a Master degree in Education in 2010 from WFU, where he was a member of Phi Alpha Theta. He is employed by the Rowan-Salisbury School System.

The couple will marry July 23 at Maple Springs United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem.

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Ben and Kathryn Baker of Granite Quarry are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Kathryn Baker, to Clay Charles Boger of Faith.

The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Mills and Clarita Peebles of Columbia, S.C., and the late Leonard and Margaret Baker of Aiken, S.C. A 2006 graduate of East Rowan High School, Sarah graduated cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2010. She is employed by Rowan-Salisbury School System at Koontz Elementary School.

The future groom is the son of Cathy Taylor of Faith and Randy Boger of Rockwell and the grandson of Lewis and Jean Taylor of Faith and Hilbert and Martha Boger of Rockwell. A 2006 graduate of East Rowan High School and 2010 graduate of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Clay is also employed by Rowan-Salisbury Schools.

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Mr. and Mrs. Glen Edward Albracht of Salisbury, N.C., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Brandy Michelle Albracht, to Joseph Harrison Rider, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Joseph Rider III of Ocean Pines, Maryland.

Brandy is the granddaughter of Mrs. Annabelle and the late Mr. Folger Hampton Goode of Winston-Salem and Mrs. Yvonne Jean and the late Mr. Edward Anthony Albracht of Omaha, Nebraska.

Joe is the grandson of Mrs. Florence and the late Mr. Edward A. Wenninghoff of Omaha, Nebraska, and Mrs. Lorna and the late Mr. Harrison Joseph Rider Jr., of Baltimore, Maryland.

The wedding is May 21 at Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Honeycutt of Mt. Ulla; Lanny of Sides Mack Deal, Mooresville; Eddie Goodnight of Concord; Bill Karriker of Cornelius; Elizabeth Shell Long of Faith; Carol Gilbert Stubbs of Gold Hill.

The class will celebrate its 50th reunion in April 2013.

Pan-Hellenic Council On April 3 the Local Chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) held its official chartering, which expanded the chapter to also cover Cabarrus County.

The organization also installed officers for the 2011-13 term: president, Zaria Humphries-

Davis of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.; vice-president, Zellua Moore of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.; Secretary, Lovetta Moore of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Salisbury; Treasurer, Mary Ponds of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Salisbury; Chaplain, Vincia Benjamin of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. It was the vision of Rory Chandler of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and past local president of the chapter, to bring members of the greek community together in the Rowan and Cabarrus County areas.

The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Incorporated (NPHC) is currently composed of nine

(9) International Greek letter Sororities and Fraternities: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. NPHC promotes interaction through forums and meetings for the exchange of information and engages in cooperative programming and initiatives .

For more information contact Zaria Davis-Humphries at zdhumphries@salisburysgrho.com.

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Dear Amy: I have a very close and caring friend. “Susan” is wonderful but does one thing that drives me crazy.

Whenever I invite her and her husband to our house, she always asks who else will be there.

She does this before giving her response (which ASK is “yes” 99 perAMY cent of the time). She asks this in emails, so I cannot quickly parry her question verbally with: “Who are you interested in seeing?”

What is a proper way to stop this question? I feel that it is none of her business who else I invited. If I am invited to someone’s home, I don’t ask about other guests — I give the host an answer about us and that’s it.

I feel it is rude to ask this question every time. It’s as if she is more interested in seeing my other guests than me and my husband.

Please help. I don’t want to lose her friendship but this has been building up for too long.

I end up either ignoring this question in my response email or saying I don’t have others confirmed yet.

— Frustrated Friend

Susan Marie Wall of Raleigh and Kevin Brian Holland of Garner were united in marriage Saturday, April 16, 2011, at Christiana Lutheran Church.

The Rev. Carl M. Haynes officiated the 2 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at Holiday Inn. The bride was escorted by her father, Glenn Wall, and attended by Suzanne Barger of Parkton as matron of honor.

Serving as bridesmaids were cousin of the bride Jenny Blevins of Hickory, sister of the groom Jennifer Holland of Raleigh, cousin of the bride Brandi Privette of Garner and sister-in-law of the bride Holly Wall of Boiling Springs.

Jason Dempsey of Valley, Ala., was best man, and groomsmen included cousin of the groom Robert Holland of Faison, cousin of the groom Thomas Holland of Wilson, Jeff Page of Holly Springs and brother of the bride John Wall of Boiling Springs.

Olivia-Claire Wall of Boiling Springs, niece of the bride, served as flower girl.

Kathy Haynes served as wedding director. Musicians included Becky Morris as organist; Pauline Lyerly as pianist; Chris Fensom as trumpeter; and Judy Kluttz as soloist.

The bride is the daughter of Glenn and Sue Wall and the granddaughter of Glenna and the late Hayden Lingle and Chester and Marie Wall, all of Salisbury. A 1998 graduate of East Rowan High School and an N.C. Teaching Fellow, Susan received a Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002. A National Board Certified Teacher, she is employed by Wake County Public Schools.

The groom is the son of J.B. and Jill Holland of Virginia Beach, Va., and Lynn and Donald Roberts of Faison. He is the grandson of the late

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Julie Kristin Alexander of Rockwell and Matthew Brandon Wagoner of Salisbury were united in marriage March 26, 2011, at Organ Lutheran Church.

Pastor Terrell Long officiated at the 5 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at The Salisbury Depot.

The bride was escorted by her father, Carl W. Alexander Jr., and attended by Lauren Simpson as maid of honor and her sister, Lisa Kesler, as matron of honor. Both are of Salisbury. Bridesmaids included Allison Egbert of Harrisburg, Adrian Staton of Rockwell, Holly Wagoner of Misenheimer and Kami Wilson of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Honorary bridesmaids were Taren Davis of Salisbury, Christin Funderburk of Rockwell and Erin Smith of China Grove.

Denny Wagoner was his son’s best man.

Serving as groomsmen were Dave Beretsky, Nathan Frick and Jeremy Kesler of Salisbury, Greg Prevatte of Asheville and brother of the groom Ben Wagoner of Misenheimer.

Jenny Lee Wagoner and Maddie Wagoner of Misenheimer, nieces of the groom, served as flower girls. Owen Kesler and William Kesler of Salisbury, nephews of the bride, were ring bearers.

Greg Simpson of Rockwell was acolyte; Kasey Misenheimer of Salisbury was guest registrar; and Audrey Pearman of Charlotte was program attendant.

Holly Wagoner was soloist and Sharon Sapp of Salisbury was organist. Wedding directors were Margaret Basinger and Frances Simpson, both of Rockwell.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Marvene Alexander of Rockwell and the granddaughter of Ms. Kathryn and the late Owen Simpson of Rockwell and the late Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Nancy Alexander of Landis.

A 2001 graduate of East Rowan High School,

Benson and Lottie Holland of Faison and the late Colon and Ruth Tew of Warsaw. A 1993 graduate of James Kenan High School and an N.C. Teaching Fellow, Kevin received a Bachelor of Arts in History with teacher certification from North Carolina State University in 1997. A National Board Certified Teacher, he is employed

by Wake County Public Schools.

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KANNAPOLIS — Stacy Michele Garmon of China Grove and Thomas Brett “Bubba” Rosenbaum of Lexington were married Dec. 4, 2010, at First Wesleyan Church. The Rev. Craig Hallman officiated the 5 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception in the church’s Fellowship Hall.

The bride was escorted by her father and attended by her sister, Stephanie Robbins of Salisbury, as matron of honor. Bridesmaids were sisters of the bride Angela Uren and Carla Morgan, sister of the groom Leigh Lowder, Crystal Sullivan and Kathy Lowe. Alaina Uren, niece of the bride, was junior bridesmaid.

Britt Johnson of Rocky Mount stood as best man. Groomsmen included Aaron Pauley, Shannon Sink, Adam Meredith, Matthew Pressley and Nathaniel Cauble.

Nieces of the bride Julia Uren and Madison Morgan served as flower girls, and the bride’s nephew, Cameron Uren, was ring bearer. Serving as miniature bride was niece of the bride Addison Robbins, and miniature grooms were nephew of the bride Landon Morgan and nephew of the groom Lance Lowder. Wedding director was Robin Lancaster, and guest registrar was Heather Pressley.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Garmon and the granddaughter of Deemy and the late A.M. Garmon, Shirley Harkey and Kenneth Harkey, all of China Grove. A 1999 graduate of South Rowan High School, Stacy received a degree in Elementary Education from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2003. She is employed by Rowan-Salisbury Schools.

The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Rosenbaum of Lexington and the grandson of Evelyn and the late Tom Rosenbaum of Rural Hall and Mr. and Mrs. George Fortner of Southern Pines. A 2000 graduate of North Davidson High School, Bubba received a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Averett University in 2005. He is employed by Rowan-Salisbury Schools.

Following a honeymoon cruise to the Western Caribbean, the couR128961 ple are making their home in China Grove.

FROM 1E just bypass them altogether.

From now on candidates – just surprise us. It’s what you do best.

Let’s see, what else am I getting rid of… I have a whole laundry list of things here…hmmm…National Anthem performances by celebrities, male enhancement ads, the North Carolina “wink, wink” Education Lottery” (the name alone makes me laugh), oh, and those emails that you have to pass along to15 people before God will bless you.

I’m really tired of getting

those. They’re the modern day chain letters, and I have a deep dark secret to confess. I never passed those along either.

That’s right…I’m the guy who broke the chain. That’s why none of us ever got the five million dollars we were all supposed to get. Blame me.

The e-mail version starts out with some spiritually uplifting message or fictitious story about someone who was healed by God of a disfiguring malady simply because the faithful took the time to pass an e-mail along to their friends.

It ends with the threat that “if you don’t pass this along to at least fifteen of your

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Whosoever Will Let Them Come Ministry in Spencer celebrates its leaders, Bishop Christopher F. Brown Sr., formerly of Kannapolis, and his awesome wife, Pastor Patricia A. Brown, originally from Richmond County, on his recent presentation of the Volunteer of the Year Award at Piedmont Correctional Institution’s Volunteer Banquet held April 5.

Bishop Brown says he received his Bachelor’s degree in “Being born again”and majored in ”Kneeology” at a school he calls the “State University of Hard Knocks.” His favorite scripture is Ecclesiastes 4:14.

Bishop Brown has been a loyal and dedicated volunteer to the staff and inmates at PCI. His loving personality, diligence and faithfulness have created a wonderful relationship with the unit.

Bishop Brown volunteers in the following areas: yoke fellowship; worship services every second Sunday of the month; and Bible study in the unit chapel every second and fourth Thursday. He is also instrumental in sponsoring approved individual inmates in good standing on community leave passes.

Bishop Brown also has a street ministry that goes into the highways and hedges compelling people to come in.

He has been chosen to represent Rowan County at the N.C. Dept. of Corrections Volunteer of the Year Award presentation April 14 in Raleigh.

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friends, maybe you don’t love Jesus as much as you think you do.”

Nooo…maybe I don’t want to help some computer nerd see how many people he can dupe into sending a bogus message all over the world.

Anyway, those are gone too.

I think if you give my changes a try, you’ll like living in my kingdom. If not, I’m sure we’ll have one of those political uprisings we’ve been hearing so much about, and I’ll be forced from power by people who actually like having birthday songs sung to them in restaurants.

Kent Bernhardt lives in Saisbury.

Julie received a degree in finance from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2005.

She is an auditor for Delhaize Group.

The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Denny and Pat Wagoner of Salisbury and the grandson of Ms. Irene Peeler of Misenheimer, the late Ben Wagoner of Misenheimer and the late Virginia Caudill of Asheboro. A 2002 graduate of East Rowan High School, Matt is a conductor for Norfolk Southern.

Following a wedding trip to St. Lucia, the couR128960 ple are making their home in Rockwell.

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The competition was keen in the Monday afternoon duplicate game at the Salisbury Woman’s Club. Carol and H a r o l d Winecoff tied with Stella Shadroui and Billy Burke for first place.

Other winners were: Myrnie and J o h n BILLY McLaughlin, BURKE third; Marie Pugh and Loyd Hill, fourth.

This was the unusual deal on Board 19 from Monday’s game: South dealer, only E/W vulnerable NORTH — 543  J 10 9 8 7 5 4 Q84 WEST EAST  A 10 8 7 KJ92 AJ98  10 7 6 2 K6 Q32 J63 75

SOUTH Q6543 KQ A  A K 10 9 2 The McLaughlins played a four diamonds contract, making five, for the best N/S score on this deal. The opening lead was the two of hearts.

The Winecoffs defeated their South opponent’s one spade contract one trick for the top E/W score.

Gloria Bryant and Wayne Pegram placed first in the Evergreen Club’s April 8 duplicate game.

Other winners were: Ruth Bowles and Marie Pugh, second; Carol and Harold Winecoff, third; Myrnie and John McLaughlin, fourth.   

Billy Burke is ACBL, Life Master director of the Salisbury Woman’s Club weekly duplicate games.

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The Swiss Family Snyder I enjoy doing this.

It’s good for them, and it’s good for me.”

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ment rate and the increasing cost of health care,” Antosek says.

“We’re seeing double what we used to. The numbers are getting bigger and bigger.”

In Rowan County, 19 percent of the population is uninsured, she says, adding that even with health care reform legislation, the need for free clinics will continue.

“The Community Care Clinic has become a vital part of the health care continuum in our community,” she says.

Volunteers, local foundations, and donors help keep the doors of the clinic open.

One of its main goals is to give people a place to go instead of the ER for nonemergency illnesses.

Medications are available to clients through a medication assistance program. A pharmacy technician works with the pharmaceutical companies to get donations for about 80 percent of the medications the clinic dispenses.

The clinic does have to purchase about 20 percent of the medications used, Antosek says.

“A lot of our diabetic medications there is no free program for,” she explains.

Although the clinic has been in existence for 15

On my nightstand was the book my daughter had left there. I picked it up and began reading about the maelstrom that wrecked the family’s ship.

One minute I was in my cozy bed reading a classic tale, and the next, I was tying laundry baskets together with electric cords so we could float to the island in the distance. In my mind, the laundry baskets would have no problem floating despite the fact that they were full of holes.

We put all the kids, two cats, two hamsters, a fish and our pineapple plant into each of the laundry baskets and used a garden rake to paddle to safety.

Later, I would think that bringing a fish to an island was really unnecessary and that since pineapple plants only produce one fruit after three years, we should have used that basket for something more practical, like food or water.

At least the fishbowl had water in it.

At the island, we’d each have to pull our own weight if we wanted to survive. I assessed each person and the skills that each could

bring to the table.

My youngest boy is impulsive, adventurous, and bossy. He would probably be the one who would find the necessities we needed due to his penchant for exploration and his willingness to try new things… except any kind of vegetable or meat. He would also be the one we’d need to rescue most often. If there were pirates, he’d try to befriend them and then tell them how to be pirates.

My daughter can make things out of nothing. She could make a set of china out of coconuts and oyster shells. If my husband made her a notched stick and presented it to her as a crochet hook, she’d make us each a wardrobe made of palm fibers and squirrel hairs.

She’s awesome that way.

My 14-year old is extremely smart about many things. He could tell us whether an animal was poisonous, how to catch said animal, how to make gunpowder, and how to catch an animal with gunpowder.

He could tell us when the first full moon would be, what the probability is of an airplane from Dulles flying over our island anytime in the next four years (zero),

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If my husband made her a notched stick and presented it to her as a crochet hook, she’d make us each a wardrobe made of palm fibers and squirrel hairs.

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y daughter recently finished reading Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss. I like to have something to read before going to bed at night when I run out of crossword puzzles. It was a perfect storm of opportunity.

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Dr. David Smith has taken on a larger role at the Community Care Clinic of rowan since his retirement from rowan regional Medical Center. years, there are still many people who don’t know about it.

Antosek wants the public to know that the clinic now has the ability to see more new patients.

That is in large part because of Dr. David Smith, who recently retired from Rowan Regional Medical Center and has bumped up the hours he works at the clinic. He’s now working on average two and a half days a week at the clinic and seeing more than 20 patients a day.

Smith began covering the clinic’s Tuesday evening clinic about 15 years ago.

Since retiring as from his administrative post at Rowan Regional Medical Center in January, he’s been able to devote more time to the clinic.

For Smith, the motivation to work at the clinic is simple.

“I like seeing patients,” he says.

And that’s a good thing, given the growing need.

Before Smith took on more hours, “for every five or six patients we saw, there were at least 10 or 20 that wanted to be seen,” she says.

Smith says that the face of the patient has changed.

He notes that they are seeing more college-educated patients who have been

caught in the down-spiraling economy.

The clinic’s patients tend to be very considerate and appreciative of what the clinic does for them, Smith says — and simply being thanked is a big part of why Smith spends so much time working at the clinic.

“I enjoy doing this,” he says. “It’s good for them and good for me.”

Martin Hannah is one of Smith’s grateful patients.

He’s been coming to the clinic for two years, since he was laid off from his job as a pipefitter.

Hannah has hypertension, and much of what the clinic does is screening and follow-up for this and other chronic conditions, including diabetes.

“This place has been a big help for me,” he says.

• • • The Community Care Clinic — which gratefully accepts donations — sees patients by appointment only and is located at 315-G Mocksville Ave. Hours are Monday-Thursday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m.-noon.

The clinic is also open Tuesday evenings from 5:308:30 .

Rowan County residents can call 704-636-4523 any time during normal hours of operation for a telephone screening for eligibility.

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During National Nurses Week, we recognize the dedication and achievements of today’s nursing professionals. These men and women make our community and our world a better place by providing encouragement, comfort and professional medical attention to the patients entrusted to their care. Every day, every shift, our nation’s nurses touch the lives of patients and their loved ones. We thank them for their extraordinary efforts and tireless commitment to caring.

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and the concentration of sulfur in our drinking water. He could tell us exactly what was in everything we ate, but since he subsists on an exclusive diet of burgers and peanut butter, he would also be the first to succumb to starvation.

My husband thinks if he has his magnesium flint stick and a coffee pot, he is invincible — the ultimate Survivorman. Sometimes he can get carried away with the whole survival thing, though. My youngest boy could catch a lobster with his toe and my husband might throw it back (the lobster, not the toe), in favor of cooking some beastly worm for dinner.

We would have to curb his zealousness.

Me, well, I have always prided myself on the fact that I can cook a spaghetti dinner over an open fire. (I didn’t think about where I was going to find spaghetti on a deserted island. That was clearly my youngest son’s job.) I have also been known to accidentally set my kitchen on fire, a skill which could come in handy when trying to alert passing ships of our presence.

When I awoke this morning, I decided that, in spite of our dubious survival skills, I would prefer not having to test them… ever.

The prudent thing to do would be to avoid ships of any kind.

Laura Snyder is a nationally syndicated columnist, author & speaker. You can reach Laura at lsnyder@lauraonlife.com. Or visit her website www.lauraonlife.com for more info.

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Carolina Performing Arts announces 2011-2012 season Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill launches its seventh season with a many world-renowned artists in a 49-performance program.

Established as one of the leading university performing arts presenters in the country, the 2011-2012 season focuses on nurturing relationships with returning artists; providing audiences with thoughtful, challenging performances; collaborating with local performers; growing programming in international contemporary dance; partnering with the University’s art department; and presenting masterworks by Beethoven and Bach.

The 2011-2012 season boasts the return of 11 artists and ensembles including Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan (Oct. 6-7); Gil Shaham, violin (Oct. 28); Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Feb. 13-14) appearing here under brand new artistic director Robert Battle; Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with

Wynton Marsalis, trumpet (March 15) and banjoist Béla Fleck with the original line-up of the Flecktones (April 25).

“Nurturing long-lasting relationships with artists is a vital aspect of our mission,” said Emil Kang, Executive Director for the Arts. “Whether these performers are wellknown or emerging, we want to give everyone the opportunity to experience their diversity and enormous talent.”

2011-2012 also marks a renewed emphasis on the Triangle’s vibrant arts scene. On Sept. 7-8, UNC’s Department of Music faculty member Stefan Litwin performs Beethoven piano concertos with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Following her 2009 Go in Grace work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT), Durham native and current AAADT dancer Hope Boykin returns to Memorial Hall with her former company Philadanco in a Carolina Performing Arts-commissioned work with an original score by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

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drummer-composer Ali Jackson (Sept. 23). Celebrated tenor Anthony Dean Griffey will join UNC music faculty (Sept. 29), and nine of the University’s music faculty along with the Carolina Choir will appear with the European Union Youth Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy (April 13).

“We have a wealth of artistic talent right here in the Triangle,” said Mark Nelson, director of marketing and public relations for Carolina Performing Arts. “We want to continue to collaborate with these wonderful performers and our visiting artists.”

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Zac Brown Band to perform at Merlefest WILKESBORO, N.C. — Back by popular demand, Zac Brown Band is scheduled to perform at MerleFest, slated for April 28-May 1.

Grammy-Award winners Zac Brown Band’s first major label release, the double-Platinum “The Foundation,” was one of Billboard's Top 20 albums of 2009. It was the first major label debut album in 18 years to yield five No. 1s, including “Chicken Fried” and “Free,” and helped the band win a Grammy for “Best New Artist.” The band’s second major label studio album, “You Get What You Give,” was released on September 2010, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and has already been

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Zac Brown Band will appear on Thursday evening along with Corb Lund, Town Mountain, Scythian, Del McCoury Band and Randy Travis. Thursday night’s programming is sponsored by Window World. The complete lineup of performers is at www.merlefest.org.

Merlefest takes place on the campus of Wilkes Community College and is acelebration of “traditional plus” music—a term Doc Watson coined to describe the unique

mix of traditional, roots-oriented sounds of the Appalachian region, including bluegrass and old-time music and expanded to include Americana, country, “plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play,” Doc explained.

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MerleFest was founded in 1988 in memory of Eddy Mer-

The Biltmore offers Easter egg hunts for the children.

Easter Weekend coincides with Biltmore’s 26th annual Festival of Flowers PLUS the annual Easter Egg Hunt on the front lawn of Biltmore House, America’s Largest Home. Lush green landscapes, aromatic floral displays and thousands of blooms adorn the estate for the season.

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This photo from 2006 shows an aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine. For the visitor, Chernobyl makes heavy demands on the imagination — much of what’s important can be seen only in the mind’s eye. From the outside, the building where a reactor blew up 25 years ago in the world’s worst nuclear disaster mostly looks like an ordinary, dull industrial building.

HERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — For the visitor, Chernobyl makes heavy demands on the imagination — much of what's important can be seen only in the mind’s eye.

From the outside, the building where a reactor blew up April 26, 1986, in the world’s worst nuclear disaster mostly looks like an ordinary, dull industrial building. Only an odd addition supported by buttresses — the sarcophagus covering the reactor — hints that anything unusual happened here.

The imagination struggles, too, to repopulate nearby Pripyat with the 50,000 people who lived there. Once a busy town built especially for the plant’s workers, it’s now a silent husk of abandoned apartment towers and scrubby brush slowly overtaking the main square.

And inevitably, the visitor tries to picture the radioactive contamination that’s everywhere in the 19-mile area around the plant. The dosimeter clipped to a visitor’s clothes and occasional meters around the site are the only vi-

sual clues, flashing numbers that are mostly meaningless to the layman.

Someone saturated by the vivid wide-screen images of disaster movies may be disappointed at Chernobyl’s elusiveness. Yet that’s also its power.

Confronting the unseen gives a taste of the fear that plagued Ukrainians and much of the world as the shattered plant spewed radioactive fallout into the sky to be swept by winds across the hemisphere.

The opportunity to face these fears on a day-trip is becoming increasingly attractive.

“A few months ago, it was a few dozen people a week” who signed up for the trips, according to Dmitry Bobro, deputy director of the government agency that manages the zone around Chernobyl. “But now it’s a hundred people a week.”

Even before the crisis at a Japanese nuclear plant broke out in March, interest in visiting Chernobyl was growing so much that the Ukrainian government started an initiative to bring in more visitors by streamlining procedures for signing up for the tours.

“We want to say ‘come and see for yourselves,’” Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova told the Associated Press. Then she added a remark indicating that the meaning of Chernobyl is elusive even for those who live closely with it: “We want to dispel the myth that Chernobyl still remains dangerous for Ukraine and the world.”

But Chernobyl is in fact still a dangerous place, as the rules for visitors make clear.

Don't touch any structures or vegetation, don’t sit on the ground or even put your camera tripod there, don’t take any item out of the zone, don’t eat outdoors. Guides make sure the visitors understand that various Pripyat's most affecting point may be its spots in the zone are rusting amusement park, where a Ferris more contaminated looms as an inadvertent monument. No than others and insist giddy couples ever rode the wheel; it was no one wander off the to have opened the week after the explo- designated paths.

Visitors also can see sion at Chernobyl in 1986. the beginnings of a

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p Workers and visitors as they walk in protective clothing on the grounds of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. t A weather-worn monument commemorating World War II Soviet soldiers is seen in Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat was built for workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but the city was abandoned soon after a plant reactor exploded on April 26, 1986. project underlining the dangers that remain — the efforts to build an enormous shelter that will cover the reactor building. Shaped like a behemoth Quonset hut, the shelter will block fallout from escaping when workers begin disassembling the reactor.

Tourists get to see the reactor building only from a few hundred yards away. But the visitors’ center from which they can gaze at the plant includes a large and detailed model of the shattered reactor area. It gives pause, and visitors shift their eyes uneasily from the model to the hulking plant building; most seem relieved to move along.

About one mile away lies Pripyat, a visual highlight but an emotional low point. Even though the buildings are slowly falling apart, their clean lines and modern design still show, in marked contrast to some of the shabby settlements the visitor passes through on the bus ride up from Kiev. Pripyat was a prime example of the ideal Soviet workers’ town, and con-

templating what the residents lost when they were evacuated after the blast gives the visitor a twinge.

Pripyat’s most affecting point may be its rusting amusement park, where a Ferris wheel looms as an inadvertent monument. No giddy couples ever rode the wheel; it was to have opened the week

If you go...

Visiting Chernobyl: Several agencies offer day-trips to Chernobyl from Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, with prices starting at around $140 per person depending on group size. Agency websites include http://bit.ly/fSxGjD and www.tourkiev.com/ chernobyltour/ .

Visiting Ukraine: Ukraine does not require visas for visits by citizens of many Western countries including the United States. Detailed visa requirement information is at www.mfa. gov.ua/mfa/ en/509.htm.

after the explosion.

Although the Chernobyl zone is suffused with silence and loss, there is life there, of a sort. Some of the workers who keep an eye on the nowidle plant live in the town of Chernobyl, about 10 miles from the plant, for two weeks at a time. And some tours offer visitors the chance to meet some of the few hundred “"self-settlers,” people who had been moved out of the zone but came back against all advice, risking their health to live out their days in the hamlets where they were born.

After the bus loads up for the trip back to Kiev, there’s still one unsettling moment ahead. At the border of the exclusion zone, everyone must get out and pass through a machine that registers a person's radiation level. The visitor puts his hands up, holds them against two metal plates and waits in a prayer-like posture for a few seconds before, he hopes, a green light flashes and tells him he got though the day safely.

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Helping Make Your Mealtimes Easier Between dropping the kids off at school, paying bills, doing laundry and all your other errands, the last thing you should do is worry about spending a lot of time cooking a nutritious meal for you and your loved ones.

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Southwestern Rice Salad Makes 8 servings Ingredients 2 cups Minute White or Brown Rice, uncooked 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, drained, rinsed 1cup corn 1 medium red bell pepper, chopped 3 green onions, sliced 1 cup Italian dressing 1 cup salsa 1 cup lightly crushed tortilla chips Directions Prepare rice according to package directions.

Place in large bowl; cool.

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Add beans, corn, bell peppers, onions, dressing and salsa; mix lightly.

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Top with crushed chips.

Footnote: Garnish with cilantro, if desired, just before serving.

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Spread a pheeling with Philly Go beyond the bagel! Everyone loves delicious PHILADELPHIA cream cheese at breakfast, but did you know you can use PHILLY to add creamy richness to many of your favorite meals? From mouthwatering entrees to tasty side dishes your whole family will love, spread a pheeling with PHILLY and transform everyday recipes into deliciously original creations.

Get creative and try PHILLY… … to solve your dinnertime dilemma – are you bored of serving the sameold chicken dishes over and over again? New PHILADELPHIA Cooking Creme, a perfectly seasoned spoonable cream will provide you with creamy, flavorful chicken dishes that are as easy to make as they are to eat.

Also great when used for pasta, pizza, beef and pork. …to spice up your tried-and-true recipes. Make your favorite lasagna, just replace your ricotta with 2 tubs of PHILLY Cream Cheese for a more sumptuous lasagna.

1 tub (10 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Savory Garlic Cooking Creme 1 ready-to-use refrigerated pie crust (1/2 of 15-oz. pkg.)

Directions Heat oven to 400°F. Cook and stir chicken in large nonstick skillet on medium heat 5 to 6 min. or until chicken is lightly browned. Add vegetables; cook 1 to 2 min. or until heated through. Stir in cooking creme; spoon into 9-inch pie plate.

Cover with crust; seal and flute edge. Cut several slits in crust. Place pie plate on baking sheet.

Bake 25 to 30 min. or until golden brown.

Substitute: Substitute 2 cups chopped cooked ham for the chicken.

Prep Time: 10 min.

Total Time: 48 min.

Makes: 8 servings

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CREAMY CHICKEN POT PIE Ingredients 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables (carrots, corn, green beans, peas,) thawed, drained

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Top 10 Reasons to Love Mushrooms, the Ultimate Fun-Guy (FUNGI)

Flavorful, Filling, Nutrient-Rich Superfood Continues to Grow in Popularity Mushrooms are considered Nature’s Hidden Treasure and the star of the produce aisle, thanks to their nutrition, value and versatility.

A growing body of research links mushrooms to good health. Americans looking for powerful superfoods to add to their plates should look no further than the mighty mushroom.

Below are 10 top reasons and ways to celebrate mushrooms every day, every way!

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Mushrooms are the only fresh fruit or vegetable with bonestrengthening vitamin D. 2.

According to consumer studies, mushrooms are among the three most popular vegetables in the United States along with tomatoes and broccoli.

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Mushrooms are low in calories, fat free, cholesterol-free and can be an effective substitute for meats, thanks to their hearty and fulfilling nature.

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Cook with mushrooms every day, every way! Add them in soups, omelets, stir fries, pasta, rice, salads and kebobs. Swap mushrooms for meat in sandwiches, burgers, or meatballs.

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Scientists at City of Hope were some of the first to study the potential effects of white button mushrooms on cancer and are now applying this research to human clinical trials.

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Within the produce aisle, mushrooms are a leading source of the antioxidants that help strengthen the immune system and protect body cells from damage that might lead to chronic diseases.

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California ‘gurl,’ Katy Perry, considers mushrooms to be her secret to staying slim and one of her favorite foods, according to BangMedia International.

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Mushrooms appear on more restaurant menus than ever before! Since 2005, there has been a 12.5 percent increase in mushrooms on menus.

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Ancient Egyptians believed mushrooms were the plant of immortality, according to the hieroglyphics of 4,600 years ago.

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Mushrooms provide B

vitamins, which help to provide energy by breaking down proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

For more information, recipesand blogs, visit www.mushroominfo.com, or follow the Mushroom Channel on Twitter (twitter.com/mushroomchannel) and Facebook (facebook.com/mushroomchannel).

Warm up your next party with Buffalo and Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushroom appetizers (see full recipe below). This dish is sure to please the crowd.

Buffalo and Blue CheeseStuffed Button Mushrooms Recipe courtesy of the mushroominfo.com and Pithy and Cleaver Yield: 5 servings Ingredients 20 button mushrooms 3/4 cup chopped shallots

2 tablespoons butter 1/2 lb mild blue cheese, crumbled 1/4 cup Frank's RedHot Sauce 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup panko, divided Olive oil Additional Frank's RedHot Sauce for serving Directions Preheat oven to 375°F, and place a rack in the upper third of the oven. Clean mushrooms and remove stems. Cut ends from stems and chop finely. Chop two of the mushrooms finely as well. Dice shallots. Melt butter in a heavy 4 qt pan and add shallots. Sauté over medium-low heat until transparent and then add chopped mushrooms and stems. Sauté until softened and remove pan from heat. Stir in blue cheese, Frank's sauce, and 1/2 cup panko, stir until smooth.

Grease a cookie sheet with olive oil. Brush mushroom caps with oil and spread out on cookie sheet. Fill each mushroom cap with a spoonful of the cheese stuffing, letting it mound just slightly on the top of the mushroom. Sprinkle the remaining panko over the top. Bake for 18-20 minutes, until mushrooms are soft. If you have a broiler, feel free to turn it on for a minute or two to crisp up the top, but watch it carefully. Serve with additional hot sauce.

About The Mushroom Council: The Mushroom Council is composed of fresh market producers or importers who average more than 500,000 pounds of mushrooms produced or imported annually. The mushroom program is authorized by the Mushroom Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Act of 1990 and is administered by the Mushroom Council under the supervision of the Agricultural Marketing Service. Research and promotion programs help to expand, maintain and develop markets for individual agricultural commodities in the United States and abroad. These industry selfhelp programs are requested and funded by the industry groups that they serve. For more information on the Mushroom Council, visit mushroomcouncil.org.

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Classico® Brand Pasta Sauces Offer Fresh Ingredients with Homemade Taste

Introducing Classico® Light Creamy Alfredo Sauce; Everything an Alfredo Should Be, Just Lighter Classico® brand pasta sauces are made with the same fresh, highquality and natural ingredients that you would put in your homemade sauce.

Whether you’re searching for a delicious red sauce to go over pasta or the perfect marinara sauce to top vegetables, Classico has a red sauce for every plate and taste.

Now, Classico has expanded its line of Alfredo sauces with new Classico Light Creamy Alfredo: • Classico Light Creamy Alfredo is everything an Alfredo sauce should be — just lighter.

• Classico Light Creamy Alfredo has just 60 calories per serving but all of the rich and creamy taste.

• Classico Light Creamy Alfredo is made with real, high-quality ingredients like cream, Parmesan cheese and butter.

Classico Alfredo sauces are creamy and smooth, and delicious with so many different dishes, like this recipe for Pasta

Primavera. Add all of your favorite fresh vegetables to this simple pasta dish and garnish with shaved Parmesan cheese, if desired.

Pasta Primavera Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Serving Size: 6 servings (about 11/2 cups per serving) Ingredients 1 box (12 oz.) linguine pasta 3 Tbsp. butter 1 tsp. minced garlic 1 cup thinly sliced red onion 1 cup thinly sliced orange bell pepper 1-1/2 cups asparagus tips 1 jar (15 oz.)

Classico Light Creamy Alfredo Pasta Sauce, or about 2 cups* 3 medium plum tomatoes, chopped, or about 1-1/2 cups Directions Cook pasta al dente according to package instructions. Drain and

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keep warm, reserving 1/2 cup of pasta water.

Meanwhile, melt butter in a large skillet over medium high heat.

Cook garlic and onion for 1 to 2 minutes. Add pepper and asparagus, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in reserved pasta water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 4 to 5 minutes.

Stir in Pasta Sauce and tomatoes, and simmer for an additional 6 to 8 minutes, or until heated through, stirring occasionally.

Season with salt and pepper to taste if desired. Serve hot with cooked pasta.

Tip: For a spicy variation, add 1/4 tsp. of crushed red pepper flakes. *Tip: If desired, substitute Classico Light Creamy Alfredo Pasta Sauce with Classico Mushroom Alfredo Pasta Sauce.

For more delicious Classico recipes, visit www.classico.com.

The South Rowan OCS students from Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Anderson's classes put together 1138 gift bags for the guests of the Taste of Home Cooking Show to be held at South Rowan High School April 19th. The students worked on this project for four days until its completion. The students who helped stuff the bags were Robert Meeks, James Mills, Miranda Higgins, Michael Carpenter, David Hancock, Josh Goodman, Chris Polk, Hope Fluharty, Anna Shue, and Francisco Pelaez.

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Starting a New Spring Tradition Spring is such a revitalizing season. Winter coats are shed as the daylight hours grow longer and seasonal foods begin to make their delicious debut. The season’s spirit of change affects so many parts of our lives, and the most enjoyable results can be found at the dinner table.

“I love the springtime. We all come out of winter, and suddenly want to reconnect with friends and family. There’s just something in the air that renews us,” says Stephanie Gallo, a third generation Gallo family member. “As a family we all love to cook, so nowhere can you see this more than in our springtime recipes.”

This year, Gallo Family Vineyards® invites you to start a new tradition by brightening up your recipes with a springtime makeover. Invite your friends over for an update of those crowd-pleasing dishes with fresh, seasonal foods like asparagus, or even unexpected in-season fruit like pineapple.

Try giving chicken tacos a fresh start by adding chili powder and pineapples. The pairing of sweet and spicy is a wonderful companion for the savory chicken. And finish the meal with a glass of crisp, delicious wine. The Gallo Family Vineyards Moscato with its delicious honey and ripe citrus flavors tames the spicy heat and plays up on the fruit flavors.

Your guests will love the fresh approach to the meal.

Please visit www.gallofamily.com for more information on Gallo Family Vineyards.

Spicy Pineapple Chicken Tacos from the Gallo Family recipe book Pairs with Gallo Family Vineyards Moscato A home cook’s take on tacos “al pastor,” the sweet and spicy chicken is full of fresh new flavors. Helpful

tip: Prepare the chicken ahead of time and reheat in a sauté pan as you assemble the tacos later on.

Ingredients: 2 pounds bone-in chicken thighs 1 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon dried Mexican oregano 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons pepper 1 teaspoon chili powder Canola oil 1 medium onion, sliced 2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 jalapeño ½ tablespoon tomato paste 1-2 cups chicken stock 1 small (8 oz) can crushed pineapple 1 bay leaf 2 cups fresh (or canned) diced pineapple 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro ½ red onion, small diced 1 lime, juiced 15-20 corn or flour tortillas Directions: Mix together cumin, oregano, salt,

pepper, and chili powder. Season chicken thighs with spice mix, including under skin. Heat a few tablespoons of canola oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Brown chicken on both sides, turning once, until golden brown, remove chicken from pan. Add onion, garlic, and ½ jalapeno to same pan and briefly cook until fragrant, about 3 minutes, add tomato paste and stir to cook about 2 minutes more. Add chicken stock, crushed pineapple, and bay leaf, stir to combine and add chicken back to pan, adding more chicken stock if necessary to cover almost, but not quite, the chicken. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer until chicken is cooked all the way through, about 40 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature. Remove chicken from cooking liquid and shred chicken, discarding bones and skin. Hold shredding chicken in a few cups of the cooking liquid to keep moist. While chicken is cooking, prepare pineapple salsa by mixing together diced pineapple, cilantro, red onion, and lime juice.

Finely dice remaining ½ jalapeno and add pineapple salsa according to desired spice level.

Reheat chicken in sauté pan, serve on warm tortillas garnished with pineapple salsa.

Prep Time: 40 minutes Cook Time: 50 minutes Yield: 10 – 14 small tacos

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Recipe Contest Celebrates Family Traditions Family traditions are an important part of so many of our lives. Passed down from generation to generation, they are wonderful connections to a shared past. A family recipe, whether preserved on a weathered recipe card or shared over the kitchen stove, can be the key ingredient to a family’s unique story. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to honor your family’s story by officially preserving a recipe for future generations?

To celebrate family traditions, Gallo Family Vineyards has created the “Gallo Family Vineyards Favorite Recipe Contest.” Entrants will be invited to submit their most cherished family recipes and share the irreplaceable stories behind them. To enter for a chance to win visit the Gallo Family Vineyards page at www.facebook.com/gallofamilyvineyards to receive instructions on how to submit your family recipe. The contest begins on March 15, 2011 and ends on May 31, 2011. The winning family will be professionally photographed, and their recipe and story may be featured in the fall 2011 issue of Taste of Home magazine.

“In my family we truly value the importance of traditions,” says Stephanie Gallo, a third generation Gallo family member. “We all love to cook. Recipes have been passed on from my grandmother to my mother, and I now love to prepare these dishes for my family and friends. We’re excited to hear about other families’ recipes and the unique stories behind them.”

Here’s one of Gallo Family Vineyards’ recipes that pairs well with Gallo Family Vineyards White Zinfandel:

Smokey Grilled Potato Salad A rich and smokey take on traditional potato salad, this kicked up version will become a staple at your backyard picnics. The potatoes might seem a bit dry coming off the grill, but adding the dressing while the potatoes are still warm allows the dressing to be fully absorbed. The bold flavor and rich texture pairs well with our Gallo Family Vineyards® White Zinfandel.

4-5 large Yukon gold potatoes 5 Tbsp olive oil 1 Tbsp chopped rosemary leaves 2 tsp smoked paprika 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp salt 2 tsp ground pepper ½ pound chorizo sausage, casing removed 2 stalks celery, diced ½ tbsp mustard seed ¾ cup sherry vinegar 1 bunch green onion, sliced Preheat grill to medium high heat, clean and lightly oil grates. Slice potatoes into ¼ inch rounds and lightly toss with 2 Tbsp olive oil, rosemary, paprika, garlic, salt and pepper. Grill potatoes for 4-5 minutes per side, turning once, until cooked through but not soft. Carefully remove potatoes from grill with a metal spatula and set aside, covering to keep warm. Brown chorizo in a sauté pan over medium heat until cooked, breaking up as you stir, remove with slotted spoon to drain on paper towels. Add celery to same pan and sauté until barely soft, about three minutes, stir in mustard seeds and cook for about 1 minute more. Turn off heat and whisk in vinegar and remaining olive oil, taste and season again with salt and pepper. Pour dressing over warm potatoes and

mix carefully, the warm potatoes should absorb a majority of the dressing, adding additional olive oil and vinegar as necessary to keep moist. Stir in green onions, reserving some for garnish.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 25 minutes

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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. CONTEST BEGINS 12:00:01 AM EASTERN TIME (“ET”) ON MARCH 1, 2011 AND ENDS AT 11:59:59 PM ET ON MAY 31, 2011. To enter, visit www.facebook.com/gallofamilyvineyards, complete the required information on the Official Entry Form displayed and submit the entry as directed. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. By submitting an entry, you understand that you are submitting your information to Gallo Family Vineyards and not to Facebook. Entrants will be required to provide (A) Complete name, home address including zip code, daytime and evening telephone numbers including area code, a valid e-mail address, and date of birth; (B) Provide answers to up to seven (7) survey questions listed on the Official Entry Form; (C) Create an original family recipe which includes ingredients commonly available at retailers; and (D) Submit an essay in 150 words or less that tells a story of how the recipe inspires the celebration of your family. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11:59:59 PM ET ON MAY 31, 2011. Limit one (1) entry per person, per household, or per valid e-mail address. No purchase necessary. Contest only open to legal residents of the forty-eight (48) contiguous United States and the District of Columbia who are at least 21 years old at time of entry. Employees of Sponsor, its alcoholic beverage distributors and retailers; affiliates; subsidiaries; advertising and promotion fulfillment and/or judging agencies and the immediate family members of each are not eligible to enter or win a prize. Void in AK, CA, HI, TN, UT, PR and where otherwise prohibited by law. One (1) Grand Prize valued at $2,500 will be awarded. Contest is subject to complete Official Rules. See Official Rules at www.facebook.com/gallo-familyvineyards or to obtain Official Rules by U.S. Mail, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage to: Gallo Family Vineyards Favorite Recipe Contest Rules, c/o Centra Marketing & Communications, LLC, 1400 Old Country Road #420, Westbury, NY 11590. All requests must be received by 9/30/11. VT residents may omit return postage. The Sponsor of the Gallo Family Vineyards Favorite Recipe Contest is Gallo Family Vineyards, 600 Yosemite Boulevard, Modesto, CA 95354.

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