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ROWAN — Sandra Francis is filled with a mix of emotions. Elation gives way to sadness as she mulls over the news that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was dead. Her memories took her back to Oct. 12, 2000, the day her daughter, Lakeina, was among the sailors killed in an attack on the USS Cole. Francis watched as President Barack Obama announced Sunday that the al-Qaida leader was killed at a compound in Pakistan. “It was a bittersweet moment. I went into mother-mode and I cried like I did Oct. 12. It put my heart back there,” Francis said. Francis, her husband, LAKEINA Ronald, and others in the “USS Cole family” met FRANCIS with Obama and others who’d lost family members to terrorism and he made them a promise. “He said he would get Osama. He didn’t say when, but he did give us his guarantee,” Francis said. She spoke with other USS Cole families, and said, “They are very happy.” Military prosecutors refiled terrorism and murder charges Wednesday against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspected coordinator of the USS Cole bombing. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced
The Salisbury Fire Department revealed the two pieces of World Trade Center steel that the department recently obtained through a national project to distribute pieces of the steel to towns and cities for displays across the country and remind Americans about 9/11.
Beams unveiled early BY SHELLEY SMITH ssmith@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — On a day when the nation and most of the world were abuzz following the death of Osama bin Laden, the lives lost during the September 11, 2001, ter-
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rorist attacks were also remembered, and honored here in Salisbury. The Salisbury Fire Department revealed two 8-foot steel beams from the World Trade Center — “artifacts,” Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell called them — that will become permanent fixtures in Rowan County: One as part of the Firefighters Memorial on South Main Street, and the other beam will be incorporated at the entrance to the future firefighter training facility at Rowan Cabarrus Community College. The beams, weathered
and rust-coated, were displayed Monday, resting on wooden pallets. “These artifacts serve as a reminder of the destruction and senseless loss of life that Osama bin Laden directed,” Parnell said. “These two pieces of steel were the framework, the very fabric of the World Trade Center.” Parnell said the department decided to reveal the beams to the media early because of the requests, and, “in light of yesterday’s fearless and gallant work of the
ing. Cars weren’t honking their horns in jubilation. American flags weren’t flying from every storefront. Signs on the door at City Hall were only public notices for upcoming meetings. The marquee at the Meroney Theater was plugging the “Farnsworth Invention,” not bin Laden’s demise. Store windows were advertising normal deals and merchandise — none linked to any “We-Killed-Osama-HalfOff” sale. Sunday night, I remember feeling uneasy when I saw people — many of them the age of my young adult sons — taking to the streets in Washington and New York to celebrate a man’s killing. Just as quickly, I felt guilty for not celebrating with them,
SALISBURY — At the same meeting Monday that residents gathered to oppose cuts to arts groups, Rowan County commissioners discovered that they may have to find another $2.4 million in cuts or raise taxes next year. The North Carolina House is set to vote on its version of the budget today, and if it gains approval from the House, Senate and governor, it will shift some state expenses to counties. “Financially, it’s a major setback for us,” said County Manager Gary Page. “They just zeroed out all the work we’ve done over the past 90 days.” After working hard to slice $2 million from its departments and $1 million from schools, Page said, the county would have to either cut more or raise taxes under the House budget to come up with the $2.4 million. That number is less than the $3.6 million the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners estimated Gov. Bev Perdue’s proposed budget would cost Rowan County in February. And the House rejected her proposal to shift school bus replacement, workers’ compensation and tort claim costs to counties and school districts.
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hops in downtown Salisbury stirred to life slowly Monday morning, as if rubbing their eyes clear of the long weekend, one that started with a fairy-tale wedding and ended with a special-ops killing. Bernhardt Hardware got its tomato plants on the sidewalk early. Other stores propped open their doors — it was that kind of beautiful morning — and moved their triangular sandwich boards out front. MARK But there was no visible WINEKA celebration of Osama bin Laden’s death. Church bells weren’t ring-
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given the terrorist bin Laden was and how many American deaths he had caused. Pete Bogle said it best on my Facebook page. “While I am thankful in every way that he is dead and fully believe that his assassination was justifiable and right,” Bogle said, “I cannot in good conscience celebrate the death of any man — even this one. Thank you to those in command who made the decision to handle his remains with respect.” I also noticed a tweet from Sara Gregory, a former intern at the Post and a journalism student at the University of North
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SALISBURY — Eddie Monroe and longtime friend Scott Gobble regularly go for motorcycle rides. The two were headed to a spot Monroe wanted to check out in Montgomery County on Sunday. “He had a particular destination in mind yesterday, just a place out in the middle of nowhere,” Gobble said. “Just to go look at some junk.” Monroe and Gobble never arrived at their destination. Monroe, 65, of Spencer, was injured in a motorcycle accident. He was flown to Wake Forest University Medical Center where he was listed in stable condition in the intensive-care unit. Monroe’s son, Justin, was one of two firefighters killed in the 2008 Salisbury Millwork fire. Monroe underwent hand surgery Monday and faces another operation today as surgeons
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Don Carter, longtime funeral home operator, dies at 88 BY MARK WINEKA mwineka@salisburypost.com
SALISBURY — Maybe it was the nature of his business, but Don Carter never allowed himself to be the center of attention. Yet he ran the show. He was the one making families feel special, guiding them through the toughest times of their lives, showing compassion and taking care of the details. “He was a walking history about Salisbury, and he knew a lot about the people he was serving,” youngest son Sum-
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mie Carter said Monday. And that gift always helped people feel at ease. Don Carter, longtime president of Summersett Funeral Home, died at his residence late Monday morning after an extended illness. He was 88. Carter had the inner strength of a World War II Army paratrooper, which he was, and the savvy of a businessman, who guided the company’s growth and laid a foundation for succeeding generations of his family to build on. “I learned a lot through osmosis, being with him and being around him as he was dealToday’s forecast 83º/52º Isolated storms passing through
ing with families and their needs and care,” Summie Carter said. “He’s such a people person. He had no hobbies — the funeral home and people were his loves and hobbies.” Carter was a gentleman from the old school. He al- CARTER ways wore a shirt and tie, usually a suit, even if he were going to physical therapy.
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“He was always ready for work and ready to go to work,” Summie Carter said. Don Carter also was a meticulous bookkeeper who, before the computer age and turning the financials over to Summie, kept a long ledger by hand in beautiful penmanship. Summie Carter and grandchildren Kristen Carter Barber and Staton Summersett Carter have followed in his footsteps at the funeral home, the roots of which go back to 1907. It has been in its present location at 1315 W. Innes St. since 1955.
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Additions to these headquarters came in 1965, 1976 and 1978; the building of a new chapel in 1990; a new garage and warehouse in 1998; and a crematory in 1999. Carter was a leader in his profession, through memberships in district, state and national funeral director associations. In the community, he collected decades of perfect attendance with the Salisbury Rotary Club, but was often putting together information on other longtime members, so they could be honored, not him. He also was dedicated to
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First United Methodist Church, though much of his weeks were spent in churches and cemeteries across the city and county. Carter and his late wife, Margaret, endowed a Catawba College scholarship fund to provide financial assistance to Rowan County students who attended the school as majors in teacher education. Margaret Carter, who had been a guidance counselor at Salisbury High, died in June 2007. The couple had been married 63 years.
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try to fuse vertebrae. Gobble said Monroe is a regular rider and he was following Gobble on a ride about 4 p.m. Sunday. As Gobble went through a curve, he looked in a side mirror and saw Monroe. But then as he came to a straightaway, and a truck passed in the other lane, he looked in his mirror and noticed the truck braking. “The truck hit brake lights and then I saw a cloud of dust,” he said. Gobble said he turned around and found Monroe on the road, unresponsive. “I kept talking to him and praying over him, and he finally come to, and he started talking to me,” Gobble said. “I was asking him what happened and he was asking me what happened. He didn’t know, he didn’t have a clue.” Gobble said the couple in the truck called 911, and the three of them prayed over Monroe until emergency workers and firefighters arrived.
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Don Carter also was a former member and past chairman of the Salisbury Planning Board, the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Jaycees, American Red Cross and the Community Development Council for Western North Carolina. As a business, Summersett Funeral Home under Carter’s leadership was always involved in the community through monetary support, its employees’ volunteerism and its making funeral tents available for organizations — from Habitat for Humanity to Special Olympics. The funeral home also has worked through the years with the VA Medical Center and Department of Social Services in assisting with the burial of indigent patients or citizens. Summersett Funeral Home began as a furniture company in 1904, when furniture stores often had the double duty of selling caskets, embalming and coordinating funerals. William B. Summersett started that furniture store at 110 W. Innes St. Within three years, the funeral business became a separate entity under the direction of William Summersett’s son, Thomas Walter Summersett. Thomas Walter Summersett Jr. and his brother-in-law, John Rusher, joined the business in 1926 and were longtime officers in the company who with T.W. Summersett Sr. brought Carter into the fold.
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Because of bad cellphone service, Gobble had to break the news to Monroe’s wife, Lisa, with a text message. “It’s not a good thing to do in a situation like that, but I pretty much didn’t have a choice,” he said. Gobble visited Monroe Monday, and though Monroe can’t carry on a conversation because of medications he knows people are there. He said Monroe’s wife was emotional at times, but she was “holding up fairly well.” “They need prayer more than anything right now,” Gobble said. “Actually, this riding, that was therapy for both of them. “I don’t know what happened, I may never know, but it’s just something that we enjoyed doing and something went wrong, and only the Lord knows why.” Another family friend who asked to remain anonymous, became close to the Monroes after the Salisbury Millwork fire. “They’ve been part of my family ever since then,” he said. He said Monroe received multiple bone frac-
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she’ll be asked to sign into law that contain the trust fund changes. Perdue was chairwoman of the Health and Wellness Trust Fund while she was lieutenant governor. “This proposal rips away tools that the state uses to create jobs and protect the health of its citizens,” spokesman Mark Johnson said. About $15 million still would be set aside in the budget proposal next year for health and tobacco industry grants and programs overseen by the Board of Agriculture and Division of Public Health. But there’s no guarantee there will be additional money for these efforts in future years, said Dr. Laura Gerald, executive director of the Health and Wellness Trust
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Margaret Carter was a daughter of T.W. Summersett Sr. Though Carter was born in Salisbury — his father was a manager of the Southern Bell office, then owner of Carter Electric — his family moved to Goldsboro when he was young. He attended Goldsboro schools and later graduated from New Bern High School. Carter came back to Salisbury as an apprentice embalmer for Summersett in 1941. His war years followed. As a member of the 11th Army Airborne Division, Carter jumped out of planes 16 times in the Asian theater during World War II. He earned the American Theater Service, Asiatic Service, Good Conduct, World War II Victory medals and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon. Carter graduated in 1947 from an embalming school in Cincinnati. At one point, he left Summersett for 10 years, working for Townsend Funeral Home in Murphy, then becoming co-owner of MurrayCarter Funeral Home in Greensboro. He came back to Salisbury and Summersett Funeral Home in 1967 and became president 20 years later, following the deaths of T.W. Summersett Jr. and Rusher. Today, Summersett has 16 full- and part-time employees. Don Carter’s funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church. The Thursday night visitation will be, of course, at Summersett Funeral Home. Contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263.
tobacco trust fund to boost North Carolina agriculture and help farmers switch to different crops since they were created in 1999. The two now have so little money without strings attached after years of changes by the Legislature it doesn’t make sense to keep in place the funds or the commissions that operate them, said House Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake. “If they were left intact, then that’s a different question, said Rep. Harold Brubaker, R-Randolph, senior cochairman of the House Appropriations Committee, but “they’ve been stripped in the past. There was nothing left.” Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue is likely to take issue with any final budget bill
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tion, which gets the other half of the state’s share and gives out grants, scholarships and economic sweeteners to help small towns and others once dependent on tobacco, wouldn’t receive its $68 million annual payment for the next two years. It would keep operating and retain $600 million in assets it now holds. The General Assembly has required the tobacco and health trust funds to give up about half of their annual settlement payments over the years for university building construction, cancer research and filling shortfalls in the state’s general operating budget. The health trust fund has offered grants to boost anti-smoking and anti-obesity efforts among others and the
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RALEIGH (AP) — House Republicans want to abolish two trust funds that receive half of North Carolina’s share of the national tobacco settlement and intercept money from the third — a direction health and economic development advocates contend will raise youth smoking rates and discourage economic recovery. The GOP-penned state budget proposal heading to floor debate today would eliminate by Dec. 31 the Health and Wellness Trust Fund and the Tobacco Trust Fund. The two funds have cumulatively received more than $900 million from the 1998 tobacco settlement with 46 states, including about $69 million this year. The Golden LEAF Founda-
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STATESVILLE — Three men arrested in February following the second-largest methamphetamine bust in Rowan County history were indicted in federal court April 21, according to information released Monday by the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office. Hildeberto GonzalezChavez, “Beetle,” 30, of 122 Cypress Lane, Edgar Santana, 22, of Duluth, Ga., and Cesar Sierro-Pineda, 33, of Duluth,
Ga., were each charged with methamphetamine drug conspiracy. Sierro-Pineda was additionally charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Gonzalez-Chavez is currently in the Rowan County jail waiting for a transfer to federal custody, Sierro-Pineda is in custody in Gwinnett County, Ga., pending transfer to federal custody, and Santana was arrested in Salisbury April 27, and is in federal custody in Charlotte. Santana also
had a bond hearing Monday. The two-year investigation found that Gonzalez-Chavez was not only supplying drugs to a customer in Wilkes County for more than 10 years but was also part of one of the largest meth rings on the east coast that was dismantled after authorities searched the apartment of Sierro-Pineda in Duluth, Ga. Officers said they watched Gonzalez-Chavez meet with another person in China Grove on Feb. 24; the two then drove in separate vehicles to
115 Westhaven Way. When Gonzalez-Chavez left the home and stopped to get gas on U.S. 152, law enforcement officers confronted and searched him. Authorities said they found 1.75 pounds of methamphetamine ice, the most addictive and potent form of methamphetamine, in the vehicle. That was estimated to have a street value of about $100,000. Gonzalez-Chavez was arrested and charged with trafficking more than 400 grams of methamphetamine.
Santana was driving about a mile ahead of GonzalezChavez, and authorities stopped him. Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Detective Lt. Chad Moose said Santana had delivered the methamphetamine to Gonzalez-Chavez. Santana was charged with trafficking more than 400 grams of methamphetamine. Information led authorities to Sierro-Pineda in Duluth, Ga., where a methamphetamine ice conversion lab was found in his apartment, and
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BY LAURIE D. WILLIS Livingstone College News Service
SALISBURY — Jazz was the genre in a historic concert Wednesday that joined students at Livingstone and Catawba colleges for the first time and featured acclaimed trumpet player Vinnie Ciesielski. The concert was the brainchild of Sidney C. Sessoms Jr., director of bands at Livingstone College. He had planned to hold the concert on the college’s front lawn, but inclement weather forced it inside Varick Auditorium. Nonetheless, the concert was a hit and students at both schools say they hope the effort will be repeated. “I had a lot of fun,” said Livingstone freshman biology major Jimmy McNeill, a trombone player. “I was really nervous because we didn’t get to practice much, but it turned out great. It was good for the two schools to come together and put on a concert for the community, and I really hope we can do this again with Catawba musicians at some point. I’m grateful to Mr. Sessoms for organizing it and for asking me to be a part of it.” Catawba senior Austen Peters, a music business major who plays percussion, said he wanted to participate because he thought it’d be fun. “I love to play music and I love jazz,” Peters said. “I think we need more of this, more collaboration between the two schools.” Sessoms, who said it took several months to coordinate the joint concert, hopes Wednesday is only the beginning of such efforts. “I am happy we were able to have this collaborative effort with Catawba College,” Sessoms said. “The colleges are less than three miles apart and both have wonderful music programs, so I thought it only made sense that we came together for a fun evening during which students played jazz, America’s classical music. “Aside from the historical significance of the concert, the students got the chance to work with Vinnie Ciesielski, one of the foremost trumpet players in the world today.” Sessoms said. “Vinnie brought a wealth of experience, having played with some of the world’s musical giants, and I hope the students at Livingstone and Catawba realize the great opportunity they were afforded.” Ciesielski, of Nashville, has been playing the trumpet for 39 years. He has played on thousands of recordings with artists including Lyle Lovett, Travis Tritt, T.D. Jakes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kirk Franklin, Queen Latifah, Yolanda Adams and Donnie McClurkin. Ciesielski has per-
authorities evacuated the entire building. One of the largest ever found, the lab contained about 5 gallons of liquid methamphetamine — enough to produce 44 pounds of methamphetamine ice, with a wholesale value of more than $1 million, authorities said. Authorities said the three men transported large amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana from the Texas-Mexico border to Atlanta, and then to Rowan County.
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Vinnie Ciesielski pauses during a rehearsal for a concert that brought Livingstone and Catawba musicians together for the first time. Ciesielski was the featured trumpet soloist.
Livingstone and Catawba students practice in Varick Auditorium. Catawba senior Austen Peters (far right in red shirt) said, ‘I think we need more of this, more collaboration between the two schools.’
“The colleges are less than three miles apart and both have wonderful music programs, so I thought it only made sense that we came together for a fun evening during which students played jazz, America’s classical music.” SIDNEY SESSOMS director of bands at Livingstone College
formed live with artists including Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Buffet, Paul Simon, Sting, Tony Bennett, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The O’Jays, Aretha Franklin, Vince Gill, Bruce Hornsby, Amy Grant, Percy Sledge and Bob Hope.
He has appeared on “The Tonight Show,” “Late Night with David Letterman,” “Conan O’Brien,” “Austin City Limits,” “Rosie O’Donnell” and The Stellar Awards, among others. Ciesielski and Sessoms became friends while attending Bennett Junior High School in Salisbury, Md. Although they later went to rival high schools, their friendship remained intact, and when Sessoms invited Ciesielski to participate in the joint concert he gladly accepted. “I’m sort of looking for the next generation of players that are going to do what we do in the studio and live,” Ciesielski said. “In my search I’m coming across students who are tenacious enough and have the discipline to hone their craft to a point where they can do what we do for a living. Being here at Livingstone is part of my search, and if I can find somebody I can work with to help change the direction of his or her life through relating my experience in the music business, then that’s what I want to do.”
SALISBURY — A controversial bill governing the way North Carolina cities can sell high-speed Internet and other communication services is one step closer to becoming law. The N.C. Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday night for House Bill 129, which is scheduled for a third and final reading this afternoon. Salisbury’s exemption from most of the restrictions in the bill remains intact. Officials fought to exempt Salisbury to avoid changes to Fibrant, the city’s fledgling broadband network. Salisbury leaders argued that changing the rules after cities had borrowed millions of dollars to launch broadband businesses was unfair and would harm their ability to pay back the debt. Lawmakers agreed to carve out cities with systems already up and running. Salisbury can sell Fibrant anywhere in Rowan County, as long as the city has the blessing of town aldermen, county commissioners or school board members. An amendment that would ban adult programming from city-owned broadband networks remained tabled Monday night. The Senate did adopt an amendment from N.C. Sen. Andrew Brock, a Republican representing Rowan and Davie counties, requiring cities to comply with the state’s open bidding procedures if they try to sell broadband services to economic development sites outside the city service area, Brock said. Supporters of the bill say it will protect taxpayers by requiring voter approval before a city borrows money to launch a broadband system. Cities not exempt from the bill will pay taxes and fees private providers currently pay. If approved today by the Senate, the bill will go back to the House, where it originated. If House members concur with the bill, it will head to Gov. Bev Perdue’s desk for her consideration. Contact reporter Emily Ford at 704-7974264.
Granite Quarry could see 7 cent tax hike Proposed budget would raise property taxes from 33 to 40 cents BY MARK WINEKA
Ciesielski takes center stage during a rehearsal with the college musicians. He was the featured soloist on the concert.
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GRANITE QUARRY — Town Manager Dan Peters presented a 2011-12 budget Monday night that would hit the pocketbooks of residents hard if fully implemented. But the Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen won’t tackle the proposal until it holds a public hearing and budget work session at 5 p.m. May 23. Aldermen accepted the proposed budget without comment Monday. The $1.86 million budget calls for a 7cents-per-$100 valuation property tax increase. That would raise Granite Quarry’s tax rate, one of the lower municipal rates in Rowan County, from 33 cents per $100 valuation to 40 cents per $100 valuation. It also would increase residents’ monthly solid waste fee from $8 to $10. The increase in taxes would pay for extra costs in the Police Department for a car, fuel and part-time officer (2.1 cents on the rate); in the Fire Department for truck, ordinance enforcement and fuel (2.4 cents); and to make up for the loss in property val-
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OBITUARIES
Donald Morris Carter
Robert Lee Mills, Sr.
Doris Turner Alexander
SALISBURY — Donald Morris Carter, age 88, passed away on Monday, May 2, 2011, at his residence. Born Dec. 5, 1922, in Salisbury, a son of the late William Alvin Carter and Mary Lena Rothrock Carter, he was a graduate of New Bern High School and Cincinnati College of Embalming, Class of 1947. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the Parachute School at Fort Benning, Ga., and with the Airborne Command at Camp McCall, N.C. Mr. Carter served with the 11th Airborne Division in the Philippine Islands and Japan. His last service was with Division Headquarter in Sendi, Japan. After the war, he served three years in the U.S. Army Reserves. He was a member of the 11th Airborne Division Association. In 2009, he was a participant on the John Hanford Flight of Honor to the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mr. Carter first became associated with Summersett Funeral Home in 1941 as an apprentice. He later worked for 8 years at Townsend Funeral Home in Murphy. Mr. Carter was co-owner of Murray-Carter Funeral Home in Greensboro before returning to Salisbury and his wife's family business of Summersett Funeral Home. He served as President of the Board of Directors from 1988 until his health declined recently. He was a funeral director and embalmer, serving the Salisbury community with compassion and care. With several generations of family following in his footsteps at Summersett Funeral Home, his dedication and stories of his many years of work will be deeply missed. Mr. Carter was a member of First United Methodist Church and served on the Church Administrative Board several terms and as a church usher for many years. He was a member of the Hudson Miller Tatum Post 3006 of the VFW and served as Adjutant and Quartermaster of the post during the time they bought their first Post home on Brenner Avenue. Mr. Carter was also a member of the Harold B. Jarrett Post 342 of the American Legion. For over 60 years he was a member of Fulton Masonic Lodge 99. A member of Salisbury Rotary Club, he served on the Board of Directors. Mr. Carter served two terms as President of the Murphy Rotary Club. He was a Paul Harris Fellow in Rotary and was proud of his many years of perfect attendance before his health declined. Mr. Carter was a member of the National Funeral Directors Association, the North Carolina State Funeral Directors Association, and Select Independent Funeral Homes. He served as District Director in Districts Number Eight and Twelve of the association. Mr. Carter was a member of the Catawba Chiefs Club. He also supported Catawba College through a First Family Scholarship established in his and his wife, Margaret's, name. Mr. Carter was a former member of the Community Development Council for Western North Carolina. A former Jaycee, he served as Chairman of Safety Services for American Red Cross and worked with the United Way Fund for several years. He served on the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and on the Salisbury Rowan Planning Board for 10 years, serving as Chairman for several years. Mr. Carter was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Margaret Summersett Carter, July 8, 2007. He is survived by two sons, Donald Morris Carter, Jr. and wife Cathy of Liberty and William Summersett Carter and wife Debbie of Salisbury; four grandchildren, Kristen Carter Barber and her husband Dennis, Staton Summersett Carter and his wife Carrie, Mary Elizabeth Carter and David Scott Carter; two great-grandchildren, Corbin Paige Barber and Evan Scott Barber; and sister-in-law Elizabeth Summersett of Salisbury. Visitation: The family will receive friends at Summersett Funeral Home from 6-8 p.m. Thursday (May 5). Service: The funeral service will be at First United Methodist Church, 11 a.m. Friday (May 6) conducted by the Rev. Steve Haines and Rev. Julie O'Neal. Burial will follow in City Memorial Park. Memorials: May be made to First United Methodist Church, 2l7 N. Church St., Salisbury, NC 28144; or Donald M. Carter and Margaret S. Carter Scholarship Fund, Catawba College, 2300 W. Innes St., Salisbury, NC 28144. The family would like to thank the staff of Lutheran Home at Trinity Oaks and Mr. Carter's home caregivers for their compassion and care for him in recent weeks. Summersett Funeral Home is serving the Carter family. Online condolences may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com.
SALISBURY — Mr. Robert Lee “Pop” Mills, Sr., 93, of Salisbury, died Sunday, May 1, 2011, at Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Mr. Mills was born Nov. 11, 1917, in Stanly County, a son of the late Lee Mills and Maige Lisk Mills. Pop was raised at Barium Springs Orphanage in Barium Springs. Mr. Mills was educated in Iredell County schools and worked as a doffer, fixer and supervisor at Macanal Mills. He was a member of Providence United Methodist Church where he was a member of the choir, taught Sunday School, was Sunday School superintendent, member of the Church Council, member of Methodist Men and MYF Youth adviser. He enjoyed spending time with his friends and family, fishing and playing all sports. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of over 70 years, Helen “Marie” Smith Mills; daughter Patricia M. Lowman; brothers Horace and Watt Mills; and sister Sadie Reid. Mr. Mills is survived by sons Robert Mills, Jr., “R.L.,” and wife Sandra of Salisbury, Gurney Mills and wife Gerry of Holmes Beach, Fla., and Jerry Mills of Salisbury; daughters Shelia M. Gould and husband Richard of Salisbury, Carol M. Robbins and husband Leonard of China Grove and Melva M. Menius and husband Larry of Salisbury; sisters Myrtle M. Kiker of Midland and Rachel M. Swanson of Fayetteville; sonin-law Gernal “Bud” Lowman and wife Linda; 30 grandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren. Memorial Service: The memorial service will be held on Wednesday, May 4 at 11 a.m. at Providence United Methodist Church with Pastor Dan Gobble officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation: The family will receive friends Wednesday, May 4 from 10 to 11 a.m. at Providence United Methodist Church, and at the home place the remainder of the time. Memorials: May be made to Providence United Methodist Church, Scholarship Fund, 6450 Bringle Ferry Road, Salisbury, NC 28146; or Barium Springs Home for Children, P.O. Box 1, Barium Springs, NC 28010. The family would like to thank Liberty Commons and Leslie Varner of Liberty Hospice. Powles Funeral Home is assisting the Mills family. Online condolences may be made at www.powlesfuneralhome.com
SALISBURY — Doris Turner Alexander, 85, a Salisbury resident of almost 64 years, died Sunday, May 1, 2011, at the Trinity Oaks retirement community. Doris was a native of Charlotte and spent her childhood after age three in Rutherford County. She was the oldest of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. William Ellis Turner of Rutherfordton and Forest City. She received a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her passion for children, reading and promoting literacy led her to obtain a Master's Degree in Library Science from UNC-G after her four children graduated from high school. She worked in the public school system for several decades as a teachers' assistant and librarian. In her application for the masters program at UNC-G she wrote, “I have always enjoyed reading, have promoted it with my own children and I feel intensely that children's reading problems must be attacked not only with skills but with a creative program that is designed to inspire and motivate them to read.” Doris was a librarian at Faith and Morgan schools for 15 years, where she taught hundreds of elementary school children to love books. Those who know her well would not be surprised to learn that as a senior in high school, she and a teammate won the N.C. statewide debate competition. Doris and her husband Jake, who passed away in 1987, were very active members of the Salisbury and Rowan County community. They each made significant contributions through their many volunteer roles in the community and around the state. Jake Alexander Boulevard in Salisbury was named in honor of her husband for his local and statewide contributions and service to the highway system. His roles included membership on the North Carolina Department of Transportation Board, Commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and Secretary of Transportation during the administrations of Governors James Holshouser and James Martin. His death resulted from a head-on collision with a drunk driver, which inspired Doris to become an active member of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD). She served as an officer of the North Carolina statewide MADD organization for a number of years. Doris served on the Rowan County Board of Alcohol Beverage Control and in 1974 Gov. James Holshouser appointed her as the first woman to serve on the Board of Directors of the N.C. Association of ABC Boards. In that capacity, she served as Chairman of the State Committee on Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation within the Association of ABC Boards. In 1987 Doris was appointed by Gov. James Martin to the Rowan/ Cabarrus Community College Board of Trustees, where she served until 2000. Over the years she also served as President of the Salisbury Junior Women's Club, the Women's Society of First United Methodist Church and the Rowan County League of Women Voters. She was a leader in Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts and was Chairman of the Staff Parish Committee at First United Methodist, as well as a longterm Sunday School teacher for the Daisy Hedrick Sunday School Class. Doris was preceded in death by her husband, Jacob Franklin Alexander, and her daughter, Margaret Charlotte Alexander Parker of Washington, D.C. She is survived by her sons, Jacob Franklin Alexander III and his wife Susan of Salisbury, Ellis Turner Alexander and his wife Nancy of Norcross, Ga.; and her daughter, Doris Turner Alexander of Carrboro. She is also survived by six grandchildren and one step-grandchild, whom she loved and adored, Margaret and Jacob Alexander IV, Kerry and Christine Alexander, Alden and Alexander Dyer, and Preston Parker. Service and Reception: Services will be held Saturday, May 7 at 12 noon at First United Methodist Church, 217 S. Church St., Salisbury, NC, following a private burial. There will be a reception at the church following the memorial service. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in memory of Doris Turner Alexander to First United Methodist Church, Building Fund, 217 S. Church St., Salisbury, NC 28144. Summersett Funeral Home is assisting the Alexander family with arrangements.
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CLEVELAND — Steven Ray (Buck) Belk, age 77, of Cleveland, passed away Saturday, April 30, 2011, at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Mr. Belk was born Feb. 14, 1934, in Rowan County, the son of the late Bessie Felker Belk and Stephen Kerr Belk. He attended Rowan County schools and was a veteran of the U.S. Army. Employed by AMCO and later Grinnell until his retirement, he was a member of Unity Presbyterian Church. Preceding him in death were his brothers, Mike and John Belk; and sisters Eileen Teeter and Bertie Heilig. Those left to cherish his memories are his wife, Colleen Wilson Belk, whom he married May 6, 1962; son Michael L. Belk (Trisha) of China Grove; daughter Sara Belk Holloway (Kent) of Woodleaf; sisters Mildred Wilhelm (Jack) of Salisbury and Ollie Freeze of China Grove; grandchildren Wilson and Neely Holloway, Miranda and Tyler Belk; and several nieces and nephews. Service and Visitation: Service is 4 p.m. Wednesday May 4 at Unity Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev. Shirley Jones and Rev. Phil Hagen with burial and visitation following. Memorials may be made to donor's choice. Summersett Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com
Alexander H. Holland WOODLEAF — Alexander H. Holland, of Cornelius Drive, passed Sunday, May 1, 2011, at his residence. Arrangements are incomplete with services entrusted to Hairston Funeral Home, Inc. in Salisbury.
SALISBURY — Edith Louise Stallings Bickett, 95, of Spencer passed away Monday, May 2, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at this time with Summersett Funeral Home assisting the Bickett family.
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NORWOOD — Earl Bobbitt Cavin, 80, of Norwood, died Sunday, May 1, 2011, at Bethany Woods Nursing Center in Albemarle. Mr. Cavin was born Jan. 30, 1931, in Rowan County, the son of the late Earl Henderson and Rachel Bobbitt Cavin. He was a graduate of Landis High School and Kings Business College. He also attended several technical schools. He served in the United States Air Force in Korea during the Korean War and did a tour of duty in Morocco, North Africa. He worked in sales for Armstrong Brothers Tool Company in Charlotte for 25 years. He held additional sales jobs prior to his years with Armstrong. He was a member of VFW Post 6183 and a past member of Norwood Lions Club. He was a member of Mount Zion United Church of Christ in China Grove. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Thelma Karriker Cavin. He is survived by his two daughters, Alise Newbanks and Denise Cavin; two grandsons, John Newbanks, Jr. and Patrick Newbanks; his two sisters, Linda Helms and husband Keith of Mount Gilead and Fann Bare and husband Carl of Salisbury; one niece, Janet Helms Davis of Kannapolis; and two nephews, Randy and Todd Bare of Landis. Services and Visitation: Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 at Edwards Funeral Home Chapel in Norwood. The family will receive friends from 1 until 2 p.m. prior to the service. Rev Bob Cauble will officiate. An additional service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 4 at Mount Zion United Church of Christ in China Grove. The family will receive friends from 10-11 a.m. prior to the service. Rev. Bob Cauble will officiate and interment will follow in Salisbury National Cemetery. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family request memorials to Mount Zion United Church of Christ, New Construction Fund, P.O. Box 1298, China Grove, NC 28023. Online condolences may be made at www.edwardsfuneralhomes.com
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SALISBURY — Paulette Yarbrough Gobble, 64, of Salisbury, went to be with the Lord Sunday, May 1, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. Born March 10, 1947, in Rowan County, she was the daughter of the late Ollie Yarbrough Stone and Paul Yarbrough. Educated in Rowan County schools, Mrs. Gobble was a homemaker. A member of New Hope Baptist Church, she sang in the choir and was involved in the Youth Program and Seasoned Saints. Paulette also enjoyed woodworking and was a Master Gardener of Rowan County. Preceding her in death was a brother, Ronnie Yarbrough. Survivors include her husband, Don Gobble, whom she married Sept. 28, 1979; son Randy Butts (Beverly) of Salisbury; daughter Vonda Witherspoon (Tony) of Wilmington; stepson Bryant Gobble (Sherry) of Salisbury; stepdaughter Michelle Degulis (Joe), also of Salisbury; brother Johnny Yarbrough of China Grove; sisters Bonnie Null of Winston-Salem, Phyllis Treece of Rockwell, Robin Oliver of Salisbury; seven grandchildren, Hannah VanderWerf, Noah Witherspoon, Jonah Witherspoon, Zachery Butts, Abbygail Butts, Nathan Gobble and Emily Gobble. Visitation and Service: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 at New Hope Baptist Church, 830 Choate Road, Salisbury. The service will begin at 8 p.m. with the Rev. Darrell Worley officiating. A nursery will be provided during the service. Burial: 11 a.m. Thursday at Trading Ford Baptist Church Cemetery, 3600 Long Ferry Road, Salisbury. Memorials: New Hope Baptist Church, 830 Choate Road, Salisbury, NC 28146. Lyerly Funeral Home is serving the Gobble family. Online condolences may be made at www.lyerlyfuneralhome.com
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Three arrested on various charges after gun tossed Cooleemee to hire code enforcement officer SALISBURY — Three men walking near the intersection of Wilson Road and Old Plank Road early Monday morning were arrested on various charges after Salisbury Police watched one of the men throw a gun to the side as police approached them. According to the report, Cory Lafonte McConnaughey, 21, of 241 Institute St., was searched and eight bags of marijuana, totaling 17.4 grams, were found, along with a .380 caliber handgun. McConnaughey was charged with possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana and possession of a firearm by a
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with possession of a firearm by a felon and carrying a concealed weapon. He was also given a $17,500 secured WILSON bond. The third man, 22-year-old Demario Whisonant, of 105 E. Harrison St., was served with outstanding warrants for a probation violation and two counts of failure to appear. He was given a $15,000 secured bond.
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tional municipal costs for the owner of a $160,000 home at $8 a month. Keeping the budget revenue neutral — the same funding level as last year with the loss in property valuation figured in — would cost the same homeowner $40 more a year, or $3.33 a month. In other business Monday night, aldermen approved a resolution for the $450,000 financing of the Brookwood Drive culvert and a utility project. The town will finance the work through F&M Bank at 3.99 percent interest over a 15year period. Peters said the payments each year will be roughly $40,000. Powell Bill funding from the state will go toward paying $375,000.
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The Salisbury Fire Department is investigating a fire inside a bathroom of the Rowan County Courthouse Monday afternoon. The fire most likely started after someone set a toilet paper roll on fire with a lit cigarette, said Bob Parnell, chief of the Salisbury Fire Department. Parnell said the second floor of the Rowan County Courthouse was evacuated as firefighters responded. No damage or injuries were reported. The fire department is investigating and may or may not request assistance from the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, Parnell said.
uation to keep things revenue neutral (2.5 cents). “Fuel is driving the entire budget,” Peters said. Of the $2 increase on the solid waste fee, $1 would go for increased fuel costs and $1 toward paying for a part-time maintenance employee, so there could be more limb pickup and removal, mowing and other services. Peters said a median home in Granite Quarry is valued at $160,000. If the board approved the 4.5 cents on the tax rate to cover increased fire and police costs, it would translate to an additional $72 a year for that property owner, or $6 a month. That would not include the $2-a-month increase in solid Contact Mark Wineka at waste fees, putting the addi- 704-797-4263.
COOLEEMEE — The Cooleemee Town Board of Commissioners has voted to hire a new part-time code enforcement officer. “We dedicated to seeing that all Cooleemee properties in the town are being kept up,” Mayor Lynn Rumley said. The new employee will be enforcing ordinances which prohibit nuisances
such as overgrown yards, junk and abandoned cars, and dilapidated housing that falls below the town’s minimum housing code. The position will average of 8-10 hours per week. The salary will be between $15 and $25 an hour. If an applicant has not been trained in code enforcement and minimum housing code inspections, he or she will receive all needed train-
Author to be featured speaker at Kannapolis Library meeting KANNAPOLIS — The Friends of the Kannapolis Library will feature author Tamar Myers as guest speaker for the group’s annual meeting and luncheon May 17 at The Club at Irish Creek. The tickets are $20. Myers is an award-winning author who has written more than two dozen mysteries. Myers uses her own life as inspiration for
her stories. Both her Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series and her newest series draw on her experiences in both the Amish Community and as the daughter of missionaries in what was then Belgian Congo. She is also the author of the Den of Antiquity series about an antique store in the Carolinas, which is fitting since she now calls Charlotte
able to incorporate tracts of land abutting their boundaries for more than 50 years. The bill now goes to another House committee. The new rules would block an involuntary annexation if 60 percent of the property owners in the area opposed it within about four months of the annexation ordinance. The measure also would require a municipality to in-
home. She enjoys gardening (she is a Master Gardener), bonsai, travel, painting and reading. She loves Thai and Indian food and antique jewelry. For more information, call the library at 704-920-1180.
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House bill OKs change to NC forced annexation laws (AP) — RALEIGH Landowners could block a North Carolina municipality from acquiring unincorporated areas against their will if 60 percent of them file petitions against them in legislation approved by a House committee. The House Rules Committee voted Monday night in favor of altering dramatically the method by which towns and cities have been
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Duncan visits NC school that helps faltering youth “We cannot give up on young people. When they struggle in school, that’s usually a symptom of something else that’s going on,” said Duncan, the former head of the Chicago Public Schools. “If young people drop out today, there’s basically no good jobs out there. So we have to have those safety nets. We have to go way beyond the call of duty to bring them back in and help them be successful.” Duncan’s school stop preceded his visit with governors attending a conference on education spending arranged by an institute headed by former North Carolina Gov. Jim
Hunt. Current Gov. Beverly Perdue and the governors of 10 other states including Colorado, Illinois, and Tennessee had registered to attend, as well as the top executives of American Samoa and Guam. A reporter seeking to attend the conference on the campus of business software firm SAS Institute was turned away Monday. Also Monday, Hagan said she will promote legislation to reward schools with more money and attention for success in boosting students’ performance. The addition to a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind fedBefore
Search continues for Roanoke River jumper cles at gunpoint Wednesday from Motorcycle Dreamz. Bell and 23-year-old Brandon Tyler Montanye, of Portsmouth, Va., were stopped by Pitt County deputies Thursday. Bell fled on a motorcycle, and police chased him several miles before he wrecked, then jumped into the river near Hamilton.
MARSHALL (AP) — A colony of Olympia Marble butterflies has been discovered in Madison County. The Asheville CitizenTimes reports Monday that the species noted for its golden marbling and olive-colored wing markings is more commonly seen in the U.S. prairies and considered a rare find in an eastern state. Biologists first encountered the butterfly colony April 17 and confirmed it with additional sightings the following weekend. It was the first time a breeding colony of Olympia Marble butterflies has been seen in North Carolina. A Nature Conservancy spokesman says the butterflies’ sensitivity to pesticides and other chemical hazards means that Madison County’s
A first-degree murder connatural environment remains viction requires that prosecurelatively pristine. tors prove the killing was preJurors may weigh meditated, while premeditation is not required for a secsecond-degree ond-degree murder conviction. murder in Cary case Closing arguments are set RALEIGH (AP) — A Cary to begin Tuesday. man charged with first-degree The case against Bradley murder in his wife’s 2008 death Cooper has received widecan also be convicted of a less- spread attention both in the er charge of second-degree U.S. and in Canada. Cooper and murder, a judge said Monday. his wife, Nancy, moved to Cary Bradley Cooper’s defense from Alberta in 2001 after he attorneys objected to Wake took a job with a Morrisville County Superior Court Judge technology company. The couPaul Gessner’s decision to add ple then had two children. the lesser charge on the last But by 2008, the Coopers’ day of testimony in the two- marriage was in trouble, witmonth trial. nesses testified, in part beGessner explained his deci- cause of money issues. sion was based on legal reWitnesses also testified that search showing that failing to Nancy Cooper resented her offer the lesser charge could husband for having an affair be considered an error in trial and for not helping with the procedure. children or housework.
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SALISBURY — Harold D. “Danny” Hughes, Jr., 62, of Salisbury, passed away Sunday, May 1, 2011, at his residence. Born Dec. 3, 1948, in Cherokee County, he was the son of the Rev. Harold D. Hughes, Sr. of Salisbury and the late Alene Anderson Hughes. A veteran of the United States Marines, he retired from the Department of Corrections. He was a member of Sherrill's Ford Baptist Church and was an avid Washington Redskins fan. Survivors include his wife, Linda Hughes, whom he married Sept. 1, 1990; daughters Angel Deal of Salisbury, Tricia Miller (Barry) of Columbia, S.C.; son Eddie Fuller of Salisbury; brothers Phil Hughes and Randy Hughes; sister Shirley Fischer (John), all of Salisbury; two grandchildren, Brandon Hughes of Salisbury and Rickey Miller of Columbia, S.C. Visitation and Service: 2-3 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 at Sherrills Ford Baptist Church; and at other times, the family will be at the residence. The service will begin at 3 p.m. in the sanctuary with the Rev. David G. Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery, with military rites by the Lyerly Funeral Home Honor Guard. Memorials: Sherrills Ford Baptist Church, 6455 Sherrills Ford Road, Salisbury, NC 28147. The family extends a special thank you to Dr. Ronnie Barrier, Dr. Bill Black and all the girls at Carolina Oncology; and to the wonderful caregivers with Rowan Regional Hospice for the special care given Danny during his illness. Lyerly Funeral Home is serving the Hughes family. Online condolences may be made at www.lyerlyfuneralhome.com
KANNAPOLIS — Mr. Roy Harold Cudd, 75, who was born Jan. 16, 1936, at Lowrance Hospital in Mooresville, the son of Roy Wilbur Cudd and Verona Little Cudd, died May 1, 2011, from complications of nonHodgkin's lymphoma. He lived in Kannapolis all of his life. He is survived by his sister, Betty Cudd Love, and her husband, Donald W. Love, of Harrisburg. Roy graduated from Landis High School and N.C. State College (now NC State University). He served in the United States Army and was stationed in Germany when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. After his Army service, he returned to Kannapolis and was employed by Cannon Mills Company and, later, Fieldcrest Cannon for a total of 24 years. He worked in the Upholstery Division, Towel Product Development Department and Towel Production Planning (Greige) Department. He was a past member of Grimes Y's Men's Club, Kannapolis Jaycees and Kannapolis Toastmasters Club. He also had held membership in Sons of the American Revolution and Sons of Confederate Veterans. Visitation and Service: A visitation will be held at Whitley's Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 4. A graveside service will be held immediately afterward at Carolina Memorial Park with Rev. Robert Howard officiating. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to your favorite charity.
SALISBURY — Mrs. Marjorie Ruth Scott, 93, of Salisbury, passed away April 25, 2011 at the Laurels of Salisbury. Mrs. Scott was born Sept. 21, 1917, in New York, N.Y., the daughter of the late Abel Bozzo and Ethel Frosio Bozzo. She was educated in New Jersey schools, retired from AT&T as a secretary and attended Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Alexander Scott, on Sept. 18, 1971. Survivors are her daughter, Kimberly Davis, and her husband, Tom of Salisbury. Service: A Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7 at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 820 Hurley School Road, Salisbury, NC 28147, conducted by Steffone Wynn. Memorials: May be sent to Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, c/o Jerry Blackwell, 195 Blackwell Woods Drive, Salisbury, NC 28147. Evergreen Cremation Services is assisting the Scott family.
Sara Safrit Keith SALISBURY — Sara Safrit Keith, 74, of Salisbury, passed away Monday, May 2, 2011, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete at this time with Summersett Funeral Home assisting the Keith family.
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DURH M (AP) — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Monday visited one of a handful of North Carolina high schools designed to give faltering students intensive help to graduate and see college or career ahead of them. On his way to a private meeting in Cary expected to include nearly a dozen governors trading ideas about how to improve education, Duncan dropped in on the Durham Performance Learning Center with U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C. The school’s motto is to teach every child, every day, in
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Proper said. Kaye Brown Hirst, director of the Rowan Museum, said local children and adults are given the opportunity to learn about Rowan County history for free at the museum. “We have been the stewards of Rowan County history for 58 years,” Hirst said. “Please make it possible for us to continue doing that.” Linda Jones, business manager for the Salisbury Symphony, said the money being withheld would make more of a difference to the arts organizations than to the county. “To you and your budget, that’s a cut. That’s a scratch. To us, it’s a serious wound,” Jones said. “We can’t afford a 10 percent cut and continue to give you the gifts of music, art, theatre, dance... and sales tax revenues.”
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But the House budget would reduce state aid to libraries by 15 percent and eliminate veterans affairs funding to counties, among other cuts. It also would shift state misdemeanants with sentences less than 180 days to county jails and increase judicial fees to help offset the cost. “If the fees they intend to give us... are so great, why don’t they just keep them and leave us alone?” Sides said. “We don’t need any more hits. The next step could be to close parks or libraries.” Sides also said he plans to suggest to legislators that they keep the once-cent sales tax, generating another $1.2 billion in revenue, if that would keep counties out of it. Commissioner Jon Barber said members of the local delegation are doing “phenomenal jobs” but what he read of the budget “made (his) stomach turn.” “When we’re being fiscally responsible, and for them to add something like this... is just very disturbing,” Barber said. Chairman Chad Mitchell called it “disingenuous” for members of the General Assembly to say they’re passing a budget with no tax increases. “It’s not a no-tax-increase budget,” Mitchell said. “They’re just taking their expenses and telling us to take care of them.” Commissioner Carl Ford said when expenses are passed down from the federal government to the state and then to the counties, there’s nowhere for counties to turn except to their residents. “We have to pass it down to the people with more taxes or fewer services,” Ford said. “There’s nothing else to do but cut, and... we’re running out of space here.” At the same meeting Monday, the board heard opposition to cuts it already proposed. During the public comment period, several representatives from arts organizations spoke to commissioners to persuade them not to cut their funding. Possibly two dozen more gathered at the meeting in support of the speakers and their cause. In a straw vote April 4, the board approved cutting all county funding for the Rowan Arts Council, Rowan Museum Inc and the Salisbury-Rowan Human Relations Council. County funding to most other nonprofit groups would be cut by 10 percent. Reed Leonard told the board the $24,000 it gives to the Rowan Arts Council is evenly split four ways among Piedmont Players Theatre, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and the council itself. The Arts Council then funds smaller arts groups. Leonard is a director for Piedmont Players, which he
said provides not only entertainment but education for the local community. “I think there’s support throughout Rowan County for continuing funding of the arts,” Leonard said. “On the middle of the afternoon on a school day — a work day — a number of people have come to show support for the arts.” Tim Proper, Waterworks board chair, said his organization gives valuable of benefits to the community, including free arts education to all fifthgraders in the Rowan-Salisbury School System. He said the level of county funding determines the amount of state funding for these programs. “We’re going to have less services for that small investment that you make for the residents of our county,”
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a metal recycling center. • Authorized planning staff to begin preliminary data collections for an east Rowan land use study and conduct studyspecific discussions with Committee A of the planning board. • Instructed staff to move forward in the process of improvements to the county’s emergency services system. This includes preparing a request for quotation for a new 911 center building, developing a memorandum of understanding with the city of Salisbury and negotiating with a tower owner and Kannapolis to let the county use their tower sites. • Approved the application for a $1 million Targeted Transit Assistance Grant, which would require a $55,000 match from Rowan County.
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Rowan County Commissioners also: • Approved a rezoning request that would allow Annie Boone-Carroll to convert a vacant convenience store into a funeral home at 4725 Long Ferry Road. Several local residents voiced concerns during a public hearing. The request to rezone from rural agricultural to commercial, business and industrial passed 3-2, with Barber and Mitchell dissenting. • Voted unanimously in favor of a rezoning of property at 11710 Bringle Ferry Road from rural agricultural to industrial with a conditional use district, allowing allow Charles Blackwelder to operate
the University of North Carolina system have the flexibility to preserve teaching and staff positions, while usual retirements and turnover will help ease pain, Tillis said. Tillis’ office also presented documents showing Republican plans in the budget to beef up government building repairs, as well as letting a pair of temporary taxes expire this year at a cost of $1.3
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can news conference, said the spending plan could result in job losses ranging from a few thousand to 7,000 within government. That compares to the more than 20,000 eliminated positions that House Democrats have warned will occur. There are more than 300,000 budgeted positions in state government and schools. Local school districts and
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina House Republicans argued Monday on the eve of the year’s first budget floor vote that Democrats and interest groups are overestimating the number of expected job losses if their $19.3 billion state government spending plan for next year becomes law. Speaker Thom Tillis, speaking at a House Republi-
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One unwary phone call led US to bin Laden doorstep their confidence was growing: ‘This is different. This intelligence case is different. What we see in this compound is different than anything we’ve ever seen before,’” said John Brennan, the president’s top counterterrorism adviser. “I was confident associated press that we had secretary of state Hillary rodham clinton, right, president Barack obama, sec- the basis to ond from left, and Vice president Joe Biden, left, along with with take action.” O b a m a members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against osama bin Laden in the situation room of the White House. a document in tapped two dozen memfront of clinton was digitally blurred by the White House bers of the being monitored by U.S. intel- pound. The CIA soon believed Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six ligence, according to an Amer- that bin Laden was hiding in to carry out a raid with surgiican official, who like others plain sight, in a hideout espe- cal accuracy. interviewed for this story cially built to go unnoticed. spoke only on condition of But since bin Laden never SEALS get the job Before dawn Monday anonymity to discuss the sen- traveled and nobody could get sitive operation. Ahmed was onto the compound without morning, a pair of helicopters located somewhere away passing through two security left Jalalabad in eastern from bin Laden’s hideout gates, there was no way to be Afghanistan. The choppers entered Pakistani airspace uswhen he had the discussion, sure. Despite that uncertainty, ing sophisticated technology but it was enough to help intelligence officials locate and intelligence officials realized intended to evade that counthis could represent the best try’s radar systems, a U.S. ofwatch Ahmed. chance ever to get to bin ficial said. Target found The helicopters lowered Laden. They decided not to Last August, Ahmed un- share the information with into the compound, dropping knowingly led authorities to a anyone, including staunch the SEALs behind the walls. compound in the northeast counterterrorism allies such No shots were fired, but shortPakistani town of Abbottabad, as Britain, Canada and Aus- ly after the team hit the where al-Libi had once lived. tralia. ground, one of the helicopters The walls surrounding the By mid-February, the offi- came crashing down and property were as high as 18 cials were convinced a “high- rolled onto its side for reasons feet and topped with barbed value target” was hiding in the the government has yet to exwire. Intelligence officials had compound. President Barack plain. None of the SEALs was known about the house for Obama wanted to take action. injured, however, and the misyears, but they always sus“They were confident and sion continued uninterrupted. pected that bin Laden would be surrounded by heavily armed security guards. Nobody patrolled the compound in Abbottabad. In fact, nobody came or went. And no telephone or Internet lines ran from the com-
With the CIA and White House monitoring the situation in real time — presumably by live satellite feed or video carried by the SEALs — the team stormed the compound. Ahmed and his brother were killed, officials said. Then, the SEALs killed bin Laden with a bullet just above his left eye, blowing off part his skull, another official said. Using the call sign for his visual identification, one of the soldiers communicated that “Geronimo” had been killed in action. Bin Laden’s body was immediately identifiable, but the U.S. also conducted DNA testing that identified him with near 100 percent certainty, senior administration officials said. Photo analysis by the CIA, confirmation on site by a woman believed to be bin Laden’s wife, who was wounded, and matching physical fea-
tures such as bin Laden’s height all helped confirm the identification. At the White House, there was no doubt. U.S. forces searched the compound and flew away with documents, hard drives and DVDs that could provide valuable intelligence about al-Qaida, a U.S. official said. The entire operation took about 40 minutes, officials said. Bin Laden’s body was flown to the USS Carl Vinson in the North Arabian sea, a senior defense official said. There, aboard a U.S. warship, officials conducted a traditional Islamic burial ritual. Bin Laden’s body was washed and placed in a white sheet. He was placed in a weighted bag that, after religious remarks by a military officer, was slipped into the sea about 2 a.m. EDT Monday. Said the president: “I think we can all agree this is a good day for America.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When one of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world’s most wanted terrorist. That phone call, recounted Sunday by a U.S. official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden’s personal courier, the key break in a worldwide manhunt. The courier, in turn, led U.S. intelligence to a walled compound in northeast Pakistan, where a team of Navy SEALs shot bin Laden to death. The violent final minutes were the culmination of years of intelligence work. Inside the CIA team hunting bin Laden, it always was clear that bin Laden’s vulnerability was his couriers. He was too smart to let al-Qaida foot soldiers, or even his senior commanders, know his hideout. But if he wanted to get his messages out, somebody had to carry them, someone bin Laden trusted with his life. Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, detainees in the CIA’s secret prison network told interrogators about an important courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was close to bin Laden. After the CIA captured al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he confirmed knowing al-Kuwaiti but denied he had anything to do with al-Qaida. Then in 2004, top al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. Ghul told the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was a courier, someone crucial to the terrorist organization. In particular, Ghul said, the courier was close to Faraj alLibi, who replaced Mohammed as al-Qaida’s operational commander. It was a key break in the hunt for in bin Laden’s personal courier. “Hassan Ghul was the linchpin,” a U.S. official said. Finally, in May 2005, al-Libi was captured. Under CIA interrogation, al-Libi admitted that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed, he received the word through a courier. But he made up a name for the courier and denied knowing al-Kuwaiti, a denial that was so adamant and unbelievable that the CIA took it as confirmation that he and Mohammed were protecting the courier. It only reinforced the idea that al-Kuwaiti was very important to al-Qaida. If they could find the man known as al-Kuwaiti, they’d find bin Laden.
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The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA’s so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history. “We got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day,” said Marty Martin, a retired CIA officer who for years led the hunt. Mohammed did not discuss al-Kuwaiti while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He acknowledged knowing him many months later under standard interrogation, they said, leaving it once again up for debate as to whether the harsh technique was a valuable tool or an unnecessarily violent tactic. It took years of work before the CIA identified the courier’s real name: Sheikh Abu Ahmed, a Pakistani man born in Kuwait. When they did identify him, he was nowhere to be found. The CIA’s sources didn’t know where he was hiding. Bin Laden was famously insistent that no phones or computers be used near him, so the eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency kept coming up cold. Ahmed was identified by detainees as a mid-level operative who helped al-Qaida members and their families find safe havens. But his whereabouts were such a mystery to U.S. intelligence that, according to Guantanamo Bay documents, one detainee said Ahmed was wounded while fleeing U.S. forces during the invasion of Afghanistan and later died in the arms of the detainee. But in the middle of last year, Ahmed had a telephone conversation with someone
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told that he was within our grasp, but that’s for another day. Here’s what some legislators He’s gone now, and hopefully, who represent our area had to the people who lost loved ones say about the death of Osama on that dismally sad day ... can finally bring closure to it. bin Laden:
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Luxury hide-out raises questions about Pakistan ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Osama bin Laden made his final stand in a small Pakistani city where three army regiments with thousands of soldiers are based not far from the capital — a location that is increasing suspicions in Washington that Islamabad may have been sheltering him. The U.S. acted alone in Monday’s helicopter raid, did not inform Pakistan until it was over and pointedly did not thank Pakistan at the end of a wildly successful operation. All this suggests more strain ahead in a relationship that was already suffering because of U.S. accusations that the Pakistanis are supporting Afghan militants and Pakistani anger over American drone attacks and spy activity. Pakistani intelligence agencies are normally very sharp in sniffing out the presence of foreigners in small cities. For years, Western intelligence had said bin Laden was most likely holed up in a cave along the PakistanAfghan border, a remote region of soaring mountains and thick forests where the Pakistan army has little presence. But the 10-year hunt for the world’s most-wanted man ended in a whitewashed, three-story house in a middle-class area of Abbottabad, a leafy resort city of 400,000 people nestled in pine-forested hills less than 35 miles from the national capital, Islamabad. Sen. Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Pakistan had “a lot of explaining to do.” “I think this tells us once again that unfortunately Pakistan at times is playing a double game,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a member of the Armed Services Committee. A senior Pakistan intelligence official dismissed speculation that bin Laden was being protected. “We don’t explain it. We just did not know — period,” he said, on condition his name not be released to the
media. Hours after the operation, a soldier armed with a gun could be seen walking on the compound’s roof, as tense crowds of onlookers suddenly swelled in the narrow street leading away from the site. Neighbors said large Landcruisers and other expensive cars were seen driving into the compound, but they had no indication that foreigners were living inside. Salman Riaz, a film actor, said that five months ago he and a crew tried to do some filming next to the house, but were told to stop by two men who came out. “They told me that this is haram (forbidden in Islam),” he said. A video aired by ABC News that purported to show the inside of the compound included footage of disheveled bedrooms with floors stained with large pools of blood and littered with clothes and paper. It also showed a dirt road outside the compound with large white walls on one side and a green agricultural field on the other. The compound, which an Obama administration official said was “custom built to hide someone of significance,” was about a half-mile (one kilometer) away from the Kakul Military Academy, one of several military installations in the bustling, hillringed town. Suspicions that Pakistan harbors militants have been a major source of mistrust between the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI, though the two agencies have cooperated in the arrests of al-Qaida leaders since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, including several in towns and cities outside the border area. “Why had Pakistan not spotted he is living in a nice tourist resort just outside Islamabad?” asked Gareth Price, a researcher at Chatham House think-tank in London. “It seems he was being protected by Pakistan. If that is the case, this will be hard for the two sides to carry on working together.”
U.S. Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C.
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“The death of Osama Bin Laden marks the culmination of the greatest manhunt ever undertaken by American forces. This is a major development in our fight against terrorism and proves our resolve to hold accountable those who harm American citizens, BURR but we must remain vigilant and not lose focus on the overall mission and our goal of eradicating terrorist threats. There still remains a dire threat posed by Bin Laden's followers and the seeds of hate he planted across the globe, and while we are immensely grateful for this victory, our work is far from over.”
“This marks a great step in our war on terror. Those who threaten the life and freedom of American citizens, both here and across the globe, will be found and brought to justice. I want to thank the brave men and women of our armed services for never waver- KISSELL ing in their mission to protect our nation and way of life. The families of those lost on 9/11 and all of the soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice will forever remain in our prayers. God bless the United States of America.”
U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, R-6th “The manhunt that had attracted worldwide attention for a long time has finally ended satisfactorily. He got what was coming to him.” “I regret that is could not have happened earlier. I think in times gone by he should have COBLE been captured earlier. I don’t mean to be blaming President Clinton, but I am
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“I join all Americans in praise for the Special Forces who finalbrought ly down this mass murderer. The long hunt for the terrorist behind the September 11 attacks, killer of nearly 3,000 Americans, is HAGAN over. I hope this news can bring some peace to our 9/11 families who have waited almost 10 years for bin Laden’s demise. It is a good night for America and the world.”
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Reporters Shelley Smith and Mark Wineka posted a simple question on Facebook Monday: What do you think of Osama bin Laden’s death? This is a sampling of the feedback they have received on their walls. Comments have been taken as they were posted. Nate Seymour: “the world demands PROOF!!!” should be the headline Brandon Gregory: “Wheres the PROOF!” Patricia Tagaloni Andrews: “Were is the proof?” Latoyia Jones: “Some may see it as a victory, but I see it as another reason for Al Qaeda to attack on U.S. soil. I personally would rather be safe than sorry! Lauren Penley Wetter: “I think the death of Osama Bin Laden is wonderful news! Which is awkward to say because I’m saying that I’m glad someone was killed, but he was a horrible man who killed so many innocent people. I think it finally gives us all sense of justice for the 9/11 events that took place almost 10 years ago. “I must say that when the breaking news came across the screen last night I felt all kinds of emotions. In one split second I was happy, thrilled, and had a since of peace that Osama Bin Laden was no longer in this world to terrorize us anymore. In that same instance I also found myself feeling terrified of what could come of the US killing Bin Laden. “Being a mother now I just pray that this World will come together and we can all be at peace and coexist with everyone! I'd like to thank all of the men and women who have fought and given there lives to better the lives of all of the US Citizens!” Jake Chambers: “I want to see proof! Could this be a conspiracy for Obama?” Karen Harmon Linton: “Mission Accomplished, I say, but I know that beleaguered Christians in Pakistan and other Muslim nations are going to face harsher persecution for quite some time.” Barney White: “Its amazing how the order was 2 kill him on site I wish they would have caught him and put him in a one room cell wit no windows they say he dead but they also said gas would go down dont believe nothing what our gov have 2 say.” Herb Foster: “In a perfect world where the press still worked in the interest of the people questions like that would be asked. They seem to just report what they are told. No questions asked. Very strange how this all went down.” Latoyia Jones: “Osama this, Osama that...i can understand how some may feel a sense of justice, but do you have a peace of mind? anyone would feel raged if someone charged into their home and pretty much assassinated a family member. you would want revenge! OTN: what do you think will happen in reaction to his death? these ppl are committed to terrorism and will go to any length to get their point accross. All im sayin is...recognize the moment but, don't break out the champagne just yet!” Krista Oglesby: “Indeed PROOF is the key! After all these years he was simply killed in a raid??...not believing that. If you shot him, supposedly in the head, what would be the point of throwing him in the ocean? I mean is he the terminator or something?? smh” Todd Utech: “this is game changing for the war on terror. protection was key for some of the more powerful terrorists/extremists to function. The capture and death of arguably the most important figure of terrorism shows that the protection is no longer as strong as it once was. I am glad he has been taken care of because I believe he was more important as a figure head of terrorism than anything else.” Jeff Placer: “LISTEN people. He's DEAD. Proven by DNA. Islamic tradition states the burial MUST be within 24hrs. They buried him at sea. If the President said it was NIGHT...some of you people would SWEAR it was DAY. Enjoy this victory for our country. Do not ruin it with new conspiracy crap.” “We MUST respect other's religious beliefs. We don't need any more trouble from that region of the world than we have now. We got him, but can also show that we respect the Islamic tradition by following their burial customs. It's only right. It's American.”
Chace Jensen: “To help a few people understand. DNA test have already proven that it was Osama Bin Laden. And lets not forget that he DID charge into OUR home and kill a lot of innocent people. So yes, we would want revenge and we got it. Are we suppose to sit back and watch as terrorist like this rip through our country and kill innocent mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters?!!! Were we suppose to capture him, lock him up and watch as he still headed such horrible attacks from a cell like many leaders of gangs still do today?! “This man got exactly what he deserved! And you don't hear about things leading up to it because thats the element of surprise. If it were all of the news that we knew his location and this and that, poof he is gone again. I think our troops have done an amazing job and this is a wonderful victory for OUR home, the United States of AMERICA!!!! Sheri Cornett: “Don't wait to the fourth of July to fly old glory. Now is the time to fly her high and pride. Our troops need more reminders now we're proud of them then ever before. A job well done. More dangers are ahead and our troops need to know we are behind them!” Chace Jensen: “Lets also not forget these people cherish death to whereas we cherish life. I hope the last thing he saw before he closed his eyes was the American flag on our soldiers uniforms!!!” Pete Bogle: “While I am thankful in every way that he is dead and fully believe that his assassination was justifiable and right, I cannot in good conscience celebrate the death of any man - even this one. Thank you to those in command who made the decision to handle his remains with respect! Russell Rollins: When my son, Mark, first told me that Osama Bin Laden had been shot and killed....I initially thought he was saying that Barrack Obama had been shot. I felt extremely sad and in shock. Then once I realized it was Osama bin laden, then I went from extremely sad to extremely happy. Mark told me the correct name, but somehow my brain registered Obama instead of Osama initially.” Jayne Wicker Queen: “When I first heard late Sunday night, I wondered if I heard it correctly, almost as if it was unbelievable. My thoughts then turned to the families of those lost on 9/11, and currently, feeling very much not if, but when al Qaida will retaliate....” Kathy Graham Pulliam: “Pete, I totally agree with you. I felt exactly the same way.” Don Waltermyer: “It was unfinished (in a judicial sense) business that needed to be completed. However, the significance of it may be more symbolic than substantial. To me, what matters is that since 9/11, we have not had another terrorist attack on American soil. My hat is off to the Navy Seals. However, in my view, the day in & day out, behind the scenes, largely unheralded labors of those in national security capacities is what has made America safe.” Cindy Snyder: “After 9/11, I was bothered by the news coverage showing the jubilant crowds cheering the deaths of Americans, and I must say I am somewhat bothered by the jubilant cheering of Americans as well. I think the action was inevitable, when Bin Laden was found. However, I would prefer if we, as a nation, could rise above this, and show more civility. Perhaps we should be cautiously relieved, but not so openly celebratory. I doubt that this is the end of terrorism, and could ultimately encourage Bin Laden 's supporters to retaliate. I am very glad that the specialn forces are safe.” Annette R. Hall: “Good riddance and long overdue. What a relief that Osama, the monster, has met his maker. I think he had quite a surprise when he got there.” Wendy Beeker: “ I think there are 1,000 Osamas to take his place. There is a difference between vengeance and justice, and I think we'd do well to remind ourselves there is SUPPOSED to be a difference between a democratic nation and Al Queda. And I think that retaliation is inevitable.” Anne Caldwell Cave: I am glad that the operation was successful and believe that justice was served. Capture and a trial would have formed an undeserved platform for Al Qaeda. The vengeance aspect is that what was last seen and heard in the eyes and ears of Osama Bin Laden was an American soldier.
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Salisbury Post T “The truth shall make you free” GREGORY M. ANDERSON Publisher 704-797-4201 ganderson@salisburypost.com
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THE DEATH OF BIN LADEN
Another day to remember “... The United States will focus its military and counterintelligence powers on tracking down the extremists who were behind the attack and those who harbored and abetted them. It should be implacable in its determination to find those who orchestrated this murderous attack and bring them to justice.”
t has been almost a decade since those words appeared in a Salisbury Post editorial of Sept. 12, 2001, the day after terrorist attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives on American soil. Little could anyone have guessed then how much our determination would be tested in the coming years. Little did we know the false trails justice might go down before bringing to ground Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaida and the mastermind behind the attacks. Many other terrorist operatives have been killed or captured since then, including 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, currently held at Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in Iraq in 2006. But bin Laden’s ability to elude capture — including a narrow escape in Afghanistan in 2002 — had deprived the United States of a key goal with symbolic as well as strategic importance. While his minions attended to the details, bin Laden remained terrorist-in-chief, hectoring his holy warriors to continue slaughtering Americans. Periodically appearing in videos broadcast to the world, he was the ghostly face of an often invisible enemy. Bin Laden’s death isn’t the end of the war on terror. Short term, it may incite more attempts at retributive attacks. It is a turning point. While Americans never lost faith in the military and intelligence forces involved in this battle, bin Laden’s survival was a bitter reminder of unfinished business — a mission not yet accomplished. No matter how many attacks were thwarted, how many terror cells unearthed, his survival was salt in a nation’s collective wounds. The fact that he continued to live while innocents died was an affront to decency as well as justice. His aura of invincibility, even as Afghanistan and then Iraq fell, was also a powerful marketing tool in the recruiting of young jihadists. Now, thanks to a heroic and brilliantly executed operation inside Pakistan — planned by special forces and ordered by President Obama — bin Laden lies at the bottom of the ocean, a fitting end for one who plumbed the depths of evil. Closure is an overused word. Yet while bin Laden’s death doesn’t signal the end of al-Qaida, it does provide a deeply satisfying close to one chapter. It won’t bring back innocent civilians and fallen troops nor will it soak up a single tear shed by those who mourn them. It isn’t a final victory, but it is a promise kept and justice resolutely delivered.
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he day after we learned of Osama bin Laden’s death, journalists gathered behind the Salisbury Fire Department to see a corpse of sorts — pieces of the steel girders that used to hold up the World Trade Center. Bin Laden is dead, as dead as those girders. It was a strange confluence of events — a somber moment in contrast to the celELIZABETH ebrations in front of the COOK White House that we saw on TV Sunday night. The two, 1-ton pieces of steel arrived in town April 22. The city scheduled a press conference so the media could all see them at once — the Post, WBTV, News 14, Access 16 and El Latino. Questions, anyone? Post reporter Shelley Smith asked for reaction to the news about bin Laden. Fire Chief Bob Parnell, Police Chief Rory Collins and Emergency Services Director Frank Thomason responded. The girders served as eerie backdrop — a reminder, as Parnell said, of the destruction and senseless loss
of life on Sept. 11, 2001. The men chose their words carefully, saying they were glad the world’s most wanted terrorist was out of commission. No one seemed to want to say “dead.” Earlier in the weekend, I’d seen a National Geographic interview with Ron DiFrancesco, who was working on the 84th floor of the World Trade Center’s South Tower the morning the terrorists struck. Someone called and told him to get out. He made it to the stairwell and down several floors before being stopped by fire. At some point in his indecision about what to do — as breathing became difficult and others gave up, slumping down on the stairs — he felt a presence. “I don’t want to sound kooky but the presence brought me through the flames,” DiFrancesco said. “ ... It was like, ‘Come follow me, and I will lead you home.’ ” He was the last person to make it out of the South Tower alive. So many people did not get out alive, thousands who may have felt an angel on their shoulder, too, but with a different message. “Do not let your hearts be troubled...” It was so overwhelmingly
sad — yet different from the aftermath of a tsunami or tornado. The 9-11 victims died because of hatred — hatred goaded and manipulated by a man most of us had never heard of before. Bin Laden hammed it up on videos that were designed to scare us. He succeeded in making us a more cautious country. I can’t remember what it was like to board a plane without going through security, taking off my shoes and putting my possessions in a gray tray on a conveyor belt, only to reassemble myself on the other side. But if bin Laden had jihadist dreams of world domination, he failed. The dominant theme in recent Mideast uprisings is a clamor for democracy. While followers sacrificed their lives in the name of his fanaticism, the man we envisioned subsisting in a cave was hiding in a suburban compound. He put his own life on the line only when Navy Seals broke into that compound. The girders’ huge rivets, bigger than a man’s finger, are bent this way and that from the heat and violence that brought them down. The girders are covered in rust, a reminder of how much time has
passed. On Sept. 11, 2001, we ripped up the front page we had planned for that afternoon’s edition of the Post and started over. Because of Osama bin Laden, we had a different story to tell, a story of tragedy and destruction. Sunday night, copy editor Andy Morrissey repeated that process, taking apart the front page he’d already laid out and starting over, this time with Osama bin Laden’s death at the top. Newspapers across the country did the same — but with a much different feeling than in 2001. I’m not one for vengeance; it is too closely akin to hate. But justice is another matter. The Twin Towers’ steel was brought here as a memorial, and rightly so. But after today those two pieces of steel will mean something more. In honor of the people who died because of this man’s hatred, in respect for the brave rescuers who died in the line of duty — and for our own national security — the United States relentlessly hunted down the man responsible for their deaths. We did not give up. Osama bin Laden is dead. Justice has been done. • • • Elizabeth Cook is editor of the Salisbury Post.
Time to refocus Afghanistan role BY MATTHEW LEATHERMAN mleatherman@stimson.org
his week’s breathless news — “the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden” — comes with a pointed caveat. “There’s no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us,” President Obama stressed. “We must — and we will — remain vigilant at home and abroad.” Obama’s right. Not only has bin Laden been isolated from the organization he founded, its most active cell is in an entirely different region. Al Qaeda in LEATHERMAN the Arabian Peninsula now leads the effort to attack U.S. territory. And, with the recent bombing in Marrakesh, it seems that al Qaeda’s Magreb affiliate may rival its co-conspirators in southwest Asia. Bin Laden’s death will not sap their capabilities one bit, and it likely will inspire them to retaliate. Vigilance, though, means concentrating without distraction on the threat at hand and engaging it with a well-tailored strategy. The U.S. rightly will maintain a laser focus on al Qaeda’s Magreb and peninsular syndicates — but what about Afghanistan? Al Qaeda is no longer headquartered there (or anywhere, for that matter) and, according to Gen. David Petraeus, it hosts 100 or fewer of its made men. Why then does the United States have more tan 102,000 of our forces fighting there? Bin Laden’s death is significant because it will put this question squarely on the political and strategic agenda. Nothing about the logic of our commitment in Afghanistan is different today than it was yesterday but, with the war’s symbol literally buried at sea, Americans will tune back in and begin to question that logic. They’re not going to like what they find. We set out to depose the Taliban government and dismember al Qaeda’s organizational network. Instead of withdrawing after achieving this, two consecutive administrations signed up to build a modern Afghan state where none previously existed. That fight has remarkably little to do with our original mission, likely is beyond the realm of possibility, and has come at an enormous cost that includes thousands of service-members’ lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Bin Laden was the last thing connecting the Afghanistan war to American interests. His long-delayed demise gives the administration space for a serious strategy review in June and a significant drawdown in July. The United States didn’t enter this war to call an Afghan state into reality or to reshape Afghan culture, and neither should be prerequisites for leaving. We’ve achieved our priorities and topped it off with an emphatic exclamation point. Our next move ought to be turning to a new priority, re-establishing strategic and budgetary discipline over the many missions now burdening the military, rather than contriving a new rationale to fight a war already won.
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Thanks for your prayers during son’s Afghan duty I am happy to be able to tell you that my son, PFC Cody Ritchie, has finished his tour of duty in Afghanistan. He is back at his base in Vilseck, Germany. We are looking forward to his 30-day leave in June. He will then return to Germany for about six more months. Afterward, he is not sure where he will be stationed. My family wishes to express appreciation to all who sent letters, cards, thoughts and prayers our way. Please continue to pray for our servicemen and women still there and also pray for the families who have lost loved ones defending our freedom. A proud Army mom: — Sharon Ritchie Salisbury
Wellness programs at risk The N.C. House may abolish the N.C. Health & Wellness Trust Fund’s tobacco and obesity funding and programs. If approved as is, the House budget bill would fundamentally change how Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) funds will be distributed in North Carolina. Also threatened with abolishment is the Tobacco Trust Fund (designed to support the interests of tobacco farmers and revitalize tobacco dependent communities). Funds from both the HWTF and the Tobacco Trust Fund would be redirected to debt service, the University Cancer Research Fund and agricultural projects. The funds also may be directed to a variety of health programs, including research, education, prevention and treatment of health problems, including funding for communities to respond to public health needs through Health Choice and Medicaid. Exclusive dedication of funding for tobacco use or obesity prevention is eliminated. Abolishing the HWTF will halt the significant success HWTF programs have seen in the areas of tobacco prevention and cessation and the success they hope to replicate in the area of obesity prevention. These are the most critical and pressing health issues facing North Carolina’s youth today as the top two preventable causes of death. If HWTF is abolished, the state’s investment in tobacco and obesity prevention will be severely diminished, putting children at risk and costing the state even more in the long run. The state needs to put the wellbeing of its citizens first and not reverse the progress made by the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund. Please call your senators and Governor Perdue today to advo-
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cate for them to save the Health & Wellness Trust Fund and don’t let TRU (Tobacco Reality Unfiltered) go up in smoke. Contact Governor Perdue at 800-662-7952 and Sen. Andrew Brock at 919-715-0690. — Kaitlyn Allen Salisbury
Support Senate Bill 144 An important piece of legislation is currently under review by the N.C. Senate Commerce Committee and appears on the way to approval. Senate Bill 144 will place “cash converters” under the same reporting regulations that the pawn industry has operated with since 1989. “Cash converters” operate in the same way as pawn dealers. They purchase pre-owned merchandise for cash (or check). However, the simple name difference allows them to operate unregulated. The lack of oversight of the cash converters has created a possible haven for thieves to unload their stolen merchandise. Contrary to common public opinion, pawn stores take in very, very little stolen property (approximately onetenth of 1 percent) because the criminals know that pawnbrokers are required to keep records and report purchases to the police. Concerned citizens should demand that this legislation pass. If you had something stolen, would you want the police to only look at a very few places that buy used merchandise, or would you want them to look at all of them? With the passage of SB 144, introduced by state Sen. Wesley Meredith, District 19, along with 26 bipartisan co-sponsors, “cash converters” will be subject to the same reporting regulations under which the pawn industry operates. Many other states and municipalities across the country have already done this. I applaud the sponsors of this timely and important legislation for their vigilant efforts to thwart crime in North Carolina. SB 144 will protect the interests of law-abiding citizens and help to solve property crimes. — Bob Moulton Durham
Moulton is president of the N.C. Pawnbroker’s Association.
Former Salisbury resident Matthew Leatherman is a research associate with the Stimson Center, a Washington, D.C., think tank that studies security issues. This article originally appeared in the Stimson Center’s blog, The Will and the Wallet.
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FROM 1a United States Military, its special forces and the president of the United States to locate and capture the world’s most wanted terrorist.” “We appreciate every single military service member and their actions to keep our country free and safe,” Parnell said.
Tammy File, a senior office assistant for the fire department, has been working since 2009 to obtain pieces of the World Trade Center, and the beams arrived in Salisbury at 2 a.m. April 22. Salisbury firefighters are refurbishing a surplus trailer to house the beams for the public to see until they are permanently installed. One beam will be worked into the Salisbury-Rowan Firefighters Memorial at 1400 S.
Officials share thoughts • Rory Collins, Salisbury Chief of Police: “I am pleased and feel honored to have the pieces of the fabric of the World Trade Center... I, too, share the comfort that comes along with the activities that we learned about (Sunday) night. “I think we have to continue to be cautious as we think about the fact that even though he was the mastermind supposedly behind the activities that took place Sept. 11, that doesn’t necessarily mean that terrorism will come to an end for our country.” • Frank Thomason, Director of Emergency Services for Rowan County: “It’s a fitting reminder for our community to be able to have this memorial.” • Doug Stevens, Captain at the Salisbury Fire Department: “I think it was something necessary for this country to do. We finally got justice that we deserved.
DEATH FROM 1a Carolina. It carried a hint of this reserve, even though we all had wanted bin Laden dead. She quoted Proverbs 24:17: “Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble.” Mark Twain seemed to leave us a quote for every occasion. He said, “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” My heart had another reaction at first — one I hate to say out loud. But hearing of bin Laden’s death, I said to myself, “We’re done. We got him. Let’s get our men and women out of Afghanistan now. For good.” I know how naive this sentiment is. In killing bin Laden, the U.S. special operations team lopped off the head of the al Qaeda terrorist group, but that doesn’t mean its arms and legs aren’t moving. Still, I always held a simplistic view of why we rushed into Afghanistan 10 years ago, and I thought it was a mission designed to find Osama bin Laden and make him pay for 9/11. I pictured him moving from cave to cave to elude us, while making those silly videotapes to prove he was still alive. I never pictured him hanging out in suburban Pakistan. Other thoughts that seeped in, as bin Laden’s death sank in: • 343 firefighters; 72 police officers; 40 passengers and crew. • We have a new reason to celebrate May Day. • The kind of operation successfully pulled off Sunday to kill bin Laden reminded me of something Jack Bauer (actor Kiefer Sutherland) could have pulled off in “24.” • I also can’t help but think of all those secretive Robin Sage exercises they conduct annually in Rowan and other nearby counties. It’s the kind of special-ops training that helps prepare soldiers for the kind of strikes made Sunday.
MEMORIES FROM 1a in November 2009 that alNashiri and other detainees, would be tried by a military commission. But in August of last year, prosecution was stalled again. Francis is also glad that it was a Navy SEAL team that was responsible for killing bin Laden. She believes her daughter received justice, but for her and her family, there will never be closure. Next month, Francis’ daughter would have celebrated her 30th birthday. “I have justice and I have pride. I can truly say for the first time in my heart it’s going to be so special,” she said. Francis said she’s honored to be a gold star mom, which is an organization of mother’s who have lost children in service to the country. She is thankful for the continued prayers and support from the community, family, friends and even strangers throughout the state. “Their prayers and love is what got us through this,” she said. Gary Foster, commander of American Legion Post 3006, hopes bin Laden’s death can bring closure to others. “Perhaps his death will bring closure to the families of thousands of American citizens he’s been indirectly or directly responsible for their deaths,” Foster said. Foster, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, said he’d much rather bin Laden would have stood trial for the atrocities
Main St. The other will become part of a memorial site at the entrance to the Firefighters Training Facility at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. Capt. Mark Parnell, Thompson and firefighter Chet Hedrick drove to John F. Kennedy International Airport April 20 to pick up the steel. Parnell said an entire hangar — about three to four football fields wide and nine
football fields long — was filled with remnants of the twin towers. “We saw elevator motors that were as big as cars that were part of the World Trade Center,” he said. “We saw steel that was just twisted like toothpicks. Pieces that weren’t available to people in the nation. “The sites we saw there were tremendous. We weren’t able to photograph, but the sheer impact of the falling building and all the other components was amazing.”
Parnell said more than 10,000 communities have requested and will receive artifacts. The two now in Salisbury, Parnell assumed, were vertical upright pieces, reinforced on one plate, Parnell said. “So we assume to provide strength they were doubled,” he said. The fire department could not pick and choose what pieces they received, and they also were not given information on which parts of the World Trade Center the
pieces came from. The ownership of the steel was transferred from the New Jersey and New York Port Authority to the city of Salisbury. “We felt honored to be able to bring it back,” Parnell said.
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“When I say we, I mean all the people that suffered the losses as well as the rest of the country. I believe it makes our country a little bit more safer. “I stayed up last night to listen to the president. I was pleased, I was happy. I have a son in the military and four brothers that served in the military. I have a high respect for our military people.” • Bob Parnell, Chief of the Salisbury Fire Department: “I was watching the Mets game, and they were talking about how the fans in Philadelphia started chanting, ‘U.S.A., U.S.A.,’ and the announcers didn’t immediately know, and they said, ‘Oh, on our social media accounts, we see that bin Laden’s been killed,’ and that’s when I changed it over to the news channel. “I don’t personally celebrate death, but it sure did feel like a relief that one of the kingpins of terrorism in our nation was caught, captured and dealt with.”
• Bin Laden and I were the same age. • Pakistan has a suburban area? • My sons were 15 and 13 when 9/11 happened. I understand why college kids and other young adults took this so personally. • The operation to kill bin Laden took 40 minutes; the search, 10 years. • This is a time when Charlie Sheen could say ‘Winning,” and I wouldn’t be annoyed. • Have we, as a people, become too bloodthirsty? • Some Navy Seal out there fired the shot that killed bin Laden. Do we want to know, or should we know, who it is? • Newspapers still have an impact, especially when their bold front-page headlines say things such as “Justice Served,” “The Butcher of 9/11 is DEAD” and “Rot in Hell.” • I heard that the New York Times dropped its use of the “Mr.” courtesy title in writing about bin Laden. • I hope the family of Lakeina Francis, the Rowan Countian killed in the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, finds a tiny bit of closure with bin Laden’s death. In walking downtown Monday morning, I was surprised initially at the lack of outwards signs of expression noting an important American victory against terrorism. Rose Meeks Jones, a shop owner, left this Facebook message for me: “Today I am thankful for the fact that an incredibly evil person is gone from our world,” she said. “I do not rejoice in their death, but that they can no longer bring death and destruction to our world. “I pray for peace among the peoples of this world and for all who serve in our military and strive to make this world a safer place for us all. God Bless America and God Bless all the world over!” Going about our normal business, I think, shows a peace and dignity that appropriately ignores bin Laden, while honoring the lives of everyone we’ve lost. It has been a long 10 years.
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and deaths he caused. “I can’t say that I’m glad he’s dead, because the taking of a life is something no one should be happy about,” he said. Edward Smith, who served 11 years in the Army and Navy, spending part of that time in Beirut and Iraq, believes there will never be closure. Bin Laden’s death helps but doesn’t take away the grief people feel over soldiers who have died. “At the same time that same person (bin Laden) will never be able to hurt anybody,” he said. Smith also believes that “There will be others who will try to take his place, but it’s not going to happen.” Smith still has friends serving in the military. “It closes one chapter, but also starts another,” Smith said. Harry Miller who served 20 years in the Navy thinks it was long past time for the U.S. to capture or kill bin Laden. “It’s about time and they should get the rest, including the folks that bombed the USS Cole,” Miller said. Amanda Atkinson was several thousand feet in the air when news began circulating about bin Laden’s death. Atkinson, a Salisbury native who now resides in London, said via Facebook that as the plane landed everyone got out their phones. “The New Yorkers among us seemed to be especially affected, saying things like, ‘I can’t believe I’m not in Manhattan for this historic moment,’ ” Atkinson wrote. She said life in London was
routine, but the death was front-page news. “It’s nowhere near as poignant here as in the U.S. The impression in the U.K. seems to be that it’s more of a symbolic victory,” she said. Atkinson believes only time will tell if “anything changes in terms of the level of aggression and frequency of terrorist attacks against the West as a result of bin Laden’s death.” Former Salisbury resident Matthew Leatherman said the death was welcome news. “As an American, this is someone who shaped history for the past 20 years. It’s good to see justice and progress,” Leatherman said. Leatherman is a research analyst with the Stimson Center’s project on budgeting for foreign affairs and defense. The Obama administration is preparing to conduct a review of the Afghanistan war strategy. It’s a review that was scheduled 18 months ago to look at withdrawing troops. “Early news reporting suggested this was going to be a cursory review, but with him being dead, people are going to ask bigger questions,” Leatherman said. He added people will likely ask less about tactics and more about the principle behind the killing. Leatherman also pointed to the fact that bin Laden was captured in Pakistan not far from a military training center. “It gives a strong implication he was being sheltered,” he said. Contact reporter Shavonne Potts at 704-797-4253.
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LEXINGTON — Alex Nianouris won a one-hole playoff to claim medalist and Salisbury's boys golf team won the 2A Midwest Region final at Sapona Country Club Monday afternoon. The Hornets won comfortably with a score of 299, finishing 12 strokes ahead of second-place West Davidson. Nianouris became Salisbury's fourth player to medal this year when he birdied the playoff against North Surry's Taylor Coal-
son. He finished with a 72. “He had a great approach shot to get about three feet from the pin and pretty easily made the putt,” said Salisbury coach Dale Synder of Nianouris. “That just shows that we can go deep and have any of our guys medal on any given day.” Nianouris was 3 under par through eight holes before the Hornets hit a rough patch for holes 10 through 14. Roy Dixon was second on Salisbury with a 74 while county champion Eric Edwards finished with a 76 and Clark Alcorn a 77. No player made par (71) on the
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course, which Salisbury had played twice during the regular season. “We played the front side a lot, but we don't ever get to see the back side,” Snyder said. “We were more
familiar with it than a lot of the teams and it was certainly an advantage. After seeing my guys play 10 through 14, a little bit of worry crept in.” Salisbury, Central Carolina Conference rival West and North Surry (317) qualified for the state final match next Monday and Tuesday at Longleaf Country Club in Southern Pines. “We were glad to see West Davidson place second,” Synder said. “That means we're playing against some really good competition in the CCC.” Salisbury finished second in the
state last year. The Hornets led the field after Day 1, but North Lincoln overtook the lead and eventually won the title. “There's some expectations.” Snyder said. “A lot of people look at us as the favorites. Until North Lincoln loses the title, it's theirs to lose. We're looking forward to it. We know what happened last year.” Central Davidson (329) and South Stokes (339) rounded out the top five. Tommy Raddin (76, Forest Hills), Zach Jones (76, Wilkes Central) and Austin Lynch (77, West Stokes) were state individual qualifiers.
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NPC tournament. “It’s a really long layoff now until our first playoff game (on May 13),” Carson coach Chris Cauble said. “That really concerns me.” Carson (15-8) entered the tournament hoping for a No. 2 playoff seed and a first-round home game. Now the Cougars will be either No. 3 or No. 4. Hunter Teeter and Madison Osborne knocked in two runs apiece for the Falcons, who put together a six-run fourth inning for a 7-1 lead and held on.
LANDIS — After a frustrating in S. Rowan 11 week N. Iredell 1 which it suffered three losses by a total of five runs, South Rowan came into Monday's first-round game of the NPC tournament excited about the opportunity to wipe the slate clean. The Raiders' 11-1 five-inning rout of North Iredell was the perfect way to begin that fresh start. S o u t h pounded out 14 hits, got a solid outing on the mound Dylan by Parker and did all the little things right to easily advance to PARKER a semifinal meeting against regular-season champion East Rowan. "We let last week go," South coach Thad Chrismon said. "We try to break the season into three seasons. We're in the postseason now so we learned all we can from our games, including last week, and we've moved on. We're playing for a conference tournament championship and that's the approach we took. "It was a tight game and then we banged a couple hits together, ran the bases real well and just put a little pressure on, which is what we try and do." It was just 4-1 when South (11-11) sent its fans home happy and early, by putting up seven runs on eight hits in the bottom of the fifth. No. 9 hitter Parker Hubbard led the way offensively, delivering run-scoring hits in each of his three at-bats. He
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SPENCER — North Rowan will likely N. Rowan 19 play its S. Davidson 3 share of closely contested games in the coming weeks, but this wasn’t one of them. The Cavaliers opened the YVC tournament Monday with a 19-3 victory against mistake-proned South Davidson. “We hit the ball well,” first-year coach Aaron Rimer said after the match was halted after five innings. “But they gave us plenty of chances.” North (195) advanced to play a second-round game against Albemarle at West Montgomery this afternoon. “We’re JENNINGS just trying to get through this conference tournament, trying to get to the state playoffs and maybe make a run,” said winning pitcher/spot starter Mason Jennings. “I think we have the team that can do it this year.” A lot of things fell North’s way against eighth-seeded South (3-17). The guests committed five of their seven errors in the bottom of the second inning, when NR scored six unearned runs and went ahead 8-2. Earlier that inning, with score tied 2-2, South’s Trey Morrison blasted a leadoff home run over the center field fence. But the infielder inexplicably failed to touch
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CHINA GROVE — Rest is normalW. Rowan 7 ly a welCarson 4 c o m e thing for a baseball team, but on Monday night, Carson was handed a 10-day vacation it didn’t want. Sixth-seeded West Rowan, which had to win in order to keep its season alive, rode a completegame pitching effort from tyler buckwell/sALisBUrY post ironman Matt Miller and West rowan starting pitcher Matt Miller tossed a complete won 7-4 at third-seeded Carson in the first round of the game when the Falcons needed him the most.
USA! USA! Bin Laden’s death draws reaction all across sports world BY HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Before the top of the fourth inning on Military Appreciation Night at Nationals Park, the public address announcer encouraged everyone at the baseball stadium to cheer for the active or retired members of the service who were in the stands Monday, recipients of free tickets. As Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the AssociAted press USA” blared through the ballpark, and NAscAr driver Kurt Busch, second from right, shakes hands the message “Thank You for Your with members of the military before a baseball game between Service and Sacrifice” dominated the the Nationals and Giants on Monday night. HD scoreboard, a group of military
personnel seated a few rows behind home plate waved their red Nationals baseball caps. Thousands of fans rose to applaud. Members of the Nationals, spread around the diamond, preparing to play defense — and wearing what the team called “patriotic” uniforms, with starsand-stripes curly “Ws” on the chests of their blue jerseys — provided their own standing ovation. The World Series champion San Francisco Giants stood in the visiting dugout and bullpen, clapping, too. Talk about a coincidence: Less than 24 hours after President Barack Oba-
ma announced that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan, the Nationals honored the military — an event the team said it began planning in the offseason and announced to the public a week ago. “That’s amazing, the way the timing worked out for that,” Nationals manager Jim Riggleman said before the game. “Really a great opportunity for our fans ... to honor our military vets and wounded warriors. Those who are here tonight are going to be beaming
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TV Sports Tuesday, May 3 ICE HOCKEY Midnight VERSUS — IIHF World Championship, Canada vs. Switzerland at Kosice, Slovakia (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Detroit or Washington at Philadelphia 10 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers or Texas at Seattle WGN — Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 2, Boston at Miami 9:30 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 2, Memphis at Oklahoma City NHL HOCKEY 6:30 p.m. VERSUS — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 3, Washington at Tampa Bay 9 p.m. VERSUS — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 3, Vancouver at Nashville
Area schedule Tuesday, May 3 PREP BASEBALL 7 p.m. Salisbury at East Davidson YVC tournament (semifinals) at West Montgomery 4:30 p.m. (1) North Rowan vs. (4) Albemarle 7 p.m. TBD vs. TBD CPC tournament (first round) at North Davidson (5) R.J. Reynolds vs. (4) Mount Tabor (3) North Davidson vs. (6) Reagan PREP TENNIS Dual team playoffs (1st round) West Stanly at Salisbury (2A) West Rowan at Forestview (3A) East Rowan (wild card) at Freedom (3A) PREP SOFTBALL 4:15 p.m. West Rowan at South Rowan 4:30 p.m. Statesville at Carson (DH) South Stanly at North Rowan 6 p.m. East Rowan at West Iredell PREP GIRLS SOCCER 7 p.m. Salisbury at East Davidson INTIMIDATORS BASEBALL 7 p.m. Kannapolis at Hickory Crawdads -------------------------------------------------Wednesday, May 4 PREP BASEBALL NPC tournament at West Iredell 4:15 p.m. (1) East Rowan vs. (4) South Rowan 7 p.m. (2) West Iredell vs. (6) West Rowan SPC tournament at NW Cabarrus 4:15 p.m. (2) Hickory Ridge vs. (3) Mt. Pleasant 7 p.m. (1) NW Cabarrus vs. (4) Robinson CPC tournament at North Davidson TBA (1) Davie vs. RJR-Mt. Tabor winner (2) West Forsyth vs. N. Davidson-Reagan winner PREP SOFTBALL 6 p.m. East Rowan at South Stanly PREP GIRLS SOCCER 6 p.m. South Rowan at East Rowan West Rowan at North Iredell 6:30 p.m. North Rowan at North Moore 7 p.m. Salisbury at Thomasville PREP TRACK 2 p.m. The CCC Meet (Salisbury)
Youth baseball Franklin Ellis Shoaf’s 22, O’Charley’s 18 Leading hitters — Shoaf’s: Jared Eagle 4, Thad Eagle 4, Kolby Smith 4, Robert Featherstone 4; O’Charley’s: Drew Bitzer 5, Dylan Valley 5, Max Durner 4, Joseph Hartman 4, Zoe Durner 4 O’Charley’s 23, Cheerwine 12 Leading hitters — O’Charley’s: Bitzer 6, M. Durner 6, Issac Robinson 5, Dylan Bates 5, Z. Durner 5; Cheerwine: Gavin Wright 4, Calen Whisnut 4
Prep soccer Standings 1A Yadkin Valley YVC Overall 15-0 15-0 East Montgomery Gray Stone 11-2-2 11-4-2 North Moore 10-3-2 10-5-2 8-5-2 9-6-2 Albemarle North Rowan 8-7 9-9 South Stanly 5-10-1 5-10-1 3-11-1 3-11-1 West Montgomery Chatham Central 1-11-2 1-12-2 South Davidson 1-13 1-17 Monday’s games East Montgomery 2, Gray Stone 1 Albemarle 5, West Montgomery 0 North Rowan 7, Chatham Central 2 North Moore 4, South Stanly 0 Tuesday’s games West Montgomery at East Montgomery Chatham Central at South Davidson Wednesday’s games Albemarle at Chatham Central North Rowan at North Moore Gray Stone at South Davidson
2A Central Carolina Overall CCC Salisbury 8-0 14-0-2 East Davidson 6-3 8-5-4 5-3-1 12-6-1 West Davidson Central Davidson 4-4-1 13-5-1 Thomasville 2-6 5-7-1 0-9 7-11 Lexington Monday’s games West Davidson 1, Central Davidson 1 Thomasville 5, Lexington 2 Tuesday’s games Thomasville at West Davidson Salisbury at East Davidson
3A North Piedmont NPC Overall West Rowan 11-0 15-2 Statesville 8-2 12-3-1 West Iredell 8-3 13-6 East Rowan 3-6 6-10 North Iredell 3-6 5-8 Carson 3-9 5-13 South Rowan 0-10 2-15 Monday’s games West Iredell 6, Carson 2 Cox Mill 3, West Rowan 2 Statesville at South Rowan East Rowan at North Iredell Wednesday’s games South Rowan at East Rowan Statesville at West Iredell West Rowan at North Iredell Result needed North Iredell at East Rowan
Prep baseball Statistics Through May 1 Carson Batting AB R H RBI AVG Peeler 31 10 13 6 .419 Basinger 55 19 22 26 .400 Martin 64 11 23 17 .359 Pressley 56 11 20 15 .357 CBridges 26 11 9 6 .346 Youngo 64 26 21 12 .328 Hogan 52 23 17 14 .327 Galloway 63 10 19 15 .302 KBridges 64 17 19 7 .297 Williams 26 6 6 3 .231 Carpenter 35 13 7 3 .200 Cross 26 4 2 2 .077 Doubles — Basinger 7, Martin 7, Hogan 3, Youngo 3 Triples — CBridges 1 Homers — Basinger 4, Williams 1 Steals — KBridges 4, Youngo 4, Carpenter 4, Pressley 4, Hogan 3
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Pitching IP ER BB SO ERA 23.1 4 12 23 1.20 Galloway Martin 38 15 20 33 2.76 Bracewell 8.2 4 3 7 3.23 32.2 16 19 28 3.48 Free Peeler 30 15 24 37 3.50 Records — Free (6-3), Martin (4-2), Galloway (3-0), Bracewell (1-0), Peeler (1-2) East Rowan AB R H RBI AVG Batting Thomas 71 24 31 26 .437 Austin 65 26 28 20 .431 57 25 22 20 .386 Fulbright Morris 74 29 28 12 .378 Fleming 67 17 25 24 .373 67 15 24 21 .358 Rogers Sapp 77 33 26 6 .338 Mathis 29 5 8 7 .276 57 8 15 14 .263 Hathcock LeRoy 35 6 6 6 .171 Doubles — Morris 8, Austin 5, Thomas 6, Fleming 5, Sapp 5, Hathcock 4, Mathis 3 Triples — Fleming 2, LeRoy 1, Rogers 1, Sapp 1, Austin 1, Morris 1, Mathis 1 Homers — Fulbright 4, Thomas 2, Austin 2, Brooks 1, Morris 1 Steals — Sapp 12, Austin 10, Rogers 7, Morris 5, LeRoy 3 IP ER BB SO ERA Pitching Robbins 47 9 22 75 1.34 Johnson 26 5 11 41 1.35 11.2 5 9 7 3.00 Ward Bost 30 24 40 35 5.60 Mathis 15.1 13 8 12 5.93 13.2 17 11 20 8.71 Rogers Records: Robbins (8-0), Bost (4-3), Mathis (2-1), Johnson (1-1), Rogers (1-2) Saves — Johnson 6 North Rowan AB R H RBI AVG Batting Mauldin 70 29 39 32 .557 Morgan 76 35 35 31 .461 73 40 32 17 .438 Barker Brown 81 29 35 15 .432 Laurens 65 20 24 22 .369 69 17 24 17 .348 Wyatt Jennings 56 18 18 11 .321 Feezor 63 16 18 15 .286 43 10 12 11 .279 JSmith Doubles — Barker 10, Mauldin 9, Brown 8, Morgan 7, Wyatt 5, JSmith 3 Triples — Brown 2, Laurens 2, Jennings 1, JSmith 1 Homers — Laurens 4, Barker 2, Brown 1, Feezor 1, Kelly 1, Mauldin 1, Morgan 1, Wyatt 1, J. Smith 1, Jennings 1 Steals — Brown 13, Barker 12, Mauldin 10, PSmith 10, Wyatt 9, Jennings 8, Kelly 8, Morgan 6, Laurens 4, Feezor 4 IP ER BB SO ERA Pitching Brown 16 1 7 21 0.44 Price 29 9 11 25 2.17 9 3 7 11 2.33 Jennings Agner 43.1 15 28 36 2.42 Laurens 26.1 11 8 24 2.92 15 23 16 12 10.73 Blume Records: Agner (5-1), Laurens (4-1), Price (4-1), Brown (2-1), Jennings (1-0), Blume (1-0), JSmith (1-0), Holshouser (0-1) Salisbury AB R H RBI AVG Batting Tonseth 65 17 28 28 .431 Van der Poel 50 19 21 12 .420 Carmichael 58 14 23 13 .397 Bauk 69 18 25 10 .362 Knox 60 22 19 15 .317 60 10 19 8 .317 Wolfe Myrhoeffer 56 12 17 17 .304 Veal 46 13 13 16 .283 46 12 10 2 .217 Swaim Bowden 28 6 4 2 .143 Doubles — Tonseth 6, Meyerhoeffer 6, Veal 5, Van der Poel 5 Triples — Tonseth 3, Bauk 2, Swaim 1, Van der Poel 1 Homers — Carmichael 2, Veal 2, Tonseth 2, Meyerhoeffer 1, Knox 1 Steals — Knox 9, Swaim 8, Bauk 6, Meyerhoeffer 5 Pitching IP ER BB SO ERA Bauk 36 15 24 36 2.92 Myrhoeffer 12 6 11 11 3.50 Tonseth 35.1 20 18 33 3.96 Bowden 11.2 8 8 12 4.80 15 18 15 11 8.40 Veal Wolfe 6.1 9 7 7 9.94 Records: Tonseth (4-2), Bauk (3-3), Veal (2-1), Bowden (1-0), Murph (1-1), Meyerhoeffer (0-2) South Rowan AB R H RBI AVG Batting Deason 41 10 16 6 .390 Dietz 73 14 28 12 .384 58 18 22 13 .379 Tyler Kowalczyk 66 20 23 7 .348 Miller 63 19 21 15 .333 .296 Goodman 71 22 21 7 Penninger 53 12 15 18 .283 McLaughlin 22 4 6 6 .273 12 4 3 1 .250 Corriher Hubbard 53 12 13 7 .245 Parker 41 10 6 3 .146 14 0 2 6 .143 Kennerly Doubles — Goodman 6, Miller 6, Tyler 4, Dietz 3, Deason 3 Triples — Kowalczyk 2, Dietz 1, Corriher 1 Homers — Penninger 4, Miller 4, Goodman 2, Tyler 1, Hubbard 1, McLaughlin 1 Steals — Kowalczyk 11, Hubbard 6, Parker 4, Goodman 3 Pitching IP ER BB SO ERA Miller 42 18 16 45 3.00 Penninger 32.2 14 7 27 3.00 Corriher 19.2 10 16 17 3.56 Mullis 22.1 15 10 28 4.70 14.1 11 8 6 5.37 Parker Records — Miller (4-3), Mullis (2-1), Penninger (2-3), Corriher (2-3), Parker (0-1) Saves — Mullis 2, Penninger 1
NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) Sunday, May 1 San Jose 2, Detroit 1, San Jose leads series 2-0 Tampa Bay 3, Washington 2, OT, Tampa Bay leads series 2-0 Monday, May 2 Boston 3, Philadelphia 2, OT, Boston leads series 2-0 Tuesday, May 3 Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Nashville, 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 Washington at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m. San Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m.
NBA PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) Sunday, May 1 Memphis 114, Oklahoma City 101, Memphis leads series 1-0 Miami 99, Boston 90, Miami leads series 1-0 Monday, May 2 Atlanta 103, Chicago 95, Atlanta leads series 1-0 Dallas at L.A. Lakers, late Tuesday, May 3 Boston at Miami, 7 p.m. Memphis at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m. Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Monday box Hawks 103, Bulls 95 ATLANTA (103) Williams 2-6 1-1 5, Smith 3-11 2-4 8, Horford 4-7 1-2 9, Teague 5-11 0-0 10, Johnson 12-18 5-5 34, Wilkins 2-4 0-0 4, Crawford 8-16 4-4 22, Pachulia 2-2 2-2 6, Collins 2-3 1-2 5. Totals 40-78 16-20 103. CHICAGO (95) Deng 8-12 5-6 21, Boozer 6-11 2-2 14, Noah 3-7 5-6 11, Rose 11-27 0-0 24, Bogans 1-4 0-0 3, Brewer 2-4 1-2 6, K.Thomas 0-0 0-0 0, Korver 3-7 0-0 9, Gibson 1-3 0-0 2, Watson 2-7 0-0 5, Asik 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 37-83 13-16 95. Atlanta 28 23 21 31 — 103 Chicago 18 32 21 24 — 95 3-Point Goals—Atlanta 7-13 (Johnson 55, Crawford 2-4, Teague 0-1, Smith 0-1, Williams 0-2), Chicago 8-18 (Korver 3-4, Rose 2-7, Brewer 1-1, Bogans 1-3, Watson 1-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 45 (Horford 13), Chicago 46 (Noah 9). Assists—Atlanta 20 (Teague 5), Chicago 21 (Rose 10). Total Fouls—Atlanta 17, Chicago 16. Technicals—Noah, Chicago Coach Thibodeau, Chicago defensive three sec-
ond. Flagrant Fouls—Smith. A—22,890 (20,917).
Minor leagues Standings South Atlantic League Northern Division W L Pct. GB 18 7 .720 — Hickory (Rangers) Delmarva (Orioles) 16 9 .640 2 Hagerstown (Nationals)16 9 .640 2 1 Kannapolis (White Sox)14 10 .583 3 ⁄2 Greensboro (Marlins) 13 12 .520 5 West Virginia (Pirates)11 13 .458 61⁄2 Lakewood (Phillies) 10 14 .417 71⁄2 Southern Division W L Pct. GB Asheville (Rockies) 14 11 .560 — 13 11 .542 1⁄2 Lexington (Astros) Greenville (Red Sox) 13 12 .520 1 Savannah (Mets) 10 14 .417 31⁄2 4 Charleston (Yankees) 10 15 .400 Augusta (Giants) 8 16 .333 51⁄2 Rome (Braves) 6 19 .240 8 Monday’s Games Hagerstown 5, Rome 0 West Virginia 3, Greensboro 0, 1st game Savannah 3, Lakewood 1 Hickory 3, Kannapolis 2 Greenville 15, Asheville 2 Delmarva 8, Charleston, S.C. 0 Lexington 4, Augusta 0, 2 innings, susp., rain West Virginia 3, Greensboro 2, 2nd game Tuesday’s Games Hagerstown at Rome, 10:30 a.m. Charleston, S.C. at Delmarva, 10:35 a.m. Asheville at Greenville, 2 p.m. Lexington 4, Augusta 0, 2 innings, comp. of susp. game Savannah at Lakewood, 6:35 p.m. Kannapolis at Hickory, 7 p.m. Augusta at Lexington, 7:05 p.m. Greensboro at West Virginia, 7:05 p.m.
ML Baseball Standings American League East Division L Pct GB W New York 17 9 .654 — Tampa Bay 15 13 .536 3 13 14 .481 41⁄2 Baltimore Boston 13 15 .464 5 Toronto 13 15 .464 5 Central Division L Pct GB W Cleveland 19 8 .704 — Kansas City 15 13 .536 41⁄2 12 17 .414 8 Detroit Chicago 11 19 .367 91⁄2 Minnesota 9 18 .333 10 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 16 13 .552 — 16 13 .552 — Texas Oakland 15 14 .517 1 Seattle 13 16 .448 3 Monday’s Games Oakland 5, Texas 4, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 5, Detroit 3 Boston 9, L.A. Angels 5 Chicago White Sox 6, Baltimore 2 Tuesday’s Games Toronto (Jo-.Reyes 0-2) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 3-2), 6:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 2-1) at Detroit (Penny 1-3), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Haren 4-1) at Boston (Lester 3-1), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Bergesen 0-3) at Kansas City (Francis 0-3), 8:10 p.m. Minnesota (Liriano 1-4) at Chicago White Sox (E.Jackson 2-3), 8:10 p.m. Cleveland (Carmona 2-3) at Oakland (T.Ross 1-2), 10:05 p.m. Texas (Ogando 3-0) at Seattle (Bedard 14), 10:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m. Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Baltimore at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. Cleveland at Oakland, 10:05 p.m. Texas at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.
Standings National League East Division W L Pct GB Florida 18 9 .667 — 18 9 .667 — Philadelphia Atlanta 15 15 .500 41⁄2 Washington 14 14 .500 41⁄2 12 16 .429 61⁄2 New York Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 16 13 .552 — 14 14 .500 11⁄2 Cincinnati Milwaukee 13 15 .464 21⁄2 Pittsburgh 13 15 .464 21⁄2 12 15 .444 3 Chicago Houston 11 17 .393 41⁄2 West Division W L Pct GB Colorado 17 9 .654 — 14 15 .483 41⁄2 Los Angeles San Francisco 13 15 .464 5 Arizona 12 15 .444 51⁄2 11 17 .393 7 San Diego Monday’s Games Washington 2, San Francisco 0 Atlanta 6, Milwaukee 2 Houston at Cincinnati, ppd., rain Florida 6, St. Louis 5 Pittsburgh at San Diego, late Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, late Tuesday’s Games Washington (L.Hernandez 3-2) at Philadelphia (Hamels 3-1), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Happ 1-4) at Cincinnati (Leake 3-0), 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Estrada 1-0) at Atlanta (Hanson 3-3), 7:10 p.m. San Francisco (Vogelsong 1-0) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 1-3), 7:10 p.m. Florida (Ani.Sanchez 1-1) at St. Louis (McClellan 4-0), 8:15 p.m. Colorado (De La Rosa 4-0) at Arizona (J.Saunders 0-3), 9:40 p.m. Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-1) at San Diego (Latos 0-4), 10:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Dempster 1-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 2-1), 10:10 p.m.
Monday’s boxes Athletics 5, Rangers 4 (10) Texas
Oakland ab r h bi ab r h bi Andrus ss 4 1 1 0 M.Ellis 2b 4 0 1 0 Mrlnd 1b 5 1 1 0 Barton 1b 4 1 0 0 MiYong 2b3 0 1 3 CJcksn rf 5 0 0 0 ABeltre dh 3 0 0 1 Wlngh lf 4 1 2 1 N.Cruz rf 5 0 0 0 Matsui dh 5 1 1 2 DvMrp lf 3 0 1 0 KSuzuk c 4 1 2 1 Davis 3b 4 0 2 0 DeJess cf 3 1 1 0 Tegrdn c 3 0 0 0 AnLRc 3b 4 0 2 0 Torreal c 1 0 0 0 Pnngtn ss 3 0 2 1 Borbon cf 2 2 2 0 Napoli 1b 1 0 0 0 Totals 34 4 8 4 Totals 36 5 11 5 Texas 002 020 000 0—4 Oakland 010 110 010 1—5 No outs when winning run scored. E—Andrus (7), Mccarthy 2 (3). Dp—Texas 1, Oakland 2. Lob—Texas 10, Oakland 9. 2b—Mi.young (13), Borbon (1), M.ellis (8), Willingham (5). Hr—Willingham (5), Matsui (3), K.suzuki (3). Cs—Pennington (4). S— Andrus, Borbon, M.ellis. Sf—Mi.young, A.beltre. IP H R ER BB SO Texas Holland 7 8 3 2 2 4 Rhodes Bs,1-2 1 2 1 1 0 0 Eppley 1 0 0 0 2 1 Oliver L,1-3 0 1 1 1 0 0 Oakland McCarthy 6 6 4 0 2 4 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Breslow 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Ziegler Wuertz 1 1 0 0 0 1 Fuentes 1 0 0 0 0 0 Balfour W,2-1 1 0 0 0 3 2 Oliver pitched to 1 batter in the 10th. T—3:08. A—9,193 (35,067).
Yankees 5, Tigers 3 New York ab Jeter ss 5 Grndrs cf 3 Teixeir 1b 3 AlRdrg 3b 5 Swisher rf 4 Psada dh 5 Martin c 4 Gardnr lf 1 Nunez 2b 4 Totals 34
Detroit r h bi ab 0 2 0 AJcksn cf 4 1 0 0 Santiag 2b 4 2 1 0 Ordonz dh 4 1 1 0 MiCarr 1b 4 0 2 1 Boesch rf 4 0 2 2 Raburn lf 4 0 1 0 JhPerlt ss 4 1 1 0 Avila c 4 0 1 1 Inge 3b 3 5 11 4 Totals 35
r 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
h bi 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 8 3
New York 210 000 002—5 Detroit 011 000 100—3 Lob—New York 11, Detroit 5. 2b—Swisher (3), Posada (2), E.nunez (2), Santiago (2). Hr—Avila 2 (5). Sb—E.nunez (3). Cs—Jeter (2), Granderson (1). S—Gardner. H R ER BB SO IP New York Colon 7 7 3 3 0 7 1 0 0 0 1 Chmbrlain W,2-0 1 M.rivera S,11-13 1 0 0 0 0 1 Detroit 6 8 3 3 4 8 Verlander 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Thomas 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Perry 1 0 0 0 1 0 Alburquerque Valverde L,2-1 1 2 2 1 2 1 WP—Verlander, Alburquerque. PB—Avila. T—3:13. A—22,852 (41,255).
Red Sox 9, Angels 5 Los Angeles ab r MIzturs 2b 4 1 Abreu dh 5 0 HKndrc 1b5 1 TrHntr rf 4 0 Cllasp 3b 4 0 V.Wells lf 4 1 Aybar ss 4 1 Mathis c 3 1 Bourjos cf 4 0
Boston h bi ab r h bi 3 1 Ellsury cf 4 3 2 0 2 2 DMcDn cf 1 0 0 0 2 0 Pedroia 2b 4 1 1 2 2 0 AdGnzl 1b 4 1 1 3 0 0 Youkils 3b 4 1 2 2 1 2 Ortiz dh 4 1 2 2 1 0 J.Drew rf 4 0 0 0 1 0 Lowrie ss 4 0 0 0 1 0 Crwfrd lf 4 1 2 0 Varitek c 3 1 1 0 Totals 37 513 5 Totals 36 9 11 9 Los Angeles 001 010 021—5 100 020 60x—9 Boston E—Bourjos (2). Dp—Boston 2. Lob—Los Angeles 7, Boston 5. 2b—M.izturis 2 (9), Tor.hunter (4), Ellsbury (8), Ad.gonzalez (11), Youkilis (7), Crawford (5). Hr—V.wells (2), Ortiz (3). Sb—Abreu (4), Bourjos (3), Ellsbury 2 (7). IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles 6 6 3 3 1 6 Weaver L,6-1 1 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 Takahashi 2 3 4 4 1 1 F.Rodriguez 1 ⁄3 Boston 8 2 2 2 2 Buchholz W,2-3 62⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Bard H,4 1 1 ⁄3 4 3 3 0 1 Wheeler 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Okajima WP—C.Buchholz. PB—Mathis. T—3:29. A—37,017 (37,493).
White Sox 6, Orioles 2 Baltimore Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi 3 0 1 1 BRorts 2b 5 0 0 0 Pierre lf Markks rf 4 0 2 0 AlRmrz ss 3 1 1 0 CIzturs pr 0 1 0 0 A.Dunn dh 3 0 0 0 D.Lee 1b 4 1 3 2 Konerk 1b 3 2 2 4 Guerrr dh 5 0 2 0 Quentin rf 4 0 1 0 Scott lf 4 0 0 0 Przyns c 4 0 1 0 4 2 2 1 AdJons cf 5 0 3 0 Rios cf MrRynl 3b 4 0 1 0 Teahen 3b 3 0 0 0 Wieters c 2 0 0 0 Morel 3b 0 0 0 0 Andino ss 3 0 0 0 Bckhm 2b 2 1 1 0 29 6 9 6 Totals 36 2 11 2 Totals 000 000 002—2 Baltimore 001 101 12x—6 Chicago Dp—Chicago 2. Lob—Baltimore 13, Chicago 4. 2b—Ad.jones (3), Mar.reynolds (7). Hr—D.lee (2), Konerko 2 (8), Rios (2). Sb—Ad.jones (3), Rios (4). Cs—Pierre (8), Beckham (1). S—Pierre. Sf—Konerko. H R ER BB SO IP Baltimore Guthrie L,1-4 7 5 4 4 2 4 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 Rapada 1 Rupe ⁄3 3 1 1 0 0 Chicago 8 0 0 4 4 Buehrle W,2-3 6 2⁄3 Crain H,3 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 3 2 ⁄3 2 2 2 1 1 Sale 0 0 0 0 1 S.santos S,3-3 1⁄3 HBP—by Guthrie (Beckham), by Sale (Markakis). T—2:43. A—18,007 (40,615).
Nationals 2, Giants 0 San Francisco Washington ab r h bi ab r h bi Rownd cf 4 0 2 0 Espinos 2b 4 0 0 0 Snchz 2b 3 0 0 0 Ankiel cf 4 0 0 0 Posey c 3 0 0 0 Werth rf 4 0 0 0 Burrell lf 4 0 0 0 WRams c 3 1 2 0 Huff 1b 3 0 0 0 Dsmnd ss 2 1 1 0 Tejada 3b 3 0 0 0 Morse 1b 3 0 1 1 Fntent ss 3 0 0 0 AdLRc 1b 0 0 0 0 C.Ross rf 3 0 1 0 HrstnJr lf 3 0 1 1 Bmgrn p 2 0 0 0 Bixler 3b 2 0 0 0 Whitsd ph 1 0 0 0 Storen p 0 0 0 0 Affeldt p 0 0 0 0 Grzlny p 3 0 0 0 Cora 3b 0 0 0 0 Totals 29 0 3 0 Totals 28 2 5 2 San Fran 000 000 000—0 Washington 000 000 20x—2 Lob—San Francisco 4, Washington 4. 2b—Rowand (9), W.ramos (5), Hairston Jr. (2). S—F.sanchez, Desmond. H R ER BB SO IP San Francisco Bumgarner L,0-5 7 5 2 2 1 7 1 0 0 0 0 2 Affeldt Washington Grzelanny W,1-2 8 3 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 Storen S,6-6 T—2:02. A—15,342 (41,506).
Braves 6, Brewers 2 Milwaukee Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h bi Weeks 2b 4 0 2 0 Prado lf 4 0 1 0 CGomz cf 3 0 1 0 Heywrd rf 2 1 0 0 Braun lf 4 0 1 0 C.Jones 3b3 1 2 0 Fielder 1b 4 0 0 0 Uggla 2b 3 1 2 0 McGeh 3b 4 1 0 0 Fremn 1b 1 1 0 1 C.Hart rf 4 1 1 0 AlGnzlz ss 4 1 2 3 YBtncr ss 3 0 2 2 McLoth cf 4 0 1 1 Green p 0 0 0 0 D.Ross c 4 1 2 1 Kotsay ph 0 0 0 0 Jurrjns p 3 0 0 0 Nieves c 4 0 0 0 OFlhrt p 0 0 0 0 Gallard p 2 0 0 0 Hinske ph 1 0 0 0 Kintzlr p 0 0 0 0 Kimrel p 0 0 0 0 Brddck p 0 0 0 0 Counsll ss 1 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 7 2 Totals 29 6 10 6 Milwaukee 000 200 000—2 Atlanta 001 004 10x—6 Dp—Milwaukee 3. Lob—Milwaukee 6, Atlanta 6. 2b—C.jones (9), Ale.gonzalez (6). 3b—Y.betancourt (1). Hr—D.ross (3). Sb— Braun (4). Cs—Prado (2). S—C.gomez. Sf— Freeman. IP H R ER BB SO Milwaukee 9 5 5 4 7 Gallardo L,2-2 5 0 0 0 0 0 Kintzler 11⁄3 1 ⁄3 1 1 1 2 0 Braddock 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Green Atlanta 7 2 2 0 4 Jurrjens W,3-0 72⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 O’flaherty H,4 Kimbrel 1 0 0 0 1 2 Gallardo pitched to 5 batters in the 6th. T—2:37. A—14,126 (49,586).
West’s Kennedy qualifies From staff reports
West Rowan’s Jake Kennedy shot a 73 to claim third overall in the state 3A Midwest regional on Monday. The performance qualified Kennedy for the state individual championship. “Jake competed for a while,” West coach Mary Ann Martinelli said. “He’s a very positive player.”
Prep tennis The first round of the prep tennis dual team playoffs will be played today. In 2A, Salisbury (17-1) is home against West Stanly (11-1). The winner advances to play the NewtonConover-Pisgah winner on May 10. Newton-Conover is still unbeaten. In 3A, West Rowan (11-4) travels to Forestview (10-1). The winner advances to play the Hickory-Hickory Ridge winner on May 10. Wild-card entry East Rowan (8-6) is at Morganton Freedom (10-6) in the first round. The winner advances to a May 10 matchup with the AshevilleWest Henderson winner.
Prep track The CCC Track Meet is set for Salisbury on Wednesday. Action starts at 2 p.m. Two of the state’s top sprinters — Salisbury’s Romar Morris and Lexington’s James Drummond — will compete.
Prep baseball The F&M Bank Classic announced its all-tournament team after the completion of a three-day, 12-game, eightteam round robin tournament played at Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium. Named to the team were South Rowan’s Eric Tyler, Carson’s Mitch Galloway, East Rowan’s Luke Thomas, West Rowan’s Hunter Teeter, Mount Pleasant’s Grayson Atwood and Anthony Allende, Jay M. Robinson’s Brody Koerner and Dillon Ashburn, A.L. Brown’s Dylan May and Caleb Jackson, and Northwest Cabarrus’ Corey Seager and Weston Smith. Mount Pleasant was the only team to go 3-0 during the tournament. Top-seeded Northwest Cabarrus won a thriller against No. 8 seed A.L. Brown in the first round of the SPC tournament on Monday. Jarrin Hogue’s walkoff homer lifted the Trojans to a 5-4 victory. Rob Bain (9-1) allowed a three-run homer but battled back to pitch a complete game. “We pitched Rob because we just felt like it was super important for us to get back on track,” Northwest coach Joe Hubbard said. “We had lost three out of four going in.” Hogue also had a key hit to start Northwest’s three-run rally in the sixth. The loss ended the season for the Wonders. In other first-round SPC tournament games played on Monday, No. 4 Robinson beat No. 5 Cox Mill 8-4; No. 3 Mount Pleasant topped No. 6 Central Cabarrus 13-3, and No. 2 Hickory Ridge whipped No. 7 Concord 10-4. Semifinal action will be staged on Wednesday at Northwest Cabarrus, with red-hot Mount Pleasant taking on Hickory Ridge at 4:30, and the Trojans battling Robinson at 7 p.m. A play-in game for the league’s No. 5 playoff seed between Central Cabarrus and Cox Mill will be necessary. The teams split in the regular season and tied in the standings. In a YVC first-round game on Monday, No. 4 Albemarle outlasted No. 5 East Montgomery 12-11 on the strength of a walkoff homer. Albemarle plays against top-seeded North Rowan today in a 4:30 semifinal at West Montgomery. The CPC tournaments gets started today at North Davidson with the 4 vs. 5 and 3 vs. 6 games.
Top-seeded Davie joins the action on Wednesday. NPC semifinal matchups are set for Wednesday at West Iredell. Top-seeded East Rowan takes on South Rowan at 4:15 p.m., while West Rowan meets West Iredell at 7 p.m. West Iredell was a 25-1 winner against Statesville on Monday. West Rowan has to win the tournament to make the state playoffs. The state playoffs are scheduled to begin on May 13. Salisbury goes into tonight’s CCC contest at East Davidson in a three-way tie for second. The Golden Eagles, the Hornets and Central Davidson are all 6-3 in the league. Central Davidson takes on firstplace West Davidson tonight. Bryson Shepherd and Drew Kelly each had two RBIs as North Hills defeated Salem Baptist 5-3 on Monday. Kelly got the go-ahead hit in the top of the seventh on a two-run double. Trent Gobble had a well-rounded day with 32⁄3 innings on the mound and three hits at the plate for the Eagles.
Prep girls soccer West Rowan fell 3-2 at Cox Mill Monday night in a non-conference road match. Cox Mill’s Paige Doyle scored the eventual game-winner midway through the second half to make it 31. Toni Lucente scored on a pass from Allison Baucom with 13 minutes left. “We didn’t get the result we wanted tonight, but it showed me a few things we can work on going into North Iredell,” West coach Nick Brown said. The Falcons (15-2, 11-0) travel to NPC foe North Iredell on Wednesday.
Pro baseball Hickory’s Christian Villanueva hit a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to hand the Kannapolis Intimidators their third walkoff loss in four games in a 3-2 decision played in Hickory on Monday night. Villanueva had his second walkoff hit of the series off reliever Steven Upchurch. In his first start of the season, Kannapolis’ Paul Burnside tossed six innings and allowed two unearned runs on two hits while striking out four. Hickory starter Matt Thompson matched Burnside, allowing no earned runs. Kannapolis (14-10) wraps up the series with Hickory today.
Legion baseball The South Rowan American Legion team will begin its season on Saturday, May 28, with a non-league game against High Point. South begins its conference slate on June 1 at Stanly County and faces a stretch of four road games in four days. South’s first home conference game will come against Mooresville on June 6.
Middle school baseball Omar Bautista struck out 11 to lead West Rowan in a 8-6 win against previously unbeaten Mooresville. Juan Garcia had three hits and Margarito Romero scored two runs for the Bulldogs. West (8-2) faces Mooresville again on the road today.
NCHSAA honors Albemarle’s Nat Dunlap and Tarboro’s Kearra Brinson will be recognized on Thursday in Chapel Hill as Clary Award winners for being the state’s top student-athletes. Both will receive scholarships. Brinson is a volleyball, basketball and track athlete. Dunlap plays football, basketball and baseball for the Bulldogs. The quarterback was MVP of the 1AA football state championship game.
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Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Suspended minor league RHP Andrew Doyle (Myrtle Beach-Carolina) 50 games for a second drug violation. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Activated RHP Chris Jakubauskas from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Norfolk (IL).
Fox tackles questions from fans DENVER (AP) — Broncos coach John Fox spoke with candor and clarity on all things except his quarterback situation in a conference call with season ticket holders. Fielding a stream of questions on an array of topics Monday, Fox was asked more than once about his plans for Tim Tebow & Co., with the new coach divulging little more insight than, “I feel good about our depth at quarterback.” The teleconference with around 6,500 ticket holders was all part of the Broncos’ plan to engage its fan base after a franchise-worst 4-12 season that led to the firing of Josh McDaniels. John Elway, the Broncos’ chief of football operations, and general manager Brian Xanders participated in an earlier call, while commissioner Roger Goodell is scheduled to chat soon. And while many of the season ticket holders on the call also cared about Fox’s impressions of the draft, his thoughts on donning orange jerseys more often in the future and the team’s plans for aging veteran Brian Dawkins, the status of Tebow re-
mained a hot topic. The former Heisman Trophy winner out of Florida is in the running for the starting job along with Kyle Orton and Brady Quinn. The Broncos list Orton atop the depth chart but say nothing is guaranteed. One caller phrased his question something like this: Orton was limited, while Tebow brought more spice — agree? “I think they’re all capable,” Fox said. “No matter what the position, we try to create competition and may the best man win. As far as even fighting for starting jobs, guys are going to have to compete and do it consistently. That’s the guy that’s going to get the ball on Sunday. “I have great respect for all of them. I see the excitement and enthusiasm in Tim. ... I think we have a competitive situation at quarterback.” Another fan asked if he’d ever consider trading Tebow. “You’re always looking to improve your football team. But that hasn’t been a remote possibility at this point,” Fox said.
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Gonzalez gets big hit third inning before the Braves knocked Gallardo The National League (2-2) out of the game in the roundup ... sixth. Gonzalez cleared the ATLANTA— Chipper bases with his double before Jones said it might have tak- scoring on a single by Nate en a little more than a big hit McLouth. from Alex Gonzalez, a The four runs Gallardo alstrong start from Jair Jurlowed in the sixth matched rjens and a homer from his total allowed over 371⁄3 innings in his first five starts backup catcher David Ross for the Braves to finally beat against the Braves. "He's been scuffling a litYovani Gallardo. tle as of late," said Jones, Jones kidded a little who had two hits. witchcraft might have been Jurrjens appears to be involved. gaining momentum. Gonzalez hit a three-run Jurrjens (3-0) gave up two double to give Atlanta the runs on seven hits and no lead and the Braves finally solved Gallardo, beating the walks in 7 2/3 innings. He had four strikeouts as he Milwaukee Brewers 6-2 on continues his comeback Monday night. from a frustrating 2010 seaGallardo began the day son shortened by injuries. 3-0 with a 0.96 ERA in five "It's not so much what I'm career starts against Atdoing, I'm just pain-free," Julanta, including a two-hit shutout in a 1-0 win on April rrjens said. Nationals 2, Giants 0 5 in Milwaukee. WASHINGTON — Tom "We snapped the head off Gorzelanny allowed only a chicken and, I don't know, three hits in eight sharp inexorcised a demon," said nings against a struggling Jones joking around. San Francisco lineup, and Ross hit a homer in the Associated Press
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Braves shortstop Alex Gonzalez drives in three runs with an rBi double in the sixth inning. Michael Morse and Jerry Hairston Jr. drove in runs for Washington, helping the Nationals beat the Giants 2-0 Monday on Military Appreciation Night. Marlins 6, Cardinals 5 ST. LOUIS — Mike Stanton hit a tying home run in the fifth inning and tripled and scored the go-ahead run in the eighth to lift Florida.
Astros-Reds ppd CINCINNATI — Homer Bailey will get to avoid one more minor league start and return to the Reds' rotation this week, thanks to the wet weather. A forecast of steady rain all night prompted the Reds to postpone their game against the Houston Astros on Monday, more than three hours before the scheduled start.
It took awhile, but Pedroia lifts Red Sox to win Associated Press
The American League roundup ... BOSTON — Dustin Pedroia fouled off nine pitches in a 13-pitch at-bat against Jered Weaver before lining a go-ahead, two-run single that helped the Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels 95 on Monday night. The loss was Weaver's first of the season. Weaver (6-1), who was scratched Sunday due to a stomach virus, gave up three runs, six hits, struck out six and walked one over six innings. Weaver failed to become the first pitcher since 1891 to go 7-0 by May 2 or
sooner. Athletics 5, Rangers 4, 10 innings OAKLAND, Calif. — Hideki Matsui hit the first pitch of the 10th inning from Darren Oliver into the right-field seats to lift the Athletics. Grant Balfour (2-1) walked three batters in the top of the 10th to load the bases for pinch-hitter Yorvit Torrealba, who struck out on the right-hander's 30th pitch. Yankees 5, Tigers 3 DETROIT — Nick Swisher hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth off closer Jose Valverde and New York handed Detroit its seventh straight defeat. The Tigers rallied from a 3-0 deficit, ty-
ing it in the seventh on Alex Avila's second solo home run of the night, but the Yankees broke through in their last at-bat against Valverde (2-1). With runners on first and second and one out, Swisher singled up the middle and Mark Teixeira scored from second with a slide. Alex Rodriguez added another run when he scored. White Sox 6, Orioles 2 CHICAGO — Paul Konerko homered twice and Mark Buehrle pitched 6 2⁄3 scoreless innings to help Chicago snap a five-game slide. Konerko hit a two-run home run and a solo shot for the White Sox.
CHICAGO — Joe Johnson scored 34 Hawks 103 points and Bulls 95 the Atl a n t a Hawks beat Derrick Rose and the top-seeded Chicago Bulls 103-95 on Monday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. As if the loss itself wasn't bad enough, the Bulls got a major scare when Rose came up limping at the end of the game. Their MVP candidate stepped on Jamal Crawford's foot as he dribbled out the final seconds and was helped off by teammates and a trainer. The Hawks went on a 152 run that bridged the third and fourth quarters to turn a 69-65 deficit into an 80-71 lead with 10:27 remaining. Johnson hit three 3-pointers and scored 11 points during that stretch, and the Hawks hung on. Game 2 is Wednesday night at the United Center. Johnson was brilliant, hitting 12 of 18 shots and all five 3-point attempts. Crawford scored 22 points and Jeff Teague added 10 while starting at the point for the injured Kirk Hinrich. The Hawks shot 51.3 percent against one of the league's stingiest defenses. As alarming as that was, though, the sight of Rose limping off sent a real shiver through Chicago. The Bulls simply can't afford to lose him if they're going to keep this run going, even though it wasn't his best night. He scored 24 points after a slow start but was just 11 of 27 from the field.
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Joe Johnson lit up chicago for 34 points. Luol Deng scored 21 points for Chicago while Carlos Boozer added 14 points and eight rebounds despite a turf toe injury on his right foot. But it was a rough night overall for the Bulls. Pushed by Indiana in a tough five-game opening series, they fought through a brutal first quarter to pull within one point at halftime and led by as many as six in the third quarter before this one slipped away. Johnson started the goahead run with two free throws with just under a minute left in the third, and Zaza Pachulia hit two more with less than a second left in the quarter to put the Hawks ahead for good, 72-71. Johnson then hit a 3 off a turnover by Deng to start the fourth. Teague added a floater and Crawford nailed a 3 to make it 80-71.
Duerson had brain damage Associated Press
BOSTON — Dave Duerson, a former NFL player who committed suicide in February, had "moderately advanced" brain damage related to blows to the head, according to the researcher who made the diagnosis. "It's indisputable" that Duerson had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disorder linked to repeated brain trauma, Dr. Ann McKee said Monday. The findings were announced as part of an effort conducted by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University's School of Medicine. The CSTE Brain Bank has the brains of more than 70 athletes, with football players comprising more than half of the athletes. Duerson played safety in the NFL for 11 seasons, seven with the Chicago Bearsbefore retiring in 1993. "Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease," McKee said, "and he has severe involvement of all the (brain) structures that affect things like judgment, inhibition, impulse control, mood and memory." The body of Duerson, who was 50, was found in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., on Feb. 17. He left a note asking that his brain be given to the NFL's Brain Bank. He shot himself in the chest, "presumably" to preserve his brain for study, said Chris Nowinski, co-director of the CSTE.
NFL MINNEAPOLIS — With its players again barred from work, the NFL told a federal appeals court Monday the fight over whether the lockout is legal won't get in the way of the 2011 season. The rest of the labor fight? That's anyone's guess. The league filed an 18-page brief with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, arguing that the lockout should remain in effect permanently while appeals play out. • NEW YORK — Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers and New York Jets coach Rex Ryan were honored Monday by the Pro Football Writers of America. Rodgers, who led Green Bay to the title, won the Good Guy Award given to the player that best helped the media do their job. Ryan got the Horrigan Award as the non-player who most helped the media do their job in 2010. The colorful coach makes headlines with almost everything he does,
from predicting his team will win the Super Bowl to a starring role in "Hard Knocks" during the 2010 training camp.
NBA DEERFIELD, Ill. — Tom Thibodeau waited about two decades to become an NBA head coach. It didn't take him long to be recognized as one of the best. Thibodeau was selected the NBA's Coach of the Year after leading the Chicago Bulls to 62 wins in his first season to tie a league record set by Paul Westphal. • NEW YORK — The NBA attracted plenty of attention all offseason, and that's carried over into the real games. Those months of free-agent intrigue fed into robust television ratings in the regular season and now into the playoffs. Viewership for the first round was up 30 percent from last year.
GRETZKY’S CARD LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — The Great One is still setting records. Wayne Gretzky's NHL rookie card earned $94,163 at an online sports memorabilia auction. SCP Auctions says that's the highest price ever paid for a hockey card.
COLLEGE HOOPS LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — The original center court jump circle from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion netted $325,085 at auction. SCP Auctions said it's the most someone has ever paid for any piece of college basketball memorabilia. The 12-foot jump circle was used from 1965 to 1982 by the men's teams that won eight national championships and the women's team that won the 1978 national title. Former UCLA coach John Wooden and some of his greatest players, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton, signed the piece while it was in storage.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State has confirmed that linebacker Dorian Bell has been suspended for the 2011 season for a violation of team rules. The Buckeyes will already be without five players for the first five games for accepting improper benefits, with a sixth — linebacker Jordan Whiting — missing the opener for the same reason. In addition, coach Jim Tressel will sit out the first five games for failing to report his knowledge of the players' actions.
Bruins take 2-0 lead after OT victory Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — David Krejci scored 14:00 into overtime, Tim Thomas was phenomenal in net, and the Boston Bruins beat Philadelphia 3-2 on Monday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series. Thomas stopped 46 straight shots after the Flyers took a quick 2-0 lead. The series now shifts to Boston for the next two games on Wednesday and Friday. Krejci fired a one-timer from one knee off the back off the net and back onto the ice. Play continued until officials could review
the call. But the goal was clearly good. "At first I thought it was in. Then they kept playing," Krejci said. James van Riemsdyk had a breakout game for the Flyers. He scored two goals and was all over the ice trying to help the Flyers win at least one at home. Instead, they have to rally from another deficit. Chris Kelly and Brad Marchand also scored for the Bruins, who have taken a seemingly commanding lead on the Flyers for the second straight year. Boston led 3-0 in the East semis a year ago before the Flyers won four straight to advance.
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As a giant U.s. flag drops across the left field wall, Boston red sox pause for a moment of silence prior to facing the Los Angeles Angels in a baseball game in Boston. ing to be quite an emotional week for a lot of people — baseball being one of them, playing America’s sport FroM 1B here.” with pride about what took Tweeted tennis star Andy place last night.” Roddick: “Words cannot do As part of Military Appre- justice to the amount of ciation Night, military perthanks we should bestow sonnel were allowed to reupon those whose life misceive up to four free tickets; sion it is to keep the world a member of the Army safe. Thank you.” threw out the ceremonial Rory McIlroy, the 21first pitch; a member of the year-old golfer from NorthNavy sang the National Anern Ireland, posted on Twitthem; two red Coast Guard ter: “Bye bye bin Laden!! helicopters did a flyover be- Good riddance I say!!” fore first pitch; and other “The biggest thing I’m uniformed military personhappy for is that the troops nel jogged out as if to play that were in there all came defense position before beback in one piece. That’s ing joined by the real dangerous. That’s the No. 1 ballplayers. thing,” Atlanta Braves manIn addition to meeting ager Fredi Gonzalez said. baseball players, some memAll over ballparks and bers of the military in atten- arenas, there were sights, dance also got to shake signs and sounds it was an hands with NASCAR driver extraordinary day. Kyle Busch, who was at the A day after Phillies fans stadium. shouted “USA! USA!” when “It’s funny how things the news spread during the work out sometimes: The New York Mets-Philadelphia day after we take down one game at Citizens Bank Park, of the biggest individual ter- Flyers rooters echoed the rorists in the world, we can chant before the NHL playcome out here and kind of off matchup against the celebrate it,” Washington Boston Bruins. pitcher Tyler Clippard said. At Fenway Park, a large “For it to fall on the day afAmerican flag was draped ter is sort of ironic.” over the 37-foor Green MonWhile Washington’s play- ster before Boston hosted ers are used to being in the the Los Angeles Angels. nation’s capital, of course, Members of the military the Giants were excited to lined up along the warning be in town — they toured the track in front of the wall and Supreme Court before Mon- helped carry the flag off the day’s game. After playing field. four games in Washington at The Red Sox and Angels a historic time, they now stood along the foul lines in open a three-game series at for a moment a silence to the New York Mets on Tues- honor the 9-11 victims and day. those who have been killed “We’re in our nation’s fighting for the country. The capital here, and we get that PA announcer also asked kind of news, and now we’re fans to thank those who have off to New York — Ground risked their lives. Zero,” San Francisco pitcher Bin Laden’s death drew Brian Wilson said. “It’s goreaction from a trio of Yan-
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kees who were with the team when the terrorist attacks occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. “All I said was, ‘Justice,’” closer Mariano Rivera said. “Justice prevailed. You do something like that, somewhere along the way, you’re going to pay, and this was the time.” Said longtime star Jorge Posada: “I’m happy for the city of New York. I think the firemen and the policemen, and everything that we went through. I think this is one of those steps that we needed to cross, and it’s good to see.” Captain Derek Jeter said he was in “disbelief” when he heard the news. “I don’t know if this puts closure. I’m sure there’s no closure to someone losing a relative or a loved one, but in some sense I guess it is, from what I’ve seen in a lot of the interviews with people that lost family members. It sort of brings some closure to it. Not total closure, but some,” he said. New York Jets coach Rex Ryan said he was watching “Celebrity Apprentice” with his wife Sunday night when NBC broke into the program to announce Obama was about to address the country. “That thing came across,” Ryan said Monday, “and I thought, ‘Whoa, this must be some big news here.” The Jets open their season — if there is one this year with the NFL lockout currently in place — at home on the night of Sept. 11 against the Dallas Cowboys. Ryan said it’s an honor to play that night, especially since so many fans who were personally affected will be at the game. “Quite honestly,” he said, “I was happy we got him.”
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Sports are a roller coaster of emotion that ranges from excitement to despair, hope, disappointment, happiness and well, you get the point. At any sports event the type of emotion being experienced at any given moment depends on a wide variety of happenings. Is your team winning or losing? Did your favorite player do something good or bad? Is the game on the line? Watching a sporting event can be taxing emotionally for a fan, and even more so for an athlete. The easiest emotion to deal with is winning. Who doesn’t feel good about being on the winning side? I’ll take the feeling you get from winning any day. And how about the player who makes a great play. Have you ever heard someone who just made a great play get up and say, “It was no big deal really, I do that all the time.” Positives on the field are what generates momentum and turns games and even seasons around. As a fan, you just seem to have that little bit of extra bounce to your step when your team wins. Your day seems to go better and it takes a little bit more to push your button. Winning puts fans in the seats too, and that puts a smile on the face of anyone who has to deal with the cost of an athletic program. As a player, winning just solidifies the hard work and time you have put in. As a coach it validates your decisions and everything else you have done to get to this point. Believe me, as a coach, food tastes better, sleep is sounder and the little things are much more tolerable after winning. Not every emotion at a sporting event is a lasting emotion. That’s why sometimes after a game some fans feel like they just played every second of the contest. In a matter of seconds you can run through a plethora of emotion. Your team is up one in the bottom of the ninth, the other team has a man on first with two outs. The batter hits one that’s headed for the left field seats. Your heart drops and the other teams’ fans go crazy. At the last second the left fielder jumps, you hold your breath. As he comes back down to the ground he holds up his glove and shows the ball. Your team wins and you cheer wildly. The other team’s fans collapse in there seats, disappointment written all over there faces. Do that sever-
al times during the course of a game and you’re thinking about taking the next day off from work just to rest up. For players, the fast pace changing of emotion and being able to handle that change is the key to being successful; both individually and as a team. Failing is a bitter pill to swallow, but in sports failing is as common as a gas price increase. Being able to bounce back from failure is the only way to insure future success. As a coach, the emotions are what drive us. Winning (and fear of losing) are great motivators, but the exhilaration you get from watching a player succeed and knowing what all went into that moment is what makes coaching worthwhile. The same is true for the players and there families I know, but the thing that makes it more intense for a coach is the thatunlike a player, parent or fan, a coach experiences it with every member of the team, often at the same time. One player may be having a great day, making all the plays and enjoying success. But another player on your team may be having a miserable day; making mistakes and having nothing go right for them. As a coach you are happy for the player who is doing well but the player that isn’t having the best of days hangs heavy on your heart. And the hardest part of all this is not letting on just how happy or sad you are, especially during the course of the game. There are times when you have to correct a player in a manner that isn’t always welcomed, but in reality you would like to console them. After all, you are the one responsible for preparing each athlete for competition, and their failure feels like your own failure. But it’s not a love feast during the heat of a game and too much consoling leads to feeling sorry for yourself and can lead to accepting failure, so as coaches we bury feelings and do our job. Emotions are what make the game fun. Positive emotions of course are preferable to negative ones but if we never experienced the negative ones we wouldn’t enjoy the positive ones nearly as much. Be happy, be sad, be excited, be disappointed, but always enjoy it. It’s a break from the everyday realities of life. You know, the ones where emotions really count, and the results can be life changing. Scott Maddox writes the blog Game Time for the Salisbury Post. Read all of his blogs at: www.salisburypost.com/blogs/gametime/
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West Rowan’s Patrick Hampton dives back into the base as Carson first-baseman Kyle Bridgfes waits for the throw from Ethan Free.
WEST FROM 1B “It would’ve been nice to have played like this all year,” smiling West coach Chad Parker said. “That’s the most complete effort we’ve had. Whatever Carson did, we didn’t let it hurt us. We just kept making good plays.” Parker expects a complete game from Miller every time he hands him the ball, and Miller often delivers. He’d come close to beating Carson twice, going the distance but losing 6-5 and 5-4 in eight innings. “Miller’s a quality guy,” Cauble said. “It seems like he’s thrown 5 million pitches against us, and he pitched well enough to have won all three games. He mixed it up, inside and outside. He kept us off-balance.” Teeter’s double and Osborne’s RBI single put the Falcons (5-19) on the board in the first inning. Kyle Youngo singled and scored to tie it 1-1 in the bottom half. Carson, playing without injured shortstop Gunnar Hogan (his MRI is now set for today), turned two early double plays to help starting pitcher Ethan Free, but West’s huge
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The Cougars hope for a comeback by wearing their rally caps. fourth inning proved decisive. Free hit two batters to start that inning, and Patrick Hampton scored from second in an infield error. Consecutive solid hits by Chase Laing, Teeter and Taylor Garczynski were followed by a wild pitch by reliever Austin Bracewell and kept a merrygo-round on the bases spinning. Osborne capped the six-run flurry with a sac fly. Staked to a 7-1 lead, Miller wasn’t going to let this one get away.
“Knowing it was do-or-die was the main thing,” Miller said. “That got to all of us, and that’s why we finally beat them.” West hung on despite two doubles apiece by Carson’s Kyle Bridges and Tripp Cross and a strong relief effort by Bracewell, who quieted West in the fifth, sixth and seventh. Cross had entered the game as an injury replacement in right field for Sam Williams. Joseph Basinger smashed a long,
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two-run homer in the fifth to cut West’s lead to 7-3, but a fine catch deep down the left-field line by Steven Wetmore helped Miller get though the inning. “Just a great catch, and when guys are making plays like that, a pitcher wants to keep making good pitches,” Parker said. second Cross’ wicked double led to a Carson run in the sixth. Youngo’ sac fly got him home, and it was 7-4. But Miller cruised through a 1-2-3 seventh. Teeter, the young shortstop, smoothly fielded a CROSS grounder and fired to Osborne at first to end the game. “At this point, there’s not much you can say as far as inspirational speeches,” said Hampton, West’s senior center fielder. “We all knew if we couldn’t put seven innings together, this was our last time. We challenged every guy to put seven together, and we did it. Now we get seven more.” The Falcons play in a semifinal vs. tourney host West Iredell at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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W. Rowan 100 600 0 — 7 Carson 100 021 0 — 4 E — Teeter 2, Wetmore, Martin. DP — Carson 2. LOB — West 5, Carson 8. 2B — Teeter, Garczynski, Cross 2, KBridges 2. S — KBridges, Teeter. SF — Youngo, Osborne. IP H R ER BB K W. Rowan Miller W 7 8 4 3 3 5 Carson Free L, 6-4 31⁄3 6 7 5 1 4 Bracewell 32⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 WP — Miller, Bracewell 2. HBP — by Free (Evans 2, Osborne, Hampton), by Miller (Williams).
So. Rowan 11, No. Iredell 1 (5 inn.) NORTH IREDELL ab r h Gibson cf 2 0 0 White 3b 3 1 2 Davis ss 2 0 1 Hartns 2b 2 0 0 Dyson dh 1 0 0 Gregory rf 0 0 0 Speight lf 2 0 0 Sloan 1b 2 0 0 Jordan p 2 0 1 Sharpe c 2 0 1 Totals 18 1 5
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SOUTH ROWAN ab r h bi Gdmn ss 3 1 2 3 Kwclyk cf 4 1 1 1 Tyler c 4 1 2 1 Dietz 3b 3 1 1 0 Miller lf 3 2 2 0 Deasn dh1 2 0 1 Corher rf 0 0 0 0 Pengr 1b 3 2 3 1 Parker p 2 0 0 0 Hubrd 2b 3 1 3 4 Totals 26 11 1411
N. Iredell 100 00x x — 1 S. Rowan 030 17x x — 11 E — Kowalczyk, White, Sloan. LOB — North Iredell 4, South Rowan 5. 2B — Tyler. SB — Kowalcyzk. CS — Sharpe. S — Deason, Parker. SF — Goodman, Deason. IP H R ER BB K N. Iredell Jordan, L 42⁄3 13 11 7 0 3 Weibley 0 1 0 0 0 0 S. Rowan Parker, W 5 5 1 1 1 5 WP — Jordan. HBP — Parker (Dyson).
N. Rowan 19, S. Davidson 3 (5 inns) SOUTH DAVIDSON ab r h Hnlne cf 3 1 1 Blkmn ss 3 1 1 Carroll 2b 1 0 0 Hedrick rf 2 0 0 Pcock 1b 2 0 1 Morsn 3b 2 0 0 Collins p 2 1 0 2 0 1 Hill lf Crowell c 1 0 0 Wood ph 1 0 0
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200 01 — 3 S. Davidson 266 5x — 19 N. Rowan E — Hanneline 2, Blackmon 2, Hedrick, Hill, Crowell, Wyatt, Fries. DP — North Rowan. LOB — South Davidson 2, North Rowan 1. 2B — Barker, Brown, Mauldin. 3B — Blackmon. SB — Brown, Wyatt, P.Smith, Mauldin, J.Smith. S — Jennings.
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Carson’s Joseph Basinger blasted a homer during the loss to West.
SOUTH FROM 1B finished 3 for 3 with four RBIs. Preston Penninger also had three hits, while Dylan Goodman, Eric Tyler and Matt Miller each contributed two. "We just hit the ball," Hubbard said simply. "We attacked the ball well." Parker allowed just five hits, struck out five and walked only one. After surrenduring a run in the first, he cruised through the next three innings and then got help from his defense in the fifth when Tyler threw out two runners on the bases. "Dylan did great on the mound," Chrismon said. "I think his curveball was probably the best it's been all year and that helped out. He's been working really hard and I felt like tonight he looked a lot more confident." Before putting the big number on the board in the fifth, South chipped away at North starter Clint Jordan with solid fundamental execution. A sacrifice bunt by Cory Deason in the second led to a North error and opened the door to a threerun inning as Penninger and Hubbard followed with RBI singles and Goodman added a sacrifice fly. In the fourth, Deason reached on an error, Penninger singled and Parker moved them up with a bunt. Deason then scored on an infield single by Hubbard. "That was key early," Chrismon said. "We were doing the good situational hitting. Later on we were still doing the little things and then we got the big hit." They got plenty of them, actually, in the fifth. Tyler and Jacob Dietz got it started with solid singles and Miller beat out a chopper to short to load the bases. Deason's sacrifice fly scored one and Penninger's popup dropped down the left-field
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Madison Osborne had a hit and two RBIs for West Rowan.
line to reload the bases. Two batters later, Hubbard plated two with a single to left to make it 7-1. "Parker's been working really hard in practice to get to where he's feeling in a groove with the bat and he had some big hits tonight and drove in some runs and that was good for us," Chrismon said. "We need to be as tough one through HUBBARD nine as we can if we're going to be successful in the postseason." The Raiders then got a break when a grounder by Goodman took a bad hop off the edge of the grass and got past shortstop Zack Davis, allowing two more runs to score. An RBI single by Tyler Kowalczyk knocked Jordan out of the game and Tyler hit a double to rightcenter just out of the reach of leaping PENNINGER right fielder Colby Gregory to bring in the 11th and final run. "You've got make sure when you get in the postseason that you get the timely hits, Chrismon said. "The first part of the game I thought we weren't getting that timely hit. Later in the game we were getting it and were able to put a big number on the board." The big inning saved Parker - or perhaps a reliever - from more work on the mound, which may come in handy when the Raiders face East on Wednesday, and perhaps beyond. Both of South's losses to the Mustangs were tight so certainly the Raiders are looking forward to another chance. The semifinal meeting with be played at West Iredell at 4 p.m. "It's been the close the past two times so we're ready for another shot at them," Hubbard said.
NORTH FROM 1B third while jogging around the bases. Following an appeal, Morrison was ruled out. Moments later, an irate South Davidson fan was ejected from the premises by one of the umpires. “It would have been (Morrison’s) first home run,” said losing coach Matt Kiser, planted in the third-base coach’s box at the time. “I was watching, but it was way too close to call. Still, I can’t fault the ump for that call.” North had plenty of witnesses. “(Wesley) Barker saw it, Dusty (Agner) saw it, half of them saw it,” said Rimer. “He just missed the base. It’s the second time this year someone has done that against us. I don’t know how you do that.” Kiser tried to explain the gaffe. “Morrison hits the ball hard all the time,” he said. “He just doesn’t hit home runs. It makes me sick. I should have made him come back, but it was just so close.” Jennings, who allowed two first-inning runs and hits to the first two SD batters, settled down and struck out the side in the top of the third. He finished with six strikeouts and one walk in his third start of the spring. “Because I don’t pitch a lot, I was just trying to throw strikes,” said the junior lefty. “I tried to keep the ball down, throw a lot of offspeed stuff and keep mixing it up.”
IP H R ER BB K S. Davidson Collins L,0-2 2/3 5 4 2 0 0 Blackmon 3 1/3 7 15 11 2 7 N. Rowan Jennings W,2-0 3 2 2 2 1 6 Blume 1 1 0 0 0 0 Holshouser 1 1 1 0 0 0 WP — Blackmon 5. HBP — by Blackmon (Brown, Barker, J.Smith). PB — Crowell 3, Hanneline. BK — Collins. T — 1:36.
Rimer was more than pleased. “He did a great job,” the coach said. “Those two early runs — he didn’t hang his head about them. He reacted well to it.” By the fourth inning Jennings was back home in center MAULDIN field as relievers Tyler Blume and Travis Holshouser closed it out. Matt Mauldin was North’s top hitter, collecting three hits and five RBIs. Teammate Tyler Wyatt knocked in three runs while Dakota Brown, Bark- WYATT er, Mauldin and Jake Smith each scored three times. “We just came out focused,” said Mauldin, the Cavs’ RBI leader with 37. “Our hitting is so strong — and it’s contagious. As soon as the first guy gets a hit, everybody wants one.” • NOTES: Albemarle (12-8) advanced with a 12-11 first-round win over East Montgomery. ... South Davidson reliever Aaron Blackmon, who spelled starter Wil Collins in the second inning, threw five wild pitches and hit three batters. ... Mauldin had a tworun single in the last of the fourth, but wound up circling the bases when a South outfielder misplayed the ball.
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Above: On undeveloped Botany Bay Beach on the Botany Bay Plantation, trees still grow in a forest on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. The only access to the beach is a half mile hike through the wetland marsh path. Below: Big Brown pelicans fly over the marsh looking for food.
DISTO ISLAND, SC — The island has been called “blissful.” It has been called “a hidden treasure.” It has been called “the way the South Carolina coast looked 60 or 70 years ago before commercialization.” I would call it a quiet paradise, decked in simple natural beauty, with a very historical flavor stirred into the stewpot. Looking at beautiful elements of nature like trees, bodies of water, plants, and animals sometimes don’t look their best if we single them out one by one. When we mix the natural elements together with their natural surroundings and show some of the setting, the parts become more interesting and beautiful. This is true of Edisto Island. As a visitor you need to absorb all the elements together. Located about an hour south of Charleston, the Edistow Indians lived here first. The Spanish priests came in the 1500s followed by the English in the 1600s. The English cultivated the land with crops of rice and indigo. By WAYNE the 1700s the crops had changed HINSHAW to sea-island cotton known for its fine silky texture. With the African slave laborers and their skills, the islanders became very wealthy while establishing fine plantations. When the islanders evacuated to Charleston during the Civil War, Union troops occupied the island and plantations.
Returning after the war, John Townsend was able to restore the Bleak Hall and Sea Cloud plantations and grow sea-island cotton again. In the 1920s the boll weevil infestation wiped out the cotton for good. Wealthy Birmingham, Ala. philanthropist, John E. Meyer, acquired the 4,687 acres of Bleak Hall and Sea Cloud plantations. He had acquired his wealth in the hotel industry. At his death in 1977, he willed the land to the state of S.C. with the understanding that his wife would have lifetime rights to the live on the property. In July, 2008 the new Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area and Heritage Preserve opened to the public.
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Forest Loop Trail, this wild vine looks like a piece of art with special showcase lighting. The light brings out the texture of the leaves and the delicate spider web on the branch. Right: The 1800s ice house stands on the grounds of Bleak Hall Plantation which is now part of the Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve. It is Gothic Revival architecture and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The honor society acquired the duty of maintaining 13 West Range in 1907, and the room has undergone changes over the years to make it resemble student rooms when Poe lived there. The room was renovated again in the 1950s to remove a mantel and closets that were added after 1826. Poe enrolled at U.Va. in February 1826, not long after Thomas Jefferson founded the school, and professors quickly recognized his academic excellence. At the time, there were 177 students, and their rooms all lined the university’s Lawn and Range, U.Va. officials said. The 17-year-old student became active in university life, including becoming a member of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, and entertaining friends in his room with dramatic readings of short stories that bore the hallmarks of his later writings. But his time in Charlottesville didn’t last, as he was plagued with financial difficulties caused in part by his foster father’s refusal to cover all his expenses, and in part by heavy gambling. He withdrew permanently from the school that December. He published his first works, “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” in 1827. Poe is credited with writing the first modern detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” which appeared in 1841 in Graham’s Magazine, where Poe worked as an editor. It became the template for other writers’ mystery stories, including the Sherlock Holmes works. Other Poe works include “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” which have frightened generations of readers and reflected his struggles with depression, difficulties with drinking and the loss of key figures in his life. Those struggles worsened, and he died at the age of 40.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An honor society that bears the name of one of Edgar Allan Poe’s major works is planning to renovate the room where the renowned poet and mystery writer lived during his short stint as a student at the University of Virginia. The Raven Society won a $15,500 grant from an endowment established by the U.Va. Alumni Association to refurbish Poe’s room at 13 West Range. Work is to begin this summer as part of a broader renovation of a handful of nearby student rooms at the Charlottesville school. Clark Herndon, who just ended his term as the society president, said the project includes refinishing the room’s wood floor, painting, upgrading the lighting, installing a small mantel around the fireplace and replacing a decades-old sound system that plays a recording for visitors about Poe’s 10month stay at the university in 1826. After the renovation is complete, Raven Society members will work with U.Va.’s preservation experts to determine the historical accuracy of the room’s furnishings, which include a bed, a small writing desk, a washbasin and a bust of Pallas — a reference to where Poe’s talking bird perches in “The Raven.” “The leatherbound foot locker, for example, may be replaced with a wooden chest,” said James Zehmer, U.Va.’s historic preservation project manager. “And there’s a chair or two that might not be quite accurate.” The Raven Society was founded in 1904 by 12 original members. After the election of new members each semester, the society conducts a ceremony in Poe’s room that includes the reading of a stanza of “The Raven,” Herndon said. It’s the only time people are allowed in 13 West Range — visitors typically must view the room through a glass door.
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ing children who carried gas masks to school as Hawaii hunkered down for feared follow-on attacks. The USS Arizona Memorial itself didn’t change. To get there, visitors continue to board boats piloted by Navy sailors for a brief ride across the harbor. Once there, they can look down on the rusting hull of the USS Arizona, often seeing see oil droplets that still leak from the battleship. The names of those who died are chiseled into a marble wall. The remains of nearly 1,000 sailors and Marines are entombed on the ship. Martinez said some survivors have understandably wanted to keep the exhibits as more of a shrine or memorial, as opposed to an interpretation of history. But he said it’s important for people to grasp a more complex story. “We have to understand it. Our former enemies are now our closest allies. So how do we reconcile that? Part of reconciling it is trying to tell the story as fair as we can, and allow for those different perspectives to come in there so a broader understanding can take place,” Martinez said. Robert Kinzler, 89, who was a soldier stationed at an Army base north of Pearl Harbor in 1941, said American survivors became more open to reconciliation after their former foes began visiting Hawaii before the 50th anniversary of the attack. “We started getting Japanese pilots to come through and they were willing to answer any and all questions. And the attitudes began to change,” said Kinzler. “There’s two sides to this war.” Dive bomber pilot Zenji
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On undeveloped botany bay beach on the botany bay plantation, trees still grow in a forest on the edge of the atlantic Ocean. the driftwood looks like a sculpture.
You can gather shells on Edisto Island State Park Beach, but on my visit, there were not many shells washFROM 1C ing up. Grouping the Botany Bay In the marshes, a lone Plantation property, the kayaker makes his way up Edisto Island State Park and the waterway. A Giant beach, and the private prop- Egret, casting his shadow, erty owners together creates carefully walks in the water a special place for this time searching for food. Big in our history. No hotels or Brown pelicans drift overmotels are allowed on the head searching the waters island. There are no amuse- then suddenly they drop like ment parks. There is one a bomb into the water for a Piggy Wiggly grocery store fish snack. Small crabs run and two or three restaurants to hide in the black mud of and an ice cream shop. the marsh when I approach. Many of the residences The cabbage palmetto trees, today, African-American and the state tree in South Carwhite, are decedents of the olina, are everywhere lookplantations owners and their ing like giant palm fans castslaves. ing spooky shadows on the The brown and green sea trail paths. Waterfowl with marshes are everywhere. long tall legs and some with The roads are lined with live short legs are in the marshes oaks, loblolly pines and the and the air overheard. Song cabbage palmetto trees birds sing in the tree tops or which provide an umbrella call out warnings that I am over some roads. Patches of approaching. I can’t intersunlight dance on the ground pret “bird talk,” but I can under this heavy tree cover- hear them whistle and chatage. At Botany Bay Beach ter. the sea shells are so deep on The old Gothic Revival the beach you crunch them architecture of the Bleak while walking. It is illegal to Hall Plantation ice house is carry the shells away from amazing. It looks like a tiny the beach. There is a $450 church. The gardener’s shed fine for taking shells. Some with tabby walls has ivy shellers gathered wonderful growing on the door. Most shells and lined them on a likely it is ivy left from the log for the next sheller to Bleak Hall Japanese garden admire. There is a volunteer that once was located behind who sits on the castaway to the shed. These buildings the beach to make sure you do not leave with any shells or driftwood. There is also a surveillance camera mounted high in a tree watching you leave the beach. So don’t take the shells. The erosion on the beach has killed some of the trees as the ocean waves wash up among the trunks on the two miles of undeveloped beach.
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HONOLULU (AP) — Visitors to Hawaii increased 9 percent in the first quarter of 2011 compared to last year despite a decline in arrivals from Japan following the earthquake and tsunami. Japan arrivals plunged nearly 17.9 percent last month compared to March 2010, according to data from the Hawaii Tourism Authority released Thursday. Prior to the earthquake and tsunami, the number of visitors from Japan had increased nine out of the last 10 months since last May. “As expected, Hawaii saw a decline in arrivals from Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11,” tourism authority president and CEO Mike McCartney said. The tourism industry made up for that anticipated loss because of business from other markets, he said. Arrivals from the U.S. mainland and Canada increased from last year despite a drop in spring break visitors. The authority anticipated seeing the full effect of spring break in April, which is when the majority of California schools schedule their breaks. Total visitor spending in Hawaii during the first three months of the year increased 16.9 percent to $3.2 billion compared to the same time last year. Last month’s visitor spending grew 11.8 percent from last March while arrivals increased 4.2 percent. The average daily spending by all visitors last month was $167 per person, a $5 increase from last year.
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the botany bay plantation Wildlife heritage preserve entrance dirt road is lined with giant oak trees forming an umbrella over the road into the jungle-like setting.
a fiddler crab pops up from the marsh sand. the only access to the undeveloped beach at botany bay is a half-mile hike through the wetland marsh path.
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8 summer freebies and activities Place called Hope opens • Local tourism. Google the name of your city plus the word “tourist.” That’s the best way to discover all kinds of wonderful things to do right in your own community — many of them free. This summer, make it a point to visit and enjoy everything on the list. • Get a great hotel deal. Use the Web to research rates, but do not book a room online. In fact, don’t even call hotel’s the generic tollfree reservation line. Instead, call the local number for the MARY exact location HUNT where you will be staying, and ask to speak with the supervisor on duty or the night manager. State your need and the rates you’ve discovered for nearby competing hotels, and then ask for the very best rate the hotel can offer you. Be kind and you just might land a super deal, because this person is more interested in filling rooms than getting the hotel-published rate that you’d get from the reservation line. • Vacation every day. You don’t have to actually go away to get away. And you don’t
need a lot of time, either. In fact, you can take a oneminute vacation every day. It’s easy. Let the websites 1 Minute Vacation and OpenRoad.TV be your daily tour guides. Put your head back; close your eyes; and let your mind’s eye take you to a place of beauty, peace and serenity. • Summer reading program. Get caught up on your reading with free downloads from Project Gutenberg. More than 30,000 free e-books to read on your home computer, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, etc., are available. Its website, www.gutenberg.org, also has audio books for your listening pleasure. • Organized family. Keep track of all your summer activities by using Cozi or Famundo. Their free online calendars, message boards and organizers will keep all of your family information in one place. • Vacation eats. The best advice on where to eat in a new city is to ask the locals. If you can’t do that, check out what the locals say at www.yelp.com. Reviews on Yelp include recommendations and comments on where to eat and what to do in cities across the country. Even if you’re staying home, check Yelp. You may be surprised by what you find in your own
community. • Become fluent. Learn another language for free at www.bbc.co.uk/languages. Video instruction makes learning a new language a lot easier. And hearing native speakers is infinitely better than trying to sound out words on your own. The website features 12-week courses, complete with an assessment of how well you did and a certificate of completion. • Organize trip photos. If your computer is bursting at the seams with all of your photos, this summer might be a good time to get a handle on that project. Picasa is free software from Google that will help you locate and organize your photos. Go to http://picasa.google.com to download it. You can edit and add effects and share, print and upload them to the Web, too. It’s fast and easy. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website. You can email her at mary@everydaycheapskate .com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723. To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. creators.coM
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Dear Amy: My father-inlaw is 72 and is an alcoholic. At family gatherings, he will blow up at his wife or his kids or any other relative who’s nearby. For years, everyone blamed the alcohol and begged, encouraged and demanded that he get help, but he wouldn’t. Lately, he can’t drink alcohol because of other health complications. Even without the alcohol, he’s just
cuss. You should let your father-in-law know in advance what you will do when he behaves badly (you and your spouse need to be in agreement on this) and say, “Pops, we’ve had it. The next time you go off on a family member in our presence, we’re going to have to pack up the kids and leave.” Your mother-in-law also has choices to make. Some day she may decide to go with you. Send questions via e-mail to askamy@tribune.com or by mail to Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611.
HOPE, Ark. (AP) — Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope has been open as a museum for more than a decade, but this is the first year that visitors are seeing the home as part of the National Park Service. The home became a national historic site at the start of the year, and Clinton said at its formal dedication in mid-April that he wants the home to stand as a reminder of the values he learned as a child. The home’s new designation as a national park site is expected to draw more tourists to Hope, a southwest Arkansas city of about 12,000 with a struggling economy. The two-story, white, wood-frame home was restored to reflect the style of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when the former president lived there. Toys from the period are strewn about one side of the yard and inside is the very couch owned by Clinton’s grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy. Clinton’s father, William Blythe, was killed in a car accident while his mother, Virginia, was pregnant with Clinton, so she and her new baby moved in with her parents at the comfortable home at 117 S. Hervey St. They lived there for four years, but even after Virginia remarried and moved to another house in Hope, the Hervey Street home remained the center of Bill Clinton’s family life. He spent weekends and summers with his grandparents and gathered there with extended family members. The historic site includes a second building which has been converted into a visitor center. Inside are displays that tell how Eldridge Cassidy served black and white customers at his small grocery store — an uncommon business practice during segregation — and how he’d help families in need with free food and forgiven debts .
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Margaret smith talks on a phone in front of the Visitors center in Hope, ark., the childhood home of president Bill clinton. Opened by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation in 1997, the museum has had more than 80,000 visitors, including people from 159 countries. Clinton is widely admired abroad, so catering to foreign tourists is a key part of the museum’s mission. Local officials say they expect greater numbers of visitors to include Hope on their itineraries as they take in Clinton’s presidential library and museum in Little Rock, 110 miles to the northeast. Another museum and former Clinton home is located in Fayetteville in northwest Arkansas, where Clinton lived with Hillary Rodham Clinton while he worked as a law professor at the University of Arkansas. The Clintons were married in the living room. Clinton explained during the dedication in Hope that the way he was brought up guided him in his lifelong political efforts to ensure opportunity for “ordinary people.” “We here of a certain age were raised to see everyone. My grandfather taught me to see people without regard for the color of their skin,” Clinton said, adding that he hopes that “some of the good I got out of being here will be somehow communicated” to
visitors. Clinton spoke about 15 yards from a pink granite monument that dedicates the rose garden on the grounds to his mother, who as a young widow put herself through nursing school in New Orleans while her son stayed behind in Hope. Standing in the home or the visitor center, museumgoers can get an idea of what it sounded like 60 years ago on the property when the ubiquitous freight trains rumble by. The property is bordered on two sides by train tracks, and the racket from them interrupted Clinton and other speakers during the dedication. The home is three blocks from downtown Hope, a longneglected area that is showing signs of the start of a recovery with a couple of new eateries to open soon. But despite its proximity to the Clinton home, many visitors may never see the downtown area, which also has a couple of secondhand stores and small restaurants. Most of the city’s motels and restaurants are located on the outskirts of town near Interstate 30, and Exit 30 from the highway takes travelers straight onto Hervey Street, where the Clinton home is located, bypassing downtown.
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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 Water Plants, Mt. Ulla $5 for 5 gallon bucket full. Bring your own bucket. At least 10 buckets All kinds available. (No water available. lilies). 704-798- 2953
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Medical items. 2 Drive Brand medical items. Mod 11148N-4 folding commode, $40. Mod. 10200-1 walker w/ wheels, $30. Both for $60. Salisbury. Please call 704-224-7062
Magazines, National Geographic. $1.00-$1.50 each. 1946-1970. Call 704-754-8837 in p.m.
French Provencal antique white w/gold trim. Dresser, mirror, 2 night stands, bureau, & headboard. Solid construction, good condition $650. 704639-0645 Bedroom suite, new 5 piece. All for $297.97. Hometown Furniture, 322 S. Main St. 704-633-7777
Bingham Smith Lumber Co. !!!NOW AVAILABLE!!! Metal Roofing Many colors. Custom lengths, trim, accessories, & trusses. Call 980-234-8093 Patrick Smith
China cabinet, large. wood, glass Carved shelves, interior lights. Brass hinges & hardware. Very elegant. 53”W x 83”H x 19”D. $500. 704-202-0831 Dinette, oak finish, with 4 chairs and pads. Finish needs touch up. $150. 704-209-1392 Sectional sofa, 5 pieces, good condition. $200 obo. Call Connie at 704807-3971
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.
Ride All Year! Gerbing's Heated Jacket Liner; Women's (M); Glove Liner (XS); Glove Liner (XL). $500. Please call Bobby 336-749-1016 Sportcraft TX400 Electric Treadmill, with incline. Good Condition $125. 704-245-8843 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 Tires & rims, 15”. (4). For Dodge Dakota. $300 or best offer. Please call 704-798-2789 clock. Vintage Wall lighted Miller High Life Beer wall clock. $35. 704-279-4947 Weight Bench - $160 Four Wheeler - $200 Nano Headset - $35 704-213-4790 Wheel covers, 13”. In box, new. Fits all vehicles. $35. Please call 704-232-3339
All Coin Collections Silver, gold & copper. Will buy foreign & scrap gold. 704-636-8123
2x4x14 $3 2x6x14 $5.50 2x4x16 $4.75 2x6x8 studs $3.25 2x4x93” $1.75 2x10x14 $5 D/W rafters $5 Floor trusses $5 each 704-202-0326
Misc For Sale
Old Fashioned Movie Time popcorn popper, $50. Shark steam cleaner, $70. Hunter, ceiling fan, $50. 704-633-7757
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Show it off! China Cabinet, solid wood, very nice, 54” wide, 15” deep, 78” high, $400, call 704-636-0019. Washer & dryer set. Lady Kenmore. Asking $400. Call 336-941-3189 for more information
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Homes for Sale
2-5 BR, nice homes, nice areas. RENT TO OWN. 704-630-0695
Salisbury & Shelby, 2, 3 & 4 BR, starting at $29,900! Must see! Call today 704-633-6035
Bank Foreclosures & Distress Sales. These homes need work! For a FREE list:
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Alexander Place
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
Genesis Realty 704-933-5000 genesisrealtyco.com Foreclosure Experts
504 Lake Drive, 3 BR, 1 BA, brick, carport, 1080 sq.ft., corner lot, hardwood floors, new remodeled windows, bath, new kitchen floor, fenced side yard, central heat/AC, close to town parks. $83,900. Call 704-279-3821
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BUYER BEWARE The Salisbury Post Classified Advertising staff monitors all ad submissions for honesty and integrity. 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. China Grove
Home Sweet Home
2 BR, 1 BA, covered front porch, double pane windows, double attached carport, big yard, fence. 52179 $99,400 Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704202-3663
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
Rockwell
REDUCED In country. 2 or 3BR, 1 large BA on 2 acres. 1,450 sq. ft with 1,450 sq. ft. basement. All heated & cooled. Extra large living room, kitchen, dining area, den. 2 fireplaces. 1 car attached garage. Brick. In country. Also, carport & outbuilding. 2 covered porches. Paved drive. $139,900. Call 704-795-3967
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Rockwell
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China Grove
New Listing
Lovely 3 BR, 2 BA home, nice kitchen, split floor plan, covered deck, garden area, garage, storage building, privacy fence. R52207. $139,900. Monica Poole, B&R Realty, 704-245-4628
3 BR, 2 BA in Hunters Pointe. Above ground pool, garage, huge area that could easily be finished R51150A. upstairs. B&R Realty $164,900. 704-633-2394
China Grove
Salisbury
OWNER FINANCING
For Sale by Owner. 3BR, 2BA. Nice house and neighborhood. New paint, blinds and appliances. Possible owner financing with small down payment. $104,900 with payments approx. $750/month. Please call 704-663-6766
Cute 1 BR 1 BA waterfront log home with beautiful view! Ceiling fans, fireplace, front and back porches. R51875 $189,900. Dale Yontz 704-202-3663 B&R Realty
Special Financing
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 Salisbury
Unique Property
Mechanics DREAM Home, 28x32 shop with lift & air compressor, storage space & ½ bath. All living space has been completely 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
Motivated Seller
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
Salisbury, 2604 Stokes Ferry Rd. 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 Salisbury. 2 or 3 bedroom Townhomes. For information, call Summit Developers, Inc. 704-797-0200
Forest Creek. 3 Bedroom, 1.5 bath. New home priced at only $84,900. R48764 B&R Realty 704.633.2394
Small budget Lots for Space
Homes for Sale
Homes for Sale
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Salisbury. 925 Agner Rd. Below tax and appraisal 3 BR/2BA brick home value at $399,000. 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
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
East Rowan
Salisbury
Wonderful Home
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 must see. R51757. $249,900. B&R Realty, 704-202-6041
Salisbury, Country living at its best with community gated boat ramp, access to High Rock Lake, 1.02 ac., 2400 sq.ft. 3BR/2½BA Master BR on main floor, cathedral ceilings, fireplace, great room, hardwood flooring, open floor plan, bonus room can BR, 26x40 detached be used as 4th workshop/garage. $319,000 704-212-7313
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3 BR, 2 BA home in wonderful location! Cathedral ceiling, split floor plan, double garage, large deck, storage building, corner lot. R51853 $154,900 Monica Poole 704-2454628 B&R Realty
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Century 21 Towne & Country 474 Jake Alexander Blvd. (704)637-7721 Forest Glen Realty Darlene Blount, Broker 704-633-8867 KEY REAL ESTATE, INC. 1755 U.S. HWY 29. South China Grove, NC 28023 704-857-0539 Rebecca Jones Realty 610 E. Liberty St, China Grove 704-857-SELL 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
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1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Available Now! Ro-Well Rockwell. Apartments, 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. 1 & 2BR. Nice, well maintained, responsible landlord. $415-$435. Salisbury, in town. 704-642-1955
Salisbury
Nice Setting
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
Land for Sale Bringle Ferry Rd. 2 tracts. Will sell land or custom build. A50140A. B&R Realty, Monica 704-245-4628 Deer and turkey everywhere, 10 secluded acres, pond site on small creek, trails, $79,900 owner fin. 704- 563-8216 E. Rowan res. water front lot, Shore Landing subd. $100,000 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628 West Area, several hundred acres avail. Can be divided. Karen Rufty, B&R Realty. 704-202-6041
Colony Garden Apartments Spring Move-in Special 704-762-0795
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
Clean, well maintained, 2 BR Duplex. Central heat/air, all electric. Section 8 welcome. 704-202-5790
Colonial Village Apts. “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
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
Houses for Rent 2 BR, country club/park area, nice, extra large master. RENT TO OWN. $650/mo. 704-630-0695 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 $600. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446 3 BR, 2 BA, country. Skylights, deck, 2000 sqft. nice. RENT TO OWN. $1195/mo. 704-630-0695
East Spencer - 2 BR, 1 BA. $400 per month. Carolina-Piedmont Prop. 704-248-2520 Faith, 2 BR, 1 BA. Has refrigerator and stove. Yard maintenance and pickup garbage furnished. All electric. Rent $475, deposit $400. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446 Holly Leaf Apts. 2BR, 1½BA. $555. Kitchen appliances, W/D connection, cable ready. 704-637-5588
Available for rent – Homes and Apartments Salisbury/Rockwell Eddie Hampton 704-640-7575 China Grove area. Lovely older home. Large kitchen. 4BR, hardwood floors. Freshly painted. $700/mo. 919-625-6458
Conveniently Located!
Moreland Pk area. 2BR all appliances furnished. $495-$595/mo. Deposit negotiable. Section 8 welcome. 336-247-2593 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
Salisbury. 3BR, 2BA. Designer Home in City. Minutes to I-85/Lowe's Shopping Center. Garage, hardwood floors, central air, dishwasher, W/D, yard maintenance incl, $900 rent + deposit. 704-636-8188 E. Lafayette, 2 BR, 1 BA, refrigerator and has stove. Gas heat, no pets. Rent $595, deposit $500. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446
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 Area, 3 BR, 2 BA. Dining room, all appl., 2 car garage. Lease, ref., dep. req. $1050/mo. 704-798-7233 East Rowan area. 2BR, 1BA house. 1BR apt. No pets. Deposit required. Call 704-279-8428
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Salis., 2BR/1BA, W/D conn. $500/mo. Total remodel. All elec. Sect. 8 OK. 704-202-5022 Salisbury – 2 BR duplex in excellent cond., w/ appls. $560/mo. + dep. Ryburn Rentals 704-637-0601 Salisbury Airport Rd, 1BR / 1BA, water, trash collection incl'd. All elec. $395/mo. 704633-0425 Lv Msg Salisbury City, 2BR/1BA, very spacious, 1,000 s.f., cent air/heat, $450/mo + dep. 704-640-5750 Salisbury City, Lincolnton Rd. 1BR/1BA, very spacious, good n'hood, $375 + dep. 704-640-5750 Salisbury Nr. VA 2BR, 1BA,, central HVAC, $550/mo, appl req'd. Broker. 704-239-4883 Salisbury One bedroom upstairs, furnished, deposit & references required. 704-932-5631 Salisbury, near hospital. 2 BR, 1BA. Central heat & air, W/D hookup. $450/mo. No pets. 704-279-3518
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
Office Suite Available. Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011 Salisbury
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 www.bostandrufty-realty.com
Salisbury, Kent Exec. Park, $100 & up, 1st month free, ground floor, incls conf rm, utilities. No dep. 704-202-5879 Spencer Shops Lease great retail space for as little as $750/mo for 2,000 sq ft at. 704-431-8636 Warehouse space / manufacturing as low as $1.25/sq. ft./yr. Deposit. Call 704-431-8636
HIGH TRAFFIC AREA IN ROCKWELL!
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
Houses for Rent Salisbury, 2 BR houses & apts, $525/mo and up. 704-633-4802
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 Houses: 3BRs, 1BA. Apartments: 2 & 3 BR's, 1BA Deposit required. Faith Realty 704-630-9650 Kanna. 2120 Centergrove Rd. 3BR, 2BA. $975/ mo. Kanna. 1004 Craven Ave. 2BR, 1BA $575/mo. KREA 704-933-2231 Near China Grove. 2BR, 1BA. Limit 3. No pets. $600/mo. Dep. & credit check req. 704-279-4838 Near Spencer and 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. Salisbury
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Salisbury. 3 & 2 Bedroom Houses. $500-$1,000. Also, Duplex Apartments. 704636-6100 or 704-633-8263 Salisbury. 4 rooms. 71 Hill St. All appls furnished. $495/ mo + dep. Limit 2. 704-633-5397 Spencer. 2BR, 1BA. Central heat/air. No pets. $500/mo. + $500 deposit. 704-633-5067 W Rowan/Woodleaf school dist. 2BR/1BA house. Taking applications. No pets. $425/mo. 704-754-7421
Office and Commercial Rental $$$$$$ $$$$$$$ Rockwell Offices 3 months free 704-637-1020
Industrial/ Warehouse Salisbury/Spencer
EASY ACCESS TO I-85!
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.
Manufactured Home Lot Rentals South Rowan area. Attractive mobile home lots. Water, garbage, sewer furnished. $160/mo. 704636-1312 or 704-798-0497
Manufactured Home for Rent China Grove. 2BR,1BA. $465/mo. + $400 dep. Incls. garbage, water. No pets. 704-857-3473 or 704-202-4344
450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd. Call 704-279-8377
East Area. 2BR, water, trash. Limit 2. Dep. req. No pets. Call 704-6367531 or 704-202-4991
5,000 sq.ft. warehouse w/loading docks & small office. Call Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011
East Rowan. 2BR. trash and lawn service included. No pets. $450 month. 704-433-1255
Furnished Key Man Office Suites - $250-350. Jake & 150. Util & internet incl. 704-721-6831
Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Water, trash, lawn maint. incl. No pets. Ref. $425. 704-2794282 or 704-202-3876
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
N. Salisbury in the Country, 2 BR, 1 BA, limit 3, no pets. Dep. & ref. $375/mo. 704-855-2100
Office Complex 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
Nr. Carson H.S., 2BR / 1BA, $375 + dep., & Faith, 2BR/1BA, $350 + dep. NO PETS! 704-279-4282 Rockwell. 2BR, 1BA. Appl., water, sewer, trash service incl. $500/mo. + dep. Pets OK. 704-279-7463 South area. 2 BR, $90/wk, $200 dep. NO PETS! Call 5pm to 9pm 704-857-2649 South Rowan area 2BR, 2BA, large yard, no pets, $450/mo + dep. + credit check. 704-278-0233 West & South Rowan. 2 & 3 BR. No pets. Perfect for 3. Water included. Please call 704-857-6951
Rooms for Rent
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
MILLER HOTEL Rooms for Rent Weekly $110 & up 704-855-2100 Nr VA. Furnished, utilities incl., cent. heat/air, cable TV, Veterans Welcome! $100/wk. 704-314-5648
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Great Space!
Salisbury. 2BR duplex. Stove, refrig. furnished. Quiet. $395/mo. Call Bob @ 704-633-4081 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
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
Salisbury, North Shaver Street, 2BR/1BA, gas heat, $425 per month. 704-633-0425 Lv msg
Lovely Duplex Rowan Hospital area. 2BR, 1BA. Heat, air, water, appl. incl. $675. 704-633-3997
2BR, 2BA. Hardwood floors, expansive kitchen, jetted tub, beautiful original mantles & staircase, bedrooms w/great storage, sunroom & deck, walking distance to shops & dining. 704-616-1383
Office and Commercial Rental
4BR, basement, fenced, nice area. RENT TO OWN. Only $2,900 dn. $799/mo. 704-630-0695
East Rowan area. 2BR, $450-$550 per month. Chambers Realty 704-239-0691
Salis. Nice modern 1BR, energy efficient, off Jake Alexander, lighted parking lot. $395 + dep. 704-640-5750
Quiet & Convenient, 2 bedroom town houses, 1½ baths. All Electric, Central heat/air, no pets, pool. $550/mo. Includes water & basic cable.
Park Ave, 2 bedroom, 1 Bath, Central air, gas heat, washer and dryer hookup. $450 a month 704-340-8032
2BR and 1-1/2 BA Town Homes $585/mo. Call about our
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
2,500 total sq. ft. Appliances Included Built on your lot $126,900
Salisbury
They don't build them like this anymore!
Salis. 523 E. Cemetary St. 1BR, 1 BA, No Pets, $330/mo + $330/dep. Sect 8 OK. 704-507-3915.
Airport Road, All elec. 2BR, 1BA. $450 per month + dep. & lease. Call 704-637-0370
Houses for Rent
Salisbury
AAA+ Apartments $425-$950/mo. Chambers Realty 704-637-1020
BEST VALUE
Homes for Sale
Condos and Townhomes
Salis. 1BR/2BR. Wood floors, appls, great location. Seniors welcome. $375-$450/mo. + dep. 704-630-0785
New Cape Cod Style House
704-746-4492
Condos and Townhomes
403 Carolina Blvd. Duplex For Rent. 2BR,1BA. $500/mo. Please call 704-279-8467
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!
Convenient Location
$3,000 in Buyer's Closing Costs. 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
Allen Tate Realtors Daniel Almazan, Broker 704-202-0091 www.AllenTate.com
1, 2, & 3 BR Huge Apts! Very nice. $375 & up. One free month's rent! 15% Sr. Citizen's discount. 704-890-4587
Convenient Location
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
Real Estate Services
Apartments 4 BR, 2BA, like new Craftsman Style, huge front porch, renovated kitchen and bath, fresh paint. R51516 $123,000 Rent to Own Option. Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704202-3663
Spencer. 2BR/1½ BA, appls w/ W/D hook up, security lights, no pets, Sect. 8 OK. 704-279-3990
Apartments
Lease Purchase
Salisbury
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
Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850
Spencer
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
China Grove. Very nice. 2BR, 1BA. No pets. Deposit required. Please call 704-279-8428
$500 Down moves you in. Call and ask me how? Please call (704) 225-8850
Wanted: Real Estate 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
Apartments
Manufactured Home Sales
Salisbury
New Home
Apartments
Knox Farm Subdivision. Beautiful lots available now starting at $19,900. B&R Realty 704.633.2394
B & R REALTY 704-633-2394
Awesome Location
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 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628
Western Rowan County
American Homes of Rockwell Oldest Dealer in Rowan County. Best prices anywhere. 704-279-7997
Salisbury
Salisbury
2 BR, 1 BA, hardwood floors, detached carport, handicap ramp. $99,900 R47208 B&R Realty 704.633.2394
Salisbury
Salisbury
OPEN HOUSE SUN. MAY 1, 2-4PM 322 CAMELOT DR.
Gorgeous Remodeled 4 BR home in Country Club Hills. Large kitchen, Granite Counters, Huge Master Suite, Family Rm, Wide Deck, Attached Garage, & Fenced Back Yard with Great In-Ground pool. 704-202-0091 $235,000. MLS# 986835
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
Lots of Room
Landis
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
Over 2 Acres
Salisbury
www.bostandrufty-realty.com
Granite Quarry
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
Salisbury
Lots for Sale
Lots of Extras
Fulton Heights
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
Homes for Sale
Homes for Sale
www.applehouserealty.com
Found dog. Pit Bull, female. Just given birth. Found around Shore Acres Rd. on 4/30. Call 704-267-2673
SALISBURY POST
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Autos
1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC Salisbury. 1018 West Horah St. 4BR, 3BA with 2 kitchens. $750/mo. Please call 919-519-7248 Salisbury apt. houses for rent 2-3BRs. Application, deposit, & proof of employment req'd. Section 8 welcome. 704-762-1139
Office Suite for Lease. Two large rooms, 26' x 13' and 10' x 16'. Also included is a large shared kitchen/break room space with private BR. 1 year lease preferred; $750 monthly rent includes all utilities. Free Wi-Fi. Call 704-636-1811.
Hyundai Sonata, 2006. V6, sunroof, leather interior. Fully loaded. Only 64,000 miles. $10,995. 704-720-0520
SALISBURY POST Autos
1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011 • 7C
CLASSIFIED Autos
Autos
1964 T-Bird convertible, one owner, numbers matching. 1998 Mustang GT convertible. Estate Auction. 1331 Arden Dr., Salisbury. May 7, 2011. auctionzip.com #18692. 704-239-9298 NCAL #4453
Financing Available!
HONDA, 2003, ACCORD EX. $500-800 down, will help finance. Credit, No Problem! Private party sale. Call 704-838-1538
Buick Lucerne CXL, 2007. Dual power seats, leather, fully loaded, one owner. $12,995. 704-720-0520
Autos
Autos
Autos
Autos
Honda, 1993 Civic White w/ black interior, LS driver and passenger seat. Bronze Circuit 8'' wheels, JDM fog lights, front and rear EBC brake rotors and pads. KGB 4 way adjustable suspension. Car has 170,000 miles; motor has 50,000 miles. Clean title. $3,500. John, 704-279-8346
Now Open! Mercury Grand Marquis LS Sedan, 2004. Dare Toreador red clearcoat exterior with light flint interior. F11106A. $9,787. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Cadillac Sedan Deville, 1996. Gold with black leather. Cold AC. New CD player. 20” rims plus original wheels. 119,000 miles. $5,500 obo. Call 704-798-4375
VW Jetta GLX-VR6, 2002. Automatic, sunroof, leather interior. One of a kind. Call Steve 704-603-4255
428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. (former Sagebrush location)
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
Cadillac Seville SLS Sedan, 2001. Cashmere exterior with oatmeal interior. Stock #F11236B. $7,987.1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Ford 2005 Focus SES SX4 automatic, am/fm CD, power windows, power door locks, 116,000 miles, $5,900. Call 704-647-0881
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
Audi A4 1.8T Quattro Sedan, 2003. Crystal blue metallic exterior with gray interior. F11243B1. $10,487. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
BEAUTIFUL RIDE Chrysler Crossfire, 2005, coupe, gray. 6 cylinder Mercedes engine. 6 speed manual, anti-lock brakes, side airbag, CD/AM/FM stereo. Low miles, power everything, spoiler, good on gas, heated seats, navigation, air conditioning, cruise control. $13,500. 704-326-5049
Chevrolet Classic Sedan, 2005. Summit white exterior with neutral interior. T11291A. $5,587. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
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
Nissan Altima 2.5 S Sedan, 2010. Tuscan Sun metallic exterior with charcoal interior. P7645. $18,387. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Collector Cars VW Jetta GLX-VR6, 2002. Automatic, sunroof, leather interior. One of a kind. Call Steve 704-603-4255
CASH FOR YOUR CAR! Now Open!!
Kia, 2005, Amanti. 68,000 miles. Charcoal gray. Fully loaded with sunroof. CD & cassette player. New brakes & rear tires. $9,600 obo. Call 704-754-2549
Toyota Camry LE V6 Sedan, 1998. Cashmere beige metallic exterior with sage interior. F11054C. $3,887. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Chevrolet Cobalt LS, 2008. Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.
Ford Taurus SEL Sedan, Oxford white 2008. clearcoat exterior with tan cloth interior. P7689. $14,787 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
We want your vehicle! 1999 to 2011 under 150,000 miles. Please call 704-216-2663.
Weekly Special Only $14,995
Now Open!! Chrysler Crossfire Coupe, 2004. Sapphire Silver Blue Metallic exterior with dark slate gray interior. Stock # T11340A. $9,587. 1-800542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Honda Accord 2.4 EX Coupe, 2008. San Marino Red exterior with black F10492A1. interior. $17,878. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Mercedes Benz C Class Sport, 2006. 6 speed manual V6. 704-603-4255
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 Volkswagen Beetle GLS, 2000. Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.
BMW 325i Sedan, 2006. graphite Sparkling metallic exterior with gray T11377A. interior. $15,987. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Want to sell quickly? Try a border around your ad for $5!
Boats & Watercraft
Super Clean!
A Camry to care for
Toyota Camry, 2003, white with gray interior, power automatic, all options - AM/ FM/ tape/ CD changer, interior deluxe trim, has had maintenance, regular excellent condition, runs beautifully, garage kept. $7950. 704-639-9401.
Boats & Watercraft
Dodge Challenger SE, 2010. Inferno red crystal pearlcoat exterior with dark slate gray interior. F11205A. $23,287. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Honda Accord, 2004. Automatic, leather. V-6. Sunroof. Extra clean! Call Steve at 704-603-4255
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
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
Collector Cars
Now Open!
428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. (former Sagebrush location)
Motorcycles & ATVs
Motorcycles & ATVs
Now Open!
428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. (former Sagebrush location)
Rentals & Leasing
Rentals & Leasing
Now Open!
Now Open!
428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.
428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.
(former Sagebrush location)
(former Sagebrush location)
8C • TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011
Autos ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 5:30 pm.
Boats & Watercraft
Dogs
Dogs
Dogs
Got puppies or kittens for sale?
Sweet Babies!
Ranger Fish & Ski boat, 1993. 150 HP, 18 ft., one owner, $4,000. 704-2093106
Motorcycles & ATVs
Cats Cat, beautiful adult male, silky black hair, neutered, litter box trained. 704637-5966 Free kittens to good home ~ white with blue eyes, brown calico. 8 wks old. 980-234-0932 or 704-278-3754
Australian Shepherd Puppies. Blue Merle, Red Merle, and Tri-color. Parents on site. Merles, $150. Tri-Color, $100. Call 704-239-6989
Chihuahua Pups. CKC. 1 male, Cream and 1 female, Black & Tan & White, $350. T-cup. 2-3 lbs full grown. Ready to go. 704603-8257.
Pit Bull pups, 2 beautiful females, 15 weeks old, shots & wormed. Parents on site. $100 ea. Papers can be acquired but will cost more. Call Jeremy or Leah @ 980-234-6206 anytime. Salisbury area
Free new born kittens. Two black, two black and white, one gray. They need a good home. 704857-5429 Bulldog puppies. 2 male, 6 female. 4 females French Champion sired. $1,500 & up. Please call 704-6401359 or 704-640-2541
Giving away kittens or puppies?
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QUALITY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS
1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC
Take Us Home! 50 cc Trike. Brand new! $1,895. Also, nice new Tao Scooters only $895. 704-720-0520 Puppies, Malti-Poos. 1 male and 1 female. One white and one cream. Both have Maltese hair. 1st shots and wormings. $300 each. Ready 4-2211. Call 704-636-9867
Honda ATV 1986, 4 wheel. Runs good. Recent repairs. $900. Please call 704-279-8346
Transportation Dealerships
Service & Parts
Trucks, SUVs & Vans
Authorized EZGO 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
1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC
GMC Sierra, 2003. 1500 ext cab. V8, loaded with options. 93,000 miles. $10,995. 704-720-0520
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Dogs AKC REG. GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS
Chihuahua puppies. CKC registered, born March 21, will be small when grown, one blue/tan female $350, three males $300 each. 704-279-3119 Leave message. Free Puppies! Adorable Lab & German Shepard Mix Puppies. Will be 6 weeks old on May 11th. Located in Salisbury. 704-239-4309
7 weeks old CKC males and females. Parents on site. $250. 704-857-8626
READY NOW!
TEAM CHEVROLET, CADILLAC, BUICK, GMC. www.teamautogroup.com 704-216-8000
Chevrolet Equinox, 2005. All wheel drive, leather, sunroof, V6, loaded with options. From $11,995 (2 to choose from) 704-720-0520
Tim Marburger Dodge 287 Concord Pkwy N. Concord, NC 28027 704-792-9700 Tim Marburger Honda 1309 N First St. (Hwy 52) Albemarle NC 704-983-4107
Auctions 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
Puppies, Alaskan Malamutes. Beautiful! Ready now! 1st shots & worming. Mom weighs 110 lbs. Dad weights 125 lbs. Both on site. 3 females $450 ea. 1 male, $400. 704-492-8448
Shih-Poo puppies, one male and one female ready April 28th. Black and white, up to date on shots and deworming. $250 each. 336-309-6434
Carport and Garages
Cleaning Services
We Build Garages, 24x24 = $12,500. All sizes built! ~ 704-633-5033 ~
www.thecarolinasauction.com
Child Care and Nursery Schools
Honda Odyssey EX, 2006. Super clean, must see, 80,000 miles. $14,995 704-720-0520
Heritage Auction Co. Glenn M.Hester NC#4453 Salisbury (704)636-9277
Quality Affordable Childcare
www.heritageauctionco.com
KEN WEDDINGTON Total Auctioneering Services 140 Eastside Dr., China Grove 704-8577458 License 392 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 www.gilesmossauction.com
Rowan Auction Co. Professional Auction Services: Salis., NC 704-633-0809 Kip Jennings NCAL 6340.
Clean, smoke-free, reliable. 17 yrs. exp. 6 wks & up. All shifts. Reasonable Rates 704-787-4418 704-279-0927 F Ref. Avail. F
Elaine's Special Cleaning Sparkling Results, Reasonable Rates. Free Estimates & References Given.
704-637-7726
Carport and Garages
704-636-8058
Cleaning Services
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Grading & Hauling
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.
Lawn Maint. & Landscaping
Miscellaneous Services
Painting and Decorating
Outdoors By Overcash Mowing, shrub trimming & leaf blowing. 704-630-0120
Basinger Sewing Machine Repair. Parts & Service – Salisbury. 704-797-6840 or 704-797-6839
Bowen Painting Interior and Exterior Painting 704-630-6976.
Remodeling. Hardwood & Vinyl flooring, carpet, decks added. Top Quality work! 704-637-3251
Lyerly's ATV & Mower Repair Free estimates. All types of repairs Pickup/delivery avail. 704-642-2787
Since 1955 olympicdrywallcompany.com
Fencing
“We can erase your bad credit — 100% guaranteed” The Federal Trade Commission says any credit repair company that claims to be able to legally remove accurate and timely information from your credit report is lying. There's no easy fix for bad credit. It takes time and a conscious effort to pay your debts. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit. A message from The Salisbury Post & the FTC.
Heating and Air Conditioning Piedmont AC & Heating Electrical Services Lowest prices in town!! 704-213-4022
Home Improvement A HANDYMAN & MOORE Kitchen & Bath remodeling Quality Home Improvements Carpentry, Plumbing, Electric Clark Moore 704-213-4471
The Floor Doctor 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 – “The House Whisperer!”
Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc. Insured. 704-798-8199 Browning ConstructionStructural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC
Garages, new homes, remodeling, roofing, siding, back hoe, loader 704-6369569 Maddry Const Lic G.C.
Mow, Trim & Blow $35 Average Yard Ask for Jeffrey
~ 704-245-5599 ~
TH Jones Mini-Max Storage 116 Balfour Street Granite Quarry Please 704-279-3808
Painting and Decorating
Steve's Lawn Care We'll take care of all your lawn care needs!! Great prices. 704-431-7225
Junk Removal
CASH FOR cars & trucks. Will pick up cars within 2 hours of your call. $275 & up. Call Tim at 980-234-6649
I will pick up your nonrunning vehicles & pay you to take them away! Call Mike anytime. 336-479-2502
BowenPainting@yahoo.com
Cathy's Painting Service Interior & exterior, new & repaints. 704-279-5335
Plumbing Services
Hodges Plumbing Services
Complete plumbing repairs. Rotten floors & water damage. $45 service calls. Senior Citizen's discounts.
Call today! Immediate Response!
336-251-8421 •
Professional Services Unlimited
Around the House Repairs Carpentry. Electrical. Plumbing. H & H Construction 704-633-2219
Summer Special!
Kitchens, Baths, Sunrooms, Remodel, Additions, Wood & Composite Decks, Garages, Vinyl Rails, Windows, Siding. & Roofing. ~ 704-633-5033 ~
Including carpentry, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, roofing, flooring. Free Estimates, Insured .... Our Work is Guaranteed!
Don’t take chances with your hard earned money. Run your ad where it will pay for itself. Daily exposure brings fast results.
Moving and Storage
Lawn Maint. & Landscaping
B & L Home Improvement
~704-637-6544~
Ford Explorer XLT SUV, 2010. Black exterior with black interior. P7619. $22,687. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Junk Removal
Lawn Equipment Repair Services
704-279-2600
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
Home Improvement
Concrete Work
New Homes Additions & Repairs Small Commercial Ceiling Texture Removal
Dodge Ram Conversion Van, 1996. V-8, Patriot blue. Tow package included. Rear privacy curtain. Looks great inside & out. $4,000. Call 704-855-4289
Buick Ranier CXL SUV, 2007. Cashmere metallic exterior with cashmere interior. T11239A. $12,687. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Call Steve today! 704-603-4255 www.JakeAlexanderAutoSales.com
I buy junk cars. Will pay cash. $250 & up. Larger cars, larger cash! Call 704-239-1471
Financial Services
www.perrysdoor.com
Puppies and kittens available. Follow us on FaceBook Animal Care Center of Salisbury. Call 704-637-0227
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
Drywall Services
Ford Expedition XLT SUV, 2003. Black clearcoat exterior with flint gray interior. T11334A. $12,387. 1-800-542-9758. Call www.cloningerford.com
PetSafe Wireless Pet Containment System. Paid $300, asking $200 obo. Call 704-361-5363
Beaver Grading Quality work, reasonable rates. Free Estimates 704-6364592
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
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
Transportation Financing
CASH FOR JUNK CARS And batteries. Call 704-279-7480 or 704-798-2930
Free Estimates Bud Shuler & Sons Fence Co. 225 W Kerr St 704-633-6620 or 704-638-2000 Price Leader since 1963
Lippard Garage Doors Installations, repairs, electric openers. 704636-7603 / 704-798-7603
Transportation Financing
HMC Handyman Services. Any job around the house. Please call 704-239-4883
Call Curt LeBlanc today for Free Estimates
Ford Econoline F350, 2003. Oxford White/Gray Cloth interior. 6.8 Liter 10 Cylinder Engine. AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION W/OD. All power options, AM/FM/ tape. Running boards, cold AC, alloy rims, good tires. Nonsmoker. READY FOR DELIVERY!!! 704-603-4255
Dodge Ram 1500 SLT / Laramie Crew Cab, 2004. Bright white clearcoat exterior with dark slate gray interior. F10362A. $10,987. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Backhoe work, lots cleared, ditches, demolition, hauling. Reasonable prices. 704-637-3251
OLYMPIC DRYWALL
Cleaning Services
Now Open!
Complete Cleaning Service. Basic, windows, spring, new construction, & more. 704-857-1708
All types concrete work ~ Insured ~ NO JOB TOO SMALL!
Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LS, 2010. Victory Red exterior with dark titanium interior. T11392A. $18,787. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
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
Pet & Livestock Supplies
Kingston 2 Horse Trailer with Ramp, bumper pull. Excellent condition. New Tires, wood floor stained & sealed, new 1" rubber matting, Steal Frame & Skin. Asking $2,900 OBO 704-738-7286. Salisbury
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
1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC
(former Sagebrush location) AKC BOXER PUPS 3 Brindle males available, tails docked, dewormed, Vet check and 1st shots. $350, 704-213-0070.
Trucks, SUVs & Vans
1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC
CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.” 511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321
428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.
Great Family Dog! Puppies. 8 weeks old. Bred for health & temperament. Mother Miss November 2010 German Shepherd calendar. American/Czech/ Canadian lineage. Price nego. Call 704-798-6024.
Check Out Our May Special! Spay/Neuter 20% discount. Rowan Animal Clinic. Please call 704636-3408 for appt.
Chevrolet HHR LT SUV, Cardinal red 2009. metallic exterior with ebony interior. P7656A. $15,987. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
Transportation Dealerships
Other Pets SIAMESE KITTENS Modern Seal Pt Kittens Reg, Vacc, Wormed, & Hlth Guar. Home Raised. www.britishmists.com 336-499-7058
Trucks, SUVs & Vans
Lawn Maint. & Landscaping
Manufactured Home Services
A-1 Residential & Commercial Mow/Trim At least 10% less than other lawn services. We promise to beat them all. Call David at 704-640-1198
Mobile Home Supplies~ City Consignment Company New & Used Furniture. Please Call 704636-2004
Billy J. Cranfield, Total Landscape Mowing, seeding, shrubs, retainer walls. All construction needs. Sr. Discount. 25 Yrs. Exper. Lic. Contractor
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Dodge Conversion Van 1994. 4 captain's chairs, electric bed, power doors & windows. Good engine. Needs transmission work. $950 obo. 704-807-1165
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Honda Element EX, 2006. Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.
The Planning Board for the Town of Spencer has scheduled a courtesy hearing for Tuesday, April 26 at 7PM in the Spencer Municipal Building. The Board of Aldermen has scheduled a public hearing for Tuesday, May 10 at 7PM. The purpose of the hearings is to consider the following: An ordinance amendment which would add allow for administrative (Minor Works) approval of certain commercial signs in the Historic District. All interested persons are invited to attend and participate in the public hearing. For more information please call 633-2231. TOWN OF SPENCER Dustin L. Wilson, Land Management Director No. NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY - 11-SP-238 - 8303
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Address of property: 815 Stokes Street, China Grove, NC 28023 Tax Parcel ID: 114-H-010 Present Record Owners: Miguel Pacheco and Maria J. Pacheco The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee's Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax. The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale "AS IS, WHERE IS" and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units:
Toyota 4Runner SR5 Limited SUV, 1998. Anthracite Metallic exterior with oak interior. F11283A. $6,887. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com
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An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
Dated: April 11, 2011
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David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee, By: Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC Attorneys for David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee 2550 West Tyvola Road, Suite 520, Charlotte, NC 28217 704-442-9500 No. 61336 AMENDED NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY - 10-SP-786 - 4155 UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Dana L. Howell a/k/a Dana Wyatt and Jeffery L. Wyatt, dated August 20, 1996 and recorded on August 20, 1996, in Book No. 0778, at Page 0988 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rowan County, North Carolina; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebted-ness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Rowan County Courthouse, Salisbury, North Carolina on May 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Landis, County of Rowan, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Address of property: 413 Turner Street, Landis, NC 28088 Tax Parcel ID: 133A246 Present Record Owners: Dana L. Howell a/k/a Dana Wyatt and Jeffery L. Wyatt The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee's Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Special Proceedings No. 11 SP 183 Substitute Trustee: Philip A. Glass
Date of Sale: May 4, 2011 Time of Sale: 12:00 p.m. Place of Sale: Rowan County Courthouse Description of Property: See Attached Description Record Owners: Lonnie R. Miller and Brenda P. Miller Address of Property: 2404 Wind Swept Way, Rockwell, NC 28138 Deed of Trust: Book : 756 Page: 321 Dated: August 11, 1995 Grantors: Lonnie R. Miller and Brenda P. Miller Original Beneficiary: Green Tree Financial Servicing Corporation CONDITIONS OF SALE: Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-five Cents (45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1). This sale is made subject to all unpaid taxes and superior liens or encumbrances of record and assessments, if any, against the said property, and any recorded leases. This sale is also subject to any applicable county land transfer tax, and the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for any such county land transfer tax. A cash deposit of 5% of the purchase price will be required at the time of the sale. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.30 (d) and (e). This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law. Residential real property with less than 15 rental units: an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. Dated: 2/17/11 Philip A. Glass, Substitute Trustee, Nodell, Glass & Haskell, L.L.P. EXHIBIT "A" ATTACHMENT TO DEED OF TRUST LONNIE R. MILLER AND BRENDA P. MILLER Lying and Being in Gold Hill Township of Rowan County, North Carolina, and Being all of Lot Number 5 of BEATTY FORD FARMS, a copy of which plat is filed in the Office of Register of Deeds for Rowan County in Book of Maps at page 2119. This conveyance is made and accepted SUBJECT to Protective Covenants recorded in Deed Book 651 page 346. TOGETHER WITH a security interest in that certain 1995, 56 X 28 Oakbrook home, serial number 16L06334XU No. 61338 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY11-SP-234 - 8327 UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Jason R. Richer, dated February 3, 2006 and recorded on October 12, 2006, in Book No. 1078, at Page 9 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rowan County, North Carolina; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Rowan County Courthouse, Salisbury, North Carolina on May 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Salisbury, County of Rowan, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Address of property: 1050 Whisperwood Drive, Salisbury, NC 28147 Tax Parcel ID: 472C008 Present Record Owners: Jason R. Richer The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee's Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax. The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale "AS IS, WHERE IS" and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009. David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee By: Attorney at Law, Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC Attorneys for David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee 2550 West Tyvola Road, Suite 520, Charlotte, NC 28217 (704) 697-5809
The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale "AS IS, WHERE IS" and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.
No. 61358 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY - 11-SP-136 - 8539
If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Benjamin D. Lyerly, dated August 19, 2002 and recorded on August 19, 2002, in Book No. 0948, at Page 0800 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rowan County, North Carolina; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Rowan County Courthouse, Salisbury, North Carolina on May 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Salisbury, County of Rowan, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust.
Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units:
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UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Miguel Pacheco and Maria J. Pacheco, dated March 28, 2006 and recorded on March 28, 2006, in Book No. 1061, at Page 688 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rowan County, North Carolina; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Rowan County Courthouse, Salisbury, North Carolina on May 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of China Grove, County of Rowan, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009.
Chevrolet Colorado, 2007. Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. 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
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An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009. David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee By: Attorney at Law, Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC, Attorneys for David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee 2550 West Tyvola Road, Suite 520, Charlotte, NC 28217 (704) 442-9500
Address of property: 125 Graceland Place, Salisbury, NC 28146 Tax Parcel ID: 633A002 Present Record Owners: Benjamin D. Lyerly The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee's Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax. The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale "AS IS, WHERE IS" and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited SUV, 2005. Black clearcoat exterior with medium slate gray interior. T11271A. $15,787. 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com
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Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009.
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David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee By: Attorney at Law, Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC Attorneys for David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee 2550 West Tyvola Road, Suite 520, Charlotte, NC 28217 (704) 697-5809
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Rare brain disorder diagnosis questionable Dear Dr. Gott: My son was diagnosed with PSP — progressive supranuclear palsy. I have never heard of this before. He was originally told that he had Parkinson’s. Is there any hope for him? He is 44 years old. I have read as much as possible on this and DR. PETER condition don’t see any GOTT relief for him. He falls, slurs his speech, and has difficulty with pain in his legs. These don’t happen all the time, though; some days he is “normal.” Thank you. Dear Reader: Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), also known as SteeleRichardson-Olszewski syndrome, is a rare brain disorder. As the name states, it is progressive, meaning it slowly worsens over time. The condition can cause some life-threatening complications such as swallowing difficulty, which may lead to choking or pneumonia. The characteristic symptoms include loss of balance when walking, which causes an increased risk of falls and an inability to focus the eyes properly, which can result in blurred or double vision. This can also cause the sufferer to appear disinterested during conversation. Other symptoms include forgetfulness, dizziness, personality
changes, apathy (loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities), depression, anxiety, laughing or crying without reason, problems with speech and swallowing, slow or stiff movements, tremor, loss of coordination and more. PSP is most often seen in people around age 60. Men are slightly more at risk than women. There is no known cause of PSP, but research is bringing us closer. We now know that the symptoms are the result of deterioration of brain cells in four areas of the brain — the basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, cerebellum and brainstem. Each of these areas is responsible for helping control body movements. It has also been found that the deteriorated cells contain abnormal levels of the protein tau, which is also seen in other neurodegenerative disorders. There is no cure, but some of the symptoms are treatable. Medications used to treat Parkinson’s disease as well as certain antidepressants may be helpful. Special eyeglass lenses and physical and occupational therapy are often beneficial. Even with treatment, brain function will continue to decline, with death commonly occurring within five to seven years. Your note is brief. Without knowing what testing your son has undergone, when his symptoms began and more, I cannot hazard a guess as to whether this may be an accurate diagno-
sis. He is relatively young to have received the diagnosis, but that doesn’t mean it is incorrect. Pain is not listed as a typical symptom in this syndrome, but it could be the result of muscle stiffness, injury from repeated falls or his unsteady gait. I did not find anything stating that symptoms come and go. Furthermore, you did not mention difficulties with his eye control, a somewhat characteristic feature of PSP. Progressive supranuclear palsy is not a pleasant diagnosis, and the prognosis is fairly grim. I trust his physician’s abilities, but based solely on your brief note, I can’t be sure of his current diagnosis. I urge your son to undergo a thorough physical examination, blood work and imaging studies with another neurologist in order to confirm the diagnosis. If possible, seek out a specialist affiliated with a teaching hospital or university. Better still, I suggest he make an appointment with a physician who specializes in PSP. Help may also be found at www.PSP.org. Dr. Peter H. Gott is a retired physician and the author of several books, including “Live Longer, Live Better,” “Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet” and “Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Cookbook,” which are available at most bookstores or online. His website is www.AskDrGottMD.com. United FeatUre Syndicate
There are strong indications that in the next year that could give you a major role reversal. For example, instead of being simply a member of the ranks, you might strive for and attain a leadership position. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — If you can take something that’s on your mind and put it into action, it will result in better than average chances of fulfilling your expectations. Do so without hesitation. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — A complex endeavor that you’re anxious to wrap up is doable, but only if you put your personal needs aside for the moment and make it a central priority. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Conditions are changing as of now, so if you haven’t given up on an objective you’ve been trying to launch, try once more. You are closer to realizing your dream than you know. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Although you might have to move at a measured pace, it doesn’t mean you can’t accomplish what you want. Make time and patience your allies, not your pursuing foes. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Fellow conversationalists will be absorbing every word you utter and are likely to repeat what you say, so be sure you don’t verbalize anything that could be misconstrued. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Joint endeavors in which you get involved are likely to hold much more promise than anything you do on your own. Don’t battle solo when there are plenty of allies waiting in the wings. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — A close associate might make a critical decision without your knowledge that will also affect you. Fortunately, his or her evaluations and determinations will turn out to be sound. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Doing things in an orderly fashion generally engenders positive results, and that’s the case now. Proper procedures will enhance your productivity while poor planning will be disruptive. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It’s fun to try something new and different, but don’t do anything foolish. However, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take a chance on something if you’ve calculated all the risks. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Regardless of your problems, put on a happy face when around others. If your demeanor casts a shadow over those you’re with, it’ll sour everyone’s day. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — All it takes is common sense to utilize your time effectively. For example, if you fail to call first or make a proper appointment, you aren’t likely to find most people available. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Keep your eye peeled for something new that could have a positive effect on what you’re trying to do with your life at this point in time. It should tie perfectly into what you have going. United FeatUre Syndicate
Today’s celebrity birthdays Folk singer Pete Seeger is 92. Actress Ann B. Davis is 85. Singer Frankie Valli is 77. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 65. Singer Mary Hopkin is 61. Singer Christopher Cross is 60. Drummer Cactus Moser of Highway 101 is 54. Keyboardist David Ball of Soft Cell is 52. Country singer Shane Minor is 43. Bassist John Hopkins of Zac Brown Band is 40. Country singer Brad Martin is 38. Actor Dule Hill is 36. Dancer Cheryl Burke is 27.
You must spot three tough spots BY PHILLIP ALDER United Feature Syndicate
Daniel Dennett, a philosopher and cognitive scientist, said, “The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore so it eats it!” That’s depressing. At the bridge table, do not let your brain overlook critical spots — those cards that have multiple spots on them. Yesterday’s deal featured playing a high spotcard early so as not to block
a suit. Is this another example? You are in three notrump. West, as he did yesterday, leads the diamond king. You duck the first trick and take his diamond-nine continuation with your ace. What
would you do next? North used Stayman in an unsuccessful attempt to find a 4-4 spade fit. There seem to be nine easy tricks: three hearts, one diamond and five clubs. Those players not used to being careful will immediately cash the club ace and follow suit with dummy’s three. Then they will take the club king and club queen. At that point, there will be a cessation of play. Five club tricks have suddenly shrunk to four. The next club trick must be won with dummy’s nine, and there is no way back to hand to cash the fifth club. If you spot the spot problem, you will unblock dummy’s club seven, eight and nine under your ace, king and queen. Then your four will squash dummy’s three and allow you to cash the two on the fifth round of the suit.
Obama wants to restore belief in American dream CHICAGO (AP) — Barack Obama says he wants to be the president who restores people’s belief in the American dream. In an interview taped last week, Obama also expresses disappointment over sharp-edged Washington politics and his failure to soften it as he promised to do. He complains that life inside “the bubble” of the presidency is depriving him of precious, memorable moments with his growing daughters. Meanwhile, daughter Malia has to start doing laundry, her mother said. Obama and his wife,
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May is Better Hearing Month... Lets Protect Our Ears!
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Did you know that thirty-six million Americans have hearing loss. One in three developed their hearing loss as a result of exposure to noise. May is Better Hearing Month, and audiologists across the nation are encouraging Americans to protect their hearing by: • Wearing proper hearing protection when exposed to loud sounds; • Turning down the volume when listening to the radio, the TV, MP3 player, or anything through ear buds and headphones; and
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• Walking away from loud noise. Noise-induced hearing loss is caused by damage to the hair cells that are found in our inner ear. Hair cells are small sensory cells that convert the sounds we hear (sound energy) into electrical signals that travel to the brain. Once damaged, our hair cells cannot grow back, causing permanent hearing loss. Noise-induced hearing loss can be caused by prolonged exposure to any loud noise such as concerts, sporting events, lawnmowers, fireworks, gun shots, custom car stereos at high volume, and more. A brief exposure to a very intense sound, such as a gun shot near the ear, can also damage your hearing. Noise is considered dangerous if you have to shout over the noise to be heard, it is painful to your ears, it makes your ears ring during and after exposure, or if you have decreased or “muffled” hearing for several hours after exposure. If you or a family member suspects you have a hearing loss or you are experiencing ringing in your ears, have your hearing evaluated by an audiologist. And remember, do what you can to protect your hearing.
Bring your mother or mother-in-law and treat them to a Mother's Day Tea at Carolina Lily.Web: www.carolinalily.com. Phone: 704-633-3713
4th Annual Simple Living Festival 5/7/2011 Dan Nicholas Park
Dan Nicholas Park Nature Center will be hosting the 4th Annual Simple Living Festival on May 7, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The annual all-day spring event is a special opportunity for folks to step back in time and to see and experience first-hand some of the skills, crafts, music and lifestyle of previous generations when life was simpler and closer to nature and the earth. There will be a small music stage with folk, gospel, guitar, old time and acoustic music. This year we will once again be featuring local musicians.Web: www.dannicholas.net
Rowan County Master Gardeners Plant Sale 5/7/2011 2727 Old Concord Road Salisbury
Dr. Lorin S. Oden is an Audiologist at Hearing Lifestyles, LLC is located at 464 Jake Alexander Blvd. W., Salisbury. Call 704-633-0023 or visit their website at www.HearingLifestyles.com
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The Rowan County Master Gardener Volunteer Association Annual Plant Sale, Perennial Plant Swap and Silent Auction 8:30AM at 2727 Old Concord Road Salisbury. An array of shrubs, plants, ornamental greasses and annuals will be featured. Bring up to 5 potted and labeled plants for the plant swap and take home 5 plants from another gardener's yard. Cost of the Swap is $5.00. Profits from this event will help the Master Gardeners with their many community projects. Email: sunfire72@carolina.rr.com
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Rowan Public Library Annual Book Sale 5/6/2011 - 5/9/2011 Rowan Public Library, Salisbury
Friday May 6th: 9:00am-4:00pm Saturday May 7th: 9:00am-4:00pm Monday May 9th: 9:00am-2:00pm Web: www.lib.co.rowan.nc.us. Phone: 704-216-8243
Concert Choir's Spring Concert 5/13/2011 - 5/14/2011 Union Lutheran Church 4770 Bringle Ferry Road Salisbury
Come enjoy an evening of listening to the beautiful Brahms' Love Waltzes, Opus # 52. The Concert choir will sing the Liebeslieder Waltzes with 2-pianos & 4-handed accompaniment. Tables of Assorted Desserts and Coffee will be served - all will leave you with the feeling of spending an Evening in Venice! Tickets are $10 adult and $7 student (with ID) and the event starts at 7:30pm on both nights. Tickets can be purchased at the Salisbury-Rowan County Visitor Center or by calling the number below. Phone: 704-603-3310
American Legacy and Spring Pops Concert 5/15/2011 Salisbury Civic Center 315 S Boundary St Salisbury
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All your life, Mom’s worked to comfort, guide and support you. Now that she needs your support, doesn’t Mom deserve the best you can give? At Carillon Assisted Living, she’ll enjoy a warm, caring environment that emphasizes social activities, health and wellness for adults who simply need assistance with day-to-day living. And The Garden Place at Carillon provides unsurpassed care for people with Alzheimer’s, whether it’s long term or respite care. Help for Mom that includes respect and dignity – we think that’s pretty special.
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Using famed writer and curator Dave Hickey’s notion of a “quarterinch artist” (one for whom every quarter of an inch is critically important), our summer exhibition explores how five artists’ meticulous approaches create worlds in their artwork. Michelle Heinz (New York City) paintings picks up where Picabia and Balthus left off, creating haunting tableaux in unsettling settings. Holden McCurry’s (Asheville, NC) distinctive functional and sculptural art is inspired by organic and architectural forms and evokes quasi-biblical narratives with surrealist peculiarities. Dan Abernathy presents painfully detailed and beautifully hand-painted carved wooden sculptures of birds native to North Carolina. Fiber artist Nancy Cook’s handstitched quilts uses textile layering and embellishments to convey impressions of nature. Artist Trena McNabb’s (Bethania, NC) unique style of blending transparent collage of images allows a variety of stories to be told in each layered landscape.
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The Salisbury-Rowan Choral Society presents the American Legacy and Spring Pops Concert at 3:00pm. Tickets may be purchased at the door. $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for kids/seniors. Join us for a free reception afterwards. Invite your family and friends to this afternoon of memorable tunes and celebration of American composers.
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Travel Journal, Part 1 by Linda Beck
email: lindainthecards@gmail.com
SPEAKING FOR THE LORD AND A MINI-VACATION When I was approved again as a speaker for Christian Women’s Club, I had not planned to travel over 100 miles. I called the home office and asked for a list of clubs in North and South Carolina. When I saw that there is a club at North Myrtle Beach, I called to ask if they needed a speaker in April. They were delighted because some speakers aren’t traveling long distances due to the cost of gas. My friend, Jennifer, had planned to go as she has never been to Myrtle Beach. However, she cancelled because we have so many differences; she likes the room cold, I like it warm, and so on. I asked some other friends but everyone had other conflicts. I had been looking forward to my mini-vacation but especially hated having to leave them without a speaker on such short notice. A nagging voice (probably that little red guy with horns and a pitchfork) started telling me that I had made these plans for the wrong reason (my love for the beach). I went home planning to call and cancel. I had a surprise email and was 98 percent sure it was answered prayer. I met Vita* about eight years ago at a prayer meeting held in a private home. With the passing of our hostess and my health problems, Vita* and I lost touch for awhile. She had read several of my recent stories and felt led to email and get together. With the email, phone conversations and timing, I knew she was answered prayer. We met for lunch on Monday and made plans to travel and honor my speaking commitment. I can no longer stay in private homes. Even now in mid-April, most ocean front rooms at North Myrtle Beach cost at least $100/night. God enabled me to get the best deal with even a rollin shower and it was less than $80.
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North Myrtle Beach, here we come! Tuesday morning, I picked up my angel friend that God had sent to travel with me and I was on the road again to tell ladies about all the blessings God has given me.. That nasty infection had cleared up and what I had thought might be a multiple sclerosis flareup had begun to go away. Once again I could stand up long enough to adjust my clothes and was getting stronger. It’s amazing how much faster traveling over
200 miles can go when one has someone with whom to talk and laugh. The trip was uneventful until about an hour before we reached the beach. I glanced in my rear-view mirror and saw an unmarked police car barreling towards me with flashing blue lights. I knew I was not speeding because I had my cruise control set but it was obvious he wanted me to pull over. I did so immediately and had my license ready. (After all I watch COPS TV and I knew what to expect!) He said, “Lady, you were kind of weaving back and forth.” I assured him the liquid in the cup was just ice water. I explained about my upcoming Christian speaking engagement. I told him I used to drive a van with which I never had this problem. But it was extremely windy and this van does seem to swerve more than my trusty old Ford did. (I wonder if it is because of all the heavy conversion equipment under the floor.) He told me to drive on and enjoy my Christian experience. He didn’t even reach out for my license. I breathed a sigh of relief as we drove into the Ocean Drive Beach Resort. Our oceanfront handicapped room was very nice and we spent hours “talking and snacking” and “snacking and talking.” It is amazing that we have so much in common!
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The next morning we went to The Surf Club for my speaking engagement. There were beautiful azaleas in bloom everywhere. I had planned to put my cards out for sale and as I was going in, I realized the cards were in the motel. (Well, in cases like this, my theory is “some things are not meant to be.”) I was delighted to be the speaker and I handled my notes very professionally on the new music stand which I had purchased for future use; I no longer rise from my scooter. When I was told all the beach wheelchairs were out, I was a little (no, a lot) frustrated because in three days I never saw one on the beach. It seems some wealthy condo owners have reserved them for the week or month of their annual vacation (sometimes a year ahead of time). I guess it is a good thing I’m not the one in charge, because there would definitely be some changes made! Since we couldn’t go out on the beach, we drove down to Myrtle Beach where the old pavilion had been torn down. I parked at a public access parking lot which, interestingly enough, was the same one we used when I was a child.
I have to be so careful that I not get blocked in. I sort of “created” a space. There were no signs indicating right or wrong. As soon as we reached the new boardwalk, I stopped two bicycle policemen and asked them if my van would be okay. One said it was not acceptable and I would get a ticket for sure but it would not be towed. One of the policemen said there would be plenty of room in the parking deck. When we got to the van, there was a $20 parking ticket on the windshield. I’ve never had a parking ticket before! (Talking with the Water Enforcement Officer after I returned home, I was told just to mail the ticket back to his attention.) Thanks be to God! We decided to go to the pier instead of walking the boardwalk. I was amazed that now you ride an elevator up to the pier. I thought about all those years when I had to struggle to walk up the ramp. The bait and tackle shop is now air conditioned and there was a sign on the door: “Walk on pier, $1.00.” I smiled up at the man behind the counter and said, “It says walk, but I’m not walking, I’m riding.” He smiled and said, “Well, just roll on out for free!” When I said I would pay for my friends, he told them to just walk on out as it was their “lucky” day. I could not stay on the pier long because it was even windier and at least 20 degrees colder. Vita* is from Germany and Johnny served four years there when he was in service. He knew there was a German restaurant back at North Myrtle Beach so we headed in that direction. When we arrived, she noted that the name of the restaurant was her deceased husband’s name. She said the building looked like many restaurants in Germany but did not think the food was as good. Picky little me enjoyed the desert best! There was some nice rousing accordion music but it was so noisy we couldn’t hear each other talk. We returned to the resort so we could carry on a conversation. After awhile, Johnny left for Murrell’s Inlet where he lives, Vita* went to sleep, and I sat recording my memories. There were some small fireworks exploding over the ocean and a nearly full moon shining. I can’t get my scooter across the threshold of these sliding glass doors so I just sat by the door looking out and thanking God for my blessings. *Name changed
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You Can Help Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger
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(NAPSI)—There’s hopeful news for the more than 50 million Americans who struggle with hunger.
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On Saturday, May 14, thousands of Postal Service letter carriers will be helping to “Stamp Out Hunger.” Here’s how you can join with millions of other Americans to help:
Pick-up and drop off between May23rd and June3rd, 4.00-6.00PM or by appointment
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Simply leave donations of nonperishable food items, such as canned soup, canned meats and fish, canned vegetables and fruit, as well as pasta and rice, next to your mailbox before the time of your regular mail delivery.
“With hunger striking many needy Americans recently, including working families, children and the elderly, help is needed now more than ever before,” says Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. Supporting the letter carriers in their effort to Stamp Out Hunger is entertainer/entrepreneur and host of “America’s Got Talent,” Nick Cannon. Growing up, Cannon and his family turned to their local food pantry for help during tough times and experienced firsthand the importance of efforts to feed America’s hungry. “Helping your neighbors in need is easy,” says Cannon in a public service announcement that emphasizes how the demand for food
assistance has never been greater and how easy it is to participate in this year’s drive. “Leave your donations at your mailbox and your letter carrier will do the rest.” Now in its 19th year, the Stamp Out Hunger effort is the nation’s largest single-day food drive, with more than 1 billion pounds of food donated since its inception in 1993.
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Comfort Keepers Achieves 10 Year Milestone
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10 ways to prevent hearing loss
Submitted by Lori Eberly, Comfort Keepers
Since April 2001, families throughout Rowan County have experienced the companionship and peace of mind knowing that their loved ones have been cared for through the in-home services offered by Comfort Keepers. Comfort Keepers has continued to grow year over year despite the down economy and 2011 is shaping up to be their best year yet.
additional service offerings that enable seniors to remain safely at home. Initially, we only offered Companionship and Homemaking services. In 2004 we added Personal Care Services, in 2008 we added Safety Choice Personal Emergency Response Systems and Geriatric Care Management, and in 2009 we added skilled nurs“We have been ing services. focused on providI want Coming dependable fort Keepers and compassionto be a “oneate caregiving servstop shop” ices and it is very so that we can exciting that we are make the careexperiencing such giving process as tremendous growth year seamless as possiover year. It is only natural that ble for area residents.” people want to stay in their own homes; whether they are a sen- Comfort Keepers provides inior who needs assistance or home services on an hourly, daisomeone who is recovering from ly or weekly basis with tailored an illness or injury,” said Lori packages customized to an indiEberly, owner of three area Com- vidual’s needs. Packages fort Keepers locations. include companionship, meal “Throughout the past 10 years preparation, light housekeeping, I have continuously sought out grocery shopping, incidental
transportation, laundry, recreational activities and more. Their mission is to treat each client with the respect and dignity they deserve, as though they are caring for a member of their own family. The need for personal caregivers throughout the United States is greater today then at any other point in history. With the number of seniors in the United States expected to double to 70 million in the near future, an increasing amount of families are facing the overwhelming responsibility of caring for aging loved ones. For additional information, feel free to contact Comfort Keepers at 704-630-0370 or visit their website at www.comfortkeepers.com. About Comfort Keepers®: Comfort Keepers® is a leading franchise network in the in-home care market for senior and other adults needing care. Since its founding in 1998, the network has grown to more than 600 franchised locations around the world by staying true to the founders' goal of providing quality, caring in-home care services that allow clients the opportunity to age in place. In August of 2009, the brand was strengthened even further by the purchase of the franchisor, CK Franchising, Inc., by Sodexo, one of the world's leading food and facilities management services companies and the global leader in the health care and seniors markets. For more information, visit .comfortkeepers.com
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(ARA) - Hearing loss affects more than 34 million Americans. If detected early, it may be a preventable chronic disease. Here are 10 ways to help prevent, delay or reduce the extent of hearing loss.
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Reduce exposure to loud noises.
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Take care when using cotton swabs. Don't use them to clean inside your ear canal. It can push the earwax in further and you could puncture your eardrum.
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Quit smoking.
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Eating a healthy diet, maintaining proper weight and daily exercise can help you avoid type 2 diabetes.
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Avoid excessive use of alcohol.
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Avoid organic solvents.
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Avoid medications that may cause hearing loss.
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See an audiologist.
"By offering free hearing screenings throughout the United States, we have the ability to reach many Americans who might otherwise not have access to licensed audiologists, says Dr. Kathy Landau Goodman, chairperson of the Audiology Awareness Campaign. "If you think you're experiencing hearing loss, an audiologist will help you receive a diagnosis, and then make appropriate recommendations for treating any hearing problems."
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A MOTHER'S DAY SUNRISE SURPRISE
t's true - the kitchen is the heart of the home. Ever notice how people always gather there? Whether baking treats, making dinner or spending time with family and friends, the kitchen is my favorite place to be. Since my day job is Consumer Test Kitchen Project Manager for the Nestlé Test Kitchens, you can bet I love to stir things up. This column lets me pass along to you some of my best recipes, tips and baking secrets. (Family Features) Start Mother's Day off right with a beautiful breakfast in bed. A pretty tray set with some of the good dishes and real linens, a fresh flower, and some delicious food will put a smile on mom's face that will last all day.
Golden Sunrise French Toast is made extra special with evaporated milk and a splash of vanilla extract. Make sure you use firm bread so the toast doesn't end up soggy. If she loves eggs, making Scrambled Eggs with a little evaporated milk gives them such a creamy texture that she'll want to eat them this way all the time. Add one tablespoon of evaporated milk for each egg used. Pour her a Mock Mimosa by mixing sparkling lime juice or ginger ale to orange juice. Garnish with a fresh strawberry on the rim of the glass. For more delicious ways to surprise mom on her special day, visit www.TheCookingMilk.com.
Jenny Harper is Consumer Test Kitchen Project Manager for the Nestlé Test Kitchens and VeryBestBaking.com. Photo courtesy of Nestlé
Golden Sunrise French Toast Prep: 10 minutes Cooking: 10 minutes Makes 4 to 5 servings Ingredients: 2 large eggs 1 can (12 fluid ounces) NestlÈ Carnation Evaporated Lowfat 2% Milk 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 8 to 10 slices (3/4-inch-thick) firm, day-old French bread Unsalted butter Maple syrup Fresh seasonal berries or sliced fruit HEAT large skillet over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes. BEAT eggs in shallow pan or large pie plate; whisk in evaporated milk and vanilla extract. Whisk in sugar, flour and salt. Add several slices of bread; soak without over saturating. SWIRL 1 tablespoon butter in hot skillet. Remove bread from batter, allowing excess batter to drip off; transfer prepared bread to skillet in single layer. Cook for 2 minutes or until golden brown. Turn over; cook for an additional 2 minutes or until golden. Serve immediately with syrup and berries. Continue with remaining bread slices, adding 1 tablespoon butter to skillet for each new batch.
Nutrition Information per serving: 450 calories; 120 calories from fat; 14g total fat; 7g saturated fat; 0g trans fat; 140mg cholesterol; 680mg sodium; 67g carbohydrate; 3g fiber; 28g sugars; 15g protein; 15% DV vitamin A; 6% DV vitamin C; 30% DV calcium; 15% DV iron
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Ten Key Facts About The “Gift of Life”
If you’re over the age of 50 and not currently registered as an organ, eye and tissue donor, here are 10 facts you should know about donation:
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. The need is tremendous. More than 110,000 people are on the national waiting list for an organ transplant. Each week, over 100 of them will not receive an organ in time to save their lives.
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. The United States has more than 94 million people 50 or older. If the majority of people in this age group registered as donors, imagine how many lives could be saved.
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. Eight lives or more can be saved by one donor. There are eight organs that can be recovered from a donor and transplanted. The heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, lungs and small intestines can all be transplanted.
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. Most religions in the . Any age is the right age. United States support Your age doesn’t make the gift of life as an act of charyou ineligible to register, nor do itable giving. you have to be in perfect health. . You can sign up at any age. Just nine days shy of his 93rd birthday, Carlton Blackburn became the nation’s oldest organ donor, following his death from a brain hemorrhage. Thanks to his gift, the life of a 69-year-old woman suffering from end-stage liver disease was saved.
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. People over 50 years old comprise the largest age group by far of those waiting for organ transplants; they account for about 60 percent of those on the national waiting list.
The 50-50 RuleSM: Family Feud When Families Battle Over Caregiving, Elderly Parents May Lose Submitted by Home Instead Senior Care
Family caregiving doesn’t typically run smoothly when brothers and sisters caring for seniors can’t agree. Three key factors, more than any others, will influence whether relationships between the adult children will deteriorate, and whether the quality of care to the parent will be compromised, according to research conducted for the Home Instead Senior Care® network. Those key factors are the adult children’s ability to make important decisions together; their ability to divide the caregiving workload; and their level of teamwork.
(NAPSI)—While some people may think that those over 50 are too old to donate the “gift of life,” the facts, fortunately, are otherwise. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, individuals in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond can become organ, eye and tissue donors. People over 50 can receive transplants as well. More people today are living healthier lives than those in previous generations and know the importance of exercise, healthy living and eating well. As a result, they’re in better shape than ever and able to be donors—as well as recipients— at older ages than anyone might have imagined.
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. The estate or family of an organ, eye or tissue donor incurs absolutely no cost for donation.
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. It’s easy to register. Learn how to register at organdonor.gov. Remember to tell your family members, so they can support your wishes. If you or someone you know would like to register as an organ donor, you can learn more at www.organdonor.gov—an informational website from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
To assist adult siblings in tackling the caregiving issues peacefully and productively, the Home Instead Senior Care network is introducing a local education program for sibling caregivers called The 50-50 RuleSM. The 50-50 RuleSM refers to the average age (50) when siblings are caring for their parents, and also to the need for brothers and sisters to share in the plans for the care on a 50-50 basis. The Family Feud excerpt here addresses some of the reasons that teamwork may be so difficult for siblings. “On a local level, we are very excited to be able to offer this series in our community,” said Jena Hare, Co-Owner and General Manager of Home Instead Senior Care in Salisbury and Concord. “We see firsthand how very difficult and emotional care decisions can be for the family. We witness many situations in which negative relationships and clashing personalities between siblings really threaten to interfere with the senior getting the care that they need.” Tabitha Hall, Client Care Coordinator added, “It is important to communicate any potential problems with siblings before a crisis occurs with mom or dad. Then when an issue regarding an aging parent arises; siblings can work together to ensure that their loved ones are taken care of. Caring for a mom or dad can be very stressful, but resolving issues before hand can help make the decision making process a lot easier when the time comes.” “My impression is that parents do end up getting help when their children disagree, but I think the more common problem is that it’s hard on elderly parents to know their children are in conflict,” said Ingrid Connidis, Ph.D., sibling relationships expert from the University of Western Ontario. “I think for most it’s bad enough they already need the help of their children, but if their situation is causing conflict it’s especially tough,” said Connidis, who worked with the Home Instead Senior Care network on the 50-50 RuleSM program. According to the website Caring.com, family feuds often revolve around the following areas: Roles and rivalries dating back to childhood. Mature adults often find that they're back in the sandbox when their family gets together. This tendency can grow even more pronounced under the strain of caregiving.
Disagreements over an elder’s condition and capabilities. It’s common for family members to have very different ideas about what's wrong with a loved one and what should be done about it. You may be convinced that your family member is no longer capable of driving, while your brothers argue that he needs to maintain his independence. Disagreements over financial matters, estate planning, family inheritance and other practical issues. How to pay for a family member’s care is often a huge cause of tension. Financial concerns can influence decisions about where the person should live, whether or not a particular medical intervention is needed, and whether he can afford a housekeeper. These conflicts are often fueled by ongoing resentment over income disparities and perceived inequities in the distribution of the family estate. Burden of care. Experts say the most common source of discord among family members occurs when the burden of caring for an elder isn't distributed equally. Home Instead Senior Care research reveals that in 43 percent of U.S. families, one sibling has the responsibility for providing most or all of the care for Mom or Dad. “Usually one of the adult children in the family takes on most of the caregiving tasks,” says Donna Schempp, program director at the Family Caregivers Alliance, a national nonprofit organization that provides information and support to caregivers. Engaging parents in caregiving issues is important, Dr. Connidis said, and so are family meetings that involve a third party if necessary. A third-party resource, particularly a professional such as a doctor or geriatric care manager, can provide an impartial voice of reason. “Talking before a crisis is best,” she said. “Talk to one another about perceptions of what happens if your senior needs help, how available you would be, and the options that you and your family would consider.” Resources Those who would like further information about The 5050 RuleSM or other aging-related topics will find the following resources beneficial. Community groups that would like an educator to speak on these topics may contact Home Instead Senior Care at 704-636-2010 and speak to Crystal Dickerson, Community Service Representative. The 50-50 RuleSM (www.solvingfamilyconflict.com) The 40-70 Rule® (www.4070talk.com) Caring.com (www.caring.com) Home Instead Senior Care (www.homeinstead.com) Caregiverstress.com (www.caregiverstress.com) Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions (www.stagesofseniorcare.com) (also available in all Rowan County Public Libraries)
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Rufty-Holmes Senior Center www.ruftyholmes.org Phone 704-216-7714 1120 South Boundary St., Salisbury Sponsored by Carillon Assisted Living, special entertainment will be provided. Free and open to those 85+ making advance reservations. Call 704-216-7714 for more information.
COPING WITH GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Tuesdays at 3:00pm. MOVIE OF THE MONTH: WednesPre-registration is not necessary. day, May 25 at 2:00pm. Come out No cost to participate. and appreciate Memorial Day by viewing “Taking Chance,” the stoBLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS: ry of a fallen nineteen year old US Wednesday, May 4 from 9:30- Marine returning home from Iraq 10:30am. Free blood pressure for burial. readings and consultation for interested older adults. NEW GENTLE TAI CHI CLASS: Begins Thursday, May 19. A HANDMADE ALL OCCASION CARD beginner level class designed to WORKSHOP: Wednesday, May 4 reduce stress and improve flexiat 1:00pm. Cost is $12 per per- bility & balance. Suitable for oldson payable upon arrival. Advance er adults with arthritis. Class registration is required by calling meets each Thursday at 4:00pm the Center at 704-216-7714. for six-weeks. Class fee is $15. BASIC CAKE DECORATING CLASS: Begins May 10. Class meets from 1-3pm on Tuesdays for four weeks (May 10-31). $20 registration fee plus $30 fee for materials kit provided by instructor. Fees payable on first day of class, but pre-registration is required by calling 704216-7714.
Enjoy BINGO every Tuesday from 1-3pm for $1.25.
AARP DRIVER SAFETY CLASS: Wednesday, May 11 beginning at 12:30pm at the Senior Center. For older drivers interested in a four-hour training class in refining existing driving skills and developing defensive driving techniques. Insurance discounts are available for those completing the course. Cost is $12 for AARP members, and $14 for non-members, payable upon arrival for class. Space is limited, so you must pre-register by calling 704216-7714.
APPOINTMENTS FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE: The service is free to low-income adults age 60 or older. For information, and to schedule an appointment, call the NC Legal Aide office at 1-877-5797562 and identify yourself as an older adult residing in Rowan County.
“SERVICE TO SENIORS” AWARDS LUNCHEON: Friday, May 13 at noon. Several individuals, organizations, and businesses will be honored for exemplary service to older adults in our community. The luncheon is open to the public. Tickets are $7.00 at the door, but reservations are required by calling 704-216-7714 by May 11. “I-85 LUNCHEON”: Monday, May 23 at 11:30am. In recognition of Older Americans Month, the center will host its seventh annual luncheon to honor members of the community who are age 85 plus.
Enjoy CARD & GAME DAY Thursdays from 1-4pm. Free with refreshments.
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VETERAN SERVICES: For an appointment, call 704-216-8138.
FAMILY PHYSICIANS affiliated with Novant Health
EXTENDED HOURS 7am - 6pm Monday - Thursday
BROADCAST BINGO: Win prizes by listening daily to Memories 1280 Radio. Contact Thomasina Paige at 704-216-7720 to enroll and for more information. Free.
Both locations now open at 7am
Salisbury Saturday 8am - 11am Sunday 1pm - 4pm
LISTEN TO “SENIOR MOMENTS” DAILY MONDAY-FRIDAY AT 6:25am & 10:25am ON MEMORIES 1280 WSAT RADIO,
China Grove Saturday 12:30pm - 2pm
RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, MAY 30 FOR THE MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY. THE RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL MEET ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 AT 11:00AM. MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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When Cancer Hits Home Submitted by Suzanne Pearson Rose of Carillon Assisted Living
For the past four years, Carillon Assisted Living has held an event called Duck Days Races for a Cure in May. The festivities take place in the front parking lot of our facility on Mooresville Road, and all profits go to The American Cancer Society. The event “piggybacks” off of the Rowan County Relay for Life (held the night before at the fairgrounds) and features wacky duck races down water flumes, prizes, food, crafts, home businesses and yard sale vendors. Table spaces are free of charge, but each participant is asked to make a donation of their choice at the end of the morning. This year, Relay for Life and Duck Days have taken on a whole new meaning at Carillon. Throughout the years, many residents and family members have lost their battles with cancer. Some are still battling the disease, and even more are considered survivors. But little is ever mentioned about how the disease affects our staff. We have all been touched by this disease in one way or another, and there are many survivors amongst us. The past six months, however, have been exceptionally difficult. In late 2010, our beloved Resident Care Director was diagnosed with breast cancer. A long-time Med Tech had to go on permanent disability in order to deal with cervical cancer and heart issues complicating her pregnancy. More than one member of our staff had cancer scares, enduring weeks of tests and waiting before finding out that, thankfully, that they did not have the disease. Then, in early 2011, cancer hit home personally for me. I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of melanoma, and my life changed forever. My family and I have dealt with several devastat-
ing medical issues over the past few years. Throughout that time, I have often heard countless cancer patients say that cancer changed their lives forever. Many claim that it changed them for the better. I’ve personally witnessed that change in friends and family members. Now, I am one of those people. While my situation could be far worse, this is a battle I will fight for the rest of my life. More importantly, it is a battle that I will fight for all cancer patients. The love generated from our Carillon family has been incredible. All of us affected by this disease are keenly aware of how fortunate we are to have such a tremendous support network. For that reason, we decided to step up our fundraising efforts this year and form Relay for Life team, and make this the most profitable Duck Days event ever. Please support those who have lost a loved one to cancer, as well as the many survivors who will be a part of the 2011 Duck Day Races for a Cure. Visit Carillon Assisted Living of Salisbury on May 14th from 8am until noon and see how excited we are to be a part of the tremendous movement to eradicate cancer. For those who would like to set up vendor or yard sale tables, there is no cost for space. All we ask is that you make a donation of your choice to Relay for Life or the American Cancer Society. For more information or to reserve vendor space, contact us at 704.633.4666, or email me at suzanne.rose@carillonassistedliving.com. One person can make a difference, but many working together can move mountains. Cancer is not a sentence, it is a word. Together, we can make that word a thing of the past.
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Promoting Across America Hearing Check Challenge during Better Speech and Hearing Month Submitted by Dr. April Pittman
May 1 marks the start of Better Hearing and Speech Month, a month dedicated to educating consumers about the need to assure that their hearing is healthy. This year, Salisbury Audiology and Hearing Aid Services is joining the Better Hearing and Speech Council (BHSC) in promoting the Across America Hearing Check Challenge www.hearingcheck.org –an online hearing test that lets individuals quickly and confidentially determine if they need a comprehensive hearing check by a hearing professional. Salisbury Audiology and Hearing Aid Services is urging everyone in Rowan County to rise to the challenge, visit www.hearingcheck.org, and walk through a simple, 15-question self-screener in the privacy of their own homes. “We know that unaddressed hearing loss seriously undercuts a person’s quality of life and has a tremendous impact on relationships,” says audiologist, Dr. April Pittman. “We see it every day in our practice and hear it from our patients and their concerned family members and friends. “We also know that too many people wait years, even decades, before getting treatment—either unaware of the extent of their hearing loss or too afraid to confront it—losing out on so much. That’s Salisbury Audiology and Hearing Aid Services is so excited about this updated, simple, and interactive screening check that couples, families, and anyone else can use in the comfort and privacy of their own homes. By visiting www.hearingcheck.org, members
of our community can take the first, most critical step in reclaiming their hearing—and their quality of life. And when they’re ready to take that next step—and get a professional assessment— we’re here and ready to help.” The signs of hearing loss can be subtle and emerge slowly, or they can be significant and come on suddenly. Either way, there are common indications. Symptoms of hearing loss include not being able to hear well in a crowded room or restaurant, having trouble hearing children and women, keeping the television or radio turned up to a high volume, needing to ask friends to repeat what they're saying, or experiencing ringing in the ears. “Research shows that hearing health affects everything from job performance and income to personal relationships,” says Sergei Kochkin, PhD, executive director of the Better Hearing Institute and a leading member of the BHSC. “Increasingly, research shows a correlation between hearing loss and other chronic medical conditions including diabetes, heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and Alzheimer’s.” During Better Hearing and Speech Month, Salisbury Audiology also is warning people of the financial dangers of leaving hearing loss unaddressed. People with untreated hearing loss lose as much as $30,000 in income annually, depending on their degree of hearing loss. The cost to society is estimated at $26 billion each year in unrealized federal taxes. To those with
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April Pittman, AuD is an audiologist at Salisbury Audiology and Hearing Aid Services located at 644 Statesville Blvd. Dr. Pittman can be contacted at 704-633-6775. For more information, check www.salisburyaudiology.com.
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