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COMMENCEMENT FESTIVITIES

Arts Council dedicates event to Zimmerman ‘She’s here in spirit,’ those at Easy Street gathering say

BY MARK WINEKA mwineka@salisburypost.com

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A television cameraman follows Martha rhea hartley Platt, who graduated in 1959 but didn’t get to march with fellow graduates until saturday’s commencement at Keppel Auditorium.

Catawba graduates urged to put what they’ve learned in academic studies to good use in life

BY MARK WINEKA mwineka@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — As with any commencement, Catawba College graduates Saturday received solid advice.

Board of Trustees Chairman Paul Fisher told them to carry two words with them the rest of their lives —

thank you.

“And they will serve you well,” Fisher said.

Commencement speaker D.G. Martin encouraged the graduates to be good to their school as alumni: “When you help lift it up, it lifts you up as well,” he said.

Catawba College President Joe Ox-

endine said the real tests for the graduates begin now that the minor tests in things such as math and biology are over.

“From now until you retire from your life’s work, and thereafter, you are going to be tested on how effec- All those who

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May a month to remember for Bumgardners S MARK WINEKA

ALISBURY — In the personal history books of Kimberly and Philip Bumgardner, May 2011 will deserve its own chapter.

Married 28 years, the Bumgardners graduated Saturday magna cum laude from Catawba College — each with a degree in business administration.

Family members, including their children, 26-year-old Adam and 25-yearold Julianna, filled the good portion of a row at Keppel Auditorium.

But Saturday was just a prelude to

an even bigger event for Kimberly and Phil this coming Saturday.

Julianna is getting married.

Did we mention it’s a big month.

Over the past three years, the Bumgardners spent close to four hours on Monday and Thursday nights and Saturday mornings attending Catawba College’s evening undergraduate classes.

SALISBURY — In spirit, Joan Zimmerman was here.

Eight years ago, Zimmerman played a lead role in founding Art on Easy Street, which once again Saturday attracted art, craft and food vendors; live music and dancing; and various “Family Fun Day” stations for children to create their own works of art.

Zimmerman died Friday morning after an illness, and the Rowan Arts Council, for which she had worked tirelessly in the past, dedicated Saturday’s ZIMMERMAN festival to her.

“Physically, she would not have been able to be here,” Shirl Hull, coordinator for Art on Easy Street said Saturday, “but she’s here in spirit today.”

In 2008, the Arts Council established the Zimmerman Award, also known as “The Zimmy,” as an annual recognition to a volunteer who contributed significantly to the arts in Rowan County.

She also had received a “Lifetime Service to the Arts” award for her outstanding volunteer service to the arts and contributions to the quality of life in Rowan County.

“She was instrumental at one point to keep the Arts Council alive,” Hull said, recalling when Zimmerman had to step in as an interim executive director and president to help keep things going.

Hull said it was fitting that so many of the performers Saturday were youth, because Zimmerman was a lifelong educator.

Except for rain, which diminished the early crowds, Art on Easy Street worked with a precision that would have made Zimmerman proud. The Liberty Street stage went up quickly, performers were on time and vendors set up early.

“Everything has been running like clockwork,” Hull said close to 1 p.m. when it was still raining. “I just feel bad, of course, for the vendors, because they’ve come from near and far.”

Sunshine came pouring through later in the afternoon.

One thing the rain couldn’t put a damper on was the enthusiasm among children and their parents for the Family Fun Day art projects in the high-and-dry F&M Trolley Barn.

“This is the third year we’ve come,” Tanya Restar said while her children, Isabella, 3, and Tristan, 5, colored and cut paper on one of their projects. “It’s a free day to spend with your family, and it teaches them to appreciate art.”

The beauty of it, Restar added, is that they can duplicate some of the projects at

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Kim and Phil Bumgardner

906 degrees

Hood Seminary graduates 52

This year’s class now largest in RCCC history

New scholarships and endowment announced

BY HUGH FISHER hfisher@salisburypost.com

BY LEE ANN SIDES

science, technology, engineering and math.

The N.C. STEM Community Collaborative helps communities throughout North Caroli-

SALISBURY — Asking God in prayer to “convict, convert and consecrate” those who gathered there, the faculty and staff of Hood Theological Seminary held commencement exercises Saturday.

The celebration, in hymns, prayers and words of wisdom, took place on the lawn behind the campus.

Twelve candidates received doctor of ministry degrees.

Thirty students received master of divinity degrees, and two were hugh fisher/for the sALIsBUrY Post awarded the master’s degree in the- Dr. Bothwell Mbuwayesango flew from Zimbabwe ological studies. as a surprise for his sister, Professor Dora

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Jordan Corriher believes he made a good choice when he decided to go to college.

“It was tough, but it went fast,” Corriher says. “I’m glad I decided to do it.”

Corriher’s choice made him part of history. Rowan-Cabarrus Community College celebrated its largest graduating class in the history of the college on Saturday. Dr. Carol Spalding raised her hand as she reported 906 students graduated from RCCC this year.

Graduates ranged in age from 17 to 69 with the average age being 33. There were also 416 graduates of the GED program.

Spalding said, “79 percent of today’s graduates are STEM graduates.” STEM stands for

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Jordan Corriher stands with parents Crystal and Joel Corriher at rCCC on saturday.

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Bachelor of Arts: Nakiyyah Milan Adams, Alexa Rae Baird (magna cum laude), Angela Hope Banks, Cassandra M. Bell, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Benjes, Erin Jennette Blalock Blackburn (cum laude), Zachary Andrew Blackmore, Christina Caldemeyer, Claire Hillard Cantu, Roy Eugene Carter, Jr., Jaclyn Alethia Chapman, Christopher Moore Clowers, Brandon Lee Coble, Meredith Ann Corl, Isiaette Nicole Darden, Jennifer Lynn Drake (cum laude), Kelli Ferguson, Susan R. Fisher, Carolyn Foster, Elizabeth Ann Foye, C.M. Garrison (cum laude), Zane Thomas Gibson, Jessica H. Gilmore (magna cum laude), Samuel Ryan Edward Glidewell, Peter D. Glisson, Jessica Nicole Goble, Bradley Shane Hamrick, Kelci Kristina Hardison, Carrie Elizabeth Harris (magna cum laude), Stephanie Michelle Hill (magna cum laude), Caitlin Derry Hitzeman, Jaimie Nicole Horton, William Tyler Howe, Mason Alexander Jewett, Kaylee S. Johnson, Toni Anjanette Jones, Jessica Lee Jordan, Kendra Diane Joyner (magna cum laude), Justin Louis Kamm, Mark Lee Ketterer (summa cum laude), Stephanie Diane Key, Jacqueline Erin Kidd (cum laude), Merrissa Elaine Kuylen, Brittany Michele Locklear, Yolanda Kay McClure, Walter Gerard McDonough, Shannon Rosalie McLain (cum laude), Irasema Nohemi Medrano, Alecia Marsha Meeks (cum laude), Joshua Thomas Meredith, Erica Farris Mickey, Adam Christopher Monteith, Matthew Blake Moore, Anthony Louis Mullins II, Lyle Alan Naber, Mary Alice Nichols, Zachary Talmadge Owen (magna cum laude), Zachary James Parisian, Elizabeth Kathryn Parsons, Austen Matthew Peters (magna cum laude), Michael Aaron Procton, Howard Anthony Richardson, Jr. Laura Elaine Ritchie (summa cum laude), Laura Whitney Sale (summa cum laude), Veronica Blair Sanders, Rebecca Lucille Scott (cum laude), Meredith Shultz, Vanessa Galera Silva (magna cum laude), Elizabeth Nicole Sloop (magna cum laude), Elizabeth Rose Smith, Tiffany Frances Sowers, Adam Charles Stolzenberg, Stephen Patrick Stringer, Andrew Tyson Tamer, Jacquelyn Leigh Thompson, Katherine Rose Tierney, Alexsandra Christine Turchin, Patrick C. Vickers, Mark Alexander Walpole, Kristopher Ruben Watson (magna cum laude), Richard Eugene Weaver, Jr., Matthew Charles Whitley, Molly Suzanne Williams, Sean Christian Williams, Brittany Rae Wyatt, Robert Anthony Wyrick, Philip Aaron Yarbrough (cum laude), Felicia Kailey Youngblood (cum laude).

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Katherine Ellen Haeuser (cum laude), Christopher Monroe Herring, Chad Michael Innis (magna cum laude), Shanna Locklair, Zachary H. Lynch, Amber Dawn McCleerey (cum laude), Ryan Bradley O'Hare (cum laude), Zachary Tyler Roe, Mara Lee Stewart (magna cum laude).

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Festival cooks up crowd Barbecue fans gather in Spencer

BY HUGH FISHER hfisher@salisburypost.com

SPENCER — The third annual Salisbury Barbecue Festival filled the streets of Spencer with satisfying smoke on Saturday.

Though the event is called the Salisbury Barbecue Festival, contestants from throughout the county came to Spencer.

All of them brought their own special recipes. The kind you only get to learn through years of practice, or knowing someone who knows the tradition.

And throughout the afternoon, good-natured debates took place.

Slaw on the barbecue sandwich, or no slaw?

Vinegar sauce or tomato?

And, if tomato sauce is your thing, do you go for ketchupbased or something homemade?

Rae Boger’s secret — part of it, at least — is sun-dried tomatoes.

“That sauce was four years in the making,” Boger said. She and Wayne HinsHaW/FoR ThE sAlisBuRy posT husband Dan form the team Dale Ashman tries a taste of susan hagler’s barbecue from the Blowin’ smokers Team. called D/RB Barbecue.

Family friends call it “that darn sauce,” she said, especially The Central Piedmont Comwhen they’ve run out. munity College student said his “They can’t get their bottle competition wasn’t expecting filled fast enough,” she said. him.

And, of course, Rae won’t spill Anderson’s barbecue was the beans on what’s in the secret pulled pork, Carolina style, but recipe. with a mixed sauce — tomato and It has a hint of vinegar. citrus, and a litThe tomato tle bit of heat at sauce gives it a the finish. The good finish, Anrest is just art. derson said.

D/BR took His friends third place in the gladly served day’s competiout samples, or tion. Not bad for full-size sandpeople who cook wiches, of the barbecue as a winning recipe. hobby.

There weren’t Second place a lot of solutions went to Patterto those age-old son Porkery, questions of from western which barbecue Rowan. (No conis best. nection to PatterBut the afterson Farm.) noon offered visThe day’s big itors a chance to winner was a Food writer Jana Erwin, from sample different surprise con- Washington, D.C., provided the styles while also tender: Notori- recipe for Cheerwine truffles in seeing some of ous BBQ, the variety dark and white chocolate and the team headed by Rowan County’s culinary-student barbecue cookies. chefs have to ofAlfred Anderfer. son.

Also on hand were local The Salisbury resident had craftspeople and vendors. some helping hands from Char- Rowan County’s wineries were lotte, assisting him with his cook- on hand to pair local wines with er, but the sauce and the skill are different varieties of barbecue. all his.

And there were assorted “I feel like I’m new to the snacks for those who had already game,” Anderson said, with a had their fill of barbecue. The pleased grin, after the awards Rae Boger with D/RB Barbecue from China Grove pours her See FESTIVAL, 6A special spicy sauce onto a sandwich of Texas-style pork. had been announced.

KANNAPOLIS — A Kannapolis native and A.L. Brown High School graduate will receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., this week.

Zebetta King is one of 85 teachers across the nation, and one of two in North Carolina, selected for the award this year. The teachers will meet President Obama during the ceremony.

King, who teaches in the Wake County School System, won in the science teaching category.

King has taught for 19 KING years and was at Swift Creek Elementary School when she was nominated last year. She now works as a senior administrator for elementary school science.

The award is the highest a math or science teacher can receive in the U.S. Winners are selected by a panel of scientists, mathematicians and educators, and each receives $10,000 from the National Science Foundation to be used at their discretion.

In addition to the awards ceremony, the teachers will spend several days in Washington for educational and celebratory events, and they will meet members of Congress and the Obama administration.

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Federal officials to assess needs in West End

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SALISBURY — Federal housing officials will visit Salisbury this week to advise local leaders as they compete for up to $30 million to transform the West End community.

The team from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offices in Washington, D.C., and Greensboro will spend all day Tuesday and Wednesday morning participating in brainstorming and planning sessions.

The federal officials are making a site visit as Salisbury prepared to compete for a Choice Neighborhoods Grant.

The city and the Salisbury Housing Authority in March won a $170,000 planning grant to compile the application, which will take more than a year.

The vision of Sam Foust, director for the Salisbury Housing Authority, includes demolishing and rebuilding Civic Park Apartments and redeveloping the surrounding neighborhood.

The HUD team visit will be led by Marianne Nazzaro from the D.C. office.

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Incentives package could bring 70 jobs to Rowan County SALISBURY — A company wanting to buy land for a project in Granite Quarry could bring $10 million and as many as 70 jobs to Rowan County.

The Rowan County Board of Commissioners will hear about the project at 6 p.m. Monday on the second floor of the J. Newton Cohen Sr. Rowan County Administration Building.

Commissioners then will schedule a public hearing about proposed economic incentives for the company.

According to a memo by RowanWorks director Robert Van Geons, Cold Storage LLC plans to build a 100,000-square-foot cold storage

warehouse to store a variety of frozen foods.

If it builds this warehouse in Granite Quarry, the group would invest $10 million in the county and employ 40 people, with employment expected to grow to 70.

“This is a competitive project, with the company considering multiple locations,” Van Geons wrote.

Cold Storage is interested in a 114.3-acre property owned by the county on Heilig Road.

In lieu of the standard annual incentive grant, RowanWorks is requesting that the county consider selling 22 acres of the property for the company’s offer of $15,000 per acre, for a total of $330,000. It also asks that the county grant a “right of first refusal” for 23 adjacent acres, which Cold Storage has re-

quested for future expansion.

In addition, RowanWorks requests that the county consider sharing the cost of a local grant match for infrastructure with the town of Granite Quarry.

According to Van Geons, the town has said it is willing to apply for a Community Development Block Grant to fund about $1 million of necessary water, sewer and road improvements at the site.

“In addition to serving this operation, the proposed infrastructure improvements would dramatically improve the marketability and increase the value of the remaining 90 (or so) acres of county-owned land,” Van Geons wrote.

The grant would fund 75 percent of these improvements, and Granite Quarry is asking that Rowan Coun-

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The county would keep an estimated $205,000 from the sale of the Heilig Road site as well as the improved value of the remaining property, Van Geons wrote.

Also at Monday’s meeting, commissioners plan to: • Consider a request for the sheriff’s office to apply for fiscal year 2011 COPS hiring program (CHP) funds to hire three middle school resource officers. Due to budget cutbacks, the school system stopped funding middle school resource officers on June 30, 2009.

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• Authorize the board of elections to apply for a $5,000 ADA grant, which does not require matching funds from the county. The state grant would be used to alter the entrance to the one-stop voting site at the Rowan Public Library headquarters to ensure the site is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. • Approve the use of pyrotechnics for a July 4 fireworks display at Elks Lodge Campground on Long Ferry Road.

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Collision snarls traffic on Interstate 85 CONCORD — A two-vehicle collision blocked a lane of southbound Interstate 85 Saturday evening just north of mile-marker 58 in Cabarrus County.

The N.C. State Highway Patrol was investigating the accident, which involved a tractor-trailer and van, according to reports. The accident occurred about 6 p.m.

In an I-85 accident in Rowan County near Peeler Road, a car reportedly overturned, but no one was injured. The accident was called in about 6:20 p.m.

WEST END FROM 3a Foust has invited members of all partner organizations involved in the grant application process to attend as many events as possible. The site visit begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Salisbury Housing Authority and ends at 7:30 p.m. at the West End Community and Business Center.

The wrap-up conference and exit summary will run from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m.

Wednesday at the Salisbury Housing Authority.

The HUD team also will make a public presentation Tuesday during the Salisbury City Council meeting, which begins at 4 p.m.

A stakeholders meeting is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the West End Community and Business Center.

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SALISBURY — A ceremony Tuesday will pay tribute to law enforcement officers who have given their lives in the line of duty and honor those who continue to serve.

The 2011 Rowan County Peace Officers Memorial Service will take place at First Presbyterian Church, 308 W. Fisher Street.

Organized by the Salisbury Police Department and Rowan County Sheriff’s Office during National Police Week, the service is open to the public.

The service will begin at noon with the Salisbury Police Honor Guard’s posting of colors, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by the Law Enforcement Explorers.

The explorers will place a wreath before the ceremony.

The service will include prayer, music and a reading of the names of officers across the state who lost thier lives in the past year, as well as local officers who have died in the line of duty since 1927.

“We encourage our citizens to attend this memorial service as we honor those brave men and women who so selflessly gave their lives in service for others. The loss for their families is beyond measure and we offer our sincere comfort and prayers,” Salisbury Police Chief Rory Collins said in a press release. “The dedication and unyielding valor of these officers will never be forgotten. Their insistent

desire to protect and serve others will remain a beacon unto our hearts forever.”

Salisbury Mayor Susan Kluttz said in the press release that the service will also allow the city to “take this opportunity to extend our appreciation to all law enforcement officers for the valiant service they provide throughout our community.”

“We pray for their continued safe return home to family and friends each day,” Kluttz said. “It is with the greatest dignity and respect that we express our appreciation to our many law enforcement professionals. You serve a far greater purpose than yourselves and for that sincere dedication, we offer our everlasting gratitude.”

ASHEVILLE (AP) — An enzyme found in cheese triggered false drug test results that led Buncombe County deputies to think a man with 91 pounds of tortilla dough was actually carrying that much cocaine, the sheriff said.

Antonio Hernandez spent four days in jail in Asheville earlier this month before tests by a state lab came back showing he was carrying food.

A deputy stopped Hernandez on May 1 and found what turned out to be a mix of cheese, shrimp and tortilla and tamale dough in his truck.

A portable kit used by deputies indicated the mixture was illegal drugs.

Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan said he didn’t know until this case that some

foods, like cheese, can give false positives on field drug tests. He plans to have his officers talk to the company that makes the tests.

Officials at the state lab said they have seen false positive drug test results from food before, but it is rare.

Hernandez’s arrest angered Latino groups, who said he was targeted because of his race. He came to the United States in 1985 to harvest grapes and strawberries and became a legal resident four years later. He currently works for a carpet cleaning company in Carson, Calif., and was taking vacation to drive across the country and see his sister in Johnson City, Tenn., for the first time in nearly a decade.

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King spent the last three years teaching fourth- and fifth-grade academically gifted students at Swift Creek Elementary before accepting the administrative position with Wake County schools.

She has served on the Wake County Elementary Science Steering Committee and led in developing curriculum documents to supplement the N.C. Science Standard Course of Study. She has presented professional development trainings at national, regional and local science education leadership institutes and conferences.

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Brandon Bunn had the initials ‘AGB’ on his cap for his sister during the Catawba College graduation ceremony in Keppel Auditorium.

CATAWBA fRoM 1A tively you put into practice those lessons that you have learned in your academic studies,” Oxendine said.

Student Government President Kendra Joyner reminded her fellow graduates that in a lifetime filled with labels, they were finally shedding the one identifying them as “college student” and taking on the one that says “ ‘adult,’ — whatever that means.”

Being college students allowed them “to explore who we are,” make mistakes and “change our minds as much as we changed our majors,” Joyner said. It was a label that came with celebrations, all-night studies, bed bugs (that got a laugh), friends and growth.

“Let’s take all this place has given us and move forward,” said Joyner, who will be attending Yale Divinity School in the fall.

Catawba College had two commencement ceremonies Saturday at Keppel Auditorium, with large crowds at each one. The morning commencement included 194 day students, a geographically diverse group from 20 states and five countries. They ranged in age from 21 to 43, though the median age was 23.

The afternoon commencement encompassed students in the School of Evening and Graduate Studies. All of these 102 students were from North Carolina, ranging in age from 22 to 63, with a median age of 38.

The day had its special moments and important awards. It marked the last graduation ceremony for two of college’s best known and longestserving professors.

Dr. Bethany Sinnott, professor of English and noted Shakespearean scholar, is retiring after 42 years with Catawba.

Dr. Sanford Silverburg, professor of political science and noted authority on Israel and the Middle East, is stepping down after 40 years on the Catawba faculty.

Both Sinnott and Silverburg received long ovations from the morning audience.

Another retiring faculty member who could not attend was Dr. George Drum, a professor of biology and chemistry who had been at Catawba College for 23 years. He retired in December.

The Whitener Awards, the most prestigious given to graduating seniors, went to Joyner, a religion and philosophy major from Rock Springs, Wyo., and Mark Ketterer, a mathematics major and soccer team captain from Hamilton, N.J. The Whitener medals honor a

Mason Jewett gets a kiss from his wife, Christia, before the ceremony. male and female in the graduating class who embody qualities of good character, leadership and scholarship. Both recipients were highly active in the school and community.

In the afternoon session, the Barbara Andrews Award went to Charles Lester Campbell of Concord.

The award, named for the first director of the School of Evening and Graduate Studies, goes to the person who embodies the attributes of character, leadership and scholarship.

The selection is made by the Catawba College faculty from the six graduating seniors in the program with the highest grade-point averages.

On Saturday, Campbell received a business administration degree. He has served as director of network services for TIAA-CREF for the past year and is a former executive for Bank of America.

He also has held positions with Piedmont Technology Group, Arthur Anderson & Company, and Moore & Van Allen. Campbell and his wife, Becky, have three children, ages 12, 14 and 16.

Education major Hannah Thomas of Robbins hasn’t found a teaching job yet.

BUMGARDNERS fRoM 1A On the 25-minute ride from Kannapolis, they often ate their dinners in the car, hurrying from their jobs with Castle & Cooke North Carolina, where Kim is an assistant to President Lynne Scott Safrit and Phil is a property manager, working mostly out of the research campus’ Core Lab. Then there was the homework outside of class, with various projects due or big tests on the horizon. Though they often took many of the same courses, the Bumgardners discovered their study habits were quite different.

Phil, 50, needed space and quiet. Kim, 48, liked to review her material by saying everything out loud.

“He hates that,” Kim says.

But the couple found Catawba College’s program practical and doable, as each block had nine classroom sessions devoted to one subject.

“The accelerated program is so good because you just focus on that one class,” Kim

RCCC fRoM 1A na ensure that all students are career and college ready by engaging in rigorous and relevant science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education that provides them with good choices in life and bolsters the economic strength of their communities.

“It also stands for strategy that engages the mind,” Spalding said.

Those receiveing master of education degrees in the afternoon included Rebecca Y. Byerly, Elizabeth Jessup Callicutt, Tammy Lee Currie, Gina Austin Durham, Stephanie Carol Flammang, Sara Ann Kull, Lauren Freeman Lambeth, Pamela Jean Long, Julie Crista Seuberling, April Barger Spry and Leigh Griffin Yelton.

A highly sentimental moment came Saturday morning when 87year-old Martha Rhea Hartley Platt of Salisbury was the first person to walk across the stage when degrees were given out.

Platt received her bachelor’s degree from Catawba College in 1959 but missed the chance to participate in the graduation. She remedied her one long regret Saturday and officially accepted her diploma at the graduation ceremony.

Waiting outside before leading the processional in, Platt said she woke up at 3 a.m. and couldn’t go back to sleep.

“I haven’t been this thrilled and excited for a long time,” she said.

Hannah Thomas of Robbins walked into the auditorium Saturday with a cardboard sign that said, “Will Work for Food,” betraying the uncertainty many of the Catawba graduates are feeling as they enter the workforce.

Thomas is looking for a teaching position in physical education and has applied for jobs in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. Her brother handed her the sign before she went in.

Thomas, whose mother is a Catawba graduate, said she made great friends at the school and would encourage any high school senior to consider it as an educational option.

The school is small enough that she knew virtually every senior accepting his or her diploma Saturday, Thomas said.

Elizabeth Smith came to Catawba College from Cleveland, Ohio, to be part of a Division II golf team.

She also had no regrets and hopes to become a teaching professional while going to graduate school in sports management at either Cleveland State or Kent State.

Smith said she loved the travel with the golf team and thinks she has become a better golfer with the help of Coach Sam Gealy.

Catawba College also is a choice sometimes for students who grew up in Rowan County. Elizabeth Sloop, a West Rowan High graduate, received her Catawba College diploma Saturday in elementary education.

A Martha West Teaching Fellow, Sloop did her student teaching at Millbridge Elementary and, in the short term, will be a substitute teacher at Overton Elementary un-

says. The couple learned to schedule their time and “once you get in a groove,” Phil says, they were able to manage full-time jobs and full-time school.

Catawba College’s fall and spring semesters each consisted of four blocks, with each block four weeks long. The summer also offered two blocks, meaning the Bumgardners could attend 10 blocks a year, as well as participate in bi-weekly or online courses.

During each block there were nine class meetings, four each on Monday and Thursday evenings (6-9:45 p.m.) and one Saturday session (8-11:45 a.m.).

To be considered a full-time student, Kim and Phil each had to take 12 hours per semester.

As with other bachelor degree graduates, both Kim and Phil also had to complete a minimum of 120 semester hours. By taking 30 hours per year, most evening undergraduate students complete the program in four years.

But by transferring some credits they previously had — Kim had taken some accounting courses, and Phil already had an associate degree in network management — the Bumgardners finished in three years.

Grace Mynatt, graduation speaker, spoke of the importance of being qualified. “It is our choices that make us qualified,” Mynatt said.

Mynatt, wife of the late auto dealership owner Ben Mynatt, informed the graduates how the choices she made affected her life. She married young, she says, when she was 19 and her husband was 21.

“He had no job. We had no money,” Mynatt said. “And we definitely had no common sense.”

Back then, there weren’t many choices for women.

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Catawba College President Dr. Joseph oxendine has a little trouble presenting the Whitener Medal to Kendra Diane Joyner, who was honored as the most outstanding female in the senior class. til the end of the school year.

Catawba College gave Sloop a chance to travel to places such as New York, Washington, Savannah and Atlanta. But staying based in Rowan County the past four years had its advantages, too.

“I was able to live at home and save a lot of money that way,” Sloop said, adding it also allowed her to remain active in her church and community.

Martin, the commencement speaker, said he noticed some familiar themes when he looked back to see advice other Catawba graduating classes had received.

It included encouragement to fol-

Retiring professor Dr. Bethany Sinnott got a standing ovation as she was honored for her 42 years of teaching.

“We tried to take as many classes together as possible,” Kim says, adding later, “it was great competition when we had the same class.“ Safrit, a Catawba College graduate and member of its board of trustees, encouraged Kim to get her degree — something that Kim had never made a priority. A 1981 graduate of South Rowan High School, she married Phil when she was 19 and raising their family soon took over.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” Kim says. “It’s a big accomplishment.”

After her first semester of going it alone, Kim told Phil, “You need to do this.”

“He caught up because he had some credits,” she adds. Phil’s work experience through the years has led him through engineering and network administration jobs, mainly in manufacturing.

“It will open more doors,” Phil says of having a four-year degree.

Kim says her toughest course was management finance — “I cried through that class,” she says. Phil smiles when he adds, “I didn’t think any of them were particularly difficult.”

It probably should be mentioned that Kim

“You didn’t even consider criminal justice,” Mynatt said. “The main goal was to snare a good husband rather quickly.”

Mynatt says the decision to attend college was a great one and the day the pair graduated together was one of the proudest moments in her life.

Joel Corriher felt the same pride as he watched his son walk across the stage and receive the same degree he had received: an associate In applied science degree in electrical/ electronics technology. Jordan will join the family business, Corri-

low your own path; be loyal and positive; be a person of hope, faith and love; and be proud.

Martin advised the 2011 graduates to take their parents out to lunch soon — “and I want you to pay, your relationship with them has changed.”

But beyond that, Martin advised the graduates to take a pen and notebook to the lunch and ask their parents to share the most important lessons they have learned.

Pay attention, Martin said, it will be more useful than any advice they’ve ever received from a commencement speaker.

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has been in a wheelchair since 1989, the result of complications from lupus. The college’s Administration Building, the oldest on campus, was sometimes tough to maneuver.

“There’s only so much you can do with a building like that,” she says.

Otherwise, the wheelchair was never an issue standing in the way of her education.

She and Phil even served as junior marshals at last year’s graduation.

“What I loved was that the professors didn’t treat me any differently,” Kim says.

Phil hears this and disagrees.

“They all liked you more than they did me,” he complains.

The Bumgardners consider themselves on an educational roll and are looking at possibly pursuing master’s degrees through night classes at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte or online classes through East Carolina University.

Now that they are Catawba College graduates, the couple hope to be involved in the school as alumni.

But first there’s a wedding to attend.

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her Well Drilling in China Grove.

Heather McGee says college was an easy choice for her. McGee received her diploma in Dental Assisting.

“When I got braces, I knew I wanted to do it,” McGee said. “I love my teeth.”

McGee, 19, of China Grove, says graduating “feels awesome” and wants to continue her education to go even further in her career.

Mynatt commended the graduates for making good choices.

“None of us in this room have

been untouched by the economic changes,” Mynatt said. “It is too easy to dismiss the opportunity for change.”

Mynatt’s children now own automotive dealerships of their own.

Jordan Corriher hopes he can make the same choice and take over the family business one day.

“I think he’s made great choices,” Jordan’s mother Crystal said. “I’m proud to be his mother.”

“I think he’s done good,” Joel Corriher said. “He’s ready to go to work now.”

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East Carolina University, churches address obesity

BY KIM GRIZZARD The Daily Reflector of Greenville

GREENVILLE, (AP) — During the week, personal trainer Haywood Parker preaches physical fitness. In Sunday sermons, Bishop Haywood Parker doesn’t change that message.

“Obesity is plaguing America like never before,” said Parker, senior pastor of Truth Tabernacle Ministries in Rocky Mount. “This is a cultural issue, and the church has an obligation to respond to the issue.”

One way Parker’s church has sought to respond is through participating in the Prosper Project, a three-county initiative conducted by the Department of Public Health at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine.

The project, launched in the summer of 2010, aims to wage a spiritual as well as a physical battle against diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

More than 500 members of primarily black churches in Edgecombe, Duplin and Lenoir counties have been involved in Prosper, an acronym for “Preparing Ourselves for Spiritual and Physical Enrichment and Renewal.”

“To make a connection with people, it’s effective to work through their churches with people they know,” said Dr. Lloyd Novick, chairman of Brody’s department of public

health and co-principal investigator of the project. “We believe that we’re going to be able to demonstrate that a faith-based project like this, working from churches, actually can be successful in impacting on these individuals’ health.”

Participants in the sixmonth project attend three sessions each month during which they weigh in and have their blood pressure and blood sugar levels checked. Groups meet at the church not only to learn about nutrition, physical activity and overall wellness but to study Scripture pertaining to health. (The project’s motto comes from 3 John 1:2 “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.”)

“Eastern North Carolina is known as the stroke belt but also the Bible belt,” said Nancy Little, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Public Health and co-principal investigator of the project. “We go to where the people are.

“The church is more than just a place to come on Sunday and on Wednesday night,” she said. “In the minority community, the church is really a consistent place where you spend a lot of time and an integral part of your life.”

Theodore Thomas was practically raised in the church. Growing up with a fa-

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The Prosper Project employs a registered dietitian and a nutritionist to show participants how to find new

menu options and how to prepare old favorites with less fat and sodium.

Faith has been linked to a number of positive health factors, including lower rates of tobacco and alcohol use and even longevity. But a study re-

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He did not respond to a reporter’s request for a phone call Saturday.

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GARNER (AP) — Thousands of fans turned out in Garner to welcome home “American Idol” finalist Scotty McCreery.

McCreery rode a yellow convertible through the streets of his hometown Saturday, blowing kisses. He signed autographs and was surprised by country singer Josh Turner at a concert. He also threw out the first pitch at a baseball game between N.C. State and Florida State before it was rained out.

The 17-year-old McCreery is one of three semifinalists on “American Idol. Celebrations also are being held for Haley Reinhart and Lauren Alania. One of the three will be voted off the show next week, and the 10th season winner will be named May 26.

McCreery says he was honored by the support of his hometown and was glad to finally hear Southern accents again.

FORT BRAGG (AP) — A Michigan soldier who stabbed his brother-in-law to death and seriously injured his wife because his lawyers said he was angry they were having an affair was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.

A military jury at Fort Bragg gave Detroit native Spc. Eric A. Mead, 27, his punishment a day after finding him guilty of premeditated murder, attempted premeditated murder and failure to obey a lawful order.

Mead didn’t testify during the weeklong court-martial, but spoke to jurors before sentencing.

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MORGANZA, La. (AP) — A steel, 10-ton floodgate was slowly raised Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the Mississippi River, away from heavily populated areas downstream.

The water spit out slowly at first, then began gushing like a waterfall as it headed to swamp as much as 3,000 square miles of Cajun countryside known for small farms and fish camps. Some places could wind up under as much as 25 feet of water.

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Palestinian officials argued that Mitchell was destined to fail because of what they said is a faulty U.S. premise — that Israelis and Palestinians are equals who can be nudged by a persistent mediator. As the occupiObama plans to speed er, Israel holds all the cards and only U.S. pressure on Isup oil production rael will yield results, said WASHINGTON (AP) — Nabil Shaath, a veteran negoAmid growing public unhap- tiator. piness over gas prices, President Barack Obama is direct- Grandchildren of ing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by ex- Nazis delve into past BERLIN (AP) — Rainer tending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alas- Hoess was 12 years old when ka’s coast and holding more he found out his grandfather frequent lease sales in a fed- was one of the worst mass eral petroleum reserve in murderers in history.

The gardener at his boardAlaska. But the moves won’t calm spiraling prices at the ing school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him black and pump any time soon.

Obama said Saturday that blue after hearing he was the the measures “make good grandson of Rudolf Hoess, sense” and will help reduce commandant of the death U.S. consumption of imported camp synonymous with the oil in the long term. But he ac- Holocaust.

“He beat me, because he knowledged anew that they won’t help to immediately projected on me all the horbring down gasoline prices ror he went through,” Raintopping $4 a gallon in many er Hoess said, with a shrug parts of the country, and an oil and a helpless smile. “Once a Hoess, always a Hoess. industry analyst agreed.

“There is practically noth- Whether you’re the grandfaing that Washington can do ther or the grandson — guilty that would materially change is guilty.”

Germans have for the price of fuel in this country,” said Raymond James an- decades confronted the Nazi alyst Pavel Molchanov, noting era head-on, paying billions that the United States pro- in compensation, meticulousduces about 5 percent of the ly teaching Third Reich hisworld’s petroleum while con- tory in school, and building suming about 20 percent. memorials to victims. The “Given that imbalance, there conviction Thursday in Muis simply no policy shift that nich of retired Ohio aucould plausibly come from the toworker John Demjanjuk on federal government that can charges he was a guard at the significantly change that dy- Sobibor Nazi death camp drives home how the Holonamic.”

An oil industry group caust is still very much at the praised Obama’s move as a forefront of the German psyfirst step with a “couple of che.

But most Germans have positive nuggets” but contended that more was needed to skirted their own possible boost oil production. Erik Mil- family involvement in Nazi ito, upstream director for the atrocities. Now, more than 65 American Petroleum Insti- years after the end of tute, called in a statement for Hitler’s regime, an increasmore access to key shale re- ing number of Germans are serves and construction of a trying to pierce the family pipeline that would import secrets. crude from Canadian oil sands.

Pentagon slows bid

Palestinians, Israeli troops clash JERUSALEM (AP) — Masked Palestinians whirling slingshots clashed with Israeli riot police in two Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem on Saturday after the shooting death of a teenage stone thrower. It was a sign of rising tensions on the eve of Palestinian commemorations of their uprooting during Israel’s 1948 creation.

The possibility of escalation comes at a critical time for U.S. Mideast policy. President Barack Obama’s envoy to the region, George Mitchell, resigned Friday, and the U.S. president may now have to retool the administration’s incremental approach to peacemaking. Obama is to deliver a Mideast policy speech in the coming week.

Mitchell held the job for more than two years, but had little to show for it. IsraeliPalestinian talks resumed in September, but were quickly derailed by Israel’s refusal to comply with an internationally mandated construction freeze in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, war-won territories Palestinians want for their state.

Israelis and Palestinians on Saturday praised Mitchell and blamed each other for the failure of his mission.

for death photos WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department is refusing to do a speedy review of a Freedom of Information Act request for graphic photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, setting the stage for a protracted battle over access to the images.

In a letter to the Associated Press, the department said the AP did not demonstrate an urgent or compelling need for the photos or show that the information has a particular value that would be lost if not provided in an expedited manner. As a result, it is not clear when or if the photos will be provided.

The AP received the letter Friday, 11 days after it requested the photos and other material stemming from the May 2 raid by a team of Navy SEALs on bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.

The AP often asks for accelerated review of FOIA requests related to unfolding stories of high interest and said there is a compelling need for prompt release of the bin Laden photos because they could add to the public’s understanding about what took place during the raid.

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David Adam Stofford KANNAPOLIS — David Adam Stofford, 73, of Wayne Avenue, passed into eternity on May 12, 2011, at Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast in Concord.

He was born Oct. 7, 1937, in Monroe to the late Nebraska and Louise (Sanders) Stofford. Mr. Stofford was educated in the Rowan County school system at Aggrey Memorial School in Landis.

He enjoyed singing, watching classic movies and spending time with his children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

He is survived by his six children, David L. Stofford (Jacquelyn) of Kannapolis, Marveo L. Stofford of Salisbury, Tamara L. Stofford of Kannapolis, Teletha L. Stofford of Kannapolis, Walter L. Stofford (April) of Concord and Joe. L. Stofford (Minta) of Salisbury; his former wife, Bertha Parker of Kannapolis; 13 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one aunt, Virginia Smith of Salisbury.

Service and Visitation: Service is Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at Blessed Assurance Church, 1900 Lane Street, Kannapolis, NC. The visitation is from 1-2 p.m. and the funeral will start at 2 p.m. with Apostle David L. Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park.

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NASA clears shuttle for Monday launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s next-to-last space shuttle flight is set to blast off Monday morning.

Mission managers gave the green light Saturday for the final voyage of Endeavour.

Forecasters put the odds of acceptable weather at 70 percent.

Endeavour will fly to the International Space Station under the command of astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of recuperating U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. She will be at Cape Canaveral for this second launch attempt.

Late last month, an electrical problem in Endeavour’s engine compartment halted the initial countdown. A switch box and faulty thermostat were replaced.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Lloyd Spencer Surratt, age 90, died May 5, 2011, and joined his Heavenly Father.

In 2000, he was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Helen Hutchens Surratt, whom he adored.

He is survived by children Monte Lloyd Surratt (Pam), Joel Spencer Surratt (Lupe), Mandy Surratt Florin (Tim); grandchildren Josh Surratt (Sarah), Conor Hammons (Nicole), Natalie Meadows (Chris), Garren Hammons; greatgrandchildren Jonah Surratt and Avery Grace Hammons.

Lloyd was the last living child of Charles and Ida Surratt, the second youngest of eight children who grew up on a farm in Spencer, N.C. Lloyd graduated from Spencer High School in 1938. Afterwards, he served 3-1/2 years in the U.S. Navy and was discharged in May 1941 as a Petty Officer second class. At the outbreak of the war with Japan, he reenlisted in 1942 and served continuously in the Pacific Theater on a destroyer until he was discharged in 1946 as a warrant officer. He participated in eight major battles and has a bronze star for each.

He married Helen May Hutchens in Salisbury, N.C., on July 11, 1945.

After leaving the Navy, he and Helen lived in Salisbury and he worked for the Home Oil and Coal Company, as well as the Southern Railway Company as a fireman. He moved with Helen and children to Tucson in 1956. He and Helen made Tucson their home, raising their three children. He worked for Buxton-Smith Mercantile until his retirement. In 1999, they moved from the family home to the west side of Tucson to be closer to their children.

Lloyd's greatest joy and accomplishment was his role as husband, father and grandfather. He loved baseball, especially the Dodgers, and coached Little League when his sons were young. He enjoyed gardening and working in his yard. He was a man of honesty and integrity, with a positive outlook on life until he passed.

Lloyd was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Tucson, Ariz.

A private family service in the memorial garden will be held at a later date.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Veterans of Foreign Wars or Disabled American Veterans.

The family wants to thank all the many medical personnel and caregivers that have enriched the quality of his life these last five years.

Arrangements are by Adair Funeral Home, Tucson, Ariz.

James Henry Poag MOCKSVILLE — Mr. James Henry Poag, age 53, of 200 Mills St., Mocksville, passed Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at Magnolia Gardens.

Born Jan. 31, 1958 in Salisbury he was the son of the late James Neely and Minetta Harris Poag Jackson.

He attended Rowan County public schools, and was a member of Henderson Grove Baptist Church.

He is survived by sons, Troy D. Chambers, of Charlotte and Jerome Chambers, of Salisbury; brothers, Hezekiah Poag, Jr. (Valerie), of Mocksville and Ronald Dean Poag (Patricia), of Lexington; one grandchild; maternal grandmother, Carrie Bell Hawkins, of Salisbury; a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Visitation & Funeral: Visitation will be 1 p.m. and Funeral 2 p.m. Monday at Henderson Grove Baptist Church with the Pastor, Rev. Perry Dye, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Hairston Funeral Home, Inc., of Salisbury is serving the family.

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- Army Spc. Riley S. Spaulding, 21, of Sheridan, Texas, died May 4 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained in a non-combat incident.

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- Army Sgt. Ken K. Hermogino, 30, of Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., died May 9 in Herat province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained in a non-combat related vehicle accident.

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- Army 1st Lt. Demetrius M. Frison, 26, of Lancaster, Pa., died May 10 in Khost province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device.

Jennifer Lynn Hall BOLIVIA — Jennifer Lynn Hall, 50, of Bolivia, died Friday, May 13, 2011 in the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Center, Wilmington.

Born in Huntington, W.Va. on Nov. 27, 1960, she was the daughter of Berenice Rodefer Hinchman, of Wilmington, and the late Edward Raymond Hinchman.

In addition to her mother, she is survived by her husband, Larry Hall; three sons, Jeffrey Smith, and friend, Hillary, of Bolivia, David Hall, of Bolivia, and Jonathan Hall, of Glendale, Calif; daughter, Nicole H. Drayton, and husband, A.C., of Winnabow; brother, Edward Hinchman, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; granddaughter, Alexia Drayton; and mother-in-law, Lorene Hall, of Charlotte.

Services: Graveside services will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 19 in the Maultsby Cemetery, Bolivia, by Rev. Anthony Clemmons.

Visitation: Family will receive friends from the residence.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.brunswickfuneralservice.com.

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Richard Robert Patton SPENCER — Richard Robert Patton, 79, of Spencer died Saturday, May 14, 2011 at his residence.

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China Grove — Mrs. Kathleen Hall Merriman, 80, passed away Thursday, May 12, 2011, at Transitional Health Services in Kannapolis.

Born on Aug. 19, 1930 in Cabarrus County, she was the daughter of the late Joe A. Hall and Esther Sain Hall.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 29 years, Floyd Collins Merriman; and son, William Michael Merriman.

Mrs. Merriman is survived by daughter, Robin Renea Bodnar and husband, Mark; four grandchildren, Chris Willyard, Jonathan Willyard, Stephanie Willyard, and Ian Conza; four great-grandchildren, Shauna Willyard, Mason Sisk, Harvey Willyard and Elijah Johnson; one sister, Doris J. Leazer and husband, G.W. of Mooresville; and one brother, Joe A. Hall of Kannapolis.

Funeral: A funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, May 16, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Rich Szekely will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park in Kannapolis.

Visitation: The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. tonight at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times, the family will be at the home.

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From her tote bag, Meredith pulled out some of the Performers waiting to take the stage during Art on Easy Street things Mollie had worked on, broke out umbrellas to stay dry during a downpour. including a balloon sculpture, an artsy hamburger and a Joan Zimmerman would Contact Mark Wineka at pipe-cleaner sculpture. have been proud.

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She’ll now return home to Greensboro where she will continue studying for the ministry in the United Methodist Church’s candidacy program.

“I found my call here (at Hood),” Ingram said. “Now, it’s been cemented.”

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To the graduates, Battle said, “You’re not going to make it on your own. You’re going to need some help.”

And that help, he said, came to him from those who nurtured him in the church.

He urged them to build friendships and support in their own careers.

Aymer announced that Dora Mbuwayesango, who will be promoted to the rank of full professor effective in July, will be the first holder of the Battle professorship.

Then there was another surprise for the professor.

Her brother, Dr. Bothwell Mbuwayesango, traveled from Zimbabwe to be with her, as a surprise, on the day of that announcement.

He works there as a pediatric surgeon.

“I feel humbled and shocked,” the professor known affectionately as “Dr. Dora” said after the commencement ceremony, her brother standing beside her and smiling.

For graduates, the task ahead will be to put to work the learning they’ve gained in their years at Hood.

Some will go into ministry.

Others, including those receiving doctoral degrees, are already serving as pastors.

The audience included some who had traveled to see their ministers achieve the pinnacle of their educations.

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With yells, party noisemakers and scattered shouts of “Alleluia!” from their loved ones and friends, the graduates went forward one by one to collect their certificates.

Bishop William Willimon of the United Methodist Church delivered the keynote address.

He reminded them of the divine call that led them from their different faith traditions to their course of study at Hood.

“Seminary was God’s idea before it was your idea,” Willimon said.

“It’s a great challenge, it’s a challenge when you look at the state of the world.”

He charged them to believe that their power in ministry is to bring change to the world, and to believe in themselves and their ability to be that force for change.

“You’re here in ministry because God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, put you here,” Willimon said.

President Albert J.D. Aymer led graduates in a pledge to devote themselves to prayer and devotion in study of the scriptures.

“You have passed through Hood, but you leave something of yourself here,” Aymer said.

“We are bonded together, and I hope you will never, ever forget that bonding.”

Aymer followed Willimon’s talk with big news for the seminary’s future.

“I’m pleased to announce this morning that, effective as of the new academic year, we will have eight endowed scholarships,” Aymer said.

New competitive awards include two scholarships for entering students — one funded by the Woodson Foundation of Salisbury and one endowed in honor of Bishop and Mrs. Richard Keith Thompson.

Aymer followed this announcement with another: the establishment of the school’s first endowed professorship.

“As of this fall … we will have a distinguished professorial chair named in honor of Bishop and Mrs. George E. Battle,” Aymer said.

The exact amount of the endowment wasn’t named, except to say that it exceeded $500,000.

Battle has long served as a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the denomination that sponsors Hood Theological Seminary.

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Let’s be brief about a long career Hall of Famer Ryan will say just enough during his induction ALISBURY — Pay close attention to sportswriter Bob Ryan’s NSSA Hall of Fame induction speech Monday night at Goodman Gymnasium. The born-to-run New Jersey native says he’s going for the record.

“I will be brief,” Ryan indicated during Saturday’s cocktail hour at the Holiday Inn. “Plenty of people have broken it the other way. But me, I know exactly what I want to say. For the first time it’s not going to be some written reading. I’ve rehearsed it in my head and I’m just gonna put it out there.”

DAVID Of course he will. Why mess with a winning formula, SHAW a concoction that’s afforded Ryan back-stage access and a front-row seat as a revered sports enthusiast/guru for the Boston Globe? His overnight success has lasted more than four decades — from its humble beginnings an apple-cheeked intern fresh out of Boston College to last week’s Celtics’ collapse against Miami in the NBA playoffs, his career has touched every square on the board. Often outspoken, always entertaining, Ryan shares his craft with New England readers as a practitioner of tell-the-truth journalism, a fearless writer who asks the tough questions and never seems to mind getting his hands dirty.

“Actually,” he simplified, “I’ve just been very lucky. We’ve all been blessed in Boston.”

• Fair enough. Let the record show that Bob Ryan didn’t write the book on sportswriting, only that his name shows up on several pages. He was there when Larry Bird, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale steered the Celtics past Houston in the 1986 NBA finals, the most complete top-to-bottom team he’s ever covered.

“That team had everything,” Ryan said, flashing his signature smile and kid-like enthusiasm. “Including something no other team in the history of basketball ever had — a seven-foot sixth man like Bill Walton. He was the trump card. He came off the bench and changed games like no one else. That was a great team, my favorite team.”

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Bob Ryan will be inducted into the NSSA Hall of Fame on Monday night.

Ryan was there when beloved outfielder Carl Yastrzemski took his final swing in a Red Sox uniform. Rewind to an Oct. 2, 1983 game against Cleveland at Fenway Park.

Hahn wins first ALISBURY — Gary Hahn would probably joke with you that he’ll roll the state sportscaster award now that Woody Durham is retired.

But Hahn would be ultimately modest in doing so. The 1974 graduate of Butler and voice of N.C. State sports for the last 21 years will acRYAN cept his first BISESI N.C. Sportscaster of the Year award Monday night.

He paid tribute to Durham, a common face at the NSSA most years, at a recent golf tournament.

“I asked Woody, ‘How many of these NSSA awards have you won,’ ” said Hahn Saturday from the NSSA welcome reception at the Holiday Inn. “He said it was in double figures. I said, ‘Well, there you go folks.’

He’s won all of these awards in 40 years, I’m just getting my first.”

• Although you’d be hardpressed to find someone with a devout passion for the Pittsburgh Pirates now, Hahn says his listening to the Buccos with Bob Prince

“The Indians had a young pitcher (Dan Spillner) who was so nervous he couldn’t throw a strike,” Ryan recalled. “And Yaz didn’t want to walk in his last at-bat. He was

so determined to show, even at 44, that no one could throw the fastball by him. The kid on the mound knew what was going on and was trying to throw it over, but couldn’t. Finally Yaz just swung at a pitch up by his nose and popped up. There was real drama in the air. As a writer, things like that stick with you.”

• There have been countless others — 30 NCAA Final Fours, 23 NBA Finals, 11 World Series, 10 Super Bowls, a bagful of golf majors and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics among them. Special athletes? Bruins’ Hall of Famer Bobby Orr and undersized Celtics’ center Dave Cowens head that list.

“I’m not a hockey maven, but Bobby Orr was simply the greatest hockey player of all time,” Ryan said matter-of-factly. “With all due respect to Gretzky, and all the offensive guys since then — part of hockey is hitting and being hit. And Wayne Gretzky did neither. He was an artist they let skate around and never hit. He was a great scorer, with great hands. But Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe, they were better hockey players.”

Ryan reports that Bird, as the new kid in town, always worshipped Orr. “During the national anthem he’d look up at the rafters, staring at Orr’s No. 4,” Ryan said. “He’d say someday, after he’s done playing, he’d like to be thought of that way.”

Cowens provided one of the most insightful quotes Ryan ever elicited following the ‘74 NBA finals — shortly after Boston gained a seventh-game victory over the Jabbar-led Milwaukee Bucks.

“Dave Cowens was never a fan,” he said.

“He was a doer. He didn’t watch games on TV. The first time he ever saw Nate Thurmond or Wes Unseld or Willis Reed was when he lined up against them. His attitude was always, ‘Show me what you’ve got, whoever you are.’ That’s who he was.”

As the Boston contingent was flying home that spring evening, Ryan cornered Cowens during a stopover and offered congratulations.

“I hadn’t had any one-on-one time with him after the game,” said Ryan. “So I finally catch up to him and said, ‘Well Dave, you did it. You won the championship. How does it feel? What is it all about?’ ” Cowens measured his response like a 2-0 fastball, then offered, “For me, the fun was in the doing. This is just something for my portfolio of basketball experiences.”

Ryan says those words have been sealed in a personal mental vault for 37 years. “I will never forget it,” he said. “No athlete I’ve ever encountered looked at it with that

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Carlson still hears about Gundy rant

BY JORDAN HONEYCUTT sports@salisburypost.com

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Gary Hahn has won his first NSSA award. and Jim Woods while growing up in western Pennsylvania sparked his interest for radio. The passion for the airwaves apexed with the Pirates’ broadcasts, which were heard all over the eastern seaboard via KDKA. Prince and Woods would be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame as well as inspiring another voice in the wings in Hahn.

“Listening to these guys, I thought these guys were

having so much fun, this has got to be the greatest job in the world. I loved baseball and I loved the Pirates and I thought it would be pretty cool if someday I could be the next Bob Prince.”

Although Hahn isn’t likely to call any action at PNC Park anytime soon, he’s settled in nicely in Raleigh after merging around from

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SALISBURY — Jenni Carlson is part of a very famous moment in sports and journalism, you just can’t see her in it.

Carlson is the reporter who felt the verbal wrath of Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy’s now infamous “I’m a man, I’m 40” rant.

Carlson is a sports columnist for The Oklahoman, an Oklahoma City based newspaper that focuses mainly on Oklahoma and Oklahoma State athletics, as well as the NBA’s Thunder.

Carlson handled this situation very professionally.

“When it happened, I was a bit shocked,” Carlson said. “But I have pretty thick skin and as a columnist, you realize that usually someone is going to get upset about something that you say on almost an everyday basis.”

Carlson is a Kansas (KU) graduate and got her start doing local high school games and other events that she describes as offthe-wall or abnormal in the Kansas City area before joining the staff at The Oklahoman.

“My personality, though, would not allow me to be a beat writer as I love the variety and spontaneity that comes with being a columnist,” Carlson said. “And knowing that you never really know how someone is going to react to a tough question or what someone is going to do is exciting and challenging and I embrace that.”

In what is traditionally a deeply enriched football part of the country, Carlson has now found herself doing a lot of work with professional athletes as she has been covering the Oklahoma City Thunder, who are in the middle of a deep playoff run.

Game 7 is in Oklahoma City tonight.

“I love covering the pros,” she said.

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Jenni Carlson says she gets easier access covering professional sports. football, as those players are so protected and the coaches make so much money at these “big-time” schools (like OU and OSU) that dealing with them is just like dealing with a pro team. So there isn’t too much difference.”

One interesting aspect of how her community’s fans attitudes and passions have evolved because of the Thunder, is the camaraderie that Oklahomans have displayed to support their team.

“While Oklahoma still is, and always be, a football-first state, it is amazing that fans of OU and OSU, who hate each other, are coming together to pull for the Thunder,” said Carlson.

She added that the extreme loyalty that exists in state is unique.

“Everyone is either a Sooner or a Cowboy and it is just two opposite ends of the spectrum that makes for a fun rivalry to be a part of and to cover.” Carlson said.

Carlson is also part of a newer, but everincreasing trend in the sports journalism profession and that is the emergence of more and more women into the industry.

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NSSA WEEKEND

Sports took a backseat for McCarter ALISBURY — Recently, the Huntsville Times’ Mark McCarter was given a three-day vacation from sports writing.

It was unwanted.

Tornados ripped through Alabama, devastating Huntsville with its worst storm in 35 years.

Sports? No one was realRONNIE thinking GALLAGHER ly about who was playing who in the early part of May. “We essentially didn’t have a sports section for three days,” said McCarter, in town this weekend for the NSSA festivities as Alabama Sportswriter of the Year.

The storms hit right about the time the NFL Draft was on the air, promoting Auburn’s favorite son, Cam Newton, as the No. 1 pick.

“It was really odd,” McCarter said. It was one of the biggest pieces of news. We had one sports page to get the draft in there.”

• Known for his popular “McCarter’s Musings,” sports stories were not what McCarter was banging out as April turned into May. “I wrote columns all week on the tornados,” he said.

“About all of the space was devoted to the tornados.”

Eight people were killed in the Huntsville area. Mc-

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People from Tuscaloosa started “Tuscaloosa for Toomer’s.”

Auburn paid Alabama back when the storms hit Tuscaloosa.

McCarter spoke of “Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa,” where people from Auburn loaded up trucks with supplies and clothes for their rival.

• Now, if for only a weekend, McCarter puts it all on the backburner and celebrates a long career in the business.

“I started when I was 17,” he said. “It’s 13 years at Huntsville.”

It’s a special weekend, not ASSOcIATEd PRESS just because of the NSSA, Former Alabama wide receiver and Atlanta Falcons first round but due to the date. draft pick Julio Jones helps unload supplies for the Red cross “This is my third time to in Tuscaloosa, Ala. win,” McCarter said.

Looking over at Patricia, he announced, “The second Carter remembers writing him to Salisbury, weren’t hit time I won it was a week before we got married.” about a family who did make as hard as others. But their Today is the McCarters’ it, but just barely. power was still out for four anniversary.

A man, three miles from days.

• his home, decided to check “We were some of the Even with the tornados, up on his mom, and found lucky ones,” McCarter said. there was still interest in her taking a nap. They were • following the storm on the Mark and Patricia live 21⁄2 Carolina’s No. 1 draft pick. hours from Tuscaloosa and Auburn fans treat Newton radio when he grabbed his 31⁄2 hours from Auburn. Patri- like a god. McCarter admits mother and yelled, “Mom, cia is an Auburn follower there’s something different get down.” and both she and Mark enabout him.

McCarter still shudders joyed Auburn and Alabama “I’ve been around few about the story. working together. guys who have more charis“Thirty seconds later, “I think there’s a lot more ma on and off the field,” he there was nothing there but cohesiveness between the said, also referring to that a little bit of the bedroom students,” Patricia said. famous Cam Newton smile. and the hallway they were There was proof of that “We sit there and watch lying in,” McCarter said. when someone poisoned Tebow for four years and go, McCarter and his wife, 130-year-old oak trees at ‘Gosh, there will never be Patricia, who accompanied

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Mark Mccarter of the Huntsville Times talks about the tornados that ripped through Alabama. anybody like Tim Tebow in college football ever again.’

And a year later, somebody’s better.”

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Bob Ryan is used to TV cameras, after stints on ESPN’s Around the Horn, Pardon the Interruption and Sports Reporters.

SHAW FROM 1B perspective. It remains part of his charm.”

As for the current Celtics, Ryan offers youare-there insight. He says Kevin Garnett is painfully private off the court (“No one knows where he lives”) while Shaq is his polar opposite (“He wakes up and wants you to take his picture”). Asked to cite a current sports story that needs to be told, Ryan discussed the ills of college athletics regarding grade-altering and recruiting infractions (“It’s our own fault. We asked for it.”).

• More than anything, Ryan seems to respect the past. He fell in love with sportswriting as a teenager in Trenton, N.J. — a short drive from sports meccas Philadelphia and New York. He admired some of the greats — Jim Murray, Furman Bisher and Frank Deford. On June 10, he’ll mark 43 years with the Globe, the same day he was introduced to baseball writer Peter Gammons, a University of North Carolina graduate. “I don’t know anyone who loves anything more than Peter Gammons loves baseball,” he said.

By now Ryan has seen it all, even if he hasn’t seen enough. An author of 11 books, he believes he’ll work at least through the 2012 London Olympics.

“I can see the finish line,” he said with another warm smile. “I’m like everyone else. I just wanted a job, number one, and I wanted to get good at it. But you don’t know where it’s gonna take you. You don’t know where you’re going.

You have no idea.”

This weekend it’s brought him to Salisbury, where his framed photo will rightfully hang among the creme de la creme.

“You know there’s no such thing as the best,” he said. “But it’s so nice to be included. To be considered among the best, that’s a great honor.”

One that deserves much more than a recordsetting acceptance speech.

radio sports networks at Louisville, Ohio State and Alabama.

After giving the University of Maryland a look, Butler tempted Hahn away with the promise of letting him on the air on the college station his freshman year.

“I could have gone to Maryland and saved my parents a lot of money,” Hahn quipped. “You couldn’t get on the air there until you were a junior or senior and, to me, that was all wasted time.”

“The only way I’m going to be good is if I go on someplace and make a bunch of mistakes and find out if I stink or not.”

• After over two decades behind the mike, it’s safe to conclude he doesn’t. If Monday night’s award wasn’t enough proof, Hahn battled surgery for prostate cancer in 2009, only missing one football game, at Virginia Tech.

Hahn and color man Johnny Evans will call a revised version of the Wolfpack next year with the revenue sports in a state of transition after Debbie Yow became athletic director in 2010. Sidney Lowe’s unceremonious five-year run at head men’s basketball coach ended when State hired Mark Gottfried last month. Hahn spoke highly of Gottfried’s recruiting capabilities, which are of paramount importance with Duke and North Carolina in the Pack’s backyard.

“The program needs championship-caliber players,” Hahn said. “The only way you’re going to get them is to go out, sign them, bring them here and coach them up.”

State missed the NCAA Tournament for the fifth straight year under Lowe,

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Bob Ryan can see himself working at least through the 2012 Olympics.

fortable talking sports than talking tornados.

• Contact Ronnie Gallagher at 704-797-4287 or rgallagher@salisburypost.com.

ultimately leading to his resignation.

“I think everybody had such high hopes that maybe the talent was a little bit overrated,” said Hahn of the 2010-2011 squad. “Sidney Lowe was a tremendous person and great guy to work with but in this day in age, they’re not going to cut you too much slack if you can’t win consistently.”

• On the gridiron, beloved quarterback Russel Wilson will not return for his senior year after asking for his release from the team last month. Wilson led the ACC last year with 274.1 yards passing per game.

“I understand Russell Wilson’s side of it and I understand Tom O’ Brien’s side of it too,” Hahn said. “[O’ Brien] wants a quarterback that’s there fulltime. You’ve got to get the synergy between the quarterbacks and the wide receivers and it starts during summer workouts. That’s when you get a lot of the bonding that you need.”

The Pack was in line to play for the ACC Championship before falling to Maryland in the last week of the regular season. A win against West Virginia in the Champs Sports Bowl equaled a 9-win season, the highest since 2002.

Hahn says it all started with Yow, who moved from Maryland within the conference.

“She wants N.C. State to regain the glory it had in the past,” Hahn said. “I like that about her.”

For the time being, Hahn will continue to enjoy the view from press row calling the action for a passionate fanbase. His winning the award is almost Susan Lucci-like, after many nominations throughout the years.

“That’s another reason I came for the whole weekend,” Hahn said.

For one weekend, Salisbury is his paradise.

sized market and covering high profile teams, Carlson is living her dream in the FROM 1B great Midwest.

“I am very fortunate, “I think that it is great to happy and overall content be part of a more diverse with where I am right now profession and especially in my career,” Carlson as with The Oklahoman, said. “ I love Oklahoma our editor is very commitCity and the opportunities ted and driven to maintain- here to do more and more ing a diverse staff, not just with the ever-changing in gender, but race as well, world of media, like shootand its good to see journal- ing video and doing much ism becoming like much of more multimedia, which is America in that sense.” the direction that our paper Working for a mediumis going.”

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Rowan fan County athletes impress Appalachian State’s Jackson

BY MIKE LONDON mlondon@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — Appalachian State play-by-play man David Jackson is best known for his inspired 2007 call of the Mountaineers’ football heroics at Michigan, but his duties also include 30 ASU baseball games each season — everything but the longest road trips.

Jackson will rejoin the Mountaineers when they play at UNC on Tuesday, but ASU is at College of

Charleston this weekend.

That gave Jackson, an NSSA board member and 2007 state broadcaster of the year, an opportunity to attend NSSA festivities.

Camped on a Holiday Inn couch and seated next to his Teddy Bear-toting daughter, Maren, Jackson wasn’t far from Staton Field, Newman Park and Ludwig Stadium and was eager to discuss the local players at ASU. Jackson gave pitcher Garrett Sherrill (A.L. Brown), catcher Jerod Faggart

(Northwest Cabarrus) and infielder Wes Hobson, who was born in Rowan, a thumps-up as programchangers for ASU baseball.

“Appalachian’s grown from a program where they were lucky to win 20 to a place where they challenge for 35 wins,” Jackson said.

“Sherrill was so versatile.

You could hand him the ball in the third inning or you could hand it to him in the ninth. Either way, you knew he’d get the job done.”

East Rowan grads Trey

Holmes, Noah Holmes and Preston Troutman are current team members.

“Trey had T. HOLMES a great track record coming in from Pitt (Community College), and offensively, he’s been everything that was expected,” Jackson said.

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NBA PLAYOFFS

Restless Durant ready

Gotta stop Rose

BY JEFF LATZKE Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant had trouble sleeping, trying to shake off the worst playoff performance yet in his young NBA career.

After the league’s scoring champion managed just 11 points in Oklahoma City’s loss that set up Game 7 today against the DURANT Memphis Grizzlies, Durant woke up Saturday still thinking about what went wrong.

Durant took nine of his 14 shots from behind the arc, and he made only one basket over the last 45 minutes of the game.

“It was tough,” Durant said. “That’s a part of this league. It’s going to happen.

“Especially being one of the main guys, I tend to take a lot of the pressure and put it on myself. But it is what it is.

I’ve got to fight through it, I’ve got to continue to be positive around my guys and go from there.”

At least by morning, his dreams had taken a turn for the better.

“I made a lot of my shots, of course, in the dream. It wasn’t a nightmare,” Durant said. “I made some shots and we won the game.

“But that’s just a dream.”

Like most of the other players in a matchup of two of the

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Heat’s challenge is to slow down MVP

BY TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press

MIAMI — LeBron James will take some turns guarding Derrick Rose in the Eastern Conference finals. So will Dwyane Wade. Mike Bibby, Mario Chalmers and even Chris Bosh in some moments, too.

None of them expects to stop him.

Keeping Rose in check, however, is the top priority for the Miami Heat — and is likely a prerequisite for beating the Chicago Bulls and reaching the NBA finals.

Game 1 of the East title series is tonight in Chicago, the city Rose has led into its first NBA Final Four since Michael Jordan took them there 13 years ago.

“We’re not a team to concede anything,” James said, discussing how to defend the guard who ended his two-year reign as the NBA’s MVP this season. “That’s not our nature. We don’t play basketball like that.

We have too many guys that have too much pride to allow a guy individually to just go off.

“Like I’ve said, he’s going to get his.

Their team is going to play well. But we’re up for the challenge.”

It may be their biggest challenge yet.

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Edwards wins

Rain gives Johnson pole

BY DAN GELSTON

BY DAN GELSTON Associated Press DOVER, Del — Carl Edwards was sure he tapped Joey Logano.

Edwards missed him — and all the mayhem behind him.

Logano lost control on his own and tagged the wall, triggering a wreck-filled final lap that knocked out several contenders and let Edwards win the Nationwide Series race Saturday at Dover International Speedway.

“Man, that’s why they call it the Monster Mile,” Edwards said.

It was a monster of a wreck that ended a thrilling stretch run between Edwards and Logano.

Edwards battle with Logano off the final restart of

the race turned dangerous in a hurry. Logano got loose and slid up as he tried to scoot around Edwards and hit the wall, sparking a pile up that eliminated Clint Bowyer from contention.

Bowyer’s car slid sideways down the concrete track. Debris hit one of Bowyer’s crew.

Several other cars were collected.

Edwards instantly thought he hit Logano and caused the accident. But Edwards, who recently announced the birth of his son, never made serious contact and won on the second attempt of a green-white finish.

He refrained from performing his traditional winning backflip off his No. 60 Ford.

“I saw him wiggle and I wasn’t sure if I touched him

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carl edwards celebrates in victory lane. or not,” Edwards said. “Not the way we wanted to finish the race.”

Maybe not. But he’ll take the result.

Bowyer, who led 37 laps, was lucky the accident wasn’t

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DOVER, Del. — Jimmie Johnson stopped at a media scrum and snapped a photo of Bobby Allison.

Johnson will zoom in on Allison again when he starts first today at Dover International Speedway. Johnson is one win shy of matching Allison and Richard Petty’s record of seven wins on the Monster Mile.

Johnson has won three of the last four races at Dover, including a sweep in 2009.

The five-time defending Cup champion doesn’t need any additional help going for the checkered flag. But he caught a break when rain wiped out qualifying Saturday and put his No. 48 Chevrolet on the pole.

Johnson starts first in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race because he posted the fastest average practice speeds. This is the first time this season NASCAR had to use the new system that starts drivers based on practice speed, not the points standings.

“I don’t feel like we have a very good handle on it, although things worked good for us this weekend,” Johnson said.

Of course they did. He’s Jimmie Johnson.

AJ Allmendinger will start second after rain hit hard at Dover on Saturday. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is third, Kasey Kahne fourth and Joey Logano fifth.

“I don’t understand,” Allmendinger said, turning toward Johnson with a smile. “The system is the same for you. You’re either fastest, or they used to do it by points, so you started on the pole. Not sure how much different that is for you.”

Allmendinger continued to needle Johnson. After Johnson said he only cared about leading the final lap, not the first one, Allmendinger asked for an early free pass.

“I don’t start up front a lot and I can lead a lap, or two or three, it looks good on my stats,” Allmendinger said. “So are you just going to let me have the start or what?”

“I’m not going to let you have it,” Johnson said, “But go for it.”

Johnson doesn’t give away anything for free, but Allmendinger will do all he can to gobble points and get into the Chase for the championship standings. He’s in 11th place, one spot out of the top 10 guaranteed to make the Chase field.

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TV Sports Sunday, May 15 AUTO RACING 12:30 p.m.

FOX — nasCaR, sprint Cup, Fedex 400, at dover, del.

GOLF 7:30 a.m. tGC — pGa tour, the pLayeRs Championship, third round, at ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. 2 p.m. nBC — pGa tour, the pLayeRs Championship, final round, at ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. tBs — philadelphia at atlanta 2:10 p.m.

WGn — san Francisco at Chicago Cubs 8 p.m. espn — Boston at n.y. yankees MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE 1 p.m. espn — nCaa division i, playoffs, first round, Maryland at north Carolina NBA BASKETBALL 3:30 p.m. aBC — playoffs, conference semifinals, game 7, Memphis at Oklahoma City 8 p.m. aBC — playoffs, conference finals, game 1, Miami at Chicago NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m.

VeRsus — playoffs, conference finals, game 1, san Jose at Vancouver SOCCER 2:55 p.m. espn2 — spanish primera division, La Coruna at Barcelona

Area schedule Monday, May 16 INTIMIDATORS BASEBALL 7:05 p.m.

Kannapolis at West Virginia power NCHSAA 52nd annual awards week PREP BASEBALL 6 p.m.

Butler at davie (4a playoffs, 1st round, completion of suspended game)

Prep baseball Playoffs 1A West 1st Round E. Montgomery 15, nCssM 0 N. Rowan 19, Chatham Central 4 N. Moore 14, Central academy 4 e. surry 6, West Wilkes 1 McGuinness 5, e. Wilkes 2 Albemarle 19, union acad. 4 elkin 12, north stokes 6 S. Stanly 20, Roxboro Community 0 Murphy 15, swain 1 Ln Charter 6, t. Jefferson 1 Robbinsville (8-8) at Mitchell (7-13) Bessemer City 4, W. Montgomery 3 Cherryville 13, n. Wilkes 0 Rosman 9, hiwassee 6 hendersonville 15, avery 2 hayesville 15, Cherokee 2 2nd round E. Montgomery (12-12) at N. Rowan (21-6) North Moore (18-6) at east surry (18-9) Albemarle (17-9) at McGuinness (16-7) South Stanly (18-7) at elkin (11-8) Lake norman Charter (17-4) at Murphy (20-3) tBd at Bessmer City (11-13) Rosman (8-12) at Cherryville (18-8) hayesville (16-6) at hendersonville (9-11) 2A West 1st Round West stokes 17, Carver 0 W. stanly 8, C. Davidson 3 W. Davidson 1, J-Matthews 0 east Lincoln 6, n. surry 1 Cuthbertson 11, north Lincoln 1 E. Davidson 7, surry Central 5 (14 inns.)

West Lincoln 2, north stanly 1 piedmont 6, Salisbury 5 starmount 8, Bunker hill 3 Owen 3, south iredell 2 Wilkes Central 7, Bandys 0 Chase 11, smoky Mtn. 10 W. Caldwell (12-12) at e. Rutherford (21-3) draughn 5, Brevard 2 pisgah 16, Madison 6 polk Co. 5, Forbush 4 2nd Round West stanly (22-4) at West stokes (19-7) e. Lincoln (20-6) at W. Davidson (16-6) E. Davidson (15-10) at Cuthbertson (24-2) piedmont (17-10) at W. Lincoln (18-7) starmount (18-7) at Owen (20-4) Chase (15-7) at Wilkes Central (22-2) draughn (14-10) vs. tBd polk (18-4) at pisgah (14-9) 3A West 1st round E. Rowan 9, Rockingham County 0 Weddington 8, Hickory Ridge 4 NW Cabarrus 8, n. Forsyth 0 parkwood 13, Waddell 3 Charlotte Catholic 2, S. Rowan 1 Carson 1, Mt. Pleasant 0 Marvin Ridge 9, Cox Mill 2 Robinson 5, West Iredell 0 Burns 10, st. stephens 3 n. Buncombe 11, north Gaston 8 south pt. 7, e. henderson 1 Foard 5, W. henderson 3 hickory 11, patton 1 erwin 3, Forestview 1 enka 10, tuscola 7 R-s Central 8, Crest 6 2nd round Weddington (14-9) at East Rowan (19-7) parkwood (9-12) at NW Cabarrus (18-8) Carson (16-8) at Charlotte Catholic (18-3) Robinson (15-10) at Marvin Ridge (16-9) Burns (14-8) at north Buncombe (19-8) Foard (11-13) at south point (20-2) erwin (15-6) at hickory (15-10) enka (14-11) at R-s Central (8-16) 4A West 1st round Glenn 1, Mount Tabor 0 ardrey Kell 9, dudley 4 Butler 1, Davie Co. 0 (susp., top 3rd, to be comleted Monday) N. Davidson 12, s. alamance 2 providence 20, W. Guilford 2 nW Guilford 7, south Meck 4 se Guilford 6, e. Forsyth 2 W. Forsyth 3, sW Guilford 0 porter Ridge 5, north Meck 0 east Gaston 5, aC Reynolds 1 alexander Central 7, Lake norman 2 Watauga 11, Olympic 1 tC Roberson 5, east Meck 2 Mooresville 5, s. Caldwell 4 hopewell 11, West Meck 1 Mallard Creek 7, sun Valley 2 2nd round ardrey Kell (22-4) at Glenn (19-8) tBd vs. North Davidson (14-9) nW Guilford (18-9) at providence (25-2) West Forsyth (21-5) at se Guilford (23-3) east Gaston (14-10) at porter Ridge (14-9) alexander Central (14-11) at Watauga (17-7) Mooresville (19-7) at tC Roberson (21-4) hopewell (14-13) at Mallard Creek (21-6)

Prep soccer Playoffs 2A West Second round West stokes 7, Forest hills 1 Salisbury 2, piedmont 1 Cuthbertson 8, east Burke 0 e. Lincoln 2, East Davidson 1 Wilkes Central 4, s. iredell 0 Forbush 7, Central Davidson 1 shelby 2, ashe County 0 polk 1, Brevard 0 Third round Salisbury (17-0-2) at West stokes (15-5-1), Wednesday Cuthbertson (22-2) at east Lincoln (14-8) Wilkes Central (15-5) at Forbush (22-1) shelby (16-3-1) at polk (15-7-2) 3A West Second round Marvin Ridge 4, West Rowan 1 Robinson 3, parkwood 2 Charlotte Catholic 4, Cox Mill 0 Weddington 7, Hickory Ridge 0 hibriten 1, asheville 0 (Ot) hickory 1, Crest 0 (Ot) st. stephens 6, enka 0 south point (13-8-1) at n. Bunco. (9-11-1) Third round Marvin Ridge (14-4-2) at Robinson (17-4) Weddington (15-4-2) at Char. Catholic (18-1-3) hibriten (11-8-2) at hickory (13-6-2) tBd at st. stephens (18-3-3)

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SCOREBOARD Minors Standings

South Atlantic League Northern Division W L Pct. GB — hagerstown (nationals) 24 12 .667 Kannapolis (White sox) 21 13 .618 2 delmarva (Orioles) 22 14 .611 2 1 20 15 .571 3 ⁄2 hickory (Rangers) Greensboro (Marlins) 19 16 .543 41⁄2 West Virginia (pirates) 17 17 .500 6 16 19 .457 71⁄2 Lakewood (phillies) Southern Division W L Pct. GB asheville (Rockies) 18 18 .500 — 1 17 18 .486 ⁄2 savannah (Mets) Greenville (Red sox) 17 19 .472 1 Lexington (astros) 17 19 .472 1 16 20 .444 2 Charleston (yankees) augusta (Giants) 14 22 .389 4 Rome (Braves) 10 26 .278 8 Saturday’s Games hagerstown 1, Lakewood 0 augusta 5, hickory 0 Charleston, s.C. 17, Greenville 7 savannah 12, Rome 2 Lexington 5, asheville 4 delmarva 7, Greensboro 2 West Virginia 6, Kannapolis 3 Sunday’s Games hagerstown at Lakewood, 1:05 p.m. savannah at Rome, 2 p.m.

Kannapolis at West Virginia, 2:05 p.m.

Greensboro at delmarva, 2:05 p.m. asheville at Lexington, 2:05 p.m.

Charleston, s.C. at Greenville, 4 p.m. augusta at hickory, 5 p.m.

NHL PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) Saturday, May 14 tampa Bay 5, Boston 2, tampa Bay leads series 1-0 Sunday, May 15 san Jose at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 17 tampa Bay at Boston, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18 san Jose at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Thursday, May 19 Boston at tampa Bay, 8 p.m.

NBA PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) Sunday, May 15 Memphis at Oklahoma City, 3:30 p.m.

CONFERENCE FINALS Sunday, May 15 Miami at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Racing Nationwide 5-hour ENERGY 200 At Dover International Speedway Lap length: 1 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Carl edwards, Ford, 209 laps, 144.6 rating, 0 points, $39,775.

2. (13) Kyle Busch, toyota, 209, 113.8, 0, $26,725.

3. (10) Reed sorenson, Chevrolet, 209, 109.8, 41, $28,868.

4. (2) Ricky stenhouse Jr., Ford, 209, 110, 41, $26,218.

5. (32) david Reutimann, toyota, 209, 90, 0, $16,700.

6. (8) elliott sadler, Chevrolet, 209, 98.7, 38, $22,418.

7. (14) Kenny Wallace, toyota, 209, 88.3, 37, $21,928.

8. (12) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 209, 92.5, 0, $21,288.

9. (18) aric almirola, Chevrolet, 209, 85.7, 35, $23,318.

10. (21) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 209, 77.7, 34, $23,293.

11. (9) Jason Leffler, Chevrolet, 209, 97.4, 33, $20,268.

12. (6) Brad Keselowski, dodge, accident, 208, 105.7, 0, $14,675.

13. (11) Joey Logano, toyota, accident, 208, 116.8, 0, $14,025.

14. (3) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, accident, 208, 120.4, 0, $13,450.

15. (31) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, accident, 208, 79.4, 29, $21,718.

16. (15) steve Wallace, toyota, accident, 208, 77.1, 28, $19,768.

17. (16) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 208, 75.2, 28, $19,693.

18. (17) Ryan truex, toyota, 207, 83.1, 26, $20,643.

19. (20) Joe nemechek, toyota, 207, 67.5, 25, $19,593.

20. (19) Michael annett, toyota, 205, 64.4, 24, $20,268.

21. (35) J.R. Fitzpatrick, Ford, 204, 56.2, 23, $13,225.

22. (30) timmy hill, Ford, 204, 48, 22, $19,393.

23. (26) danny efland, Ford, 203, 53.6, 21, $19,718.

24. (25) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 202, 57.9, 20, $19,268.

25. (23) eric McClure, Chevrolet, 201, 48.4, 19, $19,843.

26. (38) Morgan shepherd, Chevrolet, 184, 42.6, 18, $12,700.

27. (28) derrike Cope, Chevrolet, engine, 166, 47.8, 17, $19,518.

28. (29) dennis setzer, dodge, electrical, 140, 40.9, 16, $19,043.

29. (4) Justin allgaier, Chevrolet, accident, 138, 86.1, 15, $18,968.

30. (7) Brian scott, toyota, accident, 87, 65.1, 14, $19,218.

31. (5) Kevin swindell, Ford, accident, 86, 65.4, 13, $18,863.

32. (24) alex Kennedy, dodge, accident, 84, 52.7, 12, $18,803.

33. (27) donnie neuenberger, dodge, too slow, 70, 32.8, 11, $18,743.

34. (40) Carl Long, Ford, rear gear, 52, 44.5, 10, $12,240.

35. (22) scott Wimmer, Chevrolet, transmission, 44, 56.9, 10, $12,210.

36. (34) tim andrews, Ford, transmission, 44, 46.9, 8, $12,185.

37. (43) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, axle, 43, 33.6, 7, $12,165.

38. (36) Kevin Lepage, Chevrolet, accident, 19, 43.2, 6, $12,100.

39. (41) Brad teague, Chevrolet, engine, 10, 37, 5, $12,075.

40. (39) Brett Rowe, Chevrolet, handling, 7, 37.5, 4, $12,020.

41. (37) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, vibration, 6, 36, 3, $11,990.

42. (42) Charles Lewandoski, Ford, ignition, 4, 34.5, 2, $11,950.

43. (33) Blake Koch, dodge, accident, 1, 33, 1, $11,892.

Race Statistics average speed of Race Winner: 95.180 mph. time of Race: 2 hours, 11 minutes, 45 seconds.

Margin of Victory: under Caution.

Caution Flags: 9 for 48 laps.

Lead Changes: 14 among 7 drivers.

Lap Leaders: R.stenhouse Jr. 1-24; C.Bowyer 25-29; R.stenhouse Jr. 30-38; C.Bowyer 39-41; s.Wimmer 42-43; C.edwards 44-45; C.Bowyer 46-74; C.edwards 75-92; B.Keselowski 93-100; C.edwards 101141; J.Wise 142-146; C.edwards 147-149; J.Logano 150-186; C.edwards 187-209.

Leaders summary (driver, times Led, Laps Led): C.edwards, 5 times for 87 laps; J.Logano, 1 time for 37 laps; C.Bowyer, 3 times for 37 laps; R.stenhouse Jr., 2 times for 33 laps; B.Keselowski, 1 time for 8 laps; J.Wise, 1 time for 5 laps; s.Wimmer, 1 time for 2 laps. top 10 in points: 1. e.sadler, 379; 2. R.sorenson, 369; 3. J.Leffler, 364; 4. R.stenhouse Jr., 363; 5. J.allgaier, 361; 6. a.almirola, 339; 7.

K.Wallace, 317; 8. B.scott, 286; 9. s.Wallace, 282; 10. J.Wise, 274.

Sprint Cup FedEx 400 benefitting Autism Speaks Lineup Race Sunday At Dover International Speedway 1. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, Owner points.

2. (43) a J allmendinger, Ford, Owner points.

3. (88) dale earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, Owner points.

4. (4) Kasey Kahne, toyota, Owner points.

5. (20) Joey Logano, toyota, Owner points.

6. (22) Kurt Busch, dodge, Owner points.

7. (18) Kyle Busch, toyota, Owner points.

8. (56) Martin truex Jr., toyota, Owner points.

9. (2) Brad Keselowski, dodge, Owner points.

10. (29) Kevin harvick, Chevrolet, Owner points.

11. (78) Regan smith, Chevrolet, Owner points.

12. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, Owner points.

13. (99) Carl edwards, Ford, Owner points.

14. (6) david Ragan, Ford, Owner points.

15. (83) Brian Vickers, toyota, Owner points.

16. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, Owner points.

17. (00) david Reutimann, toyota, Owner points.

18. (9) Marcos ambrose, Ford, Owner points.

19. (42) Juan pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, Owner points.

20. (27) paul Menard, Chevrolet, Owner points.

21. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, Owner points.

22. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, Owner points.

23. (47) Bobby Labonte, toyota, Owner points.

24. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, Owner points.

25. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, Owner points.

26. (11) denny hamlin, toyota, Owner points.

27. (14) tony stewart, Chevrolet, Owner points.

28. (39) Ryan newman, Chevrolet, Owner points.

29. (34) david Gilliland, Ford, Owner points.

30. (13) Casey Mears, toyota, Owner points.

31. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, Owner points.

32. (09) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner points.

33. (32) Mike Bliss, Ford, Owner points.

34. (7) scott Wimmer, dodge, Owner points.

35. (36) dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner points.

36. (66) Michael Mcdowell, toyota, attempts.

37. (71) andy Lally, Ford, attempts.

38. (46) J.J. yeley, Chevrolet, attempts.

39. (60) Mike skinner, toyota, Owner points.

40. (30) david stremme, Chevrolet, attempts.

41. (38) travis Kvapil, Ford, attempts.

42. (87) Joe nemechek, toyota, attempts.

43. (37) tony Raines, Ford, attempts.

Golf Players Championship Saturday’s results At TPC Sawgrass - Stadium Course Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Purse: $9.5 million Yardage: 7,215; Par 72 Note: Play was suspended and will be completed today.

71-71-67—209 sean O’hair peter hanson 72-72-66—210 Bryce Molder 70-73-67—210 70-72-68—210 Charlie Wi Robert allenby 69-74-68—211 Kenny perry 72-71-68—211 72-71-68—211 Charley hoffman stewart Cink 70-72-69—211 phil Mickelson 71-71-69—211 70-74-68—212 angel Cabrera Matt Jones 72-72-69—213 Garrett Willis 70-74-69—213 73-71-69—213 Chad Campbell trevor immelman 70-73-70—213 Zach Johnson 74-70-70—214 71-73-70—214 Ben Curtis Chris Couch 71-72-71—214 Charl schwartzel 72-71-71—214 73-69-72—214 Retief Goosen scott Verplank 73-71-71—215 Carl pettersson 73-71-71—215 68-76-71—215 Ben Crane Justin Leonard 70-73-72—215 sergio Garcia 74-68-73—215 67-75-73—215 Fredrik Jacobson Matteo Manassero 72-70-73—215 dustin Johnson 72-70-73—215 71-73-72—216 Jonathan Byrd Keegan Bradley 75-69-72—216 Jason Bohn 71-73-72—216 73-70-73—216 Jerry Kelly ian poulter 70-72-74—216 troy Merritt 69-75-73—217 70-73-74—217 Webb simpson hunter haas 72-71-75—218 Bubba Watson 76-66-76—218 72-70-76—218 Martin Laird Robert Garrigus 74-69-76—219 arjun atwal 73-70-77—220 71-73-80—224 Kevin Chappell Failed to complete third round Graeme Mcdowell 67-69—136 nick Watney 64-71—135 69-67—136 steve stricker 66-68—134 david toms K.J. Choi 70-68—138 Lucas Glover 65-71—136 67-72—139 Martin Kaymer Jason dufner 69-70—139 Rory sabbatini 67-71—138 71-67—138 Robert Karlsson Luke donald 69-67—136 alvaro Quiros 67-73—140 71-69—140 Ryan Moore Jason day 69-70—139 Greg Chalmers 73-65—138 68-69—137 J.B. holmes davis Love iii 68-69—137 aaron Baddeley 70-67—137 70-72—142 steve Marino paul Goydos 69-70—139 Brian davis 69-69—138 71-67—138 Chris stroud andres Romero 72-69—141 spencer Levin 72-69—141 69-71—140 Jeff Overton hunter Mahan 70-67—137 Rocco Mediate 72-69—141 71-69—140 Brian Gay Mark O’Meara 66-74—140 Kevin streelman 70-69—139 69-72—141 Matt Kuchar Justin Rose 70-69—139 Corey pavin 72-69—141 69-72—141 Kris Blanks

ML Baseball Late Friday Dodgers 4, Diamondbacks 3 Arizona

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IP H R ER BB SO Arizona 6 4 3 4 2 saunders L,0-5 62⁄3 paterson 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Vasquez J.Gutierrez 1 0 0 0 0 1 Los Angeles Kershaw W,5-3 7 3 0 0 2 11 Guerrier 1 2 1 1 0 2 2 ⁄3 2 2 2 2 1 padilla h,5 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Jansen s,1-1 paterson pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. t—2:59. a—35,506 (56,000).

Transactions BASEBALL American League seattLe MaRineRs—added Rhp Jeff Gray to the active roster. Optioned Rhp dan Cortes to tacoma (pCL). teXas RanGeRs—placed CF Julio Borbon on the 15-day dL. selected the contract of OF endy Chavez from Round Rock (pCL). transferred Rhp Brandon Webb from the 15- to 60day dL. National League ChiCaGO CuBs—selected the contract of Lhp doug davis from iowa (pCL). Optioned Rhp Justin Berg to iowa. assigned Rhp thomas diamond outright to iowa.

CinCinnati Reds—activated Rhp Jose arredondo from the 15-day dL. Optioned Rhp Mike Leake to Louisville (iL). pittsBuRGh piRates—Released Lhp scott Olsen.

WashinGtOn natiOnaLs—Recalled Rhp Cole Kimball from syracuse (iL). designated Rhp Brian Broderick for assignment.

COLLEGE indiana state—announced the resignation of softball coach Brenda Coldren.

phOtO suBMitted By diane stORey

salisbury’s girls track and field team smiles after winning the 2a Midwest Regional.

Salisbury girls win regional Staff report

Salisbury’s girls won six events and finished first in the 2A Midwest Regional held at Cuthbertson High in Waxhaw on Saturday.

The Hornets accumulated 127 points to top Cuthbertson (110), Ashe County (94.5), Piedmont (52.5) and South Stokes (43). Nineteen teams scored points.

Katherine Shields was a double winner for the Hornets, taking the 1600 (5:27.05) and 3200 (12:12.70). Alisha Bradshaw swept the throws, winning the shot (42 feet, 111⁄2 inches) and discus (121-1).

Emily Shields won the 800 (2:21.9), while Summer Taylor won the 400 (1:00.91).

Bryce Ford was second in the discus (100-4).

Taylor added a second in the triple jump (33-73⁄4) and a

third in the long jump (16-3).

Najwa Allison was second in the 100 (13.06) and third in the 200 (27.03).

Salisbury also did well in the relays, taking seconds in the 4x200 (1:15.11) and 4x400 (4:16.6) and placing fourth in the 4x100.

SHS boys second Salisbury’s boys finished second in the Midwest Regional.

Charlotte’s Berry Academy scored 153 points to win the meet. Salisbury (100), Forest Hills (68), Central Davidson (56) and West Stokes (55) followed the Cardinals.

The lone regional champ for the Hornets was Darien Rankin in the high jump (6-6).

Rankin added a third in the long jump (20-6) and a fourth in the triple jump (41-61⁄2).

Keion Adams was second in the shot (46-4 3⁄4), while

Justin Lewis was second in the 100 hurdles (16.15).

Philip Tonseth shrugged off the disappointment of Friday’s baseball loss to qualify for the state meet in three events.

Tonseth was second in the 1600 (4:41), third in the 800 (2:04.55) and fourth in the 3200 (10:44.34).

Romar Morris qualified for the state meet in two events and will have a chance to defend his titles in the 100 and 200. Morris was third in the 100 on Saturday (10.89) and fourth in the 200 (22.55).

James Means was third in the pole vault (11-0).

William Brown placed fourth in the high jump (6-0) and sixth in the 400 (53.77).

Tyler Downs was sixth in the 300 hurdles (43.32).

The Hornets were second in the 4x100 and third in the

Raiders lose a tough one From staff reports

made a running catch over his shoulder.

“The way it goes sometimes,” South coach Thad Chrismon said. “We hit some balls hard that didn’t fall, and they had only two well-struck balls off night off Miller. Just a very good baseball game, with both teams playing very well defensively.”

South finished at 11-13, with four losses late in the season coming by a single run.

Catholic (18-3) plays host to Carson in the second round.  East Davidson won an epic, 14-inning game on Saturday to advance in the 2A playoffs. Justin Weavil’s squeeze bunt won it for the Golden Eagles. Weavil knocked in four runs. Braxton Shetley was the winning pitcher.

Page lost a tough three-setter — 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to South Iredell’s Patrick Hensley.

Hensley lost 6-3, 6-4 in the final to Brevard’s Korey Lovett.

teams.

Play him straight up, run the risk of getting beat 1-on1.

Overplay him, and he makes you pay with the sharp pass.

“He’s a phenomenal player,” Wade said. “He’s figured out how to be great in this league — fast. We know he’s going to score. He’s going to do amazing things. It’s our job just to make sure that we make it tough on him as possible. He’s the MVP for a reason.”

In turn, the Heat have been one of the NBA’s top defensive teams for a reason.

Even on Saturday, a few hours before boarding their

charter flight to Chicago, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had his team wearing mouthguards and pads for practice. On the eve of Game 1, the Heat were hitting each other, then had their perimeter players huddled around a massive television screen to study more video — most of it almost certainly featuring Rose.

“He’s a challenge, no question about it, because he puts so much overwhelming pressure in the paint, on your bigs, on your guards, gets players in foul trouble,” Spoelstra said. “We have an aggressive defense. We don’t want to back off on that, even with our ultimate respect for him as a playmaker and as an MVP.”

inated in the second round in his only year in college.

Memphis’ star, Zach Randolph, doesn’t have it much better. He went to Game 7 with Portland in his second year in the league, helping the Blazers rally from an 0-3 deficit to tie up the series before losing the finale. His teams had missed the playoffs each of the seven years since before Memphis’ current bid to be the first No. 8 seed to reach the West finals.

The winner advances to

face the Mavericks starting Tuesday night in Dallas.

“We know what we’re playing for,” Randolph said. “We know it’s the last game, and we know whoever wins this game goes to the next round, goes to the finals. So, it’s going to be different.”

Randolph was stellar in Game 6, staving off elimination for the Grizzlies with 30 points and 13 rebounds after being limited to a postseasonlow nine points in a blowout loss in Game 5.

South Rowan was eliminated in the first round of the 3A state playoffs despite a stellar pitching outing by junior Matt Miller.

South lost 2-1 to Charlotte Catholic at Pineville’s Hughes Park. Miller held the Cougars to five hits, but one was a two-run double down the left-field line by Alex Jensen in the fifth inning.

Miller was one strike away from getting out of that inning a couple of times, but he walked the leadoff man, and Eddie Hull singled in front of Jensen’s double.

Catholic ace Daniel Stewart struck out seven and limited South to six hits. The Raiders bunched three singles

by Cory Deason, Preston Penninger and Parker Hubbard to  Prep tennis score their run in the second.

Salisbury’s Steven Page The game ended on Tyler Kowalczyk’s drive almost to lost in the semifinals of the 2A the 390-foot sign in center individual state tennis tournafield. Catholic’s Josh Randall ment on Saturday.

ROSE FROM 1B being almost as many as the total shots for the Bulls’ second and third options, Luol Deng (154) and Carlos Boozer (119) in the postseason. He’s not always a shoot-first guard, though, proven by his 90 assists in the playoffs — more than any other three Chicago players combined.

“Sometimes he’s going to slither in there and make some incredible plays,” Bosh said. “It’s going to happen.”

Much like James and Wade, Rose is truly a pickyour-poison opponent for

THUNDER FROM 1B NBA’s rising young teams, Durant has never experienced a Game 7. The Thunder lost to the Lakers in six games in the first round of last year’s playoffs, then beat Denver in five to advance this year.

The closest he could relate to the winner-take-all stakes was the NCAA tournament — where his Texas Longhorns were elim-

 Prep track Davie’s Anna McBride won the 3200 in the 4A State Meet on Saturday, running 10:46.08.

Davie’s Ricky Bell was fifth in the discus (151 feet, 4 inches). Mekayla Boswell was eighth in the high jump (5-2).

 Youth basketball The Carolina Phenoms boys basketball team (5thgrade division) won the Carolina Invitational with a 4-0 record. Team members are Trell Baker, Davis Tadlock, Cole Perry, Joshua Ellis, Martavio Rankin, Cole Myers, Caleb Mauldin, Jemarius Hairston, AJ Banks, Tre Oats and Jailen Williams. Coaches are Brad Perry and Clint Mauldin.

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Phelps overtaken in his specialty Associated Press

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cincinnati Bengals receiver chad ochocinco attempts to ride a bull named deja Blu.

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DULUTH, Ga. — NFL receiver Chad Ochocinco backed up his promise to ride a 1,500-pound bull on the Professional Bull Riders circuit Saturday night, earning $10,000 for making it out of the chute atop Deja Blu. The ride lasted 1.5 seconds before Ochocinco was bucked off with no apparent injury.

Ochocinco, who wore a helmet and a standard protective vest, fell 6.5 seconds short of the time needed to win a new Ford truck and to earn the right to rename the bull after Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis.

But the challenge that began with a tweet earlier this month ended with Ochocinco proving PBR president Sean Gleason that he was serious. The six-time Pro Bowl receiver said, however, that he would never ride a bull again.

“One and done,” he said.

The publicity stunt was the latest for Ochocinco, whose Twitter account has nearly 2 million followers.

Ochocinco said he did not speak with Cincinnati coaches when the NFL lockout was briefly lifted in late

NATIONWIDE FroM 3B worse. His car could have sailed over the wall at the track appropriately dubbed the Monster Mile.

“It was certainly pretty wild,” he said. “It was just unfortunate.”

The accident shook up the final results. Kyle Busch was second and Reed Sorenson third. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and David Reutimann round out the top five.

Logano finished 13th and Bowyer 14th. Elliott Sadler took a 10-point lead over Sorenson in the standings.

Busch failed in his bid to tie Mark Martin for first place in career Nationwide victories.

He stands on 48.

The front of Busch’s No. 18 Toyota was mashed in, but he ducked around the wreckage and finished the race.

“I didn’t want that kind of view,” he said.

The race was delayed and, later interrupted, by rain.

Josh Wise gambled and

April. He is under contract with the Bengals but is likely either to be released or told to take a hefty pay cut now that Cincinnati has drafted A.J. Green.

Ochocinco acknowledged that the Bengals probably weren’t pleased that he was risking a career-threatening injury.

“I’m sure my coach was probably (upset),” Ochocinco said. “I mean, I would be, too. I’m sure the NFL is (upset), but I don’t follow their rules anyway.”

Ty Murray, a former world champion rider and a PBR director, coached Ochocinco the last two days at the Gwinnett Arena in hopes of preparing him for the powerful force of a bucking bull.

Murray compared the experience to a first-time skier attempting to navigate a run from the top of the French Alps.

“We practiced several crash scenarios today,” Murray said. “He’s a phenomenal athlete, he’s very easy to teach because he’s so athletic and aware of his body. But what he did was monumental and to try and ride a bull for 8 seconds with his lack of experience is impossible.”

CHARLOTTE — Peng Wu again got the best of Michael Phelps.

Wu, the club Wolverine swimmer who spoiled Phelps’ near decade-long streak in the 200 fly last month, repeated the feat on Saturday, overcoming Phelps on the final 50 meters at the Charlotte UltraSwim at Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center.

Phelps, who hadn’t lost in this event in 60 attempts covering nearly nine years, has two straight losses, both to Wu. Phelps looked impressive for the first three laps, but couldn’t get the win.

“It literally felt like PHELPS a piano fell on my back,” said Phelps, who finished in 1:58.22, behind Peng’s 1:56.83. “I knew at 150 that I was in trouble.”

Josh Schneider, two days after losing a 50-meter free swim-off to Cullen Jones for a spot in the U.S. World Championship team, edged Jones in the same event. Schneider finished in 22.51, .01 seconds ahead of Jones. Nick Brunelli placed third for a SwimMAC sweep on the podium.

“It’s revenge, and a huge confidence booster,” Schneider said. “I was mopey after that loss (in the swim-off). It’s really the first hard defeat I’ve had in the sport of swimming. I was climbing high and far, and that knocked the wind out of me.”

NHL BOSTON — Sean Bergenheim began a stretch of three Tampa Bay goals in 1:25 in the first period and the Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 5-2 in the opener of the Eastern Conference finals Saturday night.

Bergenheim, who scored just 14 goals in the regular season, got his NHL-high eighth of the playoffs at 11:15. Brett Clark connected at 11:34 and Teddy Purcell wrapped up the onslaught, both with unassisted goals.

The two goals in 19 seconds and three in 1:25 are club records.

Tyler Seguin, the No. 2 overall draft pick last year, scored for Boston with 4:01 left in the first period.

The Bruins, in the conference finals for the first time since 1992, lost for just the second time in 10 games.

stayed out when the leaders pitted as rain started hitting the track past the halfway point. When the delay was called, Wise was in first place.

He sat in his car on pit road and hoped the skies would open more.

With 56 laps left, the race restarted and Wise was quickly a non-factor, finishing 17th.

Edwards and Logano took over from there and battled for the lead. Edwards, who led a race-high 87 laps, nipped Logano for the lead with 13 laps left in the scheduled 200lap race. It would go nine extra laps.

“I thought the rain was going to finish us,” Edwards said.

Before the final accident, Edwards was so concerned he was running out of fuel he drove on the apron under caution. He had enough to win his third Nationwide race of the season and move into fourth place on the Nationwide wins list with 32.

Logano walked away from a scary accident. Edwards and Logano briefly chatted after the race. Logano refused to

DOVER, Del. — Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne will test drive this week in the hope he can return to racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Bayne missed his third straight race weekend at Dover International Speedway.

Bayne spent a week at the Mayo Clinic undergoing treatment for what doctors have called an inflammatory condition. He was released last week.

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blame Edwards and chalked it up to hard racing.

“It’s just the way these cars are when you get someone underneath you like that, it pushes you around,” Logano said.

Edwards was surprised Logano got free because he had the outside spot on the final restart.

But when he did, look out, cars went crashing all over the concrete.

“It’s a product of what we do,” Edwards said. “This race track, we were driving so hard. Joey was racing as hard as he possibly could.”

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Mott Children's Hospital when it opens in November.

Tuesday night in Boston.

• DAYTON, Ohio — Out of concern RANGER DEAD for NCAA rules, two Ohio football playNEW YORK — New York Rangers ers are declining to attend a "graduaenforcer Derek Boogaard was found tion party" thrown by a nightclub to celdead in his Minneapolis apartment. ebrate their new college sports careers.

The team announced the 28-year-old Wayne High School players Braxton Boogaard's death but gave no details.

Miller and Tre Moore graduated in the winter, with Miller heading to Ohio NBA State and Moore to Northern Illinois.

LAS VEGAS — Charles Oakley, one The Dayton Daily News reports Friday of the NBA's all-time tough guys and that an advertisement from the Heat now a Charlotte Bobcats assistant, has nightclub in Huber Heights popped up sued a Las Vegas resort over what he on Moore's Facebook page announcing calls a May 2010 "gang-style beat down" the May 26 event, with $10 admission by security guards who injured him. for men and $7 for women.

• DETROIT — Former Michigan The NCAA bans players from allowbasketball star Jalen Rose says Grant ing a business to use their names for Hill has agreed to help support the new profit. charter school in Detroit bearing COLLEGE BASKETBALL Rose's name.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Jalen Rose Leadership AcadeNorthern Iowa basketball coach Ben my is expected to open in September.

Rose says Hill has promised to lend his Jacobson has been granted permission to speak to Texas A&M about its coachsupport and that things are fine being vacancy. tween them after Hill criticized Rose Jacobson led the Panthers to the in March for comments he made in an round of 16 in the NCAA tournament ESPN documentary about Michigan's two seasons ago. They went 20-14 this famous Fab Five. past season.

GOLF Other candidates that Texas A&M is PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — expected to pursue include Wichita Players spent more time in the clubState's Gregg Marshall, Murray State's house than the golf course Saturday at Billy Kennedy and Aggies assistant The Players Championship, a rainScott Spinelli. shortened day that left enough time for TENNIS some high entertainment.

ROME — No. 1 Rafael Nadal and Martin Kaymer made four straight No. 2 Novak Djokovic will resume their birdie putts that traveled a combined rivalry in the Italian Open final today.

71 inches.

Nadal, who has won this tournament The tournament staff had to move five of the last six years, overcame a the cup on the 16th hole a few feet aftough first set against Richard Gasquet ter the four-hour storm delay because on Saturday before rolling to a 7-5, 6-1 of damage around the hole that it semifinal victory. Djokovic was pushed couldn't repair. to the limit in extending his unbeaten As for the top of the leaderboard? streak to 38 matches, defeating fourthU.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell and Doral winner Nick Watney ranked Andy Murray 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (2). were at 11-under par. David Toms and KILLEBREW UPDATE Steve Stricker were another shot beMINNEAPOLIS — Harmon Killehind, followed by Wells Fargo winner brew announced he no longer plans to Lucas Glover and K.J. Choi. Kaymer and Luke Donald, both of whom can go fight his esophageal cancer and has settled in for the final days of his life, sadto No. 1 in the world, were only three dening friends and fans of the 74-yearshots behind. old Hall of Fame slugger.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL In a statement released jointly by ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Lloyd Carr's the Minnesota Twins and the National legacy is about to get larger.

Baseball Hall of Fame, Killebrew said The Al Glick family made a $3 mil"it is with profound sadness" that he will lion gift to name the seventh floor "The no longer receive treatment for the Coach Carr Pediatric Cancer Unit," in "awful disease."

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needed a place to play,” Jackson said. “He can run, and he’s got tenacity and fire. He’s made so many diving catches. He’s brought a spark that you really don’t expect from a young guy.”

Noah Holmes hasn’t played a lot (12 games, 20 atbats), but Jackson believes his future is bright.

“Like Trey and Preston, he’s a winner, and he gets baseball,” Jackson said.

“Not playing is hard on a young guy, but I’ve been very impressed with how hard he’s kept working to improve.”

In the football arena, Jackson anticipates a monster senior season from defensive lineman Gordy Witte, a Salisbury product.

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Witte, who hurt his back after three games in 2007 and received a medical redshirt, is one of the few remaining Mountaineers who experienced that amazing day in Ann Arbor, Mich.

“We’ve changed the defense, and he’s going to be a starter at end,” Jackson said.

“He had a great spring. He’s being counted on as the leader of his group.”

Jackson forecast a potential breakout for Jamill Lott (A.L. Brown) as a receiver.

“Jamill is part of an incredibly fast group of receivers,” he said. “He’s had injury setbacks (broken finger) and some good people were ahead of him, but he’s learned all the receiver positions. He’ll be productive.”

Mike London, assistant sports editor, received the Tim Stevens Media Representative of the Year award from the N.C. High School Athletic Association on May 5, 2011. Rowan County teams have won 28 state championships since 2000, and Mike has been there to cover many of them.

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“Defensively, he’s been better than anyone anticipated.

We lost a tremendous defensive first baseman (David Towarnicky), but we didn’t miss a beat. Trey has made a young infield look a little bit older.”

Holmes is batting .283 with six homers and a team-best 40 RBIs. Those numbers aren’t staggering, but stats are way down all over.

“The bat rule changes knocked 25 points off batting averages and homers and RBIs have almost been cut in half,” Jackson said.

“As a baseball purist, I like it. Guys have to play the right way now. There are no more excuse-me doubles.”

Troutman was projected to be a backup infielder as a freshman, Instead, he’s taken charge in left field and is batting .294.

“It was a revolving door in left early, but Preston

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Infiltrator Systems has opened in the Summit Corporate Center off old Concord Road. the business makes septic waste water systems. the Rowan County Fairgrounds are at top right.

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ALISBURY — With 34 employees and an investment of $4 million, Infiltrator Systems has fulfilled the requirements of an incentive agreement with Rowan County.

The company hopes to hire even more people, President and CEO Roy Moore said Friday.

“We are ready to expand our operations here when the housing market recovers,” Moore said during the official opening of the plant, which is still partially under construction. “We can’t wait.”

Connecticut-based Infiltrator makes products for septic and drainage systems.

In exchange for creating new jobs, the county waived Logan Stringer fills a box trailer with completed EZ Flow sections. the lease fee on 5.3 acres of land adjacent to the new manufacturing and assembly plant in Summit Corporate Center.

“We have received tremendous support from Rowan Infiltrator just opened its Salisbury plant, but County,” Moore said. company officials already have worked with Rowan He credited RowanWorks County’s state legislators to change a proposed law Economic Development as they said would hurt their business. “instrumental in making this A bill in the N.C. House would have allowed a compartnership a reality.” petitor to circumvent the regulatory process for a Dianne Greene, board product similar to Infiltrator’s EZflow, said Ben president for RowanWorks, Berteau, Infiltrator southeast regional manager. and Robert Van Geons, execInfiltrator worked with N.C. Reps. Fred Steen and utive director, thanked the Harry Warren, Republicans who represent Rowan company for choosing Rowan County, to reach a compromise with bill sponsors, County.

Berteau said.

Infiltrator, which manuSponsors rewrote the legislation to allow some factures the EZflow drainage Infiltrator president Roy wastewater products to bypass parts of the regulasystem and corrugated pipe, Moore, right, talks with Rep. tory process, but still required them to demonstrate must maintain 33 full-time product performance, Berteau said.

Harry Warren during plant employees in Salisbury. If Berteau said the compromise will protect the comemployment falls below that opening ceremony. pany’s products against knock-offs. Warren said he number, the company must would watch the bill as it makes its way through the pay a correlating percentage dows manufacturer laying off House and over to the Senate. of the lease.

490 workers and moving to “When Infiltrator is satisfied, then I’m satisfied,” Several new Infiltrator Florida. he said. workers came from PGT, The Salisbury plant is InHouse Bill 594 is known as “Functionally Equivmarketing Manager Jim alent Wastewater Systems.”

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ACN Inc. has helped Home Instead Senior Care of Rowan and Cabarrus counties develop a program called “The Gift of Caring” to benefit isolated and financially challenged seniors.

The program is to fund 40 grants to provide nonmedical in-home care or in-hospital respite care for seniors in need. It will also publish a calendar that features and honors local senior veterans.

In December, ACN Inc. and its employees participated in the Be a Santa to a Senior program that Home Instead Senior Care sponsors each Christmas. ACN employees also raised funds that the company matched. Home Instead Senior Care was presented a check and a challenge: take the money and create a means to benefit needy seniors yearround. The Gift of Caring began with that challenge.

Each of the 40 grants will provide a caregiver for 10 hours of non-medical private care for one senior, either in their home or in the hospital.

The grant may be used to assure that the senior is accompanied home after hospitalization, helped to get settled safely, and has the means to attend a follow-up appointment with their physician. The grant may be used to provide 10 hours of in-hospital respite care for the family caregiver of a seriously ill senior.

The grants are being given to Rowan Regional Medical Center, Carolinas Medical Center Northeast and W.G. Hefner Veterans Administration Hospital. Discharge planners, patient advocates and chaplains will select the care recipients.

Home Instead Senior Care will deliver the grants to the hospitals on a monthly basis from March to October.

A portion of the fund has been designated to develop a 16-month calendar that features and honors local senior veterans. The calendar will be given to veterans at the State Veteran’s Nursing Home in Salisbury and also to veterans in the community through the Cabarrus Veterans Service Office in Concord. The calendar project is scheduled to be complete by summer and will be distributed during a veterans’ appreciation celebration sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care.

For more details, contact Home Instead Senior Care’s Community Service Representatives Crystal Dickerson 704-636-2010 or Robin Scharding 704-788-3399.

Penrod Medical Equipment sold Penrod Medical Equipment has been sold to Craig Rae, who is relocating to the area from Hudson, Wisc.

“Penrod is the leading supplier and servicer of mobility equipment, lift chairs, and other durable medical equipment in Rowan County, and I look forward to continuing their long standing reputation for excellence” said Rae, a former executive with companies such as Newell-Rubbermaid

Business Roundup and Roto Zip Tool Corp.

“After 30 years in the corporate world, millions of miles of travel, and too many brutal Wisconsin winters, my wife, Sherry, and I decided that we wanted to get closer to the sun and our kids, who all live in the Charlotte area” Rae said.

“I contacted VR Mergers and Acquisitions of Charlotte, and we reviewed numerous local businesses that were for sale. Penrod Medical was clearly the best opportunity.”

Penrod Medical was founded in 2003 by Roger Bowman.

Gary Straka joined as a partner in 2005. Penrod is best known for power wheelchairs, scooters, lifts and lift chairs.

It also offers other medical equipment products, including diabetic testing supplies, diabetic shoes, nebulizers, walkers, canes, crutches, bath safety products, patient lift equipment and hospital beds.

Penrod is also the only accredited durable medical equipment distributor in Rowan County.

Straka, a disabled American veteran, will remain with Penrod, focusing on working with veterans.

National apartment leasing professional Shuntale Smith has met the National Apartment Association Education Institute’s (NAAEI’s) requirements is now designated a National Apartment Leasing Professional.

Designates must attend more than 30 hours of curriculum study and lecture that encompasses the latest information regarding fair housing, rental policies and procedures, resolving objections and keys to success. You must pass seven exams, submit and receive a passing grade for an oral presentation, document at least six months of apartment industry experience and earn continuing education credits annually.

Official at Land Trust leadership seminar Andrew Waters, operations director at The LandTrust for Central North Carolina, was selected by The Land Trust Alliance as one of 20 land trust leaders from across the country to attend a week-long training program in Massachusetts.

The Land Trust Alliance (LTA), based in Washington, D.C., is the national association and service center for America’s land conservation organizations. It provides training, support and advocacy for land trusts throughout the United States.

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KANNAPOLIS — “It’s a happy kind of thing,” says Sheila Beaver, co-owner of Tubby’s Ice Cream shop on North Cannon Boulevard.

Ice cream is a food that just automatically makes folks smile, no matter what the age.

Sheila and husband, Mike, along with daughter Julie Beaver Talbert opened Tubby’s in January and have been selling 32 flavors of ice cream and receiving lots of smiles

cream treats from sundaes to milkshakes, homemade waffle cones and hurricanes (a super thick shake with candy pieces in it).

The Beavers’ history with Tubby’s goes back 28 years to when they bought what was then the Humdinger at the Carolina Mall in Concord.

They renamed it Tubby’s and sold ice cream and sandwiches. The name came from a faever since. vorite movie of theirs, “Holirobin perrY/FoR tHE SALISBURY PoSt Their shop also offers deli day Nights,” and Tubby’s was Julie Beaver talbert serves a sandwiches, gourmet apples, tubby’s cappuccino crunch.

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The RIAA argued LimeWire’s software encouraged illegal sharing of copyrighted music. Last May LimeWire was found liable of copyright infringement, with a trial to follow early this year.

That trial started last week.

In October, LimeWire received a federal injunction forcing it to disable key functions of its software. At that time, the company said it would continue developing a new service that would include a desktop player, mobile apps and a catalog of music from which people could legally stream and download songs.

But in December, Lime Group said it would shut down LimeWire completely due to its legal situation.

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Polyethylene is melted in extruders and drawn through a corrugator line, which shapes and cools the pipe in a continuous process.

The extruders run 24 hours a day, five days a week.

The pipe products are shipped and sold across the Southeastern United States and used in agricultural, drainage, septic and stormwater systems.

Infiltrator manufactures six out of 10 septic systems in North Carolina and one out of three nationally, Moore said.

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Attorney general looks into Marathon’s wholesale gasoline pricing after floods FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is alleging in a court filing that Marathon Petroleum illegally hiked the wholesale price of gasoline during the state’s devastating flooding.

Conway is alleging that Marathon violated the state’s price-gouging law. The motion for a temporary injunction was filed Friday in a case against Marathon in Franklin Circuit Court that dates back

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LimeWire settles with recording labels for $105 million SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — File-sharing software company LimeWire, which shut down last year after being barred from allowing people to share copyright-protected files online, reached a $105 million out-of-court settlement with the major record labels Thursday, the labels said.

In a statement, Recording Industry Association of America Chairman Mitch Bainwol said his group, which represents the labels, is pleased with the settlement.

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filtrator’s second largest of six, behind the facility in Lexington, Ky. The company combined three North Carolina manufacturing operations into the Salisbury site. The facility is larger and more modern, Bransfield said.

EZflow manufacturing was formerly located in Brevard and Garner, and Infiltrator Corrugated Pipe manufacturing was formerly located in Roseboro.

Infiltrator has installed more than $3.5 million in existing equipment from other manufacturing facilities in the Salisbury plant, Moore said.

The company also has spent more than $500,000 in building and land improvements in Salisbury, he said.

Both products made in Salisbury are manufactured primarily from recycled plastic.

• EZflow is made by expanding polystyrene pellets using steam.

The expanded polystyrene beads surround a corrugated drainage pipe and are secured with highstrength netting.

The company says the environmentally-friendly product is a clean, lightweight alternative to traditional drainage and septic construction materials.

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the local economy.

“We have 34 local jobs created and the promise of more whenever the housing market gets out of the doldrums,” Mitchell said.

Contact reporter Emily Ford at 704-797-4264.

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The LandTrust for Central North Carolina also has been selected by the Land Trust Alliance as the first “pilot� land trust in the Southeastern United States to participate in LTA’s new “Advancement Program.� The selection recognizes The LandTrust’s record of land conservation and provides assistance for advancing operational excellence and assuring its sustainability. Waters’ selection for the leadership training, which includes a $5,000 scholarship, is a component of the “Advancement Program.�

Waters manages all day-to-day administrative functions at The LandTrust. “We are excited that Andrew has been selected for this honor,� says Jason Walser, executive director at The LandTrust. “It is recognition of the great job he has done.�

Also selected to attend the training program was Kevin Redding, former associate director at The LandTrust and current executive director of the Piedmont Land Conservancy based in Greensboro. A Rowan County native, Redding attended East Rowan High School before receiving degrees from East Carolina University and Western Carolina University.

Brady qualifies for Sierra Level with Thrivent Financial Eric Brady, a financial consultant with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, is one of 700 who qualified for Sierra level for 2010 sales and service out of approximately 2,400 financial representatives.

Brady is with Thrivent Financial’s Southeast Regional Financial Office, serving Lutherans and their family members in Salisbury and surrounding communities. He was recognized at Thrivent Financial’s sales conference in April. He has been with Thrivent Financial for 20 years and has been recognized for his performance 15 times.

Meanwhile, the A.M. Best rating agency has affirmed Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ A++ (Superior) rating and given the organization a stable outlook. A++ (Superior) is the highest of A.M. Best’s 16 ratings categories.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans also has been named to Fortune magazine’s Fortune 500 list based on annual revenues. The organization moved up 24 spots in the 2011 ranking to become the 318th largest company in the United States. The ranking was based on Thrivent Financial’s 2010 revenue of $7.47 billion. The magazine listed Thrivent as the sixth largest mutual life/health insurance organization in the United States.

Daimler Trucks CEO showcases hybrid products at conference

Mae Clark, left, and Amy Mitchell enjoy a cool treat at Tubby’s Ice Cream shop in Kannapolis.

Mae loves the superman flavored ice cream the best.

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LONG BEACH, Calif. – Martin Daum, president and chief executive officer of Daimler Trucks North America, provided the keynote address at the Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, the largest clean transportation event in North America.

Daum discussed leadership in diesel efficiency programs and alternative fuel options, including the first original equipment manufacturer to bring a factory-produced conventional natural gas truck to market.

Daimler Trucks has deployed 400 Sterling and Freightliner natural gas tractors to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach; and, with the Maryland Energy Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy, spearheaded deployment of 143 hybrid trucks to Aramark Uniform Services, Nestle Waters, Sysco Foods and UPS. The company has already delivered nearly 1,600 natural gas-powered Thomas Built Buses and will deliver its 1,000th natural gas vehicle since 2008 under the Sterling and Freightliner brands later this year.

RecruitMilitary event scheduled for June 2 at speedway

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military backgrounds on Thursday, June 2.

The RecruitMilitary Veteran Opportunity Expo will be from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at The Speedway Club, Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The event will be open to veterans who already have civilian work experience, those who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, members of the National Guard and reserves, military spouses, and other military family members.

RecruitMilitary has scheduled 36 expos for 2011. For more information, visit www. recruitmilitary.com.

Tara Smith named CareGiver of the Month for Home Instead Tara Smith has been chosen May CareGiver of the Month by Home Instead Senior Care in Salisbury.

She has been with Home Instead since September. “Tara has her whole heart in Caregiving, and is a wonderful asset to our Home Instead family,� said Ashley Sheley of Home Instead.

First Bancorp first quarter earnings 32 cents per share TROY — First Bancorp, parent company of First Bank, announced first quarter net income available to common shareholders of $5.3 million compared to $3.4 million reported in the first quarter of 2010. Earnings per diluted common share were 32 cents in the first quarter of 2011 compared to 20 cents in the first quarter of 2010.

The company realized a $10.2 million purchase gain from the acquisition of The Bank of Asheville, resulting from the difference between the purchase price and the acquisitiondate fair value of the acquired assets and liabilities. The after-tax impact of this gain was $6.2 million.

Under a loss share agreement with the FDIC, the government will cover 80 percent of loan and foreclosed real estate losses. First Bancorp has recorded an estimated receivable from the FDIC of $42.2 million.

Total assets on March 31, 2011, were $3.4 billion, a 0.3 percent increase from a year earlier. Total loans were $2.5 billion, a 4.6 percent decrease from a year earlier. Total deposits were $2.8 billion, a 0.9 percent decrease from a year earlier.

CONCORD — The military-to-civilian reSubmit information about new businesses, cruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a honors and management promotions to free employment, business-opportunity and bizbriefs@salisburypost.com. Include a dayeducation event for job seekers who have time phone number.

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4TH Annual Children’s Miracle Network Bass Team Tournament

Mike Beaver shows an antique quart ice cream maker.

1ST Place Guaranteed $1,000.00 (Must have at least 20 entries)

Strawberries PRE-PICKED Spring Onions, Lettuces & Other Fresh Produce

704-239-0097 or 704-213-4926

EAGLE PRODUCE FARM (2.4 miles from hospital)

From safelight until 2:30 PM Location: High Rock Lake @ Tamarac Marina After tournament there will be a cookout free of charge with entry fee ($45.00 from each Entry goes directly to Children’s Miracle Network)

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come celebrate birthdays or any occasion there. Their grandson is on the state champion Salisbury High School golf team, and they mentioned they would like to have the team in to celebrate soon.

They are located at 1901 N Cannon Blvd. at 19th St. (near the Family Dollar) and are open from noon-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 1 p.m.-9 p.m. on Sunday.

In June, they plan to stay open until 10 p.m. They do catering and also have instore parties.

You can reserve space to have a birthday or ice cream party by calling 704-933-6128.

Entry forms may be picked up at Hills Minnow Farm, Tamarac Marina or Fleming Candy Co. To be a sponsor, for registration forms, or for general information email: tarheel4ever1228@live.com or (704) 213-7142

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In January, they bought Ollie’s Ice Cream shop, and are back with Tubby’s. Mike and Sheila also have a concession business selling funnel cakes and treats at fairs, including the Faith Fourth. “We’ve been in the food business for over 40 years,� says Sheila. “We’ve talked about opening our own shop again for years, and now that we have, we really enjoy it,� she added.

They have been pleasantly surprised while serving their sweet treats to customers of all ages. “We get a happy feeling seeing everyone enjoy their ice cream,� said Sheila.

Julie likes to see the little hand prints on the glass cases. “It’s great to see the kids smile,� she adds.

Amy Mitchell and daughter Mae were customers before, but they like Tubby’s even more now. Mae loves the superman flavor ice cream.

Another regular, Jeanie Measmer, from Landis, said she comes two to three times a week for their butter pecan ice cream in a waffle cone. “I skip lunch for this,� she said.

There are more than 30 ice cream flavors to choose from, including such tasty confections as cappuccino crunch, caramel cookie monster, royal red velvet, roadrunner raspberry, cotton candy and birthday cake.

They also offer sugar free ice cream in chocolate and butter pecan and frozen blueberry cheesecake yogurt. You can order your favorite flavor in a homemade waffle cone.

After tasting a few of these, the roadrunner raspberry was my favorite.

They also offer sandwiches such as their homemade pecan chicken salad ($3.79) or deli sliced smoked turkey ($3.29). You can even get an old fashioned grilled cheese ($1.79) just like mom used to make. Gourmet apples are another favorite.

They take granny smith apples and dip them in caramel, then roll them in chocolate (white or dark) and nuts or candy. The apple pie one is rolled in graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, and brown sugar. You slice them up and enjoy every bite. Julie also makes the pound cake they serve — and you can even get real fresh squeezed lemonade or orangeade.

Mike Beaver said they want to have a nice, clean place where folks can come have a sandwich and some great ice cream and just enjoy themselves. “We love to see the kids smile,� he says. When you think of it, an ice cream shop is a happy kind of place. “Happy for us,� says Sheila, “and happy for the customers,� she says.

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Antiques & Collectibles

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Yard Sale Area 1

Benefit Yard Sale for Vanessa Duke-Allred

FREE PICKUP OF DONATED: • Furniture • Appliances • Construction Materials • Architectural Salvage • Vehicles

Saturday, May 14th & Sunday, May 15th 8am-3pm.

4970 S. Main St., across from the Foxy Lady Come by and see what we have probably just about everything you have ever been dreaming of & much, much more.

All proceeds go to Vanessa who is battling cancer.

Keep up the fight!

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1707 S. Main St., Salisbury 704-642-1222

For Ultimate Termite Protection & Other Pests

Dolls.

10 beautiful collectible dolls. 18”-20” tall. Paid $200 ea. Asking $50 ea. or best offer.

Please call 704-633-7425

Clothing & Footwear Beautiful Mother's Dress, Size 20, Full-length Peach w/mid-sleeve jacket. Worn once. 704933-3541. $75.

Computers & Software

Yard Sale Area 4

Donations may also be dropped off at our store at our convenient drive-up drop-off

Collectibles. Barbies '96, '97, '98 Holiday, 40th Anniversary & Millennium, '97 Peter Rabbit $25 ea. 704-637-9059 after 6pm

MOVING GARAGE SALE THURSDAY: 5/19/11, 12pm-5pm, 835 Balfour Quarry Rd, Salisbury.

Woodstoves, canoe, tools, stained glass supplies, igloo dog house, firewood, etc.

HOUSE for RENT Granite Quarry Call 704-433-0581

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All-Around Consignments & More, 201 S. St., Richfield, Main “Quality” clothes, accessories, home décor, vintage furniture, tools, and more! 704-850-4099 Growing Pains Family Consignments Call (704)638-0870 115 W. Innes Street

Electronics Nintendo DSI-blue (2) for sale $75 & Hannah Montana PSP's (2). $75 in good cond. 704-267-1560

Farm Equipment & Supplies Farm Equipment, new & used. McDaniel Auction Co. 704-278-0726 or 704798-9259. NCAL 48, NCFL 8620. Your authorized farm equipment dealer.

Lawn mower. 40 inch riding mower. ariens. 15 horse. runs well, cuts good. $500. Please call 704-224-3752.

Flowers & Plants Complete Apple Imac all in one computer. Internet ready. $55. Please call 980-205-0947 Dell PC, fast & 21” Samsung Flatscreen Monitor. Paid $3500.

Asking $500 obo. 704603-4079 Xerox Phaser 8550Dp $499 Call 704-633-0029

704-633-2938

Leyland Cypress

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

Furniture & Appliances

Furniture & Appliances

Air Conditioners, Washers, Dryers, Ranges, Frig. $65 & up. Used TV & Appliance Center Service after the sale. 704-279-6500

Washer/dryer set $350; 30” electric range $175; refrigerator $225. Excellent shape. 704-798-1926

Router table with lots of router bits & accessories.

Have to see to believe! $500. 704-633-0259

Washing machine.

Front load. $75. Please call more information 704-267-1560

Misc. Equipment & Supplies

Bar stools (3), like new. $125. New natural gas logs, ventless. $100. Call 704-637-1753 Bedroom suite, new 5 piece. All for $297.97.

Hometown Furniture, 322 S. Main St. 704-633-7777 China cabinet, large.

Carved wood, glass shelves, interior lights.

Brass hinges & hardware. Very elegant.

53”W x 83”H x 19”D. $500. 704-202-0831 Couch 90” Lazy Boy burgundy-brown genuine leather, $375. Brookstone iJoy multi function electric massage chair $75. Both are in excellent condition.

352-428-6411 Mocksville Curling Iron, rotating, brand new Instyler. $70.

Please Call 704-7384079 Desk. Executive desk, Lshaped with upper cabinets. Has a cherry finish.

In excellent condition. $495. Call for details, 704-806-7405.

DINING ROOM SET table 78x38 with 18in extension, 2 piece hutch with light and glass shelves and 6 chairs (2 arm chairs) Hunter green and Cherry wood $675 for all 704-798-0660 Sofa, white leather, $300; TV Armoire $200. Moving must sell. Call 704-6300859.

Table & chairs, wrought iron. 2 end tables. Glass top. $500 for all. Please call 704-633-2513

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Healthcare

Employment DriversChildcare

Teacher needed.

Childcare center in West area. Must have credentials or be in the process of getting credentials.

Call 704-798-2058 Drivers

25 Truck Driver

NEW PAY PACKAGE Create Your Own Hometime!

Up to .44/Mile ALL MILES Class A CDL & 1 Yr. OTR Exp. Req'd

Call 1-866-269-2119 or apply online at: www.landair.com

Trainees Needed!

Learn to drive at Future Truckers of America!

Earn $700 per week!

No experience needed!

Job Ready in 4 weeks!

Company Sponsored CDL training & WIA Funding available now

LPN/RN Baylor position available 7am7pm. Apply in person, Brightmoor Nursing Ctr., 610 W. Fisher St.

Healthcare

Med Tech/CNA

Class A CDL flatbed drivers wanted. Dedicated freight. Long distance. Home most weekends. Owner/Operators accepted. Call Curtis at 704-2783532 ext. 202

Painters

Experienced residential painters! Must have 5 years or more exper. NC DL req'd. 704-637-6817 If no exp., pls don't call.

Healthcare

1-888-734-6711 Drivers

Position available for MDS Coordinator (LPN or RN), 8:30am-5pm, M-F, must be experienced in 3.0. Apply in person, Brightmoor Nursing Ctr., 610 W. Fisher St.

Night Baylor 7pm-7am Please apply at Best of Care, Kannapolis.

704-933-4339

Sales

Attention Students!

SUMMER WORK Excellent Pay Flexible FT/PT Customer sales/svc No exp needed-will train All ages 17+ Scholarships avail.

Conditions apply Call ASAP

704-706-2399

Other

Part-Time Site Manager Needed: This will be a 15 hour a week job. Must have Property Management Experience. Email resume to: greatwesternapts@yahoo.com

cars

Healthcare

CNA's & IN HOME AIDES Atlantic Coast Home Care Agency, INC. Needs CNA's & IN HOME AIDES in Rowan County and surrounding areas. Up to $12.50 per hr. no exp. necessary & can set own hours. Opportunity for advancement is available. For more information call 1-866-575-5888.

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Drivers

trucks

all can be found in the

Classifieds!

TO ADVERTISE CALL

(704) 797-4220

NEWS 24/7

CDL OPERATORS Do you have the desire to be an OwnerOperator without the expense of large down payments or deposits? Tired of running the Northeast??? PTDIA GRADS WELCOME! SPOUSE AND PET RIDER POLICY. Call BUEL, INC. today at 866369-9744 for information about our Lease operator program.

BUEL INC. Carolinas to the Northwest

Misc For Sale ANDERSON'S SEW & SO, Husqvarna, Viking Sewing Machines. Patterns, Notions, Fabrics. 10104 Old Beatty Ford Rd., Rockwell. 704-279-3647

1972 19" Fiberform Monterrey. Runs good.

Good ski/fishing boat.

Includes E-Loader trailer. $2500 OBO. Photos on request. 704-223-0416

Lawn and Garden

Employment

Employment

Drivers

Employment

Bush hog, 5 ft. 3 point hitch. Heavy duty. Good condition. $450. Please call 704-245-3660 Chainsaw.

Husqvarna 455 chainsaw with 18" bar & chain. In good shape. Asking $260. Call for details, 704-806-7405 Holshouser Cycle Shop Lawn mower repairs and trimmer sharpening. Pick up & delivery. (704)637-2856 Mower. 22" Toro mower with leaf bag. Like new, just serviced. 6.5 horsepower motor, $150. Call 704-633-6558.

Weedeater, Homelite.

Starts & runs good. $20.

Please call 704-633-6654 before 9pm.

Porter cable router, model 9690 LR. Plunge base, table, cabinet, bits. Used 2 times. $200. Call 704-6336654 before 9pm

Employment

Teams - Home Weekends, P&D w/ Hazmat, Flatbed w/moffet, Food dist, doubles & shuttles, local, Reg.,OTR, Must have 1 yr exp. clean MVR, job history & Criminal history.

Call 704-521-1202 or 800-469-3440 www.diversifieddriver.com

Dental Assistant II A wonderful opportunity is available for a full time Dental Assistant (II) to join the growing practice of Dr. Don Fortner in Salisbury, NC. This busy practice offers advanced technology, a friendly & supportive team and a solid patient base. If you are experienced and ready for the next challenge, please fax your resume to 704-636-4890.

PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SUPERVISOR II Supervises, leads and plans for a variety of public health programs; collects and analyzes data; develops and prepares grants to obtain funding; compiles cost information in planning and justifying budget; provides supervision, evaluation and monitoring of staff work plans and performance; develops, reviews, and adjusts goals, standards, policies and procedures; evaluates staff training needs and arranges for training; works with lab and pharmacy directors in oversight of these two ancillary services. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing with a PHN rotation from an accredited college or university and four years of Public Health Nursing experience including one year of experience in a supervisory capacity; or graduation from an accredited School of Professional Nursing and five years of professional nursing experience, four of which must have been in public health including one year of experience in a supervisory capacity; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Must be licensed to practice as a R.N. by the N.C. Board of Nursing. A valid driver's license is required. Starting Salary $56,071 - $ 60,663 or commensurate with education and experience. BENEFITS. Submit application to Rowan County Human Resources, 130 W. Innes Street, Salisbury, NC 28144. Open until filled. Applications available at www.rowancountync.gov We Administer Pre-employment Drug Tests, Conduct Criminal Background Investigations, and Driving History.EOE

Horse quality fescue and orchard grass mix hay, spring cutting. Field pick up. $2.50/bale. Call Gary now for future notification when hay is ready. 704239-6242. Rockwell area.

$10 to start. Earn 40%.

Call 704-607-4530 or 704-754-2731

Waitstaff Immed positions, exper'd. Apply in person 2-5pm., 1621 W. Innes St. NO PHONE CALLS.

City of Salisbury Senior Maintenance Worker - SRU Closing Date: June 6, 2011 ——

Maintenance Technician - SRU Closing Date: June 7, 2011

Construction company seeks full-time for Project Managers. Excellent pay scale, benefits, and work schedule. Job responsibilities include preparation of change orders, submittals, RFIs, closeout documentation, invitations to bid, warranty and production scheduling and other related duties. Proficiency in Timberline and Microsoft Office (Excel) preferred. EOE. Attach and email resume to: jobapps120@gmail.com

Horse Quality Hay for Sale

Employment

Construction

Project Assistant

Building, used, for sale 10' x 12' metal building with wood frame. Like new will sell for much less than new retail cost.

Can be seen at 250 Auction Dr. at Webb Rd exit 70 off 85 south. Call 704-798-0634

Employment

Healthcare

A CDL DRIVERS - 50 NEEDED ASAP!!

Bingham Smith Lumber Co. !!!NOW AVAILABLE!!!

Metal Roofing Many colors. Custom lengths, trim, accessories, & trusses.

Call 980-234-8093 Patrick Smith

Ariens. 40inch. 15hp. riding mower. runs well mows good. many new parts. $500 or BO. 704224-3752

Hardwood Bostitch Flooring Nailer. Good Condition. $200. Call 704-637-3251

To place your ad call 704.797.4220

Employment

BOAT FOR SALE

Machine & Tools

AUTOS • JOBS • REAL ESTATE • SERVICES • PETS • NOTICES

Employment

Bush hog house, 5 ft.

Good condition $400 704-633-9453

Hunting and Fishing

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Machine & Tools

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Admin/Clerical

Office Manager Fast-paced office for mental health provider in Lexington needs an Office Manager to answer phones, greet visitors, schedule appointments, filing, faxing, mail duties, auditing files, process billing, maintain medical records, and other duties as assigned/needed. Provide backup coverage as needed for other office locations.

Requires high school diploma/GED & 5 years of medical office / mental health office experience. Medical records knowledge, great customer service skills, detail oriented, data entry skills, flexibility, ability to multi-task, team player, & excellent organizational skills a must. Full time 40 hours per week M-F, with evening hours possible. Valid NC DL, background checks, drug screen.

Interested applicants must apply online at: www.MonarchNC.org EOE

Meter Reader - SRU Closing Date: May 31, 2011 ——

Customer Service Clerk Closing Date: June 2, 2011 ——

Maintenance Worker I Facilities Maint.

Closing Date: June 8, 2011 ——

PT Maintenance Worker I Facilities Maint.

Closing Date: June 8, 2011 ——

Maintenance Worker II Facilities Maint.

Closing Date: June 9, 2011 Please visit www.salisburync.gov/hr for more details.

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Earn the extra cash you need in just 2-3 hours per day as a motor route carrier for The Salisbury Post. You’ll discover the satisfaction of running your own business - without sacrificing your time to the demands of a full-time job.

Interested persons must meet the following criteria:

• Available 7 days per week • Delivery hours are Mon.-Fri. 3:30 am to 6:30 am, Sat. & Sun. 1:30 am to 7:00 am • Dependable • Dependable transportation • Have a desire to own their own business • Drivers license required • Good driving record • Have a home phone number

Currently seeking applicants in W. Rowan/E. Iredell, China Grove, Rockwell & High Rock Lake area

If interested, please come by the Post at 131 W. Innes Street, Salisbury and fill out an application or give us a call at the Circulation Department (704) 797-4213, Monday - Friday 8 am - 5 pm *Profits vary and could be more or less than this amount

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SALISBURY POST Misc For Sale

Want to Buy Merchandise

Misc For Sale Motor for 2000 Dodge/Jeep, 360, 5.9, 98000 miles. $500 OBO. 336-940-3134

BINGHAM-SMITH LUMBER CO. Save money on lumber.

Treated and Untreated.

Round Fence Post in all sizes. Save extra when Call buying full units.

Patrick at 980-234-8093.

HYPNOSIS will work for you!

Stop Smoking~Lose Weight It's Easy & Very Effective.

Decide Today 704-933-1982 Kerosene heater, Siegler.

With blower. $100.

Please call 704-640-6214 for more information Love seat, beige. $75. 2 TV tables, $50 ea. Jeff Gordon wall clock, $50. Wood wall clock, $50. Elvis Presley wall clock, $50. Foot stool, $15. 3 antique dolls, $25 ea. Table antique ball lamp, $25. 704-638-8965

Lumber All New!

Watches – and scrap gold jewelry.

704-636-9277 or cell 704-239-9298

Pine Plate Rack.

2 grooved shelves. Aproximately 4 foot x 28 inch.

704-798-4748. $50.

Receiver Hitch for 97-11 Dodge Dakota/Durango. $100. Please Call 336940-3134 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

Business Opportunities J.Y. Monk Real Estate School-Get licensed fast, Charlotte/Concord courses. $399 tuition fee. Free Brochure. 800-849-0932

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METAL: Angle, Channel, Pipe, Sheet & Plate Shear Fabrication & Welding FAB DESIGNS 2231 Old Wilkesboro Rd Open Mon-Fri 7-3:30 704-636-2349

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

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.

Carport and Garages Lippard Garage Doors Installations, repairs, electric openers. 704636-7603 / 704-798-7603

Puppies, free - Rescue dog surprised us with pups. 8 to choose from in Enochville/Kannapolis.

Breed-unsure, many colors, darn cute.704-9389842 or 704-791-9837

Found Dog, small, black long hair. Jake Alexander & Morlan Park Rd. 336787-3252 Lost Female Rottweiler from Old Concord Rd., Farmhouse Restaurant area. REWARD if found.

704-209-1202

REWARD!!

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Electronic Health Record Specialist Training Cross training for persons with healthcare (direct care, mgmt., admin, support, ancil. services, EMS) or Computer technology experience. Fed (US HHS ONC HIT ARRA) funded. Placement assistance provided. Visit www.cvcc.edu/hitwd or call 828327-7000-x 4816

Lost necklace. Yellow gold chain & cross. Lost Thurs.

May 12th Around Spencer Post Office, Family Dollar, Bucky's Produce or Salisbury Gardens. 704-633-3694

Vacuum, Eureka Maxima, micro filtration, lt. wt.

Has brush and two wands. Good condition. $40. 704-209-0981

Free Stuff

Found dog. Small, long haired dog on Jake Alexander near Salisbury Mall. Call 704-239-9354 or 704-636-6589

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

FOUND Large black dog in China Grove. Call.....

Daytime (704) 857-1711 Evening (704) 633-5072

Timber wanted - Pine or hardwood. 5 acres or more select or clear cut.

Shaver Wood Products, Inc. Call 704-278-9291.

Free Chicken Hens.

3 Available.

Please call for more info.

704-797-0076

Lost dogs. 2 female Beagles. One black & white, one brown & white.

152 area of Rockwell.

Call 704-431-9359

Carport and Garages

Child Care and Nursery Schools

Cleaning Services

Fencing

Elaine's Special Cleaning

Perry's Overhead Doors Sales, Service & Installation, Residential / Commercial. Wesley Perry 704-279-7325

Openings for childcare in christian home for 1st and 2nd shifts. Reasonable rates. Refs. Avail. Contact 704-642-0488. High Rock Lake area.

www.perrysdoor.com

Quality Affordable Childcare Clean, smoke-free, reliable. 17 yrs. exp.

6 wks & up. All shifts.

Reasonable Rates 704-787-4418 704-279-0927 F Ref. Avail. F

We Build Garages, = 24x24 $12,500.

All sizes built! ~ 704-633-5033 ~

Catering Services

Cleaning Services Complete Cleaning Service. Basic, windows, spring, new construction, & more. 704-857-1708

Cleaning Services

Sparkling Results, Reasonable Rates.

Free Estimates & References Given.

704-637-7726 Concrete Work

All types concrete work ~ Insured ~ NO JOB TOO SMALL!

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“We can remove bankruptcies, judgments, liens, and bad loans from your credit file forever!”

ABSOLUTE AUCTION FRIDAY, MAY 20TH • 6:30 P.M. www.WifeForHireInc.com Licensed, bonded and insured.

Since 1985.

1618 JAKE ALEXANDER BLVD., WEST, SALISBURY, NC

TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!

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 Around the House Repairs Carpentry. Electrical. Plumbing. H & H Construction 704-633-2219

Fencing

Grading & Hauling

Garages, new homes, remodeling, roofing, siding, back hoe, loader 704-6369569 Maddry Const Lic G.C.

Beaver Grading Quality work, reasonable rates.

Free Estimates 704-6364592

Home Improvement

Home Improvement

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!”

LAND AUCTION

Auctioneer Note: All merchandise is from brand name stores. Items will be sold to the highest bidder with no reserves. No guarantees or warranties, express or implied.

Inflatable bounce houses, 11' water trampoline, pool table, ping pong table, foosball table, air hockey table, basketball goal, toy express train, radio controlled cars, tricycles, Tonka toys, swimming pools, children’s deluxe nursery set, skateboard, Baja motor scooter, & many other toys. TOO MUCH TO LIST! DON’T MISS THIS SALE!

HMC Handyman Services. Any job around the house. Please call 704-239-4883 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

Kitchens, Baths, Sunrooms, Remodel, Additions, Wood & Composite Decks, Garages, Vinyl Rails, Windows, Siding. & Roofing. ~ 704-633-5033 ~

Property “C” - 31.97+/-Ac Divided into 3 Tracts Fronts Godbey Rd & Bee Line Dr Property “D” - 62.373+/-Ac Divided into 6 Tracts Fronts Hwy 801 & Potneck Rd Property “E” - 4 Lots - Hwy 70 in Fiber Acres Borders Town of Cleveland Selling Regardless of Price

Sale Conducted By

530 Jake Alexander Blvd South, Salisbury, NC

NC Lic. 48 NC Firm Lic. 8620

C47895

Beautiful 3 BR, 2 BA in a great location, walk-in closets, cathedral ceiling, great room, double attached garage, large lot, back-up generator. A see.

R51757. must $249,900. B&R Realty, 704-202-6041

Landis

New Listing

Auction to be held at

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 Rockwell

Open House th Saturday, May 14 2-4pm

Yadkin. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Cute Fixer-upper.

Hunter Street, Yadkin Finishing area. $16,000, home, for sale, 1 car garage.

Two lots.

Siding/roof less than 5 years old. Bring all offers.

704-245-4393

65 Ocher St. Renovated 3 BR, 2 BA home with hardwood floors, ceramic tile, new roof, all appliances included. 704-856-8101

Reduced

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. $119,900 R51492 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628

Salisbury

Convenient Location

Rockwell

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

2 BR, 1 BA, hardwood floors, detached carport, handicap ramp. $99,900 R47208 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Junk Removal

I will pick up your nonrunning vehicles & pay you to take them away! Call Mike anytime. 336-479-2502

Summer Special!

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

Painting and Decorating Cathy's Painting Service & Pressure Washing. Interior & exterior, new & repaints. 704-279-5335

Mow, Trim & Blow $35 Average Yard Ask for Jeffrey

~ 704-245-5599 ~ Got a good web site?

Include the URL in your ad.

Steve's Lawn Care We'll take care of all your lawn care needs!! Great prices. 704-431-7225

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

• Junk Removal

Manufactured Home Services

CASH FOR JUNK CARS And batteries.

Call 704-279-7480 or 704-798-2930

Mobile Home Supplies~ City Consignment Company New & Used Furniture. Please Call 704636-2004

I buy junk cars. Will pay cash. $250 & up. Larger cars, larger cash! Call 704-239-1471

Lawn Equipment Repair Services Lyerly's ATV & Mower Repair Free estimates. All types of repairs Pickup/delivery avail. 704-642-2787

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping 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

Billy J. Cranfield, Total Landscape

Pet & Livestock Services

The Floor Doctor

Brown's Landscape

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

_ Bush Hogging _ Plowing _ Tilling _ Raised garden beds Free Estimates

Junk Removal

3Mowing 3Yard Cleanup 3Trimming Bushes

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ We Buy Any Type of Scrap Metal At the Best Prices...

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We will come to you! F David, 704-314-7846

Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc.

CASH FOR

800-997-2248 – NCAL 3936 www.ironhorseauction.com

cars, trucks & vans. Any junk vehicle. $275 & up.

Call Tim at 980-234-6649

Stoner Painting Contractor • 25 years exp.

• Int./Ext. painting • Pressure washing • Staining • Mildew Removal • References • Insured 704-239-7553

Pet & Livestock Services

Little Paws Bed & Breakfast Located at Small Animal Medicine & Surgery A deluxe boarding facility for dogs, cats, rabbits and “pocket pets”.

3200 Sherrills Ford Road Salisbury, NC 28147 704-636-6613 www.sams-littlepawsdoc.com

Masonry and Brickwork

High quality work.

Good prices on all your masonry needs.

See me on Facebook

~ 704-202-2390 ~

Guaranteed!

C47899

3 BR, 2 BA in Hunters Pointe. Above ground pool, garage, huge area that could easily be finished upstairs.

R51150A. $164,900.

B&R Realty 704-633-2394

Salisbury

Flip this House!

Mowing, seeding, shrubs, retainer walls.

All construction needs.

Sr. Discount. 25 Yrs. Exper. Lic. Contractor

Property “A” - 98.7+/-Ac Divided into 8 Tracts Fronts Woodleaf Rd & Knox Farms Blvd

Broker Participation Invited

Salisbury, NC www.auctionzip.com ID #12178

504 Lake Drive, 3 BR, 1 BA, brick, carport, 1080 corner lot, sq.ft., hardwood floors, new windows, remodeled bath, new kitchen floor, fenced side yard, central heat/AC, close to town parks. $83,900. Call 704-279-3821

Wonderful Home

~704-637-6544~

Woodleaf Area - NW of Salisbury, NC Rowan County

8% N.C. Sales Tax will apply - 10% Buyers Premium Out of state and out of town checks must be accompanied by a bank letter of credit.

We reserve the right to add or delete items prior to sale. Concessions and restrooms available. Announcements made at sale time take precedence over all advertised material.

McDaniel Auction Company

Reduced!

East Rowan

Including carpentry, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, roofing, flooring.

Free Estimates, Insured ....

Our Work is Guaranteed!

280+/-Acres Divided & 4 Lots

Property “B” - 87.8+/-Ac Divided into 4 Tracts Off Campbell Rd, All Tracts Front Campbell Rd

Rockwell

B & L Home Improvement

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 6 P.M.

DIRECTIONS: From Salisbury, NC, Exit 75 off of I-85. Travel Hwy. 601 N. (Jake Alexander Blvd.) approximately 3 4/10 miles. Sale site on right (Watch for signs).

704-278-0726 704-798-9259 (cell) 40 Years of Professional Service

$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

ConstructionBrowning Structural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC

Free Estimates Bud Shuler & Sons Fence Co. 225 W Kerr St 704-633-6620 or 704-638-2000 Price Leader since 1963

Homes for Sale

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New Homes Additions & Repairs Small Commercial Ceiling Texture Removal

Professional Services Unlimited

FREE ESTIMATES

Bring All Offers

olympicdrywallcompany.com

OLYMPIC DRYWALL

Granite Quarry

601 West. Handyman's Delight. House needs repair. 2BR, 2BA. Asking $15,000. Call after 11am for info. 704-636-9997

Fulton Heights

E. Spencer

Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc.

Insured. 704-798-8199

Drywall Services

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704-633-9295

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

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Call Curt LeBlanc today for Free Estimates

Since 1955

704-636-8058

Reliable Fence All Your Fencing Needs, Reasonable Rates, 21 years experience.

(704)640-0223

Financial Services

704-279-2600

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Kevin D. McDaniel, Auctioneer

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

Homes for Sale

Alexander Place

LOST - GOLD CHARM BRACELET Lost - Gold charm bracelet with 5 charms near the Suntrust bank in Spencer. Reward offered for return. 704-630-9117

Want to Buy Merchandise

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Home Sweet Home

New Listing

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.

SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM TRUCK We cater: Graduations, Birthdays, Corporate, Church or any event.

Ask about $75 special includes 50 cones. Book today 704-771-0148.

China Grove

Homes for Sale

China Grove

Homes for Sale

Lost & Found Found dog. Possibly Beagle mix, dark gold with black tail, Patterson Rd., May 1. Please call to identify. 704-754-7540

www.thecarolinasauction.com

Heritage Auction Co. Glenn M.Hester NC#4453 Salisbury (704)636-9277

Free Stuff

Education / Training

Tailgate Protector for 9704 Dodge Dakota, chrome $40. Call 336940-3134

All Coin Collections Silver, gold & copper.

Will buy foreign & scrap gold. 704-636-8123

Homes for Sale

Lost & Found

How to know you'll go! 4 min. recorded message.

Call now. 704-983-8841

Truck Bed Cover, fiberglass, painted white w/ lock. $275. Fits Ford F150 reg & ext cab Short Bed New in Box (336) 357-5839

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

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CLASSIFIED

Miscellaneous Services Basinger Sewing Machine Repair. Parts & Service – Salisbury. 704-797-6840 or 704-797-6839

Roofing and Guttering SEAMLESS GUTTER Licensed Contractor C.M. Walton Construction, 704-202-8181

Guttering, leaf guard, metal & shingle roofs.

Ask about tax credits.

~ 704-633-5033 ~

Tree Service Graham's Tree Service Free estimates, reasonable rates. Licensed, Insured, Bonded. 704-633-9304

704-224-6558

Moving and Storage

Earl's Lawn Care

TH Jones Mini-Max Storage 116 Balfour Street Granite Quarry Please 704-279-3808

John Sigmon Stump grinding, Prompt service for 30+ years, Free Estimates. John Sigmon, 704-279-5763.

Painting and Decorating

Johnny Yarborough, Tree Expert trimming, topping, & removal of stumps by machine. Wood splitting, lots cleared. 10% off to senior citizens.

704-857-1731

3Landscaping 3Mulching 3Core Aeration 3Fertilizing

FREE Estimates

704-636-3415 704-640-3842 www.earlslawncare.com GAYLOR'S LAWNCARE For ALL your lawn care needs! *FREE ESTIMATES* 704-639-9925/ 704-640-0542 Outdoors By Overcash Mowing, shrub trimming & leaf blowing. 704-630-0120

Bowen Painting Interior and Exterior Painting 704-630-6976.

BowenPainting@yahoo.com

There is a NEW group of people EVERY day, looking for a DEAL in the classifieds.

MOORE'S Tree TrimmingTopping & Removing. Use Bucket Truck, 704-209-6254 Licensed, Insured & Bonded TREE WORKS by Jonathan Keener.

Insured – Free estimates!

Please call 704-636-0954.

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CLASSIFIED Homes for Sale

Homes for Sale

Bank Foreclosures & Distress Sales. These homes need work! For a FREE list: www.applehouserealty.com Salisbury

Birds Free bird to a good home with food cage toys and etc. No calls before 9:00 a.m and no calls after 8:00 p.m. Please call 704-647-9854

Cats Cat, free, 10 year old neutered male. Fully vetted. Includes cat crate.

Call 704-640-5562.

Free cats & kittens.

Moving...Cats and Kittens need a home, quick.

Call 704-798-0726

Cats

Dogs

Dogs

Dogs

Free dogs. Black & tan Coon dogs. 7½ weeks. 6 males. 1st shots & worming. 704-956-9896

FREE to a good home.

LAB/CHOW mix puppies.

7 males, 1 female.

Call (704) 637 1310 before 9pm please.

Patented Happy Jack Flea Beacon: Control Fleas in the home without toxic chemicals or costly exterminators.

Results overnight!

GOODMAN FARM SUPPLY 704-857 5938 www.kennelvax.com

Kittens, free. 2 males & 5 females, all different colors. We also have adults cats male & female. Looking for a good home. 704-2023558 or 704-279-7325.

Free Puppies to good home only! Mini Rat Terriers, male, 2 months old, absolutely darling.

Please call 704-209-1202 Free puppy, female mixed. 4 months old.

Very sweet & adorable.

Will be medium sized.

Must be house dog. 704267-6889. L/M

Great Family Dog!

Dogs

A Rare & Ancient Breed!

Free kitten, orange male.

Only one left. Inside only.

Very sweet & playful. To good home only. Call 704-636-0619

Shar-Pei puppies. Born March 18, black, tan and white, two males, five females. Parents on site. $400. Call 704-639-0155

Giving away kittens or puppies?

Free dog. Small black dog with tannish chest, very friendly. Please Call 704-637-6052 Free dogs. Beagles-2 pretty males. 2 y.o. BWTAKC Reg.- PETS ONLYFree to a good home.

704-438-7409

Sweet Babies!

English Bulldog pups AKC, 2 females and 2 males, born April 2. $1500 each. Fawn and white, champion bloodlines. Puppies Come with first shots, dewormed, bag of pupppy food and a signed puppy agreement.

704-603-8257

Mt. Ulla, 4 BR house & 3 BR DW both on 11.97 acres. $344,000. FSBO. 704-640-4260

Salisbury. 2 or 3 bedroom Townhomes. For information, call Summit Developers, Inc. 704-797-0200

Salisbury

Salisbury & Shelby, 2, 3 & 4 BR, starting at $29,900! Must see! Call today 704-633-6035

New Home

Salisbury

Special Financing

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

Great Location Yorkies, 2 males. 1st shots & 1st worming. Tails docked and dew claws removed. $275 each.

Won't last long. Parents on site. 704 636 9867

Other Pets HHHHHHHHH

Puppies, Beagles. Awesome full-blooded beagle puppies. $80 ea. Please call 704-639-6299 TOY POODLES

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.

Genesis Realty 704-933-5000 genesisrealtyco.com Foreclosure Experts

Forest Creek. 3 BedNew room, 1.5 bath. home priced at only $84,900. R48764 B&R Realty 704.633.2394 Salisbury

New Listing

Salisbury

Take Us Home!

Puppies, Alaskan Malamutes. Beautiful! Ready now! 1st shots & worming.

Mom weighs 110 lbs.

Dad weights 125 lbs.

Both on site. 3 females $375 ea. 704-492-8448

Free cats & kittens.

Young cats and kittens desperately needing loving homes. Phone 704-431-4421 after 5pm

SWEET CHEEKS!

Homes for Sale

Convenient Location

Free kittens to good homes. 4 males, 2 females. White, tan, gray/ white, black. Please call 704-933-1835 Kittens (5), free, orange, & black; orange spotted (calico). Friendly, already been wormed, save us from going to the pound. 704431-9076 or 704-202-2721

Homes for Sale

Check Out Our May Special! Spay/Neuter 20% discount. Rowan Animal Clinic. Please call 704636-3408 for appt.

Hamster, Russian Dwarf, less than 1 year old.

Includes complete setup, cage, running wheel food bowl, water bottle & house. $20. 704-433-2943

Pet & Livestock Supplies CKC Apricot Toy Poodle males, 8 weeks old, $250 cash. Call 704-798-0450

Puppies and kittens available. Follow us on FaceBook Animal Care Center of Salisbury. Call 704-637-0227

You’d probably think ....

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 Salisbury

Lots of Extras

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 Salisbury

Lots of Room

3 BR, 2 BA in Kluttz Acres subdivision. Covered front porch and deck, central air-conditioning, fireplace, single attached garage, nice yard with trees.

52270 $109,300 Dale B&R Realty Yontz 704.202.3663 Salisbury

New Listing

Will go fast! 3 BR, 2 BA, on High Rock Lake, Shore Acres subd. Deck, fireplace, vinyl siding, attached single carport, dbl detached garage, 52293 large yard. $244,200 Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704.202.3663

Close to town, 2 acres, nestled in a peaceful wooded setting. $19,900, owner fin. 704-535-4159 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

that because I’m young, smart and cool, I only read the paper online — or don’t read it at all.

You’d be wrong.

But then, looks can be deceiving.

Log Log on on to to www.salisburypost.com www.salisburypost.com or or call call 704-797-4213 704-633-8950 to to subscribe! subscribe!

Motivated Seller

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

Salisbury

Unique Property

Lots for Sale Faith

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

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Lot for sale. Restricted subdivision, Faith schools, starting at $19,500. Your plans or ours. Builders welcome! 704-202-9362 Western Rowan County

Spencer

Lease Purchase

Salisbury

Nice Setting

3 BR, 2 BA brick home in Woodbridge Run subdivision. $2,000 carpet allowance. Storm double pane doors, windows, screened porch, attached double garage. 52136 $165,000 B&R Realty 704-2026041

Knox Farm Subdivision.

Beautiful lots available now starting at $19,900. B&R Realty 704.633.2394 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

Welcome Home!

Salisbury

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

Land for Sale Bringle Ferry Rd. 2 tracts.

Will sell land or custom build. A50140A. B&R Realty, Monica 704-245-4628

Over 2 Acres

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

Spencer, 3BR/1BA, updated lg kitchen/dining area, LR, den, wood floors, 3 fireplaces, gas heat, appls & washer / dryer, detached garage, 20 x 12 screened back porch, fenced in back yard, City water & sewer.

Asking $86,500 negot.

704-647-9749 or 704310-9938

Homes for Sale

Homes for Sale

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 Salisbury

Motivated Seller

Manufactured Home Sales $500 Down moves you in. Call and ask me how? Please call (704) 225-8850 American Homes of Rockwell Oldest Dealer in Rowan County. Best prices anywhere. 704-279-7997 Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850 Salisbury. 2BR, 2BA. $5,000 puts you in an Oakwood mobile home.

704-431-4217

True Modular Display Home For Sale. 120 MPH Wind Zone. No Steel Frames. All 16" O.C. All DH Drywall Interior.

Thermal Windows. 9 ft. ceilings. Deluxe cabinets, molding & much more. 3 BR, 2 BA with Saddle Roof Porch. NC Delivery Only. $139,000 value for $109,000. 704-463-1516

Real Estate Services

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, 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 be used as 4th BR, 26x40 detached workshop/garage. $319,000 704-212-7313

B & R REALTY 704-633-2394 www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Century 21 Towne & Country 474 Jake Alexander Blvd.

(704)637-7721

Salisbury

KEY REAL ESTATE, INC. 1755 U.S. HWY 29.

South China Grove, NC 28023 704-857-0539

Near the Lake 3 BR, 2 BA, new home close to High Rock Lake!

Open kitchen/dining room combo, great fireplace, level lot on 1.52 acres.

R51601. $199,900 Monica Poole, B&R Realty, 704-245-4628

Allen Tate Realtors Daniel Almazan, Broker 704-202-0091 www.AllenTate.com

West Rowan Secluded on 6.5 wooded acres.

Builder's custom home, 4BR/3½ BA, master BR on main floor. 3,300 sq. ft. + partially finished bonus room. Lots of ceramic & granite. Great kitchen with gas cook top & double ovens. Covered porches, walkin closets, fireplaces w/gas logs. $389,000. FSBO. Motivated Seller. 704-431-3267 or 704-213-4544

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

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We want to be your flower shop!

www.TeamBounce.com 704-202-6200

S45263

638-0075

704/

Hours of daily personal attention and doggie fun at our safe 20 acre facility. Professional homestyle boarding, training, and play days with a certified handler/trainer who loves dogs as much as you do.

If your idea of fun is balloons & birthday cake, advertise here!

Salisbury Flower Shop S38321

2324 S. Main St. / Hwy. 29 South in Salisbury

S48941

Birthday? ...

S48293

Inflatables Available!

Parties, Church Events, Etc.

Fax: 704-630-0157

Half Ham Half Ham

Must present ad. Not valid with any other offer. Exp. 5/30/11

& BASES LOADED

704-797-4220 birthday@salisburypost.com

Hours: Mon-Fri: 10-7; Sat 10-6; Sun 11-2

www.honeybakedham.com Happy Birthday Melika G. Have a wonderful day.

Your LCC Family and Auntie

A 2”x 3” greeting with photo is only $20, and includes 4 copies of the Salisbury Post

1628 West Innes St. Salisbury, NC • 704-633-5310

S40137

2”x2” ad for 30 days just $98.90 a month* Call the Classified Dept. at 704-797-4220 for more info *Some restrictions apply.

Call for details.

FOR FREE BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Please Fax, hand deliver or fill out form online 18 WORDS MAX. Number of free greetings per person may be limited, combined or excluded, contingent on space available.

Fax: 704-630-0157 In Person: 131 W. Innes Street Online: www.SalisburyPost.com (under Website Forms, bottom right column) DEADLINES: If the birthday falls Tues-Fri the deadline is the day before at 10am. If on Sat-Mon dealine is at Thursday 1pm

Please limit your birthday greetings to 4 per Birthday.

SALISBURY POST Real Estate Services Forest Glen Realty Darlene Blount, Broker 704-633-8867 William R. Kennedy Realty 428 E. Fisher Street 704-638-0673

Wanted: Real Estate *Cash in 7 days or less *Facing or In Foreclosure *Properties in any condition *No property too small/large Call 24 hours, 7 days ** 704-239-2033 ** $$$$$$

Apartments

Apartments

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.

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

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

Apartments 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. $425-$445. Salisbury, in town. 704-642-1955

1, 2, & 3 BR Huge Apts!

Very nice. $375 & up.

One free month's rent!

15% Sr. Citizen's discount. 704-890-4587 AAA+ Apartments $425-$950/mo.

Chambers Realty 704-637-1020 Airport Rd., 1BR with stove, refrig., garbage pickup & water incl.

Month-month lease. No pets. $400/mo+$300 deposit. Furnished $425/mo.

704-279-3808

BEST VALUE Quiet & Convenient, 2 bedroom town houses, 1½ baths. All Electric, Central heat/air, no pets, pool. $550/mo.

Includes water & basic cable.

West Side Manor Apts.

Robert Cobb Rentals Variety World, Inc. 2345 Statesville Blvd.

Near Salisbury Mall

704-633-1234 China Grove. 2BR, 2BA. All electric. Clean & safe.

No pets. $575/month + deposit. 704-202-0605 China Grove. One room eff. w/ private bathroom & kitchenette. All utilities incl'd. $379/mo. + $100 deposit. 704-857-8112 China Grove. Very nice.

2BR, 1BA. No pets.

Deposit required. Please call 704-279-8428

SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011 • 7C

CLASSIFIED

Duplexes & Apts, Rockwell$500-$600. TWO Bedrooms Marie Leonard-Hartsell Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 marie@sellingsalisbury.com Eaman Park Apt. 2 BR, 1 BA, newly renovated. $400/mo. No pets. Please call 704-798-3896 East Rowan area. 2BR, $450-$550 per month.

Chambers Realty 704-239-0691 East Spencer - 2 BR, 1 BA. $400 per month.

Carolina-Piedmont Prop.

704-248-2520 East Spencer, 2 BR, 1 BA, section 8 accepted. $500 per month. Call 704-421-0044 Eastwind Apartments Low Rent Available For Elderly & Disabled.

Rent Based on Social Security Income *Spacious 1 BR *Located on bus line *Washer/Dryer Hookups Call Fisher Realty at: 704-636-7485 for more information.

EXTRA NICE! Spencer. 1BR $400/mo & 2BR unfurn'd + dep. Min. 6 mo lease req'd. 336-596-6726 Fleming Heights Apartments April & May Special Get $50 off your 1st 6 months rent 55 & older 704-6365655 Mon.-Fri. 2pm5pm. Call for more information. Equal Housing Opportunity. TDD Sect.

8 vouchers accepted.

800-735-2962

www.waggonerrealty.com

Near Livingstone, completely renovated. 2/3 BR, cent heat, fireplace, yard. Appli. Incl'd.

Section 8 OK. 704-399-0414 Salis. 523 E. Cemetary St. 1BR, 1 BA, No Pets, $330/mo + $330/dep. Sect 8 OK. 704-507-3915.

Salis. Nice modern 1BR, energy efficient, off Jake Alexander, lighted parking lot. $395 + dep. 704-640-5750 Salisbury – 2 BR duplex in excellent cond., w/ appls. $560/mo. + dep. Ryburn Rentals 704-637-0601

Salisbury City, Lincolnton Rd. 1BR/1BA, very spacious, good n'hood, $375 + dep. 704-640-5750 Salisbury City. Lg 2BR, 1BA, fenced yd. Appliances & utilities incl. $675/ mo. + $675 dep.

Serious inquiries only.

865-243-9321

Salisbury One bedroom upstairs, furnished, deposit & references required.

704-932-5631 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

704-637-5588 WITH 12 MONTH LEASE

Located at Woodleaf Road & Holly Avenue www.Apartments.com/hollyleaf

C46365

2205 Woodleaf Rd., Salisbury, NC 28147

Salisbury High School area, 2BR/1BA, electric central heat/air, $525/mo + $400 dep. 704-636-3307

American Dr., 3 BR, 2 BA. Has refrigerator, stove & dishwasher. All electric, no pets. $695 rent, $600 dep. Call Rowan Properties 704633-0446 Available for rent – Homes and Apartments Salisbury/Rockwell Eddie Hampton 704-640-7575

Salisbury, 2 BR houses & apts, $525/mo and up.

704-633-4802

Salisbury. 1BR, 1BA. Private entrance. No smoking. No late loud noises. Call 704-4312261 or 704-925-9103

Office and Commercial Rental

China Grove 2BR/1BA, CHA, all electric, refrigerator & stove, W/D connections, back deck, easy access to 29A, close to elementary school and Head Start. $550/mo. + $550 deposit. Section 8 accepted. 704-784-4785

Conveniently Located!

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

DUPLEX IN DOWNTOWN SALISBURY

East. 2BR, 1BA house with pond on six acres outside Granite Quarry.

Detached garage $900/ Call Waggoner mo.

Realty at 704-633-0462

Kannapolis. 2 story townhouse. 2BR, 2BA brick front. Kitchen/dining combo, large family room. Private deck. $600/mo. 704534-5179 / 704-663-7736

Enochville 2BR/1BA, new heat & air, all elec., appls & W/D included. $650 per mo. 704-933-1829 Fairmont Ave., 3 BR, 1 ½ BA, has refrigerator & stove, large yard. Rent $725, dep. $700. No Pets.

Call Rowan Properties, 704-633-0446 Granite Quarry

MAKE OFFER!

516 Woodland Dr. 3 BR, 1.5 BA $795/mo. One story brick, single carport.

1,200 sq.ft., corner lot.

Large kitchen w/breakfast area, LR, laundry room, attic access, Upgrades: plantation shutters, tile & wood floors, new tile countertops. All appliances & new roof.

Storage bldg, new electric heat pump. Robbie, 704883-6973.

Houses for Rent

Office Suite Available.

Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011 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

To advertise in this directory call

704-797-4220

Salisbury. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors, Central Heat & Air. Washer & Dryer Hookup.

New Paint. Minutes from I-85. $475 per month rent, $400 deposit. 828390-0835.

Salisbury. 2BR, 1½BA. 2car carport. Partially fenced yard. Central air & heat.

Appliances. 704-638-0108 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

Lee St., 4/5 BR, 2 BA, new carpet. $500 dep. & Move In. $700 rent due June 1st.

No Pets. 704-278-7054

C47898

Complete Piano Restoration

We buy, sell, and move pianos We offer Steinway, Baldwin, Mason & Hamlin, & more Showroom located at 2143 C&E Statesville Blvd.

704.637.3367 • 704.754.2287

S45590

Salisbury 2BR, 1BA, $625/mo incl water, trash & yard, all elec with CHA. Sec 8 OK. 704-202-2228 Salisbury

They don't build them like this anymore!

P.O. Box 1621 Concord, North Carolina 28026 Ph: 704-239-2074 jlbarch@ctc.net

S42814

Low Miles!

Clean!

Cadillac Sedan Deville, 1999. White with leather.

AC. Good tires. 81,000 miles. Garage kept. $6,200 obo. Call 704-633-2513 or 980-234-3373

Woodleaf 3BR/1BA, appls incl'd, $625/mo. No pets.

Refs & cr ck req'd. No Section 8. 704-490-6048

Office and Commercial Rental

5,000 sq.ft. warehouse w/loading docks & small office. Call Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011

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

Office Complex

Ford Mustang V6, 2001.

Oxford white clearcoat exterior with medium interior. parchment $8,659. Stock #P7690A 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

South Rowan area.

Attractive mobile home lots.

Water, garbage, sewer furnished. $160/mo. 704636-1312 or 704-798-0497

Manufactured Home for Rent

Rowan.

2BR. East trash and lawn service included. No pets. $450 month. 704-433-1255 Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Water, trash, lawn maint. incl. No pets. Ref. $425. 704-2794282 or 704-202-3876 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 West & South Rowan. 2 & 3 BR. No pets. Perfect for 3. Water included.

Please call 704-857-6951

Rooms for Rent

Ford Mustang, 2004.

Red exterior with gray leather interior. $12,259.

Stock # T11400AY. 1800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Taurus SEL Sedan, 2008.

Oxford white clearcoat exterior with tan cloth interior. P7689. $14,787 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

FULLY LOADED!

Salis./China Grove area, whole house use included. $105/wk + dep. Utilities pd.

Call Alan 704-640-7277

Toyota Camry LE, 2005, Super White/Gray Cloth auto trans 2.4L, 4-cyl, AM/FM/CD, all power ops NONSMOKER, alloy rims, good tires, EXTRA CLEAN! 704-603-4255

Toyota Camry LE, 2007.

Desert sand mica exterior with bisque interior. $14,459. Stock #P7633C. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com 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 Toyota Corolla LE, 2010.

Silver exterior with ash interior. $16,859. Stock # K7695. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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

Toyota Yaris, 2009.

Silver streak mica exterior with dark charcoal interior. $13,759. Stock # P7663 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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

Super Clean!

Cadillac Sedan Deville, 1996. Gold with black leather. Cold AC. New CD player. 20” rims plus original wheels. 119,000 miles.

Owner can finance. $5,000 obo. Call 704-798-4375

Volkswagen Beetle GLS, 2000. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval. Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Sweet Ride!

Chevrolet Corvette, 1995. Red with black leather interior. Automatic.

Garage kept.

59,200 miles. $11,500.

Call 704-279-6124

Honda 2004 Accord EX, Graphite, V-6, excellent condition, all svc records, navigation, heated front seats, sunroof, XM ready, detailed every six mos.

704-639-6410 704-209-1137

Volvo S40, 2000, Silver Metallic / Gray Leather 1.9L turbocharged 4-cyl engine auto trans, AM/FM/CD, Sunroof , all power ops, cold ac, alloy rims, CHEAP RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION!!

704-603-4255

CASH FOR YOUR CAR!

MILLER HOTEL Rooms for Rent Weekly $110 & up 704-855-2100

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. 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

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

We want your vehicle! 1999 to 2011 under 150,000 miles. Please call 704-216-2663.

Honda Accord 2.4 EX, 2003. Satin silver metallic exterior with gray interior. $11,759. Stock # F11209B. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Weekly Special Only $18,995

Autos

1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC

Hyundai Sonata, 2006.

V6, sunroof, leather interior. Fully loaded.

Only 64,000 miles. $10,995. 704-720-0520

Honda Accord, 2004.

Automatic, leather. V-6.

Sunroof. Extra clean! Call Steve at 704-603-4255

2004 Mercedes Benz E500, V8, Fully loaded, navigation. Must See! Call Steve today! 704-603-4255

Over 150 Vehicles in Stock!

Great Space!

1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC

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.

Salisbury

Buick Lucerne CXL, 2007. Dual power seats, leather, fully loaded, one owner. $12,995.

704-720-0520

Infinity G5, 2003. Black Obsidian/Black Leather, 3.5L V6, auto trans, BOSE AM/FM/CD, SUNROOF, all power, alloy rims. LUXURY FOR HALF THE PRICE!!!!

704-603-4255

BEAUTIFUL RIDE

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

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

428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. (former Sagebrush location)

Collector Cars

Collector Cars

Over 150 Vehicles in Stock!

Office Space

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

Lexus 2004 ES330, excellent milage, low miles, loaded (navigation, Mark Levinson Sound, etc).

Lexus maintained. Perfect condition. $12,900. 704633-4771

Manufactured Home Lot Rentals

East Rowan area. 3BR, 2BA. East school district.

Private lot. No pet. $500 dep. $125/week. 704-2796574. Leave message

Salisbury

East Rowan. 3BR, 2BA. Living room (would be great office), great room, glass/ screened porch. Laundry Gas log FP in great room.

Central heat & air. Gazebo, storage building! Credit check, lease. $895/month + deposit. No pets. Call 704639-6000 or 704-633-0144

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.

Spencer 2BR, 1BA $550/mo + deposit & 3 BR, 2BA $675/mo + deposit.

Refs. 704-202-1627

Furnished Key Man Office Suites - $250-350.

Jake & 150. Util & internet incl. 704-721-6831

Kannapolis. 2BR, 1BA. Central heat & air. On Lane St. $550/mo. China Grove. 2BR, 2BA mobile home. Central heat & air. $500/mo. 704-855-2600

Salisbury/Spencer

East Area. 2BR, water, trash. Limit 2. Dep. req.

No pets. Call 704-6367531 or 704-202-4991

HOUSE FOR RENT 3 bedrooms and 2 baths with extra bonus room carport.

Carson and School District. No Pets $900 month + deposit.

704-630-0859

Kannapolis - 520A North Rose Ave, 1 BR 1 BA duplex $500/mo.; 610 Florence Ave., 2 BR, 1 BA $510/mo. KREA 704-933-2231

Industrial/ Warehouse

Salisbury/Spencer area 2-4 BR houses. Cent. heat & AC. $550- $750/ month. Jim 704-202-9697

450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd.

Call 704-279-8377

Never Before Leased!

Jack’s Furniture & Piano Restoration

Chevrolet Cobalt LS, 2008.

100% Guaranteed Credit Approval.

Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Warehouse space / manufacturing as low as $1.25/sq. ft./yr. Deposit.

Call 704-431-8636

EASY ACCESS TO I-85!

2200 Sq. Ft., 4BR/2BA, newer home, no pets, $1200/month or sale $205,000. Granite tops, ceramic and wood floors.

Granite Quarry/E. Rowan schools. Lease Option also available. 704-2029362

Houses: 3BRs, 1BA. Apartments: 2 & 3 BR's, 1BA Deposit required.

Faith Realty 704-630-9650

Autos ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 5:30 pm.

Beside ACE HARDWARE, #229 E Main St Hwy 52, 2,700 sq ft finished store front combined with 2,100 sq ft warehouse. May divide into smaller space. Call 704279-4115 or email thadwhicker@cozartlumber.com

$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ Rockwell Offices 3 months free 704-637-1020 Salisbury 2 bedrooms, 1½ baths, brick at Ro-Med, available June 4. Credit check, lease, deposit. $550 per month. 704-782-5037

Autos

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

Salisbury, North Shaver Street, 2BR/1BA, gas heat, $425 per month.

704-633-0425 Lv msg

East Area, 3 BR, 2 BA. Dining room, all appl., 2 car garage.

Lease, ref., dep. req. $975/mo. 704-798-7233

W. Council St. 1BR, 1BA. Beautifully renovated.

Hardwood/tile floors, new HVAC. Detailed craftsmanship. $550/mo. Call Lisa at 704-682-3345

Autos

HIGH TRAFFIC AREA IN ROCKWELL!

1 BR Duplex in quiet garden setting. $625 includes HD cable & utilities. 704-798-8595

A PA R T M E N T S We Offer

Senior Discount

3 BR, 2 BA, close to Salisbury Mall. Gas heat, nice. Rent $695, deposit $600.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

Condos and Townhomes

Houses for Rent

Water, Sewage & Garbage included

Salisbury apt. houses for rent 2-3BRs. Application, deposit, & proof of employment req'd. Section 8 welcome. 704-762-1139

E. Lafayette, 2 BR, 1 BA, refrigerator and has stove. Gas heat, no pets.

Rent $595, deposit $500.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

Moreland Pk area.

2BR all appliances furnished. $495-$595/mo.

Deposit negotiable.

Section 8 welcome.

336-247-2593

2BR ~ 1.5 BA ~ Starting at $555

3 BR, 1 BA, has refrigerator, stove & big yard. No pets. $595/rent + $500/dep. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

Salisbury Nr. VA 2BR, 1BA,, central HVAC, $550/mo, appl req'd.

Broker. 704-239-4883

Rowan Hospital area. 2BR, 1BA. Heat, air, water, appl. incl. $675. 704-633-3997

PRICE~QUALITY~LOCATION

Houses for Rent

Salisbury Airport Rd, 1BR / 1BA, water, trash collection incl'd. All elec. $395/mo. 704633-0425 Lv Msg

Lovely Duplex

PRIOR TO RENTING VISIT or CALL

Houses for Rent

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

428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. (former Sagebrush location)

8C • SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011 Motorcycles & ATVs

Motorcycles & ATVs

Over 150 Vehicles in Stock!

428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Toyota Corolla S, 2007.

Black sand pearl exterior with dark charcoal interior.

Stock # $13,359.

T11319A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Boats & Watercraft

*Brand New* 2010 Yamaha Wave Runner with custom Zieman S-1 Trailer. This one-of-akind wave runner is replica to the one on the Hit HBO TV Series "East Bound and Down." It is has never been started or seen water. $8,500.

Call 704-907-0945

Transportation Dealerships

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Honda Odyssey EX, 2006.

Super clean, must see, 80,000 miles. $14,995 704-720-0520

Dodge Grand Caravan Sport, 2002.

100% Guaranteed Credit Approval. Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 428 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Ford Explorer, Eddie Bauer, 2007. Oxford white exterior with camel interior. $21,559. Stock #F11281A. Call Now 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Saturn VUE V6 SUV, 2007.

Storm gray clearcoat exterior with gray interior.

Stock #F10528D1. $14,787 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota RAV4 S, 2004.

Titanium metallic exterior with dark charcoal interior. $11,259. Stock # T11390A 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota Tacoma, 2002.

Impulse red exterior with charcoal interior. $13,759.

Stock # F11173A. 1-800542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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

Toyota Tacoma Base Regular Cab, 2006. Black exterior with graphite interior. P7688. $13,287 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota Tundra, Super exterior with white graphite interior. $19,659.

Stock #K7697. 1-800542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Service & Parts

Authorized EZGO Dealer. 6 volt & 8 volt batteries. US 52, 5 miles south of Salisbury.

Beside East Rowan HS & Old Stone Winery.

Look for EZGO sign.

704-245-3660

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

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

Ford Transit Connect XL, 2010. Frozen white exterior with dark gray interior. $15,859. Stock # P7637. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, 2006. Stone white clearcoat exterior with medium slate gray interior. $14,559. Stock # F10563B 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota 4Runner Limited, 2004. Titanium metallic exterior with stone interior. $18,659. Stock #P7687.

Call 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Over 150 Vehicles in Stock!

Transportation Dealerships CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.”

511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321 TEAM CHEVROLET, CADILLAC, BUICK, GMC. www.teamautogroup.com 704-216-8000 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

BMW X5, 2003. Topaz Blue Metallic/Tan Leather, 4.4L auto trans, AM/FM/CD, SUNROOF, all power, 20inch aluminum rims, PERFECT COLOR COMBO! 704-603-4255

Dodge Ram 1500 ST, 2008.

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No. 61352 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of James Tracey Hudson, Big Elm Nursing Home, Kannapolis, NC, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to file an itemized, verified statement thereof with the undersigned on or before the 5th day of August, 2011 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery thereon. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make prompt settlement.

This the 27th day of April, 2011.

James Larry Hudson, Executor for the estate of James Tracey Hudson, deceased, File 10E1264, 130 Barbary Drive, Statesville, NC 28677

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.

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Motorcycles & ATVs

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1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC

1463 Concord Parkway N. Concord, NC

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Honda Pilot EX-L, 2006.

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Nissan Pathfinder LE, 2002, Sahara Beige Metallic/Tan leather, 3.5L auto trans, all power options, Dual HEATED & POWER seats, AM/FM/Tape/CD changer, sunroof, homelink, LOW MILES, extra clean DON'T LET THIS ONE SLIP AWAY! 704-603-4255

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Attorney at Law, Constantine H. Kutteh, Law Office of Pope, McMillan, Kutteh, Privette, Edwards & Schieck, PA, 113 North Center Street, Suite 200, Statesville, NC 28677

No. 61389 NOTICE Cabarrus-Rowan Metropolitan Planning Organization Conformity Analysis and Determination of the FY 2012-2018 Transportation Improvement Program The Cabarrus-Rowan Metropolitan Planning Organization (CR MPO) has published for public review the 2012-2018 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Conformity Analysis and Determination Report, 2012-2018 Metropolitan TIP, Update to the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan, and the 2014-2020 TIP Priority List, which is a list of unfunded or incomplete transportation projects in Cabarrus and Rowan Counties.

This information will be available for public comment for thirty days (May 16-2011June 17, 2011). Copies are available for review at the Cabarrus-Rowan MPO office located at 135 Cabarrus Avenue East, Concord, NC 28025 or on the MPO website at www.crmpo.org. Copies are also available at the Cabarrus County Planning Office in Concord and the Rowan County Planning Office in Salisbury.

Comments may be sent by mail, email, or fax, to the following addresses: CR MPO, 135 Cabarrus Avenue East, Concord, NC 28025, pconrad@mblsolution.com, FAX: 704-795-7529.

All comments must be received by the close of business, June 17, 2011.

Additional information can be obtained by contacting CR MPO staff at 704-7957528, or by email at pconrad@mblsolution.com.

No. 61388 NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE 11-SP-141 Under and by virtue of the authority of the North Carolina statutes, the applicable declarations and/or restrictions filed of record, and Claim of Lien filed by EASTWOOD VILLAGE AT CORBIN HILLS MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATION (hereinafter "the Association") recorded on December 13, 2010 in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court for Rowan County, North Carolina, in docket #10-M-1014, and because of the owner's default in the payment of the indebtedness secured by the Claim of Lien, pursuant to demand of the Petitioner, the undersigned will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the property therein described, to wit: BEING all of Lot 101 (Unit 101) as shown upon the map of WILDWOOD VILLAGE TOWNHOUSES, Block 1, survey and map made by Teddy W. Deal, said map being recorded in Book of Maps, at Page 1832, to which reference is made, together with the townhouse unit and all appurtenances located on said lot, specifically including the rights and responsibilities of membership in Eastwood Village at Corbin Hills.

Address of Property: 302 Wildwood Drive, Salisbury NC 28146 Present Record Owner(s): CHARLES A. MCCULLOUGH and LAURA BERTHA H. CLARK MCCULLOUGH The terms of the sale are that the real property described above will be sold for cash to the highest bidder and that the undersigned may require the successful bidder at the sale to immediately deposit cash or a certified check not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid, or Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($750) may be required at the time of the sale. The property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "As Is, Where Is". Neither the Trustee, Substitute Trustee, Attorney, Agent nor the holder of the Lien make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions are expressly disclaimed. The Property will be sold subject to restrictions and easements of record, any unpaid taxes, superior and prior liens and special assessments, any transfer tax in association with the foreclosure and the tax of forty-five cents (45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) with a minimum tax of $10.00 and a maximum of $500.00 as required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1). The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

The following disclosures are made in compliance with N.C.G.S. 42-45.2 and 4521.16A(b): Any tenant who resides in residential real property that is being sold in a foreclosure proceeding under Article 2A of Chapter 45 of the General Statutes and containing less than 15 rental units pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may terminate the rental agreement for the dwelling unit after receiving notice pursuant to G.S. 45-21.17(4) by providing the landlord with a written notice of termination to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days after the date of the notice of sale. Upon termination of a rental agreement under this section, the tenant is liable for the rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination payable at the time that would have been required by the terms of the rental agreement. The tenant is not liable for any other rent or damages due only to the early termination of the tenancy.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 4521.29 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.

Date and Hour for Sale: May 26, 2011 at 12:00 noon Place of Sale: Lobby, Rowan County Courthouse Date of this Notice: May 15, 2011 HORACK, TALLEY, PHARR & LOWNDES, P.A. Attorneys for Eastwood Village, By: Cynthia Jones, (NCSB #32755) 2600 One Wells Fargo, 301 S. College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-6038 Telephone: (704) 377-7208, Facsimile: (704) 372-2619

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Sunday, May 15 When it comes to your finances, keep plugging during the next year if you hope to better your circumstances. You’ll still have to toil, but Lady Luck will be pulling for you, so keep an eye open for her when you feel you need a break.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Regrettably, you might be placed in an awkward situation where you’re asked to do something on behalf of a friend that goes against your beliefs.

Don’t be afraid to say no.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Someone who is close to you might do something that works against your best interests. Try not to make a bigger deal out of it than it already is — it will only make matters worse.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Your industrious spirit might be strong, but the muscles you need to do the work are likely to be weak.

Battle all you want, but chances are your body won’t cooperate.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — That person who usually rubs you the wrong way will be up to his or her old tricks again, but instead of getting angry, it behooves you to avoid this person altogether. Spare your emotions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — To your despair, you might discover that a family member has been spending far too wildly lately causing you to be deprived of something you want.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Harmony of purpose is always essential in any joint arrangement. If you and your colleague can’t see eyeto-eye and neither will budge, the relationship is destined to fail.

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Is Kutcher up to manning up for ‘Men?’ Latest ‘Pirates’ steers into sea of critics ing Sheen’s public implosion through hard partying and angry criticism of Lorre.

The character that Sheen had played until then drew comic inspiration from his own life of sex sprees, serial marriages and substance abuse.

That character, named Charlie Harper, had started with a bang.

“I make a lot of money for doing very little work,” he boasted on the show’s premiere in 2003. “I sleep with beautiful women who don’t ask about my feelings.

I drive a Jag. I live at the beach.”

Charlie was speaking to his dweebish, high-strung KUTCHER chiropractor brother, Alan (Jon Cryer), whose wife had just thrown him out of the house. Alan and his son, Jake (Angus T. Jones), had crashed with Charlie. There they stayed.

The gist of “Men” lay in the disparity between Charlie’s life of plenty and Alan’s frustrated existence.

But now Charlie is gone, and, with him, the show’s dependably winning formula.

The deal to replace him with Kutcher apparently came together quickly, following reports this week that negotiations with film actor Hugh Grant to join the show had fallen through. A deadline on deciding whether the show would continue was looming, with CBS set to unveil its fall schedule to adver-

tisers in New York next Wednesday.

Besides “That ‘70s Show,” Kutcher’s credits include film roles like the romantic comedy “No Strings Attached” and his producing and hosting roles for the prank show “Punk’d.”

Kutcher is not as wellknown as Sheen but, at age 33, is a dozen years younger and has a huge flock of fans who check in on his every utterance on Twitter.

It was on Twitter, of course, where on Thursday Kutcher gave his followers a sly clue for what was coming.

“What’s the square root of 6.25?” the actor asked in a tweet.

The answer is 21⁄2.

Once the news was out Friday, Sheen was tossing around numbers, too.

“Enjoy the show, America,” he said in a statement.

“Enjoy seeing a 2.0 in the demo every Monday, WB.” Sheen used TV lingo to predict failure for the revamped “Men.” He referred to a 2.0 Nielsen Co. rating among the 18- to 49-year-old demographic that advertisers often seek.

This season, “Two and a Half Men” averaged a 4.1 rating in that group.

Actually, Kutcher might be expected to have a younger following than Sheen and one that could be curious about his new role.

Sheen, in his statement, advised Kutcher to “Enjoy planet Chuck. ... There is no air, laughter, loyalty or love there.” That’s a reference to his feud with former boss Lorre, which has hardly abated since his sacking.

CANNES, France (AP) — Johnny Depp chuckled when asked if he was worried about the notoriously harsh critics at the Cannes Film Festival, where his new swashbuckler “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” played amid far more sober fare.

Depp said his family — French actress and romantic partner Vanessa Paradis and their two children — are the only critics he needs.

“My family have seen more of my movies than I have. In fact, a lot more, including this one,” Depp said at a news conference Saturday before the “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel screened. “They’ve been angels through this process, because I started out secretly testing characters on them to see how the reactions would be. When my daughter was little, we’d be playing Barbies, and I’d start doing these voices. Finally, she just said, ‘Stop.’

“So they go and see the movies, and basically, I can tell by their reaction if I did all right or not. So I’m very lucky in that way. They seem to enjoy them so far. I haven’t been fired by my kids.”

And the Cannes critics?

Depp, 47, who spent the first two decades of his career in quirky little movies that rarely found much critical support, was not exactly quaking in his pirate boots.

“Yeah, I’ve always feared the critics,” Depp said, laughing. “They really scare me.”

The fourth movie in the “Pirates” franchise inspired by the Disney theme-park ride, “On Stranger Tides” casts Depp’s boozy, woozy buccaneer Jack Sparrow

alongside a female pirate (Penelope Cruz) and her notorious dad, Blackbeard (Ian McShane), in search of the fountain of youth.

The movie sails into theaters worldwide starting Wednesday.

It was a reunion for Depp and Cruz, who previously costarred in 2001’s crime story “Blow.”

At Disney, the studio that bankrolls the “Pirates” franchise, change was not always seen as good. As the first movie was in production — “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” — Disney executives had hoped for a more conventional swashbuckling hero than Depp’s Sparrow, whom the actor patterned on a cross between rocker Keith Richards and the cartoon skunk Pepe LePew (Richards reprises his role as Sparrow’s father in “On Stranger Tides”).

Sparrow mumbles, minces, prattles and prances. He

JOHNNY DEPP wears heavy eyeliner and a mess of baubles in his braided hair and beard. His clothes resemble a gypsy’s castoffs as much as the attire of a dashing pirate.

But with $2.7 billion in worldwide box office for the first three “Pirates” movies, no one at the studio gripes about Sparrow’s idiosyncrasies now.

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NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a new man on the scene at “Two and a Half Men.” But is Ashton Kutcher man enough?

With Friday’s announcement that Kutcher will be replacing Charlie Sheen, viewers could begin to wonder how he will be plugged into the hit sitcom’s tight little world. Can his particular appeal fill the void of the caustically droll Sheen? And just who the heck will his character be?

Neither CBS nor Chuck Lorre, the series’ creator, were giving any hints as they confirmed the deal to bring Kutcher into a show where Sheen’s character was the comic center, portraying an advertising jingle writer with a playboy lifestyle and an overwrought brother.

Kutcher, who first found sitcom stardom more than a decade ago on “That ’70s Show,” specializes in puppy dog wholesomeness and laidback, goofy sexiness. He’s perhaps the anti-Sheen.

“We are so lucky to have someone as talented, joyful and just plain remarkable as Ashton joining our family,” said Lorre, also the show’s executive producer.

“Added to that is the deep sigh of relief knowing that our family stays together. If I was any happier, it’d be illegal.”

“I can’t replace Charlie Sheen,” said Kutcher.

Kutcher’s quote was the news release’s sole mention of Sheen, who, two months ago, was fired by Warner Bros. Television when it cut short production of the show’s eighth season follow-

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Fox parent company to disclose political giving Kasich.

The policy calls for the company — which also owns 20th Century Fox movie studio and The Wall Street Journal — to disclose political contributions made between January and June on July 15. Annual postings would follow each January.

Kasich, a former Republican congressman, spent several years as a commentator and occasional guest host on Fox. Since winning the governor’s race in November, he has remained a frequent guest on the network.

Kasich won the election after an expensive campaign against incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. According to Ohio campaign finance reports, the RGA spent at least $5 million in the state from May and October.

RGA spokesman Mike Schrimpf said the association had no opinion about News Corp.’s decision. He said the RGA already discloses all its donors in regular filings to the

Internal Revenue Service, at least every January and June and sometimes more often.

Schrimpf said the RGA is prohibited from steering an individual’s contribution to any particular state or gubernatorial candidate, and did not do so in the case of Murdoch’s donation.

Among News Corp. shareholders that raised concerns about the RGA and chamber donations was the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York, which supports social and economic justice causes.

Laura Campos, director of shareholder activities, said the foundation had two main concerns.

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The Democratic Governors Association filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission during the campaign alleging Fox provided Kasich with an illegal in-kind contribution when they displayed his website address during one of his appearances on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The directors of media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of Fox News Channel, have quietly put in place a policy to disclose corporate political donations on the company’s website.

The decision was made April 12, according to a notice posted without fanfare by the company. A News Corp. spokeswoman declined telephone and email requests by the Associated Press to discuss the new policy.

Australian-born media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who controls the company, drew attention for two $1 million contributions he made during last year’s elections: one to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the other to the Republican Governors Association, which raised concerns among shareholders. Murdoch told the Washingtonbased Politico website that the RGA donation was prompted by his friendship with thenOhio governor candidate John

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Newt Gingrich gets serious Past is a plus and a minus in quest for presidency

WASHINGTON — The more Republicans get to know their potential White House candidates, the less happy they are with their choices.

It’s not that they dislike the individual candidates. They just give them a collective shrug as possible opponents for President Barack Obama. They’d like someone with a little more pizazz.

Some 45 percent now say they’re dissatisfied with the GOP candidates who have declared or are thought to be serious about running, up from 33 percent two months ago, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Just 41 percent are satisfied with the likely Republican field, down from 52 percent.

Plenty are holding out for somebody else.

In North Carolina, retiree Robert Osborne is hoping New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will decide to run. In Indiana, farmer Brent

“I don’t expect them to get up there and start doing karaoke, but we need somebody with a little more spunk.”

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TLANTA — When Newt Gingrich last held political office “Seinfeld” was a toprated TV show. The Spice Girls ruled the pop charts.

And pagers — not iPhones — were the must-have tech device.

Now, as the 67-year-old former U.S. House speaker enters the race for president, he faces the challenge of drawing on his rich resume of experience while rebranding himself for a restless Republican Party that seems hungry for a fresh face to take on the youthful and hip President Barack Obama.

In a two-minute online video Wednesday, Gingrich explained the rationale for his candidacy, saying he has the experience “to return America to hope and opportunity.” He cited his work with President Ronald Reagan and said he had balanced the budget and reformed welfare as House speaker.

“We’ve done it before, we can do it again,” Gingrich said.

“There’s a much better American future ahead with more jobs, more prosperity, a better health system, longer lives, greater independent living and a country that is decentralized under the 10th Amendment with power once again back with the American people and away from

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The video showed how he’s trying to balance both the past and the future as he seeks the White House.

“It’s the crux of his campaign,” former Gingrich aide Rich Galen says. “Can he escape being a symbol of the past?”

Or, rather, can what’s old become new again?

Among oldest The image that Gingrich must shake is so deeply ingrained in America that it made its way into a recent “Saturday Night Live” sketch.

“I love the ’90s!” says a Gin-

grich impersonator who blurted out just that one sentence.

The former Georgia congressman will be among the oldest candidates — if not the oldest — in a still-forming Republican field of politicians with far more recent political experience. Among those considering bids are Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, two darlings of the ultraconservative tea party movement.

Nostalgia may not be completely troublesome for him.

The economy was humming in the 1990s when he held the top position in the House of Rep-

resentatives. And the world seemed a safer place before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

But Gingrich himself has a mixed legacy from those days.

Viewed by many as a masterful grassroots strategist and message manipulator, he led Republicans to control of the House for the first time in four decades. Still, he’s remembered as much for his stormy fall — he faced ethics complaints and later resigned — as for his triumphant rise. And questions about his temperament still surface.

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One of the best-known images of Gingrich from his days as speaker was the New York Daily News cover depicting him in a diaper pitching a tantrum after being barred from sitting up front with President Bill Clinton on Air Force One while returning from Israel. And his latest outbursts have raised eyebrows, including when he compared a mosque that was to open near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center towers in New York to Nazis putting a sign next to the Holocaust Museum.

As he geared up for a campaign, Gingrich allies have privately urged him to tone down the bomb-throwing rhetoric, ar-

Smith wishes Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour hadn’t backed away.

In Georgia, stock clerk Susan Demarest would love to see somebody more like Ronald Reagan.

Ohio’s William Johnson just wants somebody who’s not a “cold fish.”

“I don’t expect them to get up there and start doing karaoke, but we need somebody with a little more spunk,” says the Columbus steelworker.

While the Republican roster of candidates is growing almost by the day — Ron Paul declared on Friday, and Mike Huckabee says he’ll make an important announcement this weekend — satisfaction with the field appears to be shrinking.

Future polling could give a better idea of whether the dramatic raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, which gave a boost to Obama’s approval rating, also served to dampen enthusiasm temporarily for Republican candidates.

The poll was conducted May 5-9

by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,001 adults nationwide and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. The survey included 378 Republicans, and that subset

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aving been an educator for over 30 years, I often wonder what my life would have been like if I had chosen a more lucrative career. Please don’t misunderstand me, because I enjoy the school environment and I feel that teaching is the most rewarding thing I could EFIRD do with my life, but sometimes, amidst grading papers and having to learn yet another electronic grade book system, I am tempted to imagine that I somehow missed out on a more excit-

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ing life somewhere. The fact that some of my college friends now travel all over the world for their companies and make large sums of money, while others work in high rise offices with spectacular views, doesn’t do much to help me when I’m tempted to think that teaching is a second tier career.

One of the perks of my job, however, is that I can be in my classroom in a grand total of seven minutes, following my one block walk to school each day. If I don’t stop by the office to sign in first, I can be in my room in five minutes. If I don’t go to the grocery store or run an errand after school, there are days when I don’t even have to start my car. The view from my classroom isn’t really all that bad, if I can ignore the 60-year-old plas-

I couldn’t do what I do each day without a sense of knowing that I am doing what I am supposed to do with my life. ter walls which are disintegrating and the incessant hum of the yellow fluorescent lighting which dangles above my head. The head custodian once stopped me to see if I could tell he had changed the light bulb in the fixture which was over my desk. To be honest, I had stopped turning it on because I knew it didn’t work!

And besides, what teacher has time to sit at his or her desk anyway?

I may not have to fight a busy commute to work or have to keep my passport updated, but I do have to be prepared when I enter the world of high school students each day. I don’t have to pack a suitcase, but I do have to know where I’m going when I get there. All teachers know how frightening and precarious an unplanned day can be; if we don’t set the agenda, we have a horde of students who are waiting to hijack the class if they catch the slightest glimpse of the I’m-notready-to-teach-today expression (and even if they don’t).

Anyone who has ever suffered from that look knows the agony of what came afterwards.

I have heard the insinuations of many who think that teaching is a substandard

profession. After all, can’t the most successful students do more than just teach? I did an eight-year stint as an elementary school principal a few years back, before I decided that I missed the high school classroom too much and took a plunge to jump back in. When I crossed paths with a little girl who had been a kindergartner in my school and who had since grown into a fourth-grader, she didn’t understand why I was no longer a principal.

She innocently asked me, “So if you’re a teacher now and you used to be a principal, isn’t that like going backwards?” I laughed, and told her that’s what most people would think, but they wouldn’t say it to my face. That’s what I love the most about children, little and big: they are honest.

I’ve tried to do a few things besides just teach over the years. Some of those professions worked out OK and some didn’t, but I always had one foot in the classroom wherever I was. I don’t think it’s so much about fulfillment as it is about calling. I couldn’t do what I do each day without a sense of knowing that I am doing what I am supposed to do with my life. I have to remind myself of this at least once a week when I hear a snarly teenager who is part pit bull and chihuahua offer his or her critique on the lesson I have planned, or when

See TEACH, 4D Larry D. Efird teaches English at A. L. Brown High School in Kannapolis.

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EDUCATION AND DISCIPLINE

Redefining zero tolerance orth Carolina’s public schools work hard to strike a balance between disciplining those who misbehave and educating all students. Zero tolerance for serious infractions should not mean zero education for students who break the rules.

Nor should it mean zero chance to exercise judgment in meting out penalties.

That appears to be the message behind a bill the N.C. Senate approved 50-0 Wednesday aimed at zero-tolerance policies, Senate Bill 648. If the House approves the measure, schools would have fewer automatic suspensions. Also, expelling or suspending a student for more than 10 days would be limited to serious violations that threaten safety or seriously disrupt school.

That may seem like a no-brainer, and in fact it may be the practice of most school systems. Dr. Walter Hart, assistant superintendent of the Rowan-Salisbury Schools, says last year the system had about 4,500 short-term suspensions and 30 long-term suspensions of more than 10 days. The system has a handbook of carefully spelledout rules, levels of consequences and appeals procedures.

But across the nation, examples have surfaced in which zero-tolerance policies appeared to go too far — an Oklahoma City first-grader punished for gesturing with his finger as if he was shooting a gun, a Colorado drill team member suspended for having practice rifles in her car.

In North Carolina, a 17-year-old Sanford girl, an athlete who takes college-level courses, was suspended last fall for the rest of her senior year after a small paring knife was found in her lunchbox. She said she had picked up her father’s lunchbox, which held an apple and a knife to slice it.

Bill sponsor Sen. Jean Preston, RCarteret, says the bill is needed to give “more common sense in determining what is serious and needs (a child) to be expelled and what is not.”

Also, students suspended too long or too often are prone to drop out — creating what some have called the “school-toprison pipeline.” Schools should not quickly discard students who most need an education. Hence the different levels of penalties and the use of alternative schools.

Under the proposed law, conduct that would not warrant a long-term suspension includes use of inappropriate or disrespectful language, noncompliance with a staff directive, dress code violations and minor physical altercations that do not involve weapons or injury.

Consider this a redefining. As Hart puts it, you can have zero tolerance for misbehavior without automatically kicking a student out for 10 days.

A student who brings a firearm or destructive device on campus would still face an automatic one-year suspension; that’s a federal law. But state law should recognize there are many levels of misbehavior, and administrators need leeway in dealing with them — not just mandates.

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Common sense

(Or uncommon wisdom, as the case may be)

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

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Tree destruction bill should be felled

BY CHARLES FLOYD Special to the Salisbury Post

he billboard industry and its supporters in the North Carolina Legislature are pushing a bill, euphemistically called the Selective Vegetation Removal Act, that would desecrate the beauty of the state’s roadways and destroy the public’s property solely for the private benefit of the billboard advertising companies.

FLOYD The billboard advertising industry depends for its very existence on its signs being seen from the roadway.

The industry sells “exposure opportunities” based on the number of vehicles passing sign locations, referred to as “Daily Effective Circulation.”

In other words, they depend solely on the traffic that is provided by the public’s investment in roads and highways for their “circulation.”

Thus, although billboards are located on private property, their value to the billboard business comes solely from their use of the public road, not of private property. If the

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billboards were turned around so that their advertising messages faced away from the roadway, their locations would have no value to the billboard advertising business whatsoever. Similarly, if vegetation blocks the view of a billboard from the roadway, the site has little or no value to the billboard advertising firm.

So, how much does a billboard advertising company pay to use the public roads to sell their advertising? Under the proposed bill, the initial fee to permit a billboard would be $150, with an annual renewal fee of $90.

This for a billboard that usually generates many thousands of dollars each month for the billboard company. These miniscule fees do not even cover the Department of Transportation’s cost of administering the program. In a sop to the environment, $30 of the annual fee would be designated for “beautification” projects, perhaps enough to plant one good shrub.

The proposed “selective

vegetation removal” permit would entail a one-time fee of $400 — nothing afterwards.

The billboard company could then clear cut large swaths of trees on either side of their billboard. The bill would also take away a local government’s ability to prevent tree destruction within their borders.

If the state allows a billboard firm to destroy the public’s trees in front of a billboard to provide a clear view from the roadway, it creates a so-called “viewing zone.”

This gives a view easement to the billboard firm, something that constitutes a significant gift of public property to a private entity, an act that many consider an illegal gratuity. The exact amount of the gift depends upon such factors as the number of vehicles passing by on the roadway, and the degree to which the view of the sign from the roadway is blocked by vegetation.

If the view is virtually blocked, the amount of the gift of a view easement would be the total value of the location

The tree slaughter that would be permitted by this bill is a pure giveaway that would only benefit the profits of billboard advertising companies.

to the billboard advertising firm. A view improvement would constitute a lesser gift.

In any case, however, the value of the view easement created by the destruction of the public’s trees would be vastly greater than the mere value of the destroyed trees as provided for in the bill.

Any payment to the state for the tree destruction in the bill is limited to a formula based on nursery caliper prices of trees.

No payment would be made for the value of the view easement created. If trees had grown up after the billboard was first built, then no payment for the destroyed trees would be required, no matter how large the trees might be.

One must ask – what is the public purpose in this so-called “Selective Vegetation Removal” bill? Obviously there is none. The tree slaughter that would be permitted by this bill is a pure giveaway that would only benefit the profits of the billboard advertising companies at the expense of the taxpayers, the beauty of the state and its economy. It should be decisively defeated.

• • • Charles F. Floyd is professor emeritus in the Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia, and is a resident of Rowan County.

Mook’s Place/Mark Brincefield

You decide: Do ‘significant six’ control future?

Crystal ball not clear on economy, but factors are ttempting to predict the future is an endeavor likely as old as just about anything. We want to know next week’s weather, who will be the new American Idol, if last night’s date is “the one” and will our favorite team win the championship?

As an economist who travels the state, I’m MIKE asked my share WALDEN of fortunetelling questions. Usually they have to do with big picture economics, like trends in jobs, interest rates and inflation.

I give it the old college try, with a dash of humor (frequently I say, “I’d really like to predict the past rather than the future!”) in answering these questions. But to be honest, economists haven’t been very good — especially in recent years — in their predictions.

So what help are economists? Well, I think we can help, but maybe not in making specific predictions, such as “50,000 jobs will be created this month.” Instead, I think our assistance may be best in identifying the factors behind the economic future.

In other words, if we can predict the drivers of the econ-

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omy, then we are better able to know where the economic car is headed.

So what factors will steer tomorrow’s economy? I think there are six factors — I dub them the “significant six.”

Here they are.

Education and training: All the economic studies of the last several decades indicate that people, states and nations with higher levels of education and superior training earn more and have higher standards of living. Brains trump brawn.

The U.S. and North Carolina know this, but so does the rest of the world. Rather than a weapons (arms) race, we are in a “head race” for the best and brightest workforce attracting the top-paying and most exciting jobs.

Technology: Technology may well be the economic gamechanger of the future, just as it has been in the past. Whenever there have been massive changes in the economy, technology has usually been behind them. The tractor increased farm productivity and pushed workers off the land and into the factory. Today’s computers and smart phones are giving unprecedented flexibility in how and where products are made and delivered.

But technology may be the most unpredictable of the significant six. It’s hard to know what the next technology is, and that’s scary. Whatever it is will be a big determinant of what we do and earn.

Demography: If people are economic power, than demography may be the most fundamental of the six factors. De-

mography simply refers to the number and ages of a country’s or state’s population. Two issues in many of today’s societies are the rapid aging of the population and the increasing “dependency rate,” the ratio of the very young and very old to the working age population.

Determining ways to allow workers to support the young and old — while still maintaining work incentives — is a tall but necessary order to achieve.

Energy and natural resources: Increased worldwide population and economic growth are expanding the use of conventional energy resources such as oil and natural resources like basic commodities and water. Experts predict these pressures will continue.

There’s no question that regions and countries will be forced to adapt. The adaption will be a combination of more frugal and efficient use of conventional and natural resources, the development of technologies to achieve more from less of these resources and the creation of alternative resources to take the place of the increasingly scarce ones.

Regions and countries able to make these adaptations will have a more positive economic future.

Global markets: It’s a cliché, but a correct one, to say the economic world has shrunk. In fact, it has been doing so — but not in a straight line — for over a century. But with the emergence of modern technology — air travel, cell phones and the Internet — we’re effectively closer to our world

neighbors than ever before For companies and workers, the growing world market has pluses and minuses. On the plus side are more potential sales. But on the negative side are more competitors that can come to your turf and take away customers and sales! To compete, countries and regions will have to stay on their collective toes in education, training, technology and efficient use of resources.

International geopolitical relations: Although this factor is definitely above my pay grade, it nevertheless is still crucial to our economic future. Simply put, this factor refers to the political and military position of the U.S. relative to key countries and regions in the world. It encompasses what we spend on national security, our strategic world alliances and our possible world flashpoints. Business persons and investors intensely dislike uncertainty, but geopolitical relations are fraught with them.

Nothing could send the stock market plunging like a hot war involving the United States in some foreign theater.

This is my list of major league movers of our economic future. You decide if they’re your list too.

• • • Dr. Mike Walden is a professor and N.C. Cooperative Extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of N.C. State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He teaches and writes on personal finance, economic outlook and public policy.

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OTHER OPINIONS

Gov. should veto broadband power grab

BY WALLY BOWEN AND T IM K ARR orth Carolina has a long tradition of self-help and self-reliance, from founding the nation’s first public university to building Research Triangle Park. Befitting the state’s rural heritage, North Carolinians routinely take self-help measures to foster economic growth and provide essential local services such as drinking water and electric power.

Statesville built the state’s first municipal power system in 1889, and over the years 50 North Carolina cities and towns followed suit. In 1936, the state’s first rural electric cooperative was launched in Tarboro to serve Edgecombe and Martin counties. Today, 26 nonprofit electric networks serve more than 2.5 million North Carolinians in 93 counties.

Strangely, this self-help tradition is under attack. The General Assembly just passed a bill to restrict municipalities from building and operating broadband Internet systems to attract industry and create local jobs. Although pushed by the cable and telephone lobby, similar bills were defeated in previous legislative sessions.

But the influx of freshmen legislators and new leadership in both houses created an opening for the dubiously titled “Level Playing

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Field” bill (HB 129).

No one disputes the importance of broadband access for economic growth and job creation. That’s why five cities — Wilson, Salisbury, Morganton, Davidson and Mooresville — invoked their selfhelp traditions to build and operate broadband systems after years of neglect from for-profit providers, which focus their investments in more affluent and densely populated areas. Not coincidentally, most of the cities own and operate their own power systems or have ties to nonprofit electric cooperatives.

(While the bill does not outlaw these five municipal networks, it restricts their expansion and requires them to make annual tax payments to the state as if they were for-profit companies.)

How does a state that values independence, self-reliance and economic prosperity allow absenteeowned corporations to pass a law essentially granting two industries — cable and telephone — the power to dictate North Carolina’s broadband future? This question will be moot if Gov. Beverly Per-

due exercises her veto power and sends this bill where it belongs: to the dustbin of history.

However, if the bill is signed into law, its passage could embolden the cable/telco lobby to take aim at the state’s many independent, nonprofit broadband networks, primarily in the most rural areas. These networks, with little fanfare or publicity, have made real progress in addressing the rural broadband crisis over the last decade.

These nonprofits include traditional rural electric and telephone cooperatives as well as more recent start-ups such as Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN) and ERC Broadband, both based in Asheville. MAIN launched in 1996 to provide dial-up Internet access via a local call in some of the region’s most remote communities.

Prior to this, many mountain residents had to call long-distance to reach the Internet.

The catalyst for ERC Broadband’s launch in 2003 was the possible loss of the National Climatic Data Center, which was looking to relocate to a community with

Befitting the state’s rural heritage, North Carolinians routinely take self-help measures to foster economic growth and provide essential local services.

more abundant and affordable broadband access. This homegrown fiber network helped keep NCDC and its high-paying jobs in Asheville. ERC’s success helped spawn a second nonprofit fiber network, PANGAEA, serving Polk and Rutherford counties. Likewise, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee and a local software firm in Franklin joined forces to launch a third fiber network, BasamWest, to serve the mountain counties west of Asheville.

This corporate assault on North Carolina’s heritage of self-help and self-reliance is all the more bizarre because these out-of-state cable and telephone carriers have begun using the state’s nonprofit networks, both rural and municipal, to supplement their network capacity and reduce their bandwidth costs. Common sense dictates that this corporate powergrab should end with a stroke of the governor’s pen.

• • • Wally Bowen is founder of the nonprofit Mountain Area Information Network and former member of the N.C. Rural Internet Access Authority. Tim Karr is campaign director for Free Press, a national nonprofit organization promoting media reform and universal access to telecommunications. This essay first appeared in The News & Observer of Raleigh.

LETTERS Catawba players set good example I felt compelled to tell someone of an accidental encounter my wife, Brenda, and our daughter, Amy, had on Friday, March 11, at the Wendy’s Restaurant in Kannapolis.

Brenda and Amy went into the Wendy’s located at 1106 S. Cannon Blvd. in Kannapolis, and who was in the restaurant? The Catawba College baseball team and coaching staff. Usually, we only hear the bad things about our youth — not so, according to Brenda and Amy. They described to me how quiet and mannerly the Indian baseball team and staff were.

They sat quietly while they ate lunch, talking and laughing, and having a good time in general. They were not loud, not even their laughing.

My wife spoke to one of the coaches and she commended him on how mannerly the team was. Brenda said that when it was time for the team to leave, the coaches got up and the team did likewise. The coaches didn’t even have to tell the players “time to go.” The players followed the lead of their coaches and automatically got up. The players even cleaned their own tables. Brenda said that when they left, they left their table spotless; probably cleaner than when they sat down.

The whole purpose of this letter is to say how proud it made me to hear of how the Catawba College baseball team and coaching staff carried themselves and how well they represented not only Catawba College, but how well they represented Salisbury, Rowan County and the Catawba family. The coaching staff should be commended for the quality of young men they recruit — it certainly shows in their character and the way they handle themselves in public. They could have acted much differently —- but they didn’t.

Incidentally: Catawba, 5 Newberry, 0.

— Stephen R. Talbert Landis

Talbert graduated from Catawba in 1966.

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Romney’s pre-emptive strike What’s good for one state may not suit another ALM BEACH, Fla. — Sitting under the lush palms and blue skies of the richest Americans’ favorite resort — during off-season when the rich wouldn’t be caught dead here, I hastily add — I naturally couldn’t wait to watch Mitt Romney’s PowerPoint presentation on health care.

But duty beckoned and, several pots of coffee later, I can only add my own voice to those who concluded: Poor Mitt Romney — though for KATHLEEN different reasons.

Romney is in a PARKER bit of a pickle, or so it seems at a glance. He’s running for president in part against Obamacare but has to acknowledge, as the president so often does, that Obamacare is modeled largely on the health care plan that Romney created while governor of Massachusetts.

Thus, tieless and professorial, Romney took the stage Thursday before a smallish audience at the University of Michigan and executed a pre-emptive strike against those who can’t stop talking about the similarities between President Obama’s and Romney’s respective plans, including the insurance mandate that conservative Americans find so repugnant.

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Oy. Or, depending on one’s point of view, hallelujah!

The latter would be the chorus from the White House, as well as from Democrats and left-leaning pundits who quickly editorialized that Romney had made a great case for Obamacare. Meanwhile, the conservative Wall Street Journal pummeled poor Romney for not being a real conservative.

But let’s subdue our reflexes for a moment. Without wading into the weeds of health care reform, there are also significant differences between Romneycare

and Obamacare. Chief among those differences: One is a massive federal program without cost controls that requires a vast bureaucracy to operate; the other is a more modest plan that constitutes less than 1 percent of the state budget.

More to the point, one was decided by the people of a single state, by and for themselves. The other presumes to dictate what individual states ROMNEY must do.

Romney’s central point was that what’s good for one state may not suit another and that states should have the freedom to choose what works best for them rather than have to conform to a federal one-size-fitsall plan, the ultimate costs of which are not really knowable.

People who tell you they know what it would cost are simply fibbing. Off the record, every honest person in Washington will tell you: Nobody knows.

Whether one likes or dislikes Obama’s health care plan — and there are certainly parts to like — this has always been the crucial point. Keep it small; keep it simple; leave it to the states. Within that framework, what Romney did in Massachusetts is entirely defensible. It was an experiment; it was bold; it was imperfect.

Even a perfect plan, however, wouldn’t necessarily be popular or work in, say, South Carolina.

But Romney would argue that South Carolinians should have the choice to create their own health care solutions. Certainly fellow Republican Gov. Nikki Haley agrees with that position.

Another Republican presidential candidate who would agree is Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah, who also initiated health care reform in his state, though of

a different order than Romney.

The point again: States come up with programs that suit them best.

As politics never relents, another important point seems to get lost: Just because something works well on the state level doesn’t necessarily mean it will work on the federal level. A family of three has different requirements than a family of 300. Or 3,000. Or 3 million. You get the picture.

My sense of “poor Romney” is that he may be too decent and earnest to be an effective politician.

Which is not to impugn others, mind you, but heck-o-rama. Romney simply can’t win for winning.

Even without a tie, he’s the tidiest, best-prepared boy in the class.

His search for practical solutions sometimes means he fails the ideological-purity test, but this fact might also be viewed as refreshing. Apparently this is the way a majority of Republicans see it in the important primary state of New Hampshire.

In the latest Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll, he had a 25point lead among likely voters in the New Hampshire Republican primary. When asked whether Romney's involvement in passing health care in Massachusetts would hurt his electability, the overwhelming response was “no effect,” according to pollster David Paleologos.

Another signal of Romney’s strength will be how often Obama mentions Massachusetts health care between now and the primaries. I’d bet a margarita brunch, now overdue, that we’ll hear it quite a lot.

• • • Kathleen Parker writes for Washington Post Writers Group.

Contact her at kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

Dismissing past does not erase it e are on the 2011 Student Freedom Riders bus rolling toward Augusta, Ga., watching “The Murder of Emmett Till,” a PBS documentary on the savage 1955 lynching of a black boy in the nothing town of Money, Miss. On the old newsreel footage, white person after white person spews the grotesque bigotry that was common to white people in that time and place, and somebody asks Ryan Price a question: How do you feel as a white guy, watching a film like this?

“It was a good question,” he tells me that evening LEONARD at the hotel. He PITTS pauses a long time, thinking.

“Watching ‘The Murder of Emmett Till’ as a white person,” he says, “it’s hard not to ...”

Another pause. He gathers himself. “It’s hard not to be embarrassed,” he says finally.

“While I was watching that movie, you get to the point where you almost want to change your skin color so you can show how much you care about issues of race, how much you care about the overt hatred and vitriolic discrimination of the past and today.

Of course, you can’t change your skin color, but you can be an ally to those who are marginalized in society, and that’s something it really spurs me to do.”

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It is a good — and brave — answer. Sadly, such bravery often eludes people two and three times the age of Price, a 20-year-old student from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Their preferred answer, proffered reflexively whenever discussion turns to the African-American sojourn in this country, can be summed up in three words: don’t look back.

As the bus full of college students rolls across the South celebrating the young people who famously defied segregation ordinances 50 years ago, and promoting “Freedom Riders,” a new PBS documentary, that preferred answer is being heard yet again.

Indeed, a story on the freedom rides by your humble correspondent, who is traveling across the South with the student riders, drew the following odd, but entirely predictable, rebuke on a Miami Herald message board.

“Cars’ windshields are so large and the rearview mirrors are so small because our past is not as important as our future.

So, look ahead and move on.”

One never encounters this wholesale dismissal of the past when one commemorates, say, the Kennedy inauguration or the Holocaust. That’s because those things makes us feel sorrow, nostalgia, resolve. As Ryan Price would testify, African-American history makes us feel ... other things.

And if we find those things difficult to process, that’s understandable. But to respond to that difficulty by declaring this one strain of history off limits is to commit an act of plain moral cowardice.

That cowardice is unfortunately common. Ray Arsenault, who wrote “Freedom Riders,” the book upon which the PBS documentary is based, says that instead of doing the difficult work of seeking to understand the forces that made us, Americans too often choose to create “mythic conceptions of what they think happened” in the past. Those myths, he says, are “based on half-truths and a kind of civic indoctrination which makes them feel perhaps more comfortable, but that trains them to be followers and not leaders, not to ask the difficult questions.” Without posing those questions, he says, we will never find the answers.

Which is, I suppose, just fine by some of us because it is those answers we fear. I mean, “windshields”? Really?

The funny thing is, every car I’ve ever driven had one in the back nearly as big as the one in the front — along with three mirrors reflecting the road behind. It suggests that automakers, at least, recognize what some of us do not.

To navigate the road ahead, it helps to have some sense of the road behind.

• • • Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Contact him via at lpitts@miamiherald.com.

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REPUBLICANS

Romney and Gingrich, both certain to run, stayed home.

Nor were Indiana Gov. Mitch FROM 1D Daniels, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Utah Gov. is the rest of the electorate, about 9 Jon Huntsman, former Alaska Gov. percent national unemployment and Sarah Palin or Minnesota Rep. $4-a-gallon gasoline.

Michele Bachmann there. All are Not even the party’s national considering candidacies. chairman, Reince Priebus, could A former state party chairman, hide his annoyance at Trump’s sigHenry McMaster, tried to look on nature issue, the persistent questhe bright side. tioning of Obama’s country of birth.

“These are mostly new faces,” he “I don’t think it’s an issue that said of those who debated. “That’s moves voters. It’s an issue that I, what we need to see. We’ve seen the personally, don’t get too excited old faces.” about,” Priebus said at one point.

Priebus said the debate was early The debate in in the campaign, suggesting that South Carolina was was a reason so many skipped it. somewhat sparsely “This is the beginning of the deattended — by the bate, but as we all know there are candidates. Hernumerous other candidates who are man Cain, Texas looking at it, and thank God, beRep. Ron Paul, for- cause we have a country that needs mer New Mexico to be straightened out and we have Gov. Gary Johnson, an economy that we need to get former Pennsylvaback on track,” Priebus said.

CAIN nia Sen. Rick SantoUntil recently, these events took rum and former place in something of a political Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty parvacuum, with the economy beginticipated. ning to produce jobs but the country A businessman who has never still struggling to emerge from the held office and a black man in a par- Great Recession. Obama grappled ty that is overwhelmingly white, with a string of foreign crises.

Cain was widely judged to have The political landscape changed helped himself. If so, it came at the 10 days ago, though, when bin expense of the professional politiLaden was killed in Pakistan and the cians on stage in the state that will president embarked on what hold the first southern primary in amounted to a week-long national 2012. victory lap.

I grew up in a southern cotton mill town where education mattered and where schools were a priority.

TEACH FROM 1D I finally think we have reached a new level of critical thinking in our discussion and someone asks permission to use the restroom.

I can’t count the number of times that I have turned to the blackboard (which is now actually white) and wondered if I needed to cuss or to pray. For fear of blasphemy, I tried to do them separately and not at the same time! After I had gained some semblance of composure, I could turn around and calmly continue the lesson. My blood pressure had gone up and my head was beginning to pound, but I could continue to teach because I didn’t have a choice to be excused to the bathroom myself. I actually had a student tell me that she didn’t think that teachers ever needed to go to the bathroom. When I asked her why she thought that, she seriously said, “Because they are old.” I assured her that was all the more reason that teachers needed to go more than students, and that if we could wait, so could she.

There have been other days that instead of simultaneously praying and cussing, I wanted to cry, but I knew that would be the worst thing a 55-year-old man could do in front of his students. On those occasions, I temporarily dispensed with my lesson plan and got them busy doing something tangible so I could sit down at my dark desk and stare at the textbook pretending I was reading something important that I would be sharing with them in the next few minutes. In reality, I was trying to take deep breaths so that I would not hyperventilate, while at same time desperately trying to figure out a new career in the next five minutes so I could make it until the end of the day.

And the tears could be saved for later, if necessary.

GINGRICH FROM 1D guing he should strive to be seen as the adult in the room presenting the battle-tested big ideas rather than a conservative firebrand who flies off the handle.

“If he can just get that Charlie Sheen self-discipline thing under control, Newt’s the type of candidate who has the potential to really fire up the room and fire up the base,” said former Republican strategist Dan Schnur, who now runs a political think tank at the University of Southern California.

Because Gingrich has shown a propensity to lose his cool, Schnur says, any slip on the campaign trail will be magnified: “He’s going to face an additional level of scrutiny.”

‘Not 1990s vintage’

A dramatic Sunday night announcement at the White House, a stop at ground zero in New York City and a visit to Fort Campbell in Kentucky led into a network television interview deemed so positive that the president’s campaign emailed supporters urging them to watch.

“Justice has been done,” Obama said in announcing bin Laden’s death after a decade on the run. The celebrations that broke out near the White House, in New York and on college campuses that night were a prelude to at least a temporary rise in Obama’s poll numbers.

Voters may well see those images again in the fall of 2012.

Against that backdrop, a health care speech by Romney and Gingrich’s announcement tour on social media, television and in person hardly count as game changers.

Yet because of their experience, fundraising potential and stature within the party, both men have legitimate chances to win the nomination, and their public appearances in the next few days suggest the race is becoming more serious.

Romney’s speech Thursday in Michigan is designed to surmount an obvious difficulty. As governor of Massachusetts, he sought and signed a health care bill that requires state residents to purchase health care. It’s a forerunner of Obama’s individual mandate that Republicans loathe.

POLL FROM 1D had a larger, 6.9 percentage point margin of error.

So far this year, it looks like a case of GOP buyer’s remorse before all the merchandise is even out on the shelves.

Lori Raney, who owns a drapery workroom in Canton, Ga., says she’s sure to vote for the party’s eventual nominee. But so far, she says, no standout candidate has emerged.

She’d be happy to vote for somebody with a level head, but says a lot of voters demand something more.

“Nowadays, people don’t really care about qualifications and common sense,” she says. “They want the celebrity figure to run for president. Republicans just don’t have the celebrity-type figure.”

Smith, the farmer from Zionsville, Ind., sees some good choices in the field and hopes that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets the nomination. But he confesses, “In truth, I don’t think there’s a Republican out there” who can beat Obama, because of the president’s strong support among minority voting blocs.

Candidate by candidate, Republicans display widely varying impressions of those who are in the GOP race or thinking about joining.

With the field still gelling, a number of potential candidates are so little known that many Republicans can’t venture an opinion.

Former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee, viewed favorably by 72 percent of Republicans, has the highest rating of the lot. He’s thinking about running and said Friday he planned a “very important” announcement on his TV show this weekend.

Gingrich, 67, isn’t without difficulties of his own in a party in which social conservatives and tea party activists hold power.

He is married for a third time.

As speaker of a Republican-controlled House more than a decade ago, he made the sort of deals that current conservative activists say they disdain: creation of a new health care benefit program as part of a balanced budget agreement with President Bill Clinton, for example.

Yet it’s unlikely that either man will spend much time speculating this week about the country of Obama’s birth.

And any praise of the president for the take-down of bin Laden is likely to be perfunctory.

“There are some people who don’t mind if America becomes a wreck as long as they dominate the wreckage,” Gingrich said in a video released Wednesday in which he announced his candidacy and displayed his combative side at the same time.

“But you and I know better. ...There’s a much better America ahead with more jobs, more prosperity, a better health care system” and more, he added.

Romney, on his campaign-inwaiting website, says: “Across the nation, over 20 million Americans still can’t find a job, or have given up looking. ... President Obama’s policies have failed.”

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is viewed favorably by two-thirds of Republicans, as is Romney, who made a strong bid for the presidential nomination last time.

Romney has all but announced this time; Palin is more of a question mark.

Palin’s support has held steady among Republicans HUCKABEE in recent months, but her unfavorable rating among all adults is at a new high of 59 percent.

Just 36 percent of Americans overall have a favorable opinion of her.

Romney’s favorability rating among PALIN Republicans has improved since March, growing from 59 percent to 66 percent.

The only other major Republican with a favorability rating above 50 percent in the poll was former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who entered the presidential race after the poll was conducted. His favorability rating was 61 percent.

Businessman-TV celebrity Donald Trump was the only potential candidate to draw unfavorable reviews from half of Republicans.

Forty-five percent viewed him favorably, 50 percent unfavorably.

GOP favorability ratings for lesser-known Republicans asked about in the poll: former Texas Rep. Paul, 49 percent; Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota , 41 percent; former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, 36 percent; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, 33 percent; Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, 30 percent; former Utah Gov. and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, 20 percent.

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EXISTENTIALISM: Starting off with wordplay

by Merle Baker

I suppose that the reason I just teach is because I had so many people in my life who just taught me and in the process affected my life forever. I grew up in a southern cotton mill town where education mattered and where schools were a priority. We may not have been the richest kids in the world, nor the smartest, but we knew we were loved, and we knew that our schools were as vital in our town as the churches. As I write these words, I see the faces and hear the voices of all those who used their lives to help me find my path in life. The real truth is that they didn’t just teach; they also cared.

I’m just trying to return the favor to the next generation.

lars with huge success. Aides say Gingrich is the author of his own tweets. He also frequently promotes the need for online medical records and cutting-edge advances in energy.

“This is not someone trapped in the past,” says his longtime political adviser, Joe Gaylord. “He’s always embraced what’s new.”

Will a Gingrich reinvention stick with voters?

He has been an all-but-declared candidate for months now. And polls show Republicans unenthused — if not dissatisfied — with their presidential options. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is being pressured to run. Some Republicans also continue to court New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie even though he has said repeatedly he won’t seek the White House.

Republicans seem to be searchFacebook, Twitter ing for someone that inspires the In recent weeks, Gingrich has same excitement among the party toned down the bombast and kept base.

It’s a thirst that seems espea relatively low profile. He’s set to cially pronounced in tea party give an interview Wednesday groups. night on Fox News Channel, ex“I like Newt, I do. But the isplaining his rationale for a candidacy. He’ll give his first speech as sues we are facing are not 1990s vintage,” said Mark Skoda, a full-fledged candidate at the founder of a Memphis, Tenn., tea Georgia Republican Party’s conparty organization. “As we saw vention in Macon on Friday. with Barack Obama, there’s a deHis candidacy will hardly be a retro affair; he disclosed his presi- sire for something fresh, for something new and dynamic.” dential run using Facebook and Gingrich himself knows that if Twitter. the race becomes about his histoHis campaign manager, Rob ry, he’s unlikely to go very far.

Johnson, largely shunned bricksHis past includes two divorces, and-mortar offices when he ran marital infidelity and ethics alleRepublican Rick Perry’s 2010 gugations. bernatorial bid in Texas, relying As he put it to one interviewer: heavily instead on social networks.

And Gingrich himself is an avid “If the primary concern of the American people is my past, my consumer of new technology. His candidacy would be irrelevant.” tax-exempt conservative group, He’ll find out in the coming American Solutions for Winning months whether that’s the case. the Future, has tapped online dol-

Perhaps the best antidote for depression and discouragement in my experience as a teacher has been when something happens out of the blue that makes me laugh. I’m not really a LOL type of person, but I do enjoy the humorous circumstances and comments that providentially come in the midst of stress and anxiety. I once had a football player who told me that he needed to pass my class because he was afraid that he would become “illegible.” I tried to assure him that no 6-foot-3, 220-pound lineman would ever become “illegible,” but we would work to see that he would not become ineligible. He then breathed a sigh of relief.

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Shakespeare fanatic heaps praises on bard “How Shakespeare Changed Everything,” by Stephen Marche.

Harper. 224 pp. $21.99.

BY CARL HARTMAN For the Associated Press

Brazilian author H returns to Literary Bookpost Brazilian native and Charlotte resident Marli Seiburger will return to Literary Bookpost for an encore book signing on Thursday, May 19, from noon until 2 p.m.

Weather permitting, Seiburger will be set up under her hat in the sun outside the front entrance to the shop.

“Diamonds and Mildew” is an exciting story about family legacy and diamonds. It reveals how ambition charms many lives as well as how fast money determines the course of misery.

The saga of the Merlenes dynasty starts in the streets of Paris in the 19th century and hastens extravagantly throughout America, Brazil, South Africa and Greece.

Literary Bookpost is at 110 S. Main St. For additional information about this event, call 704630-9788 or visit www.literarybookpost.com.

Jan Karon discussion and signing Jan Karon, the New York Times best-selling author of The Mitford Series, will be in Asheville on June 6 for a discussion and book signing at the Grove Park Inn from 7-8:30 p.m., in the Wilson Room. Copies of her books will be sold at the event, including her latest bestseller, “In the Company of Others.”

A former resident of Blowing Rock, Karon is giving a benefit appearance for The Writers’ Workshop, a non-profit literary center founded in 1985. Proceeds will help fund free writing classes for youth. Tickets bought in advance are $15; $20 at the door. To order tickets, email writersw@gmail.com, or call 828-254-8111.

On June 4, The Writers’ Workshop is hosting a Founder’s Day Barbecue on Saturday from 4-7 p.m. The public is invited to celebrate their 26th year as Asheville’s literary center.

Guests may bring a dish to share, books for sale and a poem or short story to read. Please RSVP at least 48 hours in advance by emailing writers@gmail.com, or calling 828-254-8111.

New book on Regulators “Farming Dissenters: The Regulator Movement in Piedmont Carolina,” has just been published by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. Author Dr. Carole Troxler steps back more than two decades before the Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771) to examine the issues and the context that fostered the Regulator Movement, which grew from frustrated backcountry residents who were badly treated by local officials. It is the story of local government more interested in its needs than those of its constituents and of settlers steeped in the Dissenter religious culture who drew on its political orientation to risk activism often cited as a prelude to the American Revolution.

It is available online at http://nc-historicalpublications.stores.yahoo.net/3505.html

Poetry Society meets May 21 The North Carolina Poetry Society holds its annual Awards Day Meeting Saturday, May 21 at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines. Registration begins at 9:15 a.m., and activities begin at 10 a.m. The main program features readings by the winners of the 2011 Adult and Student NCPS Contests. We plan to adjourn by 3 p.m. Box lunches will be available for sale until 10:15 a.m. For more information, visit http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org.

Rowan bestsellers Literary Bookpost

1. Mercy Creek, by Matt Matthews.

2. The Watery Part of the World, by Michael Parker.

3. Sixkill, by Robert Parker.

4. America Aflame, by David Goldfield.

5. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett.

6. Stoneman's Raid, 1865, by Chris Hartley.

7. Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy, by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson.

8. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen.

9. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese.

10. Dead Reckoning, by Charlaine Harris.

IndieBound bestsellers Fiction 1. She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy, editor.

2. Dead Reckoning, by Charlaine Harris.

3. The Tiger's Wife, by Téa Obreht.

4. Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks.

5. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain.

6. The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean M. Auel.

7. Sixkill, by Robert Parker.

8. 10th Anniversary, by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro.

9. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, by Alexander McCall Smith.

10. The Fifth Witness, by Michael Connelly.

Nonfiction 1. Bossypants, by Tina Fey. 2. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand.

3. A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, by Janny Scott.

4. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? by Steven Tyler.

5. The Social Animal, by David Brooks.

6. Stories I Only Tell My Friends, by Rob Lowe.

7. The Dukan Diet, by Pierre Dukan 8. If You Ask Me: And of Course You Won't, by Betty White.

9. Blood, Bones & Butter, by Gabrielle Hamilton.

10. Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff.

ave you heard that Shakespeare was partly responsible for an estimated 200 million starlings, whose unpleasant habits still plague sanitation authorities all over the Western Hemisphere?

A New York pharmaceutical manufacturer and Shakespeare lover was bent on transplanting to America every bird species mentioned in the plays. He released 60 starlings in Central Park in New York City on a snowy March morning in 1900.

Then they began to breed.

You may not know either that scholars have counted 1,700 English words that Shakespeare introduced, coinages that are now such standbys as dawn, bandit and fashionable. At least two of them have meanings that they still wonder about: prenzie and scamels.

If these facts have escaped you, “How Shakespeare Changed Everything” will provide the details and keep you amused while it does. The book’s dust jacket features a head-and-shoulders portrait of the poet with a starling perched just above his receding hairline.

His eyes roll upward, as if wondering what the starling will do next.

“Unpredictability may be one of life’s greatest gifts” is the ironic conclusion that author Stephen Marche draws from

“Henry IV, Part One.” That play contains his only mention of a starling.

Such oddities are not just

candy coating for Marche’s thoughts on Shakespeare. They also underpin bold statements like the opening sentence in his

book: “William Shakespeare was the most influential person who ever lived.”

A novelist, university teacher and culture columnist for Esquire, he combines his analyses with witty and overwhelming admiration. Some of his scholarly ideas are described in 21st-century terms.

A teacher who makes the class read the book won’t get much backlash from the sourpuss who calls Shakespeare dull and out-of-date.

“Romeo and Juliet are beautiful not despite their absurdity but because of it,” he writes. “... God, we love to watch young people being destroyed. We crave it. That’s why we have gossip magazines, so we can watch Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears and the Olsen twins self-destruct.”

Marche finds more sympathy among the young for the woes of their elders.

In the last scene of “King Lear,” the crazed old man weeps over the body of Cordelia, his one faithful daughter, hanged by their enemies.

He is not sure whether she is dead or alive.

“I have seen, with my own eyes,” he writes, with more emotion than usual, “a theater full of adolescents, removed from Shakespeare by four centuries and a continent, weep at this final scene. After experiencing ‘King Lear,’ the concept of justice seems like a ludicrous practical joke our ancestors played on us out of spite.”

Online: http://stephenmarche.com/

Erik Larson faces Nazis ‘In the Garden of Beasts’ “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin,” by Erik Larson. Crown. 464 pp. $26.

BY ERIN VANDERBERG Associated Press

How could an American family living in Nazi Germany during Hitler’s first year in power have underestimated what was afoot?

This empathetic viewpoint is at the crux of Erik Larson’s “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.” Larson intertwines the experiences of the Chicago Dodds with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933.

William Dodd, a history professor from the University of Chicago, was selected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the ambassadorship in Germany. Unassuming, kindly and frugal, Dodd believed he could

reason with the Nazis while having some time to complete his history on the American South.

This belief runs its predictable course.

Martha, the Dodds’ 24-yearold daughter, leaves a failed marriage and her job as a literary editor to accompany her family to Berlin. With the immediate cachet of an ambassador’s daughter, Martha enters the realms of high society, which initially captivate and delight her.

Chronicling the rise of the Third Reich in this intimate fashion is Larson’s most serious nonfiction undertaking yet. The Dodd family was an incredible discovery of primary sources, while the 12-page bibliography indicates the full extent of the project.

What is most remarkable is how difficult it was for Larson to write this book. Larson acknowledged that he was unable

to keep his “journalist’s remove” during the research process and that he was blindsided by “how much the darkness would infiltrate” his daily life.

Readers will likely find their share of that same burden, and there are times when the book plods slightly under the pressure.

Nevertheless, Larson has done it again, expertly weaving together a fresh new narrative from ominous days of the 20th century.

Online: http://eriklarsonbooks.com/

It’s the end of world — read all about it at the library

BY CATHY BROWN Rowan Public Library

Authors have long been fascinated with the end of the world.

Even the renowned Robert Frost wrote about it almost a century ago in his poem “Fire and Ice.” In the post-apocalyptic genre, however, most lean toward the fire and less toward the ice.

One of the most recent young adult series in the genre is the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. With casting recently announced for the main character of Katniss Everdeen in a planned movie trilogy, interest in the book series is sure to increase.

In The Hunger Games, readers are introduced to the nation of Panem, which is the successor to an unknown part of the North American continent some time after a devastating war. Panem is controlled by the Capitol, located in the area of the Rocky Mountains, which originally controlled 13 districts.

But, 74 years before the events of The Hunger Games, District 13 rose up against the Capitol, and the other 12 districts have been told that it was completely destroyed. As punishment for the rebellion, every year, each of the remaining districts must send two “tributes” — one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 — to compete in the Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games is a fight to the death with the sole survivor and his or her family being provided a home in the Victor’s Village in their home district, while also being paraded through Panem on a Victory Tour as a reminder to the other districts of the power of the Capitol if they ever decide to rebel again.

Throughout the three novels, “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire” and “Mocking Jay,” Katniss becomes the inspiration for a new rebellion against the Capitol and the end of the Games.

Another young adult trilogy in the post-apocalyptic genre is the Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner. The two published books, “The Maze Runner” and “The Scorch Trials” tell of a world that has been decimated by a solar flare and a virus called the Flare.

In order to find the cure, a mysterious group called WICKED locks a group of teenage boys in a maze in a desperate attempt to find the most intelligent of those not infected.

The second book picks up after the boys have left the maze, but have not yet passed the tests that WICKED deems necessary in order to find the cure. The third book in the trilogy, The “Death Cure,” is expected in October.

Of course, the end of the world isn’t restricted just to young adult literature. In the past two years, several adult books in the genre have been published, among them Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and Justin Cronin’s “The Passage.”

“The Road” takes place after an unknown cataclysmic event has caused a nuclear winter.

Readers follow the travels of the main characters, known simply as the man and the boy, a father and son attempting to move south in order to find warmer weather.

Along the way, they fight against starvation, cannibals and disease.

“The Passage” is the first in a planned trilogy of novels covering not only the apocalyptic events that end life as humanity knows it, but also a century later as the descendants struggle to continue.

In “The Passage,” the end is brought about by a virus, meant to cure all disease, which instead causes vampire-like mutations to those who are infected.

Most of the novel deals with the Colony, located in present-day California. The Colonists are the descendants of children brought there by the U.S. Army when the virus overtook North America.

They subsist on century-old generators and batteries, waiting for the day when the lights go out and they are left defenseless against the “Virals,” the name given to the infected.

Cronin has given his world a supernatural twist in that the Virals are connected to the original Viral that created them. Otherwise, it fits in well with the postapocalyptic genre.

Computer classes: Classes are free. Sessions are approximately 90 minutes. Class size is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. Dates and times at all locations are subject to change without notice.

Headquarters — Monday, 7 p.m., Uploading & Downloading Photos (basic computer skills required); May 23, 7 p.m., Microsoft Word 2003 (basic computer skills required).

South — Monday, 7 p.m., Introduction to Heritage Quest; May 19, 11 a.m., Digital Photo Editing.

JR’s Adventure Club: Headquarters, May 21, 11 a.m. The club will choose a project to build, and have books from the library and recommended websites that go along with the project. The club is open to all school-age children.

Light refreshments will be served. Call 704-216-8234 to learn more.

Teens invited to meet author Cheralyn Lambeth: East Branch, May 24, 5:30 p.m. Lambeth will speak

about the paranormal investigations that were used to create her ghost books and much more. She is a paranormal researcher and nonfiction author who has also worked on multiple feature films.

Join us for this free teen event.

Roads Scholar program “Hard Times at the Mill”: South, May 24, 7 p.m. Thanks to funding from N.C. Humanities Council and their Roads Scholar program, Dr. Roxanne Newton of Mitchell Community College is bringing her program “Hard Times at the Mill” to the South Rowan Regional Library. The program is free and open to the public.

American Girl Club: Headquarters, May 28, 11 a.m. A book discussion group about the life and times of the American Girl characters.

Book Bites Club: South only; May 31, 6:30 p.m, “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” by Wanda Cather. Book discussion groups for both adults and children on the last Tuesday of each month.

The group is open to the public and anyone is free to join at any time. There is a discussion of the book, as well as light refreshments at each meeting. For more information please call 704-2168229.

Library closings: May 30, all RPL locations closed for Memorial Day holiday.

Displays: Headquarters — Doll Society by Jim Bourdain, Lee Street Theatre by Robert Jones; South — student art by South Rowan High School art class; East — Art by Colleen Walton.

Literacy: Call the Rowan County Literacy Council at 704-2168266 for more information on teaching or receiving literacy tutoring for English speakers or for those for whom English is a second language.

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Colbert seeks ‘megaphone made of cash’ Americans so they can have a voice in the form of my voice,” Colbert told a crowd gathered outside the Federal Election Commission offices.

“I am sick and tired of the old boy Democratic and Republican network toadying to COLBERT corporate interests,” Colbert said. “What about us?

Where’s our money. We’re willing to toady.”

Colbert, who poses as a conservative talk show host on the Comedy Central show, said in March he was forming

a political action committee.

But that kind of committee has stricter rules both on fundraising and how he could mention it on TV. “I’m not willing to ride in the back of the bus,” he said.

“With all this Super PAC money, I will be riding in a private jet. Ride in that jet with me.”

“Obviously, I mean metaphorically.”

Colbert was accompanied

by Trevor Potter, a prominent campaign finance attorney and a former Federal Election Commission chairman.

The comedian has used his show to lampoon campaign finance rules, including the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that paved the way for super PACs.

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Massachusetts’ new senator on the defensive WASHINGTON (AP) — Popular Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown appears rattled for the first time since grabbing the late Democrat Edward Kennedy’s seat 16 months ago.

Brown, widely seen as an early favorite to win his first full term in 2012, has been stung by a gaffe involving photos that he mistakenly said showed Osama bin Laden’s body and rocked by a $1 million ad blitz attacking his environmental record.

The freshman senator’s woes have been a jolt of energy for Democrats, who have been desperate to win back a seat they feel is historically theirs.

“There are some cracks showing now,” said John Walsh, Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman.

Brown declined to be interviewed by the AP. In a statement, political adviser Eric Fehrnstrom lashed back, saying, “We’re already seeing a repeat of the ugly negative campaign the political machine ran against Scott Brown last time.”

There are plenty of indications that Brown is still in solid shape for his first re-election bid. Polls show he’s the most popular politician in the state and has a whopping $8.3

million in his campaign account.

Tellingly, Democrats have had trouble finding a bigname candidate willing and able to take him on. The current field includes Setti Warren, the first-term mayor of the affluent Boston suburb of Newton and the state’s first popularly elected black mayor; City Year youth program co-founder Alan Khazei and Robert Massie, a former lieutenant governor candidate.

A long, costly and divisive primary could also hurt Democratic hopes. There’s no sign party officials will try to unite Democrats behind a single Brown challenger.

Still, Brown, a former state senator known for posing nude in Cosmopolitan magazine as a law student, is not home free.

“As popular as Scott Brown is ... he’s still fairly new to most Massachusetts voters so their views of him may be a little more fluid than someone who has been in office longer,” said Timothy Vercellotti, associate professor of political science and polling director at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass.

The race will have national significance. Democrats are facing a tough fight in 2012 to

hang onto their slim Senate majority and Brown is a prime target.

Democrats pounced on Brown’s boast in recent TV interviews about seeing gruesome photos of bin Laden after the terrorist leader was shot.

He suggested he saw the photos at an official briefing for senators.

“Let me assure you that he is dead, that bin Laden is dead,” he told New England Cable News. “I have seen the photos and, in fact, we’ve received the briefings and we’ll continue to get the briefings.”

That wasn’t true.

Brown, a member of the Senate Armed Services committee, admitted later that he’d been snookered by bogus photos circulating on the Internet.

The usually camera-friendly senator ducked reporters seeking to question him about it.

Brown’s campaign image as a straight-talking average guy driving a pickup truck in casual gear took a big hit from the photo flap.

A Boston Herald columnist mocked him as “Dan Quayle in a barn coat,” a reference to the former vice president who was ridiculed by critics as being unprepared for his job.

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Bin Laden was potent, but past his prime WASHINGTON (AP) — Surrounded by the din of his multiple families within walls that were both his sanctuary and prison, Osama bin Laden pecked endlessly at a computer, issuing directives to his scattered and troubled terrorist empire. It’s not clear who really listened.

Go big, he told al-Qaida operatives and affiliates.

They mostly went small.

The latest intelligence from the wealth of material found at bin Laden’s last hideout paints a complicated picture of the fugitive, both deeply engaged in his life’s violent mission and somewhat out to pasture.

Inside the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound, he kept busy scheming plots, rehearsed and recorded propaganda and dispatched couriers to distant Internet cafes to conduct his email traffic, using computer flash drives to relay messages he would write and store from his shabby office. He dyed his gray beard black to keep up appearances for the videos.

To U.S. officials, who possess bin Laden’s handwritten personal journal as well as an enormous cache of his digital documents, the still-unfolding discoveries show he was more involved in trying to plan alQaida’s post-911 operations than they had thought possible for a man in perpetual hiding.

Even so, he was disconnected from his organization in real time, lacking phones or the Internet at his hideout and with loyalists hunted at every turn. Essential elements of a command and control function from Abbottabad appear to be missing.

Among the items found was an unreleased audiotape, recorded about a week before the raid, in which bin Laden praises those who rebelled in the “Arab spring,” referring to revolts in the Mideast and North Africa, a U.S. official says. But bin Laden only mentions Egypt and Tunisia, though he would have been aware through news broadcasts on his cable TV feed of the uprisings in Libya, Syria, and the Gulf state Bahrain, the official noted, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.

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a pakistan soldier secures a street close to the house of former al-Qaida leader osama bin Laden in pakistan. shows bin Laden channel surfing with a tiny TV while wrapped in a wool blanket, wearing a knit cap and looking anything but content. Toward its own propaganda ends, the U.S. released selective excerpts of these odd home movies, choosing clips that only show the Prince of jihad in an unflattering, even pathetic, light.

For a man working from home, there seemed to be many distractions.

The U.S. raiders who killed him, a grown son and others May 2 encountered 23 children and nine women on the grounds of the three-story complex behind walls stained with mold, including three of his wives, officials said afterward. The U.S. has questioned those widows, the Pentagon said Friday without revealing if anything was learned.

U.S. officials also said the raiders found a collection of pornography in the materials they confiscated but it was not clear who owned it or had seen it.

The compound is hardly the plush redoubt U.S. officials described in the immediate aftermath of the Navy SEALs assault. Yet the Saudi son of privilege, who long ago renounced wealth and creature comforts, had lived in far more Spartan circumstances even if he was not quite the cave-dweller of Western lore.

As bizarre as it might be to know he spent his last months surrounded by children, any thought of domestic tranquility is probably a stretch.

This was a man who forced his family to live without air conditioning or a refrigerator

in stifling heat in pre-terrorist days, who beat them and let his fighters experiment on their pets with poison gas, and made his family dig and sleep in ditches on a desert camping trip, according to a son and another wife who collaborated on the book “Growing Up Bin Laden.”

Such a harsh disposition with family was disputed by Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada, a father-in-law, who told The Associated Press in Yemen that bin Laden was a “kind and noble” man, “easygoing and modest, giving you the feeling that he was sincere.” Al-Sada’s daughter, Amal, 29, was shot in the leg during the raid as she rushed the Navy SEALs, U.S. officials said.

There is no dispute that bin Laden spent time in his lair dreaming up ways to kill Americans in great numbers again, for the terrorist believed that only mass casualties could move U.S. policy.

Communicating both with his core group and al-Qaida affiliates, he advised plots against cities spared on Sept. 11, 2001, such as Los Angeles, and wanted to explore attacking trains.

Whatever the target, he sought a body count of thousands, the records indicate.

But not everyone was marching to his drum.

The Yemen branch of alQaida, which now overshadows bin Laden’s central operation as the organization’s top money-raising, propaganda and operational arm, has embraced the smaller-scale attacks that bin Laden thought were unsuccessful. Others in the network, too, have urged

Pakistan warns of cutting US supply line ISLAMABAD (AP) — Still angry over the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to American missile strikes against Islamist militants on their soil Saturday, and warned that Pakistan may cut NATO’s supply line to Afghanistan if the attacks don’t stop.

The nonbinding parliamentary resolution reflects the precarious state of the U.S.Pakistani alliance, which is vital to the war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. The bin Laden raid has brought to the fore a longstanding dilemma that U.S. strikes that Washington says kill militants often are seen by Pakistanis as a violation of sovereignty with mostly civilian victims, exacerbating an already-high antiAmerican sentiment.

During a visit to Afghanistan, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on Pakistan to be a better partner in the fight against terrorists.

The Pakistani measure was passed after a rare, private briefing in Parliament by Pakistan’s military leaders, who were humiliated by the May 2 U.S. Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, a northwest garrison city. Pakistanis were angry the military allowed it to happen while the U.S. said the proximity to a military academy and the capital, Islamabad, raised suspicion that some security elements had been harboring bin Laden.

Washington also has been unable to get Islamabad to go after militant groups, such as the Haqqani network, who use its soil as hideouts but stage attacks only inside Afghanistan. Analysts say Pakistan may be maintaining ties to some insurgents because it wants leverage in Afghanistan — and a wedge against archrival India — once the U.S. pulls out.

Pakistani officials deny links to militant groups, saying they are too stretched bat-

tling insurgents attacking the Pakistani state to go after those fighting in Afghanistan right now.

Underscoring the threat, a roadside bomb hit a passenger bus Saturday near Kharian, a garrison town in eastern Pakistan, killing at least six passengers and wounding 20, senior police official Mian Sultan said. The bus was en route to Kharian from the nearby city of Gujrat.

On Friday, two suicide bombers struck a training center for paramilitary police recruits , killing 87 people in the Shabqadar area of Pakistan’s northwest in what the Pakistani Taliban called a revenge attack for the death of bin Laden.

Pakistani military officials insist they did not know bin Laden was living in Abbottabad, and U.S. officials say they have no evidence that the top leadership was involved in hiding the 54-year-old al-Qaida chief.

Still, the U.S. didn’t warn Pakistan ahead of the raid, and suspicions linger that some elements in its security establishment were helping to hide the terrorist leader.

That has deepened distrust between the two countries, who have had an uneasy alliance since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Ties have frayed in recent months over the case of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who killed two Pakistanis in January, as well as missile strikes that have allegedly killed civilians.

Davis, who claimed the two Pakistanis were trying to rob him, was eventually freed after the victims families agreed to financial compensation, even as the U.S. insisted he had diplomatic immunity from prosecution.

The U.S. and NATO rely heavily — though increasingly less — on land routes in Pakistan to ferry non-lethal material to their troops across the border in Afghanistan.

That gives Pakistan some leverage in its dealings with the U.S. Last fall, after NATO chop-

pers from Afghanistan killed two Pakistani soldiers during a border incursion, Pakistan closed the border to U.S. and NATO supply trucks for nearly two weeks.

The parliamentary resolution called the U.S. raid a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and said Pakistan would not tolerate future such incursions. It also criticized the drone strikes and said the government should consider preventing U.S. and NATO supply trucks from crossing over to Afghanistan.

The measure doesn’t have the force of law, but is likely to be influential because it enjoys broad support from the ruling party and the opposition. It also reflected the political cost in Pakistan of the partnership with the U.S. It’s difficult to say how much of the anger over missile strikes is real and how much of it is Pakistani officials’ way of appealing to a domestic audience that is largely anti-U.S. The government is widely believed to secretly aid in the missile strikes.

Few Pakistani lawmakers would discuss the confidential session, which began Friday and stretched into Saturday morning.

The length alone suggested that the generals were questioned vigorously — a rarity in a place where the military operates largely out of civilian control.

Intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha admitted negligence in tracing bin Laden, but also noted that Pakistan had cooperated with the U.S. in helping kill or capture numerous bin Laden allies.

When asked why the CIA was able to track bin Laden, the spy chief said the U.S. agency had managed to acquire more sources in Pakistan than the Pakistani agencies because it paid informants far better, according to a lawmaker who attended the session.

“Where we pay 10,000 rupees ($118), they pay $10,000,” one lawmaker described Pasha as saying.

the likeminded to kill Americans wherever and however they can, without coordination or elaborate planning.

So far intelligence officials have not identified specific targets or plots for coming attacks in their initial analysis of the 100 or so flash drives and five computers that the assault team took from the compound. Nor have they found that bin Laden was capable of coordinating the timing of attacks across the various al-Qaida affiliates in Pakistan, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq and Somalia.

Officials have seen no evidence that he was directly behind the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner or the nearly successful attack on cargo planes heading for Chicago and Philadelphia, as much as those operations seemed out of his playbook.

Indeed, it remains unknown just what bin Laden accomplished for his jihad after the attacks of 2001 other than to stay alive and at large for nearly a decade afterward.

That itself was quite a feat but one that denied him a reprise of the American body count he wanted until the end.

Porn supposedly found in compound WASHINGTON (AP) — A sizeable stash of pornography was among the items seized when U.S. Navy SEALs raided the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, almost two weeks ago, U.S. officials say.

The officials said it was unclear who the material belonged to, and there was no way to know whether bin Laden had viewed it.

Bin Laden’s son and two other adult male couriers lived at the compound, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.

The pornography was among the computer materials confiscated in the raid after the SEALs killed bin

Laden, ending an almost 10year manhunt for the terrorist behind the 9/11 terror attacks.

The disclosure that U.S. investigators found pornography — which provoked ridicule among bloggers Friday — fuels the U.S. narrative that bin Laden was not the respectable or noble figure that his supporters embraced.

The U.S. government previously asserted that bin Laden hid behind a woman in the compound as a “human shield” on the night of the raid but later revised its account of the deadly shooting inside the compound and said she rushed at one of the Navy SEALs and was shot in the calf.

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12:00 Noon-Salisbury Police Honor Guard

Pledge of Allegiance

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Dr. Randal V. Kirby Associate Minister First Presbyterian Church

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Rowan County Sheriff Kevin Auten Salisbury Police Deputy Chief Steve Whitley

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Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Chaplain Mike Taylor

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State of North Carolina, Roll Call of Honor (May 2010-May 2011)

Salisbury Police Chaplain Harold Bumby

Inspector Timothy Charles Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .July 28, 2010 NCDMV Deputy Sheriff Jon-Michael Willis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .July 28, 2010 Green County Sheriff’s Office

Rowan County Roll Call of Honor prior to 2010 Salisbury Police Department Chaplain Harvey Rice

A Special Thanks to the following for their Contributions Mike Oney Debbie Suggs Catering Dr. Randal V. Kirby, Associate Minister First Presbyterian Church Stephen Stringer, Pianist for First Presbyterian Church Rick Smith, Director of Music Ministry, First Presbyterian Church Stephen Stringer, First Presbyterian Church Catawba Organ Scholar 2011

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Officer Fred Thornton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .02-25-2011 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Rowan County Deputy Sheriff Robert William Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .04-27-2011 Rowan County Deputy Sheriff Earnest Gary Cress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .04-08-2011

Benediction/Luncheon Blessing Salisbury Police Department Chaplain Russ Williams

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 4 detroit 3, Kansas city 1 cleveland 5, seattle 4 tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 0 texas 4, L.a. angels 1 toronto 2, Minnesota 0 chicago White sox 4, oakland 3 Saturday’s Games seattle at cleveland, ppd., rain oakland 6, chicago White sox 2 Baltimore 6, tampa Bay 0 detroit 3, Kansas city 0 L.a. angels 3, texas 2 toronto 9, Minnesota 3, 11 innings Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 0 Sunday’s Games Kansas city (davies 1-5) at detroit (scherzer 6-0), 1:05 p.m. seattle (pineda 4-2) at cleveland (tomlin 4-1), 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore (arrieta 4-1) at tampa Bay (sonnanstine 0-0), 1:40 p.m. toronto (Morrow 1-2) at Minnesota (duensing 2-2), 2:10 p.m.

L.a. angels (e.santana 1-4) at texas (c.Wilson 4-2), 3:05 p.m. chicago White sox (Buehrle 2-3) at oakland (cahill 6-0), 4:05 p.m.

Boston (Lester 4-1) at N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 2-2), 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m. toronto at detroit, 7:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 7:10 p.m. cleveland at Kansas city, 8:10 p.m. texas at chicago White sox, 8:10 p.m.

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Associated Press WASHINGTON — Anibal Sanchez allowed just three hits in eight innings, and Mike Stanton hit a long home run Saturday to lead the Florida Marlins over the Nationals 1-0.

Stanton’s seventh homer of the season came in the seventh.

Sanchez (3-1) struck out nine and walked two. He improved to 7-0 lifetime against the Nationals with a 1.99 ERA, and the Marlins won their eighth straight at Washington.

Marlins closer Leo Nunez gave up a walk and a single to start the ninth, then escaped the first-and-second jam for his 14th save in 14 chances.

Braves 5, Phillies 3 ATLANTA— Martin Prado homered and drove in three runs, and Jair Jurrjens beat the Phillies for the second time in a week after taking a perfect game into the sixth inning.

Jurrjens (5-0) gave up three hits and three runs, two earned, in 7 1-3 innings. He has not allowed more than two earned runs in six starts.

Prado and Nate McLouth hit back-toback homers in the first inning for the only runs allowed by Joe Blanton (1-2) in five innings.

Padres 9, Rockies 7 DENVER — Brad Hawpe hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to complete a six-run comeback and give the Padres a win against his former team.

Hawpe connected off Huston Street (0-1) for his second home run of the season. The former All-Star outfielder began his major league career with the Rockies in 2004.

Astros 7, Mets 3 HOUSTON — Carlos Lee delivered his 2,000th hit with an RBI single during a fourrun first inning, then hit one of Houston’s three homers against the Mets.

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N.Y. Mets (capuano 2-4) at Houston (an.rodriguez 0-1), 2:05 p.m. pittsburgh (correia 5-3) at Milwaukee (Greinke 1-1), 2:10 p.m. san Francisco (Lincecum 3-3) at chicago cubs (Zambrano 4-1), 2:20 p.m. san diego (Latos 0-5) at colorado (Hammel 3-2), 3:10 p.m. arizona (i.Kennedy 3-1) at L.a. dodgers (Lilly 3-3), 4:10 p.m.

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Florida hulk Mike stanton rounds third base after his solo homer provided the only run in a 1-0 victory against the Nationals on saturday.

J.A. Happ (3-4) pitched six innings for the win, scattering five hits and three walks, as the Mets had their three-game winning streak come to an end.

Reds 7, Cardinals 3 CINCINNATI — Johnny Cueto took a shutout into the eighth inning, and Ramon Hernandez hit solo homers on each of the first two pitches he saw for the Reds.

Brandon Phillips drove in three runs for the Reds, who moved into first place alone for the first time since April 18.

Brewers 8, Pirates 2 MILWAUKEE — Prince Fielder, Brandon Boggs and Ryan Braun each hit solo home runs as the Brewers beat the Pirates

for the eighth straight time overarll.

Milwaukee also has won eight in a row against the Pirates at Miller Park.

Cubs 3, Giants 0 CHICAGO — Ryan Vogelsong pitched six scoreless innings in a rain-shortened game for his first career shutout and Buster Posey hit an RBI single.

Dodgers 4, Diamondbacks 3 LOS ANGELES— Clayton Kershaw allowed three hits over seven innings, and Rod Barajas snapped a scoreless tie in the fifth with a solo homer.

The Dodgers won their third in a row while Arizona dropped its fifth straight, with each loss by a run.

Gonzalez continues homer spree vs. Yanks Associated Press

situation was still not settled.

His teammates weren’t much more productive, managing only four singles and two walks against Beckett (3-1) while dropping their fourth straight. It is New York’s longest skid since losing four in a row Sept. 22-25.

Tigers 3, Royals 0 DETROIT — Brad Penny pitched eight scoreless innings, Detroit scored three runs in the first inning and held on to win its seventh straight game.

Penny (4-3) allowed five hits and no walks in eight innings, striking out two. Jose Valverde struck out two more in a hitless ninth, earning his 10th save.

Orioles 6, Rays 0 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Brad Bergesen tossed a fourhitter for his first major league shutout, and Jake Fox hit a two-

NEW YORK— Adrian Gonzalez homered for the fourth consecutive game and Josh Beckett shut down the skidding New York Yankees for the second time this season, sending the Boston Red Sox to a 6-0 victory Saturday on a bizarre night in the Bronx.

Longtime star Jorge Posada asked to be taken out of the New York lineup after the slumping designated hitter was dropped to No. 9 in the batting order.

Posada’s wife tweeted the fivetime All-Star had a stiff back.

But a person familiar with the discussion between Posada and the team told The Associated Press that he “refused” to play.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the

Posada asks out of lineup Associated Press NEW YORK — Jorge Posada asked to be taken out of the New York Yankees’ lineup Saturday night after the slumping designated hitter was dropped to No. 9 in the batting order. Posada, hitting .165 this season, was in the original lineup posted by manager Joe Girardi for the game against the Boston Red Sox. But general manager Brian Cashman said Posada went into Girardi’s office at 6 p.m. and requested that he be removed.

Posada’s wife tweeted that the five-time All-Star had back stiffness. But a person familiar with the discussion between Posada and the team told The Associated Press that he “refused” to play.

run homer for the Orioles.

Bergesen (1-4) picked up his first victory since last Sept. 21 at Boston. The right-hander entered 0-5 with a 9.13 ERA in five career starts against Tampa Bay. Angels 3, Rangers 2 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Maicer Izturis hit a two-out RBI single in the ninth inning to spoil another start for Los Angeles right-hander Dan Haren.

Izturis hit a liner to left off Darren Oliver (1-4) that drove home Jeff Mathis, the light-hitting catcher who led off the ninth with a single before a sacrifice bunt by Peter Bourjos.

Jordan Walden worked a perfect ninth for his seventh save in nine chances. Scott Downs (10) faced only one batter to get out of the eighth.

Athletics 6, White Sox 2 OAKLAND, Calif. — David DeJesus recorded his 1,000th career hit and drove in two runs, and Tyson Ross took a shutout into the sixth inning for the Athletics.

Blue Jays 9, Twins 3, 11 Innings MINNEAPOLIS — Jose Bautista hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning as the Blue Jays won their fourth straight game.

Bautista’s two-run shot off reliever Jim Hoey broke a 3-all tie. Hoey walked the next two batters and J.P. Arencibia followed with a double off Jose Mijares to help send the Twins to their seventh straight loss.

Bautista’s homer came after Glen Perkins (0-1) gave up a leadoff to Corey Patterson.

Jon Rauch (2-2) pitched two scoreless innings for the win.

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H R ER BB SO IP Kansas City Francis L,0-5 8 7 3 3 1 4 Detroit penny W,4-3 8 5 0 0 0 2 Valverde s,10-10 1 0 0 0 1 2 t—2:22. a—37,647 (41,255).

Orioles 6, Rays 0 Baltimore Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h bi Brorts 2b 5 1 2 0 Fuld lf 4 0 1 0 Markks rf 3 1 2 0 Zobrist 2b 3 0 1 0 d.Lee 1b 4 1 1 1 damon dh 4 0 1 0 Guerrr dh 4 0 2 1 Longori 3b 4 0 0 0 scott lf 4 0 0 0 Joyce rf 3 0 0 0 pie lf 1 0 0 0 eJhnsn 2b 1 0 0 0 adJons cf 4 1 2 1 BUpton cf 3 0 1 0 Hardy ss 4 0 0 0 Ktchm 1b 3 0 0 0 Fox c 3 1 1 2 Brignc ss 3 0 0 0 Mrrynl 3b 4 1 1 1 Jaso c 3 0 0 0 Totals 36 6 11 6 Totals 31 0 4 0 Baltimore 100 012 110—6 Tampa Bay 000 000 000—0 e—d.lee (2), Mar.reynolds (6). dp—Baltimore 1, tampa Bay 1. Lob—Baltimore 10, tampa Bay 5.

2b—d.lee (5), Guerrero (5), ad.jones (6), Zobrist (13), B.upton (10). Hr—Fox (2), Mar.reynolds (4). sb—B.roberts (4), Markakis (2), Fuld (12). s— Hardy.

IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore Bergesen W,1-4 9 4 0 0 1 5 Tampa Bay 1 7 4 4 3 3 W.davis L,4-3 5 ⁄3 J.cruz 1 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 0 a.russell 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 3 B.Gomes 11⁄3 Wp—W.davis. t—2:32. a—28,451 (34,078).

Athletics 6, White Sox 2 Chicago Oakland ab r h bi ab r h bi pierre lf 4 0 0 0 crisp cf 5 0 2 0 alrmrz ss 3 1 1 0 Barton 1b 3 1 1 1 a.dunn dh4 0 2 0 sweeny lf 5 0 0 0 Konerk 1b 4 1 1 2 Wlngh dh 4 1 2 0 Quentin rf 4 0 0 0 deJess rf 3 2 1 2 rios cf 4 0 1 0 Ksuzuk c 3 0 2 1 rcastr c 3 0 0 0 M.ellis 2b 3 0 0 0 Bckhm 2b 3 0 1 0 Kzmnff 3b 3 1 1 0 Morel 3b 3 0 1 0 pnngtn ss 3 1 1 1 Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 32 6 10 5 Chicago 000 002 000—2 Oakland 020 030 10x—6 e—Quentin (1). dp—oakland 2. Lob—chicago 4, oakland 11. 2b—a.dunn 2 (9), Kouzmanoff (5).

3b—dejesus (3). Hr—Konerko (10). s—M.ellis. sf—Barton.

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago 1 9 5 5 2 4 Floyd L,4-3 4 ⁄3

t.pena 22⁄3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 sale Oakland 6 2 2 t.ross W,3-2 71⁄3 12⁄3 1 0 0 Balfour Wp—Floyd, t.ross. t—2:49. a—17,291 (35,067).

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Angels 3, Rangers 2 Texas Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h bi aybar ss 5 0 1 0 enchvz cf 4 0 0 0 abreu dh 4 0 1 0 andrus ss 4 0 1 0 Mizturs 2b 4 1 2 1 Kinsler 2b 4 1 1 0 trHntr rf 4 0 0 0 MiYong dh 4 0 1 1 HKndrc lf 3 1 1 0 Morlnd rf 4 1 1 0 c llasp 3b 4 0 2 2 aBeltre 3b 4 0 2 1 trumo 1b 4 0 1 0 dvMrp lf 4 0 1 0 Willits lf 0 0 0 0 torreal c 3 0 0 0 Mathis c 4 1 2 0 c.davis 1b 3 0 0 0 Bourjos cf 3 0 0 0 Totals 35 310 3 Totals 34 2 7 2 Los Angeles 000 101 001—3 Texas 010 000 010—2 e—callaspo (4). dp—texas 1. Lob—Los angeles 10, texas 6. 2b—H.kendrick (12), callaspo 2 (9), trumbo (7), Kinsler (12), Moreland (10). sb— andrus (12). s—Bourjos, torrealba.

H R ER BB SO IP Los Angeles 6 2 2 0 5 Haren 72⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 rodney Bs,3-5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 s.downs W,1-0 ⁄3 Walden s,7-9 1 0 0 0 0 2 Texas Holland 6 6 2 2 3 4 M.Lowe 1 1 0 0 0 0 eppley 1 1 0 0 0 0 oliver L,1-4 1 2 1 1 1 0 rodney pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. t—2:52. a—47,663 (49,170).

Red Sox 6, Yankees 0 Boston

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2b—ellsbury (12), swisher (6). Hr—ad.gonzalez (9). sb—pedroia (6), Granderson (4).

IP H R ER BB SO Boston Beckett W,3-1 6 4 0 0 2 9 albers 2 2 0 0 1 2 r.Hill 1 1 0 0 0 2 New York 7 6 6 3 6 sabathia L,3-3 62⁄3 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 robertson ayala 2 3 0 0 0 2 HBp—by sabathia (ellsbury). Wp—sabathia. t—3:26. a—48,790 (50,291).

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r 2 1 1 1 1 2 0 0

Minnesota h bi ab 3 0 span cf 5 2 2 plouffe ss 6 1 2 Kubel dh 6 0 0 Mornea 1b 5 0 0 acasill 2b 0 2 3 dYong lf 4 0 0 cuddyr rf 5 1 0 Valenci 3b 4

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JMcdnl 3b4 1 0 0 LHughs 2b 5 0 0 0 rdavis cf 3 0 0 1 rriver c 3 0 1 0 revere ph 1 0 0 0 Butera c 1 0 0 0 45 3 13 2 Totals 39 9 9 8 Totals 110 000 010 06—9 Toronto Minnesota 200 001 000 00—3 e—Y.escobar (3), cooper (2), Valencia (3). dp— Minnesota 1. Lob—toronto 6, Minnesota 12. 2b— arencibia (5), Morneau (9). 3b—c.patterson (2).

Hr—Bautista (13), arencibia (6), cuddyer (4). cs— Bautista (1). s—c.patterson. sf—c.patterson, d.young.

IP H R ER BB SO Toronto 52⁄3 10 3 2 1 6 Jo-.reyes 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Frasor 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 rzepczynski 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 dotel Janssen 1 0 0 0 0 0 rauch W,2-2 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 camp Minnesota 5 3 2 2 8 Blackburn 72⁄3 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 capps perkins L,0-1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Hoey 0 1 3 3 2 0 0 2 2 2 2 0 Mijares al.Burnett 1 0 0 0 0 0 perkins pitched to 1 batter in the 11th.

Hoey pitched to 3 batters in the 11th.

Mijares pitched to 4 batters in the 11th.

Wp—Blackburn. t—3:27. a—39,934 (39,500).

sardinh c 2 0 0 0 Jurrjns p 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Venters p 0 0 0 0 orr ph ruiz ph-c 0 0 0 0 Mather ph 1 0 0 0 Blanton p 1 0 0 0 Heywrd rf 0 0 0 0 Mrtnz ph 1 1 1 0 Jromr p 0 0 0 0 Kndrck p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Baez p Mayrry cf 1 0 0 1 Totals 29 3 3 3 Totals 32 5 9 5 Philadelphia 000 001 020—3 Atlanta 200 003 00x—5 dp—philadelphia 1. Lob—philadelphia 2, atlanta 10. 2b—rollins (7), W.valdez (5), c.jones (13), Hinske (3). Hr—prado (6), Mclouth (3).

H R ER BB SO IP Philadelphia Blanton L,1-2 5 5 2 2 1 5 1 ⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 J.romero 2 ⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 K.Kendrick Baez 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 Bastardo Atlanta 3 3 2 1 6 Jurrjens W,5-0 71⁄3 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Venters H,10 Kimbrel s,9-12 1 0 0 0 1 2 HBp—by Baez (Uggla), by Venters (ruiz). pB— d.ross. t—2:39. a—35,238 (49,586).

Padres 9, Rockies 7

Washington h bi ab r h bi 0 0 Berndn cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 espinos 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 Werth rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 L.Nix lf 4 0 2 0 2 0 adLrc 1b 4 0 0 0 1 1 Bixler pr 0 0 0 0 2 0 Wrams c 3 0 0 0 0 0 HrstnJr 3b 4 0 0 0 1 0 cora ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 LHrndz p 2 0 0 0 slaten p 0 0 0 0 Hrdrgz p 0 0 0 0 stairs ph 1 0 0 0 Kimall p 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 1 6 1 Totals 31 0 4 0 Florida 000 000 100—1 Washington 000 000 000—0 Lob—Florida 6, Washington 7. 2b—dobbs (5), Werth (8). Hr—stanton (7). sb—L.nix (2). cs— H.ramirez (5), Morrison (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Florida asanchez W,3-1 8 3 0 0 2 9 L.nunez s,14-14 1 1 0 0 1 0 Washington Hrnandez L,3-5 7 6 1 1 2 4 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 slaten 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 H.rodriguez Kimball 1 0 0 0 1 1 t—2:35. a—22,497 (41,506).

San Diego Colorado ab r h bi ab r h bi Venale rf 5 0 1 0 Fowler cf 4 1 0 0 Bartlett ss 3 0 1 1 Herrer 2b 5 1 1 0 Headly 3b 2 0 0 0 cGnzlz lf 5 2 2 2 cantu 3b 3 1 0 0 tlwtzk ss 5 0 2 2 Hawpe 1b 5 3 3 2 Helton 1b 3 2 1 1 Maybin cf 4 2 2 0 s.smith rf 4 1 1 0 Ludwck lf 3 1 1 1 Wggntn 3b 4 0 2 1 Kphlps c 3 1 1 1 iannett c 1 0 0 1 rJhnsn c 0 0 0 0 chacin p 2 0 0 0 eptrsn 2b 4 1 1 2 Lndstr p 0 0 0 0 adams p 0 0 0 0 rBtncr p 0 0 0 0 H.Bell p 0 0 0 0 amezg ph 1 0 0 0 Harang p 2 0 0 0 street p 0 0 0 0 Luebke p 0 0 0 0 denorfi ph 1 0 1 1 Grgrsn p 0 0 0 0 alGnzlz 2b1 0 0 0 Totals 36 9 11 8 Totals 34 7 9 7 San Diego 010 000 422—9 Colorado 004 120 000—7 e—Headley (5), chacin 2 (3). Lob—san diego 5, colorado 6. 2b—Venable (4), Bartlett (3), tulowitzki (8), s.smith (11). Hr—Hawpe (2), c.gonzalez (4), Helton (5). sb—e.patterson (2), denorfia (3), Wigginton (3). s—Bartlett, chacin. sf—Bartlett, Ludwick, iannetta.

IP H R ER BB SO San Diego 9 7 7 4 3 Harang 41⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Luebke 12⁄3 Gregerson 1 0 0 0 0 0 adams W,2-0 1 0 0 0 0 1 H.bell s,9-10 1 0 0 0 0 0 Colorado chacin 6 5 5 3 2 6 Lindstrom H,7 1 1 0 0 0 0 Betancourt 1 3 2 2 0 1 street L,0-1 1 2 2 2 0 0 chacin pitched to 4 batters in the 7th.

Balk—r.Betancourt. t—3:06. a—34,252 (50,490).

Braves 5, Phillies 3

Reds 7, Cardinals 3

National Marlins 1, Nationals 0 Florida

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Philadelphia ab r rollins ss 4 0 Victorn cf 3 0 Bastrd p 0 0 Gload ph 1 0 polanc 3b 3 0 Hward 1b 4 0 BFrncs rf 4 0 ibanez lf 2 1 Valdz 2b 3 1

Atlanta h bi ab 1 1 prado lf 4 0 0 McLoth cf 5 0 0 c.Jones 3b4 0 0 Hinske rf 4 0 0 Kimrel p 0 0 0 Uggla 2b 2 0 0 Fremn 1b 4 0 0 alGnzlz ss 3 1 1 d.ross c 3

r 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1

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St. Louis ab theriot ss 3 rasms cf 3 pujols 1b 4 Hollidy lf 4 Brkmn rf 3 Frnkln p 0 Motte p 0 punto ph 1 YMolin c 4

r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Cincinnati h bi ab 0 0 stubbs cf 4 0 0 Janish ss 4 1 0 Votto 1b 2 1 0 Bphllps 2b 3 0 0 Bruce rf 4 0 0 rolen 3b 4 0 0 JGoms lf 4 0 0 Heisey lf 0 0 0 rHrndz c 3

r 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2

h bi 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 2

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Louis 1, cincinnati 1. Lob—st. Louis 4, cincinnati 7. 2b—Holliday (13), stubbs (6). Hr—Jay (3), B.phillips (5), r.hernandez 2 (5). sb—stubbs (13). s—Janish. sf—B.phillips.

H R ER BB SO IP St. Louis Mcclellan L,5-1 6 7 4 4 3 1 11⁄3 3 2 2 1 0 Franklin 2 ⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 Motte Cincinnati 72⁄3 3 3 0 2 5 cueto W,2-0 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 ondrusek H,4 cordero 1 0 0 0 0 0 Wp—Motte. t—2:32. a—41,307 (42,319).

Misch p 0 0 0 0 Michals ph 1 0 0 0 pridie ph 1 1 1 0 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 3 7 3 Totals 37 7 13 7 New York 001 100 001—3 400 002 10x—7 Houston e—Quintero (4). Lob—New York 8, Houston 10.

2b—Jos.reyes (13), F.martinez (1), pridie (5), Wallace 2 (11). 3b—Bourn (2). Hr—dan.murphy (3), ca.lee (4), Hall (2), M.downs (2). sb—d.wright (9).

IP H R ER BB SO New York dickey L,1-5 51⁄3 11 6 6 0 2 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 o’connor 2 1 1 2 2 igarashi 12⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Misch Houston Happ W,3-4 6 5 2 2 3 4 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 abad 11⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 W.Lopez Melancon 1 2 1 1 0 1 HBp—by o’connor (Barmes), by Misch (Bogusevic). Wp—Happ. t—2:48. a—31,140 (40,963).

Brewers 8, Pirates 2

Diamondbacks 1, Dodgers 0

Milwaukee Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h bi aMcct cf 5 0 2 0 Weeks 2b 5 1 1 0 tabata lf 2 0 0 1 counsll ss 4 1 1 1 Walker 2b 4 0 1 0 Braun lf 4 2 1 1 doumit c 4 0 0 0 Fielder 1b 4 2 2 2 4 0 1 0 McGeh 3b 5 0 2 2 diaz rf Veras p 0 0 0 0 Kotsay rf 4 0 2 0 ascanio p 0 0 0 0 BBoggs cf 2 1 1 1 Jones ph 0 0 0 0 Lucroy c 4 0 1 1 overay 1b 5 1 1 1 Narvsn p 2 0 0 0 alvrez 3b 4 0 1 0 Hwkns p 0 0 0 0 cdeno ss 2 1 1 0 c.Hart ph 2 1 1 0 Karstns p 1 0 1 0 stetter p 0 0 0 0 pearce ph 1 0 0 0 Loe p 0 0 0 0 dMcct p 0 0 0 0 Mcclnd p 0 0 0 0 Beimel p 0 0 0 0 paul rf 1 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 8 2 Totals 36 8 12 8 Pittsburgh 000 010 010—2 Milwaukee 000 200 51x—8 e—alvarez (6), counsell (1). dp—pittsburgh 1, Milwaukee 1. Lob—pittsburgh 13, Milwaukee 9.

2b—a.mccutchen (7), alvarez (6), counsell (1), Mcgehee (10), Kotsay (3), c.hart (4). Hr—overbay (3), Braun (11), Fielder (9), B.boggs (2). sb—Kotsay (1). s—Karstens, counsell. sf—tabata.

IP H R ER BB SO Pittsburgh Karstens L,2-2 5 5 2 2 1 5 d.Mccutchen 1 3 2 1 1 0 Beimel 0 1 3 1 1 0 Veras 1 2 0 0 1 2 ascanio 1 1 1 1 0 0 Milwaukee Narveson W,2-3 6 4 1 1 4 5 Hawkins H,3 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 ⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 stetter 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Loe Mcclendon 1 1 0 0 1 0 d.Mccutchen pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.

Beimel pitched to 3 batters in the 7th.

Wp—Narveson, Loe, Mcclendon. t—3:21. a—42,422 (41,900).

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Astros 7, Mets 3 New York ab Josrys ss 5 turner 2b 5 Wrght 3b 3 Bay lf 1 rpauln c 4 dnMrp 1b 4 Hairstn cf 3 Harris ph 1 FMrtnz rf 4 dickey p 2 oconnr p 0 Hu ph 1 igarash p 0

r 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Houston h bi ab 2 1 Bourn cf 4 1 1 Barmes ss 4 0 0 pence rf 5 0 0 ca.Lee lf 4 0 0 Bogsvc lf 0 1 1 Wallac 1b 4 1 0 cJhnsn 3b 4 0 0 Hall 2b 4 1 0 Quinter c 4 0 0 Happ p 2 0 0 Mdwns ph 1 0 0 abad p 0 0 0 WLopez p 0

r 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0

h bi 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0

Los Angeles h bi ab r h bi 0 0 carroll ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 Miles 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 ethier rf 3 0 0 0 1 0 Kemp cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 Uribe 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 Loney 1b 3 0 2 0 0 0 GwynJ lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 Barajs c 2 0 0 0 0 0 sands lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 Navarr ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 Mitchll 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 Blngsly p 2 0 1 0 0 0 Gions ph 1 0 0 0 Jansen p 0 0 0 0 Totals 27 1 1 1 Totals 29 0 4 0 Arizona 010 000 000—1 Los Angeles 000 000 000—0 e—Billingsley (1). dp—arizona 1. Lob—arizona 2, Los angeles 4. 2b—s.drew (9), Loney (2), Billingsley (2). s—Barajas. sf—Mora.

IP H R ER BB SO Arizona collmnter W,2-0 6 2 0 0 0 3 Heilman H,1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Hernandez H,4 1 1 0 0 0 1 putz s,8-8 1 1 0 0 1 1 Los Angeles Billingsley L,2-3 8 1 1 0 2 8 Jansen 1 0 0 0 0 2 t—2:32. a—30,602 (56,000). r 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Giants 3, Cubs 0, 6 innings, San Francisco Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi rownd cf 3 1 1 0 Fukdm rf 3 0 0 0 snchz 2b 3 1 1 0 Barney 2b 3 0 2 0 Huff 1b 3 0 0 0 scastro ss 3 0 2 0 posey c 2 0 1 1 c.pena 1b 2 0 0 0 c.ross rf 2 0 0 0 Byrd cf 3 0 1 0 Burrell lf 3 0 1 0 asorin lf 3 0 1 0 schrhlt rf 0 0 0 0 deWitt 3b 3 0 1 0 drosa 3b 3 0 0 0 K.Hill c 3 0 0 0 tejada ss 3 0 0 0 ddavis p 1 0 0 0 Vglsng p 3 1 1 0 rJhnsn ph 1 0 0 0 smrdzj p 0 0 0 0 Totals 25 3 5 1 Totals 25 0 7 0 San Fran 102 000 0—3 Chicago 000 000 x—0 e—tejada 2 (7), K.hill 2 (3), dewitt (3). dp—san Francisco 2. Lob—san Francisco 6, chicago 8.

2b—rowand (11), F.sanchez (8).

IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco Vogelsong W,3-0 6 7 0 0 1 7 Chicago d.davis L,0-1 5 4 3 1 1 6 samardzija 1 1 0 0 1 1 t—2:11 (rain delay: 0:40). a—39,706 (41,159).

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Jon Morris gets a kiss from his service dog, Muggs, who was trained by the Puppies Behind Bars organization. Muggs is helping Morris escape from his own prison of post-traumatic stress disorder.

A service dog named Muggs helps Jon Morris navigate the perilous world of an Iraq war veteran with PTSD When he’s got the blue vest on, Muggs knows that he’s working.

BY KATIE SCARVEY kscarvey@salisburypost.com

t’s not surprising that Jon Morris has nightmares.

An Army Ranger in Central America in the 1980s, he rejoined the military after an 18-year break because he felt compelled to serve in Iraq.

And that’s where he ended up, in a town called Anah in the Anbar province.

What happened there is the source of his nightmares.

The police chief of the town had been beheaded by the Islamic Army of Iraq, his head mounted on a stick as a warning from the extremist faction that was controlling the town with strict Taliban rule. Women could not be outside without the veil, and men could be arrested for simply smoking outside.

Jon, who was a staff sergeant and squad leader, says he “came in with an iron fist” in order to restore order and clean up the town — which did not sit well with the extremists.

He was so successful at his mission that a bounty was put on his head by the Islamic Army of Iran, suggesting he would meet the same fate the police chief had suffered.

On March 3, 2007, Jon and some of his men had set up an observation post. After about three hours, they decided there was nothing going on, so they went back into the street.

They were met immediately with heavy machine gun fire. Jon, the only Ranger there, was out in front.

“Rangers lead the way,” he says.

Jon was hit three times, but his armor prevented the bullets from wounding him. The impact, however, knocked him to the ground and caused serious injury to his back. He later discovered he’d broken four vertebrae and blown out two discs, he says.

But it wasn’t over yet.

A rocket-propelled grenade landed behind him, and the resulting explosion knocked him unconscious, causing a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Although he remained for a few months in a less active role, Jon ultimately returned home, severely disabled.

Like the other Puppies Behind Bars dogs, Muggs was raised in a prison, socialized by an inmate and trained to perform about 100 service dog commands, including protective measures like “watch my back.”

Jon jokes that while Muggs knows 100 tricks, he only knows 35.

Although Jon has had Muggs for just a month or so, the dog has already made a big difference in his life.

“It’s given me a ton more security, just knowing he’s there,” Jon says.

“He sleeps beside my bed.”

If Jon has a nightmare, Muggs will wake him up.

If someone is at the door, Muggs alerts Jon. He will go into a house before Jon does to turn on the lights and make sure the house is clear. If someone is there, he’ll bark to alert Jon. Jon can deal with crowds much better with Muggs there to ease his fears. If there are too many people around, or if someone approaching is making him nervous, Muggs will block for Jon, unobtrusively inserting his body between Jon and whatever is making him nervous.

“He’ll watch my back,” Jon says, “and nudge me if somebody comes up.”

Leondra notes that Muggs helps her husband deal with a condition called “hypervigilance.” Because Jon is confident that Muggs is on duty, Jon can let his guard down, knowing that his service dog is be-

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His experience changed him.

Of course there are the physical challenges he’s left with, including having to walk with crutches, visual impairment because of an aneurism and issues with memory and cognitive function because of the TBI. The challenges are emotional as well.

Jon may have left Iraq, but Iraq hasn’t left him. He can’t forget the ambush that changed his life or the price he can’t help but believe still remains on his head. It’s difficult for him to relax, especially when away from his home. The sense of personal security that most of us take for granted has been stripped from him.

He was prone to nightmares, and being in crowds was excruciating for him. Such feelings are commong among those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Even a trip to Wal-Mart or Food Lion was an occasion for anxiety.

“Security is a big issue for me,” he says.

“I don’t like being in a big crowd of people. It reminds me there could be someone with a suicide vest.”

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Now, however, Jon has a new ally in his fight to regain a normal life.

Through a program called Puppies Behind Bars, Jon has been given Muggs, a black labrador retriever specially trained to help him deal with his post-traumatic stress disorder and his traumatic brain injury.

A VA psychiatrist treating Jon for PTSD recommended that Jon apply for a dog through the program.

A year and a half later, in April of this year, Jon and his wife, Leondra, went to Denver to pick up Muggs and go through two weeks of training and bonding with him. Muggs is the first Puppies Behind Bars dog to be placed in North Carolina, Jon says.

Founded in 1997 by Gloria Gilbert Stoga, Puppies Behind Bars began with the help of inmates at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. The program has grown, and now six different facilities participate.

Inmates help train dogs to become explosive detection dogs or service dogs for wounded veterans.

Jon’s dog comes from the program’s Dog Tags initiative, which was launched in 2006.

A 2007 photograph shows Staff Sergeant Jon Morris, an Army Ranger, with Iraqi allies as they are trained by the US Military to operate as a security force.

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LEASH FROM 1E ing vigilant on his behalf.

“He’s not cured,” says Leondra, referring to her husband’s PTSD — but navigating the world isn’t as tough for Jon as it used to be.

If there is an emergency, Muggs knows how to call 911 on a special phone by knocking the receiver off the hook and pushing a large button with his nose, Jon says. He can also retrieve Jon’s cane crutches if they fall.

When Muggs is on duty, he wears a vest that identifies him as a service dog.

That helps Jon when he’s out in public, but the vest is also a signal to Muggs that he’s on duty. When the vest comes off, Muggs turns into a regular dog, approaching visitors to the home for affection and begging to play outside.

Those recreational times, when Jon and Muggs can

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Jon may have left Iraq, but Iraq hasn’t left him. He still can’t forget the ambush that changed his life or that there’s a price on his head... The sense of personal security that most of us take for granted has been stripped from him. simply have fun together, are also therapeutic.

“He gives me a reason to go outside,” Jon says.

But when the vest is on, Jon says, Muggs is “all business.”

Muggs accompanies Jon and Leondra to Woodleaf Baptist Church, which has been incredibly supportive of him, John says.

Not only has the congregation built a ramp at Jon’s home, they’ve also welcomed Muggs into the sanctuary for services.

Although they were born and raised in Rowan County, Jon and Leondra had been living in Minnesota since 1997. They moved back to

Rowan County about five months ago.

They live in a rural part of the county, on a site set well off the road — an intentional choice given Jon’s PTSD. In spite of all he’s been through, Jon misses being in the military and says if it were possible, he’d be in Afghanistan working as a private contracter.

For now, though, he’s happy to be back among family and old friends — and a furry new one who’s always got his back.

For more information about the Puppies Behind Bars program, go to www.puppiesbehindbars.org.

Jon Morris gets some assistance from his service dog, Muggs. Morris, a medically discharged army Ranger, suffers from physical disabilities and post traumatic stress disorder.

Muggs enjoy some time ‘off duty’ time with Leondra Morris.

Fiance’s criminal history worries friend Shoe exhibit honors violence victims Dear Amy: A friend recently got engaged. We’re all happy for her because she had a bad divorce several years ago. We’re in our later middle age.

She and her fiance reconnected through a social networking site. He is a former classmate and lived on the opposite coast.

He recently moved across the country to be with her and has been chronically unemployed.

She is the sweetest and most trusting person I know, and ASK all of her AMY friends feel protective of her.

Something made me look into his background, and I found a mug shot as well as an arrest for “aggravated stalking after an injunction.”

He also had to wear a home monitor.

It could all be explained, I suppose, but there is a part of me that just has “that feeling.”

Do I just leave it alone, as she may already know, or somehow mention it?

It’s a sticky situation.

— Dilemma

you look into this man’s background. We all have instincts that help to keep us safe, but many of us ignore them. If you are operating on more than a gut feeling, tell her.

Give her all of the information you have — including the links, etc., you used to track down this information.

Tell her that from now on this is her business and that you don’t intend to dig further.

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Dear Amy: I am trying to settle a conflict between an ex-lover and myself.

I am 25 years older than she.

She claims she is pregnant with my child.

That may be true, and I am OK with that until a DNA test can be done.

I do not have a problem in providing support to her — both financially and also being a part-time father to the child. However, she does not want me to tell her parents or anyone else that I am the father.

She claims she is too embarrassed to let her parents know and wants to tell them that the father “just took off” and left her.

I cannot live this lie.

What would I tell the child as he/she got older — “I’m Dear Dilemma: Aggravat- your dad, but please don’t ed stalking is a charge lev- tell your grandparents?” eled after a threat of vioI refuse to offer any lence and constitutes a nec- support until she can admit essary disclosure. to her parents that I am the Prepare yourself for this father of her child and I encounter, and assume that am free to tell anyone that she will not be happy to I am a “proud father.” hear it. She may blame you Am I asking too much?

— Frustrated in Orefor bringing this to her atgon tention.

However, you should be Dear Frustrated: First completely honest with things first: DNA test, folher. Don’t make excuses lowed by the truth. for or sugarcoat your own You can assume that choice. your ex is panicking. Don’t You don’t say what the “something” was that made take her bizarre plan too

seriously.

Give her some time to figure out how she feels and what she intends to do.

If you are this baby’s father, then you have every right to disclose this news to whomever you wish.

I applaud your willingness to step up, financially and otherwise, which makes me wonder if you might be the best parent to raise this child. You sound more mature and perhaps better prepared than the child’s mother. She might do better as the “part-time” parent.

• • • Dear Amy: In response to the “Taxed Teacher,” who didn’t want to spend lunch with a complaining colleague, in my building, our “lunch crew” has a policy that if you want to air a workplace complaint, you must first put a dollar in a jar at the table.

You then get a maximum of five minutes to air your grievance, and then we move on to more jovial topics. We use all the collected money at the end of the school year to cater lunch for our group the last day of classes. It has worked wonders for us the past 14 years!

— Relaxed Teacher Dear Relaxed: This is just about the best idea I have ever heard. Thank you for passing it along.

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The Family Crisis Council of Rowan and the GFWC-NC Spencer Woman’s Club are co-sponsoring a showing of the 2011 North Carolina Purple Shoe Exhibit, a moving statewide memorial, now until the end May at the Spencer Library, 300 Fourth Street in Spencer. Purple is the signature color for domestic violence awareness programs.

The current exhibit features pairs of purple shoes, each representing a woman, child, or man killed in North Carolina during 2011 as a result of domestic violence.

These homicides span the state – from as far east as Wilmington and across the state to Cherokee County. Domestic violence homicide victims are often killed after years of abuse and threats from the perpetrators. Each pair of shoes is accompanied by a card listing names, date of death, location, mode of death and the relationship between perpetrator and victim. The exhibit is enhanced by a notebook containing lists of such homicides dating

Old Salem Festival WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – To commemorate the visit of the first president to Salem in May 1791, George Washington will interact with visitors at the popular historic community of Old Salem Museum and Gardens. Actually, today’s George is Dean Malissa, an actor and the only person who

back to 2002 and a display of mug shots of perpetrators with information similar to that accompanying the shoes.

The original Purple Shoe Memorial was created in 2003 by the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program as a way to raise public awareness about domestic violence.

The North Carolina exhibit was assembled by the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, with the assistance of members of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of North Carolina, who collected purple shoes for three years. To better serve the state, the collection was divided into two sets and placed in the custody of the Family Violence Coalition of Yancey County and Safe Space of Franklin County.

The local exhibit is assembled from the Yancey County set.

A temporary version of the exhibit was featured at the Family Crisis Council’s “Pajama Party” fundraiser April 29 at High Rock Church on Jake Alexander Blvd..

The (International) GFWC Signature Project Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention (DVAP) Chairman Beverly Wolfe Lassiter, who grew up in Salisbury and now lives in Charlotte, recently announced the launching of the GFWC Success for Survivors Scholarship and the new GFWC DVAP Fund. In June of 2012, when the state organization hosts the International Convention in Charlotte, GFWC will present eight (8) individual domestic violence survivors with a $1,000 scholarship each to use towards the beginning of a new or continued education. GFWC-NC District III recently made a donation to this new scholarship in honor of Alane Mills of Spencer, current GFWC-NC District III Domestic Violence Awareness Chairman and past president of the Spencer Woman’s Club.

Please contact Family Violence Coalition of Yancey County at 828-678-3436 or Safe Space of Franklin County at 919-497-5599 for rental of the Purple Shoe Exhibit.

portrays the war hero and statesman at Mount Vernon .

The visit is part of the Old Salem Spring Festival, will runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on May 21. Besides Washington’s appearance, adults and children can take part in a number of hands-on activities and demonstrations. Admission is $21 and $10 for chil-

dren 6 to 16.

Old Salem is at 900 Old Salem Road. For more information about the event, call 336-721-7350 or visit www.oldsalem.org.

Old Salem is a 100-acre former Moravian community whose 18th and 19th century buildings have been accurately restored.

Send us your favorite summer recipes In June, the Post plans to publish a special food section, celebrating summer food.

We would love for readers to share their favorite recipes involving: • grilling • fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables • summer beverages • summer sweets and desserts Please e-mail your submissions as soon as possible, but no later than Friday, June 10, to lifestyle@salisburypost.com.

Please include your name, address, and daytime phone num-

ber.

E-mailed submissions are preferred, but you may also mail your submissions to: Salisbury Post Food editor P.O. Box 4639 Salisbury, NC 28145 If you’d like to write a column or personal reminiscence about summer food memories, we welcome those submissions as well.

Submissions will be published at our discretion.

If you have questions, please call 704-797-4270 or email lifestyle@salisburypost.com.

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ENGAGEMENTS Moore - Sutton

Mark and Micha Moore of Leesburg, Va., announce the engagement of their daughter, Whitney Erin Moore, to Nathaniel Webb Sutton, son of Hal Sutton and Melanie Taylor of Salisbury, N.C. Ms. Moore is a graduate of West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science in Child Development. She will be entering Shenandoah University’s School of Nursing in the fall.

Mr. Sutton is a military police officer currently assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry regiment, “The Old Guard,” the Army’s premier ceremonial unit and escort to the President of the United States.

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Tara LaTrisha Neely of East Spencer graduated from Liberty University May 14, 2011, with a Master of Arts degree in Human Services with specialization in Health and Wellness.

A 1999 graduate of North Rowan High School, she received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Catawba College. Tara is the owner/operator of Intrinsic Shoes.

Tara is the daughter of James and Wylene Neely, the mother of Alexis Neely and the granddaughter of Lawson and Carnell Garrison, all of East Spencer. She is the sister of Wanda Neely and Erick Neely and the aunt of Tiras Neely and Jasper Neely, all of East Spencer.

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Nathaniel Pierce “Nate” Leonard of Kannapolis graduated from Samford University Beeson School of Divinity May 4, 2011, with a Doctor of Ministry degree in Spiritual Leadership.

A 1996 graduate of Salisbury High School, Nate received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Human Resource Development from North Carolina State University in 2000. He received his Lane and Traci Bost of Faith announce the engagement of their Master of Divinity degree in 2004 from daughter, Natalie Grace Bost, to Anthony Joseph “A.J.” Spinella of Campbell University, graduating magna Rockwell. cum laude.

Natalie is the Nate is the minister of youth and colof granddaughter lege ages at First Baptist Church in Oscar and Daisy Bost Kannapolis. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. of Faith and Jerry and Bill Leonard of Salisbury and the grandson Elizabeth Kluttz of of Mrs. Barbara and the late Bill Leonard Salisbury. A 2007 Sr., and Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Wigginton. graduate of East Nate is married to Suellen Leonard Rowan High School, and has two sons, Pierce and Creed.

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A.J. is the son of Billy Spinella of Chesapeake, Va., and Sebastian and Carol Ranno of Kill Devil Hills and the grandson of Elaine and the late William “Leo” Hewitt of Chesapeake, Va., and the late Joseph Spinella Jr. and Ellen Spinella. A 2005 graduate of Hickory High School, he is employed by Rockwell Elementary School.

The couple will marry June 4 at Faith Lutheran Church in Faith.

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Carlos and Ginger Gutierrez of Greensboro announce the engagement of their daughter, Cory Eva Gutierrez, to Brandon Bettis, son of Patricia and Bobby Bettis of China Grove.

Cory graduated in May from Appalachian State University with a degree in elementary education. A 2010 graduate of ASU, Brandon is a project manager for Sandusky Construction Co. The couple will marry June 4 at The Log Barn in Gold Hill.

Report all your exciting news to the community on the Salisbury Post’s Celebrations page, which runs in our Sunday paper. These announcements include engagements, weddings, anniversaries, births, multiple generations, retirements, adoptions, congratulations, graduations, special birthday celebrations and pageant winners.

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Samuel Vincent Greene, 16, of Boy Scout Troop 448, is receiving his Eagle Scout award today, May 15, 2011, at Coburn United Methodist Church. The award is being presented by Jack Kepley. The Scoutmaster of Troop 448 is Alfred Wilson.

A 10-grader at Salisbury High School, Samuel has earned 21 merit badges and was inducted into Order of the Arrow. He has also successfully completed Philmont Scout Camp.

For his Eagle Scout project, Samuel and his brother designed and built Norvell Theater Pocket Park, including erecting a brick wall and putting in landscaping.

He is the son of Bill and Cora Greene of Salisbury.

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BIRTHS Hunter Lingle A son, Hunter Scott, was born to Kimberly Dry and Scott Lingle of Salisbury on April 18, 2011, at Stanly Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce. Grandparents are Tammy Myers of Gold Hill and the late Timothy Lee Dry, Kathi Lingle and David Lingle, both of Salisbury. Great-grandparents are Floyd Wilson of Richfield, Bobby and Agnes Dry of Gold Hill and Catherine Ketner of Salisbury.

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Justin Micheal Faggart of Chicago, Ill., is graduating May 15, 2011, from the DePaul College of Law with a Juris Doctor. The ceremony is being held at the Civic Opera House in Chicago.

Justin was a recipient of a Merit Scholarship and a member of Phi Alpha Delta fraternity.

A graduate of Salisbury High School and an Eagle Scout, he received a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Appalachian State University in 2008.

Justin is the son of Mike and Regina Faggart of Salisbury and the grandson of a very special grandmother, Juanita K. Grubb of Salisbury. He plans to return to North Carolina to pursue his career.

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Nicholas Robert Greene, 14, of Boy Scout Troop 448, is receiving his Eagle Scout award today, May 15, 2011, at Coburn United Methodist Church. Jack Kepley will present the award.

Alfred Wilson is Scoutmaster of Troop 448.

Nicholas has earned 21 merit badges and has successfully completed Philmont Scout Ranch.

A 9th-grader at Salisbury High School, Nicholas completed the landscaping and stone work for the Norvell Theater Pocket Park as part of his Eagle project.

He is the son of Bill and Cora R128999 Greene of Salisbury.

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Chace Lee Lyerly of Salisbury graduated from North Carolina State University May 14, 2011, with Bachelor of Science degrees in Business Management (with concentration in Finance) and Communications (with concentration in Media).

A 2005 graduate of East Rowan High School, Chace has accepted a management position with General Nutrition Center in Greensboro.

He is the son of Junior and Kathy Lyerly of Salisbury.

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A son, Christopher Jackson, was born to Erin E. Schenk and Scott Hardee of Kannapolis on April 22, 2011, at Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces.

Grandparents are Steve and Carla Schenk of Salisbury, Buddy and Dianne Artz of Faith and Richard and Mary Hardee of West End. Great-grandparents are Doug and Judy Schenk of Spencer and Jack and Ann Artz of Faith. Great-great-grandparent is Pauline B. Correll of Salisbury.

Evan Shuff A son, Evan Alexander, was born to Kevin and Karen LaRue Shuff of Salisbury on May 11, 2011, at Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces. He has a sister, Tiffany Rogers. Grandparents are Carl and Etana Hardie of Ottawa, Ill., Sidney Thompson of Man, W.Va. and Virginia F. Shuff of Gold Hill. Great-grandparent is Edith Thompson of Man, W.Va.

Michael Taylor A son, Michael Chase, was born to Carey and Lisa Taylor of Rockwell on April 28, 2011, at Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast. He weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces. He has a brother, Dylan, 13, and three sisters, Hayli, 2, Samantha, 24, and Charli, 19. Grandparents are Charles and Diane Taylor, Mike and Debbie Hill and Michael and Sherry Gobble, all of Salisbury. Great-grandparents are Ruth Parris and Carolyn Massey, both of Salisbury and John Gobble of Denton.

Tristan Lamica A son, Tristan Joseph, was born to Lisa Silverstein and Brad Lamica of Salisbury on April 24, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces. He has a brother, Timothy, 11, and two sisters, Taylor, 6, and Trinity, 6. Grandparents are Marilyn Peterson, Roy Martinez and Mike Peterson, all of Salisbury and David and Bonnie Paradise of Plattsburgh, N.Y. Great-grandparents are Beverly Paidosz and Edmund Paidosz of N. Ft. Myers, Fla., Sharlene Peterson of Lavonia, Mich. and Warren and Carmen Patterson of Chateaugay, N.Y.

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Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim named distinguished alumna

“Literacy: Adventure of a Lifetime” was the focus of the program presented by Bonnie Johnson, recipient of the Woman’s Club’s Lillian Peeler Scholarship at RCCC. Johnson, who has chosen nursing as a second career, explained details of the program and expressed appreciation for the scholarship.

Ann Bingham led devotions.

SaLeM aCadeMy aNd CoLLeGe Angelia Bates, president, conRachel oestreicher Bernheim, center, is flanked by Salem ducted the business session academy and College President dr. Susan Pauly, left, and which included a report by Linda Jones.

Salem academy Headmaster Karl Sjolund.

Hostesses Barbara Lloyd and Angela Bates decorated the taButler, presented by last ‘Little Miss Perfect’ bles. Trinity Oaks catered the Olivia Elizabeth Kyles, age 9, luncheon meal. year’s woman of the year, won the “Little Miss Karen Smith.

Mrs. Butler is the oldest Perfect”pageant at Myrtle Faith School reunion member of Beta Sigma Phi Beach on Easter week-end, a FAITH — Jackie Maloney, in the Salisbury chapter at show that is featured on WEage 94. She received a TV. She also won most photo- principal of Faith Elementary, woman of the year pin, yel- genic, best dressed, prettiest recently hosted the first Faith School Reunion. The school, low roses and a girl of the eyes and smile.

Kyles is an honor roll stu- which was established on the year trophy.

Gail Young was recognized dent at Granite Quarry Ele- current site in 1928, has grown by the chapter’s city council mentary school and was re- through the years as a comcently a monkey in the pro- munity school. Local civic oras woman of the year.

New city council officers duction of “The Jungle Book” ganizations (Faith Americian are: president Millie Campbell, at the Norvell Theater. She is Legion, the Faith American vice president Linda Tutterow, also a student at Donna’s Legion Auxiliary, the Faith Jaycees, Faith Civitans) conrecording secretary Penny tinue to support it with donaRice, corresponding secretions and contributions. tary Peggy Coxie, treasurer Around one hundred forD. Anne Simerson. mer students attended the reThe Iota Psi chapter of Beta Sigma installed new officers for the year 2011-12 at a ceremony at the Meadows in Rockwell following an ice cream social with the residents.

New officers are: president Gail Young, vice president Brittiny Gilbert, treasurer Vicki Lippard, corresponding secretary Gladys Joyce, recording secretary Fawn Sallee, city council representative D. Anne Simerson, alternate representative Brenda Gobble.

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union which was held in the Faith School cafeteria. Marcelle Williams was the oldest former student present. He finished his Faith School days in 1934 and just turned 90 years old.

Zarah Gardner, who finished at Faith School in 1935, was the next to oldest former student present. Former principals Frank Feeney and Bob Shive also attended the reunion.

Two families that attended had three generations present: Paula Deal Hill, her son Scott and his daughters Miranda and Meghan as well as Sherry Gantt Eagle, her son Scott and his son Dylan.

The youngest Faith School former student present was Meghan Hill who finished in 2007.

A copy of the school’s history was given out and the stu-

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Jackie Maloney, Gloria Wilhelm, Zarah Hollar Gardner,Ginger Williams Smith, Frank Feeney, Bob Shive, Sue McCombs Teague, Cindy Nance and Nancy Lequire attended the first Faith School Reunion.

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The Salisbury-Rowan chapters of Beta Sigma Phi sorority celebrated its 80th Founders Day with a banquet at the Harold B. Jarrett Post on Lincolnton Road.

The Lambda Master chapter held a yellow rose and candlelight ceremony in remembrance of Brenda Foil, who passed away March 16.

The new theme for the 2011-12 year was announced as “Building Our Future on Tradition.”

D. Anne Simerson received the International Founders award for her work on the Concord convention.

Woman of the year awards for each chapter were: Lambda Master - Loretta Burleyson, Xi Delta Chi Penny Rice, Xi Alpha Delta Dottie Setzer, Iota Psi - Gerri

Woman’s Club meets

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dancers studio owned by Donna Weinhold Cesario.

She will represent North and South Carolina in the national pageant in Orlando, Fla. in February 2012.

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WINSTON-SALEM — Salisbury native Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim recently received the distinguished alumna award from Salem Academy.

The distinguished alumna award recognizes outstanding service and achievement by an alumna either in her community and volunteer service and/or professional career and achievements.

Bernheim, who graduated from Salem Academy in 1961, went on to attend Sarah Lawrence College. During her career, she spoke before Congress and the United Nations on behalf of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee, a non-profit dedicated to preserving the legacy of Holocaust humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg.

Her philanthropic efforts include serving on the board of the American Symphony Orchestra, the American Division of Peace Board, and as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Club/Lotus Club.

She also continues the tradition of giving the yearly Oestreicher grant to Rowan Regional Medical Center, maintaining her family’s legacy of support for the hospital.

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The world’s oldest continuous hang-gliding competition, the 39th Annual Hang Gliding Spectacular, will be held May 20-23 on and around Jockey’s Ridge State Park.

Old Salem Spring Fest WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – George Washington slept here. Really. And he’ll show up again on May 21.

To commemorate the visit of the first president to Salem in May 1791, President Washington will interact with visitors at the popular historic community of Old Salem Museum and Gardens. Actually, today’s George is Dean Malissa, an actor and the only person who portrays the war hero and statesman at Mount Ver-

Park. Professionals from across the globe compete.

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Jockey’s Ridge is the highest sand dune on the U.S. East Coast.

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p A pesky squirrel hangs upside down by his hind legs while stealing food from a suet birdfeeder. u An Eastern Bluebird sits in the entrance of a bluebird house. q An American Robin stops and looks toward the camera.

Photos by Wayne Hinshaw, for the Salisbury Post

An Eastern Bluebird stops to rest on a rusty metal fence post.

BY WAYNE HINSHAW for the Salisbury Post

To pass the time away on a slow spring day, nothing can be better than sitting on the porch with camera and long telephoto lens in hand and making photos of the critters that come calling in my yard. The birds come in search of an easy meal at my bird feeders while the pesky squirrels do their very best to eat all the birdseed before the birds can feed. The squirrels bully the birds away from the feeders by hanging upside down from the maple limbs while eating or jumping from limb to limb to get to the feast in the feeder. The squirrels watch me to be sure it’s safe then they go about eating with one eye always on the camera.

A few birds like the American Robin and the Brown Thrasher come around the

feeder but remain on the ground. They like to feed near the other birds, but they don't care for the seeds in the feeder. Why eat seeds when lush worms and grubs are available in the grass under the feeder?

To photograph the Eastern Bluebird I had to hide under the limbs of a peach tree and match wits with the bird. Bluebirds just don’t like me being near. The bluebird flew back and forth overhead but would not go to the birdhouse until I hid under a peach tree. While hiding under the tree, two wild rabbits came bouncing across the yard. They hopped within 5 feet of where I was hiding, then stopped and looked at me. They were as surprised as I was. We stared at each other for a minute or so, then the rabbit hopped away. I didn’t even get a photo of the rabbit. I only had a long telephoto lens with me, which was much too long to focus on the rabbit.

A male House Finch eats thistle seeds from a birdfeeder.