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School board set to look into capital expenditures BY KATHY CHAFFIN

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The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will discuss the school system’s proposed 2010-11 capital outlay budget at its May meeting Monday. The meeting will be held at 5 p.m. in the administrative offices at 110 S. Long St., East Spencer. According to the agenda packet, the school system will receive $3.744 million in sales tax money this year. However, only about $1.2 million will be left for maintenance and upkeep after a $2.27 million 1992 bond payment is made, the Kannapolis City Schools receives its portion of $72,470 and $200,000 is set aside for the county reserve. The proposed budget is 39 percent less than this year’s capital outlay budget of about $3.44 million. Funds received from sales tax this year are just over $1.2 million versus the more than $1.8 million received last year. No major projects are included in the capital outlay budget with the exception of an energy-saving lighting package for seven gymnasi-

The proposed budget gives school officials 39 percent less to work with on maintenance and upkeep than this year.

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Kelly Holloway, with protective garb to ward off germs after arriving home from a stem cell transplant, greets her paralyzed pet ‘Nick.’

Woman has experimental bone marrow transplant that could be possible cure BY SHAVONNE POTTS

that researchers believe is a possible cure for sickle cell disease.

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elly Holloway reaches out for her cat, Jax, a rescued Persian with long cream-colored fur, but she’s not quite able to connect with him. It could be the mask, gloves or the hospital gown she wears over her clothes. Holloway is almost completely covered from head-to-toe. It’s the best way to protect herself and her immune system. Holloway, who grew up in Cleveland, recently underwent a procedure that she hopes will completely cure her of the inherited blood disorder, sickle cell disease. At 6 months old, Holloway was diagnosed with sickle cell, which causes red blood cells to contort and causes them to block blood vessels. “Her blood count was low and the doctors did another test,” said Alice Holloway, Kelly’s mother. That second test confirmed doctors’ suspicions that the infant had sickle cell. Sickle cell is caused by abnormal hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen and gives blood its red color. Normal red blood cells look like doughnuts without holes and move easily through the blood vessels. Sickle cells form a “C” or sickle shape and clump in the blood vessels. In the United States, more than 80,000 people are affected by sickle cell disease, mainly people of African ancestry and to a lesser extent people of Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Asian and white ancestry. Kelly, now in her 40s, is a part of a study at the National Institutes of Health in Betheseda, Md., where she’s received an experimental bone marrow transplant

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Living with sickle cell

As a child, Kelly’s blood count was constantly monitored because sickle cells break up easily and survive for only 10 to 20 days. Normal red blood cells survive 120 days, which can make blood transfusions pretty routine. Transfusions increase the number of normal red blood cells in the body. Kelly was given penicillin frequently since sickle cell disease makes it harder to fight infections because of decreased immune function. “They put so much penicillin in her she became allergic,” Alice said. Kelly could have a common cold one day, bronchitis the next and eventually double pneumonia. She had several bouts of pneumonia as a child. She also had to stay hydrated since blood can thicken and cause blockages in blood vessels when it’s dehydrated. Although Kelly has been affected with the disease her entire life, she’s still led a pretty normal existence. She graduated from West Rowan High and went on to graduate from Livingstone in 1996 with degrees in sociology and business. She has modeled and appeared on the cover of magazines.

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Holloway was one of first in nation to get a half-match stem cell transplant to battle sickle cell disease. dialysis, and without this, toxic wastes build up in her blood and tissues. She also has gallstones, injections in her left eye to stop bleeding and pulmonary arterial hypertension (which is high blood pressure in the lung arteries that make it harder for blood to flow through).

Awaiting a kidney

When cells become hard and pointed like the sickle they’re named for, they often get stuck and block the vessels. This blockage can lead to pain, stroke and damage to major organs. Kelly now needs a kidney transplant. In the meantime, she has daily kidney

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Motorcycle crash victim never met a stranger BY KARISSA MINN

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Those who knew Craig Rufty say he may have been gentle, humble and laid-back, but his big smile and heart spoke louder than words. “He was the kind of person that always had a smile on his face and always made you smile,” said his friend Kimberly Doby. “Even if you knew him for a day, you felt like you had a friend. He was there for anybody.”

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for Christ motorcycle group at High Rock Community Church, which Rufty became a part of five years ago. The group of approximately 50 members is considered a ministry. They talk to people — and each other — about God. “We’ll ride somewhere and fellowship and have dinner together,” Eudy said. “We sit down and we help

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As the Pops at the Post concert continues to grow, the number of tailgaters is increasing each year. This year’s concert is set for Saturday, June 5. To help ensure that everyone continues to have a great time at the concert, new guidelines are in place for tailgating. Fisher Street will be closed from Church Street to the Wrenn House parking lot for vendors, making more room for tailgating in the Post employee and First Bank parking lot. “There were actually people turned away from tailgating last year,” says Ronnie Tomlinson, the chairman of the concert’s board of directors. “We want to keep the event family-friendly,” Tomlinson continued. “As we have more tailgaters, the committee has put some recommendations together for this group.” The recommendations include: • One tent per vehicle. Tents cannot exceed 10 feet by 10 feet, and must stay directly behind vehicles, with no overflow into other parking spaces. • Cars or trucks only. No flatbed trailers or oversized vehicles. • Because of line-of-sight problems last year, all tents and large umbrellas must be taken down before the performance starts, between 7:50 and 8 p.m. • No pets. “People are coming to relax and have fun and salute the military as a community,” Tomlinson says. “That’s where we want to keep the focus.” Personnel from Salisbury Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services will be present for the event. Officers from the Salisbury Police Department will be circulating through the crowd throughout the evening, offering their assistance. A copy of the guidelines will be distributed to concert-goers when they arrive at the Post employee or First Bank parking lot. Volunteers will be on hand to assist people arriving early and answer any questions. Arrivals will begin at 1 p.m. and continue until 7 p.m. or until lots are full.

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Police investigate ‘somewhat suspicious’ death The Salisbury Police Department is investigating the death of a 43-yearold Salisbury woman. Emergency medical personnel were dispatched to 1002 E. Lafayette St. at 10:30 p.m. Friday after receiving a report of a female who was not breathing. Upon arriving at the scene, they found Julia Catherine Drummond, 43, on a bed and she was already dead. Her husband, James Ronald Drummond, was present when police and EMS arrived. According to police, James Drummond reported he had been away from the home for a short while that evening and returned home to find his wife on the bed and not breathing. After a preliminary investigation, detectives were called to the scene. Police said the circumstances of this death appear to be “somewhat suspicious.” The investigation is continuing.

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About 725 students graduated during the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College ceremony at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center

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slavery by his jealous brothers, Joseph is purchased by Potiphar (Kevin Aitken), thrown in jail after Potiphar’s wife (Traci Leak) finds him a little too dreamy, but miraculously, when news of Joseph’s abilities reaches Pharaoh: released from the dungeon. Joseph predicts seven years of feast and seven years of famine and his fame and fortune are made. Joseph’s siblings eventually find themselves groveling at the feet of the brother they betrayed, but they no longer recognize him. Reconciliation is inevitable and everyone, as in all brilliant tales, lives happily ever after. If you’re easily bored with repetitive musical styles, fear not. Prairie ballads, calypso, sock hop rock ’n’ roll, Parisian poets, square dances, and a hilarious Elvis rendition by Pharaoh Skyler Mikkelson will make the time fly by.

Once a week, Miss Polly walked down the hill from her house on Ritchie Road and in through the front door of Koontz Elementary School. The school, built on family land, was literally in her backyard, and she loved its being so close. Inside, Miss Polly would turn right toward the hall of kindergarten classes. She had a lot to carry — the books she had brought with her and animal crackers, one for each student who listened to her stories. The kids, mostly 5year-olds, loved when MARK Polly visited and WINEKA Miss read to them. From the first year the school opened, Miss Polly had volunteered, hardly ever missing a week until she became sick. Even then, when she was going through chemotherapy, she often made the trip from the top of the hill. My wife, Lindsay, taught one of the classes Miss Polly visited. After awhile, her students started a ritual in which Lindsay would fill a colored plastic egg with a treat. After Miss Polly’s stories were finished, and she had passed out her animal crackers, Lindsay would ask the students whether Miss Polly had been “bad” or “good” that particular morning, knowing the kids would always scream “Good!” That answer qualified Miss Polly for the egg and the prize inside. Before she left — and out of the sight of the children — Miss Polly always gave the plastic egg back to Lindsay so she could use it the next week. By the time Mary Shoaf “Polly” Ritchie began reading to Koontz Elementary School children, she already was in her 80s and long retired from the food service department at the Hefner VA Medical Center. Before the VA, she also had worked food service for Rowan Vocational Workshop and in the billing department at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis. Polly and her husband, Herman, had twin daughters, Robin and Ronda, whose marriages led to four grandchildren. You can imagine what those grandchildren meant to Polly. But she always seemed to have room for others. Her faith and activities at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church meant a lot to her. She helped with meals for bereaved families, sent hundreds of cards to people who were battling illnesses, taught children in Sunday School for many years, while also helping with the nursery. Miss Polly served on the call committee bringing the Rev. William S. Ketchie to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 20 years ago. At her funeral March 10, Ketchie talked about a woman with serene assurance, a sweet spirit, sincere faith and a quiet courage against the cancer which claimed her life at 85. “She made regular rounds, almost every day of the week, to several nursing homes, visiting with different people, reading to them and letting them know they were not forgotten and that they were loved,” Ketchie eulogized.

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More than 700 graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on Saturday Right:Tanyia Kiziah earned her high school equivalency while battling epileptic seizures. More than 400 high school equivalency certificates were presented at the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College graduation ceremony at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center.

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Tanyia Kiziah made a promise to her mother when she decided to drop out of high school at the age of 16 — she was to go back to school and earn her high school equivalency. Twenty years later, Tanyia is fulfilling her promise to her mother and to herself. Tanyia, along with 442 other Rowan-Cabarrus Community College students, walked across the Jesse Jones smiles after receiving his diploma in accounting during stage Saturday at the Cabarrus Event Center after earning her

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Piedmont Players puts on inaugural production at new Norvell Theater Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat provides family-friendly fun, entertainment LEN CLARK

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is one of the earliest collaborations between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Based on the Bible’s story of Joseph, this non-stop singing and almost no spoken dialogue show runs about two hours including intermission. It is firmly “G” rated, family-friendly and contains some of the most memorable melodies in musical theatre. Piedmont Players’ inaugural production at the new Norvell Theater does the original full justice; resurrecting a mood many provincial productions forget: this is supposed to be fun. Rusty Fisher as Joseph has energy, affability, a great voice and stage presence. Joseph is his father's favorite son, blessed with the ability to predict the future by interpreting dreams. Sold into

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Many stopped to smell the roses Saturday during the 2010 Rowan Rose Society’s Rose Show. The show, which displays hundreds of roses and arrangements submitted by rose enthusiasts across North Carolina, will continue from 1 to 5 p.m. today. Wesley Seamon, co-chair of the Rowan Rose Society, said this year’s show was a little slim due to the roses blooming early. “But we’ve got a lot of quality roses,” he said. The show was judged by 10 American Rose Society judges, including two artistic judges for the arrangements. Judges came to Salisbury for the show from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Seamon and his wife, Joey, are rose gardeners,

and entered some of their own in the show. “I love roses,” Seamon said. “They are a lot of work, but the payoff is worth it.” Many varieties of roses were entered, including regular sized roses and minis. Some roses have funny names, such as “Play Boy,” “Orange and Lemon” and, “Moonstone.” Arrangements were also entered with a theme of “The Biltmore House.” Arrangements were designed to go in different rooms of the Asheville home. Sara Hill’s arrangement, “Mrs. Vanderbilt’s Bedroom,” won Best in Show, and the Bronze Arrangement Certificate since she grew her own roses. Hill combined Moonstone and Melody Perfume roses in her arrangement. Roses will be sold at the end of the show at $2 for a dozen mini roses and $4 for

a dozen large roses. Also being sold during the show are Rowan Rose Society memberships at half price, only $7.50. A membership includes classes on rose care, and several members are American Rose Society qualified Consulting Rosarians who can help with specific rose problems. The Rowan Rose Society is also giving away a Sunny Knock Out Rose plant, selling raffle tickets for $1 each or six for $5. Admission to the show is free at the Salisbury Civic Center at 315 Martin Luther King Blvd.

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“The dean was telling me examples of stuff I could do,” she said. “I can take tests to find out what kind of career I would like.” Tanyia said she and many others owe a lot of their success to RCCC’s teachers. “I had a wonderful teacher, Judy King,” she said. “She really stood behind me and encouraged me to keep on. She was a really good, supportive teacher.” Cheryl Marsh, dean of the high school equivalency program, said RCCC ranked third in 2010 high school equivalency graduates out of 58 North Carolina community colleges. Marsh said the style of testing they offer their students has a lot to do with the high numbers. “We let students test as they qualify to take the five separate tests,” she said. “They can concentrate on social studies or reading, qualify to take that test, and go take it. Then they can come back and focus on math. “They take a test or two as they qualify.” Marsh said the five tests for reading, social studies, science, math and writing, are usually taken all in one day at other community colleges, in seven and a half hours. “What I find interesting about this particular version of the test, is that when it came out in 2002, and was field tested, the testing service used recent high school graduates to test the test,” she said. “Forty percent of high school graduates couldn’t pass it.” Marsh said the high school equivalency gives graduates an edge over high school graduates. “These graduates have learned reading comprehension skills, problem solving skills and critical thinking skills,” she said. “More often than not, people are tested on content. “With our test, the focus is not so much on memorizing facts, but learning the skills and how to apply those skills. “We don’t just teach them those skills, though. We care about the whole individual. Our instructors do a lot of cheerleading, and do a lot of pushing, too. They are really good advocates for our students, and I’m really proud of them.” During the 47th commence-

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If you’re wondering why it’s taken me until here to mention this is a children’s production, I’d forgotten. This show is as well rehearsed and entertaining as a hundred adult plays I’ve seen. Do not believe for a moment you are going to watch some fellowship hall amateurish recital. From Narrator McClain Miles’ pitch perfect tones way beyond her years, to the brothers, wives, choir and dancers, this is standing ovation material, and that’s exactly what was given on opening night. Ten of the 13 musicians in the orchestra are high school students, and are so good they really need to come out and take a bow at least one night this week. The Norvell Theater is surely Doctor Who’s Tardis. For those non-sci-fiers out there, I swear it’s bigger inside than it is outside. Wonderful design features, state-of-the-art lighting and acoustics, an enormous stage larger than the Meroney’s, 250 very comfortable seats in an auditorium any city would be proud of and not a bad sightline in the house. PPT President Preston Mitchell believed they’d “nailed it,” I totally agree. Scratchings from the Hieroglyphs: In PPT’s 1990 production of

ment ceremony Saturday, Dr. Carol S. Spalding, president of RCCC, welcomed the graduates and their family and friends. “We’re thrilled that you’re here and thrilled that you’ve made it this far,” she said. Dr. R. Scott Ralls, president of the North Carolina Community College System, gave the commencement address, stating that too few adults in North Carolina and across the nation reach the stage RCCC’s graduates were at Saturday graduation. “Statistical trends suggest to us, if you have 100 eighth graders, only 18 of them will reach the point you are at today,” he said. Ralls spoke on the changes the nation has faced in the past several years, noting people have changed with the times. “It’s not about programs, it’s about people,” he said. “Engaged people, engaged students. Engaged faculty, staff and administrators. “Engagement is one of these terms — you know it when you see it and you know it when you don’t. “Being fully engaged is not just the secret to college success, it’s the secret to succeeding in life as well.” Ralls told graduates that success was determined by how they answered the questions, “Who,” “How” and “Why.” He said that when students came into his office, he always asked them what their passion was. “What is it that gives you life,” he said. “My passions eventually became my career. “You all have faced challenges here in college and you all will assumingly face more challenges in your future. You will grow better able to take advantage of that success around the corner.” Ralls said that other than the questions of, “Who,” and “How,” “perhaps the most challenging question we ask in life is ‘Why,’” he said. “You all know that your success that we celebrate today, it’s because you asked the right questions,” Ralls said. “You’ve been engaged in a learning environment. “As you leave this college you’ll discover all of the beauties of this world and advantages that come to engaged learners.” The 2010 class had 725 graduates, with ages ranging from 17 to 65 years old. Nineteen of those graduates received dual degrees. JATD at Hedrick Little Theatre, Dan Mikkelson played one of Joseph’s brothers: before Skyler was even a twinkle in Winnie and Dan’s eyes. Dan also designed the pyramid for both shows. In 1990 PPT could afford only four orchestra musicians and printed $5 coupons on a copy machine to encourage ticket purchases. The program was an 8 1/2 x 14 tri-fold. Rachael Arey and Ann Hubbard built both the 1990 and 2010 narrator’s on-stage bigbook. (It’s THE BIG BOOK, you have to go and see the show). A number of other PPT Vets are repeaters from 20 years ago. Five weeks of rehearsal managing over 60 high-octane students in the cast and production crew of JATD must entitle Director Reid Leonard to some sort of medal. There are so many in the cast and crew who made the opening Norvell Theater show a smash hit it is impossible to name them all. But you know how you can find a commemorative program don’t you? Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at 2:30 p.m. today and at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. There will also be a matinee performance at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The Norvell Theater is located at 131 E. Fisher St. For more information, call the box office at 704633-5471

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He also mentioned the Koontz kindergarten classes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To the young and old alike, Polly was a witness of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal love in action,â&#x20AC;? Ketchie said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each of us would be better people, if we followed in her footsteps.â&#x20AC;? Last summer, my wife retired from teaching, and our garage is still filled with all the stuff from her last RITCHIE classroom. On a recent Saturday morning, she was eating breakfast at Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with friends when Herman Ritchie, eating alone, stopped by her table and paid his respects. It was then Lindsay realized she still had Miss Pollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plastic egg, filled with a treat her kids wanted to give their friend on her next visit, which never came. Back home, Lindsay retrieved the egg from the garage. It was jammed inside with strips of paper â&#x20AC;&#x201D; handwritten notes the kids had fashioned to Miss Polly. Most of them said only one thing: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love you.â&#x20AC;?

all others in between, the Animal Shelter has them all. Adoption fees are $70, a down payment for spay/neuter costs. The voucher can be used at any veterinarianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. Before adopting any animal, individuals must agree to take the pet to a veterinarian for an exam and spaying/neutering. If the animal isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already vaccinated for rabies, the person must agree to begin shots within three business days. Rabies shots can be given

as soon as the pet turns 4 months old. The animal shelter isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t equipped with a medical facility, and cannot administer any procedures or treatment. A worker at the shelter will go over all information and gladly answer questions from those adopting pets. Want to view animals at the shelter? Kennel hours are Monday through Friday from 11 a.mk to 4 p.m.; and Saturdays from 8 to 11 a.m. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday from 8 to 11:30 a.m. To learn more about adopting a pet, call 704-216-7768, or visit the shelter at 1465 Julian Road, Salisbury. You can also visit the shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at www.co.rowan.nc .us/animalshelter/.

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During a visit with her cardiologist, Kelly was referred to the National Institutes of Health, where researchers were doing a study on pulmonary hypertension. Kelly went through a week of testing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told them, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I think I need a stem cell transplant,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? she said, sort of joking. But her casual comment was taken seriously and she was enrolled in a modified blood adult stem-cell transplant regimen study. Bone marrow transplants have been used to treat sickle cell disease for 20 years, but almost all of the 200 cured have been children. The process began with Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Nieda, who had a procedure that stimulates the bone marrow to produce stem cells. The stem cells are collected and the rest of the cells are infused back into the body. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were hoping to get 5,000 cells and they got 15,000,â&#x20AC;? Alice said. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;newâ&#x20AC;? red blood cells from the donor allows the healthy cells to outlast and replace the disease-causing cells. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bone marrow transplant is the only cure that can be offered to treat sickle cell where traditionally a brother or sister is a match,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Courtney Fitzhugh. Fitzhugh co-authored a paper about full-matched stem cell transplantation in sickle cell disease, which appeared in the December 2009 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written a protocol for a half-matched person who can serve as a donor. It took the better part of six months to write the protocol for this study. Johns Hopkins University has conducted similar research, but Kelly is the first and only half-matched recipient at the National Insti-

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tutes of Health. Repeated attempts to contact researchers at Johns Hopkins Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sickle Cell Center for Adults were unsuccessful. The decision to become the first half-matched recipient wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a hard one, Kelly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was all worth it. I would do it again,â&#x20AC;? she said. The trial was conducted in Maryland by National Institutes of Health researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A sibling is usually the best match because it ensures the patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body does not reject the new marrow. In other studies, stem cells donated from parents often are rejected in their new environment. In Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, her younger sister was the half match she needed. Currently, 72 percent of Niedaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood cells have taken over Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can tell what percentage of those cells come from the donor. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to completely replace the recipientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cells,â&#x20AC;? Fitzhugh said. Levels as much as 10 percent could reverse sickle cell disease, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A parent should be a half match to a child and every sibling has a 50 percent chance of being a half match, a 25 percent chance of being a full match and 25 percent chance of not being a match at all,â&#x20AC;? Fitzhugh said. The patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body can reject the cells and the sickle cell can return. What researchers do is give the patient medication and radiation to prevent rejection. A week before the procedure, Kelly was given lowdose chemotherapy and fullbody radiation. After Kelly received a treatment, she had an unexpected side ef-

number of free and reduced applications in each school district. Miller said schools in more affluent areas have an easier time raising money than schools in less affluent areas. As for the approximately $1 million in Public Schools Capital Building Funds normally allotted to the RowanSalisbury School System, he said 2010-11 will be the second year that Gov. Bev Perdue diverts that money to the state budget. Miller said the lottery money given to the Rowan County Board of Commissioners for education goes toward the school systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bond debt. Also on the agenda for Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting is an update on the high school academies and a second reading of the proposed revisions to the code of conduct and technology policies.

ums and one media center to be paid for with a $199,723 federal energy grant from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recovery Act Funds Aid Energy and Promote Green Job Growth.â&#x20AC;? The board will consider bids for the lighting package Monday. Gene Miller, assistant superintendent for operations, said the proposed capital outlay budget calls for the $1.2 million to be used for such projects as roofing, paving, boiler repairs and other maintenance work. The only exception is the $300,000 set aside for matching funds projects, for which schools raise a certain percentage of the cost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some schools have a 50-50 match,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and it goes down from there.â&#x20AC;? Contact Kathy Chaffin at School officials base the required percentage on the 704-797-4249.

has faith that this procedure will be a definite cure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to have faith. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what all the prayers are for â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a cure,â&#x20AC;? she said. Her mother hopes this will be the answer to many othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; prayers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a cure for sickle cell and people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to suffer,â&#x20AC;? Alice said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for people to be aware of sickle cell and know that bone marrow is an option. We are really trying to help improve the lives of patients,â&#x20AC;? Fitzhugh said. It will be years before the treatment is applied on a larger scale, she said. Health care providers

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Warmer temperatures invite more motorcyclists to hit the road in the spring, which is why May has been designated nationally as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. Motorcycles represent about 2 percent of all registered vehicles in North Carolina, but they account for nearly 12 percent of all traffic fatalities, according to a N.C. Department of Transportation press release. Last year alone, there were 151 motorcycle rider fatalities in North Carolina. Last week, the Riders for Christ group at High Rock Community Church lost one of its members to a motorcycle wreck. After saying goodbye to Craig Rufty, of Rockwell, members of the group are now strongly advocating motorcycle safety awareness. “We’ve got a saying — loud pipes save lives, and that’s the reason we have a lot of our pipes on there,” said Terry Eudy, the group’s leader. “But some people just don’t look for bikers out there.” Terry’s wife, Norma Eudy, said many of the bikers have double or triple headlights, and she has suggested that they start blowing their horns at intersections to make sure drivers see them. “It’s not just motorcycles,” Norma said. “(People fail to

look for) cars, too, but it’s more detrimental to a motorcycle when you’re not looking.” Kimberli Doby, another member of Riders for Christ, said several people she’s known have been killed in bike accidents. Without the protection that a car provides, wrecks become much more dangerous. “When you ride a motorcycle... it’s just something you accept as a part of life, unfortunately,” she said. Doby acknowledges that some bikers don’t drive safely. They may not leave enough space, use their turn signals or even pay attention. “I’ve seen a young kid on a motorcycle texting,” she said. There are good drivers and bad drivers using any vehicle, Doby said, but the bikers she knows take the risk seriously. The Riders for Christ group holds a safety meeting before every ride to make sure every member knows the proper hand signals and safety procedures. They drive in a staggered pattern and notify each other of obstacles in the road. Motorcycles need to maintain plenty of space in front of them because they need a longer stopping distance than cars. She said car drivers tend to crowd bikes on the front, back and sides, without realizing that the space is

needed. “When I go into a turn, the bike pushes out, so I need that whole lane,” she said. The Riders for Christ group members urge drivers to look twice when they come up to intersections or other potentially dangerous areas. Whether they are on a bike or in a car, if people are careful and look out for each other, the road will be safer for everyone. “It’s just a matter of respect,” Doby said. “It’s respect for one another and for other people on the road.”

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Department and southeastern counties when Easley was governor. A federal grand jury meeting last week requested documents from the agency related to Holdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employment arrangement. And Holden appeared at the federal courthouse but would not comment about why he was there. The letter in question was not destroyed. In it, Holden, who was ending his term as mayor and who had a $19,800-a-year contract with the Transportation Department, gave Democrat Easley an update on politics in Southport. He said the new crop of elected officials taking over the coastal town were aligned with Republicans and would be relying on Republican state officials for â&#x20AC;&#x153;contacts, legislative issues, and grants.â&#x20AC;? The letter also complained about a Transportation Department engineer who was being difficult to deal with on issues at the exclusive private development Bald Head Island. The letter was sent to the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy secretary and overseer of Holdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contract with a note saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;From Ernie â&#x20AC;&#x201D; advises that

you shred this after reading.â&#x20AC;? Seneca at first denied advising the letter be destroyed then later told the newspaper the letter came from Easleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s press office with explicit instructions to destroy after reading. He said he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have ordered the document shredded unless he was told by someone else. Document destruction has been an issue for the former Easley administration. In 2008, The News & Observer sued Easley over destruction of e-mail. As part of that suit, Easleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former press secretary Sherri Johnson has testified that the former governor wanted e-mail messages deleted so they would not become public. Johnson told the newspaper Friday that she could not comment on whether she ordered the destruction of the letter to Easley from former Southport Mayor Norman Holden because of that pending lawsuit. Holden appeared this week at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, where a federal grand jury continued its probe into Easley. North Carolina agency documents are not supposed to be destroyed unless specific guidelines are followed.

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SALISBURY — Martha Houck Dickens, 100, passed away Friday, May 21, 2010. Born Jan. 16, 1910, in Rowan County, she was the daughter of the late George Fisher and Fannie Goodman Houck. A graduate of Rowan County Farm Life High School and the Presbyterian Assembly Training School for Lay Workers, she served as Director of Christian Education for First Presbyterian Church of Wilson, until her marriage in 1938. She and her husband served churches in Pink Hill, Maxton, Concord, and Lillington and she was an ordained elder of the Presbyterian Church (USA). In her later years she moved to the Lutheran Home in Salisbury and attended Thyatira Presbyterian Church, in which she grew up. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. J. Ray Dickens. Survivors include her daughters, Harriett Dickens and Brenda Dickens Kitson; brother, Samuel M. Houck; and many nephews and nieces. Service: A Committal Service at 3:30 p.m. on Monday at Harnett Memorial Park in Lillington. A Memorial Service will follow at the Lillington Presbyterian Church at 4 p.m. with Rev. Dr. William Goodnight and the Rev. Bertrand C. Pitchford officiating. A second Memorial Service will be held at the Lutheran Home in Salisbury, on July 24 at 11 a.m. Visitation: The family will receive friends after the service. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials to Christian Education Endowment fund at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, 220 White Road, Salisbury NC 28144. Arrangements are provided by O'Quinn Peebles Funeral Home of Lillington. Online condolences may be made at www.oquinnpeebles.com.

Jean Walser Grubb

SALISBURY — Jean Walser Grubb, 80, of Salisbury and formerly of Spencer died Friday, May 21, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. Born Oct. 4, 1929, in Rowan County, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Marie Albright Walser. Educated in the Salisbury schools, she graduated from Boyden High School. Mrs. Grubb was a homemaker and a member of Yadkin United Methodist Church and a former member of the church choir. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Coleman Wilson “Dub” Grubb, Jr. on Oct. 1, 2009. Survivors include her daughters, Tracey Grubb Barrier and husband. Dennis of Granite Quarry and Bonnie Grubb Bell and husband Rev. John Bell of Vale; sons, David L. Grubb and wife. Rita of Garner and Timothy A. Grubb, D.D.S., P.C. and wife, Denise of Stone Mountain, Ga.: brothers, Jerry Walser and wife, Barbara of Tulsa, Okla. and Bill Walser and wife, Judy of Wilmington; grandchildren, Magan Barrier of Cullowhee and Alexander Barrier of Granite Quarry. Service: A memorial service will be conducted at 4 p.m. Monday at the Summersett Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Wayne Trexler, minister of Shiloh Reformed Church officiating. Interment will follow at Rowan Memorial Park Visitation: The family will receive friends from 3-4 p.m. Monday at the Summersett Funeral Home. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Yadkin United Methodist Church, c/o Katherine Clark, 817 Second St., Spencer, NC 28159. Summersett Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com.

James Louis Vassey

SALISBURY — Mr. James Louis Vassey, 66, of 205 Dove Meadow Drive, passed away on Friday, May 21, 2010. Born Jan. 2, 1944, in Rutherford County, he was the son of the late James Ralph and Connie Lee Bennick Vassey. Louis graduated from Cool Springs High School in Forest City. He was a member of New Hope Independent Freewill Baptist Church in Concord and a veteran of the United States Army. He retired as an engineer from the Charlotte Fire Department after 25 years of service. He was also retired from Brinks Security. Louis enjoyed fishing, golf, and auto racing. In addition to his parents, Louis was preceded in death by fiancée, Cheryl Earl; two brothers, Joseph Jessie and Ronald Gene Vassey. He is survived by his best canine companion, Chopper; daughters, Sherry Brunner, of Charlotte and Tammy Vassey and companion, Rick Cole of Charlotte; sister, Betty Deason and her husband, James of Huntersville; two grandchildren, Jacob and Amanda Brunner; niece, Robin Conner and her husband, Charlie; great-niece, Abbey Conner; niece, Rhonda Massey and her husband, Brad. Visitation: 2-3:30 p.m. Monday at New Hope Independent Freewill Baptist Church in Concord. Service: Funeral service will follow at 4 p.m. with Rev. Roger Bostic officiating. Internment will be at Carolina Memorial Park, Kannapolis following the service. Memorials: New Hope Independent Freewill Baptist Church, 555 Neisler Road, Concord, NC 28025 or Charlotte Fire Department, 228 East Ninth Street, Charlotte, NC 28202. Hartsell Funeral Home Concord is serving the Vassey family. Online condolences may be made at www.hartsellfh.com.

Curtis "Bud" Hoffner

SALISBURY — Curtis "Bud" Hoffner, 72, of Salisbury, passed away Saturday, May 22, 2010, at his residence. Bud was born Sept. 26, 1937, in Rowan County, he was the son of the late Lee Hoffner and Lena Owens Hoffner. Bud was a 1956 graduate of Rockwell High School, a lifelong member of St. Matthews Lutheran Church, member of the Men in Mission, former church council member and was active for many years in the East Rowan Boosters Club. Bud enjoyed fishing and hunting and loved his family very much. He had retired from W. A. Brown in 1999 after 40+ years of service. Survivors include wife, Peggy Leach Hoffner, whom he married on Dec. 4, 1960; sons, Todd Hoffner and Randy Hoffner and wife, Melissa of Salisbury; grandchildren, Grant Hoffner and Miranda Hoffner; brother, Ernest Hoffner of Gold Hill; sisters, Edna Mahaley of Kernersville, Johnnie Earnhardt of Richfield, Helen "Sis" Stiller of Salisbury and Jean Brown of Misenheimer. Visitation: 9:30-10:45 a.m. Monday, May 24, at St. Matthews Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall and the residence the remainder of the time. Service and Burial: 11 a.m. Monday, May 24, at St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Salisbury, conducted by Rev. Gary S. Coble, pastor. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Memorials: St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Family Life Center, 9275 Bringle Ferry Road, Salisbury, NC 28146 or to Rowan Regional Hospice, 720 Grove Street, Salisbury, NC 28144 Powles Funeral Home of Rockwell is assisting the Hoffner family. Online condolences may be made to www.powlesfuneralhome.com.

Frances L. Edmiston

MOUNT ULLA — Frances Lyerly Edmiston, 90, of Mt. Ulla Hwy, Mt. Ulla, passed away Saturday, May 22, 2010, at Genesis Eldercare, Mooresville. Born Oct. 21, 1919, in Rowan County, she was a daughter of the late Harry C. and Pearl Winecoff Lyerly. She graduated from Mt. Ulla High School and served as PTA President and helped with many community projects. Mrs. Edmiston was a Registered Nurse who graduated from the Lowrance Hospital School of Nursing in 1941. She was a member of Prospect Presbyterian Church, Mooresville, where she took an active part in the church. Mrs. Edmiston was the recipient of the Honorary Life Membership by Prospect Women in 1990. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert “Sam” Edmiston, Jr.; and sisters, Kathleen Lyerly Cashion and Mabel Lyerly Wilkinson. Mrs. Edmiston is survived by her sons, Robert S. (Bob) Edmiston and wife, Mary Beth and Dan L. Edmiston and wife, Kay both of Statesville; grandchildren, Jack Edmiston and Karen Cornett and husband, Nick of Statesville; great-grandson, Samuel Edmiston Cornett; brothers, Norman W. Lyerly, of Biscoe, Carl C. Lyerly and wife, Margaret of Salisbury and Joe R. Lyerly and wife, Helen of Mooresville; and a number of nieces and nephews. Service and Burial: Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 25, at Prospect Presbyterian Church, Mooresville, with Rev. Joanne Hull officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation: The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m., Monday, May 24, at CavinCook Funeral Home, Mooresville. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Prospect Presbyterian Church Family Life Center and/or Cemetery Trust Fund, 9425 W. NC Hwy 152, Mooresville, NC 28115. Cavin-Cook Funeral Home, Mooresville is serving the family of Mrs. Edmiston.

Otis Mae Crawford

CONCORD — Otis Mae Crawford, 91, formerly of Fort Worth, Tex., died Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at the Brian Center of Concord. Service: 2 p.m. Monday, at Clark Funeral Home Chapel, 923 Indiana Street, Kannapolis. Visitation: 1-2 p.m. prior to the service at the chapel. Clark Funeral Home is assisting the Crawford Family.

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SALISBURY — Elizabeth TAVARES, FLA. — Ada SALISBURY — William (Libby) Bush Buck, age 80, Lorene Bost Rust, 86, passed Russell Jernigan, 79, of Salisdrew her last breath at home away Thursday, May 20, 2010, bury passed away Friday, at Cornerstone Hospice, Lake May 21, 2010, at his residence. on Friday, May 21, 2010. County in Tavares, Fla. Born June Born March 17, 1924, in 10, 1930, in PeCabarrus County, she was a tersburg, Va., daughter of the late Vernon he was the son Henderson and Ada Belle of the late Shue Bost. Robert Dell Ada moved from Georgia Jernigan and to central Florida in 1958, was Margaret Vira member of the Mount Dora Moose Lodge Women's Auxilginia Armiary, was of the Lutheran strong. Faith and enjoyed crafts and A graduate of Frances Born Jan. 30, 1930, in taking care of her loving family. Marion ColRoanoke, Va., she was the In addition to her parents, lege, Mr. Jernigan was in the fourth child and only daughshe was preceded in death by ter of T. Martin and Sue Bush. her husband, Noah Webster United States Marine Corps She attended Mary Wash- Rust in 1965; two sons, Antho- and fought in the Korean War. ington College and graduated ny and Timothy Rust; a He was a salesperson in the from the University of North daughter, Joyce Lasko; sis- furniture industry. Then, in Carolina at Chapel Hill, re- ters, Mary Padgett, Kathleen the last 15 years of his life, he ceiving her degree in chem- Bost, Mozzelle Poplin and He- worked as an installer with istry in 1952. len Fagert; and brothers, Salisbury Security Systems She was a chemist for Charles, Jessie Kyle and Cecil (KABA). Mr. Jernigan was of DuPont until her marriage to Vernon Bost. the Methodist faith. Family members left to Henry H. Buck, Jr., at Survivors include his careThrasher Memorial UMC in cherish her memory include taker, Marion Joyce Heater, her children, Steve Rust of with whom he made his home; Vinton, Va. on Sept. 5, 1953. The Bucks first came to Umatilla, Fla., Danny Rust of sons, Patrick R. Jernigan of Salisbury, N.C. in 1968. In ad- Summerfield, Fla., Patricia Mooresville and Scott D. Gregory of Leesburg, Fla., dition to raising their two Juanita Payne of Umatilla and Jernigan of Granite Falls; daughters, Libby filled her Judy (Joe) Davenport of adopted sons, Douglas Jernidays with friends, flowers, Weirsdale, Fla.; brother, gan and Steve Jernigan, both cooking and Christian ser- Harold Bost of Peachtree, of Tampa, Fla; daughter, Suvice. She became a member Ga.; sister, Martha Powers of san Clark of Mebane; and of the Daisy Hedrick Class Lincolnton, N.C.; 22 grandchil- eight grandchildren. when she joined First UMC. dren; and 27 great-grandchilVisitation: 6-8 p.m. Sunday, Henry's work took them to dren. May 23, 2010, at Lyerly FuVisitation: The family will neral Home. Richmond, Va. in 1973. Libby friends Tuesday and Henry returned to Salis- receive Service: 1 p.m. Monday, bury in 1999 after Henry's re- evening from 6-8 p.m. at Linn- May 24, 2010, at the James C. tirement, shortening the drive Honeycutt Funeral Home in Lyerly Chapel with the Rev. to their grandchildren in An- China Grove. Motley officiating. Service and Burial: Mrs. Mike derson, S.C. and Norcross, Ga. Burial will follow at Lebanon Rust's funeral service will be Ikebana flower arrangement Lutheran Church in Clevebecame a passion which she at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May land. 26, at Concordia Lutheran shared with her older daughLyerly Funeral Home is Church conducted by the Rev. ter. She also enjoyed travel- Ken Reed, Pastor. Burial will serving the Jernigan family ing with family and friends, follow in the church cemeand online condolences can be especially to the beach. tery. made at www.lyerlyfuneralShe is survived by her husLinn-Honeycutt Funeral home.com. band Henry; daughters, Susan Home is assisting the Rust B. Thomas and Margaret B. Family. Online condolences See MORE OBITUARIES, 10A Gallagher; sons-in-law, Dr. may be made to www.linnhonEddie Thomas and Ron Gal- eycuttfuneralhome.com. lagher; beloved grandchildren, Trey, Sarah & Will Thomas and Rachel & Josh Gallagher; her sisters-in-law, Lucille D. Bush of Richmond, Va. and Leila Buck Noble of Durham; and numerous friends to cherish the fun and Mrs. Jean Walser Grubb laughter that they shared. Memorial Service Service: A Service of Re4:00 PM - Monday membrance will be held at 2 Summersett Mem. Chapel p.m. Saturday, May 29, at Visitation: 3-4 PM Monday First United Methodist Tommy H. 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13-year-old youngest to climb Everest BEIJING (AP) — The youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them. Then 13-year-old Jordan Romero took the satellite phone and called his mom. “He says, ‘Mom, I’m calling you from the top of the world,’ ” a giddy Leigh Anne Drake told the Associated Press from California, where she had been watching her son’s progress minute by minute on a GPS tracker. “There were lots of tears and ‘I love you! I love you!’ ” Drake said. “I just told him to get his butt back home.” With Saturday’s success on the world’s highest mountain, at 29,035 feet above sea level, Jordan is just one climb from his quest to reach the highest peaks on all seven continents. The teenager with a mop of long curly hair — who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was 9 years old — says he was inspired by a painting in his school hall-

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. must shape a world order as reliant on the force of diplomacy as on the might of its military to lead, President Barack Obama said as he outlined a vision repudiated by the go-it-alone approach forged by predecessor George W. Bush. Addressing nearly 1,000 graduating cadets at the U.S.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo declared his candidacy for governor, delivering a call for political reform and pledging to make the dysfunctional state government more accountable to its citizens. The announcement by Cuomo for the job once held

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NEW YORK (AP) — The mothers of three Americans jailed in Iran returned to the United States, pained to leave their children behind yet heartened to find they’re being treated well and are “in reasonable health.” At a brief news conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport after they returned, Cindy Hickey thanked the Iranians for allowing them to see their three children. She said they were disappointed they could not return with their children. “The pain is almost more than we can bear,” Hickey said, but “we will forever savor the precious moments we were able to spend with our children.” Hickey and Nora Shourd left the airport holding hands in support of each other, while the third woman, Laura Fattal, walked arm-in-arm

Obama tells grads military, diplomacy both needed

Cuomo formally announces campaign for N.Y. governor

Moms back from seeing three hikers being held in Iran

by his iconic father had been widely expected. The Democrat disclosed his candidacy in a video released on his website before appearing before supporters later in the day. Cuomo promised to cap the state’s property taxes, which are among the highest in the nation, and to consolidate local governments and create a more favorable environment for job growth.

with her son. The detained Americans — Sarah Shourd, 31; her boyfriend, Shane Bauer, 27; and their friend Josh Fattal, 27 — have been held in Iran since July, when they were arrested along the Iraqi border. Iran has accused them of espionage; their families say that the three were hiking in Iraq’s largely peaceful mountainous northern Kurdish region and that if they crossed the border, it was accidental.

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Firefighters struggled to reach the smoking wreckage of the Boeing 737-800, which was scattered along the hillside of thick grass and trees just outside Mangalore’s Bajpe airport. The Air India Express flight was coming from Dubai. The country’s national carrier runs the inexpensive flights under the Air India Express banner.

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MANGALORE, India (AP) — Eight people escaped the crash of an Indian jetliner with 166 people on board that overshot a hilltop runway in southern India and plunged over a cliff, officials said. At least some of the survivors managed to jump from the wreckage just before it burst into flames.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons launched a ground assault Saturday against NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan, wounding several coalition troops and civilian employees in the second such attack on a major military installation this week, officials said. A Canadian Press news agency report from the Kandahar Air Field said artillery and machine gun fire reverberated through the base, about 300 miles southwest of Kabul, several hours after the attack began. Militants unleashed rockets and mortars at about 8 p.m. and then tried unsuccessfully to storm the northern perimeter, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assault — the third major attack on NATO forces in Afghanistan in six days — but the Kandahar area is a Taliban stronghold. On Tuesday, a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the capital, killing 18 people including six NATO service members including five Americans and a Canadian. The next day, dozens of Taliban militants attacked the main U.S. military base — Bagram Air Field — killing an American contractor in fighting that lasted more than eight hours.

Military Academy, Obama said all hands are required to solve the world’s newest threats: terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons, climate change and feeding and caring for a growing population. The U.S. military is the “cornerstone of our national defense,” but Obama said the men and women who wear America’s uniform cannot bear that responsibility by themselves. “The rest of us must do our part,” he said.

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in the open Gulf to break up oil before it reaches the surface. The Environmental Protection Agency had directed the company to look for less toxic alternatives. But BP said in a letter to the EPA that Corexit 9500, one of the chief agents used, â&#x20AC;&#x153;remains the best option for subsea application.â&#x20AC;? Oil that has rolled into shoreline wetlands coats the stalks and leaves of plants such as roseau cane â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the fabric that holds together an ecosystem that is essential to

have leaked so far. Coast Guard officials said Saturday the spillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impact now stretches across a 150mile swath, from Dauphin Island, Ala. to Grand Isle, La. Over time, experts say weather and natural microbes will break down most of the oil. However, the crude will surely poison plants and wildlife in the months â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it will take for the syrupy muck to dissipate. Back in 1989, crews fighting the Exxon Valdez tanker spill â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which unleashed almost 11 million gallons of oil into Alaskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prince William Sound â&#x20AC;&#x201D; used pressure hoses and rakes to clean the shores. The Gulf Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peat-like soils that hold the marshes together is too fragile for that.

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Author of The Business Guide to Sustainability ~ Host of the Sustainable Today TV Show ~ Founder of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals The Center for the Environment at Catawba College will facilitate two day-long workshops on “Sustainability: Improving your Triple Bottom Line” on Wednesday, June 9, at the Center facility on the Catawba campus in Salisbury and on Thursday, June 10, in the Old Cabarrus Bank Building in Kannapolis. They are designed especially for people in business and municipal government. Hitchcock notes that the triple bottom line refers to economic performance, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. “Sustainability isn’t just about being more ‘green,’” she says.“Research shows that companies pursuing sustainability actually provide a higher shareholder return.They find it easier to attract talented employees, have higher productivity and a better public image. Sustainability gives these organizations an edge.”

Due to the generosity of our partnering organizations, the cost is only $35 per person, which includes lunch.

Thanks to these organizations for promotion and support of these workshops: Rowan County Chamber of Commerce Kannapolis Business Alliance RCCC Small Business Center

The workshops will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For the registration form, visit http://www.centerfortheenvironment.org/events.html. For more information, contact the Center at 704.637.4727

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Left to right - Raleigh Store Manager Chris Turner, General Manager Greg Bobbitt, Sales Manager Randy McDaniel, Business Manager Brian Baily, Salisbury Store Manager Bob White, President/CEO Steve Plemmons, Rowan County Commissioner Carl Ford and Parts Manager Mark Brady cut the ribbon at the Bill Plemmons RV World® showroom on Ritchie Rd. Bill Plemmons RV World® has been helping customers for over 60 years and can put you in the right RV for your lifestyle and budget.They also have a parts, accessories and service department. The bottom line is that they help take all of the guess work out of choosing the right Motorhome,Travel Trailer, Fifth-Wheel,Toy Hauler or Tent Camper (Pop-Up.) Take exit 74 off 1-85, (Julian Rd.), then go to the I-85 service road- Ritchie Rd. Hours are Mon., Tues.,Wed., & Fri. 8:30-5:30 p.m., Thurs. 8 a.m. -8 p.m. & Sat. 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. For service, please call for an appointment - 704-638-6353.

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Teacher of the Year Award! The 2010 Teacher of the Year and finalists were recently honored at a special breakfast. Pictured above - left to right-back row: Kendall Fulham, Landis Elementary School; Superintendent Dr. Judy Grissom; Melissa Conrad, Knollwood Elementary School; Ashley Lanning, South Rowan High School and seated are Amie Furr, Jesse Carson High School and Runner-Up; Julie Stolze, Rowan County Early College and the 2010 Rowan-Salisbury School System’s Teacher of the Year.The Chamber provides a $1000 allowance for the winner to use on their classroom.

Congratulations to all Teachers of the Year!

New Habitat ReStore Open!

Tax deductible donations help fund volunteer-built homes for low-income families.All monies and goods benefit the mission of Rowan County Habitat for Humanity ministry.You will find "GOOD STUFF, AT GOOD PRICES FOR A GREAT CAUSE" Monday- Saturday from 9 a.m. -5 p.m.

Chamber Member Marketing Opportunities For only $100, CHAMBER NEWSLETTER INSERTS are mailed to over 2150 chamber member contacts.This is a great way to drive people to your website, invite them to your location and advertise new products or specials! We bring potential customers to you as a BUSINESS AFTER HOURS HOST. We will invite Chamber Members to your location.As a host, you can showcase your products and services and give tours.You will utilize Chamber members to cater heavy appetizers and beverages while the Chamber will promote the event and take RSVP's to ensure a good crowd. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES are designed to give your business premium exposure to the business community with our comprehensive membership database. As a sponsor, you can receive all or some of these benefits: ability to promote products/fliers at welcome table, hang banner, free admission tickets, prime Business Show booth space, speaking rights, sponsor introduction, business logo visibility on all event ads including: press releases, website exposure at www.rowanchamber.com & email blasts. Because of the amount of advertising the Chamber does for the event, you will have a big return on your investment! If you are not a Chamber Member, join online at www.rowanchamber.com or call (704) 633-4221.

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Left to right,Elizabeth Brady (Director of Store Operations), Pete Kennedy (Salisbury City Council), Regina Stansel (Store Manager), Archie Jarrell (Jarrell Contractors), Nathan Wrights (Donations Manager), Jewel Holland (Board Member), Bob Roakes (Board Member), Neil Jarrell (Jarrell Contractors) and Pete Teague (President of Habitat for Humanity of Rowan County) recently cut the ribbon at their new Habitat For Humanity of Rowan County "ReStore" at 1707 S. Main Street.

Join the Chamber and see how you can get more BUSINESS EXPOSURE! Whether you want to target other member businesses, the general public, or individuals relocating to the region, the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce offers marketing solutions to meet your needs.

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Meet Amazing Business Women... Sponsored by: Each quarter from 5-6:30 pm, you will have the chance to meet 70-90 successful business women at the "Chamber's Women In Business" networking group. Chaired by Cindy Hart (Great American Publishing), this event is fast paced with great mini-presentations, appetizers & beverages and door prizes. The next event (Chamber members only) is June 3 at the Chamber's Gateway Building, 204 East Innes, 2nd floor.You will learn "Self Defense Tips" from the City of Salisbury Police Department. The food host is Outback Steakhouse. October 7 will feature "Fun- Fall Fashions" by Pam Hylton Coffield (Stitchin' Post Gifts) and "Four Sensational Business Women" will be asked to talk about their business December 2. RSVP's are required by calling 704-633-4221 or email: info@rowanchamber.com.

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

Kurt wins a million BY JENNA FRYER Associated Press

CONCORD — The two hottest drivers in NASCAR lined up side-by-side for a final dash toward a cool $1 million prize. But when Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch tangled in their race for the lead, Kurt Busch sailed through the carnage to steal a victory in Saturday night’s All-Star race. The 2004 series champion was ecstatic as he crossed the finish line for his first career All-Star race victory. His younger brother, furious at

Hamlin, was waiting back at the team hauler for his teammate after unleashing an expletive-laden tirade over his radio. “Somebody better keep me away from Denny Hamlin,” Kyle Busch shouted. “I swear to God, I am going to kill (him). All his ... fault. I had this race won! It was won!” Hamlin and Kyle Busch, who have combined to win five of the last seven Sprint Cup Series races for JGR, were racing each other for the lead in the final segment of the annual All-Star event when Hamlin tried to block Kyle Busch’s attempt at a

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pass. The defensive move pinched Kyle Busch against the wall, and the contact sent him sliding back through the field. He later hit the wall again hard and bounced into Kasey Kahne to officially end his night. Instead of taking his car to his own team hauler, he drove it over to Hamlin’s and angrily punched the air after climbing from the car. Helmet and safety devices still on, he walked directly into Hamlin’s truck while team owner Gibbs followed closely. Hamlin, after finishing fourth, was directed by his

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KURT BUSCH

Stars inducted

the late Bill France CONCORD — Junior Sr. and Johnson was a moonshiner  Hall of Fame Bill who outran government ceremony today, 4B France tax collectors in souped up Jr. cars. He not only is one of On the pioneers of NASCAR, Saturday, a day before his he served some time in induction, Johnson insisted prison for his bootlegging. he “never had a cross word You can imagine Johnson with Bill Sr.” and praised has sometimes had trouble him for doing “whatever with authority, which elicits was best for racing.” some chuckles since JohnAs for France’s son, who son is part of the first Hall eventually took over of Fame class that includes See JOHNSON, 4B NASCAR’s first two rulers, Associated Press

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team not to go to his truck. He stopped his car at the entrance to the garage, where he was met by several team

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Celtics go up 3-0 on Magic

SPRING FOOTBALL

BY JIMMY GOLEN Associated Press

BY MIKE LONDON

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May 23, 2010

Johnson sparred with fellow inductee

Legion beats High Point on the road THOMASVILLE — Never has the twoS. Rowan 10 inning difH. Point 8 ference between high school ball and American Legion loomed larger. Legion games last nine innings. South Rowan, which looked overmatched through seven, rallied to beat High Point 10-8 in its season opener at Finch Field on Saturday. “If we play seven, their guy pitches a complete game and we lose, simple as that,” South coach Michael Lowman said. “But we hung in there, got to their bullpen and found a way to get a win.” Legion newcomer Patrick Bearden’s ninth-inning grand slam was decisive. Matt Miller pitched two shutout innings for the victory. J o s e p h BEARDEN Basinger had four of South’s 11 hits. South fans may not fully appreciate their team’s comeback until later this summer. BASINGER South won’t face a more talented team than High Point, which went 25-12 in 2009. Yesterday’s High Point lineup included signees Brock Hudgens (Charlotte), Ben Fultz (East Carolina) and Mike Whited (Catawba). HP also expects to have GardnerWebb pitcher Conner Scarborough and potential draft pick DeSean Anderson, who signed with South Carolina. The best Hi-Tom of all was tall right-handed hurler David Coffey. He was 7-1 at Ragsdale in 2009, but now he’s a regular student at UNC. South fans think the Tar Heels, who are having a down year, might want to give Coffey a call. “He had a good fastball, but the toughest thing was his curveball was so sharp,” Bearden said. “He got me with that pitch a couple of times.” Coffey pitched seven innings, struck out 12 and didn’t allow an earned run. Still, South wasn’t blown out. Starting pitcher Randy Shepherd lasted into the fifth. His only big mistake was the threerun homer that Whited launched. Justin Morrison relieved Shepherd and worked 22⁄3 innings. He allowed four doubles, but he limited the damage to two runs.

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North Rowan’s impressive Javon Hargrave weighs in at 261 pounds but still runs a 4.8 in the 40.

1A star getting attention Keeping up with spring football ... t seems crazy sometimes what a Division I football coach will put an emphasis on. Most value a good 40 time. Romar Morris of Salisbury runs a 4.3. Thus, he has 11 majorcollege offers. Carson’s 6-3 receiver Cody Clanton doesn’t have a time close to that, and despite his glue-like hands and leaping ability, he has RONNIE no offers on the table GALLAGHER yet, though many of the same schools that love Morris have inquired. And then, there’s North Rowan defensive-line stud Javon Hargrave. He’s got the size (6-2, 261) and he’s got a good 40 time for that size (4.8). But he plays 1A football. Hargrave dwarfed some of the oppo-

nents from North Moore and Chatham Central. So how good can Hargrave be in college, where lineman are as big, or bigger, than he is? • Hargrave, who was his 2A conference’s defensive player of the year when North was in the Central Carolina Conference, won the award after the Cavaliers dropped to 1A due to realignment. He admits there is a big difference. “Other than (state champion) Albemarle and West Montgomery, it was way easier,” Hargrave said recently. “I was like 100 pounds bigger than them.” Instead of being turned off by 1A football, ACC schools did come calling. “He’s had UNC and N.C. State lined up at the door so he’s definitely getting attention,” North coach Tasker Fleming said at the recent county track meet. “People are seeing him at

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defensive end, but at that level, defensive ends are 6-7. He’s probably more of a three-technique.” Fleming says Hargrave has a quick three or four steps when the ball is snapped. “They like his mo-

bility,” he said. But the North coach has been around long enough to know Hargrave’s performances at places like the Shrine Bowl combine mean everything. “If you’re 1A and trying to get your name out, you’ve got to get their attention,” he said. “He did it at the combine. A 4.8 — that’s not bad.” East Carolina has shown interest as well. If Hargrave goes Division II,

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BOSTON — There were still 20 secCeltics 94 onds left in Magic 71 the game when Paul Pierce decided he didn’t need to see any more and headed to the locker room. In the hallway, he repeated aloud: “One more. One more.” Pierce helped the Celtics open a 16-point, first-quarter lead, then watched as Rajon Rondo and Glen “Big Baby” Davis helped Boston coast to a 94-71 victory over the Orlando Magic and take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals. The most-decorated team in NBA history, the Celtics are one win away from their second trip to the finals in three years — and their 21st in all. No NBA team has ever lost a playoff series after winning the first three games. “We’re motivated for what’s at stake. We see the big picture,” said Pierce, who was the finals MVP when Boston won its record 17th NBA title in 2008. “We were coming home for two games on our home court. We’re motivated. We can feel it. Guys know what its like to win a championship and play for a championship.” The Magic have to win Game 4 on Monday night to avoid a sweep and force the series back to Orlando. They’ll need a better effort than in Game 3, when they fell behind early for the third straight game. This time, they didn’t even mount a late charge to make it close. “The most disappointing to me was that I didn’t have our team better ready to play,” said Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, who was himself knocked over late in the game when Kevin Garnett was pushed into the Orlando bench going after a loose ball. “It starts with me. It’s my job. I’m the coach of this team. It starts with me and I’m not happy with where we had our team tonight or anything I did.” Pierce had 15 points and nine rebounds, Ray Allen scored 14 and Garnett added 10 points in just 24 minutes. But this time it wasn’t the Celtics’ aging all-stars that did the damage — it was the two youngest players on the roster, Davis and Rondo, who were born in 1986, the year that Larry Bird and the original Big Three won the last of their three NBA titles. Davis scored 17 points, and Rondo added 11 points and 12 assists, and they also gave the team energy. Davis celebrated one play underneath the basket with an ecstatic but odd session of running in place; the crowd went wild. Rondo outhustled Jason Williams down the court for a loose ball in the second quarter, diving to take it away and then getting up to beat him again for the layup.

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2B • SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010

TV Sports Sunday, May 23 AUTO RACING Noon VERSUS — IRL, pole qualifying for Indianapolis 500 COLLEGE SOFTBALL 1 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I, regionals, site 2/game 6, teams TBD 3:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I, regionals, site 2/game 7, teams TBD (if necessary) CYCLING 6:30 p.m. VERSUS — Tour of California, final stage, circuit: Thousand Oaks/Westlake Village/Agoura Hills, Calif. GOLF 2 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Sybase Match Play Championship, championship match, at Gladstone, N.J. 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, Byron Nelson Championship, final round, at Irving, Texas MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. TBS — Boston at Philadelphia 2 p.m. WGN — Chicago Cubs at Texas 8 p.m. ESPN — N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets NBA BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, Western Conference finals, game 3, L.A. Lakers at Phoenix NHL HOCKEY 3 p.m. NBC — Playoffs, Western Conference finals, game 4, San Jose at Chicago TENNIS Noon ESPN2 — French Open, early round, at Paris

Area schedule Sunday, May 23 LOCAL TENNIS Rotary Championships (City Park) AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. South Rowan at Mocksville (7 inns.) 4 p.m. South vs. Randolph at Mocksville (7 inns.) 7 p.m. Rowan at Burlington Randolph at Mocksville Kernersville at Mooresville JUNIOR LEGION BASEBALL 2 p.m. Stanly at Carson (DH) INTIMIDATORS BASEBALL 2:05 p.m. Kannapolis at Asheville Tourists

American Legion Area III Southern Division Division Overall Mooresville 1-0 1-0 Lexington 1-0 1-1 0-0 2-0 Concord South Rowan 0-0 1-0 Stanly County 0-0 0-0 Wilkes 0-0 0-0 Mocksville 0-0 0-0 Rowan County 0-0 0-1 Kannapolis 0-0 0-1 Statesville 0-2 0-2 Saturday’s games Stanly at Rowan, ppd. South Rowan 10, High Point 8 Wilkes at Concord, ppd. Lexington 8, Statesville 2 Sunday’s games Rowan at Burlington Eastern Randolph at Stanly Kernersville at Mooresville Randolph at Mocksville South Rowan at Mocksville Randolph vs. South Rowan Surry at Lexington Staesville at Western Forsyth Monday’s games Kannapolis at South Rowan Kernersville at Rowan Newell at Mooresville Tuesday’s games E. Randolph at Rowan Wilkes at Western Forsyth Concord at Kannapolis Mocksville at Mooresville

Local tennis Rotary Championships 9 a.m. Women’s Doubles Semifinal: James/Utley vs. Miller/Tennent 11 a.m. Men’s 35 Singles Final: Jack Stine vs. Mike Archer Boys 14 Singles Final: Marshall Wood vs. Alex Wang Girls 14 Singles Final: Anna Flynn vs. Meghan Hedgepath Noon Girls 16-18 Singles Semifinal: Katelyn Storey vs. Jordan Pring 12:30 p.m. Women’s Doubles Final: Lebowitz/Post vs. Winner of 9:00 a.m. match Girls 16-18 Singles Consolation: Meredith Hovis vs. Corbin Bennett 1 p.m. Men’s Open Final: Steven Page vs. Aaron Post 2 p.m. Men’s 35 Doubles Final: Archer/Chalmers vs. Lippard/McDermott Boys 10-12 Singles Final: Spencer Storey vs. Michael Childress Boys 18 Singles Final: Joel Brittain vs. Will Humphries 2:30 p.m. Men’s Doubles Final: Randolph/Rodriguez vs. Page/Page 3 p.m. Girls 16-18 Doubles Final: Page/Billings vs. Pring/Hovis 3:30 p.m. Boys 18 Doubles Semifinal: Brittain/Meek vs. Boggs/Tedder Kurtz/McCullough vs. Lane/Myers 5 p.m. Mixed Doubles Final: Lebowitz/Lebowitz vs. Staats/Collins Boys 12-14 Doubles Final: Childress/Childress vs. Storey/Post Finals Boys 18 Doubles Final: Winners of 3:30 match Girls 16-18 Singles Final: Allie Billings vs. Storey/Pring winner Girls 14 Doubles Final: Smith/Drye vs Flynn/Hedgepath

Prep tennis Championships 1A Mount Airy 5, Science and Math 3 2A Newton-Conover 5, Northwood 0 3A Asheville 5, Cardinal Gibbons 4 4A R.J. Reynolds 5, Broughton 4

Prep baseball 4A playoffs Third round East Forsyth 6, N. Davidson 5 (10 inns.) Glenn 3, Davie 0 Porter Ridge 1, A.C. Reynolds 0 TC Roberson 11, Myers Park 3 Fourth round East Forsyth at Glenn Porter Ridge at TC Roberson

3A playoffs Third round East Rowan 4, Mt. Pleasant 2 NW Cabarrus 5, Charlotte Catholic 4 Morganton Patton 5, Crest 3 Tuscola 6, Enka 4 Fourth round (Tuesday) NW Cabarrus (21-9) at East Rowan (26-2)

Tuscola (21-3) at Patton (23-4)

2A playoffs Third round Piedmont 5, Cuthbertson 0 E. Rutherford 10, West Stanly 4 Surry Central (19-8) at Bunker Hill (29-0) Wilkes Central 7, Polk County 5 Fourth round Piedmont vs. East Rutherford Wilkes Central vs. TBD

1A playoffs Third round McGuinness 6, Cherryville 3 Albemarle 12, Bessemer City 2 West Wilkes 8, Hayesville 6 Murphy 17, Avery 2 Fourth round McGuinness at Albemarle Murphy at West Wilkes

Prep soccer 3A West Fourth round Marvin Ridge 1, Weddington Hickory 2, Crest 0

2A West Fourth round Cuthbertson 1, Piedmont 0 Forbush 4, West Stokes 0

Prep softball 4A West Second round Davie 2, Southern Alamance 1 Glenn 3, Ardrey Kell 2 North Davidson 2, SW Guilford 1 East Forsyth 3, Butler 1 Lake Norman 4, East Gaston 1 Alexander Central 11, Hopewell 1 Porter Ridge 1, North Meck 0 TC Roberson 4, S. Caldwell 0 Third round Davie (16-12) at Glenn (25-2) E. Forsyth at North Davidson Lake Norman at Alexander Central TC Roberson at Porter Ridge

3A West Second round East Rowan 10, Central Cabarrus 3 Marvin Ridge 2, Mount Pleasant 1 Jay M. Robinson 6, North Iredell 2 Anson 5, Concord 3 Crest 1, Foard 0 (13 inns.) Asheville Erwin 9, South Point 1 Enka 1, St. Stephens 0 Franklin 3, Patton 2 Third round Marvin Ridge at East Rowan Anson vs. Jay M. Robinson Erwin at Crest Enka vs. Franklin

2A West Second round East Rutherford 6, Randleman 4 Central Davidson 9, Wheatmore 1 West Stanly 6, West Lincoln 4 Cuthbertson 11, East Davidson 4 Starmount 2, Bandys 0 North Henderson 2, West Stokes 0 Forbush 11, South Stokes 1 Pisgah 5, Owen 2 (9 inns.) Third round East Rutherford vs. C. Davidson Cuthbertson at West Stanly N. Henderson at Starmount South Stokes vs. Pisgah

1A West Second round South Stanly 2, North Stokes 1 Cherryville 4, Chatham Central 2 E. Surry 6, East Montgomery 0 North Moore 8, West Montgomery 3t West Wilkes 11, Rosman 3 Murphy 10, Lincoln Charter 0 Hayesville at Hiwassee Dam Swain County 7, E. Wilkes 2 Third round South Stanly vs. Cherryville North Moore at East Surry . Murphy at West Wilkes Swain vs. TBD

Minor Leagues South Atlantic Northern Division W L Pct. GB Hickory (Rangers) 27 16 .628 — Hagerstown (Nationals) 24 19 .558 3 Lakewood (Phillies) 23 20 .535 4 Kannapolis (White Sox) 22 21 .512 5 West Virginia (Pirates) 20 22 .476 61⁄2 Delmarva (Orioles) 19 24 .442 8 Greensboro (Marlins) 19 24 .442 8 Southern Division W L Pct. GB Augusta (Giants) 26 16 .619 — Savannah (Mets) 25 18 .581 11⁄2 Greenville (Red Sox) 21 21 .500 5 Lexington (Astros) 21 22 .488 51⁄2 Charleston (Yankees) 19 24 .442 71⁄2 Asheville (Rockies) 16 25 .390 91⁄2 Rome (Braves) 16 26 .381 10 Saturday’s Games West Virginia 6, Lakewood 4 Lexington 11, Greensboro 6 Hickory 1, Rome 0 Augusta at Greenville, 7 p.m. Asheville 13, Kannapolis 4 Delmarva 2, Hagerstown 1, 15 innings Charleston 7, Savannah 6, 11 innings Sunday’s Games West Virginia at Lakewood, 1:05 p.m. Kannapolis at Asheville, 2:05 p.m. Hagerstown at Delmarva, 2:05 p.m. Lexington at Greensboro, 4 p.m. Augusta at Greenville, 4 p.m. Rome at Hickory, 5 p.m. Savannah at Charleston, 5:05 p.m.

NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS Sunday, May 16 Boston 92, Orlando 88 Monday, May 17 L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107 Tuesday, May 18 Boston 95, Orlando 92 Wednesday, May 19 L.A. Lakers 124, Phoenix 112, LA up 2-0 Saturday, May 22 Boston 94, Orlando 71, BOS up 3-0 Sunday, May 23 L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 24 Orlando at Boston, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 25 L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s box Celtics 94, Magic 71 ORLANDO (71) Barnes 1-2 0-0 2, Lewis 2-8 0-0 4, Howard 3-10 1-4 7, Nelson 5-14 2-2 15, Carter 5-12 4-4 15, Redick 3-5 2-2 9, J.Williams 1-4 22 5, Pietrus 3-6 4-4 12, Gortat 0-2 0-0 0, Anderson 0-1 0-0 0, Bass 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 2465 15-18 71. BOSTON (94) Pierce 6-12 1-2 15, Garnett 4-6 2-2 10, Perkins 3-7 0-0 6, Rondo 4-14 3-7 11, R.Allen 6-13 0-0 14, T.Allen 1-1 2-2 4, Davis 5-9 7-9 17, Wallace 4-6 0-0 10, Finley 0-1 0-0 0, Daniels 1-3 4-4 6, Robinson 0-1 1-2 1, S.Williams 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-73 20-28 94. Orlando 12 22 13 24 — 71 27 24 24 19 — 94 Boston 3-Point Goals—Orlando 8-30 (Nelson 39, Pietrus 2-5, J.Williams 1-3, Redick 1-3, Carter 1-5, Anderson 0-1, Lewis 0-4), Boston 6-11 (Wallace 2-3, Pierce 2-4, R.Allen 2-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Orlando 41 (Howard 7), Boston 50 (Pierce 9). Assists— Orlando 10 (Carter, Barnes, Redick 2), Boston 23 (Rondo 12). Total Fouls—Orlando 25, Boston 20. Technicals—Howard, Perkins. A—18,624 (18,624).

NHL

Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS Friday, May 21 Chicago 3, San Jose 2, CHI up 3-0 Saturday, May 22 Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0, PHI up 3-1 Sunday, May 23 San Jose at Chicago, 3 p.m. Monday, May 24 Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s sum Flyers 3, Canadiens 0 Philadelphia 0 2 1 — 3 Montreal 0 0 0 — 0 First Period—None. Second Period—1, Philadelphia, Giroux 7 (Timonen), 5:41. 2, Philadelphia, Leino 4 (Pronger), 14:53. Third Period—3, Philadelphia, Giroux 8, 18:47 (en). Shots on Goal—Flyers 5-13-7—25. Canadiens 7-1-9—17. Goalies—Philadelphia, Leighton. Montreal, Halak. A—21,273 (21,273). T—2:24.

ML Baseball Late Friday Mariners 15, Padres 8 San Diego Seattle ab r h bi ab r h bi Venale rf 5 1 0 0 ISuzuki rf 5 1 1 1 Eckstn 2b 5 3 4 0 Figgins 2b 4 1 1 1 AdGnzl 1b 5 3 4 1 FGtrrz cf 4 3 1 1 Headly 3b 4 0 1 2 MSwny dh 5 2 4 6 Hundly c 5 1 2 1 JoLopz 3b 5 0 0 0 Salazar dh5 0 2 3 Bradly lf 5 2 3 0 HrstnJr lf 3 0 0 0 MSndrs lf 0 0 0 0 Gwynn cf 2 0 0 0 Ktchm 1b 4 2 1 1 Denorfi cf 5 0 1 0 J.Bard c 3 3 2 3 ECarer ss 4 0 1 0 JoWilsn ss 5 1 2 2 Totals 43 815 7 Totals 4015 1515 San Diego 202 000 400— 8 Seattle 071 520 00x—15 E—Venable (2), Jo.Lopez (4). Lob—San Diego 9, Seattle 6. 2b—Eckstein (10), Ad.Gonzalez 3 (7), Hundley (3), Denorfia (1), F.Gutierrez (6), J.Bard (3), Jo.Wilson (1). Hr—M.Sweeney 2 (5), J.Bard (1). Sf— Headley, Figgins. IP H R ER BB SO San Diego Leblanc L,2-2 3 6 8 8 2 2 1 7 7 7 1 0 C.Ramos A.Russell 2 2 0 0 0 3 Thatcher 1 0 0 0 0 2 R.Webb 1 0 0 0 1 1 Seattle Cl.Lee W,2-2 61⁄3 11 8 7 0 7 3 0 0 0 2 Colome 12⁄3 League 1 1 0 0 0 1 T—3:13. A—24,139 (47,878).

Racing Sprint Cup Sprint All-Star Race Results Saturday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 100 laps, 121.9 rating. 2. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 100, 80.1. 3. (2) Joey Logano, Toyota, 100, 99.7. 4. (12) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 100, 97.8. 5. (11) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 100, 52.8. 6. (13) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 100, 58.4. 7. (3) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 100, 80.7. 8. (14) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 100, 60.8. 9. (20) Greg Biffle, Ford, 100, 65.6. 10. (17) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 100, 36.1. 11. (10) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 100, 54.9. 12. (18) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 100, 48.7. 13. (7) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 100, 128.5. 14. (5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, accident, 98, 98.1. 15. (16) Kasey Kahne, Ford, accident, 98, 37.4. 16. (9) Casey Mears, Toyota, accident, 95, 31.8. 17. (15) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, accident, 90, 62.2. 18. (4) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, accident, 90, 87.9. 19. (6) David Reutimann, Toyota, accident, 90, 68.8. 20. (8) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, accident, 90, 47.5. 21. (21) Carl Edwards, Ford, accident, 90, 33.5. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 94.175 mph. Time of Race: 1 hour, 35 minutes, 34 seconds. Margin of Victory: 0.358 seconds. Caution Flags: 5 for 5 laps. Lead Changes: 6 among 4 drivers. Lap Leaders: Ku.Busch 1-9; J.Johnson 10-25; Ky.Busch 26-48; Ku.Busch 49-51; J.Johnson 52-90; D.Hamlin 91-92; Ku.Busch 93-100. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): J.Johnson, 2 times for 55 laps; Ky.Busch, 1 time for 23 laps; Ku.Busch, 3 times for 20 laps; D.Hamlin, 1 time for 2 laps. Top 12 in Points: 1. K.Harvick, 1,768; 2. Ky.Busch, 1,699; 3. M.Kenseth, 1,642; 4. J.Johnson, 1,637; 5. D.Hamlin, 1,618; 6. J.Gordon, 1,605; 7. G.Biffle, 1,581; 8. J.Burton, 1,569; 9. Ku.Busch, 1,531; 10. C.Edwards, 1,487; 11. M.Martin, 1,475; 12. M.Truex Jr., 1,434. Sprint Showdown Results Saturday (Start position in parentheses) 1. (20) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 40 laps, 120.4 rating, $51,760. 2. (5) Greg Biffle, Ford, 40, 133.6, $41,734. 3. (17) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 40, 113.5, $37,459. 4. (12) Paul Menard, Ford, 40, 106.6, $35,359. 5. (19) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 40, 91.9, $34,359. 6. (1) David Ragan, Ford, 40, 120, $32,359. 7. (3) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 40, 89.2, $31,359. 8. (8) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, 40, 105.1, $30,759. 9. (24) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 40, 66.4, $30,259. 10. (26) Carl Edwards, Ford, 40, 70.8, $30,009. 11. (16) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 40, 74.9, $29,734. 12. (7) Bill Elliott, Ford, 40, 69, $29,484. 13. (6) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 40, 68.7, $29,234. 14. (18) Scott Speed, Toyota, 40, 59.1, $29,134. 15. (10) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 40, 57.2, $29,034. 16. (2) Max Papis, Toyota, 40, 62.5, $28,934. 17. (23) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 40, 47.4, $28,834. 18. (4) Kevin Conway, Ford, 40, 44, $28,734. 19. (28) Derrike Cope, Dodge, 40, 40, $28,634. 20. (15) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 40, 36.1, $28,534. 21. (22) Robert Richardson Jr., Dodge, 39, 33.9, $28,409. 22. (13) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 38, 46.7, $28,284. 23. (9) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, accident, 34, 67.9, $28,184. 24. (29) David Gilliland, Ford, accident, 21, 47.9, $28,084. 25. (27) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, suspension, 18, 32.2, $27,984. 26. (11) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, accident, 16, 78, $27,884. 27. (14) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, accident, 16, 73.2, $27,784. 28. (21) Todd Bodine, Toyota, transmission, 13, 32.3, $27,684. 29. (25) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, electrical, 7, 26.4, $27,584. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 103.597 mph. Time of Race: 0 hours, 34 minutes, 45 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 1.395 seconds. Caution Flags: 2 for 4 laps. Lead Changes: 2 among 3 drivers. Lap Leaders: D.Ragan 1-20; G.Biffle 21-32; M.Truex Jr. 33-40. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): D.Ragan, 1 time for 20 laps; G.Biffle, 1 time for 12 laps; M.Truex Jr., 1 time for 8 laps. Top 12 in Points: 1. K.Harvick, 1,768; 2. Ky.Busch, 1,699; 3. M.Kenseth, 1,642; 4. J.Johnson, 1,637; 5. D.Hamlin, 1,618; 6. J.Gordon, 1,605; 7. G.Biffle, 1,581; 8. J.Burton, 1,569; 9. Ku.Busch, 1,531; 10. C.Edwards, 1,487; 11. M.Martin, 1,475; 12. M.Truex Jr., 1,434.

Truck results N.C. Education Lottery 200 Late Friday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 134 laps, 148.5 rating, 195 points, $53,575. 2. (9) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 134, 113.3, 175, $34,915. 3. (5) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 134, 122, 170, $21,985. 4. (2) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 134, 101.9, 160, $13,525. 5. (4) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 134, 118.1, 160, $14,275. 6. (14) Mike Skinner, Toyota, 134, 96.9, 150, $13,750. 7. (12) Aric Almirola, Toyota, 134, 84.6, 146, $12,550. 8. (16) Jason White, Dodge, 134, 98.8, 142, $11,550. 9. (15) David Starr, Toyota, 134, 85.5, 138, $11,425. 10. (7) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 134, 95.9, 134, $14,275. 11. (11) Matt Crafton, Chevrolet, 134, 87.5, 130, $10,900. 12. (6) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 134, 81, 127, $10,725. 13. (17) Tayler Malsam, Toyota, 134, 83.6, 124, $10,600. 14. (19) Ricky Carmichael, Chevrolet, 134, 70, 121, $10,500. 15. (22) Justin Lofton, Toyota, 134, 67.8, 118, $12,450. 16. (23) Nelson Piquet, Toyota, 134, 63.5, 115, $10,300. 17. (30) Narain Karthikeyan, Chevrolet, 134, 53.5, 112, $10,250. 18. (28) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, 133, 42.9, 109, $10,200. 19. (36) Hermie Sadler, Chevrolet, 132, 45.9, 111, $8,900. 20. (26) Mario Gosselin, Chevrolet, 131, 55.4, 103, $10,600. 21. (20) Brad Sweet, Toyota, 130, 47.6, 100, $7,780. 22. (33) Brett Butler, Chevrolet, 130, 36.4, 97, $9,975. 23. (31) J.C. Stout, Dodge, 129, 37.5, 94, $9,950. 24. (34) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 128, 31.5, 91, $8,675. 25. (32) Terry Jones, Dodge, engine, 122, 43, 88, $8,625. 26. (3) Donny Lia, Chevrolet, accident, 120, 72.4, 85, $7,600. 27. (24) T.J. Bell, Chevrolet, engine, 120, 55.5, 82, $7,575. 28. (10) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, engine, 111, 95.5, 79, $7,550. 29. (18) Chris Eggleston, Chevrolet, accident, 108, 59.6, 76, $7,850. 30. (13) Dennis Setzer, Chevrolet, accident, 108, 61.3, 73, $7,975. 31. (35) Michael Guerity, Chevrolet, engine, 91, 29.2, 70, $7,450. 32. (25) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, accident, 88, 58.2, 67, $7,400. 33. (29) Brent Raymer, Ford, accident, 76, 46, 64, $7,375. 34. (21) Wes Burton, Chevrolet, brakes, 59, 46.1, 61, $7,350. 35. (8) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 55, 35.7, 58, $7,320. 36. (27) Mike Garvey, Dodge, engine, 9, 28.1, 55, $7,300. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 109.653 mph. Time of Race: 1 hour, 49 minutes, 59 seconds. Margin of Victory: 0.228 seconds. Caution Flags: 7 for 35 laps. Lead Changes: 8 among 5 drivers. Lap Leaders: K.Busch 1-26; H.Sadler 27; E.Sadler 28-31; K.Busch 32-39; E.Sadler 40-66; K.Busch 67-84; T.Bodine 85-89; R.Hornaday Jr. 90-117; K.Busch 118-134. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Busch, 4 times for 69 laps; E.Sadler, 2 times for 31 laps; R.Hornaday Jr., 1 time for 28 laps; T.Bodine, 1 time for 5 laps; H.Sadler, 1 time for 1 lap. Top 10 in Points: 1. T.Bodine, 1,068; 2. A.Almirola, 1,066; 3. T.Peters, 982; 4. R.Hornaday Jr., 965; 5. M.Crafton, 902; 6. J.Sauter, 888; 7. R.Carmichael, 886; 8. M.Skinner, 884; 9. J.White, 875; 10. D.Starr, 875.

Indy 500 Qualifying, Saturday At Indianapolis Motor Speedway With rank, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, time and speed in parentheses: 1. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 2:37.9154 (227.970) 2. (12) Will Power, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.1876 (227.578) 3. (10T) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.5970 (226.990) 4. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.9027 (226.554) 5. (77) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.0178 (226.390) 6. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.1277 (226.233) 7. (30) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.6319 (225.519) 8. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3514 (224.507) 9. (06) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Honda, 2:41.0831 (223.487) 10. (99) Townsend Bell, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9313 (225.097) 11. (22) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9647 (225.050) 12. (2) Raphael Matos, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9798 (225.028) 13. (32) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.0794 (224.888) 14. (21) Davey Hamilton, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.1053 (224.852) 15. (24) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.2969 (224.583) 16. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3030 (224.575) 17. (37) Ryan Hunter-Reay, DallaraHonda, 2:40.3227 (224.547) 18. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3821 (224.464) 19. (8T) E.J. Viso, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.4424 (224.380) 20. (23) Tomas Scheckter, DallaraHonda, 2:40.5270 (224.261) 21. (25) Ana Beatriz, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5402 (224.243) 22. (78) Simona de Silvestro, DallaraHonda, 2:40.5511 (224.228) 23. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5584 (224.217) 24.(36) Bertrand Baguette, DallaraHonda, 2:40.5785 (224.189)

Golf PGA Tour HP Byron Nelson Championship Saturday’s third round At TPC Four Seasons Resort Irving, Texas Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,166; Par: 70 Jason Day 66-65-67—198 Blake Adams 66-64-70—200 Jeff Overton 67-65-69—201 Mark Hensby 68-71-64—203 Kenny Perry 70-67-66—203 Tom Pernice, Jr. 69-68-66—203 Arjun Atwal 69-71-64—204 Heath Slocum 69-70-65—204 Jordan Spieth 68-69-67—204 Corey Pavin 68-67-69—204 Sean O’Hair 70-65-69—204 D.A. Points 68-66-70—204 Gary Woodland 71-69-65—205 Steve Elkington 66-66-73—205 Cameron Beckman 69-61-75—205 Matt Weibring 71-68-67—206 Johnson Wagner 70-69-67—206 Alex Cejka 72-66-68—206 Scott Verplank 70-65-71—206 Shaun Micheel 68-66-72—206 Marc Leishman 67-67-72—206 Jay Williamson 67-67-72—206

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Intimidators fall 13-4 From staff reports

Thirteens weren’t lucky at all for the Kannapolis Intimidators on Saturday in Asheville. Asheville had 13 runs on 13 hits, and the Intimidators helped out the Tourists by issuing a whopping 13 walks. Asheville (16-25) won 13-4. Kyle Colligan homered for the Intimidators (22-21). Jose Vargas produced a two-run double.

 Prep track Junior Jarrett Samuels led Charlotte Vance to the 4A boys state championship at N.C. A&T on Saturday by winning the long jump and 400 meters. The women’s race came down t the last event. Raleigh Wakefield won the 4x400 for the title.

 Prep tennis

The NCHSAA tennis championships concluded on Saturday. Newton-Conover, the team that Rowan County’s scheduled home knocked out Salisbury, cruised to the game against Stanly County was post- 2A crown. poned on Saturday. It has been See Scoreboard for winners. rescheduled for June 6. Rowan is scheduled to play a non-  Middle school soccer division game at Burlington-Graham In West Rowan’s 4-3 girls middle tonight.  South Rowan plays twice at school soccer loss to Southeast, MariMocksville’s Rich Park today, taking ah Coleman had a hat trick. Kelly Boon Mocksville at 1:30 and Randolph ley and Madison Muire played well County at approximately 4. The game for West’s offense and Rebecca Parkwill be seven innings. er was a defensive standout.  West Rowan’s boys fell to SouthIf you can’t get enough Legion baseball, the tripleheader concludes east 7-0. Colton Sherrill, Zack Shepwith Mocksville vs. Randolph at ap- pard (18 saves) and Jimmy Perez led the Bulldogs. proximately 7 p.m.  Lexington got in a divisional game against Statesville and rolled 8-  Sacred Heart hoops camp 2 on Saturday.  The Wilkes-Concord game that Sacred Heart School Boosters Club was scheduled for Saturday was is sponsoring a five-day instructionpushed back to May 30. al basketball camp at its new facility. The camp is June 7-11 for rising  College baseball 4th-8th graders. Charlotte’s Ross Steedley (East There will be separate sessions Rowan) went 2-for-3 and scored twice for girls and boys. Girls will attend in a 6-4 loss to Rich8:30-noon and boys from 1-4:30 p.m. mond on Friday. Each session is limited to 30 chilSteedley had one dren and the cost is $60 for the week, RBI on Saturday as or $15 per day if they cannot attend the 49ers edged Richthe entire week. mond 5-4. Contact Bob Burges at 704-633Steedley is back in 4512 or bburges@piedmontchemiregular action after cal.com. a long rehab process following shoulder  Rowan Soccer Alliance STEEDLEY surgery. Tryouts for FCCA Rowan Soccer He is 11-for-23 for Alliance will be held at Catawba’s socthe season.  Charlotte shortcer fields on Tuesday, May 25, and stop Justin Roland Thursday, May 27, from 6-7:30 p.m. (East) had two hits Currently, there are seven boys against UNC earlier and girls teams (ages 7-17) at the chalthis week and is batlenge and classic levels in Rowan ting .314 with 47 runs, County. 40 RBIs and 14 douFor information, or to register, go bles. to the FCCA website at www.fccasoc Pitt Community SMITH cer.com or call 704-728-1731. College beat Potomac State 6-0 in the first game of the dis- ! Carson hoops camp trict playoff series on Friday. Carson will be holding a girls basTrey Holmes (East) went 2-for-4, and Zach Smith (East) singled and ketball camp for grades 3-8 (rising) on June 14-17 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. scored for Pitt.  Appalachian State (35-16-1) The cost is $50. closed the regular season with a 13Contact Brooke Misenheimer at 4, 10-3 sweep of Wofford on Saturday. 704-855-5034 for more information. It was the Mountaineers’ most successful regular season in 24 years.  Rotary tennis

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The Rotary Tennis Championships continue at City Park today. Stockton outfielder David Thomas See Scoreboard for pairings and (Catawba) has been times. on the disabled list all month.  Catawba football camp  New Britain Catawba Football Camp for ages southpaw reliever 7-rising seniors is July 18-20. Spencer Steedley Contact assistant coach Todd Mc(East Rowan) went on Comb at 704-637-4733 (office), 704the DL with a “left 645-4506 (fax) or tmmccomb@catawarm strain” on Saturba.edu. day. Steedley, 1-2 with SEAGER a 2.55 ERA, hasn’t  East YMCA hoops pitched since May 5.  High Desert’s Kyle Seager (NW The Saleeby-Fisher YMCA, East Cabarrus) had three hits on Saturday Rowan Branch is still excepting team in a romp against Lancaster. registrations for its Summer Adult Basketball League. Registration ends May 29.  All-YVC teams The league will be limited to 12 North Rowan’s Garland Archie, teams. League fees are $400 per team who throws the shot and discus, has and numbered team jerseys are rebeen named YVC Field Athlete of the quired. This league will consist of 10 Year. regular-season games, plus tournaJoining Archie on ment. Games will be played on Monthe All-YVC team day and Tuesday evenings begin June were teammates Au7. For information, contact Joe Finney gustine Wiggins, Sam at 704-279-1742 or jfinney@rowanymStarks, Malik Ford, ca.org. Halston Walser, Andy Hallett and  Hoops Unlimited Keith Reid. The 17th Annual Hoops Unlimited Gray Stone’s ElBasketball Camp will held at the foldon Zacek, Dalton ARCHIE lowing sites. Wally and the  Richfield Elementary School, Knights’ 4x800 team were All-YVC. South Stanly’s Sean Kluttz was vot- June 14-17, rising 2nd-5th graders  June 21-24, rising 6th-9th ed Track Athlete of the Year.  In girls track, North’s Tinka graders  East Rowan High, June 28-July Bush, Teaunna Cuthbertson and Sabrina Vann were All-YVC, and North’s 1, rising 2nd-5th graders  East Rowan High, July 12-15, ris4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 relay teams ing 6th-9th graders were All-YVC. The camps are open to boys and Gray Stone’s Hunter Latimer and Janna Featherstone and the 4x800 re- girls from all area schools. The cost of the all day camp is $95 and includes lay team made All-YVC. Latimer was Track Athlete of the a camp shirt and “all you can eat” Year, while South Stanly’s Janna Eat- lunch each day. The camp director is Rick Roseman was honored as Field Athlete of man, former East Rowan varsity boys the Year.  North Rowan’s Meredith basketball coach. For a brochure or Sokolowski, Jade Lomax and other information, go to www.hoopDaisy Lemke were named All-YVC, sunlimitedcamp.com or contact Rosealong with Gray Stone’s Illa man at 704-279-7334. Jones, Emma Irvin, Ashley Harrington, Molly Peele and Amber  Kannapolis coach Watkins. A.L. Brown head boys basketball Albemarle’s Paige McConlogue was named YVC Player of the Year. coach Shelwyn Klutz will hold sumGray Stone’s Harrington was runner- mer hoops camps on June 21-24 and July 5-8. Camps will be held at Kanup.  Gray Stone’s Josh Casper, napolis Middle School and are for Michael Pierce and Harrison Latimer boys and girls ages 7-15 from 9-1 daiwere named to the All-YVC boys ten- ly. The cost of a camp is $45. nis team. Contact Klutz at 704-491-3752.

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Philly, Leighton beat Canadiens guard clearance to transfer. It isn’t clear where MONTREAL — Michael Michael Jordan’s eldest son Leighton doesn’t have time is headed. He couldn’t immeto reflect on his latest diately be reached for comshutout. He is focused on a ment by The Associated much bigger objective now Press and Illinois spokesman that the Philadelphia Flyers Derrick Burson said school are one win from the Stanley officials don’t know Jeff JorCup finals. dan’s plans. Much like his team, Illinois coach Bruce WeLeighton bounced back from ber called Jordan “an imporhis worst performance this tant part of our team.” postseason. He stopped all Jordan’s younger brother, 17 shots he faced in a 3-0 win Marcus, plays for Central over the Montreal Canadiens Florida. in Game 4 of the Eastern • BATON ROUGE, La. — Conference finals on SaturLSU point guard Bo Spencer day. is academically ineligible for For Leighton, the journey- the fall semester. man who was claimed by the Spencer, a Baton Rouge Flyers on waivers in Decem- native, averaged 14.5 points ber, it was his third shutout last season. He will have to in this series. He is 5-1 since pass courses in the fall to betaking over after Brian come eligible for the spring Boucher was hurt in the sec- semester. ond round. TENNIS The Flyers, who have won STRASBOURG, France seven of eight since falling behind Boston 3-0 in the pre- — Maria Sharapova won her vious round, lead the Canadi- 22nd career title after a twomonth layoff with a right elens 3-1 and can advance to bow injury, defeating Kristithe finals for the first time na Barrois 7-5, 6-1 Saturday since 1997 with a win at home in Game 5 on Monday. in the Strasbourg Interna“I’m not really concerned tional final. The title was only Sharaabout shutouts right now, pova’s secI’m concerned about winond on clay ning,” Leighton said. “That’s and a boost not really on my mind. If we on the eve of would’ve won 5-1, I would the French have been just as happy.” Open, where GOLF she’s IRVING, Texas — Jordan reached one Spieth shot a 3-under 67 on semifinal Saturday at the Byron Neland three SHARAPOVA son Championship, putting quarterfithe 16-year-old high school nals. junior within striking dis• PARIS — Serena and tance of the lead heading Venus Williams are the into the final round. French Open’s two top-seedSpieth is at 6-under 204 in ed women, and if it seems as his PGA Tour debut, tied for though it’s been awhile since seventh and only six shots that was the case at a Grand behind leader Jason Day. Slam tournament, that’s beThe teenager on Friday because it has. came the sixth-youngest This is the first time the player to make a cut. American sisters are seeded Tiger Woods just happens 1-2 since the Australian to be the last high school Open in January 2003. player in this tournament, SOCCER back in 1993. He shot 77-72 CLEVELAND, Ohio — and missed the cut as a 17Abby Wambach scored two year-old, then came back four years later and became goals and assisted on anoththe event’s youngest winner. er to guide the United States to a 4-0 victory over Ger• GLADSTONE, N.J. — many in an international Top-ranked Jiyai Shin knocked out Michelle Wie in friendly Saturday. Heather O’Reilly and the Sybase Match Play Championship quarterfinals, Kristine Lilly also scored for the U.S., ranked No. 1 acwinning 2 and 1 on another humid day at hilly Hamilton cording to the FIFA rankings and winners of the past Farm. two Olympic gold medals. • RALEIGH — John Second-ranked Germany is Riegger shot an 8-under 63 to take a five-shot lead after the two-time defending World Cup champions. the third round of the Rex Hospital Open, while high NFL school sophomore Grayson DENVER — Hall of Fame Murray fell off the pace at lineman and defensive line the Nationwide Tour event. coach Stan Jones has died. The 16-year-old Murray He was 78. shot a 1-over 72 and is at 2 The Denver Broncos said under for the tournament. that Jones died Friday. No He became the secondcause of death was given. youngest player ever to Jones played on the offenmake a Nationwide Tour cut sive line for the Chicago on Friday. Bears in the 1950s and ’60s COLLEGE HOOPS before switching to the deCHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Jeff fensive line in 1962. He was Jordan’s on-again, off-again chosen to seven straight Pro basketball career at Illinois Bowls from 1955 to 1961, ended Friday when the and was inducted into the school granted the reserve Hall of Fame in 1991.

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Virginia players watch from the sideline late in the second half against North Carolina.

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CHAPEL HILL — The season ended for Virginia’s women’s lacrosse team. Who knows if the grief ever will? One day before slain teammate Yeardley Love was supposed to graduate, the Cavaliers lost to North Carolina 17-7 on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. Virginia (14-6) was playing its first road game since Love’s death three weeks ago. “I don’t think that there’s any way that you can really move on from” Love’s death, senior midfielder Brittany Kalkstein said. “Obviously, it’s going to be in our thoughts forever.” Virginia’s players again wore T-shirts that said “One Team. One Heart. One Love.” Their orange jerseys bore black patches on their chests with “LOVE” in white. Some North Carolina students wore Carolina-blue T-shirts bearing Love’s name and jersey No. 1. A moment of silence was held before the game to remember the popular senior whose death jolted the Virginia community. A player on the school’s men’s lacrosse team is charged with murder. The best therapy, coach Julie Myers always said, was to keep playing. She felt lacrosse kept the team together and gave the players something to focus on besides their late teammate. Now, after their

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The NBA notebook ... PHOENIX — Los Angeles Lakers fans were chanting “Bring on Boston!” before Game 1 of the Western Conference finals was over, and they picked up the volume near the finish of Game 2. There are, however, at least two games to be played in Phoenix before what so many see as a foregone conclusion, a third straight trip to the NBA finals for Kobe & Co. “Hopefully we can carry the momentum over from the way we’ve been playing at home,” Lamar Odom said Saturday before the Lakers boarded their short flight to the desert for Game 3 today. “I don’t see why not.” The Lakers seemed ready for a more difficult challenge. “We understand how tough it’s going to be in Phoenix,” Pau Gasol said. “The pace and energy they’re going to bring is going to be hard to match, but we have to understand who we are and play to our capabilities.” Los Angeles scored 128 and 124 points to go up 2-0 in the series and brings an eight-game playoff winning streak to Phoenix, where the Suns hope playing at home will help slow down the defending NBA champions. Nothing else has worked. Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry can understand Kobe Bryant and Gasol having big games. He is a bit confounded that everybody else the Lakers turn to has had them as well, be it Odom, Ron Artest, Jordan Farmar or Shannon Brown.

INDIANAPOLIS — Helio Castroneves put his foot down Saturday and proved he’s still the one to beat at Indy. The defending 500 champion and three-time race winner wrapped up a wild qualification day by topping 228 mph on two of his four laps, averaging 227.970 mph to win his fourth career Indianapolis 500 pole. Nobody, including Castroneves, had touched 227.9 in practice even on one lap. Fans were so shocked by the burst of speed that they gave Castroneves standing ovations after his second, third and fourth laps. “This place, you’ve got to expect the unexpected, my friend. That was a great result,” said Castroneves, who becomes the favorite as he goes for a record-tying fourth Indy win. “I was ready. I didn’t want to keep waiting and see all the times. I wanted to go for it.” The other eight drivers in the new pole “shootout” were

relegated to taking aim at the No. 2 spot. Castroneves tied A.J. Foyt and Rex Mays with his fourth Indy pole and will be joined on the front row by Penske teammate Will Power and Target Chip Ganassi driver Dario Franchitti. Australia’s Power averaged 227.578 and will start from the middle of Row 1. Scotland’s Franchitti averaged 226.990 and will start from the outside of the first row in the 11-row, 33-car field. It was about the only part of qualifying that went as expected. The day was marred by three crashes including one that took out pole contender Tony Kanaan, the 2004 IndyCar Series champ. Kanaan, a Brazilian like Castroneves, never got a second qualifying attempt Saturday. After seven straight cool, overcast days, the sun finally peeked through the clouds during Alex Tagliani’s first qualifying attempt at 11:17 a.m. Tagliani, a Canadian, took

“It’s almost like being a dike, you stick a finger in one hole and water comes out of another one,” Gentry said. Perhaps a return home will help the Suns’ perimeter shooting, particularly Channing Frye, who went 1 of 13 in Los Angeles, 1 of 9 on 3-pointers. “I think he definitely will shoot it better at home,” Gentry said. CUBAN FINED NEW YORK — The NBA won’t tolerate its teams talking about prospective free agents yet. The league fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $100,000 Saturday for comments made about free-agent-to-be LeBron James that violated the league’s anti-tampering rules. Teams are not allowed to talk about another team’s players until July 1, when free agency opens. Asked on Tuesday night before the draft lottery about what teams were allowed to do, Stern said: “Come July 1, just about everything goes. Before July 1, nothing goes.” In an interview this week with CNNMoney.com, Cuban said “anybody” would be interested in James. Cuban said it would be tough to sign the two-time MVP in free agency, but said the Mavericks would have a chance if James told the Cavaliers to arrange a sign-and-trade deal. OBIT HOUSTON — One of the men who moved the Houston Rockets from San Diego has died. The family says Wayne Duddlesten died Thursday at his home after a fiveyear battle with cancer. He was 80.

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most lopsided loss of the year, they head into the uncertainty of the offseason. “Every day that we’ve been together has been a positive day,” Myers said. “I think it’s taken a lot of energy for us to just go through the steps of a normal day, but I think our team has gotten stronger. I think we have gotten more connected. At the end of the game, one of our fifthyear seniors said, ’There’s not a question in anyone’s mind that we all love each other, and to know that is a pretty special and amazing feeling.’ “So I think we’ve established the unconditional love for one another, and we have gotten a little bit stronger,” Myers said. North Carolina (17-2) advanced to next week’s semifinals in Towson, Md. — its second straight berth in lacrosse’s final four. • PRINCETON, N.J.— Zach Howell scored four goals and fifth-seeded Duke dominated ACC rival North Carolina on Saturday, reaching its fourth straight national semifinal with a 17-9 victory over the Tar Heels. The Blue Devils (14-4) scored seven goals in the first quarter and never trailed for the final 55 minutes to improve to 4-0 against North Carolina (133) in the NCAA tournament. They’ll take on top-seeded Virginia or No. 8 seed Stony Brook at the Final Four next weekend.

South trailed 6-1 in the sixth when the game turned. Coffey had to get five outs that inning because his defense let him down, and Basinger’s two-out, two-run single made it 6-4 and changed South’s perspective from hoping to be respectable to having a chance to win the ballgame. South was down 8-4 heading to the eighth, but it finally got a look at Ragsdale’s bullpen and liked what it saw. An eighth-inning double by Bearden helped South shave two runs off its deficit. Miller came in to pitch in the eighth and had a 1-2-3 inning to keep the deficit at 8-6. B l a k e Houston flied out to start the South ninth, but Julio Zubillaga delivered a single to right, Maverick Miles beat ZUBILLAGA out a roller to shortstop, and Gunnar Hogan walked on a close 3-2 pitch to fill the bases. That brought Bearden to the plate. “The coaches had told me to stay back a little more, let the ball get a little deeper, and maybe I could crush one,” said Bearden, who was Carson’s cleanup man. “He got behind, I was sitting on a fastball and he came in with a good one.” Bearden’s grand slam was a shot, a no-doubter. Excited South fans were dialing and texting the folks back home before the ball even landed. “One huge at-bat,” Lowman said. “Patrick got his pitch and he didn’t miss it.” Miller still had to hold High point in the bottom half. “And those last three outs are tough,” Lowman said. It got dicey, but with two on, none out and a 3-2 count on the hitter, Miller got a strikeout and catcher Tyler Freeze threw out the lead runner trying to steal third base. “It was a great call to throw a curveball there,” Miller said. “When he swung at it, it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, there’s one.’ ” Freeze’s good throw made it a twin killing. Then Miller picked up the final out on another breaking ball in the dirt. South is scheduled for two seven-inning games today, taking on Mocksville (1:30 p.m.) and Randolph (4 p.m.) at Mocksville’s Rich Park.

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Helio Castroneves celebrates winning the Indy 500 pole. advantage of the cool track to post the early lead at 226.392. But the heat changed everything. As qualifying continued, most drivers complained about the slick track and increasing winds. Castroneves was the exception. He regained the pole with a rare mid-afternoon run before locking up the 15 points and $175,000 payday on the first run of the first shootout in Indy history.

INDIANAPOLIS — Danica Patrick has experienced a new sensation at the Indianapolis 500 — getting booed. IndyCar’s most popular driver heard fans’ displeasure Saturday when her comments blaming a poor qualifying performance on her car’s setup were broadcast over the racetrack public address system. Patrick, by far the leader in merchandise sales and visibility in the series, appeared upset when she talked about the reaction. “I say one confident thing out there, that it’s not me, and everybody boos me,” she said. “I don’t know, maybe they were booing me before, but some of them were probably cheering for me before. I’m not a different driver than I was five years ago.” The fans objected to her comments, but her team didn’t. “You take one on the chin, but maybe you had it coming this time,” Tom Anderson, Andretti Autosport’s senior vice president for racing operations, said. “All you can do is turn the other cheek and just get back to work.” Patrick averaged 224.217 mph on four laps in her only attempt and ended up qualifying 23rd for the May 30 race. The team didn’t plan to send her out for a second run, but nervousness set in as her time began

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Danica Patrick waits to be interviewed after she qualified. falling down the field. She was in line, waiting for another shot when time ran out. “I think we underestimated, or I underestimated what it was going to take to make the top 24 there,” Anderson said. “Speeds were up a little bit. Not the starting position we wanted, for sure. Sometimes, you just need a day away from the track to analyze it.” Patrick was shaking and holding back tears after the qualifying run. She said adjustments on the car throughout the week were poor. “The car is just totally skating across the track, and there’s no grip,” she said. “My mechanics took tons of time to make sure it was fast and slick and no drag. It’s there, it’s just that the setup’s not there. I feel bad for them because it’s a good car.”

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Junior Johnson was honored by Ryan Newman, who put a logo on his car for Saturday night’s action.

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NASCAR, Johnson’s view is a bit different. “His head was as hard as a piece of cement,” Johnson said. “I had a lot of big arguments with him over safety stuff. He was a ruler, there’s no question about it.” Johnson, who was pardoned in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan for his moonshine conviction, was honored by driver Ryan Newman with a logo on his

car during Saturday’s AllStar race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The 78-year-old Johnson won 50 races before becoming an accomplished car owner. He’s credited with being the first to use drafting in races and creating other technological advances — even if Bill France Jr. often tried to squash his ideas. “When the argument was over we were friends again,” Johnson said, smiling. “But he snuffed out everything I came to him with for racing.”

CHARLOTTE — The movers and shakers in NASCAR gathered this week at a gala to honor the five inductees into the new Hall of Fame. Richard Petty and Junior Johnson, the only two living members of the inaugural class, reminisced with old friends. Richard Childress shared tales of his good friend, the late Dale Earnhardt, while Earnhardt’s widow, Teresa, stayed out of the spotlight but politely accepted congratulatory greetings. The big moment came during the cocktail hour, when the family of Raymond Parks escorted the pioneer through the massive foyer. Two weeks shy of his 96th birthday, Parks is confined to a wheelchair and silently nodded to the frequent well-wishers who gathered to say hello to the top-hat clad owner of the car Red Byron drove to NASCAR’s inaugural 1949 championship. Nobody, including Parks, wants to miss this first celebration of NASCAR’s rich and colorful history. The $195 million Hall of Fame opened May 11, and its first class will be inducted today in what’s expected to be an emotional event. The first class comprises NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., his son, Bill France Jr., seven-time series champions Petty and Earnhardt, and moonshine runner-turned-racing pioneer Johnson. “The five choices that the voting panel made, they could not have made a better choice of anyone,” said team owner Childress, who will speak in Sunday’s ceremony for Earnhardt. That’s not necessarily the unanimous decision, though. The inaugural class was selected last October by a 50-member panel, which spent two-plus hours in what’s been described as a spirited closed-door debate over the 25 nominees. With only five initial slots available to men considered pioneers for their contributions in establishing NASCAR and then transforming it from a Southern series and into a na-

tional sport, the voting members had to make difficult decisions. There were some who felt that the two Frances must be included in the inaugural class. France Sr. for forming the National Association of PETTY Stock Car Racing in 1947, and France Jr., for the three decades he spent at the helm of America’s top motorsports series. Others felt the inclusion of France Jr. could hold off a year, and that the inaugural class would be better served without two administrators from the ruling family. It made for a suspenseful announcement later that day, when current NASCAR chairman Brian France announced the inductees to a packed room at the Charlotte Convention Center. He received five envelopes from an independent accounting firm, and announced his grandfather as the first inductee. Petty, NASCAR’s all-time wins leader was the second name announced. The room then went silent in anticipation of the third selection, which went to France Jr. Three-time champion David Pearson, whose 105 victories rank him second only to Petty on the all-time wins list, watched from the audience. “When I seen the two Frances was in, I knew I didn’t have a chance,” Pearson said moments after the ceremony ended. “The same people don’t like everybody.” The exclusion of the “Silver Fox” dumbfounded Petty, who was not in the room that day for the announcement. When he came in after the ceremony, he had to ask who the other four inductees were. “Anybody that won 105 races and didn’t make the cut — somebody ain’t adding right,” Petty said of his top rival, adding that Pearson would have been his first pick. Because this is NASCAR’s first foray into officially recognizing its pioneers,

the list of qualified candidates is too long to get hung up on the omission of one driver in the first class. “It’s hard to argue the worthiness of the five men selected for the inaugural induction class,” said Dustin Long, president of the National Motorsports Press Association and a member of the voting committee. “All made significant contributions to NASCAR. In my mind, there were six true candidates for the five spots. I chose David Pearson on my ballot because I felt the Hall of Fame was as much for the fans as anybody and that Pearson resonated with the fan.” The debate has abated somewhat over the last seven months, as attention has turned to the actual opening of the Hall and Sunday’s ceremony. The opening’s approach has been accompanied by an outpouring of tributes, including a touching “storytelling” session that highlighted Thursday night’s gala. Longtime industry veterans drew rousing laughter with tales that recounted Earnhardt’s anger over once getting denied a hotel room, Petty taking his time to board a waiting plane so he could sign for every child chasing him for an autograph, France Jr. beginning the present-day practice of summoning out-of-line drivers to the NASCAR hauler, Johnson being asked for a favor from a local sheriff willing to overlook the truckload of moonshine he was hauling. Petty and Johnson have been soaking up the adoration as they’ve participated in numerous events leading up to Sunday. “I’m going from one thing to another,” Johnson said. “I’m not (standing) still in everyday life and work I’ve got going on. NASCAR’s Hall of Fame has been about all of my time. That’s a good thing, not a bad thing. It’s the greatest thing besides my family that’s come along that I could ever have to happen. “I’m going to ride it as long as I can and as long as it’s here, I’m going to try to do my best to do what it needs. When it needs something, I’m going to give it to them.”

Harvick signs multiyear extension way he did. We will always be grateful. To have him come back ad re-sign The NASCAR notebook ... again, we are excited about it.” CONCORD — Kevin Harvick alHarvick has 12 career Cup victoways regretted going public during ries, including the 2007 Daytona 500. his first round of contract negotiaHis victory at Talladega last month tions with Richard Childress Racing, snapped a 115-race winless streak. and the driver vowed to be more • tightlipped about his business going BURNOUT BAD BOY: They changed forward. the rules of the burnout competition beHe did a good job this time around, fore the All-Star race after Kyle Busch refusing all year to discuss his talks was disqualified last year for hitting with team owner Childress on a concones that marked the boundaries. tract extension. The two sides anThis time, hitting the cones helped nounced a multiyear deal Saturday at with scoring. Charlotte Motor Speedway on their Trouble was, Busch was disqualiown terms. fied again — this time for hitting the “I think 2003 was a mess,” said wall. Harvick, the current Sprint Cup Se“He never plays by the rules,” firies points leader. “I kind of let myancee Samantha Sarcinella said. self get caught up in the middle of this Joey Logano was voted the winner world in the media and it’s best to by a panel of celebrity judges that inhandle your family matters within cluded former driver Jimmy Spencer, your family and not let the outside Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti from world dictate what you want to do. I Creed, pro wrestler Jeff Hardy and felt like it went very well as we went Carolina Panthers receiver Steve through it this time.” Smith. Harvick will stay in the No. 29 “I just tried to make more smoke,” Chevrolet, the car he took over follow- said Logano, who donated the $10,000 ing Dale Earnhardt’s death in the 2001 first-place prize to the U.S. paraseason-opening Daytona 500. He had lympic sled hockey team, whose capnot been scheduled to move into the tains were in attendance. Cup Series for another year, but Earn• hardt’s accident expedited his promoHALL OF FAME JUNKIE: While some tion. drivers have been criticized for miss“We are very excited to have Kevin ing events surrounding the opening of back, he has written a lot of history the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Greg Biffor RCR,” Childress said. “When we fle is becoming a regular there. lost Dale in 2001, I don’t know of any Biffle has toured the downtown driver that could have stepped in unCharlotte building, attended the grand der the pressure and handled it the opening and was part of a banquet Associated Press

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members who escorted him to the hauler. The doors were closed behind him after he entered. After a lengthy team meeting, moderated by Gibbs and highlighted by a group viewing of a replay of the incident, a scowling Busch emerged from a side door and didn’t stop to comment. Hamlin, after more discussion with Gibbs, came out smiling and said everything was fine. “That’s Kyle in the moment,” he said of Busch’s radio threat. “I told him my job as the leader is to do everything I can to win that race. And this race in specific is a much different beast than what a points race is. I think he understands that now, from my standpoint, that we’re going to drive each other different. No doubt about it.” Gibbs, who had to moderate a similar meeting several years ago between Hamlin and former JGR driver Tony Stewart, also tried to diffuse the drama.

“We’ve got good cars,” Gibbs said. “When you have good cars and good drivers, you’re going to be up front and this can happen. You can get a situation where two guys are racing each other hard and both of them have a burning desire to win the race. “Basically, what we did is we just met, talked it over. I think the guys had a great discussion and, hey, we left it there.” It took the spotlight away from Kurt Busch, who had no trouble closing out the victory over several late restarts. He beat Martin Truex Jr., who won the preliminary Sprint Showdown to transfer into the main event, by 0.358 seconds. “This is huge,” Kurt Busch said. “This is one of the marquee events. This, Daytona, the (Coca-Cola) 600, Indy ... This is a wonderful win for us.” Joey Logano, the third JGR driver, finished third and said he would avoid stopping by Hamlin’s hauler. “I know nothing,” he laughed. “I am not going near them. All I know is they are cool with me.” Stewart, last year’s All-Star race win-

honoring the first Hall of Fame class. “I don’t know as much about our as sport as I’d like to know,” said Biffle, who soaked up stories from Junior Johnson and Richard Petty, the two living members of the inaugural class. • VICKERS ANXIETY: Brian Vickers is out for the season because of blood clots, and his fellow drivers are eager to learn what caused them. Vickers announced on Friday he’ll miss at least six months because he’s on blood thinners after doctors discovered the clots last week in his lungs and left leg. “All of us should be (concerned) because if it is something that has to do with traveling and flying and anything that is contributed to the race cars, how are seats are molded, anything like that,” Jeff Gordon said. “If it is racing related or lifestyle related, then I want to know about it because I don’t want it to happen to me. I’m very interested to find out.” • LUG NUTS: Toyota announced Fay Knape of Danbury, Texas, beat more than 77,500 submissions to win the “Sponsafy Your Ride Contest.” Knape’s art honoring her one-yearold grandson, Karson, who suffers from a rare lung disease, will be painted on Michael Waltrip’s No. 55 car on June 20 when he attempts to qualify at Infineon Raceway. ... Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan was to wave the green flag for the All-Star race.

ner, finished fifth and was followed by Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski. Matt Kenseth was eighth, Greg Biffle ninth and Bobby Labonte was 10th. Four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson dominated the race, leading 56 of the 100 laps, but was knocked from the lead by the quirky format. He was leading heading into the 10-minute break that precedes the last segment, which calls for teams to make one lap and return to pit road for a fourtire stop. Johnson came out of the pit stop third behind Hamlin and Busch and never led again. Racing late side-by-side with Hamlin far behind leader Busch, Johnson lost control of his car and spun through the infield grass. He finished 13th. “Knew I had to clear the No. 11 on the outside of me, so I just kept my foot in it,” Johnson said. “I could feel them outside of me kind of pulling the back end of my car around, but I said ’The hell with it. It’s the All-Star race.’ Kept my foot to the floor and hoped that I made it off the turn and I didn’t. It turned around on me.”

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Late Friday CONCORD — Lack of funding, loose lug nuts, a rare driver mistake and a long day couldn’t stop Kyle Busch from his 70th visit to Victory Lane. Busch overcame early problems and held off a charging Todd Bodine at Charlotte M o t o r Speedway in a Trucks Series race that didn’t end until early BUSCH Saturday morning because of a lengthy rain delay. Busch recovered from hitting the wall early and had the lead over Ron Hornaday Jr. on a restart with three laps to go. Bodine moved into second, but couldn’t catch Busch, who collected his second win of the season despite not having a primary sponsor for the No. 18 Toyota he owns. “I know these guys are maybe a little leery or worried about what’s going to happen about next year,” Busch said of his team. “All we can do is work as hard as we can to win race and find sponsorship.” The confident 25-year-old knows how to do that, winning for the 70th time in NASCAR’s top three series. “That’s the scary part. I may have 70 now but there’s probably about 20 or 30 that

I’ve missed out on, and maybe five that I’ve stolen,” Busch said. “So the ratio is a little off.” Hornaday finished third, followed by James Buescher and Elliott Sadler. Bodine moved past Aric Almirola, who finished seventh, to take a 2-point lead in the series standings. It was a long day for the drivers and their crews. The garage opened at 7:30 a.m. and practice was at 9. Qualifying began at 3:30 p.m., but the 200-mile race didn’t begin until 11 p.m., three hours late. There was also concern before and early in the race about at least two trucks — including Busch’s — that mysteriously had loose lug nuts. “They just found that three of the wheels were loose,” Busch crew chief Eric Phillips said before the green flag. “We’ve just got to keep a better eye on our stuff, I guess.” Phillips refused to speculate if he thought someone intentionally loosened the wheels. But 20-year-old Austin Dillon — whose car was parked behind Busch’s in the impound area after qualifying — claimed his wreck on the 10th lap was caused by the same problem. “They left the left-rear lugs loose. We don’t know what happened,” said Dillon, grandson of NASCAR team owner Richard Childress. A NASCAR official said they were looking into the matter.

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Expanded Standings Tampa Bay New York Toronto Boston Baltimore

W 31 26 25 23 14

L 12 17 20 21 30

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland

W 26 24 18 18 15

L 17 19 24 26 26

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

W 25 22 21 16

L 19 22 24 27

Philadelphia Atlanta Florida Washington New York

W 26 23 22 22 21

L 16 20 22 22 23

Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Milwaukee Houston

W 25 25 20 18 16 15

L 18 19 24 25 27 28

Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Colorado Arizona

W 25 25 22 21 20

L 18 18 20 22 24

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .721 — — .605 5 — .556 7 2 .523 81⁄2 31⁄2 .318 171⁄2 121⁄2 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .605 — — .558 2 2 .429 71⁄2 71⁄2 .409 81⁄2 81⁄2 .366 10 10 West Division Pct GB WCGB .568 — — .500 3 41⁄2 .467 41⁄2 6 .372 81⁄2 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .619 — — .535 31⁄2 2 .500 5 31⁄2 .500 5 31⁄2 .477 6 41⁄2 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .581 — — 1 1 .568 ⁄2 ⁄2 .455 51⁄2 51⁄2 .419 7 7 .372 9 9 .349 10 10 West Division Pct GB WCGB .581 — — .581 — — .524 21⁄2 21⁄2 .488 4 4 .455 51⁄2 51⁄2

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Games Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 0 Baltimore 5, Washington 3 Philadelphia 5, Boston 1 Cincinnati 7, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Texas 2, Chicago Cubs 1 Houston 2, Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City 9, Colorado 2 Chicago White Sox 8, Florida 0 Minnesota 15, Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 9, L.A. Angels 5 Arizona 8, Toronto 6 Oakland 6, San Francisco 1 L.A. Dodgers 4, Detroit 1 Seattle 15, San Diego 8 Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Florida 1 L.A. Angels 10, St. Louis 7 Washington 7, Baltimore 6 Oakland 1, San Francisco 0 Colorado 3, Kansas City 0 Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 7, 12 innings Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 6, Cleveland 4 Tampa Bay 4, Houston 2 Boston 5, Philadelphia 0 Chicago Cubs 5, Texas 4, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 6, Detroit 4 N.Y. Mets 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Arizona 8, Toronto 5 San Diego 2, Seattle 1

L10 8-2 4-6 6-4 5-5 4-6

Str Home Away W-1 13-7 18-5 L-1 13-6 13-11 L-3 11-11 14-9 W-1 14-11 9-10 L-1 8-12 6-18

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

Str Home Away W-2 14-6 12-11 L-2 14-6 10-13 W-2 11-12 7-12 L-1 8-12 10-14 L-6 6-12 9-14

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

Str Home Away L-1 18-8 7-11 W-2 17-9 5-13 W-1 12-11 9-13 L-1 10-12 6-15

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

Str Home Away L-1 13-9 13-7 W-5 13-6 10-14 L-3 12-10 10-12 W-1 13-10 9-12 W-1 15-9 6-14

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

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L10 9-1 4-6 4-6 5-5 6-4

Str Home Away W-3 15-7 10-11 W-1 12-9 13-9 L-4 13-8 9-12 W-1 11-7 10-15 W-4 11-11 9-13

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati (H.Bailey 1-2) at Cleveland (D.Huff 1-6), 1:05 p.m. Atlanta (Medlen 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Duke 3-4), 1:35 p.m. Baltimore (Millwood 0-4) at Washington (Lannan 1-2), 1:35 p.m. Boston (Wakefield 0-2) at Philadelphia (Halladay 6-2), 1:35 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Silva 5-0) at Texas (C.Wilson 3-1), 2:05 p.m. Florida (Jo.Johnson 4-1) at Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 3-2), 2:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Price 6-1) at Houston (Norris 2-5), 2:05 p.m. Colorado (Cook 1-3) at Kansas City (Greinke 1-4), 2:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Estrada 0-0) at Minnesota (Pavano 4-4), 2:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 4-2) at St. Louis (Carpenter 5-1), 2:15 p.m. San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-3) at Oakland (Sheets 2-3), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Porcello 3-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 5-1), 4:10 p.m. San Diego (Latos 3-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 2-3), 4:10 p.m. Toronto (Marcum 3-1) at Arizona (Buckner 0-1), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-2) at N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-2), 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Rollins aggravates calf PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins was placed on the 15-day disabled list again Saturday after re-injuring his right calf. Rollins missed 29 games with a strained right calf before rejoining the lineup Monday. He returned to his customary leadoff spot Friday, but left in the sixth inning of a 5-1 victory over Boston after feeling a pop while running to first base on a single. An MRI exam Saturday revealed a strain, according to Philadelphia general manager Ruben Amaro. In 12 games, the speedy Rollins is batting .341 with two homers and seven RBIs. He is eligible to come off the disabled list on June 6. “There’s no sense in playing around with it. ... His legs have to be well,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. “He has to be 100 percent. We can’t be knocked around waiting for him to play, on and off. He has to get 100 percent.”

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Mound magic is back for Matsuzaka Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Daisuke Matsuzaka took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, losing his bid on Juan Castro’s bloop single with two outs, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0 on Saturday night. Athletics 1, Giants 0 OAKLAND, Calif. — Gio Gonzalez retired his final 20 batters and the Oakland Athletics scored an unearned run to beat Matt Cain and the San Francisco Giants in the Bay Bridge Series. Gonzalez (5-3) allowed two hits in eight innings. Twins 8, Brewers 7, 12 innings MINNEAPOLIS — Jason Kubel’s sacrifice fly in the 12th lifted the Minnesota Twins over the Milwaukee Brewers. Mets 5, Yankees 3 NEW YORK — Jason Bay tied a career high with four hits and David Wright added a pair of RBI singles, backing a sterling performance by Mike Pelfrey and helping the New York Mets beat the Yankees. White Sox 4, Marlins 1 CHICAGO — Alex Rios hit a two-run homer and Gavin Floyd pitched 61⁄3 sharp innings for the White Sox. Angels 10, Cardinals 7 ST. LOUIS — Scott Kazmir ended a string of three straight losses with his best outing of the season and the Angels backed him with 13 hits. Rockies 3, Royals 0 KANSAS CITY, Mo.— Jeff Francis and three relievers combined on a six-hitter and Troy Tulowitzki homered to help the Colorado Rockies beat the Kansas City Royals. Rays 4, Astros 2 HOUSTON — Houston native Jeff Niemann struck out five in seven efficient innings. Nationals 7, Orioles 6 WASHINGTON — Adam Dunn’s two-

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Minnesota’s Joe Mauer (7) is congratulated by teammate Delmon Young as he scores the deciding run in Saturday’s win against the Brewers. run single capped a sixth-inning rally that carried the Washington Nationals past the Baltimore Orioles, who wasted a bizarre inside-the-park homer by Adam Jones. Jones hit the second inside-the-park homer in the three-year history of Nationals Park — and the second in four days. Reds 6, Indians 4 CLEVELAND — Johnny Cueto won his third straight start and Laynce Nix homered for the third day in a row as the Reds beat the error-prone Indians. Dodgers 6, Tigers 4 LOS ANGELES — Casey Blake homered for the third time in five games and

made a critical defensive play in the ninth, Matt Kemp also hit a solo shot and Blake DeWitt had a two-run triple. Diamondbacks 8, Blue Jays 5 PHOENIX — Chris Young drove in four runs and Edwin Jackson was stellar through his first seven innings. Cubs 5, Rangers 4, 10 innings ARLINGTON, Texas — Pinch-hitter Mike Fontenot had the tiebreaking RBI single in the 10th and the Chicago Cubs beat Texas, ending the Rangers’ five-game winning streak. Darren O’Day (1-2) gave up hits to all three batters he faced in the 10th.

Lowe stays perfect against Pittsburgh Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Derek Lowe reBraves 4 mained unPirates 2 b e a t e n against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Melky Cabrera hit his first home run for Atlanta to help the Braves extend their season-best winning streak to five games with a 4-2 victory Saturday night. After the start was delayed 92 minutes by rain, Lowe (6-4) needed 99 pitches to get through five innings but improved to 8-

0 against the Pirates. He allowed two runs and five hits while walking four and striking out five. Home runs by Cabrera and Eric Hinske off major league loss leader Charlie Morton (1-8) staked Lowe to a 3-0 lead. Cabrera led off the second with a line drive into the rightfield stands and Chipper Jones drove home a second run in the inning with a groundout. Cabrera, acquired from the New York Yankees in an offseason trade for Javier Vazquez, raised his batting average to

.210 by going 2 for 4. Hinske made it 3-0 when he homered to right-center leading off the third. Pittsburgh, which lost its third straight game, scored both its runs off Lowe in the fifth. Ryan Church doubled and scored on Lastings Milledge’s triple to center. Ronny Cedeno drove in Milledge with a squeeze bunt. The Braves took advantage of wildness by reliever Joel Hanrahan in the ninth to add an insurance run. Martin Prado scored on a two-out wild pitch

as Brian McCann struck out but reached first base. Hanrahan had walked the bases loaded. Pittsburgh manager John Russell was ejected by first base umpire Tim Timmons for arguing that McCann should have been called out when he reached on the wild pitch. Billy Wagner pitched a scoreless ninth for his fifth save in six opportunities. Four relievers combined to shut out the Pirates over the last four innings. Church and Milledge had three hits each. Church snapped an 0-for-19 skid.

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Nationals 7, Orioles 6 Baltimore ab CPttrsn lf 4 Markks rf 4 MTejad 3b 4 Scott 1b 4 Wgntn 2b 4 Wieters c 4 AdJons cf 4 CIzturs ss 4 Bergsn p 3 Hndrck p 0 SMoore ph1

Washington h bi ab r h bi 0 0 Morgan cf 4 0 1 0 2 0 CGzmn ss 4 1 3 1 2 0 Zmrmn 3b 4 1 3 0 0 0 A.Dunn 1b 5 0 1 2 2 4 Capps p 0 0 0 0 1 0 Wlngh lf 3 1 1 2 1 2 IRdrgz c 2 0 0 0 1 0 Nieves c 3 0 0 0 1 0 AKndy 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 Berndn rf 4 1 2 1 0 0 Stmmn p 1 1 1 0 Walker p 0 0 0 0 AlGnzlz ph 1 1 1 1 SBurntt p 0 0 0 0 Morse ph 1 0 1 0 Clipprd p 0 0 0 0 Dsmnd ss 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 610 6 Totals 35 7 15 7 Baltimore 200 202 000—6 Washington 002 104 00x—7 E—Morgan (4), Stammen (2). Dp—Baltimore 2, Washington 2. Lob—Baltimore 3, Washington 11. 2b—Stammen (2). 3b—Bernadina (1). Hr—Wigginton (13), Ad.Jones (5), Willingham (7). S—Morgan, Stammen. IP H R ER BB SO r 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

Baltimore Bergesen 5 11 6 6 4 1 1 Hndricksn L,1-2 3 Washington 1 9 6 4 Stammen 5 ⁄3 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 Walker W,1-0 S.Burnett H,6 1 0 0 0 Clippard H,9 1 0 0 0 Capps S,16-16 1 0 0 0 T—2:58. A—30,290 (41,546).

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Twins 8, Brewers 7 (12) Milwaukee ab Weeks 2b 5 Gomez cf 6 Braun dh 6 Fielder 1b 2 McGeh 3b 6 Hart rf 6 Inglett lf 2 Gerut lf 4 Escbr ss 5 Kottars c 3

Minnesota h bi ab r h bi 1 2 Span cf 7 0 0 0 2 2 OHdsn 2b 4 2 2 0 0 0 ACasill 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mauer c 7 3 4 1 2 1 Mornea 1b 5 2 3 1 2 1 Cuddyr rf 6 1 3 1 1 0 Kubel dh 3 0 0 1 1 0 DlmYn lf 5 0 1 3 3 0 Plouffe ss 3 0 0 1 1 1 Thome ph 0 0 0 0 BHarrs ss 1 0 0 0 Punto 3b 5 0 0 0 Totals 45 713 7 Totals 46 8 13 8 Milwaukee 000 011 005 000—7 Minnesota 400 000 201 001—8 Two outs when winning run scored. E—Gomez (2). Dp—Milwaukee 1, Minnesota 4. Lob—Milwaukee 9, Minnesota 17. 2b—Weeks (8), Mcgehee 2 (12), Inglett (4), Mauer (12), Morneau 2 (13), Cuddyer (8), Delm.Young (10). Hr—Hart (8). Sb—O.Hudson (4). Sf—Kubel, Plouffe. IP H R ER BB SO Milwaukee Gallardo 6 6 4 4 3 5 1 ⁄3 2 2 2 1 0 Estrada Stetter 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Coffey Axford 1 0 0 0 1 2 Villanueva 2 4 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 0 M.Parra L,0-3 12⁄3 Minnesota 6 2 2 1 5 Slowey 52⁄3 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 Duensing H,8 Guerrier H,8 2 0 0 0 1 2 Mahay 0 2 3 3 1 0 Rauch Bs,2-12 1 3 2 2 1 1 Al.Burnett 2 1 0 0 0 0 Crain W,1-0 1 0 0 0 1 1 T—4:45. A—39,152 (39,504). r 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1

Angels 10, Cardinals 7 Los Angeles ab r EAyar ss 5 1 Kndrc 2b 4 2 BAreu rf 3 1 Cassvh p 0 0 Rodney p 0 0 TrHntr cf 4 2 KMorls 1b 4 2 HMatsu lf 4 0 Willits lf-rf 1 0 Napoli c 5 1 Frndsn 3b 4 1 Kazmir p 3 0 MRyan lf 1 0

St. Louis h bi ab r h bi 2 0 FLopez 2b 5 0 1 1 1 1 Ludwck rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 Mather rf 2 1 1 0 0 0 Pujols 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 Jay lf 1 0 0 0 1 2 Hollidy lf 4 1 2 2 3 2 YMolin 1b 0 0 0 0 1 2 Freese 3b 3 1 0 0 0 0 Rasms cf 1 0 0 0 1 2 Stavinh rf 1 2 0 0 3 0 LaRue c 4 0 1 0 0 0 B.Ryan ss 4 1 2 1 0 0 Lohse p 1 0 0 0 TMiller p 0 0 0 0 Wnwrg ph 1 0 0 0 Walters p 1 0 0 0 Schmkr ph 1 1 1 1 36 7 8 5 Totals 38101310 Totals Los Angeles 015 020 020—10 St. Louis 020 000 113— 7 E—B.Abreu (4), E.Aybar (4), Willits (1), Lohse (1). Dp—St. Louis 2. Lob—Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 5. 2b—H.Kendrick (9), K.Morales 2 (5), Frandsen 2 (2), Mather (4), Holliday (13), B.Ryan (5). Hr— Napoli (5), Holliday (5). Sb—B.Ryan (1). IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Kazmir W,3-4 7 3 3 3 3 5 4 4 2 0 0 11⁄3 Cassevah 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 Rodney St. Louis 7 6 6 3 1 Lohse L,1-4 31⁄3 3 2 2 0 2 T.Miller 12⁄3 Walters 4 3 2 2 2 2 T—3:03. A—44,091 (43,975).

Athletics 1, Giants 0

San Francisco Oakland ab r h bi ab r h bi Rownd cf 4 0 0 0 Crisp cf 3 0 0 1 Renteri ss 4 0 1 0 Barton 1b 4 0 0 0 Snchz 2b 4 0 1 0 RSwny rf 4 0 2 0 Sndovl 3b 3 0 0 0 KSuzuk c 3 0 1 0 BMolin c 4 0 0 0 Cust dh 2 0 0 0 A.Huff 1b 2 0 0 0 M.Ellis 2b 3 0 0 0 Torres rf 3 0 1 0 ARosls 3b 2 1 1 0 Dwns dh 3 0 0 0 Pnngtn ss 3 0 0 0 Bowker lf 2 0 0 0 RDavis lf 2 0 1 0 Uribe ph 1 0 0 0 Schrhlt rf 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 0 3 0 Totals 26 1 5 1 San Fran 000 000 000—0 Oakland 001 000 00x—1 E—A.Huff (2). Dp—San Francisco 2. Lob—San Francisco 5, Oakland 5. 2b—R.Sweeney (8). Sb— Renteria (2), R.Davis (15). S—R.Davis. Sf—Crisp. IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco Cain L,2-4 8 5 1 0 1 4 Oakland Gonzalez W,5-3 8 2 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 1 2 A.Bailey S,7-9 1 T—2:20. A—35,067 (35,067).

Rockies 3, Royals 0 Colorado Kansas City ab r h bi ab r h bi Fowler cf 4 0 0 0 Pdsdnk lf 4 0 2 0 Giambi dh 4 0 1 0 Aviles 2b 4 0 0 0 Helton 1b 4 0 1 0 DeJess rf 3 0 1 0 Tlwtzk ss 4 1 1 1 BButler 1b 4 0 0 0 Hawpe rf 4 0 0 0 JGuilln dh 4 0 1 0 S.Smith lf 3 1 2 0 Callasp 3b 3 0 0 0 Splrghs lf 1 0 0 0 YBtncr ss 3 0 0 0 Olivo c 4 1 2 1 Blmqst cf 2 0 1 0 Stwart 3b 4 0 1 1 Kendall c 3 0 1 0 Brmes 2b 3 0 0 0 Totals 35 3 8 3 Totals 30 0 6 0 Colorado 000 001 200—3 Kansas City 000 000 000—0 Dp—Colorado 1. Lob—Colorado 5, Kansas City 5. 2b—Helton (7), S.Smith (5), Dejesus (11), Kendall (8). 3b—Olivo (1). Hr—Tulowitzki (3). Sb— Bloomquist (4). Cs—Dejesus (2), Bloomquist (1). IP H R ER BB SO Colorado 1 5 0 0 2 3 Francis W,1-0 6 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Beimel H,51⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 Belisle H,3 11⁄3 Corpas S,3-4 1 0 0 0 0 1 Kansas City Davies L,3-3 6 5 1 1 0 6 D.Hughes 0 3 2 2 0 0 Thompson 1 0 0 0 0 0 Tejeda 1 0 0 0 0 3 Chen 1 0 0 0 0 0 T—2:53. A—20,907 (37,840).

Cubs 5, Rangers 4 (10) Chicago

Texas ab r h bi ab r h bi Theriot 2b 5 0 0 0 Andrus ss 5 1 0 0 SCstro ss 4 1 1 1 MYong 3b 5 0 1 0 D.Lee 1b 5 0 0 1 Kinsler 2b 5 0 1 1 Byrd cf 4 1 0 0 Guerrr dh 5 2 2 1 ArRmr dh 5 0 0 0 Hamltn lf 4 0 2 0 ASorin lf 4 1 1 2 N.Cruz rf 3 1 2 2 K.Hill c 0 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 3 0 0 0 Nady rf 3 0 2 0 MRmrz c 3 0 0 0 Colvin rf 1 1 1 0 Treanr c 1 0 0 0 Soto c 3 0 0 0 Borbon cf 3 0 1 0 Fukdm rf 1 1 1 0 DvMrp ph 0 0 0 0 JeBakr 3b 3 0 2 0 Fntent 3b 1 0 1 1 Totals 39 5 9 5 Totals 37 4 9 4 Chicago 021 000 000 2—5 Texas 010 200 000 1—4 E—Holland (1), Smoak (2). Dp—Chicago 2, Texas 1. Lob—Chicago 6, Texas 6. 2b—Colvin (5), Je.Baker (2), Hamilton (13). Hr—S.Castro (2), A.Soriano (8), Guerrero (10), N.Cruz (9). Sb—Theriot (8). IP H R ER BB SO Chicago 7 3 3 1 6 R.Wells 81⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Marshall W,4-1 2⁄3 Marmol S,8-10 1 1 1 1 1 1 Texas Holland 6 4 3 2 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 Ray Oliver 1 1 0 0 0 1 F.Francisco 1 0 0 0 0 2

O’day L,1-2 0 3 2 2 Nippert 1 0 0 0 T—3:08. A—46,180 (49,170).

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Rays 4, Astros 2 Tampa Bay Houston ab r h bi ab r h bi Bartlett ss 5 0 0 0 Bourn cf 4 0 1 0 Crwfrd lf 5 1 4 0 Kppngr 2b 4 1 1 0 Zobrist 2b 2 0 1 1 Brkmn 1b 3 1 2 1 Lngori 3b 5 0 1 1 Ca.Lee lf 4 0 1 0 C.Pna 1b 3 0 0 0 Pence rf 4 0 0 1 Upton cf 3 1 0 0 Blum 3b 4 0 0 0 Kapler rf 2 1 1 0 Quinter c 4 0 0 0 Brignc 2b 1 0 0 0 Manzell ss 3 0 0 0 DNavrr c 4 0 1 2 WRdrg p 2 0 0 0 Niemnn p 3 0 0 0 Sampsn p 0 0 0 0 Balfour p 0 0 0 0 Sullivn ph 1 0 0 0 Blalock ph 1 1 1 0 WLopez p 0 0 0 0 RSorin p 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 4 9 4 Totals 33 2 5 2 Tampa Bay 000 210 001—4 Houston 100 001 000—2 E—Bartlett (6), Zobrist (1), W.Lopez (1). Dp— Tampa Bay 1, Houston 1. Lob—Tampa Bay 11, Houston 5. 2b—Crawford (14), Longoria (14), D.Navarro (4). Hr—Berkman (5). Sb—B.Upton (14). Cs—B.Upton (4). IP H R ER BB SO Tampa Bay Niemann W,4-0 7 4 2 2 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 Balfour H,4 Soriano S,12-12 1 0 0 0 0 1 Houston Rodriguez L,2-6 6 6 3 3 4 4 Sampson 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 W.Lopez T—2:48. A—33,778 (40,976).

Red Sox 5, Phillies 0 Boston

Philadelphia h bi ab r h bi 0 0 Victorn cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 Polanc 3b 2 0 0 0 2 1 Utley 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 Howard 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 Werth rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 Ibanez lf 1 0 0 0 2 2 C.Ruiz c 3 0 0 0 1 1 JCastro ss 3 0 1 0 1 0 Kndrck p 1 0 0 0 1 0 Bastrd p 0 0 0 0 1 0 Dobbs ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 Figuero p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gload ph 1 0 0 0 Herndn p 0 0 0 0 26 0 1 0 Totals 33 5 9 5 Totals Boston 000 140 000—5 Philadelphia 000 000 000—0 Dp—Boston 2, Philadelphia 1. Lob—Boston 6, Philadelphia 3. 2b—D.Ortiz (7), Beltre 2 (14), Scutaro (7). Sb—Polanco (2). S—Matsuzaka. Sf—Hermida. IP H R ER BB SO Boston Matszaka W,3-1 8 1 0 0 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 D.Bard Philadelphia 8 5 5 2 2 Kendrick L,2-2 42⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 Bastardo 11⁄3 Figueroa 2 1 0 0 0 1 Herndon 1 0 0 0 1 0 T—2:56. A—45,310 (43,651). ab Ellsury cf 4 Pdroia 2b 5 J.Drew rf 4 DMcDn rf 0 D.Ortiz 1b 3 Youkils 1b 0 Beltre 3b 4 Hermid lf 3 Varitek c 4 Scutro ss 4 Matszk p 2 Lowell ph 0 D.Bard p 0

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Dodgers 6, Tigers 4 Detroit

Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h bi Damon cf 5 1 1 0 Martin c 3 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 Santiag 2b 5 1 3 0 Paul rf Ordonz rf 3 1 1 1 MnRmr lf 3 0 0 1 Zumay p 0 0 0 0 Broxtn p 0 0 0 0 Avila ph 1 0 0 0 Kemp cf 4 2 2 1 MiCarr 1b 5 0 2 0 Loney 1b 4 1 2 1 Boesch lf 5 1 2 3 Blake 3b 4 2 3 1 Inge 3b 3 0 0 0 DeWitt 2b 3 0 1 2 Laird c 4 0 1 0 JCarrll ss 3 0 0 0 Everett ss 2 0 1 0 Ely p 2 0 0 0 AJcksn cf 1 0 1 0 Kuo p 0 0 0 0 Worth 2b 0 0 0 0 GAndrs ph 1 0 0 0 Galrrg p 2 0 0 0 Troncs p 0 0 0 0 Ni p 0 0 0 0 JefWvr p 0 0 0 0 Kelly ph 0 0 0 0 RJhnsn lf 0 0 0 0 Rabur cf 2 0 0 0 Totals 38 412 4 Totals 30 6 10 6

Detroit 200 000 011—4 Los Angeles 110 310 00x—6 E—Mi.Cabrera (6), Blake (7), Kemp (3). Dp— Detroit 2, Los Angeles 2. Lob—Detroit 11, Los Angeles 3. 2b—Santiago (2), Mi.Cabrera (15), Boesch (10), Kemp (10). 3b—Dewitt (3). Hr—Boesch (4), Kemp (9), Blake (6). Cs—Loney (2). Sf— Man.Ramirez. IP H R ER BB SO Detroit 8 6 5 1 3 Glarraga L,1-1 42⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 Ni 11⁄3 Zumaya 2 0 0 0 1 3 Los Angeles Ely W,3-1 6 8 2 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 Kuo 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 Troncoso 0 0 0 0 0 Jef.Weaver H,3 1⁄3 Broxton S,10-12 1 3 1 1 0 2 Ely pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. HBP—by Troncoso (A.Jackson). T—2:59. A—45,117 (56,000).

Reds 6, Indians 4 Cincinnati ab OCbra ss 5 Phllps 2b 5 Votto 1b 5 Rolen 3b 3 Bruce rf 4 Gmes dh 5 L.Nix lf 4 RHrndz c 4 Stubbs cf 3

Cleveland h bi ab r h bi 0 0 Crowe cf 4 1 1 2 2 0 Choo rf 5 0 1 0 2 1 Kearns lf 5 0 2 0 0 1 Hafner dh 4 1 2 2 4 2 Peralta 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 LaPort 1b 4 1 1 0 2 2 Grdzln 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 Rdmnd c 3 0 0 0 2 0 Duncan ph 1 1 1 0 Donald ss 3 0 1 0 Branyn ph 0 0 0 0 Valuen pr 0 0 0 0 Totals 38 612 6 Totals 36 4 9 4 Cincinnati 200 210 100—6 Cleveland 000 002 002—4 E—Redmond (1), Peralta (3), Crowe (1). Dp— Cleveland 1. Lob—Cincinnati 9, Cleveland 8. 2b— B.Phillips 2 (15), Bruce (7), Kearns (12). Hr—L.Nix (4), Hafner (4). Sb—B.Phillips (4), Bruce (5), Stubbs 2 (11). Sf—Rolen. IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Cueto W,4-1 6 4 2 2 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 Owings 2 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 Herrera 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Masset H,6 Cordero 1 3 2 2 1 1 Cleveland Carmona L,4-2 6 7 5 3 2 4 J.Wright 2 4 1 1 1 0 R.Perez 1 1 0 0 0 1 T—3:12. A—25,531 (45,569). r 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 0

Cubs 5, Rangers 4 (10) Chicago

Texas ab r h bi ab r h bi Theriot 2b 5 0 0 0 Andrus ss 5 1 0 0 SCastro ss4 1 1 1 MYong 3b 5 0 1 0 D.Lee 1b 5 0 0 1 Kinsler 2b 5 0 1 1 Byrd cf 4 1 0 0 Guerrr dh 5 2 2 1 ArRmr dh 5 0 0 0 Hamltn lf 4 0 2 0 ASorin lf 4 1 1 2 N.Cruz rf 3 1 2 2 K.Hill c 0 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 3 0 0 0 Nady rf 3 0 2 0 MRmrz c 3 0 0 0 Colvin rf-lf 1 1 1 0 Treanr c 1 0 0 0 Soto c 3 0 0 0 Borbon cf 3 0 1 0 Fukdm ph-rf 1 1 1 0 DvMrp ph0 0 0 0 JeBakr 3b 3 0 2 0 Fontent ph-3b1 0 1 1 Totals 39 5 9 5 Totals 37 4 9 4 Chicago 021 000 000 2—5 Texas 010 200 000 1—4 E—Holland (1), Smoak (2). Dp—Chicago 2, Texas 1. Lob—Chicago 6, Texas 6. 2b—Colvin (5), Je.Baker (2), Hamilton (13). Hr—S.Castro (2), A.Soriano (8), Guerrero (10), N.Cruz (9). Sb—Theriot (8). IP H R ER BB SO Chicago 7 3 3 1 6 R.Wells 81⁄3 0 0 1 1 Marshall W,4-12⁄3 1 Marmol S,8-10 1 1 1 1 1 1 Texas Holland 6 4 3 2 0 5 Ray 1 1 0 0 0 0 Oliver 1 1 0 0 0 1 F.Francisco 1 0 0 0 0 2 O’day L,1-2 0 3 2 2 0 0 Nippert 1 0 0 0 2 1 T—3:08. A—46,180 (49,170).

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he could stay home. Catawba has shown a lot of interest. FCS schools like Appalachian State and Western could be options. “I’m going to wait it out for now,” said Hargrave, who has been told he could be a defensive end, tackle or linebacker in college. “It doesn’t matter to me,” Hargrave said. “This is the hardest I’ve worked. I’m in the weight room every day and running every day. I’m benching 320. That’s my highest. I’m going to go all out for my last year and get a winning season.” Fleming said whoever gets Hargrave is going to

get a special person. “He says ‘Yes sir,’ he’s polite and well-mannered,” Fleming said. “He’s HARGRAVE not easily agitated. But he’s serious about what he does.” And that’s play a mean game of football when the pads are on — even if it is 1A. “I don’t care where you go to school, if you can play, somebody will find you,” Fleming said. Fleming wonders if Hargrave will add to that big frame. “You never know how much he’s going to grow,”

Fleming said. “I’d say probably 85 percent of kids who step on a college campus are redshirted. So he has another year to grow, plus he has his senior year to look forward to.” Asked about his size, Hargrave grinned. “I’m perfect right now,” he said. • A few miles away at Salisbury, Morris is still getting offers. The total is up to 11. Coach Joe Pinyan said the latest offers have come from Clemson and Georgia Tech. Those schools join North Carolina, North Carolina State, Wake Forest, East Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas and Utah who would love Morris’ speed on their team. • Pinyan added that

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second visit to West, this time sending the defensive coordinator. The Irish are showing strong interest. If Noble goes to South Bend, it will be the second area DB to head that way. Davie’s Raeshon McNeil just finished a four-year career MORRIS NOBLE there after Charlie Weis made a personal visit to Darien Rankin, a defensive Mocksville. back, is still getting looks, Young and Noble are gobut one-day camps at sever- ing to make a visit to the al schools will determine Golden Dome in the near fuwhere he goes. ture. • • Young is also taking The most recruited player Noble and quarterback B.J. of all Rowan County juniors Grant to Georgia Tech. The is West Rowan’s 6-foot-2 de- Yellow Jackets are showing fensive back Dominique No- interest in Sherrill. ble. Sherrill’s stock is rising. Noble now has 16 Division Young says Georgia Tech I offers. coaches know he can fire According to coach Scott the football. Now, they want Young, Notre Dame made a to see if he can pitch it in

Paul Johnson’s wishbone offense. • Young is also planning a trip with those players to Utah, who has offered Noble. • East Rowan athletics director Chad Mitchell seems pleased with the number of quality resumes coming in for the Mustangs’ football job. Brian Hinson resigned that position recently to take the job at Andrew Jackson High School in Kershaw, S.C., near Lancaster. East hopes to start interviewing the candidates on Monday and possibly have Hinson’s replacement named by Friday. • Contact Ronnie Gallagher at 704-797-4287 or rgallagher@salisburypost.com.

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FLINT, Mich. — Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram’s name now is a part of Atwood Stadium in his Michigan hometown. Ingram told a crowd Saturday at the stadium in Flint that it was “good to be home.” Two signs were unveiled above the stadium’s scoreboards stating: “Home of Mark Ingram II, 2009 Heisman Trophy Winner.” The Alabama tailback won

the Heisman last season as a sophomore. He went to high school at Flint Southwestern Academy and played at Atwood Stadium. The Flint Journal reports hundreds of people turned out for the event. The Heisman Trophy was displayed on the stage. Mayor Dayne Walling proclaimed Dec. 12 “Mark Ingram Day” after he won the Heisman, and said the football star helps bring the community together.

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Graduation ceremony held for 18 new Leadership Rowan alumni Leadership Rowan has 18 new alumni after a graduation ceremony at the Country Club of Salisbury. Leadership Rowan is sponsored by the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce. Ronnie Smith was the featured speaker. Penny Greer-Link, Leadership Rowan steering committee chair (of the W.G. Hefner V.A. Hospital), served as master of ceremonies for the evening. Graduates for the 2009-10 class are Glen Albracht (W.G. Hefner V.A. Medical Center), Mary Jo Bopp (town of China Grove), Stephen Brown (Salisbury-Parks & Recreation

Business Roundup Department), Alesia Burnette (Rowan-Salisbury Schools), David Flowe (N-Focus Design), Katherine Generaux (Partners In Learning), Troy Harrington (SunTrust Bank), Todd Harris (Alliance Medical Inc.), Brittany Honeycutt

(Prevent Child Abuse of Rowan) and Jeff Jones (Food Lion). Zack Kyle (city of Salisbury), Melissa Meacham (F&M Bank), Brooke Moose (American Cancer Society), Beth Nance, David Phillips (W.G. Hefner V.A. Medical Center), Robert Reese (CommunityOne Bank), Angie Richard (North Hills Christian School) and Joyce Yates (Chandler Concrete & Building Supply). “The Chamber extends it congratulations to these people and looks forward to the good things that will come from them. We also look for-

ward to the 2010-11 edition of Leadership Rowan,” said Chamber of Commerce Chair of the Board Skip Wood (Sharp Transit of Salisbury). Besides Greer-Link, other members of the Leadership Rowan steering committee are Rita Foil (Rowan-Salisbury School System); Myra Heard (city of Salisbury), Tim Norris (Healthcare Management Consultants) and Tyler Weant (Elium Exterminator).

Jordan joins Federal Reserve council Bryan Jordan, son of Sal-

isbury’s David and Jean Jordan, has been appointed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to fill an unexpired term on the Federal Advisory Council. He is president and CEO of First Horizon National Corp. The Federal Reserve term ends Dec. 31. The council comprises one representative from each of the 12 Federal Reserve districts. Council members confer at least four times a year with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington on economic and banking developments, and make

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n a down economy, a six-figure investment in a new business location might seem like a leap of faith. But for Dunkan Echevarria, who runs the Havana Knights Fine Cigar Lounge with business partner Darren Moody, it was a natural progression. “I feel confident,” Echevarria said. “This is a one-of-a-kind place.” Havana Knights opened on Lee Street, next door to The Salty Caper pizzeria and bar, in September. Echevarria said the cigar lounge quickly outgrew that space. Last month, after several weeks of renovations, Havana Knights moved into the former Coldwell Banker Realty building at 401 E. Innes St. It had most recently been used as Elizabeth Dole’s campaign headquarters, but had been vacant since late 2008.

For Echevarria, it’s the perfect spot to draw clientele not only from Salisbury, but up and down the Interstate 85 corridor. “It’s on the main drag of the town, only half a mile from the freeway,” he said. “There are a lot of positives behind it. (The building) has a presence of its own.” The new home of Havana Knights features a 500-squarefoot walk-in humidor, a bar and three lounges — two downstairs for the general public and an upstairs lounge for members. Havana Knights is leasing the space with an option to buy, Echevarria said. All told, the move represents an investment of more than $100,000. It’s a big jump from the small space on Lee Street where Havana Knights opened the doors not quite eight months ago. “In three months we knew where it was headed,” he said. “We knew it was going to be big. The town was so ready for something like this.” Aside from some minor diffi-

BUSINESS CALENDAR May 26 — Rowan Partners for Education board of directors, Chamber of Commerce, 7 a.m. 26 — Chamber’s small business financial counseling, Chamber, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Call 704-633-4221 for appointment 27 — Chamber’s Program of Work task force, Chamber, 8 a.m.

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2 — Chamber’s Leadership Rowan steering committee, Chamber, 7:30 a.m. 3 — Chamber’s executive committee, Chamber, 8 a.m. 3 — Chamber board nominating committee, Chamber, 10:30 a.m. 3 — Chamber women-in-business mixer, Chamber, 5-6:30 p.m. Call 704-633-4221 or e-mail info@rowanchamber.com to RSVP

Jim Kristoff has joined Gerry Wood Auto Group as director of operations. He is responsible for increasing market share and training and developing employees with a focus on customer service. Gerry Wood Auto Group employs 90 people at Honda, Kia and Chrysler Jeep Dodge

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The goal in designing the new lounge was to make the experience welcoming to those who’d never seen a cigar store before. “I’ve always had a love of cigars,” Moody said. “It’s like, the camaraderie, the mystique, the romance of it.” That old-fashioned atmosphere runs through everything in the new location. The new Havana Knights features spacious seating areas with

CHARLOTTE — Memorial Day marks the traditional start of the summer travel season. With the cost of travel skyrocketing, consumers are susceptible to vacation travel fraud. The Better Business Bureau is warning vacationers to beware of joining “travel clubs.” Complaints to the BBB show that many travel clubs promise huge discounts on hotels, airfare and cruises, but fail to deliver these discounts to members despite the high cost of joining. “With travel costs on the rise, consumers are looking for vacation bargains,” said BBB President Tom Bartholomy. “Unfortunately, they are being seduced by slick presentations from high-pressure sales people who promise great deals that do not exist.” In the last three years, hundreds of consumers nationwide have filed complaints with the BBB against travel clubs in the U.S. The complainants allege that they are lured — either in person, by telephone or through e-mail — to a high-pressure sales presentation with the promise of receiving free airline tickets, gas cards or tickets to shows. During the presentation, consumers are told they would be able to get great deals on travel if they joined the travel club for a membership fee of as much as $8,000. Complaints to the BBB reveal a pattern of problems with booking travel arrangements and evidence that the “deals” offered by travel clubs were no better — and often worse — than what customers could find on their own. Complaints focus on misrepresentation and unethical sales practices. Travel clubs are prevalent in popular tourist destinations such as Branson, Mo. Travel More Now, lures tourists to their sales presentation with offers of free show tickets. At the presentation, the company claims they can set people up as travel agents allowing them to take advantage of hidden travel deals for a membership fee of up

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Havana Knights owners ‘knew it was going to be big,’ so they pick new spot BY HUGH FISHER

Gerry Wood names director of operations

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Darren Moody, left, and Dunkan Echevarria are business partners in Havana Knights Fine Cigar Lounge.

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Ron Christian enjoys a cigar and plays dominos at the new location of Havana Knights Fine Cigar Lounge on Innes Street. culties settling in, he said the biggest problem from the start had been space. At the old location, the entire stock of cigars lined shelves around the seating area, making it hard to keep the humidity constant. And just eight or nine customers filled most of the seats and created more smoke than the air filters could easily handle. There are no such problems at the new location. “The new humidor is the size of our former seating area,” Echevarria said.

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DEAR BRUCE: My husband and I are both 55 years old. Should we continue to put money into a term life insurance policy that we have been paying on for many years? Or should we cancel these policies and invest the monthly payments? — D.L. via e-mail

DEAR D.L.: There are several variables that would come into play in making a decision about your term life insurance. First of all, there are those who are going to say you didn’t develop any cash value, which is why term insurance is a lousy buy. What is not

Smart money taken into account: During those years you and your husband were comforted by knowing that if the insured passed away there would be money for the survivor. I’ve always hoped that my insurance companies, which I have almost all of my insurance in the form of term, make a ton on me — I want to keep living. You have to determine whether you want to have that insurance protection for the beneficiary of these polices? If not, then by all means, you can cancel them and continue to take the premium and invest them. If you have had these

polices for a long period of time, it becomes a very personal judgment on whether to keep them — made only after you take in the variables that I have described. DEAR BRUCE: I am a woman in my 50s entering a relationship with another divorcee. We have different earning potentials, and savings and retirement preparedness. We each have children. What should be included to protect our children’s inheritances and ourselves in a prenuptial agreement, should we decide to marry? Plan for the best, prepare for the worst, right? — N.D. via e-mail

DEAR N.D.: I would agree with

your last line. You both have assets and children from previous relationships. Many folks want to make certain that their kids get whatever they and their previous spouse earned during their lifetime, and that’s what a prenup is all about. If there are few assets and everything that follows will be part of a normal spousal relationship, a prenup is probably not necessary. Understand if you choose to get one in most states, both parties must be represented by separate counsel. Further, if there is any attempt to bury or hide assets on the part of either party and is discovered in the future, the prenups go right out the door.

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Some farmers tell feds poultry companies have too much control NORMAL, Ala. (AP) — Alabama chicken farmer Garry Staples told federal officials Friday that there’s no open market in the poultry industry. The 57-year-old farmer raises birds for Pilgrim’s Pride, one of the nation’s biggest poultry companies. But like other farmers who raise most of the chickens Americans eat, he doesn’t own the birds he raises, nor does he determine what food they eat or medicine they get. Pilgrim’s Pride controls that. Staples joined dozens of other chicken farmers who traveled to Alabama A&M University for a hearing the U.S. Departments of Justice and Agriculture held on competition in the chicken industry. Although they raise birds for different companies, the farmers said they have little power to negotiate with the businesses

that control an increasingly consolidated industry. Staples and other farmers said they have been putting up with more demands and smaller payments from the poultry companies. In some regions, farmers only have one or two potential buyers, so it’s hard to make demands. Staples owes more than $1 million on his farm, and he doesn’t want to upset Pilgrim’s Pride. “The chicken companies know they don’t have to treat you fairly,” Staples said. Richard Lobb, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council trade group, responded that Friday’s hearing was skewed with testimony from unhappy farmers and many are satisfied with contracts that allow them to sell a steady supply of chickens.” “The processing plant has to have birds coming in.

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Some farmers are unhappy with how poultry producers like Tyson Foods Inc. control an increasingly consolidated industry. They’ve got to continue working with farmers in that area to secure a supply of birds. (Companies) are not going to cut off their nose to spite their face,” he said. Friday’s hearing was the second of five workshops that the Obama administration will hold this summer and fall to examine competition in agriculture, where

seed, cattle, chicken and hog markets are dominated by a few large corporations. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack both attended the hearing. Holder suggested during a news conference that the Justice Department hasn’t been vigilant enough in pursuing antitrust cases against

Ram operations on Jake Alexander Boulevard. Kristoff, who has 30 years of experience in the auto dealership business, was previously a partner in a Honda store in Tampa, Fla., and has also worked in dealerships in Palm Beach County, Fla.; Connecticut and New York.

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Turning House Millworks honored for tobacco warehouse work

Bank of Carolinas reports first quarter net loss of $235,000

Turning House Millworks received a Triad Green Award for its role in the deconstruction of two tobacco storage warehouses at an R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. complex in Winston-Salem. The Landis millworks salvaged every piece and type of material it could from the 1920sand 1930s-era warehouses, including 230,000 linear feet of wood for its sister company, Turning House Furniture in Bassett, Va. The millworks reclaimed and renewed the vintage, Southern longleaf pine for use in fine furniture. Spencer Wood Morten III, chairman and CEO of the two companies, also is chairman and CEO of Bassett Mirror Co. He was one of three joint recipients of the award for resource recovery made by the Triad Business Journal during ceremonies on Earth Day in High Point. The other two recipients were R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and D.H. Griffin Wrecking Company Inc. “Turning House is more than a business that just sells wood and furniture,” Morten said. “We help communities revitalize by removing old industrial buildings, recycling materials that used to end up in landfills. In the process, we are able to repurpose the wood as fine furniture, offering consumers an alternative to furniture built from fresh-cut timber.”

MOCKSVILLE — Bank of the Carolinas Corp. reported a net loss of $235,000 for the first quarter compared to a loss of $655,000 in the first quarter of 2009. For the three month period ending March 31, the company reported the loss was 12 cents per common share, compared to a loss of 17 cents per share for the first quarter of 2009. Improved net interest margins have helped. Net interest income totaled $4.2 million this year, a 32.3 percent increase from the comparable 2009 quarter. The net interest margin in the first quarter of 2010 increased to 3.17 percent, compared to 2.38 percent in 2009. Total assets amounted to $570.7 million, a decrease of 6.5 percent when compared to the $610.4 million as of Dec. 31, 2009 and a decrease of 5 percent when compared to $600.6 million last March 31. The decrease in assets was a planned strategy to improve its net interest margin and capital ratios. Bank of the Carolinas Corp. is the holding company for Bank of the Carolinas with offices in Cleveland, Concord, Landis, Lexington and other areas.

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Swing Transport Inc. was recently presented a Platinum award by Great West Casualty Co. as part of the 2009 National Fleet Safety Awards Program. This award is the highest bestowed and the third consecutive distinction. Swing Transport is a for hire carrier with corporate headquarters in Salisbury and terminals in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. The Fleet Safety Award Program drew more than 800 entries from across the country. Carriers were recognized for achieving a low preventable accident frequency per million miles of operation. The Fleet Safety Awards program recognizes fleets in similar operations (truckload and less than truckload) with awards based on year-end preventable accident results.

Cabarrus Meals on Wheels has received $5,000 from the Food Lion Charitable Foundation. Cabarrus Meals on Wheels will use the gift to pay for meals for clients who are unable to pay for meals themselves due to financial hardship. “We are extremely grateful to Food Lion for this generous grant. Nutritional meals are essential to helping our clients maintain their health and continue to live independently in their homes,” said Kimberly Strong, executive director. The mission of Cabarrus Meals on Wheels is to assist the homebound in remaining independent by the delivery of nutritious meals which contribute to their overall well-being. Today, more than 388 homebound, elderly and disabled residents in Cabarrus County receive a hot, nutritionally well-balanced meal delivered by caring, compassionate volunteers, Monday through Friday. Established in 2001, the Food Lion Charitable Foundation provides financial support for programs and organizations dedicated to feeding the hungry in the communities it serves.

Thrivent Financial honors Hough for sales, service

Mooresville elementary school wins $25,000 from Windstream

Boyd Hough, a financial representative with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, has qualified for the organization’s Summit Circle for 2009 achievements. To qualify, Hough demonstrated outstanding sales and service to members. The Salisbury financial representative is with Thrivent Financial’s Southeast Regional Financial Office, serving Lutherans and their family members in the surrounding communities by providing financial guidance. Ten percent of Thrivent Financial’s 2,500 financial representatives qualified for the Summit Circle. Hough has been with Thrivent Financial and its predecessor organizations for 28 years and has been recognized for his performance 28 times.

Lakeshore Elementary in Mooresville has been named one of four $25,000 winners in Windstream’s Classroom Connections program. Windstream will officially present the school with its award at a pep assembly Monday at 1 p.m. featuring the entire student body, teachers, administrators, Windstream representatives and the company's vintage 1953 green truck. Lakeshore elementary is located at 262 Lakeshore School Road in Mooresville. Windstream received more than 120 applications from public and public charter schools in Windstream’s service area. Eligible schools applied online and were required to submit a video with their application. Schools were judged on demonstrated need, creativity and enthusiasm.

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New Rite Aid in Mooresville offers free health screenings

big poultry companies. “There is a new attitude in the antitrust division,” Holder said. “Everyone should understand. There is no hesitancy on the part of this antitrust division, in this administration, to take action where we think it is needed. This antitrust division is open for business again.”

to $8,000. Another travel club, Show Me Destinations, sent post cards to consumers informing them they had won two roundtrip tickets to anywhere in the U.S. and instructing them to call a phone number to receive their prize. Complainants allege that they were required to attend a sales event during which they were told they could purchase software that would allow them to access special travel deals for an initial payment of $3,000 to $6,000. The free trip, offered as an inducement to attend the sales presentation, was difficult to redeem, and consumers were not refunded “good faith” cash deposits required to schedule the “free” trip. Advantage Travel LC, also doing business as Great Escapes, used mail and telephone solicitation to lure people to their sales presentations with offers for “free” gas cards or vacations. Complainants who joined had to pay a membership fee ranging from $1,000 to $7,000 and then they eventually found out that the sales staff misrepresented vacation availability and travel savings. For more information, visit www.bbb.org. or call 1-877-3177236 toll-free in N.C. and S.C.

staffing coordinator. “Brenda is a very dedicated Caregiver and always has a smile on her face.” A Salisbury native, she has a daughter living here, a son in Georgia and six grandchildren.

ipating organization with a collection bin and promotional materials and will coordinate food pick up and delivery as needed. Comfort Keepers is also accepting healthy non-perishable food donations at the office at 1717 W Innes St.

Comfort Keepers seeking food donations to help needy seniors

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Undernourishment and malnutrition are serious problems for America’s growing 65 and older population. To raise awareness for this growing problem, in conjunction with Older Americans Month in May, Comfort Keepers kicked off a nationwide initiative to collect food items for distribution to seniors in the community. All through the summer months, Comfort Keepers is seeking groups or organization interested in collecting food donations for the Serving Seniors, Nourishing Lives campaign. Those interested should contact Lori Eberly or Patrice Gordon with Comfort Keepers at 704-630-0370 or via e-mail at lorieberly@ comfortkeepers.com . Comfort Keepers will provide each partic-

The financial services firm Edward Jones was named the No. 1 full-service brokerage firm in the June edition of SmartMoney magazine. The firm has five Rowan County financial advisors. The magazine lauded Edward Jones for adding more than 500 financial advisors since last year to meet investor needs. The firm was No. 2 in 2009 and 2008, and No. 1 in 2007 and 2005. The Rowan County financial advisers include Don Coggins, Michael Hanzlik, Stephen Kidd, John Philpott and Jolene Philpott. Submit information about new businesses, honors and management promotions to bizbriefs@salisburypost.com. Include a daytime phone number.

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MOORESVILLE –– A new Rite Aid features the Month at Home Instead the company’s “Customer World” design. Brenda Clifton has been named Caregiver The Rite Aid, at 614 Brawley School Road, of the Month for May at Home Instead Senior opened this past week. Customer feedback was used in the new de- Care. She joined Home Instead in June of 2007. sign, including expanding merchandise selec“Brenda’s clients and their families contintions, improving store navigation and imually sing her praises,” said Ashley Sheley, proved feel at the pharmacy.

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KANNAPOLIS-3 BR 2 bath. Nice neighborhood. NEW APPRAISAL ON FILE. Storage shed. Great location . Convenient to I-85 and Research Campus $119,000 #932716 Jim 704-223-0459. Key Real Estate Inc. Salisbury

Motivated seller – make an offer!

2 yrs tractor/trailer experience req'd. F/T, P/T, casual & retirees welcome. WE HAVE IT ALL! You can work 1 day per wk, 2 days per wk, or just weekends. Whatever your schedule will allow. Local – home every night ($500-$600 take home). Regional – 1-2 nights ($650-$750 take home). OTR – 3-4 nights out ($800-$900 take home), excellent benefits – 401K, paid vacation and holidays, non-forced dispatch, 90% no touch freight. 336-315-9161

Make Your Ad Pop!

Color backgrounds as low as $5 extra* 704-797-4220 *some restrictions apply

Insurance

Life & Annuity Agent needed for growing insurance office in Lexington. We specialize in Medicaid, VA, Estate & Retirement Planning. Tax service also available. Access to Elder Law Attorney. Meet with clients in your own office. No prospecting. Office support staff. Permanent position with opportunity to own your own business. Six figure income. Call Ron Stockton at First Fidelity Financial Group of the Triad, LLC at 336-2241077, or apply at 317 South Talbert Blvd. Lexington, NC 27292

Healthcare

Avon Representatives $10 to start. Earn extra income. 704-232-9800 or 704-278-2399

Lutheran Church in Statesville seeking Organist. Must work with pastor in ELCA liturgy. Send resumes to Music/Worship Committee in c/o 913 Grove Street, China Grove, NC 28023

Healthcare

P/T Social and Activity Director

Dr's Assistant needed. No experience necessary, two offices, hours vary. Send resume to: Office Manager, 316 S. Church St., Salisbury 28144 Healthcare

Weekend LPNs, 12 hr. shifts & weekend RN Supervisor, 12 hr. shift. Competitive wages. Apply in person at the NC Veteran's Home, 1601 Brenner Ave., Building 10, Salisbury.

for small assisted living facility. Must be certified. 704-933-4339 Restaurant

Kitchen Positions Available

Sales

Membership Sales Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce. FT w/benefits. Base + commission. Email resume to: gmccombs@cabarrus.biz Healthcare

Director of Nursing 88 bed non-profit nursing facility with excellent survey history and stable nursing staff seeking Director of Nursing. 5 + years experience leading a nursing team in a skilled nursing/rehabilitation health center. Knowledgeable of State and Federal regulations, able to manage a budget. Competitive salary and benefits package. Send resume to:

Manufacturing

Production Scheduler

Priscilla Vint, Administrator pvint@lutheranhomealbemarle.net LUTHERAN HOME-ALBEMARLE 24724 Highway 52 South Albemarle, NC 28001

Fiberon LLC, a leader in Composite Decking and Railing, is looking for a Production Scheduler. Fiberon LLC is located in New London N.C.

Drivers

QUALIFICATIONS: Class A Drivers: More Miles equals More Money!

! Willingness to work overtime, holidays, and weekends as scheduled. ! Must have High School Diploma and an Associates degree minimum preferred. ! A background in a manufacturing environment (similar plastic extrusions setting preferred). ! Scheduling experience either with production scheduling preferred or purchasing supplier replenishment/scheduling would be acceptable. ! ERP systems background, preferably on AS400 with CMS/Solarsoft. ! Minimally basic-to-intermediate spreadsheet (Excel) capabilities. ! Utilize standard office equipment (e.g. Desktop/laptop computers, copiers, printers, etc).

Increasing freight levels and additional business are bringing regional driving jobs to your area. • No Touch Freight • Preplanned Loads • Home Every Other Week Local orientation starts in Charlotte on June 7. Space is limited; call to secure your spot today.

Please send all resumes to:

HR@FiberonDecking.com

P/T Director, Personal Enrichment & Healthy Living Rowan-Cabarrus Community College seeks applications for part-time Director, Personal Enrichment and Healthy Living. Required: Bachelor's degree in business, management, marketing, communication, or other related discipline; strong oral and written communication skills. Two years' experience in program design and management. Deadline for applications: June 10, 2010. For further qualifications and to apply, log on to our web site www.rowancabarrus.edu or contact Human Resources, RowanCabarrus Community College, P.O. Box 1595, Salisbury, NC 28145-1595. 704-216-3457. EOE.

Healthcare

CNA's NEEDED Primary Health Concepts, Jake Alexander Blvd., 704-637-9461 Real Estate

Restaurant/Food Service

Subway hiring for all shifts. Salisbury locations. Apply within.

Restaurant/Food Service

Waitstaff

Finance/Accounting

Exper. req'd, must 18 + yrs old. Apply in person, Zaki's Bistro at 1621 W. Innes St.

Will Train if Needed Insurance Available Paid Vacations 5 Day Work Week No Sundays!

Restaurant/Food Service

Waitstaff

Apply in Person Only GARY'S BBQ China Grove, NC

CLASSIFIEDS!

Please send resumes to Cabarrus Eye Center, 201 LePhillip Court, NE, Concord, NC 28025 or e-mail tglatz@carolina.rr.com or fax 704-782-1207 EOE

Medical Insurance/Billing Cabarrus Eye Center has an immediate fulltime opening in our insurance department. Must have Medicaid claims processing experience. Excellent benefits and work environment. This is a great opportunity to be a member of a strong, experienced team.

Finance Manager

Monarch is now seeking a Mental Health Finance Manager to develop, implement, and manage authorizations and ensure all services have been billed and accounted for.

Excellent pay and benefits. Apply in person at: College BBQ 117 Statesville Blvd. See Courtney or Jay.

REQUIREMENTS Strong computer skills, organizational skills, and good communication are required. Expertise in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance billing. 4 year accounting degree preferred and experience in psychiatric, medical billing and financial processes required. BENEFITS Competitive salary, major medical insurance/dental coverage, life insurance, PTO, 401(K) Retirement Plan. APPLY

Online at: www.Monarchnc.org Or mail your resume to: 350 Pee Dee Ave Suite A Albemarle, NC 28001 Attention: Recruiting

Clinical Medical Assistant/ CNA Energetic self-starter with good telephone and personal skills needed for busy medical office. Computer and health assessment experience is a must. Nice working environment and friendly staff. No group health insurance offered. Qualified persons, please send resumes to: Piedmont Family Medicine, P.A., Dr. Chet Amin, 1710 West Innes St., Salisbury, NC 28144.

PART-TIME CASHIER NEEDED To work in our heated and air conditioned lobby.

HOURS: 2:15-6:00 Tues.-Fri. 7:30-6:00 Saturday Off Sunday SALARY: $7.50/Hr. Start $8.00/Hr. Trained Friendly personality a must. Cash register experience preferred.

Apply in person

SAM’S

Sam’s Car Wash

SOFT CLOTH

1022 W. Innes St. Salisbury, N.C.

CAR WASH

Equal Opportunity Employer

Healthcare

Apple House Realty is looking for one excellent Realtor. Interested? Call Jeff Ketner @ 704-633-5067.

GOOD WAGES (based on experience)

Employment

Customer Service

CNA/CMA Needed for busy, local medical practice. Must have some experience in medical office setting. Great salary and benefits. Fax resume to 704-216-2011.

Healthcare

(704) 797-4220

Getting first shot at qualified prospects is the fastest path to good results!

Employment

Education

Youfoundthe job,thecar; howabouta homewitha garage? HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL OR WANTING TO BUY? ADVERTISE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

Employment

Now accepting class A drivers with 12 months of experience. EOE.

Full & Part time openings. 1 yr exp preferred. Apply online at www.ProMowLawnService.com

Beautifully Remodeled And Newly Landscaped Home!

Employment

1-877-628-3894 www.jbhunt.jobs

Mowing Crew

Kannapolis/Rowan County

Granite Quarry

Drivers Wanted Full or part time. Req: Class A CDL, clean MVR, min. 25 yrs old w/3 yrs exp. Benefits: Pd health & dental ins., 401(k) w/match, pd holidays, vac., & qtrly. bonus. New equip. Call 704630-1160

Need customers? We’ve got them. The Salisbury Post ads are read daily in over 74% of the area’s homes!

3 BR, 1½ BA, 1100 sq. ft., new carpet, 24x36 double garage with attic storage & fan. Large backyard perfect for garden, pool or fun and games! Low taxes! $124,900! Call Cathy Griffin at 704-213-2464.

3BR/1½ BA brick home. Kitchen, D/R, L/R + bonus room. All new stainless steel appliances, new washer & dryer, cement drive, new roof, H/W floors in kitchen, D/R & hall, rest of house has new carpet. $129,900. Owner will pay closing costs. 704-202-2343

Class A CDL Drivers needed! 2 yrs tractor /trailer exper. req'd. Weekend work avail. No touch freight. $14-$16 per hr. Drivers needed immediately. 336-315-9161 Drivers

Drivers

380 Granny's Pl. 1,700 sq. ft. ranch on 10 acs in quiet community off Needmore Rd. Entire tract fenced w/16' cedar gated driveway. 3BR, 1½BA. Maintenance free floors. 40 year metal roof, vinyl siding, roomy garage w/ automatic door, energy efficient heat pump, central air. Concrete slab. Newly dug well. $175,000 $160,000 but we are open to offers. Motivated seller. 336-998-3510 or 336-407-3510

Employment Drivers

Automotive

Caregiver

$3,000 TOWARDS CLOSING COST Covington Heights. 309 Lochshire Ln. Woodleaf. 3BR, 2BA. 1,254 sq. ft. home built in 2002. New heating & air unit. ½ acre lot w/privacy fence. All appliances included. Wood laminate floors. Contact Michelle at 704-267-5120 or boogamom@gmail.com

Employment

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Privacy

Could you use

10 ,000 extra this year?

$ 4BR/3BA in Timber Run. Approx. 4,000 SF brick home in established neighborhood, oversized 2 car garage, bonus room, walk-in closet in master BR, beautiful hardwood floors, porcelain tiles in kitchen, 2 gas log fireplaces, fenced in back yard, finished walk-out basement, storage area, workshop, & generator. E. Rowan Schools. Mins. away from I-85 & shopping $369,000. Call Tina at 980-234-2881

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Beautiful 2-7 BR homes, owner finance, low down payment, several locations, including Rockwell. Call 704-232-3605

Salisbury. 2 or 3 bedroom Townhomes. For information, call Summit Developers, Inc. 704-797-0200

• 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

Lake Property

High Rock Lake, Cute waterfront log home that has 75' water frontage. Beautiful waterfront view! 1 1/2 story home in Summer Place. Roof painted 3 yrs ago. Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704.202.3663

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Homes for Sale

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:

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Carport and Garages

Auctions

Heritage Auction Co. Glenn M.Hester NC#4453 Salisbury (704)636-9277

Auction Thursday 12pm 429 N. Lee St. Salisbury Antiques, Collectibles, Used Furniture 704-213-4101

Job Seeker meeting at 112 E. Main St., Rockwell. 6:30pm Mondays. Auction every Saturday at 7pm.

Carolina's Auction Rod Poole, NCAL#2446 Salisbury (704)633-7369

KEN WEDDINGTON Total Auctioneering Services 140 Eastside Dr., China Grove 704-8577458 License 392

Real Estate Auction

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.heritageauctionco.com

www.thecarolinasauction.com

House & Lot Mocksville, NC 11 a.m.

Monday, June 7, 2010 House & Lot 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Cottage Style Home, 1,300+/-Sq. Ft.

We Build Garages, 24x24 = $12,500. All sizes built! ~ 704-633-5033 ~

25.6+/-Acres Divided 13.7+/-Ac & 11.8+/-Ac – Partially Wooded, Rolling, Creek, Frontage on Unity Pointe Lane & Pinnacle Road Auction to be held at Holiday Inn & Suites, 100 Woodlake Pkwy, Kings Mountain, NC C47077

See Website – Broker Participation Invited

800-997-2248 – NCAL 3936 www.ironhorseauction.com

Carport and Garages

6 wks-11 yrs 6am-6pm Reasonable rates Convenient to I-85 & Salisbury Call Michelle 704-603-7490

www.perrysdoor.com

Browning ConstructionStructural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC

Cleaning Services

H&H Construction. Bath, Kitchen, Decks & Roofs! Interior & Exterior Remodeling & Repairs! 704-633-2219 www.hhconstruction19.com

Wife For Hire Inc.,

HMC Handyman Services No Job too Large or Small. Please call 704-239-4883

Call Curt LeBlanc today for Free Estimates

C.R. General Cleaning Service. Comm. & residential. Insured, Bonded. Spring Cleaning Specials! 704-433-1858 www.crgeneral.com

Let me help! I clean houses & I'm good at it. VERY reasonable. 20 yrs. FREE estimates. Make tomorrow better by calling me today! 704-279-8112

Drywall Services OLYMPIC DRYWALL & PAINTING COMPANY For All Your Drywall & Painting Needs Residential & Commercial

704-279-2600 Since 1955

olympicdrywall@aol.com olympicdrywallcompany.com

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

A HANDYMAN & MOORE Kitchen & Bath remodeling Quality Home Improvements Carpentry, Plumbing, Electric Clark Moore 704-213-4471

alservicesunltd.com

Kitchens, Baths, Sunrooms, Remodel, Additions, Wood & Composite Decks, Garages, Vinyl Rails, Windows, Siding. & Roofing. ~ 704-633-5033 ~

Reliable Fence All Your Fencing Needs, Reasonable Rates, 21 years experience. (704)640-0223

FREE ESTIMATES!

SATURDAY MAY 29 10:00 AM 2868 US Hwy 158 Mocksville, NC 27028 Real Estate, Antiques, Collectibles and Home Furnishings of the (late D.K. & Sara Whitaker) Directions: From Mocksville Hwy 158 approx 5 miles sale on right just passed Farmington Road. REAL ESTATE: Beautiful Country Home with all updates, new metal roof, siding, replacement windows, central air/ heat, range, dish washer, garbage disposal, side-by-side fridge, kitchen cabinets, closets, Two Baths,/ Two Car Garage Perched on +/- 1.4 ac. corner property of Hwy 158 & Foster Dairy Rd Tax Map # G500000065. This Home is less than (1) mile from I-40. This property is a MUST HAVE for any interested buyer. Real Estate will be offered 12:00 noon. OPEN HOUSE MAY 23 2:00-4:00 PM ANTIQUE & COLLECTIBLES: Pink, Green, and Yellow Depression, Pink Depression Water Pitcher and Glasses, Jewel Tea several pieces, McCoy, Hull Swains, Roseville, Fenton Vases, Kings Crown, Moss Rose China 8pc Setting, Carnival Glass, Peanut Butter Glasses, Crystal Candelabra, Indiana Glass, Box Lots of Pattern Glass, Egg Plates, Princess House, Tea Sets, Several Water and Tea Pitchers, Tea Pot, Boxes of Milk Glass, Bowel and Pitcher Stand, Music Carousels, Occupied Japan several boxes, Figurines several boxes, Cake Stands, Shirley Temple Glass, Mary Poppins Spoon, Lots of Costume Jewelry, OAK GROVE, SMITH GROVE, CHESTNUT GROVE U.M.C PLATES, Coke Glasses, Budweiser Mugs, Spirit Mixing Decanter, 5 Gal and 2 Gal Crocks very good condition, Country Quilts, Very Fine Dollies, Excellent Hand Made Split Oak Baskets, Vintage Pinic Set new in Caring Case, VINTAGE COKE COOLERS EXCELLENT, ONE IN ORIGINAL BOX, Wood Drink Cases, Winchester Boxes, Esso Can, Sanford and Pennington Ads, Jewel Lard Buckets, White House Vinegar Oil Lamps, Blue Jars, Milk Bottles, Twin Brook, Rowan Creamery, others, Old 5 Gal Water Bottle, Western Auto Clock, Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun it shoots, Wood Bench, Porch Swing, Childs Wood Rocking Chair, Cedar Wardrobe, The Book of mormon Copyright 1948 Excellent Condition, Harley Davidson Remote Control Motorcycle, Dale Jr. Standing Ad, Old Bicycle Pump, Huffy Bicycle, HOUSEHOLD: Beautiful 3 pc Mahogany Dinning Room Suite w/6 Matching Harp Back Chairs, Modern Walnut Corner Cupboard, China Hutch, Breakfast Table and Chairs, Recliner Sofa and Love Seat, Sectional Sofa, Coffee Tables, End Tables, Book Cases, 4pc Bed Room Suite, Trunks, Chests, Singer Sewing Machine, Tri Star, Hoover, Eureka, Vacuum Cleaners, New Micro Wave, Kitchen Items, 2 Sets Silverware w/ Case, Pot & Pans, Washer, Dryer. SHOP-YARD-GARDEN: 3 Self Propelled Lawn Mowers, Edger, Wheel Barrow, Vise, Hand Tools. AUCTIONEER NOTE: This House is unbelievable Miss. Sara was very particular with her home, and yard especially with her flowers. Just one look and you will understand. DON'T MISS THIS AUCTION!!!!!! TERMS: REAL ESTATE 5% NONREFUNDABLE DOWN SALE DAY BALANCE AT CLOSING 30 DAYS. PERSONAL PROPERTY CASH, CREDIT CARDS, OR GOOD CHECK SALE DAY.

Financial Services “We can remove bankruptcies, judgments, liens, and bad loans from your credit file forever!” The Federal Trade Commission says companies that promise to scrub your credit report of accurate negative information for a fee are lying. Under federal law, accurate negative information can be reported for up to seven years, and some bankruptcies for up to ten years. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit. A message from the Salisbury Post and the FTC.

Kitchen and Baths

C47076

RAIN OR SHINE

Roofing and Guttering

AFFORDABLE RATES WOODIE'S PAINTING INC., Residential & Churches 704-637-6817

The Floor Doctor

Wood floor leveling, jacks installed, rotten wood replaced due to water or termites, brick/block/tile work, foundations, etc. 30 YEARS EXP. 704-933-3494

Junk Removal $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ We Buy Any Type of Scrap Metal At the Best Prices...

Guaranteed! !

We will come to you! ! David, 704-314-7846

Anthony's Scrap Metal Service. Top prices paid for any type of metal or batteries. Free haul away. 704-433-1951 CASH FOR JUNK CARS And batteries. Call 704-279-7480 or 704-798-2930 WILL BUY OLD CARS Complete with keys and title, $150 and up. (Salisbury area only) R.C.'s Garage & Salvage 704-636-8130 704-267-4163

Kitchen and Baths

Reface your existing cabinets and make them look like new at half the cost. We also build custom cabinets – call for more info and free estimate! 30 years experience.

Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc. Insured. 704-798-8199

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Call today! 704-797-4220

Lawn Equipment Repair Services

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Lyerly's ATV & Mower Repair Free estimates. All types of repairs Pickup/delivery avail. 704-642-2787

Eddleman's Landscape Services For all your landscape needs. Free estimates Patios, walkways, fences, retaining walls, plantings, mulch, drainage, lighting NC LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR 1589 704-630-1126 ! 704-267-8694

Brown's Landscape & Backhoe Bush hogging, tilling for gardens & yards. Free Est. 704-224-6558

Earl's Lawn Care ! Mowing ! Seeding ! Fertilizing ! Aerating ! Trimming Bushes ! Pressure Washing 704-636-3415 704-640-3842 www.earlslawncare.com

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GAYLOR'S LAWNCARE For ALL your lawn care needs! *FREE ESTIMATES* 704-639-9925/ 704-640-0542

704-797-4220

Outdoors by overcash Mowing, Mulching, Leaf Removal. Free Estimates. 704-630-0120

Manufactured Home Services Mobile Home Supplies~ City Consignment Company New & Used Furniture. Please Call 704636-2004

www.chamberlainext.com

Moving and Storage TH Jones Mini-Max Storage 116 Balfour Street Granite Quarry Please 704-279-3808

!Quality & Experience 704-640-5154

www.bowenpaintingnc.com

Cathy's Painting Service Interior & exterior, new & repaints. 704-279-5335

SPRING SPECIAL!

Ranch exteriors starting at $500 with paint. Residential/commercial Free estimates. Insured. 704-798-0909

704-791-6856 www.insuranceroofclaim.com

SEAMLESS GUTTER Licensed Contractor C.M. Walton Construction, 704-202-8181

Stoner Painting Contractor • 25 years exp. • Int./Ext. painting • Pressure washing • Staining • Insured & Bonded 704-239-7553

Guttering, leaf guard, metal & shingle roofs. Ask about tax credits.

~ 704-633-5033 ~

Plumbing Services

Septic Tank Service

1 Of A Kind Plumbing

Residential & Commercial Plumbing Plumbing Repair Well Repair Reasonable Prices! Call Us For A Free Estimate! ~ 704-855-2142 ~ 20 Years Experience

David Miller Septic Tank Co. Installation/ Repairs “Since 1972” 704-279-4400 or 704-279-3265

Tree Service A-1 Tree Service "Established since 1978 "Reliable & Reasonable "Insured Free Estimates!

~ 704-202-8881~

Lic. #18614

Recognized by the Salisbury Tree Board

AAA Trees R Us

Bost Pools – Call me about your swimming pool. Installation, service, liner & replacement. (704) 637-1617

Bucket Truck Chipper Stump Grinding Free Estimates

704-239-1955

Graham's Tree Service Free estimates, reasonable rates. Licensed, Insured, Bonded. 704-633-9304

Pressure Washing Earl's Lawn Care ~ Pressure washing decks, houses, & driveways. 704636-3415 / 704-640-3842

ROOFING ! Framing ! Siding ! Storm Repair Local, Licensed & Insured

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Roofing and Guttering

John Sigmon Stump grinding, Prompt service for 30+ years, Free Estimates. John Sigmon, 704-279-5763. Johnny Yarborough, Tree Expert trimming, topping, & removal of stumps by machine. Wood splitting, lots cleared. 10% off to senior citizens. 704-857-1731 MOORE'S Tree TrimmingTopping & Removing. Use Bucket Truck, 704-209-6254 Licensed, Insured & Bonded Plummer & Sons Tree Service, free estimates. Reasonable rates, will beat any written estimate 15%. Insured. Call 704-633-7813. TREE WORKS by Jonathan Keener. Insured – Free estimates! Please call 704-636-0954.

! Roofing & Siding ! Additions & Decks ! Windows & Doors ! In Business 35 Years ! I've Got You Covered

Let's Talk...it's Free!

Steve's Lawn Care We'll take care of all your lawn care needs!! Great prices. 704-603-4114/704-431-7225

For Ultimate Termite Protection & Other Pests

Affordable Roofing

Bowen Painting Interior and Exterior Painting 704-630-6976

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

DJ's Service: Mowing & Lawncare plus bushog, mulching, tree removal, grading & hauling. 704857-2568 /or 798-0447

704-633-2938

SPEER AUCTIONS

Painting and Decorating

Pools and Supplies

C47079

C46762

ESTATE AUCTION

SEE AUCTIONZIP.COM ID 10133

Home Improvement

Granite & solid surface for kitchens & baths, cultured marble vanity tops, tubs & enclosures, standard & custom walk-in showers.

429 North Lee St. Salisbury, NC

1998 Jeep Cherokee, 1991 Dodge Truck, 1994 Chevy Lumina, 1994 Ford Van, Lawn Mower Trailer, 454 motor, Camaro Parts, New Tires, Tow Dolly, 2-Generators, Simplicity Lawn Mowers, Stackable tool boxes, Tiller, Lawn mowers, Sockets, Wrenches, Drills, Paint Sprayers, Leaf Blowers, Power washer, Sanders, Angle Grinder, Router, Air Compressor, 1986 Chevy Van ½ ton Box Truck, Troy Bilt Riding Lawn Mower, Push Mowers, Chain Saw, Dewalt Nail Gun, Brad Gun, Acetylene Torch, Torque wrench, Nascar Collectibles, Car Magazines, Tap & Die Sets, Motor Cycle Lift, Plus Much More!! All Sold to the Highest Bidder!!! No Buyers Premium Everything Sold “As Is, Where Is”. All Announcements Made at Sale Take Precedence Over All Advertising. Terms: Cash or Credit/Debit Card. 3% Handling Fee on All Cards.

Mocksville, NC 27028 • 336/998-4162 David Speer, NCAL 2984 Arthur Bostick, NCAL 1365 Eva Bostick, Broker NCREL #52789, • 336.492.5992

Piedmont AC & Heating Electrical Services Lowest prices in town!! 704-213-4022

Fencing

Sunday, May 23rd • 2:00 PM

AUCTIONEER: GREG WAGONER NCAL 3779 704-213-4101 FOR INFO

Professional Services Unlimited Licensed Gen. Contractor #17608. Complete contracting service specializing in foundation & structural floor repairs, basement & crawlspace waterproofing & removal, termite & rot damage, ventilation. 35 yrs exper. Call Duke @ 704-6333584. Visit our website: www.profession-

Heating and Air Conditioning

Free Estimates Bud Shuler & Sons Fence Co. 225 W Kerr St 704-633-6620 or 704-638-2000 Price Leader since 1963

Home Improvement

Garages, new homes, remodeling, roofing, siding, back hoe, loader 704-6369569 Maddry Const Lic G.C.

Grading, Clearing, Hauling, and Topsoil. Please Call 704-633-1088

All types concrete work ~ Insured ~ NO JOB TOO SMALL!

AUCTION TODAY!

FOOD BY OAK GROVE UMC

Beaver Grading Quality work, reasonable rates. Free Estimates 704-6364592

Concrete Work

Do U work 2 hard?

Perry's Overhead Doors Sales, Service & Installation, Residential / Commercial. Wesley Perry 704-279-7325

Home Improvement

Experienced Home Child Care

Tony McBride Auction Your Full Service Auction Co. One Piece/Entire Estate. 704-791-5625. NCAL 6894 www.piedmontauction.com

Residential & Commercial Free Estimates References available Call Zonia 704-239-2770

Grading & Hauling

Child Care and Nursery Schools

Rowan Auction Co. Professional Auction Services: Salis., NC 704-633-0809 Kip Jennings NCAL 6340.

Auction to be held on site at 2245 US Hwy 601 S, Mocksville, NC

Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc.

Lippard Garage Doors Installations, repairs, electric openers. 704636-7603 / 704-798-7603

www.gilesmossauction.com

25+/-Acres Divided Kings Mountain, NC 4 p.m.

Cleaning Services

S46664

Auctions

SALISBURY POST

FREE ESTIMATES! LOWEST PRICES!

Upholstery

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SALISBURY POST

1 Ac, well, septic, utility shed, garden, in Rowan close to Cabarrus line, 10 min to Concord, 15 min to Salisbury. $29,900 Owner financing. 704 535 4159

Red Hot Foreclosures

@ Red Hot prices. Call 336-767-9758.

Salisbury. 16 acs off Potneck Rd on Foxwood Lane, very private, hunters and fishermen's paradise, backs up to South River. $99,000. Owner licensed RE agent. 704-213-1201 W. Rowan 1.19 acs. Old Stony Knob Rd. Possible owner financing. Reduced: $19,900. 704-640-3222

Lots for Sale

Manufactured Home Sales BRING your PreApproval & Best Deal to us on your New Home and we will beat the Price. 888-273-8791.

Real Estate Commercial

Prime Property

Apartments

Must sell. 3BR, 2BA. 1680 sqft. Private 2 acres. Close to lake. Call (704)986-2620 Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850

18 acres with frontage on Highway 29 at Piper Lane. Income producing property with 64,000 sq ft of warehouse space. Rowan Corporation 704.636.0556

1, 2, & 3 BR Huge Apartments, very nice. $375 & up. 704-890-4587

Rockwell. Single â&#x20AC;˘ Doublewide â&#x20AC;˘ Modular â&#x20AC;˘ Site Built. Rental lots available. 704-279-3265

2 BR, 1 BA Eaman Park Apts. Near Salisbury High. $375/mo. Newly renovated. No pets. 704-798-3896

Real Estate Services

B & R REALTY 704-633-2394

Salisbury - City block (minus service station) for sale at Statesville and Innes, including many buildings, INCOME PRODUCING, fronts 4 streets, 46,000 SQ FT, 2.7 acres. Priced below tax value. Rowan Corporation 704.636.0556

www.bostandrufty-realty.com OFFICE SPACE

Bentley Julian Realty 704-938-2530

1.5 ACRE LOT. Level & partially wooded. Perked in 2006 for 3BR home. Pretty land and area. $29,500 Call Ashley at Ashley Shoaf Realty. 704-633-7131

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Puppies. Goldendoodle pups featured in Davie Enterprise Record. Low shedding, 8 wks, parents on site, $800. Call 336-751-2934

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Airport Rd., 1BR with stove, refrig., garbage pickup & water incl. Month-month lease. No pets. $395/mo+$200 deposit. Furnished $420/mo. 704-279-3808

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108 ST JOHNS DRIVE REDUCED-was $349,900 - NOW $329,900 - Be the first to own this beautiful 4 bedroom home. As you walk in the front door, you'll be wow'd by the size of the greatroom with fireplace, the wood floors and high ceilings, which are only a few of the extras that are included. A wonderful kitchen with granite counter tops, formal dining room, breakfast room, and even a bonus room with extra space. But you have to see it to appreciate it. Directions: Hwy. 601 to right on St. Johns Drive. Home on left almost at end.

3207 PLAYER COURT Custom built house-gorgeous hardwoods, granite counter tops and backsplash, tile, tons of built-in's, recessed lighting, huge moldings, wrap-around porch, and so much more. Owner’s suite on main with whirlpool bath, dual granite vanities, walk-in closet, and tile shower. 3 bedrooms upstairs with study/office and finished bonus room! Priced at $449,900-R49146 DIRECTIONS: West Innes Street, cross over Statesville Blvd, past College, left into The Crescent, Right on Hogan Valley, left on Byron, Right on Player Court, home on left.

514 WATKINS STREET Renovation with all the comforts & luxuries you expect in new construction. Gourmet kitchen with huge walk-in pantry, granite counter tops, tile, cherry cabinets, and much more. Lots of tile wood, granite throughout. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, mud room, large utility room with granite. Hall bath offers tile shower, jetted tub, and dual vanities. R49302 DIRECTIONS: Hwy 52 to Rockwell, left on Depot Street, right on Lowerstone Church Rd, left on Watkins Street.

217 HICKORY LANE Great home on 1.15 acres in Hickory Cove. 3 Bd, 2 Ba. Large greatroom. Pergo floors, large eat-in kitchen with pantry. Deck on side of home. In cul-de-sac . R50086 DIRECTIONS: Hwy 150 W to left on Airport Road, follow Airport Road bearing to left, continue to left in to Hickory Cove. Right on first road and home on left.

1147 KENSINGTON LANE Price Reduced! Owner says bring all offers. $220,432. Built 2006-One owner family. 3 bedrooms 2 baths. Coming in front door 3 gracious columns greet your eyes. Lovely wood floors, gas logs, open floor plan. Gourmet kitchen with stainless steel accents. Owner’s suite has tray ceiling and many extras. R48187 DIRECTIONS: Jake Alexander Blvd, right on Old Concord Rd, continue past Convention Center, turn right into Stafford Estates, Take 1st road to right on Kensington Lane, home on left. See sign.

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LANDSDOWN DRIVE-3 Bd-2 Ba-1671 sqft- THIS DW ON WATER (High Rock Lake). Has Large owner’s suite with sitting area. $169,900- pier and access to community boat ramp. Has R50582 12x21 detached building with bath, kitchen and bedroom combo. Fenced in back yard and 12x30 deck. Priced at $175,000-Call Cary Grant! R50588

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SYCAMORE RD-3 BD and 2 BA -Swimming MAINSAIL RD-Lakefront property + 2 more OVERHILL DRIVE-3 Bd-2 Ba-REDUCED TO HWY 152-2 Bd-Bath-1.1 acres-REDUCED TO LAUREL VALLEY WAY-4 Bd-4.5 Ba-REDUCED REDUCED! Duplex in Concord priced well REDUCED! 2BR, 1BA fixer upper on 2.5 acres. Pool.2-car attached garage plus an oversized lots available-4 Bd-2 Ba-3400 sqft-$489,900- $213,900-Call Jayne Land-R50452 $79,900-Call Jayne Land-R50422 TO $549,900-Also offering 2 yrs golf member- below tax value. Excellent investment opportu- Hardwood floors, ceiling fans, and large wired detached garage. Call and ask to see this home Call Cary Grant! R49806. ship!-Call Jayne Land-R50285 nity. M49792. $50,000. Call Tom. outbuilding. R49792. $38,900. Call Tom. in Westcliffe! R50443

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Airport Rd. 1BR, 1BA. Water, trash and yard care included. $395/mo, 704-633-0425 Apartment Management- Moving to Town? Need a home or Apartment? We manage rental homes from $400 - $650 & apartments $350 - $550. Call and let us help you. Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462

East area. 2BR, 1½ BA brick townhouse. Appl. furnished. Quiet. $495/mo. No pets. 704-279-3406

Apartments Rockwell Area. Apt. & Duplexes. $500-$600. 2BR Quiet Community. Marie Leonard-Hartsell at Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 Rockwell area. Nice 1BR, $425/mo. and 2BR, $450/mo. No pets. Deposit req. 704-279-8428

East Rowan, large 2 BR, 1½ BA duplex, in the country, completely remodeled, ceramic tile / hardwood, large yard, dishwasher, ice maker, garbage, lawn care, & water furnished. Pets negotiable. Seniors welcome. Handicap ramp available on request. $600/month + $300 dep. 843-992-8845 or 704-279-5555

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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 City. 2BR utilities by tenant. $400 per month. Call 704-202-5879 for more information. 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.

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Granite Quarry. Studio apt. Clean, quiet, new carpet. Move in today! $350. 704-279-5018 Green Hill Rd. 2BR, 1BA with kitchen/dining/den combination. W/D. Central heat & air. Please call 704-534-5179 Kannapolis. 314 North Avenue. 3 BR, 2 BA. $895; 7607 Hunter Oak Drive, Concord – 3 BR, 2 BA, $975 KREA 704-933-2231

“A Good Place to Live” 1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms Affordable & Spacious Water Included 704-636-8385 Deer Park Apts. Cleveland, NC. Now accepting applications. No application free. Free rent. 704-278-4340 Sect 8 accepted.

Spencer 1 rm & ba, Priv. ent. Singles only. No kitchen, $80/wk. Incls utilities. Unfurnished. Refs. No dep. 704-202-5879 Spencer 1-2BRs with W/D, refrig., & stove, cent. H/A. $475/mo + dep. 704642-1124 lv msg.

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American Dr., Salis. 3BR, 2BA. Refrig., stove, dishw. No pets. Rent, $715, $500 deposit. Call Rowan Properties, 704633-0446

Salisbury, 1BR/1BA, 71 Hill St., all appls furnished, $450/mo + dep. Limit two. 704-633-5397.

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Catawba College area. All elec, country. 2BR, 1BA. $600/mo. 704-6339060 or 704-490-1121 Cleveland-3 bedroom/ 1bath house off Main St. Appliances, central heat & air, hard wood floors. $600.00 Call Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462 Country Club/Park Area Rent to Own. 4BR, 3BA. 2000 sq ± Can include 2BR guest house on property. $15,000 dn. $1,000/mo. 704-630-0695

Spencer. Large 1BR. Central heat & air. $350/month plus deposit. Call 704-647-1693

E. Ridge Rd. 3BR/1½BA, all elec., stove & refrig., Sect. 8 OK. $695/mo. Free water/sewer. 704-633-6035

West Rowan. 2BR duplex. All elec. Newly remodeled. W/D hookup & cable ready. Water, lawn maint. Inc'ld. $450/mo rent; $400 dep. Sect. 8 OK. 704-278-2891.

East Rowan. New 3BR. Energy star appl, water, yard work incl'd, no pets. 704-279-3990

White Rock Garden Apts 1BR elderly units, located in Granite Quarry, w/handicap accessible units available. Sect. 8 assistance available. 704-2796457, 8am - 1pm TDD Relay 1-800-735-2962 “Equal Housing Opportunity”

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FREE RENT Carolina Piedmont Properties. Call for details. Sec 8 OK. 704-248-4878 Granite Quarry. 3BR, 1BA. East Salisbury. 3BR, 2BA. All electric. Appliances. 704-638-0108

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Salisbury. Studio apt. All utilities, $425/mo. $150 application fee. 704-239-0145

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Rockwell 4BR/2BA new home $1,200 per month plus deposit. No pets. Shive Elementary School. Lease purchase /possibility. References required. Call Jason 704-791-4625

55 years & up. Sr. luxury apartments. $695/mo. 704-239-0691 Chambers Realty

Clean, well maint., 2 BR Duplex. Central heat/air, all electric. Section 8 welcome. 704-202-5790

Salisbury-Downtown. Two bedroom/1 bath loft style apartment in the old Cheerwine Building. Nice open living area. $750.00 Call Waggoner Realty Co. at 704-633-0462

Mount Pleasant, 1BR, 1BA, 3-room apartment, quiet historic district. For information, call 704-436-9176.

Near Rockwell. 1BR. Appliances, W/D, & water furnished. $400/mo. Call 704-279-8880

Historic West Tower condominium. 2-story. 1,500 sq. ft. 2BR, 1½BA. Central air/heat. Stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, disposal, pantry & laundry room. Hardwood floors, fireplace, front & back yards w/parking and yard service. 9' ceilings. $795/ mo. 1 yr lease. Call 704431-4532 Salisbury-Wiltshire Village for rent. Two bedroom/1 1/2 baths. Townhouse style unit. $550.00 Call Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462 Wiltshire Village Condo for Rent, $700. 2nd floor. Looking for 2BR, 2BA in a quiet community setting? Call Bryce, Wallace Realty 704-2021319

Kann. 3BR, 2BA. Lrg. lot. Handicap access. Deck. Cent. A/H. 2 mobile homes avail. 704-932-7398

Kannapolis 3BR/2BA sunroom, fence, & deck, dishwasher and refrigerator, 1,500 sq. ft. +. 300 Plymouth Street. $725/mo.704-784-2351

Rowan Co., Kannapolis. 4BR/2BA. Storage shed with secluded lot. Central heating & air. Owner financing available. $850 per mo. Plus 704-8578406. Mocksville area. Green Hill Rd. 4BR, 2BA. 2-story country home. Country front & back porch. Central heat/air. On 5 acres. 4-car detached garage. 704-534-5179

WILL BE CLOSED

MONDAY, MAY 31, 2010 In Observance of

Rent to Own 2BR partially fenced. Central heat/ac Hrdwds. $5,000 down $500/mo. 704-630-0695

MEMORIAL DAY

RENTED

It took me a little over a month to rent my home...but it rented thanks to my ad in the Salisbury Post. H.D., Salisbury

Please Note the Following Holiday Deadline Schedule:

RENTED

Rockwell 2BR/1BA, H/W floors, appls, central H/A, $600/mo + dep. 704-2796850 or 704-798-3035

CLASSIFIED LINE ADS Publication Date: Monday, May 31 Tuesday, June 1 Wednesday, June 2 TMC (Wed., June 2)

Deadline Date: Friday, May 28 - 3:00 pm Friday, May 28 - 4:00 pm Tuesday, June 1 - 4:00 pm Friday, May 28 - 1:00 pm

Rockwell. 1BR, appl., elec. heat & air, H/W flrs, storage bldg. $500/mo. Call for special. 704-2796850 or 704-798-3035 Salis. 3BR, 2BA. New paint & floor. Heat & air. Washer/ dryer hook-up. $550/mo + $450 dep. 828-390-0835

RETAIL AND CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS Publication Date: Monday, May 31 Tuesday, June 1 Wednesday, June 2 TMC (Wed., June 2)

Salisbury & Mocksville HUD – Section 8 Nice 2 to 5 BR homes. Call us 1st. 704-630-0695 Salisbury 2BR / 2BA, lg priv. deck, will qualify for hist. funds when owner occupied. 117 E. Steele St., dep. & refs req'd. $600/mo. Rent w/option to buy. 336-503-8970

Deadline Date: Friday, May 28 - 10 am Friday, May 28 - 12 noon Friday, May 28 - 4:00 pm Friday, May 28 - 11:00 am

Salisbury 2BR. $525 and up. GOODMAN RENTALS 704-633-4802 Salisbury 2BR/1BA, lg rooms, W/D connections, refrig & stove, carport. $600/mo all utilities incl'd + $600 dep. Refs & bkgrd ck. 704-433-7292 Salisbury 2BR/1BA. City loc. Cent H/A. Limit 2 adults. No pets. $595/mo. + dep. 704-633-9556

704-797-POST C46639

Salisbury, city limits. 2 - 3BR. $450-$700. Central HVAC. 704-2394883 Fountain Quarters Realty Broker Salisbury- Hidden Creek. 2 bedrooms/2 baths. Ground level across from Clubhouse. No pets or smokers. $850.00 Call Waggoner Realty Co. at 704-633-0462 Salisbury. 138 Crawford St. 1BR, 1BA. Stove, refrigerator, W/D hook-up. $395/mo. + deposit. 704-633-5397

Salisbury. 3 & 2 Bedroom Houses. $500-$1,000. Also, Duplex Apartments. 704636-6100 or 704-633-8263

Salisbury city. 2BR, 1BA. Remodeled. Central air & heat. Good neighbors. $550. + dep 704-640-5750

Autos

ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 6 pm.

Manufactured Home for Rent Bostian Heights. 1 & 2BR. Trash, lawn, & water service. No pets. Rent + deposit. 704-857-4843 LM Bostian Heights. 2BR, 1BA. 1 mile from Carson High. No pets. $400/mo. + deposit. 704-239-2833

Salisbury. 3BR, 2 full BA Remodeled in '08. Central heat & AC. $800/mo. 980-521-4382 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 Salisbury. 525 E. Cemetery St. 3BR, 1BA. Sect. 8 OK. $550/mo. No pets. 704-507-3915

Spencer. 3BR, 1BA. Appl. incl. Well water. $550/mo. + deposit. 704630-0785 / 704-433-3510 Spencer. 4BR, 2BA. Full basement. Almost new. $995/mo + dep. Ryburn Rentals 704-637-0601

Autos

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trash and lawn service included. No pets. $475 month. 704-433-1255

Lincoln, 2002 LS Vibrant White with soft tan leather interior am, fm, cd, 3.9 V8 5 speed auto tranny, all power options, SUNROOF, HEATED SEATS, runs great LOW MILES. Ready for the special buyer. 704-603-4255

East Area. 2BR, water, trash. Limit 3. Dep. req. No pets. Call 704-6367531 or 704-202-4991

Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Very nice. ½ acre lot. Limit 3. No pets. Ref. $400. 704279-4282 or 704-202-7294 Hurley School Rd. area. 2BR, 1BA. Nice subdiv. Well kept. 2 people. $425 + dep. 704-640-5750 Near Hurley School. 2BR, 2BA. No pets. Remodeled, dishwasher, washer/dryer. 704-6361072 or 704-433-1408 Off Bringle Ferry Rd. 2BR, 2BA. Central air, W/S furnished. W/D. Large lot. $375/mo. Deposit. 704-279-7655

Dodge, 2004, Stratus SE. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

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Financing Available!

Mazda, 2002 Miata Conv DON'T GET CAUGHT with your TOP up this summer! PERFECT and AFFORDABLE! Sunlight silver w/ dark gray cloth interior. 1.8 4 cylinder gas saver w/ auto tranny. Low Miles, alloy wheels like new tires. 704-603-4255

HONDA, 2003, ACCORD EX. $500-700 down, will help finance. Credit, No Problem! Private party sale. Call 704-838-1538

Lake Property Rental

170 Riverview Cir. Driftwood Cove. Waterfront with Pier. New Construction 2BR, 2BA. Prefer No Pets. $975/mo., $975 Sec Dep. 1 Year Lease. Call Marie LeonardHartsell, Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 marie@sellingsalisbury.com

Office and Commercial Rental 1250 sqft office. Lobby, 3 offices and 2 restrooms. Bradshaw Real Estate. 704-633-9011

Ford, 2001, Focus LX. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

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Resort & Vacation Rentals

Ocean Front Condo

2BR, 2BA Ocean front condo. Sleeps 6, fully equipped. Outdoor pool. Quiet family area, yet close to shops and restaurants. Locally owned. Reasonbly priced. 704-603-8647

Toyota, 2007 Corolla CE $11,915. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford, 2005, Taurus. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

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Rooms for Rent

Corner Lot

12,000 sq ft building on Jake Alexander Blvd. Could be office or retail. Heat and air. Call 704-279-8377

Mercedes, 2006 S430 Automatic, silver w/ ashe leather interior, all power options, sunroof, power trunk, air ride, nav, heated seats. Loaded, needs nothing!! 704-603-4255 Volkswagon, 2006, . 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW! View

MILLER HOTEL Rooms for Rent Weekly $110 & up 704-855-2100

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Ford, 2008 Mustang Coupe. $15,415. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd. Call 704279-8377 or 704-279-6882

Commercial warehouses available. 1,400 sq. ft. w/dock. Gated w/security cameras. Convenient to I-85. Olympic Crown Storage. 704-630-0066

Mazda, 2006 Rx8 velocity red Mica with black cloth interior am, fm, cd, 1.3 2 rotory engine 6 speed tranny with paddle shift, cold ac, alloy rims, AS SEEN IN THE XMEN MOVIE! 704-603-4255

Toyota, 2006 Camry LE White w/gray cloth interior. 2.4 4 cylinder with auto tranny am, fm, cd, cold ac, sunroof, power driver seat, extra clean inside & out. Runs & drives awesome! 704603-4255

North Myrtle Beach

23,000 sq ft manufacturing building with offices for lease. Bradshaw Real Estate. 704-633-9011

BESIDE UNCLE BUCKS 1250-2500 sq ft office retail restaurant space downtown. 704-798-6429

Toyota, 2005 Camry SE Phantom gray metallic with dark charcoal cloth interior 2.4 4 cylinder, auto tranny, am, fm, cd, power driver seat, sunroof, alloy wheels, good tires. EXTRA CLEAN. Runs & drives great. 704-603-4255

Mazda, 2002 MX-5 Miata $8,615. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Rockwell / Gold Hill area. 3BR/2BA mobile home. Priv. lot. $550/mo + $550 dep. Call 704279-7817 Leave msg.

West & South Rowan. 2 & 3 BR. No pets. Perfect for 3. Water included. Please call 704-857-6951

Toyota, 2004 Camry LE $9,715. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota, 2005 Corolla LE $10,615. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Roseman Rd. area. 2 BR. No pets, appliances & trash pickup incl. $525/ mo. + dep. 704-855-7720 Spencer. 603 3rd St. 3BR, 1½BA. Master w/half bath. Huge living/dining rooms. Off street parking. $650/mo. Sect. 8 OK. Matt 704-906-2561

Saturn, 2004 L300 $7,215. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Dodge, 2003, Stratus RT. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

East area, 2 bedroom,

Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Appl., water, sewer, trash service incl. $475/mo. + dep. Pets OK. 704-279-7463

Autos

Audi, 2000. A6. Black, 4-door, clean. Please call 704-279-8692

Faith area. 2BR, 1BA. Lrg. yard. Appl. & water furnished. No pets. $450/mo. + dep. 704-279-2939

FOR LEASE

Lease to Own!

Classified & Retail Advertising Departments

SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 • 9C

Autos

Buick, 1987, Regal. V6, automatic. Full hydraulics. Targa top. Power steering, power brakes. $600 obo. 704213-6031

Ford, 2010, Mustang. REDUCED! 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW! View our inventory at:

Nissan, 2005 Altima SL Black leather interior 3.5 V6 with auto tiptronic, duel heated seats, Bose am, fm, 6 disk cd changer, sunroof, alloy rims wrapped in like new tires, runs & drives good. READY FOR DELIVERY. 704-603-4255

Pontiac Bonneville 1979, $1,000 OBO. 980234-3567

Volvo, 2001 V70 XC Cross Country AWD Wagon. Gray w/ tan leather interior 2.4 five cylinder turbo backed with auto trans, duel pwr seats, sunroof, all pwr options, extra clean needs nothing!! 704-6034255

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Faith Rd. Approx. 1,000 sq ft. $625/mo. + dep. Water, sewer, garbage pick up inc'd. 704-633-9556 Granite Quarry -Best Deal Commercial Metal buildings and office space. 300-1800 SF. Utilities and gated parking available. 704-279-4422

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 RENTAL SPACE

Chevrolet, 2005, Impala. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW! View

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Honda, 1992 Civic White w/ black interior, LS driver and passenger seat. Bronze Circuit 8'' wheels, JDM fog lights, front and rear EBC brake rotors and pads. KGB 4 way adjustable suspension. Car has 170,000 miles; motor has 50,000 miles. Clean title. $4,800. Alex, 980-234-0272 (Just text me.)

Pontiac, 1999, Firebird. Only 29,000 miles! 1 owner! 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

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Salisbury, Kent Executive Park office suites, $100 & up. Utilities paid. Conference room, ample parking. 704-202-5879 Salisbury. 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, and nice, large reception area. Perfect location near the Court House and County Building. Want to lease but will sell. Perfect for dual occupancy. By appointment only. 704-636-1850 Spencer Shops Lease great retail space for as little as $750/mo for 2,000 sq ft at. 704-431-8636

Chevy, 2009 Cobalt Black w/ gray cloth interior am, fm, cd, 4 cylinder,auto, like new 24,000 miles, nonsmoker, extra clean inside and out, aluminum alloy wheels wrapped in good tires,cheap newer car for a great price. 704-603-4255

Cobra, 2001 Convertible 4.6 V8 w/ cold air intake. 5 speed short throw shifter, 2 tone leather/ suede seats, all pwr ops, lowering kit, 18'' staggered FR500 rims with 3'' lip, fog lights, cruise. 704603-4255

Infinity, 2005 G35X AWD. Charcoal black leather interior, 3.5 V6, 5 speed tiptronic, trans cd changer, sunroof, alloy rims, heated seats, low miles. 704-603-4255

Lincoln, 1998 Town Car, Executive Series. Only 90,000 miles! 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW! View our inventory at:

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Boats & Watercraft

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Suntracker 21' Fishin' Barge Seats 9. All alum. incl deck. 50 HP Mercury Force Tilt & trim; depth finder, motorglide foot operated trolling motor. Large aerated live well, Porta Potty, 4 swivel fishing chairs. Anchor mates, 2 new Interstate batteries, easy load trailer, spare tire, deluxe stereo system. $9,500. Call 704-633-7905

Transportation Financing

Salisbury. We have office suites available in the Executive Center. With all utilities from $250 and up. Lots of amenities. Call Karen Rufty at B & R Realty 704-202-6041 www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Volvo, 2006 S60 2.5T Onyx black with cream leather interior, sunroof, cd player, all power, alloy wheels, super nice! 704-603-4255

Suzuki, 2007, Forenza. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

Bank Financing available. First time buyers welcome! You deserve a fresh start! Don't wait! Low Rates Available. Minimum down payment. Carfax & warranties available. Call Steve today! 704-603-4255 or 704-224-3979 after 6pm. Visit us at: www.JakeAlexanderAutoSales.com

CLASSIFIED

10C • SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 Motorcycles & ATVs

Honda 200 Fourtrax $1,100. 980-234-3567

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Buick, 2005 Rendezvous SUV. $9,615. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

No. 59973

Ford, 2002, Ranger. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

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Service & Parts

Authorized EZGO Dealer. 30 years selling, servicing GOLF CARS Golf Car Batteries 6 volt $58, 8 volt $62. Golf car utility sales. US 52, 5 miles south of Salisbury. Beside East Rowan HS & Old Stone Winery. Look for EZGO sign. Buy 6 batteries & receive $10 gift receipt for purchase of a bottle of OLD STONE Wine. Coupon good until 5/31/10. 704-245-3660

SALISBURY POST

Chevrolet, 2001 Silverado 1500 $11,415. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford, 2004 Free Star Van Gold with tan cloth interior am, fm, cd, 4.2 V6 auto tranny, luggage rack, fog lights, all power, alloy rims good tires. PERFECT FAMILY TRANSPORTATION! 704-603-4255 Chevrolet, 2003, Trailblazer. 1 owner! 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW! View our inventory at:

www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

No. 59972

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ROWAN COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR 402 NORTH MAIN ST SALISBURY NC 28144

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE NO 09 M 807

Deep Cycle Marine Batteries, G27 Delco Voyager, $9995 special 12 month warranty

$23,115. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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Faith Rd to Hwy 152. Store across from Siffords Marathon

By virtue of certain executions directed to the undersigned from the Superior Court of Rowan County in the actions entitled Rowan County Tax Collector vs. the judgment debtor hereinafter set out, this office will hold an execution sale(s) pursuant to Article 29B of Chapter 1 of the NC General Statutes. Said sale(s) will take place on June 4, 2010, at 11:00 A.M., at the Rowan County Courthouse door, in the city of Salisbury, State of North Carolina. Said sale shall be to the highest bidder for CASH/CERTIFIED FUNDS (20% of bid amount at time of sale) to satisfy the execution(s) on the parcel of real property separately described following the name of each judgment debtor hereinafter set out. The executions were issued pursuant to judgment duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for Rowan County, and the executions are in the amounts specified in each case following the name of the judgment debtor and the description of the real estate, plus costs of sale, as follows: The following described property is located in the Salisbury Township, Rowan County, North Carolina: BEING Tax Map 324 Parcel 098. BEGINNING at Hawkins Loop, thence, South 8734-56 East 372.11 feet, thence Southerly 135 feet; thence Westerly 305 feet to Hawkins Loop, thence Northerly 151 feet along Hawkins Loop to the Point of Beginning, being .97 acres, more or less. The sale will be made subject to all liens, mortgages, easements, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, special assessments and all local improvement assessments against the above-described property not included in the judgment in the above-entitled cause. AMOUNT DUE- $1, 271.75 Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no warranties or certifications being issued.

By virtue of certain executions directed to the undersigned from the Superior Court of Rowan County in the actions entitled Rowan County Tax Collector vs. the judgment debtor hereinafter set out, this office will hold an execution sale(s) pursuant to Article 29B of Chapter 1 of the NC General Statutes. Said sale(s) will take place on June 4, 2010, at 11:00 A.M., at the Rowan County Courthouse door, in the city of Salisbury, State of North Carolina. Said sale shall be to the highest bidder for CASH/CERTIFIED FUNDS (20% of bid amount at time of sale) to satisfy the execution(s) on the parcel of real property separately described following the name of each judgment debtor hereinafter set out. The executions were issued pursuant to judgment duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for Rowan County, and the executions are in the amounts specified in each case following the name of the judgment debtor and the description of the real estate, plus costs of sale, as follows: The following described property is located in the Litaker Township, Rowan County, North Carolina: BEGINNING AT A NEW IRON PIN, LINE OF ROY BERNHARDT PROPERTY; THENCE WITH BERNHARDT PROPERTY NORTH 65 DEGREES 15 MINUTES 57 SECONDS WEST 206.17 FEET TO AN EXISTING IRON PIN, CORNER TO LOT 2; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF LOT 2, NORTH 18 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 57 SECONDS EAST 349.96 FEET TO A NEW IRON PIN IN THE LINE OF LOT 1; THENCE 3 LINES WITH LOT 1 AS FOLLOWS; (1) SOUTH 60 DEGREES 23 MIN 00 SECONDS EAST 78.04 FEET TO A NEW IRON PIN; (2) SOUTH 44 DEGREES 30 MINUTES 43 SECONDS EAST 148.77 FEET TO A NEW IRON PIN; (3) SOUTH 53 DEGREES 45 MINUTES 48 SECONDS EAST 77.34 FEET TO A NEW IRON PIN IN THE LINE OF LOT 4; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF LOT 4, SOUTH 29 DEGREES 59 MINUTES 45 SECONDS WEST 406.83 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, CONTAINING 2.55 ACRES. The sale will be made subject to all liens, mortgages, easements, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, special assessments and all local improvement assessments against the above-described property not included in the judgment in the above-entitled cause. AMOUNT DUE - $3,569.74 Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no warranties or certifications being issued. Salisbury Post Publication Dates: May 23, 2010, May 30, 2010 KEVIN L AUTEN SHERIFF, Rowan County Sheriff's Office

BATTERY-R-US GOLF CART BATTERIES 6-volt – $58 8-volt – $68 12-volt – $110 12 month warranty We will not be undersold! Deep cycle marine batteries on sale now!! 704-213-1005

Chevy, 2003 Suburban LT black w/ tan leather interior, AM, FM, CD changer, DVD, rear audio, duel climate control, duel power and heated seats, sunroof, running boards, 3rd seat. RUNS & DRIVES GREAT. 704-603-4255

GMC, 1997 Jimmy 4 Wheel drive, 4 door, V6, leather, sunroof, pwr windows, doors and seats. New AC. $2,900. Call 704-647-0881

Jeep, 2002 Liberty Sport SUV. $7,915 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

“We Buy old batteries” www.battery-r-us.com NEED CASH? We buy cars & scrap metal by the pound. Call for latest prices. Stricklin Auto & Truck Parts. Call 704-278-1122 or 888-378-1122

Transportation Dealerships

Tim Marburger Honda 1309 N First St. (Hwy 52) Albemarle NC 704-983-4107

Chevy, 2004 Colorado Extra clean inside & out! 4 doors, 5 cylinder, this gas saver is perfect for the first time driver or great for a back to work and home vehicle. All power, like new tires, cold ac, roll pan, exhaust. 704-603-4255

Transportation Financing

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Lincoln, 2004 Navigator Brilliant black, leather interior, 5.4 V8, NAVIGATION, DVD, all pwr options, 3RD seat, SUNROOF, retractable running boards, heated & air cooled seats. 704-6034255

Dodge, 1998, Dakota. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

Suburban, 2005 LT Sport Leather interior 5.3 V8 backed w/ 4 speed automatic tranny, all pwr options incl'd heated seats, sunroof, cd, dvd, 3RD seat, steering wheel controls, running boards! 704-603-4255

Dodge, 2005, Durango. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

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Looking for a New Pet or a Cleaner House?

2005 Jeep Liberty V6 4x4 3.5L Blk w/Tan int., 4 cyl., all power, AM/FM, C/D, low miles, chrome rims w/like new tires, Extra Clean Gas Saver !!!! 704-603-4255

Want to Buy: Transportation

You’re likely to find them and much more in the Classifieds.

Salisbury Post CLASSIFIEDS

704-797-4220

FILE NO 09 M 844

No. 59956

Ford, 1998, Ranger. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

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COUNTY OF ROWAN, Plaintiff, v. Defendant(s) GRAVES, LARRY By virtue of certain executions directed to the undersigned from the Superior Court of Rowan County in the actions entitled Rowan County Tax Collector vs. the judgment debtor hereinafter set out, this office will hold an execution sale(s) pursuant to Article 29B of Chapter 1 of the NC General Statutes. Said sale(s) will take place on June 4, 2010, at 11:00 A.M., at the Rowan County Courthouse door, in the city of Salisbury, State of North Carolina. Said sale shall be to the highest bidder for CASH/CERTIFIED FUNDS (20% of bid amount at time of sale) to satisfy the execution(s) on the parcel of real property separately described following the name of each judgment debtor hereinafter set out. The executions were issued pursuant to judgment duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for Rowan County, and the executions are in the amounts specified in each case following the name of the judgment debtor and the description of the real estate, plus costs of sale, as follows: The following described property is located in the Salisbury Township, Rowan County, North Carolina: BEGINNING at an iron in the Southwestern corner of the intersection of the right-ofway of Fifth Street with the right-of-way of Yadkin Avenue; thence along the right-ofway of Yadkin Avenue South 57-45-00 West 100 feet to an iron; thence South 32-1500 East 40 feet to an iron; thence North 57-45-00 East 100 feet to an iron in the western margin of the right-of-way of Fifth Street; thence with said margin of the right-ofway of Fifth Street North 31-15-00 West 40 feet to the point and place of beginning, and being a portion of Lots No 1 and 2, Block II, as shown on the map of the Southern Railway property recorded in Book of Maps, page 3, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County, North Carolina. AMOUNT DUE- $ 14,218.57 Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no warranties or certifications being issued. Salisbury Post Publication Dates: May 23, 2010, May 30, 2010 KEVIN L AUTEN -SHERIFF, Rowan County Sheriff's Office No. 59970

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION ROWAN COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR 402 NORTH MAIN ST FILE NO 09 M 939 SALISBURY NC 28144

View our inventory at: www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Toyota, 1999 Tacoma $8,915. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Cadillac, 2003 Escalade Onyx Black, all power options, am, fm, tape, cd changer, duel front/rear heated seats, rear audio, xenon head lights, sunroof, 3rd row seat, like new tires. 704-603-4255

ROWAN COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR 402 NORTH MAIN ST SALISBURY NC 28144

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION ROWAN COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR 402 NORTH MAIN ST FILE NO 09 M 803 SALISBURY NC 28144

Dodge, 1998 Ram 1500 Laramie SLT crew cab. $7,315. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Troutman Motor Co. Highway 29 South, Concord, NC 704-782-3105

Bad Credit? No Credit? No Problem! Tim Marburger Dodge 877-792-9700

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

No. 59971

CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.” 511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321 TEAM CHEVROLET- GEO, CADILLAC, OLDSMOBILE 404 Jake Alexander Blvd., Salisbury. Call 704-636-9370

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION

COUNTY OF ROWAN, Plaintiff, v. Defendant(s) MARY FERRENS CALDWELL

“If it's a battery, we sell it!” 704-213-1005 www.battery-r-us.com

DONATED passenger van or bus needed for newly formed Youth Group. Call Pastor Rob at 980-721-3371. Thanks for letting your love shine!

FILE NO 09 M 848

COUNTY OF ROWAN, Plaintiff, v. Defendant(s) HONEYCUTT MARK

No. 59969

Ford, 2008, Explorer. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. CALL NOW!

ROWAN COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR 402 NORTH MAIN ST SALISBURY NC 28144

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION

COUNTY OF ROWAN, Plaintiff, v. Defendant(s) RUDISELL, MARY LOUISE -HEIRS

Salisbury Post Publication Dates: May 23, 2010, May 30, 2010 KEVIN L AUTEN -SHERIFF, Rowan County Sheriff's Office

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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF ROWAN, Plaintiff, v. Defendant(s) DANIEL, JANE HUMPHREY By virtue of certain executions directed to the undersigned from the Superior Court of Rowan County in the actions entitled Rowan County Tax Collector vs. the judgment debtor hereinafter set out, this office will hold an execution sale(s) pursuant to Article 29B of Chapter 1 of the NC General Statutes. Said sale(s) will take place on June 4, 2010, at 11:00 A.M., at the Rowan County Courthouse door, in the city of Salisbury, State of North Carolina. Said sale shall be to the highest bidder for CASH/CERTIFIED FUNDS (20% of bid amount at time of sale) to satisfy the execution(s) on the parcel of real property separately described following the name of each judgment debtor hereinafter set out. The executions were issued pursuant to judgment duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for Rowan County, and the executions are in the amounts specified in each case following the name of the judgment debtor and the description of the real estate, plus costs of sale, as follows: The following described property is located in the Salisbury Township, Rowan County, North Carolina: BEGINNING at an existing stone in the northwestern margin of the right of way of North Main Street, common front corner of Lots 1 and 2, Block N of Elizabeth Heights, Book of Maps, at page 85; thence a line with North Main Street South 67 deg. 05 min. 14 sec. West 50.00 feet to a new iron in the right of way of West Fifteenth Street; thence a line with West Fifteenth Street North 23 deg. 15 min. 00 sec. West 194.00 feet to a new iron in the southeastern margin of a 12-foot alley; thence a line with the southeastern margin of said alley North 66 deg. 30 min. 45 sec. East 50.20 feet to a new iron in the common rear corner of Lots 1 and 2; thence a line with Lot 2 South 23 deg. 11 min. 32 sec. East 194.50 feet to a stone, the point of Beginning, and being Lot No 9 of Block N of Elizabeth Heights, recorded in Book of Maps Page 85 in Register of Deeds for Rowan County, North Carolina, and containing 0.223 acres. AMOUNT DUE - $ 5,362.09 The sale will be made subject to all liens, mortgages, easements, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, special assessments and all local improvement assessments against the above-described property not included in the judgment in the above-entitled cause. Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no warranties or certifications being issued. Salisbury Post Publication Dates: May 23, 2010, May 30, 2010 CHIEF KEVIN L AUTEN, Rowan County Sheriff's Office

NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE OF REAL PROPERTY STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE COUNTY OF ROWAN SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION File 09cvs4175 ANDRESEN & ARROUNTE PLLC, Plaintiff, - VS LARRY EDWARD ROBERTS, Defendant UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of a judgment and execution issued by the above named court in the above-entitled action on the 12th day of February in the year 2010, directed to the undersigned Sheriff from the Superior Court of ROWAN County, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash whatever right, title, and interest, the judgment debtor owns or may own in the following described real property which is subject to sale under execution. This judgment was docketed on the 6th day of January in the year of 2010 and at which time the said real property was in the name of the defendant. The highest bidder at the sale will be required to make a cash deposit in the amount of 20% of the bid. This sale shall be held on the 4th day of June in the year 2010 at 11:00 o'clock a.m., at the following location: Rowan County Courthouse in Salisbury, NC (inside) as designated by the Clerk of Superior Court. This sale shall be made subject to all liens, mortgages, easements, encumbrances, unpaid taxes and special assessments which were or became effective on the record prior to the lien of the judgment under which this sale is being held. There is a deed of trust or mortgage on file with the Register of Deeds on this property. The judgment debtor has not claimed his/her exemptions in this real property. The real property being sold is described as that certain tract(s) of land lying and being in Salisbury Township, Rowan County: Being all of Lot Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27, and 28, Block G, as shown on the plat of Eastview, formerly the property of J. L. Fisher and J. B. Morrison, made by J. D. Justice, C.S., October 9th, 1943 and duly registered in Book of Maps, Page 473, Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County. The property hereinabove described was acquired by Grantor by instrument recorded in Book 956 page 189. Judgment amount: Principal due $43,750.00 Interest due through 06/04/10 $ 1,083.56 Court Cost and atty. fee $ 105.00 Other fees $ 354.79 Sheriff's Commission $ 1,144.83 Total $46,438.18 Also there will be the cost for the auctioneer and cost for the ad in the Salisbury Post Newspaper. Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no warranties or certifications being issued. This the 29th day of April in the year 2010. Sale will be conducted by McDaniel Auction Company NCAL 48 Firm Lic. 8620 SHERIFF KEVIN L. AUTEN By: B.C. BEBBER, DEPUTY SHERIFF ROWAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE No. 59955

NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE OF REAL PROPERTY STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE COUNTY OF ROWAN SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION File 09cvs2523 ANTHONY FLORES, D.V.M., PHD, Plaintiff, - VS HIGH ROCK PROPERTIES, LLC, Defendant UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of a judgment and execution issued by the above named court in the above-entitled action on the 6th day of April in the year 2010, directed to the undersigned Sheriff from the Superior Court of ROWAN County, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash whatever right, title, and interest, the judgment debtor owns or may own in the following described real property which is subject to sale under execution. This judgment was docketed on the 25th day of September in the year of 2009 and at which time the said real property was in the name of the defendant. The highest bidder at the sale will be required to make a cash deposit in the amount of 20% of the bid. This sale shall be held on the 4th day of June in the year 2010 at 11:00 o'clock a.m., at the following location: Rowan County Courthouse in Salisbury, NC (inside) as designated by the Clerk of Superior Court. This sale shall be made subject to all liens, mortgages, easements, encumbrances, unpaid taxes and special assessments which were or became effective on the record prior to the lien of the judgment under which this sale is being held. There is a deed of trust or mortgage on file with the Register of Deeds on this property. The judgment debtor has not claimed his/her exemptions in this real property. The real property being sold is described as that certain tract(s) of land lying and being in Salisbury Township, Rowan County: All that tract or parcel of land, lying and being in Salisbury Township, Rowan County, North Carolina containing 201 acres, more or less, and being more particularly described as follows: For further description of property see Deed Book 1103 Page 476 of the Rowan County Register of Deeds. Judgment amount: Principal due $ 25,000.00 Interest due through 06/04/10 $ 328.77 Court Cost and atty. fee $ 175.00 Other fees $ 1,868.49 Sheriff's Commission $ 696.81 Total $ 28,069.17 Also there will be the cost for the auctioneer and cost for the ad in the Salisbury Post Newspaper. Bidders are responsible for doing their own research. Property sold as is with no warranties or certifications being issued. This the 7th day of May in the year 2010. Sale will be conducted by McDaniel Auction Company NCAL 48 Firm Lic. 8620 KEVIN L AUTEN, Sheriff By: B.C. BEBBER, DEPUTY SHERIFF J. L. MASON, MASTER DEPUTY ROWAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

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Burton and his film jury judge so-so Cannes lineup views for “Poetry,” his gentle drama about a grandmother who finds solace writing poems amid the onset of Alzheimer’s and troubles with her broody grandson. The lone American film in competition — Doug Liman’s “Fair Game,” starring Naomi Watts as outed CIA operative Valerie Plame and Sean Penn as her husband, Joe Wilson — received solid but restrained praise. Liman said he already felt rewarded that Plame and Wilson, who came to Cannes for the premiere, liked the film. “Any awards that flow this way really flow to Joe and Val, and Naomi Watts, who delivers the performance of a lifetime,” said Liman, adding that the film’s standing ovation after its premiere already was prize enough. “Just being accepted into competition and being given the kind of premiere we were given, I’m not sure we could ever ask for

more than that.” The competition was heavy on emerging talent, unlike last year’s Cannes festival, whose contenders included films from such established directors as Loach, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodovar, Ang Lee, Jane Campion, Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, whose “The White Ribbon” won the Palme d’Or. This year’s big names mostly screened their films outside the competition, among them Ridley Scott with openingnight premiere “Robin Hood,” Oliver Stone with “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” Woody Allen with “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” and Stephen Frears with “Tamara Drewe,” a light, breezy tale that Cannes crowds cheered amid the generally gloomy tone of the awards contenders. “Tamara Drewe” stars Gemma Arterton as a former ugly duckling who returns to her hometown as a striking

Dominican-American novelist Junot Diaz elected to Pulitzer board NEW YORK (AP) — Dominican-American novelist Junot Diaz has been elected to serve on the Pulitzer board, which awards the most prestigious prizes in journalism. Diaz, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” and teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Friday that it was an “extraordinary honor.” “It certainly taps into the thing I love to do best, which is to read,” said Diaz, who was

born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and immigrated to New Jersey as a child. Columbia University, where the awards were established, announced his election to the board Thursday. The board has 20 members — 18 voting and two nonvoting. Members serve three-year terms and cannot serve more than three terms. “The Pulitzer Prize absolutely fundamentally changed my life and career as an artist,” said the 41-year-old

Diaz, who graduated with a degree in English from Rutgers University. “I keep thinking, ‘Wow, I get the chance to do that for a whole bunch of people.’ Not just me alone, of course.” Diaz grew up in Parlin, N.J., and described his childhood as “working poor, welfare, Section 8, living next to a landfill.” He said he put off calling the Pulitzer board about an invitation to lunch to talk about his election for at least six weeks because he was too busy with his work.

“I kept putting off the lunch, which is really kind of stupid because they were trying to give me this wonderful honor,” he said. Co-chairman David Kennedy, a professor of history at Stanford, said the board is excited to recognize a fresh new voice in American fiction. He described Diaz’s prose as a blend of Dominican Spanish and American English. “So we hope that’s the voice he brings to the deliberations of the board as well,” Kennedy said.

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Director Mike Leigh poses during a photo call for the film ‘Another Year,’ at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. The films is favored to win the Palme d’Or . beauty after a nose job. Frears offered a candid wisecrack to explain why his comedy was not competing for prizes with the heavy dramas. “It’s not in competition because it simply didn’t seem ap-

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A greener bottom line Sustainability expert Darcy Hitchcock concentrates on convergence of economics, society, environment

ward-winning author and sustainability expert Darcy Hitchcock will lead two day-long workshops titled “Sustainability: Improving your Triple Bottom Line” on Wednesday, June 9, at the Center for the Environment facility on the Catawba College campus and on Thursday, June 10, in the Old Cabarrus Bank Building in Kannapolis. The workshops, which are designed especially for businesses and people in municipal government, will look at ways that sustainable business practices can enhance a company’s bottom line while also strengthening communities and promoting a healthy environment. The Center for the Environment’s Sustainable Communities Leadership Institute, which is funded in part by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, is hosting the workshops. The center is partnering with Duke Energy, RowanWorks, Cabarrus Economic Development, CESI, Piedmont Natural Gas, F&M Bank and the N.C. Research Campus on the workshops. These organizations have offered promotional sup-

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tions and our communities in alignment with the needs of nature and also What: Workshops on “Sustainabilihave a great livelihood at the same ty: Improving your Triple Bottom time. So there are economic compoLine,” presented by sustainability exnents to it, there are social components pert Darcy Hitchock. to it and there are environmental comWhen and where: Wednesday, June ponents. What we have done in the past 9, at the Center for the Environment is that we have treated those three facility on the Catawba College camthings as if they are separate. We focus pus and Thursday, June 10, in the a lot on the economy and how it is doOld Cabarrus Bank Building in Kaning without understanding the impact napolis. Workshops will run from it has on society or the environment 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and then that comes back to bite us latCost: $35 per person, which iner. cludes lunch. Interestingly, the oil spill in the Gulf Sign up: For applications and regis a good example. We are all focused istration forms, visit www.centeron how we get more oil so we can have fortheenvironment.com. For more in- cheap energy and a good economy, but formation, contact the center at 704what is an environmental disaster go637-4727. ing to do to our economy? What kind of impact does having to clean up the oil spill and wiping out fisheries have on port: Rowan County Chamber of Comour economy? So sustainability is about merce, Kannapolis Business Alliance seeing those three realms and how and the Rowan-Cabarrus Community they intersect and making decisions so College Small Business Center. that all three realms get better. It’s not Juanita Teschner, the center’s direc- jobs or the environment. It’s jobs and tor of communications, recently talked the environment. How do we have a with Hitchcock. This is an edited verhealthy economy, a healthy society and sion of that interview. a healthy environment at the same Q: What is sustainability? time? A: Sustainability is about figuring See WORKSHOPS, 4D out how we can operate our organiza-

“You might be surprised to hear that nearly all of the largest corporations in the world are now pursuing sustainability.” DARCY HITCHCOCK

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The cruelty of Alzheimer’s pital. Thankfully, the move did not provoke what is called a catastrophic reaction. ere’s a denouement for you: But she still does not understand Alzheimer’s disease. that she broke her hip or why these My 89-year-old mother has it. strangers want her to do things she On May 6, she fell and broke her hip, doesn’t want to or it broke and she fell. On May 8, she do. She eats had surgery, a partial hip replacevery little. She ment. cries frequentLater that day, she ly. went berserk. AnestheHeartbreaksia is not kind to people ing is one word A sampling of with dementia. It turns for it. We have staff postings at them into someone also used the seemingly possessed by salisburypost.com word exhaustthe Devil himself. The ed a lot. It result is shouting, bittakes a mental and physical toll on her ing, spitting, obscenicaregivers, as I’m sure others with ties, sudden amazing suffering loved ones know. DEIRDRE strength and, Evil is another word for it. PARKER SMITH physical in my case, tears, as I Alzheimer’s is one mean disease, a held her down in bed and tried to keep terrible way to decline, a terrible way her from ripping out her IV, again, or to live your final years. taking off her oxygen mask or pulling I have no new insight on this situaout her catheter. tion that so many people share. The nurses see it all the time. We I have to keep telling myself, “It’s had not. My father and I spent the not personal.” “She doesn’t know what longest night ever in that room with she's doing.” “The person she was is the stranger who had been my mother. gone.” Intellectually, I understand On May 13, she was moved to a that, but emotionally, this is hell. nursing home for rehabilitation, having And I can’t write a different endmade virtually no progress at the hosing.

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A pre-production Chevrolet Volt hums through the General Motors Hamtramck Assembly plant near Detroit. GM spent $336 million to prepare the factory so it can build Volts on the same line as the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne.

Can Volt spark auto industry? A lot’s riding on GM’s new electric vehicle BY SHARON COHEN Associated Press

ARREN, Mich. — He stands all day, bent over noisy machines, cutting giant sheets of steel and feeding them into monster-sized presses so powerful the concrete floor rumbles beneath his size-16 feet. This is how Steve Prucnell builds cars. In 22 years, the parts haven’t changed much. A car’s a car. But then another project came along, something totally different. After decades of building everything from Corvettes to Saturns to Silverados, Prucnell took a giant leap into the future, working on early models of the Chevy Volt, General Motors’ new electric car. It’s a high-risk, high-profile venture and Prucnell is understandably nervous. Maybe it’s the 13 foreclosure signs that popped up on his street. Or turning 50 in a struggling industry. Or working for a company that needed a $52-billion loan from the U.S. Treasury to stay alive. Whatever the reason, Prucnell is keeping his fingers crossed, hoping America is ready for a new kind of love affair — battery included. The Volt could help usher in a new generation of electric cars, but there’s more at stake here than a technological

There was, Prucnell says, a different vibe building the Volt’s test models. It wasn’t just the intense scrutiny from above. It was the anxiety down below, on the shop floor. “I don’t want to say that we worked harder on this,” Prucnell says. “I think we worked a lot smarter. I mean everybody was on their ‘A’ game. ... It was, ‘We want to make sure we’re perfect.”’ “We know the Volt is the last hurrah for GM,” he adds. “It’s either do or die.” • • • Steve Prucnell is part of the Roam the state of Michigan, and you will hear the same inteam that worked on early models of the Volt. ‘If this does- sistent optimism: The Volt is crucial. So much n’t fly, what’s left for GM?’ asks depends on this car. It cannot Prucnell, shown here with a fail. modified dragster that he This is a state that talks races. about becoming more than an auto capital, but cars have breakthrough: The fate of GM been its identity. It’s the place and its workers. The future of where Henry Ford’s name a beleaguered state. And, graces a college and hospital; maybe, in some larger sense, where Pontiac was an Indian the image of all U.S. autowork- warrior and then a town before ers, eager to prove they have gaining fame as a car. what it takes to compete on the So when the car industry global stage. tanks, the crisis is financial, The moment of truth is com- personal and even existential. ing, and Steve Prucnell feels “Detroit,” declares Mike the pressure. Smith, head of the Reuther Li“If this doesn’t fly, what’s brary, “has two choices: Releft for GM?” he asks, taking a make itself. Or die on the vine. break from work at the GM We HAVE to reinvent ourTech Center. “Wall Street is selves.” going to say, ‘We knew they So what can a single car — couldn’t dig themselves out of See VOLT, 4D the hole.’ ”

An unforgettable number From “Wineka’s World,” by columnist and reporter Mark Wineka:

was a weird kid. I know that now. When I attended my first major league baseball game, something told me I would want to remember it, even though I was only 9 and expected to attend — and play in — many more major league games in the future. Late in that first game, I heard the public address announcer tell the crowd that the night’s attendance at Baltimore’s Memorial MARK Stadium was 22,941. WINEKA Then and there, I committed the number to memory, periodically testing myself over the 44 years since to make sure I hadn’t forgotten it. Trouble was, I couldn’t remember much else about the game, and what I thought I recalled was pretty much all wrong. Today I used the magic of the Internet to track down that boxscore. Boxscores are incredible bits of history, packed with information and — for me — instruments to fill in a lot of blanks and wrong impressions. My first game involved the Detroit Tigers vs. the Baltimore Orioles on Aug. 29, 1966, a Monday night. The Tigers beat the Orioles 6-3. On the mound, Denny McLain (you remember him) beat Dave McNally. De-

troit left fielder Willie Horton belted two home runs. Frank Robinson, who won the American League Most Valuable Player Award for the Orioles that year, hit a two-run homer in the first inning. My favorite player, Oriole shortstop Luis Aparicio, had a decent night, going 2-for-5 with an RBI and a stolen base. But all I really remembered of my first game — beyond the attendance — was that the Orioles lost, Horton had a good game and the calendar date was Aug. 29, which was a birthday of one of my cousins. As the years went by, my mind told me the game had been played on a Friday, not a Monday. I thought “Looie,” my hero, had stunk it up that night. When I went to search for the boxscore, I first scanned August games from 1967 and 1968, not 1966. The only way I was finally sure I had found my game was through the attendance number. It was an exact match. The 1966 Orioles went on to win 97 games before sweeping the Dodgers in the World Series. Those Tigers of McLain, Horton, Wert, Tracewski, Cash, Kaline, Freehan and McAuliffe would win the World Series in 1968, the same year McLain won 30 games. The Orioles traded Aparicio after the 1967 season, and I never forgave them. At least that’s what my memory tells me, and I’m sticking to it.

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lease, just give us 10 seconds,” cyclist Chris Harkey pleaded Thursday in reference to drivers who become impatient when they come upon slowmoving bicycles on the road. Harvey had just witnessed an accident involving his wife and several other cyclists. Fortunately, none of the six cyclists struck in the hit-and-run near Gold Hill died. But all have likely encountered many drivers who don’t think bicycles belong on the road — and show it. Not that anyone has declared Thursday’s crash intentional. Authorities aren’t saying yet what made the SUV driven by 21-yearold Daniel Burton Wilson II of Rockwell cross over the yellow line, run directly into a single-file line of 18 cyclists and take out a third of them. He may have had an accident or a distraction in the car. But the wreck is another clear sign of the trouble that comes when vehicles and bicycles fail to safely share the road. A bicycle is no match for a 2-ton SUV. Neither is the human body. Ironically, the accident occurred during National Bike Safety Month and Bike to Work Week. Just the day before, hundreds of North Carolina cyclists participated in Rides of Silence to honor people injured or killed in bicycle-motor vehicle collisions. More than 900 such collisions occur in North Carolina each year, and the peak season is here — May-September, between the hours of 2 and 10 p.m. People ride bikes for lots of reasons — concern for the environment, a desire to be fit, competitive sport and just plain fun. The state is encouraging people to cycle more for all those reasons, and bike traffic seems to be up. Now the state needs to be sure everyone knows the rules of the road when bicycles and vehicles meet. The N.C. drivers’ handbook says a cyclist has the right to the entire width of his lane but should stick to the righthand side, flowing in the same direction as traffic. And here comes the patience part, when you need to “give us 10 seconds,” as Harkey says. When passing a bicycle, wait until there are no approaching vehicles and give the cyclist plenty of room — remember, the entire width of the lane is his. Cyclists must stop for stop signs and red lights, give hand signals, have lights and reflectors when riding at night and abide by the same drunk-driving laws as drivers. Then there’s the issue of visibility — or seeming invisibility — the greatest hazard for motorcycles as well as bikes. Vehicle drivers need to be on the lookout for motorcycles and bicycles. They’re there, but you have to look. Just two months ago, Chris Harkey gave the eulogy at the funeral of a fellow cyclist who was struck and killed in Concord. More recently, Craig Rufty of Rockwell died after a truck pulled out in front of his motorcycle and they crashed. Bad driving always has consequences, but bicyclists and motorcyclists often suffer greater consequences. They have every right to be on the road, and vehicle drivers have full responsibility for seeing and respecting them.

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“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.” — Lee Iacocca

asked Vicki Booker last week why she often takes challenging assignments, such as becoming principal of Granite Quarry Elementary School in 2008. The schools’ test scores were an ongoing problem. No Child Left Behind rules mandated that Granite Quarry’s students be given the option of ELIZABETH transferring to a better-perCOOK forming school. Why would she want to lead a school like that? Booker said she likes a challenge. She enjoys working with struggling students and helping them succeed. But why? The question stuck with her, she told me the next day. And as she mulled it over, she thought back to her own childhood in Kings Mountain. Her father was a Baptist preacher, and money was tight. Booker says she could look through the cracks in her bedroom floor to see the dirt underneath the house, and stars shone through the holes in the ceiling. “I would have been an ‘at risk’ kid in the ’50s, had that been the label,” she says. But it wasn’t. Maybe she was just another kid whose family was scraping by. But Booker’s teachers gave her hope. They convinced her she had a great future. “I had people who believed in me and cared.” A third-grade teacher stands out in her memory. “Vicki Jean,” Booker remem-

““It is crucial to us to have a strong staff in place. The kids need that stability.” VICKI BOOKER

Granite Quarry principal

bers the teacher saying, “we’re going to make sure you can be somebody.” That stuck with her, too. “One thing I do know,” Booker said Friday, “is how effective teachers make a difference.” • • • If Booker sees something of herself in her students, she may be seeing her third-grade teacher in the five staff members Granite Quarry Elementary is about to lose. The school is not losing the teaching positions. Instead, the system is letting the five “last hired” teachers go to make room for veteran teachers whose positions are being eliminated elsewhere. On paper, it sounds logical. But there’s a subtext that makes a difference. These five teachers were recruited by Booker as she stepped up to the challenge of turning Granite Quarry Elementary School around. She managed a successful turn-around several years ago after she took the helm at North Rowan Middle School in the midst of notorious discipline problems — her first job as a principal. So she knows what works. Part of her restructuring plan for Granite Quarry was to seek out truly effective teachers — teachers who had

proved themselves above and beyond the “highly qualified and certified” label. Booker found five of them, including a teacher certified to instruct gifted students. They set to work, and the entire staff came together as a strong team, she says. She had found the right mix. At the end of the first year, Granite Quarry’s test scores met the required standards for the first time in years. If students repeat that performance on the tests they took last week, the sanctions that have hung over the school for eight years will be lifted. • • • Flanked by her PTA president, another parent and two students, Booker took her case to the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education last month. She knew what the official human resources response was: The teachers signed interim contracts and should have realized the jobs could be temporary. Last hired, first fired. But since Granite Quarry has been singled out by sanctions for so long, Booker and her staff are hoping the school board will single the school out in a positive way, see that it has extraordinary needs, and make an exception to the lasthired, first-fired principle. The parents and students said as much at the board

meeting. School board members listened but did not respond. Later in the meeting, they discussed the possibility of making an exception for Granite Quarry but took no action. It looked like the end of the road, but Booker says she is still hopeful. She is passionate about retaining the teachers she recruited instead of filling their slots with teachers displaced elsewhere. • • • Those so-far-nameless teachers may be terrific, too, but Booker doesn’t want to wait and see. Her teaching staff wants to know who will be teaching which grade so they can be looking ahead. For now, they’re in a limbo of high anxiety, waiting for either a decision that affirms Booker’s position and keeps them together, or a decision to see how things shake out with the state budget, the county budget, the school system’s budget and — seemingly at the end of the line — this sanctioned school’s staff. Each child has the potential to “be somebody,” as Booker’s teacher put it. Teachers who embrace that belief — who hold themselves and their students to high standards — are keepers. No principal wants to let them go. “It is crucial to us to have a strong staff in place,” Booker says. “The kids need that stability. We’ve got a lot riding on this year and on decisions being made in the central office. “We are still hoping something can be worked out.” It’s not too late. • • • Elizabeth Cook is editor of the Salisbury Post.

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Rules not clear when a commissioner errs

f an elected official were convicted of stealing taxpayer money, plotting to blow up City Hall or attempting to blackmail a political opponent, the consequences would be clear: He or she would be removed from office. There’s no gray area in those circumstances. Commit a serious crime — a felony — and the state’s general statutes take over. But when it comes to the travails of County Commissioner Jon Barber, the situation is much different — and much murkier. CHRIS In the first VERNER place, Barber hasn’t been charged with any crime following allegations that he appeared to be intoxicated in his classroom. The accusations — and they’re only that, at this point — have been forwarded to the SBI for investigation. However appalling one may find the image of a tipsy teacher, even if Barber were to be charged with public intoxication or creating a disruption, that’s not a high level crime. In light of Barber’s previous DWI conviction, it’s more an indication of a problem that cries out for help, rather than a willful act of deception or wrongdoing. What’s more relevant here is not so much how things appear

in the eyes of the law but in the eyes of the community at large. Although he’s resigned from the school system, Barber has said he intends to continue serving on the Board of Commissioners. At this point, as the top finisher in the GOP primary, he’s also a candidate for re-election. So what are his constituents and voters to make of this strange, sad episode? Where do an elected official’s personal problems become a factor in the performance of their public duties? And how should Barber’s colleagues on the board respond? For answers, one starting point might be Rowan County’s Code of Conduct for Commissioners. Last year, the state Legislature mandated that most local elected boards develop such a guide. To its credit, Rowan County was far ahead of the legislative requirement. It has had a Code of Conduct in place since 2000, and it closely tracks — or even goes beyond — the suggested guidelines. The code has seven separate sections. Most of these relate to the performance of official duties, especially the avoidance of conflicts of interests, refraining from improper political activities and maintaining ethical standards. But there are sections of the code that suggest a commissioner’s personal actions are relevant to his or her fitness for office. The code’s preamble

states that “County commissioners must be aware of the obligation to conform their behavior to standards of ethical conduct so as to warrant the trust of their constituent.” In particular, the third section of the code bears consideration. It states: “County commissioners should respect and comply with the law and should conduct themselves at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity of the office of county commissioner and of county government.” Note the phrase “at all times.” There’s nothing gray about that. However much one might sympathize with Barber’s situation, one would be hard-pressed to argue that it doesn’t affect public confidence in him, his ability to make sound judgments for the county and his relationship with the board at large. Voters apparently were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt following the 2008 DWI case, but this second incident occurred in a much more public manner and involved his responsibilities as a school teacher. That’s doubles the doubt factor. When it comes to questions involving the conduct of public officials, Fleming Bell II of the School of Government at UNCChapel Hill literally wrote the book. He devised the guidelines that are now being used by many elected government

boards to establish codes of conduct. Via e-mail, I asked Bell about the issues to be considered in a case such as this. This is his response: “As to the legal issue, a person is automatically removed from an elective office if they are ‘adjudged guilty’ of a felony. Misdemeanors are not enough to create a legal problem. “As to the ethical question, I’m quite reluctant to judge a man who has admitted his mistake, resigned from his paying position, and says he is seeking help. Of course, if he continues to drive drunk, that may be a different matter. Such behavior has great harmful potential for those around him, and it would not be the behavior of an ‘especially responsible citizen’ of the sort that many people would want to have in public office. “I note that different communities have different levels of tolerance for personal behavior that may impact one’s public position. Perhaps the best course is to see what the people think about his credibility and his behavior by their votes in November, and to pray that he gets the help he needs.” However one may feel about Jon Barber’s fitness to continue holding office, certainly we should join in affirming that final thought. • • • Chris Verner is editor of the Post’s Opinion page.

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TO THE EDITOR Murderer’s placement raises concerns The March 31 article “Convicted murderer set to be released” compels me as the mother of one of the murdered victims — my 23-year-old son Eddie Little — to apprise the citizens of Salisbury and surrounding communities of the most recent information I have received about this coldblooded murderer, Clifford Allen Nichols. Nichols was convicted on Feb. 28, 1990, and sentenced to two back-toback life terms in the brutal killing on Oct. 22, 1987, of not only my son but also Gralin Nailing and Booker Barfield. He shot my son and Nailing before beating Barfield to death. He was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon for severe head trauma inflicted on Marcella Denise Carr. The Post Release Supervision and Parole Commission has determined Nichols will be released March 13, 2013. As of May 7, 2010, I was informed by the Department of Corrections that Nichols has been placed in a minimum security facility in Lexington. This placement could possibly result in his participation in community-based programs such as: community volunteer passes, home leave, study release, community work programs and work release. Did you hear what I said? Home leave and community passes! Please! The notification says, “Please be assured that before an offender is placed in such programs, the Division of Prisons conducts an evaluation to assess the possible impact on the community. This raises the question: Would you want someone this dangerous, who has committed such heinous crimes, to be released in your community? I ask you: What can we as a community do to prevent these privileges from happening? The next time it could very well be your son, daughter, brother, sister or just maybe even you or your neighbor. Think about it! Here is additional information about Nichols as food for thought: Sept. 7, 2008 — refused to submit to a breath test; March 25, 2008 — theft of property; Jan. 7, 2006 — no-threat contraband. — Jean Little Salisbury

Secretary of State unfairly favors Israel Recently, President Obama invited several nations’ leaders to a nuclear disarmament conference in Washington. It was noteworthy that our ally, Israel, refused to attend. Israel learned that Egypt and Turkey would be asking embarrassing questions pertaining to the fact the Israelis are the only nuclear power in the Middle East and also the only nation not to sign the International Nuclear Nonproliferation Agreement. The Israelis obtained 90 pounds of plutonium that disappeared from Pennsylvania in the early 1970s and was discovered in their possession after an investigation. This is part of the reason they will not attend, fearing further conversation about this theft. We provide Israel with military equipment free of charge for purposes of defense only; no offense is supposed to be allowed. They have violated this defense provision by attacking their neighbors, mainly the Palestinians, many times since 1948. The Israelis are guilty of the carnage in the Gaza strip, where many thousands of Palestinians live in a crowded space. These deaths included many Palestinian children. The Israelis lost only 13 soldiers compared to more than 1,400 Palestinians. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared before the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful lobby in the world. She proposed a $1 billion increase in U.S. aid to Israel. We already provide $4 billion annually that has never been repaid. Since 1948 we have provided more than $300 billion to Israel, and they refuse the president’s request for peace in the area. The Israeli government has much control over the U.S. government. The fact is that the Secretary of State has offered a bonus to Israel for the carnage in the Gaza strip. I request that the Secretary of State resign her office since she unfairly favors one side, Israel, over the other. It is time Mr. Obama replaces her with a more competent Secretary of State. — Victor S. Farrah Salisbury

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Jessica Colotl, a 21-year-old college senior and illegal immigrant, talks to reporters in Atlanta on May 14. Colotl was arrested for driving without a license and threatened with deportation before being granted a one-year reprieve by immigration authorities.

More dreams deferred

essica Colotl is a 21-year-old student at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta, Ga. Last March, she got pulled over by campus police for a minor traffic violation — and became a glaring example of a major flaw in America’s halfbaked, jerrybuilt immigration system. Colotl is an illegal immigrant. Her parents brought her here from MexiSTEVE AND COKIE ROBERTS co when she was 10 or 11 (accounts differ), and when the cops discovered her status, she was turned over to immigration authorities, imprisoned in Alabama, and threatened with deportation. A torrent of protest followed: from lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, sorority sisters at Lambda Theta Alpha, even Kennesaw State president Daniel Papp. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency relented, granting her a one-year reprieve, but she still faces exile once she finishes her degree. “I never thought that I’d be caught up in this messed-up system,” Colotl said after her release. “I was treated like a criminal, like a threat to the nation.” Jessica Colotl is not a criminal, and she’s certainly not a threat. In fact, she’s an enormous asset, a hardworking young woman who wants to become a lawyer and contribute to her adopted country. But she’s trapped in a political, legal and cultural limbo. Raised in America, she has no hope of becoming a citizen under current law. Yet she knows little of her original homeland. As one of

her classmates, Willie Myrick, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “This is her home, not Mexico. At least she is here trying to do something productive.” Yes, she is. She is using her accidental visibility to argue for passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, better known as the Dream Act. Its purpose is to resolve the status of young people like Colotl who are essentially stateless, innocent victims of decisions made for them when they were too young to choose their own future. The measure would apply to undocumented immigrants who arrived before they were 16, lived here for five consecutive years, graduated from high school, and demonstrated “good moral character.” Qualifying young people who then finish at least two years of college, or serve in the military, could apply for permanent residence. It’s a good idea that has attracted bipartisan support, but it never seems to go anywhere. In 2007, 52 senators voted for the bill, eight short of the number needed to break a filibuster, and here is where politics comes in. The Dream Act is almost too popular. Proponents of more comprehensive immigration reform, which would deal with about 12 million illegal aliens now in this country, are holding the bill hostage. They worry that splitting off the Dream Act and passing it separately would weaken the coalition behind the larger legislation. In an ideal world, that strategy might make sense. But tell that to Jessica Colotl and about 65,000 other undocumented youngsters who graduate from high school every year and plunge into a black hole of uncertain identity. They are one traffic ticket away from disaster, and their desperation is growing.

Five protestors wearing caps and gowns, including three undocumented immigrants, recently staged a sit-in at the Tucson, Ariz., office of Sen. John McCain, who once backed the Dream Act but has withdrawn his support in the face of a right-wing primary challenge. One demonstrator, Lizbeth Mateo, came from Mexico at age 14 and completed California State University, Northridge, the first college graduate in her family. “I’ve been organizing for years, and a lot of my friends have become frustrated and lost hope,” says Mateo, who risked deportation to voice her opinion. “We don’t have any more time to be waiting. I really believe this year we can make it happen.” That same sense of urgency motivated four students at Miami Dade College to walk 1,500 miles from their campus to Washington, D.C., in support of the Dream Act. Gaby Pacheco, who came to the United States from Ecuador at age 7, told the Washington Post: “What you see is the all-American girl. Orchestra, cross-country, basketball, ROTC.” Another walker, Carlos Roa, has been here almost his entire life: “Venezuela would be a strange land if I was deported. I’m an American.” They are all Americans, in spirit and loyalty but not in law, and we’re a better country because they are here. If Congress cannot get its act together and adopt comprehensive immigration reform this year, it should pass the Dream Act separately. As the poet Langston Hughes so eloquently put it, “A dream deferred is a dream denied.” • • • Steve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by e-mail at stevecokie@gmail.com.

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hen economies take a hit, those most bruised are ordinarily the people who were poor to begin with, which is to say that an effective boycott of Arizona would be devastating to the illegal aliens living there. OK, fine, some might say. The crunch on the lives of these people could be more successful in causing them to take off for their native lands than the obJAY ject of the boyAMBROSE cotters’ ire: a new, perfectly responsible catch-the-aliens law brought on by a federal government asleep at the switch. After all, the job-eradicating recession has reportedly sent at least a million and maybe many more illegals packing nationally, and you just might send more home from Arizona by inducing a new host of economic evils there. But wait — an expedited exodus would not make up for all the unnecessary hardships you could inflict on other perfectly innocent people, some that don’t agree with the law and millions of whom do. Their very good reason is that it might stop at least some future drug-smuggling murders while ultimately helping to save billions in tax dollars that subsidize the uninvited visitors. Generalized boycotts are like burning down the barn to get a rat, only in this case there is no rat.

The law’s supposed discrimination against Hispanics is nothing more than the fevered imaginings of out-of-touch leftists who probably don’t even know that other states have already passed some 222 laws guarding themselves against illegal-alien dangers and whose own reverse bigotry is evident in practically every other word they utter on the subject. But let’s do consider the excuses proffered by the boycotters for their supercilious, show-off, uninformed acts of mean-spiritedness — that the point is not to make people suffer, but to get some of those people to alter their behavior, to get rid of this law. These haughty heroes mean to take a valiant stand, you see, and not just symbolically; officials of one boycotting city are contemplating the cancellation of major software company contracts with Arizonans, for instance. You buy that style of reasoning? If so, let’s go after the real rats. Let’s boycott the boycotters. As a nation, let’s rise up and say, yes, at every opportunity we will vacation in and visit Arizona, we will order products from Arizona, we will do business with Arizona, but then say no: We will not set foot in or buy anything from San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland, Los Angeles, Austin, Boulder, Boston or any other city whose leaders announce a boycott of Arizona. Let’s all of us sensible Americans — the great majority who respect the right of self-protection — vow we will avoid these places like the plague, understanding that

an Arizona citizens’ counter-move against San Diego already has that city’s tourism industry wringing its hands. What we demand before we will forgive and forget is that they rescind their own boycotts, and, by heavens, apologize. Come on, let’s do this thing, let’s show the vacuous-minded that their mounting of high horses might occasionally have some consequence beyond the ruin of others and their own self-adulation. Let’s show them that the higher you mount, the harder you fall. We might thereby also send a message to Washington that we expect something real from the administration on this question — such as truly cracking down on employers who hire the illegals after establishing a system of sure IDs — instead of what we have been getting so far. That includes talk about an illegal-alien amnesty telling the world our borders are meaningless and even human rights sessions with representatives of China in which an assistant secretary of state equates Arizona’s law with the murderous, liberty-denying, tyrannical viciousness of that country’s rulers. I don’t want a further balkanization of America, but I am beginning to think it’s time for the common-sense crowd to push back occasionally. • • • Jay Ambrose was formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers. He can be reached at SpeaktoJay@aol.com.

ith their usual talent for towing icebergs into the path of their own Titanic, the Democrats have a problem. In Connecticut, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a candidate for U.S. Senate who has long taken pride in his Vietnam service, is now revealed as a person who forgot to make clear that he wasn’t there. In fact, according to the New York REG Times, he reHENRY ceived at least five military deferments from service at the time. (As knowledgeable readers will note, this impressively tied Dick Cheney’s personal record.) Only when his deferment was reportedly in jeopardy did Blumenthal enlist in the Marine Reserve, managing to get himself into a Washington unit whose members rarely damaged their teeth on grenade pins. In fact, this unit is reported to have focused on projects like fixing a campground and organizing a Toys for Tots program. It is fair to wonder if Connecticut voters will think he is now the best person to replace Democrat Christopher Dodd, who has decided to beat a retreat from the Senate in the face of an implacable foe (the public). The problem for Blumenthal and his party is that, while all military duty is a service to the nation, “The Few, the Proud, the Children’s Aides” may not work for him as a slogan on the campaign trail. This is the sort of thing that shakes public faith in politicians. In a different vein, eight-term Indiana Rep. Mark Souder, a Republican, admitted to an affair with a staffer Tuesday and unexpectedly resigned. “I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff,” Souder said, making an important distinction. Thank goodness she was only part-time. Fellow conservatives will breathe a sigh of relief, because part-time status suggests that the chance of taxpayer dollars being used to subsidize hanky-panky is much reduced. With any luck, only the hanky was dubiously funded. What other public figure will next disappoint us? Did Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, really play softball or was it whiffle ball? In this world without certainty, there is just one person in the public limelight you can trust. Yes, ahem, me. Laugh as you will, but I am not a politician, which makes me presumptively honest. Of course, I am a journalist, which immediately cancels out that advantage. Still, I can be trusted not to have any affairs — not because I fear moral condemnation, but because Mrs. Henry would kill me. Thankfully, my Vietnam service is not in doubt. I was there. The Third Armored Typewriter Public Relations Platoon (Motto: “Last to the Battle, First to the Bar”) of the Australian Army was my unit back in Saigon in 1970. About that decoration for gallantry you may have heard me speak about: Actually, I misspoke slightly, I meant to say that I was very gallant to a young lady in a bar on the famous Tu Do Street. That was the time I stood on a stool to praise her virtue, not realizing that the overhead fan was only inches from my head. This incident has also become garbled into a story about my head almost being cut off by the blades of a helicopter at a landing strip under enemy fire. Nothing could be closer to the truth. It was highly dangerous working for The Third Armored Typewriters; I got a paper cut once. • • • Reg Henry is a columnist for the Pittsburgh PostGazette.

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WORKSHOPS

VOLT

FROM 1D one touted as revolutionary but still untested by the public — mean in a state that has hemorrhaged jobs, leaving some cities with Hoover-like jobless rates edging toward 30 percent? Maybe a lot, according to Smith. “If you’re going to have an electric car and if the Volt turns out to be the leader of the pack, think what that means in sales, prestige, in reputation,” he says. “This one is symbolic in the sense that it’s going to speak to the prowess of the American auto industry — and GM itself.” And the spotlight will be white-hot. “The Volt,” he says, “is going to be the most watched production in the history of autos.” Teri Quigley, the 22-year GM veteran who manages the sprawling Detroit-Hamtramck plant where the Volt will roll off the line, can already feel the heat. “We have to execute flawlessly,” she says. “A lot of pressure? Yeah. ... We’ve got one chance to do this right. My workforce has heard me say this more than once: The world is really going to be watching.” GM is spending $336 million to prepare the factory, so it can build Volts on the same line as the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne. The Volt, she says, could help restore luster to American cars — and the city. “The whole view of what Detroit is like, what the auto industry is like — we have a unique opportunity to change that tarnished image,” she says. “I’d like to change people’s minds about what we do here.” Initially, the Volt will be available only in Michigan, California and Washington, D.C. GM won’t reveal the price tag, though it’s believed to be about $35,000 — not taking into account a $7,500 tax credit. The car will have a 400pound T-shaped lithium ion battery that gives it a range of up to 40 miles on one charge. After that, a small gas-powered engine will kick in to generate electricity to power the car about 300 miles. The battery can be recharged by plugging it into an electrical outlet. GM is pouring $700 million into eight operations that will produce the car. The dollars and work will be spread out: Warren. Hamtramck. Bay City. Grand Blanc. Brownstown Township. And Detroit and Flint, two cities that are the walking wounded of the cataclysm that has engulfed Michigan. The state has lost 860,000 jobs in a decade, the majority since 2007. There have been some modest signs of improvement for U.S. automakers; GM recently announced its first quarterly profit in nearly three years. Even so, the auto industry will never again generate one in six U.S. jobs, says Smith, the historian. Robots, automation and foreign competition have changed that. And yet ... silver linings can be found in small clouds. “People in this area are looking for anything to say Michigan and the car industry can make it,” he says. “That’s the hope factor that drives a lot of us in Detroit. What if there are suddenly orders for 100,000 Volts? Now we’re talking.” • • • Dayne Walling is accustomed to looking for silver linings; he’s mayor of Flint. These days, he has 230 million reasons to be optimistic — the amount GM is investing in Volt projects in Flint. Most will go to renovate a plant where about 200 workers will build a 1.4-liter engine for the Volt and Chevy Cruze compact. A few hundred jobs, though, won’t reverse the devastation in a city where more than one in four people are unemployed, thousands of homes stand shuttered and once vibrant factories are empty concrete shells. Still, Walling, is looking for a meaningful way to remain positive. “You can bemoan the glass that’s half-empty or you can embrace the glass that’s half-full,” says the 36year-old mayor. “We’re part of next generation of GM — and that demonstrates we’re

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Flint Mayor Dayne Walling is optimistic that the Volt symbolizes part of a larger turnaround. part of its future, not its past.” The past did have moments of glory. In the 1950s and ’60s, Flint bustled with 80,000 workers streaming into GM factories, creating traffic jams, backing up expressway exits. A generation later, there were the massive layoffs depicted in Flint native Michael Moore’s scathing documentary “Roger and Me,” that took aim at Roger Smith, then GM’s CEO. Twenty years later, here comes the Volt. “It’s the beginning,” Walling says, “of a long transition from a Rust Belt city to one that’s more green, has more technology and is more relevant to the 21st century.” • • • Kris Johns, an auto plant electrician, is making that transition himself. He started as a young man at Flint. Now, 34 years later, he’s part of the Volt engine launch team. “It’s savior for us,” he says, simply. At 55, Johns could retire with a full pension, but he still wants to work. GM has provided him a good life. He bought his first house, for instance, at 23. He built a 4,100square-foot home, helped his three kids through college, bought a truck, an 18-foot boat and a 28-foot camper trailer. “Working around here you were the rich guys,” Johns says. “We were well-paid, for blue-collar workers. We will not deny that. But we worked hard, too. We gave them their money’s worth.” Johns knows autoworkers and GM have been badmouthed over the years; some of it, he feels has been unfair, but some justified. “We’ve taken a pretty good beating. We developed a reputation for poor quality. We put out junk,” he says, referring to some cars in the late ’70s and early ’80s. “It’s taken a while to get the public back.” An hour’s drive away, Steve Prucnell agrees. “I think their thinking was, ‘Hey, we’re No. 1. We’re never going to be knocked off,” he says, referring to the ’80s. “Toyota kicked our butt.”

Prucnell stops to make a point. “That’s just Steve’s opinion,” he says. The result wasn’t pretty. When Prucnell started worked on the Volt last year, GM was bankrupt. A federal rescue was in question. And money was so tight, he says, workers scrimped on paper towels and wore their industrial gloves until they were tattered. Prucnell has moved on to a new project. Some days, he sees Volts cruising around the tech center lot. “There’s going to be a feeling of pride when it’s running off the line,” he says. “We know it’s going to be right.” • • • George McGregor, president of UAW Local 22 in Detroit, is more measured in his optimism. The Volt, he says, will put his workers on the ground floor of a new enterprise and hopefully provide job security. “Do I want it to work? Most definitely. MOST definitely. Now, do I have some reservations about battery cars? Definitely.” McGregor came to Detroit from Memphis in the late 1960s, fresh out of Vietnam. It was an era when a sturdy back and a willingness to work were enough to land an auto job — and a ticket to the middle class. Now, 42 years later, McGregor presides over a dwindling auto empire. His local has shrunk from 6,000 members in the 1980s to 1,500 today. So the Volt is mighty welcome. “We’re blessed to have it,” McGregor says in his raspy voice. But he knows old habits die hard. “Americans love power,” he says. “Fast cars. You understand? They LOOVVE large cars. Small cars, efficient cars? We’re being forced into that now. If ... gas was reasonable, it would be SUVs and large cars.” McGregor figures electric cars are part of the future. Still, one question gnaws at him. “Is this what the public really wants?” he asks. “Hopefully,” he says softly. “Hopefully.”

time can really get excited about doing this, because it turns their job into not just a career but a way of making the world FROM 1D better for their children and their children’s children. That taps into their motiMany people misconstrue sustainability vation and loyalty and excitement in asas just being about the environment. tounding ways. That’s a common misconception. It’s not Q: You have touched on how greening your just about “green.” It’s about transforming organization saves money through preventing our society such that it’s more fair, it’s waste. What are some other ways that a susmore productive and it’s better for the en- tainable approach is economically beneficial? vironment all at once. All these things inA: There are different phases associatterrelate. Sustainability is about seeing our ed with moving into sustainability. I think society as a whole system and making deof Sustainability 1.0 as being when you cisions so that everything improves start cleaning up your messes and reduc(rather than trading one thing off against ing your impact and associated risks. That another). involves many things that can save money: Q: Why is it important to make this shift to- Reducing energy, reducing raw materials, ward sustainability? Why would a business reducing transportation costs — the things care about this? we call eco-efficiencies that happen at the A: To a lot of businesses, worrying about level of Sustainability 1.0. the health of the environment or the health Then Sustainability 2.0 is when you realof society seems like something that is out- ize that sustainability isn’t just a way to reside their responsibility. You might be sur- duce your impact: It gives you a competiprised to hear that nearly all of the largest tive advantage. That’s when people start corporations in the world are now pursucreating innovative new products and ating sustainability. They publish sustaintracting new markets and making a name ability-related reports. The reason they for themselves. You can get media attenare doing it is largely because most of tion if you are out ahead of the pack. them are realizing that by paying attention Then Sustainability 3.0 is when corporato all these issues, they are more competitions start realizing that they don’t just tive. make cool stuff. They realize there are seThere are a number of research studies rious problems in the world and their core that have shown that companies that purcompetencies can be applied to solving sue sustainability actually have better those major world problems. For example, shareholder returns. One study two years IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign talks ago looked at a handful of industries and about eliminating poverty and having betcompared the sustainability leader vs. ter energy supplies and smarter cities. everyone else. And the sustainability They realize there are big challenges in leader’s stock prices performed on averthe world and computing can be part of the age 25 percent better! So if you undersolution. stand sustainability, you’re more likely to There are different points along that notice trends that are about to hit you, and line — from Sustainability 1.0 to 3.0 — you have time to think about the threats where you get different benefits. The ecoand opportunities they present. efficiencies tend to come early; then the When the big guys understand sustaincompetitive benefits and innovations build ability, they start pushing on their suppliup over time. ers. Wal-Mart is a perfect example. They Q: Who would benefit from coming to this have really gotten on the sustainability workshop? bandwagon in a big way. They understand A: We are focusing on organizations so their self interest in pursuing this. They businesses and municipalities would beneare pushing on their 60,000-plus suppliers fit most. A lot of municipalities have gotaround the world to address packaging, ten interested in sustainability in part begreenhouse gases, toxics, etc. It has gotten cause they can reduce their costs and to the point where it is no longer an issue of make their towns more livable for their whether you care about the broader issues. citizens and attractive to outsiders. BusiIf the giant corporations are doing it and ness leaders should come as well. I would they are pushing on their suppliers, eventu- encourage them to bring a couple of their ally it will trickle down through the entire employees as well because the best ideas supply chain. It’s a matter of how quickly often come from the employees who do the your company needs to get on board. work. When they are inspired, they can There are also good positive reasons for spread the word and get others excited, doing it. Some may remember the quality too. movement back in the ’70s and ’80s. We all thought we had these great, efficient operQ: What do you want the participants to go ations until we looked at our operations away with? through the lens of total quality manageA: I want them to go away inspired that ment, and all of a sudden we noticed waste they can make a difference in the world that we never noticed before. Looking at and also improve their competitiveness. I your organization through the lens of suswant them to know that sustainability can tainability is like doing that again. Looking help them be more successful in the long at your organization through the lens of term. This is not about sacrificing returns nature and social justice, all of a sudden or sacrificing the health of your business. you start to realize, “Oh, my gosh, what are This is about transforming your organizawe doing that for?” Or you notice waste tion in a way that is inspiring, that solves that you never thought of before. world and community problems and makes The hybrid car is an interesting examyou more profitable and competitive at the ple. None of us thought when you drove up same time. That goes not only for busito a red light and your car kept running nesses but also the municipalities themthat that was waste, but it is. When you selves. look at this operation of driving around Your town can be more competitive and through the lens of nature, you start to remore attractive to sharp people who want alize, “Well, why am I burning gasoline if to come to work in your city or county. I’m not going anywhere?” Let’s face it. The industrial revolution is So it has generated wonderfully excitdying of natural causes. Right now, people ing innovations, and it is also a fabulous all over the world are figuring out what’s employee morale tool. Young people today going to replace it. I want the participants just assume that you are going to be doing to leave with an understanding of where sustainability; they want their employers the world is headed and how they can conto care about these things, and even people tribute to a positive future: for themselves, who have been in the business a very long their communities and the world.

SUNDAY CROSSWORD Across 1 Garfield's middle name 6 Tiptop 10 Timber shaper 13 Big Indians 18 At large 19 Property claim 20 Scripps competition 21 Disqualify (oneself), in court 22 Introductory assortment of wreckage? 25 Protozoan 26 Swears to 27 Home of Texas A&M International University 28 Pooh-pooh 29 Manhattan component 30 Boris Godunov, e.g. 31 Lost the point 32 Vardon Trophy org. 35 Be of service to 38 Pointed remark 39 Legal conclusion? 40 One-of-a-kind book? 43 Exercised in a lane 45 Barely earn, with "out" 47 Online bulletin board mgr. 48 Pub staple 49 It isn't really a bear 50 Vestige 53 Put in the warehouse

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106 Goddess of wisdom 107 Noisy summer bug 109 Artful handling 113 Lost some locks 114 Music for painters? 116 Feudal lords 117 He played Quasimodo in 1923 118 Justice's garb 119 Dylan Thomas's home 120 Put in 121 Explosive letters 122 Whack 123 Skiing locale Down 1 __ Romeo 2 Cloth quantity 3 Cheer 4 Sunflower relative 5 Like Oscar Madison's room 6 Charity 7 Grafton's "__ for Corpse" 8 When many a bell is rung 9 As a group 10 More competent 11 Safe document 12 Nonentity 13 Common word in rallying slogans 14 Biting 15 Scallions for an anniversary party? 16 Parenthetical comments 17 Withdraw 21 Hawkeye associate 23 Starting squad 24 Duff 31 Islamic holy month 32 Modern office staples 33 Chap 34 Mule's papa 36 Antares, for one 37 Something to walk on 38 Whalebone 41 Chuck 42 __ nerve 43 Sun, in Spain 44 21-Down's real first name, on TV 46 Food for sea urchins 49 President under whom the Peace Corps was formed

They’re beside themselves/By Pamela A. Klawitter

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Lee Smith’s short stories shine with inner light “Mrs. Darcy and the BlueEyed Stranger,” by Lee Smith. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2010. 352pp. $23.95. BY DEIRDRE PARKER SMITH dp1@salisburypost.com

BOOKMARKS T festival to feature John Hart, others The 2010 BOOKMARKS Festival of Books will be held on Saturday, Sept. 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Downtown Arts District in Winston-Salem, centering on Trade and Sixth Streets. This will be the second year that the festival is held in downtown Winston-Salem. “We are delighted to return to the Downtown Arts District this year,” said Ginger Hendricks, executive director of BOOKMARKS. “We received a warm welcome from the downtown community last year and found the location ideal for our program. Bringing BOOKMARKS downtown allows us to work with art galleries and businesses to host authors and attendees. In addition, we are glad to be able to assist in the city’s efforts to revitalize downtown.” Although the search for authors is ongoing, an impressive group of writers has already committed to participate in this year’s festival including such bestselling authors as Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander novels; Patrick McDonnell, creator of the MUTTS comic strip; Billy Collins, former United States Poet Laureate; Charles Pierce, nationallyknown American sportswriter, author, and game show panelist; local authors John Hart, Rachel Keener, Wanda Urbanska and Emily Herring Wilson; and Choctow storyteller Tim Tingle. The following is a list of authors signed to date. Fiction authors include: Zee Edgell, Hart, Keener, John Kerr, Sharyn McCrumb, Jack Riggs, Erica Spindler, Kathleen Grissom, Erica Eisdorfer and Kim Wright. Nonfiction writers include Anna Fields, Trudier Harris, Robert Leleux, Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll, Christopher McDougall, Kathy Patrick and Watts Wacker. Cookbook authors include Aviva Goldfarb and Fred Thompson. Authors of books for young readers include Linda Beatrice Brown, Melissa Conroy, Carol Crane, Major Brian Dennis, Bonnie J. Doerr, Irania Macias Patterson and Ursula Vernon. BOOKMARKS brings writers and readers of all ages together as renowned authors, illustrators, storytellers and chefs share their work and insights through readings, presentations, panel discussions, workshops and booksignings. This year’s authors represent a variety of reading interests and topics, from Urbanska’s “Simple Living” to Pierce’s “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free.” Also featured will be poets, children’s authors and authors of young adult fiction, who are writing about topical subjects. This free festival partners with community organizations, reading related exhibitors and a variety of food vendors. The sixth annual festival will feature more than 40 authors along with creative and interactive activities for children. Please visit www.bookmarksbookfestival.org for more information.

Rowan bestsellers Literary Bookpost

1. Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, by Geneen Roth. 2. Anthill, by Edward Wilson. 3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. 4. House Rules, by Jodi Picoult. 5. Tinkers, by Paul Harding, 6. Heart of the Matter, by Emily Giffin. 7. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. 8. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave. 9. The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer. 10. The Last Child, by John Hart.

IndieBound bestsellers Fiction

1. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett 2. Dead In the Family, by Charlaine Harris. 3. Innocent, by Scott Turow. 4. Island Beneath the Sea, by Isabel Allende. 5. The Double Comfort Safari Club, by Alexander McCall Smith. 6. Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes. 7. The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman. 8. This Body of Death, by Elizabeth George. 9. Every Last One, by Anna Quindlen. 10. Imperfect Birds, by Anne Lamott.

Nonfiction

1. Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, by Geneen Roth. 2. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis. 3. Spoken From the Heart, by Laura Bush. 4. War, by Sebastian Junger. 5. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by Nathaniel Philbrick. 6. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre. 7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. 8. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, by Chelsea Handler. 9. Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortenson. 10. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall.

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he talented Lee Smith shows her versatility in a new collection of short stories. “Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger.” It’s seven previously published stories and seven new ones, with the title story at the very end. It’s one that will leave you wondering, in many senses of the word. Mrs. Darcy is getting older, and you know what that means. The children don’t really trust her anymore. They think she’s looking a little too dowdy. One daughter laments, “ ‘She wore spectator heels and stockings every day,’ Ginny said in a passing-judgment tone. “ ‘Yes, well that’s what I mean’ Trixie went on, ‘And now what is she wearing? Rubber flip-flops from Kmart.’ ” But Mrs. Darcy has something else going on, something she can’t quite pinpoint, but it’s wonderful and enchanting. In “Bob, a Dog,” a woman abandoned by her husband takes in a stray dog that is afraid to go outside. She trades one problem for another. But she’s determined to handle this one. And again, the ending hints at freedom — from worries, from confinement. “Intensive Care” is a sweet, sad story, another one about tangled up relationships and redemption. Having abandoned his first wife, Joan, in what seems like a mid-life crisis, he marries Cherry Oxendine, who has less than a great reputation. But Cherry soon develops cancer and Harold devotes himself to her care, spending as many hours as he can with her in intensive care as she fades away. People may question his choice in women, but they admire his devotion. He does a strange thing one day, stopping at the house he and his ex-wife built and going

through it to find there’s nothing left of him there. Then he tells the story of how he and Cherry met, all the way back in school, and how her life SMITH has been hard, and how she set his heart on fire when he realized life with Joan was not enough. Life with Cherry isn’t going to last long, but Harold is never sorry. Lily Lockhart tells her story in “Folk Art,” a one-sided conversation that’s filled with her voice and person, even in black and white on the page. “Lord have mercy! You liked to scared me to death! Come on out of here this minute. You’re trampling on my daylilies. There now. That’s better. Let me get a good look at you. You don’t say! Why you don’t look hardly old enough to be a art professor, I’ll tell you that.” She shows the professor her first piece of art, her Mama, made years after she went crazy and left the family. “...something about the way it was standing there, that little jaunty angle of it — see how it looks like it is fixing to dance? — put me in mind of Mama, and how graceful she was, and how light of foot.” She starts with chicken wire and mud, but then realizes instant concrete would be more modern, and she adds quartz from the branch, and mica and plants salvia at her feet. It’s a beautiful story of remembrance and homage. “House Tour” features another woman whose husband has left. She doesn’t mind so much, though. Lynn was tired of Lawrence and his playwright moodiness. After a frustrating drive through the Christmas parade, she’s shocked to find a group of red-hatted ladies in her hallway, uninvited. They think her house is on the holiday tour. This is very annoying, but sort of entertaining, too, as

Lynn makes up a grisly ghost story to scare the ladies. Then the real ghost shows up — her ex-husband, who has been dumped himself. The scenes with the touring ladies are viciously funny, and Lynn and Lawrence are such stereotypes of a certain class — only Lynn recognizes it. Wait till you meet Joline B. Newhouse, who writes the Between the Lines column. She writes, “Mrs. Alma Goodnight is enjoying a pleasant recuperation period in the lovely, modern Walker Mountain Community Hospital while she is sorely missed by her loved ones at home.”

What she does not write is “Alma Goodnight is in the hospital because her husband hit her up the side with a rake and left a straight line of bloody little holes going from her waist to her armpit after she yelled at him, which Lord knows she did all the time, once too often.” Meow. There’s plenty more in this collection of stories on our alltoo-human condition, told by a friend who’s sitting across from us sipping coffee and telling tales. Smith has a talent for drawing people and for drawing readers into her diverse worlds.

Isabel Allende sets new book in Haiti by coincidence NEW YORK (AP) — Chilean author Isabel Allende hopes readers don’t think that her latest book, “Island Beneath the Sea,” set in Haiti, is being published in English to take advantage of the current focus on the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean country. “It’s a terrible coincidence,” says the best-selling author of “The House of the Spirits.” “I felt bad that the book was going to come out now (in English) and that it might look as if I was taking advantage of the circumstances, but on the other hand it seems important that Haiti is in the news, that it’s on the map again and that people are talking about Haiti, a marvelous country in need of help,” she says. The 67-year-old author originally considered setting the novel in New Orleans, but her research took her to Haiti. “I noticed that the French flavor of New Orleans, the cooking, the voodoo, a lot of the customs come from 10,000 refugees who fled Haiti during the slave revolution at the end of the 1700s and the beginning of the 1800s ... and

many of them came to Louisiana,” she says during a recent interview. “So I began investigating the circumstances that forced them to leave and that’s how I got into the Haitian Revolution, which is fascinating.” The book, which debuted in Spanish last year and just came out in English in the United States, follows Zarite Sedella, a slave in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) at the end of the 18th century who had the good fortune to avoid working on sugar plantations or in the mills, because she was always a domestic slave. Although “Island Beneath the Sea” takes place 200 years ago, Allende says, “the theme of slavery is one that is horribly alive today.” “There are 27 million slaves in the world today ... and we’re not just talking about girls who work in Cambodian bordellos, but people who are in indentured servitude, sometimes for generations; entire villages that work in agriculture, in the fishing industry, logging and all sorts of sweatshops,” she says. “When there’s so much poverty, when there’s so much abuse,

I think it’s important to say it as much as possible — to make awareness about this,” Allende says. She added that 300,000 children in Haiti are domestic slaves who are given away by their parents who are too poor to take care of them. Allende is one of the bestknown contemporary women authors in Latin America, who sometimes writes based on her own experiences, weaving together myth and realism. Her books, which have been translated into more than 27 languages, shift between autobiographical and historical and are usually focused on women. Her latest book has been a best seller in many Latin American countries and is already a best seller on Amazon.com. Terry Karten, Allende’s editor at Harper Collins, said the book continues to sell well in hardback and e-book. “We expect the novel to be a favorite choice for summer reading and book groups as well,” she said in an e-mail to the Associated Press. The book’s research took about four years and writing an-

other year. “When I begin writing I have the place and time well researched. I have all the documentation about what happened during that moment in that place and nothing more,” she says of her creative process. “It took me maybe two years to gather the primary materials, but I wasn’t able to write the book because I didn’t have Zarite, I didn’t have her voice — the story was very rough,” she says. But one day, she dreamed about the character. “Or she appeared to me when I was meditating, but I saw her fully. And when I had Zarite’s personality, with her body, her long neck, her elegant hands, her voice, I was able to write the book easily.” Zarite, as with many of the women to whom Allende has given life on the page, is full of strength, sensuality and heroism. “I don’t invent women. I’ve worked all my life with women and for women. I know them well and if you ask me where are there weak women, I wouldn’t know, because the majority of them have had difficult lives and are for the most part very strong.”

Other Alices inhabit other Wonderlands in these works BY AMY NOTARIUS

Rowan Public Library

Has the latest movie version of “Alice in Wonderland” made you curiouser and curiouser about this timeless classic of children’s literature? Rowan Public Library has copies of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” available for you to check out. Or you may also enjoy several adaptations of Carroll’s work, including a graphic novel version, a children’s book based on the Disney movie and an audiobook on CD. Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew have created a fantastic graphic novel titled “Wonderland.” The main character is again a young girl, but this time her name is Mary Ann, and she is the White Rabbit’s house maid. Alice is referred to only in passing, but Mary Ann encounters many of the same characters from Carroll’s original and its sequel “Through the Looking Glass.” Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee are here, as well as the Queen of Hearts, the Hatter,

Cheshire Cat and Jabberwock. The colorful and detailed artwork, featuring exaggerated gestures and facial expressions, is a perfect match for the absurd situations and outrageous creatures Mary Ann finds herself running into. Kovac and Liew’s text features the same nonsense speech, play-on-words and plain silliness of Carroll’s original. When the Queen of Spades takes Mary Ann to see Sir Edward the Tailor (a dashingly-dressed deer) she is bothered by all the moths fluttering around her while she tries on clothes. “Have you tried moth balls?” Mary Ann asks. “Yes, and they were GRAND affairs, with music and dancing, but it’s still not enough for these ungrateful flibberty-gibbets,” the tailor replies. Children’s book author Jon Scieszka (“The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales”) has produced a version of Alice that retells the story based on the original Disney movie version. The artwork is that of Mary Blair, one of Disney’s concept designers for that

film. It’s a great way for children to enjoy the story and movie imagery at their own pace. Jim Dale, the fabulous narrator of all the Harry Potter books, reads an audio version of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Both children and adults will get a kick out of Dale’s caterpillar, Cheshire cat and other inhabitants of Wonderland. Before Carroll’s work, most children’s literature aimed to teach proper behavior and morals, rather than entertain. Carroll wanted reading to be fun and was one of the first to create a young main character who can tell a story from the child's point of view. His works have now entertained children and adults for more than 140 years. The first movie version appeared in 1903, (there have now been at least 17 movie adaptations) and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” has been translated into at least 70 languages. Check out Carroll’s work, or one of the many wonderful works based on Alice, at Rowan Public Library today. Computer classes: Classes are

free. Sessions are approximately 90 minutes. Class size is limited and on a first-come, firstserve basis. Dates and times at all locations are subject to change without notice. Headquarters — Monday, 7 p.m., Intermediate Word. South — Thursday, 11 a.m., Absolute Beginners E-mail. Book Bites Book Club: South only, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., “A Great and Terrible Beauty” by Libba Bray, book for May. Each month will feature a different book. There will be refreshments. For more information please call Sara at 704-2168229. Displays: Headquarters —Water Works, AARP; South — cigarette lighters by Wayne Gladden; East — art by Colleen Walton. May 29-31: All RPL locations closed for Memorial Day. 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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At age 54, Patricia Wayne gets a prestigious award and embarks on a new career as a nurse B Y K ATIE S CARVEY

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atricia Wayne graduated yesterday from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and is looking for-

ward to her career as a nurse. As a grandmother, she’s at a different stage in her life from most of those in her program — although at 54, she’s not the oldest, she says. She has, however, been recognized as being one of the best. Annually, the 58 community colleges in North Carolina participate in an awards program called “The Great Within the 58.” As part of this, each community college gives one student an award for academic excellence. Among all students at RCCC, Wayne was chosen to receive the award. On April 14, she traveled to Raleigh to accept it at the North Carolina Community Colleges Excellence Event 2010 at the Jane S. McKimmon Center. In the awards booklet, Wayne is quoted as saying, “Fifteen years ago when I became a single mother to four teenagers, I would never have dreamt that my long-ago dream of being a nurse could be fulfilled.” Certainly Wayne’s path to becoming a nurse has been a roundabout one. The Minnesota native moved to Rowan County almost 20 years ago with her husband, with whom she split up several years later. He moved back to Minnesota, but Patricia decided to stay in Rockwell, where she was living at the time. Her children were teenagers, and she says she couldn’t stand the idea of uprooting them at that time in their lives. She was working as a floral designer at Salisbury Flower Shop, a job she would hold for 18 years. Ultimately, she decided she needed to do something else. “I saw myself there for the rest of my life if I didn’t make a change,” she said. The cost of living was going up, she explained, while her pay was going down as the business cut hours each year. She also realized that if she continued in the floral industry she would never get to spend holidays with her family, and that was another factor in her deci-

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I love that population. They’re interesting, funny ... every day is a new experience. I like knowing that I can make a difference in their day. PATRICIA WAYNE

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sion to change careers. So when she was 47 and her youngest daughter, Crystal, graduated from East Rowan, she decided to go back to school part time. If she had any worries about going back at that age, they were soon laid to rest. She had no problem keeping up with her younger classmates. After a few semesters, she decided to focus on the prerequisites for the nursing program. As a young girl, Wayne wanted to be a doctor, she says. But as the oldest of 10 children, she says that she knew that financially, that wouldn’t be feasible for her family. With a degree in early childhood education earned many years ago in Minnesota, she worked for a number of years with Head Start in both Minnesota and Texas, before moving to Rowan County. She enjoyed that work, but after a biting incident with a child left her shaken, she decided that it was time to do something else. That’s when she became a floral designer. When she decided to go back to school, none of her old credits transferred, so she was basically starting from scratch. For the first five years of her studies at Rowan-Cabarrus, Wayne attended parttime while continuing to work full time at the flower shop. Once she was accepted into the nursing program, she attended school fulltime and worked part-time. Finally, she quit her job at the flower shop and began working as a home health aid for Bayada

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Patricia Wayne poses with her ‘The Great Within the 58 Award.’ To her left is Dr. Scott Rails, president of the North Carolina Community College System. To her right is Hilda Pinnix-Ragland, chair of the State Board of Community Colleges.

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hen having a garage sale, there are two kinds of people: Those who want to make some extra money and those who simply want to get rid of their stuff. My husband is a hoarder. Not a full-blown, needs-therapy kind of hoarder, but the kind that thinks if we’re going to sell our stuff, we should get top dollar for it. Otherwise he can’t bear to part with it. LAURA I was of a difSNYDER ferent mindset. I thought if I could sell the stuff at a cheap enough price, I wouldn’t have to muscle it into the back of my car and

haul it to the Goodwill. There is a certain amount of angst when trying to decide which stuff to keep and which was good enough to spend money on a few years ago, but now you realize you must have been on some kind of drug. The cost of the space it took up in your home, plus the time it took to dust it and reposition it every few months was more than it was worth. So what is it worth now? It isn’t new, but there’s nothing wrong with it. I find myself second-guessing myself a great deal. It works, so… $5. But would I buy it for $5? No… okay, $2. If I can only get $2 would I keep it? Maybe… $4 Do I want to dust it, clean it, or trip over it, ever again? Hmm… 25 cents it is!

I have to set up for my garage sale without the help of my husband. Otherwise, he’d be walking around behind me saying things like, “You want to sell this?” or “Why are we selling this so cheap?” or “This gravy bowl was somebody’s grandmother’s wasn’t it?” To avoid giving him conniptions, I put him in charge of making dinner. He was just as happy to do that because he got to use his new grill. We were selling the old one, which was the only item marked “$5”, marked down to “free to good home.” I guess he thought if we didn’t get rid of the old one, I’d make him take the new one back. Not so, but the new grill kept him busy while I cleared out our house of all the useless

stuff taking up space. Later in the day, he came to me and said, “We used to have a little white basting brush. Do you know where that is?” Oh drat!, I thought. “It’s in the garage in a shoe box full of old utensils marked 25 cents.” “You’re selling our basting brush?” he asked incredulously, as if I’d lost my mind. Here we go… “I never use it. I use a spoon to baste.” “Still, you shouldn’t sell things we can use,” he said, as if basting was a diversion in which he regularly dabbled. “I’m only selling things we don’t use.” “Well, I need the basting brush for my barbecued ribs.” I put my salesman hat on

and said stubbornly, “Fine, that’ll be 25 cents, please.” I held out my hand. “I’ve only got a dollar.” “I don’t have any change yet,” I said tartly. He looked at me, and waited for me to change my mind. I looked back unblinking. Finally, he broke, “Oh, for crying out loud! I’ll go out to my car and get some change. Where’s my slippers?” “Oh… um… no need for change, those are $1, but for you… 75 cents.” • • • Laura Snyder is a nationally syndicated columnist, author & speaker. You can reach her at lsnyder@lauraonlife.com Or visit her website www.lauraonlife.com

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Benson - Drury Sharla Lynne Benson and Charles “Charlie” Van Shafer Drury were united in marriage Saturday, May 22, 2010, at First Baptist Church of Salisbury. The Rev. Dr. Kenneth Lance officiated the 6 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at the F&M Trolley Barn. The bride was escorted by her father, Mr. Randy Benson. Attending as matrons of honor were her sisters, Mrs. Shanna B. Hinson and Mrs. Shea B. Overcash, both of Salisbury. Bridesmaids included Miss Bonnie Boczek of Reisterstown, Md., cousin of the groom; Miss Holli Britt and Miss Ali Davis, both of Salisbury; and Miss Hannah Johnson of Trinity, all friends of the couple. The flower girl was Miss Elinor Hinson, niece of the bride. The groom’s father, Mr. Terry Drury, served as best man. Groomsmen were friends of the couple Mr. Will Cagle and Mr. Josh Polk of Granite Quarry; Mr. Corey Barber of Salisbury; and brothersin-law of the bride Mr. Brian Hinson and Mr. Micah Overcash, both of Salisbury. Guest registrars were Miss Candace Fraley of Granite Quarry and Miss Sasha Lee of Charlotte. Program attendants were Miss Laura Rowland and Miss Bonnie Blalock, both of Charlotte. The wedding vocalist was Mr. Neal Wilkinson and violinist was Mr. Greg Pannell, both of Salisbury. The organist was Mrs. Sharon Wooten of China Grove. Mrs. Kim Lance served as wedding director. Mrs. Misty Ratcliff was photographer. Videographers for the wedding and reception were cousins of the groom Mr. and Mrs. Barth Tesh. Reception greeters were Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Rich and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johnson, all of Salisbury. Pew candles were lit in loving memory of the late Mrs. Rachel Benson, grandmother of the bride; Mr. Amos Shirley, grandfather of the bride; Cody Randall Benson, brother of the bride; Mr. Paul Lefler and Mrs. Geraldine Gibson, grandparents of the groom. Sharla and Charlie rode to the reception site on a Granite Quarry fire engine. At the reception, the couple used the bride and groom cake topper which was also used on the brides’s maternal greatgrandparents’ cake in 1917. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randy Benson of Salisbury and the granddaughter of Vernon and the late Rachel Benson of Granite Quarry and Mary Lynne and the late Amos Shirley of Salisbury, formerly of Cary. A member of the National Honor Society, Sharla was a 2006 honor graduate of East Rowan High School. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in May 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a concentration in International and Comparative Politics and double minors. She was a member of the National Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society of UNCC. The groom is the son of Jerry and Jan Tanner and Terry Drury, all of Granite Quarry, and the grandson of Harry and Dot Drury of Granite Quarry, the late Geraldine Gibson and the late Paul Lefler of Albemarle. A member of the National Honor Society, Charlie was

Holly Allys Freeman of Rockwell, N.C. and Christopher Blake Maxwell of Landis, N.C., were united in marriage May 22, 2010, at Central Baptist Church, Kannapolis, N.C. Pastor Curtis Parker officiated. The bride was escorted by her father, Russ Freeman. Attending as her maid of honor was Christina Shifflett of Charlottesville, Va. Bridesmaids were Taunee Green of Greensboro, N.C., Madison Wheeler of Wilson, N.C., Karissa Gruber of New Jersey, Sarah Payton of Maryland, and Brittany Scearce of Faith, N.C. Flower girl was Avery Jenkins of Kannapolis, N.C. Best man was Brian Maxwell, brother of the groom, of Landis, N.C. Groomsmen were Sean Burney and Daniel Jenkins of Kannapolis, N.C., Alex Mason of Lynchburg, Va., Chase Daughtery of China Grove, N.C., and Luke Adams of Greensboro, N.C. Ring bearer was Cameron Yates of Salisbury, N.C. Honorary ushers were Eli Freeman, Ike Freeman, and Matthew Yates. Other attendants were Erika Bejarano and Lisa Youngerman, both of Sarasota, Fla. The bride is the daughter of Russ and Wendy Freeman of Rockwell, N.C. and the granddaughter of Jim and Peggy Freeman of Salisbury, N.C., and Robert and the late Gwen Moore, formerly of Salisbury, N.C. A 2007 graduate of Gray Stone Day School, Holly will graduate from Liberty University in 2011. Her degree will be in Integrated Studies of Special and Elementary Education. The groom is the son of Tim and Sharon Maxwell of Landis, N.C. and the grandson of Curtis and Susie Parker and Frank and Douglas Duty, all of Concord, N.C. A 2006 graduate of South Rowan High School, Blake graduated from Liberty University in 2010 with a degree in Biblical Studies. He is employed at Liberty University. Following a wedding trip to Seabrook Island, S.C., the couple are making their home in Lynchburg, Va.

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a 2006 honor graduate of East Rowan High School. He earned his Eagle Scout in 2004. Charlie will graduate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in December 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Fire Safety Engineering. He is a captain at the Granite Quarry Fire Department. The rehearsal dinner was held at La Cava Restaurant on Friday, May 21. It was hosted by parents of the groom Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Tanner and Mr. Terry Drury. KANNAPOLIS — Carrie Michelle Chewning and Travis Lee Immediately following the wedding, the couple are honey- Fisher were united in marriage Saturday, May 22, 2010, at Kannapolis mooning in Bermuda. Church of God. Pastor Sam Crisp officiated the 5 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at The Club at Irish Creek. R123530 The bride was escorted by her father and attended by her brother, James D. Chewning of Mooresville, as man of honor. Ryan Bergenty of Denver, Colo., also attended the bride. Serving as guest registrar was Ms. Deborah Thomsen of Charlotte. Vester Fisher stood as his son’s best man. Groomsmen included Report all your exciting news Darrell Fisher of New Castle, Va., and Thomas Griffin of Siler City. to the community on The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Chewning Jr. of the Salisbury Post’s Mooresville and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Watts of Celebrations page, which Mooresville, Mr. and Mrs. James Chewning of Landis and Mr. and runs in our Sunday paper. Mrs. Ray Dereani of Columbia, S.C. A 2003 graduate of In His Name These announcements Christian Academy, Michelle graduated from Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology in 2007. include engagements, The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vester Fisher of Pembroke, weddings, anniversaries, Va., and the grandson of Mrs. Barbara and the late Thomas Crain births, multiple generations, of Pembroke, Va., and Mrs. Talma and the late Harold Fisher of retirements, adoptions, New Castle, Va. A 2004 graduate of Giles High School, Travis gradcongratulations, graduations, uated from NASCAR Technical Institute in 2010. special birthday celebrations The couple will make their home in Mooresville. R123526

Fuller - Matthews Megan Teresa Fuller and Nathan Daniel Matthews, both of Raleigh, were united in marriage May 22, 2010, at First Presbyterian Church in Salisbury. The Rev. Jim Dunkin officiated the 4:30 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at The Salisbury Station. The bride was escorted by her father, Mike Fuller, and attended by her twin sister, Alison Fuller of Johnson City, Tenn., as maid of honor. Her bridesmaids included sister of the groom Allison Hicks of Raleigh; sister-in-law of the bride Samantha Wells of Salisbury; and Heather Russell and Cathy Jordan of Raleigh. Father of the groom David Matthews stood as best man. Groomsmen included brothers of the bride Justin Wells and Jordan Fuller of Salisbury; Mike Medeiros of Raleigh; and John Hundley of Graham. Serving as usher was brother-inlaw of the groom Tommy Hicks of Raleigh. Flower girls were nieces of the groom Savannah Hicks and Olivia Hicks of Raleigh. Serving as greeters were Joel and Amber Dabrowski of Durham. The bride is the daughter of Mike and Julie Fuller of Salisbury and Janice Fuller of Salisbury and the granddaughter of Elaine and the late Edwin Fuller, Floyd and the late Doris Moore and Don and Ann Daniels, all of Salisbury. A graduate of Salisbury High School, Megan earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is employed by GlaxoSmithKline.

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The groom is the son of David Matthews and Linda Matthews, both of Raleigh, and the grandson of the late John and Madeline Matthews and Bonnie Price, all of Raleigh. A graduate of Wake Technical College, Nathan is employed by Matthews Tree Service. Following a wedding trip to St. Lucia, the couple will make their home in Raleigh. R123528

CHARLOTTE — Megan Elizabeth Reynolds and Thad Aaron Walton were united in marriage Saturday, May 22, 2010, at Saint Matthew Catholic Church. Father Patrick Toole officiated the 3 p.m. ceremony, assisted by co-officiant Rev. Wayne Trexler. A reception followed at The Club at Longview in Weddington. The bride was escorted by her father, Mr. Randall Reynolds, and attended by Miss Katherine Busch of Charlotte as maid of honor and her sister, Mrs. Kristan Reynolds Whitman of Charlotte, as matron of honor. Bridesmaids included Gloria Bidetti, Sarah Hazlehurst, Kaitlyn McArdle and Christa Register, all of Charlotte, Caroline Haas of Hickory, and sister of the groom Priscilla Walton-Fein of Arlington, Va. Savannah Grace Whitman, niece of the bride of Charlotte, was flower girl. Clark Walton of Charlotte was his brother’s best man, attended by son of the bride Jason Reynolds. Serving as groomsmen were Jonathan Cork and Justin Patteson of Atlanta, Ga.; Travis Hicks of Raleigh; Russell Lanten of Winston-Salem; Brandon Pegram of Walkertown; and Brett Peiffer and brother of the bride Michael Reynolds, both of Charlotte. Photography by Chuck Eaton. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randall Reynolds of Charlotte and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Wamken of Cumming, Ga., and the late Dr. and Mrs. Roger Reynolds of Baton Rogue, La. A 2005 graduate of Charlotte Catholic High School, Megan received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2009, graduating magna cum laude. She is a financial analyst with Bank of America. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Walton of Salisbury and the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Walton of Granite Quarry and the late Mr. Arthur Trexler and Mrs. Nellie

Trexler of Salisbury. A 2000 graduate of East Rowan High School, Thad received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina in 2004. While pursuing a Juris Doctor at Charlotte School of Law, he is a vice president with First Citizens Bank. The couple will make their home in Charlotte. R123527

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LEXINGTON — Lindsay Nicole Lyerly and Daniel Thomas Draper were united in marriage Saturday, May 22, 2010, at Childress Vineyards. The Rev. Elizabeth Edmonds officiated the 6:30 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception, dinner and dance at the Childress Vineyards Banquet Room. The bride was escorted by her father, John Michael Lyerly. The Maid of Honor was her sister, Brooke Lyerly of Greenville, N.C. Matron of Honor was the bride’s cousin, Holly Williams Moody of Wilmington. Bridesmaids included Lauren Fisher of Greensboro, Keri Trexler of Salisbury and Megan Farmer of Raleigh. Junior Bridesmaid was Drew Pethel, daughter of Branson and Carmen Pethel of Salisbury, and Flower Girl was Jordan McCall, daughter of Barry and Lee McCall of Salisbury. Father of the groom John Thomas Draper served as best man. Groomsmen included Scott and Mike Draper of Greensboro, both brothers of the groom, Adam Murphy of Jacksonville, N.C., and Jaime Carmona of Raleigh. Ushers included Justin Williams of Greenville, S.C., cousin of the bride, Hugh Hutchins of Greensboro, uncle of the groom, CJ Moody of Wilmington and Jesse Musick of Greenville, N.C. Tiffany Murphy of Jacksonville, N.C., was Guest Coordinator, and Tim and Becky Williams of Faith, uncle and aunt of the bride, were directors. The music was provided by Mallory Honeycutt, soloist, and the Corda String Quartet. Music and entertainment for the reception were provided by John Haskins Friendly Neighborhood D.J. Service of Greensboro. The bride is the daughter of Mike and Cathy Lyerly of Rockwell. She is the granddaughter of Norman and Doris Pethel of Salisbury and Joe and Sue Lyerly of Granite Quarry. A 2006 honor graduate of East Rowan High School, Lindsay graduated from East Carolina University in December 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She is employed at Wesley Long Community Hospital in Greensboro. The groom is the son of Tom and Holli Draper of Greensboro. He is the grandson of Ken and Sara Hutchins of Jamestown and Grace and the late Harold M. Draper, Jr. of Greensboro. A 2002 graduate of Western Guilford High School, Daniel graduated from East Carolina University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution and Logistics. He is employed with HD Supply Waterworks. Following a wedding cruise to Barbados, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the couple will reside in Kernersville.

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Tom and Holli Draper, the groom’s parents, hosted a rehearsal dinner Friday

evening, May 21, 2010, at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Greensboro. The 60 guests included the wedding party as well as close family members of the bride and groom. A delicious meal was enjoyed by all, and toasts were made to honor the couple. A prayer shawl, handmade by the bride’s grandmother, was presented to the couple by grandparents Joe and Sue Lyerly.

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An Engagement Party was given Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, to honor the prospective bride and groom at Wittenberg Lutheran Church Assembly Room in Granite Quarry. The occasion was hosted by Tim and Becky Williams of Faith and Dennis and Melissa Pethel of Salisbury, both uncles and aunts of the bride; Norman and Doris Pethel of Salisbury and Joe and Sue Lyerly of Granite Quarry, all grandparents of the bride; and Cardell Gibson of Salisbury and Evelyn Gibson of Salisbury, both great-aunts of the bride. A delicious home-cooked meal and desserts were served, gifts were presented to the couple and toasts were made in their honor. Brooke Lyerly, maid of honor and sister of the bride, hosted a Bachelorette Weekend and Lingerie Shower at Myrtle Beach, S.C., in honor of the bride-to-be on March 26-28, 2010. The bridesmaids attended and the occasion was celebrated with a dinner at California Dreaming and a spa treatment at Cinzia Spa. Gift bags were

presented to the bride and her bridesmaids by the hostess. On Saturday, April 10, 2010, Lindsay was honored with a party at Stelia’s Café Lounge in Salisbury. Hostesses were bridesmaids and best friends from high school Lauren Fisher and Keri Trexler. Those attending were close friends from high school, Brooke Lyerly, sister of the bride, and Cathy Lyerly, mother of the bride. All attending presented the bride with gifts from her bridal registry. Tom and Holli Draper had a gathering of neighborhood friends at their home in Greensboro on Saturday, April 17, 2010, to honor the bridal couple. Charlene Johnston, friend of the groom’s mother, hosted a Pampered Chef party at the Drapers’ home on Saturday, April 24, 2010, for the bride. It was provided by consultant and friend of the groom’s mother Sharon Andrews. Attending were friends, aunts and the bridal couple’s mothers and grandmothers. On Sunday, April 25, 2010, John and Renee Wiles of Granite Quarry, uncle and aunt of the bride, along with their sons, Jacob and Noah, hosted a shower for the bride at Wittenberg Lutheran Church. They presented the bride with a variety of special gifts. Among the guests attending were the mothers and grandmothers of the bride and groom, along with special friends and family members. The bride and groom were honored with Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres at the Country Club of Salisbury Friday, April 30, 2010. The party was hosted by relatives of the bride’s mother: Roy Pethel, Jr. and his wife, Lynda, great-aunt and uncle of the bride; Branson and Carmen Pethel; and Barry and Lee McCall, cousins of the bride’s mother. They presented the bridal couple with cocktail glasses. Becky Williams was hostess of a Bridesmaid’s Luncheon in honor of her niece, Lindsay Lyerly, the bridal attendants and flower girl. The celebration was Saturday, May 1, 2010, at Carolina Lily in Salisbury. A nice outdoor tea party-style lunch was enjoyed by all. Special guests were the bridal couple’s mothers, Cathy Lyerly and Holli Draper, and the grandmothers, Doris Pethel, Sue Lyerly and Sara Hutchins. Also attending, in addition to the bridesmaids, Brooke Lyerly, Holly Moody, Lauren Fisher and Keri Trexler, were the junior bridesmaid, Drew Pethel, and her mother, Carmen, and the flower girl, Jordan McCall, and her mother, Lee. The bridal attendants were presented with gifts from the hostess, the bride and the bride’s mother. The mothers and grandmothers received wedding handkerchiefs from the bride-tobe. The hostess was presented an engraved bracelet from her niece, and the bride was given china by her aunt. R123529

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CHICAGO — Retire Ronald McDonald? No way. That’s the message McDonald’s Corp. CEO gave to the red-haired clown’s critics on Thursday. Jim Skinner calls Ronald McDonald an ambassador for the restaurant and its Ronald McDonald House Charities. And he says the character is “a force for good.” Skinner’s comments came during the fast food chain’s shareholder meeting after critics pressed him to retire the famous icon. They say the clown encourages children to eat unhealthy food. Retired Chicago physician Alfred David Klinger says Ronald McDonald sends an “insidious message to young people” and should be retired. People in the crowd gathered at the company’s headquarters in suburban Chicago booed the idea.

Garrett Daniel Fisher graduated magna cum laude from Western Carolina University Saturday, May 8, 2010. He received a Bachelor of Science in Spanish Education. A North Carolina Teaching Fellows scholarship recipient, Garrett was chosen for an award as an “Outstanding Prospective Teacher.” Recipients of this award must be nominated by their cooperating teacher and the university student-teacher supervisor. They must also have a high academic average, achieve above-average ratings for teaching skills, oral and written communication, initiative, creativity, and must show a commitment to professionalism. Garrett spent a semester studying Spanish at a university in Monterrey, Mexico. He was also inducted into the International Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu, while at Western Carolina University. A 2006 graduate of East Rowan High School, Garrett is the son of Allen and Kathey Fisher, of Salisbury. R120955

dea Michael and Kathy Bunton, of Hiddenite are pleased to announce the engagement and forth coming marriage of their daughter, Jenna, to Clark Adams of China Grove, North Carolina, son of Ray and Georgia Adams also of China Grove. Jenna is the granddaughter of Jay Bunton of Hiddenite and the late Carol Bunton and Jean Silliman of China Grove and the late W. Bennett Silliman. A graduate of Alexander Central High School, Jenna graduated in 2009 from North Carolina State University with Bachelor of Science Degrees in Poultry and Animal Science. She is currently a student at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Clark is the grandson of the late Clyde and Catherine Adams of China Grove and the late Baxter and Jean Clark of Augusta, Georgia. A 1998 graduate of South Rowan High School, Clark graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Agricultural and Environmental Technology and a Masters of Agricultural Education. He is employed with the Rowan-Salisbury School System as an Agriculture Education teacher at West Rowan Senior High School. A July 10, 2010 wedding is planned at Berea Baptist Church in Hiddenite, North Carolina.

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Amanda Kay Nelson, daughter of Elaine Nelson of Salisbury and Matthew Nelson of Boston, Massachusetts, graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Saturday, May 15, 2010, with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with Chemistry Honors. Amanda gave a poster presentation of her chemistry honors thesis project at the American Chemical Society National Convention in San Francisco in March. Her honors thesis, “A Novel Preparation of Substituted Allenes using the Gilman Reagent,” was presented May 3, 2010 at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Craig Ogle, professor and director of Regional Analytical Chemistry Laboratory has been her mentor. Professor Kathleen Nicolaides of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology presented the Robert Lassiter Outstanding Undergraduate Paper Award to Amanda for her paper entitled “The Government’s Opposition Motion to the Defendant’s Motion to Suppress.” Amanda has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society since April 2009. Amanda has been accepted into the PhD Chemistry program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia where she will be a Graduate Assistant while pursing her PhD. She is a 2005 graduate of West Rowan High School.

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Alice Ritchie of Salisbury honored by Beta Sigma Phi Alice C. Ritchie of Salisbury was recently honored at the Beta Sigma Phi Carolinas Convention held in Concord. The second place winner from North Carolina, Ritchie received the prestigious Alpha Omega Award. The Alpha Omega Award is presented each year to three sisters in North Carolina and three sisters in South Carolina who best exemplify the ideals of the sorority. Ritchie is a member of Salisbury’s Xi Delta Chi Chapter.

children and 17 great-greatgrandchildren. Traveling the farthest were Ashley Safrit Keppel and daughter Sophia of Highland Ranch, CO; Pete and Lorri Hoffman of Stone Mountain, GA and Candy Hoffman Payton and daughter Emily of Suwanee, GA. Youngest attending was Anthony Clark, 19 month old son of Amy Hoffman. Entertainment was provided by “Hank” Hoffman III, H.A. Hoffman IV and Ed Jordon. Decorations and floral arrangements were made by Debbie Hoffman. Pete Hoffman, Jr. and wife Debbie hosted an afterreunion gathering in their home, the homeplace of the Arthur and Ruth Hoffman family.

Hoffman reunion Over 100 descendants, relatives and friends of the late Henry Arthur and Ruth Cornelison Hoffman gathered for a reunion on May 15 at Ellis Park on Old Mocksville Road. The barbeque buffet luncheon was hosted by Al Hoffman. In attendance were seven surviving children: Pat Harris, Sam Hoffman, Ann Hargis, Al Hoffman, Suvy Balestrino, Joyce Moorefield, all of Salisbury, and Pete Hoffman of Stone Mountain, GA. Deceased children are David Robert Hoffman, Elizabeth Hoffman Williams, Henry Arthur Hoffman, Jr. and Martha Hoffman Kennerly. Also in attendance were 22 grandchildren, 23 great-grand-

There was a memorial tribute to Dr. Fred D. Ponder, a wellknown member of the RowanSalisbury community. He served on the faculty at Livingstone College several years. At Sandy Ridge he was a faithful member of the steward board, served as leader of class leaders and was a dedicated member of the Norris A. Reid Men’s Choir. During the afternoon service, tributes included reflections on Ponder’s contributions to the church by Andrew T. Harris, to the community by Larry D. Melton and to his family by various family members. Music was provided by the Sandy Ridge AME Zion Church Victory Choir. The pastor, the Rev. Anthony J. Freeman,spoke for the 11 a.m. service, which featured music by The Sandy Ridge Gospel Choir. The 3 p.m. service featured the Rev. Kelcy G. L. Steele, pastor of Bethel AME Zion in Kannapolis. The Bethel AME Zion Church Mass Choir accompanied Steele and also provided music for the afternoon service. Steele is a native of Rock Hill. S.C. He has had a distinguished career as pastor, community activist and civic leader. He has been in the min-

AME Zion anniversary Sandy Ridge AME Zion Church of Landis celebrated its 144th church anniversary on Sunday, May 16. Founded in 1866 by a group of former slaves of Rowan County, the church has a continuous line of descendants that is still evident in the majority of the families of the current membership. This year’s theme was “Celebrating Our Legacies, Past and Present.”

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Holly Skipper A daughter, Holly Suzanne, was born to Courtney English Skipper and Brian Nathan Skipper of Spencer on April 27, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces. Grandparents are William and Cheryl English of Burlington and Malcolm and Susan Skipper of Charlotte.

Mckenna Thomas A son, Mckenna Talley, was born to Angie Earnhardt Thomas and David Talley Thomas Jr. of Willow Spring on April 28, 2010, at Rex Hospital, Raleigh. He weighed 5 pounds, 3 ounces. He has a sister, Kelcie Michelle, 2. Grandparents are James and Mary Lee Earnhardt of Salisbury and the late David and Ann Thomas Sr. of Salisbury. Great Grandparent is Marie Spry Canada of Salisbury.

Javion Chambers A son, Javion Lamar, was born to Porsha and Jerome Chambers of Salisbury on May 13, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces. He has a brother, Jaylan, 3. Grandparents are Tawana Stinson of Salisbury, Odell Stinson of Spencer, Dianne Walker of Winston-Salem and Freddie Broadway Sr. of Linwood. Great-grandparents are Mary Lou Broadway of Linwood and Annie Mae Chambers of Winston-Salem.

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with another friend.) I use the family “kid car” that I share with my siblings, and she will limit, or revoke, my use of the vehicle if I do not adhere to her rules. I don’t want to fight with my mom, but frankly I enjoy having alone time with my boyfriend and just getting away from home to visit and enjoy other places. How can I tackle this issue without losing use of the car and without being dishonest or, as my mother likes to call it, “scheming”? If I don’t tell her what I’m doing and she finds out, she will say hurtful things and restrict my car access. — Wondering Daughter Dear Wondering: Welcome to the real world — where the person who owns the wheels gets to steer. These decisions may be silly or capricious (in your mind), but nonetheless, it is your mother’s right to link your sexual choices with the transportation she is providing. If she asks where you are sleeping, you’re going

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Salisbury’s Civic Center was the site of a great celebration recently as more than 220 seniors and their care providers enjoyed fine dining, great entertainment and special desserts. In honor of Older Americans Month, the Centralina Area Agency on Aging, along with the activity directors, social workers and volunteers of the county long-term care facilities, hosted a fine dining event to recognize seniors in Rowan County. This was the second such Residents’ Rights celebration. Table tops were decorated by each individual care facility and were judged by a panel of local officials. County Commissioners Chad Mitchell, Carl Ford and Tina Hall served as judges, as did City Councilman Pete Kennedy and East Spencer Mayor John Cowan. Rod Kerr of First Baptist Church also was part of the judging team, as was Tammy Corpening, East Spencer Alderman. After much deliberation they awarded the top honor to Autumn Care of Salisbury, which was decorated with a 1950s rock and roll theme, followed by Carillon Assisted Living and Brightmoor Nursing Center. These officials also had the good fortune to be judges for the best dessert contest, again with entries prepared by each attending facility. They even got to eat dessert before lunch. Top three winners for this delicious contest were the Brian Center, Liberty Commons and Lutheran Home. Two out of the top three winning desserts were made with Twinkies!

Magnolia Gardens prepared the main course for all the seniors as volunteers decked out in black and white served. It was elegant. Entertainment was plentiful, as Jeff Myers of J&N Entertainment-Songs started off the event with many favorites. The Clogged Up Cloggers combined walkers and clogging to songs such as “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane” and “I Don’t Need Your Rocking Chair.” They were amazing. Reed’s Riffs and C.K. Wyatt also had the crowd clapping and tapping their toes. Dance routines by the Cabarrus County Silverliners and their male counterparts, the Snickerdoodles, wowed the crowd. The latter claims to be the only male line dance group in the state. They had everyone rocking. Carillon resident Pauline Brady won the award for the oldest attendee. She is 95 and thoroughly enjoyed herself. Patricia Cowan, ombudsman with Centralina, presented awards to outstanding volunteers, including AARP, Home Instead Senior Care, Gentiva, CAC committee members and volunteers in the long-term care facilities. This is the second year for Rowan senior facilities to hold such an event in honor of Older Americans Month and Residents’ Rights. The seniors all seemed to truly enjoy the fine food and musical performances. And the local officials admitted the dessert tasting was the best — some had to go back for more.

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