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78-year-old survives plane crash BY MARK WINEKA AND ELIZABETH COOK mwineka@salisburypost.com

ENOCHVILLE — A 78year-old Mooresville pilot was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center after his plane crashed and overturned in a wooded area Saturday afternoon. Paul Norman Baker of 753 Edgemoor Road, Mooresville, was stuck upside down in his single-engine, light-sport plane for close to two-and-ahalf hours before he found a cell phone and called for help. He was listed in serious condition Saturday night at

the Charlotte hospital. Rescue units and law enforcement received notification of a downed plane at 2:40 p.m., and Baker was found by 2:56 in a densely wooded area near Ferrell James’ Enochville Airport — a long-established grass airstrip. Baker had taken off about 12:30 p.m., going in a direction away from Kannapolis Lake, but nobody saw the plane go down. “We’re assuming at this point he crashed right after takeoff,” Rowan County Emergency Services Director Frank Thomason said. His legs pinned and hang-

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UKEVILLE — When Parker Graham, a new Marine, returned home with his family on a recent Saturday, some 25 to 30 people stood in the front yard and spilled onto Dukeville Road. A large homemade sign that his father, Marcelle, had fashioned out of conduit and a white bed sheet also welcomed him. Some men from Shaw Construction already had left. They had stopped after seeing the sign and the growing crowd and left behind an orange insulated coffee mug from nearby Buck Steam Station, where they are working on an expansion project. Inside the cup — $50. “They just saw the sign and MARK wanted to do something for WINEKA him,” says Deborah Graham, Parker’s mother. On another day, under the same sign, “Michelle” left a heartfelt personal note in an envelope with $20. Her late husband, Robert Clement, had been a Marine before he died as a Spencer police officer. As the days on his leave continued, Parker found that wherever he wore his dress uniform — at church, at Kmart or in restaurants such as Blue Bay and Ryan’s — people kept approaching him. They thanked him for wearing the uniform proudly. They thanked him for what he’s doing. “I was prepared for it, but when it actually happened, I guess I wasn’t prepared for it,” Parker says. “I didn’t know how to take it, but it felt real good.” You have to understand that 19-year-old Parker Graham is new to all this. He “only” has completed his three months of Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island, S.C. While Parris Island is one of the toughest boot camps in the military, Parker hasn’t been fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. And he knows that many men and women before him have shared the boot camp experience. So all the attention for just being a Marine at the start of a four-year commitment has caught him — and his family — a little bit off guard. “It’s been overwhelming,” Deborah Graham says. “We just didn’t realize how much it was going to change our lives.” Before he enlisted, the Grahams were not

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ing upside down, Baker guided rescuers to the general vicinity of the crash off Strider Circle through his communications with the dispatcher. Going on an initial report that the plane was hanging upside down in the trees, Enochville rescue units asked the Highway Patrol send up a helicopter to help in searching for Baker from the air. But they soon realized the plane, made mostly of aluminum, had crashed to the ground and, when Baker could hear men in the area, he started shouting for help. “I would describe his injuries as moderate at this

point,” Thomason said at the scene. “ ...I’d say he’s a pretty lucky individual. Fortunately, he had that cell phone.” A man identified as Baker’s son was at the crash scene later. He said his father was “doing well” and was “conscious and alert.” He declined further comment. Enochville Fire and Rescue’s station is located about a mile from the airstrip, and Rowan Sheriff’s Deputy W.C. Lowery also was on patrol near Enochville School when the rescue alert went out.

Caseload swamps DA’s office BY JESSIE BURCHETTE jburchette@salisburypost.com

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Women make up nearly half those charged in murder cases BY JESSIE BURCHETTE

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murder cases until the recent outbreak —seven people murdered in the last two months. Kenerly, who isn’t seeking re-election, will leave at the end of the year, with a new district attorney handling many of the remaining murder cases. The oldest case dates to 2005 — a woman is charged with killing her ex-husband. MYERS Elizabeth C. Myers has been out on bond since shortly after the Oct. 24, 2005, shooting. Reginald Leach, who was 16 when he was arrested in 2007 on a charge of mur-

Bill Kenerly has long suspected the Rowan County District Attorney’s Office is one of the most understaffed DA offices in the state. Now, he has proof. A state court system document that evaluates staffing and workload puts District 19 C (Rowan County) at the bottom of the state’s nearly 50 judicial districts in overall staff vs. caseload. “It’s official, we are the most overloaded DA’s office in the state,” Kenerly said last week. Kenerly has eight assistant DAs. Counting Kenerly, the office has a staff of 15. The state document shows Rowan needs a staff of 19.6. Using a complex formula, the state shows Rowan is at 71 percent of what’s needed. The overloaded DA’s office and an equally overloaded Clerk of Court’s Office continue to cause a backup of cases — and contribute to overcrowding in the Rowan County Detention Center. In a political season, more voters, candidates and law enforcement officers are pointing to the backlog of cases and slow wheels of justice in Rowan County. “We do have a bad backlog of cases. We don’t have enough DAs, we don’t have enough clerks,” Kenerly said, pointing to the wide disparity in staffing at DA offices across the state. For example, Cabarrus County, District 19-A, has a total of 19 people, including 10 assistant DAs. The state puts BILL KENERLY Cabarrus at 90 perDistrict Attorney cent at what’s needed. In 1991, when Republican Kenerly succeeded longtime Concord District Attorney and Democrat Bob Roberts and became the DA in both Cabarrus and Rowan counties, he had six assistant DAs and three administrative staffers. Now there are 19 in the Cabarrus Office and 15 in Rowan. “There are 34 people doing what 10 did in 1991 — and that’s still not enough,” he said.”Our caseload has exploded in the last 15 years.” The veteran prosecutor accepts some of the responsibility. He admits that he’s probably not political enough in a state system where the most political DAs are closer to the top of the funding pile. Some DA’s offices are overstaffed, according to the staffing assessment document. At the very top is District 9A — Person and Caswell counties. The district has 14 staffers in office where the state estimates 10.5 are needed. The Person-Caswell district recently made news statewide. Joel Brewer, who resigned as district attorney earlier this year amid sexual abuse allegations, pleaded guilty to nine charges including inappropriate touching of women, assault on a female and impersonating an officer. Kenerly points to that district and others at the top of the funding pile. “Look at the best staffed (offices). They have twice as much

“There are 34 people doing what 10 did in 1991 — and that’s still not enough. Our caseload has exploded.”

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Twenty people are awaiting trial in Rowan County Superior Court on murder or accessory charges. And nearly half of the 13 charged with murder are women. Six women are awaiting trial for murder, with five of those described as domestic killings — the victim a husband, former husband or boyfriend. District Attorney Bill Kenerly has seen a much larger murder caseload. In 2006, there were 40 people put in the Rowan County Detention Center on firstdegree murder charges. That was a period when every killing seemed to have a van load of people involved. Kenerly said last week that his office was doing fairly well dealing with the

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Local fisherman work the waters around Grand isle, La., as tropical depression Bonnie approaches the coast saturday,. oil cleanup staging areas have been evacuated and equipment moved north away from the storm. Completion now looks possible by mid-August, but Allen said he wouldn’t hesitate to order another evacuation based on forecasts similar to the ones for Bonnie, which halted work on Wednesday. “We have no choice but to start well ahead of time if we think the storm track is going to bring gale force winds, which are 39 mph or above, anywhere close to well site,” Allen said. Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.

Gay Lutheran pastors to join church roster SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in the nation’s largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will add six of the pastors to its clergy roster at a service at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco today. Another pastor who was expelled from the church, but was later reinstated, will participate in the service. The group is among the first gay, bisexual or transgender Lutheran pastors to be reinstated or added to the rolls of the ELCA since the organization voted last year to lift the policy requiring celibacy. Churches can now hire noncelibate gay clergy who are in committed relationships. “It’s going to be an extremely glorious and festive ceremony because it’s the culmination of decades of work to welcome LGBT people into the ELCA,” said

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Ironically, the storm may even have a positive effect. Churning waters could actually help dissipate oil in the water, spreading out the surface slick and breaking up tar balls, said Jane Lubchenco, leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Beaches may look cleaner in some areas as the storm surge pulls oil away, though other areas could see more oil washed ashore.

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Amalia Vagts, executive director of the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, a nonprofit that credentials openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people for ministry. Megan Rohrer, one of the pastors who will participate in today’s rite of reception service, grew up in South Dakota and attended a Lutheran college where she said students tried to exorcise her “gay demons” by throwing holy water on her. Some of those people are now Lutheran pastors in South Dakota, she said. Rohrer, who is transgender and a lesbian, was ordained by four congregations in San Francisco in 2006, but could not join the ELCA roster until the denomination’s national assembly approved the new policy in August. “I didn’t really believe the policy was going to change as quickly as it did,” she said. Rohrer said she is hopeful Sunday’s service will be a “symbol” to young people that the Lutheran church is working toward becoming more welcoming of people of all different backgrounds.

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Even though the evacuation turned out to be short-lived, it revealed one important fact: BP and the federal government are increasingly sure that the temporary plug that has mostly contained the oil for eight days will hold. They didn’t loose the cap even when they thought they’d lose sight of it during the evacuation, although in the end, the real-time cameras that have given the world a constant view of the ruptured well never stopped rolling.

Ousted ag official unsure about returning to work ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made about race to an NAACP audience, is unsure about returning to a government job, she said Friday. President Barack Obama told Sherrod he regretted her forced resignation and asked her to consider coming back. He also said in a nationally broadcast network interview he believes Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack “jumped the gun” in sacking her after just a few months with the USDA. She’s not so sure about returning to government work but would like to talk more with Obama about promoting togetherness across the country. “I don’t want to be the fall guy, the fall girl, for discrimination in the Department of Agriculture,” Sherrod told The Associated Press at her southern Georgia home. “I need a little down time to reflect on what’s happened the last few days. Is there another place for me to help all of us take advantage of what has happened over the last few days? I don’t know yet.” For his part, Obama has ordered a more patient, deliberative style of governance from his aides and Cabinet members after the convulsive week surrounding Sherrod’s ouster. Sherrod, 62, said she’d like to persuade Obama to visit south Georgia. “I need to get him down here with some regular folks to see how they live and how they get along,” Sherrod said. “It might give him a better understanding on how to promote togetherness in this country.” A furor erupted this week over a conservative blogger’s posting of portions of a speech Sherrod gave in which she told of giving short shrift attention 24 years ago to the pleas for financial aid by a poor white farmer. Sherrod is black, and the operator of the website BigGovernment.com posted a portion of her speech. The blogger, Andrew Breitbart, said he did so to illustrate racism within the NAACP, which earlier accused the tea party of having racist elements. It dramatized how the nation’s first black president has occasionally struggled with racial tensions since he took office over a year and a half ago, after saying repeatedly during his campaign that he wanted to bridge America’s racial divide.

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ear readers, consider this a thank you from my heart to yours. It has been a privilege to write for you these past five years — and for three years before that — and five years before that. I believe God placed me at the Salisbury Post the first time so I would be with a loving, nurturing work family when I lost my mother in my 20s. Looking back, I do not believe that it was anything less than a divine plan for me to return two KATHY years before I lost my faCHAFFIN ther due to hospital errors. Again, the Post family and many of you reached out to help heal my devastated and, admittedly, very angry heart. Each time I left, I continued to write occasional freelance articles and remained in close contact with my dear friends at the newspaper. I will always treasure the time I was able to spend with longtime columnist Rose Post upon returning full time in 2005. My friendship with Rose, who became like a second mother to me when I lost my own, has been and continues to be a precious gift. As many of you know, I faced what may have been my greatest challenge when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in January of 2007. Two days before my double mastectomy, I awakened in the middle of the night feeling like God was asking me to write about it. In my “Hope, Faith and Fear: A Reporter’s Journey Through Cancer” column series that followed, I said that writing about losing my breasts and being bald wasn’t something I would have ever chosen to do. But I had experienced the great joy that comes from listening to God, even if what He’s asking means baring my soul and going way outside my comfort zone. I still run into people who tell me how brave I was then. Trust me, I was not. But writing the columns made me feel like I had a mission, which ultimately helped me to survive that redefining period of my life. Many of you prayed for me. Wanda Allen, who has since become a dear friend, once told me at a meeting that she prayed for me every time she saw my byline in the newspaper.

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Kannapolis to consider renting more office space BY EMILY FORD eford@salisburypost.com

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2 veteran reporters leave the Post; newsroom restructures BY ELIZABETH COOK ecook@salisburypost.com

Some staff departures and additions have taken place in the Salisbury Post newsroom. Reporters Kathy Chaffin and Jessie Burchette left the Post this month, while two other people are moving into fulltime reporting positions. Chaffin, who most recently covered education, has resigned to pursue other CHAFFIN writing opportunities. She has worked at the Post off and on through the years, most recently rejoining the staff on a full-time basis in 2005. An award-winning writer, Chaffin plans to compile two of her column series into books and self-publish them, along with an

inspirational book and a series of children's books she has written. She has received nine N.C. Press Association awards and 19 awards from the N.C. Working Press, of which she served as president, vice president and treasurer. In addition to the Post, Chaffin has worked as editor of The Enterprise, a weekly newspaper in Yadkin County; a general assignments reporter at the Elkin Tribune; and news editor and freelance writer for The Davie County Enterprise-Record. She lives in Davie County. Burchette, longtime county reporter and most recently the Post’s crime and online reporter, joined the Post in 1999. Before that she worked at the Independent Tribune in Concord, its predecessor the Daily Independent in Kannapolis, the Mount Airy News and the Statesville Record & Landmark. A native of Wilkes County,

Burchette grew up on a cattle and chicken farm and is an avid gardener. After three decades in the news business, she retired Thursday to live on the farm again full time. Also an award-winning journalist, Burchette’s big stories have included investigative pieces such as the “Questions about City of Refuge” series in 2002, the “Common Sense” controversy that led to County Manager Tim Russell’s BURCHETTE departure in 2005, and last summer’s stories about the Rowan-Kannapolis ABC Board’s expenses. The reporters’ departures have prompted restructuring in the Post newsroom. Briefly, they include: • Sarah Campbell, a copy editor, will move to a reporting slot

to cover education. • Shelley Smith, who has been covering city hall and business, is now the Post’s crime and online reporter. • Emily Ford, who has written about the N.C. Research Campus and also writes columns, will take a full-time position covering Salisbury city government and other topics, effective July 31. In case you’re wondering, the Post’s other news journalists are: • Karissa Minn, who covers county government, politics and other areas. • Shavonne Potts, who has been covering health and human services. • Mark Wineka, columnist. The reporters also cover the county’s 10 municipalities. Look for photos and more information about the newsroom’s newest staff members in a future story. Contact Elizabeth Cook at 704797-4244.

KANNAPOLIS — City Manager Mike Legg will ask Kannapolis City Council for approval to rent additional office space for city staff. Kannapolis, which incorporated in 1984, does not own a city hall or police station and rents space from David Murdock, the founder of the N.C. Research Campus who owns most of downtown Kannapolis. The city’s 2011 budget includes $60,000 for lease payments and related expenses for an office expansion into Castle & Cooke’s former accounting office, next door to the current city administrative offices at 230 Oak Avenue. While the city does not need all of the new space immediately, “we need 60 percent to 70 percent,” Legg wrote to council. “Making this move now would delay the need to construct a new city hall for several more years and allow the focus to be placed on a new police headquarters and new/renovated fire stations,” he wrote. The fixed rent for the space is proposed at $4,273.83 per month, or $51,286 annually, for 4,229 square feet. That equates to a blended rental rate for the basement and finished first floor of $9.76 per square foot. By comparison, the lease for the police department is $8.25 per square foot and the current city offices is $7 per square foot. The budgeted $60,000 would cover rent, construction of a connector between the existing and new spaces, minor upfits and moving expenses. The new space is furnished and was recently remodeled. Current city offices cannot accommodate “even one more person,” Legg wrote. The finance department, where some employees have desks in the hallway, would move to the new space. Council will meet at 6 p.m Monday at the train station.

THANK YOU FROM 3a I was moved to tears. I have said it before, but let me take this opportunity to say again how very grateful I am for all the prayers, cards, e-mails, visits and encouraging words I received from the Post staff and readers. Since returning to work after completing my chemotherapy, I have felt a gentle nudging to focus on my spiritual writing and have slowly begun returning to my inspirational speaking. I have an urgent message to share which I believe offers hope for a rapidly changing world. One of the topics I used to speak about was “Celebrating the Dream Inside You.” At some point, I realized that I was encouraging others to do something I had not yet done myself. Your response to my “Spiritually Speaking” columns that ran on the Post’s Faith page in 2006 and my “Hope, Faith and Fear” columns the following year helped give me the courage it is taking to do that now. I plan to compile both series of columns into books and self-publish them along with another inspirational book I have written and several children’s books on taking care of the planet and simple living. And I know in my heart that there are other books still inside me. My other plans include offering programs at churches, planning hope rally events and marketing a series of inspirational quotes that I began writing in 2001. I will likely end up looking for a part-time job or a job with more regular hours until I get my projects up and going, and I also hope to write more features for the Post now and then. Part of me is terrified about starting a new venture in these economic conditions, but the other part is excited and believes there is no better time to write and speak about hope than right now. Still, it is with much sadness that I leave my Post family — and all of you. But when you love people, they become a part of you and you carry them with you in your heart forever. My heart is full. Write to Kathy at kcwriter99@yahoo. com or 2593 U.S.Highway 64 West, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.

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CONCORD — John “Jack” Nicolay, age 77, of Concord, passed peacefully into eternal life with his wife, Marilyn and daughter, Carol by his side on Thursday, July 15, 2010, at home. Nicolay was born in Indianapolis, Ind. to the late Norman and Mabel Nicolay. He and his brother Nick were raised in Detroit, Mich. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1956. He will be greatly missed by everyone who loved him including his dearly loved wife, Marilyn; their four children, April Bliss (Jon), Jimmy, Carol Nicolay-Ramirez and Michael (Traci); five grand-children, Casey Sue, Shea, Ryan, Jane and Catherine; as well as his beloved brother, Norman “Nick” Nicolay (Pat) and their children, Phil Nicolay (Michele), Paul Nicolay (Traci), Adam Nicolay and Michele Nicolay; as well as many friends, acquaintances, former colleagues, cousins, nieces, nephews, distant relatives and in-laws. After serving in the United States Army, he started his 39 year career with IBM Corp. and celebrated retirement in 1996. Jack (“Daddy Jack” to some) was very active in the community, since their move in 1992 from South Brunswick, N.J. to Concord. Always willing to lend a hand, a smile and a laugh or two. He volunteered at the N.C. Transportation museum (Spencer), Meals on Wheels, and Blumenthal Performing Arts Theatre (Charlotte). He was a member of the MI Hummel Club in Hendersonville. Service: A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 30, at St. Peter's Catholic Church, 507 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202. Visitation: The family will greet and receive friends immediately following the Mass in Biss Hall (side entrance of the Church), hosted by Sons of Norway. Internment of his cremains will be at the National Cemetery in Salisbury. Memorials: In Lieu of flowers, the family suggest memorials be made to any of the following: NorthEast Cancer Foundation, 920 Church Street North, Concord, NC 28025, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Theatre, 130 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 or your local Meals on Wheel organization. Whitley's Funeral Home is serving the Nicolay family. Online condolences may be made at www.whitleysfuneralhome.com.

SALISBURY — Betty Mae Brown Jones, 74, of Salisbury, died at Rowan Regional Medical Center in Salisbury on Friday, July 23, 2010. Betty was born on Sept. 1, 1935, in Rowan County. She was the daughter of the late Frank A. Brown and the late Gertrude Britt Brown. She was of the Baptist Faith and educated in Kannapolis City Schools. She retired from Fieldcrest Cannon, Plant 16 from the Weave Room after 35 years of service. Betty enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. She enjoyed Bluegrass and Bluegrass gospel music. She was a wonderful cook and homemaker. She also enjoyed traveling with her husband, Morris. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by two brothers, Bob Brown and Belvin Brown; and two sisters, Ellen Leazer and Mary Helen Willis. She is survived by her husband, Morris R. Jones of the home; one son, Morris F. (Moses) Jones & wife, Dale of Kannapolis; a daughter, Cathy Jones of Rockwell; a granddaughter, Christie; and three great-grandchildren. Service and Burial: The funeral service will take place at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 27, at Whitley's Funeral Home Chapel in Kannapolis conducted by Rev. Samuel Wilson. Burial will take place at Brookhill Memorial Garden in Rockwell. Visitation: The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Monday, July 26, at Whitley's Funeral Home. Memorials: Memorials can be made to: Nazareth Childrens Home, 855 Crescent Road Rockwell, NC 28138. Whitley's Funeral Home is assisting the Brown Family. Online condolences may be made at www.whitleysfuneralhome.com.

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SPENCER — Patrick David Snider, age 17, of Spencer, left this earth on Friday, July 23, 2010, to be with the Lord after bravely battling cancer for seven months. He was born June 9, 1993, in Salisbury. Patrick was able to fulfill his dream of meeting his favorite baseball team, the Atlanta Braves courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He even had the opportunity to shake hands with Chipper Jones, his role model and all-time favorite baseball player. Patrick lived life to the fullest even until his last moments. Patrick was a rising senior at North Rowan High School and an avid baseball player. As a pitcher for North Rowan, baseball was a large part of his life. He also played on an AAU team and helped lead them to a national championship victory in 2007. He loved life and was known for always joking around and laughing. Patrick left behind his parents, R. David and Jennifer Snider; sister and brother-inlaw, Megan and Stephen Johnston; paternal grandparents, Raymond and Prudence Snider; great-grandmother, Hazel Snider; and maternal grandparents, Charles and Marilyn Watson all of Salisbury and Ron and Mary Jane McCulloh of Lawrenceburg, Ky. He is also survived by many family members and friends, too great in number to list. Visitation: Visitation will be held in the North Rowan High School Auditorium on Monday, July 26, from 5-7 p.m. Service: A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 27, at Omwake Dearborn Chapel at Catawba College with the Rev. Richard Gross, minister of Oakdale Baptist Church and the Rev. Mike Johnston, minister of Open Door Baptist Church, Christiansburg, Va. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in his memory to the Lance Armstrong Foundation: LIVESTRONG National Mail Processing Center, P.O. Box 6003, Albert Lea, MN 56007-6603. Summersett Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com.

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Melba Rutledge Turner LANDIS — Melba Rutledge Turner, 90, of 504 E. Rice Street, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, July 24, 2010, at her home. Born on May 11, 1920, in Yell County, Ark., she was the daughter of the late Charles Lester and Lois Suggs Rutledge. She was a 1937 graduate of Landis High School and was very active at Landis Baptist Church where she was a member from 1936 to 1997. There at Landis, she taught Sunday School for 50 years and was assistant WMU director for a number of years and sang in the choir. In 1997, she moved her membership to Southside Baptist Church in Salisbury where she was WMU director for 10 years and was involved with other activities at the church as well as sang in the choir. She was a member of the Kannapolis Cannon YMCA since 1997 and worked out at Nautilus Fitness and enjoyed water exercises. She was retired from Bostian School where she worked with food service. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Joel Turner on June 18, 1996. They were married on Dec. 12, 1940. Also brothers, Oneal Rutledge, Herman Rutledge and Rev. I. Pressley Rutledge; and sister Virginia Rutledge Yarborough precede her. Those left to cherish her memories are son, Michael J. (Mike) Turner (Sally) of Southport; daughter, Marsha Turner Brown of Landis; brother, Hoyt G. Rutledge (Dorothy) of Winston Salem; sister-in-law, Delsie Rutledge of Landis; a number of nieces an nephews; special friend, Marquita Blackwell; grandchildren, Angela Turner Shepherdson of England, Tracy Turner Powell of Salisbury Diana T. Phillips (Jeff) of Winston Salem, Brian Maxwell of China Grove, Adam Jones (Joy) of Va. and Roger Brown of Landis; great-grandchildren, Corinne, Joshusa and Kerian Shepherdson, Ryan Turner, Tabitha Smith, Andrew Mackenzie, Dana Phillips and Gracie Jones. Visitation: Visitation for Mrs. Turner will be on Monday evening from 7-8:30 p.m. at Linn Honeycutt Funeral Home in Landis. Service and Burial: Services on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Southside Baptist Church with Revs. Tom Smith and Ricky Brown, ministers. The body will lie in state from 10:30-11 a.m. Interment will be at Westlawn Cemetery. Memorials: Memorials may be made to Southside Baptist Church, 500 Morlan Park Rd., Salisbury, NC 28146. Online memorials may be made to the family at www.linnhoneycuttfuneralhome.com.

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BRIEFS Reid completes Air Force basic training Air Force Airman Justin T. Reid graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, REID and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. The son of Hassell Reid Jr. of Rockwell, Reid is a 2008 graduate of East Rowan High School, Granite Quarry.

Man wins Hemingway writing contest KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina bartender has won a writing contest that is the literary highlight of Key West’s annual salute to Ernest Hemingway. Gregg Cusick of Durham earned $1,000 in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition for “Gutted,” chosen from 1,653 submissions by American and international writers. Cusick’s story recounts the dire consequences of its lead character’s greed and self-absorption. Lorian Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter, says it impressed judges for its solid mastery and exquisite rendering. The Hemingway Days festival honors Hemingway’s literary legacy and vigorous lifestyle when he lived in Key West in the 1930s.

NC House member to resign after losing primary bid ASHEVILLE (AP) — North Carolina House member Bruce Goforth says he will resign his office at the end of the month rather than finish out his term that ends in December. The Buncombe Democrat told The Asheville Citizen-

Times on Friday that he wants to focus on his family and construction business. He lost in the May primary to Patsy Keever who faces Republican Mark Crawford in the November election. Keever says she will accept if the Democratic Party chooses her to fill out Goforth’s term. Buncombe County Democratic Party Chairman Charles Carter says the party’s executive committee will select someone to serve the remainder of Goforth’s term likely within the next month. Gov. Beverly Perdue will make the appointment. Goforth has served eight years in the House.

LATTIMORE (AP) — A national publisher is reissuing the 2003 memoirs of a North Carolina woman who lived 61 years in an iron lung before dying last year and her hometown is planning to honor her in a historical museum it is creating. The Charlotte Observer reported Saturday that Martha Mason’s 2003 memoir, “Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung,” has been released in paperback by Bloomsbury with a foreword by Anne Rivers Siddons. Mason spent nearly 61 years in an iron lung after being stricken with polio, but she graduated from Wake

Forest University at the top of her class. At the time of her death in 2009 at age 71, Mason was one of fewer than 20 people in the U.S. still living in iron lungs and one of the longest survivors. She had no close relatives when she died and asked friend Polly Fite to dispose of her property, including the 800-pound machine that kept her alive all those years. A week after Mason’s funeral, Fite turned down many requests from all over the country to buy or borrow the device. “I decided there was no question it stays in Latti-

more,” said Fite, 71. “Martha never told me what to do with it, but I felt like that’s what she wanted. The iron lung was her life. In our museum, we need to have a Martha place.” Mason was paralyzed from the neck down at age 11 during the polio epidemic in 1948. She was home-schooled and graduated in 1960 from Wake Forest, where she studied English. But it wasn’t until 1994 that a voice-recognition computer allowed her to write her autobiography. It was the mention of her autobiography in an obituary that caught the eye of Bloomsbury USA editor Nancy Miller, who found a copy of

the out-of-print book. “I don’t know if I was expecting much,” Miller told The Charlotte Observer. “But I fell in love with her voice.” In the book, Mason paints an idyllic picture of her hometown, which those who knew her say is not exaggerated. Her neighbors continued to drop by to visit throughout her life, talk and share a meal. “Martha was absolutely the most intriguing person I’ve ever met in my life,” said former state Rep. Jack Hunt, 87, of Lattimore. He would take hot meals and an occasional bottle of wine to share with Mason on Wednesday nights.

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rebecca Fuller and Bill Watkins can see, but they think about museums like people who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. What would there be to touch? What would there be to hear? At an aquarium, the answer is â&#x20AC;&#x153;nothing much.â&#x20AC;? Fuller is a sculptor who started building museum displays and models 30 years ago. Watkins, her husband and a former architect, helps her. Four years ago, they landed a $426,240 grant through the U.S. Department of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to investigate what kinds of museum displays that you can touch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; called tactile displays â&#x20AC;&#x201D; convey the most information. They tested and interviewed 100 sighted and lowvision and blind adults and children, asking them to feel different models and textures. Their final project using the DOE grant are 3D tactile models of fish that opened for display at the N.C. Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores earlier this month. Some of the fish are textured with a gritty surface â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they illustrate patterns that blind people canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see, such as stripes. The fish are not just meant to be touched â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they also talk. Watkins designed the fish to be interactive. The models are mostly made out of plastic, fiber glass and Bondo, a kind of putty often used by car body shops. Watkins laid carbon fiber fabric underneath. The fabric is hooked up to wires and a circuit board, which runs to a small speaker. When you touch the fish, electricity from your hand actives the system and the fish starts to â&#x20AC;&#x153;talkâ&#x20AC;? about itself. Fuller and Watkins picked fish as a general theme to plan an exhibit around because aquariums seem particularly inaccessible to the blind. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made tactile aquarium displays before â&#x20AC;&#x201D; jellyfish, coral and sea anemones for the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn, for one â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but never anything with an auditory component. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just imagine what it would be like to have low vision and go to an aquarium,â&#x20AC;? Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just hear a little bubbling and that would be all youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get.â&#x20AC;? When the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium was renovated four years ago, staff and designers tried to incorporate exhibits that low-vision and blind people could enjoy, such as large-type displays and a tactile, 3D map of North Carolina. The aquarium already had touch tanks with horseshoe crabs, whelks and spider crabs. They added one with skates and rays. There are live-animal programs where visitors can touch an alligator or a jellyfish, and there are interactive displays, like a cart stocked with local shells. But there still wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anything that a blind person could do on their own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really, there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a good experience â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if you were blind â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that you could independently learn about the fish without something telling you about it,â&#x20AC;? said Georgia Minnich, the aquariumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibits curator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fintastic! Weird and Wonderful Adaptations for Survival in the Seaâ&#x20AC;? opened July 8. The exhibit will be up for two years, Minnich said. If the talking fish are successful, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be incorporated into other exhibits. The grant is helping the aquarium pay for other improvements to make the exhibit accessible, including a raised map and a textured walkway. Tiles will replace carpeting so blind people can follow a path with their feet or with their cane. There will be four tanks with live fish, too, filled with examples of some of the Carolina coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stranger inhabitants â&#x20AC;&#x201D; spiny burrfish that can puff up, and sea robins that get their name from their large pectoral fins that make them look like a bird in flight. Fuller and Minnich hope that everyone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; blind or not â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will take away something from Fintastic. Fintastic features eight kinds of fish, from the

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he was shot. • Patty K. Elmore, wife of Billy Elmore, charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury of Tiffany Marie Barbee, a Statesville resident who had driven Billy Elmore to his former residence. • Emily Anne Howard, charged with murder in the Sept. 24, 2009, stabbing death of Dustin Garren Lee, 17, in Kannapolis. Investigators described Lee and HOWARD Howard as boyfriend-girlfriend. He was in the process of moving out when he was stabbed. • Elizabeth Louise Whitley, charged with murder in the stabbing death of Willie Glenn Woodard on Dec. 15, 2009, as a result of WHITLEY a domestic dispute. • Antonio Jackson, charged with murder in the death of Antonio Allen on Dec. 25, 2009, during a party at a home on North J a c k s o n Street. Police said Allen pulled a pistol and shot JACKSON Jackson. • Aaron Anderson Wilks, charged with the May 21 stab-

bing death of Timothy Perkins on South Craige Street. Police said the stabbing resulted from a domestic dispute. WILKS • Fredrick S. Hedgepeth, charged with two counts of murder and other charges in shooting death of Jerry Bullin and his wife, Jody Bullin, both of Conover, on June 2. The Bullins were attempting to sell a car and met Hedgepeth at Ingram MotorSports on HEDGEPETH A u c t i o n Drive where Hedgepeth worked. Their bodies were found locked inside the building. • Alyssa C. Watts, identified as Hedgepeth’s girlfriend, charged with accessory after the fact of murder in the Bullins’ death. • Brandy Nicole Lyons, charged in the shooting death of Roy Daniels Jr. on June 25

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CASELOAD FROM 1a staff for the same caseload.” And right now Kenerly’s office is feeling overloaded even more than usual. An assistant DA, Michelle Monk, resigned a month ago to go into practice with her husband in Charlotte.

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Kenerly was notified that he won’t be able to fill the position until Sept. 30 — and there could be an additional three-month delay. “We take one step forward and two steps back,” Kenerly said. “I understand times are tight … I understand spending money is a political decision, but people need to understand what we are living with. It has a practical effect on what we

do every day.” And the impact of the understaffing and case backlog is felt throughout the court system, jail and county. “Part of the jail overcrowding directly relates to our inability to get people through the courts.” If the DA’s office had the staff to handle more cases and speed up the trial process, the detention center would not be

crowded, he said. The county is under state orders to provide more jail beds and is planning to build a new facility on Grace Church Road. For two years or more, the county is spending thousands of dollars a month to house excess prisoners in other counties. The staffing issues goes further than getting more assistant DAs.

At this point, getting five more people in the DA’s office would solve part of the problem. Kenerly said the system can’t run more sessions of Superior Court without more people in the Clerk of Court’s Office. And that would also require more space. He doesn’t expect to see much improvement during his tenure, but he is hopeful state

funding will be more equitable — with the money going to the counties with the biggest caseloads. In about six months, Kenerly will hand off the keys and the challenges of the DA’s office to either Karen Biernacki, one of his assistants, or Brandy Cook, a Rowan resident who is an assistant DA in Cabarrus County. The election is Nov. 2.

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Deborah and Marcelle Graham attached every letter from their son, Parker, to a ‘clothesline’ at the living room mantle.

MARINE FROM 1a what you would call a “military family.” Marcelle had never served. They had no close relatives in any of the services. Parker, whose interests included fishing, baseball and church, had never shown any inclination toward the military life. He attended North Rowan schools for the first 11 grades before being homeschooled in the 12th grade. He was able to play baseball for North Hills Christian School his final year. In the months after completing high school, Parker cared daily for his mother, whose fusion surgery on an ankle at Duke University Medical Center left her unable to walk. He helped with cooking and pushing her wheelchair. “We were already close, but this brought us closer together,” says Deborah, who had further repairs to her ankle seven weeks ago but is confident she’ll be walking again soon. Still, Parker was a boy who slept until 11 a.m. and protested if he had to walk to the street to retrieve the mail or take out the trash, Deborah says. She and Marcelle prayed for him to find some direction. His decision to join the Marines surprised the family, which includes older sister Alisha, an N.C. State University graduate who will be entering law school at N.C. Central in August. “I prayed about it, and I was pretty sure that’s where God wanted me,” Parker says. “And they (the Marines) are the best.” As a mother, Deborah reacted instinctively. “I popped him upside the head,” she says. To Deborah, Marines were guys who ate rats and lived in holes. But visits to their pastor and Navy, Army and Marine recruiters further cemented Parker’s decision. He left April 19 for the longest weeks in his life. The letters he sent home were strung under the fireplace mantel with clothespins. Deborah says she could always tell from Marcelle’s face as he walked back from the mailbox whether there was a letter from Parker. Deborah wrote him daily and tried to include a tract from their church, New Hope Baptist, that maybe her son could share with members of his 32-man platoon. At Parris Island, Parker’s days started at 4 a.m., and the intense exercise regimen included, of course, a lot of pull-ups, sit-ups, running and

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Rescue crews used blocks to raise the single-engine aircraft to stabilize it after the crash Saturday. Parker Graham, 19, recently completed training at Parris Island, S.C. combat fitness tests such as ammunition lifts and maneuvering under fire. In shooting exercises, Parker gained an “expert” rating. All Marines are familiar with The Crucible, a 54-hour culmination to training that involves deprivation of sleep and food. Recruits have to travel 48 miles on foot, execute 29 problem-solving exercises and carry 45 pounds of gear while having only three ready-to-eat meals over the three days. Parker, who stands 6-1 and weighs 196 pounds, says he entered recruit training at 200 pounds, probably lost 15 pounds and replaced most of it with muscle. At Family Day and graduation ceremonies at Parris Island, the family didn’t immediately recognize the transformed boy in front of them. “I just lost it whenever I saw him in his uniform,” Alisha said. “I’m just so proud of him, my little brother.” Parker must leave on a bus Monday morning for 29 days at Camp Geiger in Jacksonville, then it’s off to Missouri for Military Occupations Specialty school, where he will learn the finer points of being a combat engineer. The refrigerator at home is filled with things such as popcorn cake, spaghetti, barbecue and chicken fettucini — and Parker has eaten a good share of it. As time allowed during his time off, he fished with Marcelle or his friends. He also has gone bowling and played some video games. One day, after Deborah called down to Buck Steam Station, the men from Shaw Construction stopped by for about 20 minutes to visit with Parker. The $50 they had given him will go toward purchasing a new vinyl cap for his uniform. “I take a lot of pride in it,” he says of being a Marine. It’s good to hear he’s not alone.

FROM 1a The hastily put together search effort found Baker in 16 minutes. “Everybody just happened to be in the neighborhood,” Lowery said. The owner of the private airstrip said Saturday’s crash was a first. “We’ve never had anybody hurt ... never had an accident,” Ferrell James said. He has owned the airport since 1962. He said he didn’t know what kind of injuries Baker had, but the pilot looked as though he was going to be all right. The two have known each other for 40 years, he said. James was at home celebrating a

Frank Thomason, Rowan County Emergency Services director, said he’d describe the pilot as ‘a pretty lucky individual.’ granddaughter’s birthday when the crash occurred. He said he did not know why the plane went down.

nounced dead at the hospital. Officials say Velazquez and Baik were searching for people in need of rescue and ventilating the house. No residents were injured. Officials say three or four other firefighters were treated at hospitals for their injuries and released. The state fire marshal’s office will investigate the cause of the fire.

Representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration had arrived at the scene by 5:30 p.m. to start their investigation. The highway patrol had secured the area pending the FAA’s arrival. The FAA defines light-sport aircraft as not exceeding a maximum takeoff weight of 1,320 pounds, and light-sport planes are said to have a maximum air speed of 140 mph. Departments responding to the crash scene included Enochville, Landis, Atwell and Kannapolis. Rowan Rescue Squad and Rowan County EMS also were there. Some fuel had spilled onto the ground, requiring attention, and responders used blocks of wood to stabilize sections of the overturned plane. Contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263.

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heat index of over 110 degrees, the weather service issued an excessive heat warning for the first time this year for an area stretching from south of Washington to north of Baltimore, along the Interstate 95 corridor. By midday Saturday, a wide band from lower New England to the Deep South was under a heat advisory. The thermometer hit 100 degrees in Washington and Baltimore by mid-afternoon, where the heat index was 109. In Norfolk, Va., it was 104 degrees and 108 degrees with the heat index. Elsewhere, temperatures reached 95 degrees in New York City and 96 in Philadelphia. Demand for electricity that rises with the temperatures falls when businesses and offices are closed on the weekend, and many utilities said they could meet the demand. As temperatures soared toward 100 degrees in New Jersey, Harry Oliver was trying to make sense of it all as

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INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson played it safe in Saturday’s Brickyard 400 qualifying. This afternoon, he’s planning to be back in his regular post-race spot in Indy — Victory Lane. The first Cup driver to win four straight series titles is trying to become the sixth member of Indy’s revered four-time winner’s club and the first American to win three straight races on the famed 2.5-mile oval. “It doesn’t change my mindset going into the race,” Johnson said after qualifying second with a lap of 182.142 mph. “I’m very

thankful for the opportunity, but I’m still going to go to bed tonight and do everything I can like I would on a normal weekend to make sure my car is right and run the race the same way tomorrow. I can’t change what I’m doing much.” Why would he? Johnson already has five wins this season, matching Denny Hamlin for the most in the series. Johnson also is third in points as he tries for an unprecedented fifth straight title. If things go well today, Johnson will join a list that includes some of racing’s biggest names — A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, Rick Mears, Jeff Gordon and Michael Schumacher. Schumacher, the

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Jimmie Johnson, right, talks with crew chief chad Knaus during practice Saturday. seven-time Formula One champ from Germany, is the only driver with five Indy wins, four of which came from 2003-2006 though one was in a six-car field. Indianapolis fans have already seen this scenario play out once this year.

In May, three-time Indy winner Helio Castroneves won the pole but failed to win a record-tying fourth Indy 500, losing to Scotland’s Dario Franchitti. Now Johnson will start

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INDIANAPOLIS — Juan Pablo Montoya is in a familiar spot at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — out front. A year after a late speeding penalty denied him a victory at the Brickyard, he’s hoping it sticks this time. Montoya has steadfastly denied any lingering bitterness from last year’s nearmiss, or any notion that the Brickyard owes him one. Instead, the pole-sitter for today’s race is treating this visit as an entirely new opportunity. “It’s given me a lot, so I don’t complain,” said Montoya, who won the Indianapolis 500 for team owner Chip Ganassi in 2000. So far this weekend, he’s had little to gripe about.

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BY TIM DAHLBERG There was major flooding this week in Wisconsin, a state where Brett Favre used to ply his trade. It was getting pretty deep once again in Mississippi, too, in what has now become an annual rite of summer. The FAVRE drama queen of the South was giving interviews and accepting selected visitors, including one who for some reason still wants to coach him this season. Brad Childress didn’t get a commitment, of course. That would take half the fun out of the thing. There’s surgeries to recover from, and fans to tease. A guy needs his space to throw a teammate under the bus, too, so the people of Minnesota don’t blame him for what happened that January night in New Orleans. Besides, the Vikings don’t break training camp until mid-August and those other quarterbacks need to get some playing time in during the exhibition season. Should be plenty of time left for Childress to wax the Escalade and head to the airport to pick up his quarterback before play begins for real. And don’t worry, Vikings fans, Favre will be there for the opening snap. He’ll be there just as surely as LeBron James was always going to flee Cleveland for South Beach. He’ll be there because he loves to play football, and because he’s guaranteed millions to do what he loves. He’ll be there because he loves to be loved. And he’ll be there because he needs to be needed. That’s why Favre can’t seem to do what normal veteran quarterbacks do, which is to arrive at training camp, get in his reps, and go about his business. It’s why he retires and unretires and then calls a press conference to report the astonishing news he hasn’t made up his mind about anything. It’s why he invites a Men’s Journal writer down to spend a day with him in Mississippi, then complains that the writer somehow defamed his family by quoting his own agent as calling him a drama queen. Drama queen, indeed.

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Tallahassee Community College wasn’t on basketball star Bubbles Phifer’s wish list at Christmas, but it’s her next destination, and she’s determined to make the best of it. “I’ve been working all summer to get prepared for college because you can always get better at everything,” the Salisbury graduate said. “I work out 2 1⁄2 hours every day. I make 300 jumpshots a day, and that’s not take 300, it’s make 300. And I make 100 contact layups from each side every day because I know my left hand can get stronger.” Phifer made the prestigious Associated Press AllState team last spring, and if she’s still adding to her game it could mean nervous breakdowns for future opponents in the Panhandle Conference. Twice the Rowan County Player of the Year and twice the MVP of the 2A state

championship game, Phifer has serious credentials and serious talent. She doesn’t have ideal size for a big-time shooting guard at 5-foot-8, but anyone who doesn’t believe she can play Division I ball down the road for someone, probably also isn’t sold on Kobe and LeBron. Phifer had all but signed with Florida A&M at one point, but that scholarship offer was, in her words, “taken away.” Other Division I schools contacted her during the season and after it, but offers didn’t materialize. “I’d get like one phone call and then nothing else,” she said with a sigh. Andrew Mitchell, who coached Phifer on back-toback SHS championship teams before taking the boys coaching job at North Rowan over the summer, said Phifer ran into obstacles that should be noted by other student-athletes.

Some random thoughts in the afterglow of LeBron James’ glitzy decision to follow Chris Bosh to Miami and help Dwyane Wade try to win another championship with the Heat: • If three of the NBA’s top players, including two of its biggest stars, can afford to JAMES take less money to play for the same team, then it’s fair to wonder about the league’s $58 million salary cap. Is it too high? Apparently so, given that even some of the game’s marquee names don’t need to make the max-contract money the cap allows. Even second- and thirdtier players seem willing to take less cash to play with these guys. So here’s an idea for the next collective bargaining session between the NBA’s owners and players: Lower the cap, shrink salaries and reduce ticket prices to a level where the average working stiff can afford to go to games. Yeah, right. • Speaking of collective bargaining ... The current CBA between the players and owners expires in less than a year. And when those labor talks begin, look for the owners to push for some way to prevent what happened this summer, when James, Wade and Bosh colluded their way to South Florida. I don’t know how they’ll do it. I’m not sure it’s possible. But they’ll try. • Several owners are furious over the way this episode played out. And, though he has said all the right things publicly, NBA commissioner David Stern didn’t like it, either — because he knows it’s not good for the overall health of the league. Stern fined Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert $100,000 for verbally ripping James after “The Chosen One” used an ESPN prime-time special to announce his decision to go to Miami. But only because, in our politically correct culture, he had no choice. On the other side: Does

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2B • SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010

TV Sports Sunday, July 25 AUTO RACING 1 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Brickyard 400, at Indianapolis 5 p.m. VERSUS — IRL, Honda IndyEdmonton, at Edmonton, Alberta 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Mile-High Nationals, final eliminations, at Morrison, Colo. (sameday tape) AVP VOLLEYBALL 4 p.m. ABC — Long Beach Open, men’s championship match, at Long Beach, Calif. 11 p.m. ESPN2 — Long Beach Open, women’s championship match, at Long Beach, Calif. (same-day tape) CYCLING 7:30 a.m. VERSUS — Tour de France, final stage, Longjumeau, France to Paris 1 p.m. CBS — Tour de France, final stage, at Paris (same-day tape) GOLF Noon ESPN2 — Senior British Open Championship, final round, at Carnoustie, Scotland 1 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Evian Masters, final round, at Evian-les-Bains, France (sameday tape) 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, Canadian Open, final round, at Etobicoke, Ontario 7 p.m. TGC — Nationwide Tour, Children’s Hospital Invitational, final round, at Columbus, Ohio (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. TBS — Colorado at Philadelphia 8 p.m. ESPN — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs SOFTBALL 5 p.m. ESPN2 — World Cup, women’s, round robin, Canada vs. U.S., at Oklahoma City TENNIS 3 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP, Atlanta Championships, championship match, at Johns Creek, Ga.

Area schedule Sunday, July 25 INTIMIDATORS BASEBALL 5:05 p.m. Asheville Tourists at Kannapolis

Legion baseball State tournament Asheboro Double elimination (July 24-28) Saturday’s games Rutherford 10, Rocky Mount 8 Cary 2, Cherryville 1 Whiteville 11, Kernersville 0 Randolph 5, Wilmington 1 Sunday’s games Rocky Mount vs. Kernersville, 9:30 a.m. Cherryville vs. Wilmington, 12:30 p.m. Rutherford vs. Whiteville, 4:30 p.m. Cary vs. Randolph, 7:30 p.m.

Minor Leagues Standings South Atlantic League Northern Division W L Pct. GB x-Lakewood (Phillies) 17 10 .630 — Hickory (Rangers) 16 13 .552 2 Delmarva (Orioles) 14 13 .519 3 Greensboro (Marlins) 15 14 .517 3 Kannapolis (White Sox) 12 17 .414 6 West Virginia (Pirates) 12 17 .414 6 Hagerstown (Nationals) 10 19 .345 8 Southern Division W L Pct. GB Greenville (Red Sox) 19 10 .655 — Asheville (Rockies) 17 12 .586 2 Augusta (Giants) 16 13 .552 3 Lexington (Astros) 14 14 .500 41⁄2 Rome (Braves) 14 15 .483 5 Charleston (Yankees) 13 16 .448 6 x-Savannah (Mets) 11 17 .393 71⁄2 x-clinched first half Saturday’s Games Greensboro 7, Charleston 4 Greenville 7, Rome 4 Augusta 13, Hickory 7 West Virginia 9, Hagerstown 1 Kannapolis 14, Asheville 0 Lakewood at Delmarva, 7:05 p.m. Savannah at Lexington, 7:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Greenville at Rome, 2 p.m. West Virginia at Hagerstown, 2:05 p.m. Savannah at Lexington, 2:05 p.m. Charleston at Greensboro, 4 p.m. Asheville at Kannapolis, 5:05 p.m. Hickory at Augusta, 5:35 p.m. Lakewood at Delmarva, 7:05 p.m.

day, St. Louis, 110; Weeks, Milwaukee, 110. DOUBLES—Werth, Philadelphia, 31; Byrd, Chicago, 28; Prado, Atlanta, 28; Torres, San Francisco, 28; ADunn, Washington, 27; Loney, Los Angeles, 26; DWright, New York, 26. TRIPLES—Victorino, Philadelphia, 8; SDrew, Arizona, 7; Fowler, Colorado, 7; Bay, New York, 6; AEscobar, Milwaukee, 6; Pagan, New York, 6; JosReyes, New York, 6. HOME RUNS—Votto, Cincinnati, 25; Fielder, Milwaukee, 24; ADunn, Washington, 23; Hart, Milwaukee, 22; Howard, Philadelphia, 22; Pujols, St. Louis, 22; Reynolds, Arizona, 22. STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 29; Morgan, Washington, 24; Pagan, New York, 22; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 21; CYoung, Arizona, 21; HRamirez, Florida, 20; JosReyes, New York, 20. PITCHING—Jimenez, Colorado, 15-2; Wainwright, St. Louis, 14-5; CCarpenter, St. Louis, 11-3; Halladay, Philadelphia, 118; 9 tied at 10. STRIKEOUTS—Haren, Arizona, 141; JoJohnson, Florida, 141; Halladay, Philadelphia, 140; Lincecum, San Francisco, 138; Wainwright, St. Louis, 136; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 135; Dempster, Chicago, 130. SAVES—HBell, San Diego, 28; BrWilson, San Francisco, 28; FCordero, Cincinnati, 27; Capps, Washington, 24; Nunez, Florida, 23; Wagner, Atlanta, 22; Lindstrom, Houston, 22.

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Major Leagues Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Hamilton, Texas, .354; MiCabrera, Detroit, .349; Morneau, Minnesota, .345; ABeltre, Boston, .336; Cano, New York, .331; DelmYoung, Minnesota, .325; DeJesus, Kansas City, .318. RUNS—Teixeira, New York, 73; Youkilis, Boston, 72; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 71; MiCabrera, Detroit, 69; Cano, New York, 67; Jeter, New York, 67; Hamilton, Texas, 65. RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 86; ARodriguez, New York, 78; Guerrero, Texas, 76; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 73; Hamilton, Texas, 71; Teixeira, New York, 69; JBautista, Toronto, 66; Cano, New York, 66; Konerko, Chicago, 66; Quentin, Chicago, 66. HITS—Hamilton, Texas, 133; ISuzuki, Seattle, 125; Cano, New York, 123; MiCabrera, Detroit, 121; ABeltre, Boston, 120; MYoung, Texas, 120; Butler, Kansas City, 115. DOUBLES—MiCabrera, Detroit, 32; Markakis, Baltimore, 32; Hamilton, Texas, 31; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 30; Mauer, Minnesota, 29; ABeltre, Boston, 28; VWells, Toronto, 28; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 28. TRIPLES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 7; Span, Minnesota, 7; Pennington, Oakland, 6; Podsednik, Kansas City, 6; AJackson, Detroit, 5; Youkilis, Boston, 5; 9 tied at 4. HOME RUNS—JBautista, Toronto, 26; MiCabrera, Detroit, 24; Hamilton, Texas, 23; Konerko, Chicago, 21; CPena, Tampa Bay, 21; Guerrero, Texas, 20; Teixeira, New York, 20. STOLEN BASES—Pierre, Chicago, 35; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 33; RDavis, Oakland, 29; Podsednik, Kansas City, 29; Gardner, New York, 26; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 26; Figgins, Seattle, 25. PITCHING—Sabathia, New York, 13-3; Price, Tampa Bay, 13-5; Verlander, Detroit, 12-5; Pavano, Minnesota, 12-6; Pettitte, New York, 11-2; PHughes, New York, 113; Lester, Boston, 11-4. STRIKEOUTS—JerWeaver, Los Angeles, 147; FHernandez, Seattle, 142; Liriano, Minnesota, 133; Lester, Boston, 130; Verlander, Detroit, 124; Morrow, Toronto, 119; Sabathia, New York, 119. SAVES—NFeliz, Texas, 27; Soria, Kansas City, 27; RSoriano, Tampa Bay, 25; Papelbon, Boston, 22; Gregg, Toronto, 22; Jenks, Chicago, 20; ABailey, Oakland, 20; Valverde, Detroit, 20; MRivera, New York, 20; Rauch, Minnesota, 20. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—Furcal, Los Angeles, .327; Prado, Atlanta, .321; Polanco, Philadelphia, .320; Votto, Cincinnati, .313; Byrd, Chicago, .311; Holliday, St. Louis, .306; GSanchez, Florida, .305; AHuff, San Francisco, .305; Pagan, New York, .305. RUNS—Prado, Atlanta, 71; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 70; Votto, Cincinnati, 67; Weeks, Milwaukee, 67; Howard, Philadelphia, 63; Uggla, Florida, 62; 6 tied at 60. RBI—Howard, Philadelphia, 78; Hart, Milwaukee, 70; Pujols, St. Louis, 69; DWright, New York, 68; Votto, Cincinnati, 67; Loney, Los Angeles, 65; Gomes, Cincinnati, 64. HITS—Prado, Atlanta, 133; Howard, Philadelphia, 116; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 115; Byrd, Chicago, 112; Loney, Los Angeles, 112; Braun, Milwaukee, 111; Holli-

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Auto racing Sprint Cup Standings 1. Kevin Harvick .......................2,745 2. Jeff Gordon ..........................2,642 3. Jimmie Johnson ...................2,557 4. Denny Hamlin.......................2,542 5. Kurt Busch............................2,524 6. Kyle Busch ...........................2,488 7. Jeff Burton ............................2,465 8. Matt Kenseth ........................2,446 9. Tony Stewart ........................2,389 10. Carl Edwards......................2,345 11. Greg Biffle...........................2,292 12. Clint Bowyer .......................2,286 13. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ..............2,271 14. Mark Martin ........................2,249 15. David Reutimann................2,190 16. Ryan Newman....................2,187 17. Kasey Kahne......................2,166 18. Jamie McMurray.................2,105 19. Joey Logano.......................2,103 20. Martin Truex Jr. ..................2,060

Brickyard qualifying Brickyard 400 Lineup Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis, Ind. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 182.278. 2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 182.142. 3. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 181.803. 4. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 181.748. 5. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 181.741. 6. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 181.517. 7. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 181.353. 8. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 181.251. 9. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 181.21. 10. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 181.156. 11. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 180.883. 12. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 180.73.

13. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 180.571. 14. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 180.426. 15. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 180.382. 16. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 180.357. 17. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 180.26. 18. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 180.249. 19. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 180.22. 20. (71) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 180.213. 21. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 180.155. 22. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 180.047. 23. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 179.845. 24. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 179.791. 25. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 179.591. 26. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 179.497. 27. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 178.962. 28. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 178.916. 29. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 178.891. 30. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 178.884. 31. (21) Bill Elliott, Ford, 178.845. 32. (83) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 178.838. 33. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 178.834. 34. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 178.781. 35. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 178.621. 36. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 178.377. 37. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 178.341. 38. (37) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 178.013. 39. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 177.89. 40. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 177.578. 41. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, Owner Points. 42. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points. 43. (32) Jacques Villeneuve, Toyota, 177.466. Failed to Qualify 44. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 176.783. 45. (36) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 176.626. 46. (26) David Stremme, Ford, 176.236. 47. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge.

Nationwide Kroger 200 Saturday’s results O’Reilly Raceway Park Indianapolis, Ind. Lap length: .686 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 201 laps, 149.7 rating, 195 points. 2. (13) Carl Edwards, Ford, 201, 107.1, 170. 3. (6) Aric Almirola, Chevrolet, 201, 119.7, 170. 4. (1) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, 201, 123.5, 165. 5. (15) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 201, 101.2, 155. 6. (21) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, 201, 94.6, 150. 7. (9) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 201, 104.9, 146. 8. (8) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 201, 109.1, 147. 9. (4) Paul Menard, Ford, 201, 107.1, 138. 10. (2) Steve Wallace, Toyota, 201, 94.5, 134. 11. (3) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 201, 91.6, 130. 12. (7) Colin Braun, Ford, 201, 87.8, 127. 13. (24) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 201, 77.9, 124. 14. (17) Shelby Howard, Chevrolet, 201, 81.9, 121. 15. (29) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, 201, 69.1, 118. 16. (28) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 201, 78.9, 115. 17. (16) Brian Scott, Toyota, 201, 73.1, 112. 18. (35) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 201, 64.5, 109. 19. (27) Michael Annett, Toyota, 201, 81, 106. 20. (30) Michael McDowell, Dodge, 201, 54.4, 103. 21. (14) David Starr, Chevrolet, 201, 69, 100. 22. (36) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 201, 54.8, 97. 23. (19) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, 201, 63.7, 94. 24. (32) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 201, 67.2, 91. 25. (23) Johnny Sauter, Ford, 201, 66.3, 88. 26. (26) Eric McClure, Ford, 199, 45.6, 85. 27. (31) Kevin Hamlin, Ford, 166, 48.3, 82. 28. (11) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 162, 98.4, 79. 29. (38) J.C. Stout, Chevrolet, accident, 158, 40.6, 76. 30. (12) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 139, 41, 73. 31. (10) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, engine, 137, 38, 70. 32. (25) Jason Keller, Chevrolet, accident, 127, 61.5, 67. 33. (18) Kevin Swindell, Ford, accident, 127, 69.8, 64. 34. (22) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, overheating, 126, 48, 61. 35. (20) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, electrical, 91, 48.7, 58. 36. (33) Derrick Griffin, Toyota, accident, 74, 39.4, 55. 37. (40) Chase Miller, Chevrolet, brakes, 26, 39.1, 52. 38. (37) Danny O’Quinn Jr., Chevrolet, overheating, 22, 40.4, 49. 39. (42) Mark Green, Chevrolet, overheating, 11, 32.9, 46. 40. (34) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, handling, 10, 36.2, 43. 41. (43) Chris Lawson, Chevrolet, handling, 10, 28.8, 40. 42. (39) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet, transmission, 8, 30.4, 37. 43. (41) Dennis Setzer, Dodge, brakes, 7, 27.5, 34. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 80.727 mph. Time of Race: 1 hour, 42 minutes, 29 seconds. Margin of Victory: 0.198 seconds. Caution Flags: 6 for 36 laps. Lead Changes: 7 among 4 drivers. Lap Leaders: T.Bayne 1-39; K.Busch 4077; A.Almirola 78; K.Busch 79-82; T.Bayne 83-98; K.Busch 99-120; Bra.Keselowski 121; K.Busch 122-201. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Busch, 4 times for 144 laps; T.Bayne, 2 times for 55 laps; A.Almirola, 1 time for 1 lap; Bra.Keselowski, 1 time for 1 lap. Top 10 in Points: 1. Bra.Keselowski, 3,189; 2. C.Edwards, 2,984; 3. J.Allgaier, 2,691; 4. K.Busch, 2,681; 5. P.Menard, 2,505; 6. K.Harvick, 2,434; 7. S.Wallace, 2,338; 8. B.Gaughan, 2,277; 9. T.Bayne, 2,205; 10. J.Leffler, 2,161.

Brian Stuard James Driscoll Adam Hadwin Briny Baird Spencer Levin Nathan Green Tim Herron Rob Grube Steve Wheatcroft Rich Barcelo Brenden Pappas Kirk Triplett Charley Hoffman Charles Howell III Michael Letzig Greg Chalmers Ryan Palmer Mark Hensby Joe Durant Jimmy Walker Webb Simpson James Nitties Glen Day Chad Campbell Bob Heintz John Huston Jeev Milkha Singh Bill Lunde David Duval Jason Bohn Vance Veazey B. Delahoussaye Scott McCarron Aaron Baddeley Stephen Ames Daniel Chopra Mark Wilson Retief Goosen Steve Flesch Woody Austin Rocco Mediate Marco Dawson

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Senior British Saturday’s third round At Carnoustie Golf Links Carnoustie, Scotland Purse: $2 million Yardage: 7,297; Par: 71 Bernhard Langer 67-71-69—207 Corey Pavin 67-71-72—210 Fred Funk 75-69-67—211 Jay Don Blake 67-74-70—211 Russ Cochran 70-71-70—211 Jay Haas 70-69-72—211 Larry Mize 69-70—72—211 Ian Woosnam 72-67-72—211 Gary Hallberg 70-74-68—212 Carl Mason 67-76-69—212 Jeff Sluman 69-74-70—213 John Cook 69-72-72—213 Dan Forsman 68-71-74—213 Trevor Dodds 74-71-69—214 Michael Allen 73-70-71—214 Olin Browne 70-72-72—214 David J Russell 75-67-72—214 Tommy Armour III 74-72-69—215 Peter Senior 71-72-72—215 Mark Calcavecchia 70-70-75—215 CS Lu, Taipei 76-71-69—216 Mark James 74-72-70—216 Tom Watson 74-71-71—216 Chris Williams 73-74-70—217 David Frost 71-75-71—217 Ted Schulz 75-70-72—217 Mike Goodes 73-75-70—218 Bruce Vaughan 68-76-74—218 Loren Roberts 71-72-75—218 Bobby Clampett 76-73-70—219 Angel Franco 73-75-71—219 Peter Fowler 75-73-71—219 Barry Lane 75-72-72—219 Eduardo Romero 74-73-72—219 Tom Lehman 71-75-73—219 Morris Hatalsky 71-72-76—219 Mike Donald 69-79-72—220 Tsukasa Watanabe 74-74-72—220 Des Smyth 74-74-72—220 Scott Simpson 78-69-73—220 John Harrison 72-77-72—221 Mark Wiebe 68-80-73—221 Gordon Brand Jr. 73-75-73—221 a-Randy Haag 71-77-73—221 Glenn Ralph 75-73-73—221 Hideki Kase 77-70-74—221 Ronnie Black 72-74-75—221 Ross Drummond 72-74-75—221 Domingo Hospital 74-70-77—221 David Merriman 74-75-73—222 Juan Quiros 76-72-74—222 Gordon Brand 73-75-74—222 Gene Jones 73-74-75—222 Bill Longmuir 75-71-76—222 Steve Cipa 74-72-76—222 James Mason 71-74-77—222 Denis O’Sullivan 73-76-74—223 Bob Cameron 75-73-75—223 Noel Ratcliffe 76-72-75—223 Wayne Grady 77-71-75—223 Boonchu Ruangkit 75-74-75—224 Fraser Mann 72-74-78—224 David Peoples 70-74-80—224 Martin Poxon 75-74-76—225 Tim Simpson 75-74-76—225 Tom Watson 74-71-77—225 Mike Cunning 74-74-77—225 Stephen Bennett 74-73-78—225 Bob Gilder 76-73-77—226 Mark Belsham 75-73-78—226 Sam Torrance 69-77-80—226 John Benda 74-75-80—229 Philip Blackmar 75-74-81—230

Parnell razor-sharp From staff reports

New York Mets hurler Bobby Parnell (East Rowan) looked great in a nationally televised game on Saturday. Parnell shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ninth and 10th innings of a game the Mets eventually dropped 3-2 in the 13th. Parnell struck out two while rolling through a pair of 1-2-3 innings. He was clocked at 97 mph and lowered his ERA to 1.02. Parnell also pitched a scoreless eighth inning on Friday to help the Mets beat the Dodgers 6-1.

 Local golf Alex Nianouris and Sean Kramer shot 67s and lead the Championship Flight of the Warrior Club Championship after Saturday’s first round. Richard Cobb (68), Jimmy Christy (71), Jon Adams (73) and David Miller (73) followed behind the leaders. Matt Gryder and Andrew Morgan share the First Flight lead after shooting 75s. Dean Harwood shot a 69 and holds a commanding lead in the Senior Championship Flight.  The McCanless Couples traveled to Lakewood Golf Club in Statesville on Saturday and played 18 holes with a best ball format. Winners after drawing for partners were Gene Seaford and Beverly Cobb with a 78. Brett Leslie and Tammie Drew finished second at 81. Allen Drew and Sharon Miller finished third. Gene Seaford won closest to the pin. Ty Cobb and Mary Seaford won longest putts.

it in 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2006. and Lexington was there in 2005. NCPiedmontSports.com is providing steady updates on the games, and you should be able to listen online at www.wkxr.com. Four games are set for today, starting at 9:30 a.m. See Scoreboard.

 Minor leagues Ryan Query (A.L. Brown, Catawba) has been promoted from the Gulf Coast League Braves to the Danville Braves of the Appalachian League. Query batted only .216 in 37 at-bats in the GCL, but he had three homers and seven RBIs.  The Kannapolis Intimidators (1217) buried Asheville 14-0 on Saturday behind six shutout innings by Andre Rienzo. He struck out 10 and has thrown 21 straight scoreless innings. Tyler Saladino, Nick Ciolli and Ian Gac had three hits each for the Intimidators. Daniel Wagner (South Rowan) accounted for two hits and picked up his 27th stolen base.  Intimidators southpaw Matt Wickswat has been promoted to Winston-Salem.  Vermont’s Wade Moore (West Rowan, Catawba) went 1-for-2 and stole his 12th base on Saturday.

 Wood bat leagues

Ryan Bostian (South Rowan, Catawba) finished the Southern Collegiate Baseball League season with a .331 batting average, 20 RBIs and 10 steals.  Justin Roland (East Rowan, Charlotte) finished the SCBL season with a .441 batting average in 11 games with the Statesville Owls.  Corbin Shive (East, Charlotte) struggled in his start for the Peters American Legion burg Generals on Thursday in the Rutherford outscored Rocky Coastal Plain League. Mount 10-8, and Cary beat CherHe allowed six runs in four inryville 2-1 in a pitching duel on Sat- nings and fell to 1-5. urday as the double-elimination state tournament got under way at Ashe-  Power lifting boro’s McCrary Park. Local strongman Chris Rabon Whiteville demolished Area III champion Kernersville 11-0 as Jared competed Saturday in the American Carroll shut out Post 36 for eight in- Power Lifting Federation Mayhem in nings. Kernersville starter Pete Myrtle Beach, an event that attractSchultz was knocked out in the sec- ed some of the most powerful men and women in the Southeast. ond inning. Host Randolph County beat Wilmington 5-1 in the nightcap. Catawba’s  Prep baseball Colton Baughman pitched a three-hitFormer assistant Greg Peters has ter for Randolph. Randolph and Kernersville are been named the new head baseball representing Area III, the first time coach at CCC member Central Davidtwo Northern Division teams have son. The Lexington Dispatch reportbeen the Area III reps since Ameri- ed that Jonathan Brown, who has can Legion adopted the single-site coached Central’s Spartans with great success, is moving into administrastate tournament format in 2000. Rowan County qualified for the tion as an assistant principal. Brown state tournament in 2000, 2001, 2002, replaced Chris Adams, who took the 2007, 2008 and 2009. Kannapolis made head football job at Ledford.

Busch keeps on winning

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Evian Masters Scores Saturday’s third round At Evian Masters Golf Club Evian-les-Bains, France Purse: $3.25 million Yardage: 6,345; Par: 72 Morgan Pressel 66-72-67—205 Jiyai Shin 70-69-68—207 Jeong Jang 68-69-70—207 Brittany Lincicome 70-73-65—208 Alexis Thompson 69-72-67—208 Mayu Hattori 69-71-69—209 Na Yeon Choi 68-70-71—209 M.J. Hur 67-71-71—209 Mika Miyazato 68-67-74—209 Song-Hee Kim 67-75-68—210 Anja Monke 69-71-70—210 Suzann Pettersen 69-70-71—210 Sun-Ju Ahn 66-73-71—210 Meena Lee 68-70-72—210 Hee-Won Han 73-73-65—211 Yuri Fudoh 72-69-70—211 Yukari Baba 69-72-70—211 Yani Tseng 68-73-70—211 Kyeong Bae 70-69-72—211 Mi-Jeong Jeon 68-71-72—211 Gwladys Nocera 69-67-76—212 Azahara Munoz 70-75-68—213 Chie Arimura 72-72-69—213 Anna Nordqvist 70-73-70—213 Vicky Hurst 70-72-71—213 Momoko Ueda 69-71-73—213 Inbee Park 74-71-69—214 Cristie Kerr 72-73-69—214 Shanshan Feng 70-73-71—214 Pat Hurst 69-74-71—214 Lee-Anne Pace 69-74-71—214 Melissa Reid 66-77-71—214 Mariajo Uribe 75-72-68—215 Karrie Webb 73-73-69—215 Ji Young Oh 74-71-70—215 Helen Alfredsson 71-74-70—215 Maria Hjorth 71-74-70—215 Michelle Wie 68-77-70—215

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Saturday’s third round At St. George’s Golf and Country Club Course Toronto Purse: $5.1 million Yardage: 7,079; Par: 70 Dean Wilson 65-65-65—195 Carl Pettersson 71-68-60—199 Bob Estes 66-67-66—199 Tim Clark 66-64-69—199 Bryce Molder 70-67-63—200 Trevor Immelman 67-68-65—200 Kevin Sutherland 73-62-65—200 Brock Mackenzie 64-68-68—200 Jeff Quinney 71-66-64—201 Cliff Kresge 70-66-66—202 Chris DiMarco 69-67-66—202 Brendon de Jonge 69-67-66—202 Blake Adams 70-66-66—202 Luke Donald 69-66-67—202 Chris Stroud 66-69-67—202 Kevin Na 67-67-68—202 Matt Jones 66-67-69—202 Hunter Mahan 65-67-70—202 Chris Riley 69-69-65—203 Steve Elkington 70-68-65—203 Matt Kuchar 70-67-66—203 Matt Bettencourt 70-65-68—203 Roger Tambellini 68-66-69—203 J.J. Henry 67-65-71—203 Jay Williamson 68-71-65—204 Jon Mills 67-71-66—204 Stuart Appleby 69-69-66—204 Matt Every 71-66-67—204 Ricky Barnes 67-70-67—204 Charlie Wi 69-68-67—204 Camilo Villegas 68-68-68—204 Joe Ogilvie 67-69-68—204

BASEBALL American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Placed RHP Ben Sheets on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Cedrick Bowers from Sacramento (PCL). TEXAS RANGERS—Placed C Matt Treanor on the 15-day DL. Recalled C Taylor Teagarden from Frisco (Texas). National League CHICAGO CUBS—Signed OF Reggie Golden. COLORADO ROCKIES—Activated RHP Taylor Buchholz from the 60-day DL. Optioned RHP Jhoulys Chacin to Colorado Springs (PCL). Transferred INF Eric Young Jr. from the 15-day to 60-day DL. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Activated RF Ryan Ludwick from the 15-day DL. Assigned RHP P.J. Walters to Memphis (PCL). SAN DIEGO PADRES—Activated RHP Mat Latos from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Luis Durango to Portland (PCL). SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Placed LHP Jeremy Affeldt on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Joe Martinez from Fresno (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Recalled RHP Collin Balester from Syracuse (IL). FOOTBALL National Football League DENVER BRONCOS—Signed OL Eric Olsen. NEW YORK GIANTS—Agreed to terms LB Keith Bulluck.

BY WILL GRAVES Associated Press

CLERMONT, Ind. — Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski kept it clean. Kyle Busch kept on winning. Busch held off Edwards on a late restart to win the NASCAR Nationwide race at O’Reilly Raceway Park on Saturday night, collecting his eighth victory of the season while sending a friendly reminder about who drives the dominant car in NASCAR’s No. 2 series. Busch led 144 laps and had just enough at the end to fend off Edwards, who wasn’t about to send Busch into the wall a week after punting Keselowski on the final lap in St. Louis, a move that forced NASCAR officials to dock him 60 points and fine him $25,000. “It was good, hard clean racing,” Busch said. “That’s what happens when you race each other cleanly over time and with respect, you get respect back.” Busch has certainly earned it. His fifth win in his last six Nationwide starts gives him 38 for his career. Only Mark Martin with 48 has more. Aric Almirola finished third, followed by pole-sitter Trevor Bayne and Reed Sorenson. Keselowski faded late to finish eighth. A week after their run-in forced NASCAR officials to step in saying they each crossed the line, Keselowski and Edwards were on their best behavior at the crowded 0.686-mile oval. The rivals found themselves running within a couple car lengths of each other for a long stretch at the beginning of the race and again on a late restart. This time each driver made sure to give the other a wide berth. “We gave each other plenty of room, and that’s good,” Edwards said. “Hopefully, we can keep doing that going forward.” Keselowski, who was placed on probation through the end of the year along with Edwards for his role in last week’s final-lap scuffle, had no issues with Edwards this time. “I thought it was pretty decent racing by most everybody, just good hard short-tracking,” he said.

Particularly by Busch. He was dominant at times before using a little moxie to beat Edwards even though Edwards had fresher tires after making a late pit stop. Busch appeared to be in the clear before Joe Nemechek hit the wall with less than 10 laps remaining. The caution set up a green/white/checkered finish, with Busch opting to take the outside lane on the restart. Edwards hung back figuring Busch would take his time before restarting the race. The second Edwards relaxed, Busch was gone. “In my mind, I thought he was going to go late, so as soon as I laid back, he took off,” Edwards said. Edwards rallied to get on Busch’s rear quarterpanel coming out of Turn 4, but unlike last week, he opted not to dump Busch into the wall. Busch admitted getting “dive bombed” by Edwards was a concern, but figured if Edwards did creep up and take Busch out, he wouldn’t win the race either. “I knew (the possibility) was there, but if I could just keep enough momentum rolling, just keep my car rolling, I felt like any time he’d lay a bumper to me, he’d get sideways too,” Busch said. “I felt like it was all about trying to keep the momentum rolling, keep the car stuck as best I could.” It was all the daylight Busch needed to continue his mastery of the series. Though Keselowski holds a 205point lead over Edwards in the championship race, Busch has left little doubt that he’s the driver to beat whenever he’s behind his No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch fought back a laugh on Friday while talking about the ongoing feud between Edwards and Keselowski, saying it wouldn’t affect the way he drives. Of course it helps when you have the fastest car. Busch qualified fifth and then quickly tracked down Bayne to take the lead. He had little trouble pulling away, toying with the field at times before having just enough to stay in front of Edwards. “You’ve got to have a really, really methodical way about doing it here, and there just wasn’t enough time for him to do it in two laps,” Busch said.

SALISBURY POST

Expanded Standings New York tampa Bay Boston toronto Baltimore

W 61 58 55 49 31

L 35 38 42 48 66

Chicago Minnesota detroit Kansas City Cleveland

W 53 52 50 42 41

L 43 46 45 55 56

texas Los angeles oakland seattle

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atlanta Philadelphia New York Florida Washington

W 57 51 50 48 42

L 40 46 48 49 56

Cincinnati st. Louis Milwaukee Chicago Houston Pittsburgh

W 55 54 46 45 39 34

L 44 44 53 53 58 63

san diego san Francisco Los angeles Colorado arizona

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SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010 • 3B

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .635 — — .604 3 — .567 61⁄2 31⁄2 .505 121⁄2 91⁄2 .320 301⁄2 271⁄2 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .552 — — .531 2 7 .526 21⁄2 71⁄2 .433 111⁄2 161⁄2 .423 121⁄2 171⁄2 West Division Pct GB WCGB .582 — — .520 6 8 .505 71⁄2 91⁄2 .381 191⁄2 211⁄2 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .588 — — .526 6 31⁄2 .510 71⁄2 5 .495 9 61⁄2 .429 151⁄2 13 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .556 — — 1 .551 ⁄2 1 .465 9 91⁄2 .459 91⁄2 10 .402 15 151⁄2 .351 20 201⁄2 West Division Pct GB WCGB .594 — — .561 3 — .531 6 3 .526 61⁄2 31⁄2 .378 21 18

AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday’s Games Kansas City 7, N.Y. Yankees 4 oakland 10, Chicago White sox 2 Minnesota 7, Baltimore 2 tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 3 toronto 3, detroit 2 L.a. angels 6, texas 2 Boston at seattle, late Sunday’s Games Kansas City (o’sullivan 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 11-3), 1:05 p.m. tampa Bay (W.davis 7-9) at Cleveland (Masterson 3-8), 1:05 p.m. toronto (Cecil 8-5) at detroit (Galarraga 3-3), 1:05 p.m., 1st game Minnesota (slowey 8-5) at Baltimore (arrieta 3-2), 1:35 p.m. Chicago White sox (d.Hudson 1-0) at oakland (Braden 4-7), 4:05 p.m. Boston (Matsuzaka 7-3) at seattle (Fister 3-6), 4:10 p.m. toronto (Litsch 1-4) at detroit (Bonderman 5-6), 6:05 p.m., 2nd game L.a. angels (t.Bell 1-1) at texas (tom.Hunter 7-0), 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Baltimore at toronto, 7:07 p.m. detroit at tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. seattle at Chicago White sox, 8:10 p.m. Boston at L.a. angels, 10:05 p.m.

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NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs 6, st. Louis 5 Philadelphia 10, Colorado 2 L.a. dodgers 3, N.Y. Mets 2, 13 innings Cincinnati 7, Houston 0 san diego 9, Pittsburgh 2 atlanta 10, Florida 5 Milwaukee 4, Washington 3 san Francisco 10, arizona 4 Sunday’s Games atlanta (Jurrjens 3-3) at Florida (Volstad 4-8), 1:10 p.m. Colorado (Francis 3-3) at Philadelphia (Happ 1-0), 1:35 p.m. san diego (LeBlanc 4-8) at Pittsburgh (B.Lincoln 1-3), 1:35 p.m. Cincinnati (Leake 7-1) at Houston (W.rodriguez 7-11), 2:05 p.m. Washington (detwiler 0-0) at Milwaukee (Bush 4-8), 2:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (dickey 6-4) at L.a. dodgers (Kershaw 9-5), 4:10 p.m. san Francisco (Lincecum 10-4) at arizona (enright 2-2), 4:10 p.m. st. Louis (C.Carpenter 11-3) at Chicago Cubs (dempster 8-7), 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games Colorado at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. Florida at san Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Figgins back in the lineup SEATTLE — Chone Figgins was in the Seattle Mariners lineup Saturday, a day after his very public dugout scuffle with manager Don Wakamatsu, although answers about the intense fifth-inning conflict were scarce. The Mariners closed the clubhouse for nearly 30 minutes before Saturday’s game against Boston for a team meeting that featured coaches and players. Wakamatsu said issues that surfaced during the scuffled were addressed, although no one directly involved in the dustup was talking. Approached when the clubhouse opened, Figgins, who was still in jeans minutes before the team took the field for batting practice, did not acknowledge reporters. Backup first baseman Casey Kotchman served as spokesman, snapping “He’s not ready to talk about it yet.” Figgins turned down later requests to talk through a team spokesman. Jose Lopez, who ended up with his jersey over his head, also was missing from the clubhouse when reporters were allowed inside. “(General manager) Jack (Zduriencik) and Chone and I all sat down and talked about what happened. Again, it’s more about the play, not so much about the individual,” Wakamatsu said. “But there is accountability, not just him, that we’re asking of everybody.” The scuffle broke out in the middle of the fifth inning in Friday’s 2-1 loss to Boston.

Phillies pummel Jimenez in third Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Howard hit a bases-loaded triple and Jimmy Rollins had a two-run triple in a seven-run third inning and the Philadelphia Phillies handed Ubaldo Jimenez one of the worst losses of his career by beating the Colorado Rockies 102 Saturday. Kyle Kendrick (6-4) returned from his demotion to Triple-A Lehigh Valley and gave up a run and seven hits in seven innings for Philadelphia. Raul Ibanez homered and Placido Polanco and Jayson Werth had a pair of hits for the Phillies, who have won three straight and appear to be coming out of their recent offensive funk. Both Rollins and Howard had triples in a seven-run third inning. Jimenez (15-2), the NL All-Star starter who entered with the most wins in the majors, lasted two-plus innings and allowed six runs with six walks, both matching season highs. Padres 9, Pirates 2 PITTSBURGH — Mat Latos pitched effectively over six innings despite giving up two solo home runs in his first start since July 8 and the division-leading Padres won for the seventh time in nine games. Cubs 6, Cardinals 5 CHICAGO — Rookies Tyler Colvin and Starlin Castro homered Saturday, completing a successful week at the top of Chicago’s order and helping the Cubs to a victory over the Cardinals. The Cardinals finally scored after being shut out the previous two days but still followed an eight-game winning streak with their third straight loss. Dodgers 3, Mets 2, 13 innings LOS ANGELES — James Loney homered in the 13th inning, giving the Dodgers a victory over the Mets. Oliver Perez (0-4), starting his second inning of relief, retired Matt Kemp on a bro-

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Jayson Werth scores for the Phils as Colorado catcher Chris Iannetta awaits a throw. ken-bat flyball before Loney drove a 1-0 pitch into the pavilion seats in right-center. Loney’s homer was timely because the Dodgers had no true relievers left in the bullpen. Brewers 4, Nationals 3 MILWAUKEE — Ryan Braun’s single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Brewers a win over the Nationals. Reds 7, Astros 0 HOUSTON — Johnny Cueto allowed four hits in eight scoreless innings and Joey Votto and Ramon Hernandez each homered to lead the Reds to a win over the Astros. Jordan Smith pitched a perfect ninth to complete the shutout.

Giants 10, Diamondbacks 4 PHOENIX — Juan Uribe hit a grand slam, Madison Bumgarner pitched seven effective innings and the Giants shook off teammate Eugenio Velez’s scary head injury to beat the Diamondbacks. Velez was injured in the fourth inning when a sharp liner by teammate Pat Burrell knocked him off his feet in the dugout. Braves 10, Marlins 5 MIAMI — Brooks Conrad’s second pinch-hit grand slam of the year put the Atlanta Braves ahead in an eight-run eighth inning,. Six of the runs were unearned because of two errors by third baseman Jorge Cantu.

Davies beats Yanks for first win since May Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jose Guillen homered and drove in two runs, Rick Ankiel also had a pair of RBIs and the Kansas City Royals pounded spot starter Sergio Mitre during a 7-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday. Kyle Davies (5-6) served up a pair of home runs to Mark Teixeira and another to Jorge Posada, but otherwise held the hot-hitting Yankees in check on a sweltering afternoon in the Bronx. Davies survived 51⁄3 innings to win for the first time since May 28. Alex Rodriguez was 1-for-4 and remained stuck on 599 home runs for the second straight day. Athletics 10, White Sox 2 OAKLAND, Calif. — Jack Cust hit two home runs, Kurt Suzuki added a homer of his

own and the Athletics beat the White Sox. Suzuki, who agreed to terms on a four-year deal with the A’s Friday, helped the A’s win for the eighth time in 10 games. Daric Barton also drove in two runs, and Kevin Kouzmanoff doubled twice and drove in a run Vin Mazzaro (6-2) gave up Ramon Castro’s two-run homer in the second. He allowed three hits over six innings, walking three and striking out five. Blue Jays 3, Tigers 2 DETROIT — Jose Bautista drove in a pair of runs to help the Blue Jays to a win over the Tigers, who lost Magglio Ordonez to a fractured ankle. Ordonez broke his ankle sliding into home plate and is expected to miss 6-to-8 weeks. It was the second major injury this week for the Tigers, who lost third baseman Brandon

Inge to a broken left hand. Carlos Guillen also left the game with a calf injury. Tigers rookie Rick Porcello (4-8) dropped to 0-4 in his last six starts, a stretch that included a trip to the minors. He allowed three runs on five hits and four walks in six innings. Rays 6, Indians 3 CLEVELAND — David Price held it together after a rocky start, getting a three-run homer from Ben Zobrist and a solo shot from Carlos Pena that helped the Rays end their 18-game losing streak in Cleveland with a win over the Indians. Price (13-5) trailed 3-0 in the second, but the AL’s All-Star game starter settled in. He allowed three hits in seven-plus innings and tied CC Sabathia for the league lead in wins. Twins 7, Orioles 2 BALTIMORE — Delmon Young went 4-for-4 with a

homer and three RBIs, and the Twins received an impressive pitching performance from Scott Baker in a victory over the Orioles. The four hits tied a career high for Young, who is batting .429 with four homers and 22 RBIs in July. Danny Valencia had three hits for the Twins, who took a 32 lead on Young’s two-run drive in the fifth inning. Angels 6, Rangers 2 ARLINGTON, Texas — Ervin Santana scattered five hits and struck out eight over eight innings, Jeff Mathis homered, and the Los Angeles Angels ended a three-game skid. Santana (9-7) had an 8.05 ERA in his first nine career starts at Rangers Ballpark, but the only damage Texas could do against him were solo homers by Michael Young and Nelson Cruz.

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Rays 6, Indians 3 Tampa Bay Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h bi Zobrist rf 5 1 1 3 Crowe cf 3 1 0 0 Crwfrd lf 5 0 1 1 aCarer ss 4 0 0 0 Lngori 3b 5 0 0 0 Choo rf 3 0 2 1 C.Pena 1b3 1 1 1 Csantn c 4 0 0 0 Joyce dh 4 1 1 0 JhPerlt 3b 4 0 0 0 rdrgz 2b 4 0 0 0 Kearns lf 4 0 1 0 BUpton cf 4 0 1 1 LaPort 1b 3 1 0 0 shppch c 4 1 1 0 duncan dh 3 1 1 2 Bartlett ss 2 2 2 0 donald 2b 2 0 0 0 Totals 36 6 8 6 Totals 30 3 4 3 Tampa Bay 000 032 100—6 Cleveland 120 000 000—3 e—Jh.peralta (6). dp—tampa Bay 1. Lob—tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 4. 2b—Crawford (22), Joyce (7), B.upton (23), Choo (15). Hr—Zobrist (6), C.pena (21), duncan (6). sb—Bartlett (6). IP H R ER BB SO Tampa Bay Price W,13-5 7 3 3 3 4 5 Benoit H,10 1 1 0 0 0 2 r.soriano s,25 1 0 0 0 0 2 Cleveland 7 5 5 1 8 talbot L,8-9 52⁄3 Herrmann 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 r.Perez todd 1 0 0 0 0 2 ambriz 1 0 0 0 0 0

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Athletics 10, White Sox 2 Chicago

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Blue Jays 3, Tigers 2 Toronto

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National Braves 10, Marlins 5 Atlanta

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Cubs 6, Cardinals 5 St. Louis Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi Miles 2b 5 1 2 0 Colvin rf 3 2 1 1

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Contador locks up Tour title

POLE FROM 1B followed by Jamie McMurray, Montoya’s teammate, Ryan Newman and Clint Bowyer, as Chevrolets took the top six qualifying spots. Greg Biffle was the highest qualifying Ford at sixth, Brad Keselowski was the best Dodge at 11th and Martin Truex Jr. led the Toyota effort at 12th. Former Formula One champion Jacques Villeneuve, like Montoya also an Indianapolis 500 winner, qualified for his first Sprint Cup race since 2007 and will start last in the 43-car field. Four drivers failed to make the race: David Gilliland, Casey Mears — nephew of four-time Indy 500 winner Rick Mears — David Stremme and J.J. Yeley. Attention will likely be on Montoya, who has already had a busy week. His wife, Connie, on Monday gave birth to the couple’s third child, a daughter named Manuela, and

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Juan pablo Montoya smiles as he walks out of the garage area after he qualiﬁed on the pole for today’s Brickyard 400. Thursday was a trip to the emergency room for middle child Paulina. “Her brother practiced his golf swing on her head,” Montoya said with raised eyebrows. So getting on track provided some relief from the madness, even though this weekend comes with raised expectations.

He led 116 laps last year in a bid to become the only driver to win both the IndyCar and NASCAR races at the Brickyard, only to be flagged for speeding on the final pit stop to drop to an 11th-place finish. Everyone expected a strong effort in his return, based solely on the assumption the No. 42 team wants to grab the victory it was denied last year.

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in the first turn. Yeley did not make the 43-car field. • NURSERY TIME: Two more drivers, Ryan Newman and Sam Hornish Jr., confirmed Saturday that their wives are pregnant. Four drivers — Edwards, Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya and Elliott Sadler — have already added newborns to their families this year. The wives of Jeff Gordon, Jamie McMurray, Newman and Hornish are all expected to have babies before next season. • VICTORY LANE: High school students Jonathan Anderson and McKenzie Nordland spent Saturday night serving as honorary pit crew members on Colin Braun’s Nationwide series team, part of their reward for winning the 61st Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills National Championship.

Cowher’s wife dies of skin cancer The NFL notebook ... RALEIGH — Kaye Cowher, the wife of ex-Steelers coach Bill Cowher and a former basketball player at North Carolina State and in the now-defunct Women’s Professional Basketball League, has died of skin cancer. She was 54. Cowher died Friday in her native North Carolina, where the family relocated at her urging during Cowher’s final year as coach in 2006, one season after the Steelers won the Super Bowl. The family had lived since in Raleigh. “Kaye was such a loving and compassionate person and she was the foundation of our family,” Bill Cowher, now an NFL analyst with CBS, said in a statement Saturday. “Kaye was always at my side throughout my career as a player, coach, NFL analyst and, most importantly, as a parent to our three daughters.” He added: “Kaye was the

FAVRE FROM 1B Asked on Friday to describe his first season with Favre, Childress started singing an old show tune to Dave Campbell of The Associated Press. “Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you,” Childress sang. By now, Childress should know plenty about the quarterback who just won’t quit. He’s been down to Mississippi twice this year to sit out on the front porch with Favre, presumably to discuss which part of his body is bothering him now. What they surely didn’t discuss was the NFC championship game against the Saints, where the Vikings were a few yards away from a win in regulation until mistakes by both coach and quarterback cost them a trip to the Super Bowl. Childress has to take the blame for two conservative runs with the ball on the

PAUILLAC, France — Alberto Contador is set to win his third Tour de France title in four years after keeping the yellow jersey Saturday in the next-to-last stage. Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland won the 32-mile individual time trial, but Contador extended his slim lead over Andy Schleck of Luxembourg, who started the 19th stage 8 seconds behind. “I am very moved. ... It was a difficult Tour and I’m very happy,” Contador said. After donning the yellow jersey, the 27-yearold Spaniard wiped away tears and took a deep breath. His hand trembled as he made his trademark gesture to the CONTADOR crowd — pretending to shoot with his finger. “I think it’s the first Tour that has given me so much emotion, you can’t imagine,” he said. Schleck now trails by 39 seconds and is to finish second to Contador for the second straight year.

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heat turned Indy’s oval into a slick track Saturday. Two-time Brickyard winFROM 1B ner Tony Stewart, the first from the front row, on the driver on the track Saturoutside of 2000 Indy 500 win- day, acknowledged it was alner Juan Pablo Montoya. Af- ready slippery when he terward, Johnson said he made his qualifying run. didn’t show everything he And things only got worse as had. the track temperature rose “I was really proud of to 114 degrees midway what I did because yesterthrough the session. day I continued to make misMany drivers fought to takes, I would run three of keep their cars out of trouthe four corners right and I ble, with some getting lucky. couldn’t get all four right,” Carl Edwards barely eshe said. “So I made sure tocaped a brush with the wall day that I did my job and in the fourth turn during his maybe left a little bit on the qualifying run, and Marcos table because I wanted to be Ambrose hit the outside wall very line specific and not between the first and second make a mistake.” turns. Ambrose’s speed, That’s not good news for 175.562, wouldn’t have been those trying to end Johngood enough to make the son’s streak. field, but qualified on own“I hope to keep it going. It er’s points and will start 41st. seems to put us in a great poThe biggest crash came sition in the record books,” on the day’s final qualifying Johnson said. attempt when J.J. Yeley, a • 1998 Indianapolis 500 SLIP, SLIDING AWAY: The starter, hit the outside wall

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Bulluck and the team came to an agreement Saturday. Media reports said the deal was for one year and $2.5 million. Bulluck has spent his entire 10-year career with the Tennessee Titans. BRONCOS ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Elvis Dumervil’s route to riches was somewhat unconventional by today’s NFL standards for superstars. He didn’t posture, wasn’t petulant or pouty. He didn’t rip his coaches or the front ofassOciated pRess Bill cowher celebrates the fice, hold out of minicamps or ask for a trade. 2006 super Bowl win as his Dumervil hit pay dirt with wife Kaye looks on. a $61.5 million extension through 2015 that includes rock that we could all lean $43.168 million in guaranon in the tough times. She tees, a record for a player at was looked up to by so many his pass-rushing position. people and I cannot say COWBOYS enough about what Kaye SAN ANTONIO — Firstmeant to our family.” round draft pick Dez Bryant GIANTS is under contract and on the NEW YORK — The New field for the Dallas Cowboys. York Giants have agreed to Bryant was the first playterms with free agent lineer on the field for the Cowbacker Keith Bulluck. boys’ first training camp Agent Gary Wichard says workout Saturday.

Saints’ 33, followed by a penalty for having 12 men in the huddle. Favre should own up for the interception on the next play, though that’s not exactly his style. Turns out it was Sidney Rice’s fault for not coming back to the ball like Favre thought he would. “As a player you’ve got to pull the trigger,” Favre told Men’s Journal. “You can’t say, ’Well, is he going to do what I think he’s going to do?’ He wasn’t wrong, and in some ways, I wasn’t either.” OK. Now that we’ve got that cleared up, the Favre countdown watch can officially begin. There will be breathless reports out of Hattiesburg, where the 40-year-old Favre is shedding a few pounds and limbering up the ol’ arm in practices with a local high school team. Expect Favre to talk one day about whether he still has it anymore, then the next about how he really wants to lead the Vikings to the promised land. As the days turn into

weeks and his teammates swat mosquitoes at the team’s training camp in Mankato, Favre will let everyone twist in the wind. Then he’ll begin making some noises about how a 20th season might just be possible, after all. At some point all eyes will turn to the skies to see if the private jet sent by Vikings owner Zygi Wilf is on the way. It will be, of course, and Favre will get the obligatory hero’s welcome he so desperately seems to want. Then he’ll put on the pads and, barring injury, play better than any quarterback his age has a right to play. So far, the campaign is unfolding just as planned. About all that’s missing is a LeBron-like television special for Favre to announce his decision. But while James held a city hostage to stoke his massive ego, Favre has him beat. He has a whole state to toy with to satisfy his narcissistic desires.

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — American Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin will talk to Tiger Woods at next month’s U.S. PGA Championship to learn whether he wants to be in his team at Celtic Manor in Wales in October. Woods is seventh in the points table that will provide eight automatic members for the United States against Europe. • CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Bernhard Langer has taken a three-shot lead in the Senior British Open after shooting a 2-under 69 in the third round at Carnoustie. • TORONTO — Dean Wilson shot his third straight 5-under 65 on Saturday to take a four-stroke lead over record-setting Carl Pettersson, Tim Clark and Bob Estes in the Canadian Open, pulling away with three straight birdies at rainy St. George’s.

TENNIS JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Mardy Fish keeps winning, even when his opponent is top-seeded Andy Roddick. Fish extended his personal-best winning streak to nine matches with his 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 upset of Andy Roddick, the No. 9 player in the world, in the Atlanta Tennis Championships on Saturday night.

Fish will face John Isner in today’s final. Isner beat Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-7 (7-9), 6-3 earlier Saturday. Roddick suffered only his second loss in 11 matches against Fish.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL LOS ANGELES — Add Titans coach Jeff Fisher to the list of people Lane Kiffin had ticked off in Tennessee. Kiffin hired Titans assistant coach Kennedy Pola on Saturday to be his offensive coordinator and running backs coach at Southern California, irking Fisher by failing to follow the usual protocol in courting another team’s assistant. Before the move became official, Titans coach Jeff Fisher voiced his displeasure with Kiffin on Saturday to the Tennessean newspaper, saying the new USC coach hadn’t made the customary courtesy phone call to tell the NFL team he was interested in hiring Pola. Pola is a former USC player and assistant coach and so is Fisher. Kiffin issued a statement Saturday saying he first spoke to Pola on Friday, and then called Fisher after Pola called him back.

COLLEGE HOOPS MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is expected to make a full recovery after being hospitalized for broken ribs during a Las Vegas recruiting trip. Athletic director Oliver Luck says Huggins fell in his hotel room Friday night and broke four ribs.

NBA NEW YORK — The NBA has fined Minnesota Timberwolves president David Kahn $50,000 for his comments about forward Michael Beasley’s marijuana use. The league also fined the Timberwolves organization $50,000 for what it called inappropriate comments. In an interview with a local ESPN Radio affiliate, Kahn called the recently acquired Beasley “a very young and immature kid who smoked too much marijuana” while he was playing in Miami. • LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant recently underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, the Los Angeles Lakers said.

SOCCER PARIS — France coach Laurent Blanc will drop all 23 World Cup players for his first match next month as collective punishment for the team’s embarrassing fiasco in South Africa.

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Rufty-Holmes Senior Center 1120 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Salisbury, NC 28144-5658 Phone 704-216-7714 • Fax 704-633-8517 North Carolina’s first “Senior Center of Excellence.” www.ruftyholmes.org

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Rufty-Holmes Senior Center is a non-profit organization that provides a focal point for aging resources as well as opportunities to extend independent living and enrich the quality of life for Rowan County older adults. The Center is supported by the N.C. Division of Aging; City of Salisbury; County of Rowan; United Way; Towns of China Grove, Cleveland, Landis, Rockwell & Spencer; local foundations; business partners; program fees; and private contributions.

SPECIAL EVENTS IN AUGUST AUGUST LINE DANCING CLASSES: Cheryl Kluttz, Instructor Absolute Beginners (no experience necessary): Tuesdays 3:30pm – 4:30pm beginning August 3 High Beginner: Thursdays 4:30pm-5:30pm beginning August 5 Intermediate: Thursdays 5:30pm – 6:30pm beginning August 5 $4 per lesson or $12.00 for the month Members can register by calling the Front Desk at 704-2167714. BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS: Wednesday, August 4 from 9:30-10:30am. Free blood pressure readings and consultation for interested older adults. Provided by retired Geriatric & Adult Nurse Practitioner Gail Kimball. SENIOR GAMES SOFTBALL TOURNAMENTS: Saturday, August 7 & Saturday, August 28 at the City Sports Complex across from the Senior Center. Salisbury-Rowan Senior Games will host all-day invitational softball tournaments featuring teams from several area counties, including Rowan. There are no gate fees for spectators. Come out and support your local teams. Parking, rest rooms, and a food court will be available at Rufty-Holmes for those in attendance. Call the Center at 704-216-7714 for information on game times.

Interested older adults need to pre-pay at the Senior Center Front Desk in order to reserve a seat on the bus. ReservaWii BOWLING TOURNAMENT: August 9-27 in the Fitness tions are first-come, first-served, and you can pick your Annex. Members who register can play the Wii game verseat assignment at the time of purchase. You must be a sion of bowling during Fitness Annex hours and record their top scores throughout the three weeks of the competi- member of the Center to purchase a ticket. Tickets go on tion. On Tuesday, August 31 at 2:00pm, the two members sale Wednesday, August 4 at 2:00pm. with the top scores for men & women will have play-offs for $25 gift certificates from a local restaurant. A refresher AUGUST CONCENTRATED COMPUTER CLASSES: Check the Center’s website at www.ruftylesson on use of the Wii system will be provided by staff on holmes.org to view a listing of AuFriday, August 6 at noon. Free and open to any interested gust computer classes that are Center member. For more information and to register, available to members. We will be check with Fitness Staff or contact the Front Desk. offering Introduction to Digital Photography, Introduction to HANDMADE CARD WORKSHOP: Wednesday, August 11 at Computers, and Using Windows 1:00pm. Complete six handmade birthday and friendship 7. Request placement through cards in one two-hour workshop session. All supplies will the link provided, or by filling out a be provided. Cost is $12 per person payable upon arrival. form at the Front Desk. Instructor is Daphne Houghton. Members need to register in advance by calling the Center at 704-216-7714. “A MATTER OF BALANCE” PROGRAM: Begins Wednesday, August 18. An evidence-based four-week program designed to improve one’s strength and balance while reducing the risk of falling and setting realistic goals for improving activity levels. Group will meet Wednesdays & Fridays from 1:00am - 3:00pm August 18-September 10. There is no charge to participate, although donations are welcome. Space is limited, so register early. Contact the Front Desk at 704-216-7714 for more information. ASSISTANCE WITH HEARING NEEDS: Tuesday, August 24 at 10:00am. For individuals who are hard of hearing and need assistance with hearing aids or telephone communication. Sponsored by the NC Division of Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing. Pre-registration required by calling 1800-835-5302.

EXERCISE CLASSES: Members may join one of our ongoing senior exercise classes after screening and consultation with the Fitness Staff. A variety of offerings are available at different levels, and include Senior-Lite Jazzercise, Coed Fitness, SilverSneakers I Muscular Strength & Range of Movement, Strength-ercise, Circuit Strength Training, and Chair Yoga, as well as arthritis water exercise and cardiovascular water exercise classes. Strength and aerobic fitness equipment is also available for use, with trained staff accessible to provide an orientation and instruction. Inquire at the Front Desk for more information or call 704-216-7714.

APPOINTMENTS FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE: Several times a year an attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc. will be available to meet with interested persons at the Center by appointment to provide assistance in non-criminal matters (family law, public assistance, housing, consumer proCOPING WITH THE LOSS OF A PET: Wednesday, August 25 tection, etc). The service is free to low-income adults age at 10:00am. A presentation concerning new community re- 60 or older, provided with regional funds from the Area Agency on Aging. The attorney will be at the Senior Center sources available specifically for those experiencing pet on August 17 to see individuals who have appointments. loss. Offered by Brent & Patti Lyerly, with Lyerly Funeral For information, and to schedule an appointment, call the Home and Lyerly Counseling Services. Free and open to NC Legal Aid office at 1-877-439-3480 and identify yourself any interested adult. Pre-registration is not required. as an older adult residing in Rowan County. CLUB MEETINGS THIS MONTH: TOPS Chapter - Each Monday at 9:00am Men’s Breakfast Club - Each Tuesday at 8:30am Wednesday, August 25 at 2:00pm. Rufty-Holmes Lady Liners - Each Tuesday at 10:00am Sponsored by Mary Moose, Registered Creative Needles Group - Each Wednesday at 9:30am Financial Consultant & Planner, for R-H Computer Club - Each Thursday at 10:00am interested Center members. Come out Woodcarvers Group - Each Thursday at 1:30pm and enjoy “Good Intentions,” with Evergreen Bridge Club - Each Friday at 1:00pm Luke Perry and Elaine Hendrix, Golf Association of Rowan Seniors - Monday, August 2 at rated PG-13, on our big screen, 8:30am complete with popcorn and drinks. Free. Ambassadors Club - Monday, August 2 at noon (Motion picture license # 12137390). Seniors Morning Out – Thursday, August 5 at 10:00am AARP Chapter - Thursday, August 5 at 1:00pm BUS TRIP TO COLUMBIA, SC: Wednesday, August 26. Bus Rowan Amateur Radio Society - Monday, August 9 at 6:30pm leaves Senior Center parking lot at 8:00am enroute to this Seniors Without Partners - Thursday, August 12 at 9:00am southern state capital alive with history. Our first stop will be the South Carolina State Museum, considered one of the Art Gang - Thursday, August 12 at 10:00am Starry Night Quilters - Thursday, August 12 at 6:30pm best on the east coast. Lunch will be at the Mac’s on Main buffet followed by a tour of either the Robert Mills House or Southside Extension Homemakers - Monday, August 16 at 10:00am Hampton Preston Mansion, both of which are huge, elegant, antebellum homes. We’ll return back to the Center be- NARFE - Monday, August 16 at 1:00pm Rowan Doll Society - Tuesday, August 17 at noon tween 6-7:00pm. Cost is $50.00 per person which Salisbury-Rowan Quilters Guild Meeting - Thursday, August includes transportation, lunch, admission to the museum 19 at 1:00pm and house tour, and tips.

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VETERAN SERVICES: The Rowan County Veterans Service Office is located at Rufty-Holmes Senior Center as part of the Senior Services Department. Service Officer Elaine Howle is available to meet with Rowan County veterans to assist them in applying and receiving all VA benefits to which they are legally entitled. For an appointment, call 704-216-8138. Walkers: Remember to turn in your walking stats the first of each month at the front desk. Enjoy BINGO every Tuesday from 1-3pm for $1.25, sponsored by Beltone Hearing Aid of Salisbury & China Grove. Members are invited to enjoy CARD & GAME DAY Thursdays from 1-4pm. Free with refreshments. OUTREACH PROGRAMS FOR OLDER ADULTS: Rufty-Holmes Senior Center offers a series of programs and activities at various locations throughout Rowan County as part of its outreach program. For more information, contact Thomasina Paige, Outreach Coordinator, at 704-216-7720. BROADCAST BINGO: Available through the Center’s Outreach Program for Rowan County older adults age 60 and older. Win prizes by listening daily to Memories 1280 Radio. Contact Thomasina Paige at 704-216-7720 to enroll and for more information. Free. LISTEN TO “SENIOR MOMENTS” DAILY MONDAY-FRIDAY AT 6:25am & 10:25am ON MEMORIES 1280 WSAT RADIO. SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY LOCAL OLDER ADULT WHO NEEDS HELP WITH PROGRAM FEES FOR CLASSES OR ACTIVITIES. NO ONE IS REFUSED PARTICIPATION BASED ON AN INABILITY TO PAY PROGRAM FEES. SUPPORT FOR PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIPS IS PROVIDED BY THE BLANCHE & JULIAN ROBERTSON FAMILY FOUNDATION. CONTACT ANY STAFF MEMBER FOR INFORMATION. NEED A RIDE TO THE SENIOR CENTER? CALL SHARE-ARIDE AT 704-216-7700 FOR INFORMATION.

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BUBBLES FROM 1B “Bubbles’ grades were fine, but she didn’t get the SAT taken care of early,” he explained. “And a lot of schools are filling up their rosters early.” Phifer said family members and Mitchell have endorsed TCC as a good fit. “They told me that I could go there, do well, and get a lot of looks to go on to a bigger level,” Phifer said. “I feel good about it. The first thing they asked me at TCC was did I plan to keep going on in basketball, and I told them that’s my whole goal.” Phifer played just about every role during her career with the Hor-

NBA FROM 1B anybody really believe Heat president Pat Riley had no meaningful contact with James or any member of James’ inner circle — made no secret overtures, directly or through Wade — before he could do so legally this summer? I’d like to. But my mind keeps going back to 1995, when Riley, with a year remaining on his contract with the New York Knicks, suddenly was on his way to Miami as the president and coach of the Heat. • One of the reasons so many people outside South Florida are saying James took the easy way out by signing with the Heat is that, as Wade’s wingman, he doesn’t need to be “The Man.” And they’re right. It’s strange, really, that James chose to go play with someone else, rather than have the someone elses he needs to win come play with him in Cleveland. Michael Jordan didn’t need to move. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird didn’t need to move. Kobe Bryant hasn’t needed to move. Even Tim Duncan didn’t need to move to win a championship. Other players wanted to play with them. And they

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BASKETBALL nets. She excelled at all of them. She was a scorer, a defensive stopper or a playmaker, depending on what the Hornets needed. She scored 1,361 points to rank fourth in school history, and she played on prep teams that won an astonishing 112 of 121 games. “TCC likes her abilities a lot, and that’s a school that moves players on to the next level,” Mitchell said. “This is a golden opportunity. The thing Bubbles needs to do is stay focused and get it done. She needs to go down there and make all A’s right from the jump, and if she does that, basketball will take care of itself. She’s a player, and she’ll fit in any role they give her.” Mitchell said there’s nothing Phifer can’t do on a court. She’s a rare gem — combining blinding hand and foot quickness with the

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ability to shoot the ball accurately and with range. There just aren’t many of those around. “She can dribble, she can pass, she can catch and shoot, and she can shoot off the dribble,” Mitchell said. “But the best thing she does is stop the ball on defense. That’s just a natural instinct she has.” Phifer is headed about nine hours and 600 miles from home, but it’s not like TCC is in the middle of nowhere.

It’s part of a college environment in Tallahassee that includes Florida A&M and Florida State. “TCC is about five minutes, if that, from Florida State, and it’s on the same street,” Phifer said. “It really is a long way, but I have some family down there and I know one of the girls (Concord First Assembly guard Alexis Grant) that’s going down there to play, so it’s not like I’ll be all alone.” Phifer will be joining a team that was ranked nationally last season. The Eagles won 20 games. Phifer said the nickname, which she’s carried since age 1 — apparently she was shaped like a chubby bubble as a baby — probably won’t make the trip to Florida. Her new coach (Teresa Atkinson) isn’t a fan of the nickname and also has told her that her given name —

Shanequa — is too much of a mouthful to yell in a hurry. “She’s going to call me something other than Bubbles or Shanequa,” Phifer said. “She hasn’t decided what.” While there’s doubt about Phifer’s name, Mitchell has no doubt she’ll succeed in the same manner that Salisbury’s Bobby Jackson did and that West Rowan’s Jamel Carpenter did when they headed off to a junior college far from home. To make a long story short, Mitchell believes in her. “A lot of people go off to school and carry on, make bad decisions and get in trouble, but that’s not her,” he said. “College programs are going to look first at what kind of person she is, and she’s going get a lot of looks and a lot of calls two years from now.”

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Chamber of Commerce’s compilation of economic indicators March 31, 2010

Dec. 31, ’09 Sept. 30

June 30

March 31

n.C. labor force

4.53 million

4.52 million

4.53 million

4.57 million

4.53 million

n.C. employed

4.01 million

4.04 million

4.07 million

4.04 million

n.C. unemployment rate

11.5 percent

10.7 percent

10.8 percent

10.9 percent

10.8 percent

rowan labor force

72,656

70,976

71,130

72,603

73.037

rowan employed

62,816

61,625

61,719

63,143

64,318

rowan unemployment

13.5 percent

13.2 percent

13 percent

11.9 percent

rowan taxable sales

not available

$56.7 million

$59.5 million

$61.2 million

rowan homes sold

124

149

151

147

121

average sale price

$123,018

$137,858

$140, 029

$121,861

$134,813

rowan building permits

166

135

204

232

163

Value of building permits

$15.3 million

$10.8 million

$15 million

$14.4 million

$13.3 million

numbers are average for quarter

sources: n.C. employment security Commission, salisbury board of realtors, rowan inspections office ( n.C. department of revenue results delayed)

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READY FOR BUSINESS Site among those on tap to be developed BY SHELLEY SMITH ssmith@salisburypost.com

n 80-acre tract just off Interstate 85 in Spencer, called the Trevey Site, is a 2010 target of Duke Energy’s Site Readiness Program. Located off Willow Creek and Long Ferry roads, it’s one of the best sites in Rowan County for light industrial, service, commercial or mixed-use development, according to Robert Van Geons, executive director of RowanWorks, the county’s economic development commission. Owners of the tract are Jim and Hazel Epting of Salisbury and former Salisbury residents Jerry and Linda Trevey of Big Island, Va. Duke Energy developed the Site Readiness Program, a collaborative effort by design firms, local economic development commissions and site consultants. The program identifies and promotes sites that have potential for industrial growth. “One of the things we do at the EDC is identify sites that have opportunity to expand our employment and increase our tax base,” Van Geons said. “Duke Energy is a big partner in economic development and industrial growth. They’re looking to grow their load and looking to create jobs.” The readiness report for the Trevey Site will be revealed Thursday, Aug. 5, during a presentation by RowanWorks and international consulting firm Mc-

Rowan County Chamber of Commerce President Bob Wright recently cochaired the Carolinas Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (CACCE) annual management conference in Blowing Rock, which drew almost 100 participants. Carlotta Ungaro of Beaufort, S.C., served with Wright as co-chair. The two-state professional development organization for Chamber professionals is headquartered in Columbia, S.C. Speakers and presenters for the two-day event included Joe R e a g a n , WRIGHT president of the Louisville, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Kenneth Peacock, chancellor of Appalachian State University; Dr. Harry Davis, chief economist for the N.C. Bankers Association; Mick Fleming, president of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives and Ronnie Bryant, president of the Charlotte Regional Partnership. The conference also included an awards dinner announcing the North and South Carolina Chamber Executives of the Year and Honorary Lifetime Member Inductees

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this 80-acre site is ripe for development, economic ofﬁcials say. Callum Sweeney Consulting. It will be part of RowanWorks’ “The State of Our Real Estate” session. McCallum Sweeney Consulting’s role is to determine what the best business is for a site. The firm visits the site, and by the end of its evaluation, will discover everything positive and negative that could interest or deter a business looking at the site, including demographics, financing opportunities, leadership and political climate, incentives, labor markets and transportation infrastructure.

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RowanWorks helps McCallum Sweeney by gathering information on preliminary engineering plans, environmental aspects of the site, system capacity of available utilities and a comprehensive demographic profile of Rowan County. Van Geons said the Trevey Site is one of the best sites in Rowan County for a distribution user. “It’s one large parcel on right on the interstate, and a great parcel in the northern end of the county,” he said. Van Geons also said the site adds diversity to Rowan

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County’s available products. Lots in the Summit Corporate Center and other sites are smaller or medium sized. “And this (Trevey site) gives us a single tract,” he said. “While it’s important to have product, you have to have diversity of a product.” Van Geons said the Site Readiness Program allows a lot to be “lined up” for the North Carolina Certified Sites Program. Rowan Coun-

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W.A. Brown & Son of Salisbury, manufacturer of walk-in coolers and freezers, has named Chernoff Sales Inc. of Pompano Beach, Fla., as its manufacturer’s representative for Florida. W.A. Brown & Son is celebrating its 100th year in business. It is the oldest private manufacturer of commercial walk-in coolers in the food service industry. “The Chernoff sales staff, with more than 175 combined years of experience, is committed to being a customer focused supplier by providing a combination of products, services and ideas,” said Ed Brown, chief executive officer for WA Brown. The company markets its products to supermarkets, restaurants, schools and other public institutions.

Maurices to hold school supply drive Maurices at the Carolina Mall, 1480 Concord Parkway N, in Concord is holding a school supply drive to benefit Cvan, a Battered Women’s Shelter.

Business Roundup Store manager is Lynn Lowery. The drive continues through Aug. 8. Customers can drop off donations during store hours Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday 12:30-6 p.m. Items needed include school supplies for all ages. Customers get a coupon good for 20 percent off any one regular-priced Maurices item for each donation. Coupons are limited to 10 per person.

Patterson Farm website for children Patterson Farm now has a website geared to children that can be accessed at pattersonfarmkids.com. The site is interactive and features a coloring book about the farm, a matching game about farm products, and puzzles about vegetables and fruits produced at the farm. Patterson Farm Market & Tours, one of the farm’s four businesses, also operates a summer program for children called Learn & Grow Discovery Farm. The selfguided tour teaches children how food is produced through 13 interactive learning stations. Michelle Patterson said educating children about farm life is beneficial to the future of farming. “We hope to keep farming sustainable for ourselves and others, and we hope that we can inspire children to possibly make farming a career choice,” she said. Discovery Farm hours are from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays (closed Labor Day) through Sept. 25. Groups of 10 or more require a reservation by calling 704636-4005 or registering online at www.pattersonfarminc. com. Cost is $8, with children under 2 admitted free. Patterson Farm Market & Tours also offers fall group tours.

Regional railroad going ‘green’ A family-owned regional railroad in Star is working to reduce pollution and save on fuel costs while promoting a “green” business environment. The Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railways business strategy of innovation in both economic development and research and development has driven the “green” effort.

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Fears of a reverse mortgage keep couple from trying it BY BRUCE WILLIAMS United Feature Syndicate

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DEAR BRUCE: We are an elderly couple in our late 60s. My husband is a diabetic, and our insurance does not cover much of his medication, which is very costly. In order to afford his medicine, he wants to take out a reverse mortgage. He is telling me that if he dies, I would be able to stay in our home until I die or want to sell. The home would require upkeep that I am not able to do. I do not think this is the right thing for us. — Ann

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under Medicare for the prescription help? It would seem to me that you should investigate. Reverse mortgages have a very definite place. Your husband is correct when he says that, even after you’ve exhausted the money that the reverse mortgage gives you, you are allowed to stay, or, if you wish, to sell. If the time comes to sell the house, the balance borrowed on the reverse mortgage would have to be satisfied, whatever remains would come directvia e-mail ly to you. Whether this is for you is another matter. You are still at DEAR ANN: Are you not eligible the low end in terms of age, where

reverse mortgages yield a great deal. Obviously, the older the person, the more the amount that the companies would lend, but as long as you pay the taxes and insurance, you are able to stay in that home without ever repaying a nickel. Whether this is a step that you guys are comfortable with is a personal decision.

DEAR C.C.: Go to the county clerk’s office with the name and address of the property, and the legal description and the owner’s names will appear in their records.

DEAR BRUCE: How do I find out if my father’s name is on a property deed on the west side of Chicago? My sister, late brother and I were named the beneficiaries. He had joint custody of the building with his live-in girlfriend. — C.C.

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necessary supplies due to the economy and global food shortages,â&#x20AC;? said Dave Pfeufer, rehab director at the Kannapolis/Concord/Salisbury office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also know that proper nutrition is important for the well-being of the people that we serve.â&#x20AC;? Gentiva serves residents of Cabarrus, Rowan and Stanly counties.

Robert Menzies, whose family has owned the railway since 1987, says the efforts have cut pollution by 40 percent while saving $250,000 per year in diesel fuel costs. ACWR moves commercial freight on The Carolina Route, 160 miles of track that it owns Salisbury woman in through six south central North Carolina counties: on Tastefully Simple Tonya Kyles of Salisbury Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Stanly, Union, Montgomery has become an independent consultant with Tastefully and Moore. Simple Inc., a national direct Gentiva holding drive sales company featuring more than 60 easy-to-prepare foods. for food banks She offers food samples at Staff members from the home taste-testing parties, Gentiva Home Health office along with easy ideas for in Kannapolis, Concord and everyday meals, recipes, servSalisbury will distribute food ing suggestions and fun. All of collection bags in August to Tastefully Simple's products gather donations for the Co- are open-and-enjoy or can be operative Christian Ministries prepared by adding only one and Rowan Helping Ministries or two ingredients. food banks for the sixth Contact Kyles at straight year. emttmk@yahoo.com. or visit Gentiva employees around tastefullysimple.com. the country are placing the collection bags at health care More Bottom Dollars facilities, trying to beat last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record of more than in Philadelphia Bottom Dollar Food plans 94,000 pounds of goods for doto open approximately 15-20 nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know that food banks, stores by the end of 2010 in pantries and other charitable the greater Philadelphia marorganizations face rising de- ket. That will create more than mand and a chronic lack of

SITE FROM 1C ty currently has two certified sites â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Summit Corporate Center on Julian Road and Performance Technology Park on Peach Orchard Road, already home to a Toyota Racing Development facility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The work weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing on the Trevey Site would make (it) much easier should we go to have it certified,â&#x20AC;? Van Geons said. The Trevey Site was chosen after RowanWorks submitted it to Duke Energy in February. The site was accepted in March. RowanWorks lists the asking price for the land at $42,500 an acre, which would come to $3.4 million if all 80 acres were sold at that price. The site is under lease month to month as Piedmont Gas and Duke Energy

work on an expansion of the Buck Steam Plant, according to Jim Epting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used for storage and a headquarters for contractors and other people coming to work on the expansion. Before that, Blythe Construction leased the property for its control center and concrete batch mixing during widening of I-85, he said.

600 jobs in the region and bring another grocery option to customers in the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bottom Dollar Food has great potential in the market as we believe it is underserved in the soft-discount grocer arena,â&#x20AC;? said Meg Ham, president of Bottom Dollar Food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very excited to expand Bottom Dollar Food and deliver the best price and value in grocery products to customers.â&#x20AC;? Bottom Dollar Food has identified 21 locations for new stores. Based in Salisbury, it operates 28 stores in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.

$650 million from $701 million a year ago, although it was up $75 million from the first quarter. BB&T is one of the 10 largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with $155.1 billion in assets and market capitalization of $18.2 billion. It is based in Winston-Salem. Submit information about new businesses, honors and management promotions to bizbriefs@salisburypost.com. Include a daytime phone number.

BB&T Corp. profit up 74 percent BB&T Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profit jumped 74 percent during the second quarter as it continued to get rid of nonperforming assets and bad loans. The bank had net income of $210 million compared with $121 million a year ago. Diluted earnings were 30 cents a share, up 10 cents from a year ago. The bank took $38 million in charges related to its integration of Colonial Bank, which represented 3 cents of earnings. Nonperforming assets dropped 3.1 percent, the first decrease since the first quarter of 2006. The bank reduced its provision for loan losses to

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disney enterprises inc. provided this photo of construction on aulani, a disney resort & spa in Ko olina, Hawaii. the resort is scheduled to open aug. 29, 2011, and features two 15-story room towers.

Disney’s Hawaii resort opening in 2011 KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) — More than 80 years after Mickey Mouse piloted “Steamboat Willie” and whistled his way into the hearts of children across the world, he has finally reached the shores of Hawaii. The Walt Disney Co. on Friday gave a peek of its sprawling, beachside Hawaiian resort that is under construction and scheduled to open next year. “Aulani” is Disney’s first major standalone resort away from a theme park and could serve as a model for future projects as the company diversifies and expands its vacation offerings. “This is a very special project for us,” said Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. “It’s unlike anything that Disney has done before; at the same time, it’s very like many of the things we do.” Aulani will have 359 hotel rooms, 481 time-share units, restaurants, a convention center, a 15,000-squarefoot spa and a massive water play area that includes a volcano tube slide and snorkel lagoon. It sits on 21 acres on Oahu’s

Leeward Coast in the Ko Olina development, known for its white sand lagoons, scenic golf course and colorful sunsets. Ko Olina is about an hour west of Waikiki, where most of the hotels and tourists are. Jim Lewis, president of Disney’s time-share component, said Hawaii makes “perfect sense” with its rich culture, traditions, warm greetings, family values, friendships and storytelling. “Those are also terms synonymous with Disney,” he said. “And by the way, Hawaii also happens to be one of the most popular vacation destinations on the planet, and that’s the business that we’re in.” Most of the resort is currently a jungle of concrete, steel, wires and pipes with no Mickey and Minnie in sight. Aulani is scheduled to open Aug. 29, 2011, with hotel reservations to begin next month. Time-share sales started three weeks ago. With the construction phase alone costing more than $600 million, Aulani represents a huge investment for Disney amid a sharp tourism downturn.

Staggs, who previously served as Disney’s chief financial officer, wouldn’t comment on the final cost. “Are we nervous about this investment right now given this economy? The answer is we really aren’t,” he said. “We really do have a fundamental belief in this location and Hawaii in general.” Staggs called the project “a tremendous opportunity,” giving Disney a permanent presence in the islands. He wouldn’t say what other areas Disney was considering because “right now, our focus is right here and making sure we get this right.” According to an economic impact study commissioned by Disney, Aulani is expected to generate 4,800 jobs during construction. When completed, 2,400 jobs will be created, with about half working at the resort. More than $271 million annually in economic activity will be generated. All the hotel and timeshare units have more of a traditional Hawaiian flair with touches of Disney that generally are subtle — other than the surfer Mickey lamp in each room.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black farmers, due $1.2 billion for a legacy of discrimination by the Agriculture Department, suffered a new and disheartening setback this past week, despite the national spotlight provided by the quickly disavowed firing of a black department worker. The Senate refused again to pay the bill. Opponents say it’s a question of where the money would come from, and that’s a major issue with an election nearing and voters up in arms about federal spending. Late Thursday, the Senate stripped $1.2 billion for the claims from an emergency spending bill, along with $3.4 billion in long-overdue funding for a settlement with American Indians who say they were swindled out of royalties by the federal government. Even the attention the Shirley Sherrod case brought to the issue of discrimination at the Agriculture Department couldn’t bring lawmakers together on a deal. Instead, Republicans and Democrats alike proclaimed their support for the funding — appeasing important constituencies — while blaming the other side for not getting anything done. The result: Thousands of black farmers and Indian landowners will keep waiting for checks that most lawmakers agree should have been written years ago. “If you say you support us, then, damn it, do it!” said John Boyd, a Virginia farmer and the lead organizer for the black farmers’ lawsuits. Sherrod’s resignation under pressure from the Agriculture Department over her comments about race, and the subsequent White House apology, brought fresh attention to the black farm-

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36'' Leyland Cypress or Green Giant Trees Makes a beautiful property line boundary or privacy screen. $9 per tree. Also, Gardenias, Parsonii, Ligustrum, Camelia, Nandina, Emerald Green Arborvitae, Azalea AND MORE! $6 All of the above include delivery, installation, weed resistant liner & mulch! 704-274-0569

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Dental Receptionist Established and busy dental office is seeking a FT front office receptionist. Responsibilities will include appointment scheduling, phone duties, filing, and insurance processing. Dental and/or Medical office experience is required for the position. Please fax resume and references to 704-636-4890.

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Rowan-Cabarrus Community College seeks applications for a Director of Counseling and Advisement. Required: MA/MS in Counseling; experience in counseling adults in educational environment; developing and implementing projects; assessing academic career and personal counseling issues, needs and progress; familiarity with counseling theories and current practice. Deadline for applications: August 20, 2010. Interested candidates may apply online at http://rcccjobs.com. EOE.

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Range/oven, smooth top, self cleaning, 2000 model, white. Whirlpool Accubake. Excellent condition. $200. 704636-4580

Jewelry

Diamond Ring – 7 Diamond Cluster Ring, size 7. $350. Appraised at $895. 704-278-2722

Lawn and Garden Holshouser Cycle Shop Lawn mower repairs and trimmer sharpening. Pick up & delivery. (704)637-2856 Want to buy your low priced, unused or fixable lawn mowers & tillers. Also, I do repairs. 704-431-4837

Medical Equipment Hospital bed, electric. Delivery available. Must sell. $350; wheelchair, new never used. $250. 704-202-7071 Walker with hand brakes, seat and brace. Used but in good condition. $25. Call before 5pm. 704-232-3636

Misc For Sale ANDERSON'S SEW & SO, Husqvarna, Viking Sewing Machines. Patterns, Notions, Fabrics. 10104 Old Beatty Ford Rd., Rockwell. 704-279-3647

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Baby Items Fisher Price My Little Lamb Papasan/Cradle swing. Cost $149.00 at Target, selling for $65 Only used 6 months. Call Melissa, 704-754-2976

Great Earning Potential. Some runs home daily. Some layover runs. Low cost Major Medical. 401k and many other benefits. Apply in person at: Salem Carriers, Inc., 191 Park Plaza Dr., Winston Salem, NC 27105 or Or Online at: www.salemcarriers.com. Call 1-800-709-2536

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Building, used, for sale 10' x 12' metal building with wood frame. Like new will sell for much less than new retail cost. Can be seen at 250 Auction Dr at Webb Rd exit 70 off 85 south. Please call Bobby at 704-798-0634 Cameras-2 Minolta 35 mm w/bag, lenses, tripod, flashes, & many accessories. $250. 704636-8786 after 6 p.m. Cell Phone – New Virgin Mobile pay as you go, blue. Call before 5 pm. 704-232-3636 CommodeBedside Commode. Good Condition. $25 Firm. 704245-8843 Display Cabinets (2) Like New $200 each 704-639-5531 Eye class frame. Christian Dior Lady's Eyeglass frame $140 New beautiful w/case Phone 561-767-5187 Free HD for life! Only on DISH Network! Lowest Price in America! $24.99 / month for over 120 channels! $500 Bonus! 1-888-679-4649 Handbag, Betty Boop, new. $25. handbag, minitote. $15. Call before 5pm. 704-232-3636

Print. “Mid-Day” Framed, signed, and numbered. Valued at $1,225. Asking $500. 704-938-3137

Holley 750 CFM Carb Model 80508-1, Vacuum Secondaries, Elec. Choke, Dual Feed. Great Condition $245. 704-2792294 or 704-201-3142

Broyhill Cannon Ball Bed,Wood headboard/ footboard with rails full/queen, $125 980-2344727

Hubcaps, 13”, new in box. $40. Fits all vehicles. Call before 5pm. 704-232-3636

Lumber. 2x3x16 $1.50; 2x3 stud $1; 2x6x8 $3.25; 2x6x15 $5; 14' double wide trusses $5; single wide trusses $8; floor trusses $5. All new! Please call 704-2020326

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STEEL, Channel, Angle, Flat Bars, Pipe Orders Cut to Length. Mobile Home Truss- $6 ea.; Vinyl floor covering- $3.85 yd.; Carpet- $5.75 yd.; Masonite Siding 4x8- $15.50. RECYCLING, Top prices paid for Aluminum cans, Copper, Brass, Radiators, Aluminum. Davis Enterprises Inc. 7585 Sherrills Ford Rd. Salisbury, NC 28147 704-636-9821

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METAL: Angle, Channel, Pipe, Sheet & Plate Shear Fabrication & Welding FAB DESIGNS 2231 Old Wilkesboro Rd Open Mon-Fri 7-3:30 704-636-2349

Z28 Wheels, Tires & Lugs. (4) Factory Option TURBINE alloy wheels w/(4) Great BF Goodrich TA Radial P235/60R/15 tires, chrome lugs w/lock lugs. $295. 704-2792294 or 704-201-3142.

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Push mower $75, riding lawn mower $125 & up, tiller $100, 10” Delta Miter saw $25. 704-431-4837 Stop Smoking Cigarettes No Patches, No Gum, No Pills With Hypnosis It's Easy! Also Weight Control. 704-933-1982

Wig – New bob-style, black medium length with bangs. $30. Call before 5 pm. 704-232-3636 Work Bench Very Nice! Very Old! $225 980-234-4727 Yard Wagon – Ideal for yard or display for business. $500. 704-279-3846

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Music Sales & Service Piano. Antique, over 100 years old. Outside case in good condition, inside needs work. Rotating seat on stool with cloth / glass ball feet $2,000 OBO. By appt 704-223-4475

Sporting Goods Golf. 4 Sets of golf clubs bags great shape. Your choice. $100 ea. Call 704-633-2513 Inflatable Boat – Coleman 4 Person. Used 1 time. Paid $70, will sell for $45. 704-636-9098

Want to Buy Merchandise AA Antiques. Buying anything old, scrap gold & silver. Will help with your estate or yard sale. 704-433-1951. All Coin Collections Silver, gold & copper. Will buy foreign & scrap gold. 704-636-8123

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Dog. Frisky Australian Shepherd female approx. 2 years old needs good home. Please call 704630-0473

Funny kittens Free Kittens, 3/F 7 weeks old, Litter Trained! Very Sweet & Funny! 704-223-4612 Puppy. Male Lab/Jack Russel mix, 9 months old. Smaller dog very friendly. Need lots of outside room to run. House trained! Free 704603-8142 for more info!

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Lost ñ Dog on Dunn' s M tn. C hurch Road. Dark grey lab. P lease C all 7 0 4 -6 3 6 -5 7 6 8

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T hree black, one black calf, one red cow missing from S tokes F erry and K esler P astures Rd either M on. or T ues. ( J uly 1 9 or 2 0 ) . P lease call R.C . K esler 7 0 4 -6 3 3 -7 5 0 0

Dog Found. Yellow Lab. W ell B ehav ed. F ound at S outh Rowan Y M C A on 7 / 2 1 / 1 0 . C all 7 0 4 - 7 9 8 - 6 5 9 2 or 7 0 4 - 8 5 5 - 2 2 1 7

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Found dog. S hepherd M ix, female, J ake A lexander area. C all to identify. 7 0 4 - 6 4 5 - 7 1 7 4 Found dog. W hite poodle found near C orbin H ills area. C all to identify. 7 0 4 -6 3 8 -0 6 4 8 or 7 0 4 6 4 0 -1 0 7 8 Found small black case on H ighway 5 2 near G old H ill. T o claim, call 7 0 4 2 0 2 -7 3 4 3 and identify contents. Found small yorkie/ schnauz er mix dog on S . S pencer A v e. on 7 - 1 7 . C all 7 0 4 - 6 3 3 - 4 9 7 2 leav e message

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L arge male hound mix. E xcellent temperment, needs good home. H as shots; will neuter. F ound on K epley Rd. please call 7 0 4 - 6 3 0 - 6 7 3 8 anytime.

Notices I f you used type 2 diabetes drug A V A N DI A between 1 9 9 9 - present and suffered a stroke, heart attack or congestiv e heart failure, you may be entitled to compensation. C all A ttorney C harles J ohnson, 1 -8 0 0 -5 3 5 -5 7 2 7 .

3 B R, 1 B A , full unfinished basement, 1 9 x1 1 unheated sunroom with fireplace and wall a/ c, Double garage. R5 0 8 2 8 $ 8 9 ,9 0 0 704.245.4628 B&R Realty www.bostandrufty-realty.com

3 BR, 2 BA. A ll appliances stay. F ree standing gas log fireplace in master bedroom. G arden tub in masterbath. 2 4 X 3 0 garage with lean to. O ut building with attached play house. S wingset stays. R5 0 5 4 5 A $ 8 9 , 9 0 0 Lesa Prince (704) 796-1811 B&R Realty

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U ntil further notice, the S alisbury H ousing A uthority will close some categories of applications for its P ublic H ousing P rogram. T his is due to the v ery long wait- time to be housed. MUST SEE – $ 4 7 5 , 0 0 0 , 3 6 .6 acres, peaceful setting, 3 B D/ 2 B A home, 2 car garage, sunroom, newer roof & water heater, 2 stall barn, perfect for liv estock. Shirley Dale, Kirby Realty 704-737-4956

B eginning S eptember 1 , 2 0 1 0 , we will accept applications only for: 4 and 5 bedroom families. A ll persons or families displaced by fire or gov ernment action. W e will close the application process for: 0 / 1 bedroom for indiv iduals 5 0 years old and ov er or disabled.

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W e will continue to close applications for: 0 / 1 bedroom for non- elderly ( under 5 0 ) . A ll 2 and 3 bedroom families. A pplications are accepted ev ery T hursday from 8 : 3 0 a.m. - 3 : 3 0 p.m. A pplicants must bring birth certificates and S ocial S ecurity cards for all family members and an official photo I D for all members ov er 1 8 . A pplicants should also bring any v erification of S ocial S ecurity and S S I , if applicable. C all 7 0 4 - 6 3 6 - 1 4 1 0 for more information.

Rockwell. H ome warranty included - B eautiful 3 B R home with full finished basement, 4 .9 9 acres & fenced horse pasture. V arina B unts, B & R Realty ( 7 0 4 ) 6 4 0 - 5 2 0 0 or (7 0 4 ) 6 3 3 -2 3 9 4 . A L L T H I S for only $ 1 5 9 , 9 0 0 . M L S 5 0 7 8 3

Lost & Found Found Keys. 2 keys on a tape measure key ring. F ound on 5 2 in Rockwell. C all 7 0 4 - 4 3 3 - 3 5 5 9 Found two dogs in G ranite Q uarry at C ircle K , around J uly 1 0 . S chnauz er and black L ab. C all to identify. 3 3 6 4 7 9 -1 0 9 1 LOST DOG – B londe/ A pricot C hiaP oo, small, 9 months old, approx. 5 lbs., B alfour Q uarry Rd. area, G Q . missing around 4 : 0 0 pm. T hurs. J uly 1 5 . Reward ( 7 0 4 ) 2 1 3 -2 8 2 8 . Lost dog. Huskey/Lab mix, black ring around tail, answers to M ax, 1 3 yrs old, S at., J uly 1 7 , K annapolis area. N o collar. 7 0 4 -2 4 5 -8 3 0 3 Lost Dog. W est P ark Driv e, Rockwell area. L ast seen J uly 7 . B lack C ocker/ B eagle mix. H as white on chest and on feet. has been neutered. A nswers to the name S tormy. 3 years old. V ery lov ed and v ery missed. P lease call with any information. 7 0 4 2 7 9 -0 7 0 0 .

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Salisbury. O lde S alisbury subdiv ision. 2 1 1 0 C hantilly L ane. N ew H ome 3 B R, 2 B A . A ll kitchen appliances, v aulted ceiling in great room. G orgeous stone on front of home and driv eway. N ice 2 car garage. C all V ickie at 7 0 4 7 5 4 -5 7 0 0

214 West 12th St., Salis. N ewly, completely remodeled 2 B R, 1 B A . Den, liv ing room and kitchen. E xcellent starter home! $ 8 3 , 5 0 0 . P lease call 7 0 4 - 2 1 3 - 9 8 9 8

S alisbury. G reat H istoric home on large corner lot, new deck, roofing, rocking chair front porch, detached garage. C urrently used as multifamily. Z oned historic residential. S ome wood floors hav e been refinished. R4 9 6 5 2 A . $ 1 4 9 ,0 0 0 L esa P rince, B & R Realty 7 0 4 .7 9 6 .1 8 1 1

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C harming house bright and airy with lots of character, well maintained, 1 , 6 8 4 S F , french doors, original hardwood floors, extra large rooms, carport, well landscaped and corner lot. 3 3 6 - 9 0 9 3 3 5 4 or 7 0 4 - 8 5 5 - 4 5 6 9

S alisbury 4 BR, 3 BA.

L arge foyer with h/ woods, dining w/ coffered ceilings, h/ woods, oak & wrought iron staircase, B uilt- in bookcases, stone fireplace, granite countertops, stainless appliances. R5 0 1 0 8 A $ 4 1 3 ,5 3 2 B & R Realty. Monica Poole 704.245.4628

China Grove

30 ACRES AND HOME $ 2 1 0 , 0 0 0 ! M ov e in ready, 3 brs, 2 ba, stacked stone fireplace w/ gas logs, wired shop, barn, and pasture! L arge deep pond- must see! C ontact C indy L aton, C entury 2 1 , 7 0 4 -4 6 7 -3 5 9 5 . M L S # 9 3 4 4 3 4

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BANK OWNED ONLINE HOME AUCTION 3 0 5 E rnest M iller Rd, S alisbury. 4 B R, 2 B A , 1 9 8 4 S F home. A G E N T : J erry B lackwelder B lackwelder Realty 3 3 6 -2 2 4 -1 9 0 0 . GO ONLINE NOW T o P lace Y our O ffer! ! www.O nlineB idN ow.com H udson & M arshall 1 -8 6 6 -5 3 9 -4 1 7 4 H & M RE C 1 5 1 1 A U 6 4 3 BUYER BEWARE T he S alisbury P ost C lassified A dv ertising staff monitors all ad submissions for honesty and integrity. H owev er, some fraudulent ads are not detectable. P lease protect yourself by checking the v alidity of any offer before you inv est money in a business opportunity, j ob offer or purchase.

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COUNTRY CLUB HILLS

$ 1 5 3 , 9 0 0 P A RK S T : 1 .5 S tory w/ B asement & usable attic. C ould be 4 B Rs, beautiful hardwood & bamboo flooring, 2 baths, carport, garage, call B arbara C ollins, K ey Real E state, 7 0 4 -6 4 0 -4 3 3 9

China Grove

$ 8 4 ,9 0 0 C H A P E L S T RE E T : Remodeled kitchen, replacement windows, range, dishwasher, 2 B R, office, basement, garage, call B arbara C ollins, K ey Real E state 7 0 4 -6 4 0 -4 3 3 9

BRK RANCH 4 SALE 4 bedrms, rec rm, great rm 3 1 6 0 S F + sep. office. Ashley Shoaf N ice! Realty 704-633-7131 www.A shleyS hoafRealty.com

E. Rowan, 417 DeLara Circle, 3 B R/ 3 Ω B A , 2 5 0 0 3 , 0 0 0 sf, 1 Ω ac lot, 3 car garage, 9 ft. ceilings, laundry room, alarm system, nickel hardware throughout, G ranite, E rwin, E ast S chools. $ 3 2 5 ,9 0 0 .7 0 4 - 6 3 9 - 1 4 2 3

THIS ONE LIKE NEW!!

1578 sq. ft. 3 B R, 2 full bath brick ranch. N ew 3 0 year roof, P ella lifetime windows, C ohen H eat/ A ir all replaced within last year. M aster B ath with clawfoot tub & standup shower. A wesome backyard for entertaining includes 2 3 x2 2 deck, patio, and hot tub! N ew storage building, fenced in back yard. 1 / 2 basement for storage. S ingle attached garage. M inutes to I - 8 5 . $109,900! Call Sheryl Fry at 704 239 0852.

CHINA GROVE

No. 60257 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 6th day of August 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 08/06/10 $ 1,687.67 Court Cost and atty. fee $ 105.00 Other fees $ 354.79 Sheriff's Commission $ 1,159.94 Total $47,057.40 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 25th day of July 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 J.L. MASON, MASTER DEPUTY - ROWAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE No. 60256 NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE OF REAL PROPERTY STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE COUNTY OF IREDELL SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION File 05CVM2725 LARRY H HEPPNER, Plaintiff, - VS MARTIN ALEXANDER OVERCASH AKA MARTY OVERCASH, Defendant

3 B R. 2 B A . S tack stone fireplace, RE A L H A RDW O O DS , ceramic and carpet, maple cabinets, G RA N I T E countertops, chair railing galore, split bedrooms for priv acy, E normous back deck, C ompletion date 0 7 /3 0 /2 0 1 0 S T IL L M A Y P I C K C O L O RS ! ! R5 0 5 8 9 . $ 2 0 4 , 9 0 0 . Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

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Up to 2.5% to Buyer’s Agents! $2,500 down in cash or a cashier’s check for each property. 5% premium on each sale. All sales subject to seller’s approval.

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of a judgment and execution issued by the above named court in the above-entitled action on the 23rd day of April in the year 2010, directed to the undersigned Sheriff from the Superior Court of IREDELL 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 21st day of December in the year of 2005 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 6th day of August 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 Mooresville Township, Rowan County: Beginning at an iron pipe in the line of the property of P. B. Brawley, a corner of the property known as the Starnes Tract (Deed Book 403, Page 307, Rowan County Registry) and running thence with the line of the property of the Starnes Tract South 86 degrees 36 minutes East 992.6 feet to an iron pipe, a corner of the property of Gillie Rodgers; thence North 06 degrees 25 minutes 38 seconds East 459.66 feet to an iron pipe in the line of the property of P. B. Brawley; thence with the line of the property of P. B. Brawley two lines as follows: (1) North 87 degrees West 924.00 feet to an iron stake and (2) South 15 degrees West 462.00 feet to the point of Beginning, containing approximately 10.02 acres, a portion of which is shown on the map prepared by Hudson and Almond, dated July, 1980. Save and except that certain parcel of approximately 5.00 acres conveyed by Jimmie Kay Vain and David Daniel Vain, Jr. to Tony Meeks and wife, Christine Faust Meeks in Deed Book 1039, Page 787, Rowan County Registry, and also shown on map of survey by Lawrence J. Whitaker, R. P. L. S., dated May 25, 2005. Judgment amount: Principal due $5,000.00 Interest due through 08/06/10 $ 116.16 Court Cost and atty. fee $ 185.00 Other fees $1,736.99 Sheriff's Commission $ 188.45 Total $7,226.60 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 30th day of June 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 J.L. MASON, MASTER DEPUTY - ROWAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

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The Salisbury Post reserves the right to edit or exclude any birthday submission. Space is limited, 1st come 1st served, birthdays only. Please limit your birthday greetings to 4 per Birthday. Fax: 704-630-0157 In Person: 131 W. Innes Street Online: www.SalisburyPost.com (under Website Forms, bottom right column)

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Hours of daily personal attention and doggie fun at our safe 20 acre facility. Professional homestyle boarding, training, and play days with a certified handler/trainer who loves dogs as much as you do.

5.64 ac., 4BR, 4BA, 3100 SqFt. Timothy Livengood, Mid Carolina Real Estate, LLC. (704) 202-1807 Bank Foreclosures & Distress Sales. These homes need work! For a FREE list: www.applehouserealty.com East Rowan

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Manufactured Home Dealers

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Bentley Julian Realty 704-938-2530 www.bentleyrealtyinc.com Info@bentleyrealtyinc.com

3 BR, 2.5 BA, wood floors, large pantry, open / airy floor plan, screen porch off master BR, deck, convenient location, easy access to interstate, conditioned crawl space. B&R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663 Salisbury

Rockwell. 2 BR, 1 BA, hardwood floors, detached carport, handicap ramp. $99,900 R47208 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Homes for Sale

South Rowan Area 3BR / 2BA. Only 4 years old! over 1800 sq. ft., open plan, hardwood & ceramic tile, gas logs, neutral colors. 704-798-4277

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OWN LESS THAN RENT

Save Thousands on a True Modular Home Display with 1430 square feet main floor and Bonus upstairs 610 sq ft. Built with highest Construction Standards of Any Display True Modular in NC. Local Delivery , Set and Trim included $89,900.00 336-362-5258 Bob www.selectmodular.com

Manufactured Home Sales

FULTON HEIGHTS

2BR/1BA, MOVE-IN CONDITION home just needs your special flare. All appliances, window treatments and more. R47883. $59,900. B&R Realty Monica Poole 704.245.4628 www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Hidden Creek 2BR/2BA Patio Home, 714 Court Side Drive, Salisbury. Great Room with gas fireplace and skylights, Custom molding in Master BR and Dining room. Custom landscape with privacy fence and sprinkler system. Gas Heat-water-dryer. Community Club house with exercise room and pool. Low homeowner association fee (<$80/mo). Will not last long, priced to sell. $157,000. 704-633-4697

$500 Down moves you in. Call and ask me how? Please call (704) 225-8850

A TREE PARADISE

Salisbury

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Woodfield Salisbury, 3 BR, 1.5 BA, Brick home, 1260 sq ft, R50212 $79,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty www.bostandrufty-realty.com

GREAT INVESTMENT

15 minutes N. of Salisbury. 2001 model singlewide 3 bdr/2 bath on large treed lot in quiet neighborhood. $1,200 start-up, $475/month includes lot rent, home payment, taxes, insurance. RENT or RENTTO-OWN. 704-2108176. 3 BR, 1½ BA, 1100 sq. ft. brick & siding, 24x36 double garage with attic storage & fan. Includes custom plantation blinds and new carpet throughout. Large backyard perfect for garden, pool, animals or fun and games! Neutral colors inside. 0.56 acre lot. Home Warranty program. See more photos at www.sharonjacksondesign.com. Reduced to $121,000!

Call Cathy Griffin at 704-213-2464 Tastefully decorated. 2BR, 2BA. Hardwood floors, great room w/gas logs and vaulted ceilings, Custom kitchen cabinets with builtin desk, dining room, Gorgeous sunroom, fenced concrete patio area. R49515A $179,900 B&R Realty Monica Poole 704.245.4628

Homes for Sale

Lake Property

E. schools. Lease purchase. 3BR, 2BA. Garage, kit. appl., Please call 704-638-0108

Beautiful View

Lake front home off of Goodman Lake Rd. 3300 sq ft. Pier & boat ramp. Beautiful view and deep water. $469,000, obo. Please call 704-856-8557 or 704-202-8507

2 homes plus pool house on property. Main house: 4 BR, 3.5 BA, 3483 sq ft. Guest house: 1295 sq ft, 3 Br, 1 BA, attached garage. Detached 24x28 garage and 2 other outbuildings. Concrete pool w/waterfall. B&R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663

West Rowan – Country Club living in the country. Builder's custom brick home has 4 BR, 3 ½ BA w/main floor master suite. 3300 sqft. + partially finished bonus room. Lots of ceramic and granite. 2 fireplaces with gas logs. 6.5 very private wooded acres. Priced at $399,000. Call for appt. 704-431-3267

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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

Land for Sale

New Home

Salisbury. Forest Creek. 3 Bedroom, 1.5 bath. New home priced at only $98,900. R48764 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Faith. 1145 Long Creek. 3 Beds, 2 Baths, 2 Bonus Rooms. Master on main, Hardwood and ceramic tile floors. Storage everywhere. $199,900. Kerry, Key Real Estate 704-857-0539. Directions: Faith Rd to L on Rainey. R into Shady Creek.

Motivated Seller in Plantation Ridge

It's COOL living in a HORTON HOME from TILLERY HOUSING CENTER in Albemarle Hwy 24-27-73E

TRADE your HOME or USE your LAND. Land Homes. Well & septic included. (704) 984-6607

Manufactured Lots for Sale Rockwell. Single • Doublewide • Modular Built. Rental lots available. 35 acres 704-279-3265

Stokes Ferry Rd Land for Sale

Faith. 7 Acres. Pasture, woods and creek. 165 ft road frontage. $70,000. Call 704-279-9542

B & R REALTY 704-633-2394

KEY REAL ESTATE, INC. 1755 U.S. HWY 29. South China Grove, NC 28023 704-857-0539

Whoa thar, treat your horse, 10 acres, beautiful gently rolling pasture, plenty of shade near creek, access to 7 miles of trails. 704-535-4100

1 Hr to/from Charlotte, NC nr Cleveland & Woodleaf and 3 Interstates: I-40, I77, I-85. Restricted, no mobile or mod. Very rural, mostly wooded. Good hunting, deer, small game. Frontage on Hobson Rd., 2nd gravel driveway beside 2075 Hobson Rd mailbox. Safe distance from cities. Needs to be sold this year. No reasonable offer refused. Owner phone: 336-766-6779, or E-mail to: hjthabet@cs.com See photos and directions at:

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Rowan Realty www.rowanrealty.net, Professional, Accountable, Personable . 704-633-1071 US Realty 516 W. Innes, Salisbury 704-636-9303 www.USRealty4sale.com

Real Estate Commercial

FOR SALE: One Red Beach Week, AprilOctober, deeded Vacation Ownership, Yachtsman Resort, 2 BR, 2 BA, Ocean Front, sleeps 8. Call: 704-212-7313. NC Mountains - Best Land Buy! 2.5 acres, spectacular views, gated, paved road. High altitude. Easily accessible, secluded. Bryson City. $45,000. Owner financing: 1-800810-1590. www.wildcatknob.com

ALEXANDER PLACE

China Grove, 3 homes available: 2 under construction, 1 move in ready. All 3 BR, 2 BA. Call for details. $109,900 to $114,900 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Wanted: Real Estate *Cash in 7 days or less *Facing or In Foreclosure *Properties in any condition *No property too small/large Call 24 hours, 7 days ** 704-239-2033 ** $$$$$$ Are you trying to sell your property? We guarantee a sale within 1430 days. 704-245-2604

Mocksville 133 Avgol Dr. 50x100 (5,000 sq. ft.) commercial metal building on 1.1 ac, 3 phase electrical, 3 bay doors, office, breakroom, zoned HC (Highway Commercial). Extra nice $219,000. Call 336-391-6201

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OFFICE SPACE

Summer Specials Ask about free rent, and free water. $300 - $1,200/mo. 704-637-1020 Chambers Realty

1 & 2BR. Nice, well maint'd, responsible landlord. $415-$435. Salisbury, in town. 704-642-1955

Salisbury. Off 13 St. Huge lot. Could be nice home, too. Conveniently located. 1200+ sq. ft. with lots of extras. Call our office for more information. C48040. $129,900. B&R Realty 704-6332394

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

Condos and Townhomes

Salisbury, 3 BR, 2 BA. Great City Location. Close to hospitals and schools. Nice brick ranch. Sunroom was added as an in-law suite. Wood floors. R50766A $129,900 Lesa Prince, B&R Realty 704.796.1811

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

Salisbury

309 1 St., Spencer. 2BR, 1BA. Has stove & fridge. References req'd. Call 704-636-4085 403 Carolina Blvd. Duplex For Rent. 2BR,1BA. $500/Mo. Call 704-2798467 or 704-279-7568 513 Walton Rd. Nice 2BR. Central heat & air. Appl. & water furnished. New floors, no pets. $450/mo + deposit. 336752-2246 / 704-636-2486

704-797-4220

Complete Piano Restoration

BEST VALUE Quiet & Convenient, 2 bedroom town house, 1 ½ baths. All Electric, Central heat/air, no pets, pool. $550/mo. Includes water & basic cable.

West Side Manor 2345 Statesville Blvd. Near Salisbury Mall

704-633-1234 China Grove 2BR Apt. $550/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Call 704-857-2415. China Grove. 2BR, 2BA. All electric. Clean & safe. No pets. $575/month + deposit. 704-202-0605

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.

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

LAKEWOOD APARTMENTS presents it’s annual

Showroom located at 2143 C&E Statesville Blvd. S45590

July 30th 9 am-4 pm July 31st 10 am-2 pm 50 Lakewood Drive 704-633-3366 See You There!

Nice Wooded Lot. 98 feet wide, 183 ft on the left, 200 ft on the right. 622 Little Street though to Council St. Zoned for anything. $18,000. Call 704-640-6472

P.O. Box 1621 Concord, North Carolina 28026 Ph: 704-239-2074 jlbarch@ctc.net

Eastwind Apartments Low Rent Available For Elderly & Disabled. Rent Based on Social Security Income *Spacious 1 BR *Located on bus line *Washer/Dryer Hookups Call Fisher Realty at: 704-636-7485 for more information. Fleming Heights Apartments 55 & older 704-636-5655 Mon.-Fri. 2pm-5pm. Call for more information. Equal Housing Opportunity. TDD Sect. 8 vouchers accepted. 800-735-2962 Franklin area, 2BR/1BA, 50 + community, country setting, wtr/sewer/trash furnished. $500/mo + $500 dep. 704-636-1294

Free Rent! Free Gas! Free Water! G.Q. Taking Applications 2BR, 1BA. Central heat/ AC. No pets. $450 rent. $450 dep. 704-637-6678

Lovely Duplex Rowan Hospital area. 2BR, 1BA. Heat, air, water, appl. incl. $695. 704-633-3997 Moreland Pk area. 2BR all appls furnished. $495-$595/mo. Deposit negotiable. Section 8 welcome. 336-247-2593 Near Livingstone. 2BR, hrdwd flrs, FP, Cent AC/heat. 1BR, appli incl'd. C. Smith 704-399-0414 Near VA. 1BR, 1BA. Single unit avail. $500/mo. 704-239-4883. Fountain Quarters Realty Broker Nice, large 2 BR. Central heat/air, stove, refrig. Close in town. $450/mo.+ $450 dep. Call after 5pm. 704-633-7173 Rockwell Area. Apt. & Duplexes. $500-$600. 2BR Quiet Community. Marie Leonard-Hartsell at Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 Rockwell. 1BR. Central heat/ac. Appliance. No pets. $450. 704-2796850 or 704-798-3035 Rolling Hills Townhomes 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms Salisbury's Finest! 315 Ashbrook Rd 704-637-6207 Summer Specials! Salis. Nice modern 1BR, energy efficient, water furnished, off Jake Alexander $395 + dep. 704-640-5750 Salisbury. Spacious 1BR & BA, on 2nd level, kitchen appls. No pets or smoking. Wiltshire Village. $415/mo + dep. 704-633-2004 Spencer 1 BR Apt. Lease & dep. req'd. Appliances & utilities supplied. $525 per month. 704-798-0604 Spencer 1 rm & ba, Priv. ent. Singles only. No kitchen, $340/mo Incls utilities. Unfurnished. Refs. No dep. 704-202-5879 Spencer 2 BR Apt. Lease & dep. req'd. Cent. H/A, appliances supplied. $475 per month. 704-798-0604 WELCOME HOME TO DEER PARK APTS. We have immediate openings for 1 & 2 BR apts. Call or come by and ask about our move-in specials. 704-278-4340 for info. For immediate info call 1-828-442-7116

Condos and Townhomes Wiltshire Village Condo for Rent, $700. 2nd floor. Looking for 2BR, 2BA in a quiet community setting? Call Bryce, Wallace Realty 704-2021319

Wiltshire Village. 2BR, 1½BA. New appliances, new carpet. Pool & sauna, tennis. $595/mo. 704-642-2554

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A PA R T M E N T S We Offer

PRICE~QUALITY~LOCATION

Thinking rationally about your life’s purpose, career decisions, relationship issues, faith questions. Southwestern Rowan County, Barnhardt Meadows. Quality home sites in country setting, restricted, pool and pool House complete. Use your builder or let us build for you. Lots start at $24,900. B&R Realty 704-633-2394

Downtown. 3BR,2nd floor loft with all appliances. $885. Please call 704798-6429 for more info.

PRIOR TO RENTING VISIT or CALL

“The unexamined life is not worth living” -Socrates

James D. Spiceland, Ph.D.

Cone Mill area. 3 room furnished apt for rent. Please call 704-633-5397

Historic Area. 1 or 2 BR avail. Starting at $375. Must have references. 704-202-3635.

We buy and sell pianos We offer Steinway, Baldwin, Mason & Hamlin, & more 704.637.3367 • 704.754.2287

“A Good Place to Live” 1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms Affordable & Spacious Water Included 704-636-8385

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

Clancy-hills@cmc-nc.com

Jack’s Furniture & Piano Restoration

Colonial Village Apts.

$595 per mo. Fantastic apartment! 704-239-0691

City. 2BR cent. H/A, no pets, on job 6 months, utilities by tenant. $375 per month. Call 704202-5879 for more info. Prince Charles Condominiums. Great location, walking distance to Historic Downtown Salisbury, 1250 sq ft to 3800 sq ft. Large rooms and great closets. Prices start at only $115,000. 704.202.6676 to set up a tour.

Apartments

Airport Rd. Duplex. 2BR, 2BA. $575/mo. 2BR, 1BA $550/mo., lease + dep., water furnished. No pets. Call 704-637-0370

China Grove. One room eff. w/ private bathroom & kitchenette. All utilities incl'd. $379/mo. + $100 deposit. 704-857-8112

Lots for Sale

QUIET CUL-DE-SAC LIVING

3BR/2-1/2BA, 1400 SF home in E Salisbury. Large kitchen w/dining area, all appls stay, master suite w/walk-in closet, laundry room + W/D, living area/kitchen/dining have laminate flooring, BRs carpeted. Must see to appreciate. 704-630-0433.

2BR, 1BA Duplex Central heat/air, appliances, laundry room, yardwork incl. Fenced backyard, storage building. $600 per month plus $600 deposit 704-6332219

China Grove. Nice 2BR, 1BA. $550/mo., includes washer & dryer. No pets. 704-279-8428

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WESTCLIFFE 3BR/2BA with bonus & garage, carpet, laminate & painted in 2010! Move right in & enjoy the large lot with wooded back yard. Carolina Central Homes 980-521-7816

2BR, 1BA apt. Very large. Has gas heat. We furnish refrig, stove, yard maint, and garbage pick up. No pets. Rent $400. Deposit $400. Call Rowan Properties 704633-0446

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Genesis Realty 704-933-5000 genesisrealtyco.com Foreclosure Experts Salisbury, 3 BR, 2 BA. Well cared for, kitchen with granite, eat at bar, dining area, large living room, mature trees, garden spot, 2 car garage plus storage bldgs. Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

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

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PRIVACY

Apartments 112-C Overbrook Rd, 2BR, Lg. 2 story, $535/mo, refs & lease. 9am-5pm, M-F 704-637-0775

Rebecca Jones Realty 610 E. Liberty St, China Grove 704-857-SELL

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W. Rowan 1.19 acs. Old Stony Knob Rd. Possible owner financing. Reduced: $19,900. 704-640-3222

25 Acres Beautiful Land for Sale by Owner

$85,900 Near Corbin Hills, 3 bedrooms, spacious kitchen/dining, fireplace, replacement windows, wired shop, carport, nice backyard! Call Barbara Collins, Key Real Estate 704 640-4339

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Arey RealtyREAL Service in Real Estate 704-633-5334 www.AreyRealty.com

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Salisbury. 2,495 SF, 3 BR, 2 ½ BA, fully renovated over the last 2 years, cozy master suite w/walk-in closet on main level, large kitchen, breakfast area, dining room, living room/office, spacious family room with doors to deck and sunroom, private fenced-in back yard, $219,900. Call 704-645-1093 or email smills51@carolina.rr.com.

Resort & Vacation Property

704-982-5841

Rockwell. Off Lower Stone Ch. Rd at end of Lavista Rd, 2½ acs. $25,000, $500 down, owner will finance 10 years, 7% interest. 704202-5879

OLDE SALISBURY

Salisbury, New Home 3 BR. 2 BA. REAL HARDWOODS, Gorgeous kitchen, stainless appliances, vaulted ceiling in great room! Pretty front porch, even has a 1 car garage! Pick your own colors. R50345. $129,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

Homes – Government Approved. 1st Time Home Owner. Single-Parent. For Info: (888) 350-0035

Downtown Salis, 2300 sf office space, remodeled, off street pking. 633-7300

Real Estate Services

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Faith. 3 BR, 2 ½ BA house on cul-de-sac in Forest Oaks SubDivision. 1900 sq ft house w/ a double car garage, covered deck in back, fenced in back yard and a 400 sq ft heated/cooled building. Please call 704-209-1474 or 704-245-2265.

Harrison Rd. near Food Lion. 3BR, 2BA. 1 ac. 1,800 sq. ft., big BR, retreat, huge deck. $580/mo. Financing avail. 704-489-1158

Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850

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American Homes of Rockwell Oldest Dealer in Rowan County. Best prices anywhere. 704-279-7997

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Salisbury, 2 BR, 1 BA, Cute home in city on corner lot. Easy access to shopping, great investment or for first time home buyer. R50827 704.633.2394 $49,900 B&R Realty

Forest Glen Realty Darlene Blount, Broker 704-633-8867

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3 BR, 2.5 BA, nice wood floors. Range, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher, garbage disposal, washer, dryer, gas logs, outbuilding. 1 yr home warranty. $1,500 carpet allowances. R49933A $195,500 B&R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663

Century 21 Towne & Country 474 Jake Alexander Blvd. (704)637-7721

William R. Kennedy Realty 428 E. Fisher Street 704-638-0673

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3 BR, 2 BA, Attached carport, Rocking Chair front porch, nice yard. R50846 $129,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

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Introductory session: $40 704.647.0999 (office) email: faithart@bellsouth.net 704.633.4567 (home)

2BR ~ 1.5 BA ~ Starting at $555

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Houses for Rent

1012 Salisbury Ave., Spencer, 3BR/1BA, handicap accessible, central H/A, no pets, $600/mo + $600 dep. 704-633-5067

East Rowan. New 3BR, 2BA. Appliances, water yard work incl'd. Section 8 OK. 704-279-3990

Salisbury, Ellis Street, 3BR/2BA, $550/mo + deposit, no pets. 704-6373262 or 704-637-9531

East Schools Dist. 1, 2 & 3 BR rentals available. Appliances. Please call 704-638-0108

Salisbury, in country. 3BR, 2BA. With in-law apartment. $1000/mo. No pets. Deposit & ref. 704855-2100

1115 Shuping Mill Rd. 2BR, 1BA. Large yard. Limit 3. No pets. $575/ mo. + dep. 704-202-0326 1474 Matthew Allen Circle, Kann. 3 bedroom 2 bath $925/mo; 4901 Samuel Richard Street, Kann. 4 bedroom 2.5 bath $995/mo. KREA 704.933.2231

Faith/Carson district. 3BR / 2BA, no pets. $700/mo + dep + refs. 704-279-8428

For Sale, Lease or Poss. Rent to Own!

4BR, 2 ½BA. 2000 sq. ft +/-. Tri-level, hardwoods fireplace. Great area. $995/mo. 704-630-0695 5BR, 2 ½ BA. RENT TO OWN. 3000 sq. ft. +/garage, basement, fenced. $8,000 down. $998/mo. 704-630-0695

Attn. Landlords Apple House Realty has a 10 year / 95+% occupancy rate on prop's we've managed. 704-633-5067 Catawba College area. All elec. country, 2BR, 1BA, $600/mo. 704-6339060 or 704-490-1121

China Grove/Carson. 413 Shue Rd. NICE. Easy 85 access. 1400 sq ft. 2-3 BR, 1 BA, new carpet & vinyl, some hardwoods, lots of storage. All electric HVAC, stove, fridge dishwasher, well water. Carport & storage bldg. No pets. $750/mo. + deposit. 704-857-7699

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. 2BR, 1BA. Electric heat/AC. Appli. Storage bldg. $475. 704279-6850 704-798-3035

2635 Hollywood Dr. & 550 Hope Hill Rd., 3BR/1BA $525 per month each. 704-645-9986 2BR RENT TO OWN Central heat/AC. Hardwoods, fireplace, siding. $2,500 down. $550/mo. 704-630-0695

Salisbury, 317 Martin Luther King Ave. N. 3-4 BR. Completely remodeled home in Hist. Dist. Sale price $109,900. Lease $850/ mo. or rent to own with min. $5,000 down. $800/mo. $100 toward purchase price. Call 704-633-3584 FREE RENT Carolina Piedmont Properties. Call for details. Sec 8 OK. 704-248-4878 Gold Hill, 2½BR/1BA home on wooded acreage w/3 ac bass pond, $750/mo + dep. 704-351-2407 Houses: 3BRs, 1BA. Apartments: 2 & 3 BRs, 1BA Deposit req'd. Faith Realty 704-630-9650 Landis 2BR. Partially furnished, stove, refrig., W/D. No pets. $500/mo + $250 dep. 704-932-1133 Rockwell 2BR/1BA, gas heat, window air, range & refrig & storage bldg. $525/mo. 704-279-6850 or 704-798-3035 Rockwell area. 3BR, 2BA. Washer/dryer incl. Central air. References & deposit req. 704-2020605, ask for Dennis

Salisbury. 3 & 2 Bedroom Houses. $500-$1,000. Also, Duplex Apartments. 704636-6100 or 704-633-8263 Salisbury. 3BR, 1½ BA, brick home, hardwds, gas heat, appli. Good neighborhood. No pets. $700/mo. 919-577-6924 Salisbury/Spencer 2, 4 & 5 BR $450-$850/mo. 704202-3644 or leave message. No calls after 7pm Salisbury/Spencer area 3 & 4BR houses, Cent. Heat & AC $600 to $750 per month. Jim 704-202-9697

Sells Rd, 3BR/1½ BA free water & sewer. All electric, good location. $675/mo. 704-633-6035. Westwood. 3BR, 2BA new floors, freshly painted. Section 8 ok. Call 704-639-0155

1250 sqft office. Lobby, 3 offices and 2 restrooms. Bradshaw Real Estate. 704-633-9011 23,000 sq ft manufacturing building with offices for lease. Bradshaw Real Estate. 704-633-9011 450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd. Call 704279-8377 or 704-279-6882

Salis. 4BR/2½ BA, appls, sunroom, fenced in bk yd, H/W floors, $1,000 / mo + dep. 704-603-7352

5,000 or 10,000 sq. ft. distribution bldg., loading docks, office & restrooms. Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011

Salisbury & Mocksville HUD – Section 8 Nice 2 to 5 BR homes. Call us 1st. 704-630-0695

China Grove. 1200 sq ft. $800/mo + deposit. Call 704-855-1200

Salisbury 2BR. $525 and up. GOODMAN RENTALS 704-633-4802

Class A Office space. 118 E. Council St. $750/mo., utilities incl. Call 704-642-0071

Brickwork & Masonry

Cleaning Services

Air Conditioning and Heating

Grading & Hauling

Perry & Son Affordable Heating & Air Service

Brick & Concrete

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

East area. 2BR, 1BA. Outbuildings. 1 year lease. $695/month + deposit. 704-279-5602

All types of improvements & repairs. Over 29 yrs exp.

704-202-3293

Carport and Garages $50 Service Calls

336-757-0887 336-751-6299

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

Senior Citzen discount with this ad.

Auctions Auction Thursday 12pm 429 N. Lee St. Salisbury Antiques, Collectibles, Used Furniture 704-213-4101 Carolina's Auction Rod Poole, NCAL#2446 Salisbury (704)633-7369 www.thecarolinasauction.com

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

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

Let me help you! I clean houses and I'm good at it. VERY reasonable. 20 yrs. FREE estimates. Make tomorrow better! Call me today! 704-279-8112 Maria Cleaning. The lowest prices in town, July special. References available. Call for more info: 704-762-1402

Wife For Hire Inc.,

Office and Commercial Rental

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

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

Corner Lot

PRIME LOCATION

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

COUNTRY CLUB AREA FOR LEASE - Prime Location near VA & RRMC hospitals. 3 Offices, reception room, room & 2 break restrooms. Ashley Shoaf Realty 704-633-7131 Salisbury, Henderson Estates, 3 BR, 2.5 BA, Basement, Double Attached Carport, R48766 $159,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty Furnished Key Man Office Suites - $250-350. Jake & 150. Util & internet incl. 704-721-6831 Granite Quarry Special Commercial Metal Bldgs for Small Trade Business, hobby shop space or storage. Units avail up to 1800 sq ft w/ office area. Video surveillance and ample parking. 704279-4422

OFFICE SPACE

Prime Location, 1800+ sq.ft. (will consider subdividing) 4 private offices, built in reception desk. Large open space with dividers, 2 bathrooms and breakroom. Ample parking 464 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704 223 2803

PRICED TO SELL

Job Seeker meeting at 112 E. Main St., Rockwell. 6:30pm Mons. Rachel Corl, Auctioneer. 704-279-3596 KEN WEDDINGTON Total Auctioneering Services 140 Eastside Dr., China Grove 704-8577458 License 392 Land Auction - Halifax County, NC, 400 +/Acres- Divided. Friday July 30th, 10:00 AM, Shields Road, Tillery, NC - Excellent Hunting & Agriculture Land Adjoins Game Lands. www.HouseAuctionComp any.com - 252-729-1162, NCAL#7889. Land Auction, Bank Owned, 26+/-Acres Divided, Linwood, NC, Davidson County, 8/3/10 at 5pm. Iron Horse Auction, 910-997-2248, NCAL3936 www.ironhorseauction.com

R. Giles Moss Auction & Real Estate-NCAL #2036. Full Service Auction Company. Estates ** Real Estate Had your home listed a long time? Try selling at auction. 704-782-5625 www.gilesmossauction.com

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

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

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We're Here to make it easy for you! Licensed, Bonded and Insured Residential, Churches Construction Clean-up, Commercial & Offices

Call Today! 704-224-0666 704-603-8888

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

South area. 2BR mobile home, remodel w/ A/C, $425/mo., $200 deposit. No pets. 704-857-2649

East Area. For Sale or Rent. $55,000 or $380/mo + deposit. Adult small 2BR, 1BA. 3 acres Please call 704-209-1202

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

Ellis Park. 2BR, 1BA. Water, sewer, appl incl'd. Central air. Pets Ok. $500/mo. 704-279-7463

Buy 1 night, 2nd night free! SWIMMING, FISHING, AIR CONDITIONED LODGES, GAME ROOM, COUNTRY STORE & CAFE, PUTT PUTT GOLF, BASKETBALL, CANOES, GOLF CART RENTALS. Call Robert for more information 336-470-2999.

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Salis. 1,000 s.f. Free standing, ample pkg., previously restaurant. Drive-In window 704-202-5879 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

Manufactured Home for Rent

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

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

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

A HANDYMAN & MOORE Kitchen & Bath remodeling Quality Home Improvements Carpentry, Plumbing, Electric Clark Moore 704-213-4471 Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc. Insured. 704-798-8199 Browning ConstructionStructural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC

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

HIGH ROCK LAKE 2 BEDROOM 2 BATH Furnished, no pets, limit 3, no smoking, lease/refs $550/mo. $600/deposit. 704-636-8500

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-

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

Older man in Kannapolis has a nice, spacious, furnished room for rent. It's in a nice neighborhood. No smoking, drugs, loud music or animals. Cable available. Free parking. Only $85/week + $45 deposit. References required. 704-932-5008

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

House Cleaning

Manufactured Home Services

Home Maid Cleaning Service, 10 yrs. exp, Free Estimates & References. Call Regina 704.791.0046

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

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

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

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

06 KIA AMANTI V6, Auto, Leather, Moonroof, PW, PL, Tilt, Cruise, AC, CD, Alloys, hard to find. $12,997 704.637.9090

06 PONTIAC G6 SEDAN V6, auto, PW, PL, tilt, cruise, AC, AM/FM CD, alloys, xtra-clean $11,757. 704.637.9090

08 CHEVROLET COBALT LT SEDAN 4 cyl, auto, PW, PL, tilt, cruise, AC, CD, great on gas $10,997 704.637.9090

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

Roofing and Guttering

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

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

FREE ESTIMATES! LOWEST PRICES!

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

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

Don't Cry, Stay Dry Roof Connection

Tree Service A-1 Tree Service 3Established since 1978 3Reliable & Reasonable 3Insured Free Estimates!

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

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

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Painting and Decorating

Bowen Painting Interior and Exterior Painting 704-630-6976

BMW, 2004 330Xi Silver with black leather interior, 6 cylinder with auto tranny, AM, FM, CD, duel seat warmers, all power options, SUNROOF, run & drives like a DREAM! 704-603-4255

Pools and Supplies

Moving and Storage

Lawn Equipment Repair Services

~ 704-202-8881~ Recognized by the Salisbury Tree Board

20 Years Experience All types of roofing Metal, Shingle, Rubber Insurance Claims Welcome

AAA Trees R Us Bucket Truck Chipper/Stumps WFree Estimates

24 Hour Emergency Service

We Will Try to Beat Any Written Estimates!

Call Steve Furr

704-239-1955

704-232-3251

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

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

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

John Sigmon Stump grinding, Prompt service for 30+ years, Free Estimates. John Sigmon, 704-279-5763.

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

Earl's Lawn Care

FREE Estimates 704-636-3415 704-640-3842 www.earlslawncare.com

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

06 HONDA ACCORD EX-L 4 cyl, Auto, Leather, Moonroof, PW, PL, Tilt, Cruise, Alloys, CD, like new $12,956 704.637.9090

Roofing and Guttering

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3 Mowing 3 Trimming 3 Edging 3 Landscaping 3 Trimming Bushes

The Floor Doctor

05 CADILLAC CTS 3.6 V6, auto, leather, moonroof, PW, PL, tile, cruise, chrome wheels, loaded $14,994 704.637.9090

06 MERCURY MONTEGO PREMIER V6, auto, leather, moonroof, climate control, heated seats, CD, alloys, low low miles $12,993 704.637.9090

Hurley School Rd. area. 2BR, 1BA. Nice subdiv. Well kept. 3 people. $425 + dep. 704-640-5750

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

Hometown Lawn Care & Handyman Service. Mowing, pressure washing, gutter cleaning, odd jobs ~inside & out. Comm, res. Insured. Free estimates. “No job too small” 704-433-7514 Larry Sheets, owner

04 KIA OPTIMA EX V6 Auto, PW PL, Tilt, Cruise, AC, CD, Pseat, Alloys. Priced to sell $6996 704.637.9090

Rooms for Rent

Granite Quarry 3BR / 2BA, nice neighborhood, no pets. $550/mo + dep. 704-239-2833

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

Liberty Home Inspections, Inc. 15 yrs Experience! 704-279-0871 or 704-647-4521

Autos

Two bedroom house female or male, Gold Hill area $200/month + utilities. 704-773-9015

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

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Heating and Air Conditioning

Roommate Wanted

Gold Hill, 2 bedroom, trash and lawn service included. No pets. $450 month. 704-433-1255

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

“We can remove bankruptcies, judgments, liens, and bad loans from your credit file forever!”

Autos

02 TOYOTA TACOMA XTRA-CAB 4X2 4 cyl, auto, PW, PL, AC, CD, low miles, will not last $10,996 704.637.9090

High Rock Lake waterfront 2BR/2BA mobile home. Adults, no pets, $600/mo. + dep. & refs. 704-932-5631

Free Camping!

Restaurant fully equipped. 85 feat In china grove. $1700 per month. 704-855-2100

Rooms for Rent

Resort & Vacation Rentals

Home Improvement

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

Salis. Bus line, A/C & cable No Drugs! Discount if paid monthly. Please call 704-640-5154

Financial Services

Fencing

Weekly * Bi-weekly Monthly * Occasional

Salisbury. For Sale or Rent. 3990 Statesville Boulevard. Lot 13, 2BR. $329/mo. 704-640-3222

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Drywall Services

Since 1955

East area. 2BR, 1BA in small park. Limit 2. No pets. $350 rent. $350 deposit. 704-279-8526

Salis. For Sale or Rent. 3990 Statesville Boulevard. Lot 1. 3BR. 1½ BA. $449/mo. 704-640-3222

Call Curt LeBlanc today for Free Estimates

704-279-2600

Nice private room, priv. entrance, bus line front door. $100/wk. 704-6361136 leave tel. number

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

OLYMPIC DRYWALL

15 Yrs Experience!

Salisbury 2BR / 2BA, 3 storage buildings, appliances, $550/mo + deposit. 704-245-4268

Warehouse space / manufacturing as low as $1.25/sq. ft./yr. Deposit. Call 704-431-8636

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

Residential & Commercial Repair Service

Davie County Furnished 2 BR, private lot in country, no pets. 3 people limit. 336-284-4758

Roseman Rd. area. 2 BR. No pets, appliances & trash pickup incl. $525/ mo. + dep. 704-855-7720

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Cleaning Services

Manufactured Home for Rent

Spencer Shops Lease great retail space for as little as $750/mo for 2,000 sq ft at. 704-431-8636

Granite Quarry-Garland Place, 3 BR, 2 BA, triple attached garage, single detached garage, whole house generator. Nice yard. R50640 $164,900 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

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

Concrete Work

RENTAL SPACE

Manufactured Home for Rent

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Grading & Hauling

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

Office and Commercial Rental

Salis. 3-4 BR house by Livingstone College. Rent $550, dep $500. Call Rowan Properties, 704633-0446

Cleveland-3 bedroom/ 1bath house off Main St. Appliances, central heat & air, hard wood floors. $600.00 Call Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462

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GAYLOR'S LAWNCARE For ALL your lawn care needs! *FREE ESTIMATES* 704-639-9925/ 704-640-0542 Outdoors by overcash Mowing, Mulching, Leaf Removal. Free Estimates. 704-630-0120

Johnny Yarborough, Tree Expert trimming, topping, & removal of stumps by machine. Wood splitting, lots cleared. 10% off to senior citizens. 704-857-1731

Stoner Painting Contractor

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

Plumbing Services Hodges Services. Complete plumbing and AC service, $45 service calls, Sr. Citizen's discounts. Call today! 336-829-8721

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

704-791-6856 www.insuranceroofclaim.com

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.

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Autos

Buick, 1994 LeSabre Interior in poor condition. Locally owned. 107k miles. $1,200, obo. Call 704-633-3832

Autos

What a Gem!

Ford, 2002 Focus ZX3 Hatch back. Auto transmission. $6,445 1-800-542-9758 Stock # P7428A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Saab, 1995 900 S Convertible with new tires & brakes. 29 MPG city 33 MPG highway. Good condition. $2,650. 704728-9898, Salisbury. Toyota 1993 Camry XLE, dark green w/biege interior, good condition. $600. 704-636-8181

Cadillac Deville, 2000. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

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Transportation Dealerships

Chevrolet 1982 Camaro Berlinetta, original owner, excellent condition, meticulously maintained, 305 V8 engine, automatic, 68,000 original miles. $10,000 OBO. 423-304-4115

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

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

Ford, 2007 Focus SE White over gray cloth interior, 2.0 with auto trans, AM, FM, CD, sat radio, power windows, brakes & locks. Cold ac, LOW MILES, runs & drives great! 704-603-4255

Toyota, 2004 Camry LE 4 Door Sedan. 4 speed automatic. $8,845. 1-800542-9758. Stock #T11033A. 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Toyota, 2004 Camry LE Sand color. 4 cylinder, 4 door, A/C, power windows. 86,600 miles. $9,500 obo. Please call 704-857-2044

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Toyota, 2004 Corolla S Sedan. 4 Speed automatic. $8,945. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # P7429A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Chevrolet, 2007 Malibu 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Hyundai, 2006 Sonata LX. V6 Sedan. $12,245. Stock #T11048B 1-800-542-9758 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Chrysler 1999 Concorde LX 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Chrysler Sebring Touring 2004 convertible, AM/FM, CD, automatic, 69K miles. $7,900. 704-431-4938 ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 6 pm.

Jaguar, 2001 S-Type 4.0L, V8 sedan. $11,445. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # P7486A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

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

Volkswagen 2002 Passat GLS 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Financing Available! Lincoln, 2000 LS V8, auto trans, tan leather interior, SUNROOF, all power options, duel HEATED & POWER SEATS. Like new inside & out! 704-603-4255 Volkswagen 2006 Beetle Convertible. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Ford 2010 Mustang. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

LOOKING GOOD!

Motorcycles & ATVs Harley Davidson 1990 Sportster 1200, 4 speed, very good condition, runs & sounds great. $3,200 firm. 704-857-3649

Harley Davidson, 2007 Ultra Classic. Pacific Blue Pearl, 2400 miles, garage w/ kept, 1st service synthetics, cruise, 96 cubic inches, 6 speed trans., loaded: AM/FM / CD/ CB, 2 Harley D.O.T. Helmets, 2 intercom sys., transferable warranty (3yrs. left) w/unlimited miles, stock pipes, magnum pipes; 1,000 lb. rolling bike lift. $17,500. 704-326-6675

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Buick, 1997 LeSabre Limited Sedan Gold. 4 speed automatic. $6,445. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # P7500A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Chevrolet, 2003 Tahoe LT 4 Door SUV 4 Speed Automatic, V 8. $14,745. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # T10109A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Volkswagen, 2004 New Beetle GLS 1.8T convertible. $13,745. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # F10290A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Chevrolet, 2008 HHR Panel LS 2 Door SUV Victory red.$12,245. 1-800-542-9758 Stock #F10416A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Mitsubishi, 2007 Galant 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 50 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Chrysler, 2007 Pacifica Touring Blue/ Lt. Gray leather interior 4.0 auto am, fm, cd, DVD, TV, SUNROOF, front and rear HEATED SEATS, rear air controls, power rear door, LOADED, EXTRA CLEAN. 704-603-4255

Nissan 1998 Maxima GLE/ GXE/SE. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

GMC, 2000 Yukon 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

KIA, 2006 Sorento 3.5 V6 auto, 4x4, cloth seats, CD, towing pkg, good tires, all power, luggage rack, runs& drives NICE!! 704-603-4255

Clean Truck Like New!!

Ford Ranger Edge, 2001. 70,000 miles, V-6, automatic, power steering, windows, locks, tilt, cruise. Clean. $6295 704-637-7327

Grand Jeep 2000 Cherokee Ltd. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Dodge, 2006 Durango LIMITED 4.7. V8 auto 4x4 Leather,DVD, all pwr options, duel power/ heated seats, rear POWER LIFT GATE, good tires, DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE! 704-603-4255

Suzuki, 2004 XL7 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Toyota, 2008 Limited RAV4. V6. Sunroof, Automatic, 18,000 miles, CD player, extra tire. I am moving out of the country. Need to sell. $19,900.Please call 704754-7255 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

Honda, 2005 Odyssey EXL Van Silver/dark gray leather interior, cd, dvd, steering wheel controls, sunroof, 3rd seat, duel heated seats, LOADED, alloy wheels with good tires. 704-6034255

Authorized EZGO Dealer. 30 years selling, servicing GOLF CARS Golf Car Batteries 6 volt, 8 volt. Golf car utility sales. US 52, 5 miles south of Salisbury. Beside East Rowan HS & Old Stone Winery. Look for EZGO sign. All batteries brand new, not reconditioned or refurbished (definition: weak or old batteries washed out). Buy 6 batteries & receive $10 gift receipt for purchase of a bottle of OLD STONE Wine. Coupon good until 7/31/10. 704-245-3660

Ford 1998 Ranger. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Cats Cat – Female, grey. Has had all shots and been spayed. One yellow male cat, neutered, rabies shot. 704-636-0619

Chevy, 2003 Silverado V8 with auto tranny am, fm, cd, cold ac, bed liner, like new tires. Extra Clean Inside & Out!! 704-603-4255

Ford 2002 Ranger. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

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

Volvo, 2001 V70 wagon Black/tan leather interior 2.4T 5 cylinder with auto trans, SUNROOF, am, fm, tape, cd, nice interior, GREAT CAR FOR THE MONEY! 704-603-4255

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

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

Transportation Dealerships TEAM CHEVROLET- GEO, CADILLAC, OLDSMOBILE 404 Jake Alexander Blvd., Salisbury. Call 704-636-9370

Free kittens, 6 weeks old, very loving, call 336-9981067 or 336-909-8270 for more information.

Ford, 2003 Expedition XLT 4.6 V8 with auto trans, front & rear AC, AM, FM, CD, tape, cloth interior, after market rims, GREAT SUV FOR THE FAMILY!! 704-603-4255

Kittens – Free friend for life, beautiful long and short haired kittens. Male and female, litter trained indoor kittens. Call Brenda 336-671-3799 Kittens – Two sweet 8 week old males, tabby and white, have been wormed. Inside only. 704-636-0619 Kittens free to good home. Tabbies, brown and grey striped, 6-8 wks old, good health & friendly. 704-431-4639

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

BATTERY-R-US

If it's a battery, we sell it! We Buy Old Batteries! Faith Rd. to Hwy 152 Store across from Sifford's Marathon 704-213-1005 www.battery-r-us.com

Free Kittens – (2) 16 wk old, males, need loving, financially secure inside home, litter-box trained, 1 white, & 1 white w/gray bobtail. 704-857-4172

Kittens (5) and mama cat. They need a good home & TLC. Will help with spay/neuter if you take one or a pair.704938-3137

Dogs Ford, 2003 Explorer XLT 4x4 money green/grey leather interior am,fm,cd chnager, SUNROOF, running boards all power options, towing pkg, RUNS & DRIVES AWSOME! 704-603-4255

Chevy, 2005 Tahoe LS white w/ tan cloth interior 5.3 V8 auto trans, all pwr options, am, fm, tape, cd, 3rd seat, duel pwr seats, clean, cruise, alloy rims, drives great. Ready for retail! 704-603-4255

Ford, 2004 Ranger, extra cab, 4 wheel drive, 5 speed, cruise, power windows and locks, very clean. 47K miles, $9,000. 704-202-0326

Want to Buy: Transportation Mazda, 2005 Tribute 4 Door SUV 4 Speed automatic. $8,945. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # F10404A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.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!

Dogs

Chihuahua puppy, male, 3 months old, black, shots, dewormed $50. 704-636-8181

Free Puppies. Boxer/Bull Mastiff mixed puppies to a good home. Born May 15. Have been dewormed. Please call 704797-0078.

CKC Designer Morkies

Born July 10th. Ready Aug. 28th. 2 Females and one male. Will have 1st shots and wormings. Males- $325.00. Females -$350.00. Place your deposit now! Call 704636-9867 Dog – 9 month old black pitbull. Great with kids. To a good home. 704-232-1418 Dogs - 3 Free outside adult dogs to good homes! Moving & pets can't go! Chocolate Lab Mix, Yellow Lab, JackRussell Mix. Please Call 704-224-2888 Dogs - Free female rat terrier and male lab mix. Call for more information 704-239-3554 Free dog. Border Collie, neutered, needs room to run. Sweet disposition, 2 years old. 704-633-1722 FREE German ShepardBoxer mix, 1 year old female, brown & white, name is Bandit. Very playful. 336-479-3748 or 336-479-5423, Lexington area.

GREAT DANES Male and female Great Danes for sale. Less than a yr old. $650 for both 704-787-3941

Puppies. AKC Labrador Retriever. Both parents working bird hunters and family pets. Dewclaws removed and first shots. 3 Beautiful black males available. $200. Call 704-201-5875

SO SWEET AND LOVEABLE! MUST SEE!

Puppies, Beagle, fullblooded. Will be ready July 18th. Parents on site. Wormed and have had 1st shot. $85 each. Please call 704-278-4855 or 704-202-3860 Very Small Toy Poodles

JUST THE SWEETEST EVER! AKC Long Haired Miniature Dachshunds. Black and cream males, $350. Black and cream and shaded cream female, $395. Second Liter: black and tan $325. Dew claws removed. Family raised. Call 336-469-5427

Beautiful & Loyal Pets!

These sweet puppies are very small and beautiful. 2 black and 2 chocolate 1st shots and Worming. CKC reg. $400. Call Barbara, 704-970-8731 Puppies, Chihuahuas. One male left, 1st shot, adorable & healthy, weaned & paper trained. Mother & father on site. 704-245-5238

Other Pets $ $ $ $ $ $ $

Supplies and Services

Rims, 4 stock rims for A 2 006 Nissan Altima 2.5S. $250 firm. For information call 704-488-3333 Ford, 2002 ThunderBird Convertible. White w/ dark gray leather interior, am, fm, cd changer, 3.9 V8, auto trans, all power options, fog lights, chrome rims with good tires. A REAL Must See! 704-603-4255

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SOLD

Wholesale Not Retail Ford, 1999 Crown Victoria LX. 4 Door Sedan. 4 speed automatic $6,845. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # F10305A2 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

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Winnebago, 2002 Minnie. Class C. Original owner, 27,000 miles. Refrigerator, freezer, range and generator. Sleeps 5. Asking $34,700. Call 704-630-9246

Service & Parts

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

Nissan 2003 Murano SL/SE 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Harley Davidson, 2000. Road King. 18,000 miles, CD Player, lots of chrome. 704-636-7086

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

GMC Yukon Denali, 2004. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Jeep, 1999 Grand Cherokee Limited Burgundy/tan leather 4.7 V8 auto trans, am, fm, cd, Infinity Gold sound system, sunroof, all pwr options, HEATED SEATS. EXTRA CLEAN! 704-603-4255

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

Recreational Vehicles Jaguar, 2004, XJ8 Loaded, excellent condition. Black with tan. 53,000 miles. $16,000. Call 704-279-5318 or 704-202-5747

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Corvette 1984, 65,200 miles! White exterior, red leather interior, 5.7 V-8, custom wheels, spoiler, ground effects, two Targa tops. Runs & looks great. $10,995. 704-640-2946

Ford, 2007, Escape Hybrid. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

SOLD

Collector Cars Chevrolet, 2007 Impala 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

We put our son's SUV in the paper and it sold in less than one week. Thanks, Salisbury Post! ~ S.R.

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

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Trucks, SUVs & Vans

CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.” 511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321

Toyota, 2002 Camry, SE V6 4 door sedan. Salsa red. $8,745. 1-800-542-9758 Stock # T10487A 2 Year Warranty www.cloningerford.com

Chevrolet 2005 Trail Blazer LS/LT. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

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

Transportation Financing

Ford, 2006, Ford 500. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off!

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Puppies. German Shepherd, pure bred. AKC registered. Parents on site. 4 females, 2 males born June 4. 1st shots, dewormed. 704762-0223 or 704-279-4007.

Chrysler, 2005, Town and Country. 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL. OVER 60 VEHICLES IN STOCK! Summer Sell-Off! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Ford, 2006 Expedition Eddie Bauer Edition. cd, DVD, SUNROOF, duel heated seats, POWER 3rd seat, luggage rack. Steering wheel controls, nonsmoker. Like new. MUST SEE! 704-603-4255

Mini Rat Terrier Puppy. Male, brown & white, 6 wks old, 1st shot, dewormed. 704-279-5012

New fenced play area for dog boarding. Off the leash fun play time! Salisbury Animal Hospital 1500 E. Innes St. 704-637-0227 salisburyanimalhospital.com

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Today’s celebrity birthdays Actress Barbara Harris is 75. Drummer Jim McCarty of The Yardbirds is 67. Bassist Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire is 59. Supermodel Iman is 55. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley (“Curtis”) is 53. Guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth is 52. Country singer Marty Brown is 45. Actress Illeana Douglas is 45. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 43. Cellist Paavo Lotjonen of Apocalyptica is 42. Actor D.B. Woodside (”24”) is 41. Actress Miriam Shor (“Swingtown,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) is 39. Actor James Lafferty (“One Tree Hill”) is 25.

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Singer Al Jarreau changes hospitals in France MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A helicopter ferried Grammy-award winning singer Al Jarreau from a hospital in the Alps to one in the French port of Marseille after he suffered breathing problems in the mountains that forced him to

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Pikeville 92/67

Tazewell 90/64

Cumberland 91/65

Boone 88/67

Winston Salem 96/76

Knoxville 96/73

Greensboro 98/75

Hickory 96/73 Franklin 94/68

Raleigh 102/76

Columbia 100/78 Atlanta 96/76

Aiken 100/73

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Allendale 99/73

Savannah 96/77

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Charleston 96/78

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High Rock Lake .... 653.20 ...... -1.80 Badin Lake .......... 540.50 ...... -1.50 Tuckertown Lake .. 595.50 ...... -0.50 Tillery Lake .......... 278.10 ...... -0.90 Blewett Falls ........ 178.10 ...... -0.90 Lake Norman ........ 97.10 ........ -2.90

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Greenville 97/76

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Durham 100/75

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Virginia Beach 94/76

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Corner Front-porch sittin’ is just fine by me This is an excerpt from “Outside Insight,” by webmaster and Oregon native Jeremy Judd. Read more of his posts at www.salisburypost.com. hen I started this blog I intended to make a few observations about Southerners and Southernisms. First, it seemed appropriate to explain how I ended up here, and then I had a few things to say along the way. But on this lazy Sunday, the 4th of July in 2010, I figured it was a good time to bring things back to the point. One of the things you don’t see much out west is front porch sittin’. Here, having a large porch equipped with a couJEREMY ple of rocking chairs JUDD is an essential part of life. To get a building permit for a new Southern home, a person first has to state the dimensions and size of their porch, how many rocking chairs they intend to set upon it, and the nearest ice tea dispenser. (Perhaps not; I don’t know, I haven’t read the North Carolina building code, but I’ll bet this is in it.) I decided to try my hand at this “front porch sittin’ ” this afternoon. I don’t own a rocking chair, unfortunately, and I’m not sure where the nearest Cracker Barrel is, so I couldn’t run out and get one. I decided a dining table chair would have to do. I pulled my chair out on my porch and flopped down with a cold beer. I sat there for a moment unsure of what I was supposed to be doing. At first I thought perhaps I was missing something. I watched a few cars go by. I heard some children playing up the street. The insects in the trees made their noises and a mockingbird whistled a tune. It was warm, but not too warm. My 70-year-old neighbor Roy came out and sat on his porch in his rocking chair. I shouted a greeting. “Ho, Roy!” I said. “Nice day out,” he responded. “A little cooler this week.” “Yup,” I said. He talked a little more about his trip to Ireland 30 years ago. He used to work at the textile mills in Lexington. He was a supervisor of some kind, and they asked him once to go to Ireland to start a new mill. He had a good time over there, and he likes to talk about it. After he told me a few stories, he said, “You pull that old mower over here and we’ll work on it a bit.” (I’ve had a riding lawn mower broken down in my backyard since we moved in). “Maybe tomorrow,” I said. “It needs a carburetor rebuild.” He said, “How’s your car runnin’ after we put them new rotors in it yesterday?” “Doesn’t shake any more when I brake,” I told him. He said, “Now don’t you forget I charge 18 dollars an hour, and double time on weekends. Plus, you owe me for using my tools.” Then he smiled and laughed hard. We were both quiet for a moment, listening to the birds and insects again. A man swaggered down the street in an orange T-shirt and baggy jeans. We both waved at him. He nodded back. But no one says anything. I told Roy we’re going out to Faith tomorrow to see the fireworks. He said we need to try a new barbecue place in nearby Welcome. I told him maybe we’ll go this week sometime after work and he says, “That’ll be fine.” Then he disappeared inside. He had a date with his lady friend, Louise, and said he needed to get cleaned up. My beer is empty, and I headed inside for another. I could get used to this front porch sittin’.

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tions of the parkway route from Shenandoah NP to the James River and from Adney Gap to Blowing Rock; announces he has postponed making a decision on the portion south of Blowing Rock. • Nov. 10, 1934: Secretary Ickes announces selection of the North Carolina-favored route for the Parkway. • Sept. 11, 1935: Project 2-A start date, according to a card file maintained at the Blue Ridge Parkway archives. Men employed by the Nello Teer company begin moving equipment Construction of a park- from the train station at Galax, Va., to Low way tunnel. Gap, N.C., in anticipation of the start of Parkway construction. • Sept. 19, 1935: According to a letter from J.P. Dodge, Senior Claim Adjuster for the North Carolina Highway Commission to the chair of the Highway Commission, the “first breaking of ground on the first project of the ShenandoahGreat Smoky Mountains National Parkway” took place this day at Low Gap. • June 30, 1936: Federal statute names parkway the “Blue Ridge Parkway” and places it under control of the National Park Service.

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This year, the organization is pushing a bill introduced in both houses of Congress that would appropriate $75 million over five years to buy land and easements for 50,000 additional highpriority acres along the parkway. Even on land over which it does have control, the Park Service is at a disadvantage. A decade of tight budgets has forced the loss of about a third of the parkway’s maintenance staff, leaving 80 people to mow the grassy shoulders, trim the trees, keep up the campgrounds and tend the historic buildings. Seasonal employees and a legion of volunteers help, but in some places overlooks are completely blocked by overgrown trees, and sections of road were closed into the spring because of winter rockslides that had to cleared. “It really makes the operation more challenging,” says Phil Francis, parkway superintendent. On the parkway’s 75th an-

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• August 1933: FDR visits CCC camps in the Shenandoah National Park with Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes and Virginia Sen. Harry F. Byrd. Someone suggests extending the new Skyline Drive southward to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. • Sept. 28, 1933: First mention of the future Blue Ridge Parkway project in the Asheville Citizen. • Oct. 17, 1933: Representatives from Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia meet in the office of Sen. Harry Byrd to discuss the proposed parkway to connect Shenandoah NP with Great Smoky Mountains NP. • Nov. 16, 1933: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes approves the future Blue Ridge Parkway for federal funding under the Public Works Administration. • Feb. 5-7, 1934: First hearings held in Washington to consider parkway route. • June 13, 1934: “Radcliffe Committee” appointed by Secretary Ickes to decide Parkway route recommends selection of the Tennessee-favored route (the Virginia-North Carolina-Tennessee route) instead of the Virginia-North Carolina route favored by North Carolinians. • July 19, 1934: Secretary Ickes approves por-

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thirds of the land adjacent to the road is privately held. On much of that, nothing prevents a landowner from building a house or a condominium complex or clear-cutting the trees in plain view of one of the nation’s most-visited parks. “You have no idea a piece of land is privately held until the owner goes and builds something there,” says Rusty Painter, land protection director for the Conservation Trust of North Carolina, one of several lands trusts that have worked for years to protect the parkway “viewshed” by purchasing adjacent land or negotiating conservation easements. “You might have 10 acres of protected land, but it only takes one acre with one giant house on it to essentially destroy the integrity of that view,” Painter said.

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SHEVILLE — Stowed in the Blue Ridge Parkway archives are more than 850 architectural drawings from the 1930s depicting every curving mile of the scenic road, down to where wildflowers would be planted, picnic tables placed and trees cut to open panoramic mountain vistas. Viewed this way, as a 469mile-long garden whose meandering path is a two-lane highway, the Blue Ridge Parkway is the largest landscape architecture project in the history of the United States. Seventy-five years after construction started, the parkway’s collective gardener, the National Park Service, struggles to keep the forest and the development beyond it from closing in. Though the parkway passes through four national forests and other protected land as it stretches from the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, two-

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OPINION

2D • SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010

Same profession, different styles

Salisbury Post I “The truth shall make you free” GREGORY M. ANDERSON Publisher 704-797-4201 ganderson@salisburypost.com

ELIZABETH G. COOK

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PATRICK SNIDER

A young man who united us n a year overshadowed by recession, oil spills, summer heat and short tempers, Rowan Countians learned what really matters by following the story of young Patrick Snider. Family. Faith. Perseverance. Just 16 years old when he became sick with testicular cancer, Patrick embraced the “Live Strong” credo of Lance Armstrong. They had the same type of cancer, received treatment from the same doctor and had the same determination. The diagnosis came in PATRICK SNIDER January, so short a time ago. Immediately the prayers started, followed by fundraisers. Patrick was a pitcher for the North Rowan baseball team. Players and coaches who might have been rivals the year before became some of his biggest cheerleaders in 2010. They knew what it was like to be looking forward to your next season. The fundraisers for Patrick raised community spirit. So many people wanted to help, wanted to invest their hard-earned money in trying to save this young man. There’s no future in pessimism, so Patrick and his family stayed positive. “I just rely on my family, friends, teammates, and just go through my treatments,” Patrick told a reporter last month. “And above all, keep fighting.” Six years ago another teen affected by cancer shared his philosophy. “I look at it like getting a bad call on the field,” Jack Campbell said in 2004. “First you get mad. You want to yell. You want to scream. But eventually you realize there’s nothing you can do about it so you play on.” Keep fighting. Play on. Jack died in 2005. Patrick died Friday. And in between untold others faced cancer. It’s important to remember that most survive. The Survivor Walk at Relay for Life has a full field. Even when the cancer has spread to other organs, the five-year survival rate for testicular cancer — the kind of cancer Patrick had — is 71 percent. If the cancer has not spread, the rate is 99 percent. So Patrick and his parents had good reason to be optimistic. But optimism is not enough. Doctors might be able to identify the trigger that brought on Patrick’s sudden death when he appeared to be getting better. Maybe that will help someone else in the future. For now, Patrick makes us realize our conflicts are petty, our concerns trivial. Life is to be lived and lived abundantly. Every moment is precious. Don’t waste it.

Common sense

(Or uncommon wisdom, as the case may be)

“We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.” — The Houghton Line November 1965

Moderately Confused

SALISBURY POST

thought going into retirement might be hard for reporter Jessie Burchette. We were prepared for her to be in a bad mood last week. As usual, Jessie proved me wrong. After 30 years of cranking out newspaper stories, Jessie practically danced out of the newsroom — figuratively speaking— with gifts in tow. She is happily retiring to Wilkes County, where her family has owned a farm for over a century. sounds a ELIZABETH lot That more enjoyCOOK able than writing about murder, armed robberies, politics and other minor disasters. Still, covering the news is in Jessie’s blood. As columnist Mark Wineka told Jessie on our group farewell card, she is a “true newspaperwoman.” She has all the right instincts: News happens, you cover it. Politicians waffle, you pin them down. And always follow the money trail. She is plain spoken and occasionally gruff. She knows a runaround when she sees it and will tell you so. Jessie will want me to stop this. She likes to stay in the background — another good instinct for reporters. At her

request, we did not throw a retirement bash. We brought in grits, eggs and sausage one morning, because we thought she might like it. But that’s about it. Stow the sentimental stuff. We don’t want to expose the kind heart beneath that hardnosed exterior. The company gave Jessie a Salisbury Post watch as she exited, perfect material for her sardonic wit. Endless oneliners probably went through her mind before the watch ticked off its first 60 seconds.. Mark predicts the watch will show up on Boocoo or eBay. • • • Kathy Chaffin also resigned from the Post recently, eager to explore other writing opportunities. She seems like family to many Post readers. Through Kathy’s candid columns, we followed her treatment for breast cancer and the rough road to recovery. She has written inspirational columns and has a wonderful touch with human interest stories — probably because she cares so deeply for people. Kathy continues to be a loyal friend to retired Post columnist Rose Post, visiting her at a local nursing home and helping Rose remember her own writing career. Kathy has written a farewell column that appears in the A section of today’s pa-

per. She already has a running start on this leap of faith — columns and other material to publish and some experience as an inspirational speaker. I believe this new career will take off. • • • The news staff has been through a lot of changes in the past year, and we have not reported all the comings and goings as promptly as we should. Readers like to know about the people behind the bylines. We’ll catch up on new staff photos and bios soon. A few reporters came and went quickly last year, accepting jobs at bigger papers or at a management level elsewhere before they got a chance to give out their new Salisbury Post business cards. That made me leery of announcing additions to the staff. I didn’t want to have to unannounce them. If and when you see Jessie Burchette and Kathy Chaffin bylines in the paper again, don’t think we need to unannounce their departure. Former newsroom employees often become stringers or freelancers for us. That’s why you still see stories by former lifestyles reporter Susan Shinn, now studying to become a teacher, and pictures shot by retired photographer Wayne Hinshaw. • • • Thinking about Jessie and

Kathy, I marvel how people with such different temperaments could do the same job. Journalists have to be hardnosed and inquisitive, but sensitive to others’ predicaments. Thick-skinned but willing to hear out their critics. And there’s a little bit of the idealist in all of us, tempered by experience and skepticism. We have to hold on to our time-honored values — truth, fairness, accuracy — while adapting to new story forms and different media. Saturday afternoon, Mark Wineka was in the newsroom when he heard chatter over the scanner about a light plane crashing in Enochville. A reporter for more than 30 years, he did what reporters have always done — go to the scene. News happens, you cover it. Only now he takes a camera, because today’s journalist does it all. And he called the story in over his mobile phone to get it on our website ASAP. Old ways, new ways. Hard ways, soft ways. There is no one right answer, no definitive way to cover the news. We stick to the same principles while we each write and report in our own way. Technology changes; stories last. Someday we’ll all dance out of here — or take a leap of faith — and go make our own stories. • • • Cook is editor of the Salisbury Post. 704-797-4244.

Mook’s Place/Mark Brincefield

The thoughts that count in today’s world ASHINGTON — The current Journolist controversy that has the blogosphere heaving sparks, and Washington even more self-absorbed than usual, is weak tea — a tempest in Barbie’s teacup. At least as concerns the socalled conspiracy itself. As a larger lesson about the way we search and destroy each other in the political/media world, there may be something darker brewing. For the millions who have KATHLEEN no idea what I’m talking PARKER about, a brief history: Journolist was a listserv (Internetspeak for watering hole) where liberal-leaning journalists gathered to kvetch. Started by prodigal blogger Ezra Klein for a few friends, it grew in numbers and popularity, attracting a few mainstream luminaries (Joe Klein of Time magazine) along the way. But mostly it was a consortium of far lesser-known folks (academics, mid- to lowlevel producers, etc.) who enjoyed the camaraderie of the like-minded. In the conservative world, we call such people Fox News. (Just kidding, guys, but really.) Today, Ezra Klein is a ripened 26-year-old Washington Post blogger — hired as a

known liberal — who makes trenchant observations about health care and other complicated policy issues. Klein is young and could be seen as relatively inexperienced in the world of which he has precipitously become a pretty highlevel moving part. Today he is best known — in certain quarters — for his role in creating the listserv, which is being characterized as the locus of leftwing conspiracy. The story, such as it is, was broken by conservative Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, a newish website where a number of my friends happen to write. A former reporter was on the benighted Journolist. It is no fun writing about friends and colleagues, but perspective is needed here. Carlson has been making the news rounds with his traffic-driving story, appearing on Fox News, where he is a contributor, and criticizing journalists who posted comments suggesting that they were teaming up to advance a policy agenda and to get Barack Obama elected president. It should come as no surprise that self-identifying liberals have liberal thoughts and friends, so no foul there, as

Carlson has said. And, indeed, some of the comments are, on their face, condemnable, not to mention banal. But some also have been presented out of context and, besides, were offered as part of an ongoing argument among colleagues who believed they were acting in good faith that theirs was a private conversation. Were they naive to think so? In this world, yes. Was Carlson right to “out” the private comments of people, who, for the most part have no significant power? That, to me, is the more compelling issue. On the question of context, I have room only for one example, but more can be found on Klein’s Washington Post blog (http://bit.ly/at3U06). One of the most widely circulated is that these lefties were conspiring to get the government to shut down Fox News. Well, one member — a UCLA law professor no one ever heard of (Jonathan Zasloff, sorry) — did write something to that effect. But it was a query about whether the FCC could pull the network’s broadcasting permit once it expires for, in liberals’ view, espousing a political agenda. Whereupon, Michael Scher-

If you pull a few remarks from tens of thousands posted by 400 people over a few years, you can frame a debate any way you wish.

er of Time responded: “You really want political parties/white houses picking and choosing which news organizations to favor?” Even so, the headline was that liberals want to shut down Fox News, which is not precisely an accurate rendering of a non-conversation. There was no further discussion on the subject at Journolist. Scandalous? Sure, if you want it to be. If you pull a few remarks from tens of thousands posted by 400 people over a few years, you can frame a debate any way you wish. If you pull a mean quote about Rush Limbaugh, you’ve got Limbaugh time. Throw in Karl Rove, Fox News and Sarah Palin, and you’re golden — for a little while. But then the news cycle moves on, and maybe next week you’ll be the one being hunted. In the meantime, we have to ask ourselves: Are we better off never having the ability to speak off-handedly among friends, to say in private what we could never say in public, to think aloud and uncensored? Or do we resign ourselves to the new reality — that no one is ever to be trusted — and keep our thoughts to ourselves? The answer implied by the events here described suggests a country in which few of us would want to live. • • • Parker writes columns for The Washington Post.

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SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010 • 3D

OTHER OPINIONS

‘The pig has died’

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Washington has a shortage of truth-tellers hite House spokesman Robert Gibbs is in deep trouble for committing one of Washington’s most unforgivable sins. He spread a vicious truth. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gibbs said out loud what every analyst in the capital knows: “There’s no doubt” that Republicans could regain control of the House in November. But his frankness caused such dismay in the party ranks that the White House dispatched Joe Biden to say on ABC’s “This Week” that he COKIE AND was “absolutely STEVE ROBERTS confident” the Democrats were in “great shape” with the voting public. Gibbs’ remark was so noteworthy because it was so rare. The fastest-growing industry in Washington, D.C., today goes by different names: spin control, message discipline, crisis management, image branding. These are not exactly euphemisms for lying but they are certainly not formulas for truthtelling, either. Here’s a good rule to follow for the next 100 days until the fall elections: Anyone with a vested interest in the outcome can’t be trusted. The honest brokers are out of power and want to stay there. Two of the most valuable candor

merchants out there today are Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of a commission established by President Obama to recommend a solution for the nation’s exploding budget deficits. Simpson, a Republican from Wyoming, retired from the Senate after 18 years; Bowles, a Democrat from North Carolina, was Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and an unsuccessful Senate candidate. Both are liberated from the burden of ambition to speak their minds freely. “There are many who hope we fail,” Simpson said recently, and if anything, he was understating the problem. Liberals say no solution should cut social programs, and conservatives say tax increases should be off the table. Neither side is willing to face reality, but they are both wrong, and Bowles said as much in a recent talk to the nation’s governors. “This debt is like a cancer,” he warned, “that will destroy the country from within. “We can’t grow our way out of this,” insisted Bowles. “We could have decades of double-digit growth and not grow our way out of this enormous debt problem. We can’t tax our way out. ... The reality is we’ve got to do exactly what you all do every day as governors. We’ve got to cut spending or increase revenues or do some combination of that.” Simpson, who works hard at being folksy, put the problem a bit differently: “I was in the Senate for 18 years, and the cry to me was al-

ways, ‘Al, go bring home the bacon.’ Well, the pig has died.” Yes, it has. And it’s refreshing when someone says so. Take Rep. Bob Inglis, an obscure backbencher from South Carolina who lost the Republican primary this past spring and is firing some parting shots at his old party. Sarah Palin, complained Inglis, exercised “the lowest form of political leadership” by accusing the Democrats of advocating “death panels” in their healthcare bill. It was not true, and she knew it, he said, but she was deliberately deceiving the voters by “preying on their fears” and few, if any, Republicans were willing to challenge her. The “birthers” who question the president’s legitimacy are also trading in fear, he said: “Why do we do that? We do it because we want to vilify the other side. We want to make them into the big bad guys.” And racism, Inglis insisted, helps fuel that invidious campaign: “I love the South. I’m a Southerner. But I can feel it.” Obama himself could use some honest advice on the subject of Afghanistan, and a particularly piercing critique comes from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. A former adviser to Republican presidents, Haass is now outside the partisan system and free to write in the latest Newsweek: “The war the United States is now fighting in Afghanistan is not succeeding and is not worth waging in this way.

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Alan Simpson (top) and Erskine Bowles delivered a blunt assessment on dangers of deficits. The time has come to scale back U.S. objectives and sharply reduce U.S. involvement on the ground. Afghanistan is claiming too many American lives, requiring too much attention, and absorbing too many resources.“ Any politician running for office who made that point could and would be accused of “cutting and running,” of “abandoning the troops” and “undermining morale.” Only an independent voice like Haass can afford to take the heat. So here’s to the truth-tellers: Bowles and Simpson, Inglis and Haass and, yes, Robert Gibbs. When the pig dies, someone has to find the courage to say so. • • • Steve Roberts’ new book, “From Every End of This Earth” (HarperCollins), was published this fall.

LETTERS U.S. too closely aligned with Israel George Washington is certainly the father of our country and probably the greatest man who ever lived. His farewell speech was never given but published in the Philadelphia paper in September 1786. His address was profound and brilliant. Before he gave it to the newspaper, he was offered a third term as president. When he refused the third term, he was offered to be “king” of America. He politely refused, wanting to return to Mount Vernon and his hobby of breeding mules. His farewell address included many cautionary measures for his countrymen to consider. He warned never to be aligned with one individual country. He stated with emphasis that it would be fairer to treat all countries on the same plane. This profound advice was soon forgotten. Today, we’ve allowed ourselves to be involved with the Zionist government of Israel. We provide almost $20 billion in aid to Israel annually. This money is never paid back. We also provide military support for Israel’s defense only, not offense. Israel’s recent attack on Gaza, which caused 1,500 Palestinians to be murdered (mostly women and children), was overlooked by the Israeli government and U.S. Congress. Thirteen Israeli soldiers were lost in the attack. Israel directs our foreign policy by controlling the U.S. Defense and State departments. It’s the only nation in the world that allows dual citizenship for its citizens and U.S. citizens. Those citizens are allowed to serve in both armies and allowed to vote in our elections. The time has come to take Washington’s advice because we can no longer afford to support Israel in the fashion we have since 1948. With our national debt, we can no longer afford aid to any country. It is all important for the survival of the United States to heed the words of this brilliant and great servant of American society. — Victor S. Farrah Salisbury

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Job seekers wait in line to participate in a National Career Fair held last month in San Francisco.

Taking a lesson from Nixon The president should ‘go to China’ on jobs he economy is weak and the public is angry. What should President Barack Obama do? He could do what Richard Nixon did: Go to China. I don’t mean take a trip to Beijing. I mean do something unexpected and out of political character. In this case, listen to Republicans and the business community (and a few Democrats) and try using tax cuts to get the economy moving. He could call for Congress to postpone the scheduled repeal of most or all of President George W. MORTON KONDRACKE Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and also call for a cut in the corporate tax rate, now second-highest in the world. He also could call for a payroll tax holiday to encourage hiring and possibly win bipartisan support for some stimulus spending, daring Republicans to make a fuss about the danger of enlarging the federal deficit. He could address the deficit in next year’s budget after the bipartisan debt commission comes up with a comprehensive solution at the end of this year, which should include tax and entitlement reform plus recommendations for new revenue sources. Obama clearly is a Keynesian and so are his economic advisers. Their 2009 stimulus plan was heavy on government spending to fight the recession. Obama claims it’s working, but at best, it’s creating only about 100,000 jobs a month — less than half of what’s necessary to bring the country back to 5 percent unemployment in 10 years. The president, most of his allies in Congress and liberal outside economists — also devout believers in John Maynard Keynes’ “demand side” economics — think that more spending is

the answer, plus some targeted tax cuts. But, by 51 percent to 40 percent, according to a just-released Pew poll, the public prefers reducing the federal deficit to spending more on job creation. Republicans are relying on that kind of polling to say “no” to new spending, or at least to demand that any outlays be offset with other budget cuts. Enough conservative and moderate Democrats — or just nervous ones — are of the same opinion that there’s no chance of getting big spending through Congress, even if economists such as Paul Krugman and Alan Blinder of Princeton University, Columbia University’s Joseph Stiglitz, and Robert Reich of the University of California, Berkeley, say it’s necessary to ward off a 1930s-style economic failure. So what should Obama do? He should do as Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw recommends: Have some intellectual humility and see if something else might work — namely, tax cuts. Mankiw was President George W. Bush’s former chief economic adviser, but — writing in the current issue of the journal National Affairs — he does not come off as a doctrinaire “supply side” ideologue. Rather, he admits that economists and policymakers “have no way of knowing for sure” if their economic models are correct in coping with a crisis. But he makes a good case for trying tax cuts to see if they might have better results than Obama’s stimulus. Mankiw cites several academic studies — including one by Obama’s own chief economist, Christina Romer (written before she went to work for Obama) — showing that tax cuts have a bigger growth “multiplier” effect than government spending. That is, each dollar of tax cuts — particularly business and income tax cuts — produces (depending on the study) from $3 to $5 in economic growth, up to four times the effect of increases in government spending. In a Nixon-goes-to-China move, Obama could adopt some of the recommendations recently made by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at its

Jobs for America Summit. (Disclosure: I was paid to moderate a bipartisan congressional panel at the conference.) An “open letter” to Obama and Congress issued in conjunction with the conference asserted that “our precariously weak economy — and especially our all-important smallbusiness sector — simply cannot sustain (the) massive tax hikes” that automatic expiration of the Bush tax cuts will impose next year. In 2011, the top individual income tax rate is scheduled to jump from 35 percent to 39.6 percent — and to nearly 45 percent, including new Medicare taxes passed as part of Obama’s health care plan. Adding state taxes will put it above 50 percent. Obama and Congressional Democrats intend to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans making under $250,000 a year — adding $2.3 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. Extending them for everyone would add another $700 billion. The chamber letter called for “at least a temporary extension of all the tax relief passed in the prior decade,” plus reduction of corporate taxes. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., has endorsed a full extension of the Bush cuts. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has recommended a temporary extension in hopes it will impel work on tax reform as part of debt control. What are the chances that Obama could “go to China”? Liberals will howl that he’s buying “voodoo economics,” going over to the “supply side” and benefiting the rich. Supply-sider Rep. Paul Ryan, RWis., the ranking member on the Budget Committee, told me that Republicans have quietly offered to help Democrats pass a two-year extension of the Bush cuts. “There are no bites,” he said. “The problem for them is that they would have to concede that lower top tax rates are good for growth.” But it’s worth a try. And what’s better — ideological purity or a fast reduction in the jobless rate? • • • Morton Kondracke is executive editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.

n February, after the blizzards had hit Washington and I was hipdeep in snow in my cul-desac wondering which undulation in the snow cover had my car under it, I uncharitably thought: “Why couldn’t this have fallen on Moscow? They’re used to it and are said to even like it. Besides, they’re rewarded with great summers, or so DALE MCFEATTERS I’m told.” Not this year. An Associated Press story led off, “It’s so hot that women in bikinis are sunbathing in Moscow.” The reporter, perhaps mindful of Search Engine Optimization, quickly returned to the theme, “There was the rare sight of women in bikinis sunbathing Thursday in Kolomenskoye park ...” The newspapers I saw, perhaps as a memory aid to their slower readers, helpfully printed photos of attractive young women in bikinis cavorting in a fountain, another reason not to mourn the fall of communism with its bag-of-laundry chic. Moscow, as is much of Northern Europe, is sweltering under a heat wave that shows no sign of easing. In Washington, we have a word for a string of 90-degree-plus days — summer. In Moscow, it’s sheer hell. One of the few advantages of living that far north, other than the great summers, is that you don’t have to spring for air conditioning. And then comes a summer like this one. Moscow began breaking records for 90-degree days in late May, occasionally in absolute terms, other times records of long standing. Last Friday, the temperature was 92.5 degrees, the hottest July 16 ever. The next day the temperature went up to 95. Muscovites have limited choices to battle the heat. There are the fountains and there are the suspect waters of the Moscow River, but it turns out that sweltering Russians seeking relief in their rivers and lakes have an unsettling tendency to drown. Last Saturday and Sunday, 77 Russians drowned, bringing the total countrywide for July to more than 400 — and that’s on top of 1,244 in June. The New York Times notes that Russians drown at more than five times the rate of Americans. There is an obvious explanation: It’s not conducive to sharpening your swimming skills if your bodies of water are frozen for half the year and frigid the rest. That explanation also turns out to be wrong. Mostly, Russians drown because they’re drunk. The Russians have proved remarkably resistant to the government’s anti-alcohol campaigns, and a slogan like “Don’t drink and sweat” is probably not going to turn that around. Still, according to the AP, government officials “lamented the tendency of heavy drinking while sunbathing.” The heat wave has been accompanied by severe drought and wildfires in Russia’s grain-growing regions. Remarkably, considering Russia’s track record in this regard, nowhere did I find a Kremlin spokesman blaming the heat wave on the U.S. But if the 90-degree temperatures continue with no relief in sight ... • • • Dale McFeatters writes columns and editorials for Scripps Howard News Service.

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hanks to the work of one Andrew Breitbart, the NAACP came under attack; a White House, fearful of all things racial, saw its week of policy success derailed; and segments of the media, needing to fill air time, were misled. Most importantly, an innocent woman was smeared. There is enough crow on the plates of nearly everyone in Washington to keep the high and mighty eating bird until fall, when it’s time to carve the turkey. Here’s the story. TwenDONNA ty-four years ago, Shirley BRAZILE Sherrod was a member of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives /Land Assistance Fund, an organization that helped protect largely minorityowned farms. One day, a white farmer, Roger Spooner, appeared before her. He, too, needed to have his home saved from the mortgage lender. However, Sherrod was conflicted. Sherrod was conflicted because so many black farmers needed help. Yet here she was, a black woman, expected to help a white farmer. It didn’t feel right, helping this man when her own people needed her in far greater numbers. In order to understand this feeling, you have to understand Sherrod’s world. It was my world, too. Sherrod grew up in the segregated South. When she was 17, a white man shot her father in the back. No charges were filed. That was just how things were. So try to imagine Sherrod’s struggle when she was approached by that white farmer. She wanted to get him off her hands. So she turned the farmer over to a white lawyer. Yet in her heart, she knew she had passed the buck. This action (“Because I took him to one of his own”) revealed to her that she was in the wrong. She knew it. Her own words speak best: “That’s when it was revealed to me that it’s about the poor versus those who have. (It is) not so much (about) white and black, it’s not, you know — it opened my eyes.” “I was blind, but now I see,” “Amazing Grace’s” lyrics say. Sherrod had not, prior to this revelation, given the farmer “the full force of what I could do.” That changed when she confronted herself about viewing a man’s need through the corrosive lens of black versus white. After that realization, Sherrod gave the farmer all she had. She saved his farm. She had worked hard, prior to her revelation, to get him a good lawyer. Roger Spooner told CNN “she stuck with me.” But this is not the story Fox News initially told. Andrew Breitbart supplied the media with a heavily edited video from an anonymous source. Skillfully cut, the video only showed Sherrod saying that, because the farmer was white, she considered withholding her best effort. This deceptive video set off a mad scramble. The incompetence behind the reaction to this edited video resembled an old Keystone Kops movie where the cops all rush through the same doorway, wedging themselves in. However, this rush to judge wasn’t funny. There was a race to be the first to condemn Sherrod for racism. Fox News led the batting order. Conservative bloggers made it viral. Pundits salivated, and then the call was made to the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization to take a stand — without even the facts. The NAACP, nagged by Fox News for comment, quickly described Ms. Sherrod’s actions as “shameful.” The Department of Agriculture weighed in, demanding and receiving Sherrod’s res-

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ignation. The White House supported the firing. Senior White House staffers, according to reporting done by Politico, congratulated themselves for their speed (read that “haste”) in reacting to the story. Sherrod appeared on several news programs, clearly stunned and numb from the avaSHERROD lanche of reprimands, reproaches and blame. Sherrod thought she had told a story to demonstrate how she had overcome the bias of her own experience. Instead, she found herself the center of a national controversy, one clearly coordinated to divert the public’s attention from a more serious and earnest conversation about racism. “I could care less about Shirley Sherrod, to be honest with you,” Andrew Breitbart said. Political veterans call this “hardball” politics, where the lust for power is so overpowering you care nothing about whom you trample, even if they’re innocent. How and why this moral of her story in that speech was missed entirely by the news media, the Obama administration, the NAACP and others is beyond me. But what really angers me is a professional instigator out to get the NAACP for calling on the leaders of the Tea Party to repudiate any and all forms of racist behavior or actions by their members was the driving force behind both the NAACP’s and administration’s reactions. Shirley Sherrod and the Spooners may end up teaching us something yet. The man who smeared her and those who rushed to judge her certainly have a lot to learn. What we must not do is tear to shreds those who speak of that struggle within. To them, we must be willing to listen, and learn. • • •

Donna Brazile is a political commentator on CNN, ABC and NPR; contributing columnist to Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill; and former campaign manager for Al Gore.

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niversary, the view has other threats, too. Especially where it comes close to urban areas — Asheville and Blowing Rock, N.C., and Roanoke and Wintergreen, Va. — trespass by adjacent landowners is a problem. Neighbors have cut parkway trees to improve the views from their porches, built driveways, sheds or garages on parkway land or used it to dump trash. In more rural areas, professional poachers have illegally harvested so much galax, black cohosh and ginseng off parkway lands that local, legal hunters are unable to find the plants to sell.

Dangers abound Natural pests harass the parkway; the woolly adelgid is busy killing Fraser firs at higher elevations. Smog has helped diminish ridgetop views in some areas by as much 80 percent since the road was built. But the biggest problem, Francis says, is protecting the parkway views, those carefully imagined landscapes painted in the minds of long-ago architects and brought to life through the windshields of as many as 20 million visitors a year. If too many of those pristine views are lost, visitors have said in surveys, they’ll stop coming. They will stop spending their money in the hotels and rental cabins, restaurants, gift shops and attractions that bring an estimated $2.3 billion a year to communities near the parkway in the two states. The parkway got its start as a means of bringing jobs and money to the mountains. It was discussed in various terms by tourism promoters in North Carolina and Virginia for a couple of years before being authorized as a public works project under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933. It fell to the states to gather the land for the roadway, which would then be deeded to the National Park Service. In her book, “A Blue Ridge Parkway History,” Anne Mitchell Whisnant writes that North Carolina highway officials realized early on that the right-ofway would need to be wider than the prescribed 200 feet. Though it would be that narrow in some places in Virginia, in this state, officials often took as much as 800 feet. While that angered property owners who waited years for payment, it secured a broader buffer between the road and what might happen in the future beyond its borders. Even that wasn’t enough to protect the area around the Orchard at Altapass, an apple orchard planted by the Clinchfield Railroad in 1908 on a southfacing slope north of the community of Spruce Pine. Bill Carson, retired from IBM and living in Spruce Pine, bought the orchard with his sister in the mid-1990s when she saw an ad in the local weekly saying it was for sale. Four other people had left messages on the seller’s answering machine inquiring about the property, including a neighbor who wanted to combine it with his land and build houses on it. Carson and his sister happened to call as the seller was walking in the door. He answered the phone, and they made a deal. Sitting in a low gap in the ridgeline with direct access to the parkway, the orchard is plainly visible to southbound drivers.

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Parkway protectors hope they can keep development from encroaching on pastoral views like this one near Boone. money.” Joe Arrington won’t get that kind of money for the land he just sold to the Conservation Trust to keep it from being developed. BILL CARSON His father and grandfather bought Spruce Pine resident a 180-acre tract near Balsam Gap, south of Waynesville, in the 1930s for Houck Medford started the nonprof- $3 to $5 an acre. They sold a piece from the mountaintop down to the it Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation in parkway when the road came through 1997 to raise money for parkway projects that would otherwise go unfunded. in the 1940s, and kept the rest for hunting grouse, gathering firewood Medford calls what might have been and as a hedge against poverty in built on the orchard property “trophy their old age. houses.” Now Arrington is 69, retired from Instead, parkway travelers approaching the property see the big red his job as a rural mail carrier, and he needs some cash. He could have sold to apple barn against the green trees and follow the gravel drive to see what’s in- a developer — in the boom years, the land appraised for $15,000 an acre — side. but he chose to settle for a lower price There’s a general store, with mounand have the land protected so his tain crafts and jars of jam and apple granddaughters can see the same butter. In the fall, there are 40 varieties of apples. And year-round, sever- views he has enjoyed his whole life. He al days a week, there’s a different kind sold 64 acres to the Conservation Trust of picking, with live music by local per- of North Carolina and donated 46. formers. People come from several counties to listen and dance on the Rarified air wood floor of the former packing The Conservation Trust plans to house. turn Arrington’s 110 acres over to the “We can’t save it all, but we can National Park Service. He kept the 25 save the good stuff,” says Carson, who believes that keeping the land from be- acres around his house. Pulling his Toyota pickup off a parking developed helps preserve mountain way overlook at Looking Glass Rock, culture. There is also a broader conservation several miles south of the property and effort in the area. Around the orchard, more than 5,000 feet above sea level, he takes a deep breath. The air smells the Conservation Trust has since prodifferent. It’s cool. It tastes like Christtected four other tracts, one of which included a 1.5-mile section of the Revo- mas trees and spring water, as it did lutionary War-era Overmountain Victo- when he used to ride horses into these ry Trail. A developer had laid out plans mountains as a teenager. The same as when he and his wife used to have picfor vacation homes on it. Though the recession has slowed the nics in the area when their children were young. pace of development on land adjacent Arrington is not against all developto the parkway, it has also crimped the ment, he says. He wishes that those budgets of private and public land who do build within sight of the parktrusts. way would do so with some sensitivity: A recent ad offered for sale a 48smaller houses, more natural colors, acre site along the parkway that inless tree-clearing. cludes Tanbark Ridge near Asheville. Francis, the parkway superintendThe ad touted “beautiful old growth woods with spectacular bold creek and ent, says the parkway is beginning discussions with the 29 county governamazing native floral!” It mentioned a ments along the parkway that might trail that connects with the Mountaineventually result in that kind of coopto-Sea Trail. All for $699,000. eration. The parkway, Arrington says, “proLandowner’s conscience vided jobs at the end of the Depres“It’s an opportunity,” says Painter of sion. But it’s not like going out and buythe Conservation Trust, who knows the ing a new car, and then it’s gone. property and says a land trust in the “What they did left us a legacy. It area would like to buy it. “We just need becomes a part of you.”

“We can’t save it all, but we can save the good stuff.”

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1. Mattaponi Queen: Stories, by Belle Boggs. 2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. 3. The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson. 4. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella, by Stephenie Meyer,. 5. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout. 6. Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait, by Mike Lassiter. 7. The Obama Diaries, by Laura Ingraham. 8. Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated), by Florence Heide. 9. Faithful Place, by Tana French. 10. My Name Is Mary Sutter, by Robin Oliveira.

IndieBound bestsellers Fiction 1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson. 2. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. 3. Faithful Place, by Tana French. 4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell. 5. The Passage, by Justin Cronin. 6. Fly Away Home, by Jennifer Weiner. 7. The Glass Rainbow, by James Lee Burke. 8. Sizzling Sixteen, by Janet Evanovich. 9. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender. 10. Spies of the Balkans, by Alan Furst.

Nonfiction 1. Women, Food, and God, by Geneen Roth. 2. Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern. 3. Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain. 4. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis. 5. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall. 6. War, by Sebastian Junger. 7. Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne. 8. The Last Stand, by Nathaniel Philbrick. 9. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. 10. The Obama Diaries, by Laura Ingraham.

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Humpy Wheeler gives a glimpse of a fast life “Growing Up NASCAR” by Humpy Wheeler & Peter Golenbock. Motorbooks. 300 pp. $25. BY CHRIS VERNER cverner@salisburypost.com

Humpy Wheeler isn’t a great writer, but he is a great storyteller. That’s even better. A great storyteller knows how to turn a phrase and land a punch line, can make characters fairly leap from the page, may even summon up a tear or two. Wheeler does all that in “Growing Up NASCAR: Racing’s Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All,” assisted by co-author Peter Golenbock. He doesn’t tell all — one single volume couldn’t begin to contain his extraordinary life and career in motorsports — but he tells a lot, and he spins it all out with a pungent, red-dirt delivery that comes naturally to this native Tar Heel. In recounting his colorful career, he simultaneously tells the coming-of-age story of NASCAR. Wheeler was the longtime president and general manager of Speedway Motorsports, the Bruton Smith conglomerate that controls Charlotte Motor Speedway and several other major tracks. Before that, however, he had been involved in racing for decades, from promoting and managing small dirt tracks during the infancy of NASCAR, near his native Belmont, to running a national public relations program for Firestone’s racing division. He’s worked with and known just about everybody worth knowing in the stock-car racing world, and he proves himself to be a shrewd judge of character with an uncanny knack for sizing up situations and individuals. For instance, here’s his candid assessment of his relationship with Smith, the iron-willed boss with whom he frequently clashed even as he helped build his racing empire: • “We were two intense, creative, aggressive men in a business loaded with violence, intrigue, mystery, and two-fisted testosterone — where the Wild, Wild West met the Scotch-Irish toughness of the Southeast.” In

“We were two intense, creative, aggressive men in a business loaded with violence, intrigue, mystery, and two-fisted testosterone.” HUMPY WHEELER Promoter

another passage, he describes Smith as “absolutely the most aggressive human being I have ever known or could imagine. He wanted it all, so in order to get it I worked all the time — days, nights, and weekends. ... To him, rules don’t count. Bruton makes the rules. And this was a constant battle because I preferred propriety and hated ostentation.” He’s a keen observer of the illuminating detail, as in this thumbnail portrait of the cocky and consummately gifted driver Darrell Waltrip: • “He came from Tennessee, wore his hair in a ducktail, and if they had given him a guitar and a skinny white suit, you might have thought Elvis had rolled in. ... He had a glibness about him that defied southernness. Southern boys were supposed to be respectful and quiet, but Darrell Waltrip wasn’t. He was supposed to respect his peers and other drivers, but Darrell Waltrip didn’t.” And those who know team owner Rick Hendrick only from recent controversies involving his lending of cars and airplane rides to North Carolina’s former governor will find a different perspective here: • “So many of your tremendously successful people are narcissists who have no emotion attached to anything, who have no feeling for others. Rick is the complete opposite — a caring, feeling person who has given millions of dollars to charity and to individuals without anyone finding out about it. He’s given millions to people in need, but the public knows none of this. He is an extraordinary human being.” While race fans focus on the

few hours of action that take place on the track, Wheeler lifts the curtain on the carnival behind the scenes, revealing a world that careens between penthouse business deals and trackside pathos as he struggles to come to grips with the deaths of a string of drivers, including the devastating 2001 loss of Earnhardt, a close personal friend. It’s a given that champion drivers push the limits, yet Wheeler did the same as a promoter. To help change the perception of NASCAR’s redneck roots, he lured Elizabeth Taylor to be the guest of honor at the 1977 World 600 in Charlotte — as outrageous a pairing, at that time, as serving pork rinds with chardonnay. Yet it drew many more women to the stands. He

spontaneously created the madcap “Great American Taxicab Race” to help seal an early TV deal, and he transformed the annual All Star race into a nighttime extravaganza, which required a miracle of engineering as well as a promotional leap of faith. Part marketing genius and part seat-of-the-pants magician, he was often “... walking on the edge of a cliff, and that’s what I liked to do.” In treading the line between success and disaster so successfully, for so many years, he became a key figure in NASCAR history, one certain to take his place eventually in the Hall of Fame in Charlotte. Meanwhile, he’s given fans a unique insider’s view of the sport and a wealth of unforgettable anecdotes.

With temperatures rising, water-themed books a relief BY DARA L. CAIN Rowan Public Library

Children have a lot of free time during the summer. One of the best ways to keep them engaged is to find them a book that they will enjoy reading. Here are some fun and adventurous water-themed titles that can be found at Rowan Public Library that are perfect for summertime reading. An energetic fish named Tiddler travels away from his home to go exploring in the big blue sea in the silly story “Fidgety Fish” by Ruth Galloway. Tiddler’s mother is hoping that he will return much calmer than when he left. On his many adventures in the sea, Tiddler encounters many friendly sea creatures until he finds himself inside the mouth of a dark cave. To his surprise it is not a cave he is in but the mouth of a very big fish. Will Tiddler’s wiggly and fidgety self be enough to help him escape? Another fun book is “Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea” by Jan Peck. Join a young sea diver as he sets out to find hidden treasure in the depths of the deep blue sea. While on his quest your child will encounter different aquatic animals as the boy hitches a ride with a dolphin, plays peek-a-boo with a sea turtle and fences a swordfish among many other water activities. Will the boy be able to rescue the pirate treasure to bring home to his mama or is it too protectively guarded? You must read the story to find out. “Froggy Learns to Swim” is a silly book about a frog who is reluctant to swim. What draws the reader in are the descriptive

sound words like ”zook! zik!” and “flop flop-splash” that will have your kids laughing out loud. With a little help from his swimming attire including flippers, a mask, a snorkel, and of course, his encouraging mother, Froggy becomes an avid swimmer. So much so that he doesn’t want to get out of the pond past nightfall. This book is not only appropriate for reluctant swimmers but for any child encountering a fear that may need a little encouragement. After reading this book your child will want to read the other titles in the series by Jonathan London. If your child enjoys a good mystery, a must read is “Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag” by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. Nate is a young boy detective who solves mysteries with the help of his dog Sludge. In this adventure Olivia’s boring blue beach bag turns up missing at the beach. To find out what happened to it, follow the series of clues and help Nate, Sludge and Olivia find her bag. The fun doesn’t stop there. You can read the other Nate the Great detective books and help solve more mysteries. Emily has grown up on a houseboat with her mother and has never been allowed in the water until now. In the book “The Tail of Emily Windsnap,” by Liz Kessler, Emily takes swimming lessons at school and makes the startling discovery that she is a mermaid. How long will she be able to keep her secret? Swim along with Emily as she meets other mermaids and discovers a whole new world open up to her below the ocean. If you would like to share more sea adventures with Emily check out

the subsequent titles in the series. Author Gordon Korman’s first book in the exciting Dive trilogy is “The Discovery.” Four kids on a marine expedition during the summer explore an underwater habitat and unexpectedly discover gold. The suspense and tension builds up as Dante, Adriana, Kaz and Star fight to retrieve the sunken treasure. Will they be able to work together or will the possibility of wealth divide them? And what about the sharks and the treasure hunters who are after the treasure? Read the story to find out what becomes of the gold. 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 — Tuesday, 7 p.m., Uploading Photos and Email Attachments. Computer help sessions: Make an appointment for 30 minute, one-on-one lessons in basic computer skills.Call 704-216-8243 for questions or to make an appointment. East — no classes in July or August. Classes will resume in September. South — Classes resume in August. Children’s program: This summer, the library invites kids to Make a Splash and join the library for a summer of programs and great reads. Programs wrap up Thursday. • July 26-28: Ron Jones Stories and Music. Calling all Teens: Make Waves @ Rowan Public Library ends Thursday.

• Beach Blast and Prize Auction: Thursday, 5:30-7:30 p.m., end of summer celebration at South Rowan Regional. Parent and Family Reading Workshops: For the second summer, the city of Salisbury and Rowan County are partnering to encourage parents to read to their children. They are promoting reading through local libraries, from 5-7 p.m. • Wednesday, Spencer Library Park, Spencer. • Aug. 4, South Rowan Library, China Grove. • Aug. 11, Cleveland Elementary School, Cleveland. Parents are invited to bring their children, preschool to grade 12, to these locations to register for a free library card (or bring the child’s current library card) and receive a free book for each child. Children can also register to win a free Nintendo Wii. One will be given away each week. Summer Reading Challenge: Tuesday, 7 p.m., headquarters will present the movie based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” in the Stanback Auditorium. All summer readers as well as the general public are welcome. Refreshments will be served. No admission charged. Children under 13 should be accompanied by an adult. Displays: Headquarters —Watercolors by Caroline Marshall and Anime by Robert Clyde Allen; South — art pictures by Jan McCanless. East — clown collection by Elizabeth Ellenburg. 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.

Concord Poet to read at Literary Bookpost Saturday Concord poet Matthieu Devaux will make his first appearance at Literary Bookpost on Saturday, July 31, beginning at 1:30 p.m. At 2 p.m., Devaux will read from his new collection of poems,

“Walks Along Hidden Creek.” At the conclusion of the reading, Devaux will sign copies of his book. In “Walks Along a Hidden Creek,” author Devaux finds inspiration in the natural world, the changing of the seasons, and in

the hopes, regrets and wisdom that come from everyday life. Devaux holds a bachelor of arts degree (cum laude) and a certificate of translating from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Literary Bookpost is located at 110 S. Main St., downtown Salisbury. For additional information about this event, call 704 630-9788 or visit www.literarybook post.com.

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“Catch More Business – Join the Chamber” Why Join the Chamber? 2010 Annual Chamber Membership Drive So you can attend great Networking Events! Annual Membership Meeting...

Chamber Members are invited to celebrate at the Presenting Sponsor:

Twelve Team captains recently gathered for breakfast to strategize and are now recruiting new members for the Chamber’s 2010 Membership Drive. This event is exciting as each team can earn great prizes while recruiting new members. Businesses that wish to join the Chamber can contact a Team Captain listed below:

Featuring Keynote Speaker Winston Kelly, Executive Director of NASCAR HALL OF FAME Additional Sponsor:

2010 Membership Drive Team Captains Presenting Sponsors:

Carolinas Medical Center - NorthEast / Sherry Boyd Citizens South Bank / Donna Barnes City of Salisbury / Dave Treme Community Bank of Rowan / Seamus Donaldson K-Dees Jewelers / Kenny Dietz Lutheran Services for the Aging / Ted Goins PGT Industries / Monte Burns Rowan Regional Medical Center/Novant / Dari Caldwell Rowan Salisbury School System / Patti Overcash Rowan-Cabarrus Community College / Jeanie Moore Salisbury Printing Company / David Johnston Toys for Tots / Arbe' Arbalez

Thursday, November 4 Holiday Inn of Salisbury 6 p.m.

Winston Kelly came from an economic and business development background with Duke Energy Carolinas. He also has an extensive NASCAR background as a race reporter for MRN Radio, race statistician and public address announcer.

A graduate of North Carolina State University, Kelly is a board member and executive officer in many organizations and committees including the Charlotte Regional Partnership, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Charlotte Center City Partners and the 600 Festival Executive Committee. Be sure to RSVP to hear Kelly talk about the economic impact of the NASCAR Hall of Fame to the region and state. A reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and beverages will follow. RSVP to (704) 633-4221 or e-mail: info@rowanchamber.com. $30 per person

Why Join the Chamber? To get your business name recognized...

Get connected to thousands of people with over $2000 in free advertising! Join the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce and you will receive a Salisbury Post ad, ZipLocal yellow & white pages ad and online listing, Hot Deals coupon and Business Webpage with hotlinks at www.rowanchamber.com... and so much more.. The application fee is waived during the Membership Drive.You can join online at www.rowanchamber.com or come by Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Payment for annual membership must be in full.Cash, Check, MasterCard, Visa and Discover are accepted.

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Ameriprise (132 E. Innes St.) cuts the ribbon in Salisbury!

Chamber Networking Events Calendar These networking events, for chamber members, are the best place to market your business. You can meet other chamber members and build your referrals. Events are no charge unless noted. August 9 - Business Before Hours 7:30 – 9 a.m. CommunityOne Bank 1938 Jake Alexander Blvd. West September 13 - Bayada Nurses "Business After Hours," 5-7 pm September 21 - Business Council "Social Networking Roundtable," 9 a.m. at the Gateway Building September 28-30 - Membership Drive, 8 a.m.- noon, 1-5 p.m. at the Gateway October 14 - Women In Business "Fun, Fall Fashions, " 5-6:30 p.m. at the Gateway October 18 - Ben Mynatt Nissan "Business After Hours," 5-7 p.m. October 19 - Business Council "Speed Networking", 9 a.m. at the Gateway October 22 - "Healthcare in Rowan County", Friday Forum, 7 a.m. at the Gateway October 26 - New Member Reception- 5- 6:30 p.m. at the Gateway November 4 - Chamber Annual Meeting, 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, $30 per person November 16 - Business Council "Senior Care Options", 9 a.m. at the Gateway December 13 - Rowan Regional Medical Center Foundation/Novant "Business After Hours," 5-7 p.m. RSVP is required for all events via info@rowanchamber.com or call 704-633-4221.

Be sure to recognize and nominate a “Superstar Business” today! Rowan County Chamber Small Business of the Year Is your business a superstar? Do you feel your business represents Rowan County as the best in the business? The Small Business of the Year Award, sponsored by the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce, will be chosen from applications received by October 15 (chamber members only.) The winner will be the 2010 Chamber Champion. Previous winners include Home Instead Senior Care, Piedmont Plastic and Oral Surgery Center, Beaver Brothers, Inc., Great American Publishing, Greg Edds- State Farm Insurance, Healthcare Management Consultants, Hank Palmer and Associates, Derrick Travel Plaza, Quick Copy Print Shop, Century 21 – Towne and Country, Summerset Funeral Home, Silver Eagle, Wallace Realty & Rowan Bank. As a Chamber Champion, you will receive recognition at the November 4 Chamber Annual Meeting, a Chamber Champion plaque, your company name on a permanent plaque at the Gateway Building and media exposure. Members can nominate their own firm. Information is available at www.rowanchamber.com/The Chamber AT Work. Be sure to get in your application soon. Members can nominate their own firm. Information is available at www.rowanchamber.com/The Chamber AT Work. Be sure to get in your application soon.

Cutting the ribbon for Ameriprise Financial of Salisbury are (left to right) Walker Shelton, Adrian Staton, Olivia Wright, Financial Advisor Mike Wright, Cooper Wright, Salisbury Mayor Susan Kluttz, Avery Wright, Rowan County Commissioner Chair Carl Ford, Financial Advisor Seth Waller and Financial Advisor Greg Arthur. Whether it is financial planning, insurance, investments or banking/cash management, we can help you. Located in downtown Salisbury, come meet with us for your free consultation. Please call (704) 754-5950 to set up your appointment.

Chamber members should check their listing on www.rowanchamber.com for accuracy for the 2011 Membership Directory. Contact the Chamber office if changes are needed: 704-633-4221 or email info@rowanchamber.com

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SUNDAY July 25, 2010

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meet

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Eddie Marie White

’m preparing to go back to work full-time.

After a life of hard work and finishing her corners, a family’s matriarch finds life to be pretty sweet

hese are pretty good days for Eddie Marie White. She plays bingo once a week for two hours at the senior center in Salisbury. She works now and then on 500- and 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles on the kitchen table. Finish the corners first, then work toward the middle, she says.

Eddie Marie has no time for daytime soap operas, but she loves game shows such as “The Price Is Right,” “Let’s Make a Deal” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Every morning she walks down or drives her 1995 Buick Century to the end of a long driveway to pick up the newspaper. She enjoys cutting out articles to save, especially if they MARK have someWINEKA thing to do with her large family. “I’m a scavenger,” she says, sifting through a pile of clippings and old photographs at her feet. She also likes to work the newspaper’s crossword puzzles, though she has never quite gotten the hang of Sudoku and apologizes for not knowing how to pronounce it. When the old J.C. Price High School has its reunions, Eddie Marie (Class

of 1946) is known to lead the “Soul Train line” at the Saturday night dance, even now at 81 and with a knee that was replaced in 2008. Yes, these are good days for Eddie Marie. One of her nine children, Donald, lives with her, taking care of things outside while she still mops, dusts and sweeps inside their western Rowan County home. The rest of her children, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren also are checking in — or she’s keeping tabs on them. Silver-haired Eddie Marie is one of those interesting people you come across by chance. I first spoke with her last fall when I was writing a 20year anniversary piece on Hurricane Hugo. She had saved all the Salisbury Post editions from those storm days and brought them into the newsroom in case they were needed for reference. Hugo had damaged her roof and broken her back windows, forcing her into the center of the house until power could be restored and repairs could be made. There she was again, going toward the middle. In June, I heard of Eddie Marie again. One of her grandchildren, Chris Sifford, mentioned that she was pictured in a “Yesterday” photograph we had published, looking back at the Oct. 13, 1962, visit of then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the picture, Eddie Marie and her husband, James (who was hidden),

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Eddie Marie White, 81, pauses on the deck outside her home off N.C. 150.

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in this photograph from the 1960s, James White, after a long day of cooking at the yadkin hotel, takes a nap in the hotel lobby.

What’s the big deal, Mom? It’s just a tattoo! BY BETH J. HARPAZ Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — One day your kid wants a new bike. The next day, a new cell phone. Before you know it, your little darling is as tall as you are, demanding pierced ears or even a tattoo. Pierced ears, you say, what’s the big deal? In some cultures, girls get earrings as infants! But how do you feel about pierced ears for a boy? Or five holes in one ear for a girl? As for tattoos, these staaSSoCiatEd PrESS tistics might surprise you: lebron James, of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, 22 percent of women and 26 has earrings in both ears and numerous tattoos. both piercpercent of men said they had tattoos in a 2004 survey ings and tattoos have become more mainstream. published in the Journal of the American Academy of graphic most likely to have James? Tattoos and earDermatology. The numbers teenage children — only 10 rings didn’t hurt his job are higher among young percent reported having prospects, so can you really adults: Tattoos were report- tattoos. argue that nobody will hire ed by 36 percent of 18- to So how do parents of your child because of a 25-year-olds and 40 percent teens, most of whom prob- flower on the shoulder or a of 26- to 40-year-olds in a ably don’t have body art or stud in one ear? Pew Research Center suruntraditional piercings Shelley Davis Mielock, vey from 2006. themselves, cope with kids who works with colleges But among 41- to 65who want nothing more and corporations on dress year-olds — the demothan to look like LeBron codes as part of her image-

consulting business in Lansing, Mich., says parents should point out that tattoos and unusual piercings are still frowned upon in some industries and segments of corporate America. Disney employees, for example, are not permitted to have visible tattoos. “At 17, 19 or 20, you don’t know what your future holds,” said Mielock. “I am not against tattoos or selfexpression, but other people are going to form perceptions of you based on these things. I recommend if you’re going to get a tattoo, get it where you can cover it up.” Mielock has two tattoos, but has not allowed her 17year-old son to get one. “He argues that I am being a hypocrite, but this is a decision I made as an adult and I made it knowing the perception other people could have,” she said. Parents should also research state laws. Some states prohibit minors from being tattooed altogether; others permit mi-

nors to get tattoos only if they have parental permission or if a parent is present. You might also point out that tattoos are not as easily discarded as video games or out-of-style shoes. J. Kim Wright told her daughter, then 15 and living in Chapel Hill, that she could get a tattoo as soon as she wanted the same design for a whole year. “She wanted Betty Boop for a few months. Then Tweety. She is now 26 and has no tattoos,” said Wright. Kathy Sussell, like many parents, made the argument that as long as her teenagers were dependent on her financially, they had to live by her rules. “It’s my house,” said Sussell, of Brooklyn, N.Y. “If they needed to get pierced or tattooed, they could find another place to live.” Her kids are now 20 and 23, “and I think they are happy today not to have tattoos.”

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As I pondered this life-altering decision that has the potential to wreak havoc on my entire family, an urgent thought came to mind. I need clothes. When your wardrobe consists largely of concert tshirts, hand-me-overs from friends and items borrowed from your daughter’s bedroom floor, it’s time to go shopping. Experts say you should begin a EMILY wardrobe FORD makeover by taking everything out of your closet. Which is probably why I’ve never done it. Rather than the two-to-four hour estimate in the magazines, this little endeavor would take me two to four weeks and still not be done, costing me not only my sanity but my marriage. Instead, I went through my closet piece by piece. Anything stained, torn, pilling, uncomfortable, too large, too small, too “what was I thinking?” hit the floor. I had a nice-sized pile and about 20 empty hangers. The same experts also recommend tossing out anything you haven’t worn in two or three years. More bad advice. I have several items that have hung, unworn, in my closet for years. When I recently broke out a long silk skirt that hasn’t seen the light of day in a decade, I received several compliments. It still fit, and it’s back in style. Saving that skirt just saved me $50. Well-made articles in good shape with fashion potential received a reprieve. Some clothes stir too many memories to part with. My wedding dress, of course, as well as an American-flag vest I used to wear on election day. A sweater that belonged to my grandfather. However, if I was holding onto an item not for nostalgia but because it might make a great costume someday, it had to go. Goodbye gauzy green peasant top. Farewell gold lamé tank with bugle beads. So long itchy wool trousers that remind me of hobo garb. More empty hangers. I was careful about relocating clothes. I learned during the 1999 closet cleanout that if I evict items that have lived in a certain spot for a long time without due consideration and a darn good reason, I’m bound to lose them for a season or two. If scarves have been hanging happily in the closet for years, is it really necessary to move them to the second dresser drawer? My neck, chilly for two winters before I stumbled upon the scarves, says no. However, odd, non-clothing items taking up valuable space in my closet had to vacate the premises. Peering into the far reaches, I discovered that shelves meant for shoes were holding more than a dozen VHS tapes, including “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” “Son-in-Law” and the surprisingly entertaining “Pasta Express Instructional Videotape.” Having a change of clothes for every day of the work week is only polite. Even in a newsroom, the days can run together. Wearing the same clothes over and over compounds the problem. A coworker complimented my outfit one day, then had a puzzled look. She thought she was experiencing deja vu. “I feel like I just told you that...” “You did,” I reassured her. “I wore this Monday.” Contact Emily Ford at eford@salisburypost.com.

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FROM 1E were among the uniformed staff greeting LBJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s limousine outside the Yadkin Hotel, where the vice president was luncheon speaker. Eddie Marie was a salad girl for the hotel and also baked, cut and served the pie and dinner rolls. James was a hotel cook. Most people call her â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eddie Marie,â&#x20AC;? the name on her birth certificate. James called her just plain â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eddie.â&#x20AC;? An Army veteran, James died in 1987 and is buried in the National Cemetery in Salisbury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be buried on top of him,â&#x20AC;? Eddie Marie says. She grew up in Salisbury on West Horah Street. Her father worked for the railroad at Spencer Shops but died in 1947 from a heart attack. She and her mother moved to her grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place off the Mooresville Highway in 1948, and she has lived on this piece of land ever since. After graduating from Price High School, Eddie Marie attended Livingstone College for two years before quitting to start her family. She would have nine children between 1948 and 1963 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; five girls and four boys. Her older sister, Willette Younge, also had nine children â&#x20AC;&#x201D; five boys and four girls. Eddie Marieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last two children, Ronald and Donald, are twins. She motions to two places around her stomach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could feel something up here, and I could feel something down there,â&#x20AC;? Eddie Marie recalls of her suspicion going into delivery that she might have more than one baby. An Army cook, James made it his career in civilian life. He was cook for Kriderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Spencer, Tuckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe in Salisbury, Rowan Memorial Hospital and the Yadkin Hotel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d always say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rush food,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Eddie Marie recalls. She considers herself a good cook, too, and it was in the kitchen that they would have their squabbles. James was always trying to add a pinch of this or that to her dishes or giving her advice. They learned that getting along meant not being in the kitchen at the same time. The Whites built the house where Eddie Marie now lives in 1960 and had it paid off by 1966. She held down several jobs over the years of raising her family. She was a salad girl at Rowan Memorial when she met James. Their relationship was cemented after spending close to four hours with each other in a theater watching â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gone With the Wind.â&#x20AC;? Later, Eddie Marie worked the third shift at Cannon Mills Plant No. 8 in China Grove. For 20 years, she clerked at the old Roses Department Store in Salisbury. Eight of her nine children graduated from South Rowan High. Her oldest son, Michael, is a West Rowan High alum. Eddie Marie has become the matriarch of her family. Willette died three years ago. She also has outlived two of her daughters, Barbara White Okoh and Anne Marie White. Eddie Marie has a fascination with dates, and she presented her family members with a laminated sheet of paper â&#x20AC;&#x201D; front and back â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that includes many of the important dates in their lives. In her handwriting, she noted the marriages, births, deaths, graduations and other â&#x20AC;&#x153;accomplishments,â&#x20AC;? such as when a son earned his driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license or when she broke her ankle. I recently spent a morning with Eddie Marie White. Headed back down her driveway for the main road, I realized again these are particularly good days for her. She finished her corners long ago and keeps working toward the middle. Contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263, or wineka @salisburypost.com.

Dance competition includes Lewis tribute Dancers from Center Stage Dance Company in China Grove attended national grand finals competition in Wilmington with Encore Dance Competition Of The Stars, during the week of July 14-18. Representing Center Stage were Parker Stelmack, Kaley Knight, Brooklyn Lewis, Breanna Lentz, Hannah Stevens, Taylor Martin, Alexis Dill, Charlotte Brown and Lauren Young. Dillon Stevens competed in the super soloist division for dancers performing two solos. He entered with an open style musical theater number to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Stand Stillâ&#x20AC;? for which he received the highest award given, the Diamond Award His second solo also received the Diamond Award. For these two placements, Stevens was second overall of all the super soloists. Also in the solo division, Stelmack received a Platinum Award for her open musical theater solo to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look At Me Now.â&#x20AC;? Lentz received points for a third place level for her musical theater number to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take Back Your Mink.â&#x20AC;? Hannah Stevens received points for a Platinum Award for her lyrical solo to â&#x20AC;&#x153;If No One Will Listen,â&#x20AC;? which ranked her fourth overall in the junior soloists competing with one solo for the week. She was the highest placing female soloist for this division. In the recreational group competition for beginning students, Center Stage dancers in the average age of 6 and under received special recognition for their tap number â&#x20AC;&#x153;Temptation.â&#x20AC;? In the junior level competitive division, the trio â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bust A 90s Moveâ&#x20AC;? took the top spot for their hip hop number with a Platinum Award and $100 cash prize. The duet of â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Share Everythingâ&#x20AC;? held the first place spot in their division and ranked fourth overall for all the duet/trios that competed.

Continuing in the junior level competitive division, Center Stage dancers held top spots in all four divisions of competition. In the small group category, the dancers in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shake Your Pantsâ&#x20AC;? were awarded the Diamond Award for their tap number, capturing them the second overall spot for small group competition with a $100 cash. In the large group division, Center Stage held two spots in the top five numbers. The tap number â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t No Other Manâ&#x20AC;? received a Platinum Award and ranking fifth overall and the hip hop number â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dirty Southâ&#x20AC;? also received a Platinum Award putting them in the number four spot overall for this division. In the junior super group competition, the musical theater group performing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Use What You Gotâ&#x20AC;? earned a Platinum Award locking them into the fourth overall position. Junior hip hop dancers from Center Stage performing to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Breakinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? were honored with a Platinum Award and placed second overall. Topping out the division were undefeated Center Stage dancers with their number â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunkomatic.â&#x20AC;? This group of middle school dancers ranked first overall at every competition they attended for the 2010 season and held onto their perfect record as they grasped the first overall spot at national competition as well. This group finished their perfect season receiving a Diamond Award at Encore Nationals ranking them once again as first overall. The entire competition group from Center Stage competed with numerous other studios with their production number featuring seventy-five dancers with their high energy number â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please Don't Hurt â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Em.â&#x20AC;? The production group was also awarded the Diamond

STEVENS Award for their seven minute performance featuring a collection of songs by M.C. Hammer. For this performance the entire com- Center Stage Dance Company performed well in a national competition. pany at Center Stage ranked second overall and was the stage on Saturday to pay Jonathon Matthews and Katherjudgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; choice as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most En- tribute to their fellow mem- ine Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dell. Studio director at tertaining Numberâ&#x20AC;? for the ber Chris Lewis, whom they Center Stage is Sandy Overjunior division. lost in a car accident earlier cash. In the teen and senior lev- this year. Lewis had always el, Center Stage dancers en- been the first to take to the Art awards tered four areas of competi- stage at Encore competitions Center for Faith & the tion and ranked in the top for many years. They invitfive for three of the four. In ed all prop dads in atten- Arts, located at 207 W. Harthe teen large group compe- dance to take to the stage in rison St. in Salisbury, retition, the dancers in the honor of Lewis where they, cently recognized nine open number â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nightmares along with the judges, en- North Carolina artists for Of Battleâ&#x20AC;? were awarded a joyed dancing in honor of award winning entries from Diamond Award, taking the Lewis. A total of $1500 was the Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current exhibtop spot as first overall in collected for the Chris Lewis it â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abstraction and Beyond.â&#x20AC;? Justin Christenbery took this division. The dancers in Family Fund in honor of first place with the painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nightmares Of Battleâ&#x20AC;? Lewis. were also the judgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; choice Later that day, directors â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Currents.â&#x20AC;? Seth Holtzas â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most Entertaining Teen of each studio in attendance manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photographic work, Number.â&#x20AC;? were called to the stage â&#x20AC;&#x153;By Nightâ&#x20AC;? and J. Luther SowIn the teen small group di- where a random drawing ersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sculpture â&#x20AC;&#x153;Geriatricâ&#x20AC;? vision, the hip hop dancers was held to donate $250 to tied for second. Stephen Hokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Groove If Ya Wannaâ&#x20AC;? the charity of their choice. were awarded a Platinum When a studio from Winter â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alaska Iâ&#x20AC;? and Barbara Harris Award and finished in the Springs, Fla. won, their di- Richmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Necesfirst overall position for the rector presented the chari- sitiesâ&#x20AC;? tied for third. Honorable mentions went event. The tap number table donation to Center â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Have You Done For Stage Dance Company for to J.J. Burgess for the digital â&#x20AC;&#x153;Autumn,â&#x20AC;? Meâ&#x20AC;? received a Platinum the Chris Lewis Family Fund photograph Award and also ranked as Two 10x10 foot screens Joseph Heiligâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abfourth overall in the senior filled the auditorium with stract I,â&#x20AC;? Janet Isenhour for level of competition. images of Chris Lewis danc- the painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebrations,â&#x20AC;? During the final awards ing at Encore Regionals in and Marietta Foster Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sculpture â&#x20AC;&#x153;Utah Gold.â&#x20AC;? ceremony Dillon Stevens February of 2010. The work will be on diswas selected as the Cover Choreographer for the Model Winner for Encore Center Stage competition play at the Center galleries DCS for the 2011 season. dancers is Sydney through Sept. 11 and the maThe Prop Dads at Center Overcash. Competition in- jority of work displayed is Stage were called to the structors at Center Stage are for sale.

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Morganton Summer Sectional Tournament The Summer Sectional Tournament in Morganton is scheduled for July 30-Aug. 1 at the Collett Street Recreation Center. Eldon Clayman is tournament chair. Myrnie and J o h n McLaughlin BILLY placed first in BURKE the weekly duplicate game last Tuesday evening at the Salisbury Woman’s Club. Other winners were: Dick Brisbin and Loyd Hill, second; Phoebe Beard and Billy Burke, third.

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Actor Orlando Bloom and model Miranda Kerr marry SYDNEY (AP) — Actor Orlando Bloom and model Miranda Kerr have married, her employer said Friday. Upscale Australian department store David Jones, which employs the 27-yearold Australian model as a fashion ambassador, said she will not attend a Spring season launch on Aug. 3 because she was honeymooning with the 33-year-old British star of “Lord of the Rings” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.” “Given the exiting news that Miranda and Orlando have recently wed and will

be enjoying their honeymoon together, Miranda will not be with us” for the launch, David Jones spokeswoman Colette Garnsey said in a statement. The statement did not say where or when they had married. David Jones would not be commenting on personal aspects of the announcement, that statement said. Kerr said she would continue to work for the store. “I am enormously grateful to David Jones to have been given this time to enjoy such a special moment of my life,”

Kerr said in the statement. “I look forward to coming back to Australia in the near future to celebrate with family and friends,” she said. “David Jones very graciously released me during this period so we could celebrate an intimate ceremony and honeymoon together,” she added. Kerr first met Bloom backstage at a Victoria’s Secret lingerie fashion show in New York in 2006. They began dating in late 2007 and confirmed their engagement last month.

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6E • SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010

SALISBURY POST

PEOPLE

Photographer Wayne Hinshaw talks to gallery curator Pam Bloom during the opening reception for ‘Abstraction and Beyond.’ Behind Bloom is a painting by Clyde Overcash.

Abstraction The opening reception for ‘Abstraction and Beyond’ drew a large crowd July 16 at Center for Faith & the Arts, located at Haven Lutheran Church, 207 W. Harrison St. The art exhibit will continue at the CFA galleries through Sept. 11. For more information, call the Center for Faith & and Arts at 704-647-0999.

Artist Robert Toth, right, talks to artist Justin Christenberry, whose painting ‘In Currents’ won first prize in the exhibit.

Sammie Hinshaw, Sandra and Pam Bloom mingle at the reception for ‘Abstraction and Beyond’ at Center for Faith & the Arts.

Guests at the reception for ‘Abstraction and Beyond’ had plenty of art to examine and discuss.

Dr. Sam Fort makes a point to artist Clyde Overcash. The painting on the wall, by Justin Christenbery, won first place in the ‘Abstraction and Beyond’ exhibit at Center for Faith & the Arts.

Photos by Katie Scarvey, Salisbury Post

Barbara Richmond and Dr. Bethany Sinnot relax with some refreshments.

Fred Pizzardi, owner of Sweet Meadow Cafe, serves wine while artist Robert Toth and Bruce Wilson of the Fine Frame Gallery look on.