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From Russia with art Tatyana Shurtz paints murals, portraits, dreams

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tatyana Shurtz, a self-taught, traditional artist, works on a portrait in her home studio in Spencer. Shurtz, who moved to the united States 13 years ago from Russia, started oil painting in 2006. She said portraits are her favorite things to paint, but she also enjoys depicting scenes from her dreams. BY SARAH CAMPBELL scampbell@salisburypost.com

atyana Shurtz traded her pencils for paintbrushes nearly four years ago.

The 43-year-old Spencer resident ditched sketching for painting after receiving a set of oil paints, brushes and canvasses from her husband, Vern, as a Christmas present in 2006. “Since then I’ve been passionately in love with oils and have never looked back,” Shurtz said. “Painting is my way to express my love of life.” A self-taught traditional artist, Shurtz has no formal art training. She grew up in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where her mother and grandmother encouraged her to tap into her creativity at an early age. “Sketching was my hobby,” she said. “It totally channeled a different world.” Shurtz went on to receive training in technical engineering, but she never pursued a job in the field. Instead, she has become a jill-of-all-trades when it comes to freelancing. Not only does she do commissioned oil paintings, she also works as a graphic designer, face painter and muralist. Last year, Shurtz teamed up with fellow artist Marina Bare to create Mural Miracle, a company that specializes in murals. “Between the two of us, we can paint just about anything anybody would want,” Shurtz said. The pair lend their talents providing face painting during Nights Out in downtown Salisbury. “It’s still art,” Shurtz said. “Faces are just a different canvas.” Shurtz also partnered with her husband to create an application that can be purchased through Apple’s App Store. The couple spent about three months working on the children’s game “Adventures of Oboltus.” Submitted photo On a typical day, you might find Shurtz sanding, Shurtz painted ‘utopia’ from a dream she had. She said the painting symspackling and painting the walls of her century-old bolizes the uncertainty of life. historic house in Spencer, writing a blog in her native tongue of Russian or painting a scene from her dreams. On the web: She has already completed renovations to several Find out more about Tatyna Shurtz or her mural company Mural rooms at her home, but admits there is still a lot of Miracle by visiting tatyanashurtz.com or mural miracle.com. work to be done. “We basically gutted it,” Shurtz said. “It’s a mess right now, but it’s really going to be beautiful when it’s finished.” Shurtz is doing the majority of the renovations by herself, while her husband works full time in Charleston, S.C. “I’m doing it myself partly because it’s cheaper and partly because it’s therapeutic,” she said. “I love it.” When it’s time to sit down to work on a painting, Shurtz escapes to a room at the front of her home. The space is a painter’s paradise, with sunlight cascading through gigantic windows and no furniture in sight except a chair and an easel. Shurtz prefers to paint portraits and fantasy sequences, but is always looking for a challenge. When commissioned to do portraits, she uses her Nikon camera to take about 300 pictures of the subject. “It’s better for me to paint from my own pictures,” she said. “That way I get to know the person I’m painting.” While most people view sleep as a monotonous routine, a good night’s slumber oftentimes inspires Shurtz’s painting. “I have vivid dreams,” Shurtz said. “Many of my paintings are from those dreams.” ••• Submitted photo Contact Sarah Campbell at 704-797-7683. ‘blue dream’ was painted from a scene in one of Shurtz’s dreams.

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NC Legislature watchdog making mark after 3 years RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s Legislature was among the last in the country in 2007 to create its own watchdog team to scrutinize state programs and determine whether they’re running efficiently. The Program Evaluation Division is already making its mark. During this year’s eight-week session alone, the General Assembly approved and Gov. Beverly Perdue signed into law significant pieces of legislation on four topics examined by the division, including ABC reform, education, selling state aircraft and retooling state contract rules. “That’s a really good batting average,” Phil Leone, director of Virginia’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, one of the 45 similar entities in other states. “When you have four areas like that, that’s quite an accomplishment.” North Carolina’s division has led a recent effort within the General Assembly to counter complaints there’s not enough digging in the budget and state government to decide whether the “way it’s always been done” still works. “I think we are gaining credibility and gaining some momentum,” said John Turcotte, the division’s director, who ran similar operations in Mississippi and Florida before coming to Raleigh. The 10-employee division is separate from the Legislature’s regular and larger nonpartisan staff whose main job is to help draft bills and perform research for potential legislation. The new division examines whether current government services are being delivered effectively and lawfully. The Legislature or the division’s 18-member bipartisan oversight committee decides what the division will examine. The division’s creation grew from a 2006 effort by lawmakers to begin the first state government performance audit in 15 years, but the project evolved into the approval of a permanent team that already has issued 24 reports on topics from mental health spending to underground fuel storage tanks. “There are no sacred cows here and let the chips fall where they may,” said Sen. Dan Clodfelter, D-Mecklenburg, an oversight panel co-chairman who likened the division to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Some reports have generated no buzz, but a December 2008 evaluation of the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control system laid the groundwork for one of this year’s successes. The report came out months before negative stories about salaries and dinners involving local ABC boards helped build support for ethics and operational reforms. State contract and purchasing rules also were retooled following examinations by both the division and State Auditor Beth Wood’s office. The Legislature also agreed all high school seniors wouldn’t be required to complete special projects to graduate after a division report determined there was no evidence their benefits were worth the projected $6.6 million cost to implement. Turcotte attributed this year’s effectiveness to an experienced staff, committed oversight committee leaders and bipartisan support of the committee’s work. “I’m very pleased that they’re there and hope they will come up with much more and

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Temperatures will approach 100 this week Pour the iced tea and slather on the sunscreen. Look for shade, or better yet, air conditioning. The heat will be cranked up again this week. High. AccuWeather, the service used by the Salisbury Post, predicts a high temperature of 99 degrees today under mostly sunny skies, while the National Weather Service forecasts a high of only 93. The two services agree, however, the mercury will push 100 the rest of the week. According to the National Weather Service, the heat coupled with humidty will make it feel as hot as 105 outside. And as of Sunday, neither service was predicting the possibility of rain until Friday.

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TOWN CRIER Community events Today • Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 909, Concord, 7 p.m., Senior Center, 331 Corban Ave. SE (N.C. 73 E). All Vietnam veterans and Vietnam-era veterans and spouses are urged to attend. • Rockwell Town Board, 7 p.m., at the Town Hall, 202 E. Main St., Rockwell. • Kannapolis City Council workshop meeting, 6 p.m., Kannapolis Train Station, 201 S. Main St., Kannapolis. • Forum discussion: "What is Art?" Everyone welcome to discuss, 6:30 p.m. Center for Faith & the Arts, 207 W. Harrison St. Free. Light refreshments. For information, 704-647-0999, faithart@bellsouth.net.

Tuesday • The Cabarrus Senior Resource Link, professionals who work with seniors, will hold its meeting on Tuesday, August 10 @ 4 p.m. New members are welcomed. For additional information contact Susan Wear at Gentiva Home Health, 704-933-1001. • Rowan County Board of Health meeting, 7 p.m., Department of Social Services offices, 1811 E. Innes St. • Spencer Board of Aldermen, 7 p.m., Town Hall, Spencer. • Faith Board of Aldermen, 7 p.m., Town Hall, Faith.

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Thursday • TRU Beauty for girls 4th-12th grades at Rowan Public Library, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Girls will learn about how tobacco affects skin, hair, nails, teeth and fitness from a throat cancer survivor. Free, includes lunch. Pre-register 704-216-8849 • Retirement Survival Workshop, 2 p.m., Gateway Center at the Chamber, 204 E. Innes Street, sponsored by U.S. Financial Services. Free. Learn how to protect assets from long-term care, market volatility and outliving assets and income. For information, call 1-800-859-3978.

Friday • Livingstone College, orientation for new and readmitted students. Holistic college minicollege Aug. 18-21; first day of classes, Aug. 23.

Saturday • Catawba College, orientation for new students, Aug. 14-17; registration for returning students, Aug. 18. • Forum discussion: "What is Art?" Everyone welcome to discuss, 2 p.m. Center for Faith & the Arts, 207 W. Harrison St. Free. Light refreshments. For information, 704-647-0999, faithart@bellsouth.net. • Free wellness event, 1-5 p.m. Demonstrations and information provided by practitioners of Alexander Technique, philosophical counseling, reflexology, massage therapy, yoga, and more. Center for Faith & the Arts, 207 W. Harrison St. • Second Saturday Art Studio and Gallery Crawl, takes place throughout Salisbury & Spencer, 1-6 p.m. For information call the Rowan Arts Council, 704-638-9887.

Monday Aug. 16 • Youth In Action Against Tobacco Council Meeting at Rowan Public Library 6:30-8 p.m. • Back to School Fishing Tournament, Aug. 16-20, ages 5-18, Dan Nicholas Park.

Tuesday, Aug. 17 • The Community Care Cruiser, affiliated with Rowan Regional Medical Center, open 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in front of High Rock Community Church, Jake Alexander Boulevard, next to Hurley Family YMCA. Provides primary and preventive medical care to children up to 17 years old who are uninsured, underinsured or uninsurable. 704-384-3031. • Rowan County Tea Party Patriots monthly gathering. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., program at 7 p.m., Cornerstone Church, Webb Road. Guests include two District court judge candidates. Candidates for Rowan County commissioner will take part in a forum. Questions welcome.

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YESTERDAY: Miller’s Chapel Church This photograph, taken outside Miller’s Chapel Church, was supplied to the Post by Eddie Marie White, whose grandparents, Henry and Josephine Thompson, and aunt, Estelle Thompson Bush, are pictured. The photograph appeared in the September 1920 issue of the Southern Workman and came from Mrs. F.C. Williams, director of health and education for negroes. It features Dr. James E.K. Aggrey, a native of Ghana, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Livingstone College and his doctorate from Hood Theological Seminary. He served as pastor of Miller’s Chapel Church and as a faculty member of Livingstone College before returning in 1920 to Africa, where he influenced the course of post-Colonialism. In this photo, standing left to right, are Mrs. Hargraves, a home demonstrator; Estelle T. Bush, a teacher and director of music for school, church and community; Josephine Mitchell, a practical nurse; Dr. James E.K. Aggrey; Alice Todd Locke; and Lula Rankin Locke. In the second row, seated, are Daniel Hinnigan, John Locke, Henry Thompson and Moses Locke. Third row, seated: Unknown, Thomas B. Patterson, Mrs. F.C. Williams, Restus Neely and Tonsil Litaker.

AAU Nationals: Getting ready no day at the park Q: How did Andrew get ready for running but also a great love for the Nationals and how was he able track and field. When you are in to handle the pressure? competitive track and field, your summer is completely taken up A: I tell you this, when more by track meets every weekend, than 11,000 athletes from all over and three to four workouts a the USA come together in one week. Each lasts one hour to an place, it is quite impressive. Just hour and a half. for our 17 Salisbury Speedsters My husband Kevin is the midto qualify for the Nationals is a dle distance coach for Salisbury huge accomplishment. Speedsters. Tim Dunlap is the The AAU Track and Field or- head coach. ganization had the Nationals orKevin was a cross country runganized down to ner and 800 meters runner when the tee. Events he was in high school. He was started exactly at good at it. Around 16 minutes on the time planned the 5K cross country and two and not a minute minutes on the 800 meters (again, sooner or later. An this was a long, long time ago). He example, they did has a true love for running and it 200 heats of 100 has nurtured Andrew’s love and meters in two passion for running. hours. Andrew is all boy. You can ask Andrew just his teachers from kindergarten ESTER turned 10 years through fourth grade. He is smart MARSH old July 3 and is and loves to try new things (not quite the athlete always the best choice!). But this and I am very proud of him. But year, his second year running, it does not come for free. As a re- Kevin sat down with him in the tired top athlete, I know that your beginning of the season (middle athlete, young or old, needs to of March we start our practices) “want it” to be able to compete on and set physical goals — what high levels. It does not matter times we were shooting for — but how much talent they have, when also mental goals. What he wants you get to the top of the country, in the future, what is he willing everyone has talent. At this level to do for it, etc. you need talent, dedication, hard Now, I believe a child needs to work and sacrifices. Lots of sac- be able to be a child, but I also berifices. And of course support of lieve that if they want to reach your parents, coaches and team certain goals, sacrifices have to members. be made. I don’t want to be the This is Andrew’s second year parent (or coach) who has to beg running and he has made an im- and/or bribe their child to run (or pression on this year’s Nationals do any sport they participate in). in Norfolk, Va. It has to come from within: the He has an amazing talent for passion, love and drive. It has to

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Co-worker soothes hurt of injustice his recollection comes from the workplace — not my established longterm workplaces, but from those short-term ones at the beginnings of my “work history.” It was the summer of 1973, and I was hired as a cashier at the Roses store at the old Rowan Mall. That Roses store was touted as MACK WILLIAMS one of the largest, if not the largest, stores of the Roses chain. I was put on a single register at the very front entrance of the store. I don’t recall the reason for that register’s singular placement, perhaps to catch some of the overflow from the other registers from deeper within the store. I would also assist at the counter that dealt with jewelry and watches, preferring watches, since I knew a little bit more about them. The gentleman who was my supervisor ( by using the word “gentleman,” I’m being a nice old man) had the last name “Williams.” His personality was such that if I hadn’t already been a Williams , I would have wanted to give up the name. But I figured he was from a different set of Williamses who evidently weren’t as well taught by their mother as my brother and I had been taught by ours. I was working the front register one evening when Mr. Williams told me to go immediately to the jewelry counter. I left immediately and headed in that direction, but he called me back, saying that I had not locked the cash drawer of my register, and so I was now “fired!” I confided this to an older lady by the name of “Ruth” who worked there and whom I had befriended. She was in charge of the department which dealt with sheets, curtains, etc., and had worked there for some time. She set up a meeting with the manager, my supervisor, herself and me. Mr. Williams had hired a good friend of his on the following day, revealing the true reason for my sudden dismissal with no warning. The manager said that what Mr. Williams did was not right, but that the new worker could not be let go to be replaced by me. He said they could give me a job in shipping, so I told them I would let them know. Not being very muscular (I remembered my old days during recess at Granite Quarry School), I had my doubts. Ruth said, “I wouldn’t even fool with them; they can do better than that !” So I didn’t “fool with them.” I told them “Thanks, but no!” I went to Kemp, my former manager at Ray’s Kingburger, who had always dealt fairly with me. He said they needed me and that I had always been reliable. Looking back, Ruth liked different kinds of music, as did I. She liked those old “101 Strings” records and liked to listen to Bill Gaither albums. She especially enjoyed a recording of the German composer Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto in G Minor, which she had found at a yard sale. She let me borrow it to run off a copy onto a cassette tape. I was surprised when I saw it because it was recorded on 45 rpm records. But since it was not a very long piece, the entire recording necessitated only a couple of 45s. This was the first time I had seen classical music on 45s. I always remember Ruth saying that it was “the most beautiful music that I ever heard.” There were some people who made fun of Ruth, saying she was “simple-minded.” It was more of an emotional simplicity than an intellectual one. She was “simply” motivated by goodness to always do what she could to bring justice for a hurt.

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Quilts take center stage at Roller Mill open house BY KARISSA MINN kminn@salisburypost.com

CHINA GROVE — About two dozen quilts of all shapes, sizes and colors lined the walls of a room at the China Grove Roller Mill Museum Sunday afternoon. The Historical Society of South Rowan, which operates the museum, sponsored an open house featuring homemade quilts from members of SalisburyRowan Quilters Guild. Historical Society Charter Member Carole Brooke, of China Grove, said she first invited the guild for a display about two years ago. “We had such great attendance that we wanted to do it again,” Brooke said. Barbara Bruce, president of the Salisbury Rowan Quilters Guild, said the display helps draw interest to quilting. “Residents look and wander in, and then people start making phone calls,” said Bruce, a Granite Quarry resident. She spoke to visitors about different types of quilt patterns and their distinct names. She also shared a little of the history of quilting. “It started as an art of recycling,” Bruce said. “People would use feed sacks, flour sacks, parts of clothes that had worn out and leftover fabric from making the clothes.” People still recycle fabric today, she said, but it’s more common for them to go to fabric stores and buy what they need for a quilt. There were about 30 vistors to the museum Sunday, Brooke said. One of them traveled all the way from Norway. Tor Strengehagen was visiting his fiancee, Salisbury resident Giny Wilson, who invited him to the museum. Wilson works with the Historical Society, so she has seen it many times. “I had to show him the mill, because he hears about it all the time from me,” Wilson said. Strengehagen said he liked finally seeing the museum’s historic collection. The mill was in operation from 1895 to 1995, processing wheat and corn into flour and corn meal. It now displays various historic equipment, photographs and memorabilia from China Grove. “It’s very nice,” he said. “It’s interesting that they take care of these old things.” They both said the quilt display was beautiful. “I love quilts,” Wilson said. “My grandmother

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Judy Firth, left, and Linda Bryant, right, both of Salisbury, work on projects as people pass by. Firth is doing needle-turn applique and Bryant is hand-quilting.

Beverly and Bob Poole, of Granite Quarry, estimate the length of a quilt.

A large alphabet quilt hangs on display at the China Grove Roller Mill Museum.

Barbara Bruce, president of the Salisbury Rowan Quilters Guild, holds up a quilt to display its various patterns. quilted a lot, and I have several pieces from her originals. It’s almost a lost art in a lot of ways, and I would love to know how to do it well.” All

of the quilts on display except for one — an antique — were made by members of the Quilters Guild. During the open house,

Salisbury resident Linda Bryant demonstrated handquilting. Judy Firth, also of Salisbury, worked on needleturn applique.

Firth explained that applique is the process of layering fabric shapes to create a design. In some cases, the rough edges of the shapes are simply sewn to the fabric underneath. “But this way, you use the needle to turn it under (before sewing), so there are no raw edges,” she said. The Salisbury Rowan Quilters Guild meets the third Thursday of the month at Rufty-Holmes Senior Center. This month’s meeting is a luncheon on Aug. 19. Bruce said visitors are always welcome at meetings. Guild members work on projects together, share tips and tricks, demonstrate new techniques and invite guest speakers. “(The speakers) all have their own technique that they use,” Bruce said. “One woman uses neckties.” China Grove Roller Mill Museum also invites guests like the Quilters Guild once a month. It has featured artists, musicians and storytellers. The next event is a flutemaker exhibit Sept. 12 from 2-4 p.m.

Shoppers laden with school supplies grateful for tax-free weekend BY KARISSA MINN kminn@salisburypost.com

As North Carolina’s sales tax holiday wound down this weekend, local shoppers were still taking advantage of the lower cost. Back-to-school items ringing up without state or local taxes this weekend included clothing, shoes, school supplies, instructional materials, sports equipment, computers and computer supplies. Mark and Christie Russell, of Mocksville, went to Office Depot in Salisbury to look for a desktop computer for their daughter, Mollie. “We’re looking for something simple that meets the needs of an 8-year-old,” Christie said. “She can play on that one and it will free up a computer for us.” Christie said they had been looking at options for a while and decided to finally buy Sunday when the big purchase would be tax-free. Amy Lowe, of Salisbury, said she has shopped for clothes and school supplies all weekend. “We’ve been shopping since Friday at Walmart,

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Spencer Lowe, 8, looks through backpacks at Kmart on the last day of tax-free weekend. Target, J.C. Penney, Belk and Kmart,” Lowe said. “I think we’ve got everything.” She said the only thing left to shop for was a bookbag for her 8-year-old son, Spencer. “He was looking for a particular one, and Target advertised it, but they didn’t have it,” Lowe said. Spencer did find the Nintendo-themed bookbag at Kmart, but he reconsidered after seeing the colorful rows of other options. “I think I’ll look at some of these, too,” he said. Salisbury resident Kelly Austin also took her son shopping for school supplies Sun-

day. At the Office Depot, she and 9-year-old William piled composition books, markers, sharpeners and a flash drive in a shopping basket. “We’ll use some leftovers from last year, too,” Austin said. Even though she didn’t buy much this weekend, she said she still appreciates the tax break. “It’s nice; it does help,” she said. The state sales tax is 5.75 percent, and the overall sales tax rate in Rowan

Christie Russell and her 8-yearold daughter, Mollie, shop for a computer at Office Depot on the last day of tax-free weekend.

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Catalyst for Louisiana Superdome dies at 87 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Businessman Dave Dixon, who fought to bring an NFL team to New Orleans and was the catalyst behind construction of the Louisiana Superdome, died on Sunday. He was 87. Dixon had been ill since January, said his son, Frank Dixon, who confirmed his death. “He was always coming up with new thoughts and ideas. Until his dying day, he was thinking,” Frank Dixon said. Dixon persuaded New Orleans officials to pursue a football franchise rather than baseball in the 1960s. In his autobiography, “The Saints, The Superdome and the Scandal,” Dixon wrote there were strong reasons for the NFL to consider New Orleans, including its mild winter weather, a great football tradition and 80,000-seat Tulane Stadium. Dixon was a Tulane University graduate. Dixon, whose supporters for a team included Gov. John McKeithen and city restaurant owners, staged an NFL double header at Tulane Stadium, which drew a crowd that nearly filled the place. New Orleans was awarded the Saints on All-Saints Day 1966. Frank Dixon said his father recently told him how the timing of the announcement came about. He said NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle called his father the week before about the deal and his dad suggested they wait a week to announce it on that day. “Both Pete Roselle and my father were great marketers,” Frank Dixon said. “I wonder where New Orleans would be today if it didn’t have the Saints and Super-

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this March 13, 2008 file photo shows New orleans businessman dave dixon in New orleans. dome. I don’t think that ever would have happened if my father wouldn’t have been here.” Dixon started thinking about the stadium shortly after the city got the team. “I think as soon as Tulane agreed to let us use their stadium for an NFL team I started planning the Superdome,” he told The Associated Press in 2002. “I knew having 80,000 people in those neighborhoods 10 times a year was not going to work for long.” The Superdome opened on Aug. 3, 1975. But it wasn’t until last season that the Saints, a perennial loser, brought home a Super Bowl victory to the city that is still recovering from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Dixon was elated at the team’s 31-28 overtime victory over the Minnesota Vikings that sent the Saints to the Super Bowl. He was forced to watch the game on TV because of his health. “Oh, man,” he told AP the Monday after the win. “I feel like I’m in heaven. Just won-

derful. I had a little heart problem. But I feel much better. I’m very exhilarated over the Saints’ great victory.” New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson said in a statement that Dixon “was a distinguished civic leader with a unique vision and he was widely admired around our region as a leader who was dedicated to the development of the Louisiana Superdome.” Katrina ripped off part of the Superdome’s roof. It also failed miserably as a shelter of last resort when the devastating storm flooded the city. Thousands of people who had nowhere else to go flocked to the stadium. Within days, the building was tattered, filthy inside from mold, debris and raw sewage. Over the next year, the Superdome was rebuilt, and slowly, New Orleans has tried to get back to what it once was. The Saints’ success has played a role in helping the city by giving it something to celebrate. Dixon worked with Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt to found World Championship Tennis, Frank Dixon said. In 1965, Dave Dixon conceived the idea for the United States Football League, which operated from 1982 to 1985 before folding, his son said. “He believed in the brotherhood of man. He loved people and people loved him back,” Frank Dixon said Sunday. Dave Dixon is survived by his wife; his three sons, David Frank Dixon, John Shea Dixon and Martin Stuart Dixon and four grandchildren.

Forced to retire, some take Social Security early MIAMI (AP) — Paul Skidmore’s office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned. “All I want to do is work,” said Skidmore, of Finksburg, Md., who was an insurance claims adjuster for 37 years before his company downsized and closed his office last year. “And nobody will hire me.” It is one of the most striking fallouts from the bad economy: Social Security is facing a rare shortfall this year as a wave of people like Skidmore opt to collect payments before their full retirement age. Adding to the strain on the trust are reduced tax collections sapped by the country’s historic unemployment — still at 9.5 percent. More people filed for Social Security in 2009 — 2.74 million — than any year in history, and there was a marked increase in the number receiving reduced benefits because they filed ahead of their full retirement age. The increase came as the full Social Security retirement age rose last year from 65 to 66. Nearly 72 percent of men who filed opted for early benefits in 2009, up from 58 percent the previous year. More women also filed — 74.7 percent in 2009 compared with 64.2 percent the previous year. Jason Fichtner, an associate commissioner at the Social Security Administration, said the weak economy has led more people who lost their jobs to retire early. However, it also has forced some people hard-hit by the recession and in need of a bigger paycheck to push back retirement and stay in the work force longer. “But we’re seeing more people taking early benefits than staying in the workforce longer,” Fichtner said. Like Skidmore, 63-year-old Jan Gissel of Tustin, Calif., also was forced into retirement early. She turned to unemployment benefits when her technical support business failed and filed for Social Security last September. Together, the checks are keeping her afloat. “I knew I had to have an income from somewhere, and my business wasn’t giving it to me,” she said. “I just went online and, boom, three weeks later I had the check.” Gissel wants to continue working but still hasn’t found a job. Although she didn’t expect to be cashing Social Security checks so soon, she’s grateful for the support it has provided. “I needed it way earlier than I thought,” she said. In the annual report of the Social Security program released

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SALISBURY — Russell Maxwell Isphording, age 84, of Salisbury, left his earthly home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010, at The Laurels of Salisbury. Born July 10, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pa., he was the son of the late George Isphording and Anna Werner Isphording. He was educated in the Philadelphia schools. Mr. Isphording was a veteran of the United States Navy, having served from 1944-1946. He worked as a Sales Representative. He was a member of Milford Hills United Methodist Church where he had served as President of the United Methodist Men, President of the Golden Rule Sunday School Class, President of the Friendly Neighbor Club and sang in the church choir. He also volunteered with Rowan Helping Ministries and Meals on Wheels. Mr. Isphording enjoyed golfing, fishing, and spending time with his family. Those left to cherish his memory are his loving wife of 61 years, Ada Grace Gill Isphording; three daughters, Barbara Lamanna of Salisbury, Dottie Brady of Levittown, Pa. and Jo Anne Van Tassell of Orlando, Fla.; two sisters, Mary Lear of Harrisburg, Pa. and Betty Stoops of Virginia Beach, Va.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Visitation: The family will receive friends Wednesday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the Church Parlor of Milford Hills United Methodist Church. Service: A Memorial Service will follow in the church sanctuary at 10:30 a.m., with the Rev. Steve Combs officiating. Inurnment will be held at the US National Cemetery Statesville Blvd. location with military honors by the Rowan County Veterans Honor Guard. Memorials: Memorials may be made to Milford Hills United Methodist Church, 1630 Statesville Blvd. Salisbury, NC 28144. Summersett Funeral Home is serving the Isphording family. Online condolences may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com.

CHARLOTTE — Reverend Wade Glenn Rogers, of Charlotte, entered into the arms of God on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, at Presbyterian Hospital. A native and lifelong resident of North Carolina he was born in Enochville Township on July 11, 1920; he was a son of Jackson Jerome Rogers and Ollie Trexler Rogers. Reverend Rogers was married to Mary Evelyn Rogers for 69 years. Reverend Rogers is a retired minister with the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC). He graduated from Pfeiffer College, Emory University, Candler School of Theology and Duke Divinity School. Reverend Rogers began his pastoral appointments and service at South China Grove - Rock Grove UMC Charge and followed by serving at Caroleen - Alexander Mills Charge, Dulins Charge, Vickrey-Burnett's Chapel, and Saint Marks UMC. He later served as Associate Minister/Business Manager at First United Methodist Church in Charlotte for eight years. He then retired after serving for 12 years at Duncan Memorial UMC, Charlotte. After retirement he continued to serve the United Methodist Church with appointments at Plaza UMC , New Hope UMC and numerous Methodist Churches in the Charlotte area. In later years, Reverend Rogers and Mary Evelyn joined Moore's Chapel UMC where he was given the honor of serving as Pastor Emeritus. He was the best daddy and “paw-paw” in the world. Reverend Rogers had a great passion for sharing his life by uplifting others and possessed a profound work ethic. His great loves were God, his family, the UMC, “the farm”, a garden and his Farm-All Cub tractors. As well, he never met a stranger, loved everyone he worked or served with, and always strived to make things better than he found them. Reverend Rogers was a member of the American Legion Post 262 where he served as Chaplain, the Lions Club of Charlotte, Power of the Past Tractor Club and the Civitan Club in China Grove. He also served on the board, both as a member and Chairman, of the Christian Rehabilitation Center. As a member of the UMC Western North Carolina Conference, he served as a long time member of the conferences Building, Property and Relocation Committee. As well, he founded the first ethnic fellowships for the Cambodian Missions in 1981 that was later known as the Reach-Out Mission. He was predeceased by his son, Glenn L. Rogers. He was also preceded in death by his brothers Frank and Reverend J.A. “Bud” Rogers; and sister, Edna Whitley. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Roy Keith Rogers and Timothy A. Rogers (Jonnie) along with daughter-in-law, Patricia Rogers. He is also survived by three grandchildren, Larry Rogers, Scott Rogers and Brooke Rogers all of Charlotte; and by his sister, Mabel White. Service: A Celebration of Life followed by a Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m. at Moore's Chapel United Methodist Church on Tuesday, Aug. 10. Visitation: Visitation will follow in the church fellowship hall. Officiating ministers will be Pastor David Arledge, Reverend Chris Westmoreland and Reverend James Trollinger. Memorials: In lieu of flowers please send contributions to Moore's Chapel United Methodist Church, 10601 Moore's Chapel Road, Charlotte, NC, 28214. The family would like to express their deepest thanks for the love, fellowship, and service that were extended to Rev. Rogers by the pastors and congregation of this great church. The family would also like to express their sincere thanks to Dr. William Larsen; nurse Donna, and the staff of North West Family Physicians; the Charlotte Fire Department; and MEDIC for their compassionate and devoted service over many years. The family would also like to thank the physicians, nurses, and staff of Presbyterian Hospital-Main for the care and comfort they provided over the last few months. Arrangements are in the care of Heritage Funeral Home. An online guest registry is available at www.heritagefuneral.net.

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Paul skidmore, with his wife Kathy in the background, stands at his home in Finksburg, Md. skidmore's office is shuttered, Grover Cecil Gipson SALISBURY — Grover Danny Ray Williams his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemCecil Gipson, age 58, of SalisKANNAPOLIS — Danny ployment benefits exhausted. so at 63, he plans to file this week for social security benefits, three years earlier than planned. bury, died Sunday, Aug. 8, Ray Williams, age 44, of 155 Thursday, the trustees said that cial Security and Medicare. pension and disability payments Freese added, though, that will exceed revenues for this beneficiaries generally only year and 2011, reflecting the opt in early because they have deep recession. to. The report forecast that the “When you retire early, you program would return to the are taking a hit in your monthblack in 2012 ly check, and through 2014, most people but that benefit don’t do that payments will voluntarily,” again exceed she said. tax collections “They either in 2015. For do that beevery year afcause they ter 2015, the rearen’t healthy port projects enough to that Social Sekeep working curity will be or because MARIA FREESE paying out they lost their National Committee more than it re- to Preserve Social Security and job.” ceives in tax N o r a Medicare collections as Lopez, 62, of 78 million baby Hialeah, Fla., boomers begin retiring. retired from her job as an elThe trustees did not focus ementary school teacher last on the growth of early retirees year and began collecting Soin their report, as they don’t ex- cial Security. She did so, in pect the early retirees to sig- part, because of health probnificantly drain funds over the lems. When her school district long term. Early opt-ins receive offered teachers the option of smaller monthly checks so that keeping their health insurthey aren’t projected to receive ance coverage until they qualany more money over a life- ified for Medicare at 65, she time than they would if they decided she could get by on had waited to collect Social Se- her pension and Social Secucurity until their full retire- rity. ment age. “I wanted to work as long as People entitled to full bene- I could,” she said. “But it was fits at 66 would receive 75 per- hard for me to do that.” cent of their check if they beFor some, it’s simply a matgan collecting four years ear- ter of doing the math that ly. Conversely, if they waited prompts them to cash in early. until they turned 70, collecting Jack Dixon, 63, of Naples, Fla., four years late, they would stopped working full-time in earn 32 percent more. April as a trolley driver and They would receive the de- tour guide, cutting back to one creased — or increased — per- day a week. He decided to do centages for the rest of their it after his wife figured out life. they’d be able to get by even “From the trustees’ perspec- with the reduced Social Secutive it’s a wash, because they rity benefit. calculate you’ll get the same to“Why should I go out there tal benefit,” said Maria Freese, to the hustle and bustle and director of government rela- stress and all the stuff that’s retions and policy at the Nation- lated to work if I don’t have to?” al Committee to Preserve So- he asked.

“When you retire early, you are taking a hit in your monthly check, and most people don’t do that voluntarily.”

2010, at his home. Born on Aug. 15, 1951, in Shelby County, Ala., he was the son of Auther Gipson and Joyce Bell . Mr. Gipson graduated from Vincent High School in Alabama and was of the Baptist faith. Mr. Gipson worked for 14 years at Food Lion Stores as a truck driver. Earlier he had worked at Southern States. Surviving him is his wife of 25 years, Judy Elaine Nichols Gipson, of Salisbury; daughter, Jennifer Gipson, of Salisbury; sons, George and Tommy Gipson, both of Salisbury, Gary Wayne and Johnathan Gipson, both of Ala. and Shane Gipson of Fla.; sister, Norma Gail Henderson of Vincent, Ala.; and five grandchildren. Visitation and Service: Visitation will be on Tuesday from 1-2 p.m. at Linn Honeycutt Funeral Home in China Grove, with funeral services at 2 p.m. in the chapel. Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home is assisting the Gipson Family. Online condolences may be made at www.linnhoneycuttfuneralhome.com.

Stolz Road, Rockwell, died Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Whitley's Funeral Home is serving the family of Mr. Williams.

Ethel F. Trexler SALISBURY — Ethel F. Trexler, age 71, of Salisbury, passed away Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at this time. Lyerly Funeral Home is serving the Trexler Family.

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Dear Amy: I received an invitation in the mail for a baby shower. I don’t know the guest of honor; I’ve never even heard her name. One of the individuals hosting the shower is my cousin’s wife. I don’t keep in touch with these cousins. I’m not so sure she would even recognize me if I passed her in the grocery store. I feel the only reason I was invited to this shower is because I’m on the family tree somewhere and they want a gift. Unlike a wedding (where a distant relative might be invited), I feel bridal and baby showers should be reserved for close family and friends. I didn’t even know how to RSVP that I wasn’t coming to the shower. What do you think? — Family Tree Dear Family: Your RSVP should say a version of, “Thank you for the invitation, but I will be unable to attend.”

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Dear Amy: I live in a highrise apartment building, and on a couple of occasions female neighbors have suggested we exchange phone numbers. I didn’t want to pursue anything more than a casual “Hello” when we run into each other, but I was afraid I would hurt their feelings. It is easy to decline this overture when it is a man asking because I can say I have a boyfriend, but I just don’t know what to do in these cases. I gave them my number and am hoping they won’t call. Is there a polite and gentle way to decline when someone asks to exchange phone numbers and I don’t want to? What do you think I should

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Dear Bound: After you change the locks and hire someone to serve as a caretaker of the property, and after you repaint the item you never wanted painted in the first place and repair the damage these people inflicted in your absence, you should sit down and examine the statement they made to you about trust. You don’t trust them because they haven’t been trustworthy. Your neighbors left you wide open to theft, damage and the liability you might face if someone was injured on your property. This is an extreme violation of the agreement you made with them. Chalk this up to an error in judgment on both your parts. If they are able to acknowledge their violation, then you might be able to move on. Otherwise, unlike the material damage to your property, the damage to your relationship might be irreparable.

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Dear Amy: My husband and I bought a vacation home in another part of the country. A local couple very generously offered to visit the house periodically (they live a mile away) and let us know if anything needs to be fixed. We paid the gentleman for necessary repairs. He’s very good at his craft. ASK We gave AMY them permission to hang out at the house to enjoy the view, and at one time we let them have their son stay there with his family overnight. It turns out that they have had at least one large party there. They set off lots of fireworks on our property. The man painted our fountain a color of his choice, even though it didn’t need to be painted and we didn’t approve the color. Throughout the past year, they invited additional family members to stay at our home without asking us, and some minor damage was incurred. We requested that they clear it with us first if they wanted to have anyone stay there in the future. We like this couple and want to keep them as friends, regardless of their actions. However, they say that since we don’t trust them, they’ve returned the keys to the house. They haven’t responded to a friendly message. What is the appropriate action to take at this point? — NM Bound

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The Star Search judges fell in love with all the folks in Mayberry. Even with all the distractions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ernest T. Bass proclaiming his love for Charlene Darlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Mrs. Campbell bailing Otis out of jail (for the greater punishment of â&#x20AC;&#x153;house arrestâ&#x20AC;?) and Barney losing, then finding, his harmonica â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to get back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Search Comes to Mayberryâ&#x20AC;? will be back for a return engagement on Saturday, Aug. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church, Salisbury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Star Search judges loved the pork chop sandwiches, but never made it to

the homemade ice-cream contest. When they heard Mayberry was having its annual homemade ice-cream contest, nothing could stop them from coming back and judging that contest,â&#x20AC;? says, Joyce Curl, writer and director of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;talent show within a play.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They just used that as an excuse to get to come back and enjoy all the folks in Mayberry because in some way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from pranks, rock throwing, pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and grinninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, fast fellowship and even boozing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; each citizen in Mayberry is a winner.â&#x20AC;? The play kicked off a series of Wednesday evening Bible studies titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mayberry Revisited: The Gospel According to Andy.â&#x20AC;? Selected episodes of the popular television show were

used as parables to teach Biblical truths. The final session will use the famous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kerosene Picklesâ&#x20AC;? episode to discuss the challenge of â&#x20AC;&#x153;telling the truth in love.â&#x20AC;? The plot of the play revolves around a Hollywood talent scouting team coming to Mayberry to find local acts. Church members and some community friends star in the roles of the favorite Mayberry characters. First Baptistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chairman of deacons, Tim Cooper and wife, Judy, will host the show as Andy Taylor and Helen Crump. Local attorney and guitarist Graham Carlton will be joined by Rodney Burns, Rick McGraw, Mark Parchment and Sharon Doby as the Darlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; family. Lloyd Pace will resurrect his role as Ernest T. Bass.

Marie Waller will return as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the local girl who made good.â&#x20AC;? Retired coach Charles Hellard returns as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gary Gossip.â&#x20AC;? Pete and Katie Bogle will add more laughs as Barney and Thelma Lou. New acts being added include soloist Patrick Hunter and Glory Bound, a gospel group featuring Dean Orbish, Josh Orbish, Justin Hall and Alex Yost. The church had calls from as far away as Scottsdale, Ariz., wanting to know about the play and information on the Bible studies. Several other churches in Rowan County and the surrounding counties are considering similar studies in the fall. Much of the attention is because of the 50th anniversary of the Andy Griffith Show

that premiered in October 1960. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for children under 10 for the play and ice cream. Some of the proceeds will go to purchase school supplies for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Communities In

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Report: Agent promoted despite dubious confession RALEIGH (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investigation of questionable work by North Carolina police and the state crime lab shows that agents were rewarded despite making mistakes and doing slipshod work. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Sunday in the first of a planned series on the State Bureau of Investigation that agent Mark Isley had risen through the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ranks the past 12 years despite his participation in the dubious confession of a mentally disabled man in a murder case. The paper said Isley supervises a team of more than a dozen agents investigating Medicaid fraud. Isley would not talk with the newspaper for its article, but his boss Robin Pendergraft said she has no evidence Isley acted improperly in the investigation of Floyd Brown that began in 1993 and ended 14 years later with charges being dismissed. Brown is suing Isley and the state over his arrest. Pendergraft was Isleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boss when she was director of the SBI and now is again as she was recently named to head the Medicaid fraud investigations.

Pendergraftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s change of job was announced last month as an outside investigation into the SBI continues. The investigation was sparked by testimony from an agent that the SBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lab reports prepared for court didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always include information on follow-up tests that conflicted with earlier results. The testimony came in a hearing for Greg Taylor, a North Carolina man who served almost 17 years in prison for murder before being found innocent earlier this year. Concerns about the labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work led state Attorney General Roy Cooper to suspend its bloodstain work until issues can be resolved. In the Brown case, Isley maintained that the man gave a confession detailing the elements of the crime. But Brown spent years in a treatment facility for the mentally disabled and was never certified as competent to stand trial. His attorney said there was no way he dictated the elaborate narrative Isley presented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The confession is a work of fiction,â&#x20AC;? said Mike Klinkosum, a Raleigh attorney who represented Brown until his release in 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that simple.â&#x20AC;?

A message left by the Associated Press at a number listed for a Mark Isley in Snow Camp was not immediately returned. In its report, the News & Observer also cited questionable work of another agent at the SBI, Dwight Ransome, who retired earlier this year with full benefits despite slipshod work that led to a record wrong-conviction settlement. He had been moved out of investigations following the $3.9 million settlement with a former death row inmate who was acquitted after a second trial in 2004. Cooper said the agency learned from Ransomeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mistakes in the case of Alan Gell, whose acquittal also led to a reprimand of prosecutors in the case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It took (litigation) for people in the bureau to recognize some of the mistakes that were made by this particular agent,â&#x20AC;? Cooper said. Another case Ransome investigated is the subject of a lawsuit, but neither the SBI nor Ransome are named in it. The family of Stacey Pollard of Greenville is suing Pollardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ex-wife in a wrongful death lawsuit. Ransome conducted the investigation into Pollardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death and never

questioned Michelle Pollardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changing statements about the day her husband died in the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swimming pool or about her assertion that the couple had a perfect marriage. In that case, Ransome never visited the crime scene, never examined the wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phone records and waited 18 months to talk to the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbors, the newspaper reported. David Sutton, the Pollard familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer, quizzed Ransome about that during the civil lawsuit against Michelle Pollard: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, given that her husband had just been pulled dead from the pool a few minutes earlier, and she told you they had a perfect marriage, did this statement in any way cause you any concern or pause to think?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No,â&#x20AC;? Ransome replied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why not?â&#x20AC;? Pollard asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why would it?â&#x20AC;? Ransome said. The investigation was closed in January 2009 with no charges. The civil lawsuit against Michelle Pollard is continuing. Cooper declined to comment on the Pollard case. No phone listing could be found for Ransome to obtain comment.

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LEXINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police have charged a 21-yearold North Carolina man with murder after investigators say a teenager was killed by a paving stone thrown through a car window. Multiple media outlets reported that Michael John Craver of Lexington was arrested Saturday morning and was being held in the Davidson County jail. A jail officer said Sunday that Craver did not have an attorney. His first court appearance is scheduled for today. Officials have not identified the 17-year-old girl who was killed because family members have not been notified. Investigators say both the girl and Craver were attending a party Friday night that spilled over into Saturday morning. The girl was sitting in the front passenger seat

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ASHEVILLE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; North Carolina teachers are preparing for new sex education classes that will give students more information about contraceptives than in previous years. The Asheville CitizenTimes reported Sunday that the 2009 Healthy Youth Act requires schools to give students access to more information on sexually transmitted diseases and sexual assault as part of a revised sex-education program. The law marks a change from an abstinence-only policy previously used to guide schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sex ed classes. State Rep. Susan Fisher helped push through the legislation. The Buncombe Democrat says students will still be taught that abstinence is the best defense against sexually transmitted diseases, but they also will be taught how to protect themselves. The goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and boost graduation rates.

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ALEIGH — Not too long ago, a writer for the conservative John Locke Foundation wrote that state Attorney General Roy Cooper had invested $7.7 million in a legal fight against the Tennessee Valley Authority “without much to show for it.” That conclusion followed a ruling by the 4th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals that reversed a lower court decision requiring the TVA to speed up the installation of pollution control devices at four TVA coalSCOTT fired power plants. MOONEYHAM The lower court judge decided that TVA’s pollution-belching power plants posed a public nuisance as that air drifts eastward into North Carolina. The case included testimony by a medical expert who estimated that 100 fewer premature respiratory and heart-disease related deaths a year would result if pollution controls were put in place. A three-member panel of the appeals court wasn’t swayed. It ruled that a patchwork of clean air standards would prevail if the lower court decision stood. “In fact, emissions have been extensively regulated nationwide by the Clear Air Act for four decades,” Judge Harvey Wilkinson III wrote for the court. The conclusion that Cooper and the state of North Carolina have little to show for the legal fight ignores one basic fact — the fat lady hasn’t sung. Despite the unanimous opinion from the most conservative federal appellate court in the country, Cooper could appeal; the U.S. Supreme Court could hear the case. The state may yet win. Wilkinson and his colleagues on the 4th Circuit ignored that a patchwork of standards already prevails when it comes to the TVA.

Last year, a group called the Environmental Integrity Project released a report concluding that TVA dodges standards met by other utilities by using its status as a special federal corporation. The report said that TVA has invoked federal sovereign immunity to avoid environmental penalties and hasn’t faced the same pressure as other utilities to reduce pollution. Robert Dreher of Defenders of Wildlife wrote that TVA “should not be able to undermine the integrity of the legal process by claiming immunity to the enforcement of environmental laws. No corporation or agency should be above the law, especially at the expense of the environmental well-being of our citizens, wildlife and waters.” It’s not just environmentalists who have criticized the disparate treatment. Over a decade ago, the conservative Heritage Foundation wrote that TVA should be “subject to the same federal laws and oversight that (has) covered private utilities for decades.” Interestingly enough, TVA announced that it wouldn’t fight a recent $11.5 million fine imposed by the state of Tennessee for its massive Kingston coal-sludge spill. Publicity is a funny thing, isn’t it? But maybe North Carolina does lose its court fight. If so, TVA and the executives who run it are still under more scrutiny and face more public pressure that ever to clean up their act. If the lawsuit has helped create some of that public pressure, it’s still a win. • • • Scott Mooneyham writes about state government for Capital Press Association.

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The appeals court ruled that a patchwork of clean air standards would prevail if the lower court decision stood.

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Thanks for support, well-wishes for future “Thank you” isn’t nearly enough to express my appreciation for the loyalty and support that my patients, and the medical community of Rowan County, have shown me during my 30 years of practice in Salisbury. We were attracted by the wonderful people, the beautiful and dynamic community, and especially by my partners at Salisbury Clinic for Women, Doctors Green, Goodwin, Parada and Thurston. Six years ago I stopped delivering babies, and concentrated on practicing gynecology, developing advanced surgical techniques, and I have enjoyed working with an excellent medical family. Recently, Novant Medical Group downsized the practice, now known as Carolina Women’s Health Associates. Dr. Scott Stahle and I will no longer be able to serve our patients there, effective immediately. We sincerely regret the hardship and distress this has placed on so many of our patients. I deeply appreciate the support, friendship and loyalty that my patients and the entire medical community have shown me. The outpouring of love and well-wishes has been overwhelming, and, with the help of great medical friends, I am making every effort to resume my gynecology practice in a new setting, caring for my very special patients and friends. I look forward to serving you again very soon. Thank you all for everything. — Dr. B. David Hall Salisbury

What should ‘no kill’ philosophy mean?’ There is only one legitimate definition of a “no kill” animal shelter or community. It’s a community where: Healthy dogs and cats are saved; treatable dogs and cats are saved; and, healthy and treatable feral cats are saved. Some shelters call themselves no kill if they save all healthy dogs and cats. Saving all healthy dogs and cats is the first step toward achieving a no kill community, not the end goal. Can a shelter or community really justify killing animals with treatable conditions if it takes the title “no kill community”? It can-

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not. Others claim that no kill is achieved when healthy, as well as sick and injured but treatable dogs and cats are saved. The definition is out of touch with the sentiment of millions of cat lovers who feed alley cats in their communities. If healthy feral cats are still being killed en masse, a No Kill community is not achieved. In short, neither of these positions is ethically defensible. The no kill movement’s break with traditional sheltering is less about saving “pet” dogs and cats and more about focusing on the individual animal. No kill is premised on — in fact demands — fundamental fairness to individual animals. Implicit within the No Kill philosophy is the understanding that some animals, such as those who are irremediably suffering or hopelessly ill, will be killed for reasons of mercy. That much we can all accept. We can also accept that dogs who are aggressive with a poor prognosis for rehabilitation are a public safety risk who cannot be adopted. But that is all we can accept. The only animals dying in a no kill community are dogs and cats who are irremediably suffering, are sick or injured with a poor or grave prognosis for rehabilitation and vicious dogs with a poor prognosis. Nothing short of that is acceptable. And nothing less will do. — Jeff Daniels Concord

Common sense

(Or uncommon wisdom, as the case may be) “Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.” — Will Rogers

he World Cup explosions arrived not so long after a date of withdrawal was set for the war in the Middle East. Just as the problem seemed almost done with, we were once again reminded that terrorism hasn’t been completely solved by years of bombing and military occupation alone. And now, documents revealing our supposed “failures” are making some wonder: Is Congress really making a good decision in sending even more money into a seemingly irresolvable war? Death, fighting, and terrorists are all we seem to hear of Afghanistan. But is violence all there is in that beleaguered nation? In the years in which we put the area in our back seat, positive changes have actually taken place practically under our noses. According to author Greg Mortenson, head of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute and builder of schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, in 2000, only 800,000 of Afghanistan’s impoverished children were in school; by 2009, 8.4 million were in attendance, roughly one-fourth of them girls. The country has also established a road-building project that was in 2009 about 60 percent complete. If that’s what can be accomplished by a combination of local individuals, some private non-Afghani support, and the country’s Megan Bean government in a time will be a freshman at Catawba when the country received little nonmilitary attenCollege this fall. tion, what would we achieve with just a little deliberate, concentrated effort? Perhaps we now need to think less about waging war and more about helping civilians. Service was our goal, after all — freeing innocent people from terror and oppression. Afghanistan is not made up of terrorists; it is mostly poor, village-dwelling or nomadic people who want nothing more than to give their children a better future. The real problem isn’t militancy or fundamentalism; it’s lack of opportunity, combined with a history of conflict with other, more powerful countries. When people have little access to education or decent living conditions, and little knowledge of the outside world beyond destructive waves of tanks and bombs destroying their land, homes and families, they are much more likely to tolerate, if not endorse, fellow countrymen who tell them they must either fight or resign themselves and their children to living in suppression. Part of the problem of terrorism — the part we can do something about — is pretty simple: not all parts of the world are equal in terms of geography and natural resources. When we realize this, we are better able to understand why tensions so easily develop between a rich, influential nation like the United States and poorer nations like Afghanistan — and what we can do to ease those tensions. Before we let the region’s associations with terrorism color our attitudes, and discouragement or indifference mark our actions, let’s consider that driving out terrorists is only part of the war on terror. If we want lasting security, we need to leave a legacy of peace and hope, not destruction. The region needs rescuing, but from helplessness and hopelessness, not just terror. If we help ensure that its people do not need to live without hope for a future, and if we build relationships with them to accomplish that goal, we will bring both parties more satisfaction than if we dropped a million bombs. You may point out that we can never solve both another nation’s problems and ours, but that isn’t the point. We don’t have to — given resources, they are willing and able to do things themselves. As individuals and a nation, we have the power to give them opportunity by offering assistance. We can’t stop them from hating us or transform their mountains and deserts into valleys, but we can treat them with respect, honor our promises to rebuild what we have destroyed, and ask input from the region’s true leaders — its common people. We can give humanitarian aid through missions and charities and honor Jesus’ command to “Love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:22) by showing compassion and concern through actions. We are called to act responsibly, doing what we can to promote peace and equality. More important than our perceptions of others is the image we give of ourselves. That doesn’t mean we have to abandon our military efforts. According to Associated Press reporter Kathy Gannon, the people of Kabul danced in the streets after we drove the Taliban from the city. However, we need to consider the common people — those who watch the bombs being dropped and whose lives will be left unchanged, if not worse — if we don’t do something more than simply fight terrorists and leave. We need to recognize our true enemy as apathy and ignorance, not some individual like Osama bin Laden. In doing so we can gain the respect, trust, and even friendship of people we once thought were our enemies.

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Superior Court Abbreviation key: CAAF: court-appointed attorney fee CSW: community service work VD: dismissal without leave by district attorney Disposition of cases heard the week of April 26 in Rowan Superior Administrative Court by Judge Beverly T. Beal: • Taking indecent liberties with a child: James Brandenberg Agee, five charges, 19-23 months in one case, jail credit, work release recommended with any earnings to be applied to support of his children, 15-18 months in each of next three cases with each to run at the expiration of the previous sentence, all suspended, 60 months supervised probation and six months intensive probation in each of the three cases to run concurrently, perform CSW and pay fee, abide by sex offender conditions, not violate any state or federal laws, no contact with victim, dismissal without leave by district attorney in fifth case. • Communicating threats: Tyravia Angle, two charges, 45 days in each case with second sentence to be served at expiration of first, both suspended, 18 months probation in each case, pay court cost, $200 fine and CAAF, have no contact with victim, also resisting a public officer, VD. • Felony breaking and/or entering: Wayne Bostian Jr., 9-11 months, jail credit, work release recommended if available, also two charges felony larceny and one charge misdemeanor larceny, 9-11 months at expiration of first sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation and six months intensive probation, perform CSW and pay fee, pay CAAF, court cost and $500 fine, not violate any laws, make restitution, be of general good behavior, provide DNA sample, also felony habitual felon, VD; John Wayne Brown, also felony possession of burglary tools, 1215 months to run concurrently with sentence he’s presently serving, jail credit, items on evidence log sheet to be returned to rightful owner, also felony larceny after breaking/entering, VD; David Beau Hughes, also felony larceny after breaking/entering, 9-11 months, suspended, 30 months supervised probation and six months intensive probation, perform CSW and pay fee, pay cout cost and $500 fine, submit to warrantless searches and body testing, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, continue treatment; Terrell Donnell Young, 911 months, jail credit, work release recommended if available, also second charge felony breaking and/or entering and felony larceny after breaking/entering, 9-11 months at expiration of first sentence, work release recommended if available, , also third charge felony breaking and/or entering and second charge felony larceny after breaking/entering, 9-11 months at expiration of first judgment, suspended, 36 months probation, six months intensive probation to run concurrently with previous judgment, also third charge felony larceny after breaking/entering, 9-11 months at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, six months intensive probation to run concurrently with previous sentence, same terms and conditions as previous judgment, also felony habitual felon, three charges felony possession of stolen goods/property, felony larceny of a firearm, felony breaking or entering a motor vehicle and felony attempted breaking or entering a building, VD in all seven cases. • Felony common law robbery: Lee Anthony Chatfield, 2530 months, jail credit, work release recommended with any earnings to restitution, cash register to be returned to rightful owner; William Quincy Pilland II, 23-28 months, jail credit, pay court cost and CAAF if work release granted, also felony habitual felon, VD; Jennifer A. Reid, 15-18 months in one case, suspended, 36 months probation, six months intensive probation, make restitution, pay court cost, perform 50 hours CSW and pay fee, submit to warrantless searches for illegal controlled substances, drug paraphernalia, weapons and stolen goods and body testing, also second charge felony common law robbery and felony financial card theft, 1518 months at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 36 months supervised probation and six months intensive probation to run concurrently with first judgment, same terms and conditions as first judgment. • Driving while license revoked: Tony Lamar Crisco Jr., four charges, also hit-run/leave scene/property damage, failure to wear seat belt and operating

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RECORDS vehicle with no insurance, 60 days, jail credit; Jamie Taylor Hardy, also failure to notify Department of Motor Vehicles of address change, 60 days, jail credit; Brian Keith Turner, 120 days, suspended, 18 months supervised probation, pay court cost, $250 fine and CAAF, not operate motor vehicle until license restored, remain of general good behavior. • Resisting public officer: Anthony Crump, also misdemeanor possession of up to ½ ounce of marijuana and second-degree trespassing, 45 days, suspended, 18 months supervised probation, pay CAAF, court cost and $150 fine, not violate any laws, not possess any illegal controlled substance, may transfer to unsupervised probation once all money is paid. • Felony obtaining property by false pretense: Herbert Eugene Curlee Jr., 5-6 months, suspended, 24 months supervised probation, pay court cost and restitution, also two more charges felony obtaining property by false pretense, 5-6 months at expiration of first sentence, suspended, 24 months supervised probation, pay court cost, abide by same terms and conditions of first judgment; Mark Steven Everhart, also misdemeanor unauthorized use of motor vehicle, 9-11 months, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, pay court cost, $500 fine and restitution, not violate any laws, provide DNA sample, transfer probation to Davidson County, serve six days in jail, jail credit, also felony larceny by employee and misdemeanor larceny, 9-11 months at expiration of first sentence, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, abide by same terms and conditions as first judgment; Eugene Poteat JR., also driving while license revoked and misdemeanor larceny, 12-15 months at expiration of sentence he’s presently serving, susp4ended, 30 months supervised probation, six months intensive probation, perform CSW and pay fee, pay restitution, CAAF, court cost and $250 fine, not violate any laws, remain of general good behavior, also speeding, VD. • Misdemeanor possession of stolen goods: Neil Kenneth Dailey, also failure to notify Department of Motor Vehicles of address change, 45 days, suspended, 18 months unsupervised probation, pay court cost, $250 fine and CAAF, not violate any laws, be of general good behavior. • Felony first-degree burglary: Antonio Shamar Davis, also two charges felony possession of firearm by felon and felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, 61-83 months, jail credit, also felony robbery with a dangerous weapon, third charge felony possession of firearm by felon, felony possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine and felony maintaining vehicle/dwelling/place to keep controlled substance, 61-83 months at expiration of first sentence, also felony second-degree kidnapping, felony possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine and fourth charge felony possession of firearm by felon, VD in all three cases. • Possession with intent to sell/deliver Schedule VI controlled substance: Chance Dewayne Freiman, also resisting public officer, 6-8 months suspended, 24 months supervised probation, four months intensive probation, perform CSW and pay fee, not use or possess any illegal controlled searches, submit to warrantless searches, pay SBI lab fees, CAAF, court cost and $300 fine, not violate any laws. • Assault on a government official/employee: John Edward Gillespie Jr., order of remand. • Felony possession of Schedule II controlled subCorey Jermaine stance: Goodlett, 4-5 months, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, submit to warrantless searches and body testing, pay court cost, $500 fine and SBI lab fees, not violate any laws, provide DNA sample. • Assault with a deadly weapon: Laura Danielle Graney, 75 days, suspended, 18 months supervised probation, pay court cost, $300 fine and CAAF, not violate any laws, not assault, threaten or communicate with Michael Moose. • Failure to notify Department of Motor Vehicles of address change: Charmaine Odessa Hairston, four charges, also two charges child not in rear seat, 45 days, suspended, 18 months supervised probation, pay court cost and $300 fine, may transfer to unsupervised probation once all money is paid, also driving while impaired, 120 days, suspended, 18 months supervised probation, perform 48 hours CSW and pay fee, pay court cost and $250 fine, sur-

render license and not operate motor vehicle until licensed to do so, not violate any laws; Dwaine Anthony Wells, 45 days, suspended, 18 months supervised probation, pay court cost, $100 fine and CAAF, submit to body testing and warrantless searches for illegal drugs, controlled substances, contraband and drug paraphernalia, not use, possess or control any illegal controlled substance, 48 hours CSW and pay fee, may transfer to unsupervised probation after 120 days if in full compliance with judgment. • Driving while impaired: Adam McBride Horton, 120 days, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, perform 48 hours CSW and pay fee, pay court cost, $250 fine and CAAF, not violate any laws, be of general good behavior, transfer probation to Durham County, obtain substance abuse assessment, also two charges felony fleeing/eluding arrest with motor vehicle, 5-6 months, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, pay court cost and $500 fine, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, submit to warrantless searches and body testing, not violate any laws, provide DNA sample; Karen Denise Olvera, also known as Karen Morris Olvera, two charges, 18-24 months in one case to run concurrently with sentence she’s presently serving, jail credit, work release recommended if available, continued treatment and rehabilitation recommended, 18-24 months in second case at expiration of previous sentence, abide by same terms and conditions as first judgment, also two charges driving while license revoked, possessing open container/consuming alcohol in passenger area, giving fictitious information to officer and license not in possession, 120 days to run concurrently with second driving while impaired sentence, abide by same terms and conditions as first judgment, also felony identity fraud, VD. • Attempted trafficking in cocaine: Tavis Houpe, 10-12 months, suspended, 30 months supervised probation and four months intensive probation, perform CSW and pay fee, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, pay SBI lab fees, court cost and $500 fine, not violate any laws, provide DNA sample, also felony possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, 5-6 months at expiration of first sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, abide by same terms and conditions in first judgment, also felony maintaining vehicle, dwelling, place to keep controlled substance, 4-5 months at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, abide by same terms and conditions in first judgment, also felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, 4-5 months at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, abide by same terms and conditions in first judgment. • Felony malicious conduct by prisoner: Clayton D. Howie, 31-38 months to run concurrently with sentence he’s presently serving, jail credit, also second charge felony malicious conduct by prisoner, 31-38 months at expiration of previous sentence, also felony habitual felon, VD. • Possession with intent to sell/deliver Schedule II controlled substance: Shawn Fryal Jackson, also felony maintaining vehicle/dwelling/place to keep controlled substance and felony possession of coaine, 911 months, jail credit, civil judgment to be entered for SBI lab fees, money seized to be forfeited to Rowan/Salisbury Schools, evidence to be destroyed. • Felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury: James Clifton Kendrick, 2328 months, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, six months intensive probation, pay court cost and $350 fine, not violate any laws, perform CSW and pay fee, provide DNA sample, not associate, harass or molest Monica Overcash. • Felony possession of marijuana: Jonathan David King, probationary judgment, 12 months supervised probation, complete drug education program, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, submit to warrantless searches and body testing, not associate with any known drug users. • Felony robbery with dangerous weapon: Donny Ray Martin, also assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, felony larceny of a firearm, felony possession of firearm by felon and felony breaking and/or entering, 107-138 months, jail credit, court recommends substance abuse assessment and work release if available, civil judgment to be entered for restitution and attorney fees; Jejuan

Lamar Sanders, also resisting public officer and misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon, 46-65 months, jail credit, work release recommended if eligible, civil judgment to be entered for restitution, any funds earned from work release to be applied toward restitution. • Misdemeanor larceny: Ty Andrew Mauldin, two charges, 45 days, suspended, 18 months supervised probation, pay restitution, court cost and $200 fine, remain of general good behavior, not violate any laws. • Felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell, deliver Schedule II controlled substance: Michelle Lea McDaniels, also felony possession with intent to sell and deliver Schedule III controlled substance and felony possession with intent o sell and deliver Schedule IV controlled substance, VD in all three cases. • Misdemeanor worthless check: Robert Lee Newling, two charges, 20 days, suspended, 12 months unsupervised probation, pay court cost, not violate any laws. • Attempted trafficking in opium or heroin: Denise Newman, four charges, 13-16 months in each case with second-fourth sentences at expiration of previous, all suspended, 30 months supervised probation and six months intensive probation in each case to run concurrently, perform CSW and pay fee, participate in inpatient drug treatment program a minimum of 28 days, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, also 22 charges felony embezzling controlled substance by employee, 4-5 months in six cases at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, abide by same terms and conditions as first judgment, 4-5 months in 8 cases at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation abide by same terms and conditions, 4-5 months in 8 cases at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation abide by same terms and conditions, also four charges felony obtaining controlled substance, 4-5 months in two chases at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation abide by same terms and conditions, 4-5 months in two cases at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 30 months supervised probation abide by same terms and conditions. • Solicitation to commit in-

decent liberties with a child: Reginald Dean Oglesby, also felony maintaining vehicle, dwelling, place to keep controlled substance and two charges felony possession with intent o sell and deliver cocaine, 9-11 months, suspended, 24 months supervised probation and four months intensive probation, perform CSW and pay fee, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, submit to warrantless searches and body testing, pay court cost, $300 fine and SBI lab fees, remain of general good behavior, not violate any laws, provide DNA sample, abide by sex offender control program, evidence to be destroyed. • Misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia: Lonnie Ray Parham Sr., two days, jail credit. • Felony trafficking in opium or heroin: Jamie Lynn Poteat, 7084 months, jail credit, pay court cost, $50,000 fine and CAAF, also felony possession with intent to sell and deliver Schedule III controlled substance and second charge felony trafficking in opium or heroin, VD in both cases; Wraymell JAmall Weaks, also felony selling cocaine, 17-21 months, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, serve 180 days in jail, jail credit, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, submit to warrantless searches and body testing, pay CAAF, SBI lab fees, also attempted trafficking in opium or heroin and felony selling cocaine, 17-21 months at expiration of previous sentence, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, abide by same terms and conditions in first judgment, also second charge attempted trafficking in opium or heroin and felony possession with intent to sell and deliver Schedule III controlled substance, 17-21 months at expiration of first judgment, suspended, 36 months supervised probation, abide by same terms and conditions as first judgment, also two charges felony possession with intent o sell and deliver cocaine, felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, felony selling marijuana and felony conspiring to sell marijuana, VD in all five cases; William Dale Winburn, also felony breaking and/or entering and felony larceny after breaking/entering, 7084 month, jail credit, pay $50,000 fine, assessment and treatment under DART program recommended, CAAF payment a condition of work release or parole, also felony habitual felon,

VD, also felony possession of stolen goods/property, VD. • Felony trafficking in marijuana: Cesar Alfredo C. Rodriguez, 25-30 months, jail credit, pay $5,000 fine, also felony maintaining vehicle, dwelling, place to keep controlled substance, felony conspiring to traffic in marijuana, felony conspiring to traffic in coaine, felony possession of Schedule I controlled substance, felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell, deliver jmarijuana, felony possession with intent o manufacture, sell, deliver cocaine, felony trafficking in marijuana and two charges felony trafficking in cocaine, VD in all cases. • Failure to register as sex offender: Jonathan Alexander Rodriguez, 24-38 months, jail credit, work release recommended if available. • Felony financial card theft: Stacey Marie Rogers, 5-6 months, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, serve six days in jail, jail credit, not violate any laws, make restitution, pay CAAF, court cost and $250 fine, have no contact with Kenneth Julian. • Felony dog fighting: Brad Terrence Simpson, two charges, also felony possession with intent o sell and deliver cocaine, 8-10 months, suspended, 30 months supervised probation, serve 40 days in jail, jail credit, not violate any laws, pay court cost and $500 fine, obtain substance abuse assessment and abide by recommended treatment, not use or possess any illegal controlled substance, submit to warrantless searches and body testing. • Assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury: Roy Lee Sims, 25-39 months, suspended, 24 months supervised probation, six months intensive probation, pay CAAF, court cost and $300 fine, remain of general good behavior, not violate any laws, provide DNA sample. • Attempted first-degree sex offense with a child: Christopher Santez Walls, also felony taking indecent liberties with child, 130-165 months, jail credit, sex offender abuse assessment and treatment recommended. • Common law robbery: Tommy Wayne Weatherford Jr., also possession of drug paraphernalia, misdemeanor larceny and felony financial card theft, 1012 months, jail credit, work release recommended if available.

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rev. Jervis Burns blesses fishing boats docked in Bayou delarge in theriot, La., during the pre-shrimp season tradition known as the ‘Blessing of the Boats,’ sunday. Louisiana fishermen can once again fish for shrimp when the season officially opens Aug. 16. for more than 50 years. “I have none now.” Fishermen have suffered through the ever-changing scenario of on-again, off-again closures and a murky future ever since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. BP said Sunday it may soon begin drilling the final 100 feet of a relief well.

Once the relief well intersects the broken well, more mud and cement will be pumped in for the “bottom kill” meant to seal the well for good. However, the plugging of the well hasn’t ended the uncertainty: Yes, the state technically set next Monday, Aug. 16 as the opening for a fall shrimp season along the coast,

Massacre victims gave years of service KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One gave up a lucrative practice to give free dental care to children who had never seen a toothbrush. Others had devoted whole decades of their lives to helping the Afghan people through war and deprivation. The years of service ended in a hail of bullets in a remote valley of a land that members of the medical team had learned to love. The bodies of the 10 slain volunteers — six Americans, two Afghans, a German and a Briton — were flown Sunday back to Kabul by helicopter, even as friends and family bitterly rejected Taliban claims the group had tried to convert Afghans to Christianity. Also flown to the capital was the lone survivor of the attack, an Afghan driver who said he was spared because he was a Muslim and recited Islamic holy verses as he begged for his life. The International Assistance Mission, which organized the trip, said the driver had been a trusted employee with four years of service. Police said they don’t know if he is a witness or an accomplice in the killings, claimed by the Taliban.

Friends: Doctors weren’t proselytizing DENVER (AP) — Members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan brought some of the first toothbrushes and eyeglasses villagers had ever seen and spent no time talking about religion as they provided medical care, friends and aid organizations said Sunday. Dr. Thomas Grams, 51, quit his dental practice in Durango, Colo., four years ago to work full-time giving impoverished children free dental care in Nepal and Afghanistan, said Katy Shaw of Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based group that sends teams of dentists around the globe. He was killed Thursday, Shaw said, along with five other Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton. “The kids had never seen toothbrushes, and Tom brought thousands of them,” said Khris Nedam, head of the Kids 4 Afghan Kids in Livonia, Mich., which builds schools and wells in Afghanistan. “He trained them how to brush their teeth, and you should’ve seen the way they smiled after they learned to brush their teeth.” The team was attacked after a two-week mission in the remote Parun valley of Nuristan province, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) north of Kabul. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found Friday, and were returned to Kabul Sunday aboard helicopters. The families of the six Americans were formally no-

keeps to that pattern,” Henman said. He added authorities believe the three might be sticking to back roads and smaller state highways. Federal investigators in Montana and Wyoming and Former HP CEO Hurd law enforcement authorities settles with sexual with the National Park Servharassment accuser ice are working with investigators from Arizona to follow SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — leads in the Yellowstone Ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. area. CEO Mark Hurd has settled allegations of sexual harassment lodged against him by a female contract worker for HP, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press. The harassment accusation set off a chain of events that led to the discovery of allegedly falsified expense reports for dinners Hurd had with the woman and culminated in Hurd’s forced resignation Friday from the world’s largest technology company. Available in The person familiar with the case told the AP late Sat10 other colors uday that Hurd agreed to pay by special order. the woman but would not reveal the size of the payment. The deal was reached Thursday, a day before Hurd’s resWITH THIS COUPON ignation. The settlement was between Hurd and his accuser and did not involve a payment from HP, this person said. This person, who spoke on a condition of anonymity, was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. The nature of the harassment complaint wasn’t clear. Hurd and a lawyer representing the woman said the relationship was not sexual.

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Montoya finally wins BY JOHN KEKIS Associated Press

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Juan Pablo Montoya finally had a race without a mistake, and he proved invincible. The hard-driving Colombian erased 113 races of futility Sunday, winning a duel with Marcos Ambrose and the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International. “It’s about time,” Montoya said after celebrating with his crew in Victory Lane. “We’ve lost a lot of them, gave away a lot of them. It gets frustrating, everybody fighting. There’s so many things I have to learn. I still make a lot associated press of mistakes. It’s experience. We’ve just Juan pablo Montoya’s pit crew celebrates as he crosses the got to learn from it.” Frustration mounted when crew chief ﬁnish line at Watkins Glen for his ﬁrst sprint cup victory.

Brian Pattie’s pit strategy backfired at the previous two races. A late four-tire call likely cost Montoya a win at the Brickyard 400, and he finished 16th a week ago at Pocono after starting second, another questionable pit call the culprit that led to harsh words over the radio. A prerace talk at Watkins Glen with team co-owner Chip Ganassi helped clear the air. Montoya went out, withstood repeated stalking and challenges from Ambrose and won going away. Montoya led 74 of 90 laps and beat Kurt Busch to the line by nearly 5 seconds for his second career victory, the other coming on NASCAR’s other road course at Sonoma in 2007, 113 races ago. Montoya gave Earnhardt Ganassi racing just its third victory of the season.

Ambrose was third, his third straight top-three finish at Watkins Glen, followed by AJ Allmendinger and pole-sitter Carl Edwards. Jamie McMurray, Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon rounded out the top 10. It was the first career victory for Pattie, who fought back tears after watching the No. 42 take the checkered flag. “It’s huge,” Pattie said. “I still want to win on an oval. He wants to prove his point. The Brickyard was my fault. Hope this makes up for it. Trophies mean a lot. It’s pretty cool.” Montoya made the Chase for the Sprint Cup last year, made a strong run early in the 10-race postseason, and finished eighth in points. His chances of

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Cowboys win an ugly one BY BARRY WILNER Associated Press

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ATLANTA — David Ross made the Braves 6 most of a Giants 3 rare start Sunday. Ross hit a two-run homer and Derek Lowe pitched into the sixth inning before leaving with an injury, leading the Atlanta Braves to a 6-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants. The Braves have All-Star catcher Brian McCann, so Ross doesn’t play much. But he is hitting .284 with 20 RBIs in 37 games, 24 starts, this season. He also walked and scored Atlanta’s final run on Melky Cabrera’s single in the eighth. “I finally ran into one,” Ross said of his first homer of the season, a drive to left during Atlanta’s three-run second. “Guys were giving me a (hard time) so I got that off my chest, finally. I thought I was getting too old, that I didn’t have any pop anymore.” Lowe (11-9) was bothered by cramping in his hamstring. The right-hander allowed two runs and five hits in 51⁄3 innings. Lowe said he also had some cramps in his right arm in the fourth inning but he would not miss his next start. “The whole right leg was cramping,” he said. Four relievers combined to finish up, with Takashi Saito tossing a scoreless ninth for his first save of the season. Omar Infante hit a solo homer for Atlanta, which won three of four in the series and has won four of five overall. The NL East-leading Braves also improved their major league-best home record to 39-15 and maintained a twogame lead over Philadelphia, which beat the New York Mets 6-5. Jonathan Sanchez (8-7) pitched four innings for the Giants, yielding four runs and five hits. The left-hander was coming off a strong performance against Colorado, when he threw six effective innings in a 10-0 victory. The full-count pitch to Ross “was a sinker away,” Sanchez said. “He killed it. That’s baseball. You can’t expect to win all the games.” Infante made it 4-1 with a drive to left in the fourth for his third homer. Alex Gonzalez also drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and Melky Cabrera had an RBI single for Atlanta, which finished with 12 hits. Cabrera went 3 for 5. Juan Uribe hit an RBI double for the Giants, and Travis Ishikawa hit a homer.

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the salisbury-rowan Hall of Fame inducted six new members in ceremonies held on sunday. seated is George c. Knox. standing behind Knox, left to right, are stephanie cross, Zelda ponder (accepting for her late husband, dr. Fred ponder), charles Hellard, Wendy Meyer-Goodwin (accepting for her late father, dutch Meyer) and shannon Myers.

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George C. Knox hobbled gingerly to the podium, but once he reached his destination the World War II veteran’s voice was firm, his words profound. Knox’s athletic peak came in the late 1940s, nearly a half-century before the glory days of former North Rowan superstars Shannon Myers and Stephanie Cross, but he joins them as part of the Salisbury-Rowan Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2010. Also inducted in the 10th annual ceremonies held at the Civic Center on Sunday were coaching greats Charles Hellard, Dr. Frank “Dutch” Meyer and Dr. Fred Ponder. Knox is well-known as a black pioneer in Rowan education and politics,

but his baseball deeds came in an era without statistics and standings. Knox fashioned his own crude bats and balls as a youth and made his first athletic splash as a 14-year-old. Playing with Landis’ “big boys” for the first time, he hit a curveball for a ninth-inning grand slam at Cooleemee. “I was running hard until they told me to slow down,” Knox said. “I looked up and the ball’s going over the wall.” It not only went over the wall, it cleared a road and landed on a rooftop. Knox was expected to attend Livingstone after he graduated from Aggrey Memorial in Landis, but all Blue Bears were required to own a blue suit. While he was saving for that wardrobe addition, Pearl Harbor was bombed and the U.S. entered World War II. Knox was the “roughest man” in his

service unit. That meant he got to guard Jackie Robinson in basketball. Knox served with the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion in numerous firefights in Europe. Most of his friends didn’t survive, but Knox returned to become a cleanup hitter for North Carolina A&T teams that won CIAA crowns in 1947 and 1948. Knox played against Willie Mays and Henry Aaron and was offered pro contracts. Instead, he began his teaching career at Kannapolis’ Carver High. Knox has accepted dozens of humanitarian awards, but Sunday’s enshrinement was the first acknowledgement of his athletic prowess since he entered the N.C. A&T Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.

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CANTON, Ohio — Terrell Owens chatted amiably Cowboys 16 with his forBengals 7 mer Cowboys teammates. Chad Ochocinco wore gold shoes for his few plays. Otherwise, the Cincinnati Bengals barely were noticeable Sunday night as Dallas won 16-7 in the Hall of Fame game. In a game that might have made Class of 2010 inductees Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice wince, the offenses generally sputtered and there were eight sacks. Neither team could get going with the ball in a sloppy affair. Clearly, none of the aura of the NFL’s career leaders in rushing and receiving rubbed off. At least some of Saturday’s other inductees — the ones who played defense, Dick LeBeau, John Randle and Rickey Jackson — could appreciate the lack of scoring and the takeaways. Dallas picked off three passes and recovered a fumble; Cincinnati also recovered a fumble. Nobody could be impressed by the slew of penalties, 16 overall, 12 by Cincinnati for 90 yards. Then again, it was the preseason opener. The Cowboys hope this is the opening step, small as it was, toward becoming the first team to play in a Super Bowl in its home stadium. That goal will take months before it can be achieved, of course, and the most memorable item this weekend for them will remain Smith’s entry into the Hall of Fame. “Having Emmitt inducted into the Hall of Fame is special,” All-Pro linebacker DeMarcus Ware said.

The buzz about Tebow Shear genius? Broncos’ veterans shave rookie’s locks BY PAT GRAHAM Associated Press

DENVER — Tim Tebow was all the buzz Saturday night at the Denver Broncos’ practice. The rookie quarterback stood out not only for his play at practice but for his shaved locks, the top of his head completely sheared to leave a ring of hair that made him look like a monk. The pranks the veterans will play. Tebow and the other rookies had their heads decorated with wacky haircuts before the workout and they had to show them off during warm-ups when they couldn’t hide underneath their helmets. associated press “I think all the rookies had a good time with denver Broncos gave rookie quarterback tim tebow a new it,” Tebow said. “It was something to give haircut on saturday. everybody a laugh, something also to build

chemistry.” Tebow wasn’t the only one to get a bad haircut. Receiver Eric Decker was outfitted with lines carved into his ’do and left guard Zane Beadles sported a reverse Mohawk. Offensive lineman Eric Olsen was able to save his long, flowing dirty blond locks in the back, but he’s now bald on top, and tight end Nathan Overbay had half a haircut, his left side sheared and his right side left alone. Tebow’s new look was hard to miss, especially with his thick facial hair. When his image was shown on the big screen at Invesco Field before practice, the crowd broke into laughter. He said linebacker Wesley Woodyard was the barber responsible for his cut, taking out some of his college frustrations with the ra-

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TV Sports Monday, Aug. 9 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — St. Louis at Cincinnati

Area schedule Monday, August 9 INTIMIDATORS BASEBALL 7:05 p.m. Hagerstown Suns at Kannapolis HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER 6 p.m. East Rowan at Central Cabarrus (scrimmage)

Legion baseball SE Regional Representatives Host Columbia Post 19 (Tennessee champs) North Carolina Kernersville Post 36 South Carolina Sumter Post 15 Georgia Conyers Post 77 Florida Boynton Beach Post 164 Tennessee Dyersburg Post 30 (Tennesee runnerup) Alabama Tuscaloosa Puerto Rico Bayamon Post 48

Schedule Thursday’s games Kernersville 8, Tuscalooa 7 Bayamon 5, Boynton Beach 4 Sumter 12, Dyersburg 2 Columbia 4, Conyers 3 Friday’s games Tuscaloosa 12, Dyersburg 2 (8 innings) Conyers 6, Boynton Beach 0 Kernersville 6, Sumter 2 (12 innings) Bayamon 6, Columbia 1 Saturday’s games Conyers 5, Sumter 0 Columbia 6, Tuscaloosa 4 Kernersville 6, Bayamon 1 Sunday’s games Conyers 8, Bayamon 0 Columbia 12, Kernersville 1 Monday’s games Conyers vs. Columbia, 4 p.m. Winner vs. Kernersville, 7 p.m. (championship)

Minor Leagues South Atlantic Northern Division W L Pct. GB x-Lakewood (Phillies) 25 17 .581 — Hickory (Rangers) 23 18 .561 11⁄2 3 Greensboro (Marlins) 22 20 .524 West Virginia (Pirates) 21 22 .488 41⁄2 Kannapolis (White Sox) 20 22 .476 5 18 25 .419 71⁄2 Delmarva (Orioles) Hagerstown (Nationals) 16 27 .372 91⁄2 Southern Division W L Pct. GB 25 17 .595 — Asheville (Rockies) Greenville (Red Sox) 25 17 .581 — Charleston (Yankees) 22 21 .512 31⁄2 21 21 .500 4 Augusta (Giants) Lexington (Astros) 21 22 .488 41⁄2 1 Rome (Braves) 21 22 .488 4 ⁄2 17 26 .395 81⁄2 x-Savannah (Mets) x-clinched first half Sunday’s Games West Virginia 5, Lakewood 4 Kannapolis 5, Hagerstown 4, 1st game Greensboro 5, Hickory 3 Hagerstown 9, Kannapolis 4, 2nd game Savannah 10, Charleston 2 Delmarva 2, Lexington 1 Augusta 4, Asheville 3 Rome 6, Greenville 4 Monday’s Games Rome at Greenville, 7 p.m. Hickory at Greensboro, 7 p.m. Savannah at Charleston, 7:05 p.m. Hagerstown at Kannapolis, 7:05 p.m. Lexington at Delmarva, 7:05 p.m. Asheville at Augusta, 7:05 p.m. Lakewood at West Virginia, 7:05 p.m.

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