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Visitors line up Saturday to enter the Jerome House on South fulton Street as part of octoberTour.

Visitors get to see unrestored Main Street home along with gems on this year’s tour BY SHELLEY SMITH ssmith@salisburypost.com

estled in the 200 block of South Main Street is a vacant storefront where the Smoke Shop once was. But OctoberTour patrons got a rare chance to see what the space — including the upstairs — looked like more than 150 years ago. Built in 1839, the Cyrus West House, 203 South Main St., is a brick Federal house and is leased by the Historic Salisbury Foundation. Wallace Realty leases other rooms from the home to businesses, but the portion on tour remains in unrestored condition, and the second floor hasn’t been changed since it was built. The home was advertised A window treatment in 1852 by West as having in the Gen. John seven rooms, but that doesSteele House n’t include the basement, ‘Lombardy.’ complete with windows and a fireplace, where the food was cooked. You can’t see the two windows from the front of the building because the roads in downtown have been raised to cover trolley tracks — but

Competition for Internet, cable TV and phone subscribers is heating up as the city prepares to launch Fibrant, a publicly owned fiber optic utility that will provide all three services. While Time Warner Cable’s published rates are 7 to 10 percent higher than Fibrant’s, “in most cases, that’s not what you’re going to pay,” said Dan Ballister, director of communications for Time Warner Cable Charlotte. Ballister said his company’s rate card is the “retail price we are legally required to post” and compared it to the price on the back of a hotel room door. “We always work with customers to meet their needs and budget,” he said. The cable giant regularly offers specials and recently announced a new bundle including Internet, cable and phone for $99 per month for one year. That’s about $45 cheaper than Fibrant’s comparable package, Deluxe. The new special was not a direct answer to Fibrant’s recently published rates, Ballister said, and the company views Fibrant as “just another player in the competitive field.”

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Liz Murphy from Charlotte views the upstairs room of the Cyrus West House on South Main Street, which housed the Smoke Shop for years. The room looks like it hadn’t been touched in the 171 years since it was built in 1839. they’re still there. “There’s dirt on the other side of them, and they’ve been covered up by the street, but they’re there,” Bud Mickle said, docent for the West house.

The first and only room on the first floor has a large fireplace, and was most likely a living room for the family. The Historic Salisbury

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RCCC students volunteer to drum up support for $12 million bond referendum BY SARAH CAMPBELL scampbell@salisburypost.com

Rowan-Cabarrus Community College students have pledged 300 volunteer hours to campaign for the $12 million bond issue the college is seeking for capital projects and improvements to its North Campus in Salisbury. Student Elana Miles said right now the biggest challenge is educating the voters. “People get it when you talk to them,” she said. “It’s just getting the word out.” Student Government Association President Dawn Evans said taking the time to inform the students is one of the SGA’s primary goals. “They’re aware that Rowan-

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Cabarrus is asking for money,” she said. But students don’t necessarily understand what the money is for. “That’s the first thing we explain, what the money is going to be used for and why those needs need to be addressed,” she said. The bond includes $3 million for campus accessibility improvements, $6.7 million for additions and renovations and $2.3 million to relocate and expand the fire training grounds. The college was seeking an $18 million bond, but the Rowan County Board of Commissioners voted to reduce the amount to $12 million. The original bond proposal included $7.8 million for the construction of a new classroom Today’s forecast 85º/50º Mostly sunny

building to meet growing enrollment needs. The project has been nixed from the college’s immediate plans and the remaining $1.8 million reallocated to campus accessibility and campus wide renovations. “The $12 million will meet our immediate needs,” said Jeff Lowrance, director of college relations. “Our long-range campus plan identifies a total of $40 million in improvements and additions.” The estimated property tax increase over 15 years would be 1.25 cents per $100 assessed value. Although the passage of the

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The city will offer pornographic TV programming on Fibrant to better compete with other providers, officials said. “We are offering similar services to what the incumbent providers are,” City Manager David Treme said. The channel lineup for Fibrant, the city’s new fiber optic utility scheduled to launch next month, includes nine adult pay-per-view channels. Channel names like “Sexsee,” “Juicy” and “Vavoom” have been deleted from Fibrant’s website. They are listed only by the first initial. “Overall, we will keep it as discreet as possible,” Fibrant marketing director Len Clark said. “It’s there for people who want it.” To be competitive with Time Warner Cable and other providers, “we have to offer what they are offering,” Treme said. The signal on a pay-per-view channel is scrambled until the subscriber orders a movie or event. Fees are added to the monthly bill. “It is certainly every person’s option to make a choice as to what type of programming they want in their residence,” Treme said. People who don’t ask for adult programming “won’t see any trace” when they sign up for Fibrant, he said. No one has complained about the adult channels, Clark said. Pay-per-view offers high profit margins for TV providers, and adult programming is a growing segment of the market. “From a profit point of view, it was the right thing to do,” Clark said. Fibrant also offers six pay-per-view ESPN sports channels. Subscribers will pay $3.99 for a pay-per-view

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bond could mean a property tax increase, student Jennifer Ward believes its an investment in the future. “I think it’s a good idea with as many students who are going to Rowan-Cabarrus,” she said. “It would be a good investment for the county.” Student enrollment grew nearly 4.6 percent this fall, with the total student headcount exceeding 7,300. This is the second consecutive year the number of students attending RCCC reached a record level. Limited classroom space has forced RCCC to cap enrollment in some courses. Lowrance said the bond would allow the college to expand its health science offerings to include physical and occupational therapy. “We simply don’t have the space to add those programs, so we need to add some additional classrooms and laboratory space,” he said. Evans said student government has been working on public engagement, placing fliers at various places, talking to local clubs and organizations and manning booths at events such as Friday Night Out. “We are explaining to them the positives of what the bond referendum can do for students here on the North Cam-

“The jobs will come here if we are able to provide the education.” The SGA van will take students to the polls during early voting between Oct. 19-26. “We want to really get students involved and want to help them in any way possible to get them to vote,” Evans said. Students will be at the polls on Nov. 2, passing out pamphlets and reminding residents to flip the ballot over to cast their vote on the bond. Miles said she stands behind the bond because of the vast array of people who can benefit from updated facilties. “I donate my time because I’m one of the students and it’s something I believe in,” she said. Contact Sarah Campbell at 704-797-7683.

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pus by increasing classroom space and updating the accessibility of the campus,” Evans said. Miles said last week students participated in a Walk a Mile event that allowed students to experience the campus the way those with disabilities do on a daily basis. “We had one girl come back and say she couldn’t do it because the elevator was broken,” she said. Evans said she lack of accessibility will continue unless the funds are available to install a new elevator. “That’s a big deal for our students on campus who cannot get to all of the buildings without the use of the elevator.” Evans said the aging facilities shouldn’t just be a priority for students, but for the community at large. “The college has a commitment to be able to provide classroom space and programs,” she said. “In order for us to be able to serve our community in the way that it needs to be served we need to have these updated facilities that are safe.” Evans said she believes that improving the facilities will also have an impact on local economic development. “If we have educated people in the community who can work these jobs that are in high demand right now then the school needs to be able to provide that education,” she said. “They go hand in hand with each other.

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ROSLYN, Wash. (AP) — A dozen young people — most of them women — were taken to hospitals after overdosing on an unknown substance that may have been slipped into their drinks at a house party in central Washington, police said Saturday. All but one had been released by late Saturday afternoon, and that person was in good condition at a hospital in Ellensburg, according to police and a nursing supervisor. The investigation started late Friday when officers and Kittitas County sheriff’s deputies received a report of a possible overdose victim at a Roslyn grocery store. Acting on information from the victim’s friends, police went to the house party and found 11 more young people either passed out or semiconscious. Police believe something may have been slipped into their drinks. They expect toxicology tests on blood and urine samples taken from the victims to help determine what that might have been, said Cle Elum Police Chief Scott Ferguson. “We don’t believe this was just a result of heavy drinking,” Ferguson said. The emergency response required ambulances from all over the county. When police began sweeping the house for possible victims, one sheriff’s deputy found and arrested a male who was engaging in sexual activity with a semiconscious female, Ferguson said. That person was released after investigators determined the woman to be his girlfriend, but Ferguson said police still have serious concerns about the incident and are still investigating. Most of those at the party were students at

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Fibrant marketing director Len Clark acknowledges the city’s fledgling utility can’t compete with Time Warner’s special deals. “We can’t afford it,” he said. But he said Fibrant’s significantly faster Internet and “over the top” customer service will win subscribers who might have to pay a little more for a while. After one year, rates for people who sign up for Time Warner’s $99 special will revert to the standard rates, Ballister said. The $99 special includes Road Runner High Speed Online with a download speed of 7 megabits per second and upload speed of .384 Mbps. For a limited time, subscribers can upgrade for free to Road Runner Turbo, boosting their Internet speed to 10 Mbps for downloads and .512 Mbps for uploads. Fibrant’s standard Internet speed of 15 Mbps for both downloads and uploads is twice as fast as Road Runner High Speed Online and 50 percent faster than Road Runner Turbo. Fibrant customers can go faster — 25 Mbps up and down — for an additional $20 per month. Both Time Warner’s $99 special and Fibrant’s comparable package offer about 150 TV channels. High definition is free for Time Warner subscribers, while Fibrant customers must pay more. Time Warner’s package does not include a digital video recorder. Fibrant’s does. However, people who sign up for the $99 Time Warner special this month get Showtime for free, Ballister said. Next month, it could be a free DVR, he said. Time Warner’s phone service offered in the $99 deal has about a dozen features, including the popular caller ID that appears on the TV screen. Fibrant’s phone service offers 17 calling features. Time Warner is still surprised by “municipal overbuilds,” or city-owned fiber optic networks like Fibrant in Salisbury and Greenlight in Wilson, Ballister said. “It’s just interesting that during these economic times, when city and county budgets are being cut back, that they would want to spend millions of dollars providing services that are already out there,” Ballister said. Salisbury borrowed $33 million to launch Fibrant. Cities have an unfair advantage in offering communication services, Ballister said. “We’re all for competition, as long as people are on a level playing field,” he said.

CHANNELS FROM 1a movie and $29.95 for a payper-view event. Those charges are scheduled to start increasing annually in two years, reaching $4.36 for a movie and $32.73 for an event in 2015. The city expects pay-perview revenue to grow each year, with annual revenues of $21,894 from pay-per-view movies and $49,303 from payper-view events in five years.

Wilson, N.C. operates a similar city-owned fiber optic utility. Called “Greenlight,” it also offers porn. If Salisbury didn’t include adult pay-per-view channels on Fibrant, some people would accuse the city of censorship, Assistant City Manager Doug Paris. “The question is, should the public decide what programming they watch, or should the city make that decision for them by restricting certain content?” Paris said in an email to the Post. If the city restricts content,

it’s hard to know where to draw the line, he said. “What about violent programming, or programming with adult language — it’s a slippery slope,” Paris said. “Some people may request we restrict all Duke sports games. It’s much better to let the consumer decide.” Contact Emily Ford at 704797-4264.

modity. It is not.” Potential Fibrant subscribers expected “unbridled Internet speed,” said Young, who acknowledged he will sign up for Fibrant despite his disappointment. “The price is no better, the product will be better, the service can’t help but be better,” he said. “That is 2 out of 3 ... good enough for government.” Another business owner said he can’t wait to sign up for Fibrant. Unable to install a satellite dish in his downtown location, Kirk Knapp of Tastebuds Coffee and Tea said he feels “held hostage by Time Warner.” “Time Warner has the worst customer service I have ever dealt with,” Knapp said in an

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Cities pay no property or income taxes. They can operate the utility at a loss and crosssubsidize from other areas of government, Ballister said. “They can level taxes on citizens to recover their operating costs,” he said. Fibrant is expected to operate at a loss for three years and have a positive cash flow by year four. It will take longer to make a profit, Clark said. Eventually, Fibrant is supposed to generate revenue for the city. Cities in the fiber optic business also can hike the fees their competitors must pay to get access to their subscribers, Ballister said. “They are the gatekeepers to rights of way and pole attachments,” he said. The company has no specific examples of fee hikes to hurt Time Warner, but “these are valid concerns that exist right now,” Ballister said. Time Warner led the push for a state law to curb municipal broadband projects like Fibrant. Salisbury fought the bill, which died this summer in the N.C. legislature. Time Warner has “spent an immense amount of money in Raleigh on lobbyists and contributions trying to cripple existing community broadband systems and stop small towns and rural areas from getting broadband access,” said Salisbury Assistant City Manager Doug Paris. Salisbury asked Time Warner to invest in new fiber optic technology for the city, Paris said. “They refused,” he said. There are large areas where residents have no access to high-speed broadband, including portions of downtown, Paris said. “It has been holding back small business development for years,” he said. The city decided to “invest in our community with an infrastructure that has a proven track record when it comes to economic development,” Paris said. But Fibrant already is a disappointment to one local business owner. Even though Fibrant’s bandwidth is nearly unlimited, the city is no different than Time Warner in the way both providers are partitioning the Internet, said Michael Young, who owns Downtown Graphics Network. “Unlike cable, which has limited bandwidth and sells Internet speed like a commodity, expectations for Fibrant were for one Internet speed and one speed only, as fast as fiber optic would go,” Young said in an e-mail to the Post. “Instead, just like Time Warner, it is partitioning its speed as if bandwidth were a com-

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CONCORD — Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast will have the 30th annual Healing Threads Fashion Benefit to raise money for its breast health program as part of a three-year fundraising campaign. The fashion show will be Oct. 18 and 19 at the Vintage Motor Club at Gibson Mill, 325 McGill Ave. NW, Concord. Doors open at 7 p.m. Wine and heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the event are $25 and can be bought in advance. One ticket covers one of the two nights. The theme for this year’s event is Pink Pearls. The foundation has actually exceeded its $5.5 million goal set three years ago and has raised $5.7 million toward the campaign. In 2008, the NorthEast Foundation launched a three-year community campaign to support the hospital’s breast health program. The money raised during the campaign will be used to refurbish the breast health center, a mobile mammography unit, state-of-the-art digital mammography equipment and an education/outreach initiative to reach underserved women who need breast care services in the community. The campaign continues until Dec. 31 and all proceeds above the goal will fund mammography services and will support women in the community who need breast health care. “The more people we can screen, the better,” said Leslie Cannon, with Carolinas Med-

ical Center public relations. Over the course of the two nights, there will be about 900 people who attend, said Meredith Valentine, special events coordinator for the foundation. This the third year at the Vintage Motor Club. “There are about 40 models, who are community leaders and volunteers within the medical center. We are trying to showcase our community,” she said. The event is possible because of sponsors and the 100 volunteers who work during the event. “This is one of our major fundraisers,” Valentine said. The second fundraiser is a dinner cruise in the spring. Last year alone, the campaign raised $69,000. These two events bring in money, but the other money raised comes from staff and through the board members. The clothes were donated for the show by local businesses and boutiques. “We tried to stay in our market,” Valentine said. Molly Grantham, anchor for WBTV, is the guest commentator for the event. NorthEast Foundation was established in 1994 as the fundraising arm of Carolinas Medical CenterNorthEast. NorthEast Foundation’s board of directors raised $9.3 million toward the $10.3 million in construction costs required to build the Jeff Gordon Children’s Hospital at CMCNorthEast. For more information about tickets, call 704-4031369.

Miss USA winner who had title stripped dies in LA LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leona Gage, who in 1957 was named Miss USA but had the title stripped the next day when pageant officials learned she was married and a mother of two, has died in Los Angeles, her son said Saturday. She was 71. Gage died of heart failure after spending several weeks at a Sherman Oaks hospital on Tuesday, son Robert Kaminer told the Associated Press. Like Vanessa Williams and Carrie Prejean decades later, Gage’s pageant scandal probably brought her more fame than if she had kept the crown. Born Mary Leona Gage in Texas, she appeared as Miss Maryland USA in the competition in Long Beach, Calif. Gage also lied about her age — telling pageant officials she was 21 when she was 18. She told reporters after winning that she didn’t even have a boyfriend. “I want to wait until I’m 26 before I become seriously interested in the opposite sex,” she said, according to the Baltimore Sun.

a Just day later her story was exposed. She had already been married twice, both times at age GAGE 14 — the first was quickly annulled — and had her second child at 16, all forbidden for the resume of a pageant contestant. Gage said she was used to such secrets. She had hidden her first pregnancy from her strict Baptist mother for as long as she could. “To my mother, that was the biggest scandal there could be,” Gage told the Sun. “All my life, she said, ‘Don’t you dare go into the bushes with a boy and get yourself pregnant.’” Gage took advantage of the attention that came with the lost tiara and made many television appearances, including a highly rated appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Doris Deese Hilton, met the master teacher on Saturday, May 15, 2010, and is praising the Lord and rejoicing in His presence forevermore. She had a reputation among her girls as a dedicated Christian and very knowledgeable of the scriptures. Her countenance always displayed a joy, and she was well liked and respected by all who knew her. She had many friends in her 44 years in Jacksonville, Fla., as well as friends and relatives in Kannapolis, N.C. She was born May 6, 1931, in Pageland, S.C., to the late Parnell L. Deese and Effie Hicks Deese. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Mary M. Deese. Doris leaves her husband, R.J. Hilton; son Kevin Hilton and his wife Wendy and her two children, Lara and Bradley; one sister, Peggy Hurst and her husband Bobby D. Hurst; many cousins, nieces and nephews; and one uncle and aunt, Anthony and Louis Deese. Services: A Memorial Service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16 at West Point Baptist Church in Kannapolis, N.C. A Memorial Service will be held at 12 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17 in the Fellowship Hall at White Plains Baptist Church in Jefferson, S.C., during the Hicks Family Reunion. Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home in Jacksonville is assisting the family.

STATESVILLE — Roy Felton Burris, 77, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Born Feb. 11, 1933, in Cabarrus County, he was the son of the late Claude Clinton and Victoria Mozelle Tuck Burris. He attended Cabarrus County Schools and was a veteran of the United States Coast Guard. He worked briefly with Mooresville Mills and retired from Cannon Mills. Following his retirement, he was selfemployed with Computer Portraits. He was a member of Western Avenue Baptist Church where he was a member of the Clyde Gurley Sunday School Class. Felton loved people and enjoyed helping others. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Claude Clinton Burris, Jr. and David Wayne Burris. He is survived by his wife, Ella Jane Tomlin Burris, whom he married on May 31, 1980; a son, Jack Tomlin (Dana) of Rock Hill, S.C.; and a grandson, Brandon Tomlin (Anna) of Rock Hill, S.C. Service and Burial: Services celebrating Felton's life will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Western Avenue Baptist Dr. Ed Church with Yarbrough officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Concord with military honors. Mr. Burris' nephews will serve as pallbearers. Visitation: 1-2 p.m. Tuesday at the church prior to the service. Memorials: Western Avenue Baptist Church, Building Fund, 1206 Museum Road, Statesville, NC 28625; or to Hospice and Palliative Care of Iredell County, 2347 Simonton Road, Statesville, NC 28625. Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home is serving the Burris family. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.bunchjohnsonfuneralhome.com.

Kathrine F. Bostian SALISBURY — Kathrine Elizabeth Freeman Bostian, 82, of Salisbury, passed away Friday, Oct. 08, 2010, at Elizabeth House of Hendersonville. Mrs. Bostian was born Oct. 6, 1928, in Rowan County, she was the daughter of the late Luther Baxter Freeman and Nancy Belle Cannon Freeman. Preceding her in death was a son, George Shinn, Jr. Survivors include her husband, Harold Bostian of Concord; son, Oscar Adam Shinn of Gastonia; daughter, Kathleen Shinn Morris; grandchildren, Angela Richardson, Ann Medlin, Laura Fox, Penny Monroe, Leonard Richardson III, Coley Shinn, Oscar Adam Shinn, Jr., Mary Shinn, Judy Shinn and Loreaine Shinn; and 11 great-grandchildren. Visitation: Monday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Lyerly Funeral Home. Service: Graveside Service at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11, at Legion Memorial Park in Cooleemee, conducted by Rev. Rex Padunivak. Lyerly Funeral Home is serving the Bostian family. Online condolences may be made at www.lyerlyfuneralhome.com.

Dafoe says he’s proud of Green Goblin BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Some serious character actors may be embarrassed about playing a comic book character, but Willem Dafoe says he’s proud of his role as the villain Green Goblin in the “Spider-Man” movies. The 55-year-old American actor was asked several times about his performances in Hollywood’s “SpiderMan” franchise at a news conference at South Korea’s Pusan International Film Festival late Friday — instead of his more critically acclaimed roles in socially conscious dramas like “Platoon” and “Mississippi Burning.” One reporter even apologized for the line of questioning. “That’s part of my story. Don’t be sorry. I’m very proud of that movie,” Dafoe responded. The Appleton, Wisconsin native was in Pusan to promote the film noir “A Woman,” which was directed by his wife, Italian filmmaker Giada Colagrande. He plays a novelist who is devastated by the death of

his wife but also caught up in a new romance. Dafoe, however, said he has b e c o m e more advenDAFOE turous in choosing new parts because he is now an established actor who can afford to take creative risks. “I feel like I can be a little more reckless,” he said. The veteran actor has kept up a diverse mix of characters in his recent career. Among his latest releases are “Miral,” in which he plays an American who witnesses the development of an orphanage for Palestinian children. He also plays a nine-foot (2.5-meter) tall Martian warrior in the animated film “John Carter of

Mars.” “I very much am attracted to strong directors, passionate directors, people who are on fire to express their cinema. I am less interested in exercises in style,” he said. “I require more adventure and stimulation.” Dafoe said he’d like to work in Asia again. He played a Jesuit missionary who falls in love with a married woman from 1930s Chinese high society in Hong Kong director Yim Ho’s 2001 release “Pavilion of Women,” which was shot in the Chinese city of Suzhou. “I’m always looking for opportunities to work in other situations because it always frees you from your cultural orientation and really helps you get to the most basic, the most essential aspects of telling a story or performing or making cinema,” he said.

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- Army Sgt. 1st Class Lance H. Vogeler, 29, of Frederick, Md., died Oct.1 in Bastion, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered in Helmand, Afghanistan, when insurgents attacked his unit with indirect fire. ----------------

- Army Spc. Joseph T. Prentler, 20, of Fenwick, Mich., died Oct. 4 in Mama Kariz, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his military vehicle using an improvised explosive device. ----------------

- Army Sgt. Brian J. Pedro, 27, of Rosamond, Calif., died Oct. 2 in Pol-e-Khumri, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.

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orty-eight men, ranging in age from 16 to 48 and coming from as far north as Maryland and as far south as Georgia, gathered at the J.F. Hurley Family YMCA recently to compete in the Y’s third Strongest Man at the Y contest. The men were divided into four categories by body weight, then asked to compete in five events with points being awarded for their performance in each. The events within the contest included the Atlas stone lift, the bus pull, the Fingal finger flip, the farmers walk and the giant tire flip. At the end of a long, hot and exciting day these men were the top finishers in each class. In the under 175 pound class, Matt Cottingham of Salisbury was first, followed by Alex Rollins in second and Anson Castelvecchi in third. Cottingham won the Atlas stones and the tire flip

while Rollins won the bus pull, the Fingal fingers and the farmers walk. The overall score showed that Cottingham won the contest by one point, allowing him to take the $250 first prize. In the 176- to 210-pound class, Ben Lyons of Salisbury and Keith Moore of Washington, N.C., tied for first with Bryan Burke of New Bern finishing third. Lyons and Moore split the first-place award after Lyons’ strong overall finish (second in the stones, fingers and farmers walk) with Moore first in the fingers, second in the tire and third in the farmers walk. Burke had firsts in the stones, farmers walk and the tire, but poor showings in the bus and fingers decided his finish. In the 211- to 251-pound class, Jonathan Creason of Cleveland won the division for the third time. Cornelius Parkon from Rock Hill, S.C., was second with Thomas Bowman from Graham and Ricky Moore

fingers and the tire flip with seconds in the stones and the bus. Parkon won the bus and the farmers walk with Bowman winning the stones in an incredible time of 7.16 seconds. The over-251-pound class was won by Randy Moore of Washington, N.C., with Dwayne Taylor of Durham second and Josh Cardwell of Kannapolis third. Moore was first in the stones, fingers and the tire and Taylor win the farmers walk and had seconds in the stones, bus and tire flip. Kenny Seagle, sports director at the Y and organizer of the contest was pleased with the outcome. “We had a great event and everybody is excited about the next one planned for March,” he said. “Using the Internet, we were able to spread the word about this competition, resulting in so many people coming from all over the Southeast. Thanks to the competitors and our spon-

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Coast Guard rescues kayaker near Ocracoke ELIZABETH CITY (AP) — The Coast Guard says a 58-year-old man who asked for help while kayaking near Ocracoke has been rescued. The Coast Guard said in a news release that the kayaker set off his emergency beacon Saturday afternoon because he was having chest pains and needed help. The man was rescued by a 25-foot response boat crew from Hatteras Inlet.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The stars may have finally aligned for the world’s only space sibling team. Astronaut Scott Kelly is circling the planet, fresh into a 5 1⁄2 month space station mission. His identical twin, Mark, will join him next year, if NASA’s shuttle schedule holds up. Together, they will become the first blood relatives to meet up in space. “It’s something we hoped would happen,” Mark said. “It wasn’t done by design. But we’re fortunate. I think it will be fun for us.” Scott is the International Space Station’s next commander. He took off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket early Friday — texting and joking with his brother right until launch — and arrived at the orbiting complex Saturday night. Mark is space shuttle Endeavour’s next commander. He’s due to take off at the end of February and knock on the space station door March 1. It’s currently slated to be NASA’s last shuttle flight. The 46-year-old brothers — Navy captains and former fighter pilots — don’t shake each other’s hands, so count on embraces and even armwrestling when the hatches pop open between the space station and Endeavour.

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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — Chile’s trapped miners cheered and embraced Saturday when a drill punched an escape shaft into an underground chamber in a spray of rock and dust on the 66th day of their agonizing entombment, opening the way for rescuers to set plans to begin lifting the men out by midweek. The government’s mining minister said Saturday that the extraction of the 33 men will probably begin Wednesday, after an inspection revealed that the new hole will likely be strong enough to enable them to escape safely. He said only a stretch at the top will be reinforced with steel pipe. The completion of the rescue shaft caused bedlam in the tent city known as “Camp Hope,” where the miners’ relatives have held vigil since a cave-in sealed off the gold and copper mine Aug. 5. The success of the escape shaft was a tremendous relief for families of the miners. “We feel an enormous happiness,” said Darwin Contreras, whose brother Pedro, a 26-yearold heavy machine operator, is stuck down below. “Now we just have to wait for them to get out, just a little bit longer now.” Contractor Jeff Hart of Denver operated the drill, pounding through solid rock and the detritus of the collapsed mine, which corkscrews deep below a remote hill in Chile’s Atacama desert. “There is nothing more important than saving — possibly saving — 33 lives. There’s no more important job than that,” Hart said. “We’ve done our part, now it’s up to them to get the rest of the way out.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Outraged city leaders said Saturday that the city wouldn’t tolerate the “vicious” hatred that had apparently caused a street gang to allegedly beat and torture two teenage boys and a man inside an abandoned home over the course of several hours because they were gay. Police arrested an eighth suspect in the beatings Saturday, while a ninth remained at large. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that several of the suspects had made statements implicating themselves in the crime, which occurred in a neighborhood where residents said homosexuality is both common and tolerated. Asked if the men had expressed any remorse for what they had done, Kelly said “I wouldn’t call it remorse.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was “sickened” by the violence, that police said included sodomizing one of the men with a plunger handle and hourslong torture of others. The attack came amid heightened attention to anti-gay bullying following a string of teen suicides attributed to it last month around the country. “Like many New Yorkers, I was sickened by the brutal nature of these crimes and saddened by the anti-gay bias that contributed to them,” the mayor said. “The heartless men who committed these crimes should know that their fellow New Yorkers will not tolerate their vicious acts, or the hatred that fuels them.” The suspects arrested Thursday and Friday were identified as Ildefonzo Mendez, 23; David Rivera, 21; four 17year-olds, Steven Caraballo, Denis Peitars,

Nelson Falu and Bryan Almonte; and Brian Cepeda, 16. All face charges including robbery, assault and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes; Mendez, Rivera and Falu were additionally charged with committing a criminal sex act. The eighth suspect, Elmer Confresi, 23, of the Bronx, turned himself in on Saturday. Kelly said that a lawyer representing the ninth suspect had arranged for his client to turn himself in, but never showed. Police said the nine members of a gang that called itself the Latin King Goonies went berserk after hearing a rumor that one of their new recruits, a 17year-old, was gay, and trapped and brutalized the men on Oct. 3-4. Investigators say the teen was stripped, beaten and abused until he confessed to having had sex with a man who lives nearby.

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200 W. Fisher St. and Church St. ~ Historic Downtown Salisbury, NC 28144

Hubert Sumlim

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SPORTSSUNDAY

SUNDAY October 10, 2010

SALISBURY POST

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

South Carolina stuns Alabama

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White a glue guy for North Carolina BY JOEDY MCCREARY Associated Press

BY PETE IACOBELLI Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — After delivering S. Carolina 35 South CaroliAlabama 21 na’s biggest win ever, all coach Steve Spurrier could do was smile. “I think that this game was meant to be,” he said. The way the Gamecocks played, it sure seemed like it. Stephen Garcia threw three touchdown passes, two to Alshon Jeffrey, and freshman Marcus Lattimore scored three times as 19th-ranked South

Carolina stunned No. 1 Alabama 35-21 on Saturday afternoon. Never before had the Gamecocks beaten a team ranked No. 1 — at least not in football. So Spurrier had plenty of reason to bask in one of the biggest victories of his illustrious career. When Spurrier arrived at South Carolina (4-1, 2-1) from the Washington Redskins, expectations in Columbia soared. He had dominated the SEC and led Florida to a national championship in 1996 before trying out the NFL.

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South Carolina’s Alshon Jeffery makes a one-handed catch as Alabama’s Dre Kickpatrick defends the pass.

Panthers play host to Bears

CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina 21 w e l c o m e d UNC Clemson 16 one player back to the lineup and lost another. If only for one day, the most important Tar Heel wound up being one of their emotional rocks during a most tumultuous year. Johnny White rushed for two touchdowns and gained 179 total yards as the Tar Heels held on to beat Clemson 21-16 on Saturday for their third straight victory.

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UNC’s Johnny White had 179 total yards against Clemson.

DIVISION II FOOTBALL

BY MIKE CRANSTON Associated Press

CHARLOTTE — In the little more than 20 years since major pro sports arrived in this town, Julius Peppers has little competition as the most polarizing pro sports figure. A local kid who starred at the state college, Peppers arrived in 2002 with great fanfare as the No. 2 overall pick of the CaroliPEPPERS na Panthers. Yet he never was comfortable as face of the franchise and always kept a distance from fans and media. Freakishly athletic, Peppers routinely did things defensive ends aren’t supposed to do. He made five Pro Bowls, was selected to the NFL all-decade team, led the Panthers to the Super Bowl and put his name all over Carolina’s record book. Yet he would also disappear for long stretches — even an entire season in 2007. His coaches and teammates would vehemently defend him, yet Peppers declared more than once he wanted to play elsewhere despite a salary that swelled to $18.2 million last season. When the Panthers let him leave in the spring, he insisted it was the team’s decision and he had no choice but to sign with Chicago. Carrying all that history, baggage and contradictions, Peppers returns today with the Bears, unsure how he’ll be received in a stadium that used to be littered with fans dressed in his No. 90 Panthers jersey. “I have absolutely no idea,” he said. “I know I have a large fan base down there. I also know that I have people that don’t necessarily care for me too much, either. Which crowd shows up? I don’t know.” Peppers’ return was circled the day the Panthers’ schedule was released in the spring. Few could have guessed it would come under these circumstances. Chicago (3-1) is coming off a brutal performance last week, falling 17-3 to the New York Giants with Jay Cutler sacked nine times in the first half before leaving with a concussion. Cutler remains sidelined, meaning 38-year-old Todd Collins will start against Carolina. The Panthers (0-4) are in even worse shape. Letting Peppers leave in free agency was part of an offseason youth movement that gutted the roster. Now, with star receiver Steve Smith sidelined with a sprained ankle, rookie quarterback Jimmy Clausen will have few options leading the NFL’s lowest-scoring team against the disruptive Peppers.

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Catawba’s Josh Wright (2) and Chris Peoples jump up to celebrate a go-ahead TD as Brevard’s Salonik Amos (36) and Donovan Barker (19) walk away.

When push comes to shovel Wright’s fourth-quarter score helps Catawba beat Brevard BY MIKE LONDON mlondon@salisburypost.com

Catawba dug a homecoming hole. Quarterback Patrick literally Catawba 31 Dennis Brevard 21 shoveled the Indians out of trouble in a 31-21 win against Brevard on Saturday. Catawba fell behind the triple-option Tornados 21-13 but rode a creative play by Dennis and a terrific effort by a short-handed defense to its fourth straight victory. Dennis passed for 219 yards, Josh Wright scored twice in the fourth quarter and Catawba’s defense held Kelvin Jeter, the SAC’s leading rusher, to 17 yards. Brevard (3-3, 0-2) had 332 rushing yards against Carson-Newman on Oct. 2 but was limited to 161 by the Indians.

“That was a fight from beginning to end,” said cornerback Jumal Rolle, who picked off a pass to seal Brevard’s fate. “We made good reads on their option, and we hit whatever we saw.” The Indians (4-1, 2-0 ROLLE SAC) trailed by five in the fourth quarter and were in serious trouble after Thomas Trexler, bidding for his fourth field goal, had his kick rejected by the left upright. “We’re not a good football team yet, but we are a stick-together team,” Catawba coach Chip Hester said. “I never saw any panic in our eyes. All I saw was determination.” JON C. LAKEY/SALISBURY POST

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Damien Lee (99) and Alex Hartsell (96) pursue Michael Crumbaker.

Unbeaten Bobcats keep Blue Bears winless BY DAVID SHAW dshaw@salisburypost.com

It’s hard to imagine things getting much worse for the WVW 58 winless Livingstone Livingstone 3 football team, but here goes. The Blue Bears suffered a 58-3 loss to visiting West Virginia Wesleyan on Saturday — and that’s not even the bad news. Their top two defensive players weren’t around for the finish and may not be available for next

week’s CIAA game at Winston-Salem State. “We have become our own worst enemy,” coach Elvin James said after Livingstone fell to 0-7. “If we could JAMES come out and play a basically mistakefree ballgame, I think we can get something going. But if we can’t execute, it’s not gonna happen.”

Livingstone will have to execute without junior defensive back Shawntez Jones and possibly linebacker Bryan Aycoth when it returns to action. Jones — second in the league with 91⁄2 JONES tackles for a loss before kickoff — was ejected for fighting a Wesleyan player following a fourth-quarter stop and will sit out a game.

“It’s not good when you start taking things personally,” James said. “He and this other guy had a personal vendetta against each other, but what about the team? When you’re a leader and a captain, that’s not supposed to happen. Now he won’t be able to play next week.” X-rays of Aycoth’s future appear more positive. He reinjured his right shoulder late in the second quarter and was sidelined for the second half.

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2B • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010

TV Sports Sunday, Oct. 10 AUTO RACING 3 p.m. ESPN — Pepsi MAX 400, at Fontana 9 p.m. ESPN — NHRA, Toyo Tires Nationals GOLF 3 p.m. TGC — PGA, The McGladrey Classic MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. TBS — Tampa Bay at Texas 4:30 p.m. TBS — San Francisco at Atlanta 8 p.m. TBS — Philadelphia at Cincinnati NFL FOOTBALL 1 p.m. FOX — Chicago at Carolina 4 p.m. CBS — Tennessee at Dallas 8:15 p.m. NBC — Philadelphia at San Francisco

Prep football Standings 1A Yadkin Valley Overall YVC Albemarle 3-0 6-1 North Rowan 3-0 3-4 2-1 5-2 East Montgomery West Montgomery 2-1 5-2 South Davidson 1-2 1-6 1-2 1-6 South Stanly Chatham Central 0-3 1-6 North Moore 0-3 0-7 Friday’s results North Rowan 42, North Moore 14 Albemarle 62, South Davidson 6 East Montgomery 15, South Stanly 14 West Montgomery 56, Chatham Central 18 Next week’s games Albemarle at North Rowan South Stanly at West Montgomery Chatham Central at South Davidson North Moore at East Montgomery

2A Central Carolina CCC Overall 1-0 7-0 Thomasville Salisbury 1-0 4-3 Lexington 1-0 4-3 0-1 5-2 Central Davidson West Davidson 0-1 4-3 East Davidson 0-1 2-5 Friday’s results Salisbury 49, West Davidson 26 Thomasville 48, Central Davidson 7 Lexington 56, East Davidson 14 Next week’s games Salisbury at Central Davidson Thomasville at East Davidson Lexington at West Davidson

3A North Piedmont NPC Overall 3-0 8-0 West Rowan Statesville 2-0 4-3 West Iredell 2-1 4-3 1-1 2-5 South Rowan Carson 1-2 6-2 North Iredell 0-2 1-6 0-3 1-7 East Rowan Friday’s results West Rowan 41, Carson 14 Statesville 42, East Rowan 21 West Iredell 41, North Iredell 21 Next week’s games Carson at North Iredell West Iredell at South Rowan West Rowan at Statesville

3A South Piedmont SPC Overall 3-0 6-1 A.L. Brown Concord 3-0 5-2 Hickory Ridge 3-0 4-3 1-2 4-3 Cox Mill NW Cabarrus 1-2 3-4 Robinson 1-2 3-4 0-3 2-5 Mount Pleasant Central Cabarrus 0-3 0-7 Friday’s results A.L. Brown 35, Cox Mill 21 Concord 36, Central Cabarrus 0 Robinson 10, NW Cabarrus 7 Hickory Ridge 20, Mt. Pleasant 14 Next week’s games Mt. Pleasant at A.L. Brown Cox Mill at Concord Hickory Ridge at NW Cabarrus Robinson at Central Cabarrus

4A Central Piedmont CPC Overall 1-0 6-1 North Davidson Mount Tabor 1-0 6-1 Davie County 1-0 3-4 0-1 6-1 West Forsyth Reagan 0-1 4-3 R.J. Reynolds 0-1 2-5 Friday’s games Davie 34, R.J. Reynolds 0 North Davidson 21, West Forsyth 12 Mount Tabor 36, Reagan 27 Next week’s games West Forsyth at Davie R.J. Reynolds at Mount Tabor Reagan at North Davidson

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Jets 3 1 0 .750 106 61 New England 3 1 0 .750 131 96 Miami 2 2 0 .500 66 92 Buffalo 0 4 0 .000 61 125 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 3 1 0 .750 108 102 Jacksonville 2 2 0 .500 71 111 Indianapolis 2 2 0 .500 117 92 Tennessee 2 2 0 .500 98 68 North W L T Pct PF PA 3 1 0 .750 61 55 Baltimore Pittsburgh 3 1 0 .750 86 50 Cincinnati 2 2 0 .500 79 78 1 3 0 .250 68 77 Cleveland West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 3 0 0 1.000 68 38 2 2 0 .500 113 71 San Diego Denver 2 2 0 .500 87 85 Oakland 1 3 0 .250 76 107 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Washington 2 2 0 .500 73 79 N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 72 88 Philadelphia 2 2 0 .500 95 79 Dallas 1 2 0 .333 54 53 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 3 1 0 .750 93 60 New Orleans 3 1 0 .750 79 72 Tampa Bay 2 1 0 .667 50 59 CAROLINA 0 4 0 .000 46 87 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 3 1 0 .750 69 68 Green Bay 3 1 0 .750 106 73 Minnesota 1 2 0 .333 43 38 Detroit 0 4 0 .000 82 106 West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 2 2 0 .500 58 118 St. Louis 2 2 0 .500 77 52 Seattle 2 2 0 .500 75 77 San Francisco 0 4 0 .000 52 103 Sunday’s games St. Louis at Detroit, 1 p.m. Denver at Baltimore, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Houston, 1 p.m. Green Bay at Washington, 1 p.m. Chicago at CAROLINA, 1 p.m., FOX Atlanta at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Kansas City at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. Tennessee at Dallas, 4:15 p.m., CBS San Diego at Oakland, 4:15 p.m. Philadelphia at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. Off: Miami, N. England, Pittsburgh, Seattle Monday’s game Minnesota at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.

Auto racing Sprint Cup Pepsi MAX 400 lineup Auto Club Speedway in Fontana (Car number in parentheses) 1. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevy, 185.285 2. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 184.407.

3. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 184.096. 4. (42) JP Montoya, Chevy, 184.068. 5. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 183.964. 6. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 183.772. 7. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 183.767. 8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevy, 183.702. 9. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevy, 183.552. 10. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 183.365. 11. (5) Mark Martin, Chevy, 183.36. 12. (13) Casey Mears, Toyota, 183.346. 13. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevy, 183.271. 14. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevy, 183.22. 15. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevy, 183.211. 16. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 183.155. 17. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevy, 183.057. 18. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 182.983. 19. (78) Regan Smith, Chevy, 182.941. 20. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 182.904. 21. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevy, 182.797. 22. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevy, 182.788. 23. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 182.648. 24. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 182.528. 25. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 182.219. 26. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 182.089. 27. (83) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 182.089. 28. (46) Michael McDowell, Chevy, 181.965. 29. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 181.947. 30. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 181.91. 31. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevy, 181.882. 32. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 181.452. 33. (66) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 181.424. 34. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 181.264. 35. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 181.196. 36. (64) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 181.014. 37. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 180.791. 38. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 180.591. 39. (37) Dave Blaney, Ford, 179.556. 40. (34) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Owner Pts 41. (7) Kevin Conway, Toyota, Owner Pts 42. (71) Andy Lally, Chevy, Owner Points. 43. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevy, Champ

Nationwide Camping World 300 Saturday’s race, Fontana, Calif. (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 150 laps, 133.5 rating, 190 points, $88,400. 2. (3) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 150, 120.8, 175, $54,300. 3. (2) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 150, 143.1, 175, $50,800. 4. (6) Carl Edwards, Ford, 150, 111.7, 165, $33,200. 5. (5) Joey Logano, Toyota, 150, 115, 155, $27,675. 6. (8) Aric Almirola, Chevy, 150, 95.8, 150, $32,243. 7. (10) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 150, 99.3, 146, $26,935. 8. (11) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 150, 105.8, 142, $31,663. 9. (16) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 150, 84.7, 138, $28,568. 10. (12) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 150, 99.2, 134, $30,993. 11. (20) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 150, 86.2, 130, $20,875. 12. (7) Paul Menard, Ford, 150, 87.4, 127, $20,475. 13. (35) Colin Braun, Ford, 150, 74.6, 124, $27,643. 14. (30) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 150, 74.9, 121, $26,443. 15. (23) Brian Scott, Ford, 150, 71.9, 118, $26,518. 16. (25) Jason Keller, Chevrolet, 150, 56, 115, $25,243. 17. (18) James Buescher, Toyota, 150, 74.5, 112, $25,093. 18. (27) Michael McDowell, Dodge, 150, 71.3, 109, $24,968. 19. (37) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 150, 58, 106, $24,818. 20. (22) Michael Annett, Toyota, 150, 84.9, 103, $25,843. 21. (15) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 150, 61.6, 100, $24,568. 22. (21) Willie Allen, Chevrolet, 150, 53.2, 97, $24,443. 23. (42) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, 149, 44.7, 94, $24,693. 24. (28) John Borneman III, Ford, 149, 52.6, 91, $24,168. 25. (4) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 149, 93.1, 93, $18,425. 26. (39) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, 148, 42.9, 85, $24,068. 27. (41) Mark Green, Chevrolet, 148, 39.1, 82, $24,168. 28. (38) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, 148, 47, 79, $23,618. 29. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 147, 75.3, 76, $23,493. 30. (14) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, accident, 141, 70.1, 73, $23,668. 31. (36) Ricky Carmichael, Toyota, accident, 141, 56.5, 70, $23,238. 32. (29) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, accident, 125, 73, 67, $23,103. 33. (9) Steve Wallace, Toyota, accident, 78, 72.7, 64, $23,118. 34. (40) Brad Baker, Ford, handling, 27, 36, 61, $16,415. 35. (32) Danny O’Quinn Jr., Chevrolet, transmission, 21, 46.3, 58, $16,310. 36. (19) David Gilliland, Chevrolet, electrical, 16, 43.5, 55, $16,275. 37. (13) Jason Leffler, Toyota, engine, 15, 49.1, 52, $22,708. 38. (43) Kevin Lepage, Chevrolet, rear end, 10, 36.7, 49, $16,185. 39. (34) Danny Efland, Chevrolet, ignition, 6, 34.6, 46, $16,145. 40. (31) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, brakes, 4, 32.5, 43, $16,115. 41. (33) Chase Miller, Dodge, electrical, 3, 33.4, 40, $16,080. 42. (26) Dennis Setzer, Dodge, brakes, 3, 31.9, 37, $16,035. 43. (24) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, fuel pressure, 2, 30.3, 34, $15,973. Race Statistics Margin of Victory: 1.034 seconds. Lap Leaders: K.Busch 1-8; K.Harvick 940; M.Truex Jr. 41; K.Harvick 42-50; K.Busch 51-56; K.Harvick 57-87; C.Edwards 88-90; Bra.Keselowski 91-112; K.Busch 113; K.Harvick 114-127; K.Busch 128-150. Top 10 in Points: 1. Bra.Keselowski, 4,764; 2. C.Edwards, 4,380; 3. K.Busch, 4,279; 4. J.Allgaier, 3,938; 5. P.Menard, 3,866; 6. K.Harvick, 3,763; 7. J.Logano, 3,392; 8. T.Bayne, 3,391; 9. S.Wallace, 3,351; 10. J.Leffler, 3,315.

NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Philadelphia 2 1 0 1 3 4 4 N.Y. Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 6 3 N.Y. Islanders 1 0 0 1 1 4 5 New Jersey 2 0 1 1 1 5 11 Pittsburgh 2 0 2 0 0 4 6 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Toronto 2 2 0 0 4 8 3 Buffalo 2 1 1 0 2 5 7 Montreal 2 1 1 0 2 5 5 Boston 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 Ottawa 2 0 2 0 0 2 7 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 2 2 0 0 4 6 4 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 0 2 5 3 Atlanta 2 1 1 0 2 7 7 Washington 2 1 1 0 2 9 6 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 2 2 0 0 4 7 2 Nashville 1 1 0 0 2 4 1 St. Louis 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 Columbus 2 1 1 0 2 5 5 Chicago 2 0 1 1 1 5 7 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Colorado 1 1 0 0 2 4 3 Edmonton 1 1 0 0 2 4 0 Minnesota 2 0 1 1 1 4 6 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Calgary 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 2 2 0 0 4 9 7 San Jose 2 1 0 1 3 5 5 Phoenix 1 1 0 0 2 5 2 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Anaheim 2 0 2 0 0 1 8 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Saturday’s Games Dallas 5, N.Y. Islanders 4, SO Phoenix 5, Boston 2 Columbus 3, San Jose 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 6, Buffalo 3 Toronto 5, Ottawa 1 Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 2 Washington 7, New Jersey 2 Tampa Bay 5, Atlanta 3 St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 1, OT Nashville 4, Anaheim 1 Detroit 3, Chicago 2 Los Angeles at Vancouver, late

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SPORTS Sunday’s Games Boston vs. Phoenix at Prague, Czech Republic, 10 a.m. Los Angeles at Calgary, 8 p.m. Florida at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

NBA

Chasers close gap on champ BY JOHN MARSHALL Associated Press

Preseason Saturday’s Games New Jersey 90, Philadelphia 89 Houston 126, Indiana 92 Milwaukee 86, CHARLOTTE 78 Memphis 97, New Orleans 90 San Antonio 90, Miami 73 Dallas vs. Phoenix, late Sunday’s Games New Orleans at Orlando, 6 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Houston, 7 p.m. Sacramento at Golden State, 10 p.m.

Baseball Division Series American League Tampa Bay vs. Texas Wednesday, Oct. 6 Texas 5, Tampa Bay 1 Thursday, Oct. 7 Texas 6, Tampa Bay 0 Saturday, Oct. 9 Tampa Bay 6, Texas 3, , Texas leads series 2-1 Sunday, Oct. 10 Tampa Bay (Davis 12-10) at Texas (Hunter 13-4), 1:07 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12 Texas at Tampa Bay, 5:07 p.m. or 8:07 p.m., if necessary Minnesota vs. New York Wednesday, Oct. 6 New York 6, Minnesota 4 Thursday, Oct. 7 New York 5, Minnesota 2 Saturday, Oct. 9 New York 6, Minnesota 1, New York wins seris 3-0

National League Philadelphia vs. Cincinnati Wednesday, Oct. 6 Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 0 Friday, Oct. 8 Philadelphia 7, Cincinnati 4 Sunday, Oct. 10 Philadelphia (Hamels 12-11) at Cincinnati (Cueto 12-7),8:07 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11 Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 5:07 p.m. or 7:37 p.m., if necessary Wednesday, Oct. 13 Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 6:07 p.m. or 8:07 p.m., if necessary San Francisco vs. Atlanta Thursday, Oct. 7 San Francisco 1, Atlanta 0 Friday, Oct. 8 Atlanta 5, San Francisco 4, 11 innings Sunday, Oct. 10 San Francisco (Sanchez 13-9) at Atlanta (Hudson 17-9), 4:37 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11 San Francisco at Atlanta, 8:37 p.m. or 7:37 p.m., if necessary Wednesday, Oct. 13 Atlanta at San Francisco, 9:37 p.m. or 8:07 p.m., if necessary

Saturday’s boxes Rays 6, Rangers 3 Tampa Bay Texas ab r h bi ab r h bi 4 0 1 1 Andrus ss 4 0 1 1 Jaso c Zobrist 2 4 0 1 0 MYong 3b 4 0 0 0 Crwfrd lf 5 1 2 1 JHmltn cf 4 0 0 0 Lngori 3b 4 0 0 0 Guerrr dh 3 0 1 0 Joyce rf 3 0 1 0 N.Cruz rf 4 1 1 1 Rdrgz 2b 2 1 1 0 Kinsler 2b 3 1 1 1 Jhnsn dh 3 1 2 0 DvMrp lf 3 0 1 0 Jnnngs dh 0 1 0 0 Borbon lf 1 0 0 0 WAyar dh 1 0 0 0 BMolin c 3 0 0 0 Pena 1b 3 2 2 3 Morlnd 1b 3 1 1 0 Upton cf 5 0 1 1 Bartlett ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 37 6 11 6 Totals 32 3 6 3 Tampa Bay 000 001 023—6 Texas 001 000 101—3 Dp—Tampa Bay 1. Lob—Tampa Bay 11, Texas 4. 2b—Zobrist (2), D.johnson (1), B.upton (1), Moreland (1). Hr—Crawford (1), C.pena (1), N.cruz (2), Kinsler (2). Sb—Andrus (2). IP H R ER BB SO Tampa Bay 6 5 2 1 2 4 Garza 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Choate 2 0 0 0 0 1 Benoit W,1-0 1 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 1 R.Soriano Texas C.Lewis 5 2 0 0 5 5 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 D.holland H,1 1 1 0 0 0 0 Ogando Bs,1-1 ⁄3 3 2 2 0 3 D.oliver L,0-1 11⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 O’Day 1 ⁄3 2 1 1 1 0 N.Feliz Nippert 1 2 2 2 0 0 T—3:38. A—51,746 (49,170).

Yankees 6, Twins 1 Minnesota New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Span cf 4 0 2 0 Jeter ss 4 0 2 0 Hudsn 2b 4 0 2 1 Swisher rf 3 2 2 1 Mauer c 3 0 1 0 Teixeir 1b 4 0 1 1 Kubel rf 4 0 0 0 ARdrgz 3b 4 0 1 0 DlmYn lf 4 0 1 0 Cano 2b 4 2 2 0 Thome dh 3 0 0 0 Thams dh 4 1 2 2 Cuddyr 1b 4 0 0 0 Posada c 4 0 1 1 Valenci 3b 4 1 1 0 Grndrs cf 3 1 1 0 Hardy ss 3 0 0 0 Gardnr lf 3 0 0 1 Totals 33 1 7 1 Totals 33 6 12 6 Minnesota 000 000 010—1 New York 011 300 10x—6 E—Mauer (1). Dp—Minnesota 2, New York 1. Lob—Minnesota 7, New York 6. 2b—Valencia (1), Swisher (2). 3b—Cano (1). Hr— Swisher (1), Thames (1). Sb—Jeter (1), Granderson (1). Sf—Gardner. IP H R ER BB SO Minnesota 7 5 5 1 1 Duensing L,0-1 31⁄3 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Guerrier 1 2 ⁄3 3 1 1 0 2 S.Baker 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Mijares Fuentes 1 1 0 0 0 1 New York P.hughes W,1-0 7 4 0 0 1 6 1 ⁄3 3 1 1 1 0 K.Wood 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Logan H,2 0 0 0 0 0 D.robertson H,2 1⁄3 Ma.Rivera 1 0 0 0 0 1 T—3:06. A—50,840 (50,287).

Late Friday box Braves 5, Giants 4 (11) Atlanta

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FONTANA, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson is back in a familiar place, atop the points lead, headed toward what appears to be the inevitable: a fifth straight Sprint Cup championship. Not so fast. This Chase doesn’t have quite the same here-wego-again feel as the others. The Chasers chasing Johnson have closed the gap, on the track and in their heads. Nine drivers are within 101 points of his lead and the No. 48 in the rearview mirror no longer strikes fear in opponents as it once did. Johnson hasn’t seemed nearly as dominant, either, an upand-down ride that has included six wins but just as many 30thor-worses. A fifth straight title is certainly still a possibility. It’s just this season it seems he’ll have to work a little harder to get it. “It’s a more even playing field than it has ever been,” said Clint Bowyer, 12th in the Chase standings. “I don’t think they have the one-up on the competition every week. I think it’s going to be a struggle to win that championship all the way down to Homestead.” There have been some uncharacteristic struggles already. Johnson opened the season with a 35th at Daytona due to a rear axle problem, won three of the next four races, then went on a now-he’s-up, now-he’s-down stretch of racing. He entered the Chase seventh in points and opened the 10-race run to the fin-

ish with a 25th at New Hampshire — worst among the Chase drivers — thanks to a loose right wheel. Then, as he always seems to, JOHNSON Johnson hit the accelerator. He won the second Chase race in Dover and overcame a weak qualifying session in Kansas last week to claw his way to a secondplace finish and the points lead, eight ahead of Denny Hamlin. This weekend, Johnson is back home in Southern California at Auto Club Speedway, where he’s won four of his five Fontana titles in the past six starts and hasn’t finished out of the top 10 since 2006. “I really don’t want to fall into a false sense of security and think that because we have run well here in the past that we’re going to come back and have it again,” said Johnson, who’ll start eighth in today’s 400-mile race. “You have to come back and prove yourself every qualifying session and every race.” Even with those four straight titles, Johnson may still have something to prove to his fellow drivers. They just don’t seem as scared as they once did. Johnson still had that comingto-get-you air of invincibility last season, the mere sight of him in the mirror like a shark bearing down at 200 mph. Hamlin certainly felt the fear while leading at California in the fourth Chase race, panicking and crashing as

the No. 48 grew larger in his rearview. This season, drivers believe they can beat Johnson, that their teams aren’t looking down the pits at the Lowe’s Chevrolet with where’d-they-get-that-from looks on their faces. That was clear at the first California race in February, when Kevin Harvick said he knew his team had caught the 48 and they were equals — after finishing second to Johnson. “Can they be beat this year? Certainly. This year more than any year,” Bowyer said. “I’ve said it from the beginning of the Chase and even halfway through the season, he’s had moments of struggles and Kansas was certainly one of them, but they turned that thing around and got an awesome finish out of if. He’s definitely shown some signs of not being perfect all the time this year and maybe one of those things can bite them.” Now it’s time to take advantage. Problem is, no matter how much the drivers and teams believe they’ve closed the gap, they still have to race past it and him. “I’ve said for five years, they’re the best team out there and somebody has to beat them and knock them down before you can say they’re not the best team,” said Matt Kenseth, 11th in the Chase standings. “Everybody says, ‘Oh, they don’t have momentum. They’re not running as good.’ Well, as soon as somebody shows they can beat them, I’ll believe it.” This may be their best chance yet.

Busch extends record to 12 wins BY JOHN MARSHALL Associated Press

FONTANA, Calif. — Kyle Busch thanked his crew members after his record-extending 12th Nationwide Series victory of the year. Kevin Harvick might be ready to fire all of his. Busch took advantage of two bumbling stops by Harvick’s crew and rallied from a pit-road miscue of his own to win for the fourth time in his last five starts at Auto Club Speedway. “These guys did an awesome job for me,” Busch said. “Pit road probably won this race.” Busch didn’t have anything for Harvick on the long runs in the 300-mile race and was passed by his fellow Sprint Cup driver three

times. Harvick’s slow-motion pit crew was all the advantage Busch needed. Twice in the last half of the race Harvick entered the pits with the lead, only to exit in sixth after his crew fumbled away tire changes. Harvick led a race-high 86 laps but spent most of the day yelling at his crew on the radio. “Our cars are tremendously better than what they had been — we’ve taken that next step,” said Harvick, who finished third. “Obviously, we’ve got to take that next step on pit road because they’re just doing a terrible job. That’s not what our operation is all about. If they can’t stand the pressure, they better find something else to do.” Busch quickly worked his way to the front and pulled away in a

final five-lap dash after a wreck took out Danica Patrick. Brad Keselowski was second, extending his season lead to tough-to-catch 384 points. Patrick seemed to have it together in her eighth Nationwide race. She was on pace for a top-15 finish, only to get taken out in a hard wreck with two other cars with 10 laps left. Clearly frustrated, she threw her arms in the air after driving her car to the garage. “The frustrating part is that I feel like we had a really good car on those last two restarts,” she said after finishing 30th. “I got into the car that spun on the lap before, but I didn’t mean to. Next time, I got pretty close, but I came off and gave him room. Looking at the replay, it looks like it could have been avoidable.”

Mustangs top 3A team in meet From staff reports

East Rowan’s boys competed in the 4 Runners Only cross country meet held at Beeson Park in Kernersville on Saturday. Running on a course that will be the venue for the state championships, East took fourth place in a field of 18 behind 4A schools Ardrey Kell, Apex and Green Hope. Eli Walton led East. He finished 13th in 16:46. Cole Honeycutt (26th, 17:01), Mark Almeida (37th, 17:20), Brad Oden (54th, 17:46) and Joseph Furtado (56th, 17:48) were the other scorers. Graham Lyerly (18:00) and Eli Canup (18:50) also ran well. Anna McBride finished 20th (20:04) to lead Davie’s girls to a 10th-place finish.  The Gray Stone boys and girls cross country teams won the Stanly County Meet held at City Lake in Albemarle. The Gray Stone girls won with a score of 26. They were led by Hunter Latimer, who finished first overall in 22:48. Gray Stone’s Janna Featherstone (third), Illa Jones (fourth), Carolina McLeod (eighth), Jennie Wagner (10th) and Katherine Barrows (11th) joined Latimer on the all-county team. The Gray Stone boys won with a score of 35, three points better than South Stanly. Harrison Latimer placed second. Eldon Zacek (fourth), Quentin Parsons (seventh) and Caleb Barnes (eighth) joined him on the allcounty team.

 Local golf Paul Wise made a hole-in-one on No. 12 at Warrior Golf Club on Saturday. Wise used a 5-iron the 168-yard hole. Witnesses included Braddy Carter, Jim Crawford and Bill Steel.  Salisbury’s Lily Yatawara shot 79 in the first round of the Tar Heel Youth Golf Association Championship held at Bradford

Creek Country Club in 11 on Friday. Shay Meeks led Greenville. Catawba with 15 kills. Salisbury’s Alex Nianouris shot 72 to tie for sixth after one  Livingstone athletics round at Bradford Creek in the Livingstone swept Johnson C. boys division, while Salisbury’s Smith 25-12, 25-14, 25-21 on FriTroy Beaver shot 77. day. Lashaundra Ferguson had 13 kills for Livingstone (10-9, 6-6).  Prep volleyball Carson won its 20th volleyball match of the season with a sweep of South Rowan. North Iredell (17-0, 10-0) clinched the NPC championship with a win against Statesville on Thursday. Second-place Carson (20-5, 9-2) plays third-place West Iredell at home on Tuesday.

 USA Baseball Corey Seager (NW Cabarrus) had three hits, including a triple, as the USA 16-under team beat the Dominican Republic 17-5 in the Pan-Am Championships on Friday. Seager added an RBI single in a 22-3 win against Aruba.

 Catawba athletics Two late goals lifted CarsonNewman to a 2-1 SAC victory against Catawba’s women’s soccer team on Saturday in Jefferson City, Tenn. Erinn Wescoat scored for Catawba (5-4-2, 1-2-1). Juliana Conte had the assist. Lindsay Webster made six saves.  Catawba’s men’s soccer team lost to Carson-Newman 5-1 on Saturday. The Indians (6-5-1, 0-4-1) trailed 3-0 at halftime. Domhnall Minogue scored for Catawba with 10 minutes left.  Kaitlyn Whitmer had 19 kills and 13 digs to lead Catawba’s volleyball team to a 19-25, 25-21, 2519, 22-25, 15-7 win against Newberry on Saturday at Goodman Gym. Jordan Raye had 44 assists for the Indians (8-9, 3-6). Catawba lost to visiting Anderson 20-25, 25-19, 25-21, 16-25, 15-

 Middle school softball Taylor Merritt struck out seven batters as Erwin beat Mooresville 7-4. Elane Kepley, Lara Drew and Megan Dunlap led the offense for the Eagles (10-2).

 Sacred Heart Sacred Heart’s jayvee soccer team beat Davidson Day 2-1. Rigo Salazar and Melvin Bonilla scored for Sacred Heart. Sacred Heart lost to Statesville Montessori 3-1 after leading at halftime. Salazar scored the goal for the Dolphins.

 Salisbury Academy Salisbury Academy’s varsity soccer team won 4-3 in overtime against Concordia. Andrew Kalogeromitros scored twice for an early lead. Gabe Steinman broke a 2-2 tie, and Matt Washko put away the game-winning goal in overtime off a cross by Watson Pitner. Chris Distin was outstanding in the midfield. Jacob Crosby, Sam McNeely, Elle Wimmer, Robbie Bergstone and Harrison Smith led the defense. Smith’s long throw-ins contributed to three goals.  Salisbury’s Academy’s varsity volleyball team lost to Concordia 25-12, 25-10. Jordan McCall’s serves and Emily Capito’s digs led the Jaguars.  Salisbury Academy’s jayvee volleyball team beat Concordia 25-18, 25-13. Maria Capito’s serves and Jenny Kribbs’ hustle led the Jaguars.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010 • 3B

SPORTS

Bucks beat Charlotte

Tampa Bay stays alive BY STEPHEN HAWKINS Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas — Rangers Ballpark was buzzing Rays 6 in anticipation of a Rangers 3 long-awaited celebration and the Tampa Bay Rays had been dreadful at the plate. Five outs from elimination, the Rays changed everything — and they get to play another day. “The fight showed up again, and that’s a good sign,” Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. John Jaso lined a tiebreaking RBI single in the eighth inning after Carlos Pena had already delivered a rare clutch playoff hit for the Rays, who avoided elimination in the AL division series with a 6-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday. “I was so nervous, hoping we didn’t get JASO swept,” said Carl Crawford, who homered for the Rays. “I feel so much better. It feels like we’re winning the series right now.” Limited to a total of one run and eight hits while losing the first two games at home, Tampa Bay broke loose in the late innings. The Rays, the AL’s best team in the regular season, forced Game 4 today. A win would keep them alive for a deciding game in the best-of-five series Tuesday at Tropicana Field, where Texas had two impressive victories to start the series. Ian Kinsler’s leadoff homer in the seventh that put Texas up and appeared to set the stage for a series-clinching victory 50 seasons in the making. With the record crowd of 51,746 still hyped, Dan Johnson doubled off the wall with one out in the Rays eighth. Pena followed with an RBI single that made it 2-all. Then Texas manager Ron Washington made a curious move bringing in AllStar closer Neftali Feliz in the eighth inning of a tie game. The hard-throwing righty set a major league rookie record with 40 saves in the regular season. Feliz walked Jason Bartlett, the No. 9 hitter, before Jaso’s liner to center gave the Rays their first lead in the series. “I was going to use him on Jaso anyway,” Washington said, adding that Feliz would have pitched the ninth anyway. Crawford led off the ninth with a homer to chase Feliz, and Pena added a two-run shot off reliever Dustin Nippert.

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robinson cano, right, sprays teammate alex rodriguez with champagne.

Yankees return to ALCS BY RONALD BLUM Associated Press

NEW YORK — Come October, the New York Yankees Yankees 6 speed past the Twins 1 Minnesota Twins with ease. Phil Hughes pitched seven shutout innings, Marcus Thames and Nick Swisher homered and the Yankees beat the Twins 6-1 on Saturday night to complete yet another three-game sweep of Minnesota and return to the AL championship series. “We really wanted to close it out here,” Hughes said. Robinson Cano tripled off Brian Duensing in the second inning and scored on Jorge Posada’s single, Mark Teixeira added an RBI single in the third and Thames made it 4-0 in the fourth with his first career postseason homer, a two-run drive over the rightfield scoreboard. Swisher added a solo homer in the seventh against Scott Baker. The wild-card Yankees, rebounding from a late-season fade in which they lost 17 of their final 26, begin the ALCS on Friday at Texas or Tampa Bay. With the short first-round series, the defending World Series champions put ace CC Sabathia in position to start the opener. The AL Central champion Twins lost their 12th straight postseason game dating to 2004, one shy of the record set by the Boston Red Sox from 1986-95. In addition to this year, the Yankees

knocked out the Twins in the first round in 2003, 2004 and last season. New York outscored the Twins 17-7 in this series and scorched them 69-36 in the four playoff triumphs, “We expect everyone to produce. We don’t just rely on or one two guys,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “We rely on a circular lineup.” With Minnesota badly missing Justin Morneau, sidelined since midseason because of a concussion, the heart of the Twins’ order Saturday, AL MVP Joe Mauer and Jason Kubel, combined to go 3 for 20 (.150) with no RBIs in the series. “Right now, we’re in a little rut here. We can’t seem to get it together once we get into the playoffs,” Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire said. “We have to do some more searching here on how to get it done.” After leading the major leagues during the regular season with a .285 average with runners in scoring position, the Twins couldn’t get a single clutch hit in the playoffs. With runners in scoring position, they went an almost impossibly bad 0 for 14 before Denard Span’s too-little, too-late single in the eighth off Kerry Wood. Orlando Hudson followed with an RBI single, and a Mauer walk loaded the bases. Boone Logan threw one pitch, retiring Kubel on an infield fly, and David Robertson got Delmon Young on an inning-ending flyout. Minnesota finished the series 2 for 18 (.222) RISP with one RBI. Mariano Rivera closing out the game 1-2-3 in a non-save situation.

Braves determined to delay Cox’s retirement BY PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press

ATLANTA — No matter how many injuries they face, no matter how hopeless the situation seems, the Atlanta Braves are determined to put off Bobby Cox’s retirement as long as possible. Another player went down in Game 2 of the NL division series — and a mighty important one at that. But the Braves shrugged off the loss of closer Billy Wagner and got down to figuring how they can win an NL division series with the San Francisco Giants that is improbably tied at one game apiece. Game 3 is this afternoon before what should be a raucous sellout crowd at Turner Field, where the Braves put up the best home record in the majors during the regular season. “We’ve been a team all year that just rolls with the punches,” said 17-game winner Tim Hudson, who will start today. “We still have to go out there and play. Injuries are part of the game and adversity is part of the game. We’re not the most talented club, but I feel like we have the most heart and a lot of guts.” With his team getting home around 9 a.m. Atlanta time, Cox decided to skip the traditional off-day workout and let his players get some extra rest. That’s probably for the best. The way things have gone for the Braves, someone might have gotten hurt. Two key hitters, Chipper Jones and Martin Prado, are both out with seasonending injuries. So is starting pitcher Kris Medlen. Three other pitchers — Jair Jurrjens, Takashi Saito and Eric O’Flaherty — were left off the division series roster because of various ailments. Now, the guy who saved 37 games during the regular season is likely to miss at least the rest of the division series. Wagner injured his left oblique on

PANTHERS FroM 1B “That 0-4 record they have doesn’t really speak to how that team is playing,” Peppers insisted. “I know those guys. They still have the best running back tandem in the league. They still have a solid O-line. They still have No. 89 (Smith). They still have a solid defense.” But they don’t have Peppers, who collected a franchise-record 81 sacks in an

an assist to help new Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher win GREEN BAY, Wis. — Erhis NHL debut in the Lightsan Ilyasova scored 11 of his ning’s 5-3 victory over the 15 points in the third quarAtlanta Thrashers  UNIONDALE, N.Y. — ter, helping the Milwaukee Bucks pull away for an 86-78 Mike Ribeiro beat goalie Rick DiPietro with a strong victory over the Charlotte Bobcats in preseason action. backhand-to-forehand move in the final round of a Gerald Wallace had 15 points, six rebounds and five shootout to lift the Dallas Stars to a 5-4 win over the assists for Charlotte.  NEWARK, N.J. — New York Islanders.  TORONTO — NewcomStephen Graham hit a 3pointer at the buzzer and the ers Kris Versteeg and Clarke MacArthur each had New Jersey Nets rallied from a seven-point deficit in a goal and an assist and the the final 15 seconds to defeat Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Philadelphia 76ers 90-89. the Ottawa Senators 5-1.  WASHINGTON — Alex Anthony Morrow cut the Ovechkin beat Martin 76ers’ lead to four points won a 3-pointer with just un- Brodeur on a penalty shot to complete Washington’s fourder 13 seconds to play. Jrue goal second period in a 7-2 Holiday missed two free victory over New Jersey. throws, and Jordan Farmar  BUFFALO, N.Y. — nailed a turnaround 3-pointDerek Stepan became the er with 9.0 seconds to go. fourth player to score three Andres Nocioni hit the times in his NHL debut and first of two free throws but led the New York Rangers to missed the second. With no a 6-3 win over Buffalo. timeouts remaining, Devin  STOCKHOLM — Ethan Harris rushed the ball upcourt and found a wide-open Moreau scored at 1:56 of overtime to give the ColumGraham for a 3-pointer. bus Blue Jackets a 3-2 victoNFL ry over the San Jose Sharks. EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. —  PRAGUE — Radim VrMinnesota Vikings coach bata scored twice and added Brad Childress says he has an assist to lead the Phoenix talked with Brett Favre about Coyotes past Boston 5-2. an NFL investigation into alGOLF legations that he sent racy PRATTVILLE, Ala. — photos to a former game Cristie Kerr shot a 5-under 67 hostess while he played for to take a three-stroke lead in the New York Jets. the Navistar LPGA Classic. The Vikings have listed  ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Favre as probable to play against the Jets with tendini- Ga. — Heath Slocum had a tis in his throwing elbow. Jets 66 to take a one-shot lead over Joe Durant and rookie cornerback Darrelle Revis Troy Merritt at the new and linebacker Calvin Pace are also listed as probable for McGladrey Classic.  POTOMAC, Md. — the Monday night game. Mark O’Meara shot a 1-under NHL 69 to take a two-stroke lead in the Senior Players ChamTAMPA, Fla. — Steven pionship. Stamkos had two goals and Associated Press

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Bobby cox throws his hat in front of umpire paul emmel just before he was ejected in Game 2 for arguing that alex Gonzalez was safe in the second inning. a fielding play in the 10th inning of Friday night’s dramatic 5-4 victory that evened the series. The Braves must decide if Wagner has a chance to come back in a week to pitch in the NL championship series — should Atlanta even get that far. If so, they’ll likely keep him on the roster and use only 10 pitchers the rest of this series. If not, he’ll be replaced by another pitcher, which would make the left-hander ineligible for the next round anyway. Wagner will be re-examined before Game 3. “We’ve got a tough decision to make,” Cox said. “We’ve got a lot of talking to do.” San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said he doesn’t expect a drop-off from the Braves’ bullpen even if Wagner is

eight-year stint that ended with a prolonged and tense contract dispute. Peppers turned down a deal after the 2007 season — during which he managed just 21⁄2 sacks — that would have made him the NFL’s highestpaid defensive player. The Panthers went against his wishes and used the franchise tag to keep him in 2009, then decided to cut him loose in the spring. Peppers took some fresh shots last week, saying he was upset general manager Marty Hurney and coach John Fox

no longer available. “They’re throwing some pretty good arms at us,” he said at Turner Field, where the Giants held a Saturday evening workout. “They have some good options over there. We know it.” The Giants will send Jonathan Sanchez (13-9) to the mound against Hudson. The San Francisco starter shouldn’t be too nervous about pitching in such a crucial game, having gone last Sunday in a 3-0 shutout of San Diego that clinched the NL West title and avoided a three-team playoff. “It’s pretty much the same kind of game,” Sanchez said. “I’m going to come with the same mentality — go out there and get people out.” Giants second baseman Freddy Sanchez, who was struck on the right hand with a pitch in Game 2, didn’t take batting practice but said he expects to play Sunday. He’s been receiving treatment and took a few a swings in the clubhouse to test out his hand. Saito, who was left off the Braves roster because of an ailing right shoulder, threw a scoreless inning in the instructional league and would appear to be the top candidate to replace Wagner. Jurrjens and veteran Scott Proctor, who spent most of the year at Triple-A, are also possibilities. Cox said he can get by with 10 pitchers if necessary, especially with the emergence of rookie relievers Craig Kimbrel and Jonny Venters. Cox also has Peter Moylan and Kyle Farnsworth. “We’ll mix and match the seventh, eighth and nine innings,” Cox said. “Whoever matches up those particular innings, that’s who’s going to be out there. We’ll close with whomever. I’ve always thought Moylan could close, and Farnsworth has closed in the major leagues. Venters, no reason why he can’t, as well as Kimbrel.”

never told him personally they wouldn’t try to re-sign him. “I haven’t actually spoken to either one of them,” Peppers said. Mix that fresh angle with surly fans who have watched Carolina score five touchdowns in four games, and boos or cheers are possible for Peppers today. “There are a lot of 90 jerseys still around Charlotte, so I think he’ll be welcomed,” said Panthers left tackle Jordan Gross, who will line up opposite Peppers for real after

seven years of intense practice competitions. “He’s not a Panther anymore, and it didn’t go down the way everybody would have liked it to I don’t think, but he meant so much to this team for so long that I’d be surprised if people didn’t welcome him.” While Peppers looks to rebound after being held without a sack by the Giants, Cutler’s streak of 57 straight starts will be snapped. Collins will try to jump-start a Chicago offense that managed just

BLUE BEARS FroM 1B

Livingstone never came close again. By halftime the guests had a 29-3 lead. By the third quarter it was 48-3 and the Blue Bears were unravelling. By game’s end they were shell-shocked. “Everyone keeps saying we’re a young team, but you can’t keep blaming everything on that,” linebacker Tyheim Pitt vented. “I compare it to weeds. You can’t pull one weed and expect the problem to go away. We’ve got to pull all of them and pull out of this together.” Winning coach Dennis Creehan offered consolation. “We were just like those guys last year,” he said, a reference to Wesleyan’s 1-9 record in 2009. “We played 73 freshmen and took our lumps. This year they’re sophomores and playing like grizzled veterans.”

“Usually he bruises it in practice,” James said. “It’s an old injury. But he took his pads off.” It hardly mattered. Livingstone had four turnovers, managed only 81 yards total offense and was 0-for-12 on third-down conversions. “We had lots of mental errors,” running back Jamel Moore said after rushing 10 times for zero yards. “When plays are called, everybody has to do their assignment. And when that starts happening, maybe we’ll score.” Wesleyan (6-0) managed to do that on the game’s third play from scrimmage. LC sophomore quarterback Levon Stanley misread a coverage and threw the first of his two interceptions, which DB Ottis Scott returned 43 yards WV Wesleyan 58, Livingstone 3 for an early touchdown. WVW LC “I wish I could have read First downs 17 12 the play quicker,” Stanley said rushing yardage 142 18 after being sacked seven passing yardage 217 63 16-23-0 9-23-2 times. “He came out of passing (c-a-i) punting 0-0 6-23.8 nowhere at the last minute.” Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-2 penalties 10-104 9-79 Stanley completed 7 of 9 passes in the first quarter, WV Wesleyan 7 22 19 10 — 58 3 0 0 0 — 3 including six connections with Livingstone Omar McFadden. Oddly, they WVW —scott 43 interception return (Karpiak kick), 13:23, 1st never hooked up again. Lc — Haynes 333 FG, 6:14, 1st Livingstone narrowed its WVW — Massey 1 run (Karpiak kick), 13:51, 2nd deficit to 7-3 when Logan WVW — Valentin 2 run (echard run), 7:07, Haynes kicked a 33-yard field 2nd goal with 6:14 remaining in the WVW — Meadows 14 pass from opening period. It was the Neugebauer (Karpiak kick), 1:38, 2nd WVW — Meadows 33 pass from team’s first three-pointer of Neugebauer (pass failed), 8:15, 3rd WVW — Hughes 10 run (Karpiak kick), the season and only its second 3rd attempt. The play was set up 3:47, WVW — Meadows 11 pass from when defensive end Michael Neugebauer (kick failed), 2:17 3rd WVW — Karpiak 22 FG, 9:49, 4th Haygood pried the ball loose WVW — Vukela 40 fumble return (Karpifrom Wesleyan quarterback ak kick), 2:10, 4th Individual statistics Adam Neugebauer and teamrushing — WVW: Massey 13-41; Valentin mate Dorian Edwards recov- 4-26; cook 5-24; edwards 4-18; Hughes 2-16; Neugebauer 2-9; echard 1-6; stallings ered on the WVW 14. Benners 1-2; smith 1-(minus 2). Lc: “Michael came from be- 2-2; Gourdine 5-30; stanley 9-15; Moton 1-3; Moore 10-0; Harris 3-(minus 2); McFadden hind and hit the quarterback,” 2-(minus 3); Haynes 1-(minus 10); edens Edwards reported. “I just saw 3-(minus 15). it and grabbed it. Even after passing — WVW: Neugebauer 13-18-0, 175; angalich 3-5-0, 42. Lc: stanley 9-23-2, the play was over, I kept go63. ing. We really felt like we had pass receiving — WVW: Benners 5-79; a chance today. Any team does Meadows 4-62; Burrell 3-32; staton 1-24; teixeira 1-12; Feliciano 1-6; Hughes 1-2. until the clock strikes zero in Lc: McFadden 6-43; Holland 1-14; Moore 1-4; Moton 1-2. the fourth quarter.”

110 yards and allowed a franchise-worst 10 sacks last week. “I’ve been around for a while,” said Collins, who turns 39 next month. Chicago may not need a lot of offense against the Panthers, who are averaging a league-low 11.5 points a game in their worst start since 1998. Things bottomed out three years later when Carolina went 1-15 and coach John Fox replaced George Seifert. Fox made Peppers, the Bailey native and North Carolina star, his first draft pick and

rode him to the Super Bowl. Now Peppers is gone and Fox is coaching a winless team in the last year of his contract. Both guys could end up being booed today at Bank of America Stadium in what Peppers acknowledges will be an “emotional” experience. “I really don’t know what to expect or what I’m going to be feeling once I get to that stadium,” he said. “I’m sure it’s going to feel funny running out there and being on the opposing sideline — but I think that will last for about 10 minutes.”

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Regional Standings SAC SAC Overall 2-0 4-1 catawba Mars Hill 2-0 4-2 carson-Newman 2-0 4-2 2-0 3-2 Newberry tusculum 0-2 4-2 Brevard 0-2 3-3 0-2 3-3 Lenoir-rhyne Wingate 0-2 2-3 Saturday’s games catawba 31, Brevard 21 Mars Hill 24, Lenoir-rhyne 20 Newberry 63, tusculum 56 carson-Newman 38, Wingate 35 (ot) Next Saturday’s games carson-Newman at catawba, 1:30 p.m. Newberry at Mars Hill, 1:30 p.m. tusculum at Wingate, 1:30 p.m. Lenoir-rhyne at Brevard, 2 p.m.

CIAA Northern CIAA Overall elizabeth city state 3-1 4-2 3-1 3-4 Bowie state Virginia state 2-1 4-2 chowan 2-1 2-4 1-2 1-5 st. paul’s Virginia Union 1-3 1-5 Lincoln 0-3 1-5 CIAA Overall Southern st. augustine’s 4-0 5-1 Winston-salem state 4-1 6-1 3-0 4-2 shaw Fayetteville state 1-2 2-4 Johnson c. smith 0-3 1-5 0-3 0-7 Livingstone Saturday’s games WV Wesleyan 58, Livingstone 3 Bowie state 16, st. paul’s 10 (ot) elizabeth city 17, Virginia Union 14 shaw 45, J.c. smith 13 chowan 30, Lincoln 27 st. augustine’s 40, Winston-salem 35 Fayetteville state 21, Virginia state 14 Next Saturday’s games st. paul’s at chowan, 1 p.m. J.c. smith at Virginia Union, 1 p.m. Lincoln at Bowie state, 1 p.m. st. augustine’s at central state, 1:30 p.m. Livingstone at Winston-salem state, 6 p.m. elizabeth city state at Va. state, 6 p.m. Fayetteville state at shaw, 6 p.m.

Southern SC Overall appalachian state 3-0 5-0 Wofford 2-0 4-1 chattanooga 2-1 2-2 Georgia southern 1-1 3-2 1-1 3-2 Furman samford 1-2 3-3 elon 1-2 2-4 1-2 2-4 Western carolina the citadel 0-3 2-4 Saturday’s games Furman 56, Howard 14 chattanooga 28, the citadel 10 appalachian state 34, elon 31 samford 38, Western carolina 7 Wofford 33, Georgia southern 31 Next Saturday’s games Western carolina at Wofford, 1:30 p.m. Furman at samford, 2 p.m. the citadel at appalachian state, 6 p.m. Georgia southern at chattanooga, 6 p.m.

ACC Atlantic ACC Overall Florida state 3-0 5-1 1-0 4-1 Maryland N.c. state 2-1 5-1 Wake Forest 1-2 2-4 0-2 2-3 clemson Boston college 0-2 2-3 Coastal ACC Overall 2-0 4-2 Virginia tech Georgia tech 3-1 4-2 North carolina 1-1 3-2 1-1 3-2 Miami Virginia 0-2 2-3 duke 0-2 1-4 Saturday’s games Virginia tech 45, central Michigan 21 N.c. state 44, Boston college 17 North carolina 21, clemson 16 Georgia tech 33, Virginia 21 Navy 28, Wake Forest 27 Florida state 45, Miami 17 Next Saturday’s games N.c. state at east carolina, Noon Boston college at Florida state, Noon Maryland at clemson, Noon Miami at duke, 1 p.m. M. tennessee at Georgia tech, 3:30 p.m. Wake Forest at Virginia tech, 3:30 p.m. North carolina at Virginia, 6 p.m.

SEC Eastern SEC Overall south carolina 2-1 4-1 2-2 4-2 Florida Vanderbilt 1-1 2-3 Georgia 1-3 2-4 0-3 3-3 Kentucky tennessee 0-3 2-4 Western SEC Overall 4-0 6-0 LsU auburn 3-0 6-0 alabama 2-1 5-1 1-1 4-1 arkansas Mississippi 1-1 3-2 Mississippi state 1-2 4-2 Saturday’s games Georgia 41, tennessee 14 south carolina 35, alabama 21 arkansas 24, texas a&M 17 Vanderbilt 52, e. Michigan 6 LsU 33, Florida 29 auburn 37, Kentucky 34 Mississippi state 47, Houston 24 Next Saturday’s games Vanderbilt at Georgia, 12:20 p.m. McNeese state at LsU, 7 p.m. Mississippi state at Florida, tBa south carolina at Kentucky, tBa Mississippi at alabama, tBa arkansas at auburn, tBa

Conference USA C-USA Overall Eastern east carolina 3-0 3-2 UcF 1-0 3-2 1-1 4-2 southern Miss Marshall 0-1 1-4 UaB 0-2 1-4 0-3 1-5 Memphis Western C-USA Overall sMU 3-0 4-2 Houston 2-0 3-2 Utep 2-1 5-1 tulsa 1-2 3-3 tulane 0-1 2-3 rice 0-2 1-5 Saturday’s games Louisville 56, Memphis 0 army 41, tulane 23 east carolina 44, southern Miss 43 Mississippi state 47, Houston 24 sMU 21, tulsa 18 Utep 44, rice 24 Wednesday’s game UcF at Marshall, 8 p.m. Next Saturday’s games southern Miss at Memphis, Noon N.c. state at east carolina, Noon Utep at UaB, 3 p.m. Houston at rice, 3:30 p.m. sMU at Navy, 3:30 p.m. tulane at tulsa, 7 p.m.

National Other scores EAST albany, N.Y. 48, st. Francis, pa. 0 Bryant 25, sacred Heart 24 cent. connecticut st. 31, duquesne 29 colgate 44, princeton 10 columbia 42, Lafayette 28 delaware 26, Maine 7 Harvard 31, cornell 17 Holy cross 17, Brown 13 illinois 33, penn st. 13 James Madison 17, towson 13 Lehigh 21, Fordham 17 New Hampshire 17, richmond 0 penn 31, Bucknell 10 robert Morris 17, Monmouth, N.J. 16 stony Brook 27, VMi 9 Wagner 22, Georgetown, d.c. 16, ot West Virginia 49, UNLV 10 Yale 23, dartmouth 20 SOUTH albany st., Ga. 34, Miles 7 averett 17, christopher Newport 9 Butler 24, davidson 8 e. Kentucky 35, e. illinois 7 Fla. international 28, W. Kentucky 21 Georgia st. 55, savannah st. 21

Grambling st. 22, alabama st. 7 Hampton 27, N.c. central 13 Jackson st. 30, alabama a&M 14 Jacksonville 39, drake 34 Jacksonville st. 30, tenn.-Martin 20 Liberty 44, charleston southern 20 Louisiana tech 24, Utah st. 6 Louisiana-Monroe 20, Florida atlantic 17 Morgan st. 27, N. carolina a&t 14 Murray st. 72, Missouri st. 59 s. carolina st. 34, Norfolk st. 13 se Louisiana 49, texas st. 24 southern U. 38, MVsU 20 stephen F.austin 32, McNeese st. 27 syracuse 13, south Florida 9 tennessee tech 34, austin peay 21 texas southern 30, alcorn st. 20 tuskegee 31, Morehouse 15 William & Mary 26, rhode island 7 MIDWEST cincinnati 45, Miami (ohio) 3 indiana st. 59, illinois st. 24 Kent st. 28, akron 17 Marist 51, Valparaiso 7 Michigan st. 34, Michigan 17 Missouri 26, colorado 0 N. dakota st. 34, Youngstown st. 29 N. illinois 31, temple 17 Notre dame 23, pittsburgh 17 ohio 49, Bowling Green 25 ohio st. 38, indiana 10 purdue 20, Northwestern 17 s. dakota st. 33, W. illinois 29 s. illinois 45, N. iowa 38, ot s. Utah 31, North dakota 21 se Missouri 19, tennessee st. 17 Utah 68, iowa st. 27 W. Michigan 45, Ball st. 16 Wisconsin 41, Minnesota 23 SOUTHWEST arkansas st. 24, North texas 19 Lamar 14, Langston 0 Northwestern st. 24, cent. arkansas 19 tcU 45, Wyoming 0 texas tech 45, Baylor 38 FAR WEST air Force 49, colorado st. 27 BYU 24, san diego st. 21 Boise st. 57, toledo 14 california 35, UcLa 7 dayton 21, san diego 20 e. Washington 21, N. arizona 14 Montana 47, idaho st. 28 Montana st. 44, portland st. 31 New Mexico st. 16, New Mexico 14 oregon 43, Washington st. 23 oregon st. 29, arizona 27 sacramento st. 42, N. colorado 7 stanford 37, southern cal 35 Uc davis 17, south dakota 13

Summaries UNC 21, Clemson 16 Clemson 0 3 7 6 — 16 North Carolina 7 7 0 7 — 21 First Quarter Nc—White 4 run (Barth kick), 6:45. Second Quarter clem—FG catanzaro 48, 6:19. Nc—Boyd 9 pass from Yates (Barth kick), :54. Third Quarter clem—Harper 10 run (catanzaro kick), 5:34. Fourth Quarter Nc—White 26 run (Barth kick), 6:53. clem—J.Brown 74 pass from K.parker (pass failed), 5:31. a—60,000. Clem NC First downs 16 16 27-91 32-91 rushes-yards passing 214 164 comp-att-int 21-39-0 18-34-0 33 7 return Yards punts-avg. 5-40.2 7-33.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 9-81 6-49 penalties-Yards time of possession 26:35 33:25 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—clemson, ellington 12-55, Harper 11-27, K.parker 4-9. North carolina, White 22-89, draughn 5-8, Yates 5-(minus 6). passiNG—clemson, K.parker 21-38-0-214, Harper 0-1-0-0. UNc, Yates 18-34-0-164. receiViNG—clemson, allen 7-55, Hopkins 7-46, J.Brown 4-107, McNeal 1-7, Harper 1-1, ellington 1-(minus 2). UNc, White 6-90, Highsmith 3-28, Boyd 2-14, Byrd 2-10, taylor 2-9, pianalto 1-6, d.Jones 1-4, elzy 1-3.

Navy 28, Wake 27 7 7 7 7 — 28 7 10 7 3 — 27 First Quarter Wake—price 1 run (Newman kick), 12:44. Navy—teich 6 pass from r.dobbs (Buckley kick), 7:34. Second Quarter Wake—FG Newman 45, 13:24. Navy—r.dobbs 3 run (Buckley kick), 10:12. Wake—Givens 11 pass from price (Newman kick), :12. Third Quarter Navy—r.dobbs 4 run (Buckley kick), 11:59. Wake—Brown 12 pass from price (Newman kick), 1:08. Fourth Quarter Wake—FG Newman 31, 8:34. Navy—G.Jones 6 pass from r.dobbs (Buckley kick), :26. a—31,454. Wake Navy First downs 18 27 rushes-yards 51-274 24-77 94 326 passing comp-att-int 8-19-1 37-53-0 return Yards 0 16 5-46.4 4-45.8 punts-avg. Fumbles-Lost 0-0 3-2 penalties-Yards 6-51 6-47 30:35 time of possession 29:25 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—Navy, r.dobbs 22-100, santiago 6-66, teich 10-43, Byrd 3-25, Greene 6-25, Murray 3-14, diggs 1-1. Wake Forest, J.Harris 14-46, pendergrass 3-19, price 2-9, Bohanon 1-4, adams 4-(minus 1). passiNG—Navy, r.dobbs 8-19-1-94. Wake Forest, price 37-53-0-326. receiViNG—Navy, Greene 3-44, G.Jones 3-35, santiago 1-9, teich 1-6. Wake Forest, Brown 10-59, Givens 7-60, dembry 4-51, campanaro 4-44, J.Harris 3-32, Bohanon 327, Ma.Williams 3-12, c.Ford 2-24, pendergrass 1-17. Navy Wake Forest

Fla. State 45, Miami 17 Florida St. Miami

7 17 7 14 — 45 0 7 10 0 — 17 First Quarter FsU—thomas 17 pass from ponder (Hopkins kick), 5:07. Second Quarter FsU—thomas 1 run (Hopkins kick), 13:49. FsU—thomas 6 run (Hopkins kick), 9:25. Mia—J.Harris 3 run (Bosher kick), 5:53. FsU—FG Hopkins 38, 1:48. Third Quarter FsU—pryor 16 run (Hopkins kick), 12:33. Mia—Berry 26 run (Bosher kick), 10:39. Mia—FG Bosher 36, 4:57. Fourth Quarter FsU—r.smith 18 pass from ponder (Hopkins kick), 7:39. FsU—thompson 90 run (Hopkins kick), 4:24. a—75,115. FSU Mia First downs 19 27 rushes-yards 41-298 36-189 passing 173 235 comp-att-int 12-21-1 20-49-1 return Yards 21 1 punts-avg. 4-41.3 6-44.2 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 penalties-Yards 8-79 8-56 time of possession 32:04 27:56 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—Florida st., thompson 14-158, thomas 16-78, pryor 3-45, ponder 4-15, dunham 1-5, reed 2-5, easterling 1-(minus 8). Miami, Berry 20-101, J.Harris 6-31, cooper 2-22, Benjamin 1-19, clements 2-9, James 4-4, s.Johnson 1-3. passiNG—Florida st., ponder 12-21-1173. Miami, J.Harris 19-47-1-225, Whipple 1-2-0-10. receiViNG—Florida st., easterling 4-53, thomas 2-34, reliford 2-27, Haulstead 120, reed 1-18, r.smith 1-18, pryor 1-3. Miami, Hankerson 5-72, Benjamin 4-59, Byrd 3-34, a.Johnson 3-23, Ford 2-32, cooper 111, Berry 1-4, James 1-0.

N.C. State 44, BC 17 Boston College 0 10 0 7 — 17 N.C. State 10 17 7 10 — 44 First Quarter Ncst—FG czajkowski 40, 9:04. Ncst—Green 0 blocked punt return (czajkowski kick), 8:04. Second Quarter Bc—FG Freese 23, 14:47. Ncst—spencer 23 pass from r.Wilson (czajkowski kick), 12:31.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL Ncst—davis 5 pass from r.Wilson (czajkowski kick), 6:38. Bc—Momah 15 pass from shinskie (Freese kick), 2:21. Ncst—FG czajkowski 44, :10. Third Quarter Ncst—c.Wilson 28 interception return (czajkowski kick), 10:06. Fourth Quarter Ncst—Williams 6 pass from r.Wilson (czajkowski kick), 13:37. Ncst—FG czajkowski 31, 7:40. Bc—amidon 67 pass from Marscovetra (Freese kick), 5:43. a—56,859. BC NCSt First downs 12 26 29-99 28-75 rushes-yards passing 173 347 comp-att-int 11-32-3 41-56-2 28 80 return Yards punts-avg. 7-40.6 4-42.3 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 5-65 2-12 penalties-Yards time of possession 24:14 35:46 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—Boston college, Harris 14-53, phifer 4-31, a.Williams 6-25, amidon 1-1, Marscovetra 1-0, team 1-(minus 3), shinskie 2-(minus 8). N.c. state, r.Wilson 14-45, Haynes 4-14, Greene 6-11, Glennon 1-3, Washington 2-3, c.Underwood 1-(minus 1). passiNG—Bc, shinskie 7-24-2-89, Marscovetra 4-8-1-84. N.c. state, r.Wilson 38-51-2-328, Glennon 3-4-0-19, team 0-1-0-0. receiViNG—Bc, amidon 3-102, swigert 2-29, pantale 2-4, McMichael 1-18, Momah 1-15, Harris 1-6, a.Williams 1-(minus 1). N.c. state, spencer 8-70, Williams 5-65, Washington 5-28, Haynes 5-17, Bryan 4-64, Graham 4-40, Howard 4-27, davis 3-25, Greene 2-8, counts 1-3.

Ga. Tech 33, Virginia 21 0 7 7 7 — 21 3 10 14 6 — 33 First Quarter Gat—FG Blair 40, 11:24. Second Quarter UVa—Milien 37 run (randolph kick), 12:28. Gat—FG Blair 28, 9:40. Gat—Nesbitt 1 run (Blair kick), :36. Third Quarter Gat—allen 6 run (Blair kick), 8:27. UVa—payne 1 run (randolph kick), 6:43. Gat—allen 18 run (Blair kick), 3:47. Fourth Quarter Gat—allen 8 run (run failed), 4:49. UVa—payne 1 run (randolph kick), :49. a—48,016. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—Virginia, payne 14-56, Jones 7-54, Milien 1-37, Verica 6-(minus 10). Georgia tech, allen 25-195, Nesbitt 21-109, Jones 8-67, peeples 4-45, cox 8-37, o.smith 3-22, Watson 2-5, redskins 3-(minus 3). passiNG—Virginia, Verica 18-31-0-239. Georgia tech, Nesbitt 3-6-1-59. receiViNG—Virginia, M.snyder 4-96, Jones 4-31, inman 2-71, Milien 2-15, Freedman 2-5, phillips 2-5, Green 1-13, Burd 1-3. Georgia tech, s.Hill 2-53, earls 1-6.

Virginia Georgia Tech

Va. Tech 45, Cent. Mich. 21 Cent. Michigan 7 0 0 14 — 21 Virginia Tech 7 17 7 14 — 45 First Quarter cMU—Harris 23 pass from radcliff (Hogan kick), 9:15. Vt—t.taylor 72 run (Hazley kick), 8:33. Second Quarter Vt—d.evans 6 run (Hazley kick), 13:33. Vt—FG Hazley 30, 10:54. Vt—a.smith 7 pass from t.taylor (Hazley kick), 7:11. Third Quarter Vt—t.taylor 15 run (Hazley kick), 2:16. Fourth Quarter Vt—d.Wilson 68 run (Hazley kick), 14:15. cMU—Harris 8 pass from radcliff (Hogan kick), 10:45. Vt—Hosley 80 punt return (Hazley kick), 4:55. cMU—poblah 19 pass from radcliff (Hogan kick), 1:22. a—66,233. VT LEADERS rUsHiNG—t.taylor 9-127, d.Wilson 7-84, evans 7-35, Gregory 3-3. passiNG—t.taylor 13-23-0-161 receiViNG—Boykin 8-117, evans 1-14

ECU 44, So. Miss 43 0 17 21 6 — 44 East Carolina Southern Miss. 20 0 13 10 — 43 First Quarter UsM—Floyd 3 run (Hrapmann kick), 11:46. UsM—FG Hrapmann 49, 8:24. UsM—Morris 5 pass from a.davis (Hrapmann kick), 4:51. UsM—FG Hrapmann 39, 1:08. Second Quarter ecU—Lewis 46 pass from d.davis (Barbour kick), 13:25. ecU—FG Barbour 30, 9:57. ecU—Harris 7 pass from d.davis (Barbour kick), :30. Third Quarter UsM—a.davis 8 run (Hrapmann kick), 11:59. ecU—Lewis 46 pass from d.davis (Barbour kick), 10:18. UsM—FG Hrapmann 49, 7:55. ecU—J.Williams 89 kickoff return (Barbour kick), 7:35. ecU—ruffin 13 run (Barbour kick), 4:10. UsM—FG Hrapmann 39, 2:00. Fourth Quarter UsM—FG Hrapmann 28, 9:13. UsM—collins 32 interception return (Hrapmann kick), 7:43. ecU—Bowman 32 pass from d.davis (pass failed), 4:36. a—32,334. USM ECU First downs 21 22 rushes-yards 24-33 45-167 305 237 passing 18-36-3 20-39-0 comp-att-int return Yards 30 42 punts-avg. 4-34.5 5-42.2 1-1 1-0 Fumbles-Lost penalties-Yards 9-76 15-153 time of possession 22:18 37:42 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—east carolina, J.Williams 1325, ruffin 5-20, team 2-(minus 4), d.davis 4-(minus 8). southern Miss., Lampley 13-49, Hardy 4-38, Floyd 15-32, a.davis 12-29, Hrapmann 1-19. passiNG—east carolina, d.davis 18-363-305. southern Miss., a.davis 20-39-0-237. receiViNG—east carolina, Harris 9-99, Lewis 2-92, Bowman 2-52, J.Williams 2-25, arrington 1-15, ruffin 1-13, J.Jones 1-9. southern Miss., Morris 5-81, spight 4-40, Bolden 3-49, Floyd 2-1, Massey 1-29, pierce 1-21, Lampley 1-7, Hardy 1-4, Hodges 1-3, Barnes 1-2.

ASU 34, Elon 31 Elon 7 10 7 7 — 31 Appalachian St. 7 13 7 7 — 34 First Quarter app—d.Moore 4 run (Vitaris kick), 10:15. elon—Mellette 7 pass from riddle (shreiner kick), 6:18. Second Quarter elon—FG shreiner 29, 9:14. app—c.Baker 36 run (kick failed), 7:31. app—presley 53 run (Vitaris kick), 2:37. elon—Mellette 6 pass from riddle (shreiner kick), :23. Third Quarter app—presley 44 run (Vitaris kick), 5:05. elon—Mellette 43 pass from riddle (shreiner kick), 3:37. Fourth Quarter app—Hillary 13 pass from presley (Vitaris kick), 13:37. elon—Jeffcoat 17 pass from riddle (shreiner kick), 3:50. a—31,531. Elon App First downs 28 23 rushes-yards 27-109 44-274 passing 394 204 comp-att-int 31-43-0 14-19-0 return Yards 0 0 punts-avg. 2-39.0 4-39.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 penalties-Yards 5-59 12-116 time of possession 30:05 29:55 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—elon, riddle 9-43, a.Harris 9-37, Newsome 9-29. appalachian st., presley 23-170, c.Baker 4-41, d.Moore 8-36, cline 1-20, cadet 6-16, team 2-(minus 9). passiNG—elon, riddle 31-43-0-394. appalachian st., presley 14-19-0-204. receiViNG—elon, Mellette 9-127, Jeffcoat 8-102, camp 4-63, a.Harris 4-45, K.Brown 2-23, peterson 2-20, Newsome 1-16, eastman 1-(minus 2). appalachian st., cline 5-30, Quick 4-65, Hillary 3-76, elder 1-29, cadet 1-4.

Samford 38, W. Carolina 7 Samford W. Carolina

7 24 7 0 — 38 0 0 0 7— 7 First Quarter sam—evans 5 run (Yaw kick), 9:19.

Second Quarter sam—FG Yaw 28, 12:22. sam—evans 4 run (Yaw kick), 10:09. sam—rodriguez 75 pass from Lowery (Yaw kick), 7:21. sam—Lett 59 interception return (Yaw kick), :00. Third Quarter sam—evans 7 run (Yaw kick), 3:12. Fourth Quarter Wcar—Mitchell 25 pass from Brindise (Bostic kick), 13:28. a—7,444. WCU LEADERS rUsHiNG—M.Johnson 14-117, Harris 7-19 passiNG—pechloff 4-21-3-35, Brindise 5-12-1-48. receiViNG—alexander 3-24, Mitchell 2-33

S. Carolina 35, Alabama 21 3 6 5 7 — 21 Alabama South Carolina 14 7 7 7 — 35 First Quarter ala—FG shelley 32, 10:32. sc—Lattimore 9 pass from Garcia (Lanning kick), 7:20. sc—a.Jeffery 26 pass from Garcia (Lanning kick), :35. Second Quarter sc—a.Jeffery 15 pass from Garcia (Lanning kick), 13:52. ala—J.Jones 8 pass from Mcelroy (kick failed), :38. Third Quarter ala—safety, 14:49. ala—FG shelley 39, 9:37. sc—Lattimore 1 run (Lanning kick), 1:42. Fourth Quarter ala—Hanks 51 pass from Mcelroy (shelley kick), 14:51. sc—Lattimore 2 run (Lanning kick), 7:01. a—82,993. SC Ala First downs 21 20 rushes-yards 29-36 37-110 315 201 passing comp-att-int 27-35-0 17-20-1 return Yards 28 15 2-34.0 2-41.0 punts-avg. Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-0 penalties-Yards 5-31 4-34 27:33 time of possession 32:27 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—alabama, ingram 11-41, richardson 6-23, Mcelroy 12-(minus 28). south carolina, Lattimore 23-93, Maddox 5-28, Garcia 7-11, a.sanders 1-(minus 7), team 1-(minus 15). passiNG—alabama, Mcelroy 27-34-0-315, Mccarron 0-1-0-0. south carolina, Garcia 17-20-1-201. receiViNG—alabama, J.Jones 8-118, dial 5-29, Maze 4-41, ingram 4-16, Hanks 2-55, richardson 2-12, M.Williams 1-32, smelley 1-12. south carolina, a.Jeffery 7-127, Gurley 3-31, a.sanders 3-20, Lattimore 2-16, Maddox 2-7.

Ohio State 38, Indiana 10 Indiana Ohio St.

0 0 3 7 — 10 14 17 7 0 — 38 First Quarter osU—Herron 39 run (Barclay kick), 13:03. osU—sanzenbacher 22 pass from pryor (Barclay kick), 6:35. Second Quarter osU—saine 60 pass from pryor (Barclay kick), 13:31. osU—posey 17 pass from pryor (Barclay kick), 6:55. osU—FG Barclay 36, :46. Third Quarter osU—Herron 8 run (Barclay kick), 8:02. ind—FG ewald 36, 4:50. Fourth Quarter ind—Banks 1 run (ewald kick), 5:06. a—105,291. OSU LEADERS rUsHiNG—Herron 12-68, Hyde 9-48, Berry 5-42, J.Hall 1-3, team 2-(minus 12), pryor 3-(minus 19). passiNG—pryor 24-30-0-334 receiViNG—ohio st., posey 8-103, saine 4-84, sanzenbacher 4-60, Washington 2-33, Brown 2-29, Fragel 2-21, Z.Boren 1-15, J.Hall 1-4, pryor 1-(minus 1).

Oregon 43, Wash. State 23 Oregon 15 14 7 7 — 43 14 3 6 0 — 23 Washington St. First Quarter ore—James 1 run (Jordan run), 10:50. WsU—Montgomery 26 run (Furney kick), 4:28. WsU—Mitz 1 run (Furney kick), 3:40. ore—James 84 pass from thomas (Beard kick), 2:48. Second Quarter ore—c.Harris 67 punt return (Beard kick), 8:25. WsU—FG Grasu 50, 4:44. ore—James 1 run (Beard kick), 2:17. Third Quarter ore—costa 18 run (Beard kick), 10:09. WsU—Blackledge 11 pass from tuel (run failed), 4:38. Fourth Quarter ore—Maehl 34 pass from costa (Beard kick), 11:45. a—24,768. OU LEADERS rUsHiNG—James 25-136, costa 8-84 passiNG—costa 13-15-0-151, thomas 8-12-0-153 receiViNG—Maehl 10-119, d.davis 5-53, James 2-87, paulson 1-19, tuinei 1-14

MSU 34, Michigan 17 Michigan St. Michigan

0 17 14 3 — 34 3 7 0 7 — 17 First Quarter Mich—FG Broekhuizen 34, 1:25. Second Quarter MsU—Baker 61 run (conroy kick), 11:28. Mich—Webb 12 pass from d.robinson (Broekhuizen kick), 8:07. MsU—Bell 41 run (conroy kick), 4:23. MsU—FG conroy 38, :23. Third Quarter MsU—dell 41 pass from cousins (conroy kick), 12:32. MsU—caper 8 run (conroy kick), 4:55. Fourth Quarter Mich—d.robinson 4 run (Broekhuizen kick), 14:56. MsU—FG conroy 28, 7:14. a—109,933. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rUsHiNG—Michigan st., Baker 22-147, Bell 7-78, caper 8-34, K.Martin 1-15, team 1-(minus 1), cousins 3-(minus 24). Michigan, d.robinson 21-86, smith 7-34, shaw 4-29, Hopkins 2-13. passiNG—MsU, cousins 18-25-0-284, Ke.Nichol 1-1-0-3. Michigan, d.robinson 17-29-3-215. receiViNG—Michigan st., K.Martin 6-69, cunningham 5-40, dell 3-93, Ke.Nichol 1-42, Linthicum 1-34, Gantt 1-7, caper 1-5, Bell 1-(minus 3). Michigan, roundtree 6-48, Hemingway 2-42, Grady 2-28, shaw 2-17, smith 2-13, odoms 1-49, Webb 1-12, Koger 1-6.

Arkansas 24, Texas A&M 17 Arkansas Texas A&M

14 7 3 0 — 24 7 7 3 0 — 17 First Quarter ark—adams 9 pass from Mallett (Hocker kick), 10:51. taM—Michael 1 run (Bullock kick), 5:27. ark—Hamilton 71 pass from Mallett (Hocker kick), 4:04. Second Quarter ark—cleveland 6 pass from Mallett (Hocker kick), :53. taM—Fuller 31 pass from J.Johnson (Bullock kick), :08. Third Quarter taM—FG Bullock 38, 7:56. ark—FG Hocker 39, 5:04. a—65,622. ARKANSAS LEADERS rUsHiNG — K.davis 10-82, Green 18-58 passiNG—Mallett 27-38-1-310. receiViNG—childs 6-65, Hamilton 5-98, Wingo 4-56, J.Wright 3-29, d.Williams 3-23.

Stanford 37, USC 35 Southern Cal Stanford

7 7 7 14 — 35 7 7 7 16 — 37 First Quarter Usc—Baxter 8 run (Houston kick), 8:17. stan—Baldwin 11 pass from Luck (N.Whitaker kick), 5:39. Second Quarter stan—Wilkerson 6 run (N.Whitaker kick), 8:33. Usc—Woods 6 pass from Barkley (Houston kick), 4:23. Third Quarter stan—taylor 1 run (N.Whitaker kick), 5:39. Usc—Woods 61 pass from Barkley (Houston kick), 2:59. Fourth Quarter stan—K.reuland 2 pass from Luck (N.Whitaker kick), 14:51. Usc—Woods 6 pass from Barkley (Houston kick), 11:11. stan—Baldwin 7 pass from Luck (kick failed), 9:27. Usc—Bradford 3 run (Houston kick), 1:08. stan—FG N.Whitaker 30, :00.

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Navy edges Wake Forest BY MIKE CRANSTON Associated Press

WINSTON-SALEM — Still stinging from a tough 28 loss to a fierce riNavy 27 val, Navy quarterWake back Ricky Dobbs slipped into a salt bath the night before facing Wake Forest, closed his eyes and envisioned a late-game drive where everything went right. He was a realist, though, since this is run-dominated Navy. “I didn’t think it was going to be a touchdown pass,” Dobbs said. “I thought it was going to be a run straight up the middle by a fullback or something.” Not quite. The running QB came up with the big play with his arm, tossing a 6-yard touchdown pass to Greg Jones with 26 seconds left to give the Midshipmen a dramatic 28-27 win over Wake Forest on Saturday. By the looks of the wide smile on his face, he had also taken his mother’s advice after she saw him struggle in the loss to Air Force. “She told me it doesn’t look like I’m having fun out there,” said Dobbs, who accounted for four touchdowns and recorded the 40th rushing TD of his career. “She told me to just relax, release and let go. That’s what the whole team needed, offensively.” It produced another nightmare for the Demon Deacons. Freshman Tanner Price threw for 326 yards with two touchdowns and ran for another score as Wake Forest (2-4) lost its fourth straight game. The Demon Deacons were beaten by Georgia Tech a week ago on a touchdown with 15 seconds left.

“There comes a point when they get tired of watching the other team celebrate after the game,” Wake coach Jim Grobe said. “When that point comes, we’ll start winning games.” Joe Buckley kicked the tiebreaking extra point as Navy (3-2) avoided a second straight loss. Tristan Dorty (West Rowan) had seven tackles (five solo) for Wake. He was credited with half a sack in addition to one tackle for loss. The Demon Deacons appeared to be in control when Dobbs returned from an injury on third-and-11 from DORTY the Wake 43 with just over three minutes left and had two passes knocked down by Kyle Wilber and Alex Frye. Wake quickly punted, and the short kick gave Navy an opportunity. After Navy’s TD, Michael Campanaro took back the kickoff 47 yards to Wake 49. Josh Adams dropped a pass along the sideline that could have put Wake Forest at the edge of field-goal range before time expired. It spoiled an excellent effort by Price, who returned after missing a game with a concussion. He gave Wake a 24-21 lead on a swing pass to Devon Brown, who ran 12 yards for a TD with 1:08 left in the third quarter. When Jimmy Newman kicked a 31-yard field goal midway through the fourth quarter, it looked like he’d get the win. “It’s tough losing two games back to back that close,” Price said. “You’ve just got to stay positive.”

ECU rallies past So. Miss BY DAVID BRANDT Associated Press

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — East Carolina did a lot ECU 44 of things wrong on So. Miss 43 Saturday, falling behind by 20 points in the first quarter and committing four turnovers on the road. But with an impressive comeback and just enough clutch plays, the Pirates emerged with a 44-43 victory over Southern Miss, breaking the Golden Eagles’ 11-game home winning streak in a Conference USA showdown. Quarterback Dominique Davis completed a 32-yard pass to Michael Bowman for ECU’s go-ahead touchdown with 2:59 remaining. The Pirates, who have won backto-back C-USA titles, have won 14 of 15 conference games. The game featured a combined 24 penalties for 229 yards, and one

player from each team was ejected. Davis completed 18 of 36 passes for 305 yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions. The Pirates trailed 20-0 after the first quarter but scored 17 unanswered points before halftime. During the second quarter, the Golden Eagles were called for four personal fouls and linebacker Korey Williams was ejected after throwing a punch during a sideline altercation. The second half was just as wild as the first, with Southern Miss jumping out to a 27-17 lead. But East Carolina roared back, scoring 21 of the next 24 points to take a 38-30 lead. Southern Miss wasn’t done, taking a 43-38 lead on linebacker Jamie Collins’ 32-yard interception return for a touchdown. Finally, East Carolina set the final margin with Davis’ easy touchdown pass to a wide-open Bowman, who outran the Southern Miss defense to the end zone.

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Appalachian State quarterback DeAndre Presley App. State 34 accounted for 374 Elon 31 yards of offense and three touchdowns to lead top-ranked Appalachian State to a 34-31 victory over No. 19 Elon in front of a schoolrecord crowd of 31,531 on Saturday at Kidd Brewer Stadium. “It was a good win for us and a big conference win,” Appalachian coach Jerry Moore said. “We talked all week about how Elon’s back is against the wall and if they lose a game then they are virtually eliminated from everything. We knew we were going to have to play really, really well today.” Presley rushed for a career-high 170 yards and two touchdowns. He was 14-of-19 passing for 204 yards and a score as the Mountaineers (5-0, 3-0 SoCon) won their 23rd straight league game and 15th in a row over the Phoenix (2-4, 1-2). “We played close to the kind of game we needed to play to win,” Elon coach Pete Lembo said. “If we could have wrapped up a couple of times, it probably would have been different. We needed to make it a 20-yard gain instead of a 40-yard gain.”

Presley was impressive on his first play — a 39-yard pass to CoCo Hillary — and his last, an 8-yard run that sealed the victory with under two minutes to play. He sustained a head injury at the end of that run and left the field with assistance. He will be evaluated further today. Appalachian scored first, but Elon came back for a 10-7 lead. The Mountaineers erased that deficit in four plays, scoring on a 39-yard run by Cedric Baker. Presley’s career-long 53-yard run put Appalachian ahead 20-10. Presley scored in the third on a 44-yard run, and Elon QB Scott Riddle (394 yards through the air) answered with a 43-yard TD pass to Aaron Mellette. Presley widened the lead again early in the fourth with a 13-yard TD pass to Hillary. Riddle’s third scoring pass, a 17-yard offering to Sean Jeffcoat with 3:50 left, cut the Mountaineers’ lead to 34-31, but ASU was able to churn out four first downs to kill the clock. “I thought we made a lot of big plays when we had to make them,” Moore said. “I think that it’s a mark of a good ball club when you can overcome some of those penalties and things we did.”

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Wolfpack guts out win over Eagles BY AARON BEARD Associated Press

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — With coach Mark Dantonio back in the stadium, No. 17 Michigan State took advantage of three interceptions by Denard Robinson and scored 24 straight points to break open a close game and beat No. 17 Michigan 34-17. Robinson was 17 of 29 for 215 yards and accounted for two touchdowns, but he ran for a season-low 86 yards on 21 carries. Dantonio was on the field during warmups and in the visiting coaches’ box during the game, watching his team play in the person for the first time since a heart attack three weeks ago. No. 2 Ohio St. 38, Indiana 10 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Terrelle Pryor threw for a career-best 334 yards and three touchdowns in coach Jim Tressel’s 100th victory on the Buckeyes sideline. No. 3 Oregon 42, Washington State 23 PULLMAN, Wash. — LaMichael James had three touchdowns, including an 84-yard scoring reception. Oregon led just 36-23 late in the third quarter. No. 4 Boise State 57, Toledo 14 BOISE, Idaho — Jeremy Avery ran for three touchdowns, Kellen Moore passed for three and the defense forced four turnovers. No. 5 TCU 45, Wyoming 0 FORT WORTH, Texas — Andy Dalton threw for 270 yards and three TDs a week after his worst game of the season. No. 8 Auburn 37, Kentucky 34 LEXINGTON, Ky. — Cam Newton drove Auburn into position for Wes Byrum’s 24-yard field goal as time expired. Newton ran for a career-high 198 yards and four touchdowns and deftly guided the Tigers 88 yards in the final 7:22. Oregon State 29, No. 9 Arizona 27 TUCSON, Ariz. — Oregon State’s Ryan Katz threw for 393 yards and two touchdowns. He sneaked across for another score. The sophomore from Santa Monica, Calif., completed 30 of 42 against an Arizona defense that had been ranked No. 2 nationally, giving up 230.8 yards per game. The Wildcats never led in a loss that dampened their hopes for the school’s first trip to the Rose Bowl. The Wildcats’ Nick Foles completed 35 of 46 for 440 yards and three touchdowns. No. 10 Utah 68, Iowa State 27 AMES, Iowa — Jordan Wynn threw for 325 yards and two TDs. Shaky Smithson threw a TD pass and caught another for Utah. No. 11 Arkansas 24, Texas A&M 17 ARLINGTON, Texas — Ryan Mallett threw three touchdown passes in the first half. Tramain Thomas sealed the win at Cowboys Stadium with a pick in the end zone on the final play. No. 16 Stanford 37, Southern California 35 STANFORD, Calif. — Nate Whitaker made up for a missed extra point by kicking a 30-yard field goal on the final play. Whitaker missed his earlier kick after Stanford’s fifth touchdown, and that was the difference in the game before Andrew Luck calmly drove the Cardina down the field. Robert Woods caught 12 passes for 224 yards and three touchdowns and Matt Barkley threw for 390 yards to lead USC. No. 20 Wisconsin 41, Minnesota 23 MADISON, Wis. — John Clay ran for three touchdowns and freshman James White added two more to help Wisconsin to keep Paul Bunyan’s Axe for the seventh straight year. No. 23 Florida State 45, No. 13 Miami 17 MIAMI — Jermaine Thomas scored a career-high three touchdowns, and Chris Thompson rushed for 158 yards. Thomas had TD runs of 1 and 6 yards, plus caught a 17-yard scoring pass from Christian Ponder — all in the first 21 minutes. Jacory Harris was 19 of 47 for 225 yards for Miami. No. 24 Missouri 26, Colorado 0 COLUMBIA, Mo. — Blaine Gabbert threw two touchdown passes before leaving with a hip pointer after three quarters. No. 25 Air Force 49, Colorado State 27 AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Air Force added some air to the nation’s top-ranked running attack. Tim Jefferson threw for 160 yards and hooked up with Zach Kauth for two scores.

OTHERS Georgia Tech 33, Virginia 21 ATLANTA — Anthony Allen ran for 195 yards and three touchdowns and Georgia Tech posted its best rushing total (477 yards) in an ACC game. Quarterback Joshua Nesbitt added 21 carries for 109 yards and a touchdown. Georgia Tech (4-2, 3-1) has back-to-back wins for the first time this season. Virginia Tech 45, Central Michigan 21 BLACKSBURG, Va. — Quarterback Tyrod Taylor rushed for 127 yards and two touchdowns and threw for another score. Georgia 41, Tennessee 14 ATHENS, Ga. — Aaron Murray ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more scores as Georgia snapped a four-game skid. A.J. Green caught another touchdown pass, his third in two weeks since returning from a four-game suspension. Tennessee turned it over three times, gave up four sacks and fell behind 17-0 in the first quarter. Notre Dame 23, Pittsburgh 17 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Dayne Crist ran for a TD and passed for another. David Ruffer kicked three more field goals. Pitt got the ball back at its own 10 with 3:15 to go and again at its 7 with 1:37 remaining. But on its final series, Gary Gray broke up a fourth-down pass intended for Baldwin with 1:07 left. Army 41, Tulane 23 NEW ORLEANS — Jared Hassin rushed for 144 yards and two TDs for Army, which had 312 yards on 62 carries. It pushed its point total to 194, 10 more than it scored all of last season. Samford 38, Western Carolina 7 CULLOWHEE — Chris Evans rushed for 131 yards and three touchdowns on 20 carries and Samford used a 24-point second quarter to break the game open. Wofford 33, Georgia Southern 31 STATESBORO, Ga. — Eric Breitenstein had two fourth-quarter touchdowns, the second with 5:52 left, as Wofford rallied. Hampton 27, N.C. Central 13 DURHAM — Hampton’s Matt Davis and Ricardo Silva scored on long interception returns as the Pirates rallied with 20 fourth-quarter points. Morgan St 27, North Carolina A&T 14 GREENSBORO — Redshirt freshman quarterback Delonte Williams ran for three touchdowns in his first career start to lead Morgan State past North Carolina A&T. Butler 24, Davidson 8 DAVIDSON — Matt Kobli rushed for two touchdowns as Butler beat Davidson. Splitting time with Andrew Huck at quarterback, Kobli scored on a 1-yard run in the second quarter. His 21-yard run on the opening second-half possession gave the Bulldogs a 24-0 lead.

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N.c. state’s audi augustin (11) pressures QB dave shinskie. “You definitely think about (the Tech loss),” Wilson said. “You don’t want to have that feeling ever again. It’s something you put in the back of your mind, but at the same time you let it go and keep working and trying to get better. “More than anything, it’s all mental. You have to keep pushing and keep realizing that this is a division game, an ACC game, and that matters.” Since O’Brien took over in Raleigh before the 2007 season, Boston College had won all three meetings and scored at least 37 points each time, in-

cluding a 52-20 rout last season in which Montel Harris set school records with 264 yards rushing and five touchdowns. This year, Harris ran for 53 yards on 14 carries as the Eagles managed just 272 yards — with 67 of those coming on a meaningless touchdown pass with about six minutes left. D.J. Green got N.C. State going by recovering a blocked punt in the end zone for a firstquarter touchdown, and C.J. Wilson returned an interception for a score in the third. “We’re still a work in progress,” O’Brien said. “We

“You can not put a price tag” on White’s contributions, coach Butch Davis said. “As a coach, you can’t put any kind of value greater than what your kids are willing to sacrifice to keep that tight-knit glue, that camaraderie, that community. By being unselfish, it takes an awful lot.” White — a senior who has played cornerback and receiver at times during his career — caught six passes for 90 yards, finished with 89 yards rushing, scored on runs of 4 and 26 yards and almost single-handedly iced the game. He rolled up 43 total yards on his team’s time-consuming final drive. “We pretty much asked Johnny what he wanted to run,” quarterback T.J. Yates said. “He was just huge all day long.” Yates was 18 of 34 for 164 yards with a 9-yard touchdown pass to Jheranie Boyd for the Tar Heels (3-2, 1-1 ACC). They coaxed just enough production out of the offense to beat the Tigers for the first time since 2001. Kyle Parker’s 74-yard TD pass to Jaron Brown with 5:31 left pulled the Tigers (2-3, 02) within five, but they couldn’t convert the two-point attempt and didn’t get the ball back until only 13 seconds remained. Clemson had three deep passes fall incomplete. “I think when you put yourself in a position to win the game three weeks in a row,

and you don’t win, it’s tough to come back from that,” Parker said. He finished 21 of 38 for 214 yards for the Tigers, who were held to a season-low 305 total yards and lost their third straight. They’ve dropped their first two ACC games for the first time since 1998. “I’m extremely embarrassed. I’m very sorry,” coach Dabo Swinney said. “This team deserves better. Clemson deserves better. Fans deserve better. We’re just not a very well-coached football team right now. It’s my fault.” The Tar Heels — who finished with 255 total yards — certainly needed both of White’s scoring runs. Two plays after his 12-yard catch from Yates on fourth-and-4, White bounced off a series of tacklers on his way to the end zone. That 26-yard run extended the lead to 21-10 with 6:53 to play. “It felt like it started to wear them down just a little bit,” White said. “Our offensive line, they just dug in late in the game and gave it all they had.” On a day safety Deunta Williams returned to the Tar Heels following a four-game suspension, the school also announced a few hours before kickoff that fullback Devon Ramsay — who had played in the previous four games — would sit out after additional information turned up in the ongoing NCAA investigation of the program. The school also said safety Jonathan Smith — who had been held out — would not play this season but didn’t specify why.

The Tide’s charge came courtesy of an odd safety by Garcia — Spurrier threw his notes about 5 yards onto the field when his QB grabbed a wayward shotgun snapped and flung it through his own end zone from about the 2 — a field goal and a 51-yard TD catch by Darius Hanks. Alabama’s last chance to tighten things came at the start of the fourth quarter when Jeffery bobbled a catch into the hands of Tide defensive back Will Lowery for an interception. But McElroy was sacked for a 7-yard loss by Stephon Gilmore and Saban called a fake field goal that didn’t

come close to working. South Carolina answered with a 75-yard drive, capped by Lattimore’s 2-yard score with 7:01 left that put the game away. South Carolina fans, as they had after the basketball team beat Kentucky and the baseball team beat Arizona State at the College World Series, celebrated beating the country’s No. 1 team. Spurrier earned his 107th SEC victory, breaking a tie for second with Mississippi great Johnny Vaught. Alabama’s Paul “Bear” Bryant is the all-time leader with 159 league wins. “I gave myself a game ball for that one,” Spurrier said.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Every move Les Miles made down the stretch worked and No. 12 LSU esLSU 33 caped with another wild victory. Jarrett Lee tossed a 3-yard touchdown Florida 29 pass to Terrence Toliver with six seconds left after LSU kept its final drive alive with a fake field goal, and the Tigers pulled out a 33-29 win over No. 14 Florida. Ripped for nearly blowing last week’s game because of clock management issues, Miles made the right calls this time. “They didn’t like us too much when we were 5-0,” Miles said. “Hopefully, they’ll like us a little better at 6-0.” With 35 seconds remaining, LSU (6-0, 4-0 SEC) lined up for a game-tying, 52-yard field goal, but holder Derek Helton threw a no-look pitch over his head to place-kicker Josh Jasper. The ball bounced, Jasper scooped it up on a hop and ran for the first down. The play was reviewed to determine if it was a forward pass, which would have been incomplete and ended LSU’s hopes, but the ruling on the field stood. Lee hit Toliver for a 28-yard gain on the next play to get down to the 3. He grabbed the game-winner on second down. “We’re struggling right now,” Florida coach Urban Meyer said. “We have to get everybody healthy and rolling.”

ALABAMA FroM 1B South Carolina has been solid under Spurrier but still hasn’t won the SEC East. This bunch of Gamecocks might be able to change that. “I said ‘Fellas, if fate means for us to win this game Saturday, then lets give it a chance. Lets give fate a chance to happen,’ ” Spurrier said. Alabama had won 19 straight games since losing the Sugar Bowl to Utah after the 2008 season. But facing a third consecutive ranked SEC team caught up with Alabama as Garcia and the Gamecocks used the Crimson Tide’s formula for success: Cashing in on chances close to the goal line and limiting the country’s best tailback duo in Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson to 64 yards. South Carolina shredded the country’s top-rated scoring defense, putting up the most points on Alabama (5-1, 2-1) since its 41-34 loss to LSU in 2007. The Gamecocks scored four touchdowns when

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steve spurrier waves to fans. they got inside the ’Bama 20 — double what the Crimson Tide had allowed coming in. “It’s not like we just lost. They beat us,” said Alabama coach Nick Saban, now 1-3 against Spurrier. “They outexecuted us. They played better than we played. They played with more intensity.” Saban wants the Tide to remember this should it run into the Gamecocks for the SEC championship game. “I actually talked to (Greg) McElroy after the game and he said, ‘We’ll see you all again,’ ” Garcia said. Alabama cut South Carolina’s 21-3 lead to 28-21 with most of the fourth quarter left.

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RALEIGH — N.C. State proved it N.C. State 44 can both BC 17 shake off a disappointing loss and finally beat Tom O’Brien’s former program. Russell Wilson threw for 328 yards and three touchdowns to help the Wolfpack beat Boston College 44-17 on Saturday, giving O’Brien his first win against the team he led for a decade. Owen Spencer, Darrell Davis and Jarvis Williams had TD catches for the Wolfpack (5-1, 2-1 ACC). It also got touchdowns from the defense and special teams to dominate the Eagles (2-3, 0-2). It was the first time the Wolfpack had scored touchdowns in all three phases since a win against Texas Tech six years ago, and the victory allowed the program to match its win total for all of last season. Quite a way to regroup from last week’s home loss to Virginia Tech. “I think we’re tired, we’re heavy-legged,” O’Brien said. “I think mentally, though, this team is learning how to gut it out and fight through some things and make some things work even if it’s not our fastest day.” Last week, the Wolfpack — carrying the program’s first national ranking in seven years — led Virginia Tech 17-0 before the Hokies rallied for a 41-30 win. But bouncing back in such dominating fashion probably restored any shaken confidence for a team hoping to stay in contention in the ACC’s Atlantic Division.

can get better, and we have to get better if we’re going to continue to win.” Wilson threw two interceptions, one coming when a ball deflected off the hands of tight end George Bryan and the other when he overthrew a pass downfield to an open receiver. But the rest of the time, he had his way with the Eagles, completing 38 of 51 passes while also running for 45 yards. “He’s an all-ACC quarterback,” BC coach Frank Spaziani said. “He understands the system he’s in. When you have a very accomplished football player at quarterback, you have a very good asset.” After Green’s TD recovery, Wilson threw a perfect pass over the middle to Spencer for a 23-yard touchdown that made it 17-3 early in the second quarter. Two possessions later, Wilson found Davis for a 5-yard score on the left side to push that margin to 24-3. Wilson found Williams for a 6-yard score early in the fourth, with the receiver pushing through a tackle and stretching the ball over the pylon to make it 41-10 with 131⁄2 minutes left. Boston College had no such offensive success. Freshman quarterback Chase Rettig was out with an ankle injury, so Spaziani went with Dave Shinskie — who had already been benched once this season. Shinskie completed just 7 of 24 passes for 89 yards with two interceptions. The last was a badly overthrown ball that landed right in Wilson’s hands for an easy TD return, prompting Spaziani to pull Shinskie for sophomore Mike Marscovetra.

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Gerron Bryant, who was ruled out, points to where he thinks he landed on a potential TD.

Facing third-and-24, Brevard was out of its comfort zone, Crumbaker threw deep into double coverage, and Rolle made the pick. “We knew they were in need of a big play, and we were in perfect position,” Rolle said. Wright immediately broke a 49-yard scoring dash down the Catawba sideline to close the scoring, and linebacker Lakeem Perry picked off a pass on Brevard’s final possession. “That wasn’t pretty at all,” Catawba guard Zane Gibson said. “But in situations where we had to do it, we put it in the box.”

CATAWBA FROM 1B The sequence that led to celebration began when a Catawba defense that played the fourth quarter without two dominant players — tackle Brandon Sutton (knee) and linebacker Cory Johnson (ankle) — got a third-down stop from safety Kewone Harris to force a Brevard punt with 8:17 left. Catawba got pressure, the punt was poor and the Indians began the decisive drive at the Brevard 34. Dennis hit Eric Morman for a key first down on thirdand-5, and Gerron Bryant drew a pass interference penalty that provided firstand-goal at the 4. “They were grabbing my hair all day, and then they were grabbing my arms,” Bryant said. “I was happy the ref saw that one.” The ball was still at the 4 on third down, and the called play broke down. Dennis scrambled desperately to his left and spotted Wright in the end zone. The problem was the linebacker between them. Dennis pump-faked and was able to draw the isolated defender toward him. Then he flipped a shovel pass into Wright’s arms for the goahead score. “We had a two-on-one situation, and the rest was total improvisation,” Dennis said. Hester said it was the sort of winning play he expects

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Josh Wright eyes the end zone while battling Brevard’s Salonik Amos. from the offensive captain. “It was a really poised play, a Brett Favre-ish play,” he said. “But that’s part of his being a very experienced guy.” Jeter returned the game’s opening kickoff to the Catawba 40, and the Tornados punched in a methodical touchdown. Catawba answered with a 40-yard Trexler field goal. Brevard pushed down the field again with a clock-chewing ground game that featured fullback Derek Church (93 rushing yards). Catawba was in danger of falling behind 14-3, but Rolle came flying up to smack Jeter for a 4-yard loss on fourth-and-goal from the 2. Trexler cut the deficit to 7-6 with a 36-yard field goal with 1:05 left in the half. Catawba just missed touch-

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locker room down 14-6. “Halftime was so important, and I’m glad our chemistry has done a 180 since last season,” Dennis said. “There was no bickering and arguing. We had an opportunity to quit on each other, but we didn’t. Guys said, ‘We can still do this,’ and we made the adjustments we needed to make.” Catawba’s first possession of the second half included good fortune. Bryant caught a pass for a 36-yard gain after the ball ricocheted off Bunn. Brian Terwilliger’s 11-yard run finished the drive, Trexler kicked the PAT and the Indians trailed 14-13. Church scored on a 4-yard run to push the Tornados ahead 21-13 with 4:57 left in the third quarter. Dennis was sacked on thirdand-long by Ryan Wannamak-

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er on the next possession, but Catawba 31, Brevard 21 Trexler made it 21-16 by BRE CAT booming a 46-yard field goal First downs 15 15 Rushing yardage 161 125 that had distance to spare. Passing yardage 64 219 After Dennis’ impromptu Passing (C-A-I) 2-10-2 16-26-0 3-22.3 1-39.0 shovel pass to Wright and a Punting Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 two-point conversion pass to Penalties 7-75 4-48 Morman for a 24-21 lead, it 7 7 7 0 — 21 was up to Catawba’s defense, Brevard Catawba 3 3 10 15 — 31 which lost Johnson on the TorB — Crumbaker 1 run (Henry kick), 9:54, 1st nados’ first second-half snap. C — Trexler 40 FG, 6:31, 1st C — Trexler 36 FG, 1:05, 2nd “Brevard’s been leading the B — Watts 57 pass from Crumbaker nation in rushing and they (Henry kick), 0:17, 4th came to play, so this was a C — Terwilliger 11 run (Trexler kick), 12:21, huge challenge for our defense 3rd B — Church 4 run (Henry kick), 4:47, 3rd without Cory,” Hester said. C — Trexler 46 FG, 1:15, 3rd C — Wright 4 pass from Dennis (Morman “He’s fiery and vocal and imfrom Dennis), 4:27, 4th portant to everything we do.” pass C — Wright 49 run (Trexler kick), 2:42, 4th Individual statistics Catawba’s defense turned Rushing — B: Church 23-92; Crumbaker in a great series. 15-18; Johnson 3-18; Jeter 11-17; Benton Damien Lee, who missed 6-16. C: Wright 15-101; Terwilliger 2-10; practice days during the week Charest 1-6; Dennis 6-5; Morrison 2-4; team 2-(minus 1). because he lost an uncle, Passing — B: Crumbaker 2-10-2, 64. crushed a keeper by Crumbak- C: Dennis 16-26-0, 219. Pass receiving — B: Watts 1-57; Fleming er for a loss. Then Brandon 1-7. C: Bryant 5-86; Morman 3-68; Bunn 3-37; Wright 3-19; Terwilliger 2-9. Weedon sacked Crumbaker.

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Now you can get Cheerwine at Sheetz convenience store fountains Cheerwine fountain drinks are now available at all 27 Sheetz convenience stores in North Carolina, as well as at three in southern Virginia stores. “Within the convenience store industry, Sheetz is the retailer watched most closely; this partnership is a milestone for Cheerwine,” says Tom Barbitta, vice president of marketing for Cheerwine. “Consumers drive out of their way to find a Sheetz store, and they do the same to get an icecold Cheerwine. It’s a perfect match.” Sheetz first put Cheerwine in its Triad-area stores to see how it performed, and were

Huber, senior manager of business development for Cheerwine. “Both Sheetz and Cheerwine have recently launched into new mid-Atlantic and southeast markets, so we’re excited to see what the future holds for our partnership.”

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Team Auto raises money with car show impressed by the 93-year-old, family-owned soft drink’s strength in the Carolinas. “The team at Sheetz really understands the value in providing customers a ‘surprise and delight’ when it comes to beverage options,” says Jeff

• Best paint, Bethany Bee from Lexington for a 1928 Ford Roadster. • Best interior, Mike Bee from Lexington for a 1928 Chevrolet AB Coach. • Ladies’ choice, Jerry and Becky Ludwig for a 1923 TBucket. • Thom Dillard’s Pick or best in show, Randy File for a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro.

Team Auto Group raised Lowe’s recycling more than $1,100 for Rowan Helping Ministries Sept. 25 at centers now open Lowe’s has installed recythe semi-annual classic car cling centers in every store to show. Event sponsors were Hoot- provide a one-stop recycling ers and Sundrop. Awards in- destination for customers. The permanent recycling cluded:

centers offer a free, convenient and easy way for customers to recycle rechargeable batteries, cell phones, compact fluorescent light bulbs, or CFLs, and plastic shopping bags. Bins are located near the store entrance. Customers can drop off spent CFLs, rechargeable batteries up to 11 pounds and all used cell phones and plastic shopping bags.

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N.C. labor force

4.55 million

4.53 million

4.52 million

4.53 million

4.57 million

N.C. employed

4.09 million

4.01 million

4.04 million

4.07 million

N.C. unemployment rate

10.1 percent

11.5 percent

10.7 percent

10.8 percent

10.9 percent

rowan labor force

71,637

72,656

70,976

71,130

72,603

rowan employed

63,152

62,816

61,625

61,719

63,143

rowan unemployment

11.8 percent

13.5 percent

13.2 percent

13 percent

rowan taxable sales

$71.1 million

$82.3 million

$46.4 million

$56.7 million

$59.5 million

rowan homes sold

144

124

149

151

147

average sale price

$133,474

$123,018

$137,858

$140, 029

$121,861

rowan building permits

234

166

135

204

232

Value of building permits

$15.8 million

$15.3 million

$10.8 million

$15 million

$14.4 million

Numbers are average for quarter

sources: N.C. employment security Commission, salisbury Board of realtors, rowan inspections office, N.C. department of revenue

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No silver lining in most recent jobs report BY TOM RAUM Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The economic die is cast, and it’s grim news for Democrats. There’s nothing now that Congress or President Barack Obama can do to before the November elections to jolt the nation’s listless recovery. Friday’s unemployment report — the last major economic news before the midterms — showed the nation continued to lose jobs last month, reinforcing the bleak reality that it probably will be not months but years before the jobless rate returns to pre-recession levels below 6 percent. assoCiated press With nearly 15 million Americans still without work, that tightens the pressure Job seekers browse through information during a jobs fair sponsored by scott on Democrats ahead of the Nov. 2 elec- Lee Cohen, independent candidate for governor of illinois, in rockford, ill. a wave tions. And it also casts a dark shadow of government layoffs in september outpaced weak hiring in the private sector, well into the 2012 election season and be- pushing down the nation’s payrolls by a net total of 95,000 jobs. yond. “We won’t see under 6 percent for five years,” David Wyss, chief economist at tember and the unemployment rate held jobs must be created each month just to Standard & Poor’s in New York, said Fri- at 9.6 percent. “It’s going to be a slow re- tread water and keep pace with growth day after the Labor Department report- covery.” See JOBS, 2C ed that 95,000 more jobs were lost in SepEconomists say at least 100,000 new

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Investors wary even as stocks edge back up BY DAVID K. RANDALL AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — When the stock market hit its all-time high three years ago — three years that somehow seem much longer — Bob Auer’s life was very, very easy. Then a broker with Morgan Stanley in Indianapolis, Auer had no trouble convincing clients that they could make money buying stocks. “You could pick up the phone and get people to do just about anything because everything was working and it had been working for a while,” he says. A bubble fueled for years by easy credit and soaring real estate values stopped expanding Oct. 9, 2007. That day, the Standard and Poor’s 500 hit 1,565. Within a month, it had fallen more than 7 percent as traders began questioning subprime loans. You know the story from there. Investors who stuck with the market through the worst financial crisis in 70 years are still down about 20 percent from the boom days after accounting for dividends, wondering whether their accounts will ever recover. If history is any guide, it may be a while. It took 15 years for investors to recover from the Crash of 1929 if they reinvested their dividends, and 25 years for the stock market to come back if they didn’t, according to a study by Ned Davis Research. While no one is betting that it will take until 2032 for the stock market to fully recover this time, there are signs that investors could be drifting in the doldrums for a while, even after last year’s rebound. It took seven years for stock prices to regain their highs after the Internet bubble burst in 2000. High unemployment,

stagnant home prices and a shrinking demand for stocks as Baby Boomers begin to retire will likely stomp on the foot of any market run-up in the future, economists say. Even if the market has another 9 percent jump as it did in September, few expect it to last. “It’s going to be some time before you see the S&P back at 1,575,” said Keith Hembre, the chief economist at First American Funds. “There’s a tremendous number of imbalances out there, whether it’s the deficit, zero percent interest rates or the bloated federal balance sheet.” On Friday, the S&P 500 closed at 1,165.15, still 25 percent off its all-time high. The Dow broke through 11,000 for the first since in May but remains 22 percent below where it stood in October 2007. The money moving out of mutual funds shows that many investors have lost faith in the U.S. stock market. Since October 2007, they’ve pulled $262 billion from funds that invest in domestic stocks, according to the Investment Company Institute. Investments in bonds have jumped by about $634 billion in the same time. When they decide to buy something other than bonds, more investors are taking advantage of new funds that make it easier to invest in assets that were once too complicated or expensive for nonprofessionals. In the last three years, approximately $85 billion has been invested in mutual funds that hold stocks in emerging markets like China and Brazil, and another $65 billion has gone into funds in commodities like cotton and copper, according to Morningstar. In but one measure of how far afield from stocks investors are now looking, $55 billion is invested in State Street’s gold fund alone. Add that all up, and it means that there aren’t as many buyers willing to push stock prices higher at home.

No deposit return for potential renter who backed out BY BRUCE WILLIAMS United Feature Syndicate

DEAR BRUCE: I have a little studio apartment over my garage that I rent out. Recently it became empty, so I put an ad in our local paper. I had a potential renter want to start renting immediately. They checked out, gave me the security deposit and a day before they were to move in, called and said they couldn’t take the apartment after all. She wants her deposit back, but I’m not so sure she should get all of it back — after all, I took it off the market because she was going to rent it and now I’m out that money. — Sandra

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services of an attorney. Yes, this can be done without the services of an attorney, but as I have repeatedly said, you will never know if you did it correctly until after your death — and then it’s too late. The people you love the most are the ones who will be penalized, not only by not getting what you had intended for them to get, but also in trying to sort things out. Trying to save attorney’s fees on documents such as trusts and wills may be considered short-term smart but is certainly long-term stupid. Interested in buying or selling a house? Let Bruce Williams’ “House Smart” be your guide. Price: $14.95, plus shipping and handling. Call: 800-337-2346. Send your questions to: Smart Money, P.O. Box 2095, Elfers, FL 34680. E-mail to: bruce@brucewilliams.com. Questions of general interest will be answered in future columns. — UNited FeatUre syNdiCate

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Kinzey a judge in citizenship competition for US Chamber Ruth Kinzey, president of The Kinzey Company, served as a judge for the U.S. Chamber Business Civic Leadership Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corporate Citizenship competition, helping to select finalists in four categories. The competition included entries demonstrating exemplary national and international corporate citizenship. Twenty companies were recognized in categories that included Corporate Stewardship, US Community Service, Partnership and International Community Service. Nominations focused on corporate stewardship and how corporate social responsibility activities were incorporated into a companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture. The category winners will be announced on Nov. 30 at the BCLCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual awards banquet in Washington, D.C. Duke Energy Corporation is the only local company to reach â&#x20AC;&#x153;Finalistsâ&#x20AC;? status. For a list of finalists, check out www.bclc.uschamber.com/bclc/awards/ default.

Carolina Farm Credit announces directors STATESVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; L. Kim Starnes of Rowan County was selected to serve a five-year term as Carolina Farm Credit completed the 2010 director election by mail after receiving 640 ballots. Starnes, 54, of Salisbury is a full-time farmer at Four S Farms LLC. His operation consists of 570 acres of row crops, 100 head of beef cattle and four pullet houses. Starnes has been a member of the Carolina Farm Credit board for three years. He also serves as chairman of the Rowan County Ag Advisory board, vice president of the Rowan County Cooperative Extension advisory board, North Carolina Angus Association board and secretary/treasurer of the Miller Ferry Volunteer Fire Department. Starnes is a member of the North Carolina Cattlemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association, North Carolina Farm Bureau, Rowan County Cattlemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association and is a deacon and Sunday

school teacher at Trading Ford Baptist Church. W. Rex Bell, Iredell County, was also elected to serve a five-year term. Members elected to serve a threeyear term are Joseph A. Lail, Cleveland County and E. Bernard Beck, Randolph County. Members elected to serve a fouryear term are Bobby J. Gambill, Alleghany County and W. Steve Love, Alamance County. New members elected to the 2011 nominating committee include Robert H. Knox III of Cleveland, with alternate being George E. Smith of Lexington. Thomas E. Porter Jr. of Cabarrus County is chairman of the board of directors for Carolina Farm Credit. Starnes is on the board.

Church holding fundraiser Saturday at Applebeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s White Rock AME Zion Church will be hosting a Flapjack Fundraiser on Saturday from 7-10 a.m. at Applebeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 205 Faith Road. All proceeds raised will directly benefit the church. Tickets for the Flapjack Fundraiser are $7 and can be purchased at the door or by calling Ashley Grier at 704-232-0971. Breakfast includes a short stack of pancakes, sausage, milk, juice and coffee. The Apple Gold Group, franchisee of Applebeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurants in North Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas, partners with nonprofit groups for the Flapjack Fundraisers. Breakfasts can be held on any Saturday or Sunday morning, and cost the organization around $2 a meal.

Kannapolis Business Alliance meeting Oct. 21 at RCCC Kannapolis Business Alliance meeting is Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. at the N.C. Research Campus in the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Building. Guest speaker from Carolinas Medical Center regarding the new medical center project in Kannapolis. Nominations and voting on the president-elect position will also go on.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Vince Denais was a territory manager selling parts and instrumentation to South Texas refineries 10 years ago when the idea hit him. Refinery workers were using bicycles to move quickly around the plant’s grounds, but some bikes had flat tires. They were rusty. They were useless or unsafe, he said. “Old, ugly, poor excuses for bikes,” the Louisiana native recalled. Thus the idea: a safe, rustfree bike requiring little maintenance and tires that wouldn’t go flat. It remained in his head until 2005, when he found a drive shaft that would eliminate the need for a chain. He consulted with his father, Dale, a NASA engineer, and his brother Chad, who spent 20 years working in aviation maintenance for Northwest Airlines. “We took a regular bike and saw how we could apply changes to make it longer lasting,” Denais said. “We took Dad’s engineering, my brother’s knowledge in metallurgy and my knowledge of the industry. That’s how Rugged Cycles came to life.” In 2007, he quit his sales job and dedicated himself completely to Rugged Cycles. The frames are made in Taiwan and the tires in the U.S., but the bikes are hand-assembled in Corpus Christi. “This is a local business making a local product that could be done anywhere else in the world,” Denais said. Although designed for the petrochemical industry, Denais plans to offer the bikes to the retail market starting in mid-October with an initial trial push in Austin, Texas. In spring, he plans to open a showroom in downtown Corpus Christi. Tucked away in a former funeral home on Second Street is Rugged Cycle’s assembly plant. Almost 1,000 bikes have left the plant for more than 100 facilities worldwide, including Corpus Christi refineries and countries such as Peru, Australia and St. Croix. Three assemblers put every piece of the bikes together, from the handlebars and baskets to the seat and kickstand. The company employs 12, including management and salespeople in Houston, Dallas, New Orleans and soon in Austin. The tires are made of solid polyurethane, similar to skateboard tires but of a much softer composition. The frame is made of aluminum alloy and stainless steel. The drive shaft replaces the chain, which can rust, kink and break. The coating used to cover some of the parts is powdered plastic that is baked onto the parts, making it longer lasting and rust-resistant. Denais called it a bulletproof bike. The bike is designed as a cruiser, which Denais said conjures the pleasures of childhood and easy riding. The petrochemical industry has tested them since 2008. “We wanted the industry to use them and abuse them so we could re-engineer them,” Denais said. “We couldn’t just settle for our first design because we’re selling more than just bikes. We’re selling durability and reliability.” Refinery officials liked the idea of the cycles having no chains, said Jesse Garcia, a company spokesman, and employees don’t have to worry about a chain falling off or their pants leg getting stuck. The bike company’s biggest client is Exxon Mobil, which uses Rugged Cycles in at least 13 facilities in Texas and Louisiana. Other clients include Chevron Phillips Chemical, ConocoPhillips, Hess Corp., NASA, Shell and Texas Instruments. Denais has moved up the bicycles’ entrance into the retail market. His original plan called for penetrating the industrial sector, then branching out to service hotels with fleets of bikes for tourists. The cruisers will be sold in the retail market for about $1,200.

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London’s Savoy Hotel set to reopen after years of renovation “London without the Savoy is not London. … It’s an extraordinary place.” MICHAEL MORPURGO last writer-in-residence at the hotel before its renovation

music videos in an alley next to the hotel. The Savoy has a tie to the fine arts — French impressionist Claude Monet painted from its balconies, and American painter Whistler also produced works at the hotel —

the landmark savoy Hotel in central London was closed for three years because of a massive renovation that went way over budget. it is to reopen today. wiring, new plumbing, a new sprinkler system, a lot of behind-the-scenes things that a guest won’t necessarily see, and the essential services that a five-star hotel requires.” Virtually the entire hotel — opened in 1889 — has been refurbished. Room rates will start at about $560. With its prime location and posh restaurants, including

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retirement contributions will “help associates grow their retirement savings much faster than before.” “Based on feedback from associates, we redesigned our plans to make them more contemporary, relevant and in line with what most companies already do,” he added. But Jennifer Stapleton, assistant director at the union-

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the popular Savoy Grill, the hotel has been closely interwoven with British history. Wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a frequent visitor, and Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana attended gala Savoy events. Singer Bob Dylan also stayed at the hotel during the early phases of his long career and filmed one of the earliest

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and it has maintained a “writer in residence” program that periodically gives literary figures free lodging for a few months. Author Michael Morpurgo, known for “War Horse” and dozens of other works, was the last writer-in-residence before the renovation. He said Friday he is looking forward to seeing the hotel open again. “It was part of the heart of London that was closed for three years,” he said. “London without the Savoy is not London. It’s an iconic hotel, part of history. All of these people from all over the world have stayed there, whether they’re artists or writers or actors, and it’s filled with their ghosts and memories. It’s an extraordinary place.”

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LONDON (AP) — The suave Savoy Hotel is back. The landmark on the Strand near the River Thames has been closed for three years because of a massive renovation that went way over budget, but it reopens today with completely renovated rooms, suites, public areas, courtyard and gardens. Designers have tried to keep elements of the hotel’s distinctive Edwardian and art deco stylings while bringing everything up to date, and the owners have added an eightroom royal suite with a price tag of nearly $16,000 per night. The goal is to attract heads of state, wealthy Persian Gulf businessmen, and the very top stars of the entertainment world — the hotel has, after all, hosted the Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe in the past. Spokesman Brett Perkins said the public response to the reopening has been strong because so many people have emotional ties to the Savoy, one of the British capital’s best known hotels. “Everyone has a Savoy story,” he said. “They were brought here as a child for tea, or their parents got married here, things like that. We are fully booked the first two nights and restaurant reservations are very strong.” The three-year project, with about 1,000 workers and

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Step back in time rocking chair front porch,this updated home with character and modern conveniences. 3 bedrooms, 1400+ sqft. Large 24x40 detached garage. Motivated seller! $95,000-Call Jayne Land! R51371

Refreshing! Tons of upgrades when built includes hardwood & tile floors to faucets & light fixtures. Covered front porch that wraps around one corner of the house. Open, roomy floor plan. Wood floors. Kitchen has lot's of cabinets and an eat at bar. There is recessed lighting. Cathedral ceiling! Extra large patio in back. A Must See! R51390-Call Heather Gurley or Sheryl Fry!

Completely remodeled home. 3 bedrooms 4 or 5 Br 3 Bath brick home in Country Club, and 2.5 baths with over 1900 sqft . Partial new HVAC & recent updates, large lot, tennis walk-out basement. 2 car carport. Covered court, call Mitzi $324,900 R51398 side porch. Priced at $149,900. R51354

AGENTS

Sue MacLamroc

Chris Lankford

Kathy Fleming

REALTOR

704-202-4464

704-213-3935

704-798-3429

VICKI MEDLIN, REALTOR .......................................704-640-2477 CATHY GRIFFIN, REALTOR, GRI.............................704-213-2464 DEBORAH JOHNSON, REALTOR.............................704-239-7491 LIN LITAKER, REALTOR, GRI,CRS,ABR...................704-647-8741 SUE MACLAMROC, REALTOR..................................704-202-4464 SHERYL FRY, REALTOR ...........................................704-239-0852 C. CARY GRANT, REALTOR, GRI..............................704-239-5274 WENDY CARLTON, REALTOR..................................704-640-9557 HEATHER GURLEY, REALTOR .................................704-640-3998 KATHERINE FLEMING, REALTOR............................704-798-3429 TRENT GRIFFIN, REALTOR.....................................704-798-4868 MILLIE STOUT, REALTOR, GRI................................704-213-9601 JEANIE BEAVER, BROKER IN CHARGE,GRI............704-202-4738

Excellent investment opportunity. 7 rental units, & 2 lots. Great to live in large home with basement and have instant income from the rental units. Two ponds on the property that is stocked with fish. $499,900-C551334 C47414

Very nicely updated home. Extreme master suite with oversized master shower and heated tile floors. Loads of decking with hottub and plenty of room to entertain. There is a craft room. Detached 28x36 garage has heating system. This is a must see. Loads of square footage. Circle Drive. REDUCED TO $234,900-Call Jane Bryan! R51094

Country living with beautiful land! 42ac with 6+/- acre pond! What a view from the back deck or patio. Custom brick ranch/basement, lr, den, fp w/gas logs, sunroom or office, hw floors, main bath with whirlpool tub, 2 car garage, private setting. one owner! Call Cathy or Trent Griffin! R51359

TOM KARRIKER, REALTOR, ABR, SRES..................704-560-1873 JANE BRYAN, REALTOR, GRI..................................704-798-4474 HELEN MILES, REALTOR, GRI ................................704-433-4501 JAYNE LAND, REALTOR, GRI..................................704-433-6621 KESHIA SHERRILL, REALTOR.................................704-433-7187 PAM NESBIT, REALTOR...........................................704-640-4987 CHRIS LANKFORD, REALTOR .................................704-213-3935 MITZI CRANE, REALTOR.........................................704-798-4506 MARY STAFFORD, REALTOR...................................704-267-4487 DIANNE GREENE,BROKER, OWNER,CRS,GRI ........704-202-5789 JERRY DAVIS, REALTOR .........................................704-213-0826 PEGGY MANGOLD, REALTOR.................................704-640-8811

SALISBURY POST Flowers & Plants Baby Items Baby Girl Clothes Some new or gently used. Sizes 0 – 3/6 mos. Babies R Us, Roca Wear, Baby Phat & more! $5-$10 items. 704-754-1912. 9a-9p Large Crib, Contemporary white crib complete w/bumper & storage drawer. New Cond. $95 704-401-4743 Crib. Graco Pink Travel Crib. LIKE NEW! $60. FisherPrice crib mobilelights/sounds $20. 704603-7294 L/M

Building Equip. & Supplies Huge Sale! Quality Steel Buildings! Save thousands! Factory clearance: 16x24, 24x30, 30x60! Amazing opportunity to save AND earn money with Display Program! 1-866-352-0469

Clothes Adult & Children Pants, Male Coogi Pants 36/34 $20/pc (3), 2 Evoulution $10/pc, Rocawear $20, Ed Hardy $20. Good condition. 704433-8112 or 704-633-7674 Wedding gown, for sale, elegant, beaded wedding gown with veil and gloves. Size 18. $800. Call 704-224-7030.

Computers & Software Computer. Complete Dell Computer. $100. Internet ready, burner. 980-2050947 Laptop, Acer, 15.5" Screen, Win. Vista, Wi-Fi, 1 yr. Old. $275. Touch Panel Phone $12 704401-4743.

Consignment Growing Pains Family Consignments Call (704)638-0870 115 W. Innes Street

Electronics Keyboard/Piano, working, with multiple tones. Has no power cord. Selling for $50 OBO. 704-213-1237

Exercise Equipment Lifestyler 2800 Electric, Auto. Inclining Treadmill; Counts calories, keeps time & distance. $125.00 704-401-4743. Weight machine, Marcy. 200 lbs weight, bench press, butterfly, lat pull. Excellent cond. $100. 704-928-5062

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

What a deal!

Machine & Tools

Misc For Sale Metal clothes rack, round 3ft. Diameter. Sturdy with rollers. $25. Please call 704-2791903. Lv. msg.

All Coin Collections Silver, gold & copper. Will buy foreign & scrap gold. 704-636-8123

Medical Equipment

Oxygen Acetylene Tanks Complete outfit with cart. $450. Firm. Please Call 704-938-4948

Timber wanted - Pine or hardwood. 5 acres or more select or clear cut. Shaver Wood Products, Inc. Call 704-278-9291.

Hospital Bed, new, electric with bar and rails. $500. Please Call 704-636-5275 Leyland Cypress Trees, 3 ft. tall. $5 each. Green Giant's 6 ft. tall $20 each. Will plant for you for small fee. 704-213-6096

Food & Produce

Fresh Veggies!

Sweet potatoes by box of 25 lbs (48¢/lb). By pound 79¢. Mixed greens (you pick them) 50¢/lb. Collards, turnips and broccoli. Buddy's Produce, 9309 Wright Rd, Kannapolis. 704-9322135.

Misc For Sale

Roaches are dead...

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

when you use Harris Roach Killer. Odorless, non-staining formula, kills roaches for up to one year. Guaranteed. Available at Centerview Hardware, 704-932-8236.

Barrells, 55 gallon metal & plastic $10 each. 15 to sell. Please Call 704-857-1867

vans

Bed, full size, $75. Aluminum adjustable crutches, $20. Please call 704-202-6075 LM

With our

Birmingham wood stove with exhaust pipe and accessories. $250. Great for shop. 704-857-0093

Send us a photo and description we'll advertise it in the paper for 15 days, and online for 30 days

all can be found in the

Watches – and scrap gold jewelry. 704-636-9277 or cell 704-239-9298

30*!

Business Opportunities AVON - Buy or Sell Call Lisa 1-800-258-1815 or Tony 1-877-289-4437 thebennetts1@comcast.net

J.Y. Monk Real Estate School-Get licensed fast, Charlotte/Concord courses. $399 tuition fee. Free Brochure. 800-849-0932

*some restrictions apply

Pick your own mixed greens, collards, peas, sweet potatoes. 704-9389863. Leave message

Fuel & Wood Firewood for sale @ $45.00 a Load. Free Delivery or Pick Up. Salisbury and surrounding Counties. Call Jerry @ 704-6380099 or 704-797-6805

Furniture & Appliances Air Conditioners, Washers, Dryers, Ranges, Frig. $65 & up. Used TV & Appliance Center Service after the sale. 704-279-6500 Armoire - Oak Tall, Clothing/T.V. Armoire, side shelving, side rod pocket, upper shelf for T.V. or Clothing $95. 704-401-4743 Bed. Full Size Bed- $150 obo. Wood headboard. Please call 704-6037294. Leave Message Bedroom suite, new 5 piece. All for $297.97. Hometown Furniture, 322 S. Main St. 704-633-7777 Couch. Beautiful cream color couch. 8 ft. long, excellent condition. $100. Call 704-857-0969 Table – Beautiful outside table, oval brown glass with umbrella and 6 chairs. New. $300. Call 704-636-5275 anytime TV Entertainment Stand $50 Please Call 704-636-8549 Umbrella, 9 Ft Wooden Umbrella $80, Granite base $85. Never used, Brand New. Call 704-762-0345

Building, used, for sale 10' x 12' metal building with wood frame. Like new will sell for much less than new retail cost. Can be seen at 250 Auction Dr at Webb Rd exit 70 off 85 south. Call 941-266-8698 or 704856-0055 Camper top fits 1997 S10 short bed. $250. Call Walter 704-636-3008, leave message. Dresser, $65 IPOD Headset, $35 Please Call 704-637-5416

Games and Toys Gamecube, silver with controller, memory card, a/v cord, power cord & 15 games. $90. 704-245-8032

Stop Smoking Cigarettes No Patches, No Gum, No Pills With Hypnosis It's Easy! Also Weight Control. 704-933-1982

Fireplace Insert, fire brick lined, with blowers, Mfg. Tibbco. $125 OBO. Gas Logs, complete with cabinet/ mantel, $175 OBO. 704-2790611. Fireplace, electric log w/ wheels, $40. Patio table with 4 chairs, $75. Weed eater, $45. New PlayStation 2 High School Musical game. Call 704431-4837

Holshouser Cycle Shop Lawn mower repairs and trimmer sharpening. Pick up & delivery. (704)637-2856 Mower, Craftsman Mower Walkbehind 550 Series $125 OBO Call 704-762-0345

Generator – Portable 3500 watt Subaru/Coleman generator, 7hp engine. Never used. $350. 336998-8325 leave message

Tires (4) with custom rims. $500. Please Call 704-637-5416 Trampoline - Like New Trampoline Bounce Pro $200 OBO Call 704-762-0345 Stove, free Wood standing, firebrick lined, glass front, like new, Mfg. Serria. $325. OBO. 704279-0611.

Found Dog. Pembroke Corgi found Welsh Monday, on Shore Acres Road. Call to identify. 704-637-3230 Found friendly brown dog, near South Rowan School. Male, High medium size, black ears & muzzle. Call 70443308616 Found pet bird, parakeet on Gheen Road. Please call to identify. 704-638-6282

Free Stuff

Lost cat. Male tabby. Black/grey/brown striped with white belly. Very large. Small hole in right ear, place on nose. Answers to “Thomas.” 970 Briggs Rd. 704-791-0801 REWARD!! Lost dog. 7 year old Pekingnese/Shih Tzu mix, chestnut color. Last seen in Food Lion parking in Spencer Fri. 10/1. If you know his whereabouts, please call 704-637-8778.

Monument & Cemetery Lots Single plot in Singing Tower section of Rowan Memorial Park. $1,500 firm. 704-633-6524

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Call the Salisbury Post Classified Department at 704-797-4220 or email classads@salisburypost.com X

Baker's rack, Cedar wardrobe, Hotpoint freezer, Exercise stepper, 704-636-9293.

$150; $75; $75; $50.

Music Sales & Service Piano, Spinet, walnut finish, great condition. $750. Please Call 704-855-8353

Want to Buy Merchandise Heating system. Laser vented (kerosene), heats 1,670-2,000 sq. ft. Exc. operating condition. Comforts of central heating system in 1 compact, roomsized unit. Thermostatically controlled, digitally programmable, w/set-back. Includes other accessories that came w/heater. Buyer unistalls & moves. $1100 neg. Cash only or cashier's check. 704-202-0774 Hot Tub, 6' $350 OBO Please Call 704-279-1076

AA Antiques. Buying anything old, scrap gold & silver. Will help with your estate or yard sale. 704-433-1951.

We will resume accepting applications for: • 2 and 3 bedroom families. We will continue to accept applications for: • 4 and 5 bedroom families. • All persons or families displaced by fire or government action. We will continue to close applications for: • 0/1 bedroom families. Applications are accepted every Thursday from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Applicants must bring birth certificates and Social Security cards for all family members and an official photo ID for all members over 18. Applicants should also bring any verification of Social Security and SSI, if applicable. Call 704636-1410 for more information.

Free Stuff Free Black Walnuts. You pick them up and you have them. Call 704636-3439

Free kittens to safe, loving homes. For more information, please contact Debby at 704762-9066 after 3:00 PM Lab/mix pup needs home. 8 wks, shots/dewormed, very sweet and loving. Great with kids and other dogs! Ashley 704-633-3887

ACREAGE

2BR ~ 1.5 BA ~ Starting at $555

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FOR SALE BY OWNER

PRICED TO SELL

East Rowan New Listing

Salisbury, 3BR, 2 BA Wonderful neighborhood, no thru traffic, great for kids and pets. Open floor plan. Fresh paint and brand new carpet. R51361 $149,900 Monica Poole, B&R Realty 704.245.4628

Found Brindle Dachshund, brown and black, has been fixed. Found on Miller Road in China Grove. Call 704224-6742

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

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(704) 797-4220

704-637-5588

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Located at Woodleaf Road & Holly Avenue www.Apartments.com/hollyleaf

C46365

2205 Woodleaf Rd., Salisbury, NC 28147

China Grove - 3 BR. 2 BA. Stack stone fireplace, REAL HARDWOODS, ceramic and carpet, maple cabinets, GRANITE countertops, chair railing galore, split bedrooms for privacy, Enormous back deck. R50589. $204,900. Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

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

Motivated Seller

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

New Listing

Salisbury, 3 BR, 2 BA. Well cared for, kitchen with granite, eat at bar, dining area, large living room, mature trees, garden spot, 2 car garage plus storage bldgs. $154,900. Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

REDUCED Rockwell 3 BR, 2 BA in Hunters Pointe. Above ground pool, garage, huge area that could easily finished upstairs. R51150A. B&R Realty $179,900. 704-633-2394

New Listing

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

REDUCED Rockwell, 3 BR, 2 BA. Cute brick home in quiet subdivision. Outbuilding, wooded lot, nice deck off back. Kitchen appliances stay. R51385 $129,900 B&R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663

Salisbury, Henderson Estates, 3 BR, 2.5 BA, Basement, Double Attached Carport, R48766 $149,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

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

Open House Sat. 10/9, 11am-1pm Sun. 10/10, 2pm-4pm

Salisbury 3BR/1BA, 1300 SF, hardwoods, near City Park, central air and heat. Broker/Owner $69,900. 704-223-0893 Fulton Heights - 3 BR, 2 BA, Attached carport, Chair front Rocking porch, nice yard. R50846 $129,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Price Reduced! Over 19K below Tax Value!

Don’t take chances with your hard earned money. Run your ad where it will pay for itself. Daily exposure brings fast results.

Salisbury, 4BR/2BA Master BR has 2 closets, LR, bonus room, kitchen, D/R, hardwood floors & tile, sunroom, fireplace. Close to Hospitals, Parks, town & shopping ctrs. $120,000 or best offer. Call 828-4487754 or 828-390-0835.

Birds

Dogs

Salisbury 925 Agner Rd. MUST SEE! $399,000, 36.6 acres, peaceful setting, 3BR/2BA home, 2 car garage, sunroom, newer roof, newer heat pump & water heater, 2 stall barn, perfect for livestock. Shirley Dale, Kirby Realty 704-737-4956

FIND IT SELL IT RENT IT in the Classifieds

Free kittens. 2 lovable kittens. 3 months old. Litter trained & very sweet. Need good home together! 704-202-5291

Giving away kittens or puppies?

Kitten, beautiful male. about 3 months old. Needs a good home. Call 704-209-1493 KITTEN, Male about 4 months old. Adorable, Free to a good home. 704-209-1493 Kittens, free 1 solid black, 1 silver tabby and 1 grey tabby. Clean and healthy. Call between 10am-5pm. 704636-7739

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

Kittens, free born 6/1/2010. Dewormed, 1st shots. Call Elaina 336861-3185 or email momadukesspecial@yah oo.com for details S42814

Jack’s Furniture & Piano Restoration

LOST: Yellow / buff colored tabby cat. East Rowan High School Area Call 704-279-4650.

Got puppies or kittens for sale?

S45590

BULLDOG PUPPIES AKC registered. 3 male, 3 female. $1,500. 704-640-1359 or 704-640-2541

Now That's a Face to Love!

Chihuahuas. Will be about 4 lbs. 2 black, 2 brown. Male/female of ea. $250. 704-202-6853 LM Dog, FREE to Good Home! Playful, loving mixbreed. 4 mo old. Loves kids. 704-6421473

JUST THE SWEETEST EVER!

Puppies, Chihuahuas. Two females ($300 each), one male ($275), black & tan and black & white. Ready now for their new home. 704-245-5238

Mini Dachshunds

Pug Puppies. CKC 2 males fawn $400 each. 3 females fawn and 1 female black. $450 each. Shots. Cash. 704-603-8257.

Horses

Miniature horse. Red & blonde, 36” tall, male. Needs good home. Also included small horse trailer. $400 for both. Call Tom 4828704-450-8281.

Other Pets $ $ $ $ $ $ $

Dogs Full blooded. 7 weeks old. 5 puppies left! $200 each. Call 704-856-1402 or 704-450-7984, China Grove area.

Complete Piano Restoration

Showroom located at 2143 C&E Statesville Blvd.

Dogs

Cats

704-797-4220

704.637.3367 • 704.754.2287

Privacy

Free Ringneck doves. Please call 704-279-4105 or 704-855-7911 for more information.

We buy, sell, and move pianos We offer Steinway, Baldwin, Mason & Hamlin, & more

WITH 12 MONTH LEASE

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Classifieds!

New Home

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

Brand New

Lost & Found FOUND at Sam's Car wash. Large cat w/black stripes down her back & black swirl designs on her sides. Very unusual. 704-209-3927.

West Schools. 3BR, 2BA. Kitchen with appliances, laundry room, living & dining room, fireplace with gas logs. 2 car detached garage. Central heat & air. House built in 2003. Large lot. $134,000. Please call 704-633-0229

GREAT INVESTMENT

PRICE REDUCED $20k! 365 D. Earnhardt Rd. Rockwell, East Rowan - 3 BR, 2 Baths, Located on 3.11 acres, Large rooms with great closet/storage space, oversized garage. A definite must see!! Motivated Seller! MLS #50302 Teresa Rufty, TMR Realty, Inc. www.tmrdevelop.com (704) 433-2582

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

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Homes for Sale

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Homes for Sale

Kerosene Heater, Cabinet style, Siegler. $100. Please Call 704-636-3533

A PA R T M E N T S We Offer

Homes for Sale

Notices

Beginning November 4, 2010, the Salisbury Housing Authority will resume taking applications for the following categories of our Public Housing program.

FREE Firewood, Old wooden tire racks. 403 N. Main, Salisbury. Call Ed at 704-603-4695

Let us know! We will run your ad with a photo for 15 days in print and 30 days online. Cost is just $30.

Homes for Sale

HEATED POOL

GOING ON VACATION?

Lawn and Garden

EZ-rake mower vac. Runs great! Have hand hose too. $150. Call Dan at 7042091376

STEEL, Channel, Angle, Flat Bars, Pipe Orders Cut to Length. Mobile Home Truss- $6 ea.; Vinyl floor covering- $4.89 yd.; Carpet- $5.75 yd.; Masonite Siding 4x8- $14; 12”x16' lap siding at $6.95 ea. School Desks - $7.50 ea. RECYCLING, Top prices paid for Aluminum cans, Copper, Brass, Radiators, Aluminum. Davis Enterprises Inc. 7585 Sherrills Ford Rd. Salisbury, NC 28147 704-636-9821

Found cat. Grey & white adult male cat, medium sized. Spot on back, white & grey face, white stomach & feet. In Morlan Park area Salisbury. 704-633-2842

Lost cat. Gray, slender build, long tail, large ears. In Milford Knoll area. Call 704-633-9305. REWARD.

704-797-4220

PRIOR TO RENTING VISIT or CALL trucks

Wanted: Wood/Log Splitter. Reasonable. Running or not. Can repair. 704-431-4403

Show off your stuff!

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Machine & Tools

cars

Want to Buy Old Biltmore Milk Jug Please Call 704-636-0111

Call today about our Private Party Special!

Craftsman 7HP tiller rear tine 17” width dual rotation, $475. Please call 704-637-1791 36'' Leyland Cypress or Green Giant Trees Makes a beautiful property line boundary or privacy screen. $10 per tree. Also, Gardenias, Nandina, flowering banana, Ligustrum, Camelia, Emerald Green Arborvitae, Azalea AND MORE! $6 All of the above include delivery, installation, weed resistant liner & mulch! 704-274-0569

Riding Mower - 18hp B&S riding mower. Runs and cuts great. $375. Call 704-209-1265

Lost & Found

C47249

Flowers & Plants

Want to Buy Merchandise

Wench. 1¾hp – 1100 lb electric wench. 1 year old. $225. Please call 704-857-0093.

Great stuff! Kubota tractor, 1980, 8 speed with lo & hi range, 3 cylinder diesel with 20HP. It's showing 982hrs. $2,900. Call 704-773-4886 or 704-857-1307

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Australian Shepherd Puppies. Blue Merle, Red Merle, and Tri-color. Parents on site. $100. Call 704-239-6989

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Supplies and Services

Headline type

20% off Dental in October. Call for appointment. Salisbury Animal Hospital 1500 E. Innes St. 704-637-0227

to show your stuff!

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Homes for Sale

Salisbury

Southeast Rowan

Adorable!

Salisbury. 1018 West Horah St. 4BR, 3BA with 2 kitchens. $750/mo. Please call 919-519-7248

Salisbury, 3 BR, 2 BA established Well neighborhood. All brick home with large deck. Large 2 car garage. R50188 $163,900 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Salisbury, 710 Candlewick Drive. Estate selling wonderful brick ranch with attached garage. Over an acre of land. 3 BR/2BA with lots of extras. $185,000. 704-202-0091 MLS# 971691

Why rent when you can OWN a home for less in one of Salisbury's most desirable condominium communities? 2BR, 2BA. $90's MLS # 50942 704-213-2464

Salisbury, 2 BR, 1 BA, Almost all new windows, some new carpet, nice home on dead end street, detached garage with dirt floor, beautiful large trees, nice sized lot. 51047 $79,900 B&R Realty. Dale Yontz 704.202.3663

Salisbury, 3 BR, 1 BA Full Unfinished Basement. Sunroom with fireplace. Double garage. R50828 $89,900 B & R Realty 704.633.2394

Salisbury, 3 BR, 1.5 BA very nice in neighborhood. Brick, nice size living room, nice kitchen with bar and dining room combo. Large yard, on Cul-desac. R50212. $79,900. Monica Poole 704-2454628 B&R Realty

Salisbury, Nice home for price. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, wooded lot, big rooms. 51017 $108,900 B&R Realty. Dale Yontz 704.202.3663

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

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

Rockwell, 3BR, 2.5 BA Beautiful home with wood floors, open and airy floor plan, formal dining room. Large pantry. Nice sized deck. R50566. $219,900 Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704.202.3663

Job Seeker meeting at 112 E. Main St., Rockwell. 6:30pm Mons. Rachel Corl, Auctioneer. 704-279-3596

Want to sell quickly? Try a border around your ad for $5!

Land for Sale

Bank Foreclosures & Distress Sales. These homes need work! For a FREE list: www.applehouserealty.com

In the Reserve, next to Salisbury Country Club. A lovely 3BR, 2BA, 2,100 sq. ft. home awaits your inspection. Custom upgrades throughout. Gas log fireplace. MBR walk-in closet. Large sunroom. All kitchen appliances incl. Butler pantry. 3 patio areas. Water feature. Landscaped. Garage cabinet system incl. Whole house surge protected. 1yr home warranty. Many extras incl. with sale. MLS #51168 www.thepoeteam.com 704-905-6651

Homes for Sale

REDUCED

Land for Sale

Farm Property for sale. 96 acres in Rowan County. Mahaley Rd. Call 336-766-8694

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

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

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

Classifeds 704-797-4220

Country Paradise

1 Hr to/from Charlotte, NC nr Cleveland & Woodleaf and 3 Interstates: I-40, I77, I-85. Restricted, no mobile or mod. Very rural, mostly wooded. Good hunting, deer, small game. Frontage on Hobson Rd., 2nd gravel driveway beside 2075 Hobson Rd mailbox. GPS zip code 27013. Safe distance from cities. Need sale this year. No reasonable offer refused. Owner phone: 336-766-6779, or Email to: hjthabet@cs.com See photos and directions:

Homes for Sale Salisbury – 3 BR / 2 BA – wonderful remodel, new carpet, paint, some fixtures, new appliances. #50515 $94,900 Call Jim: 704-223-0459 Key Real Estate Inc. 512 Gold Hill Dr. Homes 2BR, 1BA. $74,000. for Sale Please Call 704-855-5353

Lots for Sale

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

Homes for Sale

ALL LOTS REDUCED TO BUILDER'S COST! Take advantage of lower land costs and interest rates! Six lots from .94 to 3.6 acres. Near Salis., Mooresville, Concord. Wooded & basement lots are available-builders are welcome. Teresa Rufty TMR Development. 704-4332582. www.tmrdevelop.com

Let's Make A Deal - Plantation Ridge

There is a NEW group of people EVERY day, looking for a DEAL in the classifieds.

Manufactured Home Sales

25 Acres Beautiful Land for Sale by Owner

15 minutes N. of Salisbury. 2001 model singlewide 3 bdr/2 bath on large treed lot in quiet neighborhood. $1,200 start-up, $475/mo includes lot rent, home payment, taxes, insurance. RENT or RENTTO-OWN. 704-210-8176. Harrison Rd. near Food Lion. 3BR, 2BA. 1 ac. 1,800 sq. ft., big BR, retreat, huge deck. $580/mo. Financing avail. 704-489-1158 Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850

Real Estate Services Allen Tate Realtors Daniel Almazan, Broker 704-202-0091 www.AllenTate.com Arey RealtyREAL Service in Real Estate 704-633-5334 www.AreyRealty.com B & R REALTY 704-633-2394 www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Salisbury-2,495 SF, 3BR, 2½ BA. Fully renovated! New roof, garage doors, BA vanities & fixtures; master suite w/walk-in closet on main level, large kitchen w/stainless steel appliances, breakfast area, dining room, living room/office, spacious family room, deck and sunroom, fenced-in back yard, extra work space in garage. $215,900. Call 704-645-1093 or email smills51@carolina.rr.com

Century 21 Towne & Country 474 Jake Alexander Blvd. (704)637-7721 Southwestern Rowan County, Barnhardt Meadows. Quality home sites in country setting, restricted, pool and pool House complete. Use your builder or let us build for you. Lots start at $24,900. B&R Realty 704-633-2394

OPEN SUNDAY 2-4 PM

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

Salisbury. Nicely remodeled 3 BR, 1 BA close to everything. Only $55,900.00. R51250 Mi Casa Real Estate (704) 202-8195 "Hablamos Espanol"

Faith. 1145 Long Creek. 3 Beds, 2 Baths, 2 Bonus Rooms. Master on main, Hardwood and ceramic tile floors. Storage everywhere. $199,900. Kerry, Key Real Estate 704-857-0539 or 704-433-7372. Directions: Faith Rd to L on Rainey. R into Shady Creek.

Carport and Garages

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

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

Drywall Services

Home Improvement

OLYMPIC DRYWALL

Apple House Construction Co.

Residential & Commercial Repair Service

Western Rowan County. Knox Farm Subdivision. Beautiful lots available now starting at $19,900. B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Kannapolis. 3BR/2BA. Office, all new A/C, heating and siding, granite in bathrooms & kitchen, new stainless steel appliances, new washer & dryer, all new tile & carpet. Easy access to shopping and Dale Earnhardt Blvd. $74,900. Call 980-621-9197

Home Improvement

Junk Removal WILL BUY OLD CARS Complete with keys and title, $175 and up. (Salisbury area only) R.C.'s Garage & Salvage 704-636-8130 704-267-4163

704-279-2600 Since 1955

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

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

Cleaning Services

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

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

Child Care and Nursery Schools

Cleaning Services

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

Christian mom for cleaning jobs & ironing. Great rates. 704-932-1069 or 704791-9185

704-633-9295 FREE ESTIMATES www.WifeForHireInc.com Licensed, bonded and insured. Since 1985.

Mr. Moms Cleaning Service. “Work your mom would be proud of.” Commercial, residential. Insured. 704-738-4006 WOW! Clean Again! October Special! Lowest Prices in Town, Senior Citizens Discount, Residential/Commercial References available upon request. For more info. call 704-762-1402

Concrete Work

TO ADVERTISE CALL

(704) 797-4220

Quality remodeling and repairs at prices you can afford.

Fencing

www.perrysdoor.com

Christian mom of 3 will care for children in my home, full or parttime. Fulton Heights. Weekdays only. 704-310-8508

olympicdrywall@aol.com olympicdrywallcompany.com

All types concrete work ~ Insured ~ NO JOB TOO SMALL! Call Curt LeBlanc today for Free Estimates

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

Kitchens, baths, additions, decks, garages, roofing, etc. Call Dale Litaker 704-633-5067 704-647-4774

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

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

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

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

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

Grading & Hauling Beaver Grading Quality work, reasonable rates. Free Estimates 704-6364592 Grading, Clearing, Hauling, and Topsoil. Please Call 704-633-1088

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

Quality work at affordable prices NC Licensed General Contractor # 17608. NC Licensed Home Inspector #107. Complete contracting services, Under home repairs, light tractor work & Home maintenance. 36 years experience We accept Visa/MC 704-633-3584. Visit our website: www.professionalservicesunltd.com A HANDYMAN & MOORE Kitchen & Bath remodeling Quality Home Improvements Carpentry, Plumbing, Electric Clark Moore 704-213-4471 Around the House Repairs Carpentry. Electrical. Plumbing. H & H Construction 704-633-2219

Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc. Insured. 704-798-8199 Browning ConstructionStructural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC

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

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

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

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

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

Miscellaneous Services

Large Groups Welcome!

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

Painting and Decorating

FREE Estimates

Bowen Painting Interior and Exterior Painting 704-630-6976.

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

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

Anthony's Scrap Metal Service. Top prices paid for any type of metal or batteries. Free haul away. 704-433-1951

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

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Yard Work & more! Painting, window cleaning. All jobs welcome! Free estimates. 704-837-5069

Headline type

to show your stuff!

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

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

Wanted: Real Estate

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

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

Roofing and Guttering

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

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

~ 704-633-5033 ~

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

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

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

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

Carolina Stump Grinding Free estimates. Call Bill at 704-209-6300 Graham's Tree Service Free estimates, reasonable rates. Licensed, Insured, Bonded. 704-633-9304

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

Want to get results? Use

China Grove, 2 new homes under construction ... buy now and pick your own colors. Priced at only $114,900 and comes with a stove and dishwasher. B&R Realty 704-6332394

BowenPainting@yahoo.com

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

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

Alexander Place

* 1 Day Class *

3Mowing 3Yard Cleanup 3Trimming Bushes 3Leaf Removal 3Seeding 3Core Aeration 3Fertilizing

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

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Rowan Realty www.rowanrealty.net, Professional, Accountable, Personable . 704-633-1071

Earl's Lawn Care

Junk Removal

Real Estate Commercial

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

www.rebeccajonesrealty.com

Cleaning Services

Homes for Sale

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W. Rowan. Great Family home with 4 large BR on acre corner lot. Granite counter tops, H/W & tile floors, custom cabinets, stainless steel appliances, screened porch and deck. Media room with built-in bookcases, large family room with built in bookcases, F/P. West School district. 704-798-2689

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

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www.heritageauctionco.com

Homes for Sale

A Great Home * * * A Fair Price

Salisbury. Owner Financing available. Large 4 BR, 2 BA home Ready to move in. R51222 only $79,900.00 Mi Casa Real Estate 704-202-8195 "Hablamos Espanol"

Auctions Auctions

Homes for Sale

Genesis Realty 704-933-5000 genesisrealtyco.com Foreclosure Experts

Salisbury

WHY RENT?

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Junk Removal

Manufactured Home Services

CASH FOR JUNK CARS And batteries. Call 704-279-7480 or 704-798-2930

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

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

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

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

Pools and Supplies

MOORE'S Tree TrimmingTopping & Removing. Use Bucket Truck, 704-209-6254 Licensed, Insured & Bonded

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

TREE WORKS by Jonathan Keener. Insured – Free estimates! Please call 704-636-0954.

SALISBURY POST Apartments

Condos and Townhomes

Houses for Rent

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

Spencer. 4-5 BR, formal DR, 2 BA, very private, electric central air. $600/mo. 704-637-1200 or 704-310-1052

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

China Grove. Nice 2BR, 1BA. $525/month + deposit & references. No pets. 704-279-8428

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

China Grove, Southern Charms Townhome, 2 BR, 1.5 BA. $575 month. 704-202-5784

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

1 BR Garden Apt. Part of Historic District. Suitable for 1 person, all utilities, no pets. $475. Please Call 919-698-7893

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

Lovely Duplex

Clean, CloseIn, & Nice

East Rowan. 3BR, 2BA singlewide. 390 N. Fishermans Cove, off St. Matthews Church Rd. $650/mo. All electric with water view. Call Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462

Clancy-hills@cmc-nc.com

2 BR apts in Salisbury & Faith. Prices from $425Rowan $475/month. Properties 704-633-0446 2BR brick duplex with carport, convenient to hospita. $450 per month. 704-637-1020

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

2BR, 1BA apt. Very large. Has gas heat. We furnish refrig, stove, yard maint, and garbage pick up. No pets. Rent $400. Deposit $400. Call Rowan Properties 704633-0446 3BR rentals available. East schools. Refrigerator & stove, W/D hook-up. Please call 704-638-0108

Colonial Village Apts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Good Place to Liveâ&#x20AC;? 1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms Affordable & Spacious Water Included 704-636-8385 Cone Mill area. 3 Shive St. 3 room furnished apt for rent. Please call 704-633-5397

519/521 E. Cemetary St. 1 BR, $330; 2 BR $350. No pets. Deposit req. Call Jamie at 704-507-3915. Airport Rd. Duplex. 2BR, 2BA. $575/mo. 2BR, 1BA $550/mo., lease + dep., water furnished. No pets. Call 704-637-0370 Airport Rd., 1BR with stove, refrig., garbage pickup & water incl. Month-month lease. No pets. $400/mo+$300 deposit. Furnished $425/mo. 704-279-3808

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

West Side Manor Robert Cobb Rentals 2345 Statesville Blvd. Near Salisbury Mall

704-633-1234 China Grove 2BR Apt. $550/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Call 704-857-2415.

East Rowan. 2BR, 1BA duplex on Â˝ acre lot. All including appliances W/D, dishwasher, stove, and refrigerator. Cathedral ceilings in LR and kitchen. Lawn maintenance, water, & sewer incl. Front porch/rear patio. Quiet, private setting. 704-202-5876 or 704279-7001 Eastwind Apartments Low Rent Available For Elderly & Disabled. Rent Based on Social Security Income *Spacious 1 BR *Located on bus line *Washer/Dryer Hookups Call Fisher Realty at: 704-636-7485 for more information. Heights Fleming Apartments 55 & older 704-636-5655 Mon.-Fri. 2pm-5pm. Call for more information. Equal Housing Opportunity. TDD Sect. 8 vouchers accepted. 800-735-2962

Moreland Pk area. 2BR all appls furnished. $495-$595/mo. Deposit negotiable. Section 8 welcome. 336-247-2593 Moving to Town? Need a home or Apartment? We manage rental homes & apartments. Call and let us help you. Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462 www.waggonerrealty.com

Rockwell Area. Apt. & Duplexes. $500-$600. 2BR Quiet Community. Marie Leonard-Hartsell at Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 Salisbury City, 2BR / 1BA, very large 1,000 sf, central heat/air, $450/mo + dep. 704-640-5750 Salisbury City, 2BR/1BA, quiet area, central air & heat duplex. No pets. Refs. $475/mo. 336-926-4586

East Rowan. Nice 3BR. Lots of storage. Quiet area. Private back yard. $565/mo. 704-279-5018 Salisbury city limits. Just off Jake Alexander Blvd. 2BR, 1Â˝BA, central heat & air. All appliances. Private patio. Storage building. $650/mo. Lease, deposit. No pets. 704-782-5037

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

Houses for Rent $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 2 Spectacular Homes $950-$1300 704-239-0691 3 & 4 BR homes in Salisbury & Faith. From $675 - $750/mo. Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

Salisbury City. Very large 1BR/1BA, Lincolnton Rd, good neighborhood. $365 / mo + dep. 704-640-5750

325 Wiley Ave. 3BR. Lg rooms, new appl. Great cond./loc.! Fence. $775/mo. 704-798-2603

Salisbury off I-85, 2BR / 1BA, country setting, water furnished, $475/mo + dep. 704-640-5750

5BR, 2 Â˝ BA. RENT TO OWN. 3000 sq. ft. +/garage, basement, fenced. $8,000 down. $998/mo. 704-630-0695

Salisbury. 2BR duplex. Excellent condition with appls. $550/mo. Ryburn Rentals 704-637-0601

Carolina Blvd. 2BR/2BA + ofc, all appls incl, 4 car carport, big yd. $800/mo + dep. 704-637-6618

WELCOME HOME TO DEER PARK APTS. We have immediate openings for 1 & 2 BR apts. Call or come by and ask about our move-in specials. 704-278-4340 for info. For immediate info call 1-828-442-7116

Condos and Townhomes 3 BR, 2 BA, quiet and lovely, just like new. $1100/monthly includes water, gas, electric, HD cable, I-net, lawncare. 704-798-8595

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China Grove 2BR/1BA, CHA, W/D connections, $550/mo. + $550 dep. Sect. 8 OK. 704-784-4785

Clean/Quiet Near Catawba. 3BR Jack & Jill baths, brick house. New windows, flooring, carpet. Freshly painted. Refrigerator, stove, dishwasher. $800/mo. + dep. No pets. 704-636-0827 or 704-640-3555. Concord, 3BR/2BA & lg fenced in yd, new linoleum, carpet and paint. $700/mo + $500 dep. 704-798-6821

Don't Pay Rent! 3BR/2BA home at 108 John Michael Lane. Call 704-239-3690 for info.

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Real Estate Auction

Executive Office Building Located at 530 East Innes St, Salisbury, NC Monday, November 8, 2010 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 a.m. Salisbury, NC Rowan County

Selling Regardless of Price in Excess of $350,000.00

Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc.

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

2 BR,1 BA, Private Country setting, completely renovated older home, brand new heating & air conditioning system. All appliances included. $700 per month plus security deposit. Call 704-798-5959

High Rock Lake 3 bedrooms, 1Â˝ baths, free water, all electric, $595/mo. 704-239-0691 High Rock Lake view. 3BR, 2BA. Boat access. heat/AC. Central $675/mo. 704-970-6655 Houses: 3BRs, 1BA. Apartments: 2 & 3 BRs, 1BA Deposit req'd. Faith Realty 704-630-9650 Kannapolis. 314 North Ave. 3BR, 2BA. $850/mo. Kannapolis. 315 Tara Elizabeth Place. 3BR, 2BA. $825/ mo. KREA 704-933-2231

MUST SEE Spencer. Large 2BR, 2BA. S. Yadkin. Hardwoods, newly remodeled. No Sect. 8. $625/mo. 704-636-7007 N. Rowan. 3BR, 2 BA fenced yard, no pets. Gas heat. Central air. $600. 704-636-3786

Salisbury, 716 N. Fulton, 4BR, $600/mo. 428 E. Council 3BR, $450/mo. 704-645-9986 Salisbury, close to town. 3BR, 2BA duplexes. Sect. 8 OK. No pets. $550/mo. + deposit. 704-433-2899 Salisbury, in country. 3BR, 2BA. With in-law apartment. $1000/mo. No pets. Deposit & ref. 704855-2100 Salisbury- Hidden Creek. 2 bedrooms/2 baths. Ground level across from Clubhouse. No pets or smokers. $750.00 Call Waggoner Realty Co. at 704-633-0462 Salisbury. 2BR/1BA, Convenient location. No pets. No smoking. $600/mo. + $600 dep. 704-637-7524 Salisbury. 3 & 2 Bedroom Houses. $500-$1,000. Also, Duplex Apartments. 704636-6100 or 704-633-8263 Salisbury/Spencer 2, 4 & 5 BR $450-$850/mo. 704202-3644 or leave message. No calls after 7pm

and Wed. Oct. 20 @ 1 pm 352, 358 and 402 N. Center St. * Statesville, NC We will be selling the remaining contents of these 3 houses

$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ Rockwell Offices 3 months free 704-239-0691 1250 sq ft office building. 5,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 23,000 manufacturing distributing bld with office, loading docks. Call Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011 3500sf bldg - 6 offices w/ lg open area. Poss church, martial arts or dance studio. High traffic area - Jake & 150. $1,900/mo. 704721-6831 450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd. Call 704279-8377 or 704-279-6882

China Grove. 1200 sq ft. $800/mo + deposit. Call 704-855-2100 Commercial warehouses available. 1,400 sq. ft. w/dock. Gated w/security cameras. Convenient to I-85. Olympic Crown Storage. 704-630-0066 Granite Quarry Special Commercial Metal Bldgs for Small Trade Business, hobby shop space or storage. Units avail up to 1800 sq ft w/ office area. Video surveillance and ample parking. 704279-4422

MAIN STREET RETAIL 211 S. Main St. 900 sq. ft. retail space next to historic Meroney Theater. $500/month. Jonathan at 704-6335471 Numerous Commercial and office rentals to suit your needs. Ranging from 500 to 5,000 sq. ft. Call Victor Wallace at Wallace Realty, 704-636-2021

Office Space

Salisbury. We have office suites available in the Executive Center. First Month Free with No Deposit! With all utilities from $150 and up. Lots of amenities. Call Karen Rufty at B & R Realty 704-202-6041 www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Salisbury, Kent Executive Park office suites, $100 & up. Utilities paid. Conference room, internet access, break room, ample parking. 704-202-5879 Salisbury. Six individual new central offices, heat/air, heavily insulated for energy efficiency, fully carpeted (to be installed) except stone at entrance. Conference room, employee break room, tile bathroom, and nice, large reception area. Perfect location near the Court House and County Building. Want to lease but will sell. Perfect for dual occupancy. By appointment only. 704-636-1850

Salisbury. 900â&#x20AC;&#x201C;950 sq ft. 421 Faith Rd. Water & sewer furnished $625/mo. 704633-9556 Spencer Shops Lease great retail space for as little as $750/mo for 2,000 sq ft at. 704-431-8636 Warehouse space / manufacturing as low as $1.25/sq. ft./yr. Deposit. Call 704-431-8636

Manufactured Home for Rent East Area. 2BR, water, trash. Limit 2. Dep. req. No pets. Call 704-6367531 or 704-202-4991 Faith 2BR/1BA, $375/mo + dep. 2BR/2BA Kannapolis $475/mo. + dep. No pets. 704-239-2833 Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Water, trash, lawn maint. incl. No pets. Ref. $425. 704-2794282 or 704-202-3876 Faith. Very nice double wide 3B, 2BA w/ garage. $700 + deposit. No pets. 704-279-8428 Gold Hill, 2 bedroom, trash and lawn service included. No pets. $450 month. 704-433-1255 Hurley School Rd area 2BR/1BA, nice subdivision, large lot. $460/mo + dep. 704-640-5750 Hurley School Rd area, 2BR/1BA, nice subdiv, large yard, water incl'd, $410/mo 704-640-5750 Hwy 150 in the country, 2BR/2BA, $450/mo, no pets, deposit and refs. req'd. 704-855-2100 Near Faith. SW on private, wooded lot. No pets. Limit 3. Credit check & deposit req. $400/mo. 704-279-4838

*** PUBLIC AUCTION ***

Spencer. 2BR, 1BA. Cent air/heat. Carpet. Appli., dining rm. Nice area. $525/mo. 704-636-3307

Salisbury 2BR / 1BA, H/W floors, deck, garage, no pets, limit 2. $575/mo + dep. 704-633-9556

Spencer. 3BR, 2 baths. Ranch/basement, garage. $875/ mo + dep. Broker mang'd. 704-490-1121

Approx. 5 mini-storage buildings will be auctioned off. Some of the items are as follows: 1988 Chevrolet Camaro IROC, Jeff Gordon collectible unopened Cokes & other items, 3x4 mantle mirror, Emerson Flat Screen 20â&#x20AC;? TV, Phillips/Magnavox 19â&#x20AC;? table w/remote, Symphonic dual DVD/CD/VCR recorder, Magnavox CD stereo, Hotpoint Washing Machine, GE refrigerator/freezer, 4-drawer chest of drawers (several of these), Dinette table w/4 chairs, Surefire Charbroil gas grill w/side burner, Lexmark Fax Machine, several small electrical appliances, several pots & pans, small pet carrier, van seats, portable baby pen, wood baby bed, mahogany dresser w/chest of drawers, Fisher Price F-150 XLT Power Wheels, several small childrenĘźs bicycles, pine toy chest, cigarette lighter collection, pocket knife collection, Dale Earnhardt collectibles, Actorn electric tester, small 12-volt air compressor, Arrow electric staple gun, metal & plastic toolboxes w/tools, Diehard battery charger & starter power pack, Brothers key punch labeling machine, old Kerosene lamp, childrenĘźs toys, pottery churn, weight bench & weights, small kids minibike/motorcycle, several old pay telephones, nice metal bolt bins, box of anchor bolts, roll of telephone cable, 5-speed table drill press, Honda 3-wheeler (needs repair), independent telephone enclosures, air tank, conduit & galvanized pipe, big metal toolbox, military clothing, many more misc. items and we are still doing inventory. Payments received are by cash or â&#x20AC;&#x153;goodâ&#x20AC;? in-state checks.

* We are not responsible for accidents! * Cold bottled water, drinks & snacks will be sold at the auction!

Auction will be conducted by Ken Weddington Auction & Real Estate, NCAL #Ęźs 392 & 5147 Call 704-647-1022 or 704-857-7458 with any questions... Thanks!!

Sun. Oct. 10th - 2 to 5 pm

www.piedmontauction.com NCAL #370 Bob Cline, NCBL # 7328 704-872-8585 www.auctionzip.com ID#11592

Auction will take place at C & C Mini Storage, Inc., 350 Highway 152 E., China Grove, NC 704-857-1572 or 704-642-4800

NOTICE: The above items listed are subject to change without prior notice. We reserve the right to add or any delete items. Everything sold as-is with no warranty!

Farm Equipment and Personal Property Call for information or brochure

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Office and Commercial Rental

Restaurant fully equipped. 85 feet In China Grove. $1700 per month. 704-855-2100

Rowan Hosp. area. 3BR / 2BA. Appl., CHA. No Sect. 8. No pets. $700/mo. 1St & last mo's rent & dep. Call before 5pm 704-636-4251

No standing open of bids - No buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Premium

For listing and full color pictures, please visit www.YORKAUCTION.com 704-546-2696 ** Harmony, NC ncal #74 **** since 1935 AuctionZip.com #4569

West Salisbury. Country setting. 3BR, 2BA. Basement, well water. Central H/AC. 704-202-0605

Furnished Key Man Office Suites - $250-350. Jake & 150. Util & internet incl. 704-721-6831

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Rentals Needed 704-248-2520 Carolina-Piedmont Properties

3222 Old Mtn. Rd, Stony Point, NC 28678 4.8 miles from I-40, 12.8 miles from crossroads of I-40 and I-77 9 miles to Statesville Regional Airport r ty Prope ng: i w Sh o

W Rowan & Woodleaf school district. 2BR/1BA house. Taking applications. No pets. 704-754-7421

Office and Commercial Rental

Spencer. 1 BR, 1 BA washer/dryer hook up. Private. $350/mo. 704202-8480

Over 2 miles Paved Road Frontage

I-40 exit #144, take Old Mt. Rd. South to Buffalo Shoals Rd., R. to Troutman Shoals Rd.

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Salisbury, 3BR/1Â˝BA. All electric, energy efficient, free private setting. water, $645/mo. 704-633-6035

Sat., October 23rd â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10 am 333 +/- Acres â&#x20AC;&#x201C; House, Barns, etc. 9 tracts (10.1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 67.9 Acres)

2 Chevy Corvettes * +/- 15 vintage & modern Autos * 1950â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coca-Cola upright vending machine * vintage Royal Crown Drink Box * small wood cook stove * painted Stepback Cupboard * Oak S Roll Top Desk * Vintage washing machine * #92 National Cash Register * Antique & Modern Furniture * Antique Smalls & Collectibles * Spas * Swimming Pool * Tractor * Farm Machines * 2 Trailers * 6 Boats * Shop & Yard Tools

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Salisbury N. Fulton St., 2BR/1BA Duplex, limit 3, no pets, $525/month + deposit. 704-855-2100

Estate of Joe R Morrison (deceased)

Rodney Broyhill ~ est. (dec.) Sat. Oct. 16 @ 10 am 246 Troutman Shoals Rd. * Statesville, NC

to show your stuff!

Salisbury City Limits. 2 Bedroom, central heat and air. $500 per month + deposit. 704-232-9121

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

Salisbury City. Lg 2BR / 1BA, fenced yd, carport, $475/mo. Serious inquiries 865-243-9321 only.

Spencer. 1-2BR apt w/ washer/dryer. Central heat & air. $475/mo. + deposit. 704-603-4199 Lv. msg.

East Schools. 2BR, 1Â˝BA brick. Appl., W/D hook-up. 2 car-carport. Fenced backyard. 704-638-0108

Salisbury 4BR/2BA, brick ranch, basement, 2,000 SF, garage, nice area. $1,195/mo. 704-630-0695

Spencer. 504 Newton St. 3BR, 2BA house. $700/ mo. Deposit req. No pets. 336-956-2743

Office and Commercial Rental

C46812

ESTATE AUCTION SATURDAY,OCTOBER 16,2010 10:00 AM

1623 DAVIE ACADEMY RD., MOCKSVILLE, NC 27028 REAL ESTATE & PERSONAL PROPER TY RAY DRAUGHN (DECEASED)

ROWAN COUNTY SURPLUS VEHICLES

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Directions: From Rowan County. 801 N., Left On Needmore Rd. Right On Powell Rd. Cross Into Davie Co. Straight To Davie Academy Rd. Sale Is Approx. 2 Miles On The Left

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Real Estate: Older 7-Room House, Vinyl Siding, Replacement Windows, 2 Ba, Central Hvac, Side-By-Side Fridge, Electric Range, Front & Side Porch, 3-Out Buildings, Located On 1.3 Ac +/-. Real Estate Will Be Of fered At 12:00 Noon.

FRIDAY, October 15th, 2010 â&#x20AC;˘ 9:30 am Selling at public auction surplus vehicles at the Rowan County Recycling Center at Julian Road, Salisbury, NC.

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ITEMS MAY BE ADDED OR DELETED PRIOR TO THE SALE. NO BUYERS PREMIUM.

1997 Freightliner Truck Tractor Detroit Diesel Series 60 (1) 2000 Ford F250XL Super Duty 5.4 4x4 (1) 1997 Mitsubishi Montero

(1) 1999 Ford Mustang (1) 2006 Ford Crown Vic-totaled (5) 2005 Ford Crown Vics (2) 2004 Ford Crown Vics (1) 2002 Ford Crown Vic

(1) 2002 Dodge Van - 12 seat/handicap lift (1) 1999 Dodge Van - 14 passenger (1) 2000 Dodge Van (1) 36â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Semi Trailer 1994 Chevy Pickup

Selling at public auction SURPLUS PROPERTY of Rowan County

425 Airport Road, Salisbury, NC DIRECTIONS: Jake Alexander Blvd. - Travel South on South Main Street (US Hwy 29) 1 6/10 mile to Airport Road. Turn right (West) onto Airport Road and travel 4/10 mile to Rowan County Maintenance Building on left. Book Shelves Lots of Chairs 2 Paddle Boats Foozeball Table 2 John Deer Mowers GT235* Troy Bilt Sickle Bar Mower* *All machinery NOT running and need repair

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Glenn M. Hester, NCAL 4453 2995 Sherrills Ford Road, Salisbury, NC 28147 704-239-9298 www.auctionzip.com ID# 18692

Call us for quality, professional service! www.heritageauctionco.com NO BUYERS PREMIUM - Items may be added or deleted prior to sale

Terms: Real Estate: 10% Non-Refundable Day Of Sale - Balance Due At Closing, Approx 30 Days. Personal Property: Cash, Credit Cards, Checks, Day Of Sale. Out-Of-State Buyers Cash Or Credit Cards Only.

Speer Auctions - Mocksville, NC David Speer, Ncal 2984 Arthur Bostick, Ncal 1365 336-998-4162 336-655-9649 Eva Bostick,Broker Ncrel #52786 336-492-5992

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Shop & Tools: Craftsman Combo Set, Band Saw, Bench Grinder, Battery Charger, Pressure Washer, Bench Drill Press, Portable Air Compressor, Table Saw, Vise, Parts Bins, Tool Boxes, Miter Saw, B&D Workmate 400, Shop Vac, Craftsman Tool Box - New 4 1/2 & 9 In. Side Grinder, Battery Boosters, Air Tools, Craftsman Tool Set, C-Clamps, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 Drives And Sockets, End Wrenches, Impact Sockets, Pipe Wrenches, Adj. Wrenches, Screwdrivers, Vise Grips, Tap & Die Set, Bolt Cutters, Impact Driver, Brace & Bit, Hand Saws, New Tire Changer, Bottle Jacks, Jack Stands, Chain Hoist, New Load Rams, Delta Truck Tool Box, Appl. Hand Truck, Reece Truck Hitch, Greenlee 110 V Ac Volt Meter, Ext. Ladder, Two Sets Of Ramps, Gas Cans, Metal Saw Bucks, Landscape Timbers, Stack Of Pine Lumber, Dump Cart, Riding Mower Parts, Weedeater, Ford Tractor Belt Pulley, Top Link & Drawbar. Vehicles: E-Z Go Electric Golf Cart W/New Batteries & Charger, 1971 2-Dr Mark Iii Lincoln Continental, 1987 Ford Ltd Crown-Vic. Full Power, 1990 Ltd Crown-Vic. Lx Full Power 63,330 Actual Mls, 1989 Ford Ranger Ac, Long Bed Extend Cab Straight Drive, 1991 Ford Ranger At & Ac Complete Rebuild & 1985 Ford F-150 4x4 At.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 2010 â&#x20AC;˘ 1:00 pm

100â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of File Cabinets Lots of Desks Lexmark Laser Print Cartridges John Deere F935 Mower*

Household: Sofas & Chairs, Small Chest, Chest-OfDrawers, Dr Table & Chairs, Pots & Pans, Stemware, China, Cake Stand, Cake Plate, Desk & Chair, 31-Day Clock, Oil Lamps, Milk Bottle, New Charbroil Gas Grill, Washer & Dryer.

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1BR or 2BR units. Close to VA. Central HVAC. $450 - $600/mo. Call 704-239-4883. Broker

CLANCY HILLS APARTMENTS 1, 2 & 3 BR, conveniently in Salisbury. located Handicap accessible units available. Section 8 assistance available. 704-6366408. Office Hours: Mâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;F 9:00-12:00. TDD Relay 1-800-735-2962 Equal Housing Opportunity.

Rowan Hospital area. 2BR, 1BA. Heat, air, water, appl. incl. $695. 704-633-3997

Salisbury 3BR/1BA, new carpet, new floor, heat/AC, new paint. $525/mo + $525 dep. 828-390-0835

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Apartments

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Apartments

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

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Autos

NW Rowan Cty, 2 or 3BR / 1½BA, priv lot, water & garbage svc, limit 4, no pets. $475. 704-637-5953

Autos 1330 W. JAKE ALEXANDER BLVD. ********* 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL

Rockwell. 2BR, 1BA. Appl., water, sewer, trash service incl. $475/mo. + dep. Pets OK. 704-279-7463 Salisbury, 260 Memory Lane. 2BR, all elec, no pets, $400 dep., $450 rent. 704-640-4749 South area. 2BR mobile home, remodel w/ A/C, $100/wk., $200 deposit. No pets. 704-857-2649

100% Guaranteed Credit Approval ********* Sign language capable for the deaf *********

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

Roommate Wanted Nr Walmart. Furnished, utilities incl., cent. heat/air, cable TV, priv. driveway, $100/wk. 704-267-3226

Rooms for Rent

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Autos 1330 W. JAKE ALEXANDER BLVD. ******** 100% GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL ******** OVER 75 VEHICLES IN STOCK ******** WWW.AUTOHOUSEOFSALISBURY.COM

Autos

Motorcycles & ATVs

ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 6 pm. 2010 Softtail Custom. Rev tech engine. Billet wheels. Lots of chrome. 30 miles. $10,500. Call 704-226-7953

1330 W. JAKE ALEXANDER BLVD. ******** WE BUY VEHICLES FOR CASH! ******** ALL MAKES, ALL MODELS ******** WWW.AUTOHOUSEOFSALISBURY.COM

Transportation Dealerships

Honda 50, 2001, Dirtbike. FOR SALE .... TRADES. Runs NO great, son has out grown. Comes with training wheels. 704-202-1776

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.” 511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321 Kia, 2008, Amonte. Silver/grey. Only 19,000 mi. Excellent condition. no longer Amonte produced. Call 704-6375117 or 704-754-2258

TEAM CHEVROLET, CADILLAC, Buick, GMC 404 Jake Alexander Blvd., Salisbury. Call 704-636-9370 Tim Marburger Honda 1309 N First St. (Hwy 52) Albemarle NC 704-983-4107 Troutman Motor Co. Highway 29 South, Concord, NC 704-782-3105

Suzuki, 2003, Intruder. 800cc. Silver. Excellent condition. Only 4,000 mi. Call 704-637-5117 or 704-754-2258

Service & Parts

Authorized EZGO Dealer. 30 years selling, servicing GOLF CARS Golf Car Batteries 6 volt, 8 volt. Golf car utility sales. US 52, 5 miles south of Salisbury. Beside East Rowan HS & Old Stone Winery. Look for EZGO sign. All batteries brand new, not reconditioned or refurbished (definition: weak or old batteries washed out). Buy 6 batteries & receive $10 gift receipt for purchase of a bottle of OLD STONE Wine. Coupon good until 9/30/10. 704-245-3660

Chevy, 2003 Siverado LS. 1500 Crew Cab Transmission, 4-speed automatic, electronically controlled with overdrive and tow/haul mode. 704-603-4255

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

Ford, 2004 Freestar LImited Van LOADED all power options, 4.2L Advance Trac power sliding door, am,fm,cd changer, DVD, rear air, 3rd row seat, duel heated seats, alloy rims READY TO GO! 704-603-4255

2007 Ford Ranger, 4 cyl., 5-speed manual transmission, cruise control, bedliner, 103,000 miles. $6900. Call 704647-0881

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

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Chevy, 1999 Silverado 2500 hd extended 6.0 engine auto trans, am/fm radio, lighted running boards, camper top, towing pkg. 73,628 LOW MILES for this vehicle!! 704-603-4255

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

Auction! Rowan Cty. Surplus Vehicles. Recycle Center, Julian Rd. Salisbury. Fri., Oct. 15th , 9:30 a.m. Glenn Hester, NCAL 4453, 704-239-9298 www.auctionzip.com 18692

Financing Available!

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Nice Ride! Toyota, 2001, Avalon XLS. Silver, 6 cyl, leather, recent tires, trip computer, power everything. 126K, $6,995. 980-721-9815

1. You’re Open. You still turn your lights on; why not invite people in? If you are open for business you must market your business.

2. Opportunity. If the pool gets smaller, your visibility increases your odds of being the vendor of choice and seizing share from your competitors.

3. Reliability. Media mix is a desirable goal except during tough times when you need to rely more heavily on the core medium: newspaper.

4. Proven Results. Volvo, 2001 V70 Wagon. Black w/ gray leather interior 2.4 five cylinder turbo backed with auto trans, duel pwr seats, sunroof, all pwr options, extra clean needs nothing!! 704-603-4255

During tough times, your advertising needs to be focused on Return On Investment. Newspaper advertising is a proven ROI vehicle.

5. Fish Where the Fish Are. The Salisbury Post and www.salisburypost.com offer the best local reach by a country mile and is the first place to look for consumers for your services. It is the ONLY medium where readers buy the product for the ads as well as the content.

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

BEING all of a 0.111 acre tract, "Tract 1," as shown in Book of Maps 9995, Page 4209 and entitled: Street Closing Survey For: "Tract 1 - Hazel B. McClean; Tract 2Lonnie S. Goodman," prepared by Shulenburger Surveying Company, P.A., dated February 1, 2001. THERE IS SAVED AND EXCEPTED FROM THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PROPERTY (TRACT 2) all that parcel of land conveyed in a Deed dated July 31, 2001, from Hazel B. McLean (unmarried) to S. Lonnie Goodman and wife, Donna E. Goodman, recorded August 10, 2001 in Book 915, Page 448, Rowan County Register of Deeds and re-recorded August 17, 2001 in Book 916, Page 135, Rowan County Registry, being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an existing iron at the Northwestern corner of Hazel B. McLean as recorded in Book 576, Page 182 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry and the Western terminus of Yost Circle that has been withdrawn as recorded in the Order Closing Street Pursuant to General Statute of North Carolina Section 160A-299 in Book 913, Page 772 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry and in the Eastern line of S. Lonnie Goodman as recorded in Book 685, Page 86 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry; thence with the Eastern line of Lonnie Goodman North 8 deg. 10 min. 08 sec. East 30.00 feet to an existing iron; thence on a curve to the right with a radius of 200.00 feet and a chord bearing of South 66 deg. 58 min. 35 sec. East and an arc length of 103.71 feet for a distance of 102.55 feet to an existing iron, a Northeastern corner of Hazel B. McLean; thence two (2) lines with Hazel B. McLean as follows: (1) North 72 deg. 00 min. 25 sec. West 96.73 feet to a new iron and (2) South 18 deg. 50 min. 14 sec. West 20.57 feet to the Point of Beginning and containing 0.021acres and being Tract 2 as shown upon the map and survey entitled "Property Survey For Tract 1-Hazel B. McLean and Tract 2 - Lonnie S. Goodman" by Richard L. Shulenburger, RLS and dated July 23, 2001 and revised July 24, 2001. Grantee joins in this North Carolina General Warranty Deed to (a) combine the above 0.021 acre Tract 2 with Lot Number 2 of Schofield Place Subdivision recorded in Map Book 9995, Page 2703 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry and (b) encumber a portion of said combined Lot Number 2 for the benefit of Grantor with a restrictive covenant that will cause any residential improvements to be constructed and installed on the portion of said Lot Number 2 that runs one hundred thirty (130') feet on Lantz Avenue and ninety one and 85/100 (91.85') feet on Yost Street (i) to front on Yost Street and (ii) all driveways on said portion of combined Lot No. 2 shall not be encumbered with said restrictive covenant. TRACT 3:

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

Toyota

BEGINNING at a stake in the West margin of Yost Avenue, said stake being 218 feet South 18 deg. 45 min. West from the Southwest corner of the intersection of Yost Avenue and Lantz (Ridge) Avenue, William B. Williams, Jr.'s corner; thence Williams' line, North 71 deg. 15 min. West 150 feet to a stake; thence North 18 deg. 45 min. East 95 feet to a stake in the South margin of Club Circle; thence in an Easterly direction with the South margin of Club Circle, along a curve whose radius is 170 feet, a distance of 163.4 feet to a stake in the West margin of Yost Avenue; thence with the West margin of Yost Avenue, South 18 deg. 45 min. West 58 feet to the BEGINNING, and being Lot No. 4, as shown upon plat of the property of G. T. Bolton, Belmont, Salisbury, North Carolina, by J.C. Richardson, Jr., August 15, 1946.

TRACT 2:

Autos

Ford, 2005 Taurus SE Burgundy on grey cloth interior, all power ops, am, fm, cd, LOW MILES, alloy rims good tires, extra clean. GAS SAVING AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION! 704-603-4255

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by ALLEN D. HINSON to Donald D. Sayers, Trustee for Farmers & Merchants Bank, which Deed of Trust is dated April 5, 2007, recorded in Book 1091, Page 241, Rowan County Registry, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by the said Deed of Trust; and the Clerk of Superior Court granting permission for the foreclosure, said Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the land and property hereinafter described in the manner and upon the terms and conditions as hereinafter stated: 1. This foreclosure sale is and shall be conducted pursuant to the terms and provisions of that certain Deed of Trust described above. 2. The foreclosure sale will be conducted by the undersigned at 11:00AM, Monday, October 11, 2010, in the lobby of the Rowan County Courthouse, adjacent to the Clerk of Court, Salisbury, North Carolina. 3. The real property together with all buildings, improvements and fixtures of every kind and description erected or placed thereon, attached to or used in connection with the real property which will be sold pursuant to the Deed of Trust at the foreclosure sale is located in Rowan County, North Carolina, being more particularly described as follows: TAX MAP 001, PARCEL 07102

This conveyance is given subject to any and all rights of way, easements, restrictions and covenants which may affect the above described property.

Toyota, 2002 Sienna XLE LOADED! Grey leather seats, 3.0 V6 back with auto trans, tape, cd changer, all pwr. Duel heated seats, sunroof low price what more could you ask for! 704-603-4255

NEED CASH? We buy cars & scrap metal by the pound. Call for latest prices. Stricklin Auto & Truck Parts. Call 704-278-1122 or 888-378-1122

ROWAN COUNTY

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK 10 SP 726

For back title see Deed Book 573 at Page 121 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County, North Carolina.

Chevy Tahoe, 1999 Champane on Tan leather interior , 5.7 V8 with auto trans, am,fm,tape,cd, FULLY LOADED, all power ops, 4X4, SITTIN ON 22's with good tires. 704603-4255

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SITUATE, LYING AND BEING in the North Ward of the City of Salisbury, and described as follows:

Ford, 2007 Escape Brown on Grey cloth interior 3.0 V6 auto trans, am, fm, cd, SUNROOF, all power ops, luggage rack READY FOR TEST DRIVE!!! 704-603-4255

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NOTICE OF SALE

TRACT 1:

BATTERY-R-US

Wholesale Not Retail

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In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Land Covered by a Certain Deed of Trust Given by Allen D. Hinson To Donald D. Sayers, Trustee for Farmers & Merchants Bank of Granite Quarry, North Carolina, (Book 1091, Page 241, Rowan County Registry)

Transportation Financing

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

1330 W. JAKE ALEXANDER BLVD. ******** BILL BOUDREU

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

Audi, 2002 TT Roadster White on black leather seats, 1.8 t backed with 5 speed trans, all power ops, electric wind screen, duel heated seats, convertible boot. A real head turner. 704-603-4255

Motorcycles & ATVs

JEFF MARTINEZ OVER 75 VEHICLES IN STOCK www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

W. Rowan area. 3BR, 2BA SW. 365 Montega Ln. $400/mo. Avail. Nov. 1st. Oil heat. No smoking. No pets. 336-998-3133 Lv. msg.

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shoppers and if you aren’t here, you may not be considered as a choice for those who are buying.

BEGINNING at an existing iron in the Northwestern margin of the right of way of Yost Street and the centerline of Yost Circle that has been withdrawn as recorded in the Order Closing Street Pursuant to General Statute of North Carolina Section 160A-299 in Book 913, Page 772 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry, said Beginning Point being North 19 deg. 12 min. 05 sec. East 38.87 feet from an existing iron at the Northeastern corner of Hazel B. McLean as recorded in Book 576, Page 182 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry; thence from said Beginning Point on a curve to the left with a radius of 200.00 feet and a chord of North 43 deg. 33 min. 55 sec. West, an arc length of 59.73 feet and a distance of 59.51 feet to a new iron in the Southwestern line of S. Lonnie Goodman; thence with the Southwestern line of S. Lonnie Goodman South 72 deg. 00 min. 25 sec. East 52.93 feet to a new iron in the Northwestern margin of the right of way of Yost Street; thence with the Northwestern margin of the right of way of Yost Street South 19 deg. 12 min. 05 sec. West 28.35 feet to the Point of BEGINNING and containing 0.015 acres and being Tract 1 as shown upon the map and survey entitled "Property Survey for Tract 1-Hazel B. McLean and Tract 2 Lonnie S. Goodman" by Richard L. Shulenburger, RLS and dated July 23, 2001 and revised July 24, 2001. Grantee joins in this North Carolina General Warranty Deed to combine the above described 0.015 acre Tract 1 with the real property owned by Grantee and recorded in Book 576, Page 182 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry and the real property acquired by Grantee in a certain Order Closing Street Pursuant to General Statute of North Carolina Section 16OA-299 of Yost Circle entered by the City of Salisbury and recorded in Book 913, Page 772 in the Rowan County, North Carolina, Public Registry. The address of the above described property is:

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10. It’s a Fact! The Salisbury Post and www.salisburypost.com reach 74% of Rowan's adult population every week — more readers than five years ago. Include our weekly direct mail Marketplace Miner product and you reach over 90%. The percent of Rowan adults who read the Charlotte Observer, Independent Tribune, or listen to any local radio stations: LESS THAN 20% COMBINED! The number of Salisbury Post/www.salisburypost.com subscribers and readers is INCREASING.

2009 Yost Street Salisbury, North Carolina 28144 4. The property hereinabove described shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A cash deposit equal in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the first One Thousand Dollars and no/100 ($1,000.00) plus five percent (5%) of the remaining balance of the bid may be required at the time of the sale. 5. The property hereinabove described shall be sold "where is and as is" and subject to the lien of all outstanding and unpaid taxes, assessments, and other encumbrances which may have a priority over the Deed of Trust herein referred to and is subject to all conditions, reservations, restrictions, easements and rights of way appearing in the chain of title, if any, affecting the above-described property. 6. This Notice of Sale shall be posted and advertised as required by the said Deed of Trust and as required by law, and after the sale, a Report of Sale will be entered immediately following the conclusion of the sale, and such sale shall remain open for raised or upset bid as by law permitted and required. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in or on this property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupied the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the Notice of Sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated in to the effective date of the termination. This 20th day of September, 2010. Donald D. Sayers, Trustee WOODSON, SAYERS, LAWTHER, SHORT, PARROTT, WALKER & ABRAMSON, LLP, 225 North Main Street - Suite 200, P. O. Box 829, Salisbury, North Carolina 28145-0829, Telephone: 704-633-5000, State Bar No.: 3868

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Today’s celebrity birthdays Actor Peter Coyote is 69. Singer John Prine is 64. Actor-dancer Ben Vereen is 64. Singer Cyril Neville of The Neville Brothers is 62. Actress Jessica Harper is 61. Singer-guitarist Midge Ure is 57. Singer David Lee Roth is 56. Country singer Tanya Tucker is 52. Actress Julia Sweeney (“Saturday Night Live”) is 51. Actor Bradley Whitford is 51. Guitarist Jim Glennie of James is 47. Drummer Mike Malinin of the Goo Goo Dolls is 43. Actress Wendi McLendon-Covey (“Reno 911!”) is 41. Actor Mario Lopez is 37. Actress Jodi Lyn O’Keefe is 32. Singer Mya is 31.

John Lennon’s 70th celebrated in NY’s Central Park NEW YORK — A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields and sang lyrics from “Imagine” on Saturday to honor Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday. On the day when the Liverpool Lad would have become a septuagenarian, thousands of fans from around the world gathered to remember the floppy-haired British superstar who just wanted to give peace a chance. “His music speaks to people of any nation, any age, and that’s why I think so many young people now who never would have known him still find him so appealing,” said Karen Kriendler Nelson, 69, who lives nearby and often visits the mosaic that spells out Lennon’s song “Imagine.” She and her Maltese dog, Pino, joined a group of fans who sang the lines, “Imagine there’s no countries/ It isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for/ And no religion too/ Imagine all the people/ Living life in peace ...” Joan Acarin and his wife, Laia, visited the memorial from Spain. “The values Lennon defended are still alive,” said Joan Acarin, a 41-year-old attorney from Barcelona. “It’s the idea that we do not have to fight wars.” Fans began arriving on Friday, spilling onto the sidewalk of Central Park West, where Lennon and wife Yoko Ono lived in the famed Dakota

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People sing as they gather around the imagine mosaic in strawberry Fields in New York’s central Park, saturday, the day that would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. building for nine years. He was shot to death by a deranged gunman as he came home on the evening of Dec. 8, 1980. Police erected barricades to contain the crowd alongside passing traffic. This year, the memorial to the slain ex-Beatle and peace activist includes a mosaic donated by the city of Naples, Italy. A plaque lists 121 countries that endorse Strawberry Fields as a Garden of Peace. The 2.5-acre site was created by Ono and named after the Lennon song, which also observes that “living is easy

with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.” The birthday celebration got started early Friday in his native England, where Google UK released a 32-second video “doodle” with an “Imagine” soundtrack. The interactive electronic art generates a butterfly and a flower — reflecting Lennon’s devotion to world peace. In Liverpool, Lennon’s first wife, Cynthia, and their son, Julian, unveiled a sculpture to celebrate his life. Hundreds of people gathered at the city center’s Chavasse Park to watch the pair cut a ribbon to reveal the

statue, called “Peace and Harmony.” The sculpture, which features a colorful globe with doves flying above it, was designed by 19-year-old American artist Lauren Voiers. The two held hands and joined the crowd in singing John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” “I think the mourning is over for John. I think it’s time to celebrate,” said Cynthia, 71. “Think about his life that was positive and good and just enjoy that.” She was married to John Lennon from 1962 to 1968. In New York, planned celebrations include a Saturday

evening benefit concert at the Society For Ethical Culture, a short walk from Strawberry Fields. The proceeds will go to the human rights organization Amnesty International. Capping the New York remembrances would be a Central Park screening of a documentary detailing Lennon’s life in the city. Titled “LENNONYC,” the new public television film to be shown at 7 p.m. in the park’s Rumsey Playfield, with picnicstyle seating on the ground. Ono was set to mark her late husband’s milestone birthday in Iceland with a performance by the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. She also was to present awards to people who had contributed to peace. Just before Lennon was killed, the couple collaborated on a last album “that was so different from anything he did before,” said David Edwards, a college student in Kentucky who drove 14 hours to New York City to pay tribute. The 22-year-old found a different way to honor the

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October’s a great time to explore local legends ctober seems to be the perfect time to reflect on some of Salisbury’s greatest stories. Are they mysteries, legends or lies? You decide. When Union Gen. George Stoneman’s troops entered Salisbury in 1865, the Civil War was over. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox just days before. News didn’t travel fast in those days; Stoneman had not received the good news. However, his actions indicatKAREN LILLY-BOWYER ed he knew the war was all but over. Stoneman’s Raid, as it has been called, was at best a skirmish. The Confederate troops were encountered near Grants Creek about

two miles from Salisbury. The Confederate pickets retreated and were driven through Salisbury. Stoneman’s men crossed Shober’s Bridge and entered town. Many N.C. courthouses had been burned by Union troops, but our beautiful courthouse was spared. The courthouse that now serves as the Rowan Museum was relatively new. It had been built in 1855. Over the years, several theories have evolved to explain why it wasn’t burned. One theory states that Stoneman spared the courthouse because merchant T.J. Meroney offered Stoneman breakfast on the morning of April 12, 1865. Another legend tells us that Salisbury Mayor W.C. Coughenour and Nathanial Boyden, who were Masons, met Stoneman, who was also a Mason, and asked him to spare the courthouse and other important buildings. Stoneman’s primary objective in Karen Lilly-Bowyer is a retired ed- Salisbury was to release the POWs ucator and operates Salisbury’s from the Confederate Prison and to Downtown Ghost Walk Tour. She fre- capture the Confederate supplies quently writes about local history. being collected here for Lee’s

army in Virginia. There were no prisoners when Stoneman arrived. The Dix-Hill Cartel had been reinstated and Commander Gee, the prison commander, had marched his prisoners to Greensboro, where they boarded the train for Unioncontrolled Wilmington. Stoneman found the supplies. Military records estimated there was enough food, munitions, medicine and clothing to handle 75,000 troops. The people of Salisbury were in great need. They were not much better off than the prisoners had been. Stoneman piled the supplies in the street, but before he started the fire, he allowed people to take anything they could carry away. Stoneman was good to the people of Salisbury. He offered military guards to any family who feared for their lives or property. The people of Salisbury had little to fear from the Union troops. However, there were renegades and criminals who followed the Union troops, and their primary purpose was to steal everything they could

find. During October Tour, Union reenactors bivouac on the lawn of the Heilig House at the corner of South Fulton and West Monroe streets. The Historic Salisbury Foundation will tell tourists that this location is Oak Grove, the place where Stoneman’s men set up camp during the occupation. It is interesting to note that the Freedman’s Cemetery at North Liberty Street is named Oak Grove Cemetery. Stoneman had his headquarters at the courthouse, a block away from the cemetery. Is it possible Stoneman felt so secure that he sent his troops to South Fulton Street? Alternatively, is it equally likely that his troops were actually quartered closer to the courthouse? For many years, we have heard stories about Salisbury’s tunnels. We have been told there was a tunnel from the Central/Empire Hotel on Main Street to the Meroney Theater. The tunnel, we are told, was built to provide unfettered ac-

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Union Gen. George Stoneman. whose troops occupied Salisbury, has given rise to at least one burning question. Why didn’t he set fire to the local courthouse, as occurred in many other N.C. towns?

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Quint Redmond, who’s based in Golden, Colo., describes his Agriburbia concept as an environmentally oriented design theme that combines professional farming with individual ‘steward’ landowners.

The Agriburbia concept Developer integrates farming, residential areas

uint Redmond, originator of the Agriburbia concept, will speak Thursday, Oct. 28, at the Center for the Environment on the Catawba College campus. His presentation will focus on Agriburbia, a trade-marked design movement and economic model that integrates food production within urban development. Redmond talked recently with Juanita Teschner of the Center for the Environment. This is an edited transcript of that conversation. Q: What is Agriburbia? A: It’s really an economic and cultural model that combines agrarianism and contemporary design within environmentally sound real estate development. What we’re doing is building the infrastructure for the next generation of farming. We’re trying to figure out a way to facilitate a more Jeffersonian type of living style for people so they can do multiple things. You can be a computer programmer, but you still own a steward lot in an Agriburbia subdivision and produce fruits and vegetables for commercial reasons or for your own use. Q: How did the vision for this design model emerge? A: My wife is a biologist who grew up in the beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch countryside. Her father was an academician, but they farmed. Philosophically, they said kids need to know how to do this for their own good and the welfare of the country. My wife also has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning. I grew up farming and ranching in Colorado, and I’m a landscape architect. When we were still in graduate school in 1991 we wrote a busi-

work. If you just went out and stuck a bunch of lots out there and What: Agriburbia developer said, “Hey, you guys go at it,” nothQuint Redmond will speak in Saling would happen. The civic farm isbury. has the expertise, and you as a Where: Center for the Environsteward farmer on a private lot can ment at Catawba College. either contribute part of your lot to When: Oct. 28, 6:30 p.m. growing whatever the centralized The presentation is free and farm needs or you can do your own open to the public, but reservathing with assistance. You can be tions are required. For more inas dependent or independent as you formation or to reserve a seat, want. call 704-637-4727 or visit The second is a steward lot, a www.centerfortheenvironment single-family lot of a quarter acre .org. and up. Sometimes it’s called a “self-salad lot.” You can get almost ness plan for a suburban farm serv- all your vegetative calories from a ice. We said, why pay somebody quarter acre if you plant it right. $100 a month to mow your lawn With irrigation and design assiswhen they could come by and gartance, we can set it up for individden for you? You would pay them ual lot owners so that it’s really and get groceries for it. And every- productive. It’s like home gardenbody laughed. ing on steroids. Some get their lot But the idea never left us. We farmed by a professional farmer or started our design firm in 1997 and farm operator. They get to sit out moved to a twoon the deck and enjoy it, but the reacre lot in Gold- sponsibility for making the ground en, Colo., in productive is not the homeowner’s.  Agriburbia in 2003. Working it It’s the professional farmer’s. Rowan County, 4D. as a steward lot started us down Q: Does this make for a radically that road. And then the opportunity different look in the subdivision? came when a fellow who owned a A: We design the subdivisions so big chunk of land hired us to do the they look beautiful and somewhat design work to develop it. We sugtraditional. People have a little gested an organic vineyard. We did piece of lawn, but there may be an this first concept more like an apple tree in the front yard. And as amenity in the place of a golf you drive down the road, there may course, but then we realized how to be a vineyard or an orchard. make the economics work to create jobs and local foods. Q: Let’s talk about the economic component. Q: Tell us first how the farming-resiA: It makes jobs to keep this dedential mix works. velopment beautiful and raise the A: There are two types of farms crops. That’s what people need — in each Agriburbia. One is a civic jobs. The real key here is using the farm in the open space. It’s what development process to create this gives the whole place enough proopportunity for productivity. And fessional management and farming See REDMOND, 4D knowledge to make the whole thing

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he Army has numerous conventions for naming things. Some are obvious, and others are a bit more obscure. Again, some are official, some are unofficial but done by tradition, and others are simply confusing at best. Army aircraft tend to be named after Native American tribes. The Huey helicopter is actually the Iroquois, but got its nickname partly because its original designation was HU-1, which was later changed to UH1. (Actually, if you go back far enough its original designation was YH-40, but that’s another story.) HU-1 and the chubby helicopter morphed into “Huey.” A lot of things are named after individuals. Most Army forts in the south are named after Confederate Generals, presumably to make it more palatable to the Southern residents who saw large tracts of land being converted for use by the federal (Yankee) army. Tanks are usually named after cavalry and armor leaders. Many landmarks (such as buildings and even ships, etc.) are named after soldiers who were awarded medals for bravery or died in a combat zone. So, what’s in a name? Familiar with the Hummer? What exactly does Hummer mean, and how in the heck did we start calling it that? Did Mr. Hummer design the vehicle? Was the name the brainchild of AM General’s marketing folks? (AM General was the original builder of the military Hummer.) The answer is no; it’s called that because of the soldier’s propensity to shorten the names of things into slang. The High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) was a bit of a mouthful to say, and therefore HMMWV was pronounced HummVee, and then shortened to Hummer. Originally, the Army brass didn’t like the name Hummer because (I’m not making this up)

This is a blog posting by Lt. Col. Rodger T. Duncan, a career Army officer currently stationed in Afghanistan, at Bagram Airfield. Duncan is a graduate of East Rowan High (1975) and Appalachian State University (1985). You can find additional postings at www.salisburypost.com they said it sounded too much like “bummer” and they didn’t want soldiers saying bad things about their new toy. They needn’t have worried, as it was, and still is, a great vehicle. I’m a bit old school (I remember when they first came out in the midto late ’80s) so I still tend to call them HummVees. The main drag here at Bagram Airfield is called Disney Drive. It runs parallel to the west side of the runway and everything is just off of it on one side or the other. (I hate to slight the folks on the east side of the air field, but there really isn’t much there in comparison.) So what cartoon character did someone have in mind when it was named? Were the troops saying this was a “Mickey Mouse” operation? Was it official, or simply slang that stuck? I guess I should have known better, as I learned that my initial assumptions were wrong when I discovered the marker over by Check Point 1 at the southern end of the road. It seems a young man by the name

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A blur of life, suddenly stilled

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Preservation sets bar high atherine Murdoch, whose family home is on OctoberTour this weekend, recalls her mother saying, “Darling, no one has ever really owned this house, we are simply passing through.” Indeed, generation after generation of the same family has lived in the Murphy House at 229 W. Bank St. going back 150 years. That family continuity is very specific to the Murphy House, but Mary Marshall Murdoch could just as well have been talking about Salisbury as a whole. Owners may hold deeds and make mortgage payments, but the homes and neighborhoods in which we live have outlasted generations. As we pass through, today’s residents have a responsibility to maintain and preserve Salisbury’s treasures for the next generation. Historic Salisbury Foundation’s annual home tour shows off some of the most tangible treasures: well-preserved historic structures. There’s always excitement in the air when the yellow mums come out for yet another OctoberTour. It’s Salisbury’s opportunity to show off and raise awareness of what a strong preservation ethic can do for a city. It has strengthened neighborhoods and the downtown. You have to have lived here in the 1970s — when stately homes on Fulton and Ellis streets were divided into apartments — to fully appreciate what the Historic Salisbury Foundation, its volunteers and supporters have accomplished and continue to do. Those private efforts have benefitted the general public. But Salisbury has other treasures to preserve, assets that are harder to pin down than the date a house was built — a strong faith community, generous philanthropy and a commitment to the arts, for example. And a continuous striving for improvement. The improvement reaches beyond the historic districts and the work of volunteers. Recently, City Council discussed the possibility of forming a housing commission, and the city is applying for funds to improve public housing in the West End. In partnership with the county, Salisbury is actively promoting literacy. Through Project SAFE Neighborhoods it is focusing on the problem of gangs. And, to better serve citizens and raise Salisbury’s profile for economic development, the city is investing in fiber-to-the-home, perhaps its biggest and riskiest undertaking yet. Salisbury as a community has done well with preservation, but no one is resting on those laurels. If anything, the preservation movment’s success sets a high standard for the city as it tackles thorny challenges — all aimed at strengthening neighborhoods, protecting citizens and maintaining forward momentum. We need to preserve the intangibles as well as the things we can put our hands on. After all, we don’t own this city. We are just passing through.

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“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you ... It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.” — John Wooden

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t’s funny, the little things in life that can halt you in your tracks and make you question things you think you know. I’ve always thought of death as an absolute. In terms of our material being, there are no degrees of deadness, any more than there are degrees of stone or wood. Either you’re a rock or you aren’t. Either you’re a hunk of hard maple or you’re not. Either a thing is dead or it’s not dead. In that regard, we CHRIS don’t differenVERNER tiate between a freshly shot buck or a putrifying opossum on the roadside. Both are equally dead, it would seem, just as a still-warm body on an ER gurney has leaked out its life force altogether as completely as the long-ago departed who’ve moldered in the grave for centuries. Then I came across the hummingbird corpse. I was on my way in to work a couple of weeks ago, approaching the back entrance, which is the door closest to where I park. A few feet from the doorway, in the narrow space between the brick wall of the Post building and the

dull hulk of a dumpster, a hummingbird lay on the concrete. I’ve seen a lot of dead birds — cardinals, jays, titmice, wrens, sparrows, goldfinches — and surely, on some previous path, I’d stumbled upon a dead hummingbird. Yet I’m certain I’ve never seen one frozen in such stark arrest, a ruffle of olive feathers on the pavement. It stopped me cold. How did it come to be there, not a blossom in sight? What had happened to it? Watching hummingbirds is one of the delights of summer for my wife and me. We mark the season’s warm beginning with the first sighting at our feeders, know frost is nigh when the ruby-throats disappear. In between, we marvel at their aerial acrobatics and kamikaze courage in defending their territory. Hummingbirds are the prototypical “Type A” personalities of the animal world. Their lifespans, typically three to five years, literally pass in a blur. Their wings can beat about 80 strokes per second. Their tiny hearts — roughly the size of a pencil eraser — average 10 ticks a second. That quickens to 20 beats a second — or more than 1,000 beats a minute — during states of high arousal, such as when a hummer is fending off an in-

terloper or engaging in courtship displays. Because of their extraordinarily high metabolic rate, I recall reading somewhere, hummingbirds suffer heart attacks and aneurysms more frequently than any other animals. My dead hummer most likely didn’t stroke out, however. High on the exterior wall, above the entry door, there’s a large window. The hummer most likely zoomed toward this, thinking it was a beckoning avenue of light. It crashed into the window pane, breaking its neck. In an instant, the tiny heart went from 10 beats a second to zero. It doesn’t make any sense to speak of one expired creature being “deader” than another. Or does it? A dead hummingbird can’t be any “deader” than a dead turtle or a dead cow. Or can it? I thought of the various experiments that have tried to prove the existence of the soul by weighing bodies before death, and then immediately after expiration. Which, of course, raises an intriguing question: Would every soulwisp weigh the same — making Mother Teresa and Jeffrey Dahmer metric soulmates, so to speak? Or would some souls be heavier and denser than others, corresponding, perhaps, to the cosmic phenome-

non of light and dark matter? A hummingbird weighs about 3 grams — roughly the weight of an old copper penny. I don’t know how much a hummingbird’s soul might weigh. But a hummingbird lying motionless on the ground contains a universe of stillness and finality. It didn’t seem right to leave it there. Burial wasn’t an option, however, since I didn’t have a shovel, a plot of suitable ground or the time. Momentarily, I thought of sealing the remains in a plastic bag and stashing it in the freezer. I could take it out on dreary February days and imagine the darting spirits of summer, similar to the way, as a child, I kept snowballs in the freezer to pull out in the middle of July. But the idea of a frosty hummingbird alongside the frozen chicken thighs was even more jarring than the scene before me. Not knowing what else to do, I picked up the corpse and deposited it on a nearby wall, in a patch of sunlight. After a moment of silent benediction for a life fiercely lived and another season’s passing, I went on in to work. When I left the building that evening, it was gone. • • • Chris Verner is opinion page editor of the Salisbury Post.

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Textbooks play lesser role in school today Q: Why doesn’t my child have a textbook for every subject? A: There are numerous questions that arise concerning the use of textbooks in our schools. Over the last few years, dependency on textbooks as the sole source of information has declined. Textbooks are important tools for teachers, but they are not the curriculum nor should they ever replace good teaching strategies. Teachers in the Rowan-Salisbury School System are required by the N.C. State Board of Education to teach the StanJUDY dard Course of GRISSOM Study, which is our state curriculum. Depending solely on a textbook for instruction often causes students to miss numerous concepts and information that are included in the state curriculum and tested as part of the accountability program. A textbook is only one of many tools that are used to deliver the curriculum. Teachers have access to multiple tools to reinforce the curriculum, such as flip charts for Promethean boards, computer software, math manipulatives, science kits, computers and the world-

wide web, and supplementary books and novels. In the 2009-2010 school year, the adoption of new grades 6-12 mathematics textbooks was delayed to help with the budget deficit during that particular year. An additional reduction of funds for textbooks happened in the 2010-2011 state budget to reflect a complete moratorium on new textbook adoptions. Currently, some schools have a balance in their textbook accounts, and they are able to purchase replacement books with that funding. Schools that do not have a balance use other sources of funds, such as Title I and instructional supply funds to offset the costs. Audiotapes, books in Braille and large print textbooks are available. These are secured through the Exceptional Children’s Department. The state no longer warehouses books, so we now have to purchase replacement materials directly from the vendors, which results in a higher price due to

shipping and taxes. The cost of textbooks is extremely high. Textbooks average about $55 per book. However, some books are more expensive; for example, a chemistry book costs $87. Classrooms still have copies of textbooks from previous purchases. However, if the teacher gives an assignment from a textbook, then the teacher should make arrangements for the students to take a textbook home to complete the assignment. Sometimes the teacher staggers the assignments with classes so that they all have access to a textbook. In the past, the school system has adopted the same textbook at each grade level or content area throughout the system. The State Department selects several textbooks to place on an adoption list. Teachers, administrators and central office personnel have an opportunity to view the textbooks and attend presentations about the books before making a selection. Therefore, if teachers are using a basic

Teachers are finding that the information accessed from computers, the Internet and iPod applications provides up-to-date and accurate information to supplement their curriculum.

textbook, then they are utilizing the same basic textbook across the school system. The school system has been very fortunate in receiving funding from various grants and from the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation to purchase technology tools to reinforce the curriculum. Teachers are finding that the information accessed from computers, the Internet and iPod applications provides upto-date and accurate information to supplement their curriculum far better than the typical textbook and is more motivating and engaging. Some school systems are beginning to look at e-books as the wave of the future, a possibility that our school system will be exploring in the near future. E-books are certainly more aligned to students’ interests, much cheaper and easier to customize with less cost for replacement issues. As we move further into the 21st century and continue to struggle with waning budgets and higher costs, school systems across the country will be looking for new and improved ways to supplement our students’ access to information. • • • Dr. Judy Grissom is superintendent of the Rowan-Salisbury School System.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010 • 3D

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RCCC bond would boost Rowan, as well as college BY PHIL KIRK For the Salisbury Post

ust as our homes age and require repairs and renovations, the same is true at RowanCabarrus Community College, which is nearly 50 years old. As our families grow, often we have to build additions to our home. The same is certainly true at RCCC with its stunning enrollment increase of 40 percent over the last few years. More than 20,000 individuals are educated at RCCC KIRK each year and the number has increased dramatically during a weak economy. Rowan County voters are being asked to support a modest bond issue for $12 million. If the bond passes, the owner of a house valued at $100,000 will pay an increase of $12.50 per YEAR until the bond is retired. That is less than one pizza delivery per YEAR. The owner of a $200,000 house would pay an increase in taxes which would be less than the cost of one dinner for two at a restau-

rant — per YEAR. One of the most remarkable facts I have learned during this campaign is that Rowan County voters have not been asked to pass a local bond issue for the community college in nearly 50 years. The only time the college has gone to the voters was for an initial bond of $500,000 to build the first building on the North Campus in 1961. I do not know of another community college which has not had a local bond issue in nearly 50 years. Because of tight budgets at the state and local level, there has been little capital or repair and renovation funds available in the past decade so the college has gotten behind on making the necessary improvements to at least partially meet the needs of the rapidly expanding student body. This bond will fund new classroom and lab space for health science programs which are needed to increase the number of healthcare workers in the area. If RCCC cannot provide the space, then students will have to travel to neighboring community colleges, and since the overwhelming majority of students have full-time jobs, this would present a severe hardship for most.

The needs for training and retraining programs have grown tremendously at RCCC in the last decade or so, and funding has not been able to keep up ... Currently, RCCC offers only three health science programs — nursing, radiography and dental assisting — and each is full to capacity. North Carolina has prided itself on the “open door” policy for admission to our community colleges. Regretfully, that is no longer true, especially in health science programs, because there is often no space for additional students. Passage of the bond will allow the college to develop programs in such areas as physical and occupational therapy and surgery technician. Much of the job growth we need will be found in health sciences, and RCCC needs more space to educate, train and retrain students for these good jobs. Space for the expansion and relocation of firefighter and emer-

gency first-responder training will be provided. The current space is much too small for adequate training. The training ground will be moved to another location on campus where there is space for future expansion. Existing classroom space will be renovated, the Salisbury campus will be made more accessible for persons with disabilities (a long overdue need) and campus buildings will be made more energy efficient, which is a good deal for the taxpayers and for the environment. Because of the closing of both large and small industries in traditional job fields, the needs for training and retraining programs have grown tremendously at RCCC in the last decade or so, and funding has not been able to keep up with classroom and programmatic needs. While the state provides much of the operational funding, it is historically up to the counties to provide for capital needs. The exception was the largest bond history in our state in 2000 for UNC campuses and community colleges. I had the opportunity to chair that statewide campaign; however, it is obvious that there will not be another state bond issue for at least five more

Revolution is rising from ‘radical center’ ill a third party emerge and play a major role in the elections of 2012? History says the answer is no, and that’s probably a good thing. America is a vast and diverse country that’s hard to govern under the best of circumstances. Our two-party system has long provided a source of stability and consistency, and splintering into smaller factions could lead to more paralysis, not less. But the major parties should pay attention. By their own actions — or inactions — they are creating conditions that could nurture a third party, or at least an independent candidate for president. STEVE & The tea party is unCOKIE ROBERTS happy, but so is the “We Party.” Those voters are furious and frustrated because every single decision taken in Washington today is based on maximizing political profit. So they are asking questions: Who is focusing on the national interest? Who is working on practical solutions to real problems? Who is thinking about “we” instead of “us versus them”? As columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote in the New York Times: “There is a revolution brewing in the country, and it is not just on the right wing but in the radical center.” The American system has always tilted against third parties and rightly so. European countries that use parliaments — and facilitate third parties — are much smaller, less diverse and easier to manage. In Germany, for example, the Free Democrats won 14.6 percent of the vote in the last election, which translated into 93 seats in the 622-member Bundestag and a share of power in the government. Because the United States has a presidential system, not a parliamentary one, a third party getting a comparable vote here would be completely shut out of power — no members of Congress, no place in the Cabinet. Because that’s profoundly discouraging, voters might flirt with independent candidates but they usually “come home” on Election Day. In 1980, for example, John Anderson attracted more than 20 percent in some early polls but finished with 6 percent in the final balloting. Still, the political establishment would be wrong to dismiss a threat from the “radical center” out of hand. Start with the fact that both parties are abandoning the middle ground. Two important groups — progressive Republicans from the North-

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In 1980, voters initially flocked to third-party presidential candidate John Anderson, shown here with campaign chairperson Mary Crisp. But he finished with only 6 percent in the final balloting. east and conservative Democrats from the South — are both endangered species. The United States is approaching a European model of ideologically based parties that don’t overlap in the center, a sharp change from the past. In today’s Senate, the most conservative Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, has a more liberal voting record than the most moderate Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine. This polarization translates into a growing unhappiness with Congress’ record. In the latest Pew Research/National Journal poll, 77 percent say lawmakers have been “bickering more than usual,” a jump of 24 points in 18 months. Job ratings for congressional leaders have plummeted: only 30 percent favorable for Democrats, 24 percent for Republicans. Among independents, the most fertile recruiting ground for the “We Party,” only one in five like what they see on Capitol Hill. Then there is money. Recent court decisions make it easier for independent candidates to raise campaign cash from corporations and labor unions. In this cycle, donations to advocacy groups outside the parties have skyrocketed, so the model for funding a third party is already in place. The final piece is technology. Historically, third parties were often rooted in regional grievance. (George Wallace winning five Southern states in 1968 as a protest

against civil-rights legislation is the best example.) But as Barack Obama brilliantly demonstrated in 2008, it is now possible to create a nationwide political organization almost entirely in cyberspace. He collected 13 million e-mail addresses that were used to raise $500 million online, transmit countless pieces of information, and activate a vast network of campaign volunteers — all outside established party structures. The tea party movement is using many of the same tools to connect like-minded supporters across the country. Sarah Palin has become a leading candidate for the Republican nomination by communicating largely through Facebook. The major parties might still control the political system but they do not control the information system. Anyone can use it, including third parties or independent candidates. So politicians beware. That sound you hear is the distant thunder of discontent. It’s coming from the “We Party” as well as the tea party, and the “radical center” could have the message, money and motivation to make a real impact. • • • Steve Roberts’ new book, “From Every End of This Earth” (HarperCollins), was published this fall. Steve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by e-mail at stevecokie@gmail.com.

Latest unemployment figures a disappointment Scripps Howard News Service

he last major economic report before the November elections is out and it is not good news for the Obama administration and Democratic candidates campaigning for seats in Congress. The September unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent. For what little consolation it is, the rate had been forecast to be 9.7 percent, but “not as bad as expected” and “it could have been worse” make poor campaign slogans. The White House will put the best possible face on it, saying in essence, “The economy is improving; not as fast as we would like, but it (ital) is (end ital) improving.” Unfortunately, there are too many people who will find little comfort in that reassurance: the 14.8 million who are out of work; another 9.5 million, up a million since July, who can only find part-time work; and 2.5

years, and there is a growing line of interests who will be competing to be in that bond package. We cannot wait on the state to do what needs to be done locally. Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is recognized as one of the best in North Carolina, a state recognized nationally for effective local colleges. I would urge the readers of the Post to enthusiastically vote for these bonds in order to improve the employment opportunities for Rowan County citizens. In addition, passage would be a boost for RowanWorks and its ability to attract more business and industry to Rowan County. Our state’s 58 community colleges are not only the best hope for many of our citizens, but they are often the only hope and last hope. It is my prayer that Rowan County voters will remember this when they mark their ballot in early voting or on Tuesday, Nov. 2. • • • Phil Kirk is a Rowan native who resides in Raleigh. He is a former vice chair of the State Board of Community Colleges, chairman emeritus of the State Board of Education, and past member of the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Foundation Board.

September was the 14th straight month the jobless rate has been 9.5 percent or worse, the longest streak since the 1930s. million would-be workers who are so discouraged they quit looking altogether. The once-formidable American job-creating machine appears to be stuck in neutral. September was the 14th straight month the jobless rate has been 9.5 percent or worse, the longest streak since the 1930s. Economists are saying it might be another five years before we reach pre-recession levels of 6 percent or less. A closer examination of the September numbers offers no solace. Instead of creat-

ing jobs, the economy lost a net of 95,000 jobs last month. The figures were skewed by the scheduled loss of 77,000 temporary Census jobs in September, but that aside, the figures are still not good. Cash-strapped state and local governments shed 83,000 jobs. The private sector was in positive territory, but with an anemic 64,000 jobs, most of them in low-paying service-industry fields. Analysts had been hoping for 85,000 jobs from private employers, but even that is well below the number needed just to keep even with the natural growth of the work force. The report prompted Wall Street to send the markets higher, but only because analysts think the news is so bad that the Federal Reserve will be forced to take additional measures to boost the economy. Even so, any measures will come too late to help the prospects at the polls of the president’s party.

ou have to admit this would be a far duller election without today’s women candidates. Really, how did we ever get along without a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware running a full-scale TV ad campaign protesting she is not a witch? And she said evolution is a myth because otherwise why wouldn’t monkeys be turning into humans right now, and it’s well known that human brains have been put into mice. And what about that woman from Connecticut who made $45 million on smackdowns, owns a yacht named “Sexy Bitch” and wants to be a senator without actually having had any prior interest or experience in government? ANN MCFEATTERS How about the woman in retiree-haven Nevada who has denounced Social Security and the BP compensation fund for oil spill victims? She says she’s on a mission from God to get Harry Reid out of the Senate. Then there’s the wealthy businesswoman in California who wants to be governor in a state with many Hispanics, but she claims she didn’t know for almost a decade that her beloved housekeeper was in this country illegally. When she found out, she fired her. In a non-presidential election when the cost of campaigns will top $3 billion and when frustrated voters are shouting “anybody but the incumbent,” it’s possible we will get a new slate of office holders, male and female, promising to go to Washington or the state capital mainly to raise hell. It is not at all clear, however, that there will be more women in Congress or that the women who will be elected this November will be any different from the men. USA Today talked to analysts who predict the number of women in Congress will decline for the first time in 32 years. Of 56 Democratic women and 17 Republican women in the House and 13 Democratic women and four Republican women in the Senate, a number are unlikely to be returned to office. Even as the media excitedly chases a few women candidates — and former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin raises money and prestige for Tea Party women and Nancy Pelosi fights to stay on as the nation’s first female speaker of the House —the wave of anti-incumbent fever threatens to remove a lot of the current women in Congress. The women in Congress who are likely to lose Nov. 2 are overwhelmingly Democrats who voted for currently unpopular policies such as health care reform and stimulus spending. The dreary economy and high unemployment have convinced many voters that incumbents must go. There is some good news for women. They did well in the primaries. And there are a record 47 Republican and 91 Democratic women on the ballot for the House and a record six Republican and nine Democratic women running for the Senate. Some think fewer women will be elected because in a bad economy, some voters won’t risk a vote for a woman. But others think being female might be a plus in November because women politicians are new enough to be perceived as outsiders to a broken and corrupt arena. Nobody knows what will motivate voters in November during such turbulence. This is a year when Forbes magazine made headlines with its list of “the 100 most powerful women in the world” by stipulating that Lady Gaga is more powerful than the female speaker of the House, the female heads of homeland security, health and human services, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission, the three females on the Supreme Court and Sarah Palin. But Lady Gaga is not considered as powerful as Michelle Obama, the female head of Kraft Foods, Oprah Winfrey, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton or the female head of PepsiCo. At least not yet. • • • Scripps Howard columnist Ann McFeatters covers the White House and national politics.

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Agriburbia in Rowan

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Farmstead project illustrates possibilities for creating more sustainable lifestyles

cess for actors between the hotel and theater. Who would have believed that paparazzi were such a big problem in the late 1800 and early 1900s? You may have also heard that there was a tunnel from the railroad station to the Ford Hotel. The hotel was near the first Meroney Theater that was located in the 100 block of North Main Street. Many folks still believe these “old wives tales.” After all, a website (www.cenematreasures.org) still has the story, courtesy of the Meroney Theater management. Our Historic Trolley has told the story. Even our public library had this story on its website until just recently. I noticed the other day that the library story had been changed. I don’t think the change was complete. Look at this rewritten sentence — from the Rowan Public Library online piece about the Meroney Theater — and you be the judge: “A few years later, when the Empire Hotel was remodeled helped the actors to move to and from the theatre.” If you add the words “a tunnel under the street” between the words “remodeled” and “helped,” this statement becomes a sentence. Was there a tunnel? Well, there was a tunnel of sorts. A pipe carried steam from the laundry on Bank Street to the theater. The steam was used to help heat the Meroney. If actors traveled through that 18-inch pipe, they must have been very small. Did Salisbuy have a tunnel? Actually, there is a very famous tunnel but little has been written about it. The tunnel was discovered by the city water department in the 1960s while improving the water lines. One hundred prisoners traveled through the tunnel during a successful escape from the Confederate Prison in 1864. On the night of the escape, a large fire ignited on South Main Street. The fire department was small and could not control the blaze. As a result, three days lapsed before officials became aware of the prison escape. Salisbury had many Union sympathizers; it is quite possible that the fire was arson. New York Tribune correspondents A.D Richardson and Junius H. Browne, who had been imprisoned as spies, were among those who managed to escape through the tunnel that had been built by the prisoners.

e have an opportunity right in our own region to merge rural values with contemporary living — to grow our own food in an urban setting. Initial zoning and development have been approved for the Farmstead, a tract of land on the western outskirts of Granite Quarry which combines urban farming and gardening JOHN with residenWEAR tial development. The idea is a noble effort to be more self-sufficient and sustainable. If the idea catches on, it could mean that we’ll spend more time planting and tending gardens and less time mowing lawns. We have been tethered to our lawn mowers for a long time. The shift toward spending Saturdays mowing grass started around the turn of the century. Today in some neighborhoods, it has almost become a contest to see who has the best-kept lawn. Keep in mind that grass is an exotic species in this area. It often requires pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer that can run off into our sewers, eventually polluting our streams. And gas-powered lawn mowers, especially older models, pollute the air.

REDMOND FROM 1D it’s professionally managed. That makes the economics work because somebody is responsible. The farmers are going to be the rock stars of the future. Besides making money on the produce you raise, you can also earn money by working on the farm. The civic farmer will let the community know that he needs people to work X amount of hours. The computer tracks the amount of time people work, and the pay is usually slightly more than the minimum wage. This is the Jeffersonian idea: Everybody is self-sufficient while they continue to be an architect or a computer planner or a dental hygienist. Q: How does Agriburbia promote conservation of natural resources? A: There are three things that people absolutely need: Shelter, transportation or communication with other humans and food. LEED certification (the U.S. Green Building Council’s program for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings) addresses the shelter part. People are working on the transportation part with things like light rail, which produces less carbon. But there was no one working on how we’re going to take the carbon out of our food. (Trucking food across the country from the farm where it is raised to the grocery stores requires thousands of gallons of fuel. In addition, emissions from the trucks pollute the air.) We count every calorie and how far it has to travel and where it’s grown, processed and distributed. Lowering that carbon is ultimately a land-use thing. If you design the subdivision for all three criteria — shelter, transportation and food — our footprint shrinks. The natural conservation part comes from optimizing

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Today, we focus a lot of our efforts on lawn upkeep when we could be creating opportunities for both feeding our families healthier food and helping our young people understand more about how they fit into the ecological cycle. They could help grow and pick vegetables and fruits, participating in an enterprise that benefits the family as a whole. They could learn about composting and creat-

If the idea catches on, it could mean that we’ll spend more time planting and tending gardens and less time mowing lawns. ing organic gardens that produce nutritious food. And that, of course, would break the chain of having our vegetables trucked in from 1,500 miles away. This combination of urban farming and residential development actually has a name. It’s called Agriburbia, and about 3,000 acres across the country are currently being designed and developed according to its principles. The concept is the brainchild of Matthew “Quint” Redmond, co-founder of the Golden, Col.-based design firm TSR Group. He is go-

every square foot of ground so you don’t have to go far away to get the food you need. Q: What has been the reaction to this movement? A: When we first started, I was laughed out of the room during a public hearing. Now I’m on the national lecture circuit, and one of the largest home builders in the country is the owner of our project in Hawaii. When we first put the Farmstead (an Agriburbia development near Granite Quarry) on the Website, we had 12 reservations for lots within six weeks. Q: Tell us about the Farmstead. A: It’s 126 acres that’s ready to build. All the design

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ing to speak at the Center for the Environment facility on the Catawba College campus at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 28. The title of his speech is “Agriburbia: Combining Neighborhood Design with our Growing Need to Produce our own Food.” It’s a mindset bent on saving farming and feeding communities. It ensures that we will have food for our tables — tasty food — when oil becomes too expensive to ship food across the county. Re-integrating food production into residential development can mean anything from planting individual vegetable gardens to engaging in community agricultural projects. One of Redmond’s projects is a 618-acre tract with nearly 1,000 homes surrounded by 108 acres of backyard farms and 152 acres of drip-irrigated community farms. Going back to the land while still maintaining all the amenities of contemporary living is one of the more appealing ways to help us move toward sustainability and self-sufficiency. I hope you’ll join us on Oct. 28 to learn more about Agriburbia and why it is a viable, environmentally friendly approach to living the good life. • • • Dr. John Wear is the founding director of the Center for the Environment at Catawba College. For more information, visit www. centerfortheenvironment.org

and approvals are in place. It has a barn with a living place for the civic farmer, who would oversee the farming operation. It has a turnaround circle with a barn shed that can be used to house a farmer’s market. It’s situated perfectly because it has a large enough market up and down I-85 to sell the produce. We really believe it’s one of the best ones we’ve worked on. Q: When will the Farmstead be completed? A: The project is ready to go, and Bill Thomas (of Concord Builders) is seeking a partner to help him make it happen. We know if we build the infrastructure for a better model, people will respond.

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Four weathered tombstones at Thyatira Presbyterian Church are marked with a skull and crossbones. When Richardson and Browne later wrote about the prison conditions, their articles influenced the decision to reinstate the prisoner exchange policy. With Halloween just around the corner, it seems appropriate to talk about “skull and crossbones.” Thyatira Presbyterian Church is believed to be the oldest Presbyterian church west of the Yadkin River. The church was established in the Scotch-Irish settlement. In the oldest part of the church cemetery, you will find four tombstones marked with the infamous “skull and crossbones.” According to legend, four pirates were caught in the Millridge area. The judge ordered that they be hung, but did agree that the men could be buried in a Christian cemetery as long as the tombstone was marked only with the skull and crossbones. Ghost hunters have a saying that is appropriate for this situation. “A good ghost story is not necessarily true … and a true ghost story is not necessarily good.” I think that philosophy applied to the pirates at Thyatira. The four tombstones are located in a prominent section of the cemetery. The graves of famous early settlers are all around these pirate graves. If the people buried below these markers had been criminals, they most likely would have been buried in an isolated part of the cemetery. It has also been suggested that these headstones mark the graves of people who died of smallpox. Research shows the “skull” as a common emblem in Christianity. The symbol was most likely inspired by Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, where Christ was crucified. The Christian concept of Christ dying on the cross to save all believers would explain the crossed bones. This design on a tombstone showed a belief that the deceased

would enter heaven. A second interesting theory involves the Knights Templar who were given asylum in medieval Scotland. The Templars had been tortured and suppressed by King Phillip IV of France and by Pope Clement V in 1307. There are Templar graves in Scotland that date to the 14th century. The Templars’ bodies had the legs removed and the bones lie crossed. The skull and crossbones often mark the graves. A third possibility stems from freemasonry, which uses the skull and crossbones as a symbol of mortality. It is told that in one layer of initiation, a Masonic candidate is lowered into a representation of a grave, which has within it a skull and crossbones. The Scottish were very involved in freemasonry. In the 1700s, the southern Scots used the skull and crossbones on their headstones. My thoughts are that the graves possibly contain the remains of Freemasons. Freemasons often used this symbol to denote a master mason. The Thyatira graves are very weathered, and the inscriptions and dates cannot be read. Most likely, these graves mark someone who was very important. Membership in freemasonry was common with officials and wealthy folks. These theories may not be as glamorous as dead pirates, but they are certainly more realistic. Mysteries, legends and lies are always interesting. Paul Ekman wrote the book “Telling Lies,” which is the science behind the Fox channel series “Lie To Me.” In his book Ekman writes, “Strangely enough, most people pay most attention to the least trustworthy sources…” It seems there is considerable truth to that statement. Oh well, a little white lie can’t be that bad. Actually, they add a little mystery and excitement to our small Southern town.

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BOOKS Is anybody still paying attention? SALISBURY POST

Deirdre Parker Smith, Book Page Editor 704-797-4252 dp1@salisburypost.com www.salisburypost.com

Literary Bookpost to host workshop on publishing Author Anne Clinard Barnhill will conduct a publishing workshop at Literary Bookpost on Saturday, Oct. 16, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Barnhill is the author of the memoir “At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My Sister, and Me,” published in 2007 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, and “What You Long For: Stories,” published by Main Street Rag Publishing. Writing professionally since 1991, Barnhill has published hundreds of articles, reviews, stories and interviews in magazines, newspapers, anthologies and journals. Barnhill has conducted publishing workshops at Literary Bookpost in the past to an overflow crowd. The topic is often determined by the wishes of the participants, though at the workshop on Saturday the primary focus will be on memoir and biography. With questions and answers, participants should anticipate a workshop of about two hours. Examples of works in progress are welcome. Literary Bookpost is located at 110 S. Main St. in downtown Salisbury. For additional information about this event, call 704-630-9788 or visit www.literarybookpost.com.

Writing classes scheduled The Writers’ Workshop, a nonprofit organization in Asheville, is offering a variety of writing classes in Charlotte. The classes, for any level writer, meet at Providence Presbyterian Church. Registration is in advance only, by mail or at the group’s website (www.twwoa.org). Financial aid in exchange for volunteering is available. For more information, contact writersw@gmail.com or phone 828-254-8111. • Oct. 16: Writing the Screenplay with Nathan Ross Freeman. The class will receive an overview of writing for the screen. Various formats, structures and techniques will be discussed, as well as tips on creating interesting characters and realistic dialogue. Information on where and how to submit your work will also be given. Freeman is a script writer and teaches playwriting at UNC-Charlotte. His awards include the 1997 N.C. Arts Council Fellowship for Hannah Elias and the 2005 Great Lakes Film Festival Screenplay Contest for Geist. Meets Saturday, 12-5 p.m. $75/$70 members. • Oct. 23: Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Mike Weinstein. Techniques will be taught on making non-fiction stories and essays come alive, such a creating a sense of place, use of dialogue and more. Tips will be given on interviewing, researching and getting published in newspapers and magazines. Students may bring five pages (double-spaced) to the class for discussion. Weinstein is features editor at the Charlotte Observer, and has won numerous awards for his editing work on lead stories. Meets Saturday, 12-5 pm. $75/$70 members. • Oct. 30: Poetry Workshop with Richard Krawiec. This workshop will focus on revising poems and how to turn rejection letters into acceptances. Tips on sequencing poems into a series or chapbook will be given, and where to submit your work. Students may bring up to three poems for in-class revision. Krawiec's chapbook, “Breakdown: A Father's Story,” was an 2009 Indie Book Awards Finalist.

Rowan bestsellers Literary Bookpost

1. Safe Haven, by Nichola Sparks. 2. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. 3. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. 4. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, by David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus). 5. The Capture, by Kathryn Lasky. 6. George Washington’s Sacred Fire, by Peter A. Lillback. 7. Cataloochee, by Wayne Caldwell. 8. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. 9. Bon Courage: Rediscovering the Art of Living in the Heart of France, by Ken McAdams. 10. Down River, by John Hart.

IndieBound bestsellers Fiction 1. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. 2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, by David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus). 3. Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett. 4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson. 5. Room, by Emma Donoghue. 6. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. 7. Safe Haven, by Nicholas Sparks. 8. Ape House, by Sara Gruen. 9. To the End of Land, by David Grossman 10. By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham.

“Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age,” by Maggie Jackson. Prometheus Books. 2009. 326 pp. BY DEIRDRE PARKER SMITH dp1@salisburypost.com

It was the spaghetti tacos that did it. A story in a newspaper told about the bizarre new craze prompted by the show “iCarly.” Children of all ages are crazy about the new dish, with mothers scrambling to find recipes. Maggie Jackson, author of “Distracted,” writes about the new style of eating: It must be handheld, require no utensils and not be so messy as to drip on your clothes while driving and eating. At another point in her book about “The Erosion of Attention,” she describes a family so distracted and overbooked that dinner comes from a bowl of nuts, raisins and granola bars the teen daughters grab as they are shuttled to their many obligations. Although Jackson, like Barry Sanders in “Unsuspecting Souls,” seems to be preaching to the choir, she makes many outstanding points in this book, the final one of the Summer Reading Challenge, which wraps up Tuesday at Waterworks Visual Arts Center and F&M Trolley Barn. “I’m not angling for a return to some sort of pastoral, unmechanized Eden in order to halt the erosion of attention,” she writes. “We cannot blame technology for society’s ills. Nor can we fall into the opposite and increasingly commonplace trap of blindly trusting that our new tools will automatically usher us into a glorious new age.” Like Sanders, she cites the railroad, telephone, photographs and cinema as “discomfiting technologies.” The telephone and telegraph developed at a time when spiritualism blossomed, luring people like Thomas Edison and Mark Twain. Jackson quotes historian Pamela Thurschwell: “Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both hold out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people.” Again echoing Sanders, she says the erosion of our attention began in the 19th century. “In the nineteenth century, people became untethered and empowered in striking new ways, and they began to experience the delights, quandaries, and questions that now confront us urgently and inescapably each day.” She says the prevalence of television, computers, cellphones and a multitude of virtual experiences have tricked us into accepting those realities without thinking. Some see cyberspace as a way of extending ourselves, even after death, with all of its opportunities for memorials, its blogs and video and our myriad connections. Jackson cites a University of California at Berkeley study of a five-year archive of saved messages of a man named Mike. He’s sent and received 80,941 messages with 15,537 unique people; he has ties to 662,078 people in the world, or 11.7 million if you count the messages he got or sent

Panel discussion to conclude Summer Reading Challenge After a long and hot summer of reading, it is time to wrap up the sixth Summer Reading Challenge. The panel discussion and reception will be Tuesday, Oct. 12, 6-9 p.m., at Waterworks Visual Arts Center, 123 E. Liberty St. From 6-7 p.m., a light dinner will be served, compliments of Trinity Oaks Retirement Community Dining Services. From 79 p.m., meet the panelists and participate in the discussion. Dr. Kurt Corriher, professor

of acting, dramatic literature and film criticism at Catawba College, will be the panel moderator. Dr. Michael Bitzer, assistant professor of political science at Catawba College, will be the panelist for “Distracted,” by Maggie Jackson. Bitzer has been part of the Summer Reading Challenge previously, discussing “Divided America.” The panelist for “Unsuspecting Souls,” by Barry Sanders, will be Dr. Andre Resner, professor of homeletics and church wor-

ship at Hood Theological Seminary. For the classic, “Frankenstein,” Dr. David Schroeder, assistant professor of English at Catawba College, will be the panelist. Dr. Sheila Brownlow, professor of psychology at Catawba College, will tackle “Olive Kitteridge.” Presenting sponsors are Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury Post, F&M Bank, Trinity Oaks Retirement Community.

Catawba College, Friends of Rowan Public Library, Livingstone College, Literary Bookpost, Miller Davis Inc., Salisbury Symphony, with additional support from Godley’s Garden Center & Nursery, Quick Copy Print Shop. Tie-ins to the challenge included a showing of the 1931 film, “Frankenstein,” St. Thomas Players’ production of “Vesta” and discussions of “Unsuspecting Souls” and “Olive Kitteridge” by Dr. Jim Spiceland of Center for Faith and the Arts.

Series can be source of comfort, mystery, suspense LAUREL ROBIN REISEN Rowan Public Library

Nonfiction 1. Obama’s Wars, by Bob Woodward. 2. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race, by Jon Stewart. 3. The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking. 4. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, by Susan Casey. 5. Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern. 6. Aftershock, by Robert B. Reich. 7. Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle, by Ingrid Betancourt. 8. The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson. 9. White House Diary, by Jimmy Carter. 10. Assholes FInish First, by Tucker Max.

with more than 50 recipients. That doesn’t mean we are in any way intimate or even known to those 11.7 million. Jackson says our connectivity fragments our lives even further, citing various studies. What all those connections mean is we must constantly prioritize, add and subtract connections, easily forming and easily abandoning our relationships. Jackson describes a film of family interaction at the end of a day — a father, home from work, goes to talk to his 8- or 9-year-old son, who’s playing video games with friends. The son not only refuses to look away from the game; he utters only one sentence to his father, about the game, then turns his back and ignores him. “If the virtual gives us a limitless array of alternative spaces to inhabit, then multitasking seems to hand us a new way to reap time. Cyberspace allowed us to conquer distance, and seemingly, the limitations of our earthly selves,” Jackson writes. David Meyer, who studies multitasking, has done experiments that show we have our full attention on nothing when multitasking. Our attention is splintered among each activity and leads to our missing sometimes vital pieces of information. A one-minute film of people in black or white clothes passing a basketball asks the subject to count the number of passes. What 46 percent miss is the woman dressed as a gorilla coming into the room and beating her chest. One Microsoft researcher has come up with a solution for multitasking on the job — a 42-inch wraparound screen with the abil-

ity to display a multitude of windows that will glow a certain color or somehow change to alert the user to switch to another activity. Jackson suggests that will not increase productivity but lead to an impossible-to-manage distractibility with our attention constantly broken. Jackson writes, “Is hitching ourselves to the machine the answer? Will increasingly intelligent computers allow us to overcome our limitations of memory and attention and enable us to multitask better and faster ...?” Our connectivity also leads to our loss of a sense of place, Jackson argues. We can be everywhere and nowhere at all at the same time. As long as we are connected, we are “home,” whether it is a plane, a car or a hotel room 3,000 miles away from where we started. And at home, the one where we live, we provide ourselves with even more connectivity. Many parents now monitor their children with cameras, watching every move as a 2-year-old learns to sleep alone, providing the parents that chance to intervene at any moment, to train the child to be alone, which, of course, never happens. With teens, parents are still spying, with dash cams, monitored Internet activity and even more cameras. Jackson argues, as does Sanders, that we are losing our ability to look beneath the surface — to think deeply. We take all we see on the Web as if it all were valid, all the information we need. We rarely go deep enough to find its source. Some say the disappearance of the printed word will erode our attention further, but Jackson makes a case for screen-based

reading as a viable alternative. What matters is what we take the time to comprehend. “Done well, reading gives us a deeply meaningful framework for living. ... Done poorly, no matter what we read, we are marooned on the surface of sensemaking, eternally adrift,” Jackson writes. But, she points out, “from the reading revolution emerged the Information Age, which deals in a cognitive currency of ‘little atoms of contents — prepositions, sentences, bits, infons, morceaux — each independently detachable, manipulable and tabulable.’ ,” quoting linguist Geoffrey Nunberg. Nunberg goes on to suggest “Data begin to outstrip the making of meaning, in part because our technologies create an unending stream of information that reveals new arenas of human ignorance ...” Jackson describes, through one English professor’s experience, a new phenomenon — many college students have never and will never use the college library and tell researchers they wouldn’t use print resources under any circumstances. Yet they cite such Web-based research as reviews of books on Amazon.com. Recent research has shown college students are unable to construct a logical, systematic inquiry, settling for information at the surface and giving up easily when challenged. Jackson cites research that shows we are losing our ability to comprehend, to process information and use it. And what about our attention? Jackson writes, “Orienting is largely in place by kindergarten, and the core skill of conflict resolution peaks by 8. Alerting, plus some other aspects of executive function, still develop into adulthood.” “... Alerting is the gatekeeper network, the caretaker who turns the lights on and off and keeps the hearth fires burning in our cerebral house.” She participates in a meditation retreat with Buddhist masters and discovers that “meditation isn’t about emptying the mind, as is commonly thought, but instead involves concentrated efforts to explore and control its workings.” Tibetan Buddhism holds that without the skills of attention, the hidden recesses of the mind remain hidden and, therefore, impossible to control. Brain scientists and scholars are studying meditation as a means to sharpen focus and awareness, to make our minds work better in a world of distraction. Jackson writes, “Attention is not always within our control. The unexpected, the changeable, the novel, even the habitual in life abduct our focus, intrude upon our awareness, and pull us off course for a while.” Her final admonition: “We can create a culture of attention, recover the ability to pause, focus, connect, judge, and enter deeply into a relationship or an idea, or we can slip into numb days of easy diffusion and detachment.” It’s all up to us.

The familiarity of a series is comforting, and learning about the characters and setting is like getting to know a new friend. Soon, the characters feel like family, and the anticipation of a new book can be likened to the excitement of presents on Christmas morning. Margaret Maron is the author of the Deborah Knott mysteries. Deborah Knott is a judge in a small North Carolina town and the daughter of a moonshiner. Beginning with “Bootlegger’s

Daughter,” her large family and the townspeople provide endless entertainment and mysteries. Tarheel readers will delight in reading about her adventures in various North Carolina towns. In the young adult trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins, post Apocalyptic North America is divided into 13 districts. Each year, two children from 12 districts are selected to participate in a horrific “hunger game,” resulting in only one winner and 23 dead losers. Katniss and her best friend Gale work hard to keep their family well fed and out of the hunger

games. Imagine her horror as her sister is chosen as a player in the games. Quickly, Katniss volunteers to take her place to spare her life amid the slim hope of success. Odds are against her winning, with an alcoholic as a mentor and friends she is ordered to kill. Triumph and defeat will be televised to the world, and Katniss must use every resource she has to overcome the hunger games. Not a series now, but rumored to become the first installment in a series, is John Grisham’s “Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer.” This book is bestselling author Grisham’s first foray into the

world of children’s literature. Theo is a precocious eighth grader and son of two lawyers. Having spent most of his life in lawyers’ offices or judicial courts, he knows his way around the legal system and often offers legal advice to his friends, pro bono, of course. His reputation as an amateur lawyer gives way to a real criminal investigation and highly publicized murder trial. How will young Theo ensure that justice will be served? Series can be fun and as comforting as a good friend. Find these and other series on the shelves at Rowan Public Library.

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While Washington borrows, Raleigh spends ALEIGH — For most of the past 50 years, presidents and lawmakers of both parties have badly mismanaged the finances of the federal government. In this season of bald partisanship and sharp-elbowed politics, surely all North Carolinians can agree with that. But heaping scorn on JOHN the fiscal HOOD recklessness of Washington can’t get state and local politicians off the hook. It turns out that among the chief beneficiaries of the federal government’s deficit spending are states and localities. I’ve recently been updating my data on gross domestic product and government finances going back to the 1959 fiscal year, as part of research project on the perilous fiscal situation facing many of America’s state and local governments. Because one of the themes of

my piece is the extent to which the federal government acts as an implicit borrower for states that aren’t supposed to finance their current operations with debt, I’ve been looking closely at intergovernmental flows of revenue. What I found struck me as both fascinating and largely unrecognized even to fiscal-policy wonks: federal aid to states and localities is a major element of federal budget deficits. Since 1967, the federal government has run budget deficits in all but five fiscal years. These deficits have ranged from small (less than 1.5 percent of GDP in nine separate years, most recently 2006) to large (between 4 percent and 5 percent of GDP in nine years) to scary (about 9 percent in 2009 and so far in 2010). In all of those deficitspending years, total federal grants to states and localities amounted to least 40 percent of the federal deficit. In most years, a majority of federal borrowing went straight to state and local budgets.

Federal aid to states and localities is a major element of federal budget deficits. More recently, the trend has been even more exaggerated — since the return of deficit spending in 2002, after the brief bipartisan budget-balancing of the late 1990s, virtually all of the federal deficit was consumed in revenue transfers to states and localities. Until last year, that is. With the support of outgoing President Bush, incoming President Obama, and most of the Congress, Washington responded to the recession with a panoply of federal bailouts and spending programs, driving deficits to unprecedented heights. States and localities got a good chunk of the borrowed money, to be sure, about 40 percent. But most of it went elsewhere. This isn’t just a fiscal issue. Most state constitutions forbid the practice of financing annual operating costs with borrowing. They do so for good reason. Ac-

cess to easy credit is particularly dangerous for teenagers and politicians, for similar reasons. They lack the long-term incentive, and often the knowledge, to make wise decisions. It’s best to impose responsibility on them through ironclad budgeting rules. Unfortunately, easy access to federal borrowing subverts the states’ balanced-budget requirements. If North Carolina politicians can ask Washington for extra Medicaid money, education funds or other bailouts they can use to fill in holes during recessionary budget years, they have fewer incentives to control state spending growth when times are good — or to pare expenses when the recession hits. The result is a ratchet effect in state spending. Through booms and busts, the overall trend is higher

in real terms. Again, you can see it in the GDP data going back in time. Federal aid to states and localities has grown from about 1 percent of GDP in the mid-1960s to 3.6 percent of GDP so far in 2010. During the same period, total state and local spending rose from about 8.5 percent of GDP to 14.4 percent. Evidently, states and localities would have increased their spending in the absence of federal borrowing. But access to its proceeds helped make state and local budgets larger than they otherwise would

have been. Because most federally funded programs, such as Medicaid, schools, and highways, require state matching funds, the result can be calamitous for taxpayers in the long run. Easy credit is a “favor” that Washington should stop offering North Carolina. North Carolinians end up paying for it all, anyway. It would cost us less if the federal government “gave” us less. • • • John Hood is the publisher of Carolina Journal and president of the John Locke Foundation.

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N.C. faces mounting pension plan pressures R someone has been doing too much assuming. Legislators haven’t put much money in the system lately. In some years, they’ve put nothing. Last year, a $21 million dribble came to the fund. This year, $160 million is scheduled to be contributed. As for investment returns, eight years of interest earnings were wiped out in a single year, 2008. After gains in 2009, pension fund investments have lost money the last two quarters. There’s also an unstated assumption, something not yet part of the drag on the pension fund: If medical costs keep rising, policymakers will eventually begin to look harder at tapping the pension fund to pay medical costs for retirees. All of these pressures are almost certain to bring structural changes to the state’s retirement system in the not-so-distant future. Or, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe some political revolution occurs in which large numbers of North Carolinians hold tea party rallies calling for substantially higher taxes. Or, maybe the stock market enjoys another early ‘90s-like ride, hitching to some new technology wave. And maybe Rahm Emanuel is voted nicest guy

in or out of Washington. ment for Capitol Press AssoMore likely, North Carciation. olina policymakers will be forced to look at some other How To Get The pension plan changes around Perfect Shoe Fit the country and follow suit. In Michigan, changes signed into law this year will mean that newly-hired public school teachers will be put into a hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution plan, instead of the traditional defined benefit plan. go to view the Teachers will also have to contribute 3 percent of their salaries to a fund used to offset retirees’ health care. The changes are expectat ed to save $3 billion over 10 years. Alaska went to a definedcontribution plan in 2003. New Jersey is considering doing the same. Of course, many private sector businesses moved to defined-contribution or hybrid plans a decade or more ago. Company CEOs, though, had to deal only with economics, not electoral politics. As the pressures mount, politicians here and elsewhere are going to be trapped between the wants of private-sector taxpayers and public sector workers. Soon enough, the squirming will begin. • • • Scott Mooneyham writes columns about state govern-

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ALEIGH — Last year, State Treasurer Janet Cowell warned state legislators that they could face a $1.2 billion bill in the coming year if they did start forking over adequate state pension plan contributions. Of course, they didn’t much listen. And no one should expect that they’ll SCOTT pay the bill MOONEYHAM this coming year. North Carolina’s $65 billion state employee pension fund is among the most flush in the country. It’s one of just a few public employee pension funds that hovers around being “fully funded,” meaning it has enough money to meet known current and future obligations. But the formula by which the fund can meet its obligations to the 820,000 state government pensioners and current state employees contains assumptions. One is that legislators will keep pumping tax dollars into the pension fund. The other is that the pension fund will see returns on its investments of better than 7 percent. Over the last decade,

TUNA FROM 1D of Spc. Jason A. Disney, a certified welder with the 58th Maintenance Company and part of Task Force Warrior, died at Bagram on Feb. 13, 2002, in an industrial accident. The road was named in his memory. So where does the name Tuna Bridge come from and what the heck is a Tuna Bridge anyway? Disney Drive is paved, and as improvements were made a very wide concrete sidewalk was put in that runs along the west side of the road. It is always thick with two-way foot traffic, as you are not supposed to walk along the other side of Disney. Between the sidewalk and Disney is a fairly deep drainage ditch, with small wooden foot bridges that are used to cross it in places. A long time back, before they had all the little bridges, you had to either walk to an intersection or cross using the ditch. As for the name “Tuna Bridge” (the full name is The Berg-Kamps Tuna Bridge) I will simply quote the plaque that has been erected, along with a few added explanations of the acronyms used. As you read it, you must remember that for 10 years this was a Soviet air base during the USSR invasion of Afghanistan.

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alerted Base Ops. The entire intersection was cordoned off, stopping Disney traffic for over 30 minutes, and EOD [Explosive Ordinance Disposal] was brought in to unearth the potential mine. The mission was a success and EOD dug up ... an unopened can of Russian tuna fish. Not long after the bridge was constructed and named “Tuna Bridge” in honor of this event. So there it is. Tuna Bridge. Ahh ... Afghanistan. A country that by any other name would smell just as ... sweet ...

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Nancy ‘Fle’ Griffith eyes the applesauce while Eli Waters picks up a can of corn in the fellowship hall of St. luke’s Episcopal Church. the church is participating in a program called ‘Food for thought.’

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Welch points out that approximately 13.7 percent of children in the state are considered “food insecure,” which means that the meals they get at school are the only ones they can count on. In Rowan County, that translates to about 2,800 students, she says.

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icrowave popcorn, applesauce, juice boxes, chocolate milk, canned carrots and corn, macaroni and cheese, soup, instant oatmeal. It’s not just food — it’s food for thought. The phrase isn’t normally used literally, but when a local organization took the phrase as its name, the reference is to real food — physical sustenance that can help students learn. Food for Thought is an assistance program that feeds hungry schoolchildren in the Rowan-Salisbury School System. Initially begun by Amy Welch in 2008 to serve students at Overton Elementary, the program has expanded to other schools. Sending students home on weekends with backpacks filled with food was not an idea that was original to her, Welch says. Welch was watching an Oprah Winfrey show some years ago that reported on how viewers had spent a gift of $1,000 to help others. One of the people featured on the show had started a program that sent schoolchildren home with backpacks of food. Welch says she never forgot the story. A physical therapist, Welch says that when she lived in West Virginia, she would encounter difficult

the total number of children served to 70. Granite Quarry Elementary School recently obtained Jon C. Lakey/SaliSbury PoSt funding for a similar program and has begun partnering Silang Jia helps organize applesauce in the fellowship hall with Food for Thought. at St. luke’s Episcopal Church. the food will eventually go Since Welch began the prointo backpacks distributed at overton Elementary School. gram, it has earned nonprofit status and has changed its home environments in the ble for the free lunch proname to Food for Thought. course of doing her job. gram. The program’s vision is Those experiences heightFirst Presbyterian Church simple: “We hope for a world ened her awareness that some was the first church to get on in which every Rowan-Salischildren do not have their ba- board to help with the projbury School elementary and sic needs met at home. ect. middle school student will be After she moved to SalisWelch was able to secure food secure so that they may bury, Welch began volunteer- some grants from the Salishave the opportunity to maxiing in the Crisis Assistance bury Community Foundation, mize their potential for sucNetwork office at Rowan which allowed the program to cess.” Helping Ministries. As she in- grow. Welch points out that apterviewed clients, she noticed Later, St. Luke’s Episcopal proximately 13.7 percent of that many of them lived in the Church got involved, and the children in the state are conOverton school district, as program was able to expand sidered “food insecure,” she did. into Koontz Elementary which means that the meals Those two experiences School, where 80 percent of they get at school might be helped motivate Welch in the the student population is eligi- the only ones they get. In spring of 2008 to start a ble for free lunch. Rowan County, that translates “backpack buddies” program Last year, the program to about 2,800 students, she that sent food-stuffed backserved 50 children at Koontz says. packs home on the weekends and Overton. Children who might beneto certain children attending This year, the program has fit are identified by faculty Overton, a school at which 65 expanded to Hanford Dole El- and staff members at the parpercent of students are eligiementary, which bumps up ticipating school. Then, infor-

mation about the program is quietly communicated to students’ parents. A consent form asks about food allergies and whether or not the household has a microwave or a can opener. A can opener is provided to those who need it. On Fridays, children served by the program are given a backpack filled with food that they can take home — ensuring that they won’t go hungry during the days they won’t get breakfast or lunch at school. Backpacks are filled with extra food on long weekends. Students return the empty backpacks on Monday, and by the end of the week, they are refilled and ready to go home again with the children, whose anonymity is closely guarded. Throughout the school year, volunteers at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and First Presbyterian Church get together to organize and pack the food for the week. The

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Amy Nicole Pugh of Bethpage and John Robert Crawford IV of Raleigh, N.C., were united in marriage Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church. The Rev. Vicki Burgess officiated the 3 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at the church’s Dimmick Hall. The bride was escorted by her father, Mr. Gary Pugh, and attended by her sisterin-law, Annie Pugh of Murfreesboro, Tenn., as matron of honor. Bridesmaids included sister of the groom Virginia Phillips of Spartanburg, S.C., Mallory Hartsoe of Lebanon, Tenn., and Kelly Young of Houston, Texas. Dr. John R. Crawford III stood as his son’s best man. Serving as groomsmen were brother-in-law of the groom Courtney Phillips of Spartanburg, S.C., and brothers of the bride Joshua Pugh of Lebanon, Tenn., and Kevin Pugh of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Virginia Anne Phillips, niece of the groom, was flower girl. Serving as ring bearer was nephew of the groom Courtney Stuart Phillips Jr. Both are of Spartanburg, S.C. Cousin of the bride Patrick Corban of Murfreesboro,Tenn., was crucifer. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Pugh of Bethpage, Tenn., and the granddaughter of Mr. Jack and the late Shirley Pugh of Bethpage, Tenn., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cain of Madison, Tenn. A 1995 graduate of Cheatham County Central High School, Amy earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Austin Peay State University in 2001. A member of Sigma Alpha Iota, a women’s music fraternity, she is currently attending Cumberland University studying for her Master of Arts in Education. The groom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. John R. Crawford III and the grandson of the late Mr. and

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MOHAWK, Tenn. — Kassie Lea Denton of Salisbury, N.C., and Trent Tyson Waller of San Diego, Calif., were united in marriage Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, at Fairview Baptist Church. The Rev. Keith Kannenburg and the Rev. Josh Cardwell officiated the 4 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at the farm of the bride’s aunt and uncle. The bride was escorted by her father, Jimmy Denton, and attended by her sister, Kaleigh Denton of Salisbury, as maid of honor. Her bridesmaids included Laura Saul of Elon and Lyndsey Lowe of Holly Springs, both cousins of the bride; Aubrey Foster and Crystal Pittman, both of Salisbury; and Kailey Branham of Raleigh. Bobby Waller stood as his son’s best man. Serving as groomsmen were brothers of the groom Seth Waller and Coty Waller of Salisbury; Matt Drechsler of Cleveland; and brothers of the bride Kaleb Denton and Kaison Denton of Salisbury. Lucy Lowe of Holly Springs, cousin of the bride, was flower girl. The bride is the daughter of Jimmy and Shelia Denton of Salisbury and the granddaughter of Roy and Ruby Denton of Weaverville and Roger and Brenda Thompson of Elon. A 2006 graduate of Salisbury High School, Kassie also attended North Carolina State University and received a diploma in cosmetology from Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology in 2008. The groom is the son of Bobby and Sue Waller of Salisbury and the grandson of Bob and Wilma Waller of Woodleaf and Fred Yost of Salisbury. A 2006 graduate of West Rowan High School, Trent

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kinds of foods, since organizers can’t make assumptions about the home enviFroM 1E ronments of the children youth group at First Presby- who participate. Food must terian gets together every not require refrigeration; it Wednesday evening during must also be shelf-stable, the school year to organize easy to prepare and come in food. Volunteers at St. single servings. Luke’s also meet weekly for Gerry Wood Auto Group the same purpose. has donated the backpacks The organization tries to for the program. get the most healthful food Anders notes that Jan for the money spent, says Dyrholm at First United Andrea Anders, a Food for Methodist Church in SalisThought board member who bury has done a great job of was at the St. Luke’s felloworganizing a backpack proship hall recently to help or- gram that serves Isenberg ganize the food that would Elementary. go to Koontz Elementary Welch says that she students. would like to see every busiIn about 20 minutes, the ness and civic group in the food items had been organcommunity consider sponized neatly into 29 plastic soring one child. bags, ready to be transAlthough older students ferred into backpacks. may also be food-insecure, “We’re so lucky we’ve the program focuses on gotten community support,” younger students since they Anders said. are the most vulnerable, She relates a story of Welch says. people’s willingness to help. Welch says the proWhile shopping at Aldi one gram’s long-term goal is to day, a man approached her, reach all students who need commenting on the multiit. Another goal is to be able tude of similar items in her to provide more fresh food. cart. When she explained Food for Thought has a that she was shopping for Facebook page, Welch Food for Thought, he handnotes. ed her a hundred dollar bill The group does not pro— requesting to remain an vide food over Thanksgivanonymous door. ing or Christmas or Easter, Food for Thought does, in since during those times of fact, rely on donations of the year, many individuals both money and food from and organizations are feedcommunity members, as ing the hungry, Welch says. well as local grants. Feeding If you would like to learn a single student costs about more about the Food for $250 a year, Welch says. Thought program, or if you That figure is high, she adwish to make a donation, mits, partly because they please call St. Luke’s Episcoare limited to particular pal Church at 704-633-3221.

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The members of Miller Senior Citizens and the Silver Queen Strollers of the Red Hat Society had a farewell luncheon at K&W for Laka Bric, who will be working at the Civic Center. She was presented with a gift from the group and birthday cards. Queen Mother of the group is Evelyn Clayborn.

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BIRTHS Riley Everidge A son, Riley James, was born to Ben and Kari Everidge of Salisbury on Sept. 4, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces. He has a brother, Noah, 23 months. Grandparents are Sonja and Robert Clayback, John and Shirley Fischer and Phillip and Beth Everidge, all of Salisbury. Great-grandparents are Shirley Phillips of Spencer, Frank Phillips and Alice McGrady of China Grove, Rachel Dillard of Salisbury and Charles Fischer of Landis. Great-great-grandparents are Lela Story of Kannapolis and Elizabeth Knowles of Wallace.

Karson Honeycutt A son, Karson Kole Keith, was born to Felisha Livengood and Brian Honeycutt of Salisbury on September 28, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 3.5 ounces. He has a brother, Chance, 2, and a sister, Addyson, 1. Grandparent is Darrell Livengood of Salisbury. Great Grandparent is Brenda Honeycutt of Granite Quarry.

Jacob Parker A son, Jacob Lee, was born to Robert and Heather Whitley Parker of Salisbury on Sept. 17, 2010, at Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast. He weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces. He has a brother, Lucas, 3. Grandparents are Randy and Missy Whitley of Salisbury and Shirley and Linda Parker of Rockwell. Great-grandparents are Dorothy Whitley of Salisbury and Donald and Joyce Alexander of Milford, Ohio.

Evelyn McGuire A daughter, Evelyn Faye, was born to Danny and Laura McGuire of Salisbury on September 24, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces. She has a brother, Austin, 4, and a sister, Layla, 2. Grandparents are Diana Abresch of Kokomo, Ind., Arthur McGuire and Alice McGuire, both of Avon, Ind.

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BRIDGE Oct. 14-17 are the dates scheduled for Hilton Headâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Non-Life Master Tournament at St. Francis by the Sea C a t h o l i c Church. There is a free seminar at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. S t e v e Moore and Dick Brisbin BILLY took first place BURKE in the weekly duplicate game last Tuesday evening at the Salisbury Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club. Other winners were: Marie Pugh and Loyd Hill, second; Lucy Brown and Billy Burke, third. This was the deal on Board 14 from Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game: East dealer, neither side vulnerable

Weekend Events The wedding weekend started on Thursday with a dinner for family and friends at Redâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ice House in Bohicket Marina and a bonfire on the beach at Seabrook Island. Following the rehearsal on Friday afternoon, parents of the groom Jeff and Cindy Barger hosted a Rehearsal Dinner in honor of the couple aboard the yacht the Carolina Girl, which included a cruise around Charleston Harbor. Afterwards, the couple hosted a Welcome Party on the rooftop of the Market Pavilion downtown to greet all of their guests.

On Thursday Sept. 23, Christy Hopkins, Director Area IV East Civitan, installed new officers for the Faith Civitan Club. The new officers are Wayne Mosher, president; Bill Howell, president-elect; Ann Howell, secretary; Mike Zimmerman, treasurer; Arlene Haynes, chaplain; Lyman Hoover, sergeant-at-arms and Randall Barger, past president. Directors are Judy Cobb (2010-2011), Gloria Wlihelm, (2010-2011) and Tim Williams, (2010-2012).

the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2009. Leigh works at Charlotte Allstar Cheerleading in Matthews. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Barger of Faith. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Barger of Faith and the late Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Beretsky of Salisbury. Derrick is a 2003 graduate of East Rowan High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. He is currently pursuing a Juris Doctor at Elon University School of Law and will graduate in May 2011. Following a wedding trip to St. Lucia, the couple are residing in Greensboro.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Leigh Ann Fowlkes and Derrick Roy Barger were united in marriage Saturday, July 10, 2010, at First Baptist Church. Pastor Mike Shoaf officiated the 5:30 p.m. ceremony, which was followed by a reception at Lowndes Grove Plantation. The bride was escorted by her father, Jeffrey Fowlkes, and attended by her sisters, Laura Fowlkes of Atlanta, Ga., and Courtney Fowlkes of Charlotte, as maids of honor. Her bridesmaids included Kara Barger of Faith, sister of the groom; Elyse Blouin of Charlotte; Lauren Ekman of Greenville, S.C.; Christin Hirleman of Greenville, S.C.; Cami Small of Durham; and Lindsay Watson of Athens, Ohio. Serving as honorary bridesmaids were Katie Ashton and Emily Patrick of Charleston, S.C.; Kristen Hughes of Richmond, Va.; and Lindsay Wilson of Charlotte. Jeff Barger stood as his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best man. Groomsmen included Mark Doby of Salisbury, John DeMasi of Chapel Hill, Joe Khalaf of Chicago, Ill., Ben Lassiter of Charlotte, Alex Miller of Atlanta, Ga., Paul Tamburello of Washington, D.C., and Ryan Wilke of New York, N.Y. Serving as ushers were Dave Beretsky of Salisbury, cousin of the groom; Tyler Conklin and Clifton Neal of Greensboro; and Bryce Woods of Charlotte. Flower girls were Shayla Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien of Charlotte and Lauren Reese of Concord. Keegan Barger of Faith served as ring bearer, and Julie Weldon of Charlotte read scripture. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Fowlkes of Charlotte and Mr. and Mrs. Brian Muscarella of Waxhaw. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Fowlkes of Charlotte and the late Mr. and Mrs. Wes Weslow of Cumberland, Md. A 2003 graduate of Providence High School, Leigh received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations from the University of South Carolina in 2007. She also earned a Master of Business Administration from

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Billy Sloop and Dora Sloop of Rockwell celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sept. 3, 2010. A reception was held in their honor Oct. 9 at Central Baptist Church in Lexington. The Sloops were married Sept. 3, 1960, in China Grove by Rev. Bill Freeman. Billy retired as pastor of Central Baptist Church in January 2010 after 11 years of service. The couple have three children, Eric Sloop of Lexington, Guy Sloop of Rockwell and Crystal Oster of Rockwell. Their six grandchildren are Dustin Sloop, Luke Sloop, Samantha Sloop of Lexington and Cheyenne Spangler, Levi Spangler and Caden Oster of Rockwell.

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William Rex Davis and Gertrude “Gerti” Davis of Salisbury celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary Oct. 2, 2010, at a cocktail party at Hidden Creek Clubhouse in Salisbury. They were married Sept. 27, 1975, at St. Margaret’s Catholic Church in St. Clair Shores, Mich. William is a project engineer at Midrex Technologies in Charlotte, and Gerti is the business manager at Trinity Oaks Retirement Community in Salisbury. The couple’s children are William Alan Davis, Salisbury, Andrew Jonathan Davis, Salisbury, and Rebecca Kareen Beaver, Raleigh. Their grandchildren are Samantha Autumn Beaver and Jonas Emil Beaver. R125887

Richard D. Callahan and Sandra Livengood Callahan of Salisbury recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. The Callahans were married Sept. 21, 1985, at Gay’s Chapel United Methodist Church by Dr. Don Rollins. The couple have two children, Britney Callahan of the home R125885 and Jonathan D. Callahan of Raleigh.

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Boyden ’45 and Mount Ulla ’50 celebrate reunions Boyden class of 1945 The Boyden High School class of 1945 celebrated their 65th anniversary Saturday, Sept. 18. The seated luncheon was hosted by classmates Clyde Harriss, Dr. John Robert Spencer, Dr. Frank Shafer and Ed Brown. The invocation was written by Jim E. “Doc” Hollis and in his absence was read by Russell Barber. Classmates and guests from Salisbury included Javis Arey and Mott Arey, Russell “Bucky” Barber and Ann Barber, Ed Brown, James “Bird” Campbell and Bet Campbell, Mary Katherine Ingle Clark, Mary Ruth Hess Harrill, Clyde Harriss, Sally Sedberry Helms and J.P. Helms, Helen Fisher Peacock and daughter Seamone F. Brisson, Sam Ramsey and Billie Ramsey, Charlie Rufty and Jean Rufty, Frank Shafer and Beth

Shafer, Robert “Bobby” Spencer and Betty Dan Spencer, Doris Hess Spencer, Gerry Cauble Spencer, Ann Coggin, Lib Morgan, Tommy and Peggy Yarbrough. Out of town guests included John Barringer of Vero Beach, Fla., Evelyn Leazer Barrier and Angela Barrier of Greensboro, Mary Ellen Thomas Carter and Ken Carter of Little River, S.C., Martha Hoffner Casey and Joe Casey of Huntington, W.Va., Rachel Kepley Edmiston of Kannapolis, Amy Lyerly Fraley, Jimmy Fraley and Margaret Fraley of Spartanburg, S.C., Smith Kirk and Lois Kirk of Mooresville, Peggy Parker Lentz and Henry Lentz of Florence, S.C., Martha Jane Lippard Smith and Clarence Smith of Mooresville, Frances Yost Wilson of Greensboro and Betty Shoaf Withers of Covington, Ga.

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Oct. 1, 2010, marked the 60th wedding anniversary for Reginald and Doris Bradshaw Hall of Salisbury. They were married at Stallings Memorial Baptist Church by the Rev. O.D. Moore. They have two children, Reginald Hall Jr. (Ann) and Cheryl Spillman (Keith). They also have four grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. Doris is secretary at Rowan Precision Machining Inc., and Reginald is retired. A family dinner is planned at a later date to celR125891 ebrate.

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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Burleson of Salisbury are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Brittany Ann Burleson, to Justin Lee Zemanick of Rockwell. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Allen and Mr. and Mrs. David Lee Leonard, all of Salisbury. A 2003 graduate of East Rowan High School, Brittany graduated from Catawba College in 2009, where she was president of Kappa Delta Pi. She is employed at Hurley Elementary School. The future groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Zemanick of Rockwell and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Micheal Zemanick of Great Bend, Kans., and Mr. and Mrs. Leeroy Steckline of Ellis, Kans. A 2001 graduate of Springfield High School in Tennessee, Justin graduated from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in 2004 and is employed by Champion Home Builders. The couple will marry Oct. 16 at Second Presbyterian Church.

The Boyden High black and gold colors were used on the invitations developed by Betty Dan Spencer as well as the table decorations and name tags; she also did the computer research in locating classmates and addressing the invitations. If you have any additional information on the Boyden High School class of 1945, contact Betty Dan Spencer at bdspencer@carolina.rr.com.

Mount Ulla class of 1950 Of the remaining 33 members of the Mount Ulla class of 1950, 19 members, their spouses and friends met at Ryan’s Steak House for lunch together on Sept. 18. They were Don and Patty Wiggins Belk, the Rev. John Bollinger, Lester and Faye Brown Peeler, Peggy Cauble Wood, Bill

Graham, Nena Karriker Gibson, Ellis London Cauble, Mildred Kerr Helms, Betty Weast Nolley, Catherine Orbison Love, Bob Weast, Quintin McKnight, Tom Turner, Gerald Briggs, Lonnie Graham, Glenn Owen and Bill Phipps. John Bollinger, master of ceremonies, recognized the deceased members of the class. They were: Betty Owen Parrish, Margaret Cauble Graham, Hugh Miller, Alex Corriher, Frankie Davis Lovin, Carl Lentz, Don Blackwelder, Don Stiller, Bob Drury, Gilbert Goodman and Bill Ballard. Following lunch, the group enjoyed John’s jokes and reminisced about former years at Mount Ulla. Door prizes were given during this time as well. The third Wednesday of September was set for next year’s reunion at Ryan’s Steak House.

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Macie Waddell, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Waddell of Salisbury, will represent Charlotte and surrounding communities at the 2011 Cities of America National Competition to be held in Orlando, Fla., in December 2011. Macie qualifies for the national competition having recently competed in the Miss Junior Preteen of Charlotte, winning Miss Photogenic in her age division and Miss Overall Photogenic for all four age divisions, including 7-19 year olds. Judging was based on facial characteristics and qualities, projection of personality and character, and overall photogenic appeal. Along with the two titles, Macie received a modeling contract with John Casablancas in Charlotte, a professional photo shoot and training classes to prepare her for the upcoming modeling contracts. At the upcoming national competition, Macie will compete in modeling routines including casual wear and formal wear. Most importantly, she will be judged on personality and interviewing skills, with personality the number one aspect during each phase of competition. The Waddells want to thank the businesses that sponsored Macie in this year’s pageant: Audrey’s Once Upon a Time Children’s Boutique, Brown Supply, Carolina Cars, GNC, Cleaners Express, Salisbury Wine Shop, Maia’s Fashions, Old Stone Winery, This and That Gifts, Avalon Nails and Tans, Creative Hair Styles, Sugar Britches Boutique, ABX Properties, Martin Kluttz Hauling & Grading, and Miss Master - The Children’s Shoppe. Various private individuals also helped with sponsorships. R125890

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Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, the Alexander family traveled to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to celebrate the 7th Biennial Marsh Family Reunion. This was Mrs. Alexander’s father’s lineage. In conjunction with the reunion, the family honored their matriarch, Mrs. Alexander, who was blessed to celebrate her 91st birthday. She was born Sept. 4, 1919. Additionally, family members honored the couple as they celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary belatedly. The couple united in marriage March 26, 1944. A native of Salisbury, Mr. Alexander retired from Norfolk Southern Railroad and BF Goodrich. Mrs. Alexander is the former Ruther Evans of Lumberton and was a licensed foster mother to 20 children in Rowan County from 1956 to 1988. The couple are parents of three children: Honore I. Alexander Sr., Annie R. Alexander McQuaige and Arnethia J. AlexanderDaniels, all of Salisbury. They are the proud grandparents to Clifton Clark Alexander of Trenton, N.J., Bridget McQuaige Clark of Virginia Beach, Va., LaQuinnta A. Alexander, Honore I. Alexander Jr., and Jamel A. Alexander, all of Salisbury. And, the Alexanders are the very proud great-grandparents to Katana, Olivia, Khamel Alexander and Charlize Clark. To God Be the Glory! R125886

Mr. and Mrs. Randy Chandler of Salisbury are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Susan Elizabeth Chandler, to Adam Justin Webb, son of Randy Webb of Athens, Ohio, and Veronica Krakovsky of Elkin. The bride-to-be is a 2003 graduate of West Rowan High School. She then obtained her Bachelor’s in Business Administration with a dual concentration in Management and Marketing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2007. She is a Project Director at Wilmington Group, an executive search firm recruiting in the Life Sciences Division. The groom-to-be is a 2003 graduate of Dalton McMichael High School. He then obtained his Bachelor’s in Communications Studies with a Minor in Spanish at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2007. Adam is now a Radio Personality (AWebb) at Surf 98.3, Wilmington’s New Rock Alternative, as well as a Freelance Graphic Designer. Adam and Susan met at University of North Carolina Wilmington five years ago and have been happily dating for over four years. Both of their families are extremely happy for the two of them, and wish them nothing but love and happiness as they start the next chapter of their lives together. Friends and family will join them for a small ceremony on April 30, 2011, in Wilmington to celebrate their love. R125883

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n the early ’80s, I was enjoying the life of Henry David Thoreau by existing in a simple one-room rustic cabin set back into a deep woods. Why in the world would a 30-year-old man in his right mind choose to live in a 100-square foot ramshackle cabin instead of living like almost everybody else? Perhaps the phrase “right mind” is important. Suffice it to say that things had led me to want to seek refuge, GORDON peace and a FURR simple, enjoyable existence. Apparently, the magnetism of Walden Pond was too strong for me to escape. I had no running water, except when I ran with the jug, no electricity except a car battery that I strapped to my bike and recharged once a month to power my ghettoblaster. I used kerosene to provide both light and heat and to warm the water for bathing. I used a charcoal grill to cook the food I kept in an Coleman cooler. A trip for ice only occurred weekly. I had taken a shipping pallet to form the floor of an outdoor shower, robbed rigging from my sailboat to fashion a liftand-tilt system for hoisting the black-painted and sunwarmed 5-gallon jug up over my head. I did not need air-conditioning, even in the sweltering dog days of the Salisbury summers. I had learned the valuable lesson that a deep copse of woods is nature's own air-conditioning, bringing up coolness from deep underground and protecting that coolness from the glaring sunlight above with a thick and lush canopy above my head. In addition, these trees provided a wonderful sound on breezy days that I still miss. The groan and the rustling of the limbs and leaves provides a natural white-sound that deep in our brain tells our soul that we are in a safe and wonderful place. I did not live alone or lonely here. Enjoying life at my side was my dear first Dalmatian, Morgan. We were inseparable. Bobbalu the cat, however, stayed mostly on the handrail of the cabin, now called The Treehouse. It was more a treehouse in setting than in elevation, as it was only about four feet or so above the forest floor, but in a photograph I had shared with some work associates it could have been 50 feet up from what they could see of the surrounding limbs, leaves, and poles, and they immediately referred to it as Gordon’s Treehouse henceforth. This treehouse, unlike similarly reclusive friend Tony Stokes’ tent which was hidden on a then-undeveloped portion of Hurley Pocket Park, was set no more than three miles from the very edge of Salisbury, but it might as well have been 30 miles. My favorite sensation was that of the bright early morning watching the mesmerizing dapples of light blazing, shimmering, dancing across the forest floor, swaying to the rhythm of the meandering breeze above. Occasionally a large buck deer and his does would visit. Possum would waddle about, drawn by the dying scent from the evenings’ broiled shrimp or grilled steak. Once a bat struck up a visit, landing in a kuwhump upon my handrail. Snakes were definitely taboo. I had to remove a corn snake (which is just close enough in appearance to a nasty copperhead to worry me) from my tiny porch roof framing before entering my front door. He was left alive, but removed, and reminded not to try that again. Inside, the treehouse was quite comfortable. There was a sisal rug over the pine floor. A kerosene heater and hurricane lamp. A well-broken-in beanbag chair and a foam mushroom chair. An antique tiger oak dresser and mirror A few rustic pieces of art on the walls. The walls themselves were mostly heavily textured concrete, applied with a trowel. I figured that a tiny 8-foot by 12-foot cabin

would need the benefit of a heat-absorbing thermal mass. The relatively small space could quickly lose most of the heat stored in it with just a person going through a door, so it was nice to have the warmth embedded in the wall, even if one friend callously referred to the texture as that of wet toilet paper slung to the surface. The space was small, but vertical, taller than long. Running diagonally across the room at head level was a then- 100-year-old hand-hewn pine log salvaged from one of the buildings on the property when I was a child. This property was once the farm of the Peeler family and was a much larger tract. The Mr. Peeler that started and ran Bamby Bakery in Salisbury on North Main Street was born in my family’s house, just about 1880. His dad had built the house just after the war, and many storage buildings accompanied the home. This beam had been under the granary and was a gorgeous signature of one man’s industry with a hand ax a century before. Many of you might remember the wonderful smell of baked bread wafting like a sweet cloud through the northeast quandrant of town early every morning back in the middle of the 20th century. That was our Mr. Peeler's doings. I fashioned a small bunkbed loft. The trick to getting up there was to stand on top of the green mushroom chair, step onto the top of the oak dresser, putting your trunk between the bunk and the beam, and then hoist your rump over onto the bunk. It was a wonderful place to sleep — high, concealed, with a clear view out the windows looking down toward Oddie Creek and farm. Our neighbor was Old Man Oddie, and if you had ever driven down Stokes Ferry a ways, you would have likely noticed the famous Oddie homestead. I loved that land. No doubt, most would simply dismiss it a ramshackle old farm. The house threatened to fall for decades, and only in the last year has the eastern wing of it finally succumbed to gravity and moisture. I sat on the front porch and on a picnic table out front many a days with kindly Leon, enjoying the cackle and occasional word from his pet crow. Being 5 when first brought to this Eden, I was technically an adoptee to the country life, but never did any of the natives dare say so to me. I was accepted, graciously, as a momma wolf might accept one stray Dachshund puppy with her own wolf pups. Old man Oddie recently passed away, and I deeply regret it. It is just not the same around here with the layer of personalities gradually being peeled away from us. As gruff and ripe as a man might possibly aspire to be, but underneath he was...well, I’m not entirely sure, I just know that he seemed to kind of like me, offering me one of his pigs when my pet pot-bellied pig went belly-up, and not charging me when my Dalmatian took a liking to goat — HIS goat. Early every morning, before light, 90 degrees or 12 degrees, he would dutifully check the perimeter of fences around his farm and would invariably pass my spot in the woods, announced by the rustling of leaves and the crack of branches. Occasionally he’d discover a breach in the security of the fence and would hammer a repair. I’m sure he’d cast a glance up the valley to my little treehouse and wonder about the status of the nut within. Getting back to the original premise of this story, I will explain why I painted under the name “Jacques LeClair.” My old friend Jeff Earnhardt had popped in for a visit and had caught me doing a series a watercolors. I remarked that nobody would want to buy painting by someone named Furr but would snap up artwork willynilly by someone with a French-sounding name. He agreed, and I said “Yeah, something like Jacques. Jacques LECLAIR!” It stuck. I signed the painting “Jacques LeClair.”

At that moment, old Dennis Agner came driving up. Getting out of his car (a driveway back to my spot was a fairly recent addition) he announced that he wanted to see if I had something that he could buy as a gift for a girlfriend. Sure, Dennis! I have some real originals right here from the renowned French artist Jacques LeClair. Both Jeff and I could see his eyebrows raise, indicating that he was impressed, and carefully he took the freshly dried artwork in his hands, reverently holding them. “How much?” “Thirty bucks each,” I replied quickly and firmly. “I'll take them all. She’ll be impressed by these!”

Gordon Furr’s sketch of the treehouse he used to live in.

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CHOOSE FROM PAPER, FABRIC, WOOD, LEATHER, METAL, RESIN AND WICKER.

“Make It Christmas” Craft Parts & Materials

54" Home Dec Fabric Prints, Solids & Sheers

Burlap • 48” WIDE • ASSORTED COLORS

2.99

PREVIOUSLY REDUCED ITEMS NOT INCLUDED

P/YD.

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 3.99

30 Off

All Ribbon & Trim Spools (excludes ribbon/trim sold by the yard)

Entire Stock of

Calico Prints & Solids • 45" WIDE • 100% COTTON • INCLUDES APPAREL COTTON PRINTS

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 1.99 - 4.99

Fleece PRINTS, SOLIDS & MICROFIBER

6” x 25 YDS. 6” x 10 YDS. GLITTER MATTE

PER SPOOL OUR EVERYDAY LOW 2.99 P/SPOOL

30% Off 2.99

Net

PER SPOOL OUR EVERYDAY LOW 4.99 P/SPOOL

Seasonal Fabric

77¢ P/YD.

HARVEST & CHRISTMAS

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 1.29

6” x 25 YDS. - SHINY

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 6.99 - 14.99 P/YD.

Shiny 99¢ P/YD. EVERYDAY Tulle OURLOW 1.39

40% Off All the Paper Studio® and Stampabilities® brand products OVER 4000 PRODUCTS TO CHOOSE FROM! PAPER, STICKERS, ALBUMS, STAMPS & ACCESSORIES, EMBELLISHMENTS, TOTES & ORGANIZERS, TOOLS AND MANY MORE CATEGORIES.

Seasonal EVA Foam Shapes, Sheets, Kits & Buckets

Savings throughout the department!

INCLUDES EVERYDAY

Wilton® , Make n Mold, Sunny Side Up & LoRann Cake Cookie & Candy Making Supplies %

Art Markers INCLUDES SETS & INDIVIDUALS. FEATURING PRISMACOLOR, SHARPIE & MORE! EXCLUDES COPIC.

All Construction Paper & Poster Board

All Tempera Paint, Window Writers & Poster Paint Markers

All Master’s Touch® Brushes

Artskill Poster Making Supplies

SINGLES & SETS

50 Off

FEATURING ARTSKILL & 3M

Smart Foam Pads

30% Off OUR EVERYDAY LOW 1.99 - 21.99

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

3.5 OZ.

3.99

Little Britches

4 OZ.

All Needleart Handsewing Needle Packs FEATURING BOYE, BATES, COLONIAL & DMC.

3.5 & 4 OZ.

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 1.49 - 7.99

Sweet Delight Baby Yarns

FEATURING SCULPEY, KATO, PREMO & FIMO

Plastic Storage Containers

All Aerosol Spray Paint

Your Choice...

1.27

FEATURING STERILITE, AKRO, IRIS & MORE! INCLUDES JEWELRY DEPARTMENT

INCLUDES KRYLON & RUSTOLEUM

30% Off

25 Off

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 1.77 - 2.47

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

INCLUDES CRYSTALLIZED™ SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS, COLOR GALLERY, CZECH BEADS & MIXES, MAGNETIC HEMATITE & BRILLIANCE

Entire Stock of

Traditions, Explorer & Natural Gallery®

Jewelry Making Most Categories Shown

SOLIDS, POMPS, OMBRES, WRAPS & TWISTS. OUR EVERYDAY LOW 5.29

50% Off All Knitting Looms & Accessories %

Vintaj Natural Brass Components

Sterling Silver Beads, Chains, Findings & Wire Sparkle Style Fashion Jewels ACRYLIC STONES FROM THE BEADERY®.

Craft Organizers

Curved Compartment Organizers

1.47 1.99

30 Off 25 % Off

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

39.99 OUR EVERYDAY LOW 49.99

Modeling Clay 2 OZ.

3.99

30% Off 40% Off 3.99 OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

Crafting Sale Categories Shown

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 5.59

FEATURING REVELL, TAMIYA, MAISTO, CLASSIC METAL & MORE!

AMACO Polymer Clay & Craft Oven

Bead Treasures™ Beads, Glass Pendants & Kits

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 4.99

30% Off

30 Off

Entire Stock of

Omega Stella Sparkle

Plastic & Die Cast Model Kits

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

Needle Art Categories Shown

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 1.09

Tulle 77¢ P/YD.

1.99

30% Off

FEATURING MASTER’S TOUCH, STRATHMORE, CANSON & MORE!

Fashion Fabric Categories Shown Entire Stock of

Scrapbook Blow-Out Sale

Seasonal Packaged Ornament Kits & Craft Kits

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 2.99 - 9.99 P/YD.

Tulle Spools

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

the Paper Studio ® and Stampabilities ®

30 Off

50 Off 30 Off

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 2.99 - 44.99 P/YD.

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

INCLUDES MIRRORS, ART, CLOCKS & SHELVES

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 5.99

Christmas Wreaths, Swags & Garlands %

40% Off 50 Off

Art Supplies Most Categories Shown

Wall Decor

4.99

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

“A Tree for Me” Miniature Ornaments & Mini Trees

Artist Pads & Sheet Paper

50% Off Candle FX Value Packs

40 Off OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

Fall & Christmas Craft Categories Shown

Fall & Christmas Scrapbook Kits, Albums, Stickers & Accessories

Home Accent Most Categories Shown

Decorative Pillows, Throws, Tassels & Rugs

INCLUDING ROBERT STANLEY BLOWN GLASS & BOXED SETS

Seasonal Felt Shapes, Sheets, Stickers, Bags & Boxes INCLUDES EVERYDAY

Custom Frames

Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Trees & Lights 40% Off

Christmas Potpourri & Scented Items

Framing

INCLUDES ITEMS WITH DECORATIVE BEADED ACCENTS AS WELL AS ITEMS FROM OUR CRAFT & FLORAL DEPARTMENTS. EXCLUDES FURNITURE.

Robert Stanley Home Decor Collection

(APPLIES TO FRAME ONLY) THIS OFFER AVAILABLE ONLY AT STORE ADDRESSES LISTED BELOW.

Categories Shown

INCLUDES MINIATURE & TABLETOP STYLES

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 1.99

OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES

OUR EVERYDAY LOW 2.99

PRICES GOOD OCTOBER 11 THROUGH OCTOBER 16, 2010 • SALES SUBJECT TO SUPPLY IN STOCK • SELECTION MAY VARY BY STORE • THIS AD DOES NOT APPLY TO PRE-REDUCED ITEMS

STORE HOURS: 9-8 MONDAY-SATURDAY • CLOSED SUNDAY

All Furniture Now Marked... %

30 Off

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ONTHETOWN

SUNDAY October 10, 2010

SALISBURY POST

Katie Scarvey, Lifestyle Editor, 704-797-4270 kscarvey@salisburypost.com

www.salisburypost.com

ugly

bug

ball Nearly 300 people gathered Oct. 1 at the Center for the Environ-

ment facility on the Catawba College campus to enjoy farm-fresh food, live music and dancing at the 5th Annual Ugly Bug Ball. The gala event featured a silent auction with nearly 150 items, including

Peggy and Dick Smith take a turn on the dance floor at the Ugly Bug Ball last Friday.

original art, a weekend getaway and a host of gift certificates and services. The theme for the evening was “Stay Local, Go Green, Reuse, Recycle.” Proceeds from the fundraiser support the Center’s programs and activities.

Photos by Sean Meyers

Ugly Bug Ball guests enjoy dinner on the balconies at Catawba College’s Center for the Environment,

Left: Sandra Borré, Margaret Harris and Chris Borré stand near the art offerings at the Ugly Bug Ball. Below: Jim Mitchell, David Zirt and Judy Zirt pause for a photo at last Friday’s Ugly Bug Ball at the Center for the Environment.

Above: Jean Wurster and Jim Taylor enjoy themselves at the ball. Below: Barbara Corriher and Carol Brooke socialize.