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the district will lose $7.1 million if the education fund is slashed by 5 percent. Those cuts would be on top of the 4 percent budget reductions that are an ongoing part of the state’s public school budget. “In reality, the 5 percent cut would add up to a 9 percent cut when you consider the ongoing hole built in our schools’ budget,” said Philip Price, chief financial officer for the Department of Public Instruction. “The 10 percent cut would become a 14 percent cut. The possibility of deep cuts to the state’s public school fund, which makes up about 40 percent of the state budget, is due to the expiration of temporary sales taxes and income-tax surcharges, resulting in the loss of about $1 billion. Officials with the Department of Public Instruction say cuts would mean teacher layoffs, larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and less help for struggling students. “We have already reduced non-essential costs,” State Superintendent June Atkin-

Statewide, central office adminstration could be slashed $8 million and mentor pay completely cut. This isn’t the first time the school system has faced a major shortfall. During the first year of recessionary budgeting in 2009-10, more than $10 million in federal funding was cut, resulting in 137 job losses countywide. This year, the school system dealt with more than $1.5 million in state cuts by eliminating exceptional children, science and math hiring incentive; cutting 21⁄2 vacant assistant principal positions; and freezing three central office adminstration positions.

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son said. “Additional cuts will hit the classroom and hurt teachers and students.” A 10 percent reduction in the state’s education fund could eliminate 73 classroom teachers and 91 instruction support positions in the Rowan district. About 59 teacher layoffs could be in the works with 5 percent in cuts, and 10 instruction support jobs could be eliminated. A total of 13,259 teacher assistants could be eliminated across the state, with Rowan-Salisbury Schools losing $2.7 million in salaries under the 5 percent reduction formula. It’s unclear how many positions in the school system are in jeopardy. A 10 percent reduction would result in the elimination of teacher assistants in every grade except kindergarten. The state currently funds teacher assistants in kindergarten through third grade. The school district could see a $5.5 million loss in teacher assistants with a 10 percent reduction. The Department of Public Instruction indicated services for children with special needs and academically gift might also dwindle with the loss of state funds.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bucking the Pentagon’s top leaders, the chiefs of the Army and Marines urged Congress on Friday not to allow openly gay people to serve in the military, at least not while troops are at war in Afghanistan. The generals publicly rebutted their own bosses and the White House, arguing that it is too risky to change the policy now. That gave political ammunition to congressional Republicans trying to retain the ban known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.� “It’s important that we’re clear about the military risks,� said Gen. George Casey, the Army’s top officer. “Repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ would be a major cultural and policy change in the middle of a war.�

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks became an Internet vagabond Friday, moving from one website to another as governments and hackers hounded the organization, trying to deprive it of a direct line to the public. The organization that has embarrassed Washington and foreign leaders by releasing a cache of secret — and brutally frank — U.S. diplomatic cables found a new home after an American company stopped directing traffic to wikileaks.org. Then French officials moved to oust it from its new site. By late Friday, WikiLeaks was up in at least three new places. “The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops,� tweeted John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the online free-speech group Electronic Frontier Foundation. His message was reposted by WikiLeaks to its 300,000-odd followers. Legal pressure increased on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after Swedish authorities revised a warrant for his arrest in response to procedural questions from British officials.

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TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian man was charged with first-degree murder Friday for fatally shooting his father in the back with a crossbow in a Toronto library as shocked mothers and children watched. Zhou Fang, 24, appeared in court to face the murder charge a day after Si Cheng, 52, was killed in the library about an hour after a nearby school let out for the day. The judge ordered that Fang be held without bail. Toronto police Const. Tony Vella said Cheng was pronounced dead at the scene and Fang was arrested later Thursday in a Toronto suburb.

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Boehner vows GOP will lead in extending Obama commission’s debt-reduction fails tax cuts for all to advance WASHINGTON (AP) — With unemployment rising, incoming House Speaker John Boehner vowed Friday that Republicans will show the way toward extending tax cuts in 2011 if the outgoing Democrats fail to do it sooner. Boehner, R-Ohio, made his comment as partisan wrangling in the Senate slowed attempts to pass legislation ensuring that tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 don’t expire. The White House has signaled that President Barack Obama is prepared to sign a bill extending tax cuts at all levels, as Republicans want. At the same time, Democrats want the bill to include an extension of unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed, renewal of tax provisions benefiting college students, companies that hire the jobless and lower- and middleincome workers, even if they don’t make enough to pay federal taxes. Additionally, private talks include a possible increase in the debt limit to permit the Treasury to borrow funds needed to meet its obligations. But Senate Democrats, who propose allowing tax cuts to lapse for the upper income, accused Republicans of favoring the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

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Volunteers, city staff plant crepe myrtles along Park Avenue BY EMILY FORD eford@salisburypost.com

Park Avenue will pop this summer when dozens of crepe myrtles planted Thursday start to bloom. The trees are the latest improvement in the revitalized neighborhood, where parks, restored homes and a community center are replacing blight caused by years of neglect. Neighborhood volunteers, city staff and homeless people from Rowan Helping Ministries planted 65 crepe myrtles along the avenue, part of a beautification effort approved by City Council. Fifteen more trees will complete the gateway effect, with crepe myrtles lining both sides of Park Avenue from Long Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. In addition to the blooming trees,

the neighborhood will have new crosswalks and planters at the Spee Dee Mart. “This is an ongoing effort the neighborhood initiated for beautification and improvements,” said Lynn Raker, a city planner who works with the Park Avenue Redevelopment Corporation. The city used about $4,000 left over from a $127,000 Blanche & Julian Robertson Family Foundation grant to buy trees and hire a contractor to dig holes. The original grant paid for improvements to Shaver, Liberty and Council streets and a park. Volunteer labor kept the tree project cost down, Raker said. Members of the New Tomorrows group planted most of the trees within about an hour. “They really seemed to enjoy it,”

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Raker said. “They worked very enthusiastically.” New Tomorrows is a partnership between Rowan Helping Ministries and Park Avenue United Methodist Church. The city removed about 15 old trees to make room for the crepe myrtles, Raker said. The trees had grown into the power lines and had been poorly pruned over the years, she said. The crepe myrtle variety was chosen because it will top out under the power lines, she said. The city adopted a strategic redevelopment plan for the Park Avenue neighborhood in 1998. “It might be one of our biggest successes,” council member Paul subMiTTed phoTo Woodson said recently. homeless joined city staff and volunteers in planting crepe myrtles The Contact Emily Ford at 704-797along park Avenue. The project was part of a city beautification effort. 4264.

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Vic Shive, 62, the general manager of Perma-Flex Roller Technology Inc., died Friday night at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte. He had suffered a brain aneurysm, according to family friends. Shive experienced a dizzy spell at work Thursday afternoon and was taken to Rowan Regional Medical Center, where doctors detected bleeding on the brain, said family friend Rick Anderson McCombs. Shive was taken to Presbyterian Hospital, where his condition worsened, McCombs said. Life support was removed Friday, and Shive was transfered from the intensive care unit to a larger room in the hospice unit, where family and friends gathered. He died peacefully just before 10 p.m. after two longtime friends arrived to say goodbye, McCombs said. Shive was a well-known Salisbury resident, and a longtime member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Shive was married to Starr Shive for 39 years. He is survived by his wife and their two sons, Victor and Daniel, as well as three grandchildren. Contact Emily Ford at 704-797-4264.

Police find crack rocks in lip balm tube A Salisbury police officer arrested a man in a parking lot Thursday after finding a tube of lip balm in the man’s pocket filled with five crack rocks. Officer Mark Hunter arrested Bobby David Leach, Jr. 25,and charged him with felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a schedule II controlled substance and using profane or indecent language on highways. Leach’s address is listed in the police report as “the streets of Salisbury.” According to the police report, Hunter was patrolling the parking lot of an apartment complex on Hall Street, when he noticed Leach, whom he knew was not a resident of LEACH the complex, and decided to talk to him. Leach refused to talk to Hunter. Hunter reported that Leach’s actions and behavior during the encounter were suspicious, and decided to pat Leach down. Hunter felt a hard object in the right front pocket that was consistent with a tube of lip balm, however, the contents rattled when it was moved, the report said. Hunter found five crack rocks in the tube, a total of 0.8 grams. Leach was placed in the Rowan County jail under a $2,500 secured bond.

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KANNAPOLIS — A 24year-old motorcyclist was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center and underwent surgery Friday. Brandon Baucom, 24, of Longbriar Drive, Kannapolis, was riding a dirt bike on Longbriar Drive when he collided head-on with a pickup, throwing him from the bike. The truck, driven by Juanita Presley, 32, also of Longbriar Drive, was navigating a sharp curve on the dirt road, and drove into the oncoming lane and collided with Baucom. The N.C. Highway Patrol said Presley will not be charged because the road is

on private property. A landing zone for MedCenter Air was set up in the yard of a Longbriar Drive home, next door to where Baucom, his mother and father — Wayne and Deborah Baucom — live. Trooper D. Deal said Brandon Baucom likely broke his leg, but that his injuries did not appear to be life threatening. Neighbors of the Baucoms, James and Ann Wright, have known Baucom for more than 20 years and said residents of the neighborhood know to drive slowly and watch for pedestrians, as well people riding all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes. “It’s country out here, and that’s why we moved

here,” Ann Wright said. “Everyone rides fourwheelers and dirt bikes,” James Wright said. “We know they’re on the road, and that’s why we don’t fly.” Ann Wright, best friends with Deborah Baucom, was worried about Brandon Baucom, and said he’s like a son to her. “I’ve known him since he was a little boy,” she said. “He’s loving, caring, sweet, and he’ll do anything for anybody. You couldn’t ask for a better kid.” Wayne nor Deborah Baucom were available Friday night, but Brandon Baucom’s brother, Justin Royce, said his brother had been in the emergency room for hours and was headed to surgery about 8:30 p.m.

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which stands on the corner of West Innes and South Main streets in front of the clock, will accept letters through Dec. 21. Last year, between 150 and 200 children dropped letters in the mailbox. Santa has relied on Downtown Salisbury Inc. for 15 years to help him by setting up the mailbox every December. He told the folks at Downtown Salisbury that he looks forward to hearing from children in the area and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

Ready to mail your letter to Santa, but not sure where to send it? Santa Claus has his own mailbox on the Square in downtown Salisbury, ready and waiting for children’s Christmas wishes. According to sources close to Santa, the jolly old elf loves to receive letters, artwork and notes from children. As long as the letter includes a return address, St. Nick will send a personalized reply to the child, straight from the North Pole. Contact Emily Ford at Santa’s festive mailbox, 704-797-4264.

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of his pockets. Henderson refused, even after being asked two more times to take his hands from his pockets, and he was arrested with resisting, delaying or obstructing arrest. As Moore walked Henderson to the patrol car he called for back-up. Moore and officer M. Morgan forced Henderson’s hands from his pockets, but Henderson kept his hands in fists. Police eventually got Henderson to unclench his fist, and found a bag with a small amount of crack cocaine. Henderson was charged with felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance, and received a $1,500 secured bond. Police said a field test identified the substance, less than on gram, as cocaine.

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Not too late than modesty at stake to contribute More Terrorist threat to airline travel is real Laurels to all the local businesses and individual donors whose campaign pledges have put the Rowan County United Way within sight of its fundraising goal. Although it still needs an additional $151,000 to hit the $1.65 million bulls-eye, United Way officials have extended the deadline and pledges continue to come in. Like other nonprofits, businesses and families, the United Way has had to pare back its expectations in recent years. But somehow, this community comes through. With the help of a few more generous donors, the United Way can meet this year’s goal and provide much-needed support for the 16 member agencies who provide important services for people here in Rowan County. • • • Dart to yet another consequence of the economic downturn. The percentage of U.S. households who have life insurance is at its lowest level in half a century, according to USA Today. About 30 percent of U.S. households have no individual or employer-provided life insurance, according to a survey by the insurance-sponsored group LIMRA. For husband-wife families with kids under 18, the statistics are somewhat better — 77 percent have some kind of life insurance coverage. But that’s down from 90 percent in 2004. • • • Laurels to all of you who’ve seen the light and are taking advantage of Duke Energy’s offer of free CFLs. Compact fluorescent light bulbs are coming into wider use as consumers learn more about the potential energy savings and durability of the bulbs. If every American home replaced just one incandescent light with an Energy Star-rated CFL, it would save enough energy to light 3 million homes for a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Along with the potential energy savMore than an 2 mil- ings, keep in mind that lion customers have CFLs do contain a responded to Duke small amount of merEnergy’s bulb offer. cury. They need to be recycled, not thrown away. Lowe’s and Home Depot are among the big-box retailers that recycle CFLs. You can learn more about safe handling and disposal of CFLs at www.p2pays.org/ Fluorescent/households.asp, a new website set up by the N.C. Division of Environmental Assistance and Outreach.

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f you could choose the family that you were born to, what kind of people would you choose? My 3-month-old, first-ever grandchild spent last weekend getting passed around the room like a box of candy. I hogged most of the pieces, of course. You would, too, if you saw him. I’ve waited a long time to get my SHARON hands on that candy. Now that RANDALL he’s finally here, I’m not big on sharing him. But trying to hold Randy is like trying to hang onto a 16pound sack of potatoes that suddenly comes alive and tries to make a break from the potato patch. Picture the body of a sumo wrestler with the speed of the Karate Kid, the strength of Iron Man and the neck of a bobblehead doll. Talk about mixed martial arts. He jabs with his arms, kicks with his legs, butts with his head, arches his back to try a double back flip, then lunges sideways, left and right, to throw you off balance. Finally, when all else fails, he looks you straight in the eye, lights up like Christmas, grins from ear to ear and spits up. In your hair. On your sweater. Down your last pair of clean stretch pants. And into the furry lining of your UGG boots. Don’t ask me to explain it, but somehow, he even manages to soak your underwear. Not that I mind. On the contrary. I’ve been spit up on (and worse) plenty of times by his dad and his aunt and uncle. Someday I will tell him that when his dad was a baby, he didn’t just spit up; he hosed me down from across the room. I’ll tell him other things, too, anything he wants to know, if his dad doesn’t bring him to see me as often as he should. This is not blackmail. It’s maternal motivation. Grandmas use it only as necessary. Like many families that gather for the holidays, sometimes we enjoy a board game. And sometimes we don’t. It’s gotten better since the kids are adults and have outgrown, pretty much, their childhood habits of jumping on each other at the least provocation like a bunch of rabid spider monkeys. But childhood habits die hard. And it isn’t just the kids. This may surprise you, but they come by their natures honestly. As a family, we (including the people we married) are a hot-blooded clan of know-it-all cutthroat competitors, who hate to lose, love to win and will fight tooth and nail to the finish. I wasn’t sure Randy was ready to see that side of his family. But ready or not, the game was on. While the kids paired up for Cranium — a game in which you draw, act, hum or maybe sculpt clues for your partner — I opted to referee and watch Randy, who sat in his baby swing, cranked up to full speed. One other thing about our family: We are loud. And we laugh a lot. And the more we laugh, the louder we get. At one point, my oldest, who earns his living as an actor, had to act out a word: toaster. I can’t begin to describe his actions, but I can assure you he gave it his all. I laughed so hard that Diet Pepsi blew out of my nose. I looked around the table at those faces that I love, those once-little people who aren’t little anymore. They were laughing as hard as I was. We don’t get to choose the family we’re born to, the kind of people they may be — rich, poor, Republican, Democrat, lazy or ambitious, straightlaced, fun-loving or hot-blooded, know-it-all, cutthroat competitors. But we can choose to get together and hope for the best — for good times and big laughs and memories that last a lifetime — and try not to fight like spider monkeys. I looked at Randy. Sound asleep, he’d missed the toaster act. It’s OK. He’ll grow into us. Soon he’ll be acting out clues. • • • Contact Sharon Randall at www.sharonrandall.com.

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or those of you who are upset about the prospect of passing through a full-body scanner or undergoing an enhanced patdown, um, people, do you realize that determined men and women are working persistently to bring down an airplane full of passengers? Last week, one of my students paraphrased Ben Franklin’s famous quotation about those who are willing to relinquish essential liberty in order to obtain a little temporary safety; they deserve neither liberty nor safety. Well said. But maybe today Franklin would have called safe air travel a sort of liberty in its own right. Since the threat is real — remember the “Underwear JOHN Bomber” and the recent atCRISP tempts to crash several cargo planes — why are we so exercised over increased efforts to protect us? Some of it has to do with the nature of modern political discourse. It thrives on indignation and its lifeblood is outrage. Both are constantly needled into paranoia on talk radio and partisan news channels. Let’s call it the “How-Dare-They?!” Syndrome: the persistent agitation of the notion that someone is constantly besieging us, in this case faceless bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Administration and, by extension, the Obama administration. Our consternation over violations of our modesty is puzzling. Our country is saturated in sex and we’re used to hearing our most private bodily functions discussed in public. We use sex to sell everything from mouthwash to automobiles. We allow strangers on television to discuss erectile dysfunction and hemorrhoids during dinner, but when someone tries to breastfeed in public and when we go to the airport, we suddenly turn into Puritans. I was thinking about this last week as I was having my prostate examined. The details aren’t important, but clearly we already

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dog takes the delivery when mail left in yard China Grove rural mail customers, be aware that our Post Office apparently bears no responsibility for how/where they leave packages too large for a mailbox. I recently ordered photos online and evidently mistakenly trusted the postal service to deliver them. My photos came in a heavy folder clearly marked “Photos.” As this was too large to fit into our standard-size mailbox, the carrier made at least one correct and responsible move by attempting to deliver the photos to our door. We were not at home at the time, so instead of exercising intelligence, responsibility and care, the carrier then decided to leave my photos on an overturned childs’ wagon in our yard near our uncovered back door. We returned home to find the photos ripped to shreds all over our yard as a dog found them before we did. We then took the shredded package contents to the Post Office and explained what we found, only to be interrogated, blamed and harassed as if we caused this ourselves. After three separate conversations, the wonderful folks at the Post Office offered us no recourse for the damages. I just wanted to warn other potential victims that if you trust the China Grove Post Office to deliver your packages safely to you, you might want to reconsider. I know I will. It is funny that all of my bills make it safely to me, though ... — Beth Atkinson China Grove

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submit ourselves to humiliating indignities in the interest of our health and safety. So why do we stumble over an indistinct and anonymous full-body scan? Why aren’t we more willing to tolerate a little more inconvenience and indignity for the sake of safety? After all, a lot is at stake, more than a planeload or two of air passengers: The 9/11 hijackers can’t have imagined the far-reaching damage that their actions would inflict on our nation. Because of 9/11, we started a mostly justifiable war in Afghanistan. But after nearly a decade, that war has lost its way and probably is now doing more harm than good. We used 9/11 as an excuse to start an unnecessary war in Iraq. The most optimistic and ideological among us would like to consider that war a success, but the odds of Iraq morphing into a stable, livable democracy do not look good. However, neither of these dubious wars has done much to undermine our overconfidence in military solutions to complicated problems. Unfortunately, the 9/11 hijackers still threaten to change our nation in other fundamental ways. It’s disconcerting to see our government — and many of us — accept torture as a weapon against terror. Furthermore, while squandering the international sympathy and feelings of mutual humanity that arose spontaneously after 9/11, we’ve managed to alienate some 1.3 billion Muslims and undermine some of the world’s confidence in our global leadership. At home, our nation seems more insular, less generous, more angry, more afraid. In short, our country doesn’t feel like quite the same place since 9/11. If we’re willing to fight wars and to torture to prevent another 9/11, then let’s be willing to suffer the inconvenience and indignity of a scan or patdown. A lot more is riding on this than just our modesty. • • • John M. Crisp teaches English at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. E-mail: jcrisp@delmar.edu.

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as it something we did? Something we said? The U.S. has again struck out in a bid to host a prestigious international sporting event. U.S. soccer officials were desperately hoping to win the 2022 World Cup, confident of repeating the success of 1994, still a record for number of tickets sold. The marquis event and the growing popularity of soccer, the officials reasoned, might finally and permanently launch the Utopian thought of soccer moving into the firmament of big league American sports. But we lost to Qatar, a thumb-shaped peninsula in the Persian Gulf. Nothing against Qatar but it is short on both scenery and people. The CIA’s fact book describes it as “mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel.” And it's hot. An average of 106 degrees when the Cup is normally played with the occasional furnacelike 130-degree day. The CIA says the population is 840,426, putting right behind Detroit. The Associated Press says it is 1.7 million, slightly larger than Phoenix. The discrepancy is perhaps due to the vast number of foreign workers, who outnumber the indigenous population as will the fans when the Cup is played. Qatar is not generally counted among the soccer superpowers and indeed has never qualified for Cup play. What it does have is oil and gas and the second highest per capital income in the world. FIFA, soccer's governing world body, awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia, which is already host to the 2014 Winter Olympics. The big loser there was England, which, despite a claim to have invented soccer, last hosted a Cup in 1966. What was perhaps most painful: England was voted out in the first round. Qatar has pledged to renovate three existing stadiums and build nine new ones. The advantage of being a small country is that travel times between the stadiums will be very short. The disadvantage of being a small country is that, after the Cup, it doesn't need the stadiums. The Qataris say they will dismantle them and give the stadiums to poor countries. FIFA President Sepp Blatter said of the decision: “We go to new lands.” With Qatar, they've certainly done that.

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FROM 1a the bomb,” Allende said. Several weeks ago, PGT approached Sarasota County officials about creating jobs in exchange for incentives, said Kathy Baylis, president and CEO of the Sarasota County Economic Development Commission. In exchange for creating 300 new jobs in 2011 and 100 more over the next five years, PGT will earn $600,000 from Sarasota County over an undetermined period, Baylis said. “The support we are receiving from our local EDC and Sarasota County proved critically important in our decision-making process as we look to create hundreds of new jobs locally,” Hershberger said in a press release. PGT had a five-year incentive agreement with Rowan County. In exchange for creating 300 jobs and making capital improvements, PGT earned back a 75 percent property tax refund on the new investment. So far, PGT has received $162,213 from the county coffers. The company was scheduled to receive cash incentives for two more years but won’t if the workforce falls below 300 employees. PGT had talked recently about expanding the Salisbury plant, said Robert Van Geons, executive director for RowanWorks Economic Development. “This is a real loss,” Van Geons said. “PGT was an employer who had a product we were very proud of showcasing.” Van Geons said no one expected the announcement. “Even in the last couple months, we were talking about ramping up for next year and adding additional employees,” he said. The county will see a net gain of about $588,000 from PGT, even after incentives are paid, he said. “And we had employment of 400 to 500 for five years,” Van Geons said. But former employee Roy Watson called PGT’s decision to leave “a slap in the face” to the Rowan County Board of Commissioners and the community. PGT took taxpayer money and then “turned around and left,” said Watson, who has a nephew and several friends working at PGT. Before they award incentives, “commissioners really need to sit down and go deeper into the background of the company and not listen to word of mouth,” he said. “They need to look at the broader side.” PGT released a statement Friday afternoon. Moving the Salisbury operations to Florida will better position the company to provide “core customers” with the products and high level of service they expect, Hershberger said. “We expect that the consolidation of manufacturing operations to our Florida facility will enhance long-term competitiveness and improve efficiencies,” he said. “We continue to make good progress in executing our strategy during a very difficult economic and market environment.” PGT has about a 60 percent market share in Florida, Salisbury plant Manager Monte Burns told the Post previously. Burns could not be reached Friday for comment. PGT has about 700 fulltime workers in Florida, down from 2,600 during the housing boom. In August, for the first time since 2006, PGT reported year-over-year sales growth. The 4.6 percent increase was due mainly to expansion outside of Florida, Hershberger said. “During this downturn, we have demonstrated our ability to establish a stronger foothold in new markets, including states outside Florida, where sales increased 28.3 percent,” he said in a statement. Bringing PGT jobs back to Sarasota County was important, Baylis said. “I think this is particularly rewarding to us because this is a homegrown company,” she said. “I know this is very difficult for your community, in terms of having the plant close and losing those jobs.” Contact Emily Ford at 704797-4264.

Burglar falls through church ceiling A Salisbury man, apparently desperate for copper, fell through the ceiling of St. Matthews Church Thursday after he and another man broke into the church, stripping the building of copper wires and pipes. According to the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, a construction crew near St. Matthews Church, 9275 Bringle Ferry Road, called 911 after they saw two men inside. When deputies arrived, they found the double doors of the church’s sanctuary had been forced open, and things inside the church — tools, copper pipes and wires — were piled nearby. Damage was found in church where the the KINCAID copper had been taken, and there was damage to the ceiling. Two men were quickly found at Tamarac Marina with burglary tools and items from the church.

James Ashley Kincaid, 22, of 415 Hyde Lane, and Jeremy Edward Moss, 24, of 355 Hyde Lane, were arrested. Kincaid was injured from falling through the ceiling, and was taken to Rowan Regional Medical Center before he was charged. Moss was charged with felony possession of burglary tools and felony breaking, entering and larceny. He was given a $50,000 secured bond. Kincaid was charged with felony breaking and entering, felony possession of burglary tools, possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a schedule II controlled substance and schedule IV substance. He was also given a $50,000 secured bond. The two men remained MOSS in the Rowan County jail Friday night. Kincaid was charged with larceny in April, and Moss has previously been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Man charged with marijuana trafficking A Concord man was charged with marijuana trafficking, Concord police said Friday. Romero Lamont Massey, 31, of S.W. 292 Lincoln St., was arrested Thursday and charged with felony trafficking in marijuana, two felony counts of counts of possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, three felony counts of maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for controlled substance, resisting or delaying a police officer and with possession of drug paraphernalia. MASSEY Police seized about 25 pounds of marijuana. Massey was taken to the Cabarrus County jail and bond was set at $300,000. He was not listed among the inmates Friday night.

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Forecast predicts few flakes for Rowan The National Weather Service says a few flakes of snow could fall in Rowan County tonight as a fast-moving storm threatens to drop 1 to 3 inches of snow along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Northwest North Carolina. The forecast for Rowan County calls for a chance for rain after 3 p.m. The high temperature will be in the mid-40s, with a low of 31. If snow does fall, the best chance will be before 1 a.m. No accumulation is expected. Clear skies return on Sunday, with a high in the mid-40s. Winds will be gusty during the day, before a low temperature in the mid-20s sets in overnight.

Cheerwine has selected a University of North CarolinaChapel Hill sophomore from Salisbury to represent the brand as its new “Cheerwine Czar,” the company announced Friday. Carrie Teter will be rewarded for hanging out, mingling and sampling Cheerwine at specified events and TETER popular student hangouts in 2011, spreading “cheer” and helping to fuel a grassroots movement on campus, Salisbury-based Cheerwine said in a press release. She will take the reins from Cheerwine’s inaugural Czar, Junior Lauren Odom, who ruled during all of 2010. Cheerwine launched its second annual czar search in September. Students who wanted to be considered for

the position uploaded videos of themselves to CheerwineCzar.com explaining why they’d make the best Czar. Cheerwine then selected the top finalists, featured their videos on the website for voting and went to Chapel Hill to interview each person before selecting the winner. “The finalists invest so much time into their videos, and we’re blown away each contest by the creativity they put into them and their passion for the brand,” said Tom Barbitta, vice president of marketing for Cheerwine. “Then, during voting, the finalists truly showed their marketing talent by helping to drive thousands of people to CheerwineCzar.com for voting.” As Czar, Teter will have a chance to earn $1,000 for going to Cheerwine-selected events, among other Czar duties, with the potential to earn more. To see Teter’s video, visit www.cheerwineczar.com.

Thrivent sponsors sixth Habitat for Humanity project Habitat for Humanity of Rowan County is receiving $41,415 in funding to help build a house in East Spencer as part of Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity in 2011. This will be the sixth Habitat house built by Thrivent in Rowan County since 2007 and the first one to be constructed in East Spencer. Area Lutheran Churches have effectively used the Thrivent sponsored Habitat constructions as an outreach service to persons with a housing need in our local community. The local Habitat project

is part of an excellent national and international initiative begun in 2005 between Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and Habitat for Humanity. Since its inception, Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity has helped more than 2,500 families in the U.S. and around the world achieve the dream of homeownership. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans continues to be one of the largest supporters of Habitat for Humanity. Thrivent has committed 10.4 million in 2011 in the U.S. to build at least 164 homes in 33 states.

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SALISBURY — Jack SALISBURY — George Turner, 59, of Pinnacle Drive, McGuire, 80, of Salisbury, died Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, at passed away Friday, Dec. 3, his residence after a brief ill- 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. ness. Rowan Funeral Services Mr. is assisting the Turner family. McGuire was born Dec. 7, 1929, in Avery County, son of the late Howard Lewis McGuire and Bertha Guy McGuire. Jack was educated in the Avery and Rowan County school sysMrs. Mae Kennerly Canup tems. 3:00 PM Saturday A veteran of the United St. Paul's Lutheran Church States Navy, he had worked for and retired from Atlantic Oil Service of Salisbury after 40 years of service. Jack was a member of Organ Lutheran Church, where he was a member of the Adult 2 Sunday School Class and a past Council Member. He was also a member of Miller-Russell American Legion Post 112 of Rockwell. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by daughter Sharon McGuire Owens; brother Douglas McGuire; and sister Mary Brown. Jack is survived by his wife of over 60 years Mrs. Dolores Combs McGuire, whom he married July 7, 1950; son Randall Keith McGuire of Rockwell; brothers Blake McGuire and wife Louise of Rockwell and Guy McGuire and wife Keli of SalView the isbury; sisters Claudia Snipes and husband Wayne of SherSalisbury Post’s rills Ford, Pat Cole of Saliscomplete list of bury and Jean Chabon and obituaries husband Steve of Wilmington; and sign the granddaughter Jamie Obituary Guest Book McGuire Osborn and husband Jason of Faith; and greatat www.salisburypost.com granddaughter Gracie Osborn. Services: The funeral service will be held at Organ Lutheran Church Sunday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. conducted by the Rev. Terrell Long, pastor. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation: The family will receive friends Sunday from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Parlor at Organ Lutheran Church. Memorials: May be made to Organ Lutheran Church 1515 Organ Church Road Salisbury NC 28146. Powles Funeral Home of Rockwell is assisting the McGuire family. Online condolences may be made at www.powlesfuneralhome.com.

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Lawyers stick with clients in Zahra case HICKORY (AP) — Lawyers for the father and stepmother of a 10-year-old girl who authorities believe was killed and dismembered are sticking by their clients even though North Carolina will no longer pay the tab because no charges have been filed in the girl’s death. The state Office of the Capital Defender said this week it will cease paying the lawyers it appointed for Elisa and Adam Baker — a move that comes after the local prosecutor objected to their work. But the attorneys for both Elisa Baker and Adam said they will continue helping their clients. “I’ll probably stay on to assist him in this matter if he needs me to,” attorney Mark Killian said Friday. Killian said Adam Baker, an Australian citizen, was in unfamiliar territory and he was “just trying to help him out the best I can.”

Killian also represents Baker on unrelated charges. Lisa Dubs, Elisa Baker’s lawyer, told the Hickory Daily Record that she planned to remain with her client as well. Like Killian, Dubs said she was not concerned if she were not paid by a client or the state. “As a practical matter, it doesn’t effect my or Mark Killian’s ability to represent Elisa Baker or Adam Baker,” Lisa Dubs told the newspaper. The lawyers were appointed for the Bakers after Zahra Baker was reported missing Oct. 9 and authorities later characterized the case as a homicide. Court documents said the Capital Defender Office appointed Dubs because it believed Elisa Baker was about to be accused of murder. Nobody has been charged in the girl’s death. Elisa Baker has been charged with obstruction, accused of faking a ransom note to mislead investigators.

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lowed to cross the crime tape that circled their block, and had to wait in their cars until the investigation was complete. Three residents of Vance Avenue, who did not want to be identified, said they didn’t hear any gunshots. Friday’s shooting by a police officer was the second in three weeks for the Salisbury Police Department. On Nov. 13, Officer J.R. Cable shot and killed Rick Brown at 2410 Stokes Ferry Road after police say Brown came at him with a baseball bat. Police were initially responding to a reported domestic disturbance at the home. Police said Brown had struck his father, Dewitt Brown, with a baseball bat and then approached the officer. Collins said Cable felt in danger, justifying the “last resort” shooting of Brown. Contact Shelley Smith at 704-797-4246.

FROM 1a was also withheld, found the man and tried to arrest him, Collins said, but the man assaulted the officer. “At that time he used his weapon to stop the threat against him in order to prevent him from being seriously injured,” Collins said. As of Friday night, the man who was shot did not have life-threatening injuries, Collins said. More than 10 patrol cars, EMS and firefighters responded to the scene. Lt. Sheila Lingle, a detective, and Rory Collins arrived at the scene around 10:30 p.m. Police blocked off the 300 block of Vance Avenue, and Collins said police and the State Bureau of Investigation were expected to be on the scene for several hours. Residents of the 300 block of Vance Avenue were not al-

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CAR FROM 1a the back. The only color it came in was “solar yellow” with a black top — a sport variety of Rambler’s Classic 770. It was a commemorative model for American Motors, and the company only produced 2,520 Typhoons in 1964 — the lone year it was made. The main differences between the Classic 770 and the Typhoon were the color, the script nameplate on the Typhoon and its unique grille and black accents. It also highlighted what was then AMC’s new shortstroke, inline 6-cylinder engine that put out 145 horsepower. Marius promises he’ll put his own signature on the Typhoon. “The personalization will be the motor,” he says. “You’ll hear it when it comes by.” Waller predicts he and Marius will have both cars — the 1964 Typhoon and the 1950 Chevrolet — ready for the road in about 18 months. And Waller plans to make the Chevrolet an everyday driver. “It’s not going to sit in the shed when I’m done,” Waller says. He plans to paint it black. The Typhoon actually belonged to Waller’s father. Waller worked for more than 20 years in the body shop for Wood’s, an American Motors dealer in Spencer. He later worked full-time out of his backyard body shop when the dealership closed. More and more after 1994, Waller devoted all of his time to his art and framing business. Waller remembers there being one other Typhoon in town when he first saw the one now in his shed. It had been wrecked, and the owner hinted that he was interested in selling. Waller asked his father whether he might be interested in the Typhoon, and they went to the owner’s house to take a look.

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Marius Doyle heads off to his grandfather’s garage where the restoration project is under way. “When we turned into the driveway, Daddy said, ‘I’m going to buy that car,’” Waller remembers. The Typhoon passed to Waller when his father died in 1975. He drove it about a year, put it in storage and pretty much forgot about it until Marius became interested. The 1950 Chevrolet has another family connection. It belonged to the great aunt of Waller’s wife, Jean, who would drive her aunt to the doctor’s office in the car. When the great aunt died, her son in Danville, Va., gave Jean the car in appreciation of all the help she had provided. It has not been driven since 1978, and Waller’s ongoing restoration has seemingly gone on for years. The Typhoon’s dashboard is sitting on a work bench Waller has fashioned out of an old television cabinet. Marius points to a dent on the bottom left of the dashboard. The original owner’s knee had left an impression there after an accident, he explains. A new windshield for the Typhoon is sitting on top of the car. Its grille leans against a wall on the far side of the shed. Bumpers also are scattered here and there. “Rambler was a tough old car,” says Waller, who has

The 1964 Rambler Typhoon was labeled to differentiate it from the regular model, the Classic. performed several awardwinning restorations on other vehicles in the past. Looking at the 1950 Chevrolet, Waller notes that a fender, hood, trunk and left door have come off other cars. He thinks the car was involved in at least two wrecks, including a sandwich job in which the back and front were hit at the same time. Restorations involve a lot of shaping, aligning, putting together, tearing apart, painting, rechroming, salvaging and sweat equity. “You’ve got to have everything right for a good paint job,” Waller says. Son of Keith and Kelli Doyle, Marius is a ninthgrader at West Rowan High School and plays bass drum

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for the band. He says he doesn’t like working in the shop without his grandfather nearby. “I like to have him down here in case I need advice,” Marius says. Kelli Doyle enjoys seeing her son and father working together on the cars and knowing that Marius could be driving the Typhoon that belonged to his great-grandfather some day. “Marius is already starting to fret about finding an old car to fix up for his brother,” Kelli Doyle says. “I told him Atticus is only 9, so there is time. “But he wants to be able to do it with my dad.” Contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263, or mwineka @salisburypost.com

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Rumbles of war on the horizon “And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.…” Matthew 24:6 here is something very deadly brewing on the other side of the planet. A 60-year-old dispute called the Korean Conflict or the Korean War (June 6, 1950-July 27, 1953) has flared up again. Old tensions beREV. DR. came GEORGE JACKSON frayed when the United States and South Korea announced joint military exercises in the Yellow Sea. North Korea, under the iron fist of Kim Jong Il, shelled a South Korean island killing two marines and two civilians on Nov. 26. Is war inevitable or can the United States, China, Russia and Japan finally bring the two founding brothers to the negotiation table and officially end the Korean War? It’s a lot to ask of sworn enemies backed by super powers China and the U.S. As a whole, Korea suffered more than three million casualties during the three-year civil war that’s often overshadowed by World War II and the Vietnam War. It still seems surreal to me to talk about war in the post-modern era. We live in an era of unparalleled technology and information exchange. Our vehicles travel to the far reaches of the solar system. Our research has advanced to the brink of eliminating once deadly diseases. Our life expectancy has surpassed that of the last ten generations and yet we still fight destructive, devastating wars. Maybe that’s just who we are: a species of beings that cannot resolve its disputes without resorting to violence and bloodshed. We kill each other daily with words and deeds. We assassinate each others’ character without the slightest concern about how much collateral damage we cause. School Boards in Wake and Mecklenburg Counties clashed with concerned citizens over school closings and redistricting resulting in several arrests. Pro-life forces clash with Pro-choice forces leaving clinics bombed and doctors shot to death. South of the border, the Mexican government is at war with vicious drug cartels leaving hundreds of innocent civilians dead in a wake of flying bullets. The list of the atrocities of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man goes on and on, fueled by war. I have long believed that domestic violence is inspired by international hostilities. We must find new ways to settle our disputes. We must create fresh approaches to defuse hostilities. We are too civilized, too intellectually advanced, too sophisticated to attempt to resolve every domestic conflict with deadly force. “Come now, and let us reason, together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool,” (Isaiah 1:18). Martin King warned us, “Only refusal to hate or kill can put an end to the chain of violence in the world and lead us toward a community where men can live together without fear.”

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A billboard sponsored by an atheist group is displayed near the entrance to the Lincoln tunnel.

Battle of the billboards Drivers traveling into New York City caught in Christmas billboard feud

A billboard sponsored by a catholic group is displayed near an exit of the Lincoln tunnel in New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — As if trying to negotiate the traffic wasn’t hard enough, drivers coming into New York City via the Lincoln Tunnel are getting caught up in a battle of beliefs. First, an anti-Christmas billboard was set up by the American Atheists outside a New Jersey entrance to the tunnel. It says: “You know it’s a myth. This season, celebrate reason!” The Catholic League countered with its own billboard near one of the tunnel’s New York City entrances bearing the message, “You know it’s real. This season, celebrate Jesus.” “There was a certain sense of exasperation” when the anti-Christmas billboard went up before Thanksgiving, said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, which put up its response on Monday. “We can’t enjoy the Christmas season without someone trying to dumb it down or neuter it.” The atheist group picked its billboard site because of the high-profile location that

would guarantee it was seen by a lot of drivers going by, said group President David Silverman. “We wanted to get people who were sitting in traffic and had nothing to do but think about what they think and what they know,”he said. Silverman said the group hoped the billboard would gain attention, but was surprised by the Catholic group’s response. He said he thought it was a kind of mockery, since it so closely followed the text of the atheists’ sign. “It’s almost as if they’re about to say, ‘I know you are but what am I?” he said. Donohue said his group’s billboard was not negative, and was actually a positive statement. “We wanted to respond with a more positive statement as opposed to denigrating them,” he said. Silverman said the atheist billboard cost around $20,000. Donohue said his group's billboard was about $18,500. Both billboards will be up for at least the next couple of weeks.

Islam and adoption Muslim orphans caught between Islamic,Western law BY RACHEL ZOLL Associated Press

Helene Lauffer knew Muslim children — orphaned, displaced, neglected — needed homes in the United States. She knew American Muslim families wanted to take them in. But Lauffer, associate executive director of Spence-Chapin, one of the oldest adoption agencies in the country, couldn't bring them together. The problem was a gap between Western and Islamic law. Traditional, closed adoption violates Islamic jurisprudence, which stresses the importance of lineage. Instead, Islam has a guardianship system called kafalah that resembles foster care, yet has no exact counterpart in Western law. The differences have left young Muslims with little chance of finding a permanent Muslim home in America. So Lauffer sought out a group of Muslim women scholars and activists, hoping they could at least start a discussion among U.S. Muslims about how adoption and Islamic law could become compatible. “At the end of the day, it’s about trying to find families for

kids,” said Lauffer. Lauffer is not alone in raising the issue. As Muslim communities become more established in the United States, pressure is building for a re-examination of Islamic law on adoption. Refugee children from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere are being resettled here. Muslim couples who can't conceive want to adopt, but don't want to violate their faith’s teachings. State child welfare agencies that permanently remove Muslim children from troubled homes usually can't find Muslim families to adopt them because of the restrictions in Islamic law. “I get all kinds of families who come to me for fertility issues. They want to adopt and they want to adopt Muslim children and I’m thinking this is a crime that they can’t,” said Najah Bazzy, a nurse and founder of Zaman International, a humanitarian service group in Dearborn, Mich. “No one is going to convince me that Islam makes no allocation for this. Either somebody is not interpreting it right, or it needs to be reinterpreted.” Mohammad Hamid, a clinical psychologist and co-founder of the Hamdard Center, a social

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An orphaned Afghan girl listens to her teacher during class in a dormitory in an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan. two decades of war in Afghanistan has left many thousands orphans and abandoned children across the country. service agency in the Chicago area that has many Muslims among its clients, said he regularly received requests from American Muslims for advice on how they could adopt. “We don’t tell them it's Islamic or un-Islamic,” said Hamid, whose nonprofit does not handle adoptions. “Our job is to facilitate

the process. We believe if the child can be adopted, you are saving a child.” The prohibition against adoption would appear contrary to the Quran's heavy emphasis on helping orphans. The Prophet Muhammad's father died before

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Dr. George B. Jackson is pastor of Citadel of Faith Christian Fellowship, Inc.

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Hood Theological Seminary presents Service of Lessons and Carols Dec. 10 N. Kannapolis Baptist KANNAPOLIS — Dave McVay, gospel singer, recording artist and worship leader from Nashville, Tenn., will present a mini-concert at North Kannapolis Baptist Church on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 10:45 a.m. Now a solo artist, McVay is a former member of the Three Bridges gospel group and was instrumental in helping develop the sound they became known for. In addition, the Central Piedmont Community College voice ensemble, known as the North Mecklenburg Community Chorus, will present their Christmas concert at North Kannapolis Baptist on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. . There is no charge for the concert; a love offering will be received.

The church is located at 312 Locust Street in Kannapolis.

Stallings Memorial On Sunday, Dec. 5, Jeff Palmer, executive director of B a p t i s t Global Response, will be the guest speaker at the morning and evening service at Stallings Memorial Baptist Church, 817 S. Main St. JEFF PALMER Palmer currently resides in Mt. Juliet, Tenn. and is a native of Waverly, Tenn.

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Mighty Miracle Temple SPENCER — Mighty Miracle Temple Fellowship Center, 117 Long Ferry Road, presents an evening of songs at 4 p.m. this afternoon, Dec. 4. There will be quartets, choirs, praise dancers and more. Dinner will be served afterward. For more information call Bishop Miller at 336-410-1554 or Bishop Hackett at 704-2672830.

New Beginnings Apostle Harold and Evangelist Mary Wilson, pastors and founders of New Beginnings End Time Ministries, will be honored at a service this afternoon, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. There will be messages and music by gospel recording artists. For more information, call 336-479-0617. The event is being held at Outreach Christian Tabernacle, 722 W. Horah St. Host pastor is Apostle R. E. Taylor.

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Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church, 719 S. Caldwell St., presents the North Rowan Connection Choir in concert. The Friends and Family Mass Choir will sing on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m., and this year’s concert also includes a Rainbow Tea. Proceeds will help the North Rowan Connection Fund’s six scholarships for North Rowan and Rowan county students. The choir is under the direction of Milton Griffith. On Saturday, Dec. 11 from 9 a.m. -3 p.m., Gethsemane will hold a Bake Sale and Cake Walk Holiday Celebration and Fellowship with prizes, music and dance, sponsored by the Westside Community Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr. C. L. Phelps is pastor.

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Hood Theological Seminary will celebrate the Holy Season of Advent on Friday, Dec. 10, with the observance of the Service of Lessons and Carols. This service originated at King’s College Cambridge, England in the early part of the twentieth century and is observed widely today. The Rev. Dr. Vernon Shannon, senior pastor of John Wesley AME Zion Church, Washington, D.C., will deliver the message at the service. The service is open to the public and will begin at 6 p.m. in the multipurpose room of Building 100. Seating is limited and reservations should be made through the Development Office at 704-636-6926. Hood Theological Seminary is located at 1810 Lutheran Synod Drive and is sponsored by the AME Zion Church.

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Second Presbyterian Second Presbyterian, 732 Lincolnton Road, will be led in worship by the children of the church this Sunday at 11 a.m. The preschool choir, dressed as angels and shepherds, will begin with advent songs, followed by a presentation of the Christmas story. The congregation will join in singing familiar Christmas hymns. The service will be followed by a Christmas covered dish lunch in the fellowship hall. A special guest from the North Pole has been invited and has promised to bring along his favorite elf.

Community Baptist Dave McVay will sing Christmas music at Community Baptist Church, 18 Carolina St., at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5.

Choral Society concert CONCORD — The Piedmont Choral Society will present its annual December concerts on Friday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. and again on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. at Forest Hill United Methodist Church, 265 Union St. N. The concerts, featuring familiar Christmas pieces, are free with a reception to follow. For more information, call 704-699-6053.

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CHINA GROVE — On Sunday, Dec. 5, Pine Ridge Baptist Church will host the singing group The Straight and Narrow at the 10:30 a.m. morning worship service. Sunday school starts at 9:30 and prayers for the sick and evening service will be at 5:45 p.m. followed by evening worship and praise at 6 p.m. Pine Ridge is located at 880 United Missionary Old Linn Road between Pine KANNAPOLIS — The MisRidge and Daughtery Roads. sionaries of United MissionPastor is George Bradshaw. ary Baptist Church will host Faith Lutheran events their annual candlelight service on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. FAITH — Faith Lutheran Speaker for the service is the Church will celebrate the be- Rev. Deon Anderson, pastor ginning of a new church year of New Vision in China Grove. and the promise of the birth The church is located at of Christ with a musical enti- 3001 Clermont Ave. Contact tled “Festival of Carols,” cre- the church at 704-932-7316 for ated by Joseph M. Martin. The more details. work follows the order of the traditional lessons and carols First Presbyterian service and includes all nine KANNAPOLIS — First scripture readings. The joint service of Faith- Presbyterian Church in KanWorks, the churches’ contem- napolis will hold its annual Adporary service, and the tradi- vent Celebration this Sunday, tional service will offer the Dec. 5. The evening begins performance on Sunday at with a covered dish supper in 10:30 a.m. There will be no the Fellowship Hall at 6 p.m. Afterward the Kidz Khoir 8:45 FaithWorks service. Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and grades 6-8 Youth Choir The worship service will be will present the musical narrated by the Rev. Clarence “How Far is it to Bethlehem?” Call 704-938-4623 or visit Sifford and the choral performance will be directed by www.FirstPresb.org for addiDon Deming, music director. tional information. Daisy Bost will accompany the choir on piano. Piedmont Singing Men On Sunday Dec. 19 at 7:30 CONCORD — The Piedp.m., Faith Lutheran’s children’s Christmas play will be mont Singing Men will prespresented in the Family Life ent a Christmas Concert on Center and the annual Christ- Sunday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. at Olivet United mas Eve Candlelight Service Mount with Holy Communion will be Methodist Church, 301 Mt. celebrated at 10:30 p.m. on Olivet Road. The public is inDec. 24 in the sanctuary. vited to this free concert. There will also be an afternoon Christmas Eve service Calvary Baptist film at 5:30 p.m. for those that canCalvary Baptist Church not attend the late service. The Reverend Clarence will be showing the video “The Sifford is interim pastor of Role of Pastors and Christians Faith Lutheran Church, locat- in Civil Government” this Sunday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. ed at 205 S. Main St. This David Barton DVD answers the question about the Lyerly Evangelical role the Christian church ROCKWELL — Lyerly played during the struggle for Evangelical Church, 1320 America’s independence. The Crescent Road, will have film depicts the efforts of guest musicians at its 10:30 Christians such as Roger a.m. service on Dec. 5. Sherman, Charles Thomson, Carrie Webster, violinist, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooper, and Amy Wilhelm, pianist and and the Rev. Dr. Jonathan soloist, will lead the worship Mayhew and examines the music. Biblical teachings that caused Webster graduated from generations of Christians to the NC School of the Arts and believe it was their duty to be plays and teaches classical vi- involved with government and olin. She is also a fiddler with how their actions changed the the bluegrass Dry Run Band. course of a nation. Wilhelm graduated from Calvary Baptist Church is Gardner-Webb as a voice ma- located at 2255 E. Ridge Road, jor and from UNC-G as a just beyond Ellis crossroads. speech major. They both live For additional information, in Faith. please call Pastor Cockerham W. C. Gaither Jr. is the pas- at 704-633-2567. tor of Lyerly Evangelical.

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Supper after the parade on Saturday, Dec. 11, from 5-8 p.m. in the fellowship hall. All profits from the supper will benefit a project to install a Living Waters for the World water filtration system at a church outside of Merida, Mexico. The supper will include a pastas and toppings, lasagna, salad, garlic bread and dessert. There is no charge but donations will be accepted. First Presbyterian is located in downtown Kannapolis close to the parade route. Parade participants and audience members are welcome to stop in before or after the event to enjoy supper and benefit a great cause.

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He has served with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention since 1989 as director, Asian Rural Life Development Foundations, both in Thailand and in the Philippines. He will talk about the work he and his wife have done as international missionaries and the importance of contributions made to the Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Each year during December, Southern Baptists place emphasis on international missionaries and support them through gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Palmer will speak at the 10:30 a.m. service and again at 6 p.m. The Women’s Missionary Union will serve dinner at 5:30 p.m. prior to the informal evening service in the Rhyne Building. Proceeds from the dinner will go toward the Christmas offering.

CLEVELAND — The Messengers for Christ will celebrate their 11th anniversary this Sunday, Dec 5, at 3 p.m. at The Building, 1790 Baker Mill Road. Also scheduled to perform are The Chosen Disciples of Asheboro, Gospel Echoes of Taylorsville, The Echoes for Christ of Salisbury, The Voices of Morningstar from Charlotte, The Pilgrimaires of Salisbury, The Anointed Vessels of the Carolinas, Keith Holland and Friends, The New Revelations of Salisbury, The New Voices of Faith of CharThe Main Street Gospel Band will be performing at Main Street lotte and more. Admission is free and food Baptist Church camp meeting services on Sunday evenings. will be for sale at the event. their scheduled weekly servMain Street Baptist ices. Spirit and Truth Concert CHINA GROVE — Main Pastor Larry Beaver and CONCORD — Spirit and Street Baptist Church, 1615 worship leader Billy Beaver Truth Ministries, 202 McGill Highway 29 S., announces the also announce the addition of Ave., will host a Christmas addition of “Camp Meeting” the Main Street Gospel Band concert on Dec. 5 at 4 p.m.. Sunday evening services to to the church’s music minFeatured artists will include the Reverend Dr. Grant Harrison, pastor of Soldiers Memorial AME Zion Church. Accompanying Dr. Harrison will be his wife, Joanne Harrison, a professor of piano and Use Like Cash In Most Downtown Businesses! organ at Livingstone College. No Cash Back. To purchase your Also featured on the conPlease present Downtown Dollars, call cert will be Teresa MooreDollars before Downtown Salisbury, Inc. Mitchell, professor of voice at at 704-637-7814 purchase. Livingstone College. or email Merry This concert is free, but doBetz@DowntownSalisburyNC.com nations are welcome. ProChristmas! ceeds go to the general fund www.DowntownSalisburyNC.com R127910 of Spirit and Truth Ministries. For details, call 704-785JOIN US FOR BIBLE PREACHING - BO0K BY BOOK, VERSE BY VERSE! 7932.

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Southern City EAST SPENCER — Southern City AME Zion Tabernacle Church presents “Wing Thing,” a fundraiser for Hearts of Joy Praise Dance ministry. On Dec. 11 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Dec. 12 from 1-4 p.m. there will be food, music and fellowship. The church is located at 940 S. Long St. For more details contact the church at 704637-9043 or Ms. Corpening, praise dance instructor, at 917-325-2791.

Singing Americans ALBEMARLE — The Singing Americans of Stanly County presents a Christmas concert on Sunday, Dec 12 at 3 p.m. at the Stanly County Agri-Civic Center on 24/27Newt Road in Albemarle. The Singing Americans is a non-denominational choir of 40 voices with four, five and six-part harmony. The show includes a mixture of secular and religious music. The concert is free, donations are accepted.

Christian book sale Jabez Family Outreach will hold a fundraiser Christian book sale through Dec. 22 at Treasures Hidden, 901 S. Main St. Phone 704-345-8834 for more information.

‘The Real Christmas’ SPENCER — Central United Methodist Church will host a special journey on Dec. 12 to “discover what the real Christmas is all about.” Attendees should meet at Library Park on Fourth Street at 4 p.m., after which the walk will proceed to Central United Methodist Church. The evening will conclude with a free dinner. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information contact Linda Miller at 704633-0760 or lmiller_52@hotmail.com.

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adopted children can retain their birth names. The New South Wales program is the only well-known adoption campaign targeting a Muslim minority population in a Western country. The Muslim women scholars Lauffer consulted in New York, who meet annually as a shura (advisory) council, tackled the complexities of modesty rules inside the home. They debated whether Muslim adoptees in the West could be considered Islamically “unmarriageable” to their siblings or guardians, since Western governments classify adoptees the same as blood relatives. The shura

council will soon release a statement on the issue through its organizing body, the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality. It’s unclear how successful their efforts can be. There is no central authority in Islam to hand down a ruling on adoption. Muslims consult individual scholars, or, in the United States, seek an opinion from an imam at their local mosque. Catherine England, a Muslim who teaches in the Seattle area, adopted four children after she and her husband learned they could have no children of their own. One of her children is an orphan from Afghanistan. Two others are biological siblings. “I felt that my understanding — and this is entirely my understanding — is that what is forbidden in Islam is closed adoption,” said England, who converted to Islam more than three decades ago. She consulted a Muslim scholar who she said affirmed her view that open AssociAted Press adoption was allowed. Boys eat bowls of rice at the orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan. Lauffer hopes to hear islam has a guardianship system that resembles foster care more stories like England's yet has no exact counterpart in Western law. soon.

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Southside Christian Southside Christian Academy, 507 Morlan Park Road, will hold a fundraising bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 11 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. There will be homemade chicken and dumplings for $8 per plate, and vendors will have jewelry, collectibles, arts and crafts and baked goods. The academy is a ministry of Southside Baptist Church. Call 704-633-1419 for more information.

cy group in Alexandria, Va. Advocates for a new interpretation of Islamic law are more hopeful, at least about the prospect for a different approach to the issue in the United States. Mattson argues that the flexibility in Islamic law for accommodating local cultures and customs can lead to a solution. Open adoption, which keeps contact between the adoptee and his biological family, is seen as one potential answer. In New South Wales, Australia, child welfare officials created an outreach program to Muslims emphasizing that Australian adoptions are open and

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Mt. Zion Christian Methodist Episcopal Church will be celebrating its 64th Founder’s Day and church anniversary on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 11 a.m. with the pastor, the Rev.Dr. Beverly G. Rose. Guest speaker at 4 p.m. is the Rev. Dr. Lloyd Watkin of Russell Memorial CME Church in Durham, along with his choirs and congregation. Dinner will be served.

his son was born, so the boy's grandfather and uncle served as his guardians, setting an example for all Muslims to follow. However, Islamic scholars say the restrictions were actually meant to protect children, by ending abuses in pre-Islamic Arabic tribal society. Ingrid Mattson, professor of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, said adoption in that period had more in common with slavery. Men would take in boys, then erase any tie between the child and his biological family. The goal was to gather as many fighters as possible as protection for the tribe. Orphans' property was often stolen in the process. As a result, Muslims were barred from treating adopted and biologi-

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Living Waters for the World (LWW) is a mission resource of the Synod of Living Waters of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is based in Mississippi. First Presbyterian Church of Kannapolis is partnering with the LWW network in the Yucatan of Mexico and with a small church outside of Merida to install as system that will be accessible to the surrounding community. It is the church’s goal to send one or more teams to Mexico in 2011 to complete the necessary construction and install the system. For more information, visit www.FirstPresb.org or call 704-938-4623.

cal children as identical in naming or inheritance, unless the adoptee was breastfed as a baby by the adoptive mother, creating a familial bond recognized under Islamic law. When an orphan reaches puberty, the Islamic prohibition against mixing of the sexes applies inside the home of his or her guardians. Muslim men cannot be alone with women they could potentially marry, and women must cover their hair around these men. Islamic law sets out detailed rules about who believers can and cannot marry, and an orphan taken in from another family would not automatically be considered “unmarriageable” to his siblings or guardians. For these reasons and others, Muslim countries only rarely allow international adoption. "There hasn’t been a concerted push to open doors for Muslim orphans because the expectation would be that those efforts would fall flat,” said Chuck Johnson, chief executive of the National Council for Adoption, a poli-

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Child’s vomiting worries parents Dear Dr. Gott: My healthy and smart 8-year-old daughter vomits in restaurants. When she was 3, she had a spell of vomiting over the course of a couple of weeks that we could not explain. Her pediatrician suggested keeping track of what she ate to see if there was a pattern DR. PETER with certain foods, because GOTT there was no abdominal pain and it was not consistent with motion sickness. We discovered that the vomiting often occurred after she consumed dairy products, so after another doctor visit, we limited dairy and used Lactaid tablets. The vomiting did not occur as often; however, we noticed it was still a problem in restaurants. Then our daughter revealed something: She got nervous in restaurants. She was afraid she would vomit and be embarrassed and got herself so worked up she got sick. Back to the doctor we went. The doctor said kids usually grow out of lactose intolerance as she probably had but “some kids just barf a lot.” He said she would grow out of that, too. She still has the problem. It does not happen at home or school, or in the homes of others. We are at a loss. Eating out is not enjoyable because everyone is on edge wondering if she will get sick. We have had her talk with our pastor. We have tried rewards, praying, breathing exercises and distractions. Some

things work for a little while, maybe even months, but then it will suddenly and unexpectedly happen again. Could a medical issue be the cause? Please, Dr. Gott, any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated. My husband and I are desperate to help our daughter get over this. Thank you! Dear reader: You certainly appear to have covered many of the bases but still have not hit a home run in resolving the problem. I do not believe the stress and anxiety your daughter undergoes is related to an underlying medical condition, nor do I feel she does it for attention, but I don’t know her. Speak with her physician to be assured of her medical well-being. Vomiting can be the result of fear or emotional stress but can also represent a viral infection, milk allergy, a blocked intestine, tumor, gastritis and the reaction to specific smells or odors. These potential conditions are relatively easy to rule out with the assistance of laboratory work and X-rays. Again, because she doesn’t complain of pain, fever, diarrhea, headache and other common symptoms, my guess is that her testing will be normal. However, her pediatrician would be remiss if he or she did not consider the big picture. If her tests fail to reveal anything and she is an otherwise normal, physically healthy child, request a referral to a child therapist with whom she feels comfortable and can see regularly. While you might give the therapist a heads-up, she should be allowed to speak freely without a parent sitting

nearby coaching her. Then back off as much as possible when an 8-year-old is involved. Allow your daughter to establish a relationship with the therapist, one she feels will help her now and in the future when other issues could come to light. Everything may be stress related, but it may be difficult to understand why she only reaches her limit when in a restaurant. This should be investigated and dealt with. You have indicated that you are on edge when dining out, expecting a repeat of her normal pattern. Whether you express it outwardly or not, I am sure she is perceptive enough to sense how you feel. And she picks up on that, no matter how well you think you are concealing your feelings. A step you may or may not have considered is to stay away from restaurants. From my perspective, it doesn’t appear worth putting your daughter through the trauma of public embarrassment. If there are compelling reasons for eating out, perhaps you can pick a corner table away from the hub of activity. Consider allowing her to bring a friend along so they can talk and giggle to reduce the tension level. Select a “restaurant” that has outdoor tables, and weather permitting, eat out of doors. Allow her and her friend to bring a handheld game board to divert her attention away from her surroundings. Rule out potential medical conditions, assure her that she can speak frankly with a professional therapist and see what transpires. United FeatUre Syndicate

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Today’s celebrity birthdays Game-show host Wink Martindale is 77. Singer Freddy Cannon is 74. Actor-producerdirector Max Baer Jr. (“The Beverly Hillbillies”) is 73. Bassist Bob Mosley of Moby Grape is 68. Singer-bassist Chris Hillman (The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers) is 66. Singer Southside Johnny Lyon of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes is 62. Actor Jeff Bridges is 61. Guitarist Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rossington Collins Band) is 59. Actress Patricia Wettig is 59. Bassist Bob Griffin of The BoDeans is 51. Singer Vinnie Dombroski of Sponge is 48. Actress Chelsea Noble (“Growing Pains,” “Kirk”) is 46. Actress Marisa Tomei is 46. Comedian Fred Armisen (“Saturday Night Live”) is 44. Rapper Jay-Z is 41. Actor Kevin Sussman (“Ugly Betty”) is 40. Model Tyra Banks is 37. Country singer Lila McCann is 29.

Bridge Hand: Join the organization formed for writers ner, but the contract is guaranteed with an endplay. Win with dummy’s diamond king, draw trumps, cash the diamond ace, ruff the diamond six in your hand, and return to dummy with a trump. Now play the spade seven and cover East’s card as cheaply as possible. Let’s suppose West takes your nine with his jack. What can he do next? Nothing! If he leads a black suit, you will get an extra trick in that suit. And if he returns a diamond, you discard a club from dummy and ruff in your hand. Information is at www.ibpa.com.

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If you like to read about bridge, you could join the International Bridge Press Association. Although you can become only an associate member unless you are a writer or publisher of bridge, you will still receive the monthly bulletin. This primarily contains reports from tournaments around the world, in theory supplying deals of use to newspaper and magazine columnists. But Tim Bourke from Australia contributes four instructive deals, of which this is one. West leads the diamond queen against your contract of six hearts. What would you do? North’s three-spade response was a splinter bid, showing four-plus hearts, at least game-forcing values, and a singleton (or void) in spades. Four clubs and four

diamonds were control-bids (cue-bids). You have 11 top tricks: one spade, six hearts, two diamonds, one club and one diamond ruff in your hand (because dummy has more trumps than your hand). You could take each black-suit finesse to try for a 12th win- *BURLESQUE (PG-13)

‘Super Bowl Shuffle’ owner sues media giant CHICAGO (AP) — The owner of a beloved ditty by the 1985 Chicago Bears is preparing to shuffle on down to federal court to take on a media conglomerate. “Super Bowl Shuffle” owner Julia Meyer filed a lawsuit in Chicago this week alleging Viacom used the video on MTV and VH1 without permission. The video features Bears boasting, “We’re so bad, we know we’re good. Blowing

your mind like we knew we could.” It sold more than 500,000 singles and became a hallmark of the Super Bowl champions. The lawsuit says interest in the video is up on the 25th anniversary of its recording and Viacom has undermined potential sales. It says a jury should determine a damages figure. Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew says the claims in the lawsuit are “unfounded.”

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Multiple weather features will bring another active winter day across the country on Saturday. A low pressure system will move southeastward from the Upper Midwest, over the Mid-Mississippi River, and into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. This system will continue pushing cold air in from Canada, while also bringing some light moisture with it. Expect light and scattered snow showers to develop around this system with some isolated heavy snowfall likely. Precipitation will remain as snow well southward into Kentucky. However, most of Tennessee will see rain showers, due to temperatures ranging in the upper 40s. Snowfall totals will range from 1-3 inches in most areas, up to 5 or 6 inches are likely once the system hits the higher elevations of the Appalachians. Highs will ranged in the lower 30s across most of the Midwest. Behind this system, a ridge of high pressure builds over the Northern Rockies and moves into the Northern Plains on Saturday. This will allow for cool temperatures to persist as it continues pulling cold air in from the north. Expect highs to remain in the 10s and 20s across the Dakotas and Minnesota. Further West, a low pressure system spinning just offshore of California will continue pushing moisture onshore. Due to a stalled cold front over the center of the state, this will allow for light and scattered showers to persist throughout the day, with high elevation snow in the Sierras. Snow levels will remain at about 7,000 feet across northern California, dropping to near 5,000 feet in southern California. Back East, expect more rain and snow in the Northeast, as a system hovering over eastern Canada pushes moisture onshore. Flow around this system also pushes warm air in from the South, thus, precipitation over Maine will remain as rain. Areas of New York state, Vermont, and New Hampshire may see some light snow. Areas around the Great Lakes should see a break from lake effect snow on Saturday.

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