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The Sanford Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2010
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DECADE’S FIRST BABY
WEATHER
SPORTS
FINALLY, A FIRST
Shelters full as cold snap settles in
GRACE CHRISTIAN HITS THE HARDWOOD AGAIN
Snow storm in the forecast for Friday
The Crusaders ended 2009 as winners and head coach Steve Murr hopes that trend continues in 2010. After two weeks off, the Crusaders will return to action tonight at conference rival Vandalia.
By GORDON ANDERSON anderson@sanfordherald.com
and spent more than 16 hours in labor before Payton finally arrived. Payton is her mother’s first baby, and her delivery is an experience she won’t soon forget, she said. “I didn’t get an epidural. All I had was a little pain medicine,” the 20-year-old April Brown said, “and it had worn off by the time she came.” Babies born as early as Payton (more than a month early, considered a “preemie”) are at a higher risk for complications than those
SANFORD — While central North Carolina — and much of the southeast — has been weathering one of the longest stretches of near-freezing temperatures in recent memory, options for those without a warm place to stay are getting harder and harder to come by. “Our facilities always seem to fill up as the temperature gets lower,” said Terry Dominguez, who runs the Christian Faith Church’s women’s shelter in Sanford. Like shelters throughout the region, Dominguez said hers is “absolutely full” with people sleeping in beds, couches and every other available space. “I’ve had several people call that I just couldn’t accept because I’m full,” she said. The duration of the cold snap is unusual, especially in the South, where the weather is typically chilly for just a day or two before temperatures rebound into the 50s. Instead, states like North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia will see temperatures above freezing for just a couple of hours a day all week long. Snow if forecast for Sanford on Friday, and if a considerable amount
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April Brown and Jarell McLean welcomed 5-pound, 7-ounce baby girl Payton into the world on Sunday after 16 hours of labor. Although she arrived on Jan. 3, Payton was the first baby born at Central Carolina Hospital in 2010.
Hospital’s first was actually five weeks early THOSE FLYING TO U.S. FACE MORE SCRUTINY
By JONATHAN OWENS
People traveling to the United States from or through Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries were subjected to extra security screening, including full body pat-downs, Monday as U.S. officials refined their response to a failed terrorist attack in Detroit on Christmas
SANFORD — Central Carolina Hospital had to wait a couple of days for its first baby of 2010. But there was nothing late about little Payton Brown. The 5-pound, 7-ounce baby made her debut at 3:57 p.m. Sunday as the first baby born at the hospital in the new decade. Born to April Brown and Jarell McLean of Goldston, the little girl arrived more than five weeks earlier that her expected delivery date. Payton, who got her name
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“We had 72 deliveries in December. But as the nurse on the unit said, ‘babies come whenever they are ready to come, so we have to plan around them.’” — Margaret Minuth — CCH Spokeswoman, on the wait for 2010’s first baby from a favorite movie of her mother’s, “The Gameplan,” was an unlikely first baby. Her mother checked into the hospital on Saturday night
LEE COUNTY TWO GUARDS KILLED IN LAS VEGAS SHOOTING A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun at a federal building Monday in downtown Las Vegas, killing a court security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before he was shot to death in a running gunbattle across the street Page 8A
Board approves incentives deal Dissenting board member says deal wasn’t necessary By GORDON ANDERSON anderson@sanfordherald.com
STATE NEW HANOVER ABC BOARD MEMBERS RESIGN All three Alcoholic Beverage Control board members in New Hanover County announced their resignations Monday in an attempt to defuse controversy over the salaries of the board’s father-and-son administrative leaders Page 7A
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Vol. 80, No. 4 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
ROBBERY
SANFORD — The Lee County Board of Commissioners on Monday approved an incentives package worth $34,781 to Parkdale America, a cotton spinning mill on U.S. 421. The board voted 6-1 with Commissioner Linda Shook dissenting to grant the incentive to the company over a five-year period in exchange for the installation of $2.5 million in new spinning equipment. The Sanford City Council will consider whether to grant an additional $25,043 in incentive to the company on Jan. 13.
HAPPENING TODAY n Temple Theatre will hold auditions for the Winter Conservatory of “Romeo and Juliet.” Appointments available between 4:30 and 8 p.m. for upper middle and high school ages only. To schedule an audition, call Kelly Wright at (919) 7744512, ext. 221.
WHAT’S NEXT? The Sanford City Council will now consider whether to grant an additional $25,043 in incentive to the company during its Jan. 13 meeting. LCEDC Director Bob Heuts said the incentives deal could lead to new jobs down the line.
Shook said she dissented because the new equipment is actually already on the county’s tax rolls. Parkdale purchased the equipment from HanesBrands shortly before that facility closed its doors, taking 150 jobs with it. “I don’t see this as an additional investment of $2.5 million in our county,” she said. “I can’t say this is an economic development project.”
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The RBC Centura Bank at 338 Carthage St. was the site of a robbery Monday afternoon.
Man robs downtown bank after claiming to have gun By GORDON ANDERSON anderson@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — City police are investigating a Monday afternoon bank robbery at the RBC Centura branch on Carthage Street. Capt. David Smith of the Sanford Police Department said a white male suspect with glasses walked into the bank at 338 Carthage St. around 4:30
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p.m. Monday and demanded money. “Nobody saw a weapon, but he told the clerk that he had one,” Smith said, adding that it was unclear what type of weapon the suspect threatened to have. The suspect, who was about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed between 180 and 200
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
JOHN HOOD
Sanford: Cleo Buffkin, 85; Mary Cain, 75; Shirley Fraley, 75; Maggie Herring, 94; Robert Rector; Sarah Wheeler, 66 Bear Creek: Romie Poe, 77
The Democratic U.S. Senate candidates in 2010 leave much to be desired
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