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District gets glowing review Lee County recommended for ‘district accreditation’ through SACS council By CAITLIN MULLEN cmullen@sanfordherald.com
PRESIDENT WANTS ‘UP OR DOWN’ VOTE President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote “up or down” on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks Page 8A
SANFORD — Lee County Schools was recommended Wednesday for district accreditation by a national review council. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement gave the district a positive review
during the oral report given Wednesday at the Heins Education Building by the quality assurance review team, which consists of a panel of educators. “This district has gone over and beyond the call of duty,” said team chairwoman Patricia Golding. The quality assurance review team spent Sunday
through Wednesday in Lee County evaluating the school district by interviewing teachers, students, parents and administrators, observing classes and examining documents. The review examines all elements of the district, including processes, depart-
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN? n The accreditation, given by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement, is like an audit where an outside panel evaluates a school district through interviews and other measures and make note of strengths and weaknesses.
WINTER WEATHER RETURNS
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A March for the penguins
Students again have school on Saturday From staff reports
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Trey Spivey, 16, puts the finishing touches on a snow man on Wednesday after Lee County was hit with its third snowfall of the year, a storm that forced officials to close area schools for the day.
After forecasts called for an inch, Lee County hit with 4 inches of wet, heavy snow Tuesday night leaving thousands without power By CAITLIN MULLEN cmullen@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — March has come in like a lion in Lee County. After close to four inches of heavy, wet snow were dumped on the county Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, thousands of residents were left without power. Jeff Brooks, spokesperson for Progress Energy Carolinas, said 5,375 customers were without power at about 10 a.m. Wednesday and about 2,500 still experienced power outages as of about 4 p.m. Brooks said 15,000 people in the county lost power due to the snowstorm and noted that Chatham, Harnett,
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SPRING NEARS Warmer temperatures the next few days should melt any remaining snow fairly quickly. Henes said to expect “closer to near normal temps” over the weekend, with sunshine and highs in the 50s and 60s. Highs Monday are expected to approach the 70-degree mark.
Sampson and Lee counties were hit the hardest. Most customers saw their power return during the day Wednesday and Brooks expected all customers to have power restored by midnight Thursday. By late afternoon Wednesday, many of the outages
HAPPENING TODAY n The Chatham County Center of Cooperative Extension will offer an introduction to food gardening from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Auditorium, lower level of the Agriculture Building, 45 South St., Pittsboro. Please call the Chatham County Center at (919) 5428202 to pre-register.
“I’m about tired of (the snow). Three times is enough.”
SANFORD — For the second time in the past month, Lee County Schools will make up today’s missed school day this Saturday. Superintendent Jeff Moss said he likes to “make (missed days) up as we go” and keep things consistent with the make-up days. The district decided at 5 a.m. Wednesday to cancel classes for the day after Sanford received more-thanexpected snowfall, leaving roads wet, slushy and dangerously slick. Power outages were widespread Wednesday, and several accidents were reported in the county. All schools on the traditional calendar will begin at their regular start times Saturday. The elementary schools will release at noon, middle schools and Bragg Street Academy will get out at 12:15 p.m. and all high schools will release at 12:30 p.m. Sharon Spence, public information officer with Lee County Schools, said school will be held as regularly scheduled Thursday. Chatham County Schools will operate on a two-hour delay Thursday, due to inclement weather conditions. Bus routes will also run on a two-hour delay.
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were confined to two or three homes here and there, Brooks said. Brooks said Progress Energy brought in extra help from outside the area to restore power. The main cause of the large number of outages came from wet snow piled on tree limbs that have seen several storms this season. “Limbs on lines is a pri-
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ECONOMY SNOW SLOWED RECOVERY
Bailey Spivey, 11, enjoys a cool treat on Wednesday after snow hit Sanford on Tuesday.
The economy is growing slowly, but snowstorms crimped activity along the East Coast last month, according to a Federal Reserve report. The Fed’s Beige Book survey, released Wednesday, showed that the nation’s recovery is managing to plod ahead though not at a strong enough pace to persuade companies to ramp up hiring. Page 10A
High: 48 Low: 27
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OBITUARIES
SCOTT MOONEYHAM
Sanford: John Carter, 78; Pauline Dorsett, 88; Buck Gaines, 62; Tony Sizemore Carthage: Walter Brower, 73 Lillington: Jeffery Brownlee, 44
A fight raging between the activists and gill netters has some caught in the net
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GOOD MORNING Corrections The Herald is committed to accuracy and factual reporting. To report an error or request a clarification, e-mail Editor Billy Liggett at bliggett@sanfordherald.com or Community Editor Jonathan Owens at owens@sanfordherald.com or call (919) 718-1226.
On the Agenda Rundown of local meetings in the area:
TODAY n The Moore County Planning Board will meet at 6 p.m. at te Commissioners Meeting Room in Carthage. n The Moore County Board of Health will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Board of Health Board Room in Carthage.
SUNDAY n The Executive Board of the Horton High School Alumni Association will meet at 3 p.m. at Horton Middle School , Suite 813, Pittsboro. All alumni and friends are invited to attend.
MONDAY n The Chatham County Board of Education will meet at 6:30 p.m. at SAGE Academy in Siler City. n The Pittsboro Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 635 East St., in Pittsboro. n The Siler City Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. in Siler City.
Birthdays LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, especially Jonthan Hawes Jr., Latonya Cross, Irvin Gabriel Cervantes Lopez, Austin Lawrence Scott, McKenzie Luanne Godbey, Ricky Ernesto Sanchez, Tracy Gunter, Sara Rose Coley, Makelia Ty’oinna Jenkins, Peyton Elizabeth Thomas, Jordan Madison Sosa, Morgan Brook Fogleman, Tristan Blake Hall, Caroline Grace Godfrey, Bobby Joe Way, Vernon Lewis Blue II, Jennie Margaret Helms, Sharron Petty McIver, Mark Wayne McLean, Eric Emond Caldwell, Jasmine McIver, Christy Cummings, Torya Martin, Emily Nash, Chelsye Matthews Partridge and Addie Graham. CELEBRITIES: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is 60. Actress Catherine O’Hara is 56. Actress Patricia Heaton is 52. Rock musician Fergal Lawler (The Cranberries) is 39. Country singer Jason Sellers is 39. Jazz musician Jason Marsalis is 33. TV personality Whitney Port is 25. Actress Andrea Bowen (“Desperate Housewives”) is 20. Actress Jenna Boyd is 17
Almanac Today is Thursday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2010. There are 302 days left in the year. This day in history: On March 4, 1789, the Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York. (The lawmakers then adjourned for lack of a quorum.) In 1791, Vermont became the 14th state. In 1858, Sen. James Henry Hammond of South Carolina declared “Cotton is king” in a speech to the U.S. Senate. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States. In 1908, a fire at Lake View School in Collinwood, Ohio, claimed the lives of 172 children and three adults. In 1930, Coolidge Dam in Arizona was dedicated by its namesake, former President Calvin Coolidge. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as America’s 32nd president. In 1940, Kings Canyon National Park in California was established. In 1960, baritone Leonard Warren, 50, collapsed and died while performing in Verdi’s “La forza del destino” (The Force of Destiny) at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. An explosives-laden French freighter, La Coubre, exploded in Havana’s harbor, killing at least 75 people. In 1977, some 1,500 people were killed in an earthquake that shook southern and eastern Europe. In 1989, Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced plans for a huge media merger.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR The Lee County American Red Cross is now accepting reservations for Lifeguard classes. Call (919) 774-6857 to register.
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TODAY n The Chatham County Center of Cooperative Extension will offer an introduction to food gardening from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Auditorium, lower level of the Agriculture Building, 45 South St., Pittsboro. Please call the Chatham County Center at (919) 542-8202 to pre-register to guarantee availability of printed materials.
FRIDAY n Legal Aid Intake Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Enrichment Center. Types of cases accepted will be housing evictions, foreclosures, domestic violence, unemployment and benefits denials. Appointments preferred but walk-ins will be accepted. To schedule an appointment, call 800-672-5834 to be screened. n American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1:30 to 6 p.m. at Walmart, 3310 Hwy. 87 South, Sanford. To schedule an appointment, call the customer service desk or visit www.redcrossblood. org. n Temple Theatre’s Winter Youth Conservatory’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” will begin at 7 p.m. at the theater. The play, directed by Tom Dalton, features local upper middle and high school students who’ve been part of the conservatory this season. Ticket information can be found online at templeshows.com or by calling the box office at (919) 774-4155.
SATURDAY n Central Carolina Community College’s associate degree in nursing program will host a Flapjack Fundraiser at Applebee’s, located on 1325 Plaza Blvd., Sanford. All proceeds raised will help cover expenses for the program’s annual pinning ceremony. Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the door or by calling (503) 956-2688. n The Lee County American Red Cross will hold a Lay Responder CPR for the Adult, Child and Infant with AED and Standard First Aid class. Call (919) 774-6857 to register. n Temple Theatre’s Winter Youth Conservatory’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” will begin at 7 p.m. at the theater. The play, directed by Tom Dalton, features local upper middle and high school students who’ve been part of the conservatory this season. Ticket information can be found online at templeshows.com or by calling the box office at (919) 774-4155. n The High Falls Fire and Rescue annual “Chicken Stew and Classic Car Cruise-In” will be held from 2 p.m. into the evening at High Falls Elementary, located 12 miles north of Carthage on N.C. 22. Cost for stew is $7 per plate. For more information, call (910) 464-3771.
SUNDAY n The Chatham Artists Guild will host a reception for art lovers to meet Cindy
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Jake, 7, and Elissa Neal, 11, woke up without power Wednesday morning, so the brother and sister made a living room and TV set out of snow. According to their parents, the snow TV worked as well as the one in the house. The two are the children of Mike and Tanya Neal of Sanford. If you have a calendar item you would like to add or if you have a feature story idea, contact The Herald by e-mail at news@sanfordherald.com or by phone at (919) 718-1225. Bainbridge and view her exhibit of paintings, “Love Letters to Life.” The event will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Carolina Brewery in Pittsboro. Learn about Bainbridge and see an example of her art at http://chathamartists.blogspot.com. n Temple Theatre’s Winter Youth Conservatory’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” will begin at 2 p.m. at the theater. The play, directed by Tom Dalton, features local upper middle and high school students who’ve been part of the conservatory this season. Ticket information can be found online at templeshows.com or by calling the box office at (919) 774-4155.
TUESDAY n The Alzheimer’s & Caregiver Support Group will meet at 1 p.m. at the Enrichment Center in Sanford. n The Lee County American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1:30 to 6 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 202 Summit Drive, Sanford. Contact the Lee County Red Cross Chapter at 774-6857 or visit www.redcrossblood.org to schedule your appointment to donate. n The Lee County American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the gym at Central Carolina Community College, 1105 Kelly Drive, Sanford. Contact Mike Neal to schedule an appointment at 718-7337 or visit www. redcrossblood.org to schedule your appointment to donate.
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Responders work the scene of an accident off of Horner Boulevard and Wicker Street on Wedesday. There were no serious injuries reported. LEE COUNTY
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Fire damages five rooms at local hotel
SANFORD — A small fire in the maintenance room at the Hampton Inn on Horner Boulevard caused smoke damage in five of the hotel’s rooms. Scott Knuth, battalion commander for the Sanford Fire Department, said firefighters responded at about 3:30 p.m. to a fire that was contained to one room in the maintenance area of the hotel. “The sprinkler put the fire out and contained it until we got there,” Knuth said. The cause of the fire is unknown and no one was injured. Smoke and water damage to the north end of the first floor, near the maintenance room, could easily cost the hotel $10,000 to $15,000, Knuth said. General Manager PJ Patel said the rooms that were affected by the smoke were not occupied and no one was displaced. “It was minor. Small and centralized,” he said. Director of Sales Denny Woodruff was especially disappointed by the timing of the fire. “First night probably in five months we’re going to run full and this happens,” he said. — by Caitlin Mullen
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Pantry goes ‘green’ with state-of-the-art power, cooling system
SANFORD (MCT) — Sanfordbased Pantry Inc., operator of 1,644 convenience stores, has opened a new data center with state-of-the-art infrastructure that allows for energy savings on power and cooling. Organizations such as LEED and Green Grid are stirring interest within c-level executives to turn their companies into eco-friendly, energy efficient consumers and producers, according to Altruent Systems, which was selected by The Pantry to design, engineer and construct the data center. When The Pantry’s management team decided to expand its headquarter’s data center, they saw an opportunity to take advantage of new power and cooling technologies, which were environmentally friendly and more productive, according to Ed Collupy, vice president of information technology. “Working together with Altruent, we successfully transformed an outdated data center into one that will carry us forward for many years to come,” Collupy said. — Raleigh News & Observer
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Governr’s Club residents must leave hunters alone
CHAPEL HILL (MCT) — Residents of Governors Club, a gated community in northern Chatham County, have been told to take down their no trespassing signs and stop harassing the hunters. The hunters are there with the blessing of the property owners association. To keep deer from destroying shrubs, flowers and other landscap-
ing, the association obtained a state permit to allow bow hunters to kill up to 65 deer. Governors Club may seem an unlikely place for a deer hunt. Homes ranging from the mid-$400,000s to $6 million surround a 27-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus. Just beyond the guardhouse lies a shimmering infinity-edge pool behind shrubbery protected by green plastic fencing. — The News & Observer
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Sandhills co-op to have fresh produce CARTHAGE (MCT) — A new organization connecting local farmers and consumers is blossoming. The Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative, which will give farmers a chance to sell fruits and vegetables to residents, has 530 members, said Fenton Wilkinson, the general manager. Members and others who want to get locally grown produce will be able to sign up beginning Friday at SandhillsFarm2Table.com or by calling (910) 949-2142. A membership costs $25. Patrons also must pay an additional $21 a week for a small box of produce or $38 for a large box. Wilkinson said the small box will feed one to two people. The large box is for three to four people. From the first week in May to the end of August, members will pick up boxes of fresh produce at various sites throughout Moore County, such as churches, day care centers and businesses. Members do not have to live in Moore County, but all deliveries will be in the county. Wilkinson said he has arranged pickups in Aberdeen, Whispering Pines and West End, while other towns are close to getting on board.
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Editorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor
Better get used to reduced postal services
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he Postmaster General said this week that in order for the U.S. Postal Service to survive, mail delivery must be cut from six days per week to five. That means Saturdays must go. Are you ready for that? Or in an effort to keep Saturday delivery, is it time for the service to go private? Something has to give. The Postal Service’s struggles are clear and well-documented. As more of us have switched from “snail mail” to electronic communication, and as businesses in the recession have reduced mailings (including, thankfully, “junk” mail), the
resulting drop in volume has led to a significant drop in revenues – despite postal rate increases. In addition, the business model is inherently flawed: it costs the same to send mail to someone a block away as it does across the country, and the “post office” doesn’t have the option to refuse service — a la pizza delivery — to areas deemed non-profitable because of location. And, on top of all that, the Postal Service’s huge unionized payroll (and its equallyhuge benefits packages) have become unwieldy, even with the workforce cuts.
Privatization is an intriguing notion. That very idea is gaining traction in Europe, where mail delivery is scheduled, in 2011, to become deregulated and competitive. We all know what usually happens when there’s competition: service gets better, prices drop, and consumers usually come out ahead. Usually. The problem with mail delivery: who’d want to buy a money-losing venture (about $7 billion, just this year) as large as the postal service? The only way it’d work is to jack up postage rates, which would likely further reduce volume as busi-
nesses strive to cut costs. And with technology continuing to shrink the business landscape and make communication between business and consumer easier, it’s likely volume drops will continue. Contrary to popular belief, the Postal Service — which is regulated by Congress — doesn’t get a taxpayer subsidy. And it has worked to cut costs. A quarter of its workforce has been trimmed in recent years, and some post offices will be closed to further reduce costs. Eliminating Saturdays make sense, but it’s not enough. The Postal Service
will submit a formal request to end Saturday delivery to its regulatory agency later this month. Even though President Obama has signaled he wants Saturday delivery to continue, look for it to stop. We just hope that in the negotiations surely to follow the request, the administration pushes the Postal Service to do what any competitive business would do: find the fat and cut it. In the meantime, if we really want to keep postal rates where they are — or at least in the same vicinity — a reduction in service is something we should begin to get used to.
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Entangled in a net
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ALEIGH — The words from Louis Daniel, the head of the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries, said it all. “I don’t believe they will accept this.” The “they” is the National Marine Fisheries Service. The “this” is a plan adopted by the state Marine Fisheries Commission to allow gill nets that are killing endangered sea turtles to remain in large areas of Pamlico Sound. Daniel’s comments came earlier this month as the commission wrestled over what to do about gill nets — nylon mesh nets typically staked out in shallow-water bays in 200-yard lengths. The nets’ usual target is flounder and saltwater trout. The commercial fishermen who use the nets are under siege. Last year, national fisheries officials notified the state that both it and its commercial fishermen could be subject to prosecution under the Endangered Species Act because of sea turtle deaths caused by the nets. ... Just days after the commission’s decision to continue allowing gill netting, a sea turtle rescue hospital on Topsail Island filed a lawsuit to have the nets removed. The lawsuit, threatened in earlier court filings, is being encouraged by environmentalists and recreational fishermen. The turtle hospital contends that Daniel and state fisheries officials aren’t complying with a federal permit that allows some turtles to be killed provided there is adequate monitoring of the nets and reporting of turtle deaths. The lawsuit points out that commercial fishermen have ignored the reporting requirement. Recreational fishing groups are also unhappy, mainly because North Carolina has become the primary source of commercially-caught red drum as other Southeastern states have banned nets in inland waters. ... Daniel and his staff, meanwhile, are caught in the middle. They wanted the commission, which sets coastal fishing policy, to keep larger mesh gill nets — the ones associated with turtle deaths — out of major swaths of the state’s bays and estuaries from May 15 to December 15. Commercial fisherman wanted nothing to do with the idea. They argued that it would kill the commercial flounder fishery. So the nine-member commission rejected the staff recommendation. It adopted a plan to keep the nets in the water five days a week, from Monday afternoon to Friday morning. The commissioners apparently fail to see what Daniel does. The gill netters might as well be trying to swim out of Beaufort Inlet just before high tide. If they continue trying to swim against the growing tide, they’ll drown. They may argue that they’ll drown anyway. They can take solace in that argument when the same forces aligning against them, still angry about this fight, come for their sound-side trawlers.
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AN DIEGO — You would think a halfcentury would be enough time for college students to grow up and put away childish things. At this point, I’d settle for them accepting a concept they should have learned in kindergarten — that they have to go to school with people who don’t look like them. In the 1960s, the issue was opportunity. Battles were fought to racially integrate colRuben Navarrette Jr. leges and universities so that African-AmeriColumnist cans, Latinos and other minorities would Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a columnist with be welcomed onto campus and have the The San Diego Union-Tribune chance to better themselves. Today, the issue is dignity. Protests are erupting on campuses Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger condemned as African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities struggle to make their institutions the “horrific incidents” that have created racial unrest at the university. better and more welcoming. “The acts of racism and intolerance that One school that could stand some imwe have witnessed are completely unacceptprovement is the University of California at able,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement. San Diego. For the last few weeks, a first-rate “There is no excuse for this public university has been kind of behavior in our suffering through a rash system of higher educaof ugly racial incidents tion or anywhere else and ‘And so, now that the shoe intended to either mock or it will not be tolerated.” is on the other foot, those intimidate black students. The shame of it is that African-Americans on the right will have to some San Diegans, mostly currently make up about 2 excuse me if I’m not moved on the right, are busy percent of the undergraduby the revelation that a trying to offer excuses for ates at UCSD. And don’t exblack comic helped to plan the inexcusable. It’s free pect that number to go any speech, they say. The party a racist party. So what?’ higher until the university was held off campus. The gets its house in order. TV station in question The racial antics kicked makes fun of everyone. off on Feb. 15 with a tasteAnd here’s my favorite: This whole thing has less off-campus party intended to ridicule been a big misunderstanding because one of Black History Month. The invitation to the the people who helped the fraternity orga“Compton Cookout” was steeped in racist nize the cookout was a little-known black stereotypes. Partygoers were urged to sport comic and Internet personality from Las gold chains, flashy clothes, gang tattoos, etc. Vegas. The invitation told girls to dress like “ghetto And? What difference does this make? chicks” with “gold teeth” and suggested the Remember when the Fox animated series guys come dressed in hip-hop wear. “The Family Guy” poked fun at Sarah Palin’s The president of a fraternity whose memson, Trig, a toddler with Down syndrome? bers helped organize the event, Pi Kappa Alpha, later issued a statement of regret. In it, Conservatives came unhinged, and rightfully so. Anti-Palin liberals insisted that there was he acknowledged that the party was “racially no offense because, in fact, the voice actress offensive.” in the sketch has Down syndrome and she You think? was fine with the script. Strike two was the airing of an equally Conservatives were, shall we say, unmoved offensive and racially charged show on a stuby that argument. And so, now that the shoe dent-run TV station. Participants defended is on the other foot, those on the right will the cookout. They used the N-word, labeled minority students who complained about the have to excuse me if I’m not moved by the revelation that a black comic helped to plan cookout “ungrateful” (apparently, for even a racist party. So what? being allowed on campus), and left behind a ... But, if you want to clear the air at a uninote making reference to a “Compton lynchversity whose reputation has been polluted ing.” by racial insensitivity, stunts like this are a From a racist cookout to a lynching. This good reason to hand out expulsion letters. isn’t progress. Strike three was when a female student recently left a noose hanging in a campus library. The student, who has since been Through his hatred is covered by deceit, suspended, confessed to authorities the his wickedness will be revealed before the next day. According to a campus official, the whole congregation. (Prov. 26:26) student “didn’t think that leaving a noose was PRAYER: Father, we know You know an issue.” our every thought, help us to have pure Makes you wonder if they’re still teaching thoughts. Amen. U.S. history at UCSD.
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Yes. Lee County is too soft on violent criminals. And I would think the prosecutor or district attorney is at fault. Aren’t they the ones who accept the plea bargain? Our law enforcement can catch violent criminals all day, but once they take them to jail, it’s out of their hands. It must be very frustrating for them to risk their lives catching drug dealers and murderers only to have them back on the streets again. I didn’t understand Commissioner Robert Reives’ comment saying plea bargains aren’t something the district attorney has a lot of authority in. It would be a good idea if The Herald could explain the plea bargaining procedure and list names, titles and their function in Lee County’s judicial system. SANDRA OLDHAM Sanford
Bow hunting is akin to animal cruelty To the Editor: RE: Bowhunting deer I don’t believe in hunting deer or any animal using a bow and arrow, and here’s why. Unless the archer is a sharpshooter who can hit a target bulls-eye at 100 yards (300 feet) nine out of 10 times, he/she should not be bowhunting an animal. Wounding an animal and allowing it to suffer before it finally dies is NOT good sportsmanship. It is animal cruelty. Even a sharpshooter can miss the target if the target is in a dark area or in heavy foliage. What about the potential danger to humans, such as infants and small children and pets? And the fact that these archers want to hunt within city limits ... that’s really absurd. To allow such an event to occur would be absolute insanity. Let’s hope those who legislate this are intelligent and of sound mind. D. H. AXNER Sanford
Web comments RE: County won’t point fingers at prosecutors Have someone stabbed seven times in the stomach right in front of you. At the pre-trial hearing, the D.A. goes for the maximum. We have this on camera and many witnesses. The police took the knife from him. This was the second time this person stabbed a person. There was never a trial ... just a plea bargain and two years probation. If the D.A. went for the max and let the cases pile up, then we could push the blame somewhere else. But now it is sitting in their laps to make a positive change. — Steve Brewer
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SANFORD — John Michael Carter, 78, of 38 Seymour Ave., died Sunday (2/28/10) at Central Carolina Hospital. He is survived by sons, Kenneth Carter and Kelly Carter, both of Raleigh; stepchildren, Leroy Elliot and wife Debra of Charlotte, Theodor Elliot and wife Debra of Knightdale, Regina Elliot of TExas, Jerome Elliot and wife Phyllis of Raleigh, Danny Elliot and wife Sherie of Pittsboro and Janice Elliot and husband Miguel of Danville, Va.; a brother, Clarence Surles of Raleigh; sisters, Mary Alston and husband Alton of Raleigh and Minnie McKoy of Lillington; sisters-in-law, Nora Smith and Lucille Elliot; seven grandchildren; 10 step grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. The family will receive friends at the home of Brenda Bright, 88 Alfred Alston Road, Osgood Community, Sanford. The funeral service will be conducted at 12 noon Friday at New Endland AME Zion Church in Sanford. Burial will follow at Lee Memory Garden. Condolences may be made at www.knottsfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are by Knotts Funeral Home of Sanford.
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SANFORD — Pauline L. Dorsett, 88, of 270 Dorsett Road, died Wednesday (3/3/10) at Central Carolina Hospital. Arrangements will be announced by Knotts Funeral Home of Sanford.
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SANFORD — Mark Anthony “Tony� Sizemore died Tuesday (3/2/10) at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. He was born Feb. 7, 1953 in Danville, Va., son of Dorothy Blue Nall Sizemore and the late Arnsby “Tom� Sizemore. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Northview Christian Church with the Rev. Mike Johnson and
the Rev. D.C. Sullivan officiating. A private burial, for family only, will be held at Lee Memory Gardens following the service. Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneralhome. com. Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.
Walter Brower CARTHAGE — Walter Brower, 73, died Tuesday (3/2/10) at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. Arrangements will be announced by Pugh and Smith Funeral Home of Carthage.
Jeffery Brownlee LILLINGTON — Jeffery Clifford Brownlee, 44, of 470 Quail Road, died Tuesday (3/2/10). He was born Nov. 30, 1965 in Lee County. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Woodrow Clifford Brownlee. He is survived by his mother, Janice Holmes and husband Marshall of Sanford; wife, Juanita Hayes Brownlee of the home; daughters, Jennifer Brownlee of Sanford and Ashley Brownlee and Kourtney Brownlee, both of Lillington; a brother, Thomas Holmes of Sanford; maternal grandmother, Edith Brownlee of Sanford; and two grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home and other times at the home of Janice and Marshall Holmes, 13745 McDougald Road, Sanford. The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Smith Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Larry Moore officiating. Burial will follow at Spring Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery. Arrangements are by Smith Funeral Home of Broadway.
Ruth Yovanovich DAYTONA, Fla. — Ruth D. Yovanovich, 90, of Port Orange, formerly of Sanford, died Tuesday (3/2/10) at the Halifax Medical Center. Arrangements will be announced by RogersPickard Funeral Home of Sanford.
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and New Hill are alerted that phone calls are underway in those areas. The survey is funded through a federal grant and will help map out where there are gaps in high-speed internet access across the county. Chatham is one of 19 counties included in the survey, which would be costly for the county to conduct on its own, according to Debra Henzey, director of community relations for Chatham County. “This makes it very important for Chatham County to be well represented in the study,�
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SANFORD — Harold “Buck� Monroe Gaines, 62, of Sanford, died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at his home. Harold was born on May 3, 1947 in Chatham County to the late Curnie Calvin Gaines and Pauline Hilliard Gaines. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Charles Gaines. Harold was a 40 plus year veteran baseball umpire and a member of the Triangle South Officials Association, Capital Area Officials Association and a member of the Board of Directors for Tar Heel Leagues, Inc. for the past 16 years. Gaines He was inducted into the Tar Heel Leagues Hall of Honor in recognition for his years of service to Tar Heel League Baseball and the youth of our State. He was a veteran of the United States Army, member of Zion Christian Church and retired from Progress Energy after 32 years of service. He is survived by his wife, Alyce Sloan Gaines; daughter Amy Gaines Willis and husband Jay of Willow Spring; son Rodney Harold Gaines and wife Amanda of Sanford; daughter Abby Gaines Miles of Sanford; sister Sue Watson and husband James of New Hill; brother Jimmy Gaines and wife Wendy of Erwin; brother Fat Gaines and wife Audrey of Sanford; sister Sheila O’Quinn and husband Eddie of Sanford; seven grandchildren, Jaysa, Jana and Braysen Willis, Colby Thornton, Colin and Anna Liese Gaines and Landon Gaines Miles; sister-inlaw Brenda Ward and husband Paul of Siler City; brother-in-law Ted Sloan and wife Judy of Sanford; sisters-in-law Jane Baker and husband James and Lorraine Lassen; nieces and nephews, Teressa, Susanne, Brandon, Calvin, Ashley, Grace, Aaron, Adam, Morgan, Carmen, Camron, Brad, Chad, Bobby Lynn, Norbeth, Laurie, Danny, Todd, and Jerry Scott. The family will receive friends Thursday, March 4, 2010 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home and the funeral will be held Friday, March 5, at Zion Christian Church at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Steve Johnson presiding. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.
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mary factor,� he said. “Wind was not a factor this time.� Because it didn’t take long before main roads were cleared, crews were able to react quickly to the outages. First Sgt. Roger Williams with the North Carolina Highway Patrol said he saw plenty of accidents Wednesday since his shift began around 6 a.m., though he couldn’t provide exact numbers. “It’s mostly people running off the roads and getting stuck afterwards,� Williams said. “We’ve had a lot more than we normally have. ... We’ve been running hard this morning.� Magda Holloway, the city’s streets superintendent, said crews had been out since 2 a.m. Wednesday working to clear the roads. Most of the roads were cleared quickly, and traffic helps that. “With this snow as fine as it is, it’s moving pretty quickly,� she said. The crews used six plows, four backhoes and one motorgrader with a blade that scrapes the streets to clear the 136 miles of
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ments and staff, and promotes continuous improvements within the district. The team interviewed a total of 309 people, including LCS Superintendent Jeff Moss, all seven members of the Lee County Board of Education, administrators, teachers, students, parents and support staff. Golding went over strengths, accomplishments, commendations, challenges and required actions that the team found when reviewing LCS. The team found Moss to be one of the district’s strengths, calling him a “visionary leader.� Other strengthsincluded the “collaborative, supportive� relationship among district staff, board members and the community; the district’s open door policy; the creation of Lee County Schools Police Department and the integration of an auxiliary system that supports student performance. The district was also commended for following its vision, mission and goals “from the boardroom to the classroom;� the superintendent’s podcast and the “Ask the Superintendent� feature on the district’s Web site; providing resources to parents and students; the 1:1 laptop initiative and the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math program; and having curriculum coaches at the schools. Administrators were given
city street Wednesday, Holloway said. As temperatures were expected to dip into the 20s last night, refreezing is likely to cause problems for motorists. Holloway and her crews prepared for the refreeze by putting salt and sand on the roads for traction after they cleared them. “Because we do a mix (of salt and sand), it lasts longer,� she said. Trudging through the slushy snow Wednesday, many residents said they have seen enough winter weather for one season. Kay Hall of Sanford said she was shocked when she woke up Wednesday morning and looked outside. “I thought we’d probably have a light dusting. ... I don’t think anybody anticipated this,� she said. “I am sick of it. I’m ready for spring to get here.� Rebecca Johnson walked Georgia, her black Great Dane, along Moore Street Wednesday morning, because the dog needed to get out of the house, she said. The snowstorm doesn’t shock Johnson all that much. “I’m from Ohio,� she said. “They have about two feet up there right now. This hasn’t been
a bad winter.� But spring — “that I am ready for,� she said. Brian Carlyle, owner of Carlyle Maintenance Service, cleared the entrance of First Citizens Bank on Carthage Street Wednesday morning and said he’s ready to stop shoveling snow and start planting greenery. “I’m ready for spring. That’s what I do for a living, is landscaping,� he said. “I’m about tired of (the snow). Three times is enough.� Though many were surprised by the snow, Russell Henes, forecaster with the National Weather Service in Raleigh, said seeing some snow in March isn’t rare. “Infrequent is probably a better word,� Henes said. Snowfall at the beginning of March is never out of the question, he added. The area received two to four inches of snow in the overnight hours and temperatures remained in the 40s Wednesday. Warmer temperatures the next few days should melt any remaining snow fairly quickly. Henes said to expect “closer to near normal temps� over the weekend, with sunshine and highs in the 50s and 60s.
things to work on, too. The review showed LCS needs to work toward meeting Annual Yearly Progress requirements, closing the achievement gap, responding to growth in the district and more actively involving parents. The team told the district it must take certain required actions to make improvements, like evaluating the effectiveness of initiatives that are supposed to enhance student achievement, and create a long-range professional development plan that includes teacher assistants or volunteers for staff. The team will provide the district with a written report in 30 days that provides more details on each item, Golding said. If approved by the AdvancED Accreditation Committee, LCS is given a five-year term of accreditation. Golding said the district deserved congratulations for its work and noted that many on the review team, made up of fellow educators from North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, found good ideas within LCS. “We took away with us some outstanding practices from a model system,� said team member Kristi Hall. Team Vice Chairwoman Annette Brown said she was especially impressed when visiting the schools. “They’re having fun and they feel safe and they enjoy coming to school, unanimously. You know you’re doing something right,� she said. Overall, the panel was im-
pressed with LCS. “People are very dedicated and professional at all levels,� Golding said. “You’ve reached a bar that’s pretty high for others,� she told staff and board members. Golding said the accreditation can help a district by examining things from another viewpoint. “This gives you a perspective from the outside looking in,� she said. “With AdvancED, it’s an international accrediting agency. ... It helps to have a more universal perspective.� Moss said he appreciated the commendations but took note of the improvements the district must make. “That gives you either validation or insight into what you need to do differently to improve the school district,� Moss said. “It’s very similar to a financial audit. We’ll take their recommendations and improve.� Moss gives credit to the teachers and staff who work with students every day. “Our staff is our most valuable asset,� he said. One of the challenges pointed out in the review — more actively involving parents — is something Moss has acknowledged he needs to work on. “We’ve discussed ways to bring parents into the schools, whether it’s bringing them in on an activity bus or working with employers in the community and setting up in their canteens or break rooms,� he said. “We have a list of strategies. That’s always a struggle.�
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to challenge a county social services decision to register him before they RALEIGH — People are added. suspected of child abuse “Just knowing his name by social service workers is on this list is embarmust have the chance to rassing to him. It’s been defend themselves before detrimental to his whole they’re put on a list that life,� Thompson said. “He’s could affect their future extremely happy with the adoption rights and emoutcome.� ployment, the state Court The next step for the of Appeals ruled Tuesday. case remained unclear In a first-of-its-kind rul- Tuesday. The case could ing in North Carolina, the be appealed to the state three-judge panel deterSupreme Court, but the mined current procedures justices aren’t necessarin state law so someone ily obligated to hear it. can challenge being Thompson said the ruling added to the “Responsible didn’t order Holt off the list. Individuals List� violates It also didn’t direct the Legthe North Carolina conislature to rewrite the law. stitution by denying due An attorney for the New process rights. Hanover County DepartMore than 8,000 people ment of Social Services are on the list held by the involved in Holt’s case Department of Health and referred questions to the Human Services, which state Division of Health can provide information and Human Services, from the list to day care which is reviewing the centers, adult care homes decision, spokesman or adoption agencies so Mark Van Sciver said late they can better evaluate Tuesday. whether a person is fit to Rep. Rick Glazier, Dbe a parent or child care Cumberland, a primary provider. co-sponsor of a 2005 bill The list is designed as developing the current a complement to other appeals procedure, called information such as crimi- Tuesday’s ruling sound nal background checks, and expected lawmakers but it’s not available to the would change the law to public. comply if the appeal ends. A person doesn’t have A county investigator to be charged with a crime told Holt in January 2007 to be put on the list. A that his name was going social services worker on the Responsible Indiinvestigating a maltreatviduals List because it had ment claim only must substantiated allegations determine the person as of sexual abuse against his the “individual responsible then 5-year-old son and for abuse or substantial the case was being closed, neglect.� according to court docuAll of the remedies cur- ments. rently available occur after Holt said the abuse nevthe name is added to the er occurred. He has been list, placing the alleged of- unable to see his son, who fender at a huge disadvan- lives with his mother. tage, said attorney Miriam The General Assembly Thompson of Wilmington, approved procedures in who represented the man 2005 for people like Holt challenging the current to remove their name from rules. the list — first through an Thompson’s client, appeal to the county social Kelly Holt, has been on the services director, followed list for three years even by one to the local district though he denied abusing attorney and then one to a his son and has never been District Court judge. Holt charged with a crime, tried all three avenues Thompson said. The apwithout success, the last peals judges said Holt and coming in October 2008. others must be given the Holt appealed to the Court chance in District Court of Appeals.
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DURHAM (AP) — Gov. Beverly Perdue says she is putting together a plan to make North Carolina more diligent in dealing with people who are abusing the state’s Medicaid system through fraud and waste. Perdue said Wednesday she’ll roll out in the next couple of weeks an initiative that identifies unnecessary health services and providers overprescribing certain drugs. The governor told more than 600 people at the North Carolina Chamber’s annual meeting in Durham the newly developed system should help detect patients who may be gaming the system. Perdue says Attorney General Roy Cooper has agreed to prosecute those people once identified. The effort comes amid projections the state this year will spend $250 million more on Medicaid than budgeted.
RALEIGH (AP) — A state appeals court ordered a new murder trial in a North Carolina county because the judge allowed a defense attorney to accept a potential juror despite the defendant’s express wishes opposing the selection. The Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday in favor of Artives Jerod Freeman, who was convicted in Mecklenburg County of first-degree murder in the 2006 shooting of Latahnya Berry. The three-judge panel agreed with Freeman that trial Judge Albert Diaz shouldn’t have permitted Freeman’s defense lawyer to override his client’s wishes. The opinion said Diaz knew that Freeman and his lawyer had reached an impasse over one juror. Court of Appeals Judge Sanford Steelman wrote Freeman was denied his opportunity to exercise his right to strike out a juror.
Cross paid for Beacham and her family to stay three nights in a hotel and gave them funds for clothes and food. Another neighbor also donated some money for the family, Beacham said. Family members and friends volunteered to help Beacham clean and pack salvaged items. She was able to save some clothes and photos, among other personal items. But several things, such as furniture in the living room, were destroyed by the fire. Despite her losses, Beacham was thankful for her family’s safety and for those who helped. She called the deputies heroes. But Roseblock said he doesn’t feel like one. He said he was just doing his job. “We just happened to be driving through that area,� he said.
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — An autopsy report has found a pregnant North Carolina teen gunned down as she waited for the school bus was shot three times. The report, obtained Wednesday by The Charlotte Observer, says the fatal bullet entered the base of 15-yearold Tiffany Wright’s skull. Another shot grazed her scalp and a third hit her hand. Wright was eight months pregnant when she was killed in September. Her baby, delivered by cesarean section, died a week later. No one has been charged with killing Wright, but court documents say a 17-year-old former high school football player is a suspect. Authorities say he erased all his text messages from Wright after she died.
RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina school board has voted to scrap a policy of assigning students by socio-economic background in favor of a system of neighborhood schools. The 5-to-4 vote on Tuesday night approved a resolution to begin moving away from busing to achieve diversity. It was an illustration of the Wake County Public School Board’s makeup. Board members in favor of the change were swept into office by a group of vocal parents who complained that the current student assignment plan took their children too far from home. Dozens of parents and students lined up to speak to the board as discussion began late Tuesday afternoon.
thank that police officer,� she said. Beacham, who has lived in her apartment since July, said the unit was equipped with smoke detectors, but that they didn’t go off when the fire broke out. “I would really like to know why the alarms didn’t sound, because if that police officer wasn’t riding by, we wouldn’t be here,� she said. In the case of a fatal fire in January at another apartment complex near the University of North Carolina Wilmington, alarms didn’t sound because fire crept into the attic and disabled the apartment’s smoke alarms. Officials have not yet released the cause of this fire, and they have not said why the alarms didn’t work. The American Red
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WILMINGTON — As she packed up salvaged belongings from her charred apartment unit, Michelle Beacham choked back tears while talking about the strange voice that woke her up early on a recent morning telling her to get out of the burning building. It was a sheriff’s deputy who happened to see the fire at the unit in Meridian Village Apartments while out on a routine patrol of the area. Deputy Chris Roseblock of the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office said he and Deputy Joshua Bryant were riding in their patrol car at about 4:30 a.m. when they spotted flames leaping from the apartment building in northern New Hanover County.
Roseblock said he and Bryant saw a lady running down the stairs who said a family with a small child was inside one of the units. The deputies kicked down the door to get inside, then pulled the sleeping occupants out of their beds, Roseblock said. Beacham, 23, said she, her boyfriend, their 14month old daughter and two friends were inside the apartment. “I just heard the police saying my apartment was on fire,� she said. When she became alert she saw fire on the back porch and through vents in the ceiling, Beacham said. No one required medical treatment, but Beacham said she doesn’t think that would have been the case if the deputies weren’t around. “I just really want to
RALEIGH (AP) — ConAgra Foods Inc. said Wednesday it will close a Slim Jim production facility in North Carolina that was damaged during a deadly explosion last year, cutting hundreds of jobs as most of the production of the snacks moves to Ohio. The Omaha, Neb.based food manufacturer said Wednesday that the Garner site will close in late 2011 and production will transition to a facility in Troy, Ohio. The Ohio site will add 190 employees to its current workforce of nearly 400. “We truly value the commitment that our Garner employees and the
entire Garner community have shown over the past several months,� said ConAgra Foods CEO Gary Rodkin in a statement. “This was an incredibly difficult decision, but a decision that allows us to leverage economies of scale in Troy, which is necessary for the good of our business over the long term.� About 750 people worked at the ConAgra facility in Garner when a June explosion ripped through the building, killing four people and causing parts of the roof to collapse. Contractors had been purging gas lines at the time of the blast, and investigators have since
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WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;up or downâ&#x20AC;? on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t starting over,â&#x20AC;? Obama said, rejecting Republican calls to begin anew on an effort to remake the health care system. The president made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress surveyed their rank and file for the votes needed to pass legislation by majority vote â&#x20AC;&#x201D; invoking rules that deny Senate Republicans the right to block it through endless stalling debate. Obama specifically endorsed that approach. The outcome will affect nearly every American, either making major changes in the ways they receive and pay for health care or leaving current systems in place. There is still no certainty about the final result in Congress â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or even that Democrats will agree to the series of changes that Obama said he was including as Republican contributions. GOP leaders were
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Julie Babich after speaking about health care reform, Wednesday in the East Room of the White House in Washington. unmoved. The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said a decision by Democrats to invoke rules that bar filibusters would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;met with outrageâ&#x20AC;? by the public, and he said Obama was pushing a sweeping bill that voters donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had enough of this yearlong effort to get a win for the Democratic Party at any price to the American people,â&#x20AC;? McConnell said on the Senate floor. At its core, Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal would extend health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans while cracking down on insurance company practices such as denying coverage on the basis of a pre-existing medical condition. With his remarks, delivered at the White House,
Obama took the lead in a bid by congressional Democrats to mount a party-line rescue mission for the health care legislation that appeared on the cusp of passage late last year, only to be derailed when Republicans won a Massachusetts Senate seat that gave them the ability to block it. Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarks were replete with criticism of the insurance industry as well as dismissive asides about GOP critics. Insurers are â&#x20AC;&#x153;continuing to raise premiums and deny coverage. For us to start over now could simply lead to delay that could last for another decade or more,â&#x20AC;? he said. As for calls for additional debate, he said that in the year since he inaugurated his campaign for health care changes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;every idea has been put on the
table. Every argument has been made.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything there is to say about health care has been said, and just about everyone has said it,â&#x20AC;? Obama said as murmurs of laughter swept through his receptive audience of invited guests in the White House East Room. The presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appearance appeared part of an endgame strategy put in motion last week, when Obama presided over a bipartisan summit meeting with leaders of both parties and both houses. After seven hours of discussion, he said he had heard ideas for changes from sides, and he signaled that the time may have come for Democrats to proceed on their own if GOP critics were not ready to join them. While his spokesmen and Democratic congressional leaders joined in calls for an up-or-down vote â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a simple majority, no filibusters allowed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the White House announced with fanfare on Tuesday he was asking lawmakers to incorporate four GOP suggestions. Obama said he was exploring GOP proposals for cracking down on fraudulent medical charges, revamping ways to resolve malpractice disputes, boosting doctorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Medicaid reimbursements and offering tax incentives to curb unnecessary patient visits to doctors.
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Lone holdout gives in; Senate OKs jobless benefits WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Putting a lone senatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cantankerous challenge behind it, the Senate is back to work on a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits through the end of the year. Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning relented on Tuesday evening, freeing the Senate to approve stopgap legisla-
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The character Neytiri, voiced by Zoe Saldana, left, and the character Jake, voiced by Sam Worthington are shown in a scene from, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avatar.â&#x20AC;? century â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but it fused only occasionally with motion pictures before the 1950s. There was explosion of 3-D films between 1952-1955, an era kicked off by 1952â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bwana Devil,â&#x20AC;? a drama set in British East Africa about big-game hunters pursuing lions on the loose. Many of the 3-D movies of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;50s and those that followed in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are defined by their shlock â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taza, Son of Cochiseâ&#x20AC;? in 1954 to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amityville 3-Dâ&#x20AC;? in 1983. But there have been dramatic films made in 3-D, too, perhaps most notably Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dial M for Murderâ&#x20AC;? (1954). Most saw it in 2-D, but it included one memorable effect of Grace Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand coming out from the
screen in a pivotal moment. Based on a stage play with one interior setting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dial M for Murderâ&#x20AC;? could be a blueprint for contemporary filmmakers adapting 3-D to non-action movies. In the 1990s, IMAX expanded 3-D, both throughout the country and literally across giant screens. The process was awkward â&#x20AC;&#x201D; cameras weighed over 250 pounds â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but created life-size images that made the viewer a part of the scene. 1995â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wings of Courage,â&#x20AC;? a 40-minute movie about a downed pilot that starred Craig Sheffer and Val Kilmer, was the first IMAX 3-D fictional film. Reviewing it, The New York Times wrote that â&#x20AC;&#x153;of courseâ&#x20AC;? 3-D was not the
future of movies, â&#x20AC;&#x153;at least until those headsets turn into something more comfortable.â&#x20AC;? Digital filmmaking ushered in the latest in 3-D, and James Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avatarâ&#x20AC;? (nominated for nine Oscars at Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academy Awards) has been its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jazz Singer.â&#x20AC;? 3-Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasing expansion in moviemaking is ubiquitous. Some 20 films will be released in 3-D this year, with more in 2011. Studios are looking into their vaults to reissue classics in 3-D. Theaters are making more screens 3-D capable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just another tool. In fact, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very interested in kind of exploring it on some other levels, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like sound,â&#x20AC;? says Tim Burton, whose â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alice in Wonderlandâ&#x20AC;? was made in 2-D but converted to 3-D for theatrical release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;3-D is just another element to draw you in a little bit more, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all.â&#x20AC;? Cameron, himself, has been adamant that the technology can apply to all kinds of films â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an effect less driven by expanding depth of field and more tied to deepening focus. To expand on this, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s producing a film titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sanctumâ&#x20AC;? about a father and son diving team. Though it will include numerous underwater scenes, Cameron calls it â&#x20AC;&#x153;a drama, a love story.â&#x20AC;?
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Lil Wayne court date postponed due to court fire NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lil Wayne was ready Tuesday to go to jail, but his court date went up in smoke. While the rap star was heading to his sentencing after pleading guilty in Lil Wayne a 2007 gun case, a fire shut down the courthouse and postponed the already-delayed proceeding. Having braced to start up to a year behind bars, he was unhappy about the postponement, said his lawyer, Stacey Richman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you make up your mind to do something, you want to do it,â&#x20AC;? she said. The sentencing may be rescheduled for Wednesday, though court officials were still scrambling to determine Tuesday afternoon when Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main criminal courthouse could reopen after the smoky basement blaze. It left eight people with minor injuries and forced about 1,000 to flee the building. The Grammy Award-winning rapper is expected to get a yearlong jail term after pleading guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted having a loaded gun on his tour bus when it was stopped after a Manhattan show in July 2007. If heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back in court Wednesday, he could cross paths with fellow platinum-
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NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Movies are evolving ever more into 3-D, a shake-up of the medium that has been compared to the advent of sound or color in motion pictures. But if digital 3-D is so revolutionary, it will need to go beyond fantasy and animated blockbusters to drama and live action comedy. Explorations of Pandora may seem like the stuff of three-dimension wizardry, but what of a domestic drama such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Preciousâ&#x20AC;? or a characterdriven movie such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Educationâ&#x20AC;?? When color was widely introduced to Hollywood moviemaking in the 1930s, was first used predominantly in musicals and other films thought to be perfect platforms for rainbow hues. Many filmmakers are predicting a similar genre expansion for 3-D. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We see in depth, for the most part. We go to the theater â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in depth. Why couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a film like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Preciousâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; be in 3-D? It should be,â&#x20AC;? says Martin Scorsese. Like many seasoned moviegoers, Scorsese has lived through earlier fads of 3-D. 3-D actually predates cinema â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stereoscopic photography was developed in the mid 19th
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selling rapper Ja Rule, arrested separately on a gun-possession charge after playing the same concert. Ja Rule, known to the court as Jeff Atkins, happens to have a court date Wednesday; he has pleaded not guilty. Lil Wayne, 27, was initially due to be sentenced and start his term last month, but the date was pushed back so he could have surgery on his gemstoneencrusted teeth. He had bid a drawn-out adieu to friends and fellow artists, including a Rolling Stone cover story last month and a video blitz this past weekend. He said in a video clip sent Monday to MTV News that he shot footage for seven music videos with various artists in one night over the weekend. Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter, has been one of the genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prolific, ubiquitous and profitable figures in recent years. His â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tha Carter IIIâ&#x20AC;? was the best-selling album of 2008. His latest album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rebirth,â&#x20AC;? was released last month.
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Keyshia Cole, Cavaliersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gibson announce baby boy NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Singer Keyshia (KEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;-shah) Cole and Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Daniel Gibson have announced the birth of their son. Coleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s publicist, Tresa Sanders, says in a statement to The Associated Press that Daniel Hiram Gibson Jr. was born Tuesday evening. He weighs 7 pounds, 3 ounces. ** Planet 51: PG (10:20), 12:20, 5:25 ** Planet 51: PG (10:20), 12:20, 5:25
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STATE FORECAST Mountains: Today, skies will be mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow. Friday, skies will be sunny. Piedmont: Today we will see partly cloudy skies. Friday, skies will be mostly sunny. Saturday, skies will be sunny. Coastal Plains: Today, skies will be mostly sunny. Skies will be sunny Friday. Sunny skies will continue Saturday.
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Fed: Snow hurt some areas By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — The economy is growing slowly, but snowstorms crimped activity along the East Coast last month, according to a Federal Reserve report. The Fed’s Beige Book survey, released Wednesday, showed that the nation’s recovery is managing to plod ahead though not at a strong enough pace to persuade companies to ramp up hiring. The Fed said “economic conditions continued to expand ... although severe snowstorms in early February held back activity.” Of the Fed’s 12 regions surveyed, nine showed improvement. The Richmond district, which includes Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas, was hurt the most by the bad winter. That region reported economic activity had “slackened or remained soft across most sectors” because of the weather. The economic setbacks from the weather come at a fragile time: The economy is struggling to recover from the worst and longest recession since the 1930s. After a big growth spurt at the end of 2009, many economists believe the recovery lost steam in the first three months of this year. They predict it will grow at a pace of
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People shovel snow off a sidewalk in front of businesses as pedestrians make their way during a snowstorm in the Brooklyn Borough of New York. around 3 percent from January to March. That won’t be fast enough to drive down the unemployment rate, now at 9.7 percent. The jobs market “remained soft throughout the nation,” the Fed reported. When the government releases its new employment report on Friday, analysts expect it will show that the unemployment rate nudged up to 9.8 percent in February as companies slashed 50,000 jobs. The snowstorms, however, could lead to much steeper job losses for the month. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress last week that record-low interest rates are still needed to support economic activity. The Fed has held its key rate near zero for more than a year, and is
expected to keep it there at its next meeting on March 16. The rationale: Super-low rates will induce Americans to boost spending, which would aid economic growth. “The country is not living out a post-recession, post-crisis story. ... We’re in an early chapter of the story, and the ending is uncertain — quite uncertain,” Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said during a speech in New York on Wednesday. On Wall Street, stocks lost strength after the Federal Reserve report. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 9.22 points. The Fed’s survey said that consumer spending did show signs of improvements in many parts of the country. However, retailers in the Richmond region said sales were hurt by last month’s snowstorms. Merchants in the Philadelphia region said sales had been improving before the snowstorms hit. And, tourism activity
in New York City, which did pick up before the storms, also got pinched in early February because of the bad weather. Meanwhile, manufacturing strengthened in most parts of the country, especially for high-tech equipment, automobiles and metals. Factories in the Philadelphia and Richmond regions, though, noted production delays due to the snowstorms. Some were able to make up the losses by having people work longer hours and extended shifts. Demand for services was generally positive, particularly for health care and information technology firms. A separate report out Wednesday said that the service sector in February logged its fastest growth in more than two year, though jobs remained elusive. The Institute for Supply Management’s index rose to 53 in February, from 50.5 in January. Any level above 50 signals growth. Bad weather hampered home sales and construction in regions including New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta. And, it was blamed for some of the sluggishness in car sales in some places. Given the precarious state of the economy, Americans had little appetite to take out new loans, and most banks are still cautious about lending, the Fed report said. Lending is not back to normal, another reason why the recovery is expected to be only gradual.
NY’s Paterson faces ethics charge over Series tix ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. David Paterson, trying to hold onto office in the face of one scandal, was accused Wednesday of violating state ethics laws when he sought and obtained free Yankees tickets for the 2009 World Series and then may have lied about his intention to pay for them, according to a state report. He faces penalties of nearly $100,000, and the case was referred to the Albany County prosecutor’s office and the state attorney general for possible criminal investigation into whether Paterson or anyone else gave false answers to questions by the Public Integrity Commission or backdated a check to pay for the tickets. The charge isn’t directly related to the scandal now plaguing Paterson over contact he and others in his administration had with a woman who accused a top Paterson aide of domestic violence. But the panel said the aide in the scandal, David Johnson, was one of Paterson’s four guests, along with Paterson’s son and a son’s friend, getting tickets for the Oct. 28 World Series game provided by the Yankees. Four days later, also in the Bronx, Johnson was accused of domestic violence by his then-girlfriend, a case that now threatens Paterson’s job and administration. The ticket scandal may ultimately be more damaging to the governor, especially given the timing.
Tapes indicate kids directed planes at airport NEW YORK (AP) — An air traffic controller at New York’s Kennedy Airport has been suspended after he allowed two children to radio instructions to several pilots. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday the
children did so over two days in mid-February. The first night, the controller brought his young son to work and let him squawk a few routine messages over the radio to pilots waiting to take off. The FAA says the controller brought a different child the next evening. The agency has placed the controller and a supervisor on administrative leave as it investigates. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt called the episode a “lapse in judgment.” The few quick exchanges between the children and jets waiting to take off from JFK became public after they were recorded and posted on the Internet.
3 kids die, 2 injured in Detroit house fire DETROIT (AP) — Piercing screams drowned out the snap and pop of burning wood and exploding glass as the blaze raced through the rickety wooden house on Detroit’s west side. Somewhere inside cowered three children, ages 3, 4 and 5. They each would die in the blaze. Three older children — cornered by heat, flames and a black curtain of toxic smoke — crowded against second-floor windows before dropping a 3-month-old to neighbors. They “were in the window screaming and hollering. We were telling them to jump, but they wouldn’t jump,” said 18-year-old Jarmar Taylor, standing Wednesday outside the charred and blackened husk of the two-story house on Bangor Street. Taylor said he and a friend noticed the flames about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday and raced across the street where they were joined by others from the neighborhood. They first tried to kick in the front door. When that wouldn’t budge, Taylor tried the back, but there “was too much smoke and fire,” he said.
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No. 4 Duke’s basketball game against No. 23 Maryland did not finish by presstime.
BASEBALL 2010: LEE COUNTY YELLOW JACKETS
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OLYMPICS RUSSIAN OLYMPIC CHIEF RESIGNS AFTER FLOP
MOSCOW (AP) — The head of the Russian Olympic Committee resigned on Wednesday in the wake of the nation’s worst performance at the Winter Games, news agencies said, citing the committee’s spokesman. When contacted by The Associated Press, however, the spokesman said only “that information is not confirmed,” before hanging up. He did not deny making the statements to the Russian media or say the information was incorrect. Leonid Tyagachev, a former sports minister, took over as head of the Russian Olympic Committee in 2001. In the wake of the Vancouver Games, President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that sports officials would be fired if they failed to resign voluntarily.
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Ginyard finally comes up big BY BRIANA GORMAN
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Peyton Manning has spent 12 seasons being a pain in the neck of NFL opponents. Now the four-time league MVP is trying to alleviate the pain in his own neck. The Indianapolis Colts announced Wednesday that Manning had surgery in Chicago to fix a pinched nerve, a procedure that is not expected to interrupt Manning’s offseason workouts or his availability for next season. “This condition has existed intermittently for the past four years, but at no time did it interfere with his training, practice or playing regimen,” the Colts said. “While it never has affected Peyton’s activity on or off the field, the Colts’ medical staff, after post-playoff examination, thought it best to resolve the situation now.”
RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes traded five veteran players and stockpiled draft picks in a flurry of deals before the NHL deadline. General manager Jim Rutherford says the Hurricanes dealt defenseman Joe Corvo to the Washington Capitals, forwards Stephane Yelle and prospect Harrison Reed to the Colorado Avalanche and defenseman Andrew Alberts to the Vancouver Canucks. Carolina received defenseman Brian Pothier, left winger Oskar Osala and a second-round pick in 2011 from Washington; landed prospect Cedric Lalonde-McNicoll and a sixth-round draft choice from Colorado; and acquired Vancouver’s third-round pick for Alberts. Those moves came after they sent defenseman Aaron Ward to the Anaheim Ducks for a minor league goalie and a draft choice, then traded forward Scott Walker to Washington for another pick.
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Lee County’s Patrick Oldham fouls off a pitch in this file photo. Oldham, a first baseman, returns with the rest of the Yellow Jackets’ infield from last season.
Experience a key for Yellow Jackets in 2010 By RYAN SARDA sarda@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — This could be one of the hardest seasons Lee County baseball coach Charlie Spivey has had to endure in his 30-plus years of coaching. After two scrimmages against South Stanley and Northwood, the Yellow Jackets, who won just three games in 2009, will officially open their season on Friday night at Tri-9
Conference newcomer Holly Springs. Diving right into conference play is not what Spivey had in mind, especially after the struggles in 2009. However, playing 16 conference games in the course of two months has forced many of the other league teams to cut back on their nonconference schedules. “We’re being thrown right
See Jackets, Page 4B
Diamond Note After collecting just three wins last varsity season, Lee County enjoyed success in the summer league. The Jackets return their infield intact, as well as their top starting pitcher. Coach Charlie Spivey is expecting the team’s growth in experience to allow the team to catch a few breaks in 2010.
CHAPEL HILL — After North Carolina beat Miami 69-62 at the Smith Center on Tuesday, Coach Roy Williams said he introduced the freshman to senior Marcus Ginyard in the locker room. “I said, ‘That’s the Marcus we’ve known in the past that you guys have not been able to see,’ “ Williams Ginyard said. The fifth-year senior, who has struggled at times this season, had arguably his best game of the year in his final regular-season game at the Smith Center, as he scored 12 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for his first career double-double. “He played like a man,” freshman John Henson said. It has been an up and down season for Ginyard, who redshirted a year ago because of a stress fracture in his left foot. Before the season began, the expectations were set high, as many thought he would take on the role that David Noel played in the 2005-06 season. Noel, who Williams has frequently called the best leader he has ever coached, averaged 12.9 points and 6.8 rebounds to guide a freshman-laden team to a surprising second-place finish in the ACC after losing the top seven scorers from a national championship squad. And Ginyard started this season strong, scoring in double figures in five of the first nine games to lead UNC to a 7-2 record before sitting out the Presbyterian win with a bruised left foot. He returned in time for a loss to then-No. 2 Texas at Dallas Cowboys Stadium and a victory over Marshall, then missed the next three
See Ginyard, Page 3B
ATLANTIC SUN TOURNAMENT
March Madness begins today for Campbell From Staff Reports MACON, GA. — After celebrating a share of the ASun regular season title last Saturday, March Madness begins Thursday for Campbell University. Campbell (19-10, 14-6) finished in a 4-way tie for first place in the league standings. Due to tiebreaking procedures, the Camels are seeded fourth in the A-Sun Championship and will square off against fifthseeded East Tennessee State (17-14, 13-7) Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in Mercer’s University Center. The game will be aired in the Sandhills region on WCLN 107.3 FM. Campbell won seven of
its final eight games of the regular season, including a 79-57 victory Feb. 19 over ETSU at Buies Creek, to earn its highest league tourney seeding since the 1996 club was positioned second. Lipscomb, Jacksonville and Belmont claimed the top three seeds in the conference tourney. Campbell and ETSU split the season series in each of the last two years with both teams winning their home games. Last Saturday, Campbell rode an 18-3 run in the second half to a 57-49 win at North Florida to close out its most successful regular season (19-10) at the Divi-
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Campbell’s Junard Hartley, who was named as the Atlantic Sun’s Defensive Player of the Year, is shown in this file photo.
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REC SPORTS Baseball Buddies accepting registration SANFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A baseball organization designed for children and young adults with developmental delays or physical disabilities is seeking participants for the spring. Baseball Buddies, which is open to ages 5-to-20, is hoping to launch its new recreational league with games on Sundays at Deep River-Northview Optimist Park. The program has opened registration, which costs $20 and covers insurance, a T-shirt, cap and equipment. Participants will be able to have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;buddyâ&#x20AC;? on the field to assist them as needed, including help with hitting, fielding or running. The deadline for registration is March 15. For more information about the league and how to register, contact Melissa Caddick at (919) 4996941.
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POP WARNER Several Sting members named Regional Scholars SANFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Consolidated Football Federation recently named its Regional Scholars, which recognizes members of Pop Warner. The award, which is available to football players and cheerleaders in 5th grade and up, qualifies players for Pop Warnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academic AllAmerican Awards. Members of the Sanford Sting Pop Warner football and cheerleading teams that received this honor were: Tyshaun Douglas, Megan Kane, Isaiah Lassiter, James Maynor, Taylor Medlock, David Miller, Harrison Miller, Spencer Patterson, George Perkins, Andrew Phillips, Cara Proctor, Jackson Quiggle, Hunter Randolph, Charity Taylor, Jacob Thomas and Ethan West.
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Hokies cruise by Wolfpack; Deacons stumble yet again BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dorenzo Hudson and Malcolm Delaney each scored 21 points to help Virginia Tech snap a three-game losing streak Wednesday night in a 71-59 win over North Carolina State. The Hokies (22-7, 9-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) broke open a close game with a 142 run to end the first half and took a 31-22 lead at halftime on freshman Manny Atkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; layup at the buzzer. N.C. State hit one shot in the final 4:50 of the first half and turned the ball over four times in that span â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which was part of a 13 turnover first half for the Wolfpack. N.C. State (16-14, 4-11),
which saw a modest two-game winning streak snapped, used a 10-0 run to cut the lead to two, 34-32, on two free throws by Javier Gonzalez with 16:17 remaining. But the Hokies responded by scoring the next 11 points, including nine on three 3-pointers by Delaney. N.C. State got no closer than seven the rest of the way. Delaney, the ACCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading scorer who came in averaging 20.4 points per game, went 6 of 12 from the floor and 3 of 6 from beyond the 3-point arc. Jeff Allen added 18 points and nine rebounds for the Hokies. N.C. State hurt itself with 20 turnovers. The Wolfpack got 16 points from Gonzalez and 12 from Tracy Smith.
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SANFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Adam Spell finished in second place at the recent Carolina Bassers of Harnett County fishing tournament at Hyco Lake. Spell, a native of Sanford, caught a bass that weighed 11.9 pounds. Kevin Matthews of Whispering Pines caught a 12.19 lb. bass to win. Ron Johnson, of Coats, Tim McMillan and Eddie LeNeave, both of Fayetteville, rounded out the top five. The next tournament is scheduled for March 13 at Jordan Lake.
GOLF Rover scores ace at Sanford Golf Course SANFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rodney Rover hit a hole-in-one on the second hole at the Sanford Municipal Golf Course on Sunday. Rover, who was playing with David Poe and Bill Sayer, recorded the ace with a six iron and hit it from 175 yards out.
GOLF Wicker wins SMGA Shootout event SANFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brad Wicker won the gross division of the Sanford Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golf Association Top-20 Shootout on Saturday at the Sanford Golf Course. Jonathan Blackard finished in second place in the gross division. Jeremy Worrell won the net division. Gilbert Rosser was the runner-up.
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SPORTS BRIEFS Netherlands beats US 2-1 in World Cup warmup
AMSTERDAM (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The United States fell flat in Europe once again, losing to the Netherlands 2-1 Wednesday night in the Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; last match before coach Bob Bradley picks his World Cup roster. Dirk Kuyt converted a penalty kick in the 40th minute after Jonathan Bornstein pushed Wesley Sneijder in the penalty area. Kuyt sent his kick to the right of goalkeeper Tim Howard, who dived the other way. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar made it 2-0 for the third-ranked Dutch in the 73rd minute with a shot that deflected off Bornstein and left Howard with no chance to stop it. U.S. captain Carlos Bocanegra scored in the 88th minute, beating Maarten Stekelenburg to the 6-yard box to head in DaMarcus Beasleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 35-yard free kick. It was his 12th goal in 77 international appearance.
Coach proud of players accused of newspaper theft
COMMERCE, Texas (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Campus police say a college football coach in Texas is backing players who removed every campus newspaper because they contained an article about teammates getting arrested on drug charges. The incident happened at Texas A&M-Commerce, a Division II school. The coach is Guy Morriss, who also coached at Kentucky and Baylor. No one has been arrested over the removal of 2,000 copies of The East Texan on Feb. 25. Police say the newspapers, which are distributed free, were worth about $1,000. An incident report filed by university police says Morriss told officers he was proud of his players. He also said taking the newspapers was â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best
team building exercise we have ever done.â&#x20AC;? Morriss declined to comment through a school spokesman on Wednesday.
New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter, left, balances the 2009 World Series trophy atop Yogi Berraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head as Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson watches during pregame ceremonies prior to the during Yankees home opener spring training baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday.
Jack Nicklaus thinks Woods will play Masters PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jack Nicklaus is going to appear at next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Masters. He thinks Tiger Woods will as well. Nicklaus said Wednesday that â&#x20AC;&#x153;it would surprise meâ&#x20AC;? if Woods did not return to competitive golf in time for the Masters, a tournament the embattled world No. 1 has won four times in his career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I suspect heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll play something before Augusta,â&#x20AC;? Nicklaus said behind the 18th green at PGA National, where the Honda Classic opens on Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your guess is as good as mine. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be very surprised if he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play something before Augusta.â&#x20AC;?
China fans ask, will Yao Mingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby be American? BEIJING (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chinese basketball fans want to know â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will Yao Mingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby be an American? The Houston Rockets center, who is sidelined this season with a broken left foot, recently returned to the United States with wife Ye Li. That prompted speculation among his followers that the baby girl due this summer could be born in America. Yaoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal life is closely followed by his many fans at home, from his 2007 Shanghai wedding to the former basketball player to reports last month the couple is expecting a baby girl in July. Yaoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby would be an American citizen if born in the U.S. She also could claim Chinese citizenship as the child of Chinese nationals. However, Chinese law does not recognize dual citizenship.
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Lincecum roughed up in spring debut PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tim Lincecum struggled in his spring debut, allowing three runs in one inning as the San Francisco Giants beat the Seattle Mariners 8-7 in 10 innings Wednesday. Lincecum, the two-time Cy Young Award winner, was expected to throw two innings. He worked only the 29-pitch first, giving up two hits and walking two. Yankees 6, Pirates 3 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alex Rodriguez singled, No. 98 Colin Curtis hit a game-ending, three-run homer and the New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner watched in the
ballpark bearing his name as the World Series champions won their spring opener. Braves 9, Mets 5 KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tim Hudson pitched two sharp innings and rookie Jason Heyward doubled and scored as the Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets. Hudson missed most of the 2009 season after recovering from Tommy John surgery. The right-hander said he threw pain-free and went to the bullpen for more tossing after facing only six batters. Tigers 7, Blue Jays 6 DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jeremy Bonderman pitched two shutout innings after missing most of last season
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with circulatory problems in his right shoulder and Mike Rabelo hit a tiebreaking single in a three-run ninth to lead the Detroit Tigers over the Toronto Blue Jays. Red Sox 15, Northeastern 0 FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; David Ortiz hit a two-run homer and top prospect Casey Kelly pitched a neat first inning as a Boston Red Sox split squad beat Northeastern. Boston pitchers gave two hits. Marlins 19, Miami 3 JUPITER, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hanley Ramirez hit a three-run homer in his first at-bat of spring training and the Florida Marlins beat the University of Miami.
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games with a sprained right ankle. The most recent game he missed was the overtime loss at the College of Charleston, which seemed to shake the Tar Heelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; confidence and was the start of UNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downward slide. When Ginyard finally returned for the ACC opener against Virginia Tech, he was not quite as explosive and seemed to have lost his shooting touch. In UNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first seven ACC games, Ginyard shot 8-of-35 from the floor and recorded just 23 points. He finally scored in double figures for the first time since the Dec. 22 win over Marshall when he had 17 in a loss to Maryland on Feb. 7. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The injury hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really allowed me to play the way I want all the time, but I think that [Tuesday] was just a great example of me just trying to get back to my old self,â&#x20AC;? Ginyard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt great out there.â&#x20AC;? Despite his struggles, Ginyard has started to look more and more like his old self the past four games, and as a result, UNC has recorded backto-back wins for the first time since the end of December. He went scoreless in a loss to Georgia Tech, then had 10 points in a loss to Boston College four days later. And in a loss to Florida State and wins over Wake Forest and Miami, he has grabbed a combined 35 rebounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I definitely feel a lot better out there when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting after it and just trying to get my hand on every ball,â&#x20AC;? Ginyard said.
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NBA Standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB L10 d-Cleveland 47 14 .770 — 7-3 d-Orlando 41 20 .672 6 7-3 Atlanta 38 21 .644 8 6-4 1 d-Boston 37 21 .638 8 ⁄2 5-5 Toronto 31 28 .525 15 5-5 Chicago 31 29 .517 151⁄2 6-4 Milwaukee 30 29 .508 16 7-3 Miami 30 31 .492 17 6-4 Charlotte 28 30 .483 171⁄2 4-6 Philadelphia 22 37 .373 24 4-6 Washington 21 36 .368 24 5-5 Detroit 21 39 .350 251⁄2 3-7 New York 20 39 .339 26 1-9 Indiana 20 40 .333 261⁄2 2-8 New Jersey 6 53 .102 40 2-8 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 d-L.A. Lakers 46 15 .754 — 8-2 d-Dallas 40 21 .656 6 8-2 1 d-Denver 39 21 .650 6 ⁄2 5-5 Utah 38 22 .633 71⁄2 6-4 Phoenix 38 24 .613 81⁄2 7-3 Oklahoma City 36 23 .610 9 8-2 1 San Antonio 34 24 .586 10 ⁄2 6-4 Portland 36 27 .571 11 6-4 Houston 30 29 .508 15 3-7 New Orleans 31 30 .508 15 4-6 1 Memphis 30 30 .500 15 ⁄2 4-6 L.A. Clippers 25 35 .417 201⁄2 4-6 Sacramento 20 40 .333 251⁄2 4-6 Golden State 17 42 .288 28 4-6 Minnesota 14 47 .230 32 1-9
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AUTO RACING Str W-4 W-2 W-2 W-1 L-4 L-2 L-1 W-1 L-1 L-3 W-1 L-4 L-2 L-1 L-1
Home 26-4 23-6 23-7 16-11 21-9 19-10 18-9 15-14 20-8 10-18 12-18 14-17 12-20 13-16 3-26
Away 21-10 18-14 15-14 21-10 10-19 12-19 12-20 15-17 8-22 12-19 9-18 7-22 8-19 7-24 3-27
Conf 27-8 29-11 20-12 24-13 22-17 19-18 21-15 18-17 17-18 10-21 15-21 14-20 14-25 15-22 5-32
Str W-3 W-8 L-2 L-1 W-1 W-3 W-2 W-2 W-1 L-2 L-1 W-1 L-1 L-1 L-3
Home 29-5 20-9 25-5 24-8 23-7 19-11 21-10 19-13 17-13 20-10 18-13 18-12 15-14 13-18 9-21
Away 17-10 20-12 14-16 14-14 15-17 17-12 13-14 17-14 13-16 11-20 12-17 7-23 5-26 4-24 5-26
Conf 26-11 21-16 23-14 23-16 24-14 18-17 20-17 23-14 22-17 20-15 17-21 12-25 12-24 9-27 7-29
d-division leader Monday’s Games Dallas 89, Charlotte 84 Cleveland 124, New York 93 Orlando 126, Philadelphia 105 Atlanta 116, Chicago 92 Portland 103, Memphis 93 San Antonio 106, New Orleans 92 Houston 116, Toronto 92 Phoenix 101, Denver 85 L.A. Clippers 108, Utah 104 Tuesday’s Games Boston 105, Detroit 100 Miami 110, Golden State 106 Oklahoma City 113, Sacramento 107 L.A. Lakers 122, Indiana 99 Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Golden State at Orlando, 7 p.m. Charlotte at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at New York, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Memphis at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Sacramento at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Denver, 9 p.m. Indiana at Portland, 10 p.m. Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games Memphis at Chicago, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Miami, 8 p.m. Utah at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.
Sports on TV
Thursday, March 4
FSN — Southern Cal at Arizona St. 9 p.m. ESPN — LSU at Mississippi ESPN2 — Providence at Pittsburgh 10:30 p.m. FSN — UCLA at Arizona NBA BASKETBALL 8:15 p.m. TNT — L.A. Lakers at Miami 10:30 p.m. TNT — Utah at Phoenix NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m. VERSUS — Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers
GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Malaysian Open, first round, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (same-day tape) 3 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, The Honda Classic, first round, at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — Seton Hall at Rutgers ESPN2 — Penn State at Michigan State 8:30 p.m.
Campbell Belmont Jacksonville Lipscomb ETSU Mercer N. Florida Kennesaw St. S.C.-Upstate Florida Gulf Coast Stetson
All Games W L 19 10 19 11 18 11 17 12 17 14 14 16 13 17 12 19 6 23 8 21 7 22
PCT .655 .633 .621 .586 .548 .467 .433 .387 .207 .276 .241
——— Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled Wednesday’s Games Kennesaw St. vs. Lipscomb at University Center, 2:30 p.m. North Florida vs. Jacksonville at University Center, 9 p.m.
Atlantic 10 Conference Temple Xavier, Ohio Richmond St. Louis Charlotte Rhode Island Dayton George Washington Duquesne St. Bonaventure UMass La Salle St. Joseph’s Fordham
onference C W L PCT 12 2 .857 12 2 .857 11 3 .786 10 4 .714 9 5 .643 8 6 .571 8 6 .571 6 8 .429 6 8 .429 6 8 .429 4 10 .286 3 11 .214 3 11 .214 0 14 .000
All W 24 21 22 19 19 20 19 16 15 13 10 11 9 2
Games L PCT 5 .828 7 .750 7 .759 9 .679 9 .679 7 .741 9 .679 11 .593 13 .536 14 .481 18 .357 17 .393 19 .321 24 .077
——— Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled Wednesday’s Games Xavier at Fordham, 7 p.m. Massachusetts at La Salle, 7 p.m. Duquesne at St. Bonaventure, 7 p.m. Charlotte at Rhode Island, 7 p.m. Saint Joseph’s at George Washington, 7 p.m. Temple at Saint Louis, 8 p.m.
Pts 793 780 617 592 580 570 553 532 529 517 474 442 437 417 394 383 365 354 350 328 313 311 273 273 268 268 263 251 246 244 242 238 234 233 229 228 220 216 214 207 207 205 202
All W 25 21 21 21 20 18 19 14 14 16 16 18
Games L PCT 4 .862 7 .750 8 .724 7 .750 8 .714 8 .692 10 .655 13 .519 14 .500 14 .533 13 .552 11 .621
Conference USA Conference W L PCT UTEP 14 1 .933 UAB 11 3 .786 Memphis 11 3 .786 Marshall 10 5 .667 Tulsa 9 5 .643 SMU 7 7 .500 Southern Miss. 7 8 .467 Houston 6 8 .429 UCF 5 10 .333 East Carolina 4 11 .267 Tulane 2 13 .133 Rice 1 13 .071
All Games W L PCT 23 5 .821 23 5 .821 21 8 .724 22 8 .733 20 9 .690 14 14 .500 17 12 .586 14 14 .500 13 16 .448 10 19 .345 7 21 .250 8 20 .286
——— Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games East Carolina 68, UCF 66 UTEP 80, Marshall 76 Southern Miss. 66, Tulane 57 Wednesday’s Games Rice at Houston, 8 p.m. SMU at Tulsa, 8 p.m. Memphis at UAB, 9 p.m.
Money $1,727,450 $1,731,000 $1,132,703 $1,442,525 $1,106,202 $1,174,793 $1,227,660 $923,850 $1,017,640 $979,346 $971,905 $937,521 $875,431 $722,426 $657,746 $1,010,000 $710,360 $724,940 $654,890 $742,333 $585,246 $559,953 $460,994 $756,000 $448,616 $539,738 $415,336 $659,456 $557,440 $534,272 $409,387 $462,573 $503,921 $467,533 $495,620 $409,215 $415,480 $446,057 $382,482 $346,710 $296,364 $279,730 $323,205
44. Zach Johnson 45. K.J. Choi 46. Chad Collins 47. Vaughn Taylor 48. Ricky Barnes 49. Chris Couch 50. Mark Wilson 51. Martin Laird 52. Michael Allen 53. Bryce Molder 54. Chad Campbell 55. Matt Every 56. Mike Weir 57. Stephen Ames 58. Brian Stuard 59. Matt Jones 60. George McNeill 61. Sergio Garcia 61. Kevin Sutherland 63. Kevin Stadler 64. Andres Romero 65. Lucas Glover 66. Nathan Green 67. Joe Durant 68. Justin Rose 69. Bo Van Pelt 70. Mathew Goggin 71. Joe Ogilvie 72. Heath Slocum 73. Carl Pettersson 74. Briny Baird 75. Angel Cabrera 76. Spencer Levin 77. Kevin Streelman 78. Kenny Perry 79. Richard S. Johnson 80. Jim Furyk 81. Josh Teater 82. Scott Piercy 83. Jeff Quinney 84. John Merrick 84. Charlie Wi 86. Troy Matteson 87. Webb Simpson 88. Troy Merritt 89. Blake Adams
The AP Top 25 By The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 28, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Syracuse (59) 27-2 1,618 4 2. Kansas (6) 27-2 1,550 1 3. Kentucky 27-2 1,493 2 4. Duke 25-4 1,415 5 5. Kansas St. 24-4 1,377 6 6. Ohio St. 23-7 1,232 9 7. Purdue 24-4 1,169 3 8. New Mexico 27-3 1,151 10 9. Villanova 23-5 1,143 7 10. West Virginia 22-6 1,024 8 11. Michigan St. 22-7 960 14 12. Butler 26-4 762 15 13. Vanderbilt 22-6 741 16 14. BYU 26-4 633 13 15. Wisconsin 21-7 625 17 16. Tennessee 21-7 615 19 17. Pittsburgh 22-7 612 12 18. Gonzaga 24-5 554 18 19. Georgetown 19-8 548 11 20. Temple 24-5 547 20 21. Baylor 22-6 393 24 22. Maryland 21-7 249 — 23. Texas A&M 20-8 210 22 24. UTEP 22-5 124 — 25. Xavier 21-7 101 — Others receiving votes: Texas 94, Richmond 44, N. Iowa 32, Oklahoma St. 24, Marquette 21, Missouri 13, Illinois 10, Utah St. 9, Virginia Tech 8, Mississippi St. 7, UAB 6, Cornell 5, Louisville 4, Notre Dame 1, Old Dominion 1.
Jackets
Conference W L PCT Duke 12 2 .857 Maryland 11 3 .786 Clemson 9 6 .600 Virginia Tech 8 6 .571 Florida St. 8 6 .571 Wake Forest 8 6 .571 Georgia Tech 7 8 .467 Virginia 5 9 .357 Boston College 5 9 .357 North Carolina 5 10 .333 N.C. State 4 10 .286 Miami 4 11 .267 ——— Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Clemson 91, Georgia Tech 80 North Carolina 69, Miami 62 Wednesday’s Games N.C. State at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m. Wake Forest at Florida St., 7 p.m. Duke at Maryland, 9 p.m. Virginia at Boston College, 9 p.m.
FedEx Cup Leaders
By The Associated Press Through Feb. 28 Rank Name 1. Dustin Johnson 2. Steve Stricker 3. Ben Crane 4. Ian Poulter 5. Ryan Palmer 6. Hunter Mahan 7. Geoff Ogilvy 8. Bill Haas 9. Robert Allenby 10. Matt Kuchar 11. J.B. Holmes 12. Luke Donald 13. Rickie Fowler 14. Tim Clark 15. Brandt Snedeker 16. Paul Casey 17. Y.E. Yang 18. Rory Sabbatini 19. Charles Howell III 20. Retief Goosen 21. Alex Prugh 22. Marc Leishman 23. Nick Watney 24. Camilo Villegas 25. Brian Gay 26. Ernie Els 27. Bubba Watson 28. Cameron Beckman 29. David Duval 30. Steve Marino 31. John Rollins 32. Michael Sim 33. Stewart Cink 34. Ryan Moore 35. Paul Goydos 36. D.J. Trahan 37. J.P. Hayes 38. Sean O’Hair 39. Kevin Na 40. Ryuji Imada 41. Tom Gillis 42. Pat Perez 43. Phil Mickelson
BASKETBALL
The top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 28, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
Atlantic Coast Conference
onference C W L PCT 14 6 .700 14 6 .700 14 6 .700 14 6 .700 13 7 .650 10 10 .500 8 12 .400 7 13 .350 6 14 .300 5 15 .250 5 15 .250
By The Associated Press Through Feb. 28 Points 1, Kevin Harvick, 506. 2, Clint Bowyer, 459. 3, Mark Martin, 457. 4, Matt Kenseth, 448. 5, Jimmie Johnson, 443. 5, Greg Biffle, 443. 7, Jeff Burton, 430. 8, Joey Logano, 413. 9, David Reutimann, 397. 10, Carl Edwards, 389. 11, Tony Stewart, 386. 12, Kyle Busch, 375. 13, Jeff Gordon, 373. 14, Jamie McMurray, 363. 15, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 357. 16, Scott Speed, 348. 17, Paul Menard, 345. 18, Brian Vickers, 320. 19, Kurt Busch, 312. 20, David Ragan, 308. Money 1, Jamie McMurray, $1,823,416. 2, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $1,331,879. 3, Kevin Harvick, $1,160,630. 4, Jimmie Johnson, $1,128,423. 5, Greg Biffle, $1,062,304. 6, Clint Bowyer, $883,245. 7, David Reutimann, $797,288. 8, Jeff Gordon, $756,082. 9, Matt Kenseth, $743,232. 10, Jeff Burton, $725,374. 11, Kasey Kahne, $722,709. 12, Joey Logano, $683,510. 13, Kyle Busch, $673,122. 14, Tony Stewart, $667,348. 15, Mark Martin, $666,729. 16, Carl Edwards, $661,223. 17, Kurt Busch, $640,448. 18, Juan Pablo Montoya, $639,772. 19, Brian Vickers, $619,773. 20, Martin Truex Jr., $583,125.
USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll
College Basketball Standings Atlantic Sun Conference
NASCAR Sprint Cup Leaders
201 200 198 195 191 184 179 178 178 173 172 168 164 164 163 159 159 158 158 155 150 147 146 145 144 142 142 140 139 139 137 137 130 129 129 127 126 125 123 122 121 121 118 114 110 109
$343,900 $261,430 $364,946 $347,461 $289,302 $313,677 $268,426 $351,299 $267,038 $329,657 $268,405 $284,719 $289,539 $244,533 $364,056 $299,305 $295,422 $504,539 $239,193 $318,570 $322,495 $302,200 $249,580 $341,040 $201,795 $223,742 $266,020 $214,056 $202,981 $242,218 $276,197 $254,004 $126,333 $181,331 $267,030 $231,592 $188,487 $249,222 $222,250 $124,065 $108,045 $131,862 $140,316 $156,514 $159,770 $183,999
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into the frying pan with Holly Springs on Friday,” said Spivey. “With the way the weather has gone and the lack of nonconference games, it’s going to be tough to make the proper adjustments to succeed in conference. It’s one of those things that we have to deal with as coaches, but none of us it like it very much.” The Yellow Jackets were scheduled to open with conference foe Apex on Tuesday night in Sanford. However, the rain forced that game to be postponed. Wednesday’s game at Pinecrest, which is one of just six nonconference foes on the Lee County schedule, was also canceled because of the snow. With how stacked the conference is and having to start with league play immediately, it’s been hard for the coaching legend to clearly evaluate where he wants this season to go. Also, with the addition of Holly Springs, a team that finished 20-6 in 2009, Spivey feels that the Tri-9 Conference will be tougher than ever to win in. “I think we play in the toughest and most competitive 4-A conference in the state,” said Spivey. “Adding Holly Springs makes our league that much better. This is a year where anyone can be good in the league and everyone can compete. It’s going to be tough, there’s no doubt about it.”
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sion I level. CU won 18 games in the 1993-94 regular season and twomore in the league tournament to finish at 20-9. Campbell’s senior class has helped the program compile its best four-year record in league play (37-37) since joining the A-Sun in 1994-95. CU’s 57 overall victories over the last four seasons is the program’s most in a similar span in 14 years.
Record Pts Pvs 1. Syracuse (23) 27-2 766 4 2. Kansas (7) 27-2 741 1 3. Kentucky 27-2 698 2 4. Duke (1) 25-4 694 5 5. Kansas State 24-4 659 6 6. Purdue 24-4 585 3 7. Ohio State 23-7 559 9 8. West Virginia 22-6 526 7 9. Villanova 23-5 509 8 10. New Mexico 27-3 494 12 11. Butler 26-4 480 10 12. Michigan State 22-7 429 14 13. Tennessee 21-7 346 17 14. Gonzaga 24-5 341 15 15. BYU 26-4 337 11 16. Temple 24-5 293 18 17. Wisconsin 21-7 258 19 18. Pittsburgh 22-7 255 16 19. Vanderbilt 22-6 246 20 20. Georgetown 19-8 240 13 21. UTEP 22-5 121 25 22. Baylor 22-6 104 — 23. Maryland 21-7 102 — 24. Texas A&M 20-8 92 23 25. Texas 22-7 43 21 Others receiving votes: Northern Iowa 40; Xavier 28; Utah State 24; Cornell 15; Clemson 10; Virginia Tech 9; Richmond 8; Oklahoma State 6; Saint Mary’s 6; UNLV 6; California 2; Marquette 2; Murray State 1.
NCAA Boxscore Late Tuesday NORTH CAROLINA 69, MIAMI 62 MIAMI (18-11) Collins 1-5 1-2 3, Gamble 3-10 1-2 8, Adams 0-5 0-0 0, Dews 1-8 0-0 2, Scott 11-15 4-4 29, Grant 4-11 2-4 12, McGowan 0-0 0-0 0, Thomas 2-8 0-0 6, Johnson 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 23-66 8-12 62. NORTH CAROLINA (16-14) Gallagher 0-0 0-0 0, Thompson 6-12 2-2 14, Ginyard 3-7 6-8 12, Thornton 0-0 0-0 0, Campbell 0-0 0-0 0, Drew II 2-7 1-2 6, Graves 4-9 4-4 16, Henson 3-4 1-2 7, Zeller 2-6 2-3 6, Strickland 2-2 0-0 5, McDonald 0-7 0-0 0, T.Wear 1-3 1-2 3, Petree 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-57 17-23 69. Halftime—North Carolina 36-26. 3-Point Goals—Miami 8-34 (Scott 3-5, Thomas 2-8, Grant 2-9, Gamble 1-2, Adams 0-5, Dews 0-5), North Carolina 6-18 (Graves 4-8, Strickland 1-1, Drew II 1-4, Ginyard 0-1, McDonald 0-4). Fouled Out—Dews, Johnson. Rebounds—Miami 27 (Gamble 7), North Carolina 51 (Ginyard, Henson 12). Assists—Miami 12 (Grant 8), North Carolina 16 (Drew II 7). Total Fouls—Miami 20, North Carolina 11. A—16,725. A—16,725.
Top 25 Schedule Thursday’s Games No. 11 Michigan State vs. Penn State, 7 p.m. No. 17 Pittsburgh vs. Providence, 9 p.m. Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games No. 1 Syracuse at Louisville, 2 p.m. No. 2 Kansas at Missouri, 2 p.m. No. 4 Duke vs. North Carolina, 9 p.m. No. 5 Kansas State vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m. No. 7 Purdue at Penn State, 2:30 p.m. No. 9 Villanova vs. No. 10 West Virginia, Noon No. 12 Butler in Horizon League semifinals, 8:05 p.m. No. 13 Vanderbilt vs. South Carolina, 2 p.m. No. 14 BYU at TCU, 6 p.m. No. 16 Tennessee at Mississippi State, 6 p.m. No. 17 Pittsburgh vs. Rutgers, 4:30 p.m. No. 19 Georgetown vs. Cincinnati, Noon
No. 20 Temple vs. George Washington, 2 p.m. No. 21 Baylor vs. Texas, 4 p.m. No. 22 Maryland at Virginia, 1:30 p.m. No. 23 Texas A&M at Oklahoma, Noon No. 24 UTEP vs. UAB, 9:05 p.m. No. 25 Xavier vs. St. Bonaventure, 4 p.m. Sunday’s Games No. 3 Kentucky vs. Florida, Noon No. 11 Michigan State vs. Michigan, 4 p.m. No. 15 Wisconsin at Illinois, Noon No. 18 Gonzaga in WCC semifinals at Orleans Arena, Las Vegas, 8:30 p.m.
2010 Atlantic Sun All-Conference Team First Team Daniel Emerson F Sr. Mercer *Adnan Hodzic C Jr. Lipscomb *Jonathan Rodriguez F Sr. Campbell Josh Slater G Jr. Lipscomb Ben Smith G Sr. Jville * Unanimous Choice Second Team Ian Clark G Fr. Belmont Lehmon Colbert F Sr. Jville Markeith Cummings F Fr. Kenn St. James Florence G Sr. Mercer Tommy Hubbard G Jr. ETSU All-Freshman Team * Anthony Banks F Fr. FGCU * Ian Clark G Fr. Belmont * Markeith Cummings F Fr. Kenn St. Ridge Graham F Fr. Stetson Andy Diaz F Fr. No. Florida Coach of the Year: Robbie Laing (Campbell) Player of the Year: Adnan Hodzic (Lipscomb) Defensive Player of the Year: Junard Hartley (Campbell) Freshman of the Year: Ian Clark (Belmont)
The Women’s AP Top 25 By The Associated Press The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 28, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Connecticut (40) 29-0 1,000 1 2. Stanford 27-1 959 2 3. Nebraska 27-0 920 3 4. Tennessee 27-2 880 4 5. Xavier 24-3 822 5 6. Notre Dame 25-3 764 7 7. West Virginia 26-3 726 8 8. Florida St. 25-4 708 9 9. Duke 24-5 692 6 10. Ohio St. 27-4 683 10 11. Oklahoma 20-8 582 11 12. Georgetown 24-5 533 13 13. Iowa St. 22-5 509 15 14. Baylor 21-7 494 17 15. Texas A&M 20-7 443 12 16. St. John’s 23-5 385 18 17. Gonzaga 25-4 286 19 18. Texas 19-9 274 14 19. Kentucky 23-6 248 16 20. Oklahoma St. 19-8 214 23 21. LSU 20-8 189 20 22. Georgia 22-7 174 24 23. Hartford 25-3 135 24 24. Virginia 21-8 96 21 25. Michigan St. 21-8 77 — Others receiving votes: Georgia Tech 44, TCU 34, UCLA 27, Fresno St. 22, Wis.-Green Bay 20, Middle Tennessee 15, Ark.-Little Rock 12, Vanderbilt 10, Princeton 6, Dayton 5, North Carolina 5, Bowling Green 3, DePaul 2, Illinois St. 1, Wisconsin 1.
The Yellow Jackets, despite a rough season, went on to be fairly successful in the Central Carolina Scholastic Summer League. Lee County won nine games over the summer and made it to the CCSSL State Tournament before falling to Pinecrest in the first round. Spivey hopes that the strides the team made over the course of the summer will carry over into the regular season — when it really counts. “With summer ball, a lot of our players have been together for a full year now,” said Spivey. “Summer ball gives us a chance to play more games than legion ball.” One thing the Yellow Jackets lacked in 2009 was experience. With the entire infield returning and a talented pitching staff, experience shouldn’t be a problem for them this season. “We were just so inexperienced last year,” said Spivey. “We also weren’t strong physically. We also didn’t get some breaks to go our way. We would be competitive up to a certain point and then things would fall apart because we weren’t getting the right breaks. This year, we’re more experienced because of the summer ball and we’re much stronger than we were.” The Yellow Jacket infield, which consists of Patrick Oldham at first base, Neal O’Quinn at second, Alex Furl at shortstop and Carson Wilson at third, should be much
improved on defense. “When you have the entire group coming back, it’s going to make you a better team,” Spivey said. “We need them to play well on defense to keep runners off the bases.” Dillon Frye will most likely be the team’s No. 1 starter on the mound. In a competitive conference where every single team has a quality ace, Spivey is hoping that Frye comes into his own this year. “He’s a two-year starter for us and this year, I’m hoping he can be someone I can rely on,” said Spivey. “Every team in the league has a guy or two that they can go to for big moments on the moments. I certainly hope Dillon can be that guy for us.” Spivey is going to try and use Wilson as the closer for now. If all goes well, Wilson could be a solid No. 2 pitcher for the Yellow Jackets. “Carson is really throwing the ball well for us right now,” said Spivey. “We’re going to try him as a closer for now and see how he does. He’s a heck of an athlete and has really improved over the last year. He’s a lot stronger. He could be our No. 2 pitcher by season’s end.” With a deeper lineup, a stronger team and more experience in a tough conference, Spivey feels that the 2010 season could be much better than last season. “You can’t beat experience,” said Spivey. “That’s going to help us a lot.”
Robbie Laing was named A-Sun Coach of the Year after CU set a school record for regular season conference wins with 14. The old mark of 12-4 came as Big South member (‘93-94). Campbell’s regular season co-championship marks the program’s 1st on the Division I level. Since joining the Big South Conference in 1985-86 and moving to the A-Sun in 1994-95, CU had never finished higher than 2nd in the league standings until this year. Four-time All-Conference pick Jonathan Rodriguez
stands second among A-Sun career leaders in rebounding (1061) and 3rd in scoring (2133). During last Saturday’s win at North Florida, he became the first player in Campbell history to score 500 points in 3 seasons. He has 502 entering the A-Sun quarterfinal round. A-Sun Defensive Player of the Year Junard Hartley is ranked 11th in the country in assists (5.90), 18th in steals (2.62). He leads the ASun in both categories. Miles Taylor averaged 11.6 points and shot 68 percent from the field in Campbell’s 14 road games.
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DEAR ABBY: I sympathize with “Stumped for an Answer” (Dec. 22), the man who was speechless when a woman objected to his opening the door for her. Haven’t we all experienced “moments after,” wishing we’d found the right words at the right time? My son -- a high school sophomore -- had a timely response in a similar circumstance. We had stopped at a grocery store for a couple of items and were walking toward the exit. Just ahead was a woman carrying three large bags. My son stepped up to open the door for her, and in a strident voice she said, “Listen, Sonny, I can handle the door myself!” My boy answered with a polite smile and a pleasant tone of voice: “I’m sorry. I’ll excuse your rudeness if you’ll forgive my courtesy.” — PROUD MOM IN RUIDOSO, N.M. DEAR PROUD MOM: At times these days it can seem that manners are an endangered species. My office was flooded with mail from readers eager to “politely” share their thoughts. Read on: DEAR ABBY: I am tired of people not using good manners or even recognizing what good manners are. Personally, it makes my day when someone holds the door for me. I usually offer thanks and a smile. (By the way, “please” and “thank you” also seem sadly lacking these days.) I feel sorry for that unappreciative woman because she must lead a bitter life. Please let the guy know there are others out there who ap-
please respect it. — NOT UNGRATEFUL IN COLORADO
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preciate good manners and please don’t let one rotten apple spoil the barrel. — TIRED OF THE MANNERLESS DEAR ABBY: Here’s what he should have said: “I was taught that it is respectful to open a door for a lady. I apologize for having misjudged you.” — ANOTHER LADY IN SEDONA, ARIZ. DEAR ABBY: My guess is the woman was having a bad day and the man was a convenient target. I also prefer that doors not be held open for me. I have fibromyalgia, which is usually only apparent if I have my cane. I usually open doors by leaning my back into them. That’s what works best for me. People’s attempts to “help” me have caused me to fall or the door to slam back on me. I understand most folks are trying to be kind, but because some of them are clueless, my suggestion is to first ASK someone if you can hold the door for her or him. If the answer is no,
DEAR ABBY: I am an independent woman and I don’t like men to open doors for me. It makes me feel inferior. When I run across a guy who insists on doing it, I allow him to. But then I rush to open the next one for him. Usually I get a chuckle when he reluctantly goes through. — DO-IT-MYSELF, FOSTORIA, OHIO DEAR ABBY: My reply would have been, “Common courtesy knows no gender.” — RON IN WASHINGTON, D.C. DEAR ABBY: To a woman who once yelled at him for opening a door for her, my husband responded: “It’s not because you’re a woman. It’s because of your AGE.” It left her speechless. — GRETCHEN IN FAIRBANKS DEAR ABBY: Another possible reason a woman might not want to have a door opened for her: As a short-statured person, I find it an invasion of my space when a tall man reaches up and over me to hold a door, so I must scoot under his arm. — ANOTHER VIEWPOINT IN CONNECTICUT DEAR ABBY: When it happened to me, I smiled at the woman and said: “I didn’t open the door for you because you’re a lady. I opened it for you because I’m a gentleman.” It got my point across. — DON IN ALAMEDA, CALIF.
ODDS AND ENDS Pa. man faces charges for 3 incidents in 3 hours LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania man faces charges for three separate incidents involving police in a span of three hours. Manheim Township police said 49-year-old Mark E. Blaylock was charged with theft of services after allegedly refusing to pay a $69 cab fare around 11 a.m. About an hour later he was charged with public drunkenness after police said he was found lying on a road near his house. Another hour after that, authorities said Blaylock called 911 to request police assistance. Investigators said he was cited for reporting a medical emergency without good cause because he told officers he needed them to fill a prescription. Blaylock is facing a misdemeanor charge and a pair of summary offenses. A phone number for Blaylock could not immediately be located Wednesday.
Some unhappy with bikini ad for Perky Cups coffee AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Officials said a bikini and the First Amendment provide enough coverage for a model advertising a suburban Denver coffee shop called Perky Cups. Aurora City Council member Molly Markert called the picture on the 10-by-20-foot banner “degrading to women,” but she says it’s legal. Markert
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MY ANSWER said she had city employees measure the banner, and it conforms with city size restrictions. Robert Rogers, a city attorney, said the content is protected by the First Amendment. Perky Cups owner Jason Bernal said people have come into the shop to complain, but one stayed to buy a burrito and coffee. He said the sign has been great for business but he’s not sure how long he’ll leave it because of the complaints. He said he wants to be a good neighbor.
RI woman accused of tossing coffee at parking cop BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A Rhode Island woman pleaded not guilty in Massachusetts to charges she threw a hot cup of coffee on a parking enforcement officer. Krystle Charley was arraigned Wednesday in Brookline District Court on charges including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Police said the 23-year-old resident of North Smithfield, R.I., tossed her coffee at 64-year-old Claire MacPherson in Brookline as MacPherson was writing out a $25 ticket for an expired meter on Tuesday. MacPherson was not hurt. Charley’s friend, Vicky Curry, who witnessed the tossing, said it was MacPherson who was yelling at Charley. Charley was released on personal recognizance and ordered to return to court in April. See answer, page 2A
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NORTH CAROLINA, LEE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by NELLO REGGIE PATTERSON AND WIFE, DAWN N PATTERSON to WILLIAM R ECHOLS, Trustee(s), which was dated January 30, 2008 and recorded on February 5, 2008 in Book 01121 at Page 0709, Lee County Registry, North Carolina.
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Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC or George Ryals, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on March 18, 2010 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Lee County, North Carolina, to wit:
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BEING all of Lot No. 50 as shown on map entitled "Edgewater Estates" prepared by Thomas J. Matthews, RLS, dated April 17, 1968, and recorded in Plat Cabinet 3, Slide 251, (formerly Map Book 11, page 71), Lee County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 317 Edgewater Drive, Broadway, NC 27505. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory
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upset bid period, all an instrument duly the remaining recorded in the Office amounts are immediof the Register of ately due and owing. Deeds of Lee County, North Carolina and Said property to be of- the holder of the note fered pursuant to this evidencing said inNotice of Sale is be- debtedness having diing offered for sale, rected that the Deed transfer and conveyof Trust be foreance “AS IS WHERE closed, the underIS.” There are no signed Substitute rep- Trustee will offer for resentations of war- sale at the courthouse ranty relating to the door in the City of title or any physical, Sanford, Lee County, environmental, North Carolina, or health or safety conthe customary locaditions existing in, tion designated for on, at, or relating to foreclosure sales, at the property being of- 2:00 PM on March 11, fered for sale. This 2010 and will sell to sale is made subject the highest bidder for to all prior liens, un- cash the following repaid taxes, any unal estate situated in paid land transfer the Township of taxes, special assessGreenwood, in the ments, easements, County of Lee, North rights of way, deeds Carolina, and being of release, and any more particularly deother encumbrances scribed as follows: or exceptions of re- All that certain lot or cord. To the best of parcel of land situate the knowledge and in the City of ____, belief of the underGreenwood Townsigned, the current ship, Lee County, owner(s) of the propNorth Carolina and erty is/are Nello Re- more particularly deggie Patterson and scribed as follows: wife, Dawn N. Patterson. BEGINNING at an iron nail in the center An Order for posses- line of the paved road sion of the property designated as SR may be issued pur- 1177, said point being suant to G.S. 45-21.29 in the line of the tract in favor of the purof land to Albert R. chaser and against Sellers by deed rethe party or parties in corded in Book 114, possession by the Page 384, Lee County clerk of superior Registry, and runcourt of the county in ning thence as the which the property is center lne of SR 1177, sold. Any person South 46degrees 54 who occupies the minutes 38 seconds property pursuant to West 913.89 feet to an a rental agreement iron nail in the center entered into or re- line of said highway; newed on or after Octhence North 51 detober 1, 2007, may, afgrees 18 minutes 20 ter receiving the no- seconds West 1377.73 tice of sale, terminate feet to an iron stake; the rental agreement thence North 6 deupon 10 days’ written grees 44 minutes 35 notice to the seconds East 282.19 landlord. The notice feet to an iron stake shall also state that in the line of Albert upon termination of R. Sellers; thence as a sellers' line South 73 rental agreement, the degrees 10 minutes 45 tenant is liable for seconds East 1786.26 rent due under the feet to the point of berental agreement proginning, containing rated to the effective 20 acres, more or less date of the termina- and being a portion of tion. the land described in a survey and map by If the trustee is un- Thomas J. Matthews, able to convey title to RLS, dated October this property for any 21, 1961, entitled reason, the sole reme"Survey for Heirs of dy of the purchaser is EC Roberts, located the return of the de- in Greenwood Townposit. Reasons of ship, Lee County, such inability to conNorth Carolina", acvey include, but are quired by Ronnie L. not limited to, the filRoberts and wife, ing of a bankruptcy Peggy S. Roberts, by petition prior to the deed recorded in confirmation of the Book 349, Page 304, sale and reinstate- Lee County Registry. ment of the loan Together with imwithprovements located out the knowledge of thereon; said properthe trustee. If the ty being located at val1140 & 1202 Sanders idity of the sale is Road, Sanford, North challenged by any Carolina. party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, Trustee may, in the if they believe the Trustee's sole discrechallenge to have tion, delay the sale merit, may request for up to one hour as the court to declare provided in NCGS the sale to be void §45-21.23. and return the deposShould the it. The purchaser property be purwill have no further chased by a third parremedy. ty, that person must pay the tax of FortyFive Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars Substitute Trustee ($100.00) required by Brock & Scott, PLLC NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). Jeremy B. Wilkins, The properNCSB No. 32346 ty to be offered pur5431 Oleander Drive suant to this notice of Suite 200 sale is being offered Wilmington, NC for sale, transfer and 28403 conveyance “AS IS, PHONE: (910) 392-4988 WHERE IS.” Neither FAX: (910) 392-8587 the Trustee nor the holder of the note seFile No.: 09-02207cured by the deed of FC01 trust/security agreement, or both, being AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, atSALE torneys, employees, 09 SP 06 agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or Under and by virtue of the pow- the holder of the note er of sale contained make any representation or warranty rein lating to the title or a certain Deed of any physical, enviTrust made by Caroline Payne Garner ronmental, health or and Husband, Doug- safety conditions exlas Edmond Garner isting in, on, at or reto Fidelity National lating to the property Title Insurance Co., being offered for sale, and any and all reTrustee(s), dated the sponsibilities or lia24th day of April, 2006, and recorded in bilities arising out of or in any way relatBook 01026, Page 0930, in Lee County Regis- ing to any such conditry, North Carolina, tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this default having been made in the payment property is being sold subject to all taxes, of the note thereby special assessments, secured by the said and prior liens or enDeed of Trust and the cumbrances of record undersigned, Substi- and any recorded retute Trustee Services, leases. Said property Inc. having been sub- is also being sold substituted as Trustee in ject to applicable Federal and State laws. said Deed of Trust by
001 Legals A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. 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 occupies 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. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 18th day of February, 2010. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE BY: Attorney at Law The Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A. Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 http://sales.hsbfirm.c om Case No: 141.137158 Aviso de la audiencia pública Este anuncio es para informale al publico de la oportunidad de atender una audiencia pública sobre la propuesta de Solicitud de Transporte de la Comunidad que será sometida al Departamento de Transporte de Carolina del Norte a más tardar el 31 de Marzo del 2010 por el Sistema de Transito del Condado de Lee. Todos los interesados en atender la audiencia pública, sobre esta solicitud, deben de comunicarse con Debbie Davidson (directora del sistema de tránsito del condado Lee) a más tardar el 12 de Marzo del 2010. De ser solicitada, la audiencia pública será llevada a cabo el 15 de Marzo del 2010 a las 6:00 p.m. ante el grupo de los Comisionados del Condado de Lee. El Programa de Transporte de la comunidad provee asistencia para coordinar los programas de transporte que operan en el condado de Lee. También, provee modos de transportación y servicios para las comunidades. Estos servicios actual-
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mente son provistos EXECUTOR respondiendo a la NOTICE necesidad, rutas desviadas, rutas fijas, y HAVING qualified as viajes referidos. Los Executor of the estate servicios se prestan of Wade Arthur utilizando camioneChildress, deceased, tas y voluntarios. late of Lee County, La cantidad total que North Carolina, this se pedirá para el peis to notify all perriodo de 1 de julio del sons having claims 2010 hasta 30 de junio against the estate of del 2011 es: said deceased to presProyecent them to the unto dersigned within Cantidad three months from total February 11, 2010 or Porción local this notice will be Administrativo pleaded in bar of $158.935.00 their recovery. All $ 23.840.00 (15%) persons indebted to Capital said estate please (vehículos y otro) make immediate pay$ 15.119.00 ment. This 11, day of $ 1,512.00 (10%) February, 2010. Cynthia Childress TOTAL Emory $174.054.00 424 Mayview Drive $ 25,352.00 City, State, Zip Code Executor/trix (Total de proyectos) of the estate of (Total Porción Local) Deceased Person Creedmoor, NC 27522 Esta solicitud estará (2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4) en: The Enrichment PUBLIC HEARING Center of Lee County, NOTICE 1615 South Third Street, Sanford, NC 27330 de 8:00 a.m. a 5:00 p.m., de lunes a This is to inform the public that a public viernes hasta el 12 de hearing will be held Marzo del 2010. Coon the proposed Lee mentarios por escrito County Community deben ser dirigidos a Transportation Debbie Davidson, Directora del Lee Coun- Program Application ty Transit System, to be submitted to the North Carolina 1615 South Third Department of Street antes del 15 de Transportation no Marzo del 2010. later than March 31, NOTICE OF PUBLIC 1010. The public hearing will be held on HEARING March 15, 2010 at 6:00 pm before the Lee County proposes (governing board) to participate in the cost of an economic Lee County Board of Commissioners. development project with the Lee County Those interested in Economic Developattending the public ment Corporation, which consists of the hearing and needing cost of construction either auxiliary aids and services under of additional space the Americans with and the cost of new Disabilities Act machinery Frontier (ADA) or a language Spinning Mills, Inc. translator should manufacturing plant. The Board of Com- contact Debbie Davidson on or before missioners intends to consider sharing up March 12, 1020, at telephone number to $69,647.00 of the 919-776-0501 or cost of the project via email at ddavidwith revenues from the Lee County Gen- son@leecountync.gov . eral Fund. The Board of Commissioners beThe Community lieves this project Transportation Prowill stimulate the local economy, promote gram provides assistance to coordinate business and result existing transportain the creation of a substantial number tion programs operatof jobs in the County. ing in Lee County as well as provides transportation opA public hearing on the proposed County tions and services for the communities expenditure for this within this service project will be held on March 15, 2010 at area. These services 6:00 PM or as soon are currently provided using deviated thereafter as said routes, trip referral matter can be and subscription. reached on the agenda, in the Commis- Services are rendered sioner’s Room, Lee by the County of Lee Transit System. County Government Center, 106 Hillcrest The total estimated Drive, Sanford, North Carolina. All interest- amount requested for ed persons are invit- the period July 1, 2010 ed to attend and pres- through June 30, 2011 ent their views. Project Gaynell M. Lee, Clerk Total Amount Board of CommisLocal Share sioners NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
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$ 158,935 The City of Sanford $ 23,840 proposes to partici(15%) pate in the cost of an Capital (Vehicles & economic developOther) ment project with the Lee County Economic $ 15,119 Development Corpo$ 1,512 ration, which con(10%) sists of the cost of Operating (Small construction and the fixed-route, regional, cost of new machiand consolidated urnery for the Frontier ban-rural systems onSpinning Mills, Inc. ly) manufacturing plant. The City Council in$ ????? tends to consider $ ????? sharing up to (50%) $50,146.00 of the cost TOTAL PROJECT of the project with $ 174,054 revenues from the $ 25,352 City of Sanford General Fund. The projTotal Funding Reect will stimulate the quest local economy, proTotal Local Share mote business and result in the creation of jobs in the city. This application may be inspected at The A public hearing on Enrichment Center of the proposed City exLee County from penditure for this March 5 - 12, 2010 beproject will be held tween 8 am and 5 pm. on March 16, 2010 at Written comments 7:00 PM or as soon should be directed to thereafter as said Debbie Davidson 1615 matter can be South Third Street reached on the agenSanford NC 27330 beda, in the Council fore March 15, 2010. Chambers, Municipal Center, 225 E. Weatherspoon Street, SanEnd of Notice ford, North Carolina. All interested persons are invited to atCLASSIFIED tend and present ADVERTISING their views. Bonnie D. White City Clerk
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420 Help Wanted General 7 TEMP Farmworkers needed 3/22/10 11/1/10. Workers will help install black plastic & drip irrigation. Workers will plant, cultivate, pick, grade, & pack produce. Guaranteed 3/4 of contract hours. Tools provided at no cost. Free housing provided for non-commuting workers. Transportation & subsistence reimbursed to worker upon completion of 50% of contract. $7.25/hr along w/ $.45 per bushel for tomatoes. Report or send a resume to nearest local NC Employment Security Commission office & reference JO # 154605. Merryvale Farms – Hardyville, VA Auto Tech Needed Excellent Pay and Benefits, Experience and Tools Req. Weekly and Sign Up Bonuses Avail. Located in busiest part of state. 910-497-0750 910-497-4304 CDL Drivers OTR Competitive pay Reasonable home time Paid Holidays Paid vacation after a year of service. Requirements: 2 years of experience with a good driving record. Contact Judy at Corney Transportation, Hwy. 301 North, St. Pauls , N.C. 28384 910-865-4045 ext. 226 or 1-800-354-9111 ext. 226 Drivers Needed ASAP Apply at 307 S. Gulf
420 Help Wanted General
601 Bargain Bin/ $250 or Less
Local company has opening in Accounts Receivable. Experience in collections, invoicing and posting cash receipts is necessary. Knowledge of Sage Mas 90 is preferred but not required. Please fax or mail resume to Attn: Brenda Balloons Inc 5100 Rex McLeod Drive Sanford, NC 27330 (919) 718-7792 fax. No phone calls please.
HP Photosmart D7160 Printer with extra ink - $35. Epson Workforce 500 Printer (used 2 months) with extra ink - $65. Call 770-5962.
Qualified Professional Full time in Sanford, Fayetteville, & Littleton areas for Private Provider Agency Must have BA in the Human Services field w/min 4yrs exp. with MR/DD population, case mgmt, CAP & Day Program setting. Competetive salary & benefits Mail, email or fax resumes to: ACTS, Inc. PO BOX 1261, Fayetteville NC 28302, Attn: Alison McLean; email: amclean@actsinc.net, or fax:910-826-3695
Motor Cycle Helmet $50, Food Dehydrated $25, Afghan $20, Pure Water Filter System in Box $20, AM FM Double Cassette $5, This End Up Side Table $7, Lady Gray Cape Size 2 or 3 Never Used $10 708-6910 Queen Waveless Waterbed. Dual Heat Control. Excellent Condition! Price Negotiable. Call: 708-5131 Total Gym 1100 Great Condition $100 (919)478-1921
720 For Rent - Houses
820 Homes
3BR 2BA Wonderful Neighbor hood in West Sanford $850 Dep $800 Monthly 776-6563
MODELS OPEN Sat & Sun 1-5 Copper Ridge US#1 at Exit 76 Nottingham US#1 at Exit 69 B Sun 1-5 Woodbridge, Lee Ave. Dial 770-4883 or 770-2554
3BR house,111 Ninth St $575/mo plus dep. Mclean Properties, Section 8 Welcome 919-499-3810 3BR/1BA Brick house, 1471 Taylors Chapel Rd No Inside Pets! Large yard cen h/a $625 /mo $400/dep 919-478-9524
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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing 505-B N. Horner Act 1968 which makes it $350/mo 1BD/1BA 605 illegal to advertise “any Adcock Rentals Miscellaneous preference, limitation or dis774-6046 crimination based on race, HAVING A THE SANFORD HERALD color, religion, sex, handiYARD SALE? makes every effort to follow cap, familial status, or national origin or an intenHUD guidelines in rental The DEADLINE for advertisements placed by tion to make any such prefAds is 2 P.M. our advertisers. We reserve erence, limitation or disthe day PRIOR crimination.” the right to refuse or Rosa’s Beauty Salon is lookto publication. This newspaper will not change ad copy as ing to hire hair stylist. N.C. PREPAYMENT IS knowingly accept any necessary for license is preffered. Rent a REQUIRED FOR advertisement for real HUD compliances. space or work for commisYARD SALE ADS. estate which is in violation sion. Interested person THE SANFORD HERALD, of the law. Our readers are please call Townhome For Rent CLASSIFIED DEPT. (919) 776-0294/ Ask for Quail Ridge Golf Course hereby informed that all 718-1201 or dwellings advertised in this Rosa. 2BR, 2BA, LR, Kit 718-1204 newspaper available on an Appliances - No Util equal opportunity basis. Rosa’s beauty salon busca $725/mo - 774-8033 Old 2 - Wheel Horse To complain of discriminaestilistas para trabajar. LeBuggy Black Leather Seat tion call 919-733-7996 censia de N.C. es preferi730 Very Good Condition (N.C. Human Relations da. Renta un espacio o traFor Rent Asking $650 Commission). baja por commission. Per775-3140 Apts/Condos sonas interesadas por favor llamar al (919) 776-0294. Time is Running Out to Move In Special! 615 103 Third Street. Obtain the $8,000 Free Rent Appliances Tax Credit 2BR, Spring Lane Salon Booth for Rent. Call 919-775-1497 Apartments Appliance Repair all Great Location. Barbers & 770-4883 or 770-2554 Adjacent To Spring Lane brands. Free estimate.All Stylist Welcome. 498-5655 or visit Galleria work guaranteed. Call Mr. www.grocecompanies.com 919-774-6511 Paul anytime 258-9165. Small Presbyterian Church DON’T LOSE OUT simpsonandsimpson.com looking for a Pianist. 640 Call 498-1650 We offer • BOLD print
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Firewood, 16 in. split oak & mixed hardwood, delivered & stacked truck load. $50 No Checks Please 498-4852 - 258-9360
660 Sporting Goods/ Health & Fitness GOT STUFF? CALL CLASSIFIED! SANFORD HERALD CLASSIFIED DEPT., 718-1201 or 718-1204.
Building Blocks is now accepting applications for a FT & PT Teachers. Credentials 1 & 2 or higher education. Apply in Person. Call: 910-436-0346
665 Musical/Radio/TV
Immediate Opening for Lead Teachers w/child care credentials I & II. Top pay for those w/Associates in Early Childhood Education. 910-528-1731Margeret Mosley 910-528-1727
CLASSIFIED SELLS! “CALL TODAY, SELL TOMORROW” Sanford Herald Classified Dept., 718-1201 or 7181204
470 Help Wanted Medical/Dental
675 Pets/Animals
Receptionist Needed For Dental Office. Send Resumes To: The Sanford Herald P.O. Box 100 Sanford, N.C. 27331 Ad #03474
*Pets/Animals Policy: Three different (Pet) ads per household per year at the “Family Rate”. In excess of 3, billing will be at the “Business Rate”.
690 Tools/Machinery/ Farm Equipment
Wanted DA I or II for IH 584 Tractor, 2800 hrs, Dental Office in Sanford. exc cond. ROANOKE Send Resume To: TOBACCO PRIMER, 1 row, The Sanford Herald gas engine, with defoliators PO BOX 100 and Long cutter bars. 4’ Sanford Herald NC 27331 FIELD cultivator. Case IH, Ad # 03475 8455 round baler. 5’ Scrape Blade, fast hitch 500 919-258-6152 Free Pets
510 Free Cats 4 Month Kitten Calico Female Free to good Home 356-7169
520 Free Dogs 2 Free Female Dogs 1yr 3mths old/Spayed Good w/ children! Call: 919-478-9526 Adorable Free Lab & Husky Mix Puppies. Only a few left! Olivia Area. (919)653-8907 Free Black Lab Puppies To A Good Home! Call: 910978-3969
600 Merchandise 601 Bargain Bin/ $250 or Less *“Bargain Bin” ads are free for
HIRING CLASS A five consecutive days. Items must CDL DRIVER! total $250 or less, and the price must be included in the ad. Local Multiple items at a single price Dedicated Account (i.e., jars $1 each), and West Brothers animals/pets do not qualify. Transportation Services One free “Bargain Bin” ad per is hiring a driver for a household per month. dedicated account in Sanford, NC. Requirements Kenmore Washer & Dryer 23 years of age 2 Years Old Exc. Cond. 2 years T/T experience Large Capacity Has WarCDL Class A ranty $250 Good MVR Kenmore 20 Cubic Ft. SxS CALL 877-501-9378 or Refrigerator ice & water in email door $250 Exc. Condition. wallen@westbros.com 776-3949 eoe 770-6069
695 Wanted to Buy Looking to purchase small timber tracts. Fully insured. Call 919-499-8704
700 Rentals 720 For Rent - Houses 1, 2, 3 BR Rentals Avail. Adcock Rentals 774-6046 adcockrentalsnc.com 2 BD/2 BA in Sanford. Central Heat & AC Large yard Convenient location No indoor pets. $600/mo Avail 3/15 775-7976 2BR/1BA-1305 Boykins Ave. Comes With Washer, Stove & Refrigerator. $375/Mo $375/Dep Call: 919-356-6020 319 - A Gulf Street $475/mo 2BD/1BA Adcock Rentals 774-6046
735 For Rent - Room $24.95 Nightly $160 Weekly 2 nights free Cable/Fridge/Microwave Call for more info 919-498-5534
740 For Rent - Mobile Homes MH For Rent $500/mo Req 1st & Last Months Rent 91 Paul Revere Lane Cameron. Contact Becky 910-369-5010
745 For Rent - Mobile Home Lots Private M.H. Lot for rent on Dycus Rd. Call: 919-9354032
765 Commercial Rentals 4 Vacant Buildings •Tramway/Hwy US 1 2700 Sq. Ft. Retail - New Bldg. $950/mo - 774-8033 •Jonesboro 3000 Sq. Ft. Restaurant/Retail $1,100 •Tramway 6000 Sq. Ft. w/ Warehouse & Office $2,400 5000 Sq. Ft w/ Warehouse & Office $2,200 Call 919-774-8033 Commercial Space - 5,000 Sq Ft. Bldg Office/Warehouse/Retail Tramway/Hwy US-1 Area $2,000/mo - 774-8033
800 Real Estate 820 Homes *Houses/Mobile Homes/Real Estate Policy: One (house) per household per year at the “Family Rate”.Consecutive different locations/addresses will be billed at the “Business Rate”.
3BR/1.5BA, LR, Den, Eat-In-Kitchen. 110 16th Street. Sanford. $50,000. 919-721-0082 Initial interest rates from 3.75% for New Energy Star Homes. See Inventory at www.grocecompanies.com and dial 919-770-4883 or 770-2554 Lease to Own - Several homes Dial 919-775-1497 week days or 770-2554 or 770-4883 Part of Rental Payments applies to Down Payment for 12 Months
830 Mobile Homes
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900 Miscellaneous 920 Auctions Harris Realty & Auction “Since 1989” One Call...We Sell It All!! Land, Houses, Equipment Business Liquidation, Estates, Antiques, Coins, Furniture, Consignments, etc. jerryharrisauction.com 545-4637 or 498-4077 Large Antique Auction Sun., March 7 @ 12:30 C & A Auction, Ramseur Early Toys, Adv. Signs and Clocks, Country Store Items, Old Money and Coins, NC Salt Glaze Pottery, Art Pottery, Fenton Cranberry Glass, Pattern Glass Oil Lamps, Sterling, Hummels, Old Clocks, Tobacco Tags, and others. Jewel T. China, Costume Jewelry, Early Postcards, Antique Guns, Brass Notional Cash Register, Early Jukebox, Wooden Carousel Horse, 75 + Pieces. Quality Antique Furniture! Over 800 Lots TOO LARGE TO LIST! Visit website for photos and listing: caaustion.net or auctionzip.com Carson Cockman NCAL # 5813 336-824-8844 Notice of Sale of Personal Property Mobile Storage Co. to auction property For Outstanding balances owed. Date: 3/16/10 @ 9-11am 1913 Keller Andrews Road
960 Statewide Classifieds AUCTION- WILSON COUNTY FARMLAND, Saturday, March 13, 12Noon. 43+/- Acres offered in 3 tracts, one with farmhouse. United Country/Stone Auction & Realty. NCAL 561. Call for appointment, 252235-2200, or www.stoneauction.com RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT AUCTION- Wednesday, March 10 at 10 a.m. 201 S. Central Ave., Locust,
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