Noelle front and center at Oscars
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anford native and Lee County graduate Noelle Marsh (pictured left) helped kick off the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night by sharing the stage with surprise guest Neil Patrick Harris, who performed a song-and-dance routine with Marsh and several other dancers to begin the evening. Marsh was a Top 10 finalist on the recent season of “So You Think You Can Dance,” the hit Fox reality television show. Harris’ routine was choreographed by SYTYCD judge Adam Shankman. — from staff reports More on the Oscars, Page 9A ABC.com
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Tomato shortage felt locally Freezing weather in Deep South has tripled prices; many restaurants are learning to do without By CAITLIN MULLEN cmullen@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Take a second look under the bun: The tomato may be missing from your sandwich. An early-January freeze that hit Florida tomato crops has kept tomatoes off sand-
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wiches and increased prices of tomatoes at grocery stores. Locally, grocery stores have been forced to increase prices on the fruit after paying more to import tomatoes from other areas like Mexico. Some restaurants
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MLK PARK TAKES SHAPE
Former Southern Lee basketball star Akeem Richmond’s year got even better on Sunday when the Atlantic-10 Conference announced that he was named to its 2009-10 AllRookie Team Page 1B
HEALTH CARE
OBAMA RETURNS TO CAMPAIGN MODE President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of longstalled health care changes Monday as Democratic congressional leaders worked behind the scenes on legislation Page 8A
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NATION TOYOTA FIGHTS BACK ON ELECTRONICS CLAIMS Toyota took its strongest step yet Monday to silence critics who blame faulty electronics for runaway cars and trucks Page 10A
STATE RNC’S STEELE VISITS N.C. TO UNVEIL NEW AD Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Monday unveiled fundraising ads that he said would help the GOP speak directly to sympathetic voters in targeted local markets Page 7A
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Vol. 80, No. 55 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
Deborah Motter works on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park sculpture on Monday. The park, located along South Horner Boulevard just blocks south of downtown Sanford near Washington Avenue, will include a manicured lawn, shrubs and park benches in addition to the MLK memorial wall pictured above when complete.
EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE
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‘Those seconds ... seem like a lifetime’
Man found in creek ID’d
Broadway man recalls the terror from Chile’s massive quake
From staff reports
By CAITLIN MULLEN cmullen@sanfordherald.com
BROADWAY — Victor Pizarro was staying in a hotel in Santiago, Chile, on Feb. 27 when he felt the room shaking in the early morning. Pizarro, 62, of Broadway, works for Pentair managing sales in South American countries; he lived in Chile until
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HAPPENING TODAY 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 an appointment to donate.
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VIctor Pizarro of Broadway holds up a Chilean newspaper printed the day after the massive Feb. 27 earthquake.
High: 71 Low: 46
SANFORD — The man found dead in a creek behind a neighborhood in West Sanford was a 78-year-old U.S. Army veteran who once served in Korea. Charles Eugene “Buck” Rives was pronounced dead late Saturday after he was found in the creek behind 314 Mayflower Circle in Sanford. According to his niece, Susie Lancaster,
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OBITUARIES
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Sanford: Bobby Gunter, 70; Elizabeth Loso; Charles Musselwhite, 71; Buck Rives Carthage: Inez Speer, 82 Lillington: Carl Byrd Jr., 63;
Law firms want state officials to buy services from them despite a lack of expertise
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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 6B Classifieds ....................... 8B Comics, Crosswords.......... 7B Community calendar .......... 2A Horoscope ........................ 6B Obituaries......................... 5A Opinion ............................ 4A Scoreboard ....................... 4B