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BROADWAY OUR WAY FESTIVAL
ELECTION 2010
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Senate hopeful speaks to Dems Cal Cunningham tells local convention he can win in November By JONATHAN OWENS owens@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — If U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is a safe incumbent in this year’s election, someone forgot to tell Cal Cunningham. Cunningham, a Democrat from Davidson County who is seeking his party’s nomination in the May primary to face Burr in the fall, told his fellow Cunningham Dems at the Lee County Democratic Party convention Saturday morning at the Lee County Courthouse that he has the best resume and plan to defeat the Republican in November. An Iraq war veteran and former N.C. Senator, Cunningham is locked in a tight race for the party’s nomination with current N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, Durham Attorney Ken Lewis and several other Democrats who have made less noise during the primary race. A March poll conducted by Public Policy Polling showed Cunningham just four points behind Marshall among likely Democratic primary voters, closing a 17-point gap from a month earlier. Since the March poll, he has also gained an endorsement from the Sierra Club and launched a series of television ads aimed at Burr. Pointing to his prior history as
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Austin Harris, 6, enjoys a spin on a ride at Broadway Our Way festival on Saturday.
Broadway shines again with big turnout for second street fair By BILLY BALL
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BROADWAY — “Who needs MTV?” said frontwoman Sonya Stead of Sweet Potato Pie, the North Carolina band churning up a blugrass storm at Saturday’s Broadway Our Way festival. “We’ve got our own dancers here.” Stead was talking about the fancy footwork of Broadway residents Bud Patterson and James Annis, two men who cut a ferocious rug with an impromptu Southern jig during the band’s country-soul performance Saturday morning in downtown Broadway. Dozens of onlookers clapped and cheered for the dance-off by Patterson and Annis, both of whom danced like they were walking on hot
See more photos from Saturday’s second Broadway Our Way Festival Page 6A When it comes to barbecue in Broadway, the recipes are a secret Page 7A
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Musicians jam out in the N.C. Veterans Memorial in Broadway. coals. “I been dancing since I was this high,” Annis said, holding his hand at knee-level. “I hate to see good music go to waste.”
For Patterson, a local man who learned music and dance at a young age, he just had to move to Sweet Potato Pie’s music. “I was just born with it,”
Patterson said. Such was the spirit at Saturday’s second annual Broadway Our Way, which filled the small town’s streets with hundreds of excited festival-goers. “More fun than a day in New York City,” reads the event’s tag line. One thing’s for sure: It’s hard to find
See Broadway, Page 7A
See Cunningham, Page 5A
SUNDAYQUICKREAD
ELECTION 2010: LEE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
SPORTS
Akinosho pushes achievement Pastor would like more parental involvement By CAITLIN MULLEN
THE CANDIDATES
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STELLAR PITCHING LEADING CAVS TO SUCCESS ON THE DIAMOND Every good baseball team starts with its pitching. The Southern Lee Cavaliers have shown why of late, with a three-man rotation of Tyler Appling, Andrew McNeill and Walt Podruchny that went 3-0 this past week and allowed just one run Page 1B
Vol. 80, No. 90 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
SANFORD — Mark Akinosho and his wife Caroline consider themselves supportive parents, and they’d like to see more parents become involved in their child’s education. The couple’s four children — financial adviser Matthew and engineer Mark Jr., along with Kitan, a student at Princeton studying engineering, and Joseph, a sophomore at Lee County High School — are all successful students, he said. All have gone through Lee County Schools. “They call Sanford home,” Akinosho said. It takes extra work, he said, but
HAPPENING TODAY n The Heart of Carolina Jazz Society presents “Jazz Encounters Classical Music” at 3 p.m. at the Temple Theatre in Sanford. Tickets are $15 adults and $5 students/children.
CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
Throughout the week, The Herald will profile (in alphabetical order) the seven candidates vying for three open seats on the Lee County Board of Education. The schedule: o Today: Mark Akinosho o Tuesday: Dana Wicker Atkins o Wednesday: John Bonardi o Thursday: Shannon Gurwitch o Friday: Kim Lilley o Saturday: Ellen Mangum o Sunday: Linda Smith
getting involved in a child’s education is meaningful. He hopes to bring that point of view to the Lee
See Akinosho, Page 5A
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Local business owner and pastor Mark Akinosho is seeking a seat on the school board for the second time.
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
ON THE STREET
Sanford: Sequoya Graham, 20; Sammuel Ishmael, 24; Ralph Lamparter, 78 Broadway: Joseph Dean, 82 Greensboro: Mary Glass, 82
Two popular business locations are reopening under new ownership this week
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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 8B Business ........................ 11B Classifieds ..................... 13B Sunday Crossword ............ 7C Community calendar .......... 2A Horoscope ........................ 8B Obituaries......................... 4A Opinion ..........................8-9A Scoreboard ....................... 4B