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The Sanford Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 • 50 CENTS
Sanford Pottery Festival May 1-2 Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center
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TEMPLE THEATRE PRESENTS ‘SOUTH PACIFIC’
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Festival T-shirts aim for pride in community
Multi-year plan to phase in higher rates as the city preps for improvements By BILLY BALL
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bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — One of the Sanford Pottery Festival’s two new T-shirt designs was especially created to appeal to local pride. “The Potters of Sanford” features photos of 12 unique pieces of North Carolina Pottery made in Sanford. “Our most popular T-shirt design showed a similar row of pottery lined up from left to right across the shirt,” said festival co-creator Don Hudson. “This included work by Sanford potters, but others from the Seagrove Area and beyond were used,”. Beth Guerrero and Sharon Lankford, volunteer coordinators for the festival — which will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center — encouraged Hudson to produce new T-shirts for the upcoming event and promised to market them enthusiastically. Once the decision was made to do so, the idea of creating one design to feature pottery made by San-
SANFORD — Water and sewer rates could soon be on the rise again for Sanford customers. The Sanford City Council’s Law and Finance Committee on Wednesday discussed a multiyear plan to phase in higher rates as the city preps to pay for improvements in Sanford’s swelling sewer system over the next decade. Under the plan, outlined by consultant Lex Warmath, a vice president at Charlotte-based Raftelis Financial Consultants Inc., Sanford would bump up rates anywhere from 9 cents to $1.04 per 100 cubic feet, or 748 gallons, of water or sewer consumption. Under the city’s system, the rates decline as consumption increases. Customers buying from outside of city limits also pay twice the rate of those inside municipal lines. Among Warmath’s proposed increases, customers inside the city will see rates jump from $12.98 to $13.50 if they use anywhere from zero to 300 cubic feet per month. For most residential and non-residential customers who use more than 300 cubic feet, the rate would increase to $4.08. The exception would be nonresidential customers inside the city who use more than 800 cubic feet per month. Their rate will
See T-shirts, Page 7A
QUICKREAD NATION REPUBLICANS TO DROP OBJECTION TO REG. BILL
Republicans set the stage Wednesday to lift their blockade against legislation to tighten regulations on Wall Street, opening a road to likely passage for the most sweeping rewrite since the Great Depression Page 9A
TECHNOLOGY HP TO BUY PALM FOR $1B Palm Inc. a pioneer in the smart phone business that couldn’t quite make the comeback it needed, has agreed to be bought out by Hewlett-Packard Co. for about $1 billion in cash Page 12A
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Vol. 80, No. 99 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
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Ken Griggs (as Emile de Becque) and Peggy Taphorn (as Ensign Nellie Forbush) perform a scene during rehearsals of “South Pacific,” the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that will be Temple Theatre’s final production of the 2009-2010 season.
Big numbers, big cast hope to draw big audiences for Temple Theatre’s final show of the 09-10 season By BILLY LIGGETT bliggett@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Temple Theatre has seen its share of one- and two-man shows this season, but for the finale, it’s invited the whole gang. The theater will end its 2009-2010 season with the hit Broadway musical (and movie) “South Pacific,” the 51-year-old Rodgers and Hammerstein classic about war, racial prejudice and strangers in a strange land. The show, which began Wednesday night with a paywhat-you-can opening performance, will officially kick off with a 2 p.m. matinee and 7 p.m. evening show today. Artistic Director Peggy Taphorn, who’ll play the
See Temple, Page 6A
Stephen Moore (left) as “Stewpot” and Michael Brocki as Luther Billis rehearse a scene from “South Pacific,” which begins with a 2 p.m. matinee and 7 p.m. performance today. WANT TO GO? The Temple Theatre’s production of “South Pacific” begins with performances at 2 and 7 p.m. today and runs through May 16. The show will feature 24 performers and will star Temple regulars Peggy Taphorn, Ken Griggs and Michael Brocki. For tickets, call (919) 774-4155 or visit www.templeshows.com.
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KARATE KIDS
Vacuum salesman charged with assaulting uninterested customer By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — A salesman who wouldn’t take “no” for an answer was arrested Tuesday for assaulting his customer. Lee County deputies say they arrested a door-to-door salesman who hit a local man in the head with a handheld vacuum he was trying to sell two weeks ago. The Kirby vacuum seller,
HAPPENING TODAY n Lee County Schools will hold its annual Teacher of the Year reception at 6:30 at Chef Paul’s Cafe and Catering. The 2010-11 District Teacher of the Year will be announced.
CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
27-year-old Tomorcus Antoine Lee of Raleigh, is accused of the attack after he was rebuffed Lee on a sale by 70-year-old William Sidney Burton of Hickory House Road south
See Assault, Page 7A
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James McLean II, 8, demonstrates karate to parents, classmates and faculty at J.R. Ingram Elementary School on Wednesday as students involved in The Vision Foundation were honored.
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
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Sanford: Agnes Brewington, 72; Opal Haith, 91; Ethel Taylor, 101 Broadway: Sidney Sloan, 60 Carthage: Earl Barton, 44 Goldston: Ethel Lambert, 93
Political scandals sap the energy of volunteers and depresses the base’s turnout
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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 6B Classifieds ..................... 10B Comics, Crosswords.......... 7B Community calendar .......... 2A Horoscope ........................ 6B Obituaries......................... 5A Opinion ............................ 4A Scoreboard ....................... 4B