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CITY OF SANFORD
GULF OIL SPILL
Council haggles over arts, tax A $40.5 million budget for the city could be approved as early as Tuesday By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
OBAMA FACES ANGER, FEAR ON GULF TRIP
President Barack Obama personally confronted the spreading damage wrought by the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico — and the bitter anger that’s rising onshore
SANFORD — Sanford leaders inched closer to wrapping up budget talks Friday, lobbing proposals to reduce the city’s property tax rate and restore funding for a handful of
nonprofits like the Lee County Arts Council and the Temple Theatre. No official action was taken Friday, but the Sanford City Council could approve a proposed $40.5 million spending plan as early as Tuesday following a public hearing at its
regularly scheduled meeting. City Manager Hal Hegwer has advised the council to maintain Sanford’s 54-cent property tax rate, but officials talked Friday of shaving at least a penny off that levy, pointing to Sanford’s healthy savings account as sufficient to
cushion the blow to revenues. “When times are bad, it’s time to give back to the people,” said Sanford Mayor Pro Tem Mike Stone. Councilman Sam Gaskins called on city leaders to as-
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TRIANGLE MAN CROSSES CHANNEL WITH BALLOONS
An adventurer from Raleigh crossed the English Channel on Friday carried by a bundle of helium balloons, ending a quiet and serene flight by touching down in a French cabbage patch Page 6A
CLOSINGS MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY CLOSINGS THE HERALD n The Herald’s office will be closed Monday and will reopen under regular hours Tuesday.
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n Lee County Schools: All calendars — school will be closed Monday and will reopen Tuesday. n Grace Christian School: School will be closed Monday and will reopen Tuesday. n Lee Christian School: School will be closed Monday and will reopen Tuesday.
GOVERNMENT
n Lee County: All departments will be closed on Monday. n City of Sanford: All departments will be closed on Monday. n All state and federal agencies, including the United States Post Office located at 1200 S. Horner Blvd. will be closed Monday.
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n All banks in the area will be closed Monday. n The Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce will operate under regular hours today and will be closed Monday.
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Caelan Tolliver, 8, takes a break from the heat on Friday in downtown Sanford at Depot Park. Memorial Day weekend, which includes the opening of the fountain at the park, usually signifiies the unofficial start to summer.
ELECTION 2010
UNEMPLOYMENT
Early voting to begin in Dem. primary runoff
Jobless rate falls again in N.C., Lee County
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Voting will begin soon in the primary runoff between Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Elaine Marshall and Cal Cunningham. Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 22, but early voting will begin Thursday and last until Saturday, June 19, according to the Lee County Board of Elections. The only contest on the ballot pits Marshall against Cunningham, with the winner to joust with Republican incumbent Richard Burr in November. Marshall grabbed the most votes, or about 36 percent statewide, in primary voting
HAPPENING TODAY n Local farmers will be selling their fresh products from 9 a.m. to noon at Deport Park in downtown Sanford as part of the weekly Sanford Farmer’s Market. To get involved or to learn more, e-mail David Montgomery at david.montgomery@sanfordnc.net. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
this month, but failed to grab a majority of votes among a crowded field of competitors. Cunningham finished second with 27 percent of the total vote. Marshall fared well in Lee County, picking up 1,333 votes, or about 55.8 percent, of primary ballots cast. Cunningham registered 669 votes, or about 28 percent, in Lee County. Only Democrats and unaffiliated voters who were eligible to vote in the May 4 primary will be allowed to vote in the second primary. Also, unaffiliated voters who cast ballots in the Republican primary this month
See Runoff, Page 5A
By JONATHAN OWENS owens@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Lee County’s unemployment continued a dramatic downward trend in April, falling by a full percentage point for the secondstraight month. The N.C. Employment Security Commission reported Friday that 12.3 percent of Lee County’s workforce were unemployed in April, down from 13.3 in March. The report stated that 22,468 of Lee’s 26,000 workers held jobs in April, which saw the lowest unemployment rate since December 2008. Lee County Economic Development Director Bob Heuts said the increase in
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BY THE NUMBERS Jobless rates for April in area counties: County Rate (in percent) Lee 12.3 percent Harnett 10.5 Moore 9.2 Chatham 7.1 Wake 8 Source: NCESC
jobs in Lee County has been steady across all industries. “People are hiring five or 10 people at a time, which is how we went downhill as well,” he said, “Companies are seeing incremental improvement, and (rehiring) won’t be en masse. It’s going to be
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OBITUARIES
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Sanford: Woodell Headen, 85 Cameron: Larry Honeycutt, 57 Siler City: Sandy Jean Kline, 57 Edmond, Okla.: David Thomas, 88
A new book by author Lee Smith is the talk of the state reading circles
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On the Agenda Rundown of local meetings in the area:
TUESDAY n The Lee County Economic Development Study Committee will meet at 3 p.m. in the Wicker Conference Room, First Floor, Lee County Government Center, Sanford. n The Sanford City Council will meet at 7 p.m. at the Municipal Center in Sanford. n The Chatham County Planning Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Dunlap Building Classroom in Pittsboro.
JUNE 7 n The Lee County Board of Commissioners will meet at 3 p.m. at the Lee County Government Center in Sanford. n The Chatham County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. at the Dunlap Classroom, 80C East St., Pittsboro. n The Harnett County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. in Lillington. n The Moore County Board of Commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. at the Historic Courthouse in Carthage. n The Chatham County Board of Education will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Office Board Room in Pittsboro. n The Pittsboro Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. at Town Hall in Pittsboro. n The Siler City Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. in Siler City.
Birthdays LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, especially Margaret Phillips, Beth Ann Hart, Sabina Anne Blue, Toby Gathers, Christina Marie Valentie, Brenda Brigmon, Linda Brigmon Moore, Faith Christine Tysor, Michael Villatoro, Kadyn Danavan Stroner, Anthony De’shawn McKoy, Avery William Stewart, Holly Elisabeth Clark, Sydney Ann Hall, Jackson Cole Gray, Marissa Marie Rice, Evan Thomas Houston, Alma Jean McNeill, Eileen Everett, Dorothy W. Stevens, Janie Marie Angel, Jack R. Wicker, Reggie Seymore, Hazel Tysor, Yana Allen, Nori Allen, Willie Leola Currie, Anthony Johnson and Belinda Pruett. CELEBRITIES: Actor Clifton James is 89. Former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent is 72. Race car driver Al Unser is 71. Singer LaToya Jackson is 54. Actress Annette Bening is 52. Actor Rupert Everett is 51. Singer Melissa Etheridge is 49.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR ONGOING n San Lee Park is registering for summer camps. There are seven different nature themed sessions available. Experience nature through hands-on activities and crafts. Full and half day camps available. For girls and boys ages 4-12. For more information, call 776-6221. n O.T. Sloan Pool opens to the public on Saturdays and Sundays only beginning May 29 through June 13 from 1 to 5 p.m. Beginning June 15, the pool will be open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays from 1-5 p.m. The fee for public swim is $3 per person. For additional information, call 7752107 ext. 207. n The Lee County American Red Cross will hold a water skills for lifeguarding class in May. Call (919) 774-6857 to register. n Central Fire Station at 512 Hawkins Avenue will check car seats between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. each Saturday. Appointments are required. Contact Krista at 775-8310 by 5 p.m. Wednesday to schedule an appointment for the following Saturday. Child must be present for seat to be checked, unless mother is expecting. n Sanford Farmers Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon every Saturday from May through October.
n Local farmers will be selling their fresh products from 9 a.m. to noon at Deport Park in downtown Sanford as part of the weekly Sanford Farmer’s Market. To get involved or to learn more, e-mail David Montgomery at david.montgomery@sanfordnc.net.
MONDAY n A Memorial Day service will be held at 11 a.m. at Veteran’s Park inside Carolina Lakes Gated Community. n Disabled American Veterans Chapter 5 will host a Memorial Day service beginning at 11 a.m. at the N.C. Veterans Memorial in Broadway. n The Town of Goldston will host a Memorial Day service from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Goldston Veterans Memorial, located on Pittsboro-Goldston Road. Guest speaker will be Congressman Bob Etheridge.
JUNE 3 n The Grace Christian School graduation will be held at 7 p.m. at Grace Chapel Church in Sanford.
JUNE 4 n The Lee Christian School graduation will be held at 7 p.m. at the Dennis Wicker Civic Center in Sanford. n The Floyd Knight School graduation will be held at 7 p.m. at Floyd Knight School in Sanford. n Talent on the Green in Depot Park at 7 p.m. Singers, dancers, actors and musicians from Sanford share their talents in a free, all-ages show. Bring a blanket or chair. n The Mighty Sanford Aires gospel singers will perform at the Stevens Center’s First Friday Family Night. Bring a snack to share. Performance runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The
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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. Stevens Center is located at 1576 Kelly Drive in Sanford. The event is free because of the support from N.C. Arts Council through Lee County Arts Council. n First Friday Cafe 121 from 5 until 8:30 p.m., with part of the proceeds from your meal to benefit the Coalition For Families in Lee County to support programs for children and families. Musical entertainment on the terrace by the Tuesday Night Music Club. Reservations encouraged. Phone Cafe 121 at 774-1888. n Business leaders, chamber officials, real estate agents and others will set up booths with information on relocating to Sanford for soldiers currently stationed in Georgia from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Atlanta Airport Marriott hotel. Representatives from Sanford Broadway, Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Southern Pines will be on hand.
JUNE 5 n Local farmers will be selling their fresh products from 9 a.m. to noon at Deport Park in downtown Sanford as part of the weekly Sanford Farmer’s Market. To get involved or to learn more, e-mail David Montgomery at david.montgomery@sanfordnc.net. n The Lee County American Red Cross will offer a Lay Responder CPR for Adult, Child and Infant, includes AED and First Aid, class from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call (919) 774-6857 to register. n More than 100 pieces of handcrafted wood and metalwork — including lawn furniture, chests, jewelry boxes, grills, yard decorations and other items — are on the block at the 10 annual Central Carolina Community College Foundation Furniture
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Auction. Viewing starts at 11 a.m. in the multipurpose room of the Miriello Building at the college’s Harnett County Campus, located at 1075 E. Cornelius Harnett Blvd. Bidding begins at noon. n Celebrate National Trails Day at the dedication ceremony of the Chatham County segment of the American Tobacco Trail, set for 10 a.m. at the Pittard Sears Trail Crossing on Pittard Sears Road. The ceremony is hosted by the Town of Cary, Chatham County, N.C. Department of Transportation, Wake County, North Carolina Horse Council and Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and will include refreshments, bike decorating and educational booths with information on all elements of the trail.
JUNE 6 n The Calvary Education Center graduation will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Calvary Education Center in Lemon Springs.
JUNE 7
n The Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce’s monthly “Public Policy” luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Chef Paul’s in Sanford. Guest speaker will be Jon Parsons, executive director of Sustainable Sandhills to talk about how small businesses can save money by going “green.” For more information, call 775-7341 or visit www.sanford-nc.com.
JUNE 8 n The San-Lee Dancers return on a new night — Tuesday at the Enrichment Center, 1615 S. Third St., from 6-9 p.m. The cost is $5 per person (and food to share at intermission). Ages 50-plus (couples and singles) and younger guests welcome. The Bill Pollard Band (Back Porch Country) will play. Extras include Shirley Buchanan teaching a line dance and a 50-50 drawing and free dance pass drawing for those with 50-50 tickets. The sponsor is Jimmy Haire Photography.
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Today is Saturday, May 29, the 149th day of 2010. There are 216 days left in the year. This day in history: On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit. In 1660, England’s King Charles II was restored to the monarchy after an interregnum of 11 years. In 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses. In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union. In 1913, the ballet “The Rite of Spring,” with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, had its chaotic world premiere in Paris. In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Mass. In 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945. In 1943, Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
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Grad ceremonies begin next week
SANFORD — The Southern Lee and Lee County high school graduations will be held on consecutive nights this year. The Southern Lee graduation will be held at 7:30 p.m. June 10 at the school. The Lee County graduation is set for 7:30 p.m. June 11 at McCracken Field at the school.
LEE COUNTY
o Grace Christian School, June 3, 7 p.m., Grace Chapel Church. o Lee Christian School, June 4, 7 p.m., Dennis Wicker Civic Center o Floyd L. Knight School, June 4, 7 p.m., Floyd L. Knight School. o Calvary Education Center, June 6, 6:30 p.m., at the school, Lemon Springs. o Southern Lee High School, June 10, 7:30 p.m., Southern Lee High School. o Lee County High School, June 11, 7:30 p.m., McCracken Field at the school.
CHATHAM COUNTY
o Northwood High School, June 11, 1:30 p.m., Smith Center at UNCChapel Hill. o Jordan-Matthews High School, June 12, 10 a.m., Jordan-Matthews football stadium, Siler City. o Chatham Central High School, June 12, 7 p.m., school auditorium, Bear Creek. o SAGE Academy, June 13, 4 p.m., Siler City.
HARNETT COUNTY
o Overhills High School, June 11, 7:30 p.m., Campbell University, Buies Creek. o Triton High School, June 12, 10 a.m., Campbell University, Buies Creek. o Western Harnett High School, June 12, 2 p.m., Campbell University, Buies Creek. o Harnett Central High
School, June 12, 6 p.m., Campbell University, Buies Creek.
MOORE COUNTY o The O’Neal School, May 21, 6 p.m., Owens Auditorium on the campus of Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst. o North Moore High School, June 11, 7 p.m., football field at the school, Robbins. o Pinecrest High School, June 12, 8 a.m., football field at the school, Southern Pines. o Union Pines High School, June 12, 8 a.m., Woodrow Wilhoit Stadium at the school, Cameron.
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Beer garden sprouts in Fearrington PITTSBORO — In May, Fearrington Village welcomed its newest addition: Roost, a beer garden. Set under large oak trees in the heart of the Village Center, Roost includes a charming cottage that once served as the corn crib of the Fearrington farm and a surrounding courtyard where friends and family gather to enjoy craft beer and fellowship “al fresco.” The courtyard includes dozens of tables, chairs, umbrellas, locally made outdoor art exhibited as part of Fearrington’s Sculpture Garden and a two-tiered water fountain that offers additional seating. Background music, either recorded and live, is a regular feature as well. Roost sells beers on tap by locally owned Carolina Brewery, which has drawn international attention for its handcrafted beers. Among the award-winning signature beers Roost carries are: Flagship IPA (Gold Medal, Great American Beer Festival), Copperline Amber Ale (Gold Medal, World Beer Championships), and Sky Blue Golden Ale (Silver Medal, World Beer Championships). — Durham Herald-Sun
Job training, now JobsNOW offers more programs, training at CCCC
LEARN MORE For more information about JobsNOW or other short-term job training at Central Carolina Community College, go online to www.cccc. edu/jobsnow or contact the Continuing Education office at one of the college’s campuses: Chatham, (919) 5458033; Harnett, (910) 814-8823; Lee, (919) 775-2122, ext. 7793; or JobsNOW coordinator Theresa Cry by email at tcry@cccc.edu.
By KATHERINE McDONALD Special to The Herald
SANFORD — Susan Bryant, of Broadway, was all smiles as she received two medical certificates this week during Central Carolina Community College’s Continuing Education Medical Programs graduation. Those certificates mean the difference between being a laid-off worker and having new skills for the job market. Bryant had been laid off from Moen in September after working there for 33 years. With her new skills, she has already found part-time employment at Central Carolina Hospital. “I am tickled to death to be working,” she said. Bryant is a success story for the JobsNOW: 12 in 6 workforce development program at CCCC. Gov. Bev Perdue initiated JobsNOW in 2009 as a statewide response to the recession. The goal is to retrain North Carolina’s unemployed workers with indemand job skills and get them back in the workforce as quickly as possible. The state’s community colleges each have the challenge of offering at least 12 localized JobsNOW-funded workforce training programs that can be completed in no more than six months. By putting North Carolinians back to work in a short period of time, JobsNOW is also expected to boost the state’s economy, according to Perdue. The first round of CCCC’s JobsNOW training, during the winter and spring, focused primarily on culinary arts ServSafe
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The JobsNOW workforce development program at Central Carolina Community College’s campuses in Chatham, Harnett and Lee counties offers job training that can be completed within a few weeks to six months. Welding is among the programs offered. training in Chatham County, welding in Harnett County, and health occupation classes in Lee County. A second round of classes starts soon with an expansion of job training opportunities for unemployed workers. With the expansion, the college’s Chatham, Harnett and Lee campuses are each offering more training specifically for jobs available in their service areas. JobsNOW is a separate program from the continuing education and curriculum workforce training programs that have always been an important part of the college. In the second round, JobsNOW programs offered include banking pre-teller, culinary ServSafe and
hospitality essentials, basic office skills, welding, and certified fiber optic technician. A greater variety of health occupation programs are also available: drug collection specialist, EKG technician, health activities director, medical terminology, paramedical examiner, pharmacy technician, phlebotomy technician, Nurse Aide I, and Nurse Aide II. “A number of students in the first round of JobsNOW programs received job offers even before finishing their coursework,” said Cindy Ramsey, CCCC’s Lee County director of Continuing Education. “We look forward to similar results with our expanded offerings.”
Career Readiness Certificate training is part of each JobsNOW program at the college. CRC training, provided through the college’s Human Resources Development office, teaches students how to prepare resumes, search for jobs, dress professionally and present themselves well in an interview situation. North Carolina employers are increasingly using the CRC as part of their hiring processes, so JobsNOW students have an additional certification to bring to their job search. “I hadn’t done a résumé or been on a job interview in 33 years,” Bryant said. “I really benefited from the whole JobsNOW program. JobsNOW is a mighty fine opportunity for people.” JobsNOW is a joint project of the N.C. Department of Commerce’s Workforce Development Division and the North Carolina Community College System. Local Employment Security Commission offices refer clients who need job retraining to the college. Unemployed workers may qualify for assistance from the Workforce Development Act to pay for their job retraining. When the clients complete their JobsNOW training, the ESC assists them in finding jobs.
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Chancellor grateful to men who saved jogger By GREGORY CHILDRESS The Durham Herald-Sun
CHAPEL HILL — The accolades continue to roll in for the two Pittsboro brothers who earlier this month thwarted the kidnapping of a UNC student who was jogging downtown. UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp added his gratitude Thursday morning during a meeting of the university’s board of trustees. Thorp said he wanted to take the opportunity to publicly say thanks to Joey and Freddie Shelton “for taking care of one of our students.” “She was about to be abducted when Joey and Freddie came to her aid,” Thorp said. He also noted that local businessman Mike Miles has established a fund at RBC Bank on Rosemary Street to help raise money for Joey Shelton, 51, who was injured when hit by a car driven by alleged kidnapper Theodore James Walker, 26, after he and brother Freddie Shelton pulled into the RBC Bank parking lot near the intersection of North Columbia and Rosemary streets to help the student who was struggling to break free of the suspect. Miles said the Sheltons set an example that he hopes others will
emulate. “We as a state need to encourage this kind of behavior,” Miles said. “It wasn’t the quarterback of the football team that saved the girl, it was two men just past middle age.” When the suspect saw the brothers approaching, he jumped in his vehicle and tried to leave the parking lot, hitting Joey Shelton in the process. The impact caused Joey Shelton to roll up onto the hood of the car and break the windshield. Joey Shelton was treated at UNC Hospitals for his injuries, but does not have health insurance. Karen McCall said the hospital has asked
Joey Shelton to fill out a financial assistance application so the hospital can help with the bill. “We think we’ll be able to take care of his bills,” McCall said. Thorp’s remarks about the Sheltons can be added to a growing list that includes Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, who praised the brothers’ heroism at a recent Town
Council meeting. Kleinschmidt encouraged residents to thank the Sheltons and to contribute to the fund. Donations can made at any RBC bank. They can also be mailed to the Rosemary Street Branch at 101 E. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, N.C. Make checks payable to the “Joey and Freddie Shelton Appreciation Fund.”
Walker is jailed on a $5 million bond. He is charged with assault on a female and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, because Joey Shelton was hit with the car.
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Editorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor
THUMBS THUMBS DOWN: Coach/parent squabble Athletics can offer wonderful lessons of life — the benefits of hard work, dedication, teamwork, and, yes, even sportsmanship. However, athletics are not immune from the trials and tribulations that can creep into other parts of our lives. Such was the case recently when a local youth baseball coach got into a scuffle with a parent from an opposing team
from Harnett County. The incident, which reportedly began when the assistant coach and parent got involved in a shouting match, occurred during an unofficial scrimmage at the Tramway Road Park. So, what was the outcome? No one was arrested and charged. The coach has been suspended for the season. The parent is banned from attending games against Lee County teams. John Payne, who is head of Lee County Parks and Recreation, said, “It was ugly and embarassing, but it happens. It’s bad news when it happens somewhere else, but really bad news when it happens at your place.”
No matter the circumstances, the suspension of the coach and the banning of the parent from future games against Lee County teams should be commended. Our young people, in this case 13- and 14-year-olds, have impressionable minds. What are they to think when a coach and a parent get into a “minor scuffle”? There is no room for any scuffles on an athletic field. If there is an unnecessary behavior that occurs that might bring out an argument, then the best thing to do is to refrain from action and call for recreation supervisors — or, law enforcement — to handle the situation at hand. As John Payne told The Herald: “The reason we do this is for the kids to have fun. It’s
reallly embarassing for the kids to see adults behaving like this. It takes away from the whole thing that we’re trying to promote.” Lee County Parks and Recreation, through its suspension of the coach, has sent a message to those who are working with our youth sports teams. That kind of behavior will not be tolerated — and should not be tolerated, even if some believe it may be warranted. There should be no reason for shouting matches — and, if there is reason for such behavior, it should be handled by recreation supervisors and/or law enforcement. Our coaches need to be role models for our children. So should our parents. If they’re not, then they do
not need to be involved in our children’s activities.
THUMBS UP: Summer reading The Lee County Library* has a summer reading program that’s sure to be a hit with the young people. The theme — “Make a Splash at Your Liibrary.” Best of all, for those who complete their reading record will be eligible to attend a pool party. How wonderful there are summer programs, such as this, that both are enriching and entertaining.
Letters to the Editor Disappointed the president will not attend Memorial Day event To the Editor:
Froma Harrop Columnist Froma Harrop is a columnist with The Providence Journal
What were they thinking?
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he candidates subject themselves to all those boring chicken dinners, weekends on the road and having to flatter unpleasant people. Their campaign workers, contributors and media friends struggle to pull them over the finish line. The politicians taste victory, or at least a commanding lead in the polls, and — boom! They are outed in a sexual indiscretion, found making an easy-tocatch lie or flattened by a journalist’s obvious question. What was Indiana Rep. Mark Souder thinking when he had an affair and let his mistress interview him in a video discussion on abstinence? Had the Republican not put the public through years of moralistic preaching, his private meanderings might have been forgiven. But Souder had turned his personal hypocrisy into a crashing spectacle. Even New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat in a fairly liberal state, couldn’t survive visiting a call girl after railing against prostitution. Self-righteous moralizers fall off their pedestals all the time. It happens like clockwork. More interesting is the psychology that makes them think they’re going to get away with it. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal spent last Tuesday in a press conference called to explain his false claim to have served in Vietnam. ... Although the Democratic senatorial candidate has truthfully described his Vietnam era activities in recent months, he did tell a group of veterans and elderly in 2008 that “we have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam, and you exemplify it.” Though troubling, this is not careerending, as some lies are. Blumenthal did serve in the Marines Corps Reserve, and exaggerations about military service are commonplace. What did boggle the mind was seeing a seasoned and methodical politician trying to pull that off. Unfortunately for Blumenthal, his Republican foe has a fat checkbook and a team of investigators looking for his inconsistencies. Fortunately, said opponent is Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment. ... Furthermore, McMahon’s staff had boasted about feeding the scoop to the media. Finding dirt is to be expected in the course of political battle. Bragging about humiliating an opponent is another thing ... Shortly after winning the Republican senatorial nomination in Kentucky, Rand Paul has made two major-league gaffes. He had to cancel a date with “Meet the Press” for self-preservation. Non-Republicans had started asking him questions in public. Did he think that wouldn’t happen? Paul’s remark that he would not have supported the Civil Rights Act — followed by a denial — was not tricked from him. It flowed out of a discussion with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Paul’s trademark issue — radically shrinking the size and scope of government. A holder of offbeat political views should have ironed out responses to tough philosophical questions by now.
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hat is the big news in North Carolina? It is not that the legislature is coming back to Raleigh. Or the budget crisis that means more cuts in education. Or the shakeups in state government. Or the prospects for next year’s college athletics. For many North Carolina readers, nothing is more important than a new book by Lee Smith. D.G. Martin And we have one, a new book of short One on One stories. Well, some of the stories are new, D.G. Martin is host of UNC-TV’s and others are “selected” older ones. But North Carolina Bookwatch all 14 of the stories in “Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyes Stranger” are timely. Each Presbyterian in his former life”) leaves his of them breaks into a tangled mess of establishment wife for a high-school flame. someone’s life situation, probing the most His new love develops cancer and is dying. personal and troubling problems and feelHarold visits his old house and realizes that ings of the main characters. his former life is gone. Regrets? Well, it’s Sometimes Smith’s characters seem a little too weird at the beginning. But before complicated. Of course, I can identify with Joline B. the story is over, the reader is thinking, Newhouse, who writes a newspaper col“There, but for the grace of God, go I.” At least, that is way it was for this reader. umn called “Between the Lines.” When you For instance in the title story, Mrs. Darcy, read this story, you will find out that what she leaves out of her column is a lot more who is getting along in years, is spending interesting than what she puts in it. time at the family beach cottage with her Smith put me in the grown children and their wheelchair of the Alice families. All her family Scully, the feisty retireis worried about her and ‘Sometimes Smith’s ment home resident who who will take care of her characters seem a gets kicked out of the as she loses her ability to little too weird at the writing group called “The function. Happy Memories Club.” beginning. But before Like Mrs. Darcy, I have Alice’s memoir turned out just spent time with my the story is over, the to be much too “unhapfamily at the beach — on reader is thinking, py” for the Happy Memothe occasion of a mile‘There, but for the ries Club, but it was just stone senior birthday for grace of God, go I.’ ’ right for me. me. My family, like Mrs. In these and nine more Darcy’s, has to face the stories Smith takes her problem of an aging parreaders into the lives of ordinary people ent. Mrs. Darcy inspired me to hang on for and shows those “ordinary lives” to be full a little while longer. of extraordinarily challenging and interestTruth is, Lee Smith has a way of making ing situations. me identify with most of her characters, If you buy “Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyes even those who are most unlike me. Stranger” and read just one — any one — of In the story titled “Big Girl,” Smith put the 14 stories, you will get much more than me in the shoes of an obese young woman your money’s worth. jailed for embezzling funds to support her wayward husband. At the end of the story, D.G. Martin hosts UNC-TV ’s North CaroI wanted to go down to the courthouse and lina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 make bail to get this poor woman out of p.m. For more information or to view prior jail. programs visit the webpage at www.unctv. In “Bob, a Dog” Cheryl’s husband leaves org/ncbookwatch/ her for a younger woman. Smith has me juggling the challenges of raising and getting along with her children, dealing with the complicated sexual overtures of different men, and taking care of a new dog that is crazy and worthless. But the dog helps ... he did not remember to show mercy, Cheryl (and me) accept the painful reality but persecuted the poor and needy. (Psalm of her abandonment — and move on. 109:16) When Smith’s lead character is a man, it PRAYER: Help us, Father, when we are is even easier for me to buy into the fichurting. Comfort and sustain us is our tion. In “Intensive Care,” Harold (“who was prayer. Amen.
Today’s Prayer
Monday is Memorial Day. It is the one day a year that we recognize the lives given to the rest of us so that we can live in our country relatively safely. It is very important to those who served and lost fellow servicemen and servicewomen and friends. It is also very important to their families. I grew up on Army posts around our country. In most offices and central areas on these posts were pictures of the current chain of command with the president at the top as Commander-in-Chief. Regardless of political party, this person was at the top and highly respected for the position held. My father served two tours in Vietnam and lost a few close friends. We visited the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. many years ago, and I was startled at how agitated he was when he could not find someone listed on the date that he knew they were killed. It was very important to him that his friend was accounted for and honored correctly. I am certain that he not alone in this feeling. A part of him was lost in that war as well. I was very disappointed that our current president will not attend the Memorial Day event in Arlington this year. He does not fully understand what his position is, nor the way that his position is revered by those who serve in our military. Due to his action on this matter, with regard to his military position, I will refer to him as the Embarrassment-in-Chief. As you enjoy your Memorial Day, please remember those that made this day possible. It is just one day and the least that we can do. In this case, it will be more than our President will do. MIKE NEAL Sanford
‘Disrespectful’ that player’s name not called To the Editor: On Wednesday night, the Lee County High School Yellow Jackets won an exciting ball game. However, it was slightly tainted from the beginning. During the player introductions, third baseman Grant Brown was totally overlooked. When the team took the field, one of the Apex fans seated near me along the third base line shouted to Grant, “Hey, 20. They didn’t introduce you. That’s not right.” I had to agree with him. Grant contributed as much to the victory as any other player on the field. To ignore him like that was not just an oversight. It was downright disrespectful. J. FRED WATSON Sanford
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OBITUARIES
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Woodell Headen
LEE COUNTY n Ralph Shaw of 9 E. Ivey St. in Lillington reported a larceny of timber from his property at Sheriff Watson Road Thursday. Shaw estimated the timber to be worth $2,500. n James Kelly Ussery, 40, of 17 Nell Lane in Sanford, was arrested Thursday for being a fugitive from the state of Florida; he was held under $200,000 secured bond. n Christopher Lanny Cordevant, 34, of 1011 John Godfrey Road in Sanford, was arrested Thursday for probation violation; he was held under $10,000 secured bond.
SANFORD — Woodell R. Headen, 85, of 310 Commerce Drive, died Thursday (5/27/10) at Central Carolina Hosptial. The family will receive friends at 426 Lower Moncure Road, Sanford. Arrangements will be announced by Knotts Funeral Home of Sanford.
Larry Honeycutt
CAMERON — Larry Gale Honeycutt, 57, of 2270 Stanton Hill Road, died Wednesday (5/26/10) at his residence. He is survived by his parents, Betty Lou and Marvin Johnson; a daughter, Misty Branson of Sanford; a son, Starsky Branson of Garner; and his brothers and sisters. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Arrangements are by Smith and Buckner Funeral Home of Siler City.
Sandy Kline
SILER CITY — Sandra “Sandy” Jean Kline, 57, of 445 Colony St., died Thursday (5/27/10) at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She was born Oct. 27, 1952, daughter of the late John L and Jean W. Goode Kline Jr. She was born in Panama City, Fla. but lived in Siler City. She was employed as Deputy Clerk for the Town of Chapel Hill and was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Siler City. She is survived by sons, Nicholas Anthony Cook of the home and John Lindley Cook of Siler City; a daughter, Jennifer Kathleen Cook of Siler City; a sister, Debbie K. Biles and husband Kevin of Siler City; several nieces and nephews and many friends. A memorial service will be held at 12 noon Saturday (6/12/10) at the First United Methodist Church of Siler City. A memorial fund will be set up for Nicholas Anthony Cook at the local LGFCU of Siler City or memorials to the First United Methodist Church, 1101 W. Raleigh St., P.O. Box 212, Siler City, N.C. 27344. Arrangements are by Smith and Buckner Funeral Home of Siler City.
David Thomas
EDMOND, Okla. — David Thomas, 88, died Monday (5/24/10) in Edmond, Okla. He was born Oct. 16, 1921 in Sanford. He worked for the Government for a number of years. He is preceded in death by his parents, Garfield and Mattie Thomas, and his many brothers. He is survived by his wife, Myrtle Thomas of Edmond, Okla.; a daughter, Lynda Thomas-Wall, husband and sons of Richmond, Texas; a sister, Elmarie of North Carolina. There will be private family services. Arrangements are by Baggerley Funeral Home of Edmond, Okla. o
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SANFORD n Crossroads Nissan reported theft from a vehicle Thursday at 2600 S. Horner Blvd. n Desirae Willette West reported property damage Thursday at 225 E. Weatherspoon St. n Jennifer Noreen Bates reported a hit and run thursday at 2499 S. Horner Blvd. n Walmart reported shoplifting Thursday at
3310 N.C. 87. n Teresa Danielle Buie reported property damage Thursday at 1109 Juniper Drive. n Progress Energy reported larceny Thursday at 607 Magnolia St. n Piggly Wiggly reported shoplifting Thursday at 2412 S. Horner Blvd. n Haley Marie Raimondi reported larceny Thursday at 225 E. Weatherspoon St. n Darryl Antonia Buie reported assault with a deadly weapon Thursday at 409 Dudley Ave. n A woman reported assault on a female Friday at 109 Serenity Lane. n Gerald Lynn Syndnor, 22, was arrested Thursday at 105 Gordon St. and charged with marijuana possession. n Margarito Cota Lopez, 47, was arrested Thursday at 320 Hickory Ave. and charged with assault on a female and misdemeneanor child abuse. n Latoya Danielle Hosby, 27, was arrested Thursday at 2217 Lee Ave. and charged with marijuana possession.
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little-by-little, but we are starting to see our talented workforce going back to work.” Heuts said the decrease itself should have a positive impact on the jobs situation as well. “Everything has to do with a positive attitude,” he said. “I think people and companies can get beaten up by the numbers and get
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n Vance Elliott Clymer, 22, was arrested Thursday at 704 S. Horner Blvd. and charged with marijuana possession. n Sonya Williams Green, 36, was arrested Friday at Boykin Ave. and charged with writing a worthless check. n Albert Wade Hall, 27, was arrested Friday at 109 Serenity Lane and charged with assault on a female. n Crystal Marie Petrouske, 26, was arrested Friday at U.S. 421 North and charged with writing a worthless check. n Marco Antonio Ramirez Santos, 23, was arrested Friday at 200 Talley Ave. and charged with driving while impaired.
HARNETT COUNTY n Danny Lee Marion, 46, of 5215 Cool Springs Road in Broadway, was arrested Thursday and charged with misdemeanor larceny an dtwo counts of failure to appear. n Chelsey Rose Spurles, 20, of 15 Farmwood in Sanford, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of failure to appear.
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SPRING LAKE (MCT) — A teenager who was killed in a Jan. 19 shootout with Harnett County sheriff’s deputies was shot three times by the lawmen, according to an autopsy report. Joseph Guy Wheeler, 13, was shot in the face, neck and abdomen, according to the report released by the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Cpl. T. Assman and Sgt. T. Daggett spotted Wheeler walking down Nursery Road in the direction of N.C. 87 around midnight. At 2:25 a.m., the deputies approached the teen to question him as he was seated in a ditch in front of a convenience store at 1943 N.C. 24-87. Wheeler was carrying two knapsacks. When the deputies searched them, they found a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol,
workers employed (not-seasonally adjusted) increased in April by 30,780 workers, to 4,089,754. The number of people unemployed decreased, by 42,446. The number of unemployed people in April was 455,013 workers, compared with 497,459 in March. Currituck County had the state’s lowest unemployment rate in April, at 5.8 percent. Meanwhile, Scotland County had the highest unemployment rate, at 15.8 percent.
Lee County officials have not made a decision on assisting the Boys and Girls Clubs, but Sanford leaders talked Friday of matching whatever the county puts forward to the financially beleaguered group, which was hit hard by withering grant monies. Gaskins, a former president of the Temple Theatre’s board of directors, said he didn’t back reallocating money for the nonprofits until the City Council develops an across-the-board policy for how to deal with the charitable groups’ requests. “We have a lot of really good nonprofits, people that help out,” he said. “But it’s almost a matter of opinion as to who’s more deserving. We need a pretty straightforward policy on what the city will support and why.” Among Gaskins’ proposals for criteria on nonprofit funding is a thorough examination of groups’ financial plans. “I’d like to see that
sess the possibility of trimming the tax rate, arguing increased spending in some areas like postage, departmental supplies and employee training can be dialed back. Gaskins said spending on items like postage has increased in recent years from $150 to around $1,500. Taken by itself, that’s not a lot of money, he said, but jumps like that add up. “A lot of these small things have big increases,” Gaskins said. “And that kind of bothered me. We’re seeing those increases when it’s not compatible with the economy.” Stone said the city has “plenty of room” in its budget to cut spending and pave the way for a tax decrease. Councilman Charles Taylor, who was not present Friday but learned of the conversations, agreed, adding that the city’s fund balance or 3ANDWICHES s 3ALADS s 3OUPS s %NTREES s $ESSERT -ORE savings account has swollen to exceed $10 million based on yearly pennypinching. “I think we need to return some things back to the citizens,” Taylor said. Gaskins’ proposiEnjoy a FREE Beverage tion was not without its With purchase of two lunch selections. detractors. %AST -AIN 3TREET s Chef Pauls
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Report: teen killed in shoot-out was shot three times 250 rounds of ammunition, crackers and some clothing. When the deputies told Wheeler to show his hands, he pulled a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol from the waist of his pants and started firing, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Wheeler shot Assman in the thigh before he was shot by the deputies. Wheeler, who lived with his parents in the Anderson Creek community and attended Overhills Middle School, had no prior criminal history, and the Sheriff’s Office didn’t know where he got the gun and ammunition. The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting. Assman and Daggett were placed on administrative leave with pay pending the results of the investigation.
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down after a while.” Unemployment rates decreased in 99 of North Carolina’s 100 counties in April, according to the report, with Wilson County turning the state’s lone increase, rising a mere .1 percent. North Carolina had 41 counties that were at or below the state’s unadjusted unemployment rate of 10 percent. Rates decreased in all 14 of the state’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas for the second consecutive month. The number of Mayor Cornelia Olive said she backs making decisions that lower the burden on local taxpayers, but with revenues declining in the laboring economy, now might not be the time. “We’re in no position to be doing that right now,” Olive said. Officials also moved Friday to place money back in the budget to again fund local nonprofits like the Arts Council, the Railroad House Association and the Temple Theatre. Hegwer had proposed removing the city’s yearly contributions of $3,000 each to the Arts Council and the Railroad House and $20,000 to the Temple Theatre as the City Council preps a policy on how Sanford will chip in for nonprofits. Officials began calling for a policy this spring after the financially troubled Boys and Girls Clubs of Sanford/Lee County asked for $50,000 in emergency funding from the city and Lee County government.
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cannot vote in the second Democratic primary. All early voting for the primary will be done at the Lee County Board of Elections office, located at 225 S. Steele St. in downtown Sanford. Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Election Day. For more information, contact the Board of Elections at 919-718-4646, or visit the Lee County Website at www. leecountync.gov.
we’re not throwing money into an organization that is going to fold up immediately,” he said. Also, Gaskins said the City Council should assess whether a group contributes to the local economy and review a nonprofit’s list of donors, particularly whether or not its leaders contribute financially. “If they don’t believe in you, why should the City Council believe in you?” Gaskins said. Olive agreed, pointing out the city’s lack of a policy opens leaders up to difficult decisions about who to fund among competing nonprofits. “I don’t know how you can say that the Boys and Girls Clubs are more deserving than Lee County Industries,” Olive said. Lee County Industries Inc. is a local nonprofit that helps individuals
with disabilities find gainful employment. The city does not currently contribute to Lee County Industries. While budget talks appear to be winding down, Olive said she hopes officials will include spending for youth interns for the City Council and upgrades to deteoriating structures at Sanford’s borders. Olive declined to name any specific structures, but said the buildings “don’t give the appearance we want to give for Sanford right now.” The City Council’s next session is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, at which point officials will hold a public hearing on the budget. A full copy of the proposed budget can be found on the city’s Website, located at www. sanfordnc.net.
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Raleigh man crosses English Channel with helium balloons
Police: woman left girl, 9, alone to watch kids
Interest ahead for those without tax refunds
SALISBURY (AP) — A North Carolina woman is free on bond after her arrest for leaving a 9-year-old alone to watch her younger siblings for several days. The Salisbury Post reported that 26-year-old Bianca Nicole Koontz is charged with nine counts of child neglect. Salisbury police say the girl made a 911 call on Monday when she got scared by a noise and then hung up. When police went to the house, the girl said she had been caring for her 1- and 3-year-old siblings since last Saturday. The girl also told police that her mother returned to the home for a few hours on Sunday and Monday. The Department of Social Services found a place for the children to be cared for. Koontz was released on $1,500 bond pending a June 30 court date.
RALEIGH (AP) — People still waiting for North Carolina income tax refunds now can expect to get a little bit more. The Department of Revenue said Friday about 312,000 refunds valued at $222 million have yet to be distributed. Refunds not paid by Sunday will start accruing interest at an annual rate of 5 percent. North Carolina delayed tax refunds this year as the state’s cash flow stayed uncertain in the weak economy. The department got refunds paid out last year by May 13 to people who filed on time. Revenue Secretary Kenneth Lay said everyone due a refund this year will get one as quickly as possible. More than 90 percent of all refunds for returns filed by April 15 have gone out, valued at nearly $1.8 billion.
By ROBERT BARR Associated Press Writer
LONDON — In a goofy yet mesmerizing stunt, an American adventurer crossed the English Channel on Friday carried by a bundle of helium balloons, ending a quiet and serene flight by touching down in a French cabbage patch. Jonathan Trappe, 36, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was strapped in a specially equipped chair below a bright cluster of balloons when he lifted off early Friday from Kent, in southeast England. About five hours later, he lowered himself into a French field by cutting some of the balloons away. “It was just an exceptional, quiet, peaceful experience,” Trappe told Sky News television, which covered the adventure. Asked why he went, Trappe replied: “Didn’t you have this dream, grabbing on to a bunch of toy balloons and floating off? I think it’s something that’s shared across cultures and across borders — just this wonderful fantasy of grabbing on to toy balloons and floating into open space.” However, the channel crossing wasn’t a matter of just grabbing a few balloons. Trappe says on his website that he made
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American cluster balloonist Jonathan Trappe holds his Certificate of Airworthiness after landing on farmland in Moeres, France, Friday. Trappe took off from Challock, England, to become the first person to cross the English Channel in a chair attached to helium balloon. Trappe had been planning the flight for several months, after setting a world record for the longest free-floating balloon flight of 14 hours in the skies above North Carolina. a scouting trip in March and gained clearance from French and British aviation authorities and from customs and immigration offices on both sides. His equipment list didn’t stop at balloons and a chair, but included an aircraft transponder, oxygen system, aircraft radios, emergency locator beacon, in-flight satellite tracking and a radio tracker. “He had all the correct authorization and I believe he even gave something to the owner of the land where he came down by way of
damages,” said a spokesman for French police. Last month, Trappe claimed the record for the longest free-floating balloon flight after spending 14 hours blowing in the wind over North Carolina and traveling 109 miles. On another flight, his website says he ascended to 17,930 feet, just below controlled airspace. “There are risks and we work to methodically reduce the risk so we can have a safe and fun flight,” said Trappe, who is certified for balloon flight by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. “Because really it’s
only about dreams and enjoying an adventure, and that’s only enjoyable when it is safe.” His crossing was much less eventful than the first balloon crossing of the English Channel in 1785. The pioneering French balloonist Jean-Pierre Francois Blanchard and John Jeffries, an American doctor who paid for the flight, set off in a hydrogen balloon which started leaking in flight. The pair dumped all their ballast and most of their clothes into the water and just managed to stay airborne and land in Calais.
MENTAL HEALTH
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Group slashes workers’ pay
Alumni group seeks board ouster at Shaw University
RALEIGH (AP) — Workers at the North Carolina Mental Health Association are getting only half of their usual pay because of the organization’s financial problems. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported more than 200 employees of the state’s oldest mental health advocacy group got a memo that Friday’s paycheck would be 50 percent of their normal pay. Interim executive director Christine Foppiano says she can’t talk about the situation. Foppiano took over last week when John Tote was named director of mental health for the state Department of Health and Human Services. Tote withdrew Monday following reports the association faces IRS tax liens.
RALEIGH (AP) — The national alumni association of Shaw University, one of the oldest historically black colleges in the South, has called for the board of trustees to step down or be dismissed because of continuing financial problems. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that the alumni association of Shaw University in Raleigh addressed its letter to the school board chairman Willie Gary, an alumnus and multimillionaire attorney whose office is based in Stuart, Fla. Shaw’s board consists of educators, business people and Baptist officials in North Carolina, Florida and New York, as well as boxer Evander Holyfield and boxing promoter Don King, Shaw’s Web site says. The school is searching for a new president and must renew
its accreditation in 2012. “We can no longer stand by and allow Shaw to appear to deteriorate due to poor judgment. ... We have serious concerns regarding conflict of interest, fiduciary responsibilities, adverse interest and commitment,” says the May 14 letter from association president Emily Perry. The letter isn’t the first criticism from alumni about Shaw, a school of about 2,700 students that has debt of more than $20 million. In March, the school’s Florida alumni group sent a letter to Shaw administrators saying it was “amazed” that giving among board members totaled only $41,089 since July, despite Gary’s pledge that each of the roughly 40 board members would chip in $50,000. Gary said Thursday that he doesn’t plan to step down or request that
anyone else do so. He said he hasn’t kept up with his 1991 pledge to donate $10 million, at the rate of $250,000 a year, because of the recession. “Whether I’ve given any money to Shaw in the last year or so? No, because of the economic times,” Gary said. “We don’t have it.” He promised to resume his donations once the economy improves. Perry’s letter, which was sent to board of trustee and alumni association members, suggests the board eliminate ineffective members to make way for the future. “Now is the time for a new board of trustees that can effectively attend to the fiduciary responsibilities of Shaw,” the letter reads. Earlier this year, Shaw University secured a $31 million federal loan with help from U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge.
True past of Ore. man emerging from federal probe PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Clues are emerging about the past of an Oregon man who used the identity of an Ohio boy killed in a kidnapping. Federal agents revealed the man’s true identity in a court filing Thursday. So far, investigators have learned Doitchin Krasev went to college in North Carolina and lived in Colorado before moving to Oregon. Krasev claimed to be Jason Robert Evers, who was killed in Cincinnati in 1982. But a passport application check led to his arrest last month, and a national investigation finally revealed his real name. A friend in Colorado says Krasev went by the name Danny Kaiser and was an avid tennis and chess player.
RJ Reynolds to close tobacco plant in Puerto Rico SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — North Carolina-based R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is closing its cigarette manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico after 40 years of business. Spokeswoman Denise Santos says 60 employees will be affected when the plant closes at the end of August. Santos says the plant is closing because it would be too expensive to make upgrades required by new federal regulations and because an increase in taxes led to a drop in manufacturing volume. She said Friday that plants in North Carolina will assume the additional production. The plant produces cigarettes for the Puerto Rico market as well as privatelabel cigarettes for the U.S. market.
Report: trooper going 95 mph at time of wreck GREENSBORO (AP) — A preliminary report shows a North Carolina Highway Patrol trooper was traveling at 95 mph when his car collided with another vehicle, killing two people. Multiple media outlets reported the patrol has determined the speed Trooper J.D. Goodnight was traveling when the wreck occurred Sunday on Interstate Business 85 near Jamestown. An 11-year-old girl was one of those killed. Two other boys were hurt. At a news conference Thursday, the head of Highway Patrol expressed condolences to the families involved. Col. Randy Glover also promised a thorough and open investigation of the crash, which occurred as Goodnight pursued a speeding vehicle.
Man says N.C. too willing to convict the innocent DURHAM (AP) — A man who spent 12 years in prison for kidnapping and other crimes he didn’t commit says North Carolina’s willingness to convict innocent people is what he calls “madness.” The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Shawn Massey spoke Thursday at a news conference held by Duke University’s Wrongful Convictions program, whose students worked to free Massey. Massey was convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery in a case in which a robber held a Charlotte mother and her two children captive in 1998. He plans to seek a pardon from Gov. Beverly Perdue, which would allow him to be paid for his time behind bars.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The drive to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military survived another House vote Friday and now moves to the Senate, where advocates on both sides of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” debate are gearing up for a fight. The House voted 229186 to pass a defense bill approving more than $700 billion for military programs and containing an amendment overturning the 1993 law allowing gays to serve in the military only if they hide their sexual orientation. The defense bill, which normally passes by wide margins, was closer this year because many Republicans and a few conservative Democrats said they would vote against it if it contained the repeal of the gay ban. The amendment was approved 234-194 late Thursday after dominating the debate during the day. Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed to the military Friday not to be distracted by the political debate over gays in uniform. In an unusual direct address to troops, Gates said he wanted to assure them that their views on the divisive question still matter. The Senate is expected to take up the defense bill this summer, and its enactment is no sure thing.
ATLANTA (AP) — Americans aren’t in the mood to spend much on travel this summer. More people are expected to hit the road than did last year, but their budgets will be tighter because of high unemployment, stock markets in retreat and a still-fragile economy. AAA estimates families will spend an average of $809 on summer travel, compared with $876 in 2009, even though flying is more expensive than it was a year ago. They’re knocking down the cost, travel agents say, by staying closer to home, choosing less-expensive modes of transportation or by picking destinations based on the best fares and lodging they can find.
GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) — Kneeling to pick up tar balls on an oil-fouled beach and listening to “heartbreaking stories” of loss, President Barack Obama personally confronted the spreading damage wrought by the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico — and the bitter anger that’s rising onshore. “What can he really do?” said Billy Ward, a developer who comes to his beach house here every weekend and, like many other locals, had little positive to say about Obama’s trip to the beleaguered region on Friday. “If he wants to do something, let him get out there and pump some mud and cement into that hole. Just fix it. Help us.” BP PLC, even less popular here, kept up its efforts to “just fix it,” using its “top kill” procedure to try to stop the deep oil well leak by pumping in heavy mud. If it doesn’t work, something BP says will be known within a couple of days, Obama’s own problems will only compound. He said he understands people “want it made right” and that their frustration won’t fade until the oil is stopped and cleaned up. “It’s an assault on our shores, on our people, on the regional economy and on communities like this one,” the president said from this small barrier island town threatened by what is now established as the largest oil spill in
BP: Gulf spill response has cost it $930M so far
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President Barack Obama takes a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill on Friday in Port Fourchon, La. American history. “People are watching their livelihoods wash up on the beach.” A BP drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers and beginning to send millions of gallons of oil spewing into the water. That oil is now beginning to foul beaches, kill wildlife and cripple the tourism and fishing industries on which this area depends. With the crude still flowing freely, criticism has been increasingly aimed at Obama and his administration. Amid concern that the environmental and economic disaster could also engulf his presidency, Obama has stepped up his public appearances this
week to demonstrate that he is engaged. He held a rare White House news conference on Thursday, focusing almost entirely on the spill. And Friday, he flew to the coast for an inspection tour and meetings that lasted about four hours — his second visit in the 39 days of the crisis. He noted that all may not go well in such a massive, unprecedented undertaking. Mistakes are possible, Obama said. But a lack of urgency about plugging the leak and restoring the region is not, the president declared. “There are not going to be silver bullets or a lot of perfect answers for some of the challenges that we face,” he said in front of an incongruously pristine
NEW YORK (AP) — BP PLC says it has spent $930 million so far responding to a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The British oil giant owns the well that’s gushed millions of gallons of crude for more than a month. The company made the estimate Friday in a regulatory filing. The costs include what it has spent on responding to the spill, drilling relief wells, paying grants to Gulf states, damage claims and federal costs. BP says it’s too early to quantify other potential costs and liabilities associated with the spill. Scientists say the Gulf spill much worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989.
backdrop of sparkling blue water with dolphins, fish and seabirds frequently spotted. “But we’re going to keep at this every day.” Obama made an unqualified promise to coast residents reminiscent of previous presidents speaking after disasters — such as George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “I’m here to tell you that you are not alone, you will not be abandoned, you will not be left behind,” Obama said. “The media may get tired of the story, but we will not. We will be on your side and we will see this through.”
Oil spill cam becomes Internet sensation
COVINGTON, La. (AP) — The grainy video of mud, gas and oil billowing from the seafloor has become an Internet sensation — a sort of warmweather version of TV’s Yule Log — as Americans watch to see whether BP’s effort to plug the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico succeeds. BP warned on Friday that it could be Sunday or later before the outcome of the cliffhanger becomes clear. And scientists cautioned that few conclusions can be drawn with any certainty from watching the spillcam coverage of the “top kill.” But they said the video seemed to suggest BP was gaining ground. In an operation that began Wednesday, BP has been pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out well in hopes of choking it off and putting an end to what is already the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, at anywhere from 18 million gallons to 40
million by the government’s estimate. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said that the denser-than-water mud was able to push down the oil and gas coming up at great force from underground, but it had not overwhelmed the gusher or stopped the flow. BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said Friday the top kill was going basically as planned, though the pumping of heavy mud has stopped and started several times. He said the company has also shot in assorted junk, including metal pieces and rubber balls, to try to counter pressure from the well. “This thing is moving along,” Suttles said. “It’ll continue to move along, and we’re going to stay at this as long as we need to.” A top kill has never been attempted 5,000 feet underwater, and public fascination is high. BP, under pressure from Congress, made
available a live video feed of what is going on underwater, and about 3,000 websites were showing a version of it that the PBS “Newshour” offered for free. On Thursday alone, show spokeswoman Anne Bell said, more than a million people watched it. Many found it hypnotic. “It made me wonder how I use energy and if this situation could teach us how much energy we use ourselves,” said Jeb Banner, 38, a web design and marketing company owner in Indianapolis who has been looking at the feed every hour or so since before the top kill started. “It felt like a historic moment.” Meanwhile, President Barack Obama visited the coast to see the damage as he tried to emphasize that his administration was in control of the crisis, which began April 20 when the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform blew up. Eleven workers were killed. “I’m here to tell you that
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Consumers more cautious about spending in April WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers don’t appear confident enough in the economy to open their wallets more freely. Their spending stalled in April. Without stronger job creation and higher pay, people are less likely to up their spending in the months ahead and invigorate the recovery. The flat level for consumer spending was the weakest showing in seven months, according to the Commerce Department report. Personal incomes rose 0.4 percent, in line with expectations but not fast enough to help generate real growth. Falling gas prices and cheaper utility bills could make people feel better about spending more over the summer. So could historically low mortgage rates. That would lead more people to refinance and leave them with more disposable income. But Nigel Gault, an economist at IHS Global Insight, said employment will be key to supporting income growth in coming months. Economists are looking for 503,000 jobs to be added in May. That would be better than April’s 290,000 increase, the biggest one-month rise in four years. The May surge is expected to include a sizable number of temporary census workers hired by the government.
N.Y. grants aim to save rare bog turtles, habitat MILLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) — The federal government is giving private landowners money to protect one of the world’s smallest and rarest turtles, a species that is losing habitat throughout its range from Georgia to southern New England. The bog turtle, a secretive reptile the size of a hockey puck, has a chestnut-colored shell and a smear of yellow or orange down the sides of its neck. It’s finicky about its habitat, favoring sunny, acidic, spring-fed bogs and fens with short vegetation, sedge tussocks rising from shallow water for basking and egg-laying, and pudding-like mud for easy burrowing. Because of their rarity, small size, and overall cuteness, the turtles can fetch $1,000 apiece on the black market, making poaching a major threat. The other major threats are invasive plants, habitat loss, and fragmentation of habitat by roads and development.
Stocks retreat as Fitch downgrades Spain’s debt NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed out their worst month in more than a year by sliding again on more unsettling news about Europe. The Dow Jones industrials dropped 122 points Friday after Fitch Ratings gave Spain the second downgrade of its credit rating in a month. The rating agency’s action was another reminder to traders of the long-term economic problems still facing several European countries, and pehaps the rest of the continent and the global economy as well. May was difficult as persistent and intensifying worries about Europe’s debt problems sent the Dow down 7.9 percent and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index down 8.2 percent.
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The Sanford Herald / Saturday, May 29, 2010 / 9A
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White House had Clinton try to ease Sestak out of Pa. race
House approves pared-back tax and spending bill
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Forced to disclose backstage political bargaining, President Barack Obama’s embarrassed White House said on Friday it had enlisted Bill Clinton to try to ease Rep. Joe Sestak out of Pennsylvania’s Senate primary with a job offer. Nothing wrong with that, the White House said. Oh, yes, there was, Republicans countered. The administration admission — it said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had asked the former president to call Sestak — left many questions unanswered, and it seemed unlikely the issue had been put to rest. For Obama, the revelations called into question his repeated promises to run an open government that was above back room deals. And for Sestak, they raised questions why he kept talking about up the offer — a 60-second conversation, he said Friday — in the first place. “I wasn’t interested, and that was the bottom line,” Sestak said on the steps of the Capitol. Seeking to quiet the clamor over a possible political trade, the White House released a report describing the offer that was intended to clear a path for Sen. Arlen Specter to win the Democratic nomination. Sestak stayed in the race and eventually defeated Specter to become the Democratic nominee, ending Specter’s 30-year Senate tenure. After a week of silence, Sestak answered reporters’ questions on last summer’s offer.
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Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Friday. Forced to disclose backstage political bargaining, President Barack Obama’s embarrassed White House acknowledged on Friday that it enlisted Bill Clinton to try to ease Rep. Joe Sestak out of Pennsylvania’s Senate primary with a job offer. He said he cut Clinton short after hearing only a few words about a possible post on a presidential board and said the former president immediately dropped the subject during a phone call. “There was nothing wrong that was done,” Sestak said. White House Counsel Robert Bauer rendered his own verdict in a two-page report that said there was no improper conduct in the offer. No one in the administration discussed the offer with Sestak, Bauer said. The report did not say what, if any, contacts or promises the White House had with Specter on the matter. It also did not reveal whether Obama was aware of Clinton’s role. White House lawyers prepared the summary weeks ago and earlier this week shared it with representatives for Sestak and
for Clinton. Bauer based his determination on conversations with White House officials and did not speak directly with Sestak or Clinton before reaching a conclusion. The report didn’t impress Republicans. Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House oversight committee who unsuccessfully had sought a Department of Justice investigation, said Obama had become a part of the Washington culture he decried. “It’s pretty clear from the White House statement that they intended to get him out of the race by offering him a position, and that’s illegal and it’s unethical,” Issa said just moments after Sestak spoke. Said Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele: “The memo frankly raises more questions:
What was Bill Clinton authorized to offer? Did President Obama sign off on this conversation before it took place?” “Now more than ever it is clear that this White House is not capable of policing itself and needs to open itself to an independent investigation.” Sestak, who had said a job was offered but had provided no details, acknowledged Friday that he had had the conversation with Clinton. He said the former president told him he should stay in the U.S. House and perhaps join a presidential board, either involving intelligence or defense matters to use his background as a Navy officer. Specter declined to comment. Clinton, campaigning in Little Rock, Ark., for Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s re-election bid, ignored reporters’ shouted questions.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Friday salvaged a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to people out of work more than six months and revive tax breaks popular with families and businesses. But spending cuts demanded by Democratic moderates unhappy about voting to increase the deficit will mean layoffs next year by state governments and no health insurance subsidies for people laid off after Memorial Day. The House approved the legislation in a 215-204 vote that capped a turbulent week for Democratic leaders, who were forced to kill $24 billion in aid to cash-starved states and $7 billion for health insurance subsidies for laid-off workers. The programs were created by last year’s economic stimulus bill and Democratic leaders had wanted to extend them. Left standing is the unemployment insurance extension and a grab bag of unfinished business, including numerous spending measures and a renewal of more than 50 tax breaks for individuals and businesses. The legislation, which now faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, spends about $115 billion on tax breaks and spending such as assistance for doctors facing lower Medicare payments, a summer jobs program sought by minority lawmakers and settlements of long-running class-action lawsuits brought against the government by black farmers and American Indians.
Offsetting tax increases such as a new levy on investment and hedge fund managers helped bring the bill’s drag on the federal deficit down to $54 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Despite House action, Democrats will miss a deadline of passing a jobless benefits measure before Memorial Day. The Senate left Washington Friday without acting on the legislation. The extended benefits program for the long-term jobless expires June 2, though the immediate impact will be relatively slight. Still, it’s an embarrassment for Democrats and is the third time this year that the extended unemployment insurance program will have lapsed, though only a small fraction of the 11 million people receiving unemployment benefits have been left in the lurch. President Barack Obama issued a statement praising the measure, but said Congress should restore in future legislation the funding cut from the measure and also pass aid to school districts to help them avert teacher layoffs. But such moves face an uphill road after this week’s events. The weeklong turmoil in the House reflected increasing anxiety among fiscally conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats unhappy about adding to the deficit as the national debt closes in on $13 trillion. A version circulated last week would have added $134 billion to the deficit and was declared dead on arrival by deficit-conscious lawmakers.
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‘Diff’rent Strokes’ star Gary Coleman dies at 42 By JENNIFER DOBNER Associated Press Writer
PROVO, Utah — Gary Coleman, the adorable, pint-sized child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” who spent the rest of his life struggling on Hollywood’s D-list, died Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 42. Coleman was taken off life support and died with family and friends at his side, Coleman Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank said. Best remembered for “Diff’rent Strokes” character Arnold Jackson and his “Whatchu talkin’ ’bout?” catchphrase, Coleman chafed at his permanent association with the show but also tried to capitalize on it through reality shows and other TV appearances. His adult life was marked with legal, financial and health troubles, suicide attempts and even a 2003 run for California governor. “I want to escape that legacy of Arnold Jackson,” he told The New York Times during his gubernatorial run. I’m someone
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In this Nov. 19, 1979 file photo, comedian-actress Lucille Ball, left, poses with actor Gary Coleman during a break in filming “The Lucille Ball Special” in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. more. It would be nice if the world thought of me as something more.” Coleman suffered the brain hemorrhage Wednesday at his Santaquin home, 55 miles south of Salt Lake City. A statement from the family said he was conscious and lucid until midday Thursday, when his condition worsened and he slipped into unconsciousness. Coleman was then placed on life support. “It’s unfortunate. It’s a sad day,” said Todd Bridges,
who played Coleman’s older brother, Willis, on “Diff’rent Strokes.” “Diff’rent Strokes” debuted on NBC in 1978 and drew most of its laughs from Coleman, then a tiny 10-year-old with sparkling eyes and perfect comic timing. He played the younger of two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white man. Race and class relations became topics on the show as much as the typical trials of growing up.
“He was the reason we were such a big hit,” co-star Charlotte Rae, who played the family’s housekeeper on the show, said in an email. “He was the centerpiece and we all surrounded him. He was absolutely enchanting, adorable, funny and filled with joy which he spread around to millions of people all over the world.” “Diff’rent Strokes” lasted six seasons on NBC and two on ABC; it lives on thanks to DVDs and YouTube. But its equally
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enduring legacy became the troubles in adulthood of its former child stars. In 1989, Bridges was acquitted of attempted murder in the shooting of a drug dealer. The then 24-year-old Bridges testified he became depressed and turned to drugs after “Diff’rent Strokes” was canceled. Dana Plato, who played the boys’ white, teenage sister, pleaded guilty in 1991 to a robbery charge. She died in 1999 of an overdose of painkiller and muscle relaxer. The medical examiner’s office ruled the death a suicide. “It’s sad that I’m the last kid alive from the show,” Bridges said. Coleman’s short stature added to his child-star charm but stemmed from a serious health problem, kidney failure. He got his first of at least two transplants at age 5 and required dialysis. Even as an adult, his height reached only 4 feet 8 inches. Coleman was born Feb. 8, 1968, in Zion, Ill., near Chicago. In a 1979 Los Angeles Times profile, his mother, Edmonia Sue Coleman, said he had always been a ham. He acted in some commercials before he was signed by T.A.T., the production company that created “Diff’rent Strokes.” “Gary remembers everything. EVERYTHING,” co-producer and director Herb Kenwith told the newspaper. “His power of concentration is unlike any adult’s I know.”
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Asked by Ebony magazine in 1979 how he learned his lines so easily, young Gary replied, “It’s easy!” After “Diff’rent Strokes” was canceled, Coleman continued to get credits for TV guest shots and other small roles over the years, but he never regained more than a shadow of his old popularity. At one point he worked as a security guard. Coleman played upon his child-star image as he tried to resurrect his entertainment career in recent years, appearing on late-night shows and “The Surreal Life,” a VH1 show devoted to fading celebrities. His role as a car-washing plantation slave in the 2008 conservative political satire “An American Carol” was cut from the final print. The actor also appeared in last year’s “Midgets vs. Mascots,” a film that pits little people against mascots in a series of silly contests for a chance to win $1 million. Coleman met with producers of the film earlier this year to ask them to remove a brief scene of frontal nudity that he says he didn’t authorize. Coleman told The Associated Press in 2001 that he would do a TV series again, but “only under the absolute condition that it be an ensemble cast and that everybody gets a chance to shine.” “I certainly am not going to be the only person on the show working,” he said. “I’ve done that. I didn’t like it.” He also said he preferred earning money from celebrity endorsements. “Now that I’m 33, I can call the shots. ... And if anybody has a problem with that, I guess they don’t have to work with me.” Coleman was among 135 candidates who ran in California’s bizarre 2003 recall election to replace then-Gov. Gray Davis, whom voters ousted in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Coleman, who advocated drastic steps for California’s faltering economy such as lowering income taxes and raising sales tax, came in eighth place with 12,488 votes, or 0.2 percent, just behind Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. Running for office gave him a chance to show another side of himself, he told The Associated Press at the time. “This is really interesting and cool, and I’ve been enjoying the heck out of it because I get to be intelligent, which is something I don’t get to do very often,” he said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — More U.S. military deaths in the last 10 months of the Afghan war than in the first five years of the conflict. More boots on the ground than in Iraq. As the U.S. military death toll in the Afghan conflict reached the 1,000 mark, a fight that has become “Obama’s war” now faces its greatest challenge — a high-risk campaign to win over a hostile population in the Taliban’s southern heartland. More casualties are expected when the campaign kicks into high gear this summer. The results may determine the outcome of a nearly nine-year conflict that has become the focus of America’s fight against Islamist militancy. The 1,000 U.S. military death occurred in a roadside bombing Friday — just before the Memorial Day weekend when America honors the dead in all its wars. A NATO statement did not identify or give the nationality of the victim. U.S. spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks said the trooper was American — the 32nd U.S. war death this month by an Associated Press count. The list of U.S. service members killed in combat in Afghanistan begins with Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman of San Antonio, Texas, a 31-year-old career Special Forces soldier ambushed on Jan. 4, 2002, after attending a meeting with Afghan leaders in Khost province. He left a wife and two children. The base where a suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees last December bears his name.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s most powerful state organ said Friday that South Korea faked the sinking of one of its own warships and warned that the Korean peninsula was edging ever closer to war. Pyongyang has made similar statements through state media since a multinational probe said last week that a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine downed the vessel, killing 46 sailors in the worst attack on the South Korean military since the Korean War. This time, though, the comments were delivered at an extremely rare press conference in the North Korean capital presided over by a uniformed official with the secretive country’s National Defense Commission, which is headed by leader Kim Jong Il. North Korea has denied any responsibility and warned that retaliation or punishment for the sinking would mean armed conflict. So far, it has issued various threats, including one to cut off South Korean access to a joint industrial zone in the North and wage “all-out war.”
ZAPATA, Texas (AP) — The waters of Falcon Lake normally beckon boaters with waterskiing and world-record bass fishing. But this holiday weekend, fishermen on the waters that straddle the U.S.-Mexico border are on the lookout for something more sinister: pirates. Twice in recent weeks, fishermen have been robbed at gunpoint by marauders that the local sheriff says are “spillover” from fighting between rival Mexican drug gangs. Boaters are concerned about their safety, and the president of the local Chamber of Commerce is trying to assure people that everything’s fine on the U.S. side of the lake. At the fishing camp his family has owned for 50 years, Jack Cox now sleeps with a loaded shotgun at his feet and a handgun within reach. In the American waters, Cox said, “you’re safer, but you’re not safe.” Mexican commercial fishermen regularly cross to set their nets illegally, why wouldn’t gunmen do the same? he asked. Two weeks ago, the Texas Department of Public Safety warned boaters to avoid the international boundary that zig-zags through the lake, which is 25 miles long and 3 miles across at its widest point. Authorities also urged anyone on the water to notify relatives of their boating plans to aid law
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Game wardens from Texas Parks and Wildlife patrol the U.S.-Mexico border on Falcon Lake. enforcement in case of trouble. Since issuing the warning, most boats have stayed on the U.S. side. “That’s a good indication. It means they’re getting the message,” Texas Parks and Wildlife Capt. Fernando Cervantes said Thursday as he patrolled with two other game wardens. “They’re still coming out, but they’re not going across.” The border is marked by 14 partially submerged concrete towers that mark the Rio Grande’s path before the lake was created in 1954. Game wardens and the U.S. Border Patrol watch over the lake but do not cross into Mexican waters, and no Mexican law enforcement is visible. Men armed with assault rifles robbed fishermen on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake on April 30 and May 6. They traveled in the low-slung, underpowered commercial Mexican fishing boats that
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are familiar here. They asked for money, drugs and guns, and took what cash was available. No one was hurt. A third incident happened a couple of days before the warning was issued, but Cervantes said the fishermen were able to escape without the thieves boarding their boat. The attacks “were really unusual,” Cervantes said. “We had never seen it, and then they started up.” Violence on the Mexican side of the lake has been climbing for several months. A fractured partnership between the region’s dominant Gulf Cartel and its former enforcers, the Zetas, plunged many of the area’s Mexican border cities into violence. Police stations were attacked, officers killed and rolling gun battles between the gangs and with the Mexican military became commonplace.
“To me, this is spillover violence,” Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. said. “I don’t do the Chamber of Commerce talk. I talk reality.” Still, the sheriff says, boaters should safe provided they stay on the American side. Cox, 81, says it was only a matter of time before the violence from Mexico crept onto the water. And the idea that gunmen looking to score easy cash from fishermen would not cross the lake’s imaginary boundary doesn’t make sense, he said. That perspective is what worries Chamber of Commerce President Paco Mendoza. “What’s keeping our town alive is our lake,” Mendoza said. In recent years, drilling in the county’s oilfields has virtually stopped, and the wells are no longer producing like they once did. In those days, oilfield workers packed Zapata’s restaurants and hotels, he said. So Zapata increasingly looks to the lake for economic growth. Five fishing tournaments are scheduled between now and July, and a few big ones are set for next year. “As far as we know, all of our contracts are still in play,” Mendoza said. Falcon Lake landed on the national map of fishing destinations after the 2008 Bassmaster Elite Series tournament, where bass-fishing world records were broken.
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Attackers strike sect mosques in Pakistan; 80 dead LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Islamist gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets from atop a minaret and took hostages Friday in attacks on two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. At least 80 people were killed and dozens wounded. The strikes — the deadliest against the Ahmadi community — highlight the threat to minority religious groups by the same militants who have repeatedly attacked Pakistan’s U.S.-allied government and threatened to destabilize the nuclear-armed nation. The tactics echoed those militants have used against government, foreign and security targets in Pakistan, but they had never before been directed against a religious minority. Two teams of heavily armed attackers — seven men in total — staged the raids minutes apart, seizing hostages and apparently planning to fight to the death. Three died when they detonated their suicide vests. Two were captured. “It was like a war going on around me. The cries I heard sent chills down my spine,” said Luqman Ahmad, a survivor.
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Reutimann reflects
Sports QUICKREAD
David Reutimann has fond memories of the Coca-Cola 600
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NCHSAA E AST REGIONAL FINAL: LEE COUNTY VS. LANEY
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MOLDER LEADS COLONIAL WHILE LEFTY MISSES CUT FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Bryce Molder shot a careerbest 8-under 62 and leads after two rounds at the Colonial. Molder’s round Friday got him to 13 under. That’s good for a one-stroke lead over first-round co-leader Jason Bohn and two strokes better than Kris Blanks and Brian Davis. Molder had a chance to match the course record of 61, but missed an 8-foot birdie putt at the 18th hole. The 31-year-old Molder, a four-time All-American at Georgia Tech, has split time between the PGA and Nationwide tours since his professional debut in 2002. Phil Mickelson would have overtaken Tiger Woods for the No. 1 spot in the world ranking with a win at Colonial. Lefty instead missed the cut at 4 over despite two days of ideal scoring conditions at Hogan’s Alley. There were 76 players who made the cut, which was a tournament record-low 2 under.
NBA WADE’S COMMENTS ARE FINE BY THE NBA
MIAMI (AP) — The NBA says Dwyane Wade did not break any league tampering rules by saying he wants to talk with other marquee players before deciding whether to stay with the Miami Heat. Under league rules, players cannot tamper with other players, though it’s a given that players talking amongst themselves not only happens, but is impossible to regulate. The NBA only metes out discipline in what it said are “the most egregious” cases, and said Wade’s comments “do not meet that standard.”
NHL CANES SIGN TWO TO 1-YEAR DEALS
RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have signed two players to one-year contracts. The team said Friday it signed forward Jiri Tlusty (YEE’-ree tuhLOO’-stee) and defenseman Jay Harrison. Each player will make $500,000 this season. The Hurricanes acquired the 22-year-old Tlusty from Toronto in December in exchange for the rights to prospect Philippe Paradis. He had one goal and five assists in 18 games with Carolina, and skated in 39 games in the AHL last season. The 27-year-old Harrison had one goal, five assists and 50 penalty minutes in 38 games this season with Carolina.
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Lee County shortstop Alex Furl looks to the umpire for the call during Game 1 of the 4-A East Region Final Series on Friday night in Wilmington.
Down One Laney sets the early tone in East Finals with 11-2 victory over Lee By RYAN SARDA sarda@sanfordherald.com
WILMINGTON — Despite a tough loss, the Lee County Yellow Jackets find themselves in a familiar spot. The Yellow Jackets, who lost 11-2 to Laney in the first game of
Artest late to practice after winner
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Ron Artest had perfect timing in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals — and not so much the next day. Artest was fined by the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday for showing up late to practice a day after his buzzer-beating layup clinched their 103-101 victory over the Phoenix Suns. Lakers coach Phil Jackson said it was an innocent mix-up by the forward, who showed up 30 minutes late. Artest misread the practice starting time on the locker room dry-erase board in the excitement following Thursday’s win. “It was just one of those nights,” said Jackson, who didn’t disclose the amount of the fine. “I think he was just so excited after the game that all that processing and things that were on the board there didn’t all register.” Artest has no track record of showing up late during his first season with Los Angeles, where he’s playing a vital role in the Lakers’ run at another title despite still struggling to fit into Jackson’s triangle offense.
the NCHSAA 4-A East Regional Finals best-of-three series on Friday night, must now win Game 2 of the series in order to keep their magical season alive. “That’s the way it’s been these past few weeks for us,” said Lee County head coach Charlie Spivey. “It’s now a one-game
series. This is nothing new for us. We’ve just got to come out and be ready for Game 2.” The loss snaps Lee County’s eight-game winning streak and now forces the Yellow Jackets to quickly regroup as they prepare
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Strike Zone Game 1 LANEY 11, LEE 2 Saturday Game 2 Laney vs. Lee 11 a.m. Game 3 (if necessary) Lee vs. Laney 2 p.m.
STRASBURG MANIA
Fans look on as Syracuse Chiefs starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg warms up before a Triple-A baseball game against the Toledo Mud Hens on Monday in Syracuse, N.Y. AP photo
A phenomenon unlike any other By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — It didn’t take long to sell all 144 T-shirts emblazoned with Stephen Strasburg’s name. Now here’s the twist. The pitching phenom plays for the TripleA Syracuse Chiefs, and those shirts have “Strasburg” on the back of a faux Washington Nationals’ jersey. But when they sold out, the Chiefs weren’t at home — they were on the
road, playing the Rochester Red Wings. “You’ve never seen it all, but I don’t recall seeing this before,” said Trent Jewett, the Chiefs manager and a veteran of the minor leagues. “I think people are attracted to power, whether it be off the bat or a hand. The fact that he is a down-to-earth, humble, good person is also intriguing to the common man. The true baseball fan appreciates that as well, and the fact that he’s pitching on a
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2B / Saturday, May 29, 2010 / The Sanford Herald UPCOMING
LCPR Registrations taken for summer camps SANFORD — Lee County Parks and Recreation has begun taking registrations for summer camps. San Lee Park is registering for summer camps. There are seven different naturethemed sessions available where campers can experience nature through hands-on activities and crafts. Full and half-day camps are available for girls and boys ages 4-12. For more information, call (919) 776-6221. OT Sloan Pool opens to the public on Saturdays and Sundays only beginning May 29-through-June 13 from 1-5 p.m. Beginning June 15 the pool will be open to the public Tuesdays-Sundays from 1-5 p.m. The fee for public swim is $3 per person. For additional information, call (919) 775-2107, ext. 207.
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SPORTS SCENE
GOLF Quail Ridge offering junior golf camp SANFORD — There is limited space remaining for Quail Ridge Golf Course’s annual junior golf camp on June 21-25. The camp will teach kids ages 9-14 all the aspects of the game of golf, which include putting, chipping, iron play, drivers, sand play, basic rules and etiquette of the sport. The cost of the camp is $75 and includes a snack and lunch each day, prizes and a t-shirt. The camp will last from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. each day. For more information, contact the pro shop at (919) 776-6623.
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David Reutimann speaks as he stands by the Coca-Cola 600 trophy during a news conference at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord on Wednesday.
Reutimann reflects on win CONCORD (AP) — David Reutimann nervously paced pit road last season, praying that the sun would stay away and racing would not resume at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He stood in the rain an agonizing two hours, certain NASCAR would not call the race anytime soon. Sure, the forecast
was bleak, but Reutimann had never been a benefactor of good luck or great timing. “These things don’t ever go our way,” he said to himself. “I don’t know why it should now.” But for the first time in his NASCAR career, Reutimann caught a break. The journeyman driver picked up the only win
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of his Sprint Cup Series career when NASCAR stopped the Coca-Cola 600 last season just past the halfway point. He won it on a gamble: running 14th when the leaders pitted, his crew chief told him to stay out and pray the sky would open up. The decision gave Reutimann the lead for the next five laps, all run under caution. NASCAR then called the cars to pit road for a third rain stoppage, and Reutimann stood by his Toyota the entire time. A year later, as he prepares to defend that victory Sunday, he jokes about how his spot in the record books is viewed. “Like I’m the only guy on the planet that’s ever won a rain-shortened race?” Reutimann said. “It is what it is. You always have that little star beside it. You don’t like it because people look at it different. So it just drives you more to go out there to win it the way you want to win it
to begin with. “Trust me, I didn’t want to win the race that way. It’s just the way it worked out.” The irony that there’s a perceived asterisk next to Reutimann’s name is not lost on the driver or his Michael Waltrip Racing team. No matter how well the 40-year-old driver does, gaining respect and recognition is no easy feat. It drives his bosses at MWR nuts, mostly because they couldn’t be happier with the driver they call “The Franchise.” “It’s so frustrating how little respect he gets,” said MWR general manager Ty Norris. “This is a guy who has run well enough to be eighth in the points right now, and would be, if we hadn’t had engine problems three times, if he hadn’t been caught on pit road when the caution came out at Darlington. He’s really run very well, and he doesn’t get any recognition for it.”
Lee County to hold FUNdamentals camp SANFORD — Lee County’s FUNdamentals basketball camp will be held on June 14-17 in the Lee County High School gymnasium. The skills camp, which will be led by Lee County Yellow Jacket head coach Reggie Peace, will be for boys and girls ages 614. The camp will be held from 9 a.m.-to-noon each day. If interested participants sign up between now and May 31, the cost will be $35. Beginning on June 1, the camp will cost $40. If two or more people from the same household are interested, the camp will cost $35 per person. For more information, contact Peace at (919) 776-7541 ext. 4237.
SWIMMING Sanford Dolphins to hold two camps SANFORD — The Sanford Dolphins Swim Team will be hosting two summer swim camps in June. The first camp runs from 12:30-to-3:45 p.m. from June 14-18 and the second is June 21-25 from 12:30-to-3:45 p.m. The camps will be held at the Sanford Nautilus and refreshments will be provided. Contact coach Mark Kline at (919) 308-6100 for more information or to reserve a spot for your child.
Fast practice run made Newman nervous CONCORD (AP) — Ryan Newman got nervous when he discovered in practice the fastest way around Charlotte Motor Speedway was by hugging the outside wall. The expert qualifier gulped and decided to take the high line on Thursday night. Newman promptly avoided the fence and captured his second straight Coca-Cola 600 pole and the ninth in 19 Sprint Cup races at the track. All it required was what he called “the most courageous lap” he’s run here. He was clocked at 187.546 mph and barely beat out All-Star race winner Kurt Busch, who will start second on Sunday. “I’ve never run into a corner at 200 mph up against the wall and made it stick and still come out the other end,” said Newman, who earned his 46th career pole, but first of the season. “To have the courage to put yourself in that position is tough enough, let alone doing it, pulling it off and winning that pole. I’ve never been a guy to run the wall, let alone in qualifying.” No active driver has
more poles at Charlotte than Newman, who moved within five of David Pearson’s track record. Now he’d like to finally turn it into success in NASCAR’s longest race. Newman has never won a Sprint Cup event at Charlotte. “It’s been easier for me to go out and run one lap and do it fast than it is to go out and run 600 miles fast,” Newman said. “I could do that, it’s just a matter of putting yourself in the track position, putting yourself in the right position, right tires, a good pit crew and things like that.” Newman will have plenty of competition Sunday, with Busch starting next to him. His lap of 187.292 mph came five days after he won the $1 million All-Star race prize. “It’s just a good vibe we have,” Busch said. “Things are going good, and hopefully we can get it put together for the full 600 miles.” Martin Truex Jr. will start third, followed by Kasey Kahne, Jimmie Johnson and defending champion David Reutimann. Denny Hamlin qualified
seventh and Kyle Busch ninth on the same day Hamlin took some verbal jabs at his teammate following their much publicized wreck in the closing laps of the All-Star race. Hamlin and Busch were spotted chatting and smiling on pit road as qualifying wound down. Points leader Kevin Harvick qualified 23rd and Dale Earnhardt Jr. 24th. Reed Sorenson, Max Papis, David Stremme and Mike Bliss failed to make the 43-car field. Lucking out when he drew 25th out of 47 cars in the qualifying order, Newman took to the track after the shadows had engulfed all four turns on a warm day. He noticed in practice that Juan Pablo Montoya was running the fastest times by running on the high side, despite Newman’s success in the past running closer to the apron. “It tells you how much things have changed between the tires, the race track and the cars,” Newman said. “To be able to do something different than I’ve always done to create an ultimate fast lap.”
Sports UConn facing violations
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The NCAA has accused the storied men’s basketball program at the University of Connecticut of eight major rules violations, saying coach Jim Calhoun didn’t do enough to monitor his assistants. The school released its notice of allegation letter Friday following a 15-month investigation into the recruiting of former player Nate Miles. The alleged violations include improper phone calls and text messages to recruits, giving recruits improper benefits and improperly distributing free tickets to high school coaches and others. Calhoun was cited for failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance. “It’s not exactly, certainly anywhere near the high point of my career, as a matter of fact it’s certainly one of the lowest points at any time that you are accused of doing something,” said Calhoun, who has led the Huskies since 1986 and twice guided them to national championships. “It’s a very serious matter.” UConn is to appear before the governing body on Oct. 15 to respond. Attorney Rick Evrard, an outside counsel who advises UConn on NCAA-related matters, said the school likely will spend the next three months reviewing the allegations. He said if the school confirms them, it is obligated to impose its own sanctions.
The Sanford Herald / Saturday, May 29, 2010 / 3B
NBA PLAYOFFS
SPORTS BRIEFS Akron planning day to honor LeBron
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Los Angeles Lakers’ Ron Artest, center, is congratulated by teammates, including Kobe Bryant, second from left, and Pau Gasol, top right, after hitting the game-winning basket against the Phoenix Suns in Game 5 of the NBA basketball Western Conference finals Thursday in Los Angeles.
Confident Nash says Suns will win Game 6 PHOENIX (AP) — Steve Nash says he’s no “Joe Namath who walked in in his fur coat” but the Suns playmaker is not backing away from his post-game promise that Phoenix will beat the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals. Not might win, not try hard to win, not hope to win. “I just said we’re going home and win Game 6 and come back in Game 7,” Nash said after practice on Friday. “Take it how you want to take it.” The Suns didn’t seem devastated by Thursday night’s last-second 103-101 loss in Los Angeles. Quite the opposite. The close call seemed to bolster their belief they can win this series, even though the Lakers are up 3-2 and can advance to the NBA finals for the third straight year with a victory in Phoenix on Saturday
night. “There’s some really good things that we did last night, some things to build on,” the Suns’ Grant Hill said. “I think the main thing is the confidence that we can beat this team. Obviously we’ve done it twice, and we’ve got to try to do it twice more.” Nash’s assurance may not have packed the flamboyance of Namath’s famous guarantee that his huge underdog New York Jets would beat Baltimore in the Super Bowl, but it was enough to rile Game 5 hero Ron Artest. “That’s like no respect for us. There’s no respect. That’s how it’s been for a long time this season. I’m sure we’ll talk about it,” Artest said before the Lakers left Los Angeles on Friday. “Coaches have no respect for the Lakers at all. They have no respect for me. The players don’t respect
— a lot of the guys don’t respect. ... I’m sure Kobe heard that (what Nash said), and I’m sure he’ll do his part tomorrow.” Artest’s comments came after he was fined for showing up late for practice on Friday. Phoenix rallied from 18 down in the second half to tie at 101-101 when Jason Richardson banked in a 3-pointer with 3.5 seconds to play. The Lakers pulled it out when Kobe Bryant threw up an air ball and Artest hustled to retrieve it, then banked in a shot at the buzzer. “It was a great moment for him, for our team,” the Lakers’ Derek Fisher said. “Ron has really sacrificed a lot for our team. He’s a big part of our team. A lot of things he does go unnoticed on the stat sheet, but he’s committed to doing one thing, and that’s helping us win.”
FRENCH OPEN
Sharapova, Henin advance
PARIS (AP) — Maria Sharapova and Justine Henin set up a third-round showdown at the French Open on Friday by winning matches suspended overnight because of darkness. Sharapova finished off Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-3, 6-3, and fourtime champion Henin beat Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-3. A schedule backlog caused by rain created a parade of champions on the sixth day of the tournament. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Venus and Serena Williams were among those who advanced, while defending women’s champion Svetlana Kuznetsova was upset by fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko. Now the champions start playing each other. Henin has a 6-3 record against Sharapova. “We’ve had some great matches in the past,” Sharapova said. “I’ve had some tough losses and great wins. I look forward to this one.” The Russian won their most recent meeting in the quarterfinals of the 2008 Australian Open. That was Henin’s last Grand Slam match before she retired. Now the Belgian is mounting a career comeback and playing at Roland Garros for the first time since 2007. “It’s going to be an interesting match,” Henin said. “Comes very early, of course, third round, but I expect a big fight as we always had in the past. It’s going to be very exciting to play her again in the sec-
ond career. The motivation is going to be really high just to keep going in this tournament.” Henin, seeded 22nd, has French Open winning streaks of 23 matches and 39 sets. The No. 12-seeded Sharapova is seeking the only Grand Slam title she has yet to win, and she said she’s becoming more comfortable on clay. “I really do enjoy it,” the Russian said. “I’ve learned a lot playing on it the last few years. It doesn’t affect me as it did many years ago, because I knew I couldn’t last quite as long as I feel that I can now.” Venus Williams reached the fourth round at Roland Garros for the first time since 2006 by beating No. 26 Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-3, 6-4. Once again wearing the lacy
corset that has created the tournament’s biggest buzz, Williams hit six aces and lost only four points on her first serve. Serena and Venus are seeded 1-2 and wouldn’t meet until the final. Venus again wore the black lacy corset that has created the tournament’s biggest buzz, and she said she’ll retire the outfit after the tournament.
“I may be wearing all the same boring underclothes as the other people,” said Williams, who designed the corset. “I mean, as great as the design is, I really want the focus to be on the tennis. So obviously wearing lace on the court will still be an amazing innovation, but I’ll have to find a way to try to make it a little less noteworthy.”
CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James, Akron’s greatest export this side of rubber tires, is being honored with an event in his hometown. The NBA’s two-time MVP will be recognized on June 19 at “LeBron Appreciation Day” in the University of Akron’s InfoCision Stadium. The celebration is aimed at convincing James to re-sign with the Cavaliers in July, when he is eligible to become a free agent. Akron community and civic leaders, including Mayor Don Plusquellic, are scheduled to participate in the free event for James with a goal “to bring together as many people as possible to send a unified message of support to our hometown hero LeBron James.” It is not yet known if James will attend. The 25-year-old James will hold his annual bike-a-thon in Akron in August.
Pittsburgh and Calgary get next outdoor games CHICAGO (AP) — Sid the Kid will take his skates outside for a day in Pittsburgh next season, and Calgary will host game in the elements too. Commissioner Gary Bettman announced Friday that the Penguins will host the Washington Capitals at Heinz Field on New Year’s Day, the fourth installment of the Winter Classic. Sidney Crosby’s team played the Sabres in Buffalo in the first edition. Also, Bettman said the Flames are expected to host the Montreal Canadiens at McMahon Stadium on Feb. 20. Montreal played the Oilers in Edmonton in the 2003 Heritage Classic, the league’s first outdoor regular-season game.
AP Source: West, Guillen and Buehrle fined by MLB NEW YORK (AP) — Umpire Joe West, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and pitcher Mark Buehrle have been fined by Major League Baseball for their recent balk flap. A person familiar with the decision tells The Associated Press that there weren’t any suspensions. The amount of the fines imposed Friday was not known. Guillen and Buehrle were ejected by West on Wednesday for arguing a pair of balk calls in Chicago’s 5-4 win over Cleveland. Guillen was tossed for arguing the first balk. An inning later, Buehrle threw his glove to the ground after another balk call and had to be restrained.
Guillen later unleashed a profanity-filled tirade about West. The White Sox were in Tampa Bay on Friday night, but Guillen was away from the team to attend his son’s high school graduation.
Ortiz, Cano among the mourners at Jose Lima’s wake NEW YORK (AP) — All-Stars David Ortiz and Robinson Cano are among the many mourners who have come to honor former big league pitcher Jose Lima. A wake for Lima was held Friday in New York. The Queens funeral home is about a mile from where Lima threw his final pitch in the majors in 2006 for the Mets. Lima died last Sunday in California at age 37. Paramedics found him in cardiac arrest. A funeral is planned for Saturday at the stadium where he played in his native Dominican Republic.
Pujols, Carpenter lead Cards to 7-1 win over Cubs
CHICAGO (AP) — Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina each drove in a pair of runs, Chris Carpenter pitched into the seventh inning and the St. Louis Cardinals rolled to a 7-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday. Ryan Ludwick hit a two-run homer and Colby Rasmus also drove in a run for the Cardinals, who knocked Cubs starter Randy Wells (3-3) from the game after only 16 pitches. Wells allowed five runs on six hits without retiring a batter, and St. Louis sent nine batters to the plate before reliever James Russell finally got out of the inning.
Seahawks abruptly waive RB White
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seahawks unexpectedly waived running back LenDale White on Friday just weeks after the splashy draft-day trade that brought him to Seattle from Tennessee. “It became apparent at this time that LenDale was not ready to be a member of the Seattle Seahawks,” general manager John Schneider said. He did not elaborate. NFL Network, citing unnamed sources, reported Friday that White was “likely” facing a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s drug policy. “We have not announced any such suspension,” league spokesman Greg Aiello told The Associated Press on Friday night. “I have no other information on it.”
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MLB Standings Tampa Bay New York Boston Toronto Baltimore
W 33 28 27 27 15
L 15 19 22 22 33
Minnesota Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland
W 27 25 20 20 17
L 20 21 27 28 28
Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle
W 26 25 23 18
L 21 23 26 28
Philadelphia Atlanta New York Florida Washington
W 26 25 25 24 24
L 20 22 23 24 24
Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Milwaukee Houston
W 28 28 23 20 19 16
L 20 21 26 28 28 31
San Diego Los Angeles Colorado San Francisco Arizona
W 28 26 25 24 20
L 19 21 22 22 28
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AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .688 — — 1 — .596 4 ⁄2 1 .551 6 ⁄2 2 .551 61⁄2 2 .313 18 131⁄2 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .574 — — 21⁄2 .543 11⁄2 .426 7 8 .417 71⁄2 81⁄2 .378 9 10 West Division Pct GB WCGB .553 — — 1 1 .521 1 ⁄2 3 ⁄2 .469 4 6 .391 71⁄2 91⁄2 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division Pct GB WCGB .565 — — 1 2 .532 1 ⁄2 .521 2 21⁄2 .500 3 31⁄2 .500 3 31⁄2 Central Division Pct GB WCGB .583 — — 1 .571 ⁄2 — .469 51⁄2 5 .417 8 71⁄2 1 .404 8 ⁄2 8 .340 111⁄2 11 West Division Pct GB WCGB .596 — — .553 2 1 .532 3 2 1 1 .522 3 ⁄2 2 ⁄2 1 .417 8 ⁄2 71⁄2
AMERICAN LEAGUE Thursday’s Games Oakland 7, Baltimore 5 Tampa Bay 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Kansas City 4, Boston 3 Minnesota 8, N.Y. Yankees 2 Friday’s Games Cleveland at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Oakland at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Kansas City at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Texas at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m. Seattle at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. Saturday’s Games Cleveland (D.Huff 2-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-3), 1:05 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 0-0) at Toronto (Cecil 4-2), 1:07 p.m. Seattle (Snell 0-3) at L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 4-2), 4:05 p.m. Texas (C.Wilson 3-2) at Minnesota (Pavano 4-5), 4:10 p.m. Oakland (Bre.Anderson 1-1) at Detroit (Porcello 4-4), 7:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Danks 4-3) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 4-4), 7:10 p.m. Kansas City (Greinke 1-5) at Boston (Buchholz 6-3), 7:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games Cleveland at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. Oakland at Detroit, 1:05 p.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 1:07 p.m. Kansas City at Boston, 1:35 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m. Seattle at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m. Texas at Minnesota, 8:05 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Thursday’s Games
RACING L10 6-4 4-6 8-2 4-6 3-7
Str W-1 L-1 L-1 L-2 L-2
Home 14-10 13-6 14-12 11-11 9-14
Away 19-5 15-13 13-10 16-11 6-19
L10 4-6 5-5 5-5 6-4 2-8
Str W-1 L-2 L-1 W-2 L-1
Home 15-9 14-6 11-13 9-14 8-14
Away 12-11 11-15 9-14 11-14 9-14
L10 6-4 7-3 5-5 4-6
Str L-1 W-2 W-2 W-2
Home 18-9 18-9 14-12 12-13
Away 8-12 7-14 9-14 6-15
L10 3-7 7-3 7-3 4-6 4-6
Str L-5 W-2 W-5 L-2 L-1
Home 13-10 13-6 19-9 13-12 14-10
Away 13-10 12-16 6-14 11-12 10-14
L10 6-4 6-4 6-4 4-6 4-6 3-7
Str W-2 W-2 L-1 L-2 W-1 L-1
Home 17-10 15-8 13-12 11-12 6-15 9-18
Away 11-10 13-13 10-14 9-16 13-13 7-13
L10 6-4 6-4 6-4 3-7 5-5
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Away 14-9 11-13 11-15 9-13 9-16
Milwaukee 4, Houston 3, 10 innings Chicago Cubs 1, L.A. Dodgers 0 Colorado 8, Arizona 2 San Francisco 5, Washington 4 St. Louis 8, San Diego 3 Atlanta 8, Florida 3 N.Y. Mets 3, Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 8, Pittsburgh 2 Friday’s Games St. Louis 7, Chicago Cubs 1 Houston at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Florida, 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 9:10 p.m. Washington at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Saturday’s Games St. Louis (Undecided) at Chicago Cubs (Silva 6-0), 4:10 p.m. Houston (Moehler 0-1) at Cincinnati (Harang 3-5), 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Nieve 1-2) at Milwaukee (M.Parra 1-3), 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Halladay 6-3) at Florida (Jo.Johnson 5-1), 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Burres 2-2) at Atlanta (Medlen 1-1), 7:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 5-2) at Colorado (Cook 1-3), 8:10 p.m. Washington (Martin 0-0) at San Diego (Latos 4-3), 8:35 p.m. Arizona (Buckner 0-2) at San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-4), 9:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Houston at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Florida, 1:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 3:10 p.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Washington at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.
MLB Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—Guzman, Washington, .327; Braun, Milwaukee, .322; McGehee, Milwaukee, .315; Tulowitzki, Colorado, .314; Prado, Atlanta, .313; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, .313; Freese, St. Louis, .313; CGonzalez, Colorado, .313. RUNS—Kemp, Los Angeles, 38; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 37; Braun, Milwaukee, 36; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 34; Uggla, Florida, 34; Utley, Philadelphia, 34; Prado, Atlanta, 33; Reynolds, Arizona, 33. RBI—McGehee, Milwaukee, 41; Reynolds, Arizona, 39; Ethier, Los Angeles, 38; CYoung, Arizona, 37; Cantu, Florida, 36; Heyward, Atlanta, 35; Pujols, St. Louis, 34. HITS—Prado, Atlanta, 62; Braun, Milwaukee, 59; Theriot, Chicago, 58; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 57; McGehee, Milwaukee, 56; Polanco, Philadelphia, 56; Byrd, Chicago, 55; Howard, Philadelphia, 55; Pujols, St. Louis, 55; HRamirez, Florida, 55. DOUBLES—Werth, Philadelphia, 22; Byrd, Chicago, 16; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 16; Keppinger, Houston, 15; ASoriano, Chicago, 15; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 15; 5 tied at 14. TRIPLES—AEscobar, Milwaukee, 5; Morgan, Washington, 5; Victorino, Philadelphia, 5; Bay, New York, 4; SDrew, Arizona, 4; Venable, San Diego, 4; 7 tied at 3. HOME RUNS—KJohnson, Arizona, 12; Reynolds, Arizona, 12; Uggla, Florida, 12; Ethier, Los Angeles, 11; Rolen, Cincinnati, 11; Barajas, New York, 10; Dunn, Washington, 10; Utley, Philadelphia, 10; Votto, Cincinnati, 10. STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 16; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 12; Venable, San Diego, 12; JosReyes, New York, 11; Stubbs, Cincinnati, 11; Braun, Milwaukee, 10; Headley, San Diego, 9; Morgan, Washington, 9; Theriot, Chicago, 9; Victorino, Philadelphia, 9. PITCHING—Jimenez, Colorado, 9-1; Pelfrey, New York, 7-1; Clippard, Washington, 7-3; 8 tied at 6. STRIKEOUTS—Lincecum, San Francisco, 80; Haren, Arizona, 76; Oswalt, Houston, 69; Wainwright, St. Louis, 69; Carpenter, St. Louis, 66; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 66; Dempster, Chicago, 65. SAVES—Capps, Washington, 16; Cordero, Cincinnati, 15; HBell, San Diego, 13; BrWilson, San Francisco, 12; Marmol, Chicago, 11; Broxton, Los Angeles, 11; Franklin, St. Louis, 10; Lindstrom, Houston, 10; Dotel, Pittsburgh, 10.
AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Morneau, Minnesota, .377; Butler, Kansas City, .348; Cano, New York, .342; Beltre, Boston, .339; Guerrero, Texas, .339; Mauer, Minnesota, .338; ISuzuki, Seattle, .335; AJackson, Detroit, .335. RUNS—Youkilis, Boston, 43; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 36; OHudson, Minnesota, 35; Andrus, Texas, 34; JBautista, Toronto, 34; Gardner, New York, 34; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 34; Span, Minnesota, 34. RBI—Guerrero, Texas, 42; MiCabrera, Detroit, 40; JBautista, Toronto, 39; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 39; Morneau, Minnesota, 35; Beltre, Boston, 34; NCruz, Texas, 34; KMorales, Los Angeles, 34. HITS—Butler, Kansas City, 65; ISuzuki, Seattle, 64; Cano, New York, 63; AJackson, Detroit, 62; Beltre, Boston, 61; Guerrero, Texas, 61; Morneau, Minnesota, 61; MYoung, Texas, 61. DOUBLES—VWells, Toronto, 17; AleGonzalez, Toronto, 16; BAbreu, Los Angeles, 15; Butler, Kansas City, 15; MiCabrera, Detroit, 15; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 15; Morneau, Minnesota, 15; Pedroia, Boston, 15. TRIPLES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 4; AJackson, Detroit, 3; AdJones, Baltimore, 3; Maier, Kansas City, 3; Span, Minnesota, 3; Youkilis, Boston, 3; 21 tied at 2. HOME RUNS—JBautista, Toronto, 15; Konerko, Chicago, 14; Wigginton, Baltimore, 13; Guerrero, Texas, 12; JGuillen, Kansas City, 11; Morneau, Minnesota, 11; VWells, Toronto, 11. STOLEN BASES—RDavis, Oakland, 18; Pierre, Chicago, 18; Andrus, Texas, 17; Gardner, New York, 17; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 15; Podsednik, Kansas City, 15; Rios, Chicago, 15. PITCHING—Price, Tampa Bay, 7-1; Pettitte, New York, 6-1; Blackburn, Minnesota, 6-1; Buchholz, Boston, 6-3; Talbot, Cleveland, 6-3; 12 tied at 5. STRIKEOUTS—Lester, Boston, 72; RRomero, Toronto, 72; JShields, Tampa Bay, 71; JerWeaver, Los Angeles, 68; Morrow, Toronto, 65; ESantana, Los Angeles, 62; Verlander, Detroit, 59; Liriano, Minnesota, 59. SAVES—NFeliz, Texas, 13; RSoriano, Tampa Bay, 13; Soria, Kansas City, 12; Gregg, Toronto, 12; Valverde, Detroit, 11; Papel-
NASCAR-Sprint Cup-Coca-Cola 600 Lineup By The Associated Press After Thursday qualifying; race Sunday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord Lap length: 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 187.546 mph. 2. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 187.292. 3. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 187.188. 4. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 187.169. 5. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 186.974. 6. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 186.825. 7. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 186.767. 8. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 186.728. 9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 186.528. 10. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 186.053. 11. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 186.021. 12. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 185.803. 13. (83) Casey Mears, Toyota, 185.535. 14. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 185.459. 15. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 185.452. 16. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 185.052. 17. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 184.932. 18. (43) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, 184.906. 19. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 184.856. 20. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 184.634. 21. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 184.609. 22. (36) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 184.464. 23. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 184.407. 24. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 184.344. 25. (21) Bill Elliott, Ford, 184.344. 26. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 184.326. 27. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 184.181. 28. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, 184.093. 29. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 184.049. 30. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 184.037. 31. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 183.949. 32. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 183.855. 33. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 183.586. 34. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 183.542. 35. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 183.306. 36. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 183.281. 37. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 182.599. 38. (71) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 182.562. 39. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, Owner Points. 40. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, Owner Points. 41. (38) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Owner Points. 42. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points. 43. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 183.243. Failed to Qualify 44. (32) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 183.125. 45. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 182.902. 46. (26) David Stremme, Ford, 182.673. 47. (09) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 182.469.
TENNIS French Open Results By The Associated Press Friday At Stade Roland Garros Paris Purse: $21.1 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Men Second Round Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, def. Kei Nishikori, Japan, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.
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for Game 2, which is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday. If a third game is played, it will be played approximately one hour following Game 2-’s conclusion. The winner of the series will represent the East region in the upcoming 4-A State Championship. “We’ve got to just focus on the second game and not even worry about the third game right now,” said Spivey. Laney, the fourth seed out of the Mideastern Conference, got on the board first in the bottom of the first with a two-run home run from pitcher Dallas Perdue. The Buccaneers (18-7) added three more runs in the second inning to build a 5-1 cushion. In the fifth inning, Laney built its lead to 11-2 thanks to five runs. The Yellow Jackets went through five pitchers in the game. Sophomore lefty Nick Durazo started and was relieved after two innings. He struck out two and allowed five runs in his work. Spivey also went with Russell Clark, Tyler Castleberry, Chase Arrington and Garrett Verrilli, who all made their first postseason appearances on the mound. “We didn’t play that bad,” said Spivey. “We
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Sports on TV Saturday, May 29 AUTO RACING 7 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Turkish Grand Prix, at Istanbul 9:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, pole qualifying for Tech-Net Auto Service 300, at Concord, N.C. 11:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Coca-Cola 600, at Concord, N.C. 12:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, “Happy Hour Series,” final practice for Coca-Cola 600, at Concord, N.C. 2:30 p.m. ABC — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Tech-Net Auto Service 300, at Concord, N.C. COLLEGE SOFTBALL Noon ESPN — NCAA Division I, super regionals, Athens (Ga.) regional, game 2, California at Geprgia 2:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I, super regionals, Columbia (Mo.) regional, game 1, Oregoin at Missouri 5 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I, super regionals, Tuscaloosa (Ala.) regional, game 2, Hawaii at Alabama 7:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I, super regionals, Gainesville (Fla.) regional, game 1, Arziona St. at Florida 9 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I, super regionals, Los Angeles regional, game 1, Louisiana-Lafayette at UCLA GOLF 9 a.m.
TGC — European PGA Tour, Madrid Masters, third round, at Madrid 1 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Crowne Plaza Invitational, third round, at Fort Worth, Texas 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, Crowne Plaza Invitational, third round, at Fort Worth, Texas NBC — PGA of America, Senior PGA Championship, third round, at Parker, Colo. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 4 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, Texas at Minnesota, or Seattle at L.A. Angels MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE 4 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, semifinal, teams TBD, at Baltimore 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, semifinal, teams TBD, at Baltimore NBA BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, Western Conference Finals, game 6, L.A. Lakers at Phoenix (if necessary) NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. NBC — Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals, game 1, Philadelphia at Chicago SOCCER 1:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Men’s national teams, exhibition, U.S. vs. Turkey, at Philadelphia TENNIS Noon NBC — French Open, early round, at Paris (same-day tape)
Transactions Friday’s Sports Transactions By The Associated Press BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Fined Tampa Bay OF Carl Crawford and manager Joe Maddon undisclosed amounts for game ejections during a May 25 game against Boston. American League BOSTON RED SOX—Placed OF Jacoby Ellsbury on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Scott Atchison from Pawtucket (IL). DETROIT TIGERS—Reinstated OF Carlos Guillen from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Danny Worth to Toledo (IL).
National League CINCINNATI REDS—Called up RHP Sam LeCure from Louisville (IL). Optioned RHP Enerio Del Rosario to Louisville. HOUSTON ASTROS—Placed RHP Bud Norris on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Gustavo Chacin and LHP Wesley Wright from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned INF Oswaldo Navarro to Round Rock. MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Recalled OF Adam Stern from Nashville (PCL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Placed RHP Charlie Morton on the 15-day DL. Selected RHP Steven Jackson from Indianapolis (IL).
Jurgen Melzer (22), Austria, def. Nicolas Mahut, France, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4. David Ferrer (9), Spain, def. Xavier Malisse, Belgium, 6-2, 6-2, 2-0, retired. Lleyton Hewitt (28), Australia, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Nicolas Almagro (19), Spain, def. Steve Darcis, Belgium, 6-3, 6-0, 7-5. Aleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., Ukraine, def. Fernando Gonzalez (12), Chile, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Victor Hanescu (31), Romania, def. Yuri Schukin, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Philipp Kohlschreiber (30), Germany, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 7-5. Thomaz Bellucci (24), Brazil, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 1-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2. Robby Ginepri, United States, def. Potito Starace, Italy, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Juan Carlos Ferrero (16), Spain, def. Pere Riba, Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (13), 6-2, 6-2. Fernando Verdasco (7), Spain, def. Florent Serra, France, 6-2, 6-2, 0-6, 6-4. Ivan Ljubicic (14), Croatia, def. Mardy Fish, United States, 6-2, 6-7 (8), 4-6, 6-2, 10-8. Third Round Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, def. Julian Reister, Germany, 6-4, 6-0, 6-4. Andy Murray (4), Britain, def. Marcos Baghdatis (25), Cyprus, 6-2, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Stanislas Wawrinka (20), Switzerland, def. Fabio Fognini, Italy, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. Tomas Berdych (15), Czech Republic, def. John Isner (17), United States, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (8), France, def. Thiemo de Bakker, Netherlands, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4. Robin Soderling (5), Sweden, def. Albert Montanes (29), Spain, 6-4, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3. Marin Cilic (10), Croatia, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4. Mikhail Youzhny (11), Russia, leads Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 3-1, susp., darkness. Women Second Round Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-1, 6-1. Anastasia Pivovarova, Russia, def. Zheng Jie (25), China, 6-4, 6-3. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (29), Russia, def. Jill Craybas, United States, 6-4, 6-1. Justine Henin (22), Belgium, def. Klara Zakopalova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-3. Marion Bartoli (13), France, def. Olivia Sanchez, France, 7-5, 6-2. Maria Sharapova (12), Russia, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-3, 6-3. Daniela Hantuchova (23), Slovakia, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 7-5, 6-3. Yanina Wickmayer (16), Belgium, def. Sybille Bammer, Austria, 7-6 (4), 1-6, 7-5. Sam Stosur (7), Australia, def. Rossana de los Rios, Paraguay, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0. Third Round Venus Williams (2), United States, def. Dominika Cibulkova (26), Slovakia, 6-3, 6-4. Caroline Wozniacki (3), Denmark, def. Alexandra Dulgheru (31), Romania, 6-3, 6-4. Flavia Pennetta (14), Italy, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-3, 6-0. Chanelle Scheepers, South Africa, def. Akgul Amanmuradova, Uzbekistan, 6-3, 6-3. Francesca Schiavone (17), Italy, def. Li Na (11), China, 6-4, 6-2. Maria Kirilenko (30), Russia, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (6), Russia, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. Elena Dementieva (5), Russia, def. Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4. Aravane Rezai (15), France, vs. Nadia Petrova (19), Russia, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-7, susp., darkness.
stage that’s not the biggest stage.” A 6-foot-4, 220-pound right-hander with a 100 mph fastball and command of a repertoire of other offerings, Strasburg has had an effect like no other in these parts. The national media are tracking his every move in Triple-A ball and big crowds have jammed the turnstiles almost every time he’s taken the mound. That he’s never thrown a pitch in the majors doesn’t seem to matter, partly because he’s been so dominant. In four starts for Syracuse, Strasburg is 3-0 with a 0.39 ERA and has allowed just nine hits and struck out 27 against four walks in 23 1-3 innings. In two of his International League starts at home for the Chiefs, the Nationals’ top minor league affiliate, Strasburg has attracted the biggest baseball crowds in the history of this city — 13,766 for his Triple-A debut on May 7 and 13,288 on Monday night.
BASKETBALL NBA Playoff Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE CONFERENCE FINALS Boston 3, Orlando 2 Sunday, May 16: Boston 92, Orlando 88 Tuesday, May 18: Boston 95, Orlando 92 Saturday, May 22: Boston 94, Orlando 71 Monday, May 24: Orlando 96, Boston 92, OT Wednesday, May 26: Orlando 113, Boston 92 Friday, May 28: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 30: Boston at Orlando, 8:30 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Lakers 3, Phoenix 2 Monday, May 17: L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107 Wednesday, May 19: L.A. Lakers 124, Phoenix 112 Sunday, May 23: Phoenix 118, L.A. Lakers 109 Tuesday, May 25: Phoenix 115, L.A. Lakers 106 Thursday, May 27: L.A. Lakers 103, Phoenix 101 Saturday, May 29: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. x-Monday, May 31: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.
HOCKEY NHL Playoff Glance STANLEY CUP FINALS Philadelphia vs. Chicago Saturday, May 29: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m. Monday, May 31: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 2: Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. Friday, June 4: Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. x-Sunday, June 6: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, June 9: Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. x-Friday, June 11: Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m.
GOLF Colonial Invitational Scores By The Associated Press Friday At Colonial Country Club Fort Worth, Texas Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,204; Par 70 Second Round Bryce Molder 65-62 Jason Bohn 63-65 Brian Davis 64-65 Kris Blanks 65-64 Jeff Overton 63-67 Boo Weekley 67-63 Corey Pavin 67-64 John Mallinger 65-66 Carl Pettersson 65-66 Zach Johnson 65-66 John Merrick 66-66 Ben Crane 68-64 Kenny Perry 68-64 Ricky Barnes 66-66 Bo Van Pelt 67-66 Aron Price 65-68
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just didn’t pitch well. We got behind early and we just couldn’t stop the bleeding. We played a good club and when we got behind there just was no coming back from it. The hits were there and we made some good plays defensively, we just didn’t pitch well.” To solve that problem, Spivey is going with ace Dillon Frye on the mound for the second game. Frye, who will be pitching on just three days rest, has thrown a complete game in each of his last three postseason starts. “He said he felt good earlier today, so we’re going to go with him,” said Spivey. “We’re hoping he can get us some big innings. Offensively, though, we’ve got to continue swinging the bat and hitting the ball well.” The Yellow Jackets (16-11) got on the board in the second inning thanks to an RBI single from Cody Palmer, which scored Chris Thompson from second. In the third inning, Julio Parades hit his first home run of the postseason on a solo shot for the only other run of the game for Lee County. The Buccaneers were led by Corbin Bednarczyk, who was 3-for-3 with a double and two singles. He also scored two runs for Laney. Luke Tandler, a signee of North Carolina A&T, hit a two-run homer in the fifth and was 1-for-3.
That’s more heads than Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, or Curt Schilling ever drew when they breezed through town. “He’s extremely unusual. We’ve seen a lot of pro players come through here, but he’s extremely unique,” Nicki Macallair, clad in one of those bright red Strasburg T-shirts, said Monday night as she watched him warm up before a game against Toledo. “He’s going to go down in the record books. “I came this morning to go to the souvenir shop,” Macallair said of a trip to buy five of the shirts to give to family members. “I went to customer service and the girl took me upstairs and unlocked it so I could get the shirts.” A two-time All-American at San Diego State and the top pick of the 2009 draft, Strasburg has been magic. On a night last week when the Nationals drew just over 19,000 at home, Strasburg attracted 12,590 fans to Frontier Field in Rochester. That was nearly 8,000 more people than the Red Wings had averaged at home this season. “We’re all fortunate to
watch somebody of that caliber pitch no matter where it is,” Jewett said. “Whatever he brings that intrigues people, I certainly understand it. There’s a lot to it, and they’re taking advantage of an opportunity.” It’s a see-him-nowbecause-he’s-not-going-to-be-here-very-long mentality. “I’ve never experienced this for a minor league player before. I don’t think anybody has,” said Chiefs general manager John Simone, whose family has operated the franchise for decades. “Maybe when Michael Jordan played. This guy is building a name. It’s like a train.” The jammed parking lots outside the ballparks are a testament. “I watched him on TV the other night. I’m just amazed how fast he’s throwing and it almost seems effortless,” said 52year-old Ed Ragonese of Baldwinsville, who had a prime seat Monday night along the third-base line. “When am I going to get a chance to see somebody like this live and in person? I wanted to make sure I got to one of the games that he was in.”
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DEAR ABBY
BRIDGE HAND
Sisters clash over homework help for struggling boyfriend
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Happy Birthday: Uncertainty may block your vision and lead you down the wrong path. Question whatever you don’t understand. This is not the year to take a chance or assume that things will get done to your specification if you don’t oversee every little detail. Control and contribute and you will achieve. Your numbers are 7, 13, 19, 25, 29, 31, 47 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Success is within reach. Don’t let a personal obligation interfere with your plans. You have to put your own needs and goals first. A jealous friend or lover may be threatened by your accomplishments. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A chance to win something or come into unexpected cash is possible. A life-altering experience will have both positive and negative effects on the way you do things in the future. A love interest or someone you are close to will be your guiding light. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Bring an emotional matter out into the open so you know where you stand and can make a better decision. Make sure you don’t send the wrong message. Complications will develop if you are indulgent or overreact. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Take a closer look at your most recent plans and you can start to lay the foundation for an exciting project. A little extra work now will ensure your success later on. An opening you’ve been waiting for will finally come through. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take on a challenge that will allow you to show off your talents and skills. An unusual offer could very well lead to a profitable endeavor. Charm and diplomacy will work wonders. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You will feel as if you are being used up if you
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continue to do too much for others. Let everyone take care of whatever responsibilities are given. You need to form relationships based on equality. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will be forced to make changes if you procrastinate. Problems with a relationship can be expected if you ignore the real issues. Living a lie will only prolong the inevitable. Talk openly and honestly. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Opportunity awaits you; prepare to make gains. Business trips will pay off. Romance is in the stars and, if you mix business with pleasure, you will be in a winning situation on both counts. You can enhance both personal and professional associations. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): The changes that take place in the relationships you have with friends, relatives or neighbors will set the stage for what’s to come. It’s important that you recognize who is with you and who isn’t. Express the way you feel if you want to avoid an unsavory encounter. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll feel emotional regarding personal issues that arise. Make your home one of comfort and relaxation. You need to get rid of any stress. A relationship will be intense and the action you take will determine how things will turn out. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Watch what everyone else is doing and you will have a better idea how to proceed. Stick to the rules. Ask questions and show interest in what others are doing. Being agreeable will help you acquire allies. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Once you know where you stand, you will be less inclined to overspend. Playing it safe financially may not be your style but, for now, it’s the best route. Romance is highlighted. Put your time and energy into love.
DEAR ABBY: I’m an “A” student, but my boyfriend, “Rory,” has a difficult time in school, so he often comes over for help. We work at the computer in the room my sister and I share so she listens to everything we discuss. She says we are cheating because I’m doing most of his homework for him. I don’t give Rory the answers to questions, but I do give him “hints” and tell him where he’s likely to find the answers in the textbooks. I always check that the answers are correct. With his math homework, I tell him each step he needs to take, but he actually does the math himself and then I check for accuracy. If he needs to write an essay, I suggest what he might want to write and help him with some of the edits. My sister thinks what I do goes far beyond help, and that I’m enabling him to cheat. She feels that while it may help his grades now, I am doing him no favors in the long run. We had a big argument over this. I don’t think it’s any of her business. I’d really appreciate your opinion. — HELPING OR CHEATING? SACRAMENTO, CALIF. DEAR HELPING: Thank you for asking. I’m sure you care deeply for Rory, but sometimes -- with the best of intentions -- a person can do too much. When you suggest topics for your boyfriend’s essays, then edit them so the teacher won’t see where he needs to strengthen
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his English skills, what you’re really doing is preventing him from learning how to properly spell or construct a sentence. And when you’re no longer around to be his filter, it’s going to become apparent. The same goes for math. If you tell Rory what steps to take to solve his math problems, he won’t master the concepts or memorize the formulas. Heaven help him if he plans to take a college entrance exam! While the argument you had with your sister was regrettable, please try not to be so defensive. She was trying to tell you something important, and it couldn’t hurt to really listen. o DEAR ABBY: I’m a 13-year-old girl in junior high. I am very shy and self-conscious. When I see skinny girls, I look at myself and
feel embarrassed or ashamed. I have a lot of friends who support me. They say I shouldn’t worry about my weight and that I don’t need to lose any more. I would like some words of encouragement from you. It seems like nothing can stop the way I feel. I have a boyfriend, but our relationship is long-distance. We talk online and he is as supportive as he can be, but I still feel self-conscious. Please help me with this. — TEEN IN NEED IN NORTH CAROLINA DEAR TEEN: The harder we stare at our imagined flaws, the bigger they become. So please stop constantly comparing yourself to others. It’s a depressing waste of time. Very few people are completely confident and self-assured at 13, and there are more important qualities to focus on in life than whatever happens to be the ideal of physical perfection at the moment. Your time would be better spent developing qualities that not only make you special, but also will last a lifetime — your personality, your intellect and your talents. So listen to what your friends and your boyfriend are telling you. Spend a few minutes every day reminding yourself of all the things you have going for you and the special qualities you have to offer. If you do you’ll have less time to dwell on the negative.
ODDS AND ENDS Wash. inmate kills entangled deer at work farm WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Penitentiary says an inmate on a work crew killed and butchered a deer that was entangled in netting at the prison’s pheasant farm near Walla Walla. Spokeswoman Shari Hall says the minimum-security prisoner killed the deer last Saturday using a box cutter that the crew is allowed to use. Investigators acting on a tip Tuesday found about 15 pounds of venison in garbage bags in the farm’s break room. Hall says she didn’t know what the inmate intended to do with the meat. The break room has no cooking equipment, and no campfires are allowed on the farm. The inmate, who is a former butcher, lost work crew privileges and could face other punishment. He is incarcerated on a drug conviction and is scheduled to be released in December 2012.
Nigeria: President Goodluck’s wife wins motorcycle LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — It appears as though Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s luck might have rubbed off on his wife. A spokesman for Union Bank says First Lady Patience Jonathan has won a motorcycle in a drawing the bank held for its customers. Union Bank spokesman Francis
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MY ANSWER Barde told The Associated Press on Friday that officials have informed the first lady that she won and invited her to claim the motorcycle, known throughout Nigeria as an “okada.” Chance has played a large part in putting Jonathan into the presidency of the oil-rich nation. Jonathan formally assumed office after the May 5 death of the elected president. Previously, Jonathan became a state governor after the elected governor was indicted on corruption charges.
LeBron leaving Ohio — not the Cavalier, the jaguar AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A LeBron is leaving northeast Ohio, but it’s a cat, not a Cavalier. Whether NBA superstar LeBron James is staying with the Cleveland Cavaliers is still a big question, but the Akron Zoo says it will say goodbye to another LeBron, a jaguar born there last year. By mid-June, the cat is going to the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Fla., in hopes he’ll produce offspring with a female jaguar named Masaya. A zoo statement on Thursday said the jaguar LeBron got his name in a contest. LeBron James grew up in Akron and once lived not far from the zoo’s entrance. He can become a free agent this summer, and there’s Been massive speculation about whether he’ll stay in his home state, with Cleveland.
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Let dying father know you love him Q: My father has always been a very strong, independent person, and I think that’s why he never felt any need for God or Jesus. But now he’s got terminal cancer, and I’m very worried about his spiritual condition. Should I say something to him? I don’t want to alienate him or make him mad. — Mrs. V.K. A: No, you don’t want to alienate him or make him angry, and that’s understandable. But neither do you want him to go into eternity without hope and without Christ — and God may want to use you in these days to confront him with this sobering reality. Pray, therefore, that God will open the door for you to talk frankly with your father about his spiritual condition. Sometimes the hardest people to talk to about spiritual things are those who are the nearest to us — our relatives or closest friends. But remember: You are not alone. If God opens the door to talk with him, He will be with you by His Holy Spirit — and He’ll also be working in your father’s heart. During these days, let him know that you love him and you care what’s happening to him. And let him know that because you love him, you care not only for his physical health but also for his spiritual well-being. Let him know, too, that you hope to be with him in heaven some day — and you will, if he opens his heart to Christ. Most of all, let him know that God loves him. He may not love God — but God loves Him, and the proof is Jesus Christ. When we know Christ, nothing “in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:39).
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8B / Saturday, May 29, 2010 / The Sanford Herald MOVIES
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What recession? ‘Sex and the City 2’ revels in $$ By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer
NEW YORK — Early on in “Sex and the City 2,” Charlotte, Carrie’s stayat-home-mom-on-ParkAvenue friend, is making pink-frosted cupcakes with her daughters. One of the girls is also finger-painting, and suddenly she smacks her mom on the rear, leaving two bright red handprints on a cream-colored Valentino skirt. “Lily!” Charlotte screams in fury. “This is VINTAGE!” Let’s leave aside the credulity-straining sight of a mother — any mother — making cupcakes and supervising finger-painting in vintage Valentino. Much less in cream. Because the scene is typical of the film in another way. Charlotte, who doesn’t work but has a live-in nanny, is clearly not suffering a whit from the recession that’s hit New York since the first film. Neither is Carrie or Miranda — nor Samantha, unless you can blame menopause on the recession. In fact, the downturn is virtually nowhere to be seen in “Sex and the City 2” — not in the still crazy-expensive fashions, the spacious apartments, or the wedding that opens the movie, featuring swans, a chorus in white tie and tails, and a wedding cake dripping in crystals. As Carrie might say, “Recession, Schmecession!” And most fans, if not critics, are saying: “Great! Because that’s sorta what we came for.” That’s how Brayden
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This undated photo provided by Ahava shows the Dead Sea. Sea salt is praised by insiders for its skin-enhancing exfoliant, cleansing and moisturizing properties.
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FILE- In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., from left, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon are shown in a scene from “Sex and the City 2.” LeBlanc sees it. “Listen, movies are fantasy,” said the marketing student in Los Angeles. “This isn’t a documentary. I don’t WANT to see a recession in this movie!” LeBlanc says that’s even truer since he’s had his own economic hardships as a student living on little money. “I’m going through my own financial issues,” he says, “so I don’t need to see it on the screen. This is supposed to be fun.” Lindy Christopher feels the same way. Recently laid off from her job at a medical center, she accompanied two friends at a Thursday afternoon showing of the film in midtown Manhattan — the three had come straight from a college graduation ceremony for one of them. “Everyone has a different life,” said Christopher, 26. “This is their life, not mine,” she said of Carrie and her friends. “It didn’t bother me.” Not that the group wasn’t a little disap-
pointed in the film — at well over two hours it was too long, they said, the plot a little convoluted, Samantha’s sexual quips a little, well, gross. But they still enjoyed themselves, which is more than one can say for most film critics, who thus far have savaged the film. “Callow, garish, ghastly, grisly,” wrote the Wall Street Journal. “Enervated, crass and gruesomely caricatured,” wrote the Washington Post. A “mortifying mess,” wrote USA Today. “Desperate, grating and a little sad,” wrote the New York Times. “Overthe-top ridiculous,” wrote The Associated Press. So maybe they liked it overseas? “Incredibly boring,” wrote Britain’s Guardian newspaper, which also said the film was “on its way to becoming one of the most critically derided films of all time.” And yet the movie was also being called critic-proof. If the lines of dressed-up women at theaters weren’t enough
of a sign, Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com, said the film had made $14.2 million on Thursday alone, including $3 million in midnight showings, with a projected $75 million for the first five days. (The first SATC movie, in 2008, brought in about $57 million on its first weekend, a three-day span.) Fandango.com, the online ticketing service, said sales this time were slightly outpacing the 2008 film. “It’s clear that the ’Sex and the City’ franchise has not lost its (box-office) sparkle,” said Harry Medved, spokesman for Fandango. One could also just ask Olivia Wong, who rushed out from work Thursday to catch a showing in Manhattan with two coworkers — to be followed, as so many “Sex and the City” showings are, by going out on the town. “I haven’t read any reviews,” said Wong. “I wanted to come here with a clean slate.”
Beauty experts sing the praises of salt — for skin NEW YORK (AP) — Beach beauty has an almost endless appeal — a little sun, a little surf, a little sand, a little salt. That’s right, salt. While there’s an ongoing crusade by the likes of first lady Michelle Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reduce the amount of salt people ingest, the beauty industry is promoting the benefits of using salt externally. Salt has been used as a skin scrub “since practically the beginning of time,” says Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief Linda Wells. “It’s something that’s a great exfoliant. And it feels really good on the skin. There’s also relaxing bath salts, Epsom salt — you can just soak in those — and they have an anti-inflammatory effect. It’s good if you’re feeling puffy.” Lush, a botanicalheavy beauty brand, reports salt products to be a consistent best-seller. The appeal lies in effective skin-smoothing scrubs as well as the soft suppleness that’s left afterward, says Erica Vega, a Lush educational trainer. “There’s a softness to the skin after using salt, but not a greasy softness. If in the winter you want to pack on the moisturizer, in the warmer weather you want to try salt, which isn’t drying,” Vega says. Vega encourages ocean-inspired combinations, such as a bath product that mixes salt with seaweed and coconut oil. Lush’s salt — a coarse one for exfoliating and a finer one for replenishing minerals — comes straight from the coasts of Spain and Portugal. “We collect it from the ocean in pans, let the water evaporate and take the salt,” Vega says. “It’s so simple.” Beauty company Ahava gets its salt from the Dead Sea, but it’s not just the salt, which has a comparable look and feel to rock salt, that’s important, says Dawn DiOrio, the brand’s national education director. The minerals from the unique water and mud there play a role, too. “Now, the Dead Sea is basically like a lake, but it has all the minerals of its original form of a millennium ago,” she says. “There’s 10 times more saline than any other salted body of water.” The water there has an almost oily texture, and it doesn’t drip — instead it sticks to the skin and glistens, DiOrio says. Minerals from the Dead Sea, including magnesium, calcium, sodium and potassium, are all believed to be soothing and relaxing. The minerals also send a message to
skin cells to regenerate. For Lisa Price, founder of Carol’s Daughter, it’s the texture of the salt — maybe not its origin — that’s the key. “When you use a fine-grade salt in a scrub, it scrubs in a gentle kind of way. It helps to cleanse and shed dead skin cells, and it balances with oil so scrubbing and moisturizing at the same time.” You can do things with salt that you couldn’t do with, say, sugar, another popular scrub ingredient, Price says. Salt will work as a better cleanser — just don’t use it on the face, where the skin is too delicate. “You need the right grade salt. You want to polish, not scratch. As a consumer, even if a product says ‘sea salt,’ you should test and touch. You want to rub your fingers through it and make sure if feels soft.” Salt-based beauty products are also very stable and have a long shelf life since, again, unlike sugar, it doesn’t dissolve, Price says. Massage a salt scrub in a circular motion, she suggests, paying particular attention to elbows, heels and feet. “I can’t decide if a salt scrub is invigorating or relaxing. ... But the texture of the salt penetrates deeper than a washcloth and it just feels so good,” Price says. And, salt isn’t just for skin. Allure’s Wells points to an increasing number of salt-based hair products that give you the day-at-the-beach tousled look. Think of it as spritzing a little ocean water on the hair — without the seaweed, she describes. “It will take away some shine — that’s trendy now, though,” Wells says. She warns, however, that the salt can be drying, especially for color treated hair. “But it makes the hair look great temporarily and it washes out.” Carol’s Daughter often incorporates a beach theme into its salt products, creating Ocean, Mango and Jamaican Punch flavors. The mental association with vacations, gentle waves and sun-soaked days can only add to salt’s appeal, agrees Lush’s Vega. “People have a primal reaction sitting by the ocean and being lulled by it.” ——— Two homemade salt scrub “recipes” from Allure: 1 cup almond, sesame, olive or vegetable oil 1 cup kosher, table or Epsom salt Heat oil in microwave for 45 seconds. Consistency should be like a paste; add or lessen salt accordingly. 1 lemon Coarse sea salt Cut lemon in half, sprinkle salt over each half. Grind salt-covered lemons into elbows, heels and knees.
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Race: Coca-Cola 600 Where: Charlotte Motor Speedway When: Sunday, 5:45 p.m. (ET) TV: FOX 2009 winner: Jimmie Johnson (right)
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Dodge Penske finds success as lone Dodge camp
Kurt Busch in Victory Lane after winning Saturday’s All-Star Race. (NASCAR photo)
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hen Dodge started the 2010 NASCAR season with just one team owner, Roger Penske, in the camp, many in the sport figured that the prospects for success were small. After all, the conventional wisdom is the more the merrier. The thinking is that with more teams and drivers, there’s more technical information that can be gained and shared. In the Chevrolet camp, Hendrick Motorsports provides engines and chassis for its own four teams as well as the two at Stewart-Haas Racing and some others as well. Richard Childress Racing and Earnhardt Ganassi Racing have a common engine shop. Roush Fenway Racing provides Ford equipment and engines for Richard Petty Motorsports. But Penske goes it alone for Dodge. And so far, the results are surprisingly good. It was a Penske Dodge Charger that Kurt Busch drove to victory in Saturday’s Sprint All-Star Challenge at Charlotte Motor Speedway. In doing so, Busch and Dodge outran some powerful cars and drivers, like Jimmie Johnson’s Chevrolet and the Toyotas of Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch. And Kurt Busch is holding his own in points-paying Sprint Cup races as well. He won at Atlanta
earlier this year and is ninth in the standings on the strength of third-place finishes at Bristol and Darlington and a fourth at Texas. The car he drove to victory in the All-Star Race, PRS-702, is the one he won with at Texas last fall and drove to the pole at Las Vegas this year, only to be taken out in a crash. It’ll likely be patched up from two scrapes with the wall on Saturday and brought back for this week’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. On the Nationwide Series side, Penske’s Dodges are doing even better. Brad Keselowski has two wins, at Talladega and Richmond, and just one finish worse than seventh – a 13th at Daytona, and he’s leading the
points standings. His teammate Justin Allgaier has a win at Bristol and is fifth in the standings. The only disappointments in the Penske camp so far this year have been the struggles in Cup of Sam Hornish Jr., who is 30th in the standings and of Keselowski, who is 24th in his first full-time Cup season. But Busch, in his winner’s interview after the All-Star Race, said he’s still facing somewhat of an uphill battle. “It’s a tough series right now,” he said. “Last year we finished fourth overall. I knew that the [Richard Childress Racing] cars were going to be stronger. I knew that the Roush cars were going to be stronger.
Kurt Busch, driving the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge, celebrates by driving backward after winning Saturday’s All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. (NASCAR photo)
“Right now we have five cars ahead of us that weren’t that strong last year. That moves us from fourth to ninth. We’re going to have to continue to fight harder and get ourselves up in the mix with the Gibbs and Hendrick guys week in and week out.” Busch said one of his challenges this year is dealing with inconsistent results. “What I’ve struggled with a little bit is just the hot and coldness of it,” he said. “The cold times I can’t quite define just yet. We’ll run third at Darlington one week and then we’ll back it up with blowing out right front tires at Dover the next week. Goodyear changes the tires quite often with the Car of Tomorrow. Some race tracks it comes into our favor, others it doesn’t. Tracks we’ve expected to do well on this year, we’ve struggled. Race tracks we’ve struggled on in years past, perfect example, Charlotte tonight, we run well on. I can’t quite figure that out.” But he doesn’t expect a switch back to cold when he returns to Charlotte this week for the Coca-Cola 600. “Momentum is at an all-time high here to win at Charlotte, with a completely different setup that we had in the race car,” he said. “That’s the most refreshing thing about it.”
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Harvick to remain with RCR Throughout his NASCAR career, whenever Kevin Harvick’s contract comes up for renewal, his best option always seems to be to stay put at Richard Childress Racing. On Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Harvick ended speculation that he might move elsewhere by announcing that he’d re-signed with Childress. It wasn’t a surprising move at this time because he’s the current Sprint Cup points leader. Team owner Richard Childress said he’s happy to have Harvick back, especially given his history with the company. “He stepped in the car when we lost Dale [Earnhardt] in 2001, and I don’t know of any driver that could have stepped in there under the pressure and handled it the way he did,” Childress said. “We’ll always be grateful.” Harvick said he was relieved to have the negotiations -- and the questions about them from the media -- behind him. “I know I have been pretty quiet about the way we have gone about everything,” he said. “I felt pretty good about the way everything has gone between Richard and myself and all the internal things that have been going on. I know it is not the way you [media] guys would like it but the last time I didn’t do things very well. I feel like we did things the right way. “We’ve been through a lot of ups and downs, and I feel like as an organization and a team, we’re positioned as well as we have ever been to race for a championship this year.” There still are questions about who will sponsor the No. 29 Chevrolet as its current backer, Shell/Pennzoil, is moving to Penske Racing.
Vickers to miss rest of season Brian Vickers announced last week that he’ll have to sit out the remainder of the Sprint Cup season because of blood clots discovered two weeks ago. He’s now taking blood thinners, and doctors felt it would be unsafe for him to risk a racing crash while on the medication. “As you can imagine, that is killing me, no pun intended,” Vickers, 26, said in announcing that he won’t race his Red Bull-sponsored Toyota again this year. “I really miss being back in the car. It was really hard last Sunday to watch the race on TV and not be in the car … I do expect to be back in the car next season and to win the Daytona 500.” Casey Mears has been filling Vickers’ seat, at Dover and Charlotte. Vickers said he plans to attend some upcoming races and skip others.
Drivers’ All-Star tempers flare The All-Star Race, as usual, left some drivers with both fenders and feelings worse for the wear. Kyle Busch was angry with his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin, accusing him of cutting him off as he attempted a pass late in the race. After crashing out a few laps later, Busch stalked into Hamlin’s hauler, where the two discussed the situation with team owners Joe Gibbs and J.D. Gibbs acting as the gobetweens. Hamlin met with reporters afterward. Busch did not, leaving some to again wonder what happened to the “new, more mature Kyle Busch.” Matt Kenseth, though upset, did stay around long enough to vent about the poor performance of his No. 17 Ford, which wound up eighth. “It was awful,” he said. “We ran last all night and they just kept wrecking and got us in a spot there to have a couple good restarts, but then we didn’t get any tires and the guys all passed us anyway,” he said. “There weren’t any other cars out there, so it was embarrassing.”
600 miles ain’t what it used to be; Busch, Johnson spar at All-Star hour; last year it was 188. There have been great improvements in driver comfort and cooling in the car, and the fact that about half the race is run after the sun sets makes it easier on both driver and engines. The key thing for many teams as far as engine longevity is to make sure there aren’t an unnecessarily large number of laps put on the engine in pre-race practice, since NASCAR no longer allows engine swaps before a race unless there’s a mechanical problem.
ASK RICK!
“Is the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, NASCAR’s longest race, still the endurance contest it once was?” A: Not really. In the early days of the sport, even a 500-mile race often tested the limits of endurance for both man and machine. Part of the trick to winning was setting a pace that would allow both the driver and car to make it to the finish. And for many years, the final 100 miles at Charlotte saw engines blow and drivers look for relief. But today, 600 miles isn’t really much of a test. In fact, earlier this year, at Texas Motor Speedway, the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races were run on the same day with Kyle Busch winning the 300-mile Nationwide race after running the 500-mile Cup race. Eight of the top 10 finishers in the Nationwide race also ran the Cup race earlier that day, meaning they ran 800 miles in one afternoon. The next week at Talladega, the double-dipping
Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 18 Z-Line Designs Toyota, heads toward victory in April’s Nationwide Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway after competing in a Sprint series race the same day. (NASCAR photo) Cup drivers ran the Nationwide race immediately after the Cup race and wound up running 851 miles on the same day. And at Charlotte, the 600, in many ways, is easier on a driver than it was back in the day. For one thing, the cars are running faster, which shortens the time a driver is behind the wheel. In 1980, the pole-winning speed was 165 miles per
Q: How was Kurt Busch able to pass Jimmie Johnson, who appeared to have the dominant car, so easily at the end of Saturday’s All-Star Race? A: Johnson apparently was a little too cautious when Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin nearly wrecked. “I was so occupied watching them and got out of the gas,” Johnson told reporters after the race. “I wasn’t sure where they were going to go, then the No. 2 [Kurt Busch] came blowing by on the inside. That was my opportunity there and I was just maybe a little too cautious wondering where they were going to end up.” Johnson later spun when the cars on his outside took the air off his spoiler, but he said there was no reason to be conservative at that point. “I could feel them outside of me kind of pulling the back end of my car around, but I said the heck with it, it’s the All-Star Race,” he said. “Kept my foot to the floor and hoped that I made it off the turn and I didn’t. It turned around on me.” Got a question about NASCAR? Ask Rick! Email your question to rminter@racintoday.com
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Scott, PLLC, having taxes, special assess- NORTH CAROLINA, transfer and conveybeen substituted as ments, easements, ance “AS IS WHERE LEE COUNTY Trustee in said Deed rights of way, deeds IS.” There are no of Trust, and the of release, and any repUnder and by virtue holder of the note evi- other encumbrances resentations of warof a Power of Sale dencing said indebtor exceptions of re- contained in that cerranty relating to the edness having directcord. To the best of tain Deed of Trust title or any physical, ed that the Deed of the knowledge and environmental, executed by ARITrust be foreclosed, belief of the under- SLEYDA HINESTROhealth or safety conthe undersigned Subsigned, the current ZA, AND HUSBAND, ditions existing in, stitute Trustee will owner(s) of the propon, at, or relating to OSCAR MONTES to offer for sale at the erty is/are Nicky E. JACKIE MILLER, the property being ofcourthouse door of Sessoms. Trustee(s), which was fered for sale. This the county courtsale is made subject dated November 26, house where the An Order for posses- 2007 and recorded on to all prior liens, unproperty is located, or sion of the property paid taxes, any unDecember 6, 2007 in the usual and custommay be issued purpaid land transfer Book 01114 at Page ary location at the suant to G.S. 45-21.29 0948, Lee County Reg- taxes, special assesscounty courthouse in favor of the pur- istry, North Carolina. ments, easements, for conducting the chaser and against rights of way, deeds sale on June 9, 2010 at the party or parties in of release, and any Default having been 10:00AM, and will sell possession by the made in the payment other encumbrances to the highest bidder clerk of superior or exceptions of reof the note thereby for cash the following court of the county in cord. To the best of sedescribed property which the property is the knowledge and cured by the said situated in Lee Counsold. Any person Deed of Trust and the belief of the underty, North Carolina, to who occupies the undersigned, Brock & signed, the current wit: property pursuant to Scott, PLLC, having owner(s) of the propa rental agreement been substituted as erty is/are Arisleyda BEING ALL OF LOT entered into or re- Trustee in said Deed Hinestroza and husNO. 216, Section newed on or after Ocband Oscar Montes. of Trust, and the Four, St. Andrews tober 1, 2007, may, af- holder of the note eviSubdivision, as ter receiving the nodencing said indebt- An Order for possesshown on map of tice of sale, terminate edness having directsion of the property same recorded in Plat the rental agreement may be issued pured that the Deed of Cabinet 1, Slide 209, upon 10 days’ written Trust be foreclosed, suant to G.S. 45-21.29 Lee County Registry, notice to the the undersigned Subin favor of the purto which plat refer- landlord. The notice chaser and against stitute Trustee will ence is hereby made shall also state that offer for sale at the the party or parties in for a more perfect deupon termination of possession by the courthouse door of scription. a clerk of superior the county courtrental agreement, the house where the court of the county in Subject to restrictive tenant is liable for property is located, or which the property is covenants recorded rent due under the the usual and customsold. Any person in Book 294, Page 720, rental agreement prowho occupies the ary location at the Lee County Registry. rated to the effective county courthouse property pursuant to date of the terminaa rental agreement for conducting the Save and except any tion. sale on June 9, 2010 at entered into or rereleases, deeds of re10:00AM, and will sell newed on or after Oclease or prior conveyIf the trustee is un- to the highest bidder tober 1, 2007, may, afances of record. able to convey title to for cash the following ter receiving the nothis property for any described property tice of sale, terminate Said property is com- reason, the sole reme- situated in Lee Coun- the rental agreement monly known as 4117 dy of the purchaser is ty, North Carolina, to upon 10 days’ written Carson Drive, Santhe return of the denotice to the wit: ford, NC 27332. posit. Reasons of landlord. The notice such inability to con- ALL THAT CERTAIN shall also state that Third party purchasvey include, but are LOT OR PARCEL OF upon termination of ers must pay the ex- not limited to, the fila LAND SITUATE IN cise tax, and the court ing of a bankruptcy WEST SANFORD rental agreement, the costs of Forty-Five petition prior to the tenant is liable for TOWNSHIP, LEE Cents (45¢) per One confirmation of the rent due under the COUNTY, NORTH Hundred Dollars sale and reinstateCAROLINA, AND rental agreement pro($100.00) pursuant to ment of the loan rated to the effective MORE PARTICUNCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A with- LARLY DESCRIBED date of the terminacash deposit (no per- out the knowledge of tion. AS FOLLOWS: sonal checks) of five the trustee. If the BEING ALL OF LOT percent (5%) of the valIf the trustee is unNO. 4, LONGVIEW purchase price, or idity of the sale is able to convey title to ACRES, SECTION, 001 Seven Hundred Fifty challenged by any ACCORDING TO this property for any Legals Dollars ($750.00), party, the trustee, in THE MAP RECORD- reason, the sole remewhichever is greater, their sole discretion, ED ON THE OFFICE- dy of the purchaser is 10 SP 132 will be required at if they believe the the return of the deOF THE REGISTER NOTICE OF FOREthe time of the sale. challenge to have posit. Reasons of OF DEEDS OF LEE CLOSURE SALE Following the expiramerit, may request COUNTY IN PLAT such inability to contion of the statutory the court to declare vey include, but are CABINET 1, SLIDE NORTH CAROLINA, upset bid period, all the sale to be void 86. REFERENCED TO not limited to, the filLEE COUNTY the remaining and return the depos- SAID MAP IS HEREing of a bankruptcy amounts are immediit. The purchaser petition prior to the BY MADE FOR Under and by virtue ately due and owing. will have no further GREATER CERTAINconfirmation of the of a Power of Sale remedy. sale and reinstateTY OF DESCRIPcontained in that cer- Said property to be ofment of the loan TION. tain Deed of Trust fered pursuant to this withexecuted by NICKY Notice of Sale is beout the knowledge of BEING THE SAME E. SESSOMS AN UNing offered for sale, Substitute Trustee the trustee. If the PROPERTY CONMARRIED MAN to transfer and convey- Brock & Scott, PLLC valVEYED TO ARITRSTE, INC., Trustance “AS IS WHERE idity of the sale is SLEYDA HINESTROee(s), which was datIS.” There are no challenged by any ZA AND HUSBAND ed January 19, 2005 rep- By:__________________ party, the trustee, in OSCAR MONTES and recorded on Janresentations of war_________ (SEAL) BY DEED FROM AN- their sole discretion, uary 24, 2005 in Book ranty relating to the Jeremy B. Wilkins, if they believe the GELA W. BAR00955 at Page 0026, title or any physical, NCSB No. 32346 challenge to have TLETT, UNMARLee County Registry, environmental, 5431 Oleander Drive merit, may request RIED RECORDED North Carolina. health or safety conSuite 200 the court to declare 06/30/2004 IN DEED ditions existing in, Wilmington, NC BOOK 924 PAGE 446, the sale to be void Default having been on, at, or relating to 28403 and return the deposIN THE REGISTER made in the payment the property being of- PHONE: (910) 392-4988 it. The purchaser OF DEEDS OFFICE of the note thereby fered for sale. This FAX: (910) 392-8587 will have no further OF LEE COUNTY, sesale is made subject remedy. NORTH CAROLINA. cured by the said to all prior liens, unFile No.: 10-00848Deed of Trust and the paid taxes, any unFC01 TAX ID# 9632-64-3716undersigned, Brock & paid land transfer 00 Substitute Trustee Save and except any Brock & Scott, PLLC releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. By:__________________ _________ (SEAL) Jeremy B. Wilkins, Said property is comNo Hidden Fees NCSB No. 32346 monly known as 312 Unlimited Miles 5431 Oleander Drive Winterlocken Drive, Suite 200 Sanford, NC 27330. Wilmington, NC 28403 Third party purchasers must pay the ex- PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 cise tax, and the court 7)#+%2 342%%4 s costs of Forty-Five Corner of Carthage and Wicker St. southeastauto@windstream.net File No.: 10-06978Cents (45¢) per One FC01 Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to ADVERTISEMENT NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A FOR BIDS cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the The County of Lee is accepting informal purchase price, or sealed bids for a Seven Hundred Fifty Stream Repair and Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, Stabilization Project located along Clyde will be required at the time of the sale. Rhyne Drive between miles Womack Road and Following the expiraColon Road within tion of the statutory upset bid period, all the Lee County IndusoDge am trial Park. the remaining amounts are immedi- This project will generally consist of reately due and owing. moval of existing inchannel rip-rap and Said property to be offered pursuant to this gravel check dam ma 7)#+%2 342%%4 s Notice of Sale is be- terials; installation of Corner of Carthage and Wicker St. southeastauto@windstream.net temporary sedimening offered for sale, -ON &RI s 3AT s #LOSED 3UNDAYS tation & erosion con*W.A.C. Plus tax, tags, title & doc fee.
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Yard Sale Sat & Sun 6:30am-Until 316 Providence Hall Drive Carthage Colonies HH Items, Clothes, Children Clothes, Patio Furniture and More !!!
100 Announcements 110 Special Notices Junk Car Removal Service Guaranteed top price paid Buying Batteries as well. 499-3743
140 Found FOUND 2 female puppies, about 4 months old, on 87 in Olivia on 5/25. One is black and tan, the other is tan. Both are wearing flea collars but no ID. Black and tan puppy was hit by a car but is OK and being cared for by Dr. Ellis at Animal Hospital of Fayetteville. Please ask about Dark Star & Sugar Magnolia at 910-323-1535. Found Two Rings at The Civic Center. Please call to claim. 776-0345
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200 Transportation 210 Vehicles Wanted Junk Car Removal Paying Up To $500 for vehicles. No Title/Keys No Problem Old Batteries Paying. $5-$15 842-1606
240 Cars - General 93 Honda Accord LX 2 Door. Excellent Condition $3,000 OBO. 774-7063 Affordable Auto Sales 498-9891 SALE! Clean used cars. No credit check financing. Low down payments starting at $500 dn. Automobile Policy: Three different automobile ads per household per year at the “Family Rate”. In excess of 3, billing will be at the “Business Rate”.
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250 Trucks 1981 Ford F350. Half Inch Steel Flatbed. $1,000 Or Best Offer. Call Mon-Sat 8:30-5pm For More Information. 919-499-5103 1988 Dodge Ram Pick Up 70,000 Miles 776-6615 Classic 1970 C10 Chevrolet long bed pickup. Good condition. Never wrecked. All original. Runs good. One family owner. $3,500. Pictures available via email. Sanford, NC Great restoration truck. 919-708-2875
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295 Boats/Motors/ Trailers 1986 Dixie 18ft. Open Bow 140 Merc 1B/OB. Great looking boat & trailer w/ extras incl. cover. $3500 Firm. 708-5875 2001 Polaris Virage TXI PWC-1165cc/ 3-Cylinder/ 2Stroke/135 HP-Direct inject engine. Only 46 Hours! Will go 65mph. 3 Seater. Electronic Reverse. Ready for the water! Trailer & cover included. $3300. Contact Justin at (864)304-0942 or 919-776-5330 jhyde80@hotmail.com
300 Businesses/Services 320 Child Care Licensed Home Child Care Has 2 Openings. Ages 5-12 919-721-3505
340 Landscaping/ Gardening Fire Tower Lawn Service Mow, Hedge Trim, Lawn Cleanup. Cheapest in town will beat any! Price gauranteed. Free Estimate. Phone: 919-721-4646 Mon-Sat.
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400 Employment 420 Help Wanted General Automotive Tech Needed. Top pay and excellent benefits. Insurance, paid holidays, vacation, and uniforms. Experience and tools required. Weekly and sign up bonus available. We stay busy year round. Call 910-497-0750 Case Manager to supv in-house CAP program. Salary BOE + Ben. Min bachelor degree in human svcs and 2 yrs post grad work exper. Send resume and cover ltr to Steven Center 1576 Kelly Drive Sanford NC 27330
601 Bargain Bin/ $250 or Less 2 Large Trailer Tongues $65 each or $125 for both 776-1515 or 353-4988 Canon Digital Camera Model A520 w/ Original Box & Accessories Plus Case. $60 774-1066 Dell Computer Tower For Sale. $125 Negotiable Monitor & Accessories Also Availabe. Call: 774-1066 Geraniums In 4 inch Pots. $2 Each. 3 Colors Available: Salmon, Violet, & Red. Call: 721-6251 Green and burgandy striped couch and a burgandy recliner, $125 for both. Call: 919-718-1127 Handicap Scooter Electric Lift for Reese Hitch $200 OBO Call: 919-704-0545 Perception Dancer XT Kayak $100 obo Hydraulic Stylist Chair $50 obo. Shampoo Chair $30 obo Plastic Shampoo bowl $10 obo 353-8569
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500 Free Pets 510 Free Cats 5 Beautiful Kittens to Good Home. About 6 weeks old. 910-245-4939
520 Free Dogs Black Lab Mix Puppies 7 Weeks Old Free to Good Home 919-774-3162 Free Puppies To Good Home 258-9730 Leave Message
600 Merchandise 601 Bargain Bin/ $250 or Less *“Bargain Bin” ads are free for five consecutive days. Items must total $250 or less, and the price must be included in the ad. Multiple items at a single price (i.e., jars $1 each), and animals/pets do not qualify. One free “Bargain Bin” ad per household per month.
1 Cu. Ft. Magic Shelf Microwave. Many features including chld lock $35. 20 in. GE Color TV w/ remote $45. Both work great! 7744378
A New Queen Pillowtop Set $150. New In Plastic, Must Sell! 910-691-8388 Old end table w/ lamp $200. Call: 498-6501 after 4pm
660 Sporting Goods/ Health & Fitness GOT STUFF? CALL CLASSIFIED! SANFORD HERALD CLASSIFIED DEPT., 718-1201 or 718-1204.
665 Musical/Radio/TV CLASSIFIED SELLS! “CALL TODAY, SELL TOMORROW” Sanford Herald Classified Dept., 718-1201 or 7181204
Newly Renovated w/ Ceramic & Laminate Floors 3BR/1BA Brick House for Rent $650/mo $650/dep Available June 1st Section 8 Welcome 910-261-2118 Small 1BR/1BA Home Utilities Included. $150/Wk $150/Dep 209 Temple Avenue Call: 776-0743 THE SANFORD HERALD makes every effort to follow HUD guidelines in rental advertisements placed by our advertisers. We reserve the right to refuse or change ad copy as necessary for HUD compliances. W. Sanford, 2800 sq. ft. 3BR/2.5BA, sunrm, fam. rm., DR., Kit w. Appl. pool privileges, $950/mo. S. Lee Sch Dist. 777-3340.
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W. Tramway. Brick 3BR 1BA, Cen. H&A. $600/mo + Dep Reply To: PO BOX 100 Sanford NC Pink China Dishes (62pc.) 1 Year Old Filly Palomino27331 Ad # 17 $50. Porc. Dolls-14 dolls at Saddles, Bridles & All Tacks $3 each. 498-6501 Call Included. 730 after 4:00 or 919-356Call: 919-498-5525 4524 after 4:00 For Rent -
Movie Extras to stand in the Recliner, Full Size Bed, backgrounds of a major Men’s Dresser. film production. All looks $225 for all needed. Earn up to 774-7063 $150/day. Experience not Set of metal Bunk bed’s, required. Call Blue, Red, Yellow, with mat877-577-2952. tresses & mattress covers Now Hiring Managers $125. Also, oak chester Sonic Drive-In drawers $30. Call: 356717 S. Horner Blvd. 8144 Personal Trainer Position is now available. Individuals must have PT Certification from ACE, IFTA, ACSM or equivalent, experience in working with all age groups in personalized programs, and liability insurance. Please Mail Resumes To: 7000 Harps Mill Rd. Suite 103 Raleigh, NC 27615
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Set Of Rattan Sofa, 2 Chairs, Table-$150. New Epson Printer-$40. Emerson Stereo Recorder $5. Magnavox VCR-$5. Call: 919258-6233 Table Top Gas Grill Never Used $20 Call: 774-4351 Wicker Set Love Seat 2 Chairs Coffee Table Hanging Lame Table Lamp and Book Case $100 obo Lg Fish Tank with wooded stand & all acc. $100 obo 919-663-1719 Wooden Play Fort with Swing Climbing Ramp and Pull up rings. $150 776-8544
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615 Appliances GE Washer & Dryer Perfect Condition $300 Set 776-9217
650 Household/Furniture A All New Furniture Factory Direct Bed Sets $195 5PC $495 Sofa & Loveseats $495 Sectional$495 Dining$145 910-639-9555 A Brand New Pillowtop Queen Sets $125 King Sets $225 Twin $115 Full $125 All models brand new! 910-639-9555
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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”.
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