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The Sanford Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2010
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GOVERNMENT
County mulls incentives for CAT
NATION
Commissioners hope to woo Caterpillar into adding 322 jobs locally By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Lee County commissioners approved a handful of incentive agreements Monday, chief among them a $900,000 county grant intended to woo construction
HELEN THOMAS RESIGNS AFTER ISRAEL COMMENTS
Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch Monday in a flap over calling on Israelis to get “out of Palestine”
machinery giant Caterpillar Inc. into a multi-million dollar expansion that could include 322 new local jobs. Caterpillar has yet to decide the location of a targeted $31 million expansion, but Lee officials agreed to front $900,000
to the company if it chooses to make the investment at its already existing facility in the county. The multi-component expansion, which Board of Commissioners Chairman Richard Hayes described as a “biggie”
for Lee County, would also be contingent on the company’s ability to pave a new access road to its Industrial Park plant and begin a local training program that would prep workers
See Incentives, Page 8A
EDUCATION
BUSINESS
Show and tell
Expert: A biz that goes green saves green
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GULF OIL SPILL
Sustainable Sandhills director offers advice at monthly luncheon By ALEXA MILAN amilan@sanfordherald.com
CAP IS CAPTURING OIL, BUT OUTLOOK GLOOMY The cap on the blown-out well in the Gulf is capturing a half-million gallons a day, or anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of the oil spewing from the bottom of the sea, officials said Monday Page 10A
SPORTS
WESLEY BEESON/ The Sanford Herald
Fourth grade student Jordyn Helsman (right), 10, shows Sue McNeill (left) a program called “Build Your Wild Self”, which lets you build a person with animal parts to find out more about their adapatation at the Technology Showcase at JR Ingram Elementary School on Monday evening.
Fourth graders demonstrate laptop skills By ALEXA MILAN amilan@sanfordherald.com
LOGANO’S FEUD WITH HARVICK HEATS UP Joey Logano, the scrawny new kid on the playground, finally stood up to one of the neighborhood bullies by essentially telling Kevin Harvick he was done playing nice. If the confrontation following Sunday’s race wasn’t enough to make his point, Logano followed up with three pointed shots at the veteran driver in a live television interview.
SANFORD — No more pencils, no more books is the way the Cove Kids at J.R. Ingram Elementary School prefer it. Kim Collazo’s fourth-grade students at the school have been piloting Lee County’s first 1:1 laptop initiative at the elementary level this year, and got a chance Monday evening to show off their skills at Ingram’s first Technology Showcase. Collazo said her students couldn’t be more enthusiastic about the initiative.
See Tech, Page 7A
Cameron Mashburn (middle), 10 shows his program “ TutPup,” to Alisia McNeill (left) and to Alex Collazo (right) in which students can race other children worldwide to prepare for Math end of year grading.
SANFORD — The key to making more money by going green is spending less and selling more, the guest speaker at the Sanford Chamber of Commerce’s June public policy luncheon told attendees Monday. Jon Parsons, executive director of Sustainable Sandhills, spoke to 40 people at Chef Paul’s Cafe and Catering about how increasing sustainability efforts can benefit local businesses. “It’s hard to find somebody who’s against going green,” Parsons said. “I think you’re out of touch if you’re not embracing it.” Sustainable Sandhills is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising sustainability awareness in the eight-county region surrounding Fort Bragg. The organization has assisted small and large businesses with sustainability efforts. Parsons used the 1,200 square foot Sustainable Sandhills office as an example of how to put his spend less-sell more model into practice. “We had a $120 electric bill at first, but we beat it down to the 50s,” Parsons said. “We did most of it with heating and air.” The Sustainable Sandhills office also contains signs reminding people to turn off lights and
See Green, Page 6A
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STATE WHITE POWDER FORCES CAPITOL EVACUATION
An envelope containing a white powder has been taken to a state laboratory after it was removed from North Carolina’s old Capitol building, where Gov. Beverly Perdue works Page 8A
TO INFORM, CHALLENGE AND CELEBRATE
Vol. 80, No. 133 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
Q&A: LEE COUNTY RED CROSS
SUSTAINABILITY TIPS
Agency building a funds committee
Ways your business (or home) can begin saving money immediately, all while pitching in to help the environment: o Purchase recycled, biodegradable and/or bio-based products o Encourage alternative forms of transportation o Reuse materials and resources o Recycle as much waste as possible o Encourage water conservation o Utilize high efficiency plumbing fixtures
By R.V. HIGHT hight@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — The Lee County American Red Cross is looking for volunteers to serve on a new fundraising committee. Abby Cameron, community services coordinator of the local American Red Cross, said a new committee will be able to bring in local money to help
HAPPENING THURSDAY n The Southern Lee High School graduation will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Southern Lee High School in Sanford.
CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
with disaster relief as a majority of local disaster reimbursement funds have been cut from the National Red Cross. The goals of a fundraising committee would be to provide funds for local disaster operations such as house fires, flooding and hurricane relief; educate the local community on the services provided by their local American Red Cross; and continue the
growth of the volunteer base in Lee County for all services including disaster services, blood services, health and safety services and office support. Barry Porter, regional executive director of the American Red Cross, and Cameron Porter recently responded to the following questions from
Information courtesy of Sustainable Sandhills
See Red Cross, Page 7A
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INDEX
More Weather, Page 10A
OBITUARIES
SCOTT MOONEYHAM
Sanford: Elmer Davis, 77; Janice Garner, 58; Kenneth Hockaday, 72; August Ihlenburg Jr.; Walter Lanier, 73; Howard Talbert, 68; Lottie Turney, 64
State governments expected Congress to extend Medicaid benefits for another six months Page 4A
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