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The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: TOURISM IN LEE COUNTY
WORLD CUP
U.S. TEAM’S MAGICAL RUN HALTED BY LAST AFRICAN TEAM STANDING Ghana sent the U.S. packing from the World Cup — again — eliminating the Americans in the second round Saturday night Page 1B
STATE
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U.S. SENATE CANDIDATES EXPLAIN THEIR DIFFERENCES AT DEBATE North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and Democratic challenger Elaine Marshall quickly diverged from each other Saturday on how the government should handle the nation’s economy and debt at their first debate of the election cycle in Wilmington Page 8A
G20 SUMMIT
Thomas Smith putts on hole #16 at Tobacco Road Golf Course on Friday afternoon.
The strongest links With ‘tough’ Tobacco Road and scenic Carolina Trace, Tourism-starved Lee County is sitting on a golfing hotbed By BILLY LIGGETT bliggett@sanfordherald.com
WORLD LEADERS JOIN FORCES TO DENOUNCE NORTH KOREA, IRAN In a joint statement, the leading eight industrial democracies also criticized both Iran and North Korea for continuing their nuclear march and called on both to heed existing United Nations resolutions. Page 14A
GULF OIL SPILL TROPICAL STORM BREWING IN GULF COULD MEAN MORE TROUBLE A tropical storm churning in the Caribbean could be the latest bad news for BP crews trying to contain and clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf, an effort that has been plagued by setbacks for more than two months Page 11A
SANFORD — Local golfers know all about the gems in their own backyards. It seems now the rest of the country is discovering what Sanford has to offer the golf world. For the second time in three years, Tobacco Road golf course has been named one of the Top 10 toughest courses in the nation by Golf Digest. The most recent list appeared on ESPN. com, calling the course “cotton-pickin’ hard,” among other niceties. And just eight miles down the road, Hole No. 3 on Carolina Trace’s Creek Course was named to the GolfCourseHome Magazine’s “Dream 18” list, an
Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland got a big hug from her older brother Saturday on the appropriately named Reunion Island, and again defended her family for letting her try to sail around the world alone Page 10A
TO INFORM, CHALLENGE AND CELEBRATE
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Sanford have known for a while — even though it’s in a region overshadowed by other top-notch courses (Pinehurst, South-
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ECONOMY
Sanford woman an original ‘Rosie’
Rezoning passed on to commissioners
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TEENAGE SAILOR REUNITED WITH BROTHER AFTER BEING LOST AT SEA
annual selection of worldclass residential golf holes. The national accolades are telling the rest of the country what many in
LEE COUNTY HISTORY
By ALEXA MILAN
NATION
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The No. 3 hole on the Creek Course at Carolina Trace has been named the lead-off hole on the 2010 GolfCourseHome® Dream 18, an annual selection of world-class, residential golf course “dream holes.”
ern Pines), Lee County has courses good enough for the nation’s most well-traveled golfers. It’s something not at all lost on the local business leaders, some of whom are currently engaged in a battle to get tourism at the top of local government’s priority list. “When you’re talking about tourism, we don’t have the resources to build brand-new marketing campaigns to get people to come to Lee County,” said Bob Joyce, president of the Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce. “But golf already has a great foundation here, and with a little bit of work, I really think we can have it benefit everybody.”
SANFORD — Not everyone can say they rode a motorcycle, went skydiving, traveled in a hot air balloon and rode around a Nascar speedway, all past age 80. And not everyone can say a successful company relocated because of them. But Sanford resident Mabel Baker, 88, isn’t everyone. More than two decades after she retired, Baker is
HAPPENING MONDAY n Chef Gregg Hamm, owner and operator of Café 121, in Sanford, teaches young chefs ages 11-14 the basics of food preparation and safety in the kitchen during the CCCC Continuing Education Department’s Kids’ Cooking Camp. The camp meets 8 to 10:30 a.m. through Thursday.
still remembered as the woman responsible for bringing men’s clothing manufacturer W. Koury Company to Sanford in the 1940s. “She was responsible for the company relocating here in the first place, and then she rose up through the ranks,” said Bob Granger, a friend of Baker’s who worked with her at W. Koury Company. “She left town to find a job and
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By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Lee County commissioners could vote next month on a major rezoning that would pave the way for a large, mixed-use development near Industrial Park. Members of the Lee County Planning Board voted unanimously this week to recommend that commissioners give the OK to rezoning 491 acres in north Sanford from residential-agricultural uses.
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Landowners say they want to build a development that combines commercial, residential and light manufacturing uses. The project would require the county to rezone more than 60 acres for general commercial uses and 431 acres for light industrial. Board of Commissioners Chairman Richard Hayes said commissioners could take action on the request at their next regularly scheduled meeting set
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
‘ON THE STREET’
Sanford: Lula Mae Gunter, 92; Johnathan Stone, 14; Ruby Lee Rogers Scoggins, 88 Wilmington: Linda Parker Lee, 64
The locally owned fireworks stands will be back in town beginning this week
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