July 30, 2010

PIGSKIN SEASON Burton Cates and the Lee County Yellow Jackets will get things started with a wrap up to their summer workouts tonight before opening the first day of practice at 6 p.m.

Monday.

Tom Paris and the Southern Lee Cavaliers will begin their practices at 8:30 a.m. Monday as they look to turn things around following an 0-11 season in 2009.

Coverage in next week’s Herald

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5-year-old died Monday after being pulled from area lake

Arizona asked an appeals court Thursday to lift a judge’s order blocking most of the state’s immigration law as the city of Phoenix filled with protesters, including about 50 who were arrested for confronting officers in riot gear

From staff reports SANFORD — The funeral for a 5-year-old Sanford boy who died Monday, a day after being pulled from a lake unconsious in Western Harnett County, is set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Turners Chapel Church.

Elijah Caddick, who had just started kindergarten at Tramway Elementary this month, will be buried in the church’s cemetery following the service.

Caddick died Monday at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill after drowning at the Carolina Lakes Marina Sunday afternoon. According to the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office, Caddick was playing with children who were attending a birthday party at the lake when he disappeared in the water. He was sent by EMS to Central

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FILM REVIEW

‘DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS’ DOESN’T LIVE UP TO HYPE The new comedy featuring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Zack Galifianakis is high on talent but low on plotline, according to Herald film critic Neil Morris Page 10A ALEXA MILAN/The Sanford Herald

Chapin Thomas smiles after approaching Top Gun, a wild mustang, at the Thomas family’s ranch in Pittsboro Thursday. The family will compete in the Extreme Mustang Makeover, which culminates in October.

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A FAMILY OF HORSE MORE THAN 6,600 BODIES MAY BE IN WRONG GRAVES Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery’s former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster Page 12A

STATE MOTHER FACING CHARGES IN SMITHFIELD MURDER A mother knew her daughter had been abused by a man before she left the 4-year-old in his care while she went to military training, authorities said Thursday Page 7A

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WHISPERERS Pittsboro family hopes to ‘break’ a wild mustang in under 100 days for national competition amilan@sanfordherald.com

PITTSBORO — When Chapin Thomas approaches Top Gun, a wild mustang, the horse keeps his distance.

He looks timid and a little unsure, and he keeps his eyes fixed on Thomas. But as Thomas reaches out to touch the side of Top Gun’s face, Top Gun lets him do it, standing still as Thomas gives him words of encouragement.

It’s a small gesture, but Top Gun has made progress since arriving at the Thomas family’s ranch in Pittsboro just two weeks ago.

HAPPENING TODAY n Carolina DockDogs will hold open practice/introduction for beginners at 2 p.m. at the Ole Gilliam Mill on Carbonton Road. For more information, visit www.carolinadockdogs.com.

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Top Gun gets a rub on the nose by Thomas on the family farm near Pittsboro on Thursday.

High: 95 Low: 69

Sanford: Elijah Caddick, 5 Aberdeen: John Bryant, 83 Apex: Gertie Sears, 93 Pittsboro: Odell Jackson, 77 Spring Lake: Nancy Wooley, 82

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OBITUARIES

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SCOTT MOONEYHAM The legislature has not asked voters about term limits for three decades

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR ONGOING/UPCOMING

■ The Chatham County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. at the Dunlap Classroom in Pittsboro.

■ The Harnett County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. in Lillington.

■ The Moore County Board of Commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. at the Commissioners Room in Carthage.

■ The Chatham County Board of Education will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Office Board Room in Pittsboro.

■ The Harnett County Board of Education will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Lillington Education Building in Lillington.

■ The Siler City Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. at the Siler City Town Hall in Siler City.

■ North Carolina Cooperative Extension and the Lee County Environmental Health Department will sponsor SERVSAFE® Serving Safe Food seminar Aug. 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 and Sept. 1 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Farm Bureau Auditorium at the McSwain Extension Education and Agriculture Center, 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford.

For additional information, contact N.C. Cooperative Extension at 775-5624 or Lee County Environmental Health at 7184641. Enrollment will be limited to 25 participants.

■ The Lee County 2010 Idol competition (for ages 35 and above) will hold auditions at 7 p.m. Aug. 10 at Depot Park in Sanford. There is a $10 entry fee to audition.

Official entry forms should be submitted

by Aug. 4. Entry forms are available at The Enrichment Center of Lee County, or for information call (919) 776-0501.

■ 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 7758310 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.

■ Sanford Farmers Market will be held from 9 a.m. to noon every Saturday from May through October.

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On the Agenda Rundown of local meetings in the area:

MONDAY

■ The Sanford City Council will meet at 1 p.m. at the Sanford Municipal Center.

■ The Moore County Board of Education will hold a work session at 5:30 p.m. at the Central Office in Carthage.

■ The Chatham County Planning Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Agriculture Extension Building in Pittsboro.

Birthdays LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, especially Janiyah Davis, Keosha Bland, Reggie Cox, Glen Robinson, Stephanie Haywood, Anthony Trusell, Allyson Von Canon, Makani McKenzie, Madison Saunders, Garren Adams, Renetta Young, Teana Thomas, Timothy John Norris, Morgan Gillis, Richelle Buie, Cynthia Ann Deaton, Sandra Gail Norris, Tammy Pattishall, Shermaine Lee Ray, John Jason Hall, Carlos R. Allen, Debra White, Patrick Trusell, Maurice Gill and Jessica Gill.

CELEBRITIES: Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 76. Blues musician Buddy Guy is 74. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 63. Actor Ken Olin is 56.

Actress Delta Burke is 54. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 49. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 47.

Actress Vivica A. Fox is 46. Movie director Christopher Nolan (“Inception”) is 40.

Almanac Today is Friday, July 30, the 211th day of 2010. There are 154 days left in the year.

This day in history: On July 30, 1945, during World War II, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.

In 1792, the French national anthem “La Marseillaise” by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris by troops arriving from Marseille.

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-filled mine under Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.

In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is perhaps best remembered for his poem “Trees.”)

In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.

In 1960, the recently founded American Football League saw its first pre-season game, in which the Boston Patriots defeated the host Buffalo Bills 28-7.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year.

In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.

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(From left) Ursula Lawrence, chief nursing officer for CCH; Bette Means, quality improvement program manager for the AHA/ASA; Jeanette Wood, clinical quality coordinator/Chest Pain Center coordinator; and Ree Yarnell, Stroke Center coordinator pose with Central Carolina Hospital’s Silver Performance Award from the American Stroke Association/American Heart Association for its efforts in the Get With The Guidelines – Stroke program. Earlier this year, the hospital was given the state’s first Gold award in the GWTG program for heart failure care.

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■ Carolina DockDogs will hold open practice/introduction for beginners at 2 p.m. at the Ole Gilliam Mill on Carbonton Road. For more information, visit www. carolinadockdogs.com.

SUNDAY SATURDAY ■ A blood drive will be held from noon to 4:30 p.m. at Depot Park (Liberty Home Care and Hospice), 106 Charlotte Ave., Sanford. Free eco tote bag for all donors.

Contact Dana Smith at 770-3333 or danasmith@libertyhomecare.com to schedule your appointment.

■ 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.

■ Diving Dog Competition presented by Carolina DockDogs will be held at the Ole Gilliam Mill. Registration begins at 8 a.m.

Competition waves are at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Boy Scout Troop 942 will be serving food from the grill. For more information, visit www.carolinadockdogs. com.

■ Applebee’s in Sanford will partner with the Sprott Christian Youth Center to host a Flapjack Fundraiser. Proceeds raised will help the Moncure community renovate their youth center. Breakfast begins at 7 a.m., and tickets are $7 and can be purchased by calling Donald Lyerly at (919) 542-6103. Breakfast includes a short stack of pancakes, sausage, milk, juice and coffee.

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■ Diving Dog Competition presented by Carolina DockDogs will be held at the Ole Gilliam Mill. Registration begins at 8 a.m.

Competition waves are 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and Divisional Finals at 2 p.m.

Boy Scout Troop 942 will be serving food from the grill. For more information, visit www.carolinadockdogs.com.

TUESDAY ■ The Sanford National Night Out event will be held.

■ The National Weather Service will present a Severe Weather Spotter Training Class (Skywarn for Amateur Radio Operators) at 7 p.m. at the McSwain Center at 2410 Tramway Road.

WEDNESDAY ■ Celebrate your last free days before school begins and beat the heat at the Lee County Library’s mini film festival at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the library’s main branch. Bring a beach towel or blanket and a light snack. The event is free and open to the public; children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call the library at (919) 718-4665 x. 5483.

THURSDAY ■ The Central Carolina Community College summer graduation will be held at 11

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■ Legal Aid Intake Day will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at The Enrichment Center in Sanford.

■ “Walk in ‘e Moon” book signing with author LaVerne Thornton and illustrator Perry Harrison will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at Virlie’s Grill, 58 Hillsboro St., Pittsboro.

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SANFORD — The North Carolina Chapter of Americans for Prosperity will hold a “November is Coming�

Rally, at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 6.

The event will be held at the McSwain Agricultural Center, 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford. It is free and open to the public. Free food and activities for children will be provided. “We want to urge North Carolinians to hold their elected officials accountable for their votes to raise taxes and expand government on the state and local levels,� said Dallas Woodhouse, State Director of Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina. “Their decisions are killing jobs and raising taxes, and the North Carolina economy simply can’t afford it.�

Lloyd Jennings, chairman of Americans for Prosperity-Lee County, added, “Lee County has the highest tax and unemployment rates in the area. AFP wants citizens to know that our elected officials are, in large measure, responsible for these conditions.�

Concerned North Carolina citizens will be asked to sign petitions to the North Carolina General Assembly, urging them to “change course� and “vote against big government legislation� in November.

By BILLY BALL

SANFORD — Lee County and Sanford narcotics teams arrested two area men Thursday after a search of a home turned up drugs and moonshine.

The two men, 23-yearold Sergio Telanto Heaggans of 170 Gilchrist Road in Cameron and 55-yearold Neomai Burch of 618 Matthews St. in Sanford, are both facing charges from the investigation.

Agents from the Sanford Police Department and Lee County Sheriff’s Office searched Burch’s Matthews Street residence and found eight bags, or about 8 grams, of marijuana and a half-gallon of moonshine liquor.

The marijuana has an estimated street value of $80, according to police.

Heaggans, who was holding the marijuana, is charged with possession with intent to sell marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Burch is charged with possession of a non-tax paid liquor.

— from staff reports

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Employment office to close today for move in Siler City

SILER CITY — The Chatham County office of the North Carolina Employment Security Commission will be close today to allow for a move to a bigger space.

The office, currently located at 205 Chatham Street, will reopen Monday at 225 E. Beaver St. in Siler City.

Area Director Edith Edmond said the new, larger space will allow the office to better serve its customers.

The office is the only one in Chatham County and the only one between Chapel Hill and Asheboro. Currently, Chatham County’s unemployment rate of 6.9 percent is among the lowest in the state. — by Jonathan Owens

SANFORD — North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper will participate in the inaugural Badges for Baseball Quickball Tournament at 11 a.m. today in Snaford.

Cooper will give opening remarks and throw out the ceremonial first pitch to kick off a fun-filled day of Quickball, a fast paced indoor/ outdoor version of baseball.

The 125 children Cooper competing in the tournament represent the 20 Badges for Baseball programs throughout the state.

Badges for Baseball is a crime prevention program that pairs law enforcement professionals as mentors and coaches with youth.

The program, developed by the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, is a positive outlet for young people during outof-school hours when they are most likely to commit or become victims of crime.

The Quickball Tournament will take place at the Boys and Girls Club of Sanford/ Lee County located at 1414 Bragg Street in Sanford.

More information about Badges for Baseball is available at www.ncdoj.gov. — from staff reports

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CAMERON — Moore County investigators are charging a Cameron man with meeting a juvenile girl on the Internet and starting a sexual relationship.

Dominique Elliott Ross, a 20-year-old resident at 115 Annie Place in Cameron, confessed Tuesday to having sex with a 13year-old Cameron girl, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office said.

Ross talked to the teenage girl in an Internet chat room and then met

her for sex. The two carried out their relationship over a month, said Lt. Bill Mackey of the Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators got involved after the girl’s parents told law enforcement Tuesday that they believed their daughter had started a relationship with a man she met online.

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counts of statutory rape, two counts of indecent liberties with a minor, two counts of sexual battery and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

He is being held in the Moore County Detention Center under a $250,000 secured bond, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Ross did not have a criminal history in North Carolina prior to his arrest Tuesday.

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SANFORD — Sanford police are searching for a man who robbed a Horner Boulevard convenience store early Thursday.

Officers say a man wielding a rifle robbed the Kangaroo station at 1130 N. Horner Blvd., making off with an undisclosed amount of money.

Police received the call around 2:18 a.m. Thursday.

The clerk said the man entered with a long-barreled rifle and demanded cash.

Afterwards, the suspect left the convenience store on foot heading north.

Police say the suspect is described as a white man in his early- to mid-20s, around 6 feet tall with a slender build. The man was wearing black clothes and a black mask, the clerk said.

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SANFORD — Celebrate your last free days before school begins and beat the heat at the Lee County Library’s mini film festival.

The library will show justreleased, family-friendly movies on Wednesday, Aug. and Aug. 11, at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the library’s main branch.

The library encourages guests to bring a beach towel or blanket and a light snack. These programs are free and open to the public; children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information call the library at (919) 7184665 x. 5483.

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Editorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor

Education bar has been set too low Greensboro News & Record

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orth Carolina climbed a big step this week in the federal Race to the Top school funding competition. It’s one of 19 states named a finalist for a share of $3.4 billion.

It helped that North Carolina recently adopted national academic standards, one of the keys to winning points from the U.S. Department of Education.

The Obama administration is using its funding power to force states to reform their public school systems. Race to the Top was designed to reward innovation and punish business as usual. Top-down reform

is heavy-handed but effective, given that some states have set low expectations for too long.

North Carolina was one that needed prodding. Its own K-12 academic standards in the most basic subjects -- English language arts and math -- are “among the worst in the country,” according to a new national survey by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

The evaluation was jarring, especially for English language arts, which analysts called “one of the most befuddling sets of standards reviewed for this report. It is difficult to describe its organization and purpose, for neither is obvious to the reader.

The standards are jam-packed with jargon and littered with generic skills that appear in multiple strands (often nonacademic skills, such as personal reflection). Glimpses of good content can be found in early reading, vocabulary, analysis of arguments, and even conventions, but in many places the standards are devoid of academic content.”

The math standards were better, but not by much. Overall, both areas were graded as a D. In contrast, the new national benchmarks, called the Common Core State Standards, scored a B-plus for English language arts and A-minus for math -- in both cases far superior to the current

North Carolina standards, the report said.

North Carolina’s race to the top for additional federal funding should be encouraged. With state budget stagnation, help from Washington is sorely needed. The ultimate goal, however, is academic success for North Carolina children. Although improvements were noted recently on 2010 state end-of-course and end-of-grade tests, the question lingers: Has the bar been set too low? More modest results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in recent years suggest the bar isn’t far off the ground, and the Fordham survey adds further evidence.

Scott Mooneyham Today in North Carolina Scott Mooneyham is a columnist with Capitol Press Association

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ALEIGH — One of the more disappointing aspects of the rounds of ethics reform that North Carolina legislators have passed in recent years is how little institutional reform was included.

Ethics reform — whether it involves cutting out lobbyists-paid meals at swanky steakhouses or increasing criminal penalties for those who willfully violate campaign donor limits — inevitably means some finger-pointing. After all, the series of ethic laws passed since 2006 didn’t come about because all our elected officials were leading squeakyclean lives.

So it’s not surprising when some of those targeted by these laws, but accused of no wrongdoing, feel a bit offended. ...

But political preservation demanded a response to scandals that rocked the legislature and state government. So, legislators bit their tongue and put a litany new ethics requirements into law.

They haven’t felt compelled to do the same for institutional reforms that can’t be characterized as a response to any shortcomings by the elected. Rather, they’re needs created by a changing world and shifting political dynamics.

House Speaker Joe Hackney recently renewed talk of limiting the terms of House and Senate leaders after saying that he may restrict himself to three terms in the job. ...

Before the mid-1970s, House speakers restricted themselves to a single two-year term. The Senate was overseen by the lieutenant governor, limited to a single four-year term.

Then North Carolina voters agreed to allow the governor and lieutenant governor to run for a second term. House speakers decided that they should have longer terms too. A Democratic Senate stripped a Republican lieutenant governor of power, giving the chamber’s leadership to someone elected by the body, the Senate president pro tem.

In the 1990s, a more competitive political landscape led to more legislative campaign fund-raising. The money flowed through chamber leaders, making it more difficult than ever for them to walk away from the positions.

The obvious result has been a concentration of power.

As those changes occurred, the legislature became older, populated by a growing number of retirees. Who else could take a job that paid $13,000 a year in salary and a $104 a day stipend?

Meanwhile, the population grew, the economy became more diverse, lawmaking became more complex and took longer and longer each year.

Eventually, legislators changed the rules designed to govern their behavior.

They never really changed the rules that govern the legislating apparatus.

They never considered a full-time legislature with full-time pay. For three decades, they haven’t asked voters what they think about extending legislative terms to four years.

Apparently, they fear that voters will see those ideas as cynical power grabs.

Ironically, they’re exactly the kind of thing that has nothing to do with anyone’s bad behavior.

This was all secret?

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ASHINGTON — The tens of thousands of classified military documents posted on the Internet Sunday confirm what critics of the war in Afghanistan already knew or suspected: We are wading deeper into a long-running, morally ambiguous conflict that has virtually no chance of ending well.

The Obama administration, our NATO allies and the Afghan government responded to the documents — made public by a gadfly organization known as Wikileaks — by saying they tell us nothing new. Which is the problem.

We already had plenty of evidence that elements within Pakistan’s intelligence services were giving support and guidance to the Taliban insurgency inside Afghanistan, even though Pakistan is supposed to be our ally in the fight against the terrorists. The newly released documents don’t provide conclusive proof, but they do give a sense of how voluminous the evidence is. “American soldiers on the ground are inundated with accounts of a network of Pakistani assets and collaborators,” according to The New York Times, one of three news organizations — along with the Guardian and Der Spiegel — with which Wikileaks shared the documents in advance.

We already knew that U.S. and other coalition forces were inflicting civilian casualties that had the effect of enraging local villagers and often driving them into the enemy camp.

The documents merely reveal episodes that were previously unpublicized — an October 2008 incident in which French troops opened fire on a bus near Kabul and wounded eight children, for example, and a tragedy two months later when a U.S. squad riddled another bus with gunfire, killing four passengers and wounding 11 others.

We knew that U.S. and allied special forces units were authorized to assassinate senior Taliban or al-Qaeda figures. The leaked documents sketch the activities of the secret “kill or capture” unit named Task Force 373 — and in the process, according to the Guardian, “raise fundamental questions about the legality of the killings ... and also pragmatically about the impact of a tactic which is inherently likely to kill, injure and alienate the innocent bystanders whose support the coalition craves.”

The Guardian highlights a 2007 incident in which Task Force 373, operating in a valley near Jalalabad, set out to apprehend or kill a Taliban commander named Qarl Ur-Rahman. As the commandos neared the target, someone pointed a flashlight at them; they called for air support, and an AC-130 gunship strafed the area. Later, they discovered that they had killed seven Afghan National Police officers and wounded four others.

A few days later, according to the documents, a Task Force 373 unit fired rockets into a village where they believed a foreign jihadist fighter from Libya was hiding. They killed six Taliban fighters — but also seven civilians, all of them children. One was alive

Eugene Robinson Columnist Eugene Robinson is a columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group

when allied medics arrived. “The Med TM immediately cleared debris from the mouth and performed CPR,” the incident report states, but after 20 minutes the child died.

We knew that the Afghan government was spectacularly corrupt. The documents let us glimpse a bit of that corruption — how commonplace it is and how it destroys public trust.

The documents do tell us some things that we didn’t know — for example, that the Taliban apparently used a heat-seeking missile to shoot down a coalition helicopter in 2007, at a time when U.S. officials were poohpoohing the threat to allied aircraft from insurgent forces. Underestimating the enemy is rarely a good idea.

And the “Afghan War Diary,” as Wikileaks calls the documents, brings into clear focus the Catch-22 absurdity of trying to wage counterinsurgency warfare in a nation with a 2,000-year tradition of implacable resistance to foreign invaders. As the White House was quick to point out, the documents cover the period before President Obama ordered an escalation and a change of strategy.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s chosen commander, tried his best to limit civilian casualties — but soldiers complained, with some justification, that they were not being allowed to fully engage and pursue the enemy. Gen. David Petraeus, put in charge after McChrystal’s dismissal, is under pressure from the ranks to relax the rules of engagement — which would surely lead to more civilians killed, and more grieving relatives transformed into Taliban sympathizers.

Overall, though, the most shocking thing about the “War Diary” may be that they fail to shock. The documents illustrate how futile — and tragically wasteful — it is to send more young men and women to fight and die in Afghanistan.

But we knew this, didn’t we?

Today’s Prayer I am worn out, Lord, waiting for you to save me; I place my trust in your word.

(Psalm 119:81 TEV) PRAYER: Lord, help us give our waiting times to You and trust You even when we are worn out. Amen.

Letters to the Editor There are ways to report loose animals who cause a nuisance To the Editor: This letter is in response to the July 24 letter to the editor written

by Kelly Thomas. In this letter, Thomas asks whether or not Sanford has a leash law, because while out running and training for distance runs, she is all too often chased by loose dogs.

The various ordinances for the city and county can be found online but yes, Thomas, there is a leash law for the City of Sanford.

There is also a City of Sanford and a Lee County ordinance for nuisance animals and specifically there is a short section that states that an animal is considered a nuisance when it disturbs the rights of, threatens the safety of, damages the property of or injures a member of the general public — or interferes with the ordinary use and enjoyment of private or public property.

Specifically, it is illegal to maintain an animal that repeatedly chases, snaps at, attacks or otherwise molests pedestrians, bicyclists, motor vehicle passengers or domestic animals. In order for any action to be taken, any loose dog or animal that is considered a nuisance must be reported to Animal Control. The address or location of where the nuisance occurred and a description of the dog or dogs must be known and reported, and a request to have a citation issued must be made with you as the witness.

It is my experience as a bicycle rider who has reported loose dogs that an Animal Control officer does visit the home and talk with the owner. In the case of a citation, I can only assume that the owner is served the citation which after a first warning is cause for a fine and after a number of citations it is possible the animal can be confiscated. Unfortunately the problem of loose animals is due more to irresponsible owners than to the animals themselves. But in the end, it is the animal that suffers.

JOE WILD Sanford

Examples of good Samaritans in Sanford To the Editor: I would like to tell you about an act of kindness and honesty I recently experienced that reminds us that there are still a lot of good people out there.

This past Monday afternoon I lost a church payroll check that I had endorsed ready to deposit at my local bank. I frantically retraced my steps that I had taken during my lunch hour; a stop at a different bank, a quick trip to a local thrift store and even back to my office to see if by some chance I had left it on my desk. I even looked under the seats and throughout my car but had no luck in finding the missing check from my pocketbook.

I called the church office to have them stop payment on the check.

What to my surprise when soon after my call a couple entered the church office to report that they had found the missing check.

They had found it on a side road and when they discovered it was a check from First Baptist Church they went out of their way to return it to the church office.

I want to publicly say a big thank you Mr. and Mrs. George Ballon for their honesty and showing that there is still goodness and acts of kindness in this world. Thank God for setting such a wonderful example to us all. I am overcome with gratitude.

GRETCHEN GRINDLE Sanford

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Local OBITUARIES John Bryant

ABERDEEN — John Bryant, 83, died Saturday (7/24/10) at Wilson Medical Center in Wilson.

He is survived by sisters, Mary Brown of Aberdeen and Dorethea Bryant of Raleigh; brothers, Robert Bryant of Aberdeen and Lemuel Bryant and wife Rosa of Greensboro; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m.

Saturday at Shiloh AME Zion Church in Aberdeen.

Burial will follow in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Wagram. A viewing will be held one hour prior to the service at the church.

Arrangements are by Pugh & Smith Funeral Home of Carthage .

Gertie Sears

APEX — Gertie Emma Roberts Sears, 93, of 3000 Friendship Road, died Tuesday (7/27/10) at her home.

She was born May 20, 1917 in Wake County, daughter of the late Eugene D. and Sarah E. Tipett Roberts. She was a retired Tobacca Farmer and Housewife. She was preceded in death by her husband, John T. Sears.

She is survived by numerous neices, nephews, great-neices and nephews, and great-greatneices and nephews.

A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Apex Town Cemetery with the Rev. David Twigg officiating. The family will receive friends at the home.

Arrangements are by Smith Funeral Home of Moncure.

Nancy Wooley

SPRING LAKE — Nancy J. Wooley, 82, of 407 Duncan Road, died Monday (7/26/10) at Highland House in Memphis, Tenn.

She is survived by daughters, Diana Crosby of Spring Lake, Teresa Tucker of Memphis, Tenn. and Mary Kay Bridges of Hernando, Miss.; 15 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

The funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. today at Elizabeth Street Mortuary.

Arrangements are by Elizabeth Street Mortuary, Inc. of Spring Lake.

For more information on obituaries in The Herald, contact Kim Edwards at (919) 718-1224 or e-mail obits@sanfordherald.com

The Sanford Herald / Friday, July 30, 2010 / 5A

JOHNSTON COUNTY

Odell “Smiley� Jackson PITTSBORO — Mr. Odell “Smiley� Jackson, 77, of Hanks Chapel Road, Pittsboro, died in his home July 28, 2010, with his family by his side.

Mr. Jackson was born in Sampson County on August 23, 1932, the son of Luby Pete Jackson and Betty Thornton Jackson. He was manager of Burns Exxon in Pittsboro for 38 years. Mr. Jackson was a member of Hanks Chapel United Church of Christ, where he served on the Board of Trustees, as a deacon, an usher, and participated in the Jackson Men’s Fellowship. Mr. Jackson served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict.

He is survived by his wife, Doris Keck Jackson; sons, Mike Jackson and wife Pam of Pittsboro, Charles Jackson and wife Diane of Sanford, Tommy Jackson and wife Kim of Phoenix, Ariz.; a daughter, Ruth Jackson Gunter of Pittsboro; a daughter-in-law, Sylvia G. Jackson of Pittsboro; 13 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren. In addition to his parents, Mr. Jackson was preceded in death by his son, Joe, and a brother, William L. “Bill� Jackson.

The funeral service for Mr. Jackson will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Hanks Chapel United Church of Christ with Pastors Bob Wachs and Ray Gooch presiding. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Friends may visit with the family from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Hanks Chapel Church and other times at the residence.

Memorials may be made to either Hanks Chapel UCC Building Fund, P.O. Box 366, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312 or to UNC Hospice, P.O. Box 1077, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312.

Online condolences may be sent to www. hallwynne.com, select “Obituaries�.

Arrangements for Mr. Jackson are under the care of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service of Pittsboro.

Paid obituary

Elijah Caddick SANFORD — Elijah Christian Caddick, age 5, died Monday, July 26, 2010, at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.

Elijah was born Nov. 8, 2004 in Lee County, son of David James Caddick and Melissa Williams Caddick. He was a kindergarten student at Tramway. He was preceded in death by his great-grandparents, Billy and Mildred Thomas, Curt and Ruth Williams and James and Theresa O’Neill, and an aunt, Samantha Caddick.

Surviving relatives in addition to his parents are brothers, B.J. Caddick and Mason Caddick of the home; maternal grandparents, Gary and Beth Williams of Sanford; paternal grandparents, David and Doreen Caddick of Sanford; paternal great grandparents, Ronald and Doreen Caddick of Boca Raton, Fla.; uncles Daniel Caddick and Michael Williams and wife Mindy; aunt Destiny Lawton and husband William, cousins Porter Williams, Faith Lawton and Hope Lawton and a special friend Elisa Carver.

The family will receive friends Friday, July 30, 2010, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home and at other times at 764 Lower Moncure Road, Sanford. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 31, 2010, at Turners Chapel with Pastor Brian Parker and Ronnie Whitaker presiding. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Lee County Chapter of the Autism Society, at BB&T or with April Brooks, 5803 Bryan Drive, Sanford, N.C. 27332.

Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. Paid obituary

Benson to host Christian music fest BENSON (MCT) — Timothy Layaou is quick to concede that Christian music festivals are a dime a dozen these days.

But the event he’s planning for this Saturday in Benson will be different, Layaou says.

Rather than focusing solely on bluegrass, gospel or Christian rock, he wants to bring together all types of Christian music. “Our dream was to break down the barriers between the churches,�

Layaou said. “We really just want to get all these diverse groups together.

Unity is what the whole festival is about.�

One Fest will kick off at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 31, and run all day with groups ranging from hardcore metal to hiphop to country. The event takes place at Benson

Chamber Park, 355 J. Lee Road. Layaou expects thousands of people from around the state to attend.

Embracing Goodbye, a Southern metal/hardcore/Christian band from Four Oaks, will headline the festival with an evening performance.

Layaou, who performs as rapper The Disciple, will also headline.

Layaou is a Harnett County native who now lives in the Charlotte area. He’s hoping the Benson festival will be the first in a series he’s organizing around the state and country. But he wanted to have the first festival here in order to give back to his hometown. The festival’s other organizer, David Houston, lives in the area and attended South Johnston High.

“Benson could really use some more entertainment, especially for the youth,� Layaou said. “It’s really about watering your roots.�

Furthering that goal, proceeds from the festival will go toward Belly Fish, a skate park and teen nightclub Houston and Layaou are trying to open in the Benson/Four Oaks area. The club will feature live music, paintball and an arcade. “It’s really about giving those teens an alternative rather than partying all night,� Layaou said.

He feels the cause is important in part because of his own troubled youth. He says he was involved with drugs and saw a friend murdered before he turned his life around and started rapping about Christianity.

ing threats. n Cedric Remell McNeil, 30, was charged Thursday at 209 S. Second St. with carrying a concealed weapon and marijuana possession. n Express Care reported breaking and entering into a business Tuesday at 1810 S. Horner Blvd. n Albert Glenn Martindale reported property damage Tuesday at 1953 S. Horner Blvd. n Ozark Motor Lines reported a larceny Tuesday at 2700 S. Horner Blvd. n Haywood Bernard Snipes, 46, of 80 Variety Lane in Sanford, was charged Tuesday with witness intimidation and violation of a valid protective order. n Jerry Wayne Saunders, 36, was charged Tuesday at 1400 S. Horner Blvd. with witness intimidation. n Samuel Ryon Roofener, 17, of 3129 Parkwood Drive in Sanford, was charged Tuesday with failure to appear. n Nakia Lashandra Baldwin, 35, of 1023 James St. in Sanford, was charged Tuesday with larceny. n Kenneth Durward Jernigan, 47, was charged Tuesday at 520 W. Weatherspoon St. with assault on a female.

LEE COUNTY Joseph Randall Lynn, 44, of 240 Holly Berry Lane in Sanford, was arrested Wednesday for a worthless check; he was released under $500 unsecured bond.

William Gerald Holland, 43, of 151 Rental Lane in Sanford, was arrested Wednesday for failing to appear in court; he was held under $500 secured bond.

Roy Benjamin Louis Bailey Jr., of 2946 Nicholson Road in Cameron, was arrested Wednesday for simple assault, harassing phone calls and violating a protective order; he was held under no bond.

— The Smithfield Herald

POLICE BEAT SANFORD n JT’s Car Wash reported breaking and entering into a bu siness Wednesday at 1924 S. Horner Blvd. n One Stop Minute Mart reported fraud Wednesday at 1844 S. Horner Blvd. n Wilco Hess reported shoplifting Wednesday at 2224 S. Horner Blvd. n Jose Guerrero Arroyo reported vandalism Thursday at 49 Thornwood Court. n Oscar Vera Jiminez reported vandalism Thursday at 50 Thornwood Court. n Rolando Figueroa Herrera reported vandalim Thursday at 63 Thornwood Court. n Maria Idalia Becerra reported vandalism Thursday at 152 Thornwood Drive. n Domingo Leonidez Munoz reported vandalism Thursday at 118 Thornwood Court. n Figueroa Luis Gutierrez, 33, was charged Wednesday at 112 Jackson St. with violation of a valid protective order. n Adrian Jerome Womack, 32, was charged Wednesday at 1100 Woodland Ave. with failure to appear. n Tanette Michele Headen, 42, was charged Wednesday at 1 Rose St. with worthless check. n David Henry Kendall, 26, was charged Thursday at 520 Bounty Lane with communicat-

HARNETT COUNTY Joshua Allen Page, 32, of 16962 N.C. 27 West in Sanford, was charged Tuesday with burglary, possession of stolen goods, larceny after breaking and entering from storage buildings, motor vehicle theft, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and failure to appear on littering charges.

Donna J. Duval, 40, of 105 Temple Road in Bunnlevel, was charged Tuesday with worthless check and failure to return rental property.

Carol Alling reported a breaking and entering and larceny Tuesday at 181 Connecticut Way in Cameron.

LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1990 will have their 20 year class reunion on Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18.

A Letter from the Gorham Family

For more information send your address to leeclass90@gmail.com or check out the Lee Senior Class of 1990 group on Facebook.

In Loving Memory of

Today, the family of Rev. William M. Gorham wants to express and share our deep thanks, gratitude and appreciation for the joy and love Daddy Gorham brought into or lives.

On Thursday, June 17th, we encircled Daddy Gorham with love and released him to go to his next great adventure - - - - that being in the presence of the Lord. His main love in life was his family.

He is survived by his loving wife and lifelong soul mate, Helen L. Gorham. Their beautiful romance was often challenged yet remained unwavering for 57 years. They were truly blessed by a love that brought them joy. Their legacy of love are their four sons, Melvin (deceased), James Robert (deceased), Billy Ray and William Earl.

Rev. Gorham’s life was blessed with many deep friendship.

This circle of friends became his extended family and enriched his life immensely.

Those who knew Rev. Gorham will remember and treasure the qualities that deďŹ ned him most. He lived life passionately and lit up a room with positive attitude and resounding laughter.

He had an innate ability to make others feel connected, included, and warm in his presence.

Daddy Gorham lived life to the fullest, celebrating every day without regrets. He has left a legacy that makes our family proud - - - kindness, love, and doing for others. Our love for him will hold him in our hearts forever and ever.

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Apex won’t back Three still in hospital after wreck Cary’s effort for a toll-free bypass

APEX (MCT) — The town of Apex joined forces with Cary last week — at least partially — in approving a response to state plans for a stretch of U.S. 64 between Cary and Pittsboro.

But Apex officials steered clear of Cary’s latest additions, including a request for a toll-free bypass of a proposed business portion of U.S. 64.

The Apex Town Council approved the response at its meeting on Tuesday. Cary leaders passed the statement two weeks ago.

Apex and Cary planners had drafted a unified response to the study to express concerns the towns had with the transit plan.

The joint response will be sent to state and regional transportation authorities who will spend the fall making more tweaks to the long-term road map for the area. “[The response] adds a great deal of heft to what the citizens in the area — who live in both Cary and Apex — are saying,” Cary Councilwoman Gale Adcock said. “To have both local governments, the chambers [of commerce] and the [Regional Transportation Alliance] agree on the bulk of our recommendations makes a difference.”

The N.C. Department of Transportation released the draft study report in May. The report, which takes a 30-year look at growing part of the four-lane, 19-mile stretch, has no allotted timeline or funding in place.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Apex planners and engi-

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neers recommended approval of a joint response that covers nine points.

But they could not suggest aligning with some of Cary’s extra comments.

Apex wouldn’t support Cary’s toll-free bypass effort in part because it’s not something the towns or the study can control. Cary wants the bypass on N.C. 540, which relies on the toll as its funding source. “It compromises your credibility when you ask for things you can’t get,” said Apex transportation engineer Russell Dalton.

Apex officials said they supported bypass options but that it was too soon to decide on specifics. Cary had also backed a recommendation to rename the current U.S. 64 corridor to U.S. 64 Business/Tryon Road.

“When you try and downgrade [a road], you jeopardize your ability for future funding for improvements,” Dalton said.

These recommendations will still be presented in the letter — but they’ll be listed separately as suggestions from Cary. The latest draft of the study removed the recommendation for a so-called superstreet at Laura Duncan Drive in Apex. The removal came after intense public outcry. Apex officials applauded the change to a modified roundabout. “It’s much of an improvement over what DOT was trying to cram down our throats,” Apex Mayor Keith Weatherly said.

The response letter documents several contentions to the study that were also raised in a petition signed by thousands of Western Wake citizens.

Cary and Apex officials want the state to delay proposed plans to implement short-term road improvements along U.S. 64 from U.S. 1 to N.C. 540, at least until the state completes the Western Wake Freeway and opens it to traffic.

— The Cary News

SPRING LAKE (MCT) — Three people who were injured Tuesday in a three-vehicle wreck on N.C. 87 in Spring Lake remain hospitalized.

Tonja Belinda Scott and Kourtney Lynn Jay were in good condition Thursday at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said.

Scott, 40, of Hunter Field, was the driver of a Chevrolet Blazer that was demolished when it

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responsible for planning the entire program from start to finish.

“Our kids did all of the crafts and games and music and everything,” said Joel Murr, youth pastor at Grace Chapel.

Because the area is relatively isolated, only a handful of children attend South Portage Baptist

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Carolina Hosptial before being transported to Chapel Hill.

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“When I first came in the pen, he’d be on the other side facing away from me,” Thomas said.

“Now he’ll face me, and I can move his head a little.”

Thomas is working with Top Gun as part of Extreme Mustang Makeover, a nationwide competition in which horse trainers have about 100 days to train a wild mustang, culminating with the finals in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in October. Only four trainers from North Carolina were selected to compete. Chapin Thomas, 20; his sister Emily Thomas, 24; and their father Jim

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was struck by a Chevrolet truck about 11 a.m. near the Harnett County line, according to a report filed by Trooper N.M. Oxendine.

Jay, 19, of Bloom Road in Cameron, and Kristain Nigel Otero Murray, 16, also of Hunter Field in Sanford, were passengers in the Blazer.

Murray was taken to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and was in good condition Thursday morning, a hospital

spokesman said.

The driver of the truck, James Jordan Luna, 31, of the 200 block of Coachman Way in Sanford, was cited for exceeding a safe speed and traveling left of center, the report said.

Luna was headed north on N.C. 87 during heavy rain when he lost control of the truck and traveled into the path of Scott’s southbound sport utility vehicle, the report said.

The impact pushed the SUV into Toyota driven by Henry Ray Bowman, 44, of Morris Day Lane in Lillington, the report said.

Luna was taken to Womack Army Medical Center and treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, according to Oxendine.

Bowman was not injured, according to the report.

Church. To expand the vacation Bible school, the Grace Chapel members went door to door inviting other Fredericton children to join the program.

“They only had about five or six kids in their little church, so to be able to get 30 kids to show up was pretty cool,” Murr said.

In addition to seeing the local children’s understanding of the Bible evolve, Murr said it was a great experience to see the young Grace Chapel

volunteers grow in the process.

“It was great to see them step up and be leaders,” Murr said. “There they really had the opportunity to do that. Not a lot happens out there, so (the children) were so excited.”

Grace Chapel Church takes a youth mission trip every year. Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Mexico are just a few of the places the group has visited in the

past. Murr said the church is in the early stages of planning next year’s trip but hasn’t decided yet where to go.

But as for this year’s trip, Murr counts it as a success in every aspect.

“For a group like ours to come in and bring the excitement they did, the kids just had a blast,” Murr said. “We wanted them to see that you can have joy in the lord and that being a Christian can be fun.”

Elijah was the son of David and Melissa Caddick of Sanford and was the middle of three sons by the couple. According to Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, friends and family members will

gather today at the funeral home at at a local residence to remember Elijah’s life.

In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that memorials be made to the Lee County Chapter

of the Autism Society, at BB&T or with April Brooks of Sanford. An online condolences page has been created at the funeral home’s website, bridgescameronfuneralhome.com.

Thomas, 51, are three of them.

The family has been involved with the competition for the past three years, and they usually place in the top 20.

“It’s just blossomed and grown into a family affair,” Jim Thomas said.

Sponsored by the Mustang Heritage Foundation, Extreme Mustang Makeover exists to demonstrate that mustangs are trainable and worthy of appreciation.

Mustangs are wild horses that are protected under federal law, but because of overpopulation, the Bureau of Land Management must remove some of them from their natural habitat. Some of these mustangs are used for the competition, and at the end of the event, they are auctioned off for adoption.

Jim Thomas said though many people view mustangs as crazy wild animals that can’t be tamed, with a little patience and hard work, it is possible to train them.

“They don’t even have green grass where they’re from,” Jim Thomas said. “But we get a lot of horses that people have problems with here, so it’s exciting to make that connection.”

Since they picked up their mustangs on July 16, the Thomases have started working with them to varying degrees of success. Though Top Gun is learning a little slower than horses Chapin Thomas has worked with in the past, he said he is making progress.

But Emily Thomas said she is having some difficulty gaining her mustang’s trust.

“They’ve had very little human contact, and what contact they have had has been forced,” Emily Thomas said.

Jim Thomas said he’s already passed both of his children in terms of his mustang’s progress, even though he was away on vacation the first week and has had less time to work with the horse.

One of the first hurdles

is removing a numbered tag from the horse’s neck.

Jim Thomas removed his mustang’s tag after only two sessions.

“It’s just a testament to how different these horses can be,” Emily Thomas said. “Just like people, they have different personalities.”

At the final competition in October, the trainers will have to demonstrate that their mustang is in good physical condition, they can mount and ride the horse and they can pick up all four of its feet. The mustang will also have to make its way through a number of obstacles. After the trainers have tamed the mustangs and gained their trust, they will begin working on routines.

“You’ve got a PA on and 2-3,000 people, and the horse is all by himself in the arena, so that affects them,” Jim Thomas said.

Emily Thomas said mustangs do require more work than other horses, but she hopes through the competition people will see that mustangs don’t have to be feared and can be tamed.

All three Thomases agree that good communication and confidence are the most important keys to successfully training a mustang.

“That horse has to trust you beyond a doubt,” Jim Thomas said. “He feels everything you feel.”

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RALEIGH (AP) — Authorities say a North Carolina man attempted to illegally export 16 guns without getting a license.

Court documents unsealed Thursday say Steven Neal Greenoe attempted to travel with the disassembled weapons in checked luggage on a flight Sunday.

Greenoe had tickets from Raleigh Durham International Airport to New York and then to Manchester, England.

Investigators said Greenoe has made a series of trips to England this year and a series of gun purchases in North Carolina. Documents show that he told investigators that he knew he wasn’t supposed to bring the weapons in his luggage but was doing so to outfit employees working on maritime security contracts abroad.

Expert: Gulf oil unlikely to reach East Coast

RALEIGH (AP) — An expert on marine sciences and coastal circulation says it’s unlikely that oil from the Gulf spill will each the eastern seaboard.

North Carolina State University associate professor Roy He said Thursday the chances are low in part because the well is capped. He also says large amounts of oil haven’t been observed in the Loop Current, which could carry oil around Florida and into East Coast waters. He also points to the ongoing dilution and degradation of the oil.

A National Center for Atmospheric Research model released at the beginning of June projected that parts of the oil spill could come up the east coast during the summer. Experts said at the time any oil that would reach the east coast would likely arrive in the form of small, weathered tar balls.

Law limits length of monitoring DWI offenders

CHARLOTTE (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers say they are willing to revisit the state’s laws on ankle-monitoring for people convicted for driving while impaired.

State law prohibits judges from putting the monitoring devices on serious DWI offenders for more than 60

days. That was the case for Howard Pasour, who was ordered to wear an ankle bracelet after his third impaired driving conviction last year.

Pasour was allowed to remove the device in January.

Authorities now say he was driving drunk on a two lane road on Sunday when his car crossed the center line and hit an oncoming car, killing 17year-old Laura Fortenberry.

Democratic state Sen. John Snow tells the Charlotte Observer he’s willing to consider extending the maximum time the bracelets can be worn.

N.C. Highway Patrol panel discusses how to fix force RALEIGH (AP) — A highprofile panel responsible for ideas on how to restructure North Carolina’s beleaguered Highway Patrol is meeting for the first time.

WRAL-TV reported the sixmember panel meets Thursday to begin coming up with ways to change the patrol’s policies and structure.

The group also will find a new commander to replace Col. Randy Glover, who is retiring at the end of August after a series of scandals tarnished the Highway Patrol’s reputation.

The panel’s members are former state Supreme Court chief justice Burley Mitchell, law professor Julius Chambers, former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker, Mecklenburg County District Attorney Peter Gilchrist, former Appeals Judge Ralph Walker and University of North Carolina law professor Norma Houston.

2 from N.C. die in Interstate 95 wreck in Virginia HANOVER, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police say two members of a North Carolina family have died from injuries suffered in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 95 in Hanover County.

Police say 75-year-old Joe L. Thomas and 45-year-old Garry W. Estes died at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond after the Thursday morning accident.

Police say the family was traveling in a vehicle driven by 51-year-old Teresa E. Bridges.

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Police say the family members were traveling from Durham, to a relative’s college graduation in Washington, D.C.

Mother charged in death of girl who was abused SMITHFIELD (AP) — A mother knew her daughter had been abused by a man before she left the 4-year-old in his care while she went to military training, authorities said Thursday.

Multiple media outlets reported that Helen Reyes, 27, of Raleigh was charged with negligent child abuse causing serious bodily injury. Her daughter, Teghan Skiba, died July 19 at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She had cuts, lacerations, bite marks, head trauma and sexual assault injuries, authorities said.

Reyes “had first-hand knowledge that this type of abuse had occurred

prior to July 5 by Jonathan Richardson,� the arrest warrant states.

Reyes left for military training in New Mexico on July 6. Richardson faces first-degree murder charges in the child’s death.

The warrant also states that Reyes subjected her daughter to “verbal threats, intimidation, forced consumption of alcohol, severe physical beatings and assault by biting.�

The three had been living in a barn behind the home of Richardson’s grandparents, Wade and Helen Creech, near Smithfield. The barn had no bathroom, no run-

SBI director moves to new job

By MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH — As outside investigators continue looking into the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab, the SBI director has moved to a new job within state government, North Carolina’s attorney general said Thursday.

SBI Director Robin Pendergraft will become senior deputy attorney general of the newly expanded Medicaid fraud unit, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Thursday. The new SBI director is Greg McLeod, who has worked as Cooper’s legislative liaison.

Pendergraft’s Medicaid fraud job is a new position, a spokeswoman for the state Justice Department said. The new salary for Pendergraft, who earns $113,293 a year as SBI director, has not been determined, spokeswoman Noelle Talley said.

Defense attorney David Rudolf, who has represented clients who have sued the SBI, called Pendergraft’s move an important change in the agency. But he said he had hoped the new director would be someone from

outside North Carolina with experience running a similar agency. “I don’t think all the blame can or should be laid at Robin’s feet,� he said Thursday. “Having said that, I don’t think she took the steps that were necessary to address the problems when she did become aware of them�

Two former assistant directors of the FBI are looking into practices at the state crime lab. Their contract, originally set to expire in June, now goes through the end of the year.

They were called in after a ruling last February that a North Carolina man who served almost 17 years in prison for murder was innocent. The state Innocence Commission heard evidence that complete blood test results had been excluded from crime lab reports presented at Greg Taylor’s trial. An SBI agent testified that not all lab results were provided to attorneys.

Pendergraft confirmed in February that the practice existed before she took over the SBI. She told The Associ-

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Also assigned to the Medicaid fraud unit was Mark Isley, who is one of two SBI agents being sued

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Richardson, who initially told hospital workers that Teghan had fallen off the bed, later told Johnston County investigators that he whipped the girl with a cord after she went to the bathroom in the bed they were share, according to search warrants.

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Wake County Human Services said in a report Wednesday that Reyes failed “to protect her child and to entrust her child to an appropriate caretaker.�

Social workers substantiated that Reyes abused the girl by leaving her in Richardson’s custody. “The finding concerning Ms. Reyes does not

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Details of the request to amend the CPCN may be obtained from the OfďŹ ce of the Chief Clerk of the North Carolina Utilities Commission, 4325 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4325, where a copy of the application is available for review by any interested person.

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Panel hits Rangel with 13 charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday, throwing a cloud over his four-decade political career and raising worries for fellow Democrats about the fall elections.

The allegations — which include failure to report rental income from vacation property in the Dominican Republic and more than $600,000 in other income on his congressional financial disclosure statements — came as lawyers for Rangel and the House ethics committee worked on a plea deal.

One was struck, people familiar with the talks said, but Republicans indicated it was too late.

The deal between the lawyers will have little meaning if the committee members don’t approve it, and Republicans said at the proceeding they were insisting on going forward with a trial. The panel is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. “Mr. Rangel was given multiple opportunities to settle this matter. Instead, he chose to move forward to the public trial phase,� said Rep. Jo Bonner of Alabama, the senior Republican on the ethics panel Chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., has made clear that she wants the committee to be unanimous — leaving little chance for agreement without Rangel capitulating on virtually all counts.

Many Democrats had urged Rangel to settle the case to avoid the prospect of televised hearings right before November

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., left, walks with his chief of staff George Henry as he heads for a vote on on the House floor Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday. congressional elections that will determine which party controls Congress next year.

However, as Friday’s public airing of the charges drew nearer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seem resigned to the case proceeding. “The chips will have to fall where they may politically,� she told reporters. Pursuing ethics cases against House members is “a serious responsibility that we have,� she said.

The alleged violations of House standards of conduct also include using congressional letterhead to solicit donations for a center for public service to bear Rangel’s name on the New York campus of the City College of New York.

Rangel was also accused of accepting a rent-stabilized property in Manhattan for his campaign office and initially not paying federal taxes on the Dominican Republic property.

The ethics panel said Rangel failed to report rental income on his original tax returns for 1998 through 2006 from

the Dominican Republic villa. It also said he violated federal laws in addition to House ethics rules, including the 1989 Ethics Reform Act, Postal Service laws and government service codes.

The ethics charges, agreed upon after a twoyear probe, were read in a public session of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, as the ethics committee is formally known.

Rangel, 80, did not attend.

The session set the stage for a committee trial, expected to be held in September. Democrats had hoped to avoid such a public confrontation as November elections approach. “We live at a time when public skepticism about the institutions in our country is very high,� said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, DCalif., the ethics committee chair.

She said it had been the panel’s goal “to by our actions rebuild and earn trust by the public and our colleagues.�

Republicans have been trying to turn the case into an indictment

of Democratic leadership.

Rangel stepped down earlier this year as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, one of the top posts in the House.

But Bonner told colleagues, “No one, regardless of their partisan stripes, should rejoice.� “It is the duty of the House to punish its members for disorderly behavior. As such, this is truly a sad day,� the Alabama Republican said.

Under the tentative plea deal, it was not immediately clear how many of the 13 charges of ethical violations Rangel agreed to accept.

The ethics panel that will judge Rangel’s conduct held its first meeting Thursday.

It includes eight members, equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. Thus, for any deal to be accepted it must be approved by at least one Republican.

In the frantic hours leading up to the meeting, Rangel’s lawyer, Leslie Kiernan, talked to attorneys for the panel about how to avoid a trial for the 40-year veteran.

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Missouri on Tuesday will become the first state to the test the popularity of President Barack Obama’s top policy accomplishment with a statewide ballot proposal attempting to reject its core mandate that most Americans have health insurance.

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The Missouri measure, shepherded to the ballot by Republican state lawmakers, is a glaring example of the twisting, troubled politics surrounding the health overhaul. After years of campaigning for health care reform, Democrats finally accomplished it. Yet Democrats are largely silent and it is Republicans who now are highlighting the health care law in their campaigns.

From Florida to Washington and numerous states in between, Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate and House — and even for local offices that have little to do with the federal law — are calling for the repeal of what they derisively dub as “Obamacare.�

Sherrod will sue conservative blogger over video SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist.

Sherrod was forced to resign last week as director of rural development in Georgia after Andrew Breitbart posted the edited video online.

In the full video, Sherrod, who is black, spoke to a local NAACP group about racial reconciliation and overcoming her initial reluctance to help a white farmer.

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Sherrod said she had not received an apology from Breitbart and no longer wanted one. “He had to know that he was targeting me,� she said.

Breitbart did not immediately respond to a call or e-mails seeking comment. He has said he posted the portion of the speech where she expresses reservations about helping the white farmer to prove that racism exists in the NAACP, which had just demanded that the tea party movement renounce any bigoted elements. Some members of the NAACP audience appeared to approve when Sherrod described her reluctance to help the farmer.

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Montana wildlife officials on Thursday identified the man killed in the mauling as Kevin Kammer, 48, of Grand Rapids, Mich. The bear pulled Kammer out his tent and dragged him 25 feet to where his body was found, Aasheim said.

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PHOENIX — Arizona asked an appeals court Thursday to lift a judge’s order blocking most of the state’s immigration law as the city of Phoenix filled with protesters, including about 50 who were arrested for confronting officers in riot gear.

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer called U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton’s Wednesday decision halting the law “a bump in the road,� and the state appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday.

Outside the state Capitol, hundreds of protesters began marching at dawn, gathering in front of the federal courthouse where Bolton issued her ruling on Wednesday. They marched on to the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made a crackdown on illegal immigration one of his signature issues.

At least 32 demonstrators were arrested after blocking the entrance and beating on the large steel doors leading to the Maricopa County jail in downtown Phoenix.

Sheriff’s deputies in riot gear opened the doors and waded out into the crowd, hauling off those who didn’t move.

Dozens of others were arrested throughout the day, trying to cross a police line, entering closed-off areas or sitting in the street and refusing to leave.

Former state Sen. Alfredo Gutierrez, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2002, was among them.

A photographer for the Arizona Republic also was detained.

Marchers chanted “Sheriff Joe, we are here,

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A demonstrator shouts into a bullhorn in protest of Arizona’s SB1070 immigrationenforcement law in front of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office Thursday in Phoenix. we will not live in fear,� and in the crowd was a drummer wearing a papier-mache Sheriff Joe head and dressed in prison garb.

Arpaio vowed to go ahead with a crime sweep targeting illegal immigrants. Phoenix police made most the early arrests, before protesters moved to the jail. “My deputies will arrest them and put them in pink underwear,� Arpaio said, referring to one of his odd methods of punishment for prisoners. “Count on it.�

Arizona is the nation’s epicenter of illegal immigration, with more than 400,000 undocumented residents. The state’s border with Mexico is awash with smugglers and drugs that funnel narcotics and immigrants throughout the U.S., and supporters of the new law say the influx of illegal migrants drains vast sums of money from hospitals, education and other services.

In Tucson, between 50 and 100 people gathered at a downtown street corner

to both protest and defend the new law on Thursday morning. Tucson police spokeswoman Linda Galindo said one man was arrested for threatening people in the other group.

In Los Angeles, about 200 protesters invaded a busy intersection west of downtown. Police waited more than three hours before declaring it an unlawful assembly. Most of the demonstrators left peacefully, but about a dozen, linked together with plastic pipes and chains, lay in the street in a circle as an act of civil disobedience.

Officer Bruce Borihanh said police were cutting their chains and taking them away to be booked for failure to disperse.

The protesters chanted, “These are our streets� during the raucous demonstration.

In New York City, about 300 immigrant advocates gathered near the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan.

New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams, a first-generation Caribbean-American, told the

crowd: “We won a slight battle in Arizona, we’ve got to continue with the war.�

Bolton indicated the government has a good chance at succeeding in its argument that federal immigration law trumps state law. But the key sponsor of Arizona’s law, Republican Rep. Russell Pearce, said the judge was wrong and predicted the state would ultimately win the case.

In her temporary injunction, Bolton delayed the most contentious provisions of the law, including a section that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws. She also barred enforcement of parts requiring immigrants to carry their papers and banned illegal immigrants from soliciting employment in public places — a move aimed at day laborers that congregate in large numbers in parking lots across Arizona. The judge also blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants.

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A jury sentenced a south Texas man to death on Thursday, four days after convicting him of capital murder for beheading his common law wife’s three children in 2003.

It is the second death sentence for John Allen Rubio, who was convicted of killing the children all under the age of four — smothering, stabbing and ultimately decapitating them — in a windowless Brownsville apartment.

Jurors deliberated for about four hours before returning the sentence.

Before entering the sentence, Hidalgo County District Judge Noe Gonzalez asked Rubio if there was anything he would like to say.

Gonzalez, who said he had sentenced more people to death than any judge in south Texas, said he recognized that a lot of people went through what Rubio did, citing his abusive and troubled childhood.

Jurors on Monday found Rubio guilty on four counts of capital murder — one charge for each child and one for the children together.

Lee Boyd Malvo claims others were to help in attacks

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo tells actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and that his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program set for airing Thursday.

In a telephone call from a southwest Virginia prison, Malvo told Shatner two men planned to join in the attacks to make them more deadly but reneged. Malvo said his fellow shooter, John Allen Muhammad, killed one of the men in retaliation. Malvo did not identify them in the interview for a show on the cable channel A&E. Malvo’s revelations came in response to questions about claims by a psychiatrist that the duo had co-conspirators. The psychiatrist, Neil Blumberg, who worked with Malvo before his trial, also said Malvo had confessed to more shootings in addition to the spree that terrorized the Washington region in 2002, when 13 people were hit and 10 of them died.

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday on the claims. Malvo’s lawyer during his trial, Timothy Sullivan, did not immediately return a call.

Officials trap grizzly, cubs, after mauling at campground COOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) — A mother grizzly and two of her three cubs have been captured after killing a Michigan man and injuring two other people during an overnight rampage through a campground near Yellowstone National Park.

The sow, estimated to weigh 300 to 400 pounds, was lured into a trap fashioned from culvert pipe covered by the dead victim’s tent Wednesday evening. The bear tore down the tent again and was caught in the trap, said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron

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REVIEW: CATS & DOGS

Fur flies with the jokes

By CHRISTY LEMIRE AP Movie Critic

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Steve Carell, left, and Paul Rudd are shown in a scene from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dinner for Schmucks.â&#x20AC;?

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inner for Schmucksâ&#x20AC;? stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, and, for better or worse, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all you really need to know about it. Rudd has built a career playing sardonic straight man to a bevy of clowns â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jason Segel, Seth Rogan, Will Ferrell, and even Steve Carell previously in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 40 Year Old Virgin.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dinner for Schmucksâ&#x20AC;? is officially a remake of the 1998 French film â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dinner Game,â&#x20AC;? an adaptation of a Francis Veber play.

In execution, it is yet another in the tired line of mismatched-buddy comedies held together not by a script but arid improv.

Rudd plays Tim, an up-and-coming financial executive who angling for a promotion by trying to land the account of Swiss multi-millionaire. Part of his induction up the corporation ladder also involves attending a monthly dinner party in which employees invite eccentric strangers who are secretly mocked and unwittingly compete for the title of the nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest idiot.

Timâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moral dilemma over taking part quickly ends when he literally runs into Barry (Carell), an IRS employee and amateur taxidermist with a passion for creating elaborate diorama using dead, stuff mice. Tim invites Barry to the company dinner, unaware of the mayhem Barryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entrĂŠe will have on

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Carell is an amusing performer, but his shtick can get mired in a one-note rut. Here, Barry sports a funny hairstyle and a silly grin, a set-up accented by Ruddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s droll comebacks and one insipid sequence after another. The result is uneven and surprisingly dull â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for me, the only real laugh seeing Ron Livingston, star of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office Space,â&#x20AC;? cast as a soulless corporate lackey.

The fact that Tim uses Barry for his own selfish motives at Barryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expense is distasteful. But, the film waves aside the fact that Barry blindly, gleefully wreaks havoc with Timâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life by convincing both he and his art curator girlfriend Julie (Stephanie Szostak) that the other is carrying on an affair, Tim with a former fling and stalker named Darla (Lucy Punch) and Julie with Kieran (Jemaine Clement), her bizarro performance artist client. Instead, it reserves scorn only for Tim when he

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But, director Jay Roach â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who lacks the talent to carry off such a black comic conceit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; saves the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest flaw for the titular dinner show.

We are supposed to wag our fingers at Timâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boss (Bruce Greenwood) and his rich minions for cruelly cackling at the eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;entertainment,â&#x20AC;? which includes a pet psychic, a vulture wrangler, a blind fencer, and even Therman (Zach Galifianakis), Barryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coworker who claims the gift of mind control and taunts Barry about the fact that he is sleeping with Barryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ex-wife.

At the same time, however, the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comic hook rests on the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shared schadenfreude over these oddballs, Barry included, thereby encouraging us to partake in those same shark-tank antics. Ultimately, the only schmucks at this â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dinnerâ&#x20AC;? are the ones foolhardy enough to fork over money to see it.

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS Grade: C Director: Jay Roach Starring: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Jemaine Clement, Stephanie Szostak, and Zach Galifianakis MPAA Rating: PG-13 Theaters: Spring Lane Cinemas in Sanford; Sand Hills Cinemas in Southern Pines; Crossroads 20 in Cary

ogs and cats, living together ... mass hysteria?

Maybe not so much.

While these animals were resourceful and well-equipped enemies in the original â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cats & Dogsâ&#x20AC;? from 2001, now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re forced to band together to fight a common foe in the sequel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.â&#x20AC;?

As you can tell from the name, this is a spy sendup, specifically of James Bond movies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the opening titles alone are super clever, an indication of the kind of eye for detail thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in store throughout â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and from there, the jokes fly fast and furious along with the fur. Surprisingly, most of them work in the script from Ron J. Friedman and Steve Bencich.

But as directed by Brad Peyton, the sequel is a mix of live action, puppetry and computer animation, and the jumbled look is its chief weakness: The animals are cute and all, but the visual effects that suggest theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking too often look jumpy and fake.

You want your talking-animal movies to be realistic, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too much to ask.

And of course, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a family film coming out this summer, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in 3D. It probably didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it never needs to be â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but at least the effects are more convincing than they were in, say, a lousy conversion from 2-D like â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Airbender.â&#x20AC;?

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re even more effective in the cartoon that precedes â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cats & Dogs,â&#x20AC;? a new Looney Tunes offering thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old-school in spirit, featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. You could probably watch those guys go at it for an hour and a half and be totally satisfied.

Still, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a delightful idea that cats and dogs not only enjoy a rich interior life while adults are away, but also function as highly trained super spies, complete with elaborate gadgetry. You know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve wondered this yourself about your own furry friends at home.

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The New York of the film from directors Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Splendorâ&#x20AC;?) is populated by eccentrics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a gigolo! a Swiss hunchback! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whose eccentricities are meant to seem very eccentric.

The cloying quirk stifles the film (based on Jonathan Amesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; novel), which is a shame mostly because it does Kevin Kline such a disservice. Louis Ives (Paul Dano) is a sensitive English teacher who fancies himself a 1920s gentleman out of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Great Gatsby.â&#x20AC;? Fired from his teaching job, he seeks renewal in New York.

He moves in with Henry Harrison (Kline), a faded aristocrat whose shabby apartment and broken-down Buick donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in his mind â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dull his sophistication a bit. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a character to the hilt, a mix of high and low, deeming Henry James â&#x20AC;&#x153;unreadableâ&#x20AC;? and teaching tricks for urinating on the street.

Kline, the best thing in the film, plays Henry with classical stage enunciation, but the character still fails to resonate. Henry isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much more than a bag of peculiarities, and the same can be said for the movie. With Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly. R for some sexual content. 108 minutes.

H 1/2 out of four. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer

self laughing the whole way through, even at a take-off on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Silence of the Lambs,â&#x20AC;? a film thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been parodied ad infinitum. Still, when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fluffy, white feline Mr. Tinkles strapped up in a cell, wearing that infamous mask â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and voiced again by Sean Hayes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it adds another layer to the joke thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at once twisted and kinda sweet.

This time, the selfstyled uber-villain is Kitty Galore, whose hairless appearance is frightening enough. As voiced with campy menace by the great Bette Midler â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who really should do more of this sort of thing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an over-the-top, diabolical drama queen. But in a good way.

Kitty has a plan to enslave dogs around the world and make cats the true rulers. The secret agents of DOG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; led

by Lou the beagle (Neil Patrick Harris) and Butch the Anatolian shepherd (Nick Nolte) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; recruit the overeager German shepherd Diggs (James Marsden), whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been

cast off the San Francisco police force for his inability to follow orders, to stop her. But they soon realize they have to team up with the underground cat group MEOWS, led

by Catherine (Christina Applegate) and her boss, the tuxedoed Tab Lazenby (Roger Moore, a nice touch). Both teams get help, sort of, from the scatterbrained, fast-talking pigeon Seamus (Katt Williams).

Among the people who populate â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cats & Dogs,â&#x20AC;? Chris Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell plays Diggsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; former police partner and Jack McBrayer gets some reliable laughs doing a version of his guileless doofus character â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this time, a magician whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitty Galoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsuspecting human companion, who insists on dressing her in humiliating costumes as part of his act.

But for grown-ups, kids, dogs, cats â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whoeverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s watching, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough here to keep them entertained.

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By JOEL SCHECTMAN Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — It’s a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.

So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adultentertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist.

With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry stands to make big money on this new way to reach out and touch someone — even if it puts Apple, which has always taken pains to keep its iPhone apps squeaky clean, in an awkward spot.

In at least five cities, Craigslist ads seek models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. Many of the ads even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees.

FaceTime lets people call another iPhone 4 user and have live video conversations over a WiFi connection through the phone’s camera and screen. In one TV ad, a soldier uses it to get a look at his faraway wife’s ultrasound pictures.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs, left, demonstrates the FaceTime feature on the iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. wants its customers to share moments of an entirely different kind with its stars. And while the technology may be new, the idea is not. Porn providers have always been early adopters.

In the 1970s, the demand for explicit videos at home helped VCRs become widespread, and the industry was the first to embrace DVDs, too.

Internet porn peddlers were some of the first to make wide use of streaming video and online credit card payments.

“The first time someone created a camera there was someone who said, ’Wouldn’t it be good for someone to take off their clothes in front of this camera?”’ said Michael Gartenberg, vice president at Interpret LLC, a media research

company.

And for years, cameras mounted on computers have helped connect people for racy online video sessions. But the portability and privacy of a cell phone makes FaceTime a new frontier for the industry.

“A phone is such an intimate thing, you usually don’t lend it out or have someone else use it,” said Quentin Boyer, a spokesman for Pink Visual, an adult production company.

Boyer said his company began planning for iPhone 4 video services almost as soon as the device hit stores. They should be ready in a matter of weeks. Boyer said the company will offer FaceTime sessions with some of the same women who appear in its videos.

“It has a very personal feel — your mobile phone to hers,” he said.

Online exhibitionism is only growing. Take Chatroulette, which randomly connects strangers for video chats. While the service isn’t explicitly sexual, it’s common for users to stumble upon people looking for more than just conversation.

So far, most online video sex chat services have let the customer see the performer, but not the other way around.

FaceTime may change that.

“We are seeing more and more that customers want to be watched as much as they want to watch,” said Dan Hogue, owner of an adult chat company called CamWorld, which is planning FaceTime services.

The rise of FaceTime porn puts Apple in an awkward position. Its competitors have products that allow video chat, too — HTC’s Evo 4G phone, for one. But Apple has made a big deal about keeping applications sold in its iTunes store clean.

Apple has rejected book apps for featuring sexual content and political satires for their potential to offend. While some rejected apps have been approved after revisions, Apple has kept one strict rule: No porn.

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In an interview on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View,” Obama said the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod shows racial tensions still exist in America.

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Sherrod was forced to resign after a conservative website posted an edited video of her speaking about race. Sherrod said the video took her remarks out of context. When her full remarks were discovered, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized and offered Sherrod a new job at the department.

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Obama’s interview with “The View” was the first appearance on a daytime talk show by a sitting president.

The wide-ranging interview also dipped into Obama’s knowledge of pop culture, an area he showed some proficiency, admitting that he knows actress Lindsey Lohan is in jail.

Lisa Kudrow prescribes laughter in Web series NEW YORK (AP) — Former “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow is making herself laugh.

She’s reading tweets written by her character, Fiona Wallice, on the online show “Web Therapy.”

“Web Therapy” is available on Hulu, lstudio.com and for purchase on iTunes.

Showtime has said it will air at least 10 episodes starting next year, with new material shot for TV. Kudrow’s character is a selfKudrow absorbed therapist who has decided that 3minute sessions by webcam are sufficient to diagnose a patient and dole out advice.

The conversation often veers off-topic and onto Wallice.

Each episode plays out like viewers are looking at an actual computer screen with Kudrow and a co-star interacting in double boxes over web chat.

Moore wants to bring back downtown theaters

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan-based documentary filmmaker Michael Moore wants to bring back the single-screen movie theaters that used to be the pillars of city business districts.

Moore has a plan to refurbish or prop up downtown movie houses in his home state, and eventually nationwide.

Such efforts have been made before. But Moore’s approach has a unique twist, modeled on the successful resurrection of the State Theatre in Traverse City, Mich.

Moore Moore says the way to rescue downtown movie houses is to run them as nonprofits staffed mostly with volunteers.

Moore plans to provide grants and training to theater operators.

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As many as 6,600 graves mixed up

By ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press Writer

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Headstone markers are seen at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday The former superintendent of the cemetery says he accepts “full responsibility” for the mix-up of graves at the famous military burial ground. unmarked graves were discovered.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, chairwoman of an oversight panel on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Reform Committee, said Thursday that her investigation has revealed far higher estimates of the number of graves affected.

McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, said she believes that between 4,900 and 6,600 graves may be unmarked or mislabeled on cemetery maps.

Kathryn Condon, who was hired to fix the cemetery’s problems, testified that the Army was still trying to determine exactly how many burial sites could be affected. But, she said, “I am confident there are probably other map errors” beyond the 211 sites initially identified by Army investigators.

Metzler said an in-

spector general finding that more than 100 graves lacked a headstone or burial card was not entirely accurate and that it was mostly internal working maps used by cemetery employees that were mislabeled.

Metzler insisted that discrepancies on those maps wouldn’t necessarily affect operations.

He also said any problems that came up over the years were quickly fixed and suggested he was surprised by the findings of the Army’s Inspector General.

His testimony angered and confused lawmakers.

“The notion that you would come in here and act like you didn’t know about it until a month ago is offensive. You did know about it, and you did nothing,” McCaskill said.

A visibly frustrated Sen. Scott Brown abrupt-

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“I’d have a lot of fun with you in a deposition because I don’t think we’re getting straight talk here,” said Brown, R-Mass.

Higginbotham testified in general about his tenure at the cemetery but left the hearing early after asserting his Fifth Amendment right not to respond to many of the lawmakers’ more pointed questions.

As deputy superintendent who ran dayto-day operations at the cemetery, Higginbotham is accused of directly contributing to the chaos.

While Army officials have described Metzler as an ineffective manager who turned a blind eye to the cemetery’s problems, investigators accuse Higginbotham of botching contracts and creating an “unhealthy organizational climate” for employees.

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Body of 2nd Navy sailor recovered in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The discovery of the body of a second U.S. sailor who vanished in Afghanistan last week only deepened the mystery of the men’s disappearance nearly 60 miles from their base in a dangerous area controlled by the Taliban.

An investigation is under way, but with both sailors dead, U.S. authorities remained at a loss Thursday to explain what two junior enlisted men in noncombat jobs were doing driving alone in Logar province, where much of the countryside is not under government control.

“This is like a puzzle,” said Abdul Wali, deputy head of the governing council in Logar.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley — father of two boys aged 5 and 9 — from Kingman, Arizona, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, from the Seattle area, disappeared in the province July 23. McNeley’s body was recovered there Sunday and Newlove’s body was pulled from a river Wednesday evening, Afghan officials said.

The U.S. Navy confirmed Newlove death on Thursday.

Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee MOSCOW (AP) — Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.

Some 212,506 acres (86,000 hectares) were burning nationwide, and flames all but encircled the city of Voronezh, 300 miles southeast of Moscow. Forest fires on Moscow’s outskirts reached the city’s western fringe, in the Krylatskoye district, but were extinguished toward nightfall.

State television pictures showed the evacuation by ambulance of a Voronezh city hospital. Channel One said more than 800 patients were transferred to other facili-

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WASHINGTON — Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery’s former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster.

John Metzler, who ran the historic military burial ground for 19 years, said he accepts “full responsibility” for the problems.

But he also denied some of the findings

by Army investigators and suggested cemetery employees and poor technology were to blame for remains that may have been misidentified or misplaced. He said the system used to track grave sites relied mostly on a complicated paper trail vulnerable to error.

“Personally it is very painful for me that our team at Arlington did not perform all aspects of its mission to the high standard required,” he told a Senate panel. He was subpoenaed to testify.

Metzler and his deputy, Thurman Higginbotham, were forced to retire after Army investigators found that as many as 211 graves were unmarked or misidentified. The report by the Army Inspector General’s office accused Metzler of repeatedly failing to ensure burials were being done properly and of failing to respond after

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ties as flames approached the city’s outskirts and thick smoke lowered visibility. Hundreds of children were evacuated from at least seven summer camps, according to the regional Emergencies Ministry website.

Hundreds of homes in surrounding villages burned to the ground, the ministry said.

The Interfax news agency reported that the 340 homes were destroyed in a village near Nizhny Novgorod, around 250 miles east of Moscow.

There were no reports of casualties.

Settlers seize home in Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish settlers on Thursday took over a building in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City and evicted dozens of Palestinian tenants, residents and police said, prompting a sharp protest by the top regional U.N. envoy.

The takeover comes at a time when the U.S. is struggling to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks. The international community, led by the U.S., has urged Israel to refrain from any steps that could raise tensions in east Jerusalem, including evictions and house demolitions.

East Jerusalem’s Old City was captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast War. The Palestinians claim the eastern half of the city for their capital.

Over the years, about 2,000 Israeli settlers have moved into buildings Jews bought in established Arab sections of east Jerusalem, including the Old City, to make it harder to partition the city.

Relatives search for bodies at Pakistan air crash ISLAMABAD (AP) — Relatives desperate to find the bodies of loved ones joined emergency teams Thursday at the scene of Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash, but recovery work was badly hampered by rain and thick mud on the slippery hills.

The Airbus A321 operated by local carrier Airblue crashed into hills overlooking the capital, Islamabad, during monsoon storms, killing all 152 people on board.

Wreckage was strewn over about a third of a square mile (one-square kilometer) of the forested slopes.

The Civil Aviation Authority said the plane had been ordered to take an alternative approach to the runway, but had veered off course. Finding out why will be a key task of the investigation team, said Riazul Haq, director general of the agency.

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ORIOLES HIRE SHOWALTER AS MANAGER BALTIMORE (AP) — Buck Showalter was hired to manage the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday, his latest rebuilding project in a major league career full of them.

Showalter’s first game will be Tuesday night at Camden Yards against the Los Angeles Angels.

Baltimore had the worst record in the majors at 31-70 going into Thursday night against Kansas City and is headed toward its 13th straight losing season. The Orioles fired manager Dave Trembley on June 4 and replaced him on an interim basis with Juan Samuel.

“Buck Showalter’s proven track record makes him the right choice for manager of the Orioles,” president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail said in a statement.

NCAA TEBOW, BRONCOS AGREE TO $33M CONTRACT

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Tim Tebow has agreed to a contract with the Denver Broncos.

The two-time national champion from Florida and 25th pick in the NFL draft missed the first three workouts for rookies and selected veterans while his agent, Jimmy Sexton, and general manager Brian Xanders hammered out a deal.

ESPN has reported the deal is worth $33 million over five years with $8.7 million guaranteed.

Tebow is expected to practice Friday morning, the final session before training camp begins Sunday with a full squad.

The signing of Tebow leaves top pick Demaryius Thomas, a wide receiver out of Georgia Tech, as the only unsigned member of Denver’s draft class.

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Carolina Panthers quarterback Jimmy Clausen (2) throws a pass during practice at the NFL football team’s training camp in Spartanbrug, S.C., Thursday.

A humble start for Panthers’ Clausen

By MIKE CRANSTON AP Sports Writer

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — If Jimmy Clausen indeed becomes Carolina’s franchise quarterback, it’ll be after overcoming a humble beginning to his professional career.

Three months after his draft weekend snub, a nervous Clausen fumbled a couple of snaps early in his first workout of training camp

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with the Panthers on Thursday, before laboring in the intense heat in his new role: third-stringer.

It was a long way from all the high school hype, the brashness at Notre Dame and the declaration after the Panthers finally ended his two-day draft wait with the 48th selection that his goal was to be the starter from day one.

“That’s how you have to think.

When you go out to practice you want to do as much as you can to

be the starting quarterback,” Clausen said. “At the end of the day, I can control only what I can control and the coaches are going to make the decisions, who’s going to play and who’s not going to play.”

It was the typical measured response Clausen has made routine since his first NFL minicamp in April. He’s impressed coaches with his lengthy film sessions and won

See Clausen, Page 4B

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There’s a new Roy in town — and he’s an ace, too.

Three-time All-Star Roy Oswalt gave his OK to a trade from Houston to Philadelphia on Thursday, becoming the latest star pitcher to join the hard-charging Phillies.

After getting Roy Halladay in the offseason, the two-time defending NL champions got Oswalt and a sizable amount of cash from the Oswalt Astros for pitcher J.A. Happ and two speedy prospects, outfielder Anthony Gose and shortstop Jonathan Villar. Houston then traded Gose to Toronto.

Oswalt joins a rotation that includes Halladay, acquired from Toronto in the offseason, and Cole Hamels, the 2008 World Series MVP. Oswalt is scheduled to make his debut for the Phillies on Friday night, starting at Washington.

“We’re trying to do what we can to get back to the World Series and win it,” Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said. “To have Roy Oswalt, Roy Halladay and additionally Cole Hamels, Joe Blanton and Kyle Kendrick, we stack ourselves up as one of the best rotations in baseball.”

This was the second straight year the Phillies made a major trade for a pitcher in the days leading up to the July 31 deadline. Last season, they got Cliff Lee and he boosted them to another NL pennant — Lee was then sent to Seattle in a separate deal on the same day the Phillies acquired Halladay.

“I’m excited,” Halladay said. “It says a lot that this team is dedicated to winning.”

ON A MISSION

I’m taking my talents to Brazil W

e’re going on a mission.

I’ve spent the last few months on Sanford’s top-rated sports talk radio show, The PODCast, talking trash to Grace Christian basketball coaches Tim and Joel Murr as well as Lady Crusaders players Haley Bryant and Anna Murr.

I’m a competitor. It’s what we do.

Anyway, there’s been a reason behind all the challenges and

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The North Carolina All-Stars will travel to Brazil on Friday fusing their mision trip with the game of basketball. Team members are (front row, l-r) Nathan Fox, Kaycee Murr, Haley Bryant, Anna Murr, Jeremy Murr, (back row, l-r) Ryan Sarda, Tim Murr, Nate Woodruff, Ronnie Kruger, Jeffrey Bryant, Joel Murr and Arnold Hodges.

Ryan Sarda is back on the hardwood, and is telling anyone who will listen. Find past recordings of his late-show rants on The PODcast at designatedhitter.wordpress.com

Ryan Sarda On The Beat Ryan Sarda can be reached at sarda@sanfordherald.com

the call-outs. It’s been a long, thought-provoking summer for me.

But I’ve made a decision, one that’s definitely going to change

See Mission, Page 4B

Local Sports

2B / Friday, July 30, 2010 / The Sanford Herald UPCOMING Registration open for SASL rec season SANFORD — Registration for the Sanford Area Soccer League’s 2010-11 recreation season is open.

SASL is open to players born between the dates of Aug. 8, 1992, and July 31, 2007. Late registration is open until Saturday and will cost $80.

The league is designed for fun, with no scores being kept and the focus on the players’ development of the skills.

Registration forms are available at www.sasl. net and can be mailed to: SASL, P.O. Box 1212, Sanford, N.C., 27331.

For more information, call (919) 708-6886 or visit www.sasl.net.

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SANFORD GOLF COURSE JUNIOR CAMP

YOUTH DRNV holding registrations for fall ball SANFORD — Registration is currently underway for Deep River-Northview baseball and softball for the fall season.

Baseball registration is for boys ages 5-15 and fast pitch softball is available for girls between 7-12.

Registration may be completed online at www. drnvobaseball.com. The deadline for registration is Sunday, Aug. 8.

CONTACT US If you have an idea for a sports story, or if you’d like call and submit scores or statistics, call: Sports Editor Alex Podlogar: 718-1222 alexp@sanfordherald.com

Sports Writer Ryan Sarda: 718-1223 sarda@sanfordherald.com

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About 60 youth golfers took part in the Sanford Golf Course Junior Camp earlier this month. The camp had skills challenges for all age groups and concluded with the annual junior tournament. Jay Minter shot a 42 in nine holes to win the 13--14-year-old division while Matthew Honeycutt was second with a 44. Stephanie Dunne won the 12-14 age group. The two winners of the club’s annual membership giveaway (one from the course and one from the Exchange Club of Lee County) were Madison Britt and R.J. Taylor.

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BOYS & GIRLS CLUB

Lee’s Boys & Girls Club takes part in Ripken camp From Staff Reports SANFORD — One chaperone and three club members from the Boys & Girls Club of Sanford/Lee County had a chance to attend the four-day baseball camp in Aberdeen,

Md., sponsored by the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation.

Those that attended the camp were Timir TC Cox (Chaperone and B&GC Middle School Director), Cortrell Woodard, 13, Deshun Alston,13, and D’Marco Thomason,

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Out of 30 eligible clubs to attend the camp, only eight partnerships were able to attend and the Boys & Girls Club of Sanford/Lee County was chosen. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation is a nonprofit organization, working throughout the country with Boys & Girls Clubs, P.A.L. centers, inner-city schools, and other organizations serving and helping America’s youth to build character and teach critical life lessons to young people residing in America’s most distressed communities through baseball and softball themed programs.

Led by former Major League Baseball great Cal Ripken Jr., and his borther and former bigleaguer Billy Ripken, the Cal Ripke, Sr. Foundation is reaching out to children who might otherwise never have access to positive mentors or team sports and bringing critical life lessons to those in desperate need of a helping hand and chance

to succeed in life.

The camp consisted of baseball drills during the day and life lessons, sportsmanship training, ropes courses, responsibility and characterbuilding during the evening and free time.

The Ripken Staff will be traveling to Sanford for the Inaugural Cal Ripken Sr. Quickball Fun Day at the OT Sloan Boys & Girls Club on 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday. The local Club is expecting 200 other Club members from across the state at this event. N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, an avid baseball fan and supporter of the Ripken program, will be in attendance with members of the NC SBI staff, who will play ball with the children.

Quickball is a national enhancement program that was introduced in 1999 and is the official stepping stone to Ripken Baseball. The main purpose of Quickball is to make baseball more fun and easier to play regardless of skill level.

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SANFORD – Any female student at Southern Lee High School who is interested in going out for the golf team this season should come to practices at 6 p.m. on Tuesday evenings at Tobacco Road and at 6 p.m. on Thursday evenings at Quail Ridge.

The first practice is Aug. 3.

Those interested must bring proof of a recent doctor’s physical exam to the first practice.

Lee girls’ tennis tryouts scheduled

SANFORD — Lee County’s girls’ tennis team will hold tryouts in a couple of weeks.

Tryouts will take place from 3:30-5:30 p.m on Aug. 2 and will continue through Thursday at the same time. The tryouts will take place at the Lee County tennis courts.

All participants must have a current physical exam completed.

For more information please contact coach Mary Tatum at (919) 775-3712.

Lee volleyball tryouts set SANFORD — Tryout dates for the Lee County volleyball team have been announced.

The tryouts will be held between 8-10 a.m. beginning on Monday, Aug. 2.

In order to try out, students must have an updated physical. If they do not have a physical, they will not be allowed to participate.

For more information, contact Cindy Kelly at (919) 353-9887.

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SANFORD — Tryouts for the Lee County soccer team under new coach Brad Wicker will begin at 7 a.m. Monday.

Students are required to bring a current physical or they will not be allowed to participate. Participants are also required to bring a pair of tennis shoes. The team will meet at the baseball parking lot.

A mandatory afternoon practice will also be held from 6-8 p.m. on Monday. All practices are mandatory in order to play for the Yellow Jackets this fall.

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Grace hosting soccer camp

SANFORD — Grace Christian School is hosting a soccer camp soon.

The camp, hosted by Crusaders coach Chris Pratt, will be held on Aug. 2-6 and is for girls and boys in grades 1-8.

The cost is $60.

For more information, contact Grace Christian Athletic Director Chris Pratt at (919) 353-5755.

Sports T.O. misses flight, but gets number

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Terrell Owens missed his flight but got his number.

When he finally makes it to town — a little late — he’ll be wearing his familiar 81.

The Cincinnati Bengals’ latest addition missed his overnight flight from the West Coast and had to take a later one on Thursday, delaying his debut at training camp.

The Bengals had planned on him arriving early in the day, taking his physical and signing his one-year contract while the rest of the team held its first workout.

They scheduled an introductory news conference after the morning practice.

The news conference had to be rescheduled for after the evening session.

Coach Marvin Lewis wasn’t sure whether the 36-year-old receiver would arrive in time to work out.

On his Twitter account, Owens posted a note Wednesday night saying he was headed to see a movie. He didn’t explain why he missed his flight on Thursday, but confirmed that his news conference had to be rescheduled.

“My Press conf about my “Decision” 2 take my talents 2 Cincy will b held 2nite after 7pm practice!!” he tweeted, playing off LeBron James’ one-hour television show announcing his decision to leave Cleveland.

The Sanford Herald / Friday, July 30, 2010 / 3B

MLB ROUNDUP

SPORTS BRIEFS AP source: Haynesworth fails conditioning test

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Washington Nationals’ Adam Dunn, right, runs to third base on a ball hit by Nationals’ Josh Willingham during the second inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves on Thursday in Washington. Braves’ third baseman Chipper Jones is seen at left.

Nats topple Braves WASHINGTON (AP) — Scott Olsen returned from the disabled list to win his first appearance in more than two months, Adam Dunn and Ian Desmond each homered and doubled, and the last-place Washington Nationals beat NL East-leading Atlanta.

Olsen (3-2) gave up three runs — two earned — and five hits in six innings before a thunderstorm caused a 1 1/2-hour delay. The Nationals made room on the roster for the left-hander by putting rookie sensation Stephen Strasburg on the DL for the first time.

Marlins 5, Giants 0 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anibal Sanchez pitched a one-hitter for his first shutout since a no-hitter in September 2006, and Jorge Cantu played

his final game for Florida in the Marlins’ 5-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday.

Sanchez (8-6) retired his first 13 batters and matched a career-high with eight strikeouts.

Giants rookie Buster Posey had his hitting streak snapped at 21 games, one shy of tying Hall of Famer Willie McCovey’s San Francisco rookie record, set in 1959.

Mets 4, Cardinals 0 NEW YORK (AP) — R.A. Dickey took a three-hitter into the ninth inning and Ike Davis hit a three-run homer, leading the Mets to its first series victory in more than a month.

Rockies 9, Pirates 3 DENVER (AP) — Ubaldo Jimenez rebounded from two rough starts to pitch seven

GOLF

Compton shares lead in PGA Tour event

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — Double heart transplant recipient Erik Compton shot a 7-under 63 in the inaugural Greenbrier Classic to share the first-round lead with rookie Matt Every.

Playing on a sponsor’s exemption, Compton made nine birdies, seven over a nine-hole stretch on the Old White course Thursday.

The 30-year-old Compton has made four cuts in six starts this season.

He was diagnosed at age 9 with a disease that inflames the heart and leaves it unable to pump as hard as it needs to. His first transplant came three years later and his second one came in 2008.

George McNeill, Pat Perez and Jeff Overton opened with 64s.

players on the course and also made an eagle on the 18th hole — in front of nearly deserted grandstands — to join Tseng at 4 under. Hull dropped a stroke at the fourth hole before rattling off three birdies in a four-hole stretch beginning at No. 7.

Vaughan takes lead at Senior Open SAMMAMISH, Wash. (AP) — Bruce Vaughan took advantage of cool morning conditions with an opening-round

Marlins trade 3B Cantu to Texas SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The AL West-leading Texas Rangers added another bat for the stretch, getting third baseman Jorge Cantu from the Florida Marlins on Thursday for two minor league pitchers.

Cantu got two hits, scored twice and made an error in the Marlins’ 5-0 win at San Francisco. The trade was completed right after the game ended.

Cantu hit .262 with 10 home runs and 54 RBIs for Florida. The Rangers already have All-Star Michael Young at third base — Cantu said in recent days he was prepared to switch back to his former spot at first base, a position of need for the Rangers.

Padres get Tejada from Orioles SAN DIEGO (AP) — The NL West-leading San Diego Padres obtained infielder Miguel Tejada and cash

Roush transferred to Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — NASCAR team owner Jack Roush has been transferred to the Mayo Clinic following surgery on facial injuries he sustained in a plane crash in Wisconsin.

Roush Fenway Racing said in a statement Thursday that Roush was taken to the Mayo Clinic on Wednesday and is in serious but stable condition. The team does not say what kind of injuries he has from the accident Tuesday night.

Roush’s passenger, friend Brenda Stricklin, was treated and released from a Wisconsin hospital Wednesday afternoon.

Roush was attending the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. The aviation buff also survived a crash in 2002.

The EAA said a Beechcraft Premier business jet registered to Roush Fenway Racing, LLC was involved in a landing accident at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.

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Less than a week after finishing in a tie for 20th at the Senior British Open, Vaughan picked up where he left off with birdies on the 16th and 18th holes — the 18th a brutal, uphill 465-yard par 4, converted from a par 5. Vaughan then birdied the second, third and sixth holes on his back nine, before bogeying the par-3 9th, his final hole of the day.

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Shin, Inkster take early lead at British Open

SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Yani Tseng shot a 4-under 68 in the opening round at Royal Birkdale on Thursday, and is tied for the lead as she pursues her third major title.

The rising star from Taiwan shot a bogey-free round that included a birdie and an eagle on the two finishing holes, putting her in a tie for the lead with Australian Katherine Hull.

“I played really, really solid.

I hit all greens but one today and I putted pretty well,” said Tseng, who already has won the Kraft Nabisco Championship this season to go with the LPGA Championship she won in 2008.

“The last two par-fives were just like long par-fours with the wind, so I stayed relaxed and tried to make birdies,” Tseng said. “It was pretty good Hull was among the last

effective innings and the Rockies snapped an eightgame skid.

Carlos Gonzalez and Brad Hawpe homered and Clint Barmes had two hits and three RBIs for the Rockies, who had dropped 11 of 13.

Jimenez (16-2) returned to the form that earned him a start in the All-Star game. He allowed one run and four hits, struck out six and walked three. Jimenez moved within a victory of tying the franchise record for wins held by three pitchers.

Rays 4, Tigers 2 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — David Price became the AL’s first 14-game winner, Carlos Pena had four RBIs and Tampa Bay beat Detroit 4-2 to complete a four-game sweep.

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Albert Haynesworth failed his conditioning test Thursday and was forced to sit out the first practice of the Washington Redskins training camp, the latest twist in a test of wills between the two-time All-Pro defensive lineman and coach Mike Shanahan.

A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Haynesworth did not pass the test Thursday morning. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Shanahan planned to address the matter after practice, which was scheduled to be held late in the afternoon.

from the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday in exchange for Double-A right-hander Wynn Pelzer.

Tejada was scratched from the Orioles’ lineup before their game Thursday night at Kansas City. The trade was announced a short time later.

Tejada is hitting .269 with seven homers and 39 RBIs. The former AL MVP can play shortstop and third base.

He has appeared in 93 games in the field this season, all at third base, after having played shortstop in each of his previous 1,846 games.

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4B / Friday, July 30, 2010 / The Sanford Herald

MLB Standings New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 64 63 58 53 31

L 36 38 44 49 70

Chicago Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Kansas City

W 56 56 51 42 42

L 44 46 50 59 59

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

W 59 51 52 39

L 42 49 52 63

Atlanta Philadelphia New York Florida Washington

W 58 55 52 51 44

L 43 46 50 51 58

Cincinnati St. Louis Milwaukee Chicago Houston Pittsburgh

W 57 56 48 46 42 36

L 46 46 55 56 59 65

San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado Arizona

W 59 58 54 52 37

L 40 45 47 50 64

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Wednesday’s Games Minnesota 6, Kansas City 4 Boston 7, L.A. Angels 3 N.Y. Yankees 8, Cleveland 0 Toronto 5, Baltimore 0 Tampa Bay 7, Detroit 4 Oakland 3, Texas 1 Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle 5 Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay 4, Detroit 2 N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Cleveland (Masterson 3-9) at Toronto (Marcum 9-4), 7:07 p.m.

Detroit (Galarraga 3-3) at Boston (Lester 11-5), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 12-3) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 8-9), 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Arrieta 3-3) at Kansas City (O’Sullivan 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Bre.Anderson 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (D.Hudson 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

Seattle (Fister 3-6) at Minnesota (S.Baker 8-9), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (Tom.Hunter 8-0) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 9-7), 10:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Cleveland at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 4:10 p.m.

Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.

Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Wednesday’s Games Houston 8, Chicago Cubs 1

RACING L10 7-3 8-2 6-4 6-4 2-8

Str W-1 W-6 W-3 W-3 L-5

Home 34-16 30-20 30-20 27-22 18-33

Away 30-20 33-18 28-24 26-27 13-37

L10 6-4 7-3 3-7 5-5 3-7

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Home 31-20 30-20 32-21 32-18 24-29

Away 28-20 28-25 22-26 20-32 13-35

Cincinnati 10, Milwaukee 2 Philadelphia 7, Arizona 1 Atlanta 3, Washington 1 San Francisco 10, Florida 9, 10 innings St. Louis 8, N.Y. Mets 7, 13 innings Pittsburgh 6, Colorado 2 San Diego 6, L.A. Dodgers 1 Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets 4, St. Louis 0 Washington 5, Atlanta 3 Colorado 9, Pittsburgh 3 Florida 5, San Francisco 0 L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Philadelphia (Oswalt 6-12) at Washington (Stammen 2-4), 7:05 p.m.

Arizona (I.Kennedy 5-8) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 10-5), 7:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Medlen 6-2) at Cincinnati (Cueto 10-2), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (M.Parra 3-7) at Houston (Happ 1-0), 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-6) at St. Louis (C.Carpenter 11-3), 8:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Dempster 8-7) at Colorado (Francis 3-3), 9:10 p.m.

Florida (Volstad 4-8) at San Diego (LeBlanc 5-8), 10:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Monasterios 3-2) at San Francisco (Lincecum 10-4), 10:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Atlanta at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Houston, 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Arizona at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Florida at San Diego, 8:35 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Arizona at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Milwaukee at Houston, 2:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Florida at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 8:05 p.m.

Sports TV Listings Friday, July 30

AUTO RACING 8 a.m.

SPEED — Formula One, practice for Hungarian Grand Prix, at Budapest, Hungary Noon SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Pennsylvania 500, at Long Pond, Pa. 3:30 p.m.

SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Pennsylvania 500, at Long Pond, Pa. 5:30 p.m.

SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for Pocono Mountains 125, at Long Pond, Pa. BOXING 9 p.m.

ESPN2 — Delvin Rodriguez (25-4-2) vs. Ashley Theopane (26-4-1), welterweights, at Miami, Okla.

EXTREME SPORTS 2 p.m.

ESPN — X Games, at Los Angeles 7 p.m.

ESPN — X Games, at Los Angeles 3 a.m.

Mission Continued from Page 1B

my life forever.

I’ve decided to take my talents to Sao Paulo, Brazil, and join the North Carolina All-Stars.

The North Carolina All-Stars, led by both Joel and Tim, are leaving today for their mission trip to Brazil to use the game of basketball to help bring kids closer to God. For the next nine days, the AllStars will be doing dribbling clinics for students at various Brazilian schools each morning. In between these clinics, there will be a message delivered by different members of the team to the kids about what it means to have God in their lives.

At night, the All-Stars will play different semipro Brazilian teams.

The purpose of the trip is to help young people grow closer to God and understand what it means to have him play such a pivotal role in your life.

The All-Stars are a group of men and women from Sanford coming together, egos aside, to help accomplish that mission.

For me, this trip will be the first time that I’ve played competitive basketball since playing in a recreation league in 2004. Until making my decision to come out of retirement and join the All-Stars, I haven’t even stepped onto a basketball court.

But I’m back. Bum shoulder and all. And while my game isn’t as fine-

ESPN2 — X Games, at Los Angeles (delayed-tape) GOLF 9 a.m.

ESPN — Women’s British Open, second round, at Southport, England 10 a.m.

TGC — European PGA Tour, Irish Open, second round, at Killarney, Ireland 3 p.m.

TGC — PGA Tour, The Greenbrier Classic, second round, at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. 5 p.m.

ESPN2 — USGA, U.S. Senior Open Championship, second round, at Redmond, Wash.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 9 p.m.

WGN — Chicago Cubs at Colorado TENNIS 3 p.m.

ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Farmers Classic, quarterfinal, at Los Angeles 11 p.m.

ESPN2 — WTA Tour, Bank of The West Classic, quarterfinal, at Stanford, Calif.

tuned as it should be, I’m still excited about this rare opportunity that will probably never come my way again.

Not only am I amped up about getting back onto the hardwood, I’m also very excited about the people I’m going with and the things we’re going to be doing.

My suitcase is all packed up with my uniform, different team T-shirts (some of which have my name on them to prove that I am, in fact, on the team), team warm-ups and other equipment. My white/Atlantic Blue 1996 Air Penny’s are all laced up and ready to go as well.

My game? Well, that never left, despite the time away from the court.

The Sarda Spectacular has fully evolved and is ready to be unleashed.

The challenges and the call-outs on the PODCast have been mainly to get my teammates motivated and excited about this once-in-a-lifetime trip.

After seeing the All-Stars put on a dribbling clinic on Wednesday night at the Grace Christian gymnasium, I can honestly say that it worked.

Everybody seems ready to go on this mission.

More importantly, though, everyone seems ready to accomplish this mission.

Ryan Sarda is a sportswriter for The Herald. Reach him at (919) 718-1223 or at sarda@sanfordherald.com. Read his blog for updates on his mission trip to Brazil at ryansarda.wordpress.com.

Follow him on twitter @RyanSarda.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Leaders

By The Associated Press Through July 25 Points 1, Kevin Harvick, 2,920. 2, Jeff Gordon, 2,736. 3, Denny Hamlin, 2,660. 4, Jimmie Johnson, 2,659. 5, Kurt Busch, 2,658. 6, Kyle Busch, 2,630. 7, Jeff Burton, 2,615. 8, Matt Kenseth, 2,573. 9, Tony Stewart, 2,544. 10, Carl Edwards, 2,496.

11, Greg Biffle, 2,462. 12, Clint Bowyer, 2,446. 13, Mark Martin, 2,384. 14, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,353. 15, Ryan Newman, 2,299.

16, Jamie McMurray, 2,295. 17, Kasey Kahne, 2,290. 18, David Reutimann, 2,269. 19, Joey Logano, 2,241. 20, Martin Truex Jr., 2,145.

Money 1, Jamie McMurray, $4,687,502. 2, Kurt Busch, $4,628,322. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $4,408,193. 4, Kevin Harvick, $4,306,470.

5, Kyle Busch, $3,792,817. 6, Jeff Gordon, $3,595,042. 7, Denny Hamlin, $3,498,233.

8, Matt Kenseth, $3,307,517. 9, Kasey Kahne, $3,299,607. 10, Tony Stewart, $3,208,357.

11, Jeff Burton, $3,176,307. 12, David Reutimann, $3,162,218. 13, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $3,155,253. 14, Carl Edwards, $3,138,541.

15, Greg Biffle, $3,058,162. 16, Joey Logano, $3,007,293. 17, Ryan Newman, $2,982,052.

18 Juan Pablo Montoya, $2,978,237. 19, Clint Bowyer, $2,778,329. 20, A J Allmendinger, $2,764,493.

Odds to Win Pennsylvania 500

By Keith Glantz and Russell Culver DRIVER ODDS Denny Hamlin 4-1 Kyle Busch 6-1 Jimmie Johnson 6-1 Jeff Gordon 10-1 Kevin Harvick 10-1 Clint Bowyer 12-1 Tony Stewart 12-1 Jeff Burton 18-1 Kurt Busch 18-1 Greg Biffle 20-1 Carl Edwards 20-1 Kasey Kahne 20-1 Jamie McMurray 20-1 Juan Pablo Montoya 20-1 Mark Martin 25-1 Matt Kenseth 30-1 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 35-1 Joey Logano 35-1 Ryan Newman 40-1 David Reutimann 40-1 Martin Truex Jr. 45-1 A.J. Allmendinger 65-1 Brad Keselowski 80-1 David Ragan 80-1 Field (All Others) 100-1

BASEBALL NL Leaders BATTING—Votto, Cincinnati, .322; Furcal, Los Angeles, .318; Prado, Atlanta, .316; Polanco, Philadelphia, .316; Byrd, Chicago, .313; Pagan, New York, .309; CGonzalez, Colorado, .308; AHuff, San Francisco, .308.

RUNS—BPhillips, Cincinnati, 74; Prado, Atlanta, 73; Votto, Cincinnati, 72; Weeks, Milwaukee, 71; Uggla, Florida, 70; Howard, Philadelphia, 65; AHuff, San Francisco, 65.

RBI—Howard, Philadelphia, 81; Pujols, St. Louis, 71; Hart, Milwaukee, 70; Votto, Cincinnati, 70; DWright, New York, 69; Weeks, Milwaukee, 67; Gomes, Cincinnati, 65; AdGonzalez, San Diego, 65; Loney, Los Angeles, 65.

HITS—Prado, Atlanta, 137; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 121; Howard, Philadelphia, 119; Byrd, Chicago, 116; CGonzalez, Colorado, 115; Votto, Cincinnati, 115; Weeks, Milwaukee, 115.

DOUBLES—Werth, Philadelphia, 34; Torres, San Francisco, 32; Prado, Atlanta, 29; Byrd, Chicago, 28; ADunn, Washington, 28; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 27; DWright, New York, 27.

TRIPLES—Victorino, Philadelphia, 8; SDrew, Arizona, 7; AEscobar, Milwaukee, 7; Fowler, Colorado, 7; Pagan, New York, 7; Bay, New York, 6; JosReyes, New York, 6.

HOME RUNS—Votto, Cincinnati, 26; ADunn, Washington, 24; Fielder, Milwaukee, 24; Reynolds, Arizona, 24; Howard, Philadelphia, 23; Pujols, St. Louis, 23; Hart, Milwaukee, 22; Uggla, Florida, 22; Weeks, Milwaukee, 22.

STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 31; Morgan, Washington, 28; Pagan, New York, 23; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 21; HRamirez, Florida, 21; CYoung, Arizona, 21; JosReyes, New York, 20; Victorino, Philadelphia, 20.

PITCHING—Jimenez, Colorado, 16-2; Wainwright, St. Louis, 14-6; Halladay, Philadelphia, 12-8; CCarpenter, St. Louis, 11-3; Latos, San Diego, 11-4; THudson, Atlanta, 11-5; Nolasco, Florida, 11-7.

STRIKEOUTS—Halladay, Philadelphia, 149; JoJohnson, Florida, 146; Lincecum, San Francisco, 143; Wainwright, St. Louis, 142; Haren, Arizona, 141; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 138; Dempster, Chicago, 134.

SAVES—BrWilson, San Francisco, 30; HBell, San Diego, 29; FCordero, Cincinnati, 27; Capps, Washington, 26; Nunez, Florida, 24; Wagner, Atlanta, 23; Lindstrom, Houston, 22; FRodriguez, New York, 22.

brera, Detroit, .347; Morneau, Minnesota, .345; DelmYoung, Minnesota, .334; ABeltre, Boston, .332; Cano, New York, .330; DeJesus, Kansas City, .318.

RUNS—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 76; Teixeira, New York, 76; Youkilis, Boston, 74; MiCabrera, Detroit, 72; Cano, New York, 71; Jeter, New York, 69; Hamilton, Texas, 67; MYoung, Texas, 67.

RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 89; ARodriguez, New York, 82; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 79; Guerrero, Texas, 78; JBautista, Toronto, 75; Hamilton, Texas, 74; Teixeira, New York, 72.

HITS—Hamilton, Texas, 140; ISuzuki, Seattle, 129; Cano, New York, 128; MiCabrera, Detroit, 127; ABeltre, Boston, 125; MYoung, Texas, 124; Podsednik, Kansas City, 121.

DOUBLES—MiCabrera, Detroit, 35; Markakis, Baltimore, 33; Mauer, Minnesota, 33; Hamilton, Texas, 32; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 31; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 30; VWells, Toronto, 30.

TRIPLES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 7; AJackson, Detroit, 7; Span, Minnesota, 7; Pennington, Oakland, 6; Podsednik, Kansas City, 6; Granderson, New York, 5; FLewis, Toronto, 5; EPatterson, Boston, 5; Youkilis, Boston, 5.

HOME RUNS—JBautista, Toronto, 30; MiCabrera, Detroit, 25; Konerko, Chicago, 24; Hamilton, Texas, 23; CPena, Tampa Bay, 23; DOrtiz, Boston, 21; Guerrero, Texas, 20; Teixeira, New York, 20; VWells, Toronto, 20.

STOLEN BASES—Pierre, Chicago, 38; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 37; RDavis, Oakland, 30; Podsednik, Kansas City, 30; Gardner, New York, 28; Figgins, Seattle, 27; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 27.

PITCHING—Price, Tampa Bay, 14-5; Sabathia, New York, 13-4; Pavano, Minnesota, 13-6; PHughes, New York, 12-3; Verlander, Detroit, 12-6; Pettitte, New York, 11-2; Lester, Boston, 11-5; Garza, Tampa Bay, 11-5; CBuchholz, Boston, 11-5; Danks, Chicago, 11-7.

STRIKEOUTS—JerWeaver, Los Angeles, 155; FHernandez, Seattle, 145; Lester, Boston, 143; Liriano, Minnesota, 139; Verlander, Detroit, 130; CLewis, Texas, 125; Morrow, Toronto, 125.

SAVES—NFeliz, Texas, 28; RSoriano, Tampa Bay, 28; Soria, Kansas City, 27; Papelbon, Boston, 24; Gregg, Toronto, 23; Jenks, Chicago, 21; MRivera, New York, 21; Valverde, Detroit, 21; Rauch, Minnesota, 21; Valverde, Detroit, 21.

FOOTBALL ACC Player of the Year Media Poll 1. Christian Ponder, Florida State 2. Ryan Williams, Virginia Tech 3. Tyrod Taylor, Virginia Tech T4. Russell Wilson, NC State T4. Robert Quinn, North Carolina 6. Joshua Nesbitt, Georgia Tech 7.

Kyle Parker, Clemson T8. Mark Herzlich, Boston College T8. Jacory Harris, Miami T10. Montel Harris, Boston College T10. Darren Evans, Virginia Tech T10. Bruce Carter, North Carolina

45 16 11 6 6 4 3 2 2 1 1 1

ACC Championship Game Media Predictions 1. Virginia Tech over FSU 35 2. Virginia Tech over Clemson 13 3. Florida State over Virginia Tech 11 4. Florida State over Miami 10 5. Miami over Florida State 9 6. Georgia Tech over Florida State 7 7. Florida State over North Carolina 3 T8. Virginia Tech over Boston College 2 T8. Florida State over Georgia Tech 2 T10. Miami over Clemson 1 T10. Georgia Tech over Clemson 1 T10. Boston College over Georgia Tech 1 T10. Boston College over Virginia Tech 1 T10. North Carolina over Florida State 1 T10. North Carolina over Clemson 1

2010 preseason All-ACC team

By The Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The 2010 preseason all-ACC football team as voted on by 52 media members at the league’s media days: OFFENSE QB—Christian Ponder, Florida State RB—Ryan Williams, Virginia Tech RB—Montel Harris, Boston College WR—Donovan Varner, Duke WR—Torrey Smith, Maryland TE—George Bryan, N.C. State OT—Anthony Castonzo, Boston College OT—Chris Hairston, Clemson OG—Rodney Hudson, Florida State OG—Thomas Claiborne, Boston College C—Sean Bedford, Georgia Tech K—Matt Bosher, Miami DEFENSE DE—Robert Quinn, North Carolina DE—Allen Bailey, Miami DT—Marvin Austin, North Carolina DT—Jarvis Jenkins, Clemson LB—Alex Wujciak, Maryland LB—Quan Sturdivant, North Carolina LB—Luke Kuechly, Boston College CB—Kendric Burney, North Carolina CB—Brandon Harris, Miami S—DeAndre McDaniel, Clemson S—Deunta Williams, North Carolina P—Matt Bosher, Miami Spec.—Torrey Smith, Maryland

AL Leaders BATTING—Hamilton, Texas, .358; MiCa-

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over many of his teammates with his work ethic.

“He’s quiet. He’s kept his mouth shut and has just been working hard,” said left tackle Jordan Gross, who added Clausen sent him a couple of text messages over the summer. “I think that’s the right way to do it as a quarterback or any player.

“I think he’s got great potential. I know Matt (Moore) is our starter right now and that’s who I support. But anybody that’s got a Panthers helmet on, I want them to do their best. I’d love for him to succeed beyond anybody’s expectations. That would just make us better.”

A day after signing a four-year contract that could be worth up to $6.3 million, Clausen blamed “a little prepractice jitters” for bobbling a couple of snaps in a walkthrough before Thursday’s first practice.

He then settled in mostly as the third-string QB behind Moore and Hunter Cantwell, although Clausen did take some snaps with the second unit and appeared to be sharp with his throws.

The Californian acknowl-

edged that despite being warned about the South Carolina humidity, it “caught me off guard a little bit.”

“I feel like I’m in a good position right now playing in an offense that I did at Notre Dame for three years,” Clausen said. “At the same time you’ve got to get used of the speed. You’ve got to get used to different guys running routes. There’s a lot of timing that goes into everything, so that’s a big thing that I’m going to be working on in camp.”

The 6-foot-2 Clausen threw 60 touchdown passes and 27 interceptions with the Fighting Irish, but was just 16-18 as a starter, hardly what fans expected after the high school phenom arrived in a limousine to announce his college choice. Questions about his attitude caused him to tumble in the draft after he left school a year early.

“I really don’t think about it too often, but I’m sure it’ll be in the back of my head,” Clausen said. “That’s one of the things that makes me strive to be the best quarterback I can be. Go out each and every day and work as hard as I can and try to be perfect.”

While the Panthers believe Clausen could

GOLF The Greenbrier Classic Scores

By The Associated Press Thursday At The Old White Course White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Purse: $6 million Yardage: 7,031; Par 70 First Round a-denotes amateur Erik Compton 32-31 Matt Every 33-30 George McNeill 31-33 Pat Perez 33-31 Jeff Overton 31-33 Brendon de Jonge 33-32 Charles Howell III 32-33 Aron Price 31-34 Matt Bettencourt 31-34 John Rollins 31-34 Spencer Levin 31-35 Bob Estes 32-34 Jeff Quinney 32-34 Dean Wilson 32-34 Jay Williamson 32-34 Stuart Appleby 32-34 Ben Crane 32-34 John Mallinger 31-35 Mathew Goggin 34-32 Chad Collins 33-33 Scott Piercy 32-34 Paul Goydos 33-33 Richard S. Johnson 31-35 Chris Couch 32-34 Woody Austin 31-36 Lee Janzen 33-34 Justin Leonard 31-36 Jeev Milkha Singh 31-36 Aaron Baddeley 34-33 Scott McCarron 32-35 Brett Wetterich 33-34 Boo Weekley 33-34 Kevin Sutherland 33-34 Skip Kendall 31-36 Briny Baird 35-32 Jimmy Walker 32-35 Alex Hamilton 32-35 Brian Stuard 34-33 Joe Ogilvie 34-34 Greg Chalmers 33-35 Marc Leishman 32-36 Brandt Snedeker 33-35 Chris Riley 34-34 Cameron Beckman 34-34 Stephen Ames 34-34 D.A. Points 34-34 James Driscoll 33-35 Justin Bolli 32-36 Patrick Moore 31-37 Drew Weaver 35-33 Craig Bowden 31-37 Greg Owen 35-33 Davis Love III 33-35 Steve Flesch 35-33 Jim Furyk 33-35 Sergio Garcia 33-35 John Senden 33-35 Arjun Atwal 33-35 Garth Mulroy 33-35 Brent Delahoussaye 32-36 Tim Herron 35-34 Charles Warren 34-35 Bill Lunde 35-34 Chris Stroud 33-36 Paul Stankowski 34-35 Troy Merritt 32-37 Mark Wilson 34-35 Derek Lamely 34-35 Matt Kuchar 33-36 Troy Matteson 33-36 Ben Curtis 33-36 Jonathan Byrd 34-35 J.J. Henry 33-36 Martin Laird 33-36 Michael Bradley 34-35 J.B. Holmes 34-35 John Daly 35-34 Charlie Wi 35-34 Roger Tambellini 34-35 Cameron Percy 32-37 Jerod Turner 36-33 Nicholas Thompson 35-35 Daniel Chopra 33-37 Jerry Kelly 36-34 David Toms 36-34 Steve Wheatcroft 35-35 Charley Hoffman 32-38 Billy Mayfair 35-35 Ricky Barnes 34-36 Matt Jones 36-34 Graham DeLaet 37-33 Joe Durant 34-36 John Merrick 35-35 Chris DiMarco 34-36 Kevin Na 34-36 Rocco Mediate 34-36 a-Jonathan Bartlett 33-37 Glen Day 34-37 Carl Pettersson 35-36 Blake Adams 34-37 Jeff Maggert 36-35 Brenden Pappas 35-36 Robert Garrigus 33-38 Rod Pampling 34-37 Vance Veazey 35-36 Gary Woodland 37-34 Martin Flores 36-35 Chris Wilson 36-35 Andrew McLardy 36-35 Garrett Willis 33-38 Roland Thatcher 36-35 Trevor Immelman 36-35 John Huston 35-36 Chris Tidland 37-34 Jarrod Lyle 34-37 Barry Evans 35-36 Dick Mast 35-36 Bob Sowards 34-37

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eventually becoming their entrenched starter, Moore is clearly No. 1 at the start of camp after Jake Delhomme’s release. Clausen’s immediate goal is to pass Cantwell, who spent most of his rookie season on the practice squad as Moore’s backup.

“Him and I had a great conversation today talking about some little things with the offense,” said Moore, who has started only eight NFL games. “I guess I’m kind of a mentor. I don’t see myself as one but I guess I play that role.”

Coach John Fox provided little insight when asked what Clausen needs to work on, saying only that he needs practice time to get more comfortable. Clausen is expected to see considerable playing time in the preseason. The exhibition opener is Aug. 12 at Baltimore.

Until then, Clausen plans to stay quiet, learn and say nothing inflammatory.

“Whenever you get your reps, you have to go out there and make plays,” Clausen said. “I think that’s the biggest thing. When your name gets called, whether it’s one play or five plays, it doesn’t really matter. You have to produce.”

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The Sanford Herald / Friday, July 30, 2010 / 5B

DEAR ABBY

BRIDGE HAND

Solitary man reaches out, but now is lonely in a crowd

HOROSCOPES Universal Press Syndicate

Happy Birthday: It’s all about learning, experiencing and doing this year.

A new way of looking at old ideas and concepts will keep you in the game.

Travel will lead to knowledge and experience, furthering your goals.

Dealing with friends, neighbors and relatives will be stressful if you don’t learn to say no. Your numbers are 3, 7, 17, 21, 30, 36, 42 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep your secrets to yourself. Take on responsibilities so everyone can see you are serious about your work. Socialize in the evening and you will come across someone with an interesting take on the future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Love and romance are highlighted. Finish your work quickly and prepare to spend time with the one you love. If single, attend events where you can meet people and find love. Short trips will be frustrating due to delays but you will engage in conversations with interesting people.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Just when you think you are home free, you’ll face someone unhappy with the way you have done things. Try to avoid any sort of confrontation. The best alternative is to volunteer to help an organization you believe in.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t let the little things bother you so much and you will discover there is plenty to be thankful for and to enjoy. If you strive to be positive, you will beat the odds and find comfort in your home, family and relationships.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You need to get away either mentally or physically. If you can take a mini vacation, do so. If not, lose yourself in a good book or a hobby. A new concept or pastime will introduce you to different philosophies or lifestyles.

It’s never too late to make changes.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

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22): This can turn into a fabulous weekend if you put everything aside and focus on your love life.

Don’t let financial worries stop you from enjoying the comfort you get from spending time with family.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll be back and forth and back again when it comes to making a personal or professional decision.

Before you drive yourself and everyone around you crazy, ask someone you trust for advice.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Put everything aside and focus on love and self-improvement. This is a great time to evaluate your personal life. Once you sort out how you can be more effective as a companion, friend and lover, the other uncertainties will clear up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Keep your emotional feelings out of any conversation you get into, especially if it involves friends, relatives or neighbors. Keep things light and stand true to your promises. Problems while traveling can be expected.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Deal with paperwork and personal business involving settlements, legalities, investments or health issues rather than trying to get along with someone looking for a fight. Travel and communication will only lead to frustration and differences.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look back and you will see what needs to be done in the future. Past partners and financial mistakes you have made will come to mind, reminding you not to repeat what you did the last time. A residential move will help you change your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make a professional move. Interviews, sending out your resume and exploring ways to offer your skills will all bring positive results. A relationship you have with someone will improve if you listen to the ideas, plans and intentions being suggested.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a gay 44-yearold man with self-esteem problems. I have never seen myself as worthy of affection, and I don’t consider myself attractive. I have never been in a relationship, and no one outside of my family has ever said “I love you” to me.

I have recently tried to come out of my shell. As a result, the network of people I associate with has tripled -- and I think that has compounded my problem. Aside from parties where everyone is invited, I never hear from any of these people. I have only a couple of good friends, people I can talk to.

I have leaned on my friends to try to help me with my problem.

But I’m afraid if I keep unloading on them it’ll wear them down, and I don’t want to burden them.

I wish I didn’t feel so worthless.

I know part of my problem is the fact that I am unemployed and worried about money. But this is who I have been my whole life.

How do I break the cycle and start feeling good about myself? I’m tired of being lonely all the time.

— LONELY IN CHICAGO DEAR LONELY: One way to stop feeling lonely is to give yourself less time to feel that way. Because you are unemployed and have the time, volunteer some of it. Find a nonprofit that helps homeless gay youth or senior citizens — or, because the political scene is heating up, the party of your choice.

And while you’re at it, contact a gay and lesbian center and ask what kind of counseling services it offers, because your problems predate your unemployment.

There is help available in your city.

later shuttle.

What do I do? Tell Phil I don’t want to walk with him? Walk faster? Go in later?

— UNCOMFORTABLE IN SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO

Abigail Van Buren Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Once you understand why you feel “unworthy of affection” you’ll be able to improve your self-esteem.

There are better days ahead. o DEAR ABBY: My office was relocated recently, a bit farther away from home than the old one.

My new commute involves riding public transportation and then a shared shuttle van.

One of my co-workers, “Phil,” rides the same shuttle. He always waits for me to get off the shuttle so he can walk with me to the office. He seems nice enough and well-meaning, but my mornings are my time to prepare myself for the day. He also occasionally touches my arm, which makes me uncomfortable. He also talks about personal things I would rather not hear about.

I would prefer to walk without him, but there is no other way to get to the office. I have debated being 10 minutes late to work each day, but then I would need to stay 10 minutes later and it would be much harder for me to catch the

DEAR UNCOMFORTABLE: Tell Phil that as you walk to the office you meditate — that it helps “center” you in preparing for the workday. Explain that when he talks to you or touches you it’s distracting, so you would prefer that he go on ahead. It’s the truth, and he should accommodate you. o DEAR ABBY: I recently had a child and would like to join a church for the community, moral messages and the music. I grew up going to one and got a lot out of it.

However, exploration throughout my 20s made me realize that I didn’t believe what was being taught. I tried hard to accept the doctrines, but truthfully, I doubt I ever will. Would it be dishonest to start attending again?

— NEW MOM IN ARKANSAS DEAR NEW MOM: Many people consider themselves to be more “spiritual” than “religious.” And I’m willing to bet that in many congregations there is a range in the intensity of belief among the attendees.

I encourage you to select a denomination with which you feel most comfortable. Some — like the Unitarian Universalist faith (www. uua.org) — have no dogma or creed and support their members in following their own spiritual paths.

ODDS AND ENDS

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Police: Cheeseburger found in SC woman’s gas tank

Prodigal gun: Man reunited with stolen revolver

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina woman found out fast food won’t make your car go fast.

The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to police after she took her car to a Rock Hill mechanic last week because it would suddenly stop running.

Police said a mechanic found a cheeseburger and pickle inside the car’s gas tank. The woman told officers she had no idea how it happened.

Investigators said the damage cost about $1,000 to repair.

TERRELL, Texas (AP) -- A rural East Texas man has been reunited with his long-lost gun more than two decades after it was stolen.

According to a Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office statement, burglars took Bruce Garner’s H&R nine-shot revolver from the Terrell man’s home soon after he moved there in June 1989.

Although the thieves were never caught, deputies located the stolen firearm at a pawn shop.

Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Pat Laney said Garner and his gun were reunited at an upbeat property hearing Thursday morning.

The 59-year-old leathersmith says “it’s a hoot” to have his favorite dispatch gun back again. “I was astounded.”

500-pound alligator rounded up in SC lagoon HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As gators go, the one found in a South Carolina lagoon was downright gargantuan.

The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that an 11-foot-long, 500 pound alligator was removed from a lagoon on the resort island on Wednesday. It took three gator wrestlers from the Critter Management company and a truck to pull the gator from the lagoon near a church.

A worker said the gator was so big, it was a like a frog in a puddle.

Critter Management owner Joe Maffo said most encounters with gators occur during the spring and early summer. He said the gator probably just found a lagoon where he felt comfortable.

SUDOKU

Fla. deputy shoots himself in leg during training CRESTVIEW, Fla. (AP) -- An Okaloosa Sheriff’s deputy is on leave after shooting himself in the leg during a training exercise at a firing range.

Miguel Rojas accidentally hit himself Tuesday when deputies were forced to use their lessdominant hand to shoot. The 35-year-old caught his finger in the trigger guard while trying to holster his gun. The bullet broke a small bone in Rojas’ leg, but the injury didn’t require surgery.

The department’s chief deputy said Rojas is in good spirits, but won’t get any relief from his co-workers for a while.

He is an eight-year sheriff’s department veteran and a member of its Special Response Team.

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Pray for courage and forgiveness Q: I’ve hurt a lot of people in my life, especially my ex-wives and our children. I feel bad about it now, and I guess I ought to tell them I’m sorry, but for some reason I just can’t bring myself to do it. Please pray I’ll do the right thing. -- D.C. A: Often, the right thing to do in life isn’t necessarily the easy thing to do -- and this is true in your situation.

Yes, it would be easier just to do nothing -- but it would be wrong, and your feelings of failure and guilt would hang over you the rest of your life.

But don’t just think of yourself; think especially of those you’ve hurt. Your letter doesn’t go into detail, but how would you feel if you were a child whose father had walked out on him? How would you feel if you were a wife and mother who only knew heartache and betrayal, and finally abandonment, from her husband? I don’t know if these describe you exactly, but from what you say, your legacy hasn’t been any better.

What should you do? My prayer is that you will first of all turn to Jesus Christ and commit your life to Him. You need God’s forgiveness, and You need His strength to live the way you should. The Bible’s promise is for you: “Everyone who believes in him (Christ) receives forgiveness of sins through his name” (Acts 10:43).

Then ask God to give you the courage to tell those you’ve hurt that you know you were wrong, and you want their forgiveness.

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Religion

8B / Friday, July 30, 2010 / The Sanford Herald Church News Broadway Presbyterian Church

The congregation will welcome the new pastor, Rev. Richard Rodda, at the 9:30 a.m. Sunday service.

The church is located at 211 S. Main St. in Broadway.

Buffalo Presbyterian Church

The Rev. Paul J. Shields will present the sermon ”If You Have Been Raised” at the 11 a.m.

Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 1333 Carthage St. in Sanford.

Chapel Hill AME Zion Church

Homecoming service will be held at 11 a.m.

Sunday followed by a fish fry.

Revival services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday with the following speakers: Wednesday, Rev. Hill and choir of Trinity Church in Dunn; Thursday, Minister Curtis Weathers of Christian Faith Ministries in Sanford; Friday, Rev. Glover and choir of House of Prayer in Goldston.

The church is located at 167 Womack Road in Broadway.

Chestnut AME Zion Church

National Nightout 2010 will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the church.

The church is located at 4522 Buckhorn Road in Sanford.

Christ Church of Deliverance

Apostle Zenobia Crump’s 22nd pastoral anniversary will be celebrated at 7 p.m. Thursday with Pastor Denise Upchurch of Increasing Faith Ministries in Sanford as guest speaker.

The church is located

at 2233 Lower Moncure Road in Sanford.

Church of Many Colors Minister Mark Yarborough will speak at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 2320 Pilson Road in Lemon Springs.

East Sanford Baptist Church Church breakfast will be served at 8 a.m.

Sunday in the fellowship hall. The Rev. Robbie Gibson will speak at the 11 a.m and 6 p.m. Sunday worship service. Vacation Bible School Recognition will be observed at the morning worship.

The men’s fellowship breakfast will be at 6:15 a.m. Tuesday at Mrs. Wenger’s Restaurant.

The church is located at 300 North Ave. in Sanford.

Emmanuel Congregational Christian Church The Sunday worship service has been changed to 10 a.m. through the summer months of June, July and August. Beginning in September the service will go back to 11 a.m. again.

There will be a Flea Market held at 8 a.m.

Saturday in the church fellowship hall with a lot of nice items for sale, especially some furniture items.

The church is located at 1089 Wilkins Drive in Sanford.

Exousia Christian Fellowship, Inc. Pastor Steve L. Chesney will deliver the message at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 700 Bragg St. in Sanford.

Fair Promise AME Zion Church

Grace Chapel Church

Mission of Hope Independent Church

A church breakfast will be served from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Donation $5. Eat in or take out.

Kick-off worship service leading to family and friends day will be held at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday with the following speakers: Monday, Dr. Alice Hooker of Works for Christ Christian Center; Tuesday, Dr. Thomas E. Smith of First Calvary Baptist Church; Wednesday, Rev. Deloris Washington of Ebenezer Gospel Assembly; Thursday, youth night, Rev. Bruce Petty of Trinity United Methodist Church; and Friday, Rev. Herman Morris of Prevailing Life Ministries.

Steve Horne will be the guest speaker at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 2605 Jefferson Davis Hwy. in Sanford.

Bishop Ted Lane will not have services this Sunday.

The church is located at 522 John Garner Road in Sanford.

Faith Hope Deliverance Christian Center National Nightout 2010 will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the church.

The church is located at 646 Oakwood Ave. in Sanford.

First Presbyterian Church The church will celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper at the 9 a.m. contemporary service and the 11 a.m. traditional service.

The church is located at 203 Hawkins Ave. in Sanford.

Fountain of Life Ministries A Gospel Train singing will be held at 7 p.m.

Sunday with Bishop Warren Anderson and friends performing.

The church is located at 3491 Cameron Drive in Sanford.

Gorham Prayer Room Bible study will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 218 Simmons St. in Sanford.

Greater Zion Holy Temple Next Generation of Young Christian Leaders will present a youth conference, “Operation - Take Back” at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday with Minister Aaron McNair Jr. of Farmville and Minister Sherman Blandon of Greenville speaking.

Registrationis free. Special music will be provided each night.

The church is located at 608 Oddfellow St. in Sanford.

Hillmon Grove Baptist Church Pastor Shannon Arnold will bring the 11 a.m.

Sunday message following Sunday school held for all ages.

Deacons meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the church office building.

CARE Team “C” will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the church office with Hugh and Joyce Rosser. The business meeting will be held at 7 p.m. and choir practice at 8 p.m.

The church is located at 384 Hillmon Grove Church Road.

Mays Chapel Baptist Church Homecoming will be observed at 11 a.m.

Sunday with the Rev. Eric N. Davidson delivering the message and special music by Trent Jones, Minister to Families, and Gail Bryant. A covered dish lunch will immediately follow the service.

The church is located at 24 Rosser Road in Bear Creek.

Mt. Carmel Pentecostal Holiness Assembly Youth revival will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday withPastor Nicholas Worrell of Resurrection Temple in Goldston as guest speaker.

The church is located at 744 Minter School Road in Sanford.

Mt. Nebo Freewill Baptist Church The 98th church anniversary will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Sunday with Pastor James Leach speaking and at 2:30 p.m. with Pastor Charlie Hawes speaking. Dress in oldfashion attire.

The church is located at 3292 Edwards Road in Lemon Springs.

Mt. Zion Freewill Baptist Church The 186th church anniversary will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Sunday with Pastor Ernest Dunn speaking and at 3 p.m. with Minister Wayne McKoy and the Lillington Grove Inspirational Singers conducting the service. Dinner will be served following the morning service.

Revival services will be held at 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday with Elder Willie Hunter of St. Mary Freewill Baptist Church in Holly Springs as guest preacher. Different choirs will perform each night.

The church is located at 903 Burgess Circle in Broadway.

New Church of Deliverance The pastoral anniversary for Bishop William and Pastor Barbara Powell will be held at 7 p.m. today with Pastor Marilyn Cross of Mt. Carmel Pentecostal Holiness Assembly as guest speaker.

The closing of the anniversary will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday with Pastor Nathan Hooker of The Recovery Room Ministries as guest speaker.

The church is located at 218 Main St. in Sanford.

New Life Praise Church (SBC) Pastor Josh Dickinson will continue with his series of messages from the gospel of John at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. A verse by verse study and discussion from the book of Revelation is the focus of the 6 p.m.

Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 2398 Wicker St. in Sanford.

Red Hill Missionary Baptist Church Homecoming service will be observed at 3 p.m.

Sunday with the Rev. Angela Davis speaking. Revival services will be held at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday with the Rev. Willie Purcell speaking.

The church is located at 1160 Red Hill Road in Cameron.

St. John Pentecostal Holy Ministries Homecoming service will be observed at 11:15 a.m. Sunday at the church.

Revival services will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday with Evangelist Addie Rawls of Clayton as guest preacher.

The church is located on Dove Road in Cameron.

St. Paul AME Zion Church

Homecoming service will be observed at 11 a.m.

Sunday at the church.

Revival services will be held at 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday with Dr. Otis Thomas McMillan of African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church as guest preacher.

The church is located at 550 Cumnock Road in Sanford.

Solid Rock Community Church Pastor Craig Dodson will speak on “There Are No Un-important People in the Body of Christ” at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. Contemporary services will be held from 6 to 7 p.m.

Sunday with the message “Fallen From Grace.”

Nursery and children’s church provided. Transportation available, call (919) 777-6579.

The church is located at 989 White Hill Road in Sanford.

Star of Hope Original Freewill Baptist Church

The annual mission program will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday with Minister Tawanna Harrell speaking. Theme is “100 Women and Men in White.”

The church is located at 2834 Dalrymple St. in Sanford.

Tempting Congregational Church

One hundred men in black and red will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday with Ervin Fox speaking on the topic of Man, Deacon Jeff Reaves speaking on Black and Donate’ Ross speaking on Red. Music will be rendered by The Traveling Sons and the Tempting Travelers. All men are asked to wear red and black.

Trinity Lutheran Church The tenth Sunday after Pentecost worship service will be delivered by the Rev. Tim Martin. Services will be held at 8:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. with Holy Communion served at both services.

Gamblers Anonymous meet at 8 p.m. today.

The church is located at 525 Carthage St. in Sanford.

Union Grove United Methodist Church Women’s Day will be observed at 9 a.m. Sunday with Minister Tawanna Harrell of Star of Hope Freewill Baptist Church as guest speaker. Music will be rendered by the Holy Mission Holiness Church Choir of Lillington.

The church is located at 84 Howard-Mac Lane in Broadway.

White Oak AME Zion Church If you have a loved one or know someone who is buried in the White Oak Cemetery, please help us by contacting their family or family members in order to assist us in identifying their graves or burial sites. Many of the graves have no markers. We are in the process of cleaning up and restoring this once beautiful and historical site.

If you would like to send a donation, make all checks and money orders payable to: White Oake AME Zion Church, P.O. Box 564, Sanford, N.C. 27330.

The church is located at 1255 Lower Moncure Road in Sanford.