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N.C. HOMEGROWN BUSINESSES ENJOYING SUCCESS ALL OVER In shallow trays of organic soil at her greenhouse in Harrisburg, onetime real estate agent Kate Brun is cultivating a business, part of a wave of the homemade and home-grown springing up in Charlotte and across the country Page 11B

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Southern Lee High School has seen its share of troubles and turnover in its first five years, but officials say better times are around the corner for the school on Tramway Road.

OFFICIALS: TO IMPROVE SLHS, WHO IS ANDREW BREITBART? THAT’S A DIFFICULT QUESTION Love or hate him, you can’t avoid conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart on cable TV these days. But who is this 41-year-old father of four from Los Angeles, who has emerged as one of the most incendiary figures from the Beltway to Hollywood, a minor-league Limbaugh who mixes shock-jock calculation, conservative credo and answerto-no-one swagger? Who is this icon of the smash-mouth politics that divide America? Page 10B

GULF OIL SPILL

FISHERMEN HOPE CUSTOMERS CAN LOOK BEYOND SEAFOOD’S OILY PAST The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to reopen more than three months after crude began gushing from the sea floor. But those who harvest, process and sell the catch face a new crisis — convincing wary consumers it’s not only delicious, but also safe

STABILITY IS KEY High teacher turnover a big reason for school’s underachievement By ALEXA MILAN

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SANFORD — It’s no secret that within the walls of its pristine facilities, Southern Lee High School has faced its share of challenges. The preliminary ABC/ AYP results for Lee County revealed Southern Lee was the county’s only school not to achieve growth in the 2009-2010 year. Since opening its doors in 2005, the school has seen a high faculty and administration turnover. According to Lee County Schools human resources department, Southern Lee had 11 certified vacancies out of 82 certified teaching positions as of June 30. Sanford resident Mark Stewart’s son graduated from Southern Lee in 2008, but only one of his senior-

Southern Lee High School Principal Bonnie Almond has spent the past six months analyzing what is working for the school and what isn’t at the school. year teachers remained in 2010. But rather than getting discouraged, the school’s struggles have motivated Principal Bonnie Almond to introduce some new initia-

tives for the 2010-2011 year that she hopes will turn the school around. “In any organization, when you have major

See SLHS, Page 4A

Some facts and figures about Southern Lee High School n According to Lee County Schools human resources department, Southern Lee had 11 certified vacancies out of 82 certified teaching positions as of June 30 n Southern Lee has had four principals in the last four years n Southern Lee was the county’s only school not to achieve growth in the 2009-2010 year, though it met 18 (or 85.7 percent) out of 21 AYP target goals n The school opened in 2005 and currently has more than 1,200 students enrolled

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NATION KAGAN TAKES HER PLACE ON THE SUPREME COURT BENCH WASHINGTON (AP) — Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday as the 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court

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MOORE COUNTY

Chamber chairman improving

Suit filed against charter school board

From staff reports

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STATE KINNAIRD BLASTS BOARD OF ELECTIONS ON TRAVEL, BALLOTS At least one North Carolina lawmaker says reports about travel and spending on ballots by State Elections Board officials needs to be studied Page 8A

Vol. 80, No. 186 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina

SANFORD — The Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce chairman who was seriously injured after a fall from a rooftop Wednesday is said to be making improvements this weekend, according to his family. Jerry Pedley, a long-

See Pedley, Page 4A

HAPPENING TODAY Temple Theatre’s youth conservatory will present Disney’s “The Jungle Book!” at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. Seating is general admission. Call the Temple box office at (919) 7744155 or go online to templeshows.com.

By ALEXA MILAN amilan@sanfordherald.com

VASS — The Sandhills Theatre Arts Renaissance School, its parent teacher organization and three members of the school’s board of directors filed a lawsuit Friday against five of the school’s board of directors for violating state law and the school’s charter. John Langley, Al Haltiwanger, Bonnie McPeake, O’Linda Gillis and Larry Graham are accused of remaining on the board

beyond the maximum permitted term, holding illegal meetings in violation of the North Carolina Open Meetings Law and ignoring directives from the N.C. Office of Charter Schools, including two letters of reprimand. The complaint also states that despite the reprimand from the Office of Charter Schools, in another illegal meeting the defendants voted to remove plaintiffs Steven George and Cathy Buchan from the board and to limit the ability of board

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president and plaintiff Fred Walden. The Office of Charter Schools already placed the board on Governance Probationary Status on July 16 after learning it violated open meetings laws and hasn’t been compliant with its own bylaws. The office also instructed the non-compliant board members to rotate off the board by October. According to the complaint, the defendants’ actions could result in

See STARS, Page 4A

INDEX

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OBITUARIES

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Sanford: Joe A. Cline, 76; Lewis Luther Riddle, 83; John Michael Whitley; James William Wicker Sr. Broadway: Nellie Thomas, 78

The mystery of the big box construction near Walmart has been solved — for now

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On the Agenda Rundown of local meetings in the area:

MONDAY n The Pittsboro Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 635 East St., in Pittsboro. n The Siler City Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. in Siler City.

TUESDAY n The Lee County Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. at the Lee County Government Center in Sanford. n The Moore County Airport Authority will meet at 10 a.m. at the Airport Terminal Building, Highway 22, Pinehurst. n The Lillington Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. at the L.D. Burwell Public Safety Building in Lillington.

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Sanford’s All-Star Little Tar Heel team was off to the state tournament in Washington, N.C. This photograph appeared in the Aug. 10, 1965, Herald.

WEDNESDAY n The MCTS Board Meeting will be held at 3 p.m. at the Senior Enrichment Center in West End.

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Birthdays LOCAL:LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, especially Andrea Michelle Douglas, Joe Foxx, Adair London, Sarah Lawson, Simon Partridge, Sheila Skula, Jan Bullard, Brittany Nicole Moye, Danny Ray McDougald, Zachary Chase Bray, Kyle Bradleigh Mason, Eddie Brannan, Alyia Jane Williams, Mae Dunlap, Briona Gabrielle King-Spell, Kelson Grey Marshburn, Sarah Smith, Joshua Chasez, Robert Sanderlin, Devante Allen, Meagan Akridge, Les Collins, Lewis Hunter, Maggie Martin, Martha Ray Shepherd, Blanche Womack, Katherine Swann, Barbara McAuley, Cindy Johnson, Edna Sloan, Dr. Katrina H. Avery, Ellen Tyner, Johnsie Peoples and Ronald Horner. And to those celebrating Monday, especially Terrie Allen Davis, Fred Hooper, Amberly Nicole Scott, Natysha Janise Blue, Jack Broughton Hamrick, Natalia Guadalupe Segoviano, Waymon McLean, Darlene Marks, Jacqueline Noelle Condrey, Sandra Tatiana La’Shelle Watson, Laura Roxanna Figueroa, Jesus Rios-Diaz, Maurice Dockery, Patricia Betts, David McLean, Freddie Lee Gunter, Harley Ann Davis, Arlela Wright, Sylvia Bryant, Takeia Rachelle McLeod, LaKisha Dalrymple, Yushevia Brewington, Joschelle Taylor, Connie Foushee Lambeth, Brandi Nicole Grier, Terri Wind, Eddie Brannan, Angela Thomas, Al Laton and Kiki McLeod. CELEBRITIES: Actress Esther Williams is 89. Actress Nita Talbot is 80. Singer Mel Tillis is 78. Actor Dustin Hoffman is 73. Actress Connie Stevens is 72. Actor Larry Wilcox is 63. Actor Keith Carradine is 61. Country singer Jamie O’Hara is 60. RadioTV personality Robin Quivers is 58. Actor Donny Most is 57. TV personality Deborah Norville is 52.

Almanac Today is Sunday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2010. There are 145 days left in the year. This day in history: On Aug. 8, 1974, following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal, President Richard M. Nixon announced that he would resign, and that Vice President Gerald R. Ford would succeed him. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile. In 1876, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his mimeograph. In 1942, six convicted Nazi saboteurs who’d landed in the U.S. were executed in Washington, D.C.; two others were spared. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed the United Nations Charter. The Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War II.

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 718-4641. Enrollment will be limited to 25 participants. n Central Fire Station at 512 Hawkins Avenue will check car seats between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. each Saturday. Appointments are required. Contact Krista at 775-8310 by 5 p.m. Wednesday to schedule an appointment for the following Saturday. Child must be present for seat to be checked, unless mother is expecting. n Sanford Farmers Market will be held from 9 a.m. to noon every Saturday from May through October.

TUESDAY

SUNDAY n Temple Theatre’s youth conservatory will present Disney’s “The Jungle Book!” at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. Seating is general admission. Call the Temple box office at (919) 774-4155 or go online to templeshows. com. The box office is open from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. If available, tickets may be purchased at the door as well.

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n Lee County 2010 Idol auditions, for those 35 years old or better and love to sing, will be held at 7 p.m. at Depot Park in Sanford. In case of rain, auditions will be held at the Temple Theatre. There is an entry fee to audition, with all proceeds to benefit the Helping Fund. Entry forms are available at The Enrichment Center of Lee County, 1615 S. Third St., Sanford. For more information, call (919) 776-0501. Contestants who are selected at the auditions will perform at the Boomer Senior & Caregiver Expo at 2:30 pm. Aug. 25 at the Dennis Wicker Civic Center. n A bloodmobile visit is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Agricultural Center in Carthage. n The Stevens Center’s annual golf tournament is at Tobacco Road Golf Club. 8 a.m. and 1:30 shotgun starts. Four person teams play captain’s choice. $65 per person includes 18 holes of golf, cart, lunch, beverages and prizes. Register in advance by calling 919 776-4048, visiting stevenscenter. org or on day of event at Tobacco Road Golf Club. Proceeds benefit people with disabilities in Lee, Harnett and Moore Counties. n The San-Lee Dancers will meet at 6

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AROUND OUR AREA CHATHAM COUNTY

Seven schools of distinction

PITTSBORO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Seven schools in Chatham County have earned School of Distinction status, but two schools have been listed as priority schools. The schools that earned School of Distinction honors are Bennett, Bonlee, Moncure, North Chatham, Perry Harrison and Silk Hope elementary schools as well as Northwood High School. The distinction and priority status of schools is based on a combination of the federal Adequate Yearly Progress tests and the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ABC test scores, which were released Thursday. The schools that were listed as priority schools are Virginia Cross Elementary and Chatham Middle schools in Siler City. Although Chatham Middle School was listed as a priority school, it did meet the high growth standard. Virginia Crossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s composite performance score was 58.2, and Chatham Middle Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was 59.5. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth model assesses how much students improved academically. Eight schools achieved â&#x20AC;&#x153;high growth,â&#x20AC;? meaning their students exceeded the expected level of academic growth. They are Bennett, Bonlee, Chatham Middle, Horton, J.S. Waters, Moncure, Siler City Elementary, and Silk Hope. Four other schools, in addition to those that met â&#x20AC;&#x153;high growth,â&#x20AC;? met â&#x20AC;&#x153;expected growth.â&#x20AC;? They are North Chatham, Perry Harrison, Pittsboro Elementary, and Northwood. Jordan Matthew High School, which received no recognition, received a performance composite score of 75.1 â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are proud of the improved achievement of our students,â&#x20AC;? said Superintendent Robert Logan in a written statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Overall we experienced an increase in the number of students proficient in reading and science, and math remained about the same. The number of schools earning School of Distinction status and â&#x20AC;&#x153;high growthâ&#x20AC;? also increased.â&#x20AC;? -- Durham Herald Sun

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State says DOT can return developerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift

DURHAM (MCT) -- The state Attorney Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff appears to affirm the state Department of Transportation acted legally in revoking its acceptance of property from the developers of a controversial subdivision near Jordan Lake. Special Deputy Attorney General Richard Moore

weighed in Friday at the request of Durham County Attorney Lowell Siler. Siler had asked Moore for an opinion clarifying DOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authority to revoke the gift of land along N.C. 751, returning it to Southern Durham Development, developers of 751 South. If DOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recision stands, it re-validates a petition that requires four of the five county commissioners to vote in favor for the developers to win a rezoning needed to build the project. Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter cites state law that says the state Board of Transportationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powers include the â&#x20AC;&#x153;release of interests in land acquired for right-of-way, but not used nor needed for right-of-way.â&#x20AC;? In July, prior to the county commissionersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hearing on the rezoning, Southern Durham Development donated land along N.C. 751 to DOT for right of way if the road is widened. DOT accepted the land. After DOT officials learned that by accepting the land, they had invalidated a petition against the 751 South rezoning, the department revoked its acceptance.

Cumberland DSS off state watch list FAYETTEVILLE (MCT) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cumberland County Social Services Director Brenda Reid Jackson has been saying her troubled childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services office is turning a corner. Some proof of that came Thursday when county officials disclosed that the Department of Social Services has been removed from a state watch list. A 2008 state review of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services found the county deficient in all seven performance areas that were examined. The department was consequently placed on a plan to improve childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services. Charisse Johnson, child welfare chief for the state Division of Social Services, informed Jackson by letter Wednesday that Cumberland County was removed from the needs-improvement list Saturday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is our belief that you have implemented effective strategies, resulting in successful program improvement,â&#x20AC;? Johnson wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are to be commended on

your progress.â&#x20AC;? Johnson didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t specify what the county had done to improve childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you for working so diligently to ensure safety, permanency and well-being for the children of Cumberland County,â&#x20AC;? Johnson concluded her letter. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision came at a time of growing concern among county officials that the department is losing too many experienced child-abuse investigators. Abuse and neglect reports have been rising in Cumberland County, which historically logs a child homicide rate twice the state average. Management style Many departing social workers have told county officials that Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s management style forced them to leave. Jackson has been accused by current and former employees -- almost all anonymously -- of using fear and intimidation to

manage the department. Jackson, who took over two years ago, has declined to comment on the criticism, citing state personnel laws. County commissioners say there is nothing they can do about Jackson. She answers to the county Social Services Board. Only two of the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five members are appointed by the commissioners. The full Social Services board has refused to meet with the board of commissioners to discuss Jackson. Jackson wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately available Thursday for comment on Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter. In May, Jackson praised Heather Skeens, her assistant director for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services, while describing for the Social Services Board what is being done to replenish the depleted corps of social workers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think we have a good team over in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services, led by Heather,â&#x20AC;? Jackson said then. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say enough good

things about Heather.â&#x20AC;? The Department of Social Services remains under scrutiny by the State Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 2009 kidnapping, rape and murder of Shaniya Davis. The 5-year-old girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family had come to the attention of county social workers before her death. District Attorney Ed Grannis asked the SBI to examine Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department at the request of Fayetteville police, who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe they received full cooperation from the department during the murder probe. Shaniya was last seen alive in hotel surveillance video. A man seen carrying her in a Sanford hotel has been charged with her murder. Shaniyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother is facing charges of childabuse involving prostitution and other counts. Grannis said the issue of turnover among childabuse investigators has come up in the SBI investigation.

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Officials meet with water group SOUTHERN PINES (MCT) -- Moore County officials will participate in a water study group they have long been absent from, Board of Commissioners Chairman Tim Lea told town and village leaders from across the county this week. The county will begin sending representatives to the Summit Water Task Force, which is discussing developing medium range and long-term plans to supply water throughout the growing county for decades to come. Leaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement drew slow, wry applause from Robbins Mayor Theron Bell and wide support from the representatives from the mayors and town and village council members who gathered for the county-wide public officials meeting. The task force, organized by the Moore County Chamber of Commerce, has been meeting without the presence of county officials, who supply the water to Pinehurst and much of the rest of the county. Any discussions about the future of water supplies in Moore County were proceeding without the biggest water customer and supplier in the county. Members of the task force have previously advocated positions to which the county was opposed, such as studying the Wagram water treatment plant as a water source for the county. -- Fayetteville Observer

Two face abetting larceny charges in Bragg case FORT BRAGG (MCT) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Two people have been charged with aiding and abetting larceny on Fort Bragg. Angel Michelle Locklear and William Merritt Seay III were charged in separate federal bills of criminal information filed Wednesday, according to court documents. The documents, sometimes used in lieu of a grand jury indictment, accuse the two of stealing more than $1,000 by submitting false travel reimbursement claims

and fraudulent receipts through the Department of Defense accounting system. If convicted, the two could face fines and up to 10 years in federal prison. The cases against Seay and Locklear were filed in January, according to court documents, but they were not charged until this month. The bills of criminal information were filed by Alexander R. Schneider, a lawyer for Fort Braggâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18th Airborne Corps who serves as a special assis-

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scheduled. It is unclear if Seay and Locklear are soldiers or if they are civilian workers on Fort Bragg.

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time business leader and ambassador, fell from the roof of a local church he was helping work on Wednesday and broke his shoulder blade in addition to suffering head trauma, according to Kandice Pedley of Sanford. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The good news is the swelling and bleeding have subsided and he continues to make improvements,â&#x20AC;? she told The Herald. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have every indication he will make a full recovery and hope that he will be moved to a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;step downâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; room ... and then from

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the termination of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charter, and they have â&#x20AC;&#x153;caused tremendous fear, anxiety and uncertainty among the students who attend STARS, their families and the teachers and other STARS employees.â&#x20AC;? The complaint also says STARS faculty are unsure of what directions to follow because of the board membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; conflict. Raleigh-based law firm Shanahan Law Group is asking the court for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction order against the defendants. The plaintiffs also request that the court remove the board members who have overstayed their term limits, reinstate George

there, a recovery room in another few days.â&#x20AC;? Jerry Pedley the former owner of Meikle Automation in Sanford, and this June he announced his intentions of restarting the company under a different name. The company would design machinery that makes automobile parts. Kandice Pedley said Jerry and his family have been grateful to the community for its support since the accident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are overwhelmed with the love and support we have from our community and proud to be a part of this Lee County family,â&#x20AC;? she said.

and Buchan, prohibit the board from holding further meetings in violation of the open meetings law, appoint two new members to the board and allow Walden to serve on the board through October to oversee and implement the directives from the Office of Charter Schools. STARS is a Moore County charter school for elementary and middle school students with an arts emphasis in addition to the standard course of study. The complaint says some families of STARS students are considering enrolling their children in other schools because of the possibility of the revocation of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charter. None of the parties involved in this case could be reached for comment as of press time Saturday.

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change, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult,â&#x20AC;? Almond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People fear the unknown. Because there has been such turnover in administration, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to solidify some consistency and a clear structure.â&#x20AC;? Almond became Southern Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principal in the second semester of the 2009-2010 year and has spent the past six months analyzing what is working for the school and what isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. One of the first things she noticed was how the teacher turnover rate affected the students, something that has been of concern to some Southern Lee parents. Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honors pre-calculus teacher left the school in the middle of the semester. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This type of learning environment is disruptive to all students, but especially those juniors and seniors preparing to apply to college,â&#x20AC;? Stewart said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The constant turnover among principals and teachers has been discouraging and perplexing.â&#x20AC;? Almond said she agrees that the turnover has had a negative impact on students, and she thinks it had a direct effect on the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth scores. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When there is significant change, it can create trust and commitment issues,â&#x20AC;? Almond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the inconsistency had everything to do with what took place last year.â&#x20AC;? But Almond emphasized that she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going anywhere, and she said she is committed to finding ways to engage students and to make Southern Lee a place where teachers want to stay. One initiative that will take effect this year is the introduction of the 1:1 laptop program at Southern Lee, which Almond said she thinks will be a benefit to both

students and teachers. The response to the program she has heard from students and teachers so far has been positive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to change how our teachers teach,â&#x20AC;? Almond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to actively engage students for the whole 90 minutes. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really going to be looking at the quality of the teaching and learning going on in this building.â&#x20AC;? The school will use benchmark data throughout the year to evaluate how students are responding to the 1:1 program. Almond has been interviewing potential new teachers in recent weeks, several of whom were drawn to the school because of its new programs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we tell everyone about the technology initiative, these young teachers really want to come here,â&#x20AC;? Almond said. The focus on technology will be furthered by a new Mac lab and an enhanced STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) program. Topics of study in the STEM program will include robotics, manufacturing, alternative energy and architectural design and construction. Trevor Bradien, a teacher in the STEM program, said he is grateful for the new technological opportunities following a year that had some frustrations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Bonnie has a lot on her plate as far as trying to handle the challenges of being principal at a school with a lot of turnover,â&#x20AC;? Bradien said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I have a high degree of interest in seeing how weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to flesh out STEM in our school system.â&#x20AC;? The school will also be working to strengthen relationships with students and rebuild the trust that Almond feels has been lost to a

degree because of the high turnover. In previous years, four guidance counselors advised more than 1,100 students. But beginning this year, a new adviser/advisee program will ensure that students receive more individual attention. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every certified teacher is going to become an adviser, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet with our students every three weeks,â&#x20AC;? Almond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to create a relationship so the students know they have someone to go to.â&#x20AC;? Each adviser will have about 10-15 student advisees, and the first meeting will also include parents. Advisers will map out goals with their students and guide them down the right path to make sure they get the most out of their education. They will support their students in working toward their goals, whether it means pursuing a college education or securing a job. Almond said she hopes forming these relationships early on in a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high school career will strengthen their education and improve the dropout rate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Statistics show that if a child can have a positive relationship with someone in the school, their chances of graduating are so much higher,â&#x20AC;? said Chris Dossenbach, a Southern Lee English teacher who will oversee the adviser/advisee program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can come to us if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a bad day or having scheduling issues or having issues at home. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about building positive relationships with students.â&#x20AC;? Almond said she is afraid amid the negativity surrounding the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turnover and growth scores, people have forgotten about the positives of Southern Lee. In her time at the school, she has seen students with a strong

desire to learn and teachers who care about them. Dossenbach said he has a lot of faith in Southern Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students and teachers, which is why the growth results were disheartening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appropriate to make any excuses,â&#x20AC;? Dossenbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was heartbreaking because I know how hard we did work. But I think this school with Bonnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership is going to be exciting. For the first time I feel like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re headed in the right direction and we can see the bigger picture and what we need to do to get there.â&#x20AC;? Stewart said given the huge financial investment Southern Lee was for Lee County, he has been concerned by the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under-performance. But he is hopeful that Almondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new initiatives for the coming year could turn things around for Southern Lee and give students like his daughter the best possible education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We fully support Mrs. Almond and her education initiatives and are optimistic that the students will receive the quality education they richly deserve,â&#x20AC;? Stewart said. Almond said there is always an adjustment period when a school gets a new principle, but she is committed to Southern Lee and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plan on going anywhere any time soon. She is also confident that with hard work and dedication, Southern Lee will overcome its struggles and emerge a stronger school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a lot of growing to do, and sometimes with growing comes growing pains,â&#x20AC;? Almond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I hope these new initiatives help our students find success and set goals with teachers they can achieve collaboratively.â&#x20AC;?

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Joe Cline

SANFORD — Joe A. Cline, 76, of West End, N.C., died Thursday (8/5/2010). He was born in Lee County, N.C. on Feb. 9, 1934, to the late Ralph M. Cline and Pearlie Kelly Cline. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his sister, Faye Cox and his step-son, Mike Sharp. He is survived by his wife, Lou Anne Cline; daughters Jo Ann Allen, Sandra Brown and Pat Martins de Sa’; step-son Thomas Sharp, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Services will be held at 11a.m. Saturday at West End United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends after the service in the church’s fellowship hall. The family requests that any memorials be directed to the West End Methodist Food Pantry, PO Box 276, West End, N.C., 27376, or First Health Hospice Foundation, 150 Applecross Road, Pinehurst, N.C., 28374. Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneralhome. com. Arrangements by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc.

Lewis Riddle

SANFORD — The funeral for Lewis Luther Riddle, 83, of Sanford,

who died Aug. 1, was conducted at 2 p.m.Saturday (8/7/2010) at Jones Chapel United Methodist Church with the Rev. Houston Blair officiating. Several remembrances were given by congregation members. Burial followed at the church cemetery with Air Force military rites. The pianist was Leonard Harris and the soloist was Cathy Seal. The congregation sang and recited the Lord’s Prayer. Pallbearers were Terry Pulley, Jonathan Pearce, Roger Lapointe, Mark Riddle, Chris Nance and Lance Powers. Arrangements were by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home.

John Whitley SANFORD — John Michael Whitley of Sanford died Saturday (8/7/2010) at Central Carolina Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at BridgesCameron Funeral Home. Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneralhome.com

James Wicker SANFORD — The funeral service for James William Wicker Sr. was held at 11 a.m. Saturday (8/7/2010) at the MillerBoles Funeral Home Chapel in Sanford with the Rev. Bennie Smith officiating. Three special music selections were played. The eulogy was

PITTSBORO — Billy Tillman Dowdy, 66, of Cobblestone Lane, Pittsboro, died Wednesday (8/4/2010) in his home following a period of declining health. A Lee County native, Billy was born March 12, 1944, to Raymond Dowdy and Margarete Tillman Dowdy. His Christian faith was Methodist. Billy was retired from Chatham Mills and was the owner of Dowdy’s Repair Shop, specializing in small engine work. Survivors include his caretaker, sister-in-law Linda Dowdy of Pittsboro; nephews Dennis Dowdy of Pittsboro and Russell Dowdy of Goldston; “adopted” nephew Casey Burnette of Pittsboro; nieces Laura Dowdy of Pittsboro, Lou Huffman of Pollock, La., and Joy Wilson of Vass; three great-nieces, Lisa Hancock of Goldston, Brandi and Candice Dowdy of Pittsboro; as well as several other great-nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, Billy was preceded in death by his brother and sister-inlaw, Jimmy and Janice Dowdy, and brother Oren “Butch” Dowdy. The service to celebrate Billy Dowdy’s life will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Hall-Wynne Funeral Home in Pittsboro with the Rev. Patrick Sinclair presiding. Cremation will follow at Hall-Wynne Crematory. Friends may visit with the family immediately after the funeral service. Online condolences may be sent to www.hallwynne.com, select “Obituaries.” Memorial contributions may be sent to the Chatham County Council on Aging (provider of Meals on Wheels), PO Box 715, Pittsboro, N.C., 27312. Arrangements for Mr. Dowdy are under the care of Hall–Wynne Funeral Home of Pittsboro.

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GOLDSTON — Lonnie William Bynum Jr., 67, of 9405 Kelly Court, Harrisburg, N.C., died Thursday (8/5/2010) at North East Medical Center in Concord, N.C. He was formerly of 1077 St. Luke Church Road, Goldston. He is survived by his wife, Geraldine Oree Bynum; stepson Jakubu Griffin of Teaneck, N.J.; father Lonnie Bynum Sr. of Goldston; two sisters, Clara Ephriam of Goldston and Sandra Ellison of Houston, Texas; brother Larry Bynum of Sanford; mother-in-law Louise Oree of Columbus, S.C.; one niece, one nephew and other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Roberts Chapel MisPaid obituary sionary Baptist Church in Goldston. Burial will given by his son, Jim ed at 11 a.m. Saturday at follow in the church Wicker. Juniper Springs Baptist cemetery. Following the service, Church, with Pastor Arrangements are by graveside was held at Danny Wallace and Pastor Knotts Funeral Home. Taylors Chapel Cemetery Michael Hall officiating. in Sanford. The eulogy was by DebTheodore Miller-Boles Funeral bie Bradley. The burial Home and Cremation followed at the church Lingerfeldt Service served the family. cemetery. SOUTHERN PINES The pianist was Cindy — Theodore H. LingerBuchanan, the organist was feldt, 100, of the Penick Nellie Thomas Wendy Smith and the solo- Village and formerly of BROADWAY — The Whispering Pines, died funeral for Nellie Womack ist was Gene McNeill. The Saturday (8/7/2010) at his Thomas, 78, of Broadway, congregation also sang. Pallbearers were residence. who died Wednesday Funeral services will (8/4/2010), was conduct- Wayne Parson, Max

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SUNDAY THUMBS THUMBS UP: GOOD NIGHT OUT Kudos to the Sanford Police Department and Lee County Sheriff’s Office for their presence — and to a few dozen dedicated community organizers for their work — in making last week’s National Night Out a well-attended success throughout our fair burgh. The reason for the annual “Night Out” is to not only get neighbors familiar with their neighbors, but to also get the

community on a first-name relationship with local law enforcement. If that means firing up a few grills, getting the kids involved with some water balloon fights and even throwing a few mini-parades, then so be it. Our only beef with the annual event is the timing. It doesn’t fail, every National Night Out is blazing hot. But if that’s all we have to complain about, then the rest of it must not be such a bad thing.

THUMBS UP: A DAM GOOD PROJECT The work being done on the dam at San Lee Park in Sanford is long overdue, and the result

will mean a lot less worry when big storms hit our area. Between the damage from Hurricane Fran and further disrepair to the spillway, the dam’s flow capacity was significantly reduced over the years. Fixing the problem makes the area safer and it allows our county to maybe think about the park’s potential for the future. That’s because there is a lot of potential at San Lee Park. Currently, it makes for a fine camp out or paddle boat ride. The walking trails are challenging, and the visitor’s center is educational.

But for our population, the park is underused. Like the greenway trail currently under construction, the park is a tool we can use to attract residents here. It adds to the quality of life in Lee County — for those of us who enjoy the outdoors — and in the future, we’d like to see more done to it. The dam repair is a big step in the right direction. It shows the county realizes the importance of our park.

THUMBS UP: GROUPS CELEBRATE MAJOR ANNIVERSARIES Two major local organizations celebrated significant anniversaries this week. The Sanford Lions Club turns 75 years old, and the United Way

of Lee County kicked off its 50 campaign with an event in Depot Park. From the annual fair that consistently ranks among the best in the state to the annual funds drive that brings in the lifeblood for many different nonprofits in the area, among many other endeavors, these two organizations represent the best of our community. We applaud the leadership and members of both groups who throughout the years have brought good things to our area, and we look for a long future for both as well.

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RE: SOCIAL SANFORD CONTINUES TO GROW NETWORKING SITE SocialSanford is a wonderful asset to the community. I have used the site to both find out about what’s going on and to get the word out about events I am involved in. I have known Kelly and Melissa for quite some time and am so proud of them for taking an idea and turning it into a valuable resource -- a one-stop-shop for finding out what is going on right here in Sanford and other much needed information. Bravo, girls.

-- kimdenise

RE: CAT TO ADD 325 JOBS How excellent, if out of the 323 new jobs, one third come to live in Lee County that’s 110 houses to be built or sold. If just a third of those trigger a new home to be built that will add about $9,000,000 to the county tax base. It’s the indirect benefits of economic development that are the most powerful.

-- apped I’ll admit being surprised Lee County landed this expansion of Caterpiller’s facilities. However, I’d put my money on fewer than a third buying a house here. Note the average salary of the employees is expected to be about $36,000 a year. Except for those families with two or more incomes, it’s not really enough salary to purchase a decent home. I’d expect most of these employees to be “renters,” which isn’t so bad, though it won’t add much to the tax base. It’s the employee salaries that will help the local economy. Congrats to Bob Heuts and the EDC for pulling this off. Now, let’s watch closely to see if the $900K of up front cost is worth it. Hopefully the commissioners will be tracking that closely.

-- hawgtyde

RE: TRACE RESIDENTS UPSET OVER HIGH UTILITY COSTS It might make an interesting story to make direct comparisons between Trace and the three classes of city of Sanford utilities customers. As an out-of-city water customer, my base rate is $25.95. The last time I looked for the usage rates, I could not find them. I still think it is grossly unfair that my water rates should be so high to support a sewer treatment plant that I can’t make use of when finished. At least the city should be limited to gouge as you go rather than gouge in advance because the city may finally expand the Big Buffalo plant.

-- townsend

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Today’s Prayer He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will quiet you in His love. (Zephaniah 3:17) PRAYER: Father, we thank You for loving us, even when we are unlovable. Amen.

A good day made sour I’m not worried about local Republicans. I am worried, however, about those who are speaking for local Republicans. A good crowd gathered Friday at the McSwain Center in Sanford for a “November is Coming” rally, sponsored by the conservative grassroots group, Americans for Prosperity. The point of the meeting — which The Herald covered, but I did not personally attend — was to excite local Republicans about their chances of unseating longtime Democrats Bob Etheridge in Congress and Jimmy Love Sr. in the state house. So far, so good. The line about Jimmy Love and Jesse Helms? Great line ... great rallying point. But there was a line reported on in Saturday’s Herald that made me cringe .. this one from former Lee County Commissioner and current conservative radio show host Chad Adams. And I quote, “Did everyone like writing an $18 check to Caterpillar yesterday? Well that’s what you did. You should call the commissioners out on this stuff. It’s absurd to see ... what is going on here.” Adams, of course, was referring to Thursday’s announcement that Sanford landed 325 jobs at its Caterpillar plant, which currently employes 400. Great news for an area that learned earlier this year that Pfizer was pulling out 500 jobs in the next fives years (and more than a year earlier, Caterpillar laid off more than 100 at its facility). Part of the reason Caterpillar chose Sanford over South Carolina for the expansion was a $900,000 up-front grant from the county. Not a tax incentive .. money in hand (to be paid back). In addition, the state pitched in a hefty chunk of change. Whether you’re for or against incentives — which many Republicans are definitely against — the news of Caterpillar’s decision should still be considered positive. Yes, Caterpillar’s been known to ebb and flow with the economy ... cutting as quickly as it hires ... but the economic impact Thursday’s announcement will have on the area is far greater than the $900,000 used to help make it happen. I was at Thursday’s announcement -- which included a speech by Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat. Democrat Jimmy Love Sr. was there ... as were local county chairman Richard Hayes and Sen. Bob Atwater, neither have many fans in the Republican ranks. In fact, now that I think about it, nobody representing the current leadership of the Lee County Republican Party was on hand. Perhaps they would have arrived had the news been sour ... or had the governor shoved a couple of students with a camera. It’s part of the Tea Party mentality that I’m simply not a fan of. Perhaps that makes me a RINO (Republican in Name Only). I’ve been called worse (was recently referred to a s Republican minion by a local blogger). I guess I don’t know what I am anymore. I remember during the Bush years -- ah, those glorious Bush years -- when I’d watch the news and see the rallies where men and women carried “Bush is Hitler” signs or the posters

Billy Liggett Sanford Herald Editor Contact Billy Liggett by e-mail at bliggett@sanfordherald.com calling Republicans communists and other fun things. Most well-rounded individuals saw these rallies and brushed these folks off as “the crazies.” They looked silly, and instead of rallying people to their cause, they came off as fanatics and kept people at bay. This is what the Tea Party has come off to me ... a lifelong Republican. It’s the party the applauds a man for calling our president a liar in the middle of an address, and it’s the party that votes down a bill that would have provided billions in aid for first responders on Sept. 11. It’s the party that -- not by any fault of its own -- has allowed Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to be its public mouthpiece. And locally, the GOP has embraced the Tea Party moniker, and in turn, has become a party more inclined to criticize and object than one to disagree and provide solutions. The local GOP’s blog hasn’t been updated since the Bob Etheridge confrontation video ... I suppose nothing’s riled them up of late. And really, that’s all I want to see more of from this party ... the one I happen to be registered under (RINO or no). If despite your objections, the county approves incentives and lands 300-plus jobs, keep to your convictions, but darn it, represent your community when the jobs are announced. Thursday was a good day for Sanford ... some may call it great, but let’s stick with “good.” In no way, however, should it have been a rallying point against Democrats. If that’s the best they got, it’ll be a long November. ooo On a side note, my condolences to the family of Lewis Riddle, the tough-as-nails war veteran and longtime VFW ambassador for our area who died this week. I interviewed Mr. Riddle at his home for nearly four hours last year about a painting he donated to the local airport of a local hero in the aviation industry. Our talk focused a little on the painting and mostly on Riddle’s time in the military and the stories he had. I only needed to be there 30 minutes to get the story ... the other three and a half hours were a treat for me ... and I hope for him, since he really enjoyed the talk. Lee County lost a good man.

Durham animal shelter employees put down 4,953 dogs and cats in 2009 — 71 percent of the animals that came through the shelter doors. That’s a terrible number. But is there a fate worse than death? Yes. And the hideous irony comes when that fate is delivered at the hands of would-be saviors. That may be the case with the Raeford-based Haven no-kill animal shelter, where a husband and wife keep 1,300 animals on 140 acres — without paid staff. Haven has until Sept. 1 to upgrade conditions at the facility before the state shuts it down. The shelter was founded on the premise that it is wrong to euthanize healthy animals. That seems like an obvious good deed, but consider the All Creatures Great and Small shelter in Hendersonville, where animals were never killed. Instead, they lived in their own excrement, were confined to small cages, often went without food, and were left without medical care after they were injured in fights with other animals. Conditions are also pretty bad in Raeford: A July 12 state inspection listed 24 pages of violations that included sanitation, veterinary care and living conditions. The full report is online at http:// tiny.cc/HavenViolations. Animal overpopulation is North Carolina’s disease, one we share with a lot of other Southern states. We turn a blind eye instead of treating it like the serious public health problem it is. That willful ignorance leads to exactly what we see at these independent, no-kill shelters, where the urge to do the right thing twists under the pressure of an endless tide of unwanted animals. There are plenty of ways to solve the problem: n The General Assembly should have passed the bill that would ban puppy mills in this legislative session. They must do so in 2011. n Pet owners can do the most. About a third of the shelter’s intake is owner-surrendered pets. Owners certainly should commit to lifetime caregiving, and to spaying or neutering their pets, which costs as little as $20 for income-qualified families at Animal Kind in Durham.

— Durham Herald Sun

No Kidding? CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF Where famous businesses and products got started-x 1. DISH Network -- sold dishes from truck 2. Amazon.com -- creator’s garage 3. WHAM-O -- parent’s garage 4. Marshmallow Fluff -- inventor’s kitchen 5. Talbots clothing store -- private home

Source: World Features Syndicate

KEY NOTES About major music stars 1. Barbra Streisand -- auditioned to open for Miles Davis 2. Justin Timberlake -- owns a golf course 3. Ringo Starr -- in coma, age 6 4. Connie Francis -- speaks fluent Italian and Spanish 5. Bruce Springsteen -- hair too long for H.S. graduation

Source: World Features Syndicate

Opinion

The Sanford Herald / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / 7A

Susan Estrich

Michael Gerson

Columnist

Find out more about Susan Estrich at www.creators.com

Michael Gerson is a columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group

Does he get it?

Democrats under stress

he conventional wisdom these days is that the best shot for Democrats heading into the November elections in marginal districts is for the president to raise money and lower his profile. Just send checks. Events after 7 p.m. Closed to the press. This is not an election Democrats want to “nationalize.” Better to keep it local. Better to run as your own man or woman, not as the president’s best friend. Republicans, by contrast, will spend as much time as they can running against the president. If his popularity is down to his base (low 40s), that means voters in the middle are up for grabs, and Republicans will try to grab them by capitalizing on their concerns about the man they elected two years ago. There are two chinks in the conventional wisdom. The first, on the Democratic side, reflects the reality that a president can’t really disappear, even if he tries to, and in this president’s case, the act of trying may make people mad enough to want to send him a message. I’m thinking here of the president’s forthcoming vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, one of those terrible decisions that has even his strongest supporters shaking their ‘The best hope for heads. Why is he going Democrats from to Martha’s Joe Sestak to Vineyard? Harry Reid is not For the president but vacation. Because their opponents.’ he likes it. Because he knows people there, has friends there, enjoys himself there. I’m from Massachusetts. I was in my 30s the first time I ever set foot in Martha’s Vineyard. Elite. Fancy. Expensive. Hard to get to. The Estrich family from Lynn considered Nantasket Beach exotic. Martha’s Vineyard might as well have been an island off of Spain. I don’t begrudge the president a nice vacation. But having already spent time in Maine this summer, a second vacation to a place other than the hard-hit Gulf is an invitation for people to think what too many of them already think: The president just doesn’t get it. He doesn’t understand what’s happening out there, out here. People still don’t have jobs, home values still haven’t recovered, and 401(k)s are still in a slump. The only signs of recovery are a lot of highway projects, which, as we are told every day when the traffic slows, are being paid for by us. The danger for Democrats is that if people keep thinking the president doesn’t get it (and that’s what I am hearing, particularly when those golf course shots hit the front page), the easiest way for them to send him a message, since he’s not on the ticket, is to vote against the Democrat who is. November could be a disaster for Democrats if that mentality sets in. The president may not be in any position to rescue Democrats, but his absence from the campaign trail — particularly if he’s playing golf and hobnobbing with rich donors instead — will be viewed (and advertised by Republicans) as an invitation to send him a message he doesn’t want to hear. On the other hand, the Republicans also have their problems. The middle may be up for grabs, but by whom? The devil you know or the one you don’t? In tough times, do you go with someone who is unknown, inexperienced and maybe a little bit too far off the beaten track? The best hope for Democrats from Joe Sestak to Harry Reid is not the president but their opponents. I don’t think “tea partiers” are racist, but I’m not sure they’re all qualified for the offices they seek. Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but in tough times, even more so than in good times, it makes sense to have someone who knows what they’re doing, whether you’re hiring someone to fix the pipes or fix the country.

Is profiling racist? W

e live in a world of imperfect and costly information, and people seek to economize on information costs in a variety of ways. If we don’t take that fact into account, we risk misidentifying and confusing one type of human behavior with another. Let’s look at it. Pima Indians of Arizona have the world’s highest diabetes rates. With knowledge that his patient is a Pima Indian, it would probably be a best practice for a physician to order more thorough blood glucose tests to screen for diabetes. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as white men. It would also be a best practice for a physician to be attentive to — even risk false positive PSAs — prostate cancer among his black patients. What about physicians who order routine mammograms for their 40-year and older female patients but not their male patients? The American Cancer Society predicts that about 400 men will die of breast cancer this year. Because of a correlation between race, sex and disease, the physician is using a cheap-to-observe characteristic, such as race or sex, as an estimate for a more costly-to-observe characteristic, the presence of a disease. The physician is practicing both race and sex profiling. Does that make the physician a racist or sexist? Should he be brought up on charges of racial discrimination because he’s guessing that his black patients are more likely to suffer from prostate cancer? Should sex discrimination or malpractice suits be brought against physicians who prescribe routine mammograms for their female patients but not their male patients? You say, “Williams, that would be lunacy!” Is an individual’s race or sex useful for guessing about other unseen characteristics? Suppose gambling becomes legal for an Olympic event such as the 100-meter sprint. I wouldn’t place a bet on an Asian or white runner. Why? Blacks who trace their ancestry to West Africa, including black Americans, hold more than 95 percent of the top times in sprinting. That’s not to say an Asian or white can never win but I know the correlations and I’m playing the odds. If women were permitted to be in the sprint event with men, I’d still

Walter Williams

Syndicated Columnist Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

put my money on a black male. Does that make me a sexist as well as a racist? What about when a black hails a taxicab and the driver passes him up and picks up a white passenger down the street? Is that racism? Many people assume that it is but it might not be any different from a physician using race and sex as an estimator for some other characteristic. Ten years ago, a black D.C. commissioner warned cabbies, most of whom are black, against picking up dangerous-looking passengers. She described dangerous-looking as a “young black guy ... with shirttail hanging down longer than his coat, baggy pants, unlaced tennis shoes.” She also warned cabbies to stay away from low-income black neighborhoods. Cabbies themselves have developed other profiling criteria. There is no sense of justice or decency that a law-abiding black person should suffer the indignity being passed up. At the same time, a taxicab driver has a right to earn a living without being robbed, assaulted and possibly murdered. One of the methods to avoid victimization is to refuse to pick up certain passengers in certain neighborhoods or passengers thought to be destined for certain neighborhoods. Again, a black person is justifiably angered when refused service but that anger should be directed toward the criminals who prey on cabbies. Not every choice based on race represents racism and if you think so, you risk misidentifying and confusing human behavior. The Rev. Jesse Jackson once said, “There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

CONTACT YOUR LAWMAKER Lee County

Broadway

n County Manager John Crumpton: Phone (919) 718-4605; E-mail — jcrumpton@leecountync.gov

n Mayor Donald Andrews Jr.: 258-6334 E-mail — donald09@windstream.net n Town Manager Bob Stevens: 258-3724; E-mail — bwaytownhall@windstream.net

Board of Commissioners E-mail — glee@leecountync.gov (for all commissioners) n Chairman Richard Hayes (at-large): 774-7658 e-mail: rhayes241@windstream.net n Vice-Chairman Larry ‘Doc’ Oldham (at-large): 7766615; e-mail: oldham_larry@windstream.net n At-Large Commissioner Ed Paschal: 776-3257 n District 1 Commissioner Robert Reives: 774-4434 n District 2 Commissioner Amy Dalrymple: 2586695 n District 3 Commissioner Linda Shook: 775-5557 E-mail: lindashook@charter.net n District 4 Commissioner Jamie Kelly: 718-6513 E-mai L: jamesk@kellymarcom.com

Sanford n Mayor Cornelia Olive: Phone (919) 718-0571; Email — corneliaolive@charter.net n City Manager Hal Hegwer: 775-8202; E-mail — hal.hegwer@sanfordNC.net City Council n Ward 1 Councilman Sam Gaskins: 776-9196; Email — SPGaskins@aol.com n Ward 2 Councilman Charles Taylor: 775-1824; Email — fontcord@windstream.net n Ward 3 Councilman James Williams: 258-3458; E-mail — williamsins@windstream.net n Ward 4 Councilman Walter Mc Neil Jr.: 776-4894; E-mail —none provided n Ward 5 Councilman Linwood Mann Sr.: 775-2038; E-mail — none provided n At-Large Councilman L.I. “Poly” Cohen: 775-7541; E-mail — poly@wave-net.net n At-Large Councilman Mike Stone (Mayor Pro Tem): 76-2412; E-mail — stoneassoc@windstream.net

Broadway Town Commissioners n Commissioner Woody Beale: 258-6461 E-mail — wbeale@wave-net.net n Commissioner Thomas Beal: 258-3039 E-mail — bwaytownhall@windstream.net n Commissioner Jim Davis: 258-9404 E-mail — bwaytownhall@windstream.net n Commissioner Lynne West Green: 258-9904 Email — lynnwestgreen@windstream.net n Commissioner Clem Welch: 258-3163 E-mail — clemellyn@windstream.net

Lee County School Board n “Bill” Tatum: 774-8806; billtatum1@windstream. net n P. Frank Thompson Sr.: 775-2583; Fbthompsonsr@ windstream.net n Dr. Lynn Smith: 776-8083; orthosmith@windstream. net n Shawn Williams: shawnwil@coastalnet.com n Ellen Mangum: 776-5050; ejmangum@charter.net n Linda Smith: 774-6781; inky@wave-net.net n Cameron Sharpe: 498-2250; camerons.box44@ yahoo.com

State Legislators n State Sen. Bob Atwater (18th District): 715-3036 E-mail: Boba@ncleg.net n State Rep. Jimmy Love Sr. (51st District): 7757119; E-mail: jimmyl@ncleg.net

Federal Legislators n Sen. Richard Burr: (202) 224-3154 n Sen. Kay Hagan: (202) 224-6342 n Rep. Bob Etheridge: (202) 225-4531

oliticians under stress tend to confirm, not refute, the criticisms that got them into trouble in the first place. Vacillating politicians vacillate. Thin-skinned politicians explode. Democrats are now feeling enormous political stress. Independents have fled the Obama coalition, largely out of concern about debt, deficits and spending. Intensity is all on the Republican and conservative side. A recent Gallup poll found that the percentage of Republican voters who say they are “very enthusiastic” to vote in 2010 is twice the percentage of Democrats who say the same (44 percent to 22 percent). President Obama’s job approval now flirts with 40 percent, with solid majorities disapproving his handing of the economy, deficits and health care. On this trajectory, Democrats see the House slipping away, their Senate majority threatened, and a president now too divisive to profitably appear in many districts. So how have national Democrats decided to respond? With a series of tactics that make their worst problems worse. First is the depiction of Republicans as the “party of no,” populated by obstructionists blocking needed measures to create jobs and improve the economy. Vice President Joe Biden recently applied this critique to the stimulus package. “There’s a lot of people at the time argued it was too small,” he said. If it had not been for Republican opposition, “I think it would have been bigger.” No doubt it would have been. This is Biden’s response to American economic anxiety: If Democrats had even greater control in Washington — even larger influence than holding the presidency and both houses of Congress — they would have spent more than $862 billion on the stimulus. Rather than allying the fiscal concerns of independents, Biden is actively feeding these fears — thereby making the case for the moderating effects of divided government. With health reform and massive spending, Democrats have picked a fight on the size and role of government. The Republican response, at this point, consists mainly of yelling “Stop!” In a presidential race — which demands a positive domestic agenda — this would not be sufficient. In a midterm referendum on the performance of the president and Congress, it seems like more than enough. A second tactic has been to identify Republicans with tea party extremism, the way Democrats once tried to identify Republicans with the religious right. As in that earlier case, there are extremes that deserve criticism. But about a quarter to a third of Americans identify in one way or another with the tea party movement. As William Galston of The Brookings Institution points out, Americans currently place themselves on the ideological spectrum closer to the tea party movement than they do to the Democratic Party, which they view as increasingly liberal. ... The third response to declining Democratic fortunes is to blame George W. Bush — Obama’s currently favored tactic. This week, Obama both ripped Bush for the economic problems of the country and tried to swipe credit for the successes of Bush’s Iraq strategy (a strategy that Obama vigorously opposed). The problem for Democrats is the contrast. Most would concede that former President Bush has been tremendously classy since leaving office, not only refusing to take the bait of criticism but agreeing to help with the American effort in Haiti when Obama asked. Of Obama’s behavior, “classy” is not the adjective that comes to mind. Instead, Obama’s self-serving criticism seems small, petty and shirking. ... It seldom works in politics to respond to a coming political wave with marginal changes in political tactics. Parties generally don’t shift their policies or moderate their ideology until after they are well and truly walloped by voters. But Democrats under stress are actually complicating their own task — further alienating independents, provoking conservative intensity, practicing an unattractive pettiness, and making a walloping in November more likely.

State

8A / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / The Sanford Herald STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS

STATE BRIEFS

Board criticized for travel, ballots

RALEIGH (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; At least one North Carolina lawmaker says reports about travel and spending on ballots by State Elections Board officials needs to be studied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to take a thorough look at this from the top to the bottom,â&#x20AC;? said Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Carrboro, told The News & Observer of Raleigh on Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this most important field to citizens, we have to make sure it is done right and that there is no question about the honesty of the system and the people who work in it.â&#x20AC;? State Republican Party Chairman Tom Fetzer said Gov. Beverly Perdue should fire longtime Elections Board chairman Larry Leake and the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director Gary Bartlett. The paper reported last week that Leake chartered

a private plane to get from Asheville to Raleigh in time for an interview with a donor to Perdueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign in connection with 42 flights on private aircraft that the governor failed to report as donations. Leakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flight cost taxpayers $1,563. The state board is investigating Perdueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign flights taken by Perdue, even though Bartlett said in June that the probe had found no evidence of intentional wrongdoing. Perdue would not comment, but a spokesman for her campaign, Marc Farinella, said Fetzer was happy with the Elections Board until Bartlett said there was no misconduct by Perdueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign over the flights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was obviously unhappy with the report,â&#x20AC;? Farinella said of Fetzer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It all seems politically

motivated.â&#x20AC;? Another report in the newspaper cast some shadow on a deal between a New Bern company that prints ballots for 86 of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100 counties. Printelect is owned by Owen Andrews, who along with his wife has donated at least $50,000 to Democratic candidates, including Perdue, and the state Democratic Party. Printelectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballots are twice as expensive as another printerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the newspaper reported. Andrews said his contributions to Perdue had nothing to do with his business with the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I earned the business,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve supported Beverly since she first ran for state representative. She lives six doors down from me.â&#x20AC;? Democratic political consultant turned government watchdog Joe

Sinsheimer said he is concerned about Andrews hosting catered events for state and county elections officials. While Bartlett has said there was nothing wrong with it as long as the events were open to everyone attending the events, Sinsheimer says that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t jibe with recent Perdue statements on free meals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It sounds like executive director Bartlett didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the message the governor was trying to deliver, which was that vendors courting with free food, free drinks, boat rides, is completely inappropriate,â&#x20AC;? Sinsheimer said. Sinsheimer said the situation with Printelect highlights the need for a law banning contributions to state officials by companies that have state contracts.

ELON UNIV. GOES GREEN

Geothermal field will help reduce fossil fuel use

ELON (MCT) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dan Anderson compares it to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;big radiator.â&#x20AC;? Its scientific name, though, is a little more technical. And when the geothermal field at Elon University is finished, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll provide enough energy to heat and cool five residence halls at Elon -- two already built and three scheduled to open next summer, said Anderson,

the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman. The field -- roughly the size of a football field -- is part of the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to use environmentally friendly energy sources and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. While thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first priority, Neil Bromilow, Elonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of planning, design and construction management, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it will pay for itself

sooner or later.â&#x20AC;? How quickly depends on the price of natural gas, since thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the savings will happen. This week, workers wrapped up the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drilling phase. That involves 112 holes that are each 440 feet deep. In each hole, a loop of pipe goes into the ground and comes back out. Water (groundwater wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be

used) will flow in and out of the pipes. In the summer, the process will remove heat from the buildings and, through an energy converter in a pump house, transfer it to the ground. In the winter, heat will be transferred into the buildings. Because natural gas savings kick in during winters, Bromilow said, geothermal fields are more common in northern states. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Times-News, Burlington

Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s murder trial delayed for mental testing

TS Colin leads to rip current advisory on coast

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A man who has been in a North Carolina jail for four years without going to trial will have to wait another six months before facing charges in the death of his girlfriend. Attorneys for 48-year-old Thurman L. Burns won a six-month delay Friday to determine whether Burns is mentally retarded and therefore not eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted. Prosecutors have indicted they intend to seek the death penalty against Burns who also is accused of shooting a Fayetteville police officer. Judge Gregory Weeks granted the delay in the trial scheduled to begin Sept. 20. He said not giving the defense time for additional tests could cause a death penalty verdict to be overturned.

WILMINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Forecasters say Tropical Storm Colin could lead to serious rip currents along the coast of the Carolinas. The National Weather Service says thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a moderate risk of rip currents through Saturday evening. While no advisory has been posted for Sunday, meteorologist David Loewenthal says Sunday looks to be the worst day of the weekend for rip currents. Although Colin will be hundreds of miles offshore, it will be close enough to send heavy swells to the North Carolina coast. Rip currents are strong channels of water that flow away from the beach. Even strong swimmers have drowned after becoming exhausted fighting the ocean current.

Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project helps paralyzed surf at beach WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Surfers are scheduled to join the paralyzed at a North Carolina to help them experience the freedom of catching a wave. People from around the country who suffered spinal cord injuries are gathering Saturday at Wrightsville Beach for a day of surfing, inspiration and camaraderie. Some havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t surfed since their injury, some have never surfed, some surf all the time despite their reduced mobility. A half-dozen volunteers working with each surfer are out to prove whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible despite restricted motion. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use adapted surfboards to test the waves.

Group to help people with facial deformities CORNELIUS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A North Carolina woman who was burned in a plane crash has started a support group for people with facial deformities. The Charlotte Observer reported that the nonprofit group Facing Forward will meet Saturday at Aquesta Bank in Cornelius. Founder Charlene Pell suffered burns to more than 60 percent of her body, including her face in a private plane crash in 1994. Pell is a former executive in corporate communications who has led workshops and retreats for burn survivors in the United States and Canada. Hospitals distribute her brochure, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What to Do When People Stareâ&#x20AC;? and she serves on the board of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center.

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State

The Sanford Herald / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / 9A

GREENVILLE

RALEIGH

Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion honored for wetlands preservation

U.S. gets suspect in hacking case that spanned world

By GINGER LIVINGSTON The Daily Reflector of Greenville

GREENVILLE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Every April, George Burdick invites a beekeeper to set up his hives near Collie Swamp, a 200-acre wetland he owns near the border of Pitt and Martin counties. By monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, the hives are filled with tupelo honey and the beekeeper splits the harvest with Burdick. He gives away jars of the yellow-tinted, citrus-tasting nectar. Then Burdick explains how his stand of tupelo trees is one of the few left in the region; that thousands of other trees were lost when swamps and creeks were clear-cut and dug up to create drainage ditches. In a 30-year career that has included stints in wildlife management, academia and wetlands conservation, Burdick has been a passionate and outspoken opponent to the destruction of wetlands, creeks and other bodies of water to create drainage ditches a practice common in eastern North Carolina and other states along the Eastern Seaboard in the 1950s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s. He testified numerous times before Congress about the importance of keeping natural wetlands untouched. On July 7, Burdickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifetime of work was recognized by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, which awarded him the Thomas L. Quay Wildlife Diversity Award. The award is given to individuals who make outstanding contributions to wildlife diversity in North Carolina and who are considered leaders in wildlife resources conservation, according to a commission news release. Burdick, 75, who lives about five miles north of Stokes, has been instrumental in the legislative development of wetlands protection and streamchannelization guidelines at the national and state levels. Burdick said he never imagined the importance wetland protection would play in his career when he joined the Wildlife Resources Commission in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s. The first time he questioned the need for ditching projects, Burdick said, was when Henry Bazemore, the wildlife officer for Hertford County, drove him to a spot where Ahoskie Creek met the Wiccacon River, which fed into the Chowan River. The area was prime spawning ground for river herring, then a major fisheries that brought millions of dollars into the state. The waterway was filled with cypress. Small inlets shimmered with millions of just hatched herring. The surrounding woodlands were home to minks, otters, beavers, muskrats and raccoons; â&#x20AC;&#x153;fur bearâ&#x20AC;? species prized for their skins, Burdick said. Trapping was so extensive and so lucrative during that time the wildlife commission had a biologist who worked exclusively in that field monitoring harvests. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are getting ready to cut the heart out of Ahoskie Creek,â&#x20AC;? Burdick remembers Bazemore saying. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we were standing there, looking at the lower end of the creek, I said, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be serious,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Burdick said. Bazemore was serious. Trees were cut down along the creek bank and

the creek was widened by 50 feet. The bottom of the creek was deepened by 15 feet. The clear-cutting of trees extended 150 feet from the water banks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been an outdoorsman,â&#x20AC;? Burdick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I grew up with five brothers and a bunch of cousins. We would go frog gigging, and species like gray squirrel were abundant then. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would hunt and use guns and paddle boats,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would stay out about all night. No one worried about us. They knew we were good swimmers.â&#x20AC;? When Burdick entered North Carolina State University in 1952, he knew he wanted to work in wildlife protection because he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be happy at any job that kept him inside. During that time, N.C. State students were required to spend two years in the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ROTC program. Burdick liked the military experience, and for the next four years, he split his summers between ROTC training and working as a firefighter and smoke spotter in the Oregon wilderness. When Burdick graduated from N.C. State, he was torn between pursuing a military career and entering the wildlife service. He spent the summer of 1956 working on Charlton Island in Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s James Bay, banding waterfowl to track their migration patterns. Burdick and his guide paddled from island to island tracking the tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of birds summering in the area. After a four-day storm, the bay filled with small glaciers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I decided I wanted to work in wildlife instead of being a general in the Air Force,â&#x20AC;? he said. After completing a fouryear military tour, Burdick returned to North Carolina in 1960 and joined the wildlife resources commission. He was assigned to work in eastern North Carolina. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At that time, they were just starting to ditch in eastern North Carolina,â&#x20AC;? he said. The ditching was organized by the Soil Conservation Service, formed decades earlier to prevent the massive erosion that created the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Burdick said the conservation serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Midwest and in North Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piedmont region prevented further erosion damage. However, he said, the ditching system created in eastern North Carolina was unnecessary and ultimately destroyed wildlife and damaged the environment. After seeking the results of the Ahoskie Creek ditching project, Burdick started studying the documentation used to justify the installation of drainage ditches. Burdick said he found the profits from cypress and tupelo tree harvests were undervalued while the profits from corn and other commodity production were inflated. He started developing data on the profits generated from waterfowl hunting and other wildlife activities. He went to Congress and testified ditching needed to be stopped. He met a lot of opposition, people who scoffed at the need to preserve waterfowl habitats and who scratched their heads when Burdick talked about the economic benefits of keeping a vital waterfowl population. Burdick said that one time, the proponent of a ditching project in southeastern North Carolina offered him $500 to end his opposition, saying the amount represented what someone would earn if they shot and sold every wood duck in the area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told him I had been a boxer when I was younger, and if he wanted to see how good I was, he should try to bribe me again,â&#x20AC;? Burdick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunting, fishing, trapping just bird watching are sports and have a value that transcend what the meat of the animal is worth,â&#x20AC;? he said. Policies Burdick helped develop for the management of wetlands and waterfowl populations, including the protection of wetlands from indiscriminate pesticide use, are still in use today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned long ago that God created wetlands perfect, and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improve on perfect,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been preaching that message at whatever opportunity I have to preach it.â&#x20AC;?

RALEIGH (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In November 2008, with the nation transfixed by a presidential election and a collapsing economy, a group of international hackers infiltrated the computer network of a major financial services company in what authorities describe as one of the most sophisticated attacks ever concocted. Their work was both furtive and impressive: Around the time Barack Obama was securing his White House win, the hackers entered RBS WorldPay servers, accessed prepaid payroll card numbers, cracked their encrypted PIN codes, raised the balances on the cards and distributed dozens of them to a team of people around the world. Then, in the span of 12 hours around Nov. 8 of that year, the group hit 2,100 ATM terminals in 280 cities spanning the world, from the United States to Russia to Italy to Japan. Prosecutors say they withdrew $9 million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a haul that rivals 1,000 typical bank robberies in the United States. Despite the technical and international challenges of the case, U.S. investigators believe they were able to trace the scheme back to its origin. On Friday they brought one of the accused ringleaders from Estonia to Atlanta to face arraignment on several fraud charges â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a rare appearance in U.S. courts for an accused

international hacker. Sergei Tsurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment to conspiracy to commit computer fraud, computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. FBI officials said in interviews with The Associated Press that they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so much drawn to the case by the dollar ammount of the RBS heist but by the coordination. It exemplified the international scope and increasing acumen of cyber attacks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As people become more techically proficient and get access to the Internet, we see this crime showing up in more and more places,â&#x20AC;? said Pat Carney, who supervised the RBS case at the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters. With such an increasing need for cyber defenses, the FBI has ramped up its focus, training some 900 agents in how to handle such crimes. In the RBS case, they quickly mobilized a group of FBI experts on the topic to descend on Atlanta, where RBS is based, and track down the culprits. While U.S. authorities have been able to crack down on cyber crimes originating in the United states, the FBI has had to increasingly rely on foreign partners to restrict attacks coming from overseas, in places like Egypt, Turkey and Hong Kong. Federal officials praised authorities in Estonia for assisting in

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both the investigation and extradition in the hacker case. The increasing scope of foreign attacks comes as college students around the world are focusing heavily on technology degrees only to emerge into a difficult job market with low pay, officials said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find a legitimate job making big money, you find some way to make money,â&#x20AC;? said Colleen Moss, the head of the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cyber Crime Squad in North Carolina. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of high-tech trained folks out there who either donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a job or arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t making what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to.â&#x20AC;? The RBS case began when a 29-year-old Moldovan man, Oleg Covelin, found a vulnerability in the computer network run by RBS, the FBI said. He passed the details along to Tsurikov in Estonia, according to FBI officials, and he conducted â&#x20AC;&#x153;reconnaissanceâ&#x20AC;? to assess the vulnerability before sharing his findings with a colleague in Russia. After breaking into the system, the team distributed 44 counterfeit cards to a network of â&#x20AC;&#x153;cashersâ&#x20AC;? around the world. Though the hackers attempted to cover their tracks, RBS noticed the activity and reported it to the FBI. They managed to trace the culprits, relying on cyber forensics, international banks and foreign authorities.

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10A / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / The Sanford Herald HAWAII

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‘Birthers’ fade after passage of law

HONOLULU (AP) — The persistent quest for President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate has died down since the state passed a law allowing it to ignore repetitive requests for the document. Far fewer “birthers,” who claim Obama is ineligible to be president, have asked state officials to provide the document since the law was enacted in May, according to the state. The law has never even been put to use, said Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo. The number of people seeking proof that Obama was born outside of Hawaii and the United States diminished without the law being invoked.

Only about two or three e-mails now seek verification of Obama’s birth each week, compared to between 10 and 20 weekly requests earlier this year. “We have a handful of repeat requesters, but they know about the law,” Okubo said. “They do everything they can to get around it.” Such tactics include having a relative or friend make the document request, she said, or asking for the vital records of Obama’s relatives in search of clues that would show he was born outside the U.S. Hawaii law has long barred the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.

State Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued statements last year and in October 2008 saying that she’s seen and verified Obama’s original vital records. Obama celebrated his 49th birthday on Wednesday. Most of the remaining open records requests trickling into the government bureaucracy these days usually come from the same few people, Okubo said. Many of their inquiries pursue “birth index data,” which includes a list of names of all people born in the state. Obama’s name is included among those born in Honolulu in 1961, according to the state. “No one here is requesting Obama’s birth

certificate, since it is obvious that he doesn’t possess a valid one,” said one of the requesters, Sharon Rondeau, editor of The Post & Email website that publishes efforts to disprove Obama’s birth in the United States. In response, the Department of Health has offered to provide hundreds of sheets of index data if requesters will pay for it. At 25 cents per page, the 1961 birth index data would cost $98.75. So far, no one has paid for the papers. The state’s offer to hand over index data may not last. The department is asking the state attorney general for a ruling on whether it should give out that information, Okubo said.

Beer warehouse shooter complained of racism NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — To those closest to him, Omar Thornton was caring, quiet and soft-spoken. He was excited to land a wellpaying job at a beer delivery company a few years ago and his longtime girlfriend says they talked of marrying and having children. But underneath, Thornton seethed with a sense of racial injustice for years that culminated in a shooting rampage Tuesday in which the Connecticut man killed eight and wounded two others at his job at Hartford Distributors in Manchester before killing himself. “I know what pushed him over the edge was all the racial stuff that was happening at work,” said his girlfriend, Kristi Hannah. Thornton, a black man, said as much in a chilling, fourminute 911 call. “You probably want to know the reason why I shot this place up,” Thornton said in a recording released Thursday. “This place is a racist place. They’re treating me bad over here. And treat all other black employees bad over here, too. So I took it to my own hands and handled the problem. I wish I could have got more of the people.” Thornton, 34, went on his killing spree moments after he was forced to resign when confronted with video evidence that he had been stealing and reselling beer.

In turnabout, Ohio ex-con gets data on neighbors COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Neighbors routinely get a picture and a name when a sex offender moves next door. In a turnabout, an Ohio sex offender has received private information about his neighbors, including their Social Security numbers. The material was shown to The Associated Press by convicted rapist Pearly Wilson, who was mistakenly given the information by a prosecutor. The data also contain the names, addresses and birth dates of nine of Wilson’s onetime neighbors on Columbus’ east side. There was no indication Wilson misused anything in the files. Wilson, 80, says he came forward because he recognizes the irony of it falling into the hands of someone like him. “Someone with a criminal mind could really use that information the wrong way,” he said. The case also offers a view into a massive and controversial database designed to track criminals with the help of a raft of background information, including data on people whose only connection to a criminal is a similar address. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien took responsibility for the error, which he believes to be isolated. Wilson’s former neighbors, meanwhile, are wondering why the government has data about them at all. “They don’t need to be running my personal information,” said Don Hickman, 47, who still lives on the street where Wilson once worked as a live-in church groundskeeper. “I’m not a sex offender. I’ve done nothing wrong here.”

A deal to avert BlackBerry ban could be precedent RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A preliminary agreement between the maker of the popular BlackBerry smart phone and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which government officials say grants them some access to users’ data, will avert a ban on the phone in that country. The pact involves placing a BlackBerry server inside Saudi Arabia, Saudi telecom

regulatory officials said, and that likely will let the government monitor messages and allay official fears the service could be used for criminal purposes. Bandar al-Mohammed, an official at the Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission, told The Associated Press that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. has expressed its “intention ... to place a server inside Saudi Arabia.” Even though RIM encrypts e-mails, the deal would open messages to Saudi surveillance, said Bruce Schneier, an author and chief security technology officer at British telecommunications operator BT. RIM could be setting a worldwide precedent for how technology companies and governments get along. A number of countries see the devices as a security threat because encrypted information sent on them is difficult, it not impossible, for local governments to monitor when it doesn’t pass through domestic servers. Saudi security officials fear the service could be used by militant groups to avoid detection. Countries including India and the United Arab Emirates have expressed similar concerns.

Pasadena school dogs chronic dropouts

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — School has long since started for the day when Jose Ramirez pulls up to a small bungalow and yells out to a tardy student. Anthony Gonza lez limps to the door. “It’s after nine, man, you got to be in school,” Ramirez tells the 19-year-old, who dropped out of school after a gang shooting four years ago left him paralyzed on one side. It’s part of Ramirez’s job as a “chaser” at Learning Works! Charter School, which pushes Pasadena’s most hardened dropouts back to school by using former dropouts to hunt them down. Graduation numbers are hopeful, but problems still abound: Kids getting high on field trips, girls abandoning babies in the day care room, a student who poked holes in the giveaway condoms, cops arriving with arrest warrants.

2 killed, dozens hurt in school bus crash in Mo.

GRAY SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — Two buses packed with members of a high school marching band slammed into a freeway wreck that happened right in front of them on Thursday, crushing a pickup truck and killing its driver — the son of a political hopeful — as well as one of the students. Dozens of other students from the John F. Hodge High School in St. James were taken to hospitals for treatment after the crash, which happened on a highway near Gray Summit, about 40 miles west of St. Louis. Most of the injuries were minor, and only two students remained hospitalized Thursday evening. The students were traveling to a Six Flags amusement park about 10 miles from the crash site. According to the State Highway Patrol, a pickup truck driven by 19-year-old Daniel Schatz, a former reserve quarterback for the University of Missouri football team and the son of Republican state House candidate Dave Schatz, slammed into the back of a semi cab that had slowed approaching a construction zone. The forward-most of the two buses carrying the St. James students slammed into the back of Schatz’s truck, then landed on top of it after it was rammed from behind by the other bus, said Highway Patrol Cpl. Jeff Wilson.

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U.S. SUPREME COURT

HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL

Kagan sworn in as 4th woman justice

Obama touts Medicare benefits

WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday as the 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Kagan in a brief private ceremony at the court. Kagan, joined by family and friends, pledged to faithfully and impartially uphold the law. Afterward, she smiled broadly as a crowd of onlookers stood and applauded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We look forward to serving with you,â&#x20AC;? Roberts said. Kagan, a former Harvard Law School dean who most recently was solicitor general, was President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Republicans criticized her as a political liberal, before the Senate confirmed her this past week on a vote of 63-37. She was sworn in twice Saturday by Roberts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; reciting one oath as prescribed by the Constitution during a ceremony in a conference room at the court with only her family present. Kagan then recited a second oath, taken by judges, with her family and friends and reporters present. Kagan wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be formally installed as a justice until Oct. 1 in a courtroom ceremony at the

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Elena Kagan is sworn in as the Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest member as Chief Justice John Roberts, right, administers the judicial oath, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Saturday. The Bible is held by Jeffrey Minear, center, counselor to the chief justice. Kagan, 50, who replaces retired Justice John Paul Stevens, becomes the fourth woman to sit on the high court, and is the first Supreme Court justice in nearly four decades with no previous experience as a judge. start of the courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new term. But after the oaths taken on Saturday, she will be able to begin assuming her duties as a justice, which include reviewing cases and emergency appeals filed to the Supreme Court. Kagan, 50, joins Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the nine-member

court, which often divides 5-4 on high-profile cases such as gun rights, discrimination and campaign finance. The first woman in the courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history, Justice Sandra Day Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, retired in 2005. Kagan isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expected to alter the ideological balance of the court, where Stevens was considered a leader of the liberals.

WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; President Barack Obama says Medicare will exist for many more years, thanks to new legislation that helped put the health care program for Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seniors on stronger financial footing. Seniors already are benefiting from that new health care law, said Obama, noting that many have received $250 rebates to help buy medicine, for example. Obama said the law and efforts by his administration to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse both in Medicare and across government generally are making the program stronger and cutting health care costs for seniors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Medicare isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a program,â&#x20AC;? Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet message. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a commitment to Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seniors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that after working your whole life, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve earned the security of quality health care you can afford.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;As long as I am president, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a commitment

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12A / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / The Sanford Herald GULF OIL SPILL

NATION BRIEFS

Seafood industry tries to shake an oily image

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to reopen more than three months after crude began gushing from the sea floor. But those who harvest, process and sell the catch face a new crisis — convincing wary consumers it’s not only delicious, but also safe. As BP PLC closed the books on a defining week in its battle to contain the oil, with engineers finally forcing the surging crude underground with a torrent of mud and cement, people along the Gulf Coast began looking to the future — including the fishing industry, which has a tough sell despite tests showing the catch seems safe to eat. “We have a huge perception problem,” said Ewell Smith, director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board. “We have lost markets across the country, and some of them may be lost for good.” The Gulf accounts for a majority of the domestic shrimp and oysters eaten by Americans and about 2 percent of overall U.S. seafood consumption. But with safety suspicions abounding, some wary suppliers appear to be turning to

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Seafood dealer Jerri Lombas uses tongs to unpack a shipment of blue crabs at an outdoor market in New Orleans. overseas imports. Henry Poynot, who owns Big Fisherman Seafood in New Orleans and has been in business for 26 years, said nonstop news coverage has had an effect. “People just can’t believe after seeing all that oil going into the Gulf that everything isn’t tainted,” he said. “It’s psychological or something.” Tammy McNaught arrived in New Orleans from San Francisco on Saturday for a long week-

end, and after seeing months of oil spill coverage was trying to decide whether she would eat seafood and how much. “It’s probably nothing, but I’m not sure if it is safe. However, if it’s deep fried, you know it is going to be OK,” McNaught said, laughing. Poynot pointed to a longtime customer who bought oysters from him even before the beds closed. Poynot ate two before packaging hers. But when she got home she had second

thoughts, fearing they might be oil-tainted. She called Poynot, seeking reassurance. “After she ate them she said they were good, but she was afraid to buy more,” he said. BP this week finished pumping mud and cement into the well that blew out after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Spokesman Max McGahan said Saturday that engineers were still waiting for the cement to harden

so work could begin on drilling the final 100 feet of a relief well. When that relief well intersects the broken well, workers will pump more cement and mud in a “bottom kill” to seal the well permanently. The well’s apparent suffocation coincided with the release of a federal report this week showing that only about a quarter of the oil lost to the leak remains in or along the shores of the Gulf, with the rest having dissipated or otherwise disappeared. The remaining 53 million gallons, though, would be enough alone to rank among the nation’s worst spills. Some fishing grounds remain closed as the oil continues to wash through the Gulf, but state and federal tests have shown samples of seafood in some areas safe to eat. The Food and Drug Administration says chemical dispersants used to break up the oil do not pose a public health concern. Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer, sought to ease consumers’ minds and palates by saying this week he would eat Gulf seafood himself and “serve it to my family.”

Disgraced HP CEO to get nearly $28m in cash, stock SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lauded for making Hewlett-Packard Co. the world’s biggest technology company, CEO Mark Hurd was in negotiations for a new contract worth about $100 million, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. Instead, he’s getting about a third of that to just go away. In a stunning announcement Friday, HP said it ousted Hurd after an investigation of a sexual harassment complaint found that he had falsified expense reports and other documents to conceal a relationship with a contractor. Hurd also allegedly helped the woman get paid for work she didn’t do. In recent weeks, Hurd was in negotiations for a new three-year contract worth about $100 million when a woman who worked for HP as a host at high-profile events accused him of sexual harassment, a person with intimate knowledge of the case told The Associated Press. The person requested anonymity because this person wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the details of the case.

Chrysler sales rise but problems lurk behind gains DETROIT (AP) — A year after getting billions of dollars in federal aid to stay in business, Chrysler now brags each month about growing sales, insisting it is rolling down the road to recovery. But there troubling signs under the surface. For instance, confidential data obtained by The Associated Press show most of Chrysler’s gains this year came from sales to rental car companies, governments and other businesses — not everyday Americans. A successful Chrysler is essential for the federal government because it is trying to get back the $15 billion in emergency loans it made to the company. Chrysler is expected to post a net loss when it releases second-quarter results on Monday. It lost $197 million in the first quarter.

Space station astronauts tackle urgent repair job CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two space station astronauts have ventured out on a spacewalk to make urgent repairs. Shortly after sunrise Saturday, NASA astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson exited the International Space Station. Their goal is to replace a broken ammonia cooling pump. Officials say it’s some of the most challenging repair work ever attempted at the orbiting complex. The job is so difficult, in fact, that two spacewalks are needed. The ammonia pump shut down last weekend and knocked out half of the space station’s cooling system.

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Schwarzenegger: Let weddings resume By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who twice vetoed legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, has surprised gay rights supporters by urging a federal judge to allow gay couples to resume marrying in the state without further delay. Lawyers for Schwarzenegger, Attorney General Jerry Brown, two gay couples and the city of San Francisco all filed legal motions Friday asking Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker to implement his ruling striking Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Administration believes the public interest is best served by permitting the courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s judgment to go into effect, thereby restoring the right of

same-sex couples to marry in California,â&#x20AC;? the Republican governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyers said on his behalf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doing so is consistent with Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long history of treating all people and their relationships with equal dignity and respect.â&#x20AC;? In his 136-page decision overturning Proposition 8 Wednesday, Walker said he was ordering the state to cease enforcing the 22-month-old ban. But he agreed to suspend the order until he could review the briefs submitted Friday. The measureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sponsors have asked the judge to keep the ban in effect until their appeal of Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling invalidating Proposition 8 is decided by higher courts. They argued in court papers filed earlier this week that resuming gay marriage now would cause legal chaos if the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

or U.S. Supreme Court eventually reverse Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling. It was unclear when the judge would decide whether to grant a stay that would prevent marriage licenses from being issued to gay couples during the appeals process. If he does clear the way for same-sex couples to wed, lawyers for sponsors of Proposition 8 said Friday they would seek an emergency order from the 9th Circuit to prevent that from happening. The governor and attorney general almost always defend state laws when they are challenged, regardless of their personal views. But in this case, both Schwarzenegger and Brown refused to participate in fighting the lawsuit aimed at overturning the ban, even though they both were named as defendants. That left the job of

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hose who dismiss the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium trilogy” as exploitative, derivative flotsam speak to the reason why the in-theworks American remake of Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is doomed for disappointment. Yes, Larsson was a fan of English and American crime fiction, but the true driving influence behind his novels was an indigenous commentary on Swedish society, something bound to get lost in translation on its way to Hollywood. Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), the gothinspired, post-modern Pippi Longstocking at the heart of Larsson’s series, is a flashpoint for the fear and anxiety generated by northern Europe’s archaic ideological past and its techno-capitalist future. Moreover, she embodies the inconsistent regard for women in contemporary Sweden, a country that ranks high in the number of women holding public office, graduating from college, and comprising the work force. Yet rape and domestic violence are so pervasive there Amnesty International issued a report on the subject last year. Lisbeth opens the

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge granted Sandra Bullock a three-year restraining order Friday against a man who has a history of stalking her and allegedly traveled cross-country to try to meet the actress after being released from a mental hospital. Thomas James Weldon was ordered to refrain from trying to contact the Bullock actress or Louis Bardo Bullock, an infant boy the Academy Award-winner is in the process of adopting. The restraining order also protects the children of Bullock’s ex-husband Jesse James. The children occasionally stay with the actress. Bullock first obtained a restraining order against Weldon in 2003. The order was extended but expired last year because Weldon was being held in a Tennessee mental hospital. After his release earlier this year, he traveled to Wyoming in an alleged attempt to meet the actress, according to Bullock’s attorney Ed McPherson. Weldon was committed indefinitely to a state mental hospital in Wyoming on Tuesday.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Lady Gaga has come a long way since her appearance three years ago at the Lollapalooza music festival — but she hasn’t forgotten some critics’ less-than-stellar reviews of that performance. The voice behind “Paparazzi” and “Bad Romance” commanded thousands of screaming fans in Chicago on Friday night to forget anyone who ever said they weren’t pretty enough or skinny enough — or that “your Lollapalooza BMI stage show was a (expletive) trainwreck. You’re a (expletive) superstar. You were born that way!” The order was met with a roar from the sea of mostly teens and 20-somethings squished in front of the stage, bouncing up and down with their fists in the air. It was redeeming moment and a far cry from Lady Gaga’s first appearance at the festival in 2007, when she sang and played keyboard in a glittery bra and tiny, black bottoms. Recordings of the daytime performance show a distracted crowd and a sparse stage. Three years later, a towering image of a scantily clad Lady Gaga flashed on a billowing white curtain. The singer started the show in a black jacket with sky-high shoulder pads. Next, she donned a shiny red cape, later dancing around in a transparent dress.

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sequel “The Girl Who Played With Fire” in exile at her Caribbean hideaway, flush with millions of dollars she fleeced from disgraced industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström’s offshore bank account at the conclusion of “Dragon Tattoo.” Still, she longs for home and her precious few friends, including Holmer Palmegren (Per Oscarsson), her former guardian, and Miriam (Yasmine Garbi), her erstwhile lover. Unfortunately, no sooner does Lisbeth step foot back in Stockholm than she finds herself framed for the gangland slaying of reporter Dag Svensson and his girlfriend, Mia, along with the execution-style murder of Nils Bjurman, Lisbeth’s probationary guardian, who stills bears the scarlet lettering she

Grade: B Director: Daniel Alfredson Starring: Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes Theaters: Galaxy Cinema in Cary; Colony Twin in Raleigh

carved into his abdomen after he brutally raped her in “Dragon Tattoo.” Dag was completing an expose on prostitution and human trafficking for “Millennium” magazine, home to middle-aged investigative journalist Mikael Blomkist (Michael Nyqvist), the other half of Larsson’s protagonist duo. With the manhunt for Lisbeth in full throes, Blomkist begins a parallel search for the real killers, a trail that will eventually cross a boxing trainer, a notorious Russian gangster, and his robotic henchman. Some lingering questions from the first film are answered, such as the reason why Lisbeth’s mother resides in an assisted living facility and the target in young Lisbeth’s firebug flashbacks. Indeed, “The Girl Who Played With Fire” is hardly

a sturdy standalone; a working knowledge of the events in “Dragon Tattoo” is required to follow the plot and appreciate its nuances. Yet, that respect for the audience’s intelligence is one of the highpoints of both this film and its forbearer. Take, for example, the affair between Blomkist and his editor, Erika Berger (Lena Endre). No blathering about how it will impact the workplace (or Erika’s marriage); no fretting about how Blomkist hasn’t gotten over his sexual relationship with Lisbeth. There’s just a scene of Blomkist and Erika waking up in bed together. The script leaves it to the viewer to fill-in the narrative blanks. Director Daniel Alfredson, assuming the reigns from Niels Arden Oplev, produces a streamlined, but no less visually stimulating effort. Working from Larsson’s source, writer Jonas Frykberg litters the screenplay with genre homages: e.g., before her death, Mia was penning thesis on Russian gangs titled “From Russia With Love,” and the villainous goon tracking Lisbeth is a hulking, blond baddie impervious to pain, à la the SPECTRE assassin Robert Shaw plays in the James Bond classic. Not unlike Eastwood’s

Man With No Name, the storyline still affords plenty of opportunities for Lisbeth to roam the countryside asphyxiating information out of perverts and Tasering male attackers below the belt, although none of it the prurient depths in “Dragon Tattoo.” But, the series’ forte remains Rapace and Nyqvist’s performances and the believable affinity they build between Lisbeth and Blomkist, a kinship that is unusual in that it evolves from sexual to sidekicks. Unlike the first film, the two only share a few minutes of screen time in “The Girl Who Played With Fire”; most of their interaction takes place via surveillance video and instant messaging, itself a commentary on relationships during our digital age. While this separation seems counterproductive to preserving the film’s strongest suit, the way their symbiotic devotion remains intact and even matures from afar actually strengthens their emotional bond. Plot-wise, “The Girl Who Played With Fire” is little more than a highgloss, sometimes tawdry potboiler. It is the packaging, acting, and symbolism that transform this popular page-turner into a stout serial.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Matt Nguyen’s career options once amounted to hair cutting or maybe military service. But the 21-year-old dancer nicknamed “Dumbo” now makes $4,000 a month cutting up dance floors and battling fellow hiphop crews. And after propelling to fame through a cable TV reality competition, Nguyen and his buddies from Southern California think their new career could last longer than the latest two-step. “We used to just dance for fun,” said Nguyen, the frontman for Poreotics, a hip-hop troupe featured in Justin Bieber’s latest music video as well as all over YouTube. “We didn’t think it was going to be that big, but it’s our life now,” he said, as he waited to rehearse at the recent World Hip-Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas. Poreotics represented the United States as backto-back national champions. Nearly 200 crews from 28 countries went toe-to-toe across three divisions, with an allwomen crew from New Zealand taking top honors and Poreotics placing second overall. More than 4,000 fans and ousted competitors watched the finals.

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The Japanese dance team Super Dynamites performs during World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas. Dancers ranging from ages 5 to 45 convened at the Red Rock Resort waiting to bust a move in front of their global colleagues during the preliminaries. Crews in red football jerseys, blue space suits and custom-made T-shirts hyped each other up and held impromptu rehearsals in the hotel’s halls. The market for professional hip-hop dance crews has evolved in recent years, with films like “Step Up 3D,” reality television and amateur videos online fueling demand for showcases of popping, locking, and other signature styles of the once-underground pastime. But earning a living through hip-hop dance is still a difficult leap at

best — even for crews like Poreotics, who have gained mainstream fame for their moves. And veterans who have been break dancing since “Soul Train” say the quality of would-be dancers has dropped amid its growing popularity. Nguyen and Poreotics scored reputations as top boogie men earlier this year on “America’s Best Dance Crew,” where the two-time U.S. hip-hop dance champs used their stationary, robotic style and stage humor to win the MTV show. That meant more work yet some hefty raises. The shades-donning showmen now charge $8,500 per gig — 17 times their old asking rate of $500 — and earn a full-time in-

come from performances, merchandise sales and dance workshops. “It becomes work that we love to do, but at the same time we try to have fun with it, joke around and be ourselves,” said crew member Justin “Jet Li” Valles, 23, of Los Angeles. “That’s what got us here.” Valles said Poreotics started in 2005 with three friends before expanding to a six-man crew. The group’s name blends popping — a style that involves suddenly jerking certain muscles — choreography and robotics. Each member attended some college but dropped out to pursue dance. They each live with their parents or families. Cam Nguyen, 19, of Garden Grove, Calif., who is not related to his teammate, took graphic arts classes after high school and said he’s content designing the squad’s Tshirts as their careers take shape. “These kids would have never been able to make a living off their passion if it wasn’t for the commercialization,” said Barbara Adler, 49, a break dancer with Momz-N-Da Hood, a Long Island, N.Y.based crew of mothers who hip-hop dance who was blogging at the championships.

question: Who is Wyclef Jean? By JONATHAN M. KATZ Associated Press Writer

LEOGANE, Haiti — Street star. Scandalplagued aid director. ExFugees hip hop frontman. The moment he filed his candidacy, Wyclef Jean became the most famous — and thus potentially most powerful — candidate in Haiti’s critical post-earthquake presidential election. But for all his renown as a musician, charity provider and above all Haitian-born success story, a stark fact remains the morning after: Few in this impovJean erished and often rudderless country know who he really is, what he stands for, or what is driving him to seek the presidency. He has compared his candidacy to that of U.S. President Barack Obama and says he wants to build Haiti’s economy principally by attracting foreign investment — yet his campaign borrows songs, style and support from the populist liberation theologian and exiled Haitian

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President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. And before these questions even come into play his celebritydriven campaign — he has promised to bring 50 Cent to Haiti — must deal with the biggest question surrounding the 40-year-old singer: Has Jean, whose parents took him to Brooklyn as a young child, lived long enough in Haiti to claim its most important job? “I started coming to Haiti after the President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was taken outside of Haiti (in 2004),” Jean told The Associated Press in an interview after filing his candidacy Thursday. “What I did was I went into the slums and started with kids inside of the roughest communities.” Haitian presidents must have lived at least five consecutive years in the country leading up to election day, slated this year for Nov. 28. By nearly all measures Jean has not. As the eight-member provisional electoral council spends the next 12 days verifying candidates’ credentials the singer’s campaign will argue his 2007 appointment as an ambassador-at-large exempts him from the requirement. Some on the streets of this seaside, sugargrowing town west of Port-au-Prince are not convinced. “The constitution says you have to spend five years in the country. Did he? I don’t think he did,” said Billy Francois, 38, who sells sundries from under a roadside tarp in Leogane, which was almost entirely destroyed by the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake that left a governmentestimated 300,000 people dead. The father of three said he was not opposed to Jean, but that neither he nor other potential candidates appear ready to tackle Haiti’s rampant unemployment and crime. “I’ve been voting since 1990 and nobody has done anything for me,” he said. Jean’s outsider status — he speaks English far better than Creole and left the country Friday to take his wife and 5-yearold daughter home to New Jersey — lends itself to debate.

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HAVANA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A lively and healthy-looking Fidel Castro appealed to President Barack Obama to stave off global nuclear war in an emphatic address to parliament Saturday that marked his first official government appearance since emergency surgery four years ago. Castro, who turns 84 in a week, wore olivegreen fatigues devoid of any military insignia and arrived on the arm of a subordinate who steadied him as he walked. The approximately 600 lawmakers present sprang to their feet and applauded, as the gray-bearded revolutionary stepped to a podium that had been set up for him, grinning broadly and waving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fidel, Fidel, Fidel!â&#x20AC;? chanted the members of parliament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Long live Fidel!â&#x20AC;? Castro has been warning in written opinion columns for months that the U.S. and Israel will launch a nuclear attack on Iran and that Washington could also target North Korea â&#x20AC;&#x201D; predicting Armageddon-like devastation and fighting he expected to have already begun by now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eight weeks ago, I thought that the imminent danger of war didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a possible solution. So dramatic was the problem that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see

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Fidel Castro speaks during a special session of parliament in his first official government appearance in front of lawmakers in four years in Havana, Cuba, Saturday another way out,â&#x20AC;? Castro told the legislature. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am sure that it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be like that and, instead ... one man will make the decision alone, the president of the United States.â&#x20AC;? He added of Obama, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surely with his multiple worries, he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realized this yet, but his advisers have.â&#x20AC;? Castro didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mention domestic Cuban politics or the foundering economy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; instead sticking to the threat of war, the issue for which he convened Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special session of parliament. Still, his attendance, along with a slew of recent public appearances following a nearly fouryear absence from public view, is sure to raise more questions about how much of a leadership role

Castro is ready to reassume. Is he itching to retake his position as Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;maximum leaderâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or simply well enough to warn lawmakers in person that the end of the world could be near? Castroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech lasted barely 11 minutes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; possibly a record for the man who became famous for his hourslong discourses during 49 years in power â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and was largely devoid of his usual America bashing. He referred to the United States as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the empireâ&#x20AC;? only a few times â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though he did say that if Obama didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intervene he would â&#x20AC;&#x153;be ordering the instantaneous death ... of hundreds of millions of people, among them an incalculable number of inhabitants of his own homeland.â&#x20AC;?

In Washington, there was no immediate response from the White House. Castro moved to a seat after his speech, and was briefly approached by his wife, Delia Soto del Valle. The couple rarely appeared in public together in the past, but Soto has been seen with Castro more frequently of late. It was Castroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first appearance in parliament or at a government act since shortly before a health crisis in July 2006 that forced him to cede power to his younger brother Raul â&#x20AC;&#x201D; first temporarily, then permanently. He underwent emergency intestinal surgery prompted by an illness whose exact nature has been kept a state secret, and spent years recovering in an undisclosed location. Lawmakers have always left an empty chair to the right of Raul. It was in its usual spot Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but Fidel did not sit in it. Instead, he sat next to Parliament head Ricardo Alarcon. The two consulted and cracked jokes during the assemblyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-hour-and-40-minute session. Raul Castro sat nearby, though on another part of the stage, listening intensely to the proceedings and taking notes when Fidel delivered his speech.

Afghan medical mission ends in death for 10 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; They hiked for more than 10 hours over rugged mountains â&#x20AC;&#x201D; unarmed and without security â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to bring medical care to isolated Afghan villagers until their humanitarian mission took a tragic turn. Ten members of the Christian medical team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were gunned down in a gruesome slaughter that the Taliban said they carried out, alleging the volunteers were spying and trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. The gunmen spared an Afghan driver, who recited verses from the Islamic holy book Quran as he begged for his life. Team members â&#x20AC;&#x201D; doctors, nurses and logistics personnel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were attacked as they were returning to Kabul after their two-week mission in the remote Parun valley of Nuristan province about 160 miles (260 kilometers) north of Kabul. They had decided to veer northward into Badakhshan province because they thought that would be the safest route back to Kabul, said Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission, which organized the team. The bullet-riddled bodies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including three women â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were found Friday near three four-wheeled drive vehicles in a wooded area just off the main road that

snakes through a narrow valley in the Kuran Wa Munjan district of Badakhshan, provincial police chief Gen. Agha Noor Kemtuz told The Associated Press.

US-Vietnam nuke deal will likely allow enrichment WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Obama administration has told U.S. lawmakers that a nuclear cooperation deal with Vietnam is unlikely to include a coveted promise by the Hanoi government not to enrich uranium, congressional aides say. The United States had sought a no-enrichment pledge, which the State Department promotes as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gold standardâ&#x20AC;? for civilian nuclear cooperation accords. It would have been modeled on a deal last year in which the United Arab Emirates pledged, in return for U.S. nuclear equipment and reactors, not to enrich uranium or extract plutonium from used reactor fuel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; procedures that would provide material that could be used in a nuclear weapon. The Obama administration has been eager to send a strong nonproliferation message, especially to Iran, which the United States and others accuse of covertly seeking nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes, but it has resisted international pressure to stop enriching uranium.

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After another miserable day for Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson is in position to take over the top ranking in the world

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Deacs look to get back to basics

CHIPPIN’ IN FOR MARK MIDFORD

AREA GOLF STEVENS CENTER HOLDING GOLF TOURNEY SANFORD — The Stevens Center’s annual golf tournament will take place on Tuesday at Tobacco Road Golf Club There will be 8 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. shotgun starts in the captain’s choice event. The $65 cost per person includes 18 holes of golf, cart, lunch, beverages and prizes. Register in advance by calling (919) 776-4048, visiting stevenscenter.org or on the day of event at Tobacco Road Golf Club. Proceeds benefit people with disabilities in Lee, Harnett and Moore Counties.

By JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer

EDITOR’S NOTE: The date for the Stevens Center tournament was wrong in Thursday and Friday’s edition of The Herald.

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HAYNESWORTH FINALLY PASSES CONDITIONING TEST

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — After he passed the Washington Redskins conditioning test, Albert Haynesworth was in no shape to practice. Haynesworth finally conquered the 300-yard shuttle runs Saturday and was allowed to take part in his first practice of training camp. But he had a huge wrap put on his left knee midway through the session and became a spectator again during the offense-vs.-defense team drills. Haynesworth passed the test on the 10th day of camp, ending a daily soap opera that had overshadowed everything else at Redskins Park. The Redskins are off Sunday, and coaches say they expect Haynesworth to be able to go through practice Monday.

Mark Midford is pictured with his son Connor a couple of years ago. Midford, the head golf professional at Quail Ridge Golf Course, is battling testicular cancer.

A TOURNAMENT THAT WASN’T ABOUT THE GAME OF GOLF

he tournament was full weeks ago. But that was only on paper. To see it in person was something else. The sun had begun its ascent only a short hour before, and yet here they came. Car after car pulled into the parking lot, and before long, a sea of golf bags washed up to surround the clubhouse. The tidal procession didn’t end there. It only grew as golfers

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GREENVILLE — Dominique Davis knows he has some catching up to do. The Boston College and junior college product missed spring drills as East Carolina installed a new spread offense under firstyear coach Ruffin McNeill and offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley. He spent the summer studying and getting ready for training camp, though he knows he’s behind fellow quarterbacks Brad Wornick and Rio Johnson — the guys who got plenty of reps under center in the spring. “I knew I was far behind everybody,” Davis said Saturday at the Pirates’ annual preseason media day. “But my main perspective is just to get better every day and make the players around me better, and even the other quarterbacks better. And vice versa for me — they’re going to make me better. I’ve worked as hard as I can to catch up.” Consider Davis’ arrival to be another wrinkle thrown at a Pirates program undergoing plenty of change these days. Aside from the departure of Skip Holtz to take over at South Florida, quarterback Patrick

— many of them friends, some of them family and some of them, well, just sympathetic golfers — swarmed toward the lean man clad in crisp black golf slacks and a Livestrong-yellow polo shirt. “It was something,” says Brandon Honeycutt, one of those aforementioned friends who played in the morning group. “He just said, ‘We’re going to get it.’ Simple as that, man. ‘We’re going

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WINSTON-SALEM — Josh Adams came to Wake Forest when it was a run-first team. The Demon Deacons appear to be headed that way again — just in time for his senior season. The best passer in school history is gone, so coach Jim Grobe wants his team to get back to basics. That means rushing the ball. That suits Adams just fine. The former Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year figures to be the biggest beneficiary of that transition, expects to carry a bigger load this season and hopes to cap his up-anddown career by going out on top. “I definitely think that’s a little bit more confidence in me to know that we’re thinking about getting back to the run,” Adams said Saturday during the team’s media day. “It might help our team out a little bit more, considering that we’re not as comfortable as we’d like to feel with the quarterback situation. But then again, if we stray away from the run, I’m used to that as well.” That isn’t likely to happen, not with a new face under center to replace record-setting Riley Skinner. None of the leading candidates in the quarterbacking derby — Skylar Jones, Ted Stachitas, Brendan Cross and freshman Tanner Price — has thrown a pass in a game. So while the Demon Deacons probably won’t revisit the Chris Barclay era

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Davis stuck playing catch-up for Pirates By AARON BEARD

Pinkney — who led the Pirates to consecutive Conference USA Smith championships — has finally exhausted NCAAgranted six years of eligibility and must be replaced. As the Pirates wrapped up last season, it appeared Davis would be that guy. Now he’s fighting for his spot on a team that’s admittedly curious to see him work through preseason drills. “We are anxious to see Dominique in some pads and when he has bullets flying left and right, and how he’s going to perform,” linebacker Steve Spence said. “However, from his track record, he’s already proven he can go out there and do it.” Riley said Davis’ playing experience at BC gives him an advantage on Wornick and Johnson, who have never taken a collegiate snap. Yet their experience from spring drills in the pass-heavy attack imported from Texas Tech gives them

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PANTHERS SCRIMMAGE

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Carolina Panthers quarterback Matt Moore (3) glances back as he scrambles past Everette Brown (91) during practice at the NFL football team’s training camp in Spartanburg, S.C. last week.

Passing game misfires CHARLOTTE (AP) — Much of the talk during the first 1 1/2 weeks of training camp focused on the improvements the Carolina Panthers made in the passing game after finishing 27th in the league last year. However, it didn’t look that way at Saturday’s Fan Fest scrimmage.

The first-team offense managed just two first downs in three possessions as quarterback Matt Moore finished 4 of 9 for 26 yards while an experienced offensive line looked out of synch and allowed regular pressure from the second-team defense. The second-team offense

wasn’t any better. Led by quarterbacks Hunter Cantwell and Jimmy Clausen, it managed just one first down during its 12-play sequence. The only points of the scrimmage came when the third-team offense managed to get in field

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Sports

2B / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / The Sanford Herald SPORTS IN BRIEF DRNV holding registrations SANFORD — Registration is currently under way 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.

Lee Parks and Rec to hold volleyball camp SANFORD — Lee County Parks and Recreation will hold a volleyball camp on Wednesday and Thursday at the Bob Hales Recreation Center. The camp, which lasts from 6-9 p.m., is for players ages 9-16. To register, visit the Lee County Parks and Recreation office at 2303 Tramway Road. Registration is $20 per participant. For more information, contact Lee County Parks and Recreation at (919) 775-2107 ext. 206.

Ambrose wins Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Marcos Ambrose has won the Nationwide Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International for the third straight time. Ambrose started on pole and dominated the race, leading the final half of the 82-lap race around the 11-turn, 2.45-mile layout, and beat Joey Logano by 2.8 seconds.

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NASCAR

Kurt and Jimmie, Part IV? NASCAR’s festering feud By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — “You wrecked me!” “Did not!” “Did so!” “It was an accident.” “Was not.” “Was so.” Welcome to the prickly world of Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson, who just can’t seem to stay out of each other’s way on the racetrack. Ever since Busch chanted “anyone but the 48” after Johnson drove his Hendrick Motorsports Chevy past Busch to win at Bristol in the fifth race of the Sprint Cup season, it’s almost been nobody but the 48 when the two have gotten close to each other on the track. When Busch bumped Johnson out of the way to take the lead in the closing laps at New Hampshire in June, Johnson caught Busch, put a little bump on his No. 2 Penske Racing Dodge and slipped his No. 48 underneath with two laps to go, and won for the fifth time to tie Denny Hamlin for the series lead in victories. “I don’t want people to think, ‘Oh, I can knock the 48 out of the way because

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minutes while workers cleaned up extensive debris and welded the barrier back together, and after getting checked out by medics, Busch pointed blame straight at the number he has come to despise. “I wrecked on the straightaway. Jimmie Johnson drove straight through us,” he said. Johnson called Busch on Monday to talk, and the two say they’ve put the incidents in the rearview mirror. “It was a racing incident and I hate that over the last year or two there have been a lot of those racing incidents, and he has certainly been on the losing end of that situation,” Johnson said between practices for Sunday’s Cup race at Watkins Glen International. “It is nothing intentional and nothing I have against him. He and I joked on the phone that we have these magnets we

can’t get rid of.” Joked? “I may not intentionally try to wreck him,” Busch said. “It’s tough to put it behind me because I look at the wrecked race cars I have at the shop, where he goes to his shop and all those cars are pretty and clean. We’ve got a high car count of wrecked cars over at our shop and those guys on the 48, and even (Johnson’s teammate) Jeff Gordon, with what he did to us at Sonoma, it’s been definitely a one-way street right now.” Late in the June race on the road course at Sonoma, Gordon and Busch were running side by side near the front when Gordon knocked the No. 2 off the racing surface. Busch, who had a similar confrontation with Johnson at Sonoma the previous year and finished 11 places behind the 48, finished 32nd after starting third.

Edwards wins Watkins Glen pole

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — A year ago, Carl Edwards started 33rd in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International and finished third. This time he’ll start at the front. Edwards turned a lap of 124.432 mph in 70.882 seconds on Saturday to easily outdistance Jamie McMurray’s lap of 123.814 mph in 71.236 secs. It was just the fifth pole in 215 starts for Edwards, his first on a road course in Cup competition, and it was fast. “Unbelievable! I can’t tell you how much that helps our team,” Edwards said. “(Crew chief) Bob (Osborne) said P1. I thought he said 21. That’s a great lap. We’re just enjoying the wave we’re riding. We’re making a comeback.” And that should help team owner Jack Roush in his recovery from a plane crash 10 days ago. The 68-year-old Roush, who also received a boost last week with Greg Biffle’s win at Pocono, is at the Mayo Clinic and will remain there indefinitely to treat facial injuries. Edwards has put together four straight finishes of seventh or better, including a second at Chicagoland and a third a week ago at Pocono, to surge to 10th in the points standings with only five races remaining before the Chase for the Sprint Cup title. “It feels good,” said Edwards, whose last pole was two years ago at Bristol. “You guys know how we’ve struggled. This last month we’ve been in going in the right direction. It means a lot to all the folks who stuck with us — Aflac, Ford. Nobody’s giving up. If I can just get a good start, keep our car up front, race in clean air, keep the fenders on it, I think the qualifying effort will pay off.” Juan Pablo Montoya will go off third, followed by AJ Allmendinger and Kurt Busch. Five-time Watkins Glen winner Tony Stewart, Biffle, Scott Speed, Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch round out the top 10.

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The Sanford Herald / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / 3B

Woods struggles again with a 75 By RUSTY MILLER AP Sports Writer

AKRON, Ohio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tiger Woods logged another miserable round and then all but conceded the No. 1 spot in the world to Phil Mickelson. In the third round of the Bridgestone Invitational on Saturday, Woods had five bogeys, a doublebogey and two birdies in a 5-over 75. He is 11 over â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his worst score in relation to par through 54 holes since turning professional in 1996. Woods, whose personal life has been in tatters since revelations of infidelity last November, has been the No. 1-ranked golfer in the world for more than five years. But Mickelson can overtake him with a high finish â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something that Woods fully expects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, if Phil plays the way heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to this weekend, then heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be No. 1,â&#x20AC;? Woods said after completing third-round play at Firestone Country Club. Mickelson was tied for second, a shot back of Retief Goosen after two rounds and had yet to tee off in the third round. A week before the PGA Championship and with six weeks left to the Ryder Cup, Woodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; game is in shambles. He actually drove the ball slightly better on Saturday, hitting half of the 14 fairways, but showed no consistency. He was 1 over through six holes, but then jerked an iron far to the left of the green and into a large bunker next to the par-3 seventh.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great swing!â&#x20AC;? he yelled at himself on the tee. Woods then blasted out of the sand to 25 feet above the hole and missed the par putt. On the eighth hole, he hit his drive into the right rough, advanced it further along in the high grass to the right, and then mis-hit a chip shot that came up short of the green. He hurried to the ball and quickly hit another chip that ran 6 feet past the hole, then missed that putt, settling for a double-bogey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I drove it terrible, hit my irons terrible, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t putt well, and it added up to a lot,â&#x20AC;? Woods said later. The 75 was his worst third-round score in relation to par since the 2002 British Open, where he shot 81. After completing his round, he returned to the driving range. At that time, he was 18 shots off the lead and in 78th place, ahead of only two other players in the 80man field. He has never been worse than a tie for 71st through 54 holes since turning pro. He took off two weeks after tying for 23rd at the British Open, and hoped to use the Bridgestone as a tuneup for next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PGA Championship at Whistling Straits. He also hoped to put up a strong finish that would move him up in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings. He came into the week in ninth place, with the top eight players assured of spots on the team.

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Leaderboard crowded at the top By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

AKRON, Ohio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ryan Palmer is one of those players who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t walk by a leaderboard without looking. Even with his name at the top, he had to stare at the board a long time to get a feel for what was going on Saturday in the Bridgestone Invitational. He was in good company. There was a lot of company. Scoring was so good that seven players were tied for the lead with about three hours left in the third round. When the round was over, not much had changed.

Palmer, who birdied three of his last five holes for a 7-under 63, shared the lead with Sean Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hair, who had a 64. But with 21 players separated by five shots, all that meant was they would be the last to tee off Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the lead or one shot back, two shots back. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hair said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18 holes of golf left, and in my opinion, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no leaders. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a shootout.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about what it was Saturday. Not only did 10 players shoot 67 or better at venerable Firestone, there were 35 rounds in the 60s. Phil Mickelson failed

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NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CC Sabathia outpitched John Lackey, Ramiro Pena drove in two runs while subbing for injured Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees stopped their mini-slide by beating the Boston Red Sox 5-2 on Saturday. Rodriguez was hit in the lower left leg by Lance Berkmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sharp grounder during batting practice, and medical personnel ran onto the field to check him. X-rays were negative and there was no indication when the All-Star third baseman would return to the lineup. Robinson Cano hit a goahead single in the fifth inning for the Yankees, who had kept the best record in the majors despite losing four of their previous five games. Sabathia (14-5) shook off an early homer by Victor

Martinez and matched Tampa Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s David Price for the AL wins lead. Blue Jays 17, Rays 11 TORONTO (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Toronto Blue Jays slugged eight homers, getting two apiece from Aaron Hill and J.P. Arencibia in a 17-11 victory over the slumping Tampa Bay Rays. Jose Bautista, Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion and Lyle Overbay also connected for the Blue Jays, whose 175 homers are the most in the majors. Bautistaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shot was his major league-best 34th of the season. It was the most homers in a single game for the Blue Jays since they hit a major leaguerecord 10 against Baltimore on Sept. 14, 1987. Toronto scored in each of the first seven innings and set season highs in runs and hits (20).

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New York Yankeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nick Swisher, center, celebrates with teammates Brett Gardner, left, and Curtis Granderson, right, after their 5-2 win over the Boston Red Sox Saturday in New York. The eight homers are the most allowed in a single game by the Rays, whose losing streak reached a seasonhigh four games. Athletics 6, Rangers 2 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Coco Crisp homered, hit two sacrifice flies and scored twice to back 10-game winner Gio Gonzalez, and the Oakland Athletics beat the first-place Texas Rangers 6-2. Mark Ellis also had a sacrifice fly as Oakland quickly jumped on former Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ace Rich Harden. The Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s snapped Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; three-game winning streak and pulled within 8 1/2 games of the Rangers in the AL West race.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 Baltimore 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 10 innings L.A. Angels 4, Detroit 2 Cleveland 7, Minnesota 6 Toronto 2, Tampa Bay 1 Texas 5, Oakland 1 Seattle 7, Kansas City 1 Saturday’s Games Toronto 17, Tampa Bay 11 N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 2 Oakland 6, Texas 2 Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games L.A. Angels (T.Bell 1-2) at Detroit (Porcello 4-10), 1:05 p.m. Minnesota (Duensing 4-1) at Cleveland (D.Huff 2-10), 1:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Sonnanstine 2-0) at Toronto (Morrow 8-6), 1:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Buehrle 10-8) at Baltimore (Guthrie 5-11), 1:35 p.m. Texas (C.Lewis 9-8) at Oakland (Cahill 11-4), 4:05 p.m. Kansas City (Davies 5-6) at Seattle (J.Vargas 7-5), 4:10 p.m. Boston (Beckett 3-1) at N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 9-9), 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 2:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. Oakland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Games Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Colorado 6, Pittsburgh 3 St. Louis 7, Florida 0 Philadelphia 7, N.Y. Mets 5 San Francisco 3, Atlanta 2, 11 innings Milwaukee 6, Houston 5 Arizona 2, San Diego 1 Washington 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Saturday’s Games Cincinnati 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Colorado at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. San Francisco at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. St. Louis at Florida, 7:10 p.m. San Diego at Arizona, 8:10 p.m. Washington at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games St. Louis (Suppan 1-6) at Florida (West 0-1), 1:10 p.m. Colorado (Rogers 1-2) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 7-9), 1:35 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Dickey 7-4) at Philadelphia (Halladay 13-8), 1:35 p.m. San Francisco (J.Sanchez 8-6) at Atlanta (D.Lowe 10-9), 1:35 p.m. Houston (W.Wright 1-1) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 10-5), 2:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Tr.Wood 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Diamond 0-1), 2:20 p.m. San Diego (Latos 11-5) at Arizona (J.Saunders 1-0), 4:10 p.m. Washington (Marquis 0-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 4-8), 4:10 p.m. Monday’s Games St. Louis at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Atlanta at Houston, 8:05 p.m. Arizona at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

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They are all here for one man and his family. • A MORNING AND afternoon shotgun, with 256 players in all to go with scores of volunteers, the “Chippin’ In for Mark Midford” benefit was broken into two separate tournaments. Mark spoke to both groups before they went out. It was something he felt like he had to do. Heartfelt words, eloquent in their simplicity, drifted over the mass of khaki and collars. “It really didn’t hit me until this morning when I went to say something,” Midford reflects as afternoon drifts into evening. “I tried to run it just like any other tournament, and I was doing that — until I made my little speech.” His voice breaks, even now, hours later, ever so slightly. “I was just overcome with emotion. It was tough for me to say anything.” But Midford didn’t back down. No way. And those closest to him knew he would press on. “This is just who is he is,” says Honeycutt, who was befriended by Midford nine years ago, when the current Sanford Golf Course assistant golf pro was just 15. “One of the things my family has always wondered about is why I didn’t come back home to Connecticut,” Midford says, reliving the crux of his inspired address. “Hopefully now, with this, they can see why that is.” • THE AFTERNOON GROUPS trickle in. The scores are posted and prizes are handed out. Midford shakes hands and slaps backs with the same vigor as 12 hours before. The smile remains fresh. The glint in his eye is more than enough to make one wonder just what the hell any of us has to complain about. As the sun begins its descent, a day meant to fortify a family shaken by terrible day in early June becomes one that will be remembered for all time. “It’s definitely been a great day,” says Midford. “I’ll always...” His voice trails off. “Everybody... It’s just hard for me to accept everything everybody has done for me. It just shows how much people care about you, how much they think of you. It’s just... It’s just hard to take.” Exactly, Mark. That’s why it was so easy — and so important — for so many to give.

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to get it.’” • YOU CAN ASK the question if you want to. Mark Midford will answer it with a toothy smile framed by the customary goatee, all while looking you straight in the eye. He’s feeling good, he’ll tell you. Sure, he looks a bit lighter since he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had a tumor removed on June 8, but boy, that handshake is every bit as firm as it’s always been. This day, Saturday, Aug. 7, is for him and his family — his wife Holly, and two children, Connor, 4, and Madelyn, 3 months. The benefit golf tournament — the kind of fundraiser thing Midford has planned perhaps thousands of times over the years as the head golf professional at Quail Ridge Golf Course — has been orchestrated by family members and close friends to raise money for the Midfords as Mark, 36, prepares for the coming chemotherapy treatments. Even without the receipts tabulated to the penny, it’s clear the tournament has been an overwhelming success. A success for many reasons, most of which have little to do with money. • TONY LEWIS HAS two sons. Two golfers. Pretty good golfers, too. And Mark Midford is a big reason for their love for the game. But while Midford would never even consider it — and he sure as heck would never comment on it — he’s had a big influence on so many kids. Midford runs several junior golf camps throughout the year, and teams up with Tramway Elementary School every year for a golf clinic. Countless kids have been introduced to golf by Mark Midford. But he’s showing them all, young and old, something else now. Courage. Dignity. Hope. Tony Lewis has seen it. “Mark’s always been a huge asset to the community,” Lewis says. “Both of my sons are golfers, and he’s made a huge impact on them with this deal. Both of them look up to him so much.” They’re not alone. Look out at the course. Look. Two golf carts and four golfers approach the 18th green. In the fairway, two more carts and four more players begin to reach their tee shots. And back there, on the tee, two more carts. Four more players.

Alex Podlogar is The Herald’s sports editor. Reach him at alexp@sanfordherald.com and at (919) 718-1222. Read his blog at designatedhitter.wordpress.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexpodlogar.

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The USA Today Preseason Top 25 football coaches poll, with team’s 2009 records in parentheses, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in the final poll of the 2009 season and first-place votes received: Record Pts Final 1. Alabama (55) 14-0 1,469 1 2. Ohio State (4) 11-2 1,392 5 3. Florida 13-1 1,245 3 4. Texas 13-1 1,240 2 5. Boise State 14-0 1,215 4 6. Virginia Tech 10-3 1,052 10 7. TCU 12-1 1,051 6 8. Oklahoma 8-5 1,035 NR 9. Nebraska 10-4 1,001 14 10. Iowa 11-2 952 7 11. Oregon 10-3 940 11 12. Wisconsin 10-3 778 16 13. Miami (Fla.) 9-4 728 19 14. Penn State 11-2 508 8 15. Pittsburgh 10-3 492 15 16. LSU 9-4 476 17 17. Georgia Tech 11-3 455 13 18. North Carolina 8-5 445 NR 19. Arkansas 8-5 438 NR 20. Florida State 7-6 374 NR 21. Georgia 8-5 312 NR 22. Oregon State 8-5 263 NR 23. Auburn 8-5 260 NR 24 (tie). West Virginia 9-4 169 22 24 (tie). Utah 10-3 169 18 Others receiving votes (with 2009 records): Cincinnati (12-1) 135; Houston (10-4) 76; Brigham Young (11-2) 66; Arizona (8-5) 65; Mississippi (9-4) 48; Clemson (9-5) 44; Stanford (8-5) 41; Connecticut (8-5) 40; Notre Dame (6-6) 38; South Carolina (7-6) 38; Washington (5-7) 26; Missouri (8-5) 23; Navy (10-4) 12; Oklahoma State (9-4) 11; Boston College (8-5) 10; Michigan State (6-7) 10; Arizona State (4-8) 6; California (8-5) 6; Texas Tech (9-4) 5; South Florida (8-5) 4; Texas A&M (6-7) 3; Northwestern (8-5) 2; Temple (9-4) 2; Central Michigan (12-2) 1; Mississippi State (5-7) 1; Nevada (8-5) 1; Northern Illinois (7-6) 1; Southern Methodist (8-5) 1.

RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup-Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen Lineup By The Associated Press After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, N.Y. Lap length: 2.45 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 124.432. 2. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 123.814. 3. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 123.699. 4. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 123.619. 5. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 123.524. 6. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 123.429. 7. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 123.41. 8. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 123.369. 9. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 123.326. 10. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 123.234. 11. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 123.165. 12. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 123.102. 13. (83) Boris Said, Toyota, 123.078. 14. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 122.937. 15. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 122.85. 16. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 122.783. 17. (26) Patrick Carpentier, Ford, 122.635. 18. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 122.582. 19. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 122.56. 20. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 122.517. 21. (36) Ron Fellows, Chevrolet, 122.339. 22. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 122.308. 23. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 122.286. 24. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 122.21. 25. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 121.95. 26. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 121.801. 27. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 121.791. 28. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 121.721. 29. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 121.613. 30. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 121.528. 31. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 121.406. 32. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 121.404. 33. (71) Andy Lally, Chevrolet, 121.339. 34. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 121.274. 35. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 121.013. 36. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 120.599. 37. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 120.54. 38. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 120.489. 39. (07) P.J. Jones, Toyota, 120.26. 40. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 120.17. 41. (37) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Owner Points. 42. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points. 43. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 120.213.

IRL-Honda Indy 200 Lineup By The Associated Press After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio Lap length: 2.258 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (12) Will Power, Dallara-Honda, 120.965. 2. (10) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 120.812. 3. (5) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 120.545. 4. (37) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 120.532. 5. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 120.478. 6. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 120.361. 7. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 120.483. 8. (8) E.J. Viso, Dallara-Honda, 120.478. 9. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 120.349. 10. (78) Simona de Silvestro, Dallara-Honda, 120.215. 11. (22) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 120.208. 12. (06) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Honda, 119.984. 13. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 119.118. 14. (77) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 119.931. 15. (36) Bertrand Baguette, Dallara-Honda, 119.004. 16. (32) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda, 119.925. 17. (27) Adam Carroll, Dallara-Honda, 118.699. 18. (24) J.R. Hildebrand, Dallara-Honda, 119.904. 19. (2) Raphael Matos, Dallara-Honda, 118.602. 20. (11) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 119.661. 21. (19) Alex Lloyd, Dallara-Honda, 118.182. 22. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda, 119.58. 23. (34) Francesco Dracone, Dallara-Honda, 113.854. 24. (14) Vitor Meira, Dallara-Honda, 119.468. 25. (02) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 119.461. 26. (66) Jay Howard, Dallara-Honda, 116.956. 27. (18) Milka Duno, Dallara-Honda, no speed.

NASCAR Nationwide-Zippo 200 at The Glen Results By The Associated Press Saturday At Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, N.Y. Lap length: 2.45 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 82 laps, 150 rating, 195 points. 2. (2) Joey Logano, Toyota, 82, 123.4, 175. 3. (3) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 82, 115.4, 165. 4. (8) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 82, 112.5, 160. 5. (5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 82, 122.7, 160. 6. (12) Ron Fellows, Chevrolet, 82, 106, 150. 7. (10) Nelson Piquet, Ford, 82, 100.5, 146. 8. (6) Jacques Villeneuve, Toyota, 82, 99.9, 142. 9. (17) Steve Wallace, Toyota, 82, 88.6, 138. 10. (15) Michael McDowell, Dodge, 82, 86.3, 134. 11. (14) J.R. Fitzpatrick, Chevrolet, 82, 94.4, 130. 12. (27) Tayler Malsam, Toyota, 82, 81.9, 127. 13. (25) Brian Scott, Toyota, 82, 82.1, 124. 14. (30) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 82, 69.7, 121. 15. (22) Tony Ave, Chevrolet, 82, 74, 118.

Sunday, Aug. 8 AUTO RACING 1 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips, at Watkins Glen, N.Y. 2:30 p.m. VERSUS — IRL, Honda Indy 200, at Lexington, Ohio GOLF 11 a.m. TGC — PGA Tour/WGC, Bridgestone Invitational, final round, at Akron, Ohio 1 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour/WGC, Bridgestone Invitational, final round, at Akron, Ohio 3 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, 3M Championship, final round, at Blaine, Minn. 7 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Turning Stone Resort Championship, final round, at Verona, N.Y. (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. TBS — San Francisco at Atlanta 2:10 p.m. WGN — Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs 8 p.m. ESPN — Boston at N.Y. Yankees NFL FOOTBALL 8 p.m. NBC — Preseason, Hall of Fame Game, Cincinnati vs. Dallas, at Canton, Ohio SOCCER 9 p.m. ESPN2 — MLS, New York at Chicago SWIMMING 4:30 p.m. NBC — National Championships, at Irvine, Calif. (same-day tape) TENNIS 3 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP, Legg Mason Classic, championship match, at Washington 5 p.m. ESPN2 — WTA Tour, Mercury Insurance Open, championship match, at Carlsbad, Calif. 16. (23) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet, 82, 73.2, 115. 17. (7) Paul Menard, Ford, 82, 87.1, 112. 18. (33) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 82, 61.9, 109. 19. (24) Michael Annett, Toyota, 82, 65.6, 106. 20. (32) Kyle Kelley, Chevrolet, 82, 53.6, 103. 21. (34) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, 81, 52.9, 100. 22. (16) Boris Said, Ford, 81, 68.2, 97. 23. (26) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 81, 62.6, 94. 24. (36) Mark Green, Chevrolet, 80, 43.2, 91. 25. (18) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, accident, 79, 81, 88. 26. (11) Colin Braun, Ford, 78, 56.9, 85. 27. (40) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, 78, 37.6, 82. 28. (28) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 60, 42.9, 79. 29. (19) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, 60, 72.6, 76. 30. (21) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, 59, 51.3, 73. 31. (35) Eric McClure, Ford, transmission, 53, 39.7, 70. 32. (31) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, electrical, 44, 43.1, 67. 33. (4) Carl Edwards, Ford, engine, 25, 83, 64. 34. (20) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, engine, 25, 53.3, 61. 35. (13) Jason Leffler, Toyota, accident, 23, 70.5, 58. 36. (9) Billy Johnson, Ford, accident, 23, 56.4, 55. 37. (29) Victor Gonzalez Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 20, 44, 52. 38. (39) Joey Scarallo, Ford, brakes, 9, 32.5, 49. 39. (37) Chase Miller, Ford, brakes, 8, 35.6, 46. 40. (41) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet, overheating, 3, 32.5, 43. 41. (42) Dan Brode, Dodge, brakes, 2, 32.4, 40. 42. (38) Kevin Hamlin, Chevrolet, brakes, 1, 29.8, 37. 43. (43) Matthew Carter, Dodge, brakes, 1, 30.4, 34. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 93.526 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 8 minutes, 53 seconds. Margin of Victory: 2.834 seconds. Caution Flags: 4 for 10 laps. Lead Changes: 3 among 3 drivers. Lap Leaders: M.Ambrose 1-18; J.Logano 1926; K.Busch 27-40; M.Ambrose 41-82. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): M.Ambrose, 2 times for 60 laps; K.Busch, 1 time for 14 laps; J.Logano, 1 time for 8 laps. Top 10 in Points: 1. Bra.Keselowski, 3,509; 2. C.Edwards, 3,182; 3. K.Busch, 3,036; 4. J.Allgaier, 2,894; 5. K.Harvick, 2,774; 6. P.Menard, 2,732; 7. S.Wallace, 2,626; 8. T.Bayne, 2,441; 9. B.Gaughan, 2,420; 10. J.Leffler, 2,384.

GOLF Bridgestone Invitational Par Scores By The Associated Press Saturday At Firestone Country Club (South Course) Akron, Ohio Purse: $8.5 million Yardage: 7,400; Par: 70 Third Round Ryan Palmer 70-68-63 — 201 -9 Sean O’Hair 67-70-64 — 201 -9 Matt Kuchar 69-67-66 — 202 -8 Ernie Els 69-70-64 — 203 -7 Peter Hanson 69-66-68 — 203 -7 Justin Leonard 68-66-69 — 203 -7 Hunter Mahan 71-67-66 — 204 -6 Jeff Overton 67-70-67 — 204 -6 Bo Van Pelt 67-68-69 — 204 -6 K. Miyamoto 71-72-62 — 205 -5 Oliver Wilson 71-67-67 — 205 -5 Dustin Johnson 72-65-68 — 205 -5 Nick Watney 68-68-69 — 205 -5 Bubba Watson 64-71-70 — 205 -5 Phil Mickelson 66-68-71 — 205 -5 Angel Cabrera 71-68-67 — 206 -4 Geoff Ogilvy 71-67-68 — 206 -4 Rory McIlroy 68-69-69 — 206 -4 Lucas Glover 70-66-70 — 206 -4 Miguel A. Jimenez 69-67-70 — 206 -4 Retief Goosen 67-66-73 — 206 -4 Kenny Perry 66-73-68 — 207 -3 Graeme McDowell 66-73-68 — 207 -3 Steve Stricker 68-71-69 — 208 -2 Martin Kaymer 72-67-69 — 208 -2 Jason Day 69-70-69 — 208 -2 Alexander Noren 69-69-70 — 208 -2 Ryan Moore 70-68-70 — 208 -2 Adam Scott 66-70-72 — 208 -2 Charl Schwartzel 73-68-68 — 209 -1 Sergio Garcia 70-70-69 — 209 -1 Martin Laird 70-71-68 — 209 -1 Jim Furyk 72-68-69 — 209 -1 Padraig Harrington 69-70-70 — 209 -1 Paul Casey 68-68-73 — 209 -1 Heath Slocum 75-68-67 — 210 E Louis Oosthuizen 72-70-68 — 210 E Rickie Fowler 68-73-69 — 210 E Ross McGowan 71-69-70 — 210 E Bill Haas 73-66-71 — 210 E Ben Curtis 69-70-71 — 210 E Scott Verplank 75-68-68 — 211 + 1 Troy Matteson 72-70-69 — 211 + 1 Stewart Cink 72-69-70 — 211 + 1 Justin Rose 71-70-70 — 211 + 1 Zach Johnson 70-70-71 — 211 + 1 James Kingston 75-65-71 — 211 + 1 Marcus Fraser 72-72-68 — 212 + 2 Edoardo Molinari 71-71-70 — 212 + 2 Jason Bohn 71-68-73 — 212 + 2 Luke Donald 70-69-73 — 212 + 2 Ross Fisher 70-68-74 — 212 + 2 Boo Weekley 73-72-68 — 213 + 3 Francesco Molinari 70-72-71 — 213 + 3

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BATTING—Polanco, Philadelphia, .321; CGonzalez, Colorado, .320; Votto, Cincinnati, .318; Furcal, Los Angeles, .316; Prado, Atlanta, .315; Byrd, Chicago, .313; Pujols, St. Louis, .309; AHuff, San Francisco, .309; Pagan, New York, .309. RUNS—BPhillips, Cincinnati, 79; Weeks, Milwaukee, 77; Prado, Atlanta, 75; Votto, Cincinnati, 75; Uggla, Florida, 74; CGonzalez, Colorado, 72; AHuff, San Francisco, 72. RBI—Pujols, St. Louis, 82; Howard, Philadelphia, 81; ADunn, Washington, 77; DWright, New York, 77; Hart, Milwaukee, 75; CGonzalez, Colorado, 74; Votto, Cincinnati, 73. HITS—Prado, Atlanta, 138; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 130; CGonzalez, Colorado, 129; Byrd, Chicago, 126; Pujols, St. Louis, 126; Braun, Milwaukee, 124; Weeks, Milwaukee, 122. DOUBLES—Werth, Philadelphia, 36; ATorres, San Francisco, 34; Byrd, Chicago, 29; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 29; Prado, Atlanta, 29; ADunn, Washington, 28; Holliday, St. Louis, 28; Loney, Los Angeles, 28; DWright, New York, 28. TRIPLES—Fowler, Colorado, 8; Victorino, Philadelphia, 8; SDrew, Arizona, 7; AEscobar, Milwaukee, 7; Pagan, New York, 7; Bay, New York, 6; Morgan, Washington, 6; JosReyes, New York, 6. HOME RUNS—ADunn, Washington, 30; Pujols, St. Louis, 28; Votto, Cincinnati, 27; Reynolds, Arizona, 25; Fielder, Milwaukee, 24; CGonzalez, Colorado, 24; Uggla, Florida, 24. STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 35; Morgan, Washington, 29; Pagan, New York, 24; HRamirez, Florida, 22; CYoung, Arizona, 22; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 21; JosReyes, New York, 21; ATorres, San Francisco, 21. PITCHING—Jimenez, Colorado, 17-2; Wainwright, St. Louis, 16-6; Halladay, Philadelphia, 13-8; CCarpenter, St. Louis, 12-3; THudson, Atlanta, 12-5; Arroyo, Cincinnati, 12-6; Nolasco, Florida, 12-8. STRIKEOUTS—Lincecum, San Francisco, 159; Halladay, Philadelphia, 158; Wainwright, St. Louis, 154; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 153; JoJohnson, Florida, 151; Dempster, Chicago, 144; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 142. SAVES—BrWilson, San Francisco, 32; HBell, San Diego, 31; FCordero, Cincinnati, 30; Capps, Washington, 26; Nunez, Florida, 26; Wagner, Atlanta, 26; FRodriguez, New York, 23.

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Pirates their own edge as they fight to start against Tulsa on Sept. 5. “He’s behind because he wasn’t taking snaps and throwing it,” Riley said. “Some of the things that you can’t practice in the summer, your screen game and stuff like that, he’s going to be behind on. But he has a clue of what we’re doing. It’s not like he’s a freshman that doesn’t have any idea of what we’re doing. He has an idea and the maturity aspect will help him. He’s going to be right

there. It’ll be interesting to see.” Davis was the talented redshirt freshman with the Eagles in 2008 who inherited the starting job late in the season at BC when Chris Crane went down to injury, even starting the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game against Virginia Tech. But Davis ended up on academic suspension then opted to transfer. He spent a year at Fort Scott Community College, where he led the team to a No. 2 national ranking before deciding he wanted to play for the Pirates. But when Holtz left and McNeill arrived in

January, Davis wasn’t sure if he’d still fit at East Carolina. One visit from the folksy, easygoing McNeill and Riley to his Florida home with his parents changed that. “When I first heard he was coming here, they said a lot of good things about how he was a father figure and stuff,” Davis said. “And when he came to my house and told me he was going to run this business as a family, it really opened up my heart and especially my parents’ heart.” He couldn’t participate in the spring because he didn’t enroll in time for the semester, but he’s already proven his commitment

to learning the offense. He traveled to Greenville, rented a room in a house and took a bus to campus just so he could be at every one of the Pirates’ 15 spring practices. “I’ve seen what he can do,” running back Jon Williams said. “I’ve seen what he’s about. I’ve seen what kind of person he is.” Now everyone’s waiting to see what kind of quarterback he’ll be in an offense that Davis once admired from afar. “It’s exciting,” Davis said. “Every quarterback here, that’s our dream, just to throw the ball like that.”

a few of Wake Forest’s tight losses the other way. The Demon Deacons were a disappointing 5-7 last season, but five of the defeats were by a combined 13 points. But, he cautioned, just because they’ll rush the ball more often doesn’t mean they’ll run it all the time. “Had we run it a little better, we would have won a few more games, and especially if we were a better red zone and short-yardage team,” Grobe said. “But a key for us with our quarterback is going to be the

ability for us to throw the football. If you can’t throw the football, you can’t be our quarterback. So, we talk a lot about trying to go to a more mobile quarterback, but honestly, we start with throwing the football, so you’ve got to be able to get (the receivers) the football. ... The guy that will be our quarterback will not be purely a runner.” It’s been something of a struggle for Adams in recent seasons as the Demon Deacons developed an increasing reliance on Skin-

ner, who set every career passing mark in the school’s record book before wrapping things up last fall. Adams, meanwhile, went from being a feature back to almost being an afterthought. During the run to an ACC title and the Orange Bowl in 2006, Grobe considered playing him as a first-year freshman because of depth issues in the backfield but ultimately decided not to break his redshirt. He was named the league’s top rookie after a breakout season in 2007 in

which he set five school records for redshirt freshmen — including yards rushing (953) and total TDs (12). He’s only scored eight times in the two years that followed. After having arthroscopic knee surgery before the 2008 season and spraining his ankle late in the year, he finished with just 402 yards and four TDs. And in an added reflection of Wake Forest’s dependence on its passing game in 2009, Adams had 307 yards receiving and 541 on the ground.

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— when they led the ACC in rushing four times from 2001-05 and had Barclay named as the league’s player of the year — it’s clear that Adams, junior Brandon Pendergrass and the rest of the ground game will have to play a more significant role in the offense this year. “Obviously, as running backs, that’s what you want to do — we want to run the ball,” Pendergrass said. “We

want to have the pressure on us in the games and just be able to carry the team. Last year, it was pretty much Skinner’s year. Skinner led the offense, and our job was to just take care of the ball and protect Skinner. Now that (Grobe is) getting back to running the ball, it just puts a lot more responsibility on us, knowing that we’ve got to work harder and focus more, coming out.” Grobe called the rush “a point of emphasis” because better production on the ground might have flipped

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goal range for veteran kicker John Kasay. “The defense was ahead of the offense,” coach John Fox said. “But I think that’s typical every year. But I’m pleased with the effort and pleased we got through healthy.” Although Carolina’s offense was without wide receiver Steve Smith, right tackle Jeff Otah and three of their top four running

backs, the outcome was still a little surprising. Carolina’s passing game had looked sharp throughout camp, moving the ball with regularity against a restructured defense that’s trying to replace six starters from last year’s team. “If you look at training camp, the offense has done a good job of establishing the run against us and pushing us around and being pretty dominant,” said Pro Bowl linebacker Jon Beason. “But now you come out here today and it’s the first live situation where it’s no holding back

and for us to come out here and dominate — well, that’s very encouraging for us.” Things might have been different had Moore completed a long bomb to wide receiver Kenny Moore, but that potential big gainer ended with the ball slipping just out of the receiver’s outstretched arms. “I thought I had it for a second,” Kenny Moore said. Matt Moore, whose only firstdown completions went to Wallace Wright and Dwayne Jarrett, said it’s important not to read too much into one scrimmage.

The Panthers have a bigger test Thursday night when they open the preseason at Baltimore. “There were some little things, but correctable stuff,” Moore said. “I can’t even put my finger on what exactly it was. But we completed some balls and moved the chains a little. But we’ll learn from some things out here. But I’m not disappointed at all.” Offensive tackle Jordan Gross said the first-team offensive line, which is supposed to be one of the strengths of the team, didn’t have a very good day.

“Well, you want to go out and score 12 touchdowns if you’re going to run 12 plays -- and we were a long way from that,” Gross said. “But it’s a little bit of a test where we’re at. We definitely have more work to do. I was happy to see our defense do so well because I know it’s a question a lot of people have.” Gross said it makes no sense to read into Moore’s statistics for a scrimmage. “If he would have thrown 10 touchdowns I wouldn’t be saying that he’s the MVP of this league either,” Gross said. “So it’s OK.

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DEAR ABBY

BRIDGE HAND

Blind woman’s friend turns deaf ear to silence request

HOROSCOPES Universal Press Syndicate

Happy Birthday: You’ve got plenty riding on the decisions you make, so work quickly to define what you want and how you plan to get it. There is money to be made. Don’t let others push you -- take control and to see matters through to the end. Your stamina, insight, good sense and courage will lead to your success. Your numbers are 2, 11, 15, 22, 27, 35, 39 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jump at any opportunity to socialize, network and interact with people who can inspire and encourage you. Love is in the stars. There is plenty to discuss but it will be best to talk less and demonstrate your feelings. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll be prone to taking things the wrong way and overreacting to what’s said and done. Focus more on an activity or hobby that you enjoy and you will bypass the tension and stress of an emotional disagreement or situation. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Strive for perfection, patience and pursuing your dreams, hopes and wishes. Socializing and spending time looking for love or romancing the person you are currently with will pan out well for you. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll be walking on eggshells when dealing with loved ones. It may be time to rethink your plans for the future. Uncertainties revolving around your home, family and status will raise questions that must be addressed. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You need a change of scenery and perhaps some new, exciting friends around you who can spark greater enthusiasm. Throwing a little excitement and adventure into the mix will do you good. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Consider putting an end to someone or something that has been plaguing you for years. It

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will ease your stress and your uncertainties about the financial, personal and legal future. Let go so that you can move forward with peace of mind. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t let your emotions lead you in an irreversible direction. You may not be happy with everyone around you or your situation but making a fuss now will make matters worse. Put your efforts into doing something you enjoy or into selfimprovement. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Separate yourself from the crowds and the adversity that is adding to your confusion. Talk to someone you feel understands your emotional position and can offer you an objective opinion. Don’t let uncertainty reign. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Associate with people you feel can benefit you professionally and mix business with pleasure if it will help you get ahead. Changes at home will be in your best interest and can enable you to improve your status and your professional position. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Stay away from controversial situations. Keep a low profile and follow your own path, regardless of what others want you to do. This is not the time to deal with relationship problems. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): You can make your point heard and get what you want if you go about it the right way. Love is in the stars and a union with someone will not only make you feel good about your future, it will help you financially. There is good fortune heading your way. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t let someone else’s uncertainty drag you down or cause you to change your plans. Follow through with what you want to do. Stand your ground, make up your own mind and move forward, knowing you are doing what’s best for you.

DEAR ABBY: My son and his girlfriend decided to go to an afternoon matinee. Two older women sat down behind them. When the movie started, one of them began a loud, running commentary to the other. After a few minutes, my son and his girlfriend moved to seats four rows farther down, but they could still hear the woman explaining step-by-step what was happening on the screen. He turned around and made a shushing sound, and in a loud voice she responded, “My friend is blind and I’m explaining what’s happening on the screen.” Other people changed seats, too. My son understood how a blind person might want to enjoy hearing a movie, but her companion should have told her this was a public place and she would have to wait until they go home to have it explained in full, or wait for the DVD to come out so they could talk at home while it was on. Abby, wasn’t it rude to destroy everyone else’s enjoyment of the film? — SUZANNE IN LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIF. DEAR SUZANNE: Yes. Your son should have taken the problem to the theater usher or manager. Many theaters are equipped with special descriptive audio for blind patrons. If that accommodation was not available, the blind person and her companion should have sat toward the front of the theater or in an area that was less crowded

One way to overcome fear is to confront it in stages. In other words, start by singing for a few friends. If there’s a choir at your church, ask if you can audition for it. When school starts, ask the choral director if you can audition privately if you’re still afraid. If the answer is no, then your elective will have to be art. And by the way, you may be pleasantly surprised to discover that “talent” in art is the result of hard work, dedication and practice.

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

so they didn’t distract other audience members. Also, movies with descriptive audio can be obtained at the local library. o DEAR ABBY: I have to choose between chorus and art for an elective for high school in the fall. I have been told I have an excellent voice, but I’m scared to death about auditioning for chorus. I have little artistic ability — just enough to get me through life. I don’t know what to do. I want to be in chorus, but as I said, I am terrified of having to try out. Please give me some advice. — ANGEL GIRL IN CHARLOTTE, N.C. DEAR ANGEL GIRL: You have to decide whether to take advantage of the fact that you have “an excellent voice” or spend the rest of your life singing by yourself in the shower.

o DEAR ABBY: I have been experiencing something similar to your “pennies from heaven” letters. My husband, a master carpenter for 40 years, passed away 10 months ago. We had several projects started -— a shop, a greenhouse and a room addition. We were also starting up a small sawmill business. I have been trying to get things finished, and whenever I think I am not going to be able to make it, I find a nail where a nail shouldn’t be. It was always a joke between us that he spread nails like Johnny Appleseed spread seed. I believe he is watching out for me and leaves them to let me know I will be OK. — JO ANN FROM FORKS, WASH. DEAR JO ANN: I think you’ve “nailed” it. And because they bring you comfort, collect them and — perhaps — find a creative way to display them.

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Oregon girl not bitter after lemonade stir

Store manager throws hot coffee in intruder’s face

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After a county inspector squeezed out a kid’s lemonade business, so many Oregonians puckered up in disgust that the county chairman had to pour on a little sugar. The apology sweetened up some sour feelings and made 7-year-old Julie Murphy eligible to resume selling her Kool-Aid and water concoction for 50 cents a cup. Last week at a local arts fair, Julie and her mother were surprised when a county inspector asked to see their restaurant license. They didn’t have one. The inspector told them they would face a fine of up to $500 if they didn’t stop selling lemonade. Other vendors urged Julie and her mother not to leave. A second inspector arrived and the two inspectors were surrounded by a crowd of vendors supporting Julie and her mother. Ultimately, Julie and her mother packed up the stand, and as Julie left the fair she was crying. But Julie has prevailed. Jeff Cogen, chairman of Multnomah County, says the health inspectors were “just following the rule book” but they should have given the girl and her mom a break. On Thursday, he talked with Julie’s mom to apologize. “A lemonade stand is a classic, iconic American kid thing to do,” Cogen told The Oregonian. “I don’t want to be in the business of shutting that down.” And how does Julie feel about this? Her mother, Maria Fife, said she and her daughter appreciates the apology. But the sweet and sour tale of lemonade stands at the Portland art fair might not yet be over.

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) — An attempted burglary at a California supply store was thwarted when the manager threw hot coffee in the face of a masked intruder. Chris Hegnes, manager of the Englund Marine and Industrial Supply, was going into work early Monday morning when he encountered a man in a mask charging at him with a hammer. Hegnes says he hurled his hot mocha at the man’s face and ran for it. The man came after him for a few steps, then ran to a vehicle parked behind the store. Hegnes says the man apparently had been trying to break into a safe using the store’s hardware tools. The man didn’t get away with much, but damaged some tools. The sheriff’s office is investigating.

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Summer brings glut of unwanted, discarded rabbits Domestic rabbits who make it to shelters and to people like Charland are the lucky ones, said Betsy Saul, co-founder of Petfinder.com, an online pet adoption database. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People take rabbits out and figure they will survive on their own,â&#x20AC;? and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually a deadly decision for the animals, Saul said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rabbits can die of heart attacks from the very approach of a predator,â&#x20AC;? said Mary E. Cotter in New York. She is with the House Rabbit Society, an international nonprofit organization that rescues rabbits from animal shelters. The Associated Press, the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Pet Products Association estimate rabbits are the pets of choice in about 2 percent of American households â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the same as horses. But in shelters, the animals come in third behind dogs and cats, said Ana Bustilloz, a spokeswoman for

By SUE MANNING Associated Press Writer

MONTCLAIR, Calif. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Easter bunnies grow up and the novelty wears off. Come summer, people often just dump the bunnies. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the number of rabbits in animal shelters across the country swells every summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in crisisâ&#x20AC;? said Caroline Charland, founder of The Bunny Bunch, which has 350 rabbits who need homes. Two hundred of the rabbits are in foster care and 150 are at The Burrow, the adoption center her 20-year-old rescue operates in Montclair, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Charland tries to keep the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rabbit count around 300, but that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always possible, especially in the summer. Kill shelters throughout Southern California will call her and say: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are euthanizing today. Can you take any rabbits?â&#x20AC;?

spcaLA in Los Angeles. At the Pasadena Humane Society, there are about 15 rabbits now and normally they would have fewer than 10, spokeswoman Hillary Gatlin said. As a rule, it costs $30 to adopt a spayed or neutered and microchipped rabbit from Pasadena, but while there are so many, the shelter is running a 2-for-1 special. You get two rabbits, both fixed and microchipped, for $30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a steal,â&#x20AC;? Gatlin said. Rabbits make good pets because they can easily be trained to use a litter box, come when you call them and will play tag, Cotter said. They are inquisitive, intelligent, sociable and affectionate. But, she warned, rabbits arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for everyone. They live seven to 10 or more years, generally they are not good around small children, they must live indoors and require daily feeding, grooming, exercise, together time and

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Caroline Charland, founder of The Bunny Bunch, feeds rabbits at The Burrow in Montclair, Calif. The number of rabbits in shelters across the country goes up every summer because Easter bunnies grow up and the novelty wears off. Or people want to go on vacation and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be bothered with rabbits. cleanup. Rabbits have long been used in research. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Think about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary from a research animal. They are loving, kind, trusting, incredibly domesticatable, trainable. The very things that damn them to be such good subjects make them great pets,â&#x20AC;? Saul said in a

telephone interview. The ASPCA estimates it costs $730 a year to care for a rabbit. The first year, it will be about $1,055 because of $325 in capital costs (cage, litter box, spay and neutering). A new owner will have to do some rabbit-proofing in areas where the animals will roam, Saul

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‘EAT, PRAY, LOVE’

Furniture, jewelry, tea: ’EPL’ merch is boundless By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — Eat, pray, love, shop? There are plenty of opportunities to plumb the depths of your pocketbook, if not your soul, when the anticipated adaptation of the best-selling memoir hits theaters this month. It used to be that kids’ movies were the ones that got the big product tie-in treatment. There would be matching toys and maybe T-shirts, plus the inevitable Happy Meal or other fast-food connection. Soon, though, stores will be flooded with all things “Eat, Pray, Love.” Look for candles and moisturizing creams; jewelry, book marks and tote bags; a dedicated shop at Cost Plus World Markets featuring furniture, food and clothing inspired by the film; a branded digital reader pre-loaded with the book; a Republic of Tea blend; a line of designer clothing by Sue Wong; and a weekend special on HSN filled with products pegged to the movie, including prayer beads, scarves and hundreds of other items from the countries the story’s main

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Julia Roberts in a scene from “Eat, Pray, Love.” Everything from candles to jewelry to bage have hit the shelves in support of the movie. character visits during her ing during her journey, “It doesn’t have to be a quest for self. though not much shopMarvel or Disney film to “Eat, Pray, Love” folping. have different products,” lows author Elizabeth The book has sold milhe says. “The entire point Gilbert, a 30-something lions of copies and been of these tie-ins is for brand magazine writer trying translated into dozens of awareness or to sell more to escape an unsatisfying languages. The film, which product,” and that applies marriage and rediscover opens Aug. 13, is directed both to the partnering an excitement for life. She by “Glee’s” Ryan Murphy brands and the film itself. embarks on a yearlong and stars Julia Roberts, Another bonus is that trip around the world to Javier Bardem, James each licensed product find herself, indulging in Franco, Richard Jenkins helps advertise the movie, food and pleasure in Italy, and Billy Crudup. potentially offsetting the experiencing prayer and Adapting such a popustudio’s promotional costs. devotion in India and lar book — especially with Plus, big-budget, highly aiming to balance the two women — into a star-stud- anticipated films such as in Bali. She does a lot of ded film makes it the ideal “EPL” often come out dureating and a lot of praymarketing opportunity ing key shopping seasons, for dozens of products, like Christmas and back to says Ryan Schinman, school. chief of Platinum Rye, an That’s why such studioentertainment marketbrand partnerships are on ing company not working the rise. with “Eat, Pray, Love.” “Twilight” boasts “Eat, Pray, Love” is scores of associated items, a brand, he notes, so including a cookbook, perAccepting New Patients products that partner fume, underwear, shower Dentistry for Infants, Children, Adolescents and Patients with Special Needs. with the fi lm become curtains, bedding, purses, Antonio S. Braithwaite DDS, MPH, PA associated with a beloved jewelry, clothing, a Burger Certiﬁed, American Board of Pediatric Dentistry book as well as the movie King connection and refill919-718-5561 136 Carbonton Road, Sanford, NC 27330 stars who tell the story on able aluminum bottles We are located across the street from The Fairview Dairy Bar and Flame Steakhouse screen. touting Team Edward or Hablamos Espanol

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Team Jacob. “Sex and the City 2” had its own branded vodka and jewelry. MAC cosmetics joined forces with Disney, not on a particular film, but to create distinct makeup collections linked with some of the studio’s most popular villains. Such partnerships work when the products and brands signing on as licensees have a natural connection to the movie or characters in question. Candles, journals and prayer beads make sense for “Eat, Pray, Love,” Schinman says, noting “there’s no ’Eat, Pray, Love’ phone or calculator.” Matching Skyy vodka with “Sex and the City” was an easy fit, and the company is “constantly looking at films that are an organic fit for the brand,” says spokesman Dave Karraker. “You wouldn’t see Skyy vodka in a historical, medieval movie,” he says. Instead, the company paired its product with a well-loved franchise that featured cocktails constantly, and brought associated promotions to thousands of bars and restaurants around the country and the world. “Movies are great (promotional vehicles) because they have a very broad reach, and they also play internationally,” Karraker says, adding that the “Sex and the City” partnership was “the largest global promotion” Skyy’s parent company, Gruppo Campari, has ever done. Creating a collection of “Eat, Pray, Love” jewelry, tote bags and bookmarks

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Politics Breitbart: Enemy of the left with a laptop 10B / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / The Sanford Herald

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer

LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Andrew Breitbart strips off his blazer, windmills it over his head and lets it fly to the stage with a matadorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flourish. He booms into a microphone, sneering, taunting. Breath sprints to keep up with words. A Breitbart boil is under way, before a cheering throng of tea partiers on a moonlike strip of Nevada desert back in March. A finger stabs overhead as the conservative online publisher declares Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., a racist. An arm lances outward as he decries Republican leaders as apologists. Voice rising, Breitbart pledges $10,000, then $20,000, then $100,000 for the United Negro College Fund if proof is found to corroborate claims of racial namecalling during tea party protests on Capitol Hill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They decided to play lowball, hardball tactics,â&#x20AC;? Breitbart seethes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to play it right back at them.â&#x20AC;? You could argue he has done just that. Two weeks ago, Breitbart posted an edited video that left the impression that Shirley Sherrod, then a little-known black federal employee, was racist. Within days she was out of a job, the doctored tape proved wildly misleading and President Barack Obama was on the phone with her trying to make things right. Sherrod says she plans to file a lawsuit against Breitbart, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being blamed for committing the same online sins that he says are endemic in the U.S. media: political bias and lack of fairness. But despite calls, even from some conservatives, for Breitbart to apologize to Sherrod, he has done nothing of the sort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What would warrant an apology?â&#x20AC;? he told CNN. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not the one that threw her under the bus.â&#x20AC;? Love or hate him, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t avoid Breitbart on cable TV these days. But who is this 41-year-old father of four from Los Angeles, who has emerged as one of the most incendiary figures from the Beltway to Hollywood, a minor-league Limbaugh who mixes shock-jock calculation, conservative credo and answer-to-no-one swagger? Who is this icon of the smash-mouth politics that divide America? Breitbart vaguely resembles a younger version of the actor Carroll Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, with gray hair and pale blue eyes. He has the kind of build that suggests heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not averse to polishing off his kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; leftovers.

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Love or hate him, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t avoid conservative online publisher Andrew Breitbart on cable TV these days. The 41-year-old father of four from Los Angeles has emerged as one of the most incendiary figures from the Beltway to Hollywood, a minor-league Limbaugh who mixes shock-jock calculation, conservative credo and answer-to-no-one swagger. He is the face of the new conservative outrage, exemplar of the smashmouth politics that divide America. In the quiet of his Los Angeles living room, where the California sunshine floods through skylights and toys occupy corners, Breitbart is practiced and polite. Dressed in a blue blazer, jeans and buttondown shirt, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing like the combative partisan seen hissy-fitting on YouTube clips. Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; artwork is taped to the walls, and he chats amiably with his wife about dinner and a visit from his in-laws. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a largescreen TV and pool table, and a book on see-through houses rests nearby. Breitbart talks about his views with the zeal of the convert that he is. A personality ago, he was a cookie-cutter Hollywood liberal. But his passion for his brand of conservative politics is shot through with the keen business sense of an up-and-coming media mogul: He knows that what he says sells. As with the Sherrod video, he is skilled at finding issues that push conservative buttons while at the same time pulling Internet traffic to his websites, driving up advertising rates. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a man with an agenda, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as much business as politics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m committed to the destruction of the old media guard,â&#x20AC;? Breitbart has said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very good business model.â&#x20AC;? He did not speak with Sherrod before the clipped video went up, and he says he was unaware of the complete speech at the time. By his account, he posted the clip to expose racism within the NAACP, which last month passed a resolution condemning what it said were racist elements within the tea party. He wrote that the 1986 video shows â&#x20AC;&#x153;nodding approvalâ&#x20AC;? in the crowd to Sherrodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarks, which

he sees as evidence of bigotry. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the first time heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been involved in a controversy over edited tapes. Last year, one of Breitbartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s websites debuted the hidden-camera sting videos made by James Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefe III and Hannah Giles that brought down the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. Giles posed as a prostitute, and the videos show ACORN staffers offering advice on taxes and other issues. Critics said the heavily edited tapes shaped a deceptive narrative, a charge Breitbart denies. He relishes his public role as provocateur. He told reporters from the stage of a tea party convention in February, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not your business model that sucks, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s you that sucks.â&#x20AC;? And this on Sen. Edward Kennedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say something nice about a person, then say mean things about them instead,â&#x20AC;? Breitbart wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially if they are unapologetic manslaughterers.â&#x20AC;? Breitbartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home turf is a colony of conservative websites anchored to news aggregator Breitbart. com, which gets more than 2 million visitors each month. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a regular on Fox News, and has a book on the way. News cycle by news cycle, fact by fact, Breitbart uses his websites and public appearances to challenge what he perceives as liberal bias in the media, academia and Hollywood, the broad forces that shape American lives. His loudmouthed style is a radical departure from conservative voices of the past, like William F. Buckley Jr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do what I do because the mainstream media chooses not to do it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The game of the left

controlling the narrative ... is ending.â&#x20AC;? And yet a centerpiece of the Breitbart operation is, in effect, a handshake with the devil, as he sees it: the mainstream media. His most popular site, Breitbart. com, showcases content he buys from The Associated Press and other mainstream news organizations. It was launched under the motto: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just the news.â&#x20AC;? Breitbart TV, another grab-bag, rounds up video clips. From there itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hard right turn, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear after a few clicks Breitbart isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t promoting an impartial media. A quartet of sister sites offer conservative analysis, commentary and blog posts that pass judgment on news stories or delve into other topics of the day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a sort of online bulletin board for conservatives. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Journalism, Big Hollywood, Big Peace and Big Government. (He uses the modifier â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bigâ&#x20AC;? to mock the media slang Big Tobacco and Big Oil). Some past headlines, â&#x20AC;&#x153;NY Times admires Taliban,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who really needs a journalism degree?â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Left Admits Racism Charges Against Tea Parties a Tactic, Not a Truth.â&#x20AC;? Not surprisingly, the left sees Breitbart as another entertainer-pundit on the fringes of journalism, where facts are disposable and attitude trumps intellect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I call it thuggery in the national discourse,â&#x20AC;? says Democratic strategist Karen Finney, a Clinton White House veteran â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s damaging to our country.â&#x20AC;? But his take-no-prisoners approach goes down well with conservatives who feel their political leaders have been too hesitant, too timid. Breitbart â&#x20AC;&#x153;intends to offend the

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other side,â&#x20AC;? says Republican strategist Jonathan Wilcox, who teaches a course on politics and celebrity at the University of Southern California. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;an oppositional figure at an oppositional time.â&#x20AC;? Breitbartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personality is reminiscent of the manic, stop-and-go driving in his hometown of Los Angeles, and right now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at stop. When asked what he does other than pounding a laptop or hanging out with tea partiers, he has to pause. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a devoted Los Angeles Dodgers fan, and has traveled the country to cheer on his favorite team. He spends a lot of time with his in-laws at their home in Venice, near the beach, and a getaway usually means a meal with the kids at California Pizza Kitchen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have four kids ... unless you have the television on itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pure mayhem,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just pure chaos.â&#x20AC;? Larry Solov, his business partner and lifelong friend, says the blogger has two speeds: lighthearted jokester and fiery culture warrior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They flip back and forth,â&#x20AC;? Solov quips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And there is not that much in between.â&#x20AC;? Breitbart is part of a small cluster of Hollywood conservatives that includes comedian Dennis Miller and Joel Surnow. While he told tea partiers in Nevada that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not rich, he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live like Joe the Plumber either â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Range Rover is parked in his driveway, and the neatly-tended homes in his hillside neighborhood go for more than $1 million. When Breitbart tells his story, it can feel rehearsed, a tale told many times. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick to needle the teenager and young man he once was, talking about his journey from college party boy and lapsed music critic to 21st century Internet mogul, as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been called by talk-radio host Laura Ingraham. He grew up in an affluent bubble in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles (home to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Harrison Ford), not far from where he lives today with his children and wife Susie, the daughter of actor Orson Bean. The son of a restaurateur, he attended private school and emerged liberal. Politics was just a word. That began to change at Tulane University in New Orleans, where Breitbart partied and mustered average grades but was exposed to a grittier version of America. In a city long troubled by crime and poverty, he started thinking about social problems and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Great Society trash

can,â&#x20AC;? a reference to welfare programs in the 1960s. A defining moment came as he watched the 1991 Senate hearings on Clarence Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nomination to the Supreme Court. Breitbart grew indignant as Democratic senators grilled the nominee, in his view unfairly; he believed the allegations of inappropriate behavior leveled at Thomas paled in comparison to Kennedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chappaquiddick scandal. Breitbart considered the media, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Organization for Women complicit in what he saw. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went in expecting to root against Clarence Thomas and I came out doubting the Democratic Party and liberalism,â&#x20AC;? he says. He eventually changed his party registration to Republican and never looked back. He wrote recently on an Atlantic magazine website that there was a time when he read the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, British music magazines and what he called his Bible, satirical Spy magazine, but those habits died with the Internet. Now, his reading tastes lean right. All that would be just personal footnote if he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t met Web pioneer Matt Drudge of Drudge Report repute in the mid1990s. Breitbart became his long-serving underling. He was also there during the formative days of the Huffington Post. In interviews, Breitbart usually refuses to talk about Drudge, who is known for fiercely guarding his privacy (and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t respond to AP requests for an interview), but he does say this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I owe him everything.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If he had been left of center, he would have been on the cover of Rolling Stone and Wired and Vanity Fair a million times,â&#x20AC;? Breitbart says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My greatest takeaway from Matt Drudge ... was his sense of individualism, to follow your path. And so, Drudge is Drudge and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m me.â&#x20AC;? Breitbartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk of new media revolution is as much throwback as innovation. The confrontational right-left voices in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national dialogue recall newspapers of the 18th and 19th centuries, which had little use for milquetoast neutrality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have a more open, competitive landscape, you need to do something to differentiate yourself. One way is to have a point of view,â&#x20AC;? says Rich Gordon, director of digital innovation at Northwestern Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medill School of Journalism.

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Business On the Street

Home Grown

Home Matters

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Shops mystery solved

Has the heat got you?

ike many of you who have called or emailed me recently, I have been perplexed about exactly what will take up the new portion of the Shops of Sanford, currently under construction at the end next to King’s China Buffet. At each stage of the construction, I’ve been trying to figure it out. First I thought it may be something like a Bed, Bath and Beyond. Then, when the openings were lined out I though it could be something like a Best Buy or a Barnes & Noble. But when the front was clearly outlined this week, I thought I had it figured out — I knew it had to be an Old Navy. I was wrong, but I wasn’t too far off. I got definitive answer this week that Burke’s Outlet, a clothing chain based in Florida, would set up shop in the shopping center’s second “anchor” location. I don’t know much about Burke’s Outlet, though. According to the company’s website, it sells brand name clothing at a discount — I’m thinking something similar to a T.J. Maxx or Stein Mart. I could be wrong though. The website also stated, “Burke’s Outlets are now found in 11 states from California to N.C., with over 500 stores now open or under development.” I couldn’t get a clear explanation of the stores or a opening date for the Sanford location from the company’s receptionist on Friday, and its media representative did not return my call. As always, when I get answers I’ll let you know. But at least now the mystery of the big box is solved.

More on Chick-Fil-A coming After last week’s column note on the possibility of a Chick-Fil-A opening in Sanford, I got an e-mail from a very reliable source who claimed to be “in the know” that the company would be opening the new store here by mid-2011, though said person didn’t want to be named. Take that for what you will, I guess. I’m still holding out lots of hope. As an aside, did you know that the first 100 customers at a new Chick-Fil-A get an original chicken sandwich combo each week for an entire year? And rumor has it that one of those first 100 customers gets Chick-FilA for life! Can you imagine? That’d be better than winning the lottery!

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Kate Brun, right, owner of Lucky Leaf Gardens offers a popcorn shoot to a customer at the Harrisburg Farmer’s Market in Harrisburg. Brun cultivates tiny greens — all manner of vegetables and herbs at their first stage of growth, shortly after they sprout from their tiny seeds in a greenhouse at her Harrisburg home and personally delivers them to area restaurants on the day they are picked.

For some in North Carolina, goodness grows in the backyard By JEN ARONOFF The Charlotte Observer

CHARLOTTE (AP) — In shallow trays of organic soil at her greenhouse in Harrisburg, onetime real estate agent Kate Brun is cultivating a business: growing and selling microgreens, tiny herbs and vegetables harvested when their first leaves appear. Not even a year old, her company is already taking root - part of a wave of the homemade and home-grown springing up in Charlotte and across the country. Two factors have combined to propel the trend, experts say: the increasingly popular local-food movement, and a recession that’s prompted people to consider different ways to earn a living. “We really are going to need more producers who are willing to grow for this kind of market,” says Nancy Creamer, director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at N.C. State University. “There’s sometimes a learning curve and some barriers, but I think there’s a lot of interest and a lot of opportunity.” That’s how Brun, a 35-yearold mother of two, sees it. “It’s finding something, having faith in what you’ve got and having the courage to go do it. I never

enjoyed going to work until now.” The overall number of farms in North Carolina declined 2 percent in the most recent U.S. Census of Agriculture - to 52,913 in 2007, compared with the previous count in 2002. But the number of small producers, on plots up to 9 acres, jumped 25 percent, to about 5,000. The pattern has continued since then, observers say. Area farmers markets and agricultural extension offices report a boom in inquiries about growing and selling local produce, as well as new producers entering the arena. There’s a 78-person waiting list for spots at the certified organic incubator farm in Cabarrus County, which began in 2008, county extension director Debbie Bost says. The innovative project now has 16 farmers working up to a third of an acre apiece, learning about sustainable-food practices and gaining experience so they can one day farm land of their own. The participants are ages 18 to 59, with a range of education levels. Some are there full-time; others work elsewhere, too, including at Wells Fargo, US Airways and Carolinas Medical Center, Bost says. Brun had always enjoyed

gardening and began growing microgreens for her family last summer. By that point, the economy had taken a toll on both her husband’s construction management and contracting company and on her part-time work as a real estate agent, so she mulled whether there was a way to make money from something she loved. Inspired by a friend in California who had done the same, she decided she could sell what she grew. Her husband, Marc, installed plumbing in the greenhouse at the back of their home, Brun set up shelves for her trays of soil, and she began experimenting with the plants, trying different seeds and learning about how they grew. This spring, she launched her company, Lucky Leaf Gardens - the moniker inspired by her maiden name, Lachance, French for “luck.” She checked with the N.C. Department of Agriculture about reselling and food safety requirements, and headed to a restaurant supply store to buy packaging and labels. To come up with a logo and website, she hired professional designers, because she wanted her brand

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t’s pretty hot right now in central N.C. Almost always is this time of year. If you buy a new home and it’s Energy Star certified, you can be pretty sure that your home is energy efficient and will be comfortable to live in. Most of us do not live in a new home. So it begs the question, how do we make our homes more energy efficient and more comfortable? There are tax credits available for new energy efficient equipment on existing homes. Are they worthwhile??? What is the best way to get the most for the money we spend on energy improvements to our homes? Buying equipment alone is an interesting proposition. I know people who play golf regularly. They like buying a new set of clubs every year or two, or a new $500 driver, or the latest $200 putter. This is done with the hope of playing better golf. Yet these same folks never take a lesson from a professional and never hit balls on the practice tee or putting range. In other words, they never put the time and effort in to have a better golf game. They simply want to have a better score with no extra effort. Generally the results do not meet expectations. So, if you think that a new heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) unit will fix your energy woes, it may. A new compressor and air handler won’t help much if, for instance, your ductwork is designed poorly, or if there are holes in the duct line or insulation, or the air returns or duct boots into the house are not sealed well and are leaky. Go under your house and check it out. If you can feel air or hear

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CHAMBER CHAT

N.C. ranks fourth in business poll

Bob Joyce Bob Joyce is President of the Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce.

s I mentioned last week, CNBC recently release a study of the top states for business. North Carolina ranked fourth. When I read any list of rankings, I immediately want to know how the data was compiled. For example, in a recent report on education, Iowa led the nation in average SAT scores. In 2009, their students averaged 1813 on the three portions of the SAT — reading, math and writing. North Carolina students scored an average of 1487. The US average is 1509. Here’s the thing: only 3

percent of students in Iowa take the SAT. And only 46 percent of students nationwide take the test. In N.C., 63 percent of all students take the SAT. So, when I received the CNBC press release about N.C.’s fourth place finish, I wanted to know how they compiled their rankings.

According to the researchers at CNBC, they scored all 50 states using publicly available data, on 40 different measures of competitiveness. Each state received points based on their rankings in each metric. The metrics were separated into the ten broad categories, with input from business consultants and groups including the National Association of Manufacturers. Here are the ten categories: Cost of Doing Business, Workforce, Quality of Life,

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Pittsboro coffee and motorcycles

end of the month, and will sell coffee drinks, smoothies, chocolates, shakes and pastries.

Dancing the night away

enjoy seeing me â&#x20AC;&#x153;danceâ&#x20AC;? poorly. The event is Communities in Schools of Lee Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main fundraiser for the year. Tickets and sponsorships are still available, so contact me at (919) 718-1225 or visit www.dancingwiththeleecountystars. com for more information on how you can come see me and others make complete fools of ourselves. And make sure your donations count as votes for Kelly and I!

Here are a couple of tidbits from our neighbors to the north. Pittsboro will welcome at least two new businesses this month. JD PowerSports, a new motorcycle dealership, celebrated its grand opening on Saturday and is now open at 1202 E. 11th St. Red Star Coffee opens in downtown at 53 Hillsboro St, the former home of Fusions Art and Fine Craft Gallery, at the

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m about to do something awful this week. On Friday, my partner, Kelly Buie-Godfrey, and I will compete in the Second Annual Dancing with the Lee County Stars event at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center against nine other â&#x20AC;&#x153;couplesâ&#x20AC;? for bragging rights and a trophy. I gotta say, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing pretty well. Well, Kelly is doing well. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just OK. Hopefully she can carry me, although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking maybe the crowd will

Finally, I was heartbroken to hear of Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce Board

Goodness

with knowledge and topnotch products. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So many people think you can just throw seed in (the soil), work it any old time,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the case.â&#x20AC;? Brun ate her microgreens at home and liked their burst of vitamins, nutrients and flavor that foreshadow what the leaves will become - radishes, cauliflower, broccoli or arugula, to name just a few. But she sought a chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinion before venturing out. When a Concord chef provided positive feedback, it helped convince Brun that she had something restaurateurs wanted. Now, she provides microgreens to about 10 area restaurants, which use them to garnish and enhance meats and appetizers. She also sells them at the Harrisburg Farmers Market on Monday afternoons. She makes sales and delivery trips several times a week, dropping off orders and visiting other nearby restaurants to make her pitch. On a recent, sticky afternoon, she hopped out of her white Ford Escape to drop off greens at one of her earliest customers, Bistro La Bon in PlazaMidwood. She toted a rolling, soft-sided cooler behind her like luggage. Inside, she handed chef James Swofford four plastic containers, containing sunflower sprouts, mustard mix and sweet pea tendrils. After inspect-

ing the goods, he took a couple of her cards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You should be getting some calls.â&#x20AC;? At Dandelion Market on West Fifth Street, Brun met with executive chef Katie Formuzis, presenting her with little sample cups of greens to try. Her pitch: Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re local, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fresh - delivered on the day the greens are harvested, and new customers get 20 percent off the first month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mmm, they look beautiful,â&#x20AC;? Formuzis said, picking up pea tendrils to smell and taste. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It reminds me of eating it just off the pod.â&#x20AC;? Brun promised to follow up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is wonderful,â&#x20AC;? Formuzis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll definitely be using you for a lot of things. We like it to be a little unique.â&#x20AC;? Not every restaurant signs on, but a chef has never turned down at least a meeting, Brun says. She expects thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because her product fills a distinctive niche. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crucial for a new business trying to carve out a spot in the marketplace. It also makes it easier to land a spot at a farmers market - as opposed to, say, selling corn and tomatoes, says Lynn Caldwell, manager of Atherton Market in South End. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Figure out what the trends are,â&#x20AC;? she advises. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like, instead of cupcakes, do gluten-free cookies.â&#x20AC;? It can be difficult for

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to be viewed as legitimate from the start. Initial startup took about $2,000, helped by the fact that she already had the greenhouse. But additional costs keep cropping up, she says. She needs a larger refrigerator in her greenhouse, and it will also cost money to expand her greenhouse space eventually. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is very businessoriented for me,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just a hobby, digging in the dirt.â&#x20AC;? Marketing and branding are key for the new agri-preneurs, though they can be unfamiliar territory for traditional farmers used to focusing on production, says Carl Pless Jr., a Cabarrus agricultural extension agent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of stuff involved in that,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most are finding they spend as much time marketing as they did growing it in the first place.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to be a jack of all trades,â&#x20AC;? N.C. Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creamer notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only do you have to be a farmer, you need to be a marketer, a people person, web savvy.â&#x20AC;? But, she says, that diversity and challenge is also part of why farming appeals to people. At the same time, Pless says, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to back up the marketing

Jerry Pedley

Chairman Jerry Pedleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accident this week. Without going into too much detail, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just say Pedley was seriously injured in a bad fall and remains in the hospital. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never met the Jerry and his wife, Donna, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sure missing out. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate to say they are among the finest people Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met in Sanford, and Jerry has helped me out on numerous occasions with stories, even when he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do it. Like so many people in the community, I hope he can make a full recovery soon and get back to work. Sanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business scene just isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the same without him. nascent farmers to find the labor and infrastructure required to reach beyond farmers markets to larger institutions, says Christy Shi, co-founder of Know Your Foods, a Davidson-based group dedicated to rebuilding the local food system. More entrepreneurs will be needed to serve as middlemen between farmers and customers, processing and distributing local food, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got the energy and the enthusiasm, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not sustainable if the infrastructure in the middle is not present...(a farmers market) canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the only way people get access to local food.â&#x20AC;? Another issue, she says, is that new producers are not necessarily entering the market fast enough to make up for older farmers leaving the field; the average age of an N.C. farmer is 57. Even though her business still has plenty of room to grow, Brun is already encountering some of those challenges. To head out on her recent delivery run, she had to hire a babysitter; if she had more time, she says, she could do more with Lucky Leaf, but she has to balance it with family life. The business doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide enough money to live on, she says, but it is profitable and has added some cushion to the family budget.

TOD Agreement Can Reduce Hassles for Heirs Among the reasons you work hard all your life may be so you can leave something to your children, grandchildren or other family members. So, naturally, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to make it as easy as possible for your heirs to take possession of those assets you want them to have. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why you may want to consider establishing a Transfer on Death (TOD) agreement on certain accounts. Once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve established a TOD agreement for your account, ownership of the assets held in that account pass directly to the designated beneďŹ ciaries, bypassing probate. Why is this important? Because probate has three major drawbacks: s )T S TIME CONSUMING If your estate has to go through the probate process, it could easily take a year or more for your assets to be distributed to your heirs. s )T S EXPENSIVE Attorney and court fees could devour up to 5% of your estateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which means fewer assets going to your loved ones. s )T S PUBLIC The probate process is open to everyone. This means anyone can obtain a copy of your will, the names and contact information for your heirs, the inventory of assets and other documents ďŹ led as part of the probate proceeding.

As you can see, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some good reasons to avoid probate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a TOD agreement can help. Of course, a TOD agreement canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet all your estate-planning needs. While it may be particularly useful in helping you bequeath speciďŹ c ďŹ nancial assets, such as stocks, bonds and other assets held in your brokerage accounts, it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help you deal with estate taxes or address other complex estate-planning issues. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why you also may want to consider creating other estate-planning tools, such as a revocable living trust. Similar to a TOD agreement, a revocable living trust allows you to leave assets to your heirs without going through probate. Furthermore, when you set up a revocable living trust, you can control your assets during your lifetime and determine how they will eventually be distributed to your heirs. You could, for example, have money distributed to your children or grandchildren in installments, over a period of years. Many people like having this ability, especially if they are unsure of the

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money management skills or maturity level of their heirs. Plus, a properly established revocable living trust will carry out your wishes if you become incapacitated. Be sure to consult with your legal advisor to see if a revocable living trust is appropriate for you. While a TOD agreement canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take the place of all estate-planning tools, it can complement them. And a TOD agreement offers another feature that can prove valuable: ďŹ&#x201A;exibility. SpeciďŹ cally, you can revoke or modify your TOD agreement at any time in response to changes in your life or family circumstances. To determine if a TOD agreement is appropriate for your needs, contact your tax advisor or legal professional. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken you many years to accumulate your assets, so take some time to help ensure they end up where you want them to go.

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air coming out into your crawl space, or if the air in your crawl space is as cool as your home, there are probably some things you need to consider first before a new HVAC system. Or, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve decided to get a new system, the insulation and air tightness of the system needs to be dealt with at the same time. The most efficient equipment made is severely compromised if it is installed poorly. Standard equipment well installed will work better and save you money in the short and long run. Check your floor and attic insulation. Do you have any? Sometimes it can fall in a crawl space, or be pulled down by a person working down there on your plumbing, electrical, computer wiring, or TV/Internet/ phone services. Sometimes the bracing used to hold floor insulation in place (Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always heard it called tiger teeth, though I have no idea why) is compressing the insulation so much as to render it ineffective. In your attic, the blown fiberglass insulation should be at least 11â&#x20AC;? deep to meet R-30 guidelines. Are the areas around your windows caulked well? Replacing windows doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do you much good if the window

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Economy, Transportation and Infrastructure, Technology & Innovation, Education, Business Friendliness, Access to Capital and Cost of Living. (These are listed in order of importance to the professional site selection consultants â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would you agree or disagree with their order?) My conclusion is the data appears well thought out and fair. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at the categories and rankings: (being number one is best; 50th is dead last)

COST OF DOING BUSINESS This category includes the overall tax burden; individual, property and corporate business taxes as well as gasoline taxes. Also included were utility costs, wages, workers compensation insurance as well as lease rates for office and industrial space. NC ranked 15th, Iowa was number one. Our neighbors, South Carolina and Virginia ranked 6th and 26th respectively. Interestingly, Caterpillar recently located two plants in NC, choosing us twice over SC which has a better ranking in this category. WORKFORCE This category rates the quality and availability of workers and their education levels, as well as government-sponsored programs to train them and the success rate of those programs. Union membership is also considered. We ranked third. Florida was number one. Virginia was 9th. SC was 5th. QUALITY OF LIFE As we often say at the Chamber, the best places to do business are also the best places to live. Several factors were used to score this category: local attractions, crime rate, health care, air and water quality, as well as overall perceived livability. NC ranked 32nd. Hawaii was number one. SC was 45th. Virginia was 18th. Last on the list was Louisiana â&#x20AC;&#x201C; perhaps an unfair ranking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; although the ranking was completed

frames themselves are not airtight and sealed well. Many replacement windows leave the existing frame in place, so if the installer doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seal the perimeter of the old window properly with foam and caulk prior to installing a new window, the window may look nice, but the window system may be as big an air infiltration problem as before. After all, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to spend money unless you fix the problem, right? Just as no golf club alone can make you a scratch golfer, no piece of equipment can make your house more efficient. Both take work. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why an honest, competent installer is as important as the equipment you buy. Adding a little of your own elbow grease installing caulking and weather stripping doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt either. And remember, things you do to improve the efficiency of your equipment or home for summer cooling also will help with winter heating. For over 40 years the staff at The Groce Companies has helped consumers in central North Carolina design, build and secure financing to build or buy their homes. If you need assistance, please call (919) 775-1497 and visit our web site, www.grocecompanies.com for more information.

before the oil spill. Number forty nine was Tennessee.

ECONOMY Common sense tells us that a solid economy is good for business. But so is a diverse economy, with access to the various major corporations. Several basic indicators of economic health and growth were scored and credit was given to states based on the number of major corporations located there. We ranked 37th, which was our lowest rank in any category. The number one state in the economy category was Texas. Virginia was 11th. South Carolina was 45th. Last place was a tie between Rhode Island and Nevada.

TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE In this category, access to all types of transportation was considered. Business must get their products and services to the marketplace as efficiently as possible. Also measured was the vitality of each stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transportation system by the value of goods shipped by air, land and water. Availability of air travel and the quality of the roads was also measured. NC landed in tenth place. Our southern neighbor beat us by taking eighth place, partly because of the port at Charleston. Virginia finished just behind us at number 12. Texas was also number one in this category. Did any of these rankings surprise you? Next week, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cover the other five categories and talk about how we at the Chamber and Bob Heuts at our Economic Development Corporation work every day to improve our ranking as a community. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fortunate to have had strong leadership for many years in Lee County as well as in North Carolina. Of course, not everything is exactly how we want it to be. But if we continue to listen to business people, the men and women who make decisions about choosing where to locate their factories, offices and shops, we will stay wellcentered as a community and a state.

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Al's Home Improvement Remodeling, Vinyl Siding, Roofing, Additions, Decks. No Jobs to Large or Small. Res. or Com. 910-705-1274 CHILD CARE The children at Home Away From Home Childcare are loving Sunshine, Sprinkler, and Sandwiches Wednesdays! Check out how much fun we are having at www.busykids.webs.com We have one full time opening on 1st shift available for a child aged 3-5. Please call Claudia at 919-776-6432 Do You Have Holes In Your Yard? We Have Field Dirt For $100 A Load. 16 Tons Delivered. Call Hancock Sand & Gravel: 919-776-1322 Junk Car Removal Service Guaranteed top price paid Buying Batteries as well. 499-3743 L.C Harrell Home Improvement Decks, Porches, Buildings Remodel/Repair, Electrical Pressure Washing Interior-Exterior Quality Work Affordable Prices No job Too Small No Job Too Large Insured (919)770-3853 Mother Of Two (All Grown Up Now) Would Love To Care For Your Baby/Todder. Call: 919-777-6895 Paying the top price for Junk Vehicals No Title/Keys No ProblemOld Batteries Paying. $2-$15 842-1606 WILL MOVE OLD JUNK CARS! BEST PRICES PAID. Call for complete car delivery price. McLeodĘźs Auto Crushing. Day 499-4911. Night 776-9274.

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Found

Found Small Female dog Looks to be a wire haired terrier. Tan Color Very Sociable. She was found in Winding Creek Farm Cricket Hearth Road off HWY 42 Near Steel Bridge Road. Call to claim 919-770-2626

ARAGE /ESTATE SALES

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Garage/Estate Sales

Crafters and yard sellers, set up and sell at the annual Fun Day at Greenwood School. Sat. 09-11-10 from 10 till 2. Booth cost $25. Sponsored by Optimist Club. Call 775-2405 and leave message. Got stuff leftover from your yard sale or items in your house that you donĘźt want? Call us and we will haul it away for free. 270-8788 or 356-2333

MPLOYMENT

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Education/ Teaching

Experienced tutor needed, for Math & Reading, to work with youth (ages 14-21). Must pass drug & background check. Contact WIA Youth Program at 919-718-4650 ext. 5543 Private Tutor For Grades K-5. Cert. Teacher, Ref., $25/hr. Keep Skills Sharp! Limited Space. Call Now! 919-356-6886

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Medical/Dental

Liberty Hospice looks for kind, compassionate, caring and trained people who share our commitment to provide the best possible care. We are currently seeking the following positions for our Sanford/Siler City office: Hospice Registered Nurse (Full Time) *RN License Required To apply, send resume to: Liberty Home Care & Hospice Attn: Human Resources 2334 South 41st Street Wilmington, NC 28403 Fax: 910-815-4356 Email: lhmhr@libertyhomecare.com Call 800-438-1115 Visit www.libertyhomecare.com for more information. Background checks/drug-free workplace. EOE Looking for Clinical Director in the Mental Health field to oversee Clinical Operations and provide QP Supervision. Looking for Licensed Professional to provide Therapy for Children and Adults in the Mental Health field. Fax resume to 910 893-4731

Pharmacist needed to work part time at independent pharmacy in Siler City. Experience required. Professional hours. No Sundays. Competitive pay. Qualified candidates should fax resume to 919-835-0459 or e-mail to admin@hwpharmacies.com.

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General Help

Busy Leasing Office seeking highly motivated individual to lease Apartments in the Sanford area. Range of responsibilities to include screening applicants, unit inspections, rent collections, and evictions. Qualified applicant needs ability to multi-task, maintain low vacancy rates, high collection rates, and excellent customer satisfaction. Please mail resume to PO BOX 100 SANFORD NC 27330 AD # 23 Certified well contractor with minimum Class C license needed to perform service work for company located near Pittsboro. Must have valid drivers license and transportation to and from work. Salary based on experience. Call Dennis @ (919)932-7867. Drivers Wanted Work with the Best Team in Chatham County. Part-time positions available for dependable passenger van drivers. We offer flexible hours including nights and weekends and a great working environment. Applicant must enjoy working with people and have an acceptable driving record. A CDL C (or higher) driverĘźs license preferred but not necessary. Applicant must have the ability to obtain CDL within 30 days of employment. Criminal history and pre-employment and random drug/alcohol testing are required. Chatham Transit Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Call 919-542-5136 or email a.wagner@chathamtransit.org, Attention: Executive Director for more information. EXPERIENCED person needed to pull and pack orders in a busy warehouse. Must be dependable and a quick learner. Heavy lifting is required. Please apply in person to: Balloons Inc., 5100 Rex McLeod Drive, Sanford, NC 27330. No phone calls.

General Help

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seasonal applications will be accepted for reviews. Must have CDL class B with Hazmat & Tank. Apply in person at: Cooper LP Gas Co. 3097 Hal Siler Drive (off Wilson Road) Sanford.

0260

Restaurant

Need 1st Shift Full Time Prep Cook & 1st Shift Full Time Floater Person. Angie's Breakfast Barn. 718-0539 No Call before 1:30

Cats/Dogs/Pets

American Bulldog Male 11 Months Old Very Friendly & Good With Children! To Approved Home Only Call: 919-775-3485 CKC Chihuahuas For Sale Blues, Chocolates, Tans. $300 Call Janet 910-639-9902 FREE Kittens to Good Home. 919-775-7075 Free Medium Size Puppies Part Beagle Mix (Mom) & Uknown (Dad) 7 (All Male) 919-258-5177 Mixed, Medium Size, Red Dog. Goes By "Ellie". Last Seen In Thomas Kelly Rd Area. Call: 258-6537 or 919-478-6856

ARM

Farm Market

- Blueberries $5 QT Call 776-2649 3pm-9pm

EXTRA! EXTRA! In need of extra cash? CNA's needed for part time and weekend work. Contact us at Quality Life Home Care at 919-545-2027 or stop by our office at: 148 East Street Pittsboro, NC 27312

Dixie Lee Peas Call: 919-499-5236 or 770-5369

Fins, Furs, & Feathers is now hiring part time. Must be able to work mornings. Apply in person. 303 S. Horner Blvd. Sanford. Head Vet Tech For Fast Space Spay Neuter Clinic. Must Have Surgery And Emergency Experience. Full Time, Excellent Benefit Package, 4 Day Work Week. Please Fax Or Mail Resume To: 910-692-9650 / 5071 US Highway 1 North, Vass, 28394. Materials Requirements Planner / Buyer Manufacturer seeking individual to plan production and manage incoming materials. Must have experience in Materials Requirements Planning â&#x20AC;&#x201C; APICS a plus. Send resume and salary requirements to. Sanford Herald PO BOX 100 SANFORD NC 27331 AD #24 Part Time Retail Help Needed: Individual with good personality and people skills to help in retail business. Job involves sales, receiving stock, pricing, and other tasks essential to a successful retail business. Apply in person at Triangle Healthcare Uniforms 2425 Jefferson Davis Highway (US1 S), Sanford, NC Mon.-Fri. 9:30am-6:00pm Sat. 9:30-3:00p.m. Propane Delivery Driver We are accepting applications for the position of route delivery driver. The primary duty is the filling of residential and commercial propane containers. This job also includes other aspects of the propane industry as well. Full time or

Beautiful Tomatoes, Okra, Field Peas, Peaches, Watermelons & Cantaloupes. B&B Market (Across From Courthouse) 919-775-3032. Horse Pasture & Stalls For Rent, Near Broadway. 499-8061

ERCHANDISE

0509 Household Goods

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2 Year Old Female Guard Dog. Free To Good Home! 919-258-0186

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Farm Market

A New Queen Pillowtop Set $150. New In Plastic, Must Sell! 910-691-8388

ETS

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Furniture

60%-70% OFF LR, DR, & BR Furniture - Less than 1 year old. 919-935-9757 or 919-935-2308 A All New Furniture Factory Direct Bed Sets $195 5PC $495 Sofa & Loveseats $495 Sectional $495 Dining $145 910-639-9555 A Brand New Pillowtop Queen Sets $125 King Sets $225 Twin $115 Full $125 All models brand new! 910-639-9555 D.A.K.s OFFICE FURNITURE 3864 US Hwy. 15/501, Carthage 910-947-2541 Largest selection of new and used office furniture in the area.

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Misc. Items for Sale

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Unfurnished Apartments

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2 -14'x14' BR 1BA Family RM w/fireplace, Dining w/fireplace, Eat-In-Kitchen w/ appliance. $550/mo 1600 sqft 919-777-3340

Sanford Gardens Age 62 and disabled under 62 who may qualify Adcock Rentals 774-6046 EHO

Available Now 2 BR Apts! Also accepting applications for 1 BR Apts. SUMMERFIELD APARTMENTS! Section 8 Welcome.

Westrose Village 3BR Apartments Available Immediately $525/mo w/ $300/Dep 919-774-1117

Spacious, Comfortable, Social Activities, Affordable, Family-Friendly Come by today and apply!

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Homes for Rent

1, 2, 3 BR Rentals Avail. Adcock Rentals 774-6046 adcockrentalsnc.com

919-774-1009 2518 Indian Wells Court Sanford, NC Office Hours: M, T & TH 8:30-5:30pm W 11:30am - 6:30pm Rental Assistance based on availability & need.

403 Judd Street $550/mo 2BD/1BA Adcock Rentals 774-6046 6 N. Church St., Goldston. Kitchen, Den, Living Room, 1BR/1BA, New Vinyl & New Carpet, Freshly Painted. Good Condition, No Pets, $600/mo. 919-898-4754

Handicapped Accessible Units Equal Housing Opportunity Professionally Managed by Partnership Property Management

N. Horner Blvd, 3BR 1BA $600/mo Dep. Req 919-356-4687.

Move In Special !!! Free Rent 2br, Spring Lane Apartments Adjacent To Spring Lane Galleria 919-774-6511 simpsonandsimpson.com

West Sanford - 3,000 sq ft, 3BR, 2.5BA, FR, DR, Sun R/Bonus, Kit w/ Island, LG Laundry Room, 1st FL Master, $1000/mo 919-777-3340

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Jacuzzi Spa Hot Tub- Redwood Sides, 220 Gallons. Bench Seats, 9 Jets, Spa-Lights, Insulated Cover, Fits 4, $1000. 356-4293

EAL ESTATE FOR RENT

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1812 Sutphin Drive Sanford N.C. 27330

Unfurnished Apartments

1BR Apt N. Horner $360/mo & Dep Req 919-356-4687

Apartments Available Now 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Luxury Apartments Starting at $525/month Swimming Pool, Tennis Court, Car Wash, Playground, Pet Friendly

Adcock & Associates Real Estate & Auction is the agent for the Seller. Any inspections need to be made prior to Day of Auction. There will be a 105 Buyers Premium added to the last ad highest bid, total will be the contract price. $5,000 CertiďŹ ed check or cash for earnest money due day of Auction. There is no upset bid on the property, balance due in 30 days. Property is selling - ASIS. Where Is. Property will be conveyed by a General Warranty Deed. Buyer agents must register their client 72 hours prior to auction. Can be purchased prior to Auction.

Visit www.auctionzip.com for details Adcock & Associates Real Estate & Auction 919-775-5444 Firm #8622

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Lisa York - Broker Auctioneer NCBL #254467 NCAL #8582 919-880-9225 C

Arden Companies, a leading manufacturer and distributor of outdoor patio consumer products located in Sanford, NC has an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Plant Manager.

Arden Companies, a leading manufacturer and distributor of outdoor patio consumer products located in Sanford, NC has an exciting opportunity for the position of Fiber Line Leader.

This position reports directly to the Plant Manager and will be responsible for providing leadership and support on issues such as safety, stafďŹ ng, production, inventory control and plant efďŹ ciencies.

This position reports directly to the Fiber Line Supervisor and will be responsible for providing leadership and support on issues such as safety, production, inventory control, machinery maintenance and repair operations. AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY: s -ANAGE A SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT DURING ALL OPERATIONS s ,EAD A SMALL TEAM OF EMPLOYEES DURING PRODUCTION OPERATIONS s %NSURE ALL PRODUCTS CONSTANTLY MEET QUALITY REQUIREMENTS AND ASSIST THE QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS FOR THE DEPARTMENT s -AKE ADJUSTMENT TO PRECISION HIGH TECH TEXTILE MACHINERY TO ACHIEVE PRODUCT SPECIlCATIONS AND HIGH QUALITY STANDARDS s -ANAGE RECORDS AND HELP WITH PRODUCTION REPORTING s 7ORK DIRECTLY WITH PRODUCED PRODUCTS MOVING FROM PRODUCTION POINT TO warehouse. MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED: s +NOWLEDGE OF PROCESS CONTROL QUALITY ASSURANCE PRODUCTION WITH WORLD CLASS COMPUTER CONTROLLED MACHINERY KNOWLEDGE OF TEXTILE PRODUCTION PREFERRED s 4EAM PLAYER WITH GOOD ANALYTICAL SKILLS -ATURE SELF STARTER WHO PERFORMS WELL with little or no direct intervention style supervision. s %NGLISH SPEAKING IS A MUST ANY OTHER LANGUAGE BENElCIAL BUT NOT REQUIRED s !BLE TO WORK IN A QUICK MOVING ORGANIZED MANUFACTURING mOOR ENVIRONMENT s 7ILLING TO PROJECT A 7ORLD #LASS IMAGE WITH FOCUS ON ACHIEVING THE HIGHEST level of manufacturing excellence. s 'OOD PROCESS CONTROL ANALYTICAL SKILLS s 0ROlCIENCY WITH COMPUTERS USING %XCEL 7ORD /UTLOOK ETC EDUCATIONAL, LICENSING, OR SPECIAL CERTIFICATIONS NEEDED: s !BILITY TO PASS A SIMPLE PRE EMPLOYMENT APTITUDE TEST INCLUDING BASIC MATH QUALITY SAFETY AND MECHANICAL QUESTIONS s !BLE TO PASS A PRE EMPLOYMENT DRUG SCREEN AND PARTICIPATE IN RANDOM screenings thereafter. s &AMILIAR WITH 3 AND MAINTAINING CLEAN HIGHLY ORGANIZED WORK AREAS s YEARS EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH TECHNICAL COMPUTER CONTROLLED TEXTILE PROCESSING EQUIPMENT INCLUDING MAINTENANCE AND PRODUCTION ADJUSTMENTS s #ANDIDATES MUST BE ELIGIBLE TO WORK IN THE 5 3 ON A PERMANENT BASIS 0LEASE EMAIL RESUME TO bkimball@ardencompanies.com Arden Companies is an equal opportunity employer. 0AY WILL BE COMMENSURATE WITH EXPERIENCE LEVEL !DDITIONAL !RDEN #OMPANIES CORPORATE INFORMATION is available online at www.ardencompanies.com.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY: Assist the Plant Manager to ensure the plant is meeting production goals, inventory targets and that product shipments are on time, complete and correct. â&#x20AC;Ënsure all products meet quality requirements, and oversee the quality assurance processes in the facility. â&#x20AC;¨Manage the functions of receiving, shipping, purchasing and production planning. â&#x20AC;¨Provide leadership and vision in the area of lean practices implementation. â&#x20AC;¨Provide leadership to ensure projects are completed on time and the team provides value to its customers. â&#x20AC;¨Manage records, communicate plant information and generate reporting, as requested by the Plant Manager and corporate headquarters. â&#x20AC;¨Work with the Plant Manager on stafďŹ ng needs, including hiring and termination decisions, and ensure such practices conform to ethical and legal standards. â&#x20AC;¨ MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED: â&#x20AC;¨Demonstrated expertise in lean manufacturing. Knowledge of process control, quality assurance and manufacturing applications in a production environment. â&#x20AC;¨Clear understanding of Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality Control, Human Resources, Receiving, Shipping and Warehouse operations and how they interact with each other. â&#x20AC;¨Strong analytical skills. Ability to prepare reports by compiling and summarizing data. â&#x20AC;¨Computer proďŹ cient with MS OfďŹ ce suite; Excel, Word and Power Point. Working knowledge of MS Access is strongly preferred. â&#x20AC;¨Thorough understanding of Bill-of-Material structures, labor operations, and overhead principles. â&#x20AC;Ëxcellent communication skills - both verbal and written - with all levels of the organization. EDUCATIONAL, LICENSING, OR SPECIAL CERTIFICATIONS NEEDED: Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in business, engineering or technical discipline. â&#x20AC;¨Five years or more production management and / or supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment. â&#x20AC;¨Bi-lingual in Spanish is a plus, but not required. Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis. Arden Companies is an equal opportunity employer.â&#x20AC;Ädditional Arden Companies corporate information is available online at www.ardencompanies.com.

DIVISION CONTROLLER NEEDED Townsends, Inc., a leader in the poultry industry, is in search of a Controller to be part of the management team of its North Carolina Division located in Siler City, NC. We are looking for a positive, energetic, team-oriented professional with overall responsibility for operational and general accounting, ďŹ nancial analysis, budgeting, internal control, and technical support. A Bachelor of Science in Accounting is required, MBA and/or CPA a plus. A minimum of ďŹ ve years accounting experience including progressive management experience, knowledge of cost and general accounting required. The successful candidate will also have excellent PC skills, along with strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Experience in the poultry, beef or turkey industry is highly desired. Interested candidates, please mail resume to: P.O. Box 709 Siler City, NC 27344 Attn: Alma Rios - HR Manager or e-mail to arios@townsends.com or fax to: 919-663-4199 M/F/V/H

NOW HIRING Volt Workforce Solutions is hiring ASSEMBLY TECHNICIANS for a large manufacturing facility in Sanford, NC. Positions are 1st shift, starting pay rate $9.50/hr with a $.50 increase every six months, capping at $11.50/hr at two years.

Multiple positions available!! All applicants must: s 0ASS A PRE EMPLOYMENT DRUG SCREEN s (AVE A CLEAN CRIMINAL BACKGROUND FOR THE LAST YRS s (AVE ONE YEAR OF RECENT MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE s 0ASS A TWO PART STANDARDIZED TEST Call Volt Workforce Solutions today at

919-577-1110 and mention ASSEMBLY TECH for more information!!

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Rooms for Rent

0710

Room in house. Carolina Trace. Utilities Included. $500/mo + $100 Dep Please call John 919-818-2842 Avail Now

0670

Business Places/ Offices

Commercial Buildings * 1227 N. Horner 650 SqFt *1221 C N Horner Behind Angies Breakfast Barn *1229 N. Horner 2,800 SqFt Rowe 100 Full Size Jukebox All Lights & Bells Good Sound Call Reid at 775-2282 or 770-2445

0675

Mobile Homes for Rent

*09 52x28 3BR 2BA Like New *97 66x24 3BR 2BA Good Con. *97 80x14 3BR 2BA Good Condition Call 775-9782 Lev Mes 2 Mobile Homes for Rent. 1.) 3br 2ba $575/mo $575/dep 2.) 4BR 2BA $600/mo $600/dep. 919-353-8341 2BR/1BA $335/mo $250/dep Rental Ref. & Dep. Required No Pets! Call: 919-499-5589 before 8pm MH FOR RENT - 2BR 2BA in Harnett County No Pets. Credit Appl. Req. $400/mo $400/Dep 919-775-3828 Small 2BR Trailer For Rent 776-4836 Trailer 2BR 1.5 Bath Laundry or 3rd BR, Quiet, Secure, Near Greenwood Elementary School $450/mo + Utilities 919-721-1889

0680

Speciality Shops

Shop 50' x 30' on Slab 3 4x8' & 1 2x14' wrkbnchs. 220 V. Secure multi zone Lemon Spgs, 12 ft Roller Bay Door 919-721-1889

0685 Bargain Basement 20inch GE Color TV with Remote. Works Great. $40. 919-774-4378 Anitique Peg Rectangle Table $200. Call: 919-258-3078

Bassanet Excellent Condition $30, High Chair Dark Wood $20, Skill Saw hardly used $35 919-499-9554 Cannon G3 Digital Camera. All Accessories & Charger. Take Pics/Movie Clips, Fold Out LCD Screen. R/R Warranty. $75 Call: 774-1066 Dell & Gateway Computers. WS07 Available. Several Models Available Starting $125. Call 774-1066. Dog Ramp, 6ft Adjustable, Used Once, $25. Sears Humidifier, 7 Gallon Output, Like New, $25. Call: 478-5191 Flowers- Several Varieties! Due to health problems they all have to go. If you don't like my price give me yours...I might like it! 301 Forrest Avenue, Broadway, Behind Smith's Funeral Home. 919-258-6694 For Sale: Kenmore Washer & Dryer Excellent Condition $250 776-3949 or 770-6069 For Sale: Solid Oak Desk $100 obo & Lots of Coca-Cola Collectibles. Call Mike 910-333-4718 anytime Hand-made Oak Drop Leaf Table $250 Call: 919-258-3078

Homes for Sale

OPEN HOUSE WEST SANFORD 1902 Windsong Sunday 2pm-4pm 4BR 3BA Brick Home Paulette Williams Exit Realty 498-4501

OPEN SUNDAY 2-4 Wonderful ALL Brick. Carbonton Heights. Spring Lane to Sutphin Dr. Hardwd flrs, Large lot. Audio 1-800-665-0967 code 267#. Century 21 signs.

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Lots & Acreage

Land For Sale 8.5 Acres Near Broadway. 828-597-5463

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Manufactured Homes for Sale

For Sale: 1985 Doublewide Mobile Home - Approx 1600 Sq Ft (nice floor plan) all appliances included 2.5 baths with yr old metal roof. @ 764 Baker Rd, Cameron NC 28326 Approx 1.5 Acres land w/ County Water. Withing 15 to 20 mins from Aberdean, Sanford, or Bragg. $65,000 Can be seen by appointment call 776-6946 or 353-9597

RANSPORTATION

Sport Utility Vehicles

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2002 GMC Envoy4wd, Leather, Power Heated Seats,Loaded $7,500 105,000 miles,919-776-5285

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Vans for Sale

1998 Ford Windstar 199K mi. 3.8 L Engine Runs Great! Lots of Pep! Well Maintained $1,799 919-434-5735

0864

Pickup Trucks for Sale

2000 Ford Ranger XLT Gold, Runs Great! 131,836 Miles Asking Price $3300 OBO Call: 919-775-2684

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Cars for Sale

2001 Audi A6 123K Miles Great Shape, Loaded, Must See! Email For Pics: nicksprings1986@yahoo.com

INANCIAL

EGALS

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 1-3 PM

1914 PLANTATION DR

Kenmore stove white like new $100 356-9510 Large White Cabinet- Good For Garage Or Building/Office. $25. 919-258-9712 Papasan Chair $30. Oak Tall TV Entertainment Center $70. Call: 919-258-3078 Pick Up Bed Cap 5 foot x 6 foot 4 inch $75, Stereo System $25 Call 919-777-9363 Pitbull Puppies Males & Females Tan & Brown Call: 919-499-6131 $50

(West on Spring Lane past shopping center - 4th St. on left)

Lovely home in Planters Ridge Sub-Division Good Family Locations in West Sanfrod 1.2 Acres (Double Lot)

Only $154,900 (Just Reduced - Under Appr Value)

See on www.forbes-homes.com Call Dick Poletti - Forbes Real Estate 919-708-3720

Weslo Treadmill- Exc. Cond. w/ Digital Readout & Safety Cord Cutoff. Folds Out From Upright Position- $125. Call: 258-6980 Winnie The Pooh & Raggedy Ann & Andy Collectibles- $50 & Under. Call: 353-4608

WE WORK FOR YOU! CALL ONE OF OUR AGENTS TODAY! Ready To Move In Newly renovated brick ranch, 3BR, 1Ba. 'LEAMING NEW hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;oors, new bath ďŹ xtures, completely painted, absolutely perfect. Single car garage, fenced backyard. Call for complete list of improvements. Worthy of all ďŹ nancing. #81096 Priced $82,900

EAL ESTATE FOR SALE

0710

Great Family Home. Formal areas. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, full basement with garage and large rec room. Owner/Broker #83525

Homes for Sale

All Brick 4 BR, living rm, lrg den, 2.5 BA, double garage, screened porch, 2400 sq feet, great landscaping, must see. $215,000 call 919-353-5386 Bank Owned Home- Located In Sanford. We Finance, Easy To Qualify, Low Down Payment, Special Reduced Rates. Call: 1800-283-6440 House for Sale inside city limits. 3BR, 1BA, Laundry Room, Open LR-DR Area, Appliances included, Large Lot, 80x200, fenced in back yard. $70,000. Reduced For Quick Sale! Call 919-718-0912 7-11pm

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Deep River. Nice home on an acre North of Sanford, close to Hwy. 1, Raleigh, Cary & Apex. Features 3BR, living room, dining room, large ofďŹ ce, freshly painted inside and out, very private, wonderful place to live. Priced to sell. Only $109,900.

Investment or ready to Build on Beautiful wooded lot in Quail Ridge. 340 feet of road frontage, perk tested, and city water meter in place. A perfect home site. Only $27,900 for 1.59 acre. s 'OLF #OURSE ,OT )N 1UAIL 2IDGE ACRE, $17,500 Water Front Lot, West Lake Downs, Only $59,900 s 7EST ,AKE !CRES ON 0ICKARD 2OAD

New Listing - Lower Moncure Road. 1.9 Acres is the setting for this large doublewide with ďŹ replace, great room3 BR/2BA, separate laundry, stg. building, must see, great ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan. Only $79,900. MLS# 84057 Outside city limits on Bruce Coggins Rd is this like-new 2-story home on 2.36 acres, excellent for horses or beef cattle. 4BAs/3BAs, lots of stg bldgs. Large workshop, small pond fenced â&#x20AC;&#x201D; excellent for privacy. Call us for de-tails and your private viewing. MLS#79617

Pickard Road - Land available approx. 14.5 acres of wooded land. Has been perked and had a well. Idea homesite if you have enough land to build a pasture for cows and horses. Located on Melba Dr. Drastically Reduced from $12,000 per acre to $8,000 per acre.

3 Acres on 421 N. inside Chatham County line, with over 300 feet of road FRONTAGE #OMMERCIAL 0ROPERTY GOOD INVESTMENT Buy Now.

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House church D.E. Parkerson

Bruce MacInnes

The Paper Pulpit

The Bible Speaks

Del Parkerson is a retired pastor of First Baptist Church. Contact him at dparkerson@ec.rr.com.

MacInnes is pastor at Turner’s Chapel Church in Sanford. Contact him at turnerschapel@windstream.net

I knew you would come!

Be a servant of God

he Second Coming of Jesus Christ to earth is one of the cardinal teachings of the Bible. Of the 260 chapters of the New Testament, 216 of them make reference to His coming again. One of every thirty verses, 23 of the 27 New Testament books, and all nine authors herald Christ’s return. Fifty times in his 13 epistles, Paul spoke of this grand climax of history. Its very frequency in the New Testament and its incorporation into the great creeds of Christian history, all underscore it as a cardinal Christian doctrine. No less than 5,000 of Charles Wesley’s hymns exult in Christ’s return to gather His church. In our day Bill and Gloria Gaither have written what has become one of America’s most popular hymns, “The King Is Coming!” Henry Gariepy, in Portraits of Perseverance, tells of the time during the First World War when an American soldier in the trenches saw his friend wounded out in no-man’s land — that is, the ground between his trench and that of the enemy. He asked his commanding officer if he could go out and get him, only to be told, “Your request is refused. If you go, I will lose you as well. I have to say no.” Disobeying his officer,

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“there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord.” 1 Kings 13:1

T After a time of fellowship, everyone gravitates to the kitchen table to observe the Eucharist with prayer, pinched-off pieces of sourdough bread and red wine in plastic cups. There’s grape juice for the kids. The celebration continues with a potluck meal. When they return to the living room, one member picks up a guitar to strum praise-and-worship songs that others softly sing. Sparked by a previous discussion about whether they should start collecting an offering for the needy, Yeldell shares a Power Point presentation he created about “corporate giving” on his big screen TV. The majority seems averse to a regular offering, preferring to take up a collection only when a need or charitable cause arises. As if on cue, Sean Allen, a laid-off welder who is now homeless with health issues, joined their gathering late. The soft-spoken 39-year-old said he had been sick and struggling to pay some bills. “I’m just here,” Allen told fellow worshippers. “Do what you

hroughout the Bible there are numerous designations for God’s servants but the one that always impressed me most was the title “man of God.” Though there is no hierarchy among servants I believe the title “man of God” should be the most coveted. In 1 Kings 13:110 we meet a man whose name is not given but his title is, and his encounter with the king gives us an excellent example of what a man of God should be like. King Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense to a false god when this unnamed servant approaches him. God had told him to speak to the king a very specific message, even naming a king of Judah who would not be born for hundreds of years. His message was a pronouncement of God’s judgment and would not be accepted by a godless king who would think nothing of ordering the messenger’s execution. Not only was speaking to the king a perilous undertaking but his message was so specific, both immediately and in

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Members of a house church pray in Dallas.

More Christians skip the sermon and worship at home By LINDA STEWART BALL Associated Press Writer

DALLAS — To get to church on a recent Sunday morning, the Yeldell family walked no farther than their own living room to greet fellow worshippers. The members of this “house church” are part of what experts say is a fundamental shift in the way U.S. Christians think about church. Skip the sermons, costly church buildings and large, faceless crowds, they say. House church is about relationships forged in small faith communities. In general, house churches consist of 12 to 15 people who share what’s going on in their lives, often turning to Scriptures for guidance. They rely on the Holy Spirit or spontaneity to lead the direction of their weekly gatherings. “I think part of the appeal for some in the house church movement is the desire to return to a simpler expression of church,” said Ed Stetzer, a seminary professor and president of Lifeway Research, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. “For many, church has be-

come too much (like a) business while they just want to live like the Bible.” House church proponents claim their small groups are sort of a throwback to the early Christian church in that they have no clergy and everyone is expected to contribute to the teaching, singing and praying. They are more commonly seen in countries where Christianity is not the dominant religion. Organizers say they’re just starting to take off in the U.S. A study by the Barna Group, a firm specializing in data on religion and society, estimates that 6 million to 12 million Americans attend house churches. A survey last year by the Pew Forum found that 9 percent of American Protestants only attended home services. “The only consistent thing about house church is that each one is different,” said Robin Yeldell, who, in 2006, left a traditional church where he was a missions committee chairman. The gathering at the Yeldell’s home is a lively, sometimes chaotic event, with noisy and mostly happy young children flitting about.

LETT’S SET A SPELL

BEGINNING@HOME

Tobacco’s deep roots and rich heritage

Lawrence’s impact on Lee Co. was great

WEDDINGS ......................Page 3C Rasor — Williams Wallace — Smith Grindle — Starr Blakeley — Matthews

ENGAGEMENTS ...............Page 3C Hilliard — Blodgett

randpa (Puzie Lett) told me that an Indian who once lived in Buckhorn community had shared stories about the miraculous powers of tobacco and its smoke. Indians used tobacco in peace pipes to relax as participants when negotiating treaties, and they believed tobacco soothed the mind when gathering for sacred ceremonies. I wondered if this Indian was an imaginary character in a tall tale but then one day as my sister Carolyn and I were examining gravesites near the old church on our farm we found a headstone engraved with the words B.B. Buffalo. We quickly ran home to tell Mama and Daddy (Ruby and Bud Lett). This gave Daddy an excuse to bring out his treasured arrowhead collection that could fill a museum. Daddy believed the abundance of

AlexSandra Lett Lett can be reached at (919) 258-9299 or LettsSetaSpell@aol.com

arrowheads in our fields was proof of a rumor that land in the vicinity had previously served as an Indian reservation or village. When looking through Mama’s National Enquirer I saw an ad where a company promised to pay big bucks

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ust days after becoming executive director of the United Way, I was sitting in my new office, sorting through the daunting challenge ahead, when Bill Lawrence dropped in for a quick visit. After a few difficult years, everyone knew there was a lot of work to do, and Bill wasn’t one to shy away from a good challenge. He offered to make phone calls, serve on committees and use his considerable connections to get people excited and involved once again. One thing’s for sure: Bill was never afraid to provide plenty of gentle persuasion to help an important cause so close to his heart. I’ll never forget his words that day. “Don’t you worry one bit; we’ll get this thing turned around,” he promised with calm conviction. “You know

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I’ll do everything I can to help.” He remained true to his word. Despite being in frail health much of the time, Bill was always helping — as he had been for years. He started with the United Way way back in the early ’70s, leading the annual campaign before becoming

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MILITARY NEWS .............Page 2C DOCTOR’S ORDERS .......Page 2C REUNION NEWS..............Page 7C Contact Community Editor Jonathan Owens at (919) 718-1225 or by e-mail at owens@sanfordherald. com for information about items in our Wednesday or Sunday Carolina section.

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2C / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / The Sanford Herald Military News Kelvin Eusebio

Air Force Airman Kelvin G. Eusebio graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare Eusebio principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. He is the son of Gloria Hidalgo of New York, N.Y., and brother of Anneris Thellman of Sanford. Eusebio is a 2008 graduate of Lee County Senior High School in Sanford.

Richard Byrd Jr.

Army Pfc. Richard H. Byrd Jr. has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included

development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman. He is the son of Richard H. Byrd Sr. of Bunnlevel. Byrd graduated in 1994 from Harnett Central High School in Angier and graduated in 1999 from Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh.

Nicole Richardson Army Pvt. Nicole S. Richardson has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises. She is the daughter of Flora McMillian of Sanford. The private is a 2004 graduate of Lee County High School in Sanford.

Timothy Rogers Army Pfc. Timothy J. Rogers has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson,

Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises. He is the son of Timothy Rogers of West Chazy, N.Y., and Luz S. Fratello of Bunnlevel. The private is a 2008 graduate of E.E. Smith Senior High School in Fayetteville.

Matthew Munar Army Pfc. Matthew J. Munar has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman. He is the son of Angela Bowles of Carthage. Munar is a 2008 graduate of Union Pines High School in Cameron.

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Workshops provide education on congestive heart failure Special to The Herald Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a disease that occurs when the heart canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide enough blood for the rest of the body â&#x20AC;&#x201D; usually because the heart has become too weak or overloaded with fluid. CHF differs from a heart attack (or acute myocardial infarction) in that with a heart attack typically a coronary artery becomes blocked by plaque or a blood clot which deprives the heart muscle of blood and oxygen. And while there is no cure for CHF, patients who have congestive heart failure need to learn to manage their symptoms. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the staff at Central Carolina Hospital provides CHF workshops each month to educate patients about living with congestive heart failure â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and lowering their chances of being readmitted with symptoms. The workshop at CCH is held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month in the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classroom. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an effort to combat the many factors which contribute to CHF by offering patients direct access to medical professionals who deal with those areas of the disease process, according to Carol De Fusco, director of clinical quality improvement at Central Carolina Hospital. The workshop is free and open to the public. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you were to come to the workshop, the first thing youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get would be an overview of CHF,â&#x20AC;? De Fusco said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d start to get into the different information

Carol de Fusco we can offer about the disease process and risk factors. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d meet with our respiratory therapist, our pharmacist, dietitians, case managers, nurses and physical therapists â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of the areas which have an impact with CHF. You would also receive some written information, a magnet, and a list of numbers and departments that you can call if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got any questions.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The doctor can tell you about changing your lifestyle and which habits contribute to CHF, but we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that to be the only time you hear it,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a CHF patient, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important to understand all of the risk factors.â&#x20AC;? The workshop focuses heavily on understanding your medication, proper diet, exercise and smoking cessation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to educate people about their disease and reduce their chance of being readmitted to the hospital because of heart failure,â&#x20AC;? she said. CCH has seen over 120 patients with

congestive heart failure in the past year. De Fusco acknowledges that many of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary offerings can contribute to CHF. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things like the country ham, the sausage gravy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re delicious â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but they have such a high sodium content that they can be very dangerous to people with CHF,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of our biggest goals is to educate people about the absolute importance of their diet.â&#x20AC;? Though the main goal is to bring in people who have been to the hospital with CHF symptoms, the workshop is open to all CHF patients regardless if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a CCH patient â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and patients are encouraged to bring their spouse, caretaker, or a companion to the class. The hospital is collaborating with other medical providers in the community so more patients can become exposed to the information CCH is offering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to make sure everyone knows about this service and that it exists at CCH. We want anyone who is dealing with CHF to be able to take advantage of this information.â&#x20AC;? The next CHF Workshop will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 16, in the Central Carolina Hospital community classroom. Reservations are suggested, but walk-ins are welcome. For more information on the next CHF Workshop, call 800483-6385.

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Weddings Rasor — Williams

Lauren Gray Williams of Raleigh and John Brooks Rasor of Clayton were married at 6 p.m. June 19 at the chapel by the lake in Nutbush State Park, Kerr Lake, by Dr. Charles Johnson. The bride is the daughter of Ted and Terry Williams of Raleigh and the granddaughter of Joe and Shirley Coggins of Sanford, the late Lemuel Palmer and the late D.H. and Grayce Williams. The bridegroom is the son of Walter and Jill Rasor of Clayton and the grandson of John and Lexene Lee of Clayton and the late Brooks and Margaret Rasor. Escorted by her father, Ted Williams, the bride wore a floor-length gown of white silk taffeta. The strapless A-line silhouette was accented with a light blue silk taffeta sash. She wore a traditional bridal veil hand-made by the bridegroom’s grandmother, Lexene Lee. She carried a bouquet of blue and green hydrangeas with other mixed flowers. Maid of honor was Kelli Lennox. Matron of honor was Jamie Williams, sister-in-law of the bride. Bridesmaids were Ali Rasor, sister of groom; Meg Davis; Lisa Mendez and Mary Ann Propst. Honorary bridesmaid was Haley Abene, cousin

Lauren Williams Rasor of the groom. Best man was Walter Rasor, father of the groom. Groomsmen were Grant Williams, brother of the bride; Blake Whitaker; Cameron Pope; Eric Stallings and Sam Earp. Ringbearer was Gunner Williams, nephew of the bride. Ushers were Joe Nixon, Hayden Abene, and Michael Johnson, cousins of the groom, Dan Carlson and Michael Gerke. Boat driver was Michael Lynch. Wedding musician was Corey Foster. Wedding director was Kathy Gupton. Reception director was Polly Miller.

Following a honeymoon to Riviera Maya, the couple reside in Wendell. n Events The rehearsal dinner and dance was hosted by the parents of the groom at the Henderson Country Club. The music was provided by DJ Billy Britt and the Beats. A dinner and dance reception was hosted by the bride’s parents at their Kerr Lake home. The food was provided by the Cook Shack of Louisburg and the music was provided by the band the Vinyl Headlights from Virginia Beach, Va. An engagement party

Leger, David Anderson Jr., James Alverson and Alan Sides. Wedding director was Sonja Lawrence. Guest registry attendant was Mrs. Ken Brown, aunt of the bride. Program attendants were Jamie Vance and Katie Vance, cousins of the groom. Following a honeymoon trip to Antigua, the couple will reside in Sanford.

Wallace — Smith

Ashley Marie Smith and Thomas James Wallace were married at 2 p.m. Aug. 7 at Jonesboro Heights Baptist Church in Sanford by the Rev. Nathaniel Leonard. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Dowe Smith of Sanford and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. Dowe Smith of Sanford and the late Mr. and Mrs. Archie Sturgill. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education and a Master’s degree in Language and Literacy. She is currently a fifth grade teacher at Tramway Elementary School in Sanford. The bridegroom is the son of Bill Wallace of Seven Springs and Christi Wallace of Sanford and the grandson of JoAnn Vance and the late James Vance. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in philosophy and religion. He is currently a print management specialist with Copier’s Plus in Raleigh. Escorted by her father, Timothy Smith, the bride wore a floor-length of ivory taffeta. The dress

Mark and Yvonne Grindle

was hosted at the Pine Hollow Golf Course Clubhouse by friends of the groom’s family. An engagement dinner was hosted by Earl and Hope Johnson and Cecil and Donna Lee. A bridal shower was hosted by the Yaupon Sunday School class of Temple Baptist Church. A couples shower was hosted by Grant and Jamie Williams, brother and sister-in-law of the bride; and Kelli Lennox and Michael Lynch. A bridal shower was hosted by Mary Ann Propst. The bridesmaid’s brunch was hosted by Kathy Gupton, Carol Loyd, Wanda Boncek and Melodie Parrish at the Lamplight Inn in Henderson.

Ashley Smith Wallace featured a sweetheart bodice and ruching from the bodice down to the hips. The ruching was enhanced by an heirloom rhinestone brooch belonging to the bride’s aunt, Mrs. Ken Brown. The A-line skirt flowed into a chapel-length train. The gown also featured a corset bodice that laced in the back. Maid of honor was

Devon Elizabeth Smith, sister of the bride. Bridesmaids were Cameron Lee Lloyd, Kristen Anderson and Brittany Nicolette Taggart. Best man was David Craig Oates II. Groomsmen were William Lucian Wallace and Michael Ray Wallace, brothers of the groom, and Kenneth Justin Jernigan. Ushers were Aaron

n Events The reception was held at the Carolina Trace Country Club. A church wide shower at Jonesboro Heights Baptist Church was given by Mrs. Russell Stevens, Mrs. Jeff Brown, Mrs. Dennis Gardner and Mrs. Cristeen Elliot. A dinner shower was hosted by the David Oates family. A morning brunch was hosted by Mrs. Sidney Boaz and Mrs. Ronald Roberts. Friends of the couple were entertained at the home of Mrs. Robert Diggs featuring foods that the group always enjoyed in their youth. A miscellaneous shower was hosted by Mrs. Jeffery Ertzberger, Ms. Cameron Lloyd and Ms. Devon Smith included college friends and members of the bride’s Bible study group in Wilmington.

Erin Matthews Blakely

Blakeley — Matthews Erin Leigh Matthews and Anthony Scott Blakeley were married at 4:30 p.m. April 23 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas by the Rev. Eddie Peak. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wes Matthews of Fuquay-Varina and the granddaughter of the late Mr. Preston Matthews and Mrs. Pearl Matthews of Lillington and the late Mr. and Mrs. John Beattie. She is a graduate of Harnett Central High School and will graduate from East Carolina University in December. She is employed with State Employees Credit Union of Sanford. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Blakeley of Sanford and the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ivory Blakeley and the late Mr. Tommy Combs and Mrs. Alta Combs of Cameron. He is a graduate of Lee Senior High School and Sandhills Community College. He is employed with the Lee County Sheriff’s Department. Escorted by her father, Wes Matthews, the bride wore a satin ivory Alfred Angelo gown that was assembled at the bodice to a crystal encrusted embellishment below the sweetheart neckline. The back of the A-line gown was adorned with intricate buttons trailing to the chapel-length train. She carried a handtied bouquet of red roses and red peonies enfolded with a black satin ribbon. Matron of honor was Tammy Matthews. Best man was Tony Blakeley, father of the groom. Wedding director was Toni Dean. The couple is traveling to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in September for their honeymoon. They now reside in Sanford. n Events The reception was hosted by the parents of the bride in the Vintage Room at Lawry’s the Prime Rib Restaurant in Las Vegas. An engagement party was hosted by Jim and Teresa Wood at their home in Sanford. Benita Matthews, Tammy Matthews, Amanda Matthews, Ashton Gonella, Nicole Smith and Cassie Wycoff hosted a miscellaneous bridal shower. The matron of honor and friends of the bride hosted a lingerie shower. The bride’s co-workers at State Employees Credit Union hosted a surprise Las Vegas themed shower. The bride and groom hosted a reception in Sanford at the home of H.T. Pace upon their return home.

Engagement

Grindle — Starr Yvonne Lynn Starr and Mark Renalds Grindle were married July 30 in a private ceremony by Magistrate Randolph E. Carter. The bride is the daughter of Richard Starr and Teresa Hart Cardozo, both of Sanford, and the granddaughter of Orval and Juanita Starr of Sanford and the late Jerry and America Hart. The bridegroom is the son of Dan Grindle and Gretchen Grindle of Sanford and the grandson of the late James Theron and Rachel Hedrick Grindle, the late Clinton John Griswold and the late Virginia Renalds Griswold. He is employed as a QA Inspector with Frischkorn, Inc. in Morresville. Escorted by their daughters, Cassie Starr Dunigan and Rachel Ann Grindle, the bride wore a strapless ivory matte satin gown featuring a bodice embellished with sequined beaded embroidery. The back featured an embelllished corseted back with sequined beaded embroidery mini train. She carried a bouquet of pink roses bound with a light pink silk ribbon. Following a brief honeymoon at the Bed and Breakfast Inn at Bingham School in Chapel Hill, the couple will reside in Sanford. n Events The reception dinner was hosted by the father of the bride at Davison’s Steak House.

Hilliard — Blodgett James Hilliard and Loretta Thomas, both of Sanford, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Megan Hilliard of Wake Forest, to Timothy Jesse Vince Blodgett of Wake Forest. He is the son of Debbie Vince and Kenneth Blodgett of Manchester, Conn. The wedding is planned for 3 p.m. Nov. 13 at Grace Chapel in Sanford. The couple met at a Rascal Flatts concert in the summer of 2007.

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for authentic arrowheads. I sneaked into Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hiding place and mailed off a box, hoping to surprise him with a large check. Instead I received a quarter a piece and a tongue-lashing that pertnear burst my eardrums! Daddy, a devout tobacco farmer, liked to brag about his favorite crop. Daddy read in The Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Almanac that the tobacco plant had been around even before Jesus Christ and was used in tribal rituals and religious ceremonies possibly dating back to 100 B.C. The Almanac stated that tobacco was traced to 800 A.D. when the Chinese and later the Aztecs and Mayans used it for healing. Ancient Oriental medicine men created herbal poultices of tobacco leaves and claimed to cure various afflictions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tobacco smoke would induce spells in the living and would help the dead pass into eternity,â&#x20AC;? Daddy told me. Our kissinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cousin Nathan Crissman, who rose to fame as the countywide tax collector and married Mary Alice Lett, the veterans service officer, loved to talk about tobaccoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich heritage. One day we were shooting the breeze around the potbellied stove at Grandpaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s country store when Nathan told us that while tobacco was first raised by the Native American Indians it was white men who made it

into a commercial product in the 1600s in Jamestown, Virginia. Nathan said John Riddle established the first domestic, as well as export trade, on our continent and that tobacco became the economic cornerstone of the New World society. With tobacco in place as Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first commerce, colonial organization was the next order for business. Nathan said the Virginia Assembly regulated tobacco production so settlers would balance this moneymaking crop with food-growing activities. Tobacco was considered currency, and tobacco pounds were the standard rate of exchange among trading partners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taxes were paid, and all goods were traded in terms of tobacco value,â&#x20AC;? Nathan said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tobacco pounds were used to buy wives and to pay preachers.â&#x20AC;? Nathanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments made me realize that as much as I disliked the toils of tobacco, America was a tobacco society. As a lover of history I had to admit that tobacco was probably the most important crop in the South for many years. It has certainly been a valuable economic commodity in the United States. In recent years, due to an advanced understanding about the health risks associated with tobacco consumption, especially smoking, opinions have change dramatically about tobacco. Now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates tobacco and therefore cigarette advertising is

practically forbidden in mainstream media. In regard to tobacco farmers, buyers, manufacturers, and retailers, I am reminded of the quote by Upton Sinclair in 1935. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.â&#x20AC;? In an article in a 2009 issue of the Southeast Farm Press: Billy Yeargin, author of North Carolina Tobacco: A History, says that when he learned that the Federal tobacco regulatory legislation had passed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;My initial reaction was that it is a sign of the times. What stands out when you look at tobacco history is just how drastically the attitude towards tobacco in this country has evolved. How far have we come? Remember that in the Colonial Era, tobacco was so important to the economies of the mid Atlantic states that they actually used it as their currency. Yeargin continues: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It certainly hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been that long since tobacco leaders had a very free hand in advancing the commodity, knowing that its economic impact of the commodity assured a hands-off treatment by government. Now, the strength of tobacco is vastly diluted. We have embarked on a trip down a river of no return, and the situation wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get better. We have been made smaller and certainly not any stronger, and the federal government can now simply do as it pleases with regard to this crop.â&#x20AC;?

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president of the organization in 1975. Just a few months ago, nearly four decades after his first campaign, Bill agreed to serve as honorary campaign chairman for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effort. And it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just the United Way. Bill was deeply involved in the Boy Scouts of America, receiving its Distinguished Citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Award three years ago, and helped guide the Sanford Rotary, Highway to Healing, our local Boys and Girls Clubs and First Baptist Church, among many others. In fact, he worked so tirelessly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and effectively â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for our community that Bill was honored in 2008 with The Heraldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lifetime Achievement Award. Bill Lawrence passed away a few weeks ago. He already is sorely missed and, in countless ways, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all a little bit

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he went out to save his friend. He managed to bring him back, only to fall mortally wounded as he staggered into the trench. The officer was angry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told you not to go,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I have lost two good men. It was not worth it!â&#x20AC;? With his dying breath the heroic young soldier said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it was worth it, Sir, because when I got to him, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Jim, I knew you would come.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? It was unspeakable love that brought Christ from heaven to earth

diminished by the loss. In other ways, though, we should be encouraged. We continue to be blessed by the legacy he leaves behind, including the many people he influenced and an example of selfless service we can all aspire to reach. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that not everyone has the time or skills to make this kind of commitment, but everyone can help in some way. Bill got started quietly, without fanfare, as Scoutmaster for Troop 941 in Sanford. Countless others in our community have done the same â&#x20AC;&#x201D; spending just a few hours now and then reading to children, driving cancer patients to the doctor, collecting food for the needy, hammering nails to help a family get a new home or reading news articles for the blind. Just think what a difference you can make in someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life by doing the same thing

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and how much there is to gain yourself. Bill always talked about the wonderful people he met along the way and the enormous sense of satisfaction he enjoyed by watching struggling adults turn around their lives or young people walk through doors of opportunity. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Bill Lawrence understood as well as anyone. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why he decided to get involved and why, despite his failing health, he continued serving his neighbors until the very end. If all of us followed his example, volunteering just a few hours each month, just imagine the lasting impact we could have on others and how much stronger we all would be. So consider how you can make your own impact. It would be a fitting way to honor someone like Bill Lawrence â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it could end up being his (and your) most lasting contribution of all.

on that first Advent, and then led Him to go to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;no-manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-landâ&#x20AC;? called Calvary, there to be wounded and to die an excruciating death, that He might bring all who believe back from death to life, from defeat to victory, from sin to salvation. The grand and glorious message of the gospel is that in the future at a time of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own choosing, Jesus will come again to earth! He will come for those who have accepted Him as Savior and Lord to carry them safely to that eternal city the Bible calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New Jerusalem.â&#x20AC;? This is the promise

that Jesus personally made to His disciples following His resurrection from the grave and prior to His ascension: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In My Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be alsoâ&#x20AC;? (John 14:2-3 NASB). On that glorious day Christians who live on the earth at that time will be able to say to Him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew You would come!â&#x20AC;? Would you be ready to meet Him if that were today?

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Upcoming Meetings Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who have a desire to quit drinking alcohol. Meetings are held at two locations. The 6 p.m. Sunday meeting is open to guests and family members. Meetings are held at 319 N. Moore St., Sunday at 4:30 p.m. for women’s meeting and 6 p.m. for speaker meeting; Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon, 6 and 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at noon and 6 p.m. Meetings are held at Jonesboro United Methodist Church, 407 W. Main St., at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. For more information, call (919) 776-5522.

Al-Anon Family Group

The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experiences, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems. Al-Anon believes that alcoholism is a family illness and that changed attitudes can aid recover. The N.C. Al-Anon District 7 Central Carolina Al-Anon Family Group meetings are held at 8 p.m. Tuesdays at Jonesboro United Methodist Church, 407 W. Main St., and 8 p.m. Fridays at the AA Hut, 319 N. Moore St. For more information, call (919) 776-5522.

Gamblers Anonymous

Gamblers Anonymous meets at 8 p.m. each Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 525 Carthage St. For more information, call the Gamblers Anonymous hotline at (888) 846-4427, or visit www.gamblersanonymous.org.

Beaver Creek Cancer Support Group

The support group meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Beaver Creek Baptist Church, 2280 Nicholson Road, Cameron. Directors are Gloria and Jimmy Wicker. For more information, call (919) 775-2544.

Friendship Masonic Lodge 763 A.F. & A.M.

The Friendship Masonic Lodge 763 A.F. & A.M. conducts its stated communication at 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the meeting hall, located at 102 Main St. in Broadway. Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m.

Central Carolina Jaycees

The Central Carolina Jaycees meet at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday and fourth Thursday of each month at the Jaycee Hut on Tryon Street. Membership is open to anyone between the age of 21 to 40.

Breast Cancer Support Group

Central Carolina Hospital’s Breast Cancer Support Group

will hold monthly meetings for survivors of breast cancer at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month in the Women’s Center at the hospital, 1135 Carthage St., Sanford. Reservations are not necessary. For more information, contact Gwyn Sandlin, Breast Health Navigator, at (919) 774-2213.

ALS Support Group The ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) Support Group meets from 2 to 4 p.m. the second Sunday of each month at Fayetteville Regional Airport Conference Room sponsored by The Jim “Catfish” Hunter Chapter of the ALS Association. For more information, contact Suzanne Gilroy at (877) 568-4347 or Suzanne@ catfishchapter.org.

Depression and Bipolar Disorder Support Group The support group is open to anyone who has been diagnosed or think they may have a mood disorder or has a family member or friend who has been diagnosed with a mood disorder. The Harnett County group will meet at 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of each month at the old CCCC Barber School, 17273 Hwy. 27 East, Sanford. The Lee County group will meet at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of each month in the Wilrik Apartments Ballroom, corner of Wicker and Steele, Sanford. For more information, contact Rae Wilson at (919) 775-5045 or brightside39@ yahoo.com.

TOPS Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a nonprofit, international weight-loss support group, meets each Monday at the First Baptist Church Family Life Center, 202 Summit Drive. Weigh-in begins at 5:30 p.m.; meeting starts at 6 p.m. For more information, call (919) 775-7451 or (919) 258-6233.

SEANC District 22 invites all state employees to join the SEANC meetings the second Monday of each month in the Spring Lake Library. For more information contact Michele Shaw, chairman, at www. micheleshaw22@gmail.com.

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Lee County Mothers with Young Children Lee County Mothers with Young Children meets from 9:30 a.m. to noon every Thursday. Mothers of children from birth to age 5 are welcome. For more information, call (919) 353-5617.

Overeaters Anonymous Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step recovery from compulsive overeating, meets from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Kerr Drugs, 1050 S. Horner Blvd., in the health and wellness learning lab. For more information, contact Marie at (910) 850-7863.

National Active and Retired Federal Employees The Sanford Chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) association meets on the third Monday of each month. All active and retired federal employees are invited to attend. For more information, call President Jimmie Coggin at (919) 775-3197.

Marine Corps League Marine Corps League Detachment 1223 meets at 7 p.m. the first Monday of each month at VFW Stanley McLeod Post 5631 on Webb Street in Sanford. Any Marine who has served honorably is invited to join the Marine Corps League.

American Legion Post 382 American Legion Post 382 and Auxiliary meet at 7 p.m. the first and third Monday of each month. Bingo begins at 6:30 p.m. every Friday. Post 382 is located at 305 Legion Drive in Sanford.

DAV Chapter 5 Disabled American Veterans Michael J. Thomas Chapter 5 meet at 7 p.m.

the first Thursday of each month at 146 S. Main St. in Broadway.

Central Carolina Toastmasters The Central Carolina Toastmasters club meets from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Monday of each month in Room 802 of the College Fitness Center at Central Carolina Community College. Membership is open to the public. The club provides a relaxed atmosphere to help improve public speaking skills while developing leadership skills. For more information, call Cynthia Wilt at (919) 4996009 or Vivian Rosser at (919) 718-7236 or visit the website at www.centralcarolina.freetoasthost.biz.

Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary The DAVA meet at 10 a.m. the first Thursday of the month at the Disabled American Veterans hall on Main St. in Broadway. The auxiliary welcomes all who eligible for membership. For more information call, Shirley at (919) 721-0873.

Lions Branch Club The Lions Branch Club meets at noon the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the Lions Club Fairground Lions Den. Cost is $6. Everyone is invited. For more information, call Teresa Dew at (919) 7746273.

Veterans Discussion Group The Veterans Discussion Group meets at 2 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at the Enrichment Center. Members and family are welcome.

Therapeutic Foster Parent Sessions Information sessions on becoming a Therapeutic Foster Parent with N.C. Mentor will be held from 12 to 1 p.m. every Wednesday at the Simpson Executive Center, 503 Carthage St., Suite 302.

For more information, call (919) 790-8580 ext. 7151.

Sanford Lodge No. 151 A.F. & A.M The Sanford Lodge No. 151 A.F. & A.M. holds its regular communications at 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, supper is usually served at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday. For further information, call (919) 499-8669. The Lodge is located at 231 Charlotte Ave., Sanford.

For more information, call Chuch Dittmar at (910) 8486126.

Meals on Wheels of Sanford

Meals on Wheels of Sanford deliver nutritious specialized diet meals five days a week to residents of Sanford who are homebound and unable to prepare meals for themselves. Many people are struggling to make ends meet and are finding it difficult to pay for their meals. The Sanford Meals on Wheels Board of Directors Sanford supplements some of the Jobseekers costs with donated funds. Sanford Jobseekers, a Sanford Meals on Wheels faith-based support group for does not receive government those who are unemployed, funding and relies on charimeets from 8:30 to 10:45 table donations from organia.m. each Wednesday at zations and individuals. First Baptist Church. The priFor more information about mary focus of the group is to Meals on Wheels, call (919) give encouragement to those 708-4181. out of work, and provide proMeals on Wheels is a grams to help that individual nonprofit organization. Tax obtain employment. For ques- deductible donations can be tions, call (919) 776-6137. made to Meals on Wheels, P.O. Box 2991, Sanford, N.C. DAV Chapter 83 27330.

of Moore County Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 83 of Moore County meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at 1020 Priest Hill Road, Carthage. DAV is a service organization dedicated to assisting disabled veterans. Service officers are available to help veterans with VA paperwork Tuesday through Thursday. For an appointment, call (910) 944-1113.

Lee County Scottish Rite Club The Lee County Scottish Rite Club conducts its monthly meeting every month on the third Thursday at the Bay Breeze Seafood Restaurant in Sanford. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. and is held in the meeting room. All Scottish Rite Masons are welcome.

Fleet Reserve Association

Hearts and Hands ECA Quilt Guild The Hearts and Hands ECA Quilt Guild will be offering another basic quilting course at the McSwain Extension. This course will consist of two sessions on Sept. 11 and Sept. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants will make a 48 x 54 quilt from start to finish and will learn rotary cutting, piecing, applying borders, marking, simple machine quilting and binding. Participants will be able to choose from top of the line fabric packets appealing to all age groups. Sewing machine and basic machine sewing skills are required. The cost is $63 and includes instruction and all fabric and batting. The class will be taught by Barbara Massengill. To sign up for the class call Kay Morton at the Center at (919) 775-5624.

Fleet Reserve Association and Unit 259 meet the fourth Club news deadline is 3 Tuesday of each month at p.m. Tuesday. E-mail informathe Retired Military Association to edwardsk@sanfordhertion building in Fayetteville, ald.com. located off Gillispe Street.

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HIV/AIDS Support An HIV/AIDS Support Group meets from noon to 2 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at different locations in Chatham County. Lunch is provided. The group offers emotional support, education on medications, financial assistance and a caring environment. Any Chatham County resident with HIV/AIDS is invited to attend. Confidentiality is a must. For more information, contact Crystal Campbell at (919) 542-8271.

Cancer Support The Sanford Cancer Support Group meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Enrichment Center. Facilitator is Linda

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6C / Sunday, August 8, 2010 / The Sanford Herald Past Club News Kiwanis Club of Lee County

President Matt Jackson presided over the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Lee County held at Davison’s Steaks on July 28. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was led by Teresa Coggins and the invocation was given by Dal Langston. The project fund tickets were sold by Jimmy Tucker and Rita Oglesbee was the winner. Happy dollars came from Oglesbee, Lyn Hankins, Linda Moore and Susan Campbell. Anna Whittington was the guest of Coggins. President Jackson reminded the membership of the club’s raffle drawing on Aug. 10 and encouraged everyone to sell their tickets. Looking ahead to football season, he said that the joint Kiwanis Pancake Supper will be Sept. 3 at Southern Lee High prior to the game that night between Southern Lee and Lee Senior. Lyn Hankins told about the Sanford Area Habitat for Humanity fundraiser that is set for Friday, Aug. 27. Sally Porter introduced Michelle Garner, office manager for Oak Ranch and the speaker for the day. A division of Baptist Children’s Homes, Oak Ranch is located on 755 acres near Broadway and is the first placement opportunity for at-risk boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 17. BCH’s Oak Ranch environment provides each child a place where he or she can experience hope, encouragement and understanding. Prepared with a scrapbook video and brochures, Garner told of the wonderful success rate in transforming pain into smiles. Through therapy designed for each child’s particular needs, these young folks realize that they are acceptable, lovable, forgivable, valuable and capable. Learning also to give back as well as be helped, each one eventually wants to care about and help others. For more information or to schedule a visit, Garner encouraged calling (919) 258-5437 or to learn more go to www. bchfamily.org/ranch .

Sanford Lions Club

The Inspector General at Pope Air Force Base was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Sanford Lions Club Thursday, July 29, and presented an informative program describing his Air Force career and changes taking place at the base. Lt. Col. Jonathan Shockey was accompanied by Vicki Johnson, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant who is now Chief of Public Affairs for the 43rd Airlift Wing assigned to Pope. Lt. Col. Shockey’s 19 years of Air Force service has carried him to many bases throughout the United States and the world as a C-130 pilot and flight instructor. That includes being among the earliest crews to fly into Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan at the beginning of that war following the 9-11 attack in New York. But the officer now calls Sanford home as his wife, Joy, is a local native and they plan to maintain their residence here until he retires. The couple has two children and they are members of Cool Springs Baptist Church as is Lion Bucky Phillips, who was in charge of the program. Lt. Col. Shockey explained how Pope AFB was programmed for

realignment under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) law. The Air Force and U.S. Army at Fort Bragg are still engaged in the transition process, but when completed all installation support functions and real property at the air base become a part of the Fort Bragg garrison under the U.S. Army. The air base will become Pope Army Airfield, yet Air Force personnel will still operate air support services for Fort Bragg. When completed, Fort Bragg will be home to one-tenth of the Army’s fighting force and that means that the role of the U.S. Air Force there will be more important than ever, the officer said. President Dr. Marvin Joyner presided, citing a number of members on the sick list to be remembered and recognized Lion Glenn Jones upon his return following a lengthy absence, and also Lion Billy Miller, who was recently hospitalized. The invocation was delivered by Bill Whiteman and the Pledge of Allegiance was led by Jimmy Bridges. Wendell McGee led the club in singing the first and third verses of the “Star Spangled Banner.”

Speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Lee County on July 28 is Michelle Garner (right), the office manager at BCH’s Oak Ranch. Pictured with Garner is Kiwanis Club of Lee County member Sally Porter.

San-Lee Sunrise Rotary Past President Neal Jensen (right) presented contribution checks to Trina McNeill (left) and Maxine Mortensen (center left) representing HAVEN, Grace Aiken representing Christians United Outreach Center (center) and Sue Jarvis representing The Salvation Army (center right).

San-Lee Sunrise Rotarian Kevin Kirkman introduced his wife Terry (center), with Back Pack Pals of Lee County, for a program describing how for the price of a meal for two at a casual dining restaurant Lee County citizens can sponsor for a month a Lee County child who has little or nothing to eat during the weekend. Also pictured is San-Lee Sunrise Rotary President Marcy Santini.

Sanford Lions heard an update on the base realignment progress at Pope Air Force Base at its meeting Thursday, July 29. President Dr. Marvin Joyner (left) and Program Chairman Bucky Phillips (right) are shown with Pope’s Inspector General Lt. Col. Jonathan Shockey and Vicki Johnson, chief of community relations for the 43rd Airlift Wing.

The Sanford Area Society of Shaggers recently donated $500 to the Boys and Girls Club in Lee County. Pictured are (from left) Darrell Hilliard, SASS member, and Bo Hedrick, Chief Professional Officer of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sanford/Lee County.

The Sanford Area Society of Shaggers recently donated $500 to the Bread Basket in Lee County. Pictured are (from left) Sheila Erford, SASS Treasurer, and Del Jones, representing the Bread Basket.

San-Lee Sunrise Rotary Club President Marcy Santini opened the meeting with the Quote of the Week: “You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.” -Bill Cosby. Howard Logue led the Rotary invocation, and Ashley Hinman led the Pledge of Allegiance. Rotary guests Larry Aiken from Jonesboro Rotary, Joy Gilmore from Sanford Rotary, and John and Nancy Pawloski from Utica, N.Y., were recognized. Other Rotary guests for a Rotary Action meeting were Tony Lett and David Spivey. Club guests, Trina McNeill, Associate Director of HAVEN and Maxine Mortensen also with HAVEN, Grace Aiken with Christian United Outreach Center, Terry Kirkman with Back Pack Pals, Sue Jarvis with the Salvation Army and Atul Patel and Roger Darr were also recognized. In Good News‚ Neal Jensen enjoyed a weekend of golf with his son and a weekend of child chasing with his daughter and son-in-law. Kevin Kirkman announced his and Terry’s 14th anniversary. Hinman announced his back surgery will be on Aug. 25 to increase his mobility. In Community News‚ HAVEN will have two events in October 2010. On Oct. 9, HAVEN will sponsor a golf tournament at Carolina Trace, and on October 20th a HAVEN Naming Rights breakfast will be held. Larry Aiken announced the North Carolina Symphony will return to Lee County with a performance conducted by Grant Llewellyn on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Dennis Wicker Civic Center. Past President Neal Jensen presented checks to Trina McNeill and Maxine Mortensen representing HAVEN, Grace Aiken representing Christians United Outreach Center and Sue Jarvis representing The Salvation Army. Kevin Kirkman introduced his wife Terry, with Back Pack Pals of Lee

3) The Sanford Area Society of Shaggers recently donated $500 to the CCCC Foundation/Don Buie Scholarship Fund. Pictured are (from left) Rosemary Parten, SASS VP, and Diane Glover, Executive Director of the CCCC Foundation. County, for a program describing how for the price of a meal for two at a casual dining restaurant Lee County citizens can sponsor for a month a Lee County child who has little or nothing to eat during the weekend. When teachers identify children who are anxious on Friday afternoon contemplating a weekend without food or return to school on Monday morning lethargic from a weekend without eating, it is a moment for help from Back Pack Pals. Back Pack Pals provides backpacks of food for weekend consumption. In September of 2008 Back Pack Pals developed from a prayer group which began feeding 48 children and is feeding 300 a week in 2010. The group packs the backpacks at 10 a.m. each Thursday at David Simpson Construction Company, 513 Wicker St., and gladly accepts volunteers. Back Pack Pals hopes to expand their program into the middle schools in the near future. President Santini led the Four Way Test.

Lee County Genealogical and Historical Society The Lee County Genealogical and Historical Society met July 20 in the W.B. Wicker School for a talk on the school’s history by John Howard, who was a student there, with a history of surrounding Sanford by Jimmy Haire. A wooden school started on Washington Avenue with five classrooms for Sanford’s African-American students. After 1900 the Lee County Board of Education took it over and called it the Graded School. W.B. Wicker was appointed as principal and added high school grades to it. Enrollment was over 300 pupils. Mr. Wicker grew up on Washington Avenue and after college in Virginia he returned to Sanford. The frame school was closed and Rosenwald Funds were used to build a new school in 1926-27. It was a 10-teacher school with library built to plans distributed by Tuskegee Institute. Other names for the school were Lee County Training School, Lee High School and finally W.B. Wicker School.

The Sanford Area Society of Shaggers recently donated $6,000 to the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina. Pictured are (from left) Teresa White; Gary White; Jobie Deese, SASS President; Billy Parten; Cindy White; Kimberly Wood, representing Make-a-Wish Foundation; Donna Thomason; Rosemary Parten, SASS VP; Sandy Forsythe; Sheila Erford and Mike Thomason. Wicker was there for 42 years. He enlarged the curriculum from nine subject to 15 subjects. Lee County was usually reluctant to name schools after a living person but did do that in the case of Mr. Wicker. Wicker School had a band, glee club and sports like football, basketball and baseball. They were state champions in 1954 in baseball. The school had a tennis court between the agriculture building and gym. Every second year the alumni of Wicker have a reunion in Sanford. Lincoln “Link” Boykin built the brick school on S. Vance Street. The property was provided by Mr. and Mrs. Boykin in 1926. Boykin was a black builder who built many houses in Sanford and at the height of his career had a crew of 50 men working for him. Julius Rosenwald was the CEO of Sears and Roebuck from 1923-32. He was a philanthropist and friend of Booker T. Washington. His fund helped run a rural school

building program for African-American children. More than 5,300 schools, mostly in the southeastern part of the U.S. were built. North Carolina had 813 schools built which were the most of any state. The fund made a grant of $2,100 seed money and the community had to raise the rest of the money. The local school board had to agree to operate the school with their other schools. In 1996 the buildings and campus were auctioned off to Wicker Development, LLC headed by Bill Wilson, a lawyer in Lee County for $11,500. Wilson gave the school to the Brick Capital Community Development Corp. The U-shaped one-story buildings were demolished and there are parking lots there now for the CCCC students. The Society’s next meeting will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 24 at the Common Thread Studios, 324 Carthage St., just down from First Citizens Bank. There will be a talk about the art of weaving and its history and a demonstration.

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the future, that he was putting his credibility on the line for a whole nation to view. If any word he spoke did not come to pass he could even be stoned as a false prophet (Deut. 18:20). Nonetheless, the explicit obedience to the Lord, even in the face of retribution and a death sentence, proved his title was well earned. A man of God will always do Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bidding regardless of the consequences. There is no â&#x20AC;&#x153;conditionâ&#x20AC;? to which he will or will not obey. Like Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three friends who faced the fiery furnace yet would not bow down to the kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s image, so this man of God was obedient without hesitation. The Lord supernaturally protected His servant (read v.4-6) but then tested him with regard to what He had commanded. God had

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told the man of God that he was not to receive lodging or provisions or reward from anyone, but that he should return from Bethel by a different way. The king entreated him to stay with him and be refreshed and outfitted for his journey but the man of God refused. He could easily have rationalized a short stay in Bethel but he steadfastly obeyed the word of the Lord. God knew that the praise of men could compromise the man of God and was warning His servant of a greater peril than a kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrath; a kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reward. The man of God must be ever cautious to work only for Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approval and not menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. So many potential men of God have fallen to this deceptive temptation. The Bible speaks of total obedience without compromise or fear of consequences as the qualification for the title of man of God. Oh that more believers would be willing to make the grade.

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want. Let the Lord lead your heart.â&#x20AC;? Allen, who recently converted to Christianity from Islam, said a friend at a traditional church introduced him to the house church, which he prefers and occasionally attends because â&#x20AC;&#x153;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more down to earth.â&#x20AC;? A few people agreed to write checks directly to the companies Allen owes while some debated whether money is the best way to help the man. A couple with five young children told him they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to assist financially but he was always welcome to join them in their home for meals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say the vast majority of house churches we know are Christians honestly trying to live 24-7 for Jesus,â&#x20AC;? said Tony Dale of Austin. He and his wife, Felicity, are pioneers

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in the American house church movement which is also referred to as home church, organic church or simple church. There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any signs out front so house churches are difficult to find. Prospective worshippers usually locate them by searching the Internet or through word of mouth. Members rotate the services from house to house and take turns facilitating the gatherings. Anything more than about 15 people and the small group loses its ability to interact with each person, churchgoers say. When they get too large, they divide and multiply. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We view it as natural to grow, flourish and disband into three or four new ones,â&#x20AC;? Dale said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not everything multiplies. Sometimes it shrinks and dies.â&#x20AC;? Sometimes congregations with diverse religious backgrounds break

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up over doctrinal issues or personality conflicts, moving on until they find or create a better fit. In Texas, home to several megachurches, the house church movement is beginning to catch on, judging from the chatter on social networking sites and interest in a national house church conference organized by House2House Ministries held in the Dallas area in recent years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Often when you see a trend (like the growing number of megachurches) you see a countertrend, like the proliferation of micro-churches,â&#x20AC;? Stetzer said. The Dales are among those actively working to bring mega- and microchurches together. Tony Dale cites the Apex Community Church in Dayton, Ohio, and The Austin Stone Community Church in Austin as

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examples of the complementary approach. They operate a network of dozens of small house churches, which can band together to become big. Some who embrace the concept â&#x20AC;&#x153;have become kind of disillusioned, maybe bored with whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on in traditional church and looking for a way to be more passionate in church,â&#x20AC;? said Dale, who co-founded House2House magazine. Bill Benninghoff of Arlington, a former pastor of charismatic churches in Texas and North Carolina, has been attending house churches exclusively since 2005. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get to know people in their good and bad times,â&#x20AC;? said Benninghoff, a software engineer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get to pray with one another and have an incredible sense of camaraderie and community.â&#x20AC;?

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n Sanford Central Class of 1965 Sanford Central Class of 1965 will hold its 45th class reunion at 7 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Elks Club, 910 Carthage St., Sanford. Tickets are $35 for a couple and $20 for a single. There will be a dutch treat dinner and “meet & greet” at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 at Davison’s Steaks on Westover Drive for classmates and their guests. Please make checks payable to Sanford Central Class of 1965 and mail to Jack Dickens, 673 Bruce Coggins Road, Sanford N.C. 27332. For more information, call Jack at

775-5705. n Sanford Central Class of 1970 Sanford Central High School Class of 1970 will hold a reunion from 7 p.m. to midnight Sept. 18 at Chef Paul’s restaurant. Cost per person is $30 with a cash bar. For more information, call LaVerne at 774-8827. Classmates will gather at 8 p.m. Sept. 17 at The Flame for social time. Each classmate will cover the cost of their own food and drinks. n Lee Senior Class of 1985 The Lee Senior Class of

1985 will hold its 25th class reunion from 7:30 to midnight Oct. 2 at the Westlake Club. Advance tickets are $30 per couple and $20 for single. Make checks payable to: Lee County Class of 1985; mail to: First Bank, c/o Stewart Forbes, 2630 S. Horner Blvd., Sanford, N.C. 27330. n Lee Senior Class of 1990 The Lee County High School Class of 1990 will hold its 20th class reunion at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Elks Club, 910 Carthage St., Sanford. Tickets are $40 per couple and $25 per single. Family fun night will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Lee Senior vs. Holly Springs football game. Admission is $5 at the gate.

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Family n Matthews The Matthews family reunion will be held at 1 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Dennis Wicker Civic Center. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish. For more information, contact Tommy Matthews at (919) 774-4004. o To add a reunion annoouncement, contact Kim Edwards at edwardsk@ sanfordherald.com.

Aubrey Dew Aubrey Lynne Dew turns 5 years old today. Her parents are Chad and Stacy Dew of Cameron. Grandparents are Jerry and Linda Smith of Cameron and Charles and Libby Dew of Sanford. Great-grandparents are George and Mary Lloyd of Cameron.

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Shelby Marie Bitting turned 2 years old July 8. Her parents are Matthew and Dawn Bitting of Sanford. Grandparents are Leo and Sandy Bitting of Windsor, Ohio, and Brenda Kelly and Dan Burnside, both of Sanford.

Andrew Bjergstad turned 4 years old July 24. His parents are Kim and Anne Garey Bjergstad of Havdrup, Denmark. Grandparents are Kathy Keith Garey of Alexandria, Va., Ron Salyer of Plant City, Fla., and Tonny and Hisako Bjergstad of Kastrup, Denmark. Greatgrandmothers are Annie McLeod Keith of Jonesboro and Lilli Bjergstad of Hvidovre, Denmark.

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Kadin Pedley turned 6 years old July 27. His parents are Kirk and Jamie Pedley of Sanford. Grandparents are Kevin and Becky Pedley and Jimmy and LaVerne Maddox, all of Sanford.

Johnothan Thomas Wicker turned 6 years old Aug. 4. His parents are Tracy and Lisa Wicker of Sanford. Grandparents are Jerry and Nancy Kennedy, Loretta Wicker and Larry and Debbie Wicker, all of Sanford.

Kiddie Korner Guidelines Kiddie Korner is for children 6 and under. A child’s picture may appear in Kiddie Korner one time per year. Kiddie Korner forms are available at The Herald office, 208 St. Clair Court. Forms also can be faxed or e-mailed upon request. Deadline for Kiddie Korner is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Photos submitted for Kiddie Korner may be picked up at The Herald after they have appeared in the paper. Photos

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