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The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
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SUNDAYQUICKREAD
Sunday Spotlight: Lee Regional Fair
Sports
FOOTBALL PLAYERS ALL OVER TOWN SALUTE ONE OF THEIR OWN From Friday night’s Brick City Bowl to Saturday’s Sanford Sting games, the name of Josh Britt, a former Lee County linebacker who died in an auto accident in May, was on a lot of people’s minds this weekend Sports, Page 1B Scenes from the Brick City Bowl, Pages 6-7B
BUsiness
WESLEY BEESON
Anthony McKoy, then 3, waves to his family as he goes for a ride on the “Circus Train” at last year’s Lee Regional Fair.
AREA TRAINER WANTS TO HELP GET WORKERS BACK IN SHAPE The Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently ranked the state 10th in the nation in obesity, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just reported that one in four North Carolinians had not exercised in the past month Page 9B
Nation
UPCOMING 9/11 ANNIVERSARY PUTS MUSLIMS IN STRANGE SPOT American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities Page 11A
State Main lnk between outer Banks, mainland reopens after earl Coastal residents and vacationers shrugged off the fading effects of Hurricane Earl and got ready to enjoy Labor Day weekend Saturday as officials reopened the main highway linking the Outer Banks to the mainland Page 9A
GULF OIL SPILL CREWS FORCED TO WAIT BEFORE HOISTING KEY DEVICE Icelike crystals had formed Saturday on the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, forcing BP crews to wait before they could safely hoist the device to the surface Page 12A
Vol. 80, No. 207 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
A good time for all Fair organizers are expecting a much bigger turnout this year
By JENNIFER GENTILE
WANT TO GO?
jgentile@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — With a new bear show, high-wire trapeze act and enlarged midway, the Lee Regional Fair may draw its largest crowd to date in 2010. The fair, which runs from Sept. 14 through 19, is now in its 73rd year. Organizers are promising another award-winning party, which routinely attracts residents from a four-county radius and beyond. Fair steering committee member George Harvey expects this year’s attendance to top 2009, when turnout lagged due to inclement weather and poor economic conditions.
WHAT: Lee Regional Fair WHEN: Sept. 14-19 WHERE: Lee County Fairgrounds, located at the corner of Weatherspoon and 7th streets. ADMISSION: $6, ride armbands $17; armbands available in advance at area schools and local Piggly Wiggly stores for $14
Emma Carter, then 9 months (left), takes a look back at her competition, Anthony Emmert, then 10 months, during last year’s Diaper Derby at the Lee Regional Fair. “Based on what we’re hearing through the fair network, up and down the East Coast,
fairs are having greater attendance this year than last,” Harvey said, projecting a
turnout of 30,000 to 35,000. “I think because of the economy, people are staying closer to home.” As usual, he added, “Weather is a huge factor for us.”
Fair, Page 4A
Head of the Class Initiative
Schools
Curiosity the drive behind plan
Admins to get raises
By ALEXA MILAN
amilan@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Dennis Wicker and Carol Chappell have always had a thirst for curiosity. At five years old, they climbed into the front seat of the car while their mothers were in a bakery and took off, rolling backward down a hill and barreling toward an intersection until a stranger intervened and saved the day. That was long before Wicker became North Carolina’s lieutenant governor and the founding chairman of the Lee County Education Foundation, and long before Chappell stepped into her role as Lee County Schools director of K-5 instruction. But their curiosity hasn’t faded, nor has the connection these first cousins share. It’s taken them a long way from their
Happening Today n The Silk Hope Old Fashioned Farmers Day will be held in Silk Hope. Visit the past and marvel at how things were done in the “old days.” For more information, visit silkhoperuritans.com/ prod02.htm or call (919) 742-2972.
CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
By ALEXA MILAN
amilan@sanfordherald.com
AP photo
Former Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker and his cousin Carol Chappell of Lee County Schools worked together to formulate the program that could mean serious money to one lucky school. days of car stealing to the development of an initiative that could change education in Lee County, possibly throughout the state or even across the country. When Wicker and the Lee County Education Founda-
tion first started formulating the Head of Class Project, an incentive-based program that will award $50,000 annually to the
See Cousins, Page 5A
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SANFORD — A few Lee County Schools administrators are receiving raises for the 2010-2011 school year because of new responsibilities and years of good service, according to Jeff Moss, superintendent of Lee County Schools. The assistant superintendent of financial and business services, the assistant superintendent of human resources, the chief technology officer, the director of maintenance, the director of
See Raises, Page 5A
INDEX
More Weather, Page 14A
OBITUARIES
Billy Liggett
Sanford: M. Doris Allen, 74; William H. McDougald, 63,
The Herald’s editor didn’t get the game he expected on his trip to Atlanta this weekend
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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 8B Business........................... 9B Classifieds...................... 11B Sunday Crossword............. 7C Community calendar........... 2A Horoscope......................... 8B Obituaries.......................... 5A Opinion...........................6-7A Scoreboard........................ 4B