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Neighbors respond to break-ins Uptick in home robberies, other crimes in Rosemount-McIver district has forced neighborhood to create network, post ‘no trespassing’ signs By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
TEMPLE READY TO ‘RAZZLE, DAZZLE ‘EM’ The Herald will give you all the advance details on Temple Theatre’s opening show of the 2010-2011 season, “Chicago,” which begins Sept. 16 and runs through Oct. 3.
SANFORD — For Kathy Carroll, things began to change in the Rosemount-McIver neighborhood about a month ago. Stories began to pile-up of break-ins, intruders slitting window screens in the late-night hours and pillaging
homes while the residents slept. Talk spread of shadowy figures busting into basements and slipping away before police arrived. “We’ve got a lot of upset people,” Carroll said. “And a lot of people are not getting any sleep wondering if they’re going to be next.” Residents in the historic
Sanford neighborhood say they’re gripped with fear following a rash of home invasions since August. Sanford police could not say how many break-ins have affected the district, although Chief Ronnie Yarborough confirmed Monday that the
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It just seems really close to home now. It feels like they’re attacking us one after another.”
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he game may have been one-sided, but last Friday’s Brick City Bowl — the fifth annual battle against Sanford’s two high schools in football — provided equal-opportunity fun for both sides. The Herald’s Wesley Beeson was there with his camera to capture not only the game, but the pageantry on both sides — from the bands to the fans. See his photos online today at www.sanfordherald.com in our photo gallery and purchase photos by clicking our “MyCapture” link at the top left-hand corner of our website.
SCHOOL DESEG PIONEER DIES OF CANCER AT 67 Jefferson Thomas, a pioneer in school desegregation died Sunday at an extended-care living facility in Columbus, Ohio, of pancreatic cancer at age 67 Full Story, Page 7A
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OUR STATE GUILFORD COUNTY GETS TOUGH ON ATHLETES In an effort to boost academic achievement, Guilford County schools are putting at least 111 student athletes in the district on the bench because they couldn’t maintain a grade point average of 2.0 Full Story, Page 6A
ENTERTAINMENT JUDGE DROPS CHARGES IN TRAVOLTA CASE A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta Full Story, Page 9A
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Campaign season revs up with GOP optimism brimming
Cameron man charged in home invasion that led to man’s death
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s election season kicks into high gear after Labor Day, but state Republicans already are revved up. With national polls showing independent voters turning away from President Barack Obama and Democrats and a state economy that hasn’t yet turned the corner, GOP activists are feeling good about their Election Day prospects. “I’m optimistic because the way things have been have
THIS WEEK The Marching Cavs of Southern Lee High School will host their 6th annual Dinner and Auction. Dinner will be catered by Danny’s BBQ (from Cary) on Saturday. Meal tickets are $6. Take-out plates are available. Dinner served 5 to 6:30 p.m., followed by auctions. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
made us angry,” said Betty Spence, 66, of Sanford, who attended a Republican Party rally last week for legislative candidates. “We’re ready for things to be different, and we’re excited about getting out here and hopefully working toward making things different.” While Republicans are resolute on getting U.S. Sen. Richard Burr elected to a second term and controlling both chambers of the General Assembly for the first time in 112 years, Democrats are taking a
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LILLINGTON — A Cameron man has been charged in the home invasion that may have led to a man’s death Friday, according to the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office. Lamonte Brower, 22, was charged over the weekend with murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon. He was was charged with two counts of kidnapping and breaking and entering and is being held without bail at the Harnett County Detention Center, according to deputies. The victim, 22-year-old Ad-
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ekoy Nixon, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his home at 95 Windsong Drive in Cameron. According to the sheriff’s office, Brower was shot in the alleged home invasion and was found in some nearby woods before his arrest. He was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center with minor injuries. The sheriff’s office received a 911 call Friday afternoon, and according to Sheriff Larry Rollins, the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call (910) 893-9111.
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On the Agenda Rundown of local meetings in the area:
TODAY ■ The Sanford City Council will meet at 7 p.m. at the Sanford Municipal Center. ■ The Chatham County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. at the Agricultural Building Auditorium in Pittsboro. ■ The Harnett County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. in Lillington. ■ The Moore County Board of Commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. at the Commissioners Room in Carthage. ■ The Moore County Parks & Recreation Advisory Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Hillcrest Park in Carthage.
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WEDNESDAY ■ Area residents are invited to comment on proposed changes to state hunting, fishing and trapping regulations at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s District 5 annual public hearing. The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in Building 2 at CCCC’s Chatham Campus. ■ Chatham County invites residents to a community meeting at 7 p.m. at the Moncure Fire Station to learn more about a plan proposed by a partnership of four towns in western Wake County to construct a regional wastewater treatment facility.
Birthdays LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, especially Joshua Gill, Alan Hill Jr., Evelyn Watson, Helen Covington, Rhonda Gamble, Brandon Martin, Joy Britt, Shakyia Watsin, Daniel Murchison Jr., Carleigh Flynn, Marvin Ragland, Joy Bordeaux, Travis Holder, Brandi Godfrey, Janelle Register, Chell BromellJinkins and Courtney Wicker. CELEBRITIES: Actor Corbin Bernsen is 56. Actor Michael Emerson (TV: “Lost”) is 56. Pianist Michael Feinstein is 54. Singer Margot Chapman is 53. Model-actress Angie Everhart is 41. Actress Monique Gabriela Curnen is 40. Actor Tom Everett Scott is 40. Rock musician Chad Sexton (311) is 40. Actress Diane Farr is 39. Actress Shannon Elizabeth is 37. Singermusician Wes Willis (Rush of Fools) is 24. Actress Evan Rachel Wood is 23.
Almanac Today is Tuesday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2010. There are 115 days left in the year. This day in history: On Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London. In 1533, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich. In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House. In 1892, James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan to win the world heavyweight crown in New Orleans in a fight conducted under the Marquess of Queensberry rules. In 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out from Liverpool, England, on its maiden voyage, arriving six days later in New York. In 1927, American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an “image dissector.” In 1968, feminists protested outside the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. (The pageant crown went to Miss Illinois Judith Ford.) In 1979, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) made its cable TV debut. In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
Southern Lee High School cheerleader perform during Friday’s Brick City Bowl at Cavaliers Stadium in Sanford. See more photos from the big game at our photo gallery at sanfordherald.com.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY ■ Area residents are invited to comment on proposed changes to state hunting, fishing and trapping regulations at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s District 5 annual public hearing. The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in Building 2 at Central Carolina Community College’s Chatham County Campus, 764 West St., Pittsboro. ■ Chatham County invites residents to a community meeting at 7 p.m. at the Moncure Fire Station to learn more about a plan proposed by a partnership of four towns in western Wake County to construct a regional wastewater treatment facility. The plan involves a discharge line that would cut through a section of southeastern Chatham County. ■ Senior Center Month Open House will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Enrichment Center in Sanford. ■ The Living with Vision Loss Support Group will meet at 1 p.m. at the Enrichment Center in Sanford. ■ The Veterans Remembrance Group will meet at 2 p.m. at the Enrichment Center in Sanford. ■ The Lee County Library staff will present a 20-minute program of stories, rhymes and activities geared toward children ages birth to 2 years beginning at 10 a.m. There is no charge for the programs and it is not necessary to register in advance. For more information, call Mrs. DeLisa Williams at (919) 718-4665 x. 5484.
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THURSDAY ■ Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and picnic supper and “Function at the Junction” at Depot Park. This free outdoor family event starts at 7 p.m. and includes a variety of music throughout the summer. For more information, visit downtownsanford.com or call 919-775-8332. ■ The Lee County Library will present a program geared toward children ages 3 to 5 beginning at 11 a.m. Activities include stories, finger plays, action rhymes and songs, puppet shows, crafts and parachute play. There is no charge for the programs and it is not necessary to register in advance. For more information, call Mrs. DeLisa Williams at (919) 718-4665 x. 5484.
FRIDAY ■ The Friends of the Lee County Library will meet at 10 a.m. at the library. The Friends will elect officers and set dues, as well as discuss the fall book sale, to be held Oct. 15-16. Contact the library for more information. ■ The Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon-cutting for Second Glance Consignment Boutique at 148
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SATURDAY ■ The Greenwood/Tramway Optimist Club is sponsoring a fundraising event filled with fun, food and festivities at Greenwood Elementary School. At 9:30 a.m., the Lee County Scouts and the musical group Four Heart Harmony will open with a tribute to Sept. 11, 2001. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be crafters, antique cars, yard sale, face painting, buggy rides and games. Proceeds go to Greenwood and Tramway schools and other organizations in the county. ■ The Lee County Disc Golf monthly tournament begins at 10 a.m. (registration at 9) at the O.T. Sloan course. Cost to enter is $7 for novice, amateur, junior and women contestants and $12 for pros. Contact Ronnie Gardner at (919) 708-2869. ■ The Marching Cavs of Southern Lee High School will host their 6th annual Dinner and Auction. Dinner will be catered by Danny’s BBQ (from Cary) — choice of chicken or barbecue with sides and dessert. Meal tickets are $6. Take-out plates are available. Dinner served 5 to 6:30 p.m. Silent auction is 6 - 6:30 p.m. Live auction is at 7 p.m.
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RTP begins update of its master plan
RALEIGH (MCT) — A New York urban design firm will spend the next 12 months reviewing the Research Triangle Park’s master plan and major changes in how the region’s biggest economic engine operates are likely as a result. The review, the first update to RTP’s master plan since the nearly 7,000-acre park was formed in 1959, is intended to make it more competitive at a time when companies are flocking to urban areas that offer employees more amenities. “We want this plan to be transformational in nature,� said Rick Weddle, CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation, which runs the park. “Everything is on the table. There really are no sacred cows.� A task force made up of foundation board members has chosen the architecture firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners to lead the review. — Raleigh News & Observer
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Pinehurst residents suspect coyotes are killing pets
PINEHURST (MCT) — Coyotes believed to have made homes near Pinehurst Resort’s No. 6 and No. 7 courses have some residents concerned about their pets. The problem has garnered enough attention that the Village Council is expected to take up the issue Sept. 24. It will consider whether to trap the animals in an attempt to bring the population under control. Village officials have received two reports of pets disappearing from backyards this year. Experts say cats and small dogs are often easy prey for coyotes. However, no one has seen a coyote attack a pet in Pinehurst, so it’s still uncertain whether they
were responsible, said Jeff Batton, the assistant village manager. It’s just as likely that a stray dog or a car killed the missing pets, said Jonathan Shaw, a wildlife biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Councilwoman Joan Thurman has raised the coyote issue several times in public meetings. Thurman suspects she has had coyotes near her house just off the 17th green on Pinehurst No. 7. She suspects the coyotes had a den in woods between the 12th and 17th green, and she said she could frequently hear them “yapping.� — Fayetteville Observer
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Residential motel burns in Cary CARY (MCT) — Fire officials are investigating the cause of a blaze that gutted a portion of a residential motel near downtown Cary. Shortly after 6 p.m. Friday, firefighters arrived at the Harrison Motel at 607 E. Chatham St., where one of the motel’s three buildings was afire, Cary spokeswomanSusan Moran said. The single-story building contained six units, which are rented long term. No one was injured, but at least three people lived in the one-story wood building. Mel Woods, 58, who works as a superintendent of the property, was one of them. He has lived there for six years. Woods, who lives alone, didn’t know the extent of damages late Friday. But he thinks he lost most of his belongings, including a coveted recording of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. “It’s the little things like that that I’m gonna miss the most,� he said as he glanced back at his charred apartment.
Parents hope son’s death not in vain By DREW BROOKS The Fayetteville Observer
SANFORD (MCT) — Josh Britt should have been home by 11 the night of May 14. The 17-year-old had been at his girlfriend’s house, studying and eating dinner with her family. Jeff Britt knew his son had left in time to make his curfew. So when Britt awoke at 11:30 p.m. and Josh wasn’t Britt home, he went looking for his son. Jeff Britt drove past a traffic crash on U.S. 1. Then he noticed a familiar Ford Explorer in his rear-view mirror, and his life shattered. “It just seemed like a nightmare,� he said. Josh Britt, a member of the Lee County High School football team, was killed when he collided head-on with a car traveling in the wrong direction on U.S. 1 in Sanford. The driver of the other vehicle, 48-year-old Anthony Boswell, was driving with his lights off, according to Sanford police. He also was drunk, according to a medical examiner’s report. Josh likely didn’t see the vehicle until it was too late. “Josh didn’t have a chance,� said his mother, Jill Britt. “There’s nothing he could have done, nothing he could have trained for.� So far this year, at least a dozen teenage drivers have been involved in fatal crashes in the Cape
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His funeral, originally scheduled for a church that could seat about 500, was moved to the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center and 2,000 attended -- nearly 300 of them standing outside for lack of room. “They’ve gotten us through it,� said Jill Britt. “We’re humbled by how many people were impacted by our son. The whole community was so devastated.� The Yellow Jackets display his jersey at every game, the booster club is selling T-shirts for a scholarship, and his picture and the No. 9 are displayed proudly. “It’s hard to even write it all down. . What the
teenagers have done, it’s had lots of impact,� said Jill Britt. The Britts hope the loss of their son may encourage drivers to think twice about taking unnecessary risks or driving drunk. “It just can’t be in vain,� Jill Britt said. “We want to be able to give back to the community, to pay tribute to him.� A scholarship in his honor will help student athletes go to college and eventually help pay sports league fees for the underprivileged. That way, their son will live on in the community, continuing to affect lives just as he did in his brief life.
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Fear region. Statewide, about 200 are involved in fatal crashes each year. Law officers, educators and others have made efforts in recent years to cut down on the number of teen-involved crashes, but statistics have remained largely static. Jill Britt and her husband are still recovering. Talking about their son brings tears, and some memories seem too hard to bear. Josh had a distinct style, a sharp sense of humor and a competitive streak second to none. “He loved an underdog,� Jeff Britt said. “He knew he wasn’t a Division I athlete, but he gave it his all. He was football smart.� Word of Josh’s death traveled fast; within hours, the Britt home was filled beyond capacity. Friends, family, coaches and others swarmed to offer their support, and the Britts said the outpouring hasn’t stopped.
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Lee County’s football field has Josh Britt’s No. 9 painted on it to honor Britt, who would have been a senior linebacker this year. A scholarship in Britt’s honor will help student athletes go to college and help pay sports league fees for the underprivileged.
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Editorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor
Ready for fall and the region’s fair Our View Issue The Lee Regional Fair begins a week from today and runs through Sept. 19.
Our stance All year long, we cover crimes, murders, meetings and elections ... so each year, we’re thrilled to cover the Lee Regional Fair, an event that’s as much fun to write about as it is to attend.
The Labor Day holiday is over and temperatures are expected to start steadily dropping soon (we hope). Both of these annual occurrences are a sure sign that the Lee Regional Fair is just ahead. The 73rd edition of the fair begins one week from today at the Lee County Fairgrounds, and there’s plenty of excitement building for one of Central Carolina’s most anticipated events of the year. And organizers are once again saying their already award-winning fair is going to be bigger and better this year. Fair Chairman Ronnie Turner says the midway will be the biggest yet. Then there’s the food, the cook-offs, the
back-offs, the churn-offs ... The pageants, the races, the derbies ... The arts and crafts, the agriculture shows, the demonstrations ... And did we mention the Diaper Derby? The list of activities – and nightly entertainment — goes on and on. What’s to realize is that the Lee Regional Fair has plenty to see and do for both young and old alike. While agriculture plays a big part in the purpose of this event, it’s not what it’s all about. Out-oftowners and people who’ve never stepped foot on a farm can still come away happy. The host Sanford Lions Club has done a yeoman’s job in con-
tinuing this proud Lee County tradition and improving upon the fair each year. While events come and go, the Lions Club has done well to keep the fair vibrant and relevant as a much anticipated destination for Central Carolina citizens each fall season. Of course, the Lions Club has received tremendous support from the Lee County office of the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service. Agriculture has long been a major part of the local fair — and that tradition continues today. The Lee Regional Fair will be held Sept. 14-19 with various activities each day. Stay tuned to The Herald to follow the fair schedule.
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ALEIGH — In the political world, a year is forever, a month a lifetime. So, with two months to go before the November election, a lot can change. But any objective observer would conclude that July and August, with the soft economy essentially flat-lining, haven’t been good months for Democrats in North Carolina. U.S. Senate candidate Elaine Marshall might be the only Democratic politician here who could say otherwise. Whether it’s an anti-incumbent mood or something else, incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Burr hasn’t been able to run away and hide from Marshall. With the approach of Labor Day, the traditional start of the campaign season, polls still showed Marshall within striking distance. Elsewhere, the ground seemed to be moving under Democrats’ feet, and not in ways they liked. Nationally, Republicans led Democrats by 10 points in a poll looking at generic preferences for Congress. In North Carolina, Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling showed Republicans with an 8-point advantage in a similar poll looking at the preferences of likely voters for state legislature. Other than the U.S. Senate race, the legislature is the big battleground this year. Democrats control both chambers of the legislature, with a 68-52 advantage in the House and a 30-20 margin the Senate. At the start of the summer, the consensus opinion among Raleigh political insiders was that Republicans had a shot — maybe one-in-three — at winning control of the Senate and would pick up a minimum of three seats. House Democrats might see a net loss of a few seats, but weren’t really in danger of losing their majority. Toward the end of summer, you could toss those predictions out the door. Besides shaky poll numbers, Democrats in swing districts became the target of independent political committee Real Jobs NC, led by conservatives Art Pope and Fred Eshelman. In August, the group had dropped as many as three mailers in swing districts calling voters’ attention to the Democrats’ support of a 2009 tax hike and spending projects deemed pork. Pope had played this game before, but the timing and volume seemed to catch Democrats off guard. Democrats knew they would have a tough time defending seats like those left by retiring Sen. David Hoyle in Gaston County and Rep. Bob England in Rutherford County. They expected trouble in Republican-leaning districts that they had picked up in 2006 and 2008. ... But the numbers — economic and political — had even longtime Democratic incumbents in seemingly safe districts spooked. ... If July and August were bad months for Democrats, the good news for them is that September and October are ahead. The political brawling has only begun, and Republicans have a unique talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. In political time, two lifetimes remain.
Letters to the Editor A war on the rich To the Editor: If a “rich” person (any potential employer) is considering a new business or business expansion he must consider the possibility of failure. After all, he must invest his money first before he can hope for any profit, but he has no guarantee of getting any or even getting his money back. Since he faces the possibility of loss, he must reasonably expect to make more on his investment than he could have made on a safe, insured investment. Say, for a simple example, that an entrepreneur is considering a project in which he stands an 80-percent chance of getting a payoff in four years but a 20-percent chance of losing everything. He figures that he could earn 2.5 percent per year on an insured CD, and taking this risk, he must expect to make on average, after tax, the same as he would have made on that CD plus a risk premium of 15 percent of his investment. How much must the investment return before tax in the 8 of 10 times it pays off? For a combined federal and state tax rate of 30 percent, it must return 1.75 times his original investment, if the tax rate is 50 percent it must return 2.00 times and for 70 percent it must return 2.59 times. The deeper the tax man digs, or threatens to, the fewer projects that are feasible. But what counts is sharing the wealth, not creating jobs and wealth, right? If not, you had better hire new representatives in Washington and Raleigh. HAROLD L. McFARLAND Chapel Hill
Immigration history lesson
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AN DIEGO — So the immigration debate has you confused and frustrated? Arnold Torres has it all figured out. “Those of us who have done this before can see every move two steps before it’s made,” he told me. It’s not enough to say that the Sacramento-based political and public affairs consultant has seen this movie before. He was once cast in a starring role. Torres’ first taste of politics came shortly after graduating from college in the 1970s. That’s when he went to Washington — to work first for Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., and later for Sen. John Tunney, D-Calif. Among the issues he dealt with for the lawmakers: immigration. Within a few years, Torres was working as congressional liaison for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights group. And in 1981, he was named the national executive director. He was 27. Among the issues that Torres worked on for LULAC: immigration. He even had a hand in helping shape U.S. immigration policy by serving as a major player in the debate that resulted in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. That law, among others things, legalized more than 2 million immigrants. Torres testified before Congress more than 100 times, he recalls. One of his frequent sparring partners was Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the lead sponsor of the act. Torres warned that the bill failed to address the root cause of immigration — economic inequalities between the United States and the countries in Latin America, especially Mexico. As long as those inequalities existed, he argued, immigrants would come whether we wanted them to or not. Make no mistake: We want them to. Americans habitually complain about illegal immigrants, but the truth is that we’d be lost without them. “This country has grown up with the backbone of illegal immigration,” Torres said. “Every country in the world that is currently complaining about having an immigration problem at one point in history saw immigration as an opportunity to grow, expand and survive.” He isn’t surprised that Americans are still having the same argument they had a quarter-century ago. “When you have a problem that is largely an economic problem, being dealt with only in the context of an enforcement approach,” he said, “you’re going to miss the boat.” Torres has fashioned a comprehensive immigration reform plan with six components: security and enforcement; economic development in Mexico; a temporary worker program; permanent changes to the legal immigration system; a new focus on the U.S.Mexico border that allows people to move freely for the economic well-being of both countries; and legal status for those illegal
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immigrants who’ve been in the United States for many years. Since leaving Washington, Torres has built a successful consulting business, written op-ed articles for newspapers, and served as a political analyst for Univision, the Spanish-language television network. In 2006, the longtime Democrat — who developed an independent streak over the years — worked for a Republican when he headed up the Hispanic outreach effort of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now, the one-time wunderkind is an aging veterano, one who has forgotten more about the immigration debate than most Americans know. And as far as Torres is concerned, the legislative aides who work for the lawmakers of today could benefit from a quick history lesson. “They didn’t learn from any of the things we did,” he said. “That’s the fundamental problem. If you don’t bother to have an appreciation for what came before you, so that you don’t repeat those kinds of mistakes or waste time going over certain issues that are not constructive to dialogue, what does that tell you?” What it tells Torres is that the national debate over immigration reform is speeding down a familiar dead-end road. This time, he said, the situation is even worse than it was before. “Back then, we knew there had to be a give-and-take because we had to fashion a solution, and I don’t think that is the disposition today,” he said. “Now it is truly an ideological war. You don’t have problem-solvers there. You have grandstanders. You have demagogues.” If Arnold Torres is right — and on this issue, he usually is — then we also have something else: trouble.
Today’s Prayer Thou art my hiding place. (Psalm 119:114). PRAYER: Father, keep me safe and secure. Shelter us from fear, so that we may move fully into a life of loving. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Independent: Why I’ve had to run for Congress To the Editor: I love my country, but I fear my government. I am running for Congress in self defense of my freedoms, liberties and my country. I really care about the kind of government we leave to our future generations. I believe the debt that our federal government has incurred in unmanageable, and we must take our government back from the “Statist Elite.” This politically entrenched class has transformed the “income tax” into a destructive and corrupt exercise in personal power, profit and self-serving lifetime of benefits. Our Federal Tax System is counter-productive, filled with injustice and is un-American. This system must be replaced immediately with a “Fair Tax Plan.” They want you to believe that an independent or libertarian candidate has no chance of winning any election for the federal office. They have engineered a corrupt system to ensure that they maintain control and a two party system (factually it is one big government system). They work to achieve lifelong seats and accept bribes from outside influences to manipulate your vote. My congressman has been homesteading in the 2nd Congressional District Seat since 1997. He raises over a million dollars (80 percent from outside the district) each election to maintain a seat in Congress that now pays him $174,00 a year. Over half of his contributions come from unions and other special interest groups which he represents in Congress. Is this how you want your elected official to represent you, from the highest bidders outside District 2? TOM ROSE Independent candidate for U.S. House, District 2
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Local OBITUARIES Mildred Walker
BUIES CREEK — Mildred Reeves Howard Walker, 98, of Buies Creek, died Sunday (Sept. 5, 2010) at Britthaven Nursing Home in Dunn. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Baptist Church in Buies Creek, with the family receiving friends following the service in the church fellowship hall. A Harnett County native, she was the daughter of the late Ernest Marshall Walker Sr. and mother of the late Ernest M. Walker Jr. She was a retired elementary school teacher. Survivors include two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Campbell University or Memorial Baptist Church. O’Quinn-Peebles Funeral Home in Lillington is handling the arrangements.
Bernard W. Tysor
GOLDSTON — Bernard W. Tysor, 78, of Goldston, died Saturday (Sept. 4, 2010) at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Funeral will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson Chapel AME Zion Church in Goldston, with burial in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Ola Mae Curtis Tysor; three sons, Billy Tysor, Bobby Tysor and Ricky Curtis; one daughter, Diane Matthews; one sister, Rosa Nell Grant; 12 grandchildren, 20 greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Knotts and Son Funeral Home of Siler City is handling the arrangements.
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community, a short walk away from downtown Sanford, has seen a spree of robberies. Residents estimated the neighborhood has had at least a dozen break-ins in the last month. According to Carroll, a longtime Summitt Drive resident, crime has always been a reality in the neighborhood. She said drug dealers, prostitutes and transient wanderers have long been apparent, but recent break-ins have locals shaken up. “It just seems really close to home now,� she said. “It feels like they’re
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vigilant approach to the Republican prospects. They said they feel confident about their position entering the last two months of the campaign and will have the money to get their message out. But they won’t dismiss national trends. “This will be a tight election. We all know that,� said state Senate Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt, D-Buncombe, who lost his House seat in the last big election sweep for Republicans in 1994. “We’ll all spend money and we’ll all tell tales. But at the end, we’ll fight to a draw and it all matters who turns out.� North Carolina Republicans are galvanized because of what they say is an ever-reaching national government and a state government that raised taxes and failed to curb spending. They believe unaffiliated voters, which comprise 23 percent of the state’s registered voters, are joining them. Recent Associated
attacking us one after another.� Al Roethlisberger, another Summit Drive homeowner, talked of elderly residents who are afraid to sleep at night, fearing an unseen danger prowling in the late evening and early morning hours. “You find yourself at night being a little nervous, checking outside the windows and making sure the lights are on,� Roethlisberger said. Roethlisberger said many of the invasions started in residents’ basements, with homeowners complaining that looters are smashing basement windows and making off with various household items. “They’re getting very brazen,� he said.
“They’re just coming in when people are home. They just don’t even care.� Residents in the Rosemount-McIver area began fighting back last week, holding a meeting Thursday to strike up a bustling neighborhood watch program. Locals reported a turnout of more than 60 at Thursday’s meeting, with scared residents creating a communications network geared at relaying crime news to neighbors and police. Yarborough said his department has stepped up patrol in the area to crack down on the rising crime and assuage at least some of these residents’ fears. “We are using every means we have,� Yarbor-
ough said. Yarborough said the crime could be a factor of heavy foot traffic and busy streets, as well as a crop of transients believed to be behind increased reports of latenight trespassing. Roethlisberger said residents have taken to posting “no trespassing� and “keep out� signs to deter criminals. Others are also talking of buying guns to keep their family safe, a plan Roethlisberger worries will lead anxious homeowners to accidentally harm themselves or family members instead of roving criminals. Yarborough called on Rosemount-McIver residents to be vigilant and contact police as soon as they suspect foul play.
The police response is needed, said one Rosemount woman who wished to go unnamed for fear of criminal reprisal. The woman said she has been living in the community since the 1950s and has seen the crime gradually worsen, peaking in recent weeks. According to her, residents in this area are looking for a muchneeded assurance. “I want to feel safe in my home,� she said. The community is having its second neighborhood watch meeting in October, organizers said, as they launch a community network they hope will bring some relief and deter criminals.
Press-GfK polls show only 32 percent of those citing no allegiance to either major party say they want Democrats to keep control of Congress. The polls also show more of those voters trust the GOP on the economy. Independents pooled toward Obama and the Democrats in 2008. “There’s a potential for this to be a wave election,� said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest University. “What you see is an openness of independents voting for Republicans in large numbers.� While all 13 U.S. House seats, the 170 General Assembly seats and dozens of judgeships are up for election, the U.S. Senate race between Burr and Democratic challenger Secretary of State Elaine Marshall at the top of the ballot should have a lot to say about which party has the successful election night Nov. 2. Libertarian Party candidate Michael Beitler is also running. Both major parties
already are working with their Senate candidates for get-out-the-vote efforts. Burr helped raise $1.3 million for the state Republican Party’s combined campaign, which has made about 600,000 phone calls primarily to unaffiliated voters to persuade them to vote Republican. About this time two years ago, state GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer said, about 10,000 calls had been made. The state Democratic Party held more than 80 voter canvassing events last weekend. Burr began using his wide fundraising advantage — more than $6.2 million on hand compared to about $163,000 for Marshall through the end of June — in earnest last week with the first of what’s expected to many television ads. The money “allows us to talk about the issues that we want to talk about and it allows us to keep our opponent accountable,� Burr campaign consultant Paul Shumaker said. The Democratic Sena-
torial Campaign Committee hasn’t said if it will spend money to support Marshall like it did two years ago with Kay Hagan, who benefited from the group’s thirdparty advertising on her way to upsetting GOP incumbent Elizabeth Dole. The DSCC chose to support Cal Cunningham in the Democratic primary, not Marshall. Marshall campaign manager Tim Phillips dismissed the importance of the money advantage as a Washington insider’s game and said she’ll be ready to respond when it counts. “It is our intention to make the record clear when he makes accusations,� Phillips said. In the legislative races, Democrats hold a 30-20 lead in the Senate and 68-52 advantage in the House. They argued they’ve acted soberly during the recession by cutting spending and raising taxes only to balance budgets that limited fiscal pain to the public schools and human services.
Although House Democratic candidates are ahead of their Republican counterparts on fundraising, the GOP is competing better with Senate Democrats. Republicans also are getting help from an independent political group that’s got $500,000 to spend on TV ads and mailers critical of Democrats’ voting records. Hayes McNeill, a former Forsyth County Democratic Party chairman and current state party executive committee member, said he vacillates between “optimism and despair� about the fall elections — an unusual place after successful years in 2006 and 2008. “A lot of people who are watching the evening news are feeling dispirited,� said McNeill, adding that he believes unaffiliated voters are more likely to be persuaded by political advertising. “That’s a place where money does matter.�
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STATE BRIEFS
School system gets tough with student-athlete’s grades
GREENSBORO (AP) — In an effort to boost academic achievement, Guilford County schools are putting more than 100 athletes on the bench. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Sunday that at least 111 student athletes in the district are ineligible to play for their high school teams this semester because they couldn’t maintain a grade point average of 2.0, roughly a C, in their spring classes. The new policy came into effect as part of the school system’s effort to enhance the academic achievement of its students. The rule is more stringent than state eligibility requirements, which don’t include a minimum GPA. The
North Carolina High School Athletic Association requires that a student must pass three of four classes in a block schedule or five of six in a traditional schedule. “Our superintendent came on board (in 2008), and promoting academic excellence was one of his focal points,” said Leigh Hebbard, athletic director for county schools. “The standard of only passing three or passing five classes didn’t stand for promoting excellence in any shape or form, and the 2.0 requirement is a step in the right direction.” Hebbard says the total of students cut from teams this fall may actually be higher than 111, because totals are estimated by coaches. The figure also doesn’t
include students who are ineligible because they failed more than one class. The new policy isn’t sitting well with everyone. Northeast Guilford High School in McLeansville saw 21 athletes become ineligible under the new policy, including 19 football players. “We lost kids who needed us more than we needed them,” Tommy Pursley, football coach at the school, said. “Patricipating in sports helps with discipline and self-control and to keep them out of trouble. We’re not out here just teaching these kids some silly game.” Kenneth Whitmire’s son was to be a starter this year on Smith High School’s basketball team,
but now is ineligible even though he passed all his classes last spring. “Now he can’t play because he needed another two points on a test?” Whitmire asked. Guilford school officials, though, are committed to the policy, which resembles those in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg and WinstonSalem/Forsyth County systems. “Our young athletes are capable young men and women. They have the ability,” said Guilford County Board of Education member Nancy Routh. “If they start viewing themselves as being capable of achieving whatever the expectation is for the classes they’re taking first, and athletes second, that would be my hope.”
Lawmakers want changes at crime lab
RALEIGH (AP) — A report detailing serious flaws in the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab has threatened the credibility of North Carolina’s criminal justice system, lawmakers say, and major changes are needed. The News and Observ-
er of Raleigh reports that both Democrats and Republicans in the legislature are dismayed by the findings of the report last month, which detailed how SBI agents helped prosecutors obtain convictions over a 16-year period by misrepresenting blood evidence and
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keeping critical notes from defense lawyers. “When folks in law enforcement see something like this occur, it can really call into question everything they are doing,” said Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham. “You’ve got to clear the air.” Berger is one of several lawmakers who want to see a full audit of the entire lab. The report that produced the current outcry focused only the lab’s serology section, which analyzes blood and other fluids. A full audit would likely cost millions, but top legislators say money isn’t a concern when the integrity of the system is
at stake. “The absolute credibility of the judicial system concerns me more than any expense,” said House Speaker Joe Hackney, D-Orange. In addition to an audit, lawmakers are also talking about the possibility of removing the lab from SBI control to make it independent of prosecutors and police. “You have to separate that connection,” said Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, D-Dare. “There were people who did anything to secure a conviction. How many innocent people have been convicted?” The next legislative session doesn’t start until January. But lawmakers will be reviewing the SBI lab before then, starting as soon as Sept. 16, when the Joint Study Committee on Biological Evidence meets.
Fort Bragg hopes to keep child care program
Police name victims in double murder-suicide
FORT BRAGG (AP) — Officials at Fort Bragg in North Carolina hope a recent spike in enrollments will help save $125,000 in funding for a child care program. The Fayetteville Observer reports that the Widow, Wounded Soldier Child Care Assistance program was in jeopardy because so few people were using it. The program pays the cost of child care for injured soldiers, their spouses and the survivors of deceased military personnel so they can attend college. By July, only 11 families had enrolled, and about $80,000 of the money, which comes from the Walmart Foundation, was left. Increased enrollment last month has officials hoping the program will continue.
BOLIVIA (AP) — Police have identified the victims in what they say was a double murdersuicide in a coastal North Carolina town. The StarNews of Wilmington reported Monday that the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office says the Sunday night incident began as a domestic argument. The shooting took place near the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission’s boat launch in Bolivia. Police found 52-yearold Dennis Blalock dead in the driver’s seat of a car. They also found 34-yearold Sheryl Hickman Warr in the car. The third victim, 29-year-old Brandon Warr, was found on the ground outside the vehicle.
Man killed while trying to cross Charlotte interstate CHARLOTTE (AP) — Police say a man trying to cross a busy Interstate highway in North Carolina was struck by a car and killed. The Charlotte Observer reports that the man, whose name has not yet been released, was hit by a car early Monday morning as he tried to cross Interstate 85 just north of Sugar Creek Road. Highway Patrol Sgt. E.B. Miller says it’s not clear why the man was trying to get across the highway on foot, but it’s something police have commonly seen on that stretch of I-85. Miller says it’s an especially foolish decision, because to cross the highway requires scaling an eight-foot-high concrete barrier between the northbound and southbound lanes.
1 dead, 11 hurt in city’s night of gun violence DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say one man was killed and another wounded in a shooting that was part of a night of gun violence in a North Carolina city. Durham police told multiple media outlets that the fatal shooting was part of an attempted robbery around 10:20 p.m. Saturday. Investigators say witnesses gave officers a description of an SUV involved in the shooting, and a traffic stop a few minutes later led to the arrest of 18year-old Deandre Rucker and a 15-year-old boy. Rucker was charged with murder and attempted robbery. He remains in the Durham County jail and it isn’t clear if he had an attorney. About five hours later, Durham police say 10 people were injured, two seriously, as a car fired shots into a home. No arrests have been made in that case.
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OBITUARY
NATION BRIEFS Combative Obama assails GOP for causing crisis
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times. GOP leaders instantly assailed Obama’s proposal as an ineffective one that would simply raise already excessive federal spending. Many congressional Democrats are also likely to be reluctant to boost expenditures and increase federal deficits just weeks before elections that will determine control of Congress. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, cautioned, “If we are going to get anything done, Republican cooperation, which has been all but non-existent recently, will be necessary.” That left the plan with low, if not impossible, odds of becoming law this year. When Congress returns from summer recess in mid-September, it is likely to remain in session for only a few weeks before lawmakers return home to campaign for re-election. Administration officials said that even if Congress quickly approved the program, it would not produce jobs until sometime next year. That means the proposal’s only pre-election impact may be a political one as the White House tries to demonstrate to voters that it is working to boost the economy and create jobs.
Mass. woman chastised by Rep. Frank at town hall
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s retort was an Internet sensation. Questioned at a town hall last year about the “Nazi policy” of health care reform, Frank told the speaker who made the comment that talking to her was “like arguing with a dining room table.” Fast forward to this year, the questioner, Rachel Brown, is challenging the 15-term Democrat’s re-election bid. Brown said her exchange with Frank inspired her to run against him in the Democratic primary in the state’s 4th Congressional District. “I didn’t realize at the time that if you had a better idea, you should take their seat,” said 29-year-old Brown, a devotee of economist Lyndon LaRouche. Frank, not surprisingly, has an alternate — and sharptongued — view.
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Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The USS Olympia is a one-of-akind steel warship in Philadelphia fighting what may be its final battle. The ship returned home to a hero’s welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War. Without a major refurbishment to its aging steel hull, the floating museum either will sink at its moorings on the Delaware River, be sold for scrap, or be scuttled for an artificial reef. The Independence Seaport Museum has spent $5.5 million on Olympia since taking stewardship of it in 1996. But it can’t afford the $10 million to restore it, or the $10 million for an endowment to care for it in perpetuity.
Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) — A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago. The delaying tactics have proved so successful, despite the Democrats’ substantial Senate majority, that fewer than half of Obama’s nominees have been confirmed and 102 out of 854 judgeships are vacant. Forty-seven of those vacancies have been labeled emergencies by the judiciary because of heavy caseloads. Even some Republican senators have complained. Sen. Lamar Alexander took to the Senate floor in July to plead with his own leaders for a vote on an appeals court judge supported by Alexander and fellow Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
Little Rock 9 member dies LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s. But when Thomas became one of nine black students to integrate Arkansas’ largest high school, many of his basketball buddies weren’t happy to see him in their classes. Thomas “One of them said, ’Well I don’t mind playing basketball or football with you or anything. You guys are good at sports. Everybody knows that, but you’re just not smart enough to sit next to me in the classroom,”’ Thomas recalled years later. The pioneer in school desegregation died Sunday at an extended-care living facility in Columbus, Ohio, of pancreatic cancer at age 67, according to Carlotta Walls LaNier, who also enrolled at Central High School in 1957 and is president of the Little Rock Nine Foundation. The integration fight was a first real test of the
federal government’s resolve to enforce a 1954 Supreme Court order outlawing racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. After Gov. Orval Faubus sent National Guard troops to block Thomas and eight other students from entering the school, President Dwight Eisenhower ordered in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Soldiers stood in the school halls and escorted the students as they went from classroom to classroom. Each of the Little Rock Nine received Congressional Gold Medals shortly after the 40th anniversary of their enrollment. President Bill Clinton presented the medals in 1999 to Thomas, LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Minnijean Brown Trickey, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Terrence Roberts and Thelma Mothershed Wair. Clinton issued a statement Monday, calling Thomas “a true hero, a fine public servant, and profoundly good man.” “Jefferson and I had a long visit when he came to my Presidential Center for the 50th anniversary in 2007, and I was struck again by his quiet dignity and kindness. America is a stronger, more diverse,
and more tolerant nation because of the life he lived and the sacrifices he made,” Clinton said. In 2008, then President-elect Barack Obama sent Thomas and other members of the Little Rock Nine special invitations to his inauguration as the nation’s first black president. During his campaign, he had said the Little Rock Nine’s courage in desegregating Central High helped make the opportunities in his life possible. “Even at such a young age, he had the courage to risk his own safety, to defy a governor and a mob, and to walk proudly into that school even though it would have been far easier to give up and turn back,” Obama said in a statement Monday. “Our nation owes Mr. Thomas a debt of gratitude for the stand he took half a century ago, and the leadership he showed in the decades since.” Thomas played a number of sports and was on the track team in junior high school. Beals said he was nicknamed “Roadrunner, because he was so fast. You could sometimes avoid danger by running fast.” She said by phone from her home in California that Thomas always seemed to bring a light moment to the crisis.
“He was funny, he had a most extraordinary sense of humor. He did sustain an enormous amount of damage and pain during the Little Rock crisis, but no matter what, he always had something refreshing and funny to say,” she said. “It could be the most horrible day and he would say ’Yes, but how are you dressed and are you smiling?”’ Thomas also brought a bit of levity to the 2007 commemoration marking the 50th anniversary of the integration fight — letting the audience know how angry LaNier was with him when he stood up and cheered at a Central High Tigers pep rally. Thomas thought the white students were carrying the school flag and yelling the school cheer. He said LaNier glared at him and later set him straight: It was the Confederate flag, and the students were singing “Dixie.” The youngest of seven children, Thomas served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam after graduation. He later earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Los Angeles State College and worked as an accounting clerk with the U.S. Department of Defense, retiring in 2004.
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identities were not released, were taken University Medical Center with life-threatening burns and trauma. Hospital spokeswoman Danita Cohen said two were listed in serious condition and one in critical condition. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the plane took off from Henderson Executive Airport shortly after 8 a.m. and was unable to gain altitude. The pilot tried to return to Henderson but crashed about two miles northwest of the airport.
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Card giant’s 2nd century a battle against online By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER Associated Press Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online. Hallmark has thrived since Joyce Clyde Hall peddled postcards in Kansas City 100 years ago, rising to become the nation’s largest greeting card company with more than $2.5 billion in annual revenue from cards, gift wrap, partyware and more. “They’re the biggest. They’re the giant,” said Emily West, a communications professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst who has studied Hallmark and how greeting cards are used. “They’re like the Kleenex of greeting cards ... like the Hoover of sentiment.” Nevertheless, Hallmark, a privately held company that releases limited information about its finances, has endured two straight years of falling revenues. Its consolidated revenue of $4 billion in 2009 was 8 percent lower than the year before. In 2008, Hallmark revenues were off 2 percent from the previous year. In 2009, Hallmark — a company with a reputation of holding onto employees for decades — dropped 8 percent of its work force, which now
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Rich LaPierre, a Hallmark Cards Inc. designer for the Peanuts line, works on artwork during a 100-year anniversary reception at the company’s headquarter Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo. stands at about 13,400 worldwide. Whether the revenue drops and layoffs were due to the recession or from the generational shift to more spontaneous forms of communication is still being hashed out. Don J. Hall Jr., grandson of Hallmark’s founder and the third generation of Halls to lead the company, isn’t alarmed about the possible fallout from the sluggish economy — something he notes “every consumer-based, retail-based company” has had to deal with. Hall also waves off concerns about electronic media being the death of the greeting card; Hallmark has heard it before. “There were people telling my grandfather all the time that the telephone will lead to the demise of greeting cards,” Hall said. “Then during
my father’s years, it was the fax machine. If you can send a fax ... same thing. “Then it happened a decade ago with e-cards, and they said e-cards will replace greeting cards.” Hallmark, he said, always saw its way through. “I think each new phase we found that people really valued the tangible and the emotional qualities of greeting cards,” Hall said. “Throughout our 100year history we’ve seen changes, but we’ve always been able to remain relevant in people’s lives and use new technology.” Remaining relevant has involved crafting the Hallmark blog, Facebook page, YouTube offerings and a Twitter account. Electronic greeting card books, cell phone greetings and Web-based e-cards — including the popular “hoops&yoyo” brand — show the com-
pany is trying to roll with technology. The company also owns crayon manufacturer Crayola and a real estate development firm, and is a majority owner of cable broadcaster Crown Media, which operates The Hallmark Channel. But it’s all built around the paper greeting card — and its sales. While Facebook recently hit its 500-million member mark, “an estimated 6 billion paper greeting cards were exchanged last year in the U.S.,” says Hallmark spokeswoman Linda Odell.
Overall greeting cards sales in the U.S. account for about $7.5 billion in business, according to the Greeting Card Association, a national trade group based in White Plains, N.Y. The GCA says in comparison, an estimated 500 million e-cards were sent each year. American Greetings, Hallmark’s chief rival, says its sales remain strong. Jim Sinclair, who owns 31 Hallmark stores mostly in Indiana, said Hallmark’s sound cards, recordable greeting cards and other innovative cards have attracted younger people. “I think we’re making inroads there. But that’s certainly the opportunity we need to seize to drive our business in the years to come, to get that younger clientele in the door,” Sinclair said. Pam Danziger, who analyzes the greeting card industry as president of Stevens, Pa.-based Unity Marketing, said Hallmark will likely have to change some aspects of how it does business to stay viable. One move could involve cutting down on its manufacturing investments and large art staff, Danziger said. Hallmark’s 700 artists include writers, photographers, and more at the company’s Kansas City headquarters and make
up one of the country’s largest in-house creative staffs. “The whole model of today’s greeting card industry is really a 20thcentury model where there’s mass printing and writers and poets,” Danziger said. West, of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, said while socialnetworking sites could be eroding card usage, it has yet to be determined how young people will “age into card sending.” The constancy of electronic communication could actually be the impetus behind what West sees as a “new romance with tangible media.” “Even if you don’t like the card that much, you know the person left their house, went to the store and had to select the card and mail it,” she said. “Now that seems like a lot of work.” Tanya Adams, 38, was visiting Kansas City recently from her home in San Diego and had just bought a pop-up 40th birthday card at a Hallmark store. She said she prefers paper cards to e-mail or other electronic greetings. “I’d much rather get a Christmas card that I’ll look at 50 times,” she said. “Otherwise, an email or whatever, I’d just forget about it.”
Fading fireflies? Backyard volunteers help track numbers INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children’s bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation’s backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats. Scientists concerned by reports from the public that they are seeing fewer of the luminous insects each summer have turned to a network of backyard volunteers spanning much of the nation to track their range and numbers. Their observations may shed light on whether fireflies are indeed declining — a trend that could dwindle the targets for the childhood rite of passage of chasing fireflies. As this weekend marks
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some years back, investment banker Carter Pilcher stumbled across some really good short movies made by a few talented friends, and the moneymaking and artistic sides of his brain suddenly clicked. The idea was to buy rights to those shorts cheaply from wannabe filmmakers who sought fame more than fortune. He figured he could make a business by showing them to new audiences for just the right price. “I just felt like I’d discovered a part of the world of content that didn’t take a lot of money to create but was really riveting,” said Pilcher, a 49-year-old American who was working in London at the time and still has his office there. “In 10 minutes, you’re in tears, or you’re shocked, or you laugh really hard.” Pilcher gave up his career in finance to pursue the idea. With his own money and help from family and friends, he started what has become Shorts International, a company that now runs subscription TV channels that show shorts in six countries to about 12 million homes. That’s not a lot of homes for a channel although he hopes to expand its reach. AT&T Inc.’s U-verse video service began carrying ShortsHD in the U.S. last summer and Dish Network Corp. did so
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Carter Pilcher poses for photograph at his office in London. in April. While giving thousands of filmmakers a potentially huge new audience, Shorts International won’t necessarily make them rich. Its licensing fee — a few hundred dollars over several years — is not enough to transform what is a moneylosing venture for most filmmakers. But his business adds to the many outlets that are now trying to make money from their work. “It’s a fair price,” Pilcher said. “What’s even more important: We’re giving filmmakers a chance to be seen.” For filmmakers, making short movies is a kind of necessary proving ground. No one walks into a director’s job at a Hollywood studio without a track record. For many, it’s either
lose money making your own short or fetch coffee as a production assistant and try to rise through the ranks. Tarique Qayumi, a Los Angeles filmmaker who is trying to sell the company his short, “Last Supper,” called the few hundred dollars in payment “ridiculous” given the hours he invested and the favors he pulled to give his movie a professional look and feel despite its $3,000 budget. Yet if such a deal is offered, Qayumi said he “would grudgingly sign.” “I just want as many people as possible to see my film, so I really don’t have any bargaining power,” Qayumi said. A few filmmakers whose shorts are being featured on the channel say that making them has had a careerchanging impact, even if
the movies lost money. Mark Osborne went from teaching at the animation school CalArts to directing DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.’s “Kung Fu Panda” after his stop-motion animation short about worker drones, “More,” won an Oscar nomination in 1999. The movie has yet to recoup its $100,000 budget but it was more than worthwhile, he said. “I always tell everyone, ’Make shorts, make shorts, make shorts.”’ “Shrek” director Vicky Jenson added a twist to her animation-heavy career by making the short “Family Tree” in 2003. The mystical, humorous short littered with personal references gave her the experience directing real actors that she lacked. It led to a directing job for a live-action feature six years later. “It was my own personal director’s camp,” she said. For at least one major studio, shorts can be a way to develop new moviemaking techniques and nurture talent while keeping employees on the payroll. Pixar was a struggling imaging device company in the 1980s, but its early shorts helped pioneer the current golden age of computer-generated animation. Formative shorts such as “Tin Toy” helped spawned the colossal “Toy Story” franchise and the company sold for $7.4 billion to The Walt Disney Co. in 2006.
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Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain. Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite had submitted a motion to drop the case just as a retrial was about to start for the two defendants. “The Travolta family has said that this matter has caused them unbelievable stress and pain and they wish to put this whole thing behind them,” Braithwaite told the court after a jury had been picked to hear the case. Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and his attorney, politician Pleasant Bridgewater, were accused of threatening to release private information about the January 2009 death of Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama. Lightbourne, who was among the medics who treated Jett, allegedly sought $25 million from the actor with the assistance of Bridgewater, who resigned her seat in the Bahamas Senate after she was charged in the case. A judge declared a mistrial in October after a Bahamian lawmaker suggested the still-deliberating jury had acquitted one of the suspects. Travolta had testified during that trial — describing how he desperately tried to save the life of his seizure-
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Ex-ELO cellist killed in collision with hay bale LONDON (AP) — Police in southwestern England say a former member of the Electric Light Orchestra was killed in a freak collision with a huge hay bale that rolled down a steep hill. The victim was identified on Monday as 62-year-old Mike Edwards, who played cello in the British rock band between 1972 and 1975. Sgt. Steve Walker of the Devon and Cornwall Police said Edwards was driving a van Friday when he collided with a 600-kilogram (1,300 pound) hay bale that had rolled down a hill to the road.
Jerry Hall’s art collection on auction block LONDON (AP) — Model Jerry Hall plans to auction some of her art collection next month, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant, Sotheby’s said Monday. The auction will also include works by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, David Bailey and other prominent artists collected by Hall, ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger The works will be sold on Oct. 15-16 as part of a larger contemporary art sale, Sotheby’s spokesman Simon Warren said. Sotheby’s specialist Oliver Barker said the Lucian Freud portrait called “Eight Months Gone” is the centerpiece of the auction and is expected to fetch more than 300,000 pounds ($460,000). “It’s a wonderful painting,” he said. “It was exhibited shortly after it was done at the Tate Gallery. He’s always been interested in maternity. It’s a very tender, loving painting.” He said Hall was willing to sell part of her collection because she has entered a new phase in her life. “She’s turning a new leaf,” he said. “She’s not afraid of change, she’s happy to let them leave and have other art lovers enjoy them.” Hall said the unusually intimate painting came about after she and Freud were seated at a dinner together when she was eight months pregnant with her son Gabriel. The artist asked her if she would pose for him and said they had to begin immediately because she was so close to giving birth.
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Death toll hits 45 in mudslides GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mudcovered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. The deaths raised the official toll from rain-fueled mudslides in Guatemala to 45. Authorities said 25 people are confirmed dead and at least 15 are believed to be still buried beneath the debris in the village of Nahuala, where a first mudslide buried a bus and other vehicles, then a second one turned would-be rescuers into victims. At least 20 others died over the weekend elsewhere as a tropical depression saturated the ground and set off more than a dozen landslides around the country, according to the national disaster agency. The most recent slide, on a highway in northern Guatemala, killed one person and injured 26 on Sunday. In southern Guatemala, meanwhile, rescue workers used motorboats to reach about 100 families cut off by massive flooding in the town of Santa Ana Mixtan. Some residents sat on their roofs waiting to be evacuated, while others tried to drag bundles of their belongings through neck-deep water. In Nahuala, emergency crews and villagers rushed to the Inter-American highway on Saturday, picks and shovels in hand, after radio reports of the deadly slide — only to be
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People try to recover belongings during flooding in Santa Ana Mixta, Guatemala, Monday. At least 44 people have died after days of torrential rains. swamped by the second cascade of rock and earth. Search and rescue efforts were suspended Sunday for fear that the mountainside could give way yet again, but digging resumed Monday with heavy machinery and fewer workers, said Sergio Cabanas, a Civil Protection director. Of the 100 people originally searching for bodies and survivors, only 33 remained, all of them soldiers and firefighters, Cabanas said. “And even they might not be able to recover the last of the bodies,” Cabanas said. “It’s very dangerous to have personnel there.” At least five bodies were pulled out Monday, said Mario Cruz, a firefighters’ spokesman. Authorities initially said
more than three dozen people were missing, but the estimate was lowered to 15 after further interviews with witnesses and relatives. Local police officer Suagustino Pascual Tuy said there had been several landslides along the Inter-American highway in the last year, and authorities knew of the danger. “Last year there was a landslide there, 15 days ago there was a landslide,” he said. “But now a big one came.” President Alvaro Colom, who visited the area and declared Monday a national day of mourning, said Guatemala must improve its disaster prevention efforts. He said more geologists should study the terrain in the country’s hillsides. All told, there were 15
landslides at different spots along the InterAmerican Highway — a section of the Pan-American Highway system — within in a 48-hour period, Communications Minister Guillermo Castillo said. Byron Pivaral, director of the government agency that oversees road construction, said widespread deforestation made it difficult for the land around the highway to absorb heavy rain. Along the highway, he said, people have cut down trees to plant corn and beans. Vice President Rafael Espada said there would be investigation to determine whether faulty road construction also contributed to the mudslides.
Hurricane watches issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday. Hermine will probably make landfall around midnight just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, threatening to bring as much as one foot of rainfall to some areas battered by Hurricane Alex in June. Remnant rains from Alex killed at least 12 people in flooding in Mexico. Hermine “will briefly be over Mexico, and then we’re expecting it to produce very heavy rainfall over south Texas,” said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center. “We’re expecting widespread rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches with isolated amounts of a foot possible. Especially in the hilly and mountainous terrain that could cause life-threatening flash flooding.”
Lawyer for Iranian woman says she could be executed after Ramadan TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also confirmed that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was lashed 99
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times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her. Under Iran’s clerical rule, women must cover their hair in public. The newspaper later apologized for the error. With the end of Ramadan this week, the mother of two could be executed “any moment,” said her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian. The sentence was put on hold in July after an international outcry over the brutality of the punishment, and it is now being reviewed by Iran’s supreme court.
Suicide attack on police station kills 17 officers, civilians LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes. About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, which sits on the main road between Punjab province, Pakistan’s largest and most prosperous, and the North and South Waziristan tribal regions. A Pakistani army offensive pushed many militants out of South Waziristan in October. The militants still control much of North Waziristan, where U.S. drone aircraft have been conducting a campaign of targeted killings. Hours after the attack, officials said a suspected U.S. missile strike had killed three alleged militants in North Waziristan, home to the Haqqani network, a militant group battling U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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A thriller for the Camels Redshirt freshman quarterback Daniel Polk sends Campbell to opening day win with last-second toss
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Revis signs 4-year deal, returns to Jets FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Darrelle Revis was walking toward his teammates on the practice field when a strange feeling came over him. “I had butterflies,” the New York Jets’ cornerback said with a grin Monday. For a guy who routinely shuts down opponents’ best wide receivers, the acknowledgment of insecurity was stunning. “I didn’t know how my teammates were going to accept me,” Revis said, “because I haven’t been here for a month.” After some loud, welcoming cheers and good-natured ribbing, Revis knew he was finally back home. He signed his four-year deal Monday afternoon, apologizing to fans for not getting back sooner and officially making his return after a 36-day holdout. “It was a good feeling just to see the guys,” Revis said, “just wanting to be around them because I haven’t been here for a while.” Revis agreed to a new contract late Sunday night and took an early morning flight Monday from his home in South Florida. He arrived at the Jets’ training facility after 1 p.m., rejoined his teammates and signed the deal. “It was a long process,” he said. “It was rough on me. You know I’m a football player and I love to play the game and I’m happy it’s over with. I can go play football now.”
BASEBALL A-Rod reaches 100 RBI for 13th year in row NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez reached 100 RBIs for a record 14th season with plenty of time to spare. A-Rod had a solo home run in the fourth inning off Brian Matusz and a sacrifice fly in the sixth of the New York Yankees’ 4-3 loss to Baltimore on Monday. Rodriguez surpassed Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx, who each reached the mark 13 times. “It’s an amazing number. It just shows you how consistent he has been,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “He came up at a young age and has been consistent throughout his career. It’s a pretty amazing feat.” Rodriguez has 13 consecutive seasons with 100 RBIs. With 22 homers, he also has a chance to reach 30 for the 13th time in a row and 14th overall. Last year, Rodriguez needed a three-run homer and a grand slam at Tampa Bay in the seventh inning of New York’s regular-season finale to keep up his streaks of 30 and 100. “Obviously you try to come out and be consistent every year,” Rodriguez said. “It’s nice.”
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Blake out over ties to agent Assistant resigns as plot thickens in Chapel Hill By Briana Gorman Durham Herald-Sun
CHAPEL HILL (MCT) — North Carolina associate head coach and defensive line coach John Blake, who has drawn the NCAA’s attention over his connection to prominent NFL agent Gary Wichard, resigned effective immediately, the school announced Sunday. “While I have enjoyed my tenure at the University of North Carolina, it has become apparent to me over the course of Blake the past few
The 6-foot-8 Jones outjumped everyone for it, setting off a massive celebration. “I’ve been doing this for 24 years, and that’s never happened to me,” Tulsa coach Todd Graham said. “We usually have a play we execute to put pressure on the quarterback so he can’t make that throw. We called the play and didn’t execute. That’s our fault.” A brief review upheld the call and the Pirates, who were flagged for an excessive celebration, skipped the extra point and instead took a knee.
weeks that my presence has become a distraction to my family and to this great university, too,” Blake said in a statement. “Consequently, I have determined that it is in the best interests of my family, the university community at large, and the football program for me to step down from my position as associate head football coach.” According to a Yahoo! Sports article, Blake and Wichard have known each other for years, and the NCAA is looking into Blake’s one-time position as vice president of football operations for Wichard’s agency, Pro Tect Management. Wichard currently represents former UNC standout defensive tackle Kentwan Balmer, a first-round draft pick by the San Francisco 49ers in 2008. Another
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East Carolina’s Justin Jones (84) gets up above teammate Lance Lewis (88) and Tulsa defenders Trae Johnson (top 1) and Trent Wilkins (bottom 1) to haul in the game-winning touchdown catch as time runs out in second half the ECU-Tulsa game at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville.
Endzone winner one for the ages for Pirates fans GREENVILLE (AP) — In his first start at East Carolina, quarterback Dominique Davis provided one of the greatest finishes in the history of the program. Davis heaved a 33-yard touchdown pass to a leaping Justin Jones as time expired to give the Pirates a wild 51-49 win against Tulsa on Sunday in coach Ruffin McNeill’s debut at his alma mater. Davis was 27 of 46 for 383 yards with five touchdown passes — two to Lance Lewis, two to Dwayne Harris — and one rushing TD in his first start for East Carolina (1-0, 1-0 Conference USA). “That was the greatest ex-
perience of my life,” said Davis, the former Boston College quarterback said. “There was probably people in the stands — our fans — who probably thought the game was over. But I told the team, ‘Just trust.’ As soon as I let it go, I knew he was going to catch it.” G.J. Kinne finished 28 of 43 for 399 yards for Tulsa (0-1, 0-1). His fifth touchdown pass — a 3-yard toss to Charles Clay with 1:22 left — appeared to have been enough for the Golden Hurricane. But Davis whisked the Pirates downfield in nine plays. On the final snap, he launched the ball high toward a handful of players in the end zone.
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Smoke rises Slumping Braves drop just in time another to woeful Pirates for Chase By ALAN ROBINSON AP Sports Writer
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CHARLOTTE — Tony Stewart went to Atlanta Motor Speedway mired in a 31-race winless streak and an afterthought, at best, on the list of championship contenders. By the time he left the track early Monday morning he may very well have become the front-runner for the Sprint Cup Series title. The streakiest driver in NASCAR knocked down his first win of the season late Sunday night with a dominating performance at Atlanta, and based on Stewart’s own track record, he’s got to be considered a credible contender. When Smoke gets hot — and he usually does every summer — he is very, very hard to beat. He won three times in a nine-race span last season to move to the top of the points standings, won three of four in the middle of the 2007 season, and three of six in 2006 when he failed to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Now Stewart rolls into Richmond International Raceway, site of Saturday night’s
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PITTSBURGH — The Atlanta Braves lost a game they badly needed to win. Even worse, they lost to a Pirates team whose only apparent goal appears to be avoiding the franchise’s worst season in nearly 50 years. Neil Walker hit a tworun homer, Brian Burres limited Atlanta to one run over six innings in his first start in more than three months and the Pirates beat the can’t-get-hot Braves 3-1 on Monday. Despite losing its fourth in five games, Atlanta was assured of remaining in first place in the NL East for at least another day when Florida beat Philadelphia 7-1 in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. The Braves own a one-game lead over the Phillies. The Braves have led the
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Atlanta Braves catcher David Price, left, and pitcher Derek Lowe watch the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh Monday. The Pirates won 3-1. Lowe did not play in the game. division every day since May 31, but have lost six games off that edge since July 22. Lost their confidence, too? They say not so. “I think a characteristic of our team is confidence,” said Matt Diaz,
who had two of Atlanta’s eight hits. “We don’t really have a strut on the field and but we definitely have a swagger in the locker room, and we’re not losing confidence at
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DURHAM â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Former Lee County Yellow Jacket and current Duke running back Jay Hollingsworth scored a touchdown against Elon in the Blue Devilsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 41-20 victory Saturday night. Hollinsgworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1-yard scoring run came with 2:10 left in the game. He finished the day with 10 yards on 10 carries.
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Campbell quarterback Daniel Polk scored two touchdown including the game winner with eight seconds left Saturday as the Camels opened the season with a win.
Campbell opens season with last-second win of their own From staff reports WISE, Va. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s redshirt senior quarterback Daniel Polk was able to scamper in with the game-winning touchdown from a yard out with 0:08 seconds left in the game to secure a thrilling 20-16 comefrom-behind victory over UVA Wise (0-2) for the Camels (1-0) on Saturday evening at Carl Smith Stadium. The touchdown was Polkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second rushing touchdown of the game and capped off a 14-play 84 yard drive for CU. Polk completed 17 passes for 181 yards and ran 13 times for 36 yards and two scores. Junior running back Rashaun Brown led the Campbell effort with 85 yards on 12 carries. Redshirt junior
Harrison Jordan totaled seven catches for 74 yards. Stewart Robertson led the Highland Cavaliers with 94 yards on 10 carries and a touchdown. CUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s redshirt junior Adam Willets knocked in a career-best 46 yard field. The Campbell defense was led by redshirt senior Lee Stanleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 13 tackles. Freshman Taurean Lynch made an immediate impact with two sacks for the Camels. The Camels were able to outgain the Cavs 338 to 300. The Camels began the scoring on the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening drive with a 14-play 74 yard drive finished on a Polk plunge. The Highlander Cavaliers answer on the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first drive of the game with an eight play 81 yard drive that ended
on Nick Leftwichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15 yard touchdown pass to Tank Elam. The game stayed knotted a seven until Adam Willets knocked in a 21 yard field goal in the third quarter. The Highland Cavaliers tied the game up again early in the fourth on Allen Owens 38 yard field goal. CU took the lead early in fourth (11:00) on Willetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; long field goal. The Cavaliers would answer and scored their go-ahead touchdown with 4:36 left in the game on Robertsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19-yard carry, which then set up Polkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heroics. Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s football team now returns home for the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home opener on Saturday, Sept. 11 against Old Dominion at 1 p.m. Notes: The win makes Campbell 2-1 all-time on the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening dayâ&#x20AC;Śthe win was CUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second in four tries at night since the program was restarted in 2008.
VOLLEYball
Camels volleyball makes home debut Tuesday BUIES CREEK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Campbell will make its 2010 home debut Tuesday at 7 p.m., hosting Coastal Carolina inside the John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center. The Camels are 1-6 after an extremely tough first two weeks that included a match with No. 1 Penn State, plus contests with North Carolina and Duke on the road. On Saturday, the Camels grabbed their first win of the year in their Colonial Challenge finale against Hampton. Campbell downed the Pirates 3-0 (25-11, 25-18, 25-14), setting season-highs in attack percentage, blocks and service aces. Sophomore outside hitter Jordan Reaves leads the Camels at 2.12 kills per set, adding 2.42 digs a frame, while senior outside Emily Werner adds an even 2.00 kills per set. Middle blockers Annie Kobeski and Caitlin Bendy combine for 1.37 blocks per set. Junior libero Kelsey Campbell leads the team in digs at 61 (2.77 per set), while Lauren Garza, also a junior libero, averages a team-high 2.84 per frame. So far this season, Reaves and Kobeski have been named to the Carolina Classic and Colonial Challenge all-tournament teams, respectively.
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Tennis
Wozniacki wallops Sharapova at US Open NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Grit was not going to be enough to get Maria Sharapova through this one. Not with nine doublefaults, including three in a row. Not with a total of 36 unforced errors. And certainly not with No. 1-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark across the net Monday in the fourth round of the U.S. Open, doing â&#x20AC;&#x153;what she does best,â&#x20AC;? as Sharapova herself put it: getting to nearly every ball and hammering it back, stretching points on and on and on until her opponent misses the mark. It added up to a 6-3, 6-4 victory for 2009 U.S. Open runner-up Wozniacki over Sharapova, who has failed to make it even as far as the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows since winning the 2006 title. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like I was playing well out there,â&#x20AC;? Wozniacki said, then made sure everyone understood a key concept by adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I made her do those errors.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, she did. Rare is the opponent who can trade powerful baseline groundstrokes with three-
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all. We know we go in the division and control our fate. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the beauty of being the team that the other teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chasing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one game or 10 games.â&#x20AC;? Atlanta had won five of its previous six against Pittsburgh and likely was looking to this three-
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Maria Sharapova of Russia returns the ball to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in the fourth round of play at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York Monday. time Grand Slam champion Sharapova and figure out a way to put her on the defensive, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what Wozniacki managed to do as early evening shadows crept across the blue court in Arthur Ashe Stadium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When she had the opportunity to step in,â&#x20AC;? the 14th-seeded Sharapova said, her voice a barely audible monotone, â&#x20AC;&#x153;she took it and went for her shots.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first victory for Wozniacki in three career meetings against Sharapova, but they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t met since 2008. In that time, the 20-year-old Wozniacki has grown as a player and built a huge
supply of confidence, thanks to her Grand Slam final debut in New York and, most recently, her 18-1 record since Wimbledon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve improved a lot, not only physically, but also I believe in myself more. I believe I can do it,â&#x20AC;? said Wozniacki, who is ranked No. 2 but received the top seeding at the U.S. Open because No. 1 Serena Williams withdrew. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Also, I think I can mix up my game a little bit more.â&#x20AC;? Wozniacki has lost only 10 games so far; no one has conceded fewer en route to the U.S. Open quarterfinals since 1999.
game series as a way to get untracked. But the Braves did almost nothing against Burres (3-3), who limited them to David Rossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sacrifice fly in the second during his first start since losing to Atlanta 6-3 on May 29. Keeping the Braves off balance with an assortment of offspeed pitches mixed in with a fastball that topped out at 90 mph, Burres made his best start since shutting
out the Cubs for seven innings on May 6. The lefthander spent much of the season with Triple-A Indianapolis, and started Monday only because Jeff Karstens has arm and shoulder fatigue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like when I needed to, I could make a good pitch,â&#x20AC;? said Burres, who might remain in the rotation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always get ahead of the hitters, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get out of it with a good pitch.â&#x20AC;?
Panthers Notebook
Undrafted rookie overcomes odds CHARLOTTE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; There are so many reasons Andre Neblett shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be on an NFL roster. Poor grades in high school left him lightly recruited. Struggling Temple took a chance, but the coaches switched him from linebacker to defensive tackle, a position he not only never played, but hated. While he eventually thrived there and helped turn around the Owlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; moribund program, he went undrafted because of concerns he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t big enough. He signed with Carolina, but appeared to have little chance to stick around as the Panthers prepared to trim 22 players on Saturday. Then the cut list came out and on it was veteran Tank Tyler, who some thought would start at defensive
tackle. Corvey Irvin, a third-round pick just a year earlier, was waived, too. Neblett? He became only the fourth undrafted rookie to make the team in coach John Foxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine seasons in Carolina. Oh, and he might be the only defensive lineman the Panthers have had who can do a back flip. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything has been going my way,â&#x20AC;? Neblett said. Neblett spoke Monday at Bank of America Stadium, which serves as a reminder of how far heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come. He was a true freshman here learning a new position in 2006 when Temple lost to Clemson 63-9 on the way to a 1-11 season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing you can do to him in training camp that would bother him after
what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been through here,â&#x20AC;? Owls coach Al Golden said. Golden talks proudly of how Neblett not only became an elite, if undersized, college defensive tackle, he morphed into a good student and was part of a class that helped Temple to its first bowl game in 30 years last season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a kid who was playing fullback in high school, so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only really played nose guard these four years,â&#x20AC;? Golden said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten stronger every year. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten smarter in terms of football intelligence. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten tougher every year and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten in better condition every year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not surprised that he made (the Panthers). Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m surprised he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get drafted. What a deal to get him undrafted.â&#x20AC;?
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Leinart agrees to deal with Texans
BASEBALL
HOUSTON (AP) — Matt Leinart has agreed to a oneyear deal with the Houston Texans, according to agent Tom Condon. Leinart was cut by Arizona on Saturday. Condon confirmed in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Monday that Leinart had reached a deal with the Texans. The Texans would not confirm the deal. The team returns to practice Wednesday, leading up to Sunday’s season opener against Indianapolis. The Texans were looking for insurance at backup quarterback after Dan Orlovsky threw two interceptions in Houston’s last preseason game last week. John David Booty, another former Southern Cal quarterback, threw two touchdown passes in that game, but was cut over the weekend. The Cardinals took Leinart with the No. 10 overall pick in the 2006 draft, after he guided the Trojans to two national championships and a third title game appearance. With Kurt Warner retired, Leinart figured to finally get his chance to start this season, but Derek Anderson won the job in training camp. Leinart complained that he had issues with coach Ken Whisenhunt, and the two met late in the preseason. Leinart threw for 3,893 yards with 14 touchdowns and 20 interceptions with Arizona. Houston had the NFL’s top passing offense last season (291 yards per game) and starter Matt Schaub led the league with 4,770 yards passing.
East Division W L Pct GB New York 86 52 .623 — Tampa Bay 83 53 .610 2 Boston 76 61 .555 91⁄2 Toronto 71 66 .518 141⁄2 Baltimore 52 86 .377 34 Central Division W L Pct GB Minnesota 81 57 .587 — Chicago 77 60 .562 31⁄2 Detroit 68 70 .493 13 Kansas City 57 80 .416 231⁄2 Cleveland 55 82 .401 251⁄2 West Division W L Pct GB Texas 75 62 .547 — Oakland 68 69 .496 7 Los Angeles 66 71 .482 9 Seattle 54 84 .391 211⁄2
McEnroe resigns as Davis Cup captain NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick McEnroe resigned as U.S. Davis Cup captain Monday, saying his 10-year tenure will end after the Americans’ playoff against Colombia this month. McEnroe led the United States to a Davis Cup title in 2007. This year, though, the Americans must win in the playoffs to secure a spot in the top tier of the Davis Cup, the first time they have found themselves in that position since 2005. The younger brother of seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe said he wanted to dedicate his time to his family and his other jobs. Already a TV analyst, he was hired two years ago to run the U.S. Tennis Association’s program to develop elite players. “Player development is really a consuming job,” McEnroe said. “An exciting job, a job that I love, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort.” McEnroe mentioned Jim Courier and Todd Martin as obvious candidates for the position. Courier, a four-time major champion, said while calling the U.S. Open for CBS on Monday that he’d be interested.
Blue Jays fan hit by falling letter TORONTO (AP) — Baseball fans have long been warned to look out for foul balls and flying bats. Now add falling letters to the list. A fan at the Toronto Blue Jays’ game was OK on Monday after being struck in the right shoulder by a tumbling, metal “B’’ from a sign honoring Jackie Robinson. The middle-aged man had a scrape after a foul ball by home run leader Jose Bautista of the Blue Jays dislodged one of the letters in a tribute honoring Robinson’s retired No. 42. The letter fell about 30 feet from the facing over the third deck behind home plate in the seventh inning of the Texas-Toronto game.
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“regular season finale,” with nothing to lose. He can gamble and race hard for a win, and with it 10 more critical bonus points, and take a ton of momentum into the Sept. 19 Chase opener at New Hampshire. It’s a far different situation than last season, when Stewart built a monstrous lead in the points standings but cooled off considerably around the start of the Chase. He had four-straight finishes outside the top-10 heading into the Chase, and opened the 10-race title deciding format with a disappointing 14th-place finish. “At this stage last year, we were pointing downhill,” Stewart said, “and now we’re pointing uphill.” That’s a good thing for NASCAR, which needs Stewart to be competitive to keep interest piqued. He’s no Dale Earnhardt Jr. in terms of fan popularity, and his star isn’t as bright as four-time champions Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon. But with his super-sized personality — and temper — he keeps things interesting and is one of the few drivers who can legitimately mix it up at every race track on the circuit. It was interesting earlier this season to watch individual drivers take their turn dominating the series. First it was Johnson, winner of three of the first five races and back-to-back victories in June. Then
Denny Hamlin reeled off five wins in 10 races, and Kevin Harvick put up a steady string of consistent finishes, along with three victories, to take command of the points standings. But it all lacked the oomph that Stewart packs. Win, lose or crash trying, with Stewart in the mix, everything is amped up another level. Of course, that slump he carried into the Chase last year followed him into this season and prevented Stewart from making much noise on or off the track. In fact, when he left Richmond three months ago, a lap down and with a noncompetitive 23rd-place finish, he fully admitted he and crew chief Darian Grubb were “in the Twilight Zone” when it came to their cars, their setups and their overall direction at Stewart-Haas Racing. “We’re confused,” Stewart said a few days after Richmond. “Darian and I are both confused with what’s going on and why it’s going on.” It was much of the same the next week at Darlington, another 23rd-place finish and a lap down from the winner, but it’s been game-on since late May as Stewart has steadily turned it around. Stewart has finished outside the top-10 only three times in the 14 races since Darlington, a span in which he criticized his fellow competitors for “idiotic” restarts after a thirdplace finish at Pocono and vowed to raise his game another level.
American League
Sunday’s Games Toronto 7, N.Y. Yankees 3 Chicago White Sox 7, Boston 5 Baltimore 8, Tampa Bay 7 Kansas City 2, Detroit 1 Minnesota 6, Texas 5 L.A. Angels 7, Oakland 4 Seattle 3, Cleveland 0 Monday’s Games Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 3 Chicago White Sox 5, Detroit 4, 10 innings Toronto 7, Texas 2 Minnesota 5, Kansas City 4 Oakland 6, Seattle 2 Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Cleveland at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (Arrieta 4-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 19-5), 7:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 11-5) at Detroit (Verlander 148), 7:05 p.m. Texas (Feldman 6-9) at Toronto (Marcum 11-7), 7:07 p.m. Tampa Bay (Price 16-6) at Boston (Matsuzaka 9-4), 7:10 p.m. Kansas City (Bannister 7-11) at Minnesota (Liriano 12-7), 8:10 p.m. Cleveland (Masterson 5-12) at L.A. Angels (T.Bell 2-4), 10:05 p.m.
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former Tar Heel, Cam Thomas, said Balmer paid for him and current player Marvin Austin to travel to California and train. Austin, also a defensive tackle, is at the center of an ongoing NCAA investigation into improper contact with agents and accepting illegal benefits and was suspended indefinitely from the team last week. The NCAA probe into agents then led to the revelation of academic misconduct and the school held out 13 players in Saturday’s 30-24 season-opening loss to No. 21 LSU while the twopronged investigation continues. Cornerback Charles Brown, cornerback Kendric Burney, wide receiver Greg Little, defensive end Michael McAdoo and defensive end Robert Quinn
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“I guess I’m just lucky I’m taller than everybody,” Jones said. “My first thought (in the pileup in the end zone) was just get the ball safe, and the next thing I know, I felt like I’m being crushed by a truck.” The teams combined for 1,117 total yards and the lead changed hands 12 times during a wacky, back-and-forth C-USA shootout in which defense seemed optional. Harris caught seven passes for 121 yards while Lewis finished with six grabs for 105 yards. Those two were the biggest beneficiaries of Davis’ big day. He led BC to the 2008 Atlantic Coast
Seattle (Fister 4-11) at Oakland (Braden 9-10), 10:05 p.m.
National League East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 79 59 .572 — Philadelphia 78 60 .565 1 Florida 70 66 .515 8 New York 67 71 .486 12 Washington 60 78 .435 19 Central Division W L Pct GB Cincinnati 79 58 .577 — St. Louis 72 63 .533 6 Houston 64 73 .467 15 Milwaukee 63 74 .460 16 Chicago 60 78 .435 191⁄2 Pittsburgh 46 91 .336 33 West Division W L Pct GB San Diego 76 59 .563 — San Fran. 77 61 .558 1⁄2 Colorado 73 64 .533 4 Los Angeles 69 68 .504 8 Arizona 56 82 .406 211⁄2 Sunday’s Games Florida 7, Atlanta 6, 10 innings Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 2 Washington 8, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 2 N.Y. Mets 18, Chicago Cubs 5 Colorado 4, San Diego 2 Houston 3, Arizona 2 San Francisco 3, L.A. Dodgers 0 Monday’s Games Florida 7, Philadelphia 1, 1st game Washington 13, N.Y. Mets 3 Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 1 St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 6 Chicago Cubs 5, Houston 4 Colorado 10, Cincinnati 5 San Francisco 2, Arizona 0, 11 innings Florida at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m., 2nd game L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Atlanta (T.Hudson 15-6) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-5), 7:05 p.m. Florida (Volstad 9-9) at Philadelphia (Blanton 6-6), 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-0) at Washington (Maya 0-0), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Figueroa 4-2) at Chicago Cubs (Silva 10-5),
TV Sports Listings
Tuesday, Sept. 6 AUTO RACING TENNIS
ESPN2 — U.S. Open, men’s round of 16 and women’s quarterfinals, at New York, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. 8:05 p.m. St. Louis (Lohse 2-6) at Milwaukee (Narveson 10-7), 8:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Cueto 12-4) at Colorado (J.Chacin 7-9), 8:40 p.m. San Francisco (Lincecum 12-9) at Arizona (Enright 6-2), 9:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 11-9) at San Diego (Latos 13-5), 10:05 p.m.
TENNIS
U.S. Open Results
By The Associated Press Monday At The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center New York Purse: $22.7 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men Fourth Round Gael Monfils (17), France, def. Richard Gasquet, France, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5. Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, def. Mardy Fish (19), United States, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. Robin Soderling (5), Sweden, def. Albert Montanes (21), Spain, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Women Fourth Round Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (11), Russia, 7-5, 7-6 (4). Kaia Kanepi (31), Estonia, def. Yanina Wickmayer (15), Belgium, 0-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1. Caroline Wozniacki (1), Denmark, def. Maria Sharapova (14), Russia, 6-3, 6-4. Vera Zvonareva (7), Russia, def. Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 6-1, 6-2.
Transactions
BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX—Recalled 1B Lars Anderson, RHP Michael Bowden and OF Josh Reddick from Pawtucket (IL). Activated C Jason Varitek from the 15-day DL. KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Recalled OF Jarrod Dyson from Omaha (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled RHP Pat Neshek and LHP Glen Perkins from Rochester (IL). NEW YORK YANKEES—Recalled OF Colin Curtis from Scranton-Wilkes-Barre (IL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Sent RHP Vin Mazzaro to Sacramento (PCL). TEXAS RANGERS—Purchased the contract of INF Esteban German from Oklahoma City. Designated INF Alex Cora for assignment. National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Selected the contract of LHP Nate Robertson from Lehigh Valley (IL). Recalled RHP Vance Worley and LHP Mike Zagurski from Lehigh Valley. Football NFL CAROLINA PANTHERS— Signed G Shawn Murphy, G Dan Santucci, CB R.J. Stanford, DT Corvey Irvin, RB Josh Vaughan, FB Rashawn Jackson, WR Trent Guy and LB Sean Ware to the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS—Signed OT Cliff Louis, TE Scott Chandler, G Travis Bright, WR Jesse Holley, WR Manny Johnson, RB Lonyae Miller, TE Martin Rucker and CB Teddy Williams to the practice squad.
all were ineligible for the game for violating school and/or NCAA rules, while Austin had been suspended earlier. Tailback Shaun Draughn, defensive end Linwan Euwell, safety Brian Gupton, tailback Ryan Houston, safety Da’Norris Searcy, safety Deunta Williams and safety Jonathan Smith also did not make the trip. The school has not determined if those players will appear in the Tar Heels’ next game — Sept. 18 against Georgia Tech in Chapel Hill — but everyone except Austin will practice this week. “The Tar Heel family has tremendous passion for the university and everything it represents,” Coach Butch Davis said in a statement. “It’s one of the things that made me want to be a Tar Heel four years ago. All of us who are part of the football program have been both disappointed and embarrassed by recent
events. Our student-athletes, coaches and I are committed to working every day, both on and off the field, to build a better football program, one that everyone associated with the University of North Carolina can and will be proud of.” Davis and Blake — who is one of the nations top recruiters and was responsible for Austin’s recruitment in 2007 — have known each other for years as they worked together with the Dallas Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson in the early 1990s. Blake also became the head coach of his alma mater, Oklahoma, in 1996 but was fired in 1998 after going 12-22. “Knowing John as I have over the years, it is clear that this was a difficult decision for him to make,” said Davis in a statement. “I know how much John loves the players, coaching and the game of football. I am grateful for all of his hard
work and effort in helping build this program. As difficult as this situation is, I have accepted his resignation.” Blake’s annual base salary is $240,000, and his contract would have expired June 30, 2011. He will be paid $74,500, which is approximately the salary he would have received if he had completed the season, from football revenues. “Coach Blake had indicated to me in previous conversations that he would step down if he felt his presence with the football program would become a distraction,” Director of Athletics Dick Baddour said in a statement. “I appreciate and respect his decision to do what is best for the university and our football program. I know the young men he coached are tremendously disappointed, but Coach Davis and his staff will help and support them as the season moves forward.”
Conference championship game, but left the program and transferred to a junior college. He signed with East Carolina to play for Skip Holtz, but he faced an uncertain future when Holtz left for South Florida in January and McNeill returned to his alma mater to replace him. The best-kept secret in Greenville this summer was who would start under center, and nobody knew who McNeill had picked until Davis trotted off the sideline for the first play from scrimmage. Davis said he was told “a while ago” that he would start but to keep it under wraps, though McNeill maintained all week that he was waffling between Davis and sophomore walk-on Brad Wornick.
Looks like he picked the right guy. Davis had touchdown passes of 43 and 30 yards to Lewis and 6 and 34 yards to Harris. He scored on a 2-yard keeper on the fourth play of the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, his counterpart was just as productive. Kinne had TDs of 12 yards to Clay Sears, 3 yards to Jameel Owens and 75 yards to Willie Carter before he got a fortunate bounce on one of his throws. His hard pass into the end zone bounced high off Thomas Roberson. The crowd had already started cheering an apparent incompletion when Trae Johnson leaped and pulled it out of the air. That 11-yard touchdown put Tulsa up 42-38. Still, there was 8:15 re-
maining — plenty of time for more fireworks. Two plays after Davis’ 26-yard pass to Joe Womack on fourth-and3, he tossed a quick strike to Harris, who cut across the middle of the field and scored from 34 yards out to make it 45-42 with 6:05 left. But that only meant it was Tulsa’s turn to score again. Kinne led the Golden Hurricane 76 yards in 11 plays, capped by the flip to Clay that seemingly had decided it. “We knew we had to put up a lot of points,” Harris said. “We really took that as a challenge as an offensive team, and the quarterback took that as a challenge to get the ball to the receivers and make plays, and that’s what we did.”
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Dear Abby
BRIDGE HAND
Friend is in the doghouse for usurping daughter’s name DEAR ABBY: My best friend of 30 years, “Andrea,” and her husband decided not to have children. They are happy with their dogs and cats. She recently adopted a 10-yearold rescue dog and changed the dog’s name to “Monique.” Abby, Monique is my daughter’s name! When I asked Andrea why she changed the dog’s name, she said it is because no one in her family has that name. I am hurt that she would name her dog after my daughter, her godchild — so much so that I no longer wish to speak to this woman. How do I get past this? — MONIQUE’S MOM IN COLORADO
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Happy Birthday: You will have greater insight into family situations. Your willingness to try doing things differently will be the key to professional stability. Don’t limit what you can do because of extra responsibilities. Your ability to juggle and multitask will set you apart from the crowd. Your numbers are 7, 9, 13, 25, 29, 31, 48 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Reach out with love and positive thoughts to the people around you and you will get the same in return. It will be necessary for you to take steps to stabilize your professional life. Networking with people with something to offer is a good place to start. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Getting involved in social settings will lead you to open your mind to new hobbies and friendships. Spend time learning, honing and developing your skills and you will impress others with the precision you possess. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s OK to go after what you want but don’t expect everyone to agree with what you are doing. Love is in a high cycle but such matters must be dealt with appropriately or you will face opposition from someone important to you. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Honesty will be questioned and self-deception will be a problem. Face the facts and make decisions based on what you see. Blame has probably been put on the wrong individual. Don’t ignore what needs to be done. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let your thoughts and feelings be known and you will feel better and less stressed about what you need to do next. Love and romance are in a high cycle. Don’t let someone else’s doubt hold you back or slow you down. Follow your heart. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll have a hard
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time dealing with emotional issues if you don’t separate the way you feel from what must be done. Rely on someone who can guide you. There is plenty to gain if you focus and follow through. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A serious-minded attitude may seem depressing but it will help you accomplish what needs to be done. Buckle down and lend a helping hand where needed. Don’t listen to anyone who isn’t willing to stand by your side. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t share any uncertainty you have about getting things done. A positive attitude coupled with a good plan will pan out in the end. Job opportunities are highlighted. Follow your intuition. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Nothing will turn out to be as it appears. You may have a problem with communications, publishing or anything pertaining to travel and education. Taking on too much or overreacting will cost you personally and professionally. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Making money, cutting deals, taking care of pending legalities or focusing on your health and well-being will all pay off. Don’t let the people you love tie up your time or cause you to miss out on a chance to prosper. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time to be honest with yourself and the people around you about your health, well-being and your feelings about someone. By not sharing, you will continue to spin your wheels and accomplish little. Turn the negatives you have been living with into a positive. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Work hard, play hard and enjoy the benefits that come along with living life to its fullest. Progressive thinking will help you win at the end of the day. A creative idea will spark interest in potential partners.
DEAR M.M.: I understand your feelings, but I hate to see a friendship of 30 years go down in flames because of one (albeit huge) lapse of judgment on Andrea’s part. It appears she just loved the name. Avoid having your daughter and her dog in the same room at the same time, and you’ll spare both of them from confusion. And remember, your Monique will have the name much longer than the dog will. This, too, shall pass. o DEAR ABBY: I have an old friend, “Erika,” who, when we were working together, was my superior. My problem is Erika will, from time to time, ask me questions
that you will either have to keep your guard up when you’re with her, or limit the time you spend with her. o
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seeming not to know anything about the subject. However, as I begin explaining whatever it is, she’ll then say something that indicates she really is well-versed in the matter and knows more about it than I do. I end up feeling blindsided, stupid, and like I have been set up. Why does she do this? And how can I avoid falling into this trap? Erika seems so sincere when she asks a question. — FALLING FOR IT IN DECATUR, ILL. DEAR FALLING FOR IT: She may do it as a form of one-upmanship — or “asking questions” may be her way of making conversation. Because it makes you uncomfortable, ask her why she does it and, while you’re at it, tell her how it makes you feel. If Erika cares about your feelings, she’ll stop trying to one-up you. And if she doesn’t, accept
DEAR ABBY: I don’t cry at funerals. I am a Christian with a deep conviction that the deceased is in a better place. I have been criticized for not crying. My sister-in-law chided me about it at my father-in-law’s funeral. He had been sick and in constant pain for 15 years and died in his 70s. I didn’t cry because he had lived a long and happy life, and had been finally released from chronic pain. How do I answer these criticisms? I have given the reasons I have given you, but no one wants to accept that response. I’m tired of being told how I “should” show emotion at a funeral. Is what I feel or show really anyone’s business but my own? — STOIC IN COLUMBUS, OHIO DEAR STOIC: No, it’s not. And furthermore, funerals can be such wrenching events that sometimes emotions become mixed up and mourners — rather than crying — have been known to break into giggles and laughter. Because few people who have suffered a significant loss are at their best while they are grieving, please try to forgive these presumptuous individuals for their comments.
Odds and Ends Police arrest man who scaled San Francisco tower
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police have arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper and unfurled an American flag at the top. Police tell KCBS Radio that the man is veteran skyscraper climber Dan Goodwin. The 54-year-old Lake Tahoe resident’s other climbing credits include Chicago’s Sears Tower. Goodwin used suction cups but no ropes to scale Millennium Tower, a 645foot residential building overlooking San Francisco Bay. Police say he ignored orders to stop climbing. The San Francisco Fire Department says Goodwin was too high to reach by the time firefighters got to the building. Goodwin reached the top just before 5:30 p.m. Monday, about three hours after he began. He affixed an American flag to the building before surrendering to waiting authorities.
Philly cyclists bare all to promote cleaner air
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote bicycling awareness and cleaner air. Some of the buff bikers wore body paint, some were in bathing suits and some were completely naked. This was the second year for the Philly Naked Bike Ride. Similar rides have taken place in more than 70 cities worldwide since 2004. The bicyclists pedaled several miles through the city on Sunday evening.
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My Answer Va. woman devours 181 chicken wings in NY contest NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday. “I’m so happy!” said Sonya Thomas, who ate 4.86 pounds of chicken wings to win the contest, besting world eating marvel Joey Chestnut at the ninth annual National Buffalo Wing Festival. Buffalo, about 300 miles northwest of New York, is said to be the birthplace of the wings, typically fried and covered in tangy vinegar and hot sauce. Chestnut, America’s No. 1 professional eater, was favored to win Sunday’s competition. He came in second after eating 169 chicken wings, or 4.55 pounds. This was the first time Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., and Chestnut, of San Jose, Calif., faced off in a chicken wing eating contest. They went at it “neck and neck,” said Drew Cerza, the founder of the festival, which was inspired by the 2001 Bill Murray comedy “Osmosis Jones,” about a compulsive eater. “They pushed each other really hard,” Cerza said. “Joey is so strong. He’s got great jaw strength. But Sonya’s so fast with the hand.” Thomas, who’s 5 feet tall and weights 105 pounds, calls herself the Black Widow because she often defeats bigger male competitors — Chestnut is 6-foot-2 and weights 230 pounds — in eating contests. She set the previous wings record in 2005, when she ate 174 in 12 minutes. She also previously set eating records for oysters, hard-boiled eggs, cheesecake and jalapeno peppers. See answer, page 2A
The objective of the game is to fill all the blank squares in a game with the correct numbers. n Every row of 9 numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order n Every column of 9 numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order n Every 3 by 3 subsection of the 9 by 9 square must include all digits 1 through 9
Billy Graham Send your queries to “My Answer,” Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc., 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201
Sincerity alone can’t save you Q: I can’t understand why Christians say you have to believe in Jesus before you can go to heaven. I don’t think it matters what you believe, as long as you’re sincere about it and try to live a good life. -- G.F. A: Let me ask you a question: Do you apply this guideline to any other area of your life? For example, do you ignore physical dangers, saying it doesn’t matter what risks you take “as long as you’re sincere”? I doubt it. Let me illustrate it this way. Suppose I go to my medicine cabinet and take out a bottle of liquid that I think will cure my cough. But what if I ignore the label that says the contents are dangerous if swallowed, because it’s only meant to be used on my skin? I might sincerely believe it’ll cure my cough -- but if I swallow it, my sincerity won’t save me from harm. In a far greater way, the same is true with God. God loves us -- and because He loves us, He has provided the way for us to be forgiven of our sins and go to be with Him in heaven forever. But what if we ignore His prescription? What if we even reject it, thinking some other way is better? We may be sincere -- but our sincerity won’t save us. But has God provided the cure we need -- the cure for the disease the Bible calls sin? Yes! That “cure” is Jesus Christ, who came from heaven to save us. This is why the Bible says, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Don’t gamble with your soul, but give your life to Jesus Christ today.
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DENNIS THE MENACE
Bizarro by Dan Piraro
GARFIELD
FUNKY WINKERBEAN PEANUTS
BLONDIE
BEETLE BAILEY
PICKLES
GET FUZZY
MARY WORTH
ZITS
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
C R O S S W O R D
HAGAR
SHOE
MUTTS B y E u g e n e S h e f f e r
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The Sanford Herald / Tuesday, September 7, 2010 /
B.C.
DENNIS THE MENACE
Bizarro by Dan Piraro
GARFIELD
FUNKY WINKERBEAN PEANUTS
BLONDIE
BEETLE BAILEY
PICKLES
GET FUZZY
MARY WORTH
ZITS
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
C R O S S W O R D
HAGAR
SHOE
MUTTS B y E u g e n e S h e f f e r
ROSE IS ROSE
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In need of people with experience in setup, maintenance and quality in machine lathes. Please send resume's to julie.stamper@mooresmachine.com. Must be able to work off or swing shifts. Manufacturer seeking take-charge individual to plan/schedule production and manage incoming materials. APICS certified. Minimum 5-7 years planning experience in manufacturing in MRP. Send resume and salary requirements to adresp2010@gmail.com PT Cook needed for Weekends ONLY for skilled nursing facility. Apply in person to Lee Cty. Nursing & Rehab, 714Westover Drive, Sanford, NC Show Oriented AQHA Horse/Barn/Farm Help Needed: Experience w/ Stallions HUGE PLUS. Terms Negotiable- Many Options Including Housing Available. Absolutely No Boozers Or Dope Heads! Pittsboro, 919-542-3704 (Leave Message Or Keep Trying) Well Drilling Laborer. Specialty Mechanical Construction Company seeking laborer to work on well drilling crew. Must have valid NC driver's license and must be able to lift 100 lbs. Knowledge of drilling industry/equipment and CDL's are a plus. Must be willing to work long hours in all weather conditions. Applicant must be able to pass pre-employment drug screen and physical. Interested applicants may apply in person 8am-5pm, M-F only at 2189 Everett Dowdy Rd., Sanford, NC, (919) 775-2463.
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Child Care Offered Nights, Evenings & Weekends. Reasonable Rates. With References. Call: Donna at 910-937-1642
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NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA LEE COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE NO.: 10 CVD 00941 PABLO CEASAR MORA vs. LAURA GOMEZ ORTEGA TO: LISA GOMEZ ORTEGA
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TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed by the plaintiff in the above-referenced action, the nature of the relief sought therein being Absolute Divorce. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than October 10, 2010 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for relief sought. This the 31st day of August 2010. Tiffany T. Jefferson Attorney for Pablo Ceasar Mora P.O. Box 1653 Sanford, NC 27331-1653 (919) 775-5653 Publish: 9/7/10, 9/14/10, and 9/21/10
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, OFFICE OF FINES, PENALTIES, AND FORFEITURES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, CHARLOTTE, NC, AUGUST 31, 2010. Notice is hereby given that the following property was seized in Broadway, North Carolina on July 7, 2010, under the provisions of title 18, United States Code, section 981, for violation of title 18, United States Code, section 1956 and title 21, United States Code, section 881: One (1) 2004 H2 Hummer VIN: 5GRGN23U74H100984 (APV. $16,175.00) Anyone asserting an interest and claim to the property must file, within twenty (20) days from the date of first publication of this notice, a claim with the Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures Officer, Customs and Border Protection, 1901 Cross Beam Drive, Charlotte, N.C., 28217, in default of which the seized property will be forfeited as prescribed by law. Elizabeth Sebik, FP&F Officer
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF MARGARET MCNEILL ROBERTSON NORTH CAROLINA, LEE COUNTY. All persons, firms and corporations having claims against MARGARET MCNEILL ROBERTSON, deceased, are notified to exhibit them to ROBERT N. PAGE, III, Personal Representative of the decedent's Estate on or before December 7, 2010, at 501 CAROLINA STREET, ABERDEEN, NC 28315, or be barred from their recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment to the above named ROBERT N. PAGE, III Personal Representative. ROBERT N. PAGE, III, Personal Representative for the Estate of MARGARET MCNEILL ROBERTSON
Executor Notice Having qualified as Executor of the estate of James William Wicker, deceased, late of Lee County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned within three months from August 24, 2010or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment. This 23, day of August, 2010. Russell Jeffrey Wicker 722 Flynn Road Rutherfordton, NC 28139 Executor/trix of the estate of James William Wicker August 24th, 31st, September 7th & 14th
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Having qualified as Executor of the estate of SHIRLEY JEAN BOWLIN, deceased, late of Lee County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned within three months from 31, August, 2010 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment. This 31, day of August, 2010. STEPHEN RAY BOWLIN PO BOX 1853 SANFORD, NC 27331 Executor/trix of the estate of Shirley Jean Bowlin (8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21) AMENDEDNOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE10 -SP183Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by LORI G. BAKER AND RAY E. BAKER, JR. to PHILIP E. GREER, Trustee(s), dated the 2N11 day ofAPRIL, 2009 and recorded in BOOK 1168, PAGE 850, LEE County Registry, North Carolina, Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of LEE County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of SANFORD, LEE County, North Carolina at 10:00 O'CLOCK A.M. ON SEPTEMBER 13TH 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of LEE, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF LEE, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AND BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS;BEING ALL OF LOT 2073, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OF CAROLINA TRACE, SOUTH LANDING, SECTION' THREE, RECORDED IN PLAT CABINET 1, SLIDE 142, LEE COUNTY REGISTRY. REFERENCE TO SAID MAP IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION.TAX ID: 9670 0430-2600.Said property being located at: 2073 Sandalwood Drive, Sanford, NC 27332PRESENT RECORD OWNER BEING: LORI G. BAKER AND RAY E. BAKER, JR.Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided inN.C.G.S.
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45-21.23.Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A308 (a) (1), and any applicable county and/or state land transfer tax and/or revenue tax.Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified check, at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS , WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.A cash or cashier's check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.This the 23rd day of August, 2010.Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and President of
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ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, PA., Substitute Trustee210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301(910) 483-3300Publish: August 30, 2010 and September 6, 2010 Enclosures IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONLEE COUNTY10 sp 248 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY THEODORE A. RAUSCH, JR. AND TAMMY FINLEY RAUSCH DATED NOVEMBER 29, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1059 AT PAGE 583 IN THE LEE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00 PM on September 14, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Lee County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 20, Lake Villanow Subdivision, as shown on plat entitled "Section Two, Lake Villanow" dated February 1990 by Jerry B. Maddox, RLS, recorded in Plat Cabinet 7, Slide 39, Lee County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more perfect description. And Being more commonly known as: 8504 Sugar Creek Dr, Sanford, NC 27332 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Theodore A. Rausch, Jr. and Tammy Finley Rausch. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly
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are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is August 24, 2010. 10-006191Grady I. Ingle Or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, LEE COUNTY 08 SP 0102 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Christopher Kerecz and Crystal Kerecz to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC., Trustee(s), dated July 05, 2007, and recorded in Book 1093, Page 404, Lee County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Lee County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Lee County, North Carolina, at 11:45AM on September 14, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT NUMBER 434, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OF CAROLINA TRACE, SOUTH SHORE, HARBOR CREEK, RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF
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DEEDS OF LEE COUNTY IN PLAT CABINET 3, SLIDE 346 (FORMERLY MAP BOOK 12, PAGE 52). REFERENCE TO SAID MAP IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Said property is commonly known as 434 Windy Beach, Sanford, NC 27332. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Christopher Kerecz and Crystal Kerecz. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, that tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. ________________________ ___________ Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 Our File No.: 432.0806038NC /LMS Publication Dates: 8/31/10 & 9/7/10
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