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Janice Nicholson with the Farm Service Agency talks to fifth-grade students about the importance of repairing the forest buffer and its beneficial properties to the environment during the Conservation Field Day, hosted by Rutherford County Soil and Water Conservation District, held Wednesday at R-S Central High School.
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Kids learn about resources By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Staff Writer
RUTHERFORDTON – Fifth graders across Rutherford County got to enjoy the fall weather and learn about taking care of natural resources during the Rutherford Soil and Water Conservation District’s Annual Conservation Field Day Wednesday. Held at R-S Central High School’s football stadium, 703 students from 10 elementary
schools spent the day rotating to eight different stations to learn about conservation issues. Presenters included Natural Resources Conservation Services and Soil and Water, Duke Energy, Farm Service Agency, North Carolina Wildlife and North Carolina Cooperative Extension as well as AbitibiBowater and SWEEP. The event is perfect for fifth-grade students, Please see Resources, Page 6
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RUTHERFORDTON — Memory expert Gary Castellano learned the names of all 35 people who attended his seminar Wednesday, sponsored by the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce. And he tried to teach memory techniques to do the same thing to each of those professionals. “How often do you meet someone at a business meeting, shake their hand and introduce yourself and then, as soon as the handshake is over, you’ve already forgotten their name?” Castellano asked. “If you have a business associate, you might remember the details of how much money they made you or how much you might make — but if you can’t remember their name, it could really cost you or your company a lot of money.” Castellano, who works with Freedom Personal Development to teach memory workshops all over the world, emphasized Please see Memory, Page 6
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LAKE LURE — The final public hearing on a contentious ordinance to regulate vacation rentals in this resort community will happen tonight at 7 at the Lake Lure Municipal Center. Proposed ordinance 09-10-01 to amend the town’s zoning regulations will receive it’s final reading and public comments, after being postponed from a September council meeting. The law will add many definitions to a new code to regulate which homes can be rented and how the transaction must occur. The biggest change was actually made on July 13, dropping the sunset clause from the ordinance that would have phased out all vacation rentals in the R-1 and R-2 residential zones. During the process of hammering out the ordinance — which has been going on for more than 18 months now — commissioners have held stakeholder committees, public workshops and other public hearings. During a July special workshop, commissioners went on to discuss in detail how the ordinance should define parking allotments for the properties, occupancy limits, sewage limits and mandating a local representative for the property owner as all necessary regulations to be spelled out in the law. They eventually decided that the latest version of the ordinance should limit each vacation rental property to having two parking spaces if the parking is to be off site from the property. The two spaces cannot be more than 400 feet from the property itself. If the rental is to have on site parking, it should be in a parking area that is clearly marked, but there was no mention of a limit on the number of vehicles that could fit in that parking area. Board members also came to an agreement on occupancy limits for the rentals. Each rental property would be allowed to house two people per bedroom in the residence plus two additional people. But following a discussion on how to define “bedrooms,” a maximum number of 12 individuals was set as the occupancy limit for any rental, regardless of how many bedrooms were marked on the home’s floor plan. The council agreed to use the definition of bedroom from the N.C. State Building Code which roughly
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Dozens of books lined tables inside the Rutherfordton Town Hall Wednesday waiting for buyers to peruse them during Norris Public Library’s Big Book Sale, which begins today at 8 a.m.
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RUTHERFORDTON — If you missed Norris Public Library’s Big Book Sale earlier this spring, don’t fret, said book sale coordinator Suzanne Porter. The Big Book Sale is back with an added featured attraction. Patrons can buy a raffle ticket and enter to win a gift basket of fantastic items. The sale begins today at 8 a.m. and continues until 4 p.m. The sale will also be Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rutherfordton Town Hall, across the street from the library on Main St. in Rutherfordton. Stock up on winter reading materials for all those cozy nights by the fireplace, or if you’re starting your Christmas and holiday shopping early, you can choose Please see Book, Page 2
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Rutherford Notes Health board meetings changed FOREST CITY — The regular meeting of the Rutherford-Polk-McDowell District Board of Health and Home Health Advisory Board previously set for Oct. 6 is being postponed until Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Polk County Health Department Administrative Offices in Columbus. In addition, a regularly called meeting of the BOH Executive Committee in the Rutherford County Health Department Conference Room will be held on Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. Interim Director Philip Melton said the search committee will begin looking at applications and others are expected. The agenda and board package will be available Oct. 16. Call 267-6054.
Shepherd’s Care sponsors forum
FOREST CITY – Shepherd’s Care in Lake Lure invites the community to a forum on poverty on Jean Gordon/Daily Courier Oct. 13 to discuss causes and effects and a call to Crystal Laughter (left) and Beth Blanton rake leaves while Jason Harrill, Brad Harrill and Jerred Roberts, refuraction to help eliminate poverty in the community. bish playground equipment at Noah’s House in Forest City. All are employees of BB&T and participated in the Speakers from various organizations, including bank-wide “The Lighthouse Project” Tuesday. Sally Cook, Faith Link, Deva Faith, counselor; Jim Barrett, Pisgah Legal Services; Ted Alexander, mayor of Shelby; Daniel Harris, Job Links; Joshua Stack, Manna Foodbank; Nancy McNary, community member; Judith Long, The Free Clinics; Michael Moore, City of Hope; Carolyn Hardin, Yokefellow Service Center; Amy Byars, Carolina By JEAN GORDON hard work but very rewarding educational games at Noah’s First; and David White, WCCA, will speak on povto know that it would help chilHouse; providing beds and eduDaily Courier Staff Writer erty issues. Sponsoring the forum are LogFinish. dren.” cational games for PATH House; FOREST CITY — Children at com, Rumbling Bald Resort and Shepherd’s Care. BB&T committed $100 per Noah’s House, the PATH Shelter and providing beds, bedding and The forum will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at educational games for American employee in Rutherford County and American Developmental Lakeview Restaurant, Rumbling Bald Resort, 112 and an average of two hours Developmental Services. BB&T Services are sleeping in new Mountains Blvd., Lake Lure. of work per employee for the employees are doing all of the beds, thanks to employees at The cost is $15 per person and includes a box endeavor. work ourselves, Smart continBB&T. lunch, refreshments and handout materials. ued. They are also playing on a Scholarships are available if needed. Since there are 37 Rutherford refurbished playground at On Tuesday, 30 of Rutherford If you plan to attend, call 828-625-4683 or BB&T employees, the bank spent Noah’s House and at all three County’s 37 BB&T employees e-mail mransom1@bellsouth.net by Oct. 6. Please $3,700 on the three facilities places, have new Nintendo Wii were given the opportunity to make checks payable to Shepherd’s Care and mail and contributed 74 volunteer Games, compliments of the participate in the projects with to P.O. Box 634, Lake Lure NC 28746 by Oct. 6. hours. bank’s employees and company. hands-on labor at all three chilFor more information, visit the Web site at www. “We truly appreciate BB&T for BB&T employees in Rutherford dren facilities. shepherdscarehng.org all they have done for the chilCounty and other BB&T employ“The others had to stay and dren and families who reside in ees across the region have work so other people could go,” Women’s conference set our shelter homes,” said Sherry combined their efforts for “The Smart said. Bright, executive director Family FOREST CITY — The Missionary Department of Lighthouse Project.” Some employees arrived at Resources, Inc. “Every project New Bethel AME Zion Church will host its 2009 “In Rutherford County, our Noah’s House before 9 a.m. to they completed was something Missionary Women’s Conference Oct. 2-4. This team wanted to help children,” being work on the playground that otherwise would not have year’s theme is “Praise, Worship and Commitment.” said Teri Smart, BB&T Financial equipment, powerwash the picbeen possible. On Friday, Oct. 2, from 6 to 6:55 p.m., workCenter leader. nic tables and clean the yard. “Due to the economy and fundshops will be held on career, family/marriage “We have been asked to be “All of our team at BB&T in ing reductions, our operating and finance. Minister Faye Mitchell of Father’s involved and to make a differRutherford County were very budget has been dramatically Vineyard in Spindale, will speak at 7 p.m. ence in our communities because enthusiastic about having the affected. Their generosity and Youth and Adult Day is Saturday, Oct. 3, from part of the BB&T Mission has opportunity to volunteer in a willingness to give of themselves 9 a.m. until noon. Choirs, skits and praise dancalways been to make the comway that would help in our comcould not have come at a more ing will take place. Lunch served afterwards. munities we serve a better place munity,” Smart said. “We are all crucial time. Rutherford County The guest speaker will be Youth Minister Tyreke to be,” Smart continued. very proud of the work that we is privileged to have such a carJohnson, a native of Rutherford County. “So we are helping Noah’s have done. ing and community-minded The conference will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 4, House, PATH Shelter and “It was also a learning expericompany as BB&T,” Bright said with One Hundred Women in White. Dinner will American Developmental ence for us because it helped us be served at 2 p.m. The Rev. Eleanor B. Wilson, Services. We are improving the to see how much a need for more pastor of Shiloh AME Zion Church in Mount playground, doing some interior of this kind of service we have Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgorHolly, will speak at 3 p.m. repairs, providing bedding and don@thedigitalcourier.com. in Rutherford County. It was
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from thousands and thousands of books, Porter said. The Big Book Sale showcases a wide selection of authors and genres with a book to fit the taste of everyone on your holiday gift list. Many of the books are like-new; others may have subtle signs of gentle wear that occur when a book has been passed on to a friend because it’s a “must-read.” The gift basket features an assortment of items, most of them donated by the merchants of Main Street in Rutherfordton. Raffle tickets are $1. Raffle prize basket includes: Four general admission tickets to KidSenses Children’s Interactive Museum; 29-piece drill-bit set from Hill’s Hardware; $20 gift certificate to Angie’s (Anna Rose) Restaurant; $15 gift certificate to the Main Street Emporium; a satin ribbon bookmark with hand-crafted pewter dogwood and pansy charms from The Gallery; two one-pound bags of whole bean-flavored coffees from The Brewed Awakening; one bottle each of Spot Organics shampoo and aromatherapy spritz for dogs from Paws and Purrs; bottle each of Scruples shampoo and conditioner from Cuttin’ Up on Mane Street; two autographed new book titles by Kay Hooper and two advanced copy titles (books that haven’t been released yet) from Fireside Books. Raffle tickets will be sold both days during the book sale and the winning ticket will be drawn Friday at 4 p.m. You do not have to be present to win. The Big Book Sale is a fundraiser for Norris Public Library. For more information, please call the Norris Public Library at 287-4981.
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GOP will fight enrollment change GASTONIA (AP) — Two Republican state lawmakers say they’ll attempt to overturn a new admissions policy that allows illegal immigrants to attend North Carolina’s community colleges. The Gaston Gazette reported that Reps. Wil Neumann and Pearl Burris-Floyd of Gaston County held a news conference Tuesday to announce their plans when the Legislature reconvenes next spring. The State Board of Community Colleges has approved a policy to enroll undocumented immigrants as long as they pay out-of-state tuition rates and have graduated from an American high school. They also can’t supplant students who are in the U.S. legally. The lawmakers say the policy still means legal residents will subsidize some of the costs for illegal immigrants. State law gives the General Assembly the chance to disapprove the policy.
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Well-known South Carolina bluegrass musician, Bill Wells (left), with Toby Jenkins (right), retired television executive and son of Snuffy Jenkins, are shown in front of Bill’s Music Shop and Pickin’ Parlor, a famous Columbia, S.C., musicians’ hangout and bluegrass performance spot. The music shop is one of three “Official Outposts” for the Snuffy Jenkins Festival Reunion scheduled Nov. 7 at Isothermal Community College. The two other outposts are B Sharp Music in Spindale and the Dan X. Padgett Studio in Shelby.
Board sets hearing on Easley
RALEIGH (AP) — Former Gov. Mike Easley’s campaign records will be scrutinized in a public hearing to determine whether Easley’s campaign committee violated the law, the State Board of Elections announced Wednesday. Board director Gary Bartlett said the elections board would meet Oct. 26 to examine evidence about The Mike Easley Committee as well as the state Democratic Party. Board staff has been investigating Easley campaign records since the campaign changed reports after failing to disclose the use of a car. The board also is examining if free airplane flights for Easley exceeded donation limits. The Democratic Party in July forfeited more than $24,000 in contributions that had been reported earlier this decade
because of questions surrounding them. Nearly all of the donors have been identified as having flown Mike Easley around on private aircraft when he was governor. The five-member board could reprimand the groups or clear them, issue fines or refer the cases to a district attorney for possible criminal charges. The board can subpoena witnesses and documents. The board also may offer immunity to witnesses. The hearing’s announcement comes more than four months after the elections board sealed the Easley campaign file because potential criminal penalties were involved. “The work of our investigation has brought us to the point where it needed board attention,” Bartlett said. Board chairman Larry Leake, who scheduled the hearing, didn’t immedi-
ately return a phone call seeking comment. The hearing may provide the most details to date about activities surrounding Easley, a Democratic two-term governor who left office in January. Easley and his wife, Mary, have been dogged for months about federal and state investigation activities surrounding the couple, including how Mary Easley landed a job at North Carolina State University while her husband was governor that ultimately paid her $170,000 a year. She was fired earlier this year. Neither the Easleys nor Democratic Party representatives have been charged with any crimes. State Democratic Party Chairman David Young said party officials “welcome a full, open and fair hearing to determine the facts as expeditiously as possible.”
N.C.-based garden, cooking show planned
LENOIR (AP) — Production has begun on a North Carolinabased television show about gardening, cooking and entertaining, Southern style. Homerun Entertainment said production has begun on the show titled “Southern Fresh with Tim & Jan,” hosted by Tim
Haas and Jan Kirby. The show is scheduled to begin airing on the RFD-TV network in early 2010. The series is produced by Los Angeles-based Homerun Entertainment, which also produces shows for the Food Network and WE: Women’s Entertainment, among others.
Each episode of “Southern Fresh” starts in the garden, where Kirby gives information and tips. From there, the two head into the kitchen, where Haas, a chef, demonstrates how to cook various dishes highlighting what Kirby has just picked from the garden.
McLEANSVILLE (AP) — The state Correction Department is moving about 950 prisoners as North Carolina’s budget problems force it to close seven minimum-security prisons. WRAL-TV reported that the Wilmington Residential Facility for Women closed this month. The Guilford Correctional Center, Gates Correctional Center and Union Correctional Center will close by Thursday. Umstead Correctional Center is slated to close by Nov. 1, with the Cleveland Correctional Center closing by Dec. 1 and McCain Correctional Hospital closing by April. The moves will save about $22 million. They’re part of the department’s plan to eliminate 1,000 jobs because of statewide budget cuts. Department spokesman Keith Acree says the state will focus on expanding larger prisons, which are less expensive to operate than smaller ones.
Dozens of new laws taking effect RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina residents need to be careful about what they put in their trash cans starting Thursday. A new law taking effect Oct. 1 bans plastic bottles from landfills as a way to encourage recycling and reduce the amount of trash in the ground. Chris Frazier with the Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance says state regulators won’t rummage through people’s trash. Some local government sanitation departments say they won’t pick up trash that contains the plastic bottles until they are separated. Portions or all of more than 90 other laws also take effect Thursday. Some are designed to help protect more residents from identity theft, foreclosures, unwanted telephone solicitations and false concert advertising.
Suspect in standoff in custody RALEIGH (AP) — A suspect has been taken into custody after police in North Carolina’s capital city say an armed man approached a police substation. No further details were immediately available. Raleigh police scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon to discuss the incident. Police spokesman Jim Sughrue said an armed man arrived outside a police substation on the city’s west side, not far from the State Fairgrounds. Sughrue said the man entered a building near the substation, and that building and others nearby were evacuated. During the standoff, authorities closed Blue Ridge Road between Hillsborough Street and Western Boulevard, a stretch of road which is south of the fairgrounds.
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t’s time to rachet back the dangerous level of discourse on the current political problems facing our nation. As evidenced by one of the letters on this page, proposals being offered by the Obama administration are drawing a fair amount of outrage. To our letter writer’s credit, his criticism is offered without vitriol or threats. That’s not the case everywhere. We now have 24/7/365 communication, from Tweets to TV. While most offer legitimate concerns, there is a lunatic fringe that goes to dangerous extremes and “publishes” complete lies. We have many, many problems in our country and in our county. The best way to solve them is to have a rich and complete debate, but one free of threats and personal attacks. The goal is to solve the problems, restore prosperity and build a strong economy. We’ve done it before. We can do it again, and no one needs to be maligned. We can question an official’s ideas, his or her position on a given issue, but there is no room for threats, idle or otherwise. We are a nation diverse in almost every way. We also need to meld that diversity into a national “we” who will
Our readers’ views Washburn tour a big success To the editor: On behalf of the Rutherford County Historical Society I want to publicly thank the individuals and organizations that contributed to the success of last Saturday’s tour of historic sites in the Washburn community. I heard many wonderful comments from tour participants who came from across Rutherford County and as far away as South Carolina and Georgia. The incredible hospitality exhibited by Edward and Catherine Washburn and James and Patsy Andrews, and their families, was the principal element that made the tour possible. I also want to thank the congregation and staff of Salem United Methodist Church for allowing us to tour their beautiful historic sanctuary, and the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department for supplying an officer to control traffic in front of the Washburn Store. Also, several historical society volunteers and members of the Griffith Rutherford Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution served as docents. We could not have offered the tours without their help. It was a pleasure to visit all of the sites. I applaud the hard work and dedication that it takes to preserve and maintain historic homes and buildings. These property owners should be commended for their efforts to preserve very special pieces of Rutherford County’s architectural heritage. Robin S. Lattimore President - Rutherford County Historical Society
Living will offer not a ‘death panel’ To the editor: In Our Readers’ View for Sept. 23, Mr. James Farmer wrote about ‘a death panel when he
sees it.’ I would like to say to Mr. Farmer that I have had a living will for over 10 years which was not thrust or forced on me by some bureaucrat, but written by me with an understanding of the dignity and respect I wanted to receive when my end-of-life was near. But, from Mr. Farmer’s letter, I read he is a hero to this nation. Not only did he serve two tours in Vietnam, but he also left a part of himself there and returned home wounded and disabled. Whether Mr. Farmer agrees with or disagrees with the concept of a living will, I want him to know that at his request, he will receive the dignity of a flag-draped coffin, the respect of fellow veterans’ offering a 21-gun salute, and the understanding that with the final sounds of the trumpeter playing Taps, his service to this nation will be remembered. I ask him to forgive the orderly for not being tactful or using the correct words, but know this for sure, the government hasn’t given up on you, nor have the veterans of this nation who stand shoulder to shoulder with you. Frank Talley Forest City
Obama plans causing outrage To the editor: It bothers me that the President wants to completely change our current system of government. Why is this necessary? Most people I know are happy with things the way they are. I’m wondering if it is because he did not grow up in the same type of environment as most Americans. Millions of people are outraged by his plan to change health care, and yet he continues hell bent on moving forward. It seems that, in the face of such strong opposition, he would at least want to take a second look at his proposals. The American people have never had a dictator, and they do not want one now. We are not used
to looking to a single man for the answers to our problems. Unlike some other countries, America is a democracy. Americans are willing to accept guidance and direction, but they will not tolerate an agenda forced upon them by a dictator. I was appalled when I heard President Obama say that he wanted to form a civilian organization that would be as strong and well-funded as our military. I’m afraid to even imagine what his hidden agenda might be with this plan. It sounds like the kind of plan Hitler had in Germany in 1933. One of the first things that Hitler did was to form an organization that would be capable of pitting neighbor against neighbor. This was his means of gaining control of the country. The German people were afraid to say anything against the government for fear their words would be passed on to someone in authority. Do we want this same situation in this country? There are enough similarities between Germany in the 1930s and the current political climate to make me very uncomfortable. Are the American people so blinded by politics that they are going to allow party loyalty to outweigh common sense? I want to think that reasonable people, no matter what their political affiliation, will be able to see both sides of a situation. I want to believe that there are still people in this country who are willing to admit that their particular political party is on the wrong track. I am counting on these people to speak up. I agree totally with a man from San Diego who spoke recently at the rally in Washington, DC. He stated that “this is not a Republican thing ... not a Democratic thing .... not a black thing .... not a white thing.” He urged the American people to tell the govermment that we have had enough bullying. Please wake up folks and save our freedom. Don’t forget, silence is consent. James O. Harris Shiloh
The frustration of fall — is a snuggie the answer? I am excited, yet totally unprepared for the cooler weather we’ve been having the past few days. This is that weird time of year when I can’t decide to just wear short sleeves and a light-weight jacket (of which I have need for) or long sleeves that can be rolled up. And then there’s the whole “What do I have going on today, therefore helping in the decision of what I will wear?” I try to dress nicely most days and enjoy wearing dresses and skirts because I’m a pretty girlie girl. But, being a reporter sometimes means going out and playing on a football field and other times it means going to professional functions like
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school board meetings. I’m also not a big fan of shoes and socks, preferring flip flops and sandals. With that said, I’ve had a hard time getting dressed this week. Monday was supposed to be relatively warm, so I opted for short sleeves. This wasn’t a bad plan, as it did turn out to be pretty nice. Tuesday was cooler, and since I wanted to look nice for the Isothermal
Community College Board of Trustees meeting, I settled on a three-quarter length sleeve sweater and slacks. Mistake. Apparently the heating and air system didn’t get the memo that we’re having a nice North Carolina fall (you know, where sometimes it’s cold as ice in the morning and then hot as blue blazes later in the day.) So all day Tuesday - when the high was around 70 - it was cold in the office. And so was I. I’m the type of girl who if my hands and feet get cold, I’m done for. My husband has hated for years that my frigid toes will literally make him shriek in bed at night. I can’t stand to have cold hands and feet because I
have a really difficult time concentrating when I’m cold. At my old job, I kept a space heater under my desk and used it year-round because of the whole cold hands/feet issue. I placed my hand on a coworker’s arm Tuesday to have him tell me I had hands of the dead. And then he suggested I might invest in a snuggie — you know, those blankets that have arms. I tried to warm my hands up on the lava lamp that sits between our two desks, but that just managed to burn me. I was no better off at ICC either — somehow I wound up under an air vent and was chilly throughout that, too. The nut must’ve not fallen
far from the tree either. Nathan tried to convince me Monday that he just had to wear flip flops. I told him no, because it was too cool. He threw a fit, letting me know in that three-year-old way that I was wrong. Until we headed to the car to leave. “Mommy,” he said. “My car seat is cold. I don’t want to sit in it.” “Imagine how cold you’d have been in those flip flops.” That just drew a glare. Oh well, I wonder if the snuggie comes in child sizes too? Allison Flynn is Editor/Reporter for The Daily Courier. Contact her via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
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KIWANIS MAKES GRANTS
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Rutherfordton Kiwanis presented more than $12,000 to several youth-related organizations last week. Recipients included, front row from left, Annissa Hill, Rutherford County Youth Soccer; Nancy Womack, Rutherford County Symphony; Amy Revis, Communities in Schools, Spindale Elementary Food Backpack Program; Tara Owens, Yokefellow Service Center; Lorrie Moore, R-S Youth Football; Michelle Pimentel, Community Clinic of Rutherford County; and Henry Giles, Kiwanis-Leadership Rutherford; second row, Bill Morris, Kiwanis president; Tonya Hill, First United Methodist Church Friendship Club; Kim Roberson, American Red Cross; Hazel Crook, Rutherford County Habitat for Habitat; Dale Dobbins, American Red Cross; Pat Hardin, Norris Public Library; Mike Gavin, New Century Scholars, Isothermal Community College; Mary Jo Teseniar, Rutherford Hospital Lifeline; Eric Gibson, Kiwanis and BSA Troop 132 and Rutherford Enrichment Council; Dean Perry, BSA and CSA Pack 165; Chris Burley, Rutherford County Safe Kids; and Steve Saucier, KidSenses Children’s Museum. Checks were also given to Rutherfordton Elementary School Library, R-S Swim Team, American Cancer Society Relay for Life, Rutherford County Schools Parents as Teachers, Family Resources-Noah’s House and Rutherfordton Little League.
News Briefly 2-year-old killed with gun at home
SANFORD (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was shot in the head after a gun was left unsecured in his central North Carolina home. Sanford Police Department spokesman Capt. David Smith said officers responded to a call from a home in Sanford Wednesday morning and found the child suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead. Smith said the boy’s mother, Melanie Tyson, and two other children, a 4-year-old and another toddler, were in the home at the time. Police are still investigating the incident and say it isn’t clear if the 2-year-old, whose name has not been released, accidentally shot himself or if one of the other children shot him.
NC police find credit theft devices
RALEIGH (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina accuse two men of planting
devices inside gas pumps to capture bank card and personal identification numbers from customers. According to search warrants released Tuesday by Raleigh police, investigators uncovered skimmers — small devices designed to capture and store credit card and PIN information — implanted inside gas pumps at at least three Raleigh-area gas stations. On Friday, police arrested 35-year-old Nghi (nee) Huu Bui (BOO’-ee) and his brother, 37-year-old Loc Huu Bui. The Buis were each charged with 10 counts of financial card theft with a scanning device and 10 counts of financial card fraud. Attorneys for the men could not be reached. The suspects’ brother, Joey Bui declined to comment.
Hudson ’Miracle’ pilots to reunite NEW YORK (AP) — The pilots who landed a US Airways jet safely in the Hudson River will reunite in the cockpit Thursday for the first time for a flight out of New York, the airline said.
Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports
n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 152 E-911 calls Tuesday.
Rutherfordton
n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 27 E-911 calls Tuesday. n The theft of a bag of ice was reported at Dollar General Store, 150 Park Lane, Plaza Drive, Suite 300.
Spindale
n The Spindale Police Department responded to 20 E-911 calls Tuesday.
Lake Lure
n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to five E-911 calls Tuesday.
Forest City
n The Forest City Police Department responded to 58 E-911 calls Tuesday.
Arrests
n Bryan Parker, 26, of Mustang Trail, Rutherfordton; charged with driving while impaired and open container; released on a custody release. (FCPD) n Edward Johnson, 39, of Hall Street, Forest City; charged on warrants for possession with intent to sell/ deliver marijuana, maintain
a dwelling for controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia; placed under a $30,000 unsecured bond. (FCPD) n Amber Bridges, 24, of Garden Street, Forest City; charged with driving while impaired, possession of schedule VI controlled substance, driving while license revoked and possession of drug paraphernalia; placed under a $4,000 secured bond. (FCPD) n Tecun Cali Hugo, 29, of 134 Oak Hill Drive; charged with no operator’s license; placed under a $250 secured bond. (LLPD) n Udencio Tecum Cali, 24, of 1201 Cedera Rd.; charged with possess/ manufacture fraudulent identification; placed under a $2,500 secured bond. (RCSD) n Kevin Dean Smith, 25, of 168 Church St.; charged with breaking and/or entering, larceny after break/enter and injury to real property; placed under a $50,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Thomas Lee Gallman, 23, of 1845 Spindale St.; charged with simple possession of schedule VI controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana of more than 1/2 but less than 1 1/2 ounces; placed under a $2,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Brittney Ann Twyman, 20, of 106 Ryce St.; charged
Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and 1st Officer Jeffrey Skiles will pilot a flight from LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C. — the destination of the plane they ditched in the Hudson on Jan. 15, saving the lives of all 155 people on board. Thursday’s flight will be Sullenberger’s first as a US Airways captain since the so-called Miracle on the Hudson. US Airways announced Monday that Sullenberger would be making regular flights and supervising other pilots as part of the airline’s safety management team. Skiles has been back flying with US Airways since April. Sullenberger landed his Airbus A320 in the Hudson after a collision with a flock of geese killed power in both engines minutes after takeoff from LaGuardia. He wrote about the landing in “Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters,” with co-author Jeffrey Zaslow. The book is due out next month. Sullenberger and Skiles won praise for their textbook response to the loss of power.
Lula Mae Tomblin Dale, 87, of 153 Dale Summey Rd., Rutherfordton, died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 at White Oak Manor. She was a daughter of the late Arthur and Blanch Crane Tomblin. She was a member of Holly Springs Baptist Church, and a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Milford Dale of Rutherfordton; three sons, Rex Dale, Gene Dale and Henry Dale, all of Rutherfordton; three daughters, Faith Brown of Greenville, S.C., Judy Hayes of Elizabethtown, Ky., and Audrey Epley of Rutherfordton; one brother, Earl Tomblin of Rutherfordton; three sisters, Frances Mann of Swannanoa, and Mildred Morrow and Naomi McCraw, both of Spindale; 13 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and two great-greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Holly Springs Baptist Church with the Revs. Wade Huntley and Reid Cooper officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home. Online condolences www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhom.com.
Jacob Logan Jacob O’Brian Logan, infant son of Michelle Elaine Riberdy and Justin O’Brian Logan, died Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 at Mission Hospital in Asheville. In addition to his parents, he is survived by grandparents, Carol Logan, Timothy Gossett, Donna Ojala and Eric Ojala, of Forest City, and Sean Riberdy of Franklin, N.H.; great-grandmother, Maggie Earls of Rutherfordton, and Arthur Tucker of Forest City. No services are planned at this time. Crowe’s Mortuary and Crematory assisted the family.
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Nicolae Plesita BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Gen. Nicolae Plesita, a die-hard Communist and ruthless chief of the Securitate secret police who arranged shelter in Romania for terrorist Carlos the Jackal, and was tried for the bombing of Radio Free Europe has died, news reports said Wednesday. He was 80. Iulian Vlad, the last with local ordinance conSecuritate chief, and sevsume alcohol by 19/20; eral other former Securitate placed under a $1,000 officers attended Plesita’s secured bond. (RCSD) n Trenton Jerrod Singleton, funeral, Realitatea TV reported. Agents of the cur23, of 731 Ohio St.; charged rent Romanian Intelligence with domestic violence Service stopped reporters protective order violation; placed under a 48-hour hold. and others from attending the funeral, citing the fam(SPD) n Michael Shawn Ellis, 38, ily’s wishes. Plesita commanded the of 1703 Holland St.; extraSecuritate’s foreign inteldition/ fugitive other state; ligence service from 1980 placed under a $50,000 to 1984. He gained notosecured bond. (SPD)
EMS/Rescue n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 27 E-911 calls Tuesday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to five E-911 calls Tuesday.
Fire Calls n Ellenboro Fire Department responded to a motor vehicle collision Tuesday. n Forest City Fire Department responded to a structure fire Tuesday. n Green Hill Fire Department responded to a fire alarm Tuesday. n Rutherfordton Fire Department responded to a smoke report Tuesday. n S-D-O Fire Department responded to two fire alarms Tuesday.
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Pavel Popovich MOSCOW (AP) — Former Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, the sixth man to go into orbit, has died at age 78. Boris Yesin of the Russian astronaut training center says Popovich died Wednesday of a stroke in Gurzuf, a resort city on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. Popovich was born in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union. The first of his two trips into orbit was in August 1962 as the solo man aboard the Vostok-4 capsule. The launch came a day after another Soviet was launched into orbit, marking the first time that two humans were ever in orbit around the Earth at the same time. Popovich next went into space a dozen years later in July 1974 as the commander of the two-man Soyuz-14, a 15-day mission to the Salyut space station. Harold Ransonette BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Harold “Red” Ransonette Jr. of Beaumont, who for decades entertained children in southeast Texas as “Jingles” the clown, has died. A service was planned Wednesday in Beaumont for Ransonette, 77. He died Sunday. His wife of more than 50 years, Ruby Ransonette, said her husband had cancer. “Red” Ransonette began entertaining at variety shows in the 1950s, eventually performing at medical centers including the Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston. Ransonette’s costume included a brightly colored wig, a yellow hat, a bow tie and a flower on his lapel. His widow told KFDM-TV that the Texaco retiree’s time performing as a clown “was just his life, that’s what he loved.”
Lula Mae Tomblin Dale Lula Mae Tomblin Dale, 87, of 153 Dale Summey Rd., Rutherfordton, passed away Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at White Oak Manor. She was a homemaker and the daughter of the late Arthur and Blanch Crane Tomblin and was a loving member of Holly Springs Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, Milford Dale; three sons, Rex Dale and wife, Geraldine, Gene Dale and wife, Charlene, Henry Dale and wife, Nina all of Rutherfordton; three daughters, Faith Brown and husband, Jay of Greenville, SC, Judy Hayes of Elizabethtown, KY, Audrey Epley and husband, Gerald of Rutherfordton; one brother, Earl Tomblin of Rutherfordton; three sisters, Frances Mann of Swannanoa, Mildred Morrow and Naomi McCraw both of Spindale; thirteen grandchildren; twentytwo great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. A special thank you to caregivers, Ruth Bailey, Crystal Phillips and the staff at White Oak Manor. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 PM at Holly Springs Baptist Church with Rev. Wade Huntley and Rev. Reid Cooper officiating. Burial will follow in the Holly Springs Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held Thursday from 6-8 PM at McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home. The Dale family is being served by McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home. A guest register is available at www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com
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Meetings/other Cliffside Historical Society: 3rd Annual Cliffside Historical Society Gathering; Friday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.; at Cliffside Baptist Church fellowship hall; program “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”; speakers, Ann Beatty Culbreth and Brenda Beatty Waters.
Fifth graders attending the Conservation Field Day Wednesday at R-S Central High School got some hands-on experience as they touched various types of soil.
Support groups Grace Support Group: The Grace Caregiver Support Group will hold the following meetings: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 5:30 to 7 p.m., at Rutherford LIFECare; topic — Survival Tips for Demenia Patient Caregivers; speaker, Dr. Larry Hedgemapt, MD; Friday, Oct. 16, 1 to 2:30 p.m., at the Senior Center; topic — Self Care, Stress Management and Sharing Experiences; facilitator, Patty Olson, BSW.
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Miscellaneous Special service: An Evening of Prayer and Praise; Friday, Oct. 2, 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, Spindale. Yokefellow Service Center will hold a half-price sale Oct. 5-10. The center is located at 102 Blanton St., Spindale. Veterans Brick Memorial: The Veterans Brick Memorial at the National Guard Armory on Withrow Road is under construction. The cost is $50 per brick in memory or in honor of a veteran. Each brick will have three engraved lines, up to 13 characters. For information call 828-980-4015. Sponsored by DAV Chapter 25 and the National Guard. Washburn Outreach Community Center is now accepting donations of clothes and household items. Donations may be dropped off between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. MondayFriday. Look for signs at the designated drop off trailer. The center is located at 2934 Piney Mtn. Church Rd., Bostic.
Reunions Alexander Mills reunion: Saturday, Oct. 3, covered dish meal at 3 p.m.; Four Seasons Farm, 1013 Doggett Rd., Forest City; for anyone who lived or attended church in the old Alexander Mills community; for information call 248-1116. Gettys family reunion: Sunday, Oct. 4, covered dish lunch 1 p.m.; Duncan’s Creek Presbyterian Church, Ellenboro; for more information call 704-487-5480. Rollins family reunion: Sunday, Oct. 4, Mountain View Baptist Church fellowship building, Hwy. 221 south, Rutherfordton; lunch will be served at 1 p.m.; bring a well-filled basket; contact Todd Rollins at 287-9748 for information. Bridges family reunion: Descendants of D.C. and Georgia Bridges; Sunday, Oct. 4, covered dish lunch 1 p.m., Corinth Baptist Church FLC, Ellenboro.
Fundraisers Poker run: Saturday, Oct. 3, registration starts at 8:30 a.m. at Rollins Cafeteria; last bike out at noon; last bike in at 3 p.m.; lunch at the cafeteria; great prizes including a 2-night vacation and $100 dinner voucher; organized by GWRRA Chapter NC-P2, Forest City; contact Wayne at 245-9999, or Ed at 286-8343; proceeds for Relay for Life.
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said Soil and Water Conservation District’s Missy York, who is the administrative and education specialist, because those students are at an age to absorb the importance of conservation. “The things they’ll learn today are ones they’ll go home and pass on to their parents,” York said. Education at the stations also fits into the standard course of study for fifth graders, too, she said. “What they’re covering today aligns perfectly with the fifth-grade level science,” said Forest City-Dunbar Teacher Kathy Tuttle. “Since it’s early in the year, we haven’t gotten to some of those units yet, so this information will almost be like an introduction. It’ll help because when we get to wildlife or soil I can say ‘Remember when we saw this?’ It will really make a connection.”
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that if a client thinks you’ve forgotten them they may take it as a personal insult. “The first time he came we had such a great response,” said Chamber Chairman Bill Hall. “I’m glad we were able to catch him again between his next workshop in Charlotte.” During the talk, Castellano frequently referred to techniques he learned from the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. “In his book, Mr. Carnegie said that the sweetest sound in the world to any person is the sound of their own name,” Castellano said. “Remembering a person’s name is the first step. When you can do things like that, you’re no longer just that agent or that person working at a company, you’re that person’s friend who happens to work in the same field. The repeat referral concept in
Yard sale: Saturday, Oct. 3, begins at 7:30 a.m., Forest City Fire Department; furniture, household items, clothing and much more; sponsored by the ladies’ auxiliary.
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Continuing Education Fall 2009 catalogs are available online at www.isothermal.edu/conedu/. To receive a copy in the mail, or to register for one of the following classes, call 286-3636, ext. 346. Introduction To Cheese-Making: Saturday, Oct. 3, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; at The Foundation, Maple Room; course #14660; cost $35; instructor, Christine Klahn; participants will make three soft cheeses and discuss others; bring two gallons whole milk (pasteurized OK) and zippered sandwich bags. Notary Public class: Course #14368, scheduled for Oct. 20 and 21, has been re-scheduled for Nov. 10 and 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. Cake Decorating: For beginners; Mondays, Oct. 5 - Nov. 9, 6 to 8 p.m.; fee $49; course #14637. Small Engine Repair/Maintenance: Mondays, Oct. 5 - Nov. 9, 6 to 9 p.m.; fee $59; course #14666. Photography: Mondays, Oct. 5 Nov. 23, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; fee $59; course #14584. Intro To Medicinal Herbs: Mondays, Oct. 5-19, 6 to 9 p.m.; fee $45; course #14755. Healing From The Hive: How hive products are valuable medicines and how to market honey; Tuesdays, Oct. 6, 6 to 9 p.m.; fee $29; course #14752.
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York said students enjoyed the event each year because it’s outside and the presenters are different from their regular teachers. Tuttle said in addition to academics, the event also serves as a social education as well. “We talked about how they should conduct themselves in a large group,” Tuttle said. “The organization and structure is good because they have mobility.” Many of the activities shown to students can be taken into the classroom, like a presentation on biofuels by N.C. Cooperative Extension. “If you make biofuels you are making fuels from living things, from renewable sources,” explained Cooperative Extension’s Cynthia Robbins. Robbins and Extension Agents Tracy Davis and Jan McGuinn showed students an experiment that mixed yeast with a sugar source and water to create a gas to fill a balloon. As students watched, they learned more gas is produced by a mixture of water, corn syrup and yeast than
water, bran and yeast. William Miller presented information on the differences in soils, telling students how scientists use more descriptive and definitive terms other than dirt to describe various soils. “If you tell me you have clay in your yard, that’s going to provide more information than just saying dirt,” Miller said.
the retail world is worth millions. Companies would like to work with repeat referrals all day long because they already know and trust you.” Castellano also introduced the F.I.G. concept of memory techniques. First is the file folder where one puts the memory — a specific place to store it, like the image of a window in the room. Next was the image part of the memory. “We as humans don’t think in words, we think in pictures,” Castellano said. “That is where you have a challenge with names because 96 percent of people’s names don’t provide you with an image.” Finally, the “g” in the acronym stands for glue — an action or verb that one can use to keep the image. In his example, Castellano used the room and a grocery list that he needed to remember. “Let’s say I have to remember a list of an orange, hamburger meat and laundry detergent,” Castellano said. “I’ll use this window, the heating grate and that light on the wall as
my file folders. Now, I can look at the window and imagine throwing the orange through the window, imagine pushing the bloody hamburger meat through that grate and filling that light fixture to overflowing with laundry detergent and having it spill all out on the floor.” Some ten minutes later, the participants in the room were still able to remember the grocery list. “Let me give you two tips for remembering someone’s name,” Castellano said. “If you see that person again, you really didn’t forget their name you just can’t recall it because you probably weren’t listening to them when they told you. And secondly, always repeat that persons name, so you can get used to saying it and hearing it in your own voice. Research shows that when you say a person’s name, the equivalent of one watt of electrical impulses go through their brain.”
received the most comments is the one requiring a 24-hour call center for complaints to be operated for each rental. It also required an authorized representative of the property owner be available to be on site at the property within one hour for any incidents that
require an on-site response. Also at the meeting tonight, commissioners will review an ordinance for the capital project for wrapping sewer pipes.
Educational materials on each topic are provided by Soil and Water Conservation District to teachers, coming at a time when they are most needed. “Money is tight, and the teaching materials they give us will really come in handy,” Tuttle said. The event was held from 9:30 a.m. to 1:10 p.m., providing the students an outdoor classroom for the day. “Everyone looks forward to field day – students and presenters,” York said. Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
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Hilltoppers blast past Burns on pitch By KEVIN CARVER Sports Reporter
Michelle Obama arrives for IOC vote COPENHAGEN (AP) — Michelle Obama’s welcoming party was more like a stopover. She chatted with the ambassador, kissed Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on the cheek and gave her old friends quick hugs hello before climbing into the waiting SUV. With only two days until the 2016 games are awarded, there’s no time to waste. Mrs. Obama arrived here Wednesday morning to lend her support to Chicago’s efforts to win the 2016 Summer Olympics. As head of Chicago’s delegation — and her husband’s representative until he arrives Friday — she plans to meet with as many IOC members as possible to try to persuade them to pick her hometown over Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo. President Barack Obama has been an ardent supporter of the bid since he was a U.S. Senator, and he’s been working the phones in recent weeks. But when it looked as if the health care debate might keep him in Washington, he asked his wife to come to Copenhagen to meet with IOC members. Although IOC president Jacques Rogge has taken great pains to say heads of state aren’t expected to attend, their presence has been instrumental in recent votes. Tony Blair is widely credited for tipping the 2012 vote in London’s favor, spending two days doing oneon-one meetings with IOC members in his hotel suite. Vladimir Putin did much the same thing two years later, when Sochi won the 2014 Olympics.
RUTHERFORDTON — Burns would score first in a 3A South Mountain Athletic Conference soccer affair, but R-S Central scored six unanswered goals, with five coming in the second half, to beat the Bulldogs, 6-1, Wednesday. “I thought we played with more urgency in the second half. Burns felt like they could keep it close after they scored first,” Jason Hipp said. “We played a lot stronger though in the midfield during the second half, which is what contributed to them not scoring the rest of the way.” Following an outlet pass that Burns pasted into the left side of the net at the four-minute mark, Central was possessed to not only tie the game, but take command of the contest. Central, on their seventh attempt after the Burns goal, used a Chris Pendleton cross from up top to an awaiting Alex Harris from the left side of the net to right foot the ball without a bounce, perfectly placing the ball into the back of the net for a 1-1 tie. Please see Soccer, Page 8
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The Hilltoppers’ Alex Harris (8) looks to control the ball during the game against Burns at R-S Central High Wednesday.
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Fox sticking with Delhomme By MIKE CRANSTON AP Sports Writer
Rio upset by Madrid’s gibe COPENHAGEN (AP) — The Rio bid team formally complained to the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday after the city’s 2016 Games bid was criticized by a Spanish Olympic official. Spanish Olympic Committee vice president Jose Maria Odriozola called Rio “the worst bid” of the four candidates. Spanish news agency Efe on Wednesday also quoted Odriozola — who is not formally part of the Madrid bid organizing team — as saying Rio had security issues, and its status as a favorite was based on marketing and sentimentality.
Local Sports VOLLEYBALL 6 p.m. Shelby at R-S Central 6 p.m. East Rutherford at Freedom 4:30 p.m. Avery at Thomas Jefferson TENNIS 4 p.m. Hendersonville at Thomas Jefferson 4 p.m. East Rutherford at Freedom JV FOOTBALL 7 p.m. Chase at R-S Central 7 p.m. East Rutherford at Patton 7 p.m. Thomas Jefferson at Avery
On TV 7 p.m. (WMYA) High School Football Forsythe at Christ School. 7 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball Washington Nationals at Atlanta Braves. 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) College Football Colorado at West Virginia. 8 p.m. (ESPN2) WNBA Basketball Finals, Game 2 — Teams TBA.
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Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme (17) breaks out for a long run in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, in Arlington, Texas.
CHARLOTTE — Though Jake Delhomme has just two touchdown passes and seven interceptions, he’ll remain winless Carolina’s starting quarterback. Asked Wednesday if Delhomme was still his guy moving forward, Panthers coach John Fox left no doubt. “I didn’t think that was a question, but if that needs to be clarified, yes with a capital Y,” Fox said. Delhomme threw two interceptions and lost a fumble in the Panthers’ 21-7 loss to Dallas Monday to drop Carolina to 0-3. But the second pick, returned for a game-clinching touchdown, came when receiver Steve Smith broke off his route. Still, Delhomme is on bad streak. He threw four interceptions in Carolina’s season opening loss to Philadelphia and had a key late interception to end a comeback bid in Atlanta a week later. Delhomme received a contract extension in the offseason after committing six turnovers in an upset playoff loss to Arizona. The 34-year-old Delhomme has a passer rating of 54.3 and the Panthers’ minus-8 turnover margin is the worst in the NFL. “Certainly we haven’t put up the points that we would have liked to have put up,” Delhomme said. “But we’re a work in progress and we’re trying to get there.” The Panthers have no attractive alternative to Delhomme, who has started a franchise record 82 regular season games. The backups on the roster are A.J. Feeley and Matt Moore. Feeley was signed after the season opener when No. 2 QB Josh McCown was lost for the season with left knee and ankle injuries. Moore hasn’t played since starting three games as an undrafted rookie at the end of the 2007 season.
Johnson doesn’t think 7 titles in reach By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer
CONCORD — Jimmie Johnson has three championships under his belt and is full steam ahead in pursuit of a fourth. Seven, though? He doesn’t think he’s got that in him. The three-time defending champion said Wednesday he believes the NASCAR record of seven titles will probably never be broken. The mark is shared by Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt. Johnson’s teammate, Jeff Gordon, leads all active drivers with four championships — a mark Johnson is trying to equal this season. Associated Press “Man, seven, I don’t think it’s possible,” Jimmie Johnson, center left, celebrates with team owner Rick Hendrick after winJohnson said at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, ning the NASCAR Goody’s 500 auto race at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Please see Johnson, Page 9 Va. in this March 29, 2009, file photo.
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Scoreboard BASEBALL National League East Division W L Pct Philadelphia 91 66 .580 Atlanta 86 71 .548 Florida 84 74 .532 New York 67 91 .424 Washington 54 103 .344 Central Division W L Pct y-St. Louis 90 67 .573 Chicago 82 74 .526 Milwaukee 77 80 .490 Cincinnati 75 82 .478 Houston 73 84 .465 Pittsburgh 59 97 .378 West Division W L Pct x-Los Angeles 93 65 .589 Colorado 89 68 .567 San Francisco 84 73 .535 San Diego 73 85 .462 Arizona 68 89 .433
GB — 5 7 1/2 24 1/2 37 GB — 7 1/2 13 15 17 30 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 8 1/2 20 24 1/2
x-clinched playoff berth y-clinched division
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The Hilltoppers’ Simon King (6) pushes the ball through the Bulldogs’ defense during the soccer game against Burns at R-S Central Wednesday.
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The contest went to the half tied at one-all, but Alex Harris and Davis Choun then took control of midfield in the second half and just three key minutes of the period really showed that Central wasn’t leaving without victory on Wednesday. In the 52nd minute, a Pendleton assist from the left side allowed Matt Simmons to run through the box for a header that found the right post for a 2-1 Central lead. One minute later, Simmons returned the favor as he fed a corner kick from the right apex and Pendleton stopped the ball with his right foot before sliding into the goal with the same foot to go up 3-1. A minute later, R-S Central (6-2-2, 4-1-1) iced the win against a Burns (7-4, 2-3) team in awe. The Hilltoppers charged back down the field and Choun passed by two defenders, gave up the ball to Eduardo Lopez, who then assisted back to Choun for an easy shot that rolled in, handing Central a 4-1 lead. R-S Central keeper, J.T. McClain was taken out after that to earn four total saves, three of those in the first half. McClain’s backup, Harrison Lave had five more saves during the final 25 minutes. The Hilltoppers tacked on two more goals as David O’Neil assisted to Lopez for goal in the 59th minute of play. Central’s Kevin Dinga added the last goal after a deflection allowed him to push in a shot from left side during the 77th minute. “I was glad to see a number of scorers for us and I hope we can carry this momentum into McDowell next week,” Hipp said. Statistically, Central posted 31 shots over Burns 17. In other area action, Shelby downed East Rutherford, 4-1.
UNC’s Barth seeks to calm shakiness on kicks BY BRIANA GORMAN Special to the Courier
CHAPEL HILL — No one is more surprised by the shaky kicking of North Carolina’s Casey Barth this season than the sophomore from Wilmington. Barth is 4-of-7 in field goals this season, including a miss against Georgia Tech on Saturday that could have given his team their first points of the game and some momentum. Even though Barth has made all three field goal attempts from between 20 and 29 yards, he has missed both from the 30- to 39-yard range. His other missed attempt was from 45 yards. “I guess I’m just getting a little antsy,” said Barth, who also missed an extra point after being perfect a year ago. “In practice, I make just about everything, so it’s kind of frustrating when I’m going out there and not hitting the ones I know I can hit.” Barth, who has missed a field goal in each of the past three games, said he has been raising his head too soon and not finishing the kick, but mostly he’s been struggling mentally not technically. He said kicking is 90 percent mental, and the best way to prepare for games is to visualize his kicks.
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Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 7, Houston 4 Washington 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Florida 5, Atlanta 4 Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 2 Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 0 Colorado 7, Milwaukee 5, 11 innings San Diego 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 San Francisco 8, Arizona 4 Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Chicago Cubs 0, 1st game Washington 7, N.Y. Mets 4 Houston at Philadelphia, late Florida 5, Atlanta 4 Cincinnati 6, St. Louis 1 Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, late, 2nd game Milwaukee at Colorado, late L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, late Arizona at San Francisco, late Thursday’s Games St. Louis (C.Carpenter 16-4) at Cincinnati (K.Wells 2-4), 12:35 p.m. Milwaukee (M.Parra 11-10) at Colorado (Cook 10-6), 3:10 p.m. Arizona (Haren 14-9) at San Francisco (Lincecum 14-7), 3:45 p.m. Houston (F.Paulino 2-11) at Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 7-3), 7:05 p.m. Washington (Mock 3-10) at Atlanta (Hanson 11-4), 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Maholm 8-9) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 1-3), 8:05 p.m. Friday’s Games Arizona at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Florida at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Houston at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m. Milwaukee at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. American League East Division W L Pct 102 56 .646 91 66 .580 81 76 .516 74 84 .468 60 97 .382 Central Division W L Pct Detroit 84 73 .535 Minnesota 82 75 .522 Chicago 76 81 .484 Cleveland 64 92 .410 Kansas City 64 94 .405 West Division W L Pct y-Los Angeles 93 64 .592 Texas 85 72 .541 Seattle 81 76 .516 Oakland 75 82 .478 y-New York z-Boston Tampa Bay Toronto Baltimore
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y-clinched division z-clinched wild card Tuesday’s Games Minnesota 3, Detroit 2, 10 innings, 1st game N.Y. Yankees 4, Kansas City 3 Detroit 6, Minnesota 5, 2nd game Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, ppd., rain Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1 Toronto 8, Boston 7 L.A. Angels 5, Texas 2 Seattle 6, Oakland 4 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 5, Chicago White Sox 1, 1st game Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, late Minnesota at Detroit, late Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 3 Toronto 12, Boston 0 Chicago White Sox 1, Cleveland 0, 2nd game Texas at L.A. Angels, late Oakland at Seattle, late Thursday’s Games Minnesota (S.Baker 14-9) at Detroit (N.Robertson 2-2), 1:05 p.m. Texas (Millwood 12-10) at L.A. Angels (Lackey 11-8), 6:05 p.m. Baltimore (Waters 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Garza 8-11), 7:08 p.m. Cleveland (C.Carrasco 0-3) at Boston (Lester 14-8), 7:10 p.m. Oakland (Bre.Anderson 11-10) at Seattle (Fister 2-4), 10:10 p.m. Friday’s Games
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63 Friday, Sept. 18: Seattle 75, Los Angeles 74 Sunday, Sept. 20: Los Angeles 75, Seattle 64 CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-3) EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana 2, Detroit 1 Wednesday, Sept. 23: Detroit 72, Indiana 56 Friday, Sept. 25: Indiana 79, Detroit 75 Saturday, Sept. 26: Indiana 72, Detroit 67
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Sunday’s Games Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m. Oakland at Houston, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Washington, 1 p.m. Seattle at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Baltimore at New England, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Jets at New Orleans, 4:05 p.m. Dallas at Denver, 4:15 p.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m. San Diego at Pittsburgh, 8:20 p.m. Open: Arizona, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Carolina Monday’s Game Green Bay at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11 Pittsburgh at Detroit, 1 p.m. Oakland at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Dallas at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Minnesota at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Jacksonville at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. Houston at Arizona, 4:15 p.m. New England at Denver, 4:15 p.m. Indianapolis at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m. Open: San Diego, Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans Monday, Oct. 12 N.Y. Jets at Miami, 8:30 p.m.
BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association Playoff Glance (x-if necessary) FIRST ROUND (Best-of-3) EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana 2, Washington 0 Thursday, Sept. 17: Indiana 88, Washington 79 Saturday, Sept. 19: Indiana 81, Washington 74, OT Detroit 2, Atlanta 0 Wednesday, Sept. 16: Detroit 94, Atlanta 89 Friday, Sept. 18: Detroit 94, Atlanta 79 WESTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix 2, San Antonio 1 Thursday, Sept. 17: San Antonio 92, Phoenix 91 Saturday, Sept. 19: Phoenix 106, San Antonio 78 Monday, Sept. 21: Phoenix 100, San Antonio 92 Los Angeles 2, Seattle 1 Wednesday, Sept. 16: Los Angeles 70, Seattle
WESTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix 2, Los Angeles 1 Wednesday, Sept. 23: Phoenix 103, Los Angeles 94 Friday, Sept. 25: Los Angeles 87, Phoenix 76 Saturday, Sept. 26: Phoenix 85, Los Angeles 74 FINALS (Best-of-5) Indiana vs. Phoenix Tuesday, Sept. 29: Phoenix 120, Indiana 116, OT, Phoenix leads series 1-0 Thursday, Oct. 1: Indiana at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4: Phoenix at Indiana, 4 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 7, Phoenix at Indiana, 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, Oct. 9, Indiana at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
RACING 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule and standings
Feb. 7 — x-Budweiser Shootout, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Kevin Harvick) Feb. 15 — Daytona 500, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Matt Kenseth) Feb. 22 — Auto Club 500, Fontana, Calif. (Matt Kenseth) March 1 — Shelby 427, Las Vegas. (Kyle Busch) March 8 — Kobalt Tools 500, Hampton, Ga. (Kurt Busch) March 22 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. (Kyle Busch) March 29 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. (Jimmie Johnson) April 5 — Samsung 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Jeff Gordon) April 18 — Subway Fresh Fit 500, Avondale, Ariz. (Mark Martin) April 26 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. (Brad Keselowski) May 2 — Crown Royal Presents the Russell Friedman 400, Richmond, Va. (Kyle Busch) May 9 — Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. (Mark Martin) May 16 — x-NASCAR All-Star Challenge, Concord, N.C. (Tony Stewart) May 24 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. (David Reutimann) May 31 — Dover 400, Dover, Del. (Jimmie Johnson) June 7 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa. (Tony Stewart) June 14 — LifeLock 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Mark Martin) June 21 — Toyota/Savemart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Kasey Kahne) June 28 — LENOX Industrial Tools 301, Loudon, N.H. (Joey Logano) July 4 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Tony Stewart) July 11 — LifeLock.com 400, Joliet, Ill. (Mark Martin) July 26 — Allstate 400, Indianapolis. (Jimmie Johnson) Aug. 2 — Pennsylvania 500, Long Pond, Pa. (Denny Hamlin) Aug. 9 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips At The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Tony Stewart) Aug. 16 — Carfax 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Brian Vickers) Aug. 22 — Sharpie 500, Bristol, Tenn. (Kyle Busch) Sept. 6 — Pep Boys Auto 500, Hampton, Ga. (Kasey Kahne) Sept. 12 — Chevy Rock & Roll 400, Richmond, Va. (Denny Hamlin) Sept. 20 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. (Mark Martin) Sept. 27 — AAA 400, Dover, Del. (Jimmie Johnson) Oct. 4 — Price Chopper 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 11 — Pepsi 500, Fontana, Calif. Oct. 17 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C. Oct. 25 — Tums Fast Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. Nov. 1 — Amp Energy 500, Talladega, Ala. Nov. 8 — Dickies 500, Fort Worth, Texas. Nov. 15 — Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 22 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla. x-non-points race Driver Standings 1. Mark Martin, 5,400 2. Jimmie Johnson, 5,390 3. Juan Pablo Montoya, 5,335 4. Kurt Busch, 5,325 5. Tony Stewart, 5,294 6. Denny Hamlin, 5,292 7. Ryan Newman, 5,290 8. Jeff Gordon, 5,278 9. Greg Biffle, 5,262 10. Brian Vickers, 5,249 11. Carl Edwards, 5,247 12. Kasey Kahne, 5,211 13. Matt Kenseth, 3,424 14. Kyle Busch, 3,395 15. Clint Bowyer, 3,311 16. David Reutimann, 3,275 17. Marcos Ambrose, 3,059 18. Jeff Burton, 2,968 19. Casey Mears, 2,875 20. Joey Logano, 2,842
Agent: Michael Vick re-signs with Nike NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Vick is back with Nike two years after the company severed ties over the quarterback’s involvement in a dogfighting ring. “Mike has a long-standing, great relationship with Nike, and he looks forward to continuing that relationship,” his agent, Joel Segal, said Wednesday. Segal would not reveal terms of the agreement. Nike did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The deal was announced during a panel discussion at the Sports Sponsorship Symposium by Michael Principe, the managing director of BEST, the agency that represents Vick. The endorsement is the latest step forward for Vick as he seeks to rehabilitate his career and his
image after serving 18 months in federal prison. On Sunday, Vick played his first regular-season game since December 2006. “It is quite evident that athletes that run afoul of the law are by no means relegated to obscurity when it comes to pitching products,” said David Carter, a professor of sports marketing at the University of Southern California. Vick signed with the Philadelphia Eagles on Aug. 13. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell gave him his full reinstatement Sept. 3, saying he could return to the field in Week 3. Vick participated in 11 plays, accounting for 30 total yards, in the Eagles’ 34-14 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, as
Philadelphia tries to use him in a variety of ways as a backup. Nike, which signed Vick as a rookie in 2001, terminated his contract in August 2007 after the Atlanta Falcons star filed a plea agreement admitting his involvement in the dogfighting ring. At the time, Nike called cruelty to animals “inhumane, abhorrent and unacceptable” and halted release of his fifth signature shoe, the Air Zoom Vick V. Back when Vick first signed with the Eagles, Carter had said he was “too toxic for most companies to even consider taking a chance on him.” What’s changed? As Carter noted Wednesday, there has been little backlash to the quarterback’s return to the NFL.
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where he was seated next to Petty after a small ceremony declaring the two drivers “Kings of the Sport.” “With what Richard did and what Earnhardt Sr. did, I just don’t think seven is a number you are going to get to. It’s tough. You look at Jeff, trying to get his fifth, and all the success he’s had, I think they’re safe up there with seven. I hope to prove them wrong, I’m not saying I don’t want to try, but we’re at three.” Johnson is currently ranked second in the standings and trails Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin by just 10 points. But he’s coming off a dominating win Sunday at Dover International Speedway, where he completed a season sweep that left the rest of the championship challengers frustrated by another Johnson victory. “There’s Jimmie and then there’s Jimmie and Jimmie,” LMS owner Bruton Smith said, motioning to Johnson. Although many fans are turned off by Johnson’s dominance the past three seasons, Smith refused to blame the champion for NASCAR’s struggles this year in ratings and attendance.
The Running Bobcats? Athletic Bobcats look to run more
CHARLOTTE (AP) — It’s become a familiar scene at Charlotte Bobcats training camp: A defensive player grabs a rebound and coach Larry Brown’s voice grows loud. “Go, go, go!” he yells. After being the NBA’s lowest scoring team last season, Brown wants the Bobcats to become an up-tempo club by taking advantage of Gerald Wallace’s driving ability, the addition of athletic newcomers Tyson Chandler and Gerald Henderson and an array of big ballhandlers. The Bobcats ran little last season with center Emeka Okafor, who was traded in the offseason for Chandler. “I think the personnel changes that they made and the players that they added, it’s going make us a naturally running team,” Chandler said Wednesday. “Coach isn’t going to have to scream about running all the time.” For now Brown is pushing his players to quickly move the ball up the floor after missed shots. “We want to. Look at our team. We’ve got pretty good team speed,” Brown said. “I don’t think we ran with five people last DOVER, Del. (AP) — Chad Knaus slung the year. We’ve got to run with five people. So champagne bottle over his shoulder the way a busi- we want to really make an effort.” nessman would carry his jacket after a long day Add Felton and speedy fellow point guard of work. The casual approach seemed fitting for D.J. Augustin and forward Boris Diaw’s Jimmie Johnson’s crew chief. Winning a Chase unique ballhandling ability and the Bobcats race and celebrating in Victory Lane really has think they can increase last season’s 35-win become just another day in the office for every total by running. Associated Press member of the No. 48 team. “Guys can’t stop just because the ball is Charlotte Bobcats coach Larry Brown, left, directs Dontell Johnson’s win at Dover International Speedway not in the point guard’s hands,” Chandler Jefferson, center, and Nazr Mohammed, right, during practice made Hendrick Motorsports 2 for 2 in Chase for said. “That’s not the only way you can fast in Charlotte, Wednesday. the championship races. Mark Martin kicked break.” off the 10-race run with a win and helped make Hendrick 1-2 in the championship points standings. Lurking behind them in eighth place is teammate Jeff Gordon, a two-time winner of this week’s race at Kansas Speedway. RALEIGH (AP) — Tom back Josh Nesbitt a break this That the Hendrick drivers — except for nonO’Brien and North Carolina weekend against Mississippi Chase driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. — would be in the State are bracing for another State. hunt for the Sprint Cup title is about as surprising potential headache — one that Nesbitt had a career-high 32 as another baseball postseason with the Red Sox, could be just as tricky as Wake carries for 97 yards and two Yankees, Angels and Phillies. Johnson and Gordon Forest’s offense. touchdowns in last week’s win have seven championships, and the 50-year-old After playing the Demon over North Carolina, but looked Martin is in prime position to shed the “best driver Deacons Saturday afternoon in winded late in the game. Shaw, to never win it all” label that has been attached to Winston-Salem, the Wolfpack back from broken collarbone, him for years. Holding the points lead, this might will have to navigate U2 concert could give coach Paul Johnson a be his year. traffic on their bus ride home. chance to allow Nesbitt a breathNine other drivers want to make the Hendrick The rock band is performing at er. boys work for a championship. But it could be too “It might be a situation where late to end team owner Rick Hendrick’s three-year N.C. State’s home field, CarterFinley Stadium, in front of some we can give Josh a series (off),” run of championships. 60,000 fans. Johnson said. “I think it’s always U2’s Bono Brian Vickers, Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne, “They’re going to have to bus us good if you can get over on the 10th-12th in the Chase standings, need top-five in here somehow,” O’Brien said. side and watch a series if things runs and an immediate string of bad luck for the The N.C. State coach isn’t aren’t going great.” shal of this year’s St. Patrick’s drivers up front to have any realistic shot at conoverly concerned damage to Day parade in Raleigh, but he tention. FILLING BIG SHOES: shrugged off a suggestion to “Everybody is going to have a 15th-or-worse-place the Wolfpack’s grass playing field. Back-to-back U2 shows in Linebacker Jonathan Jones has sneak into the stadium and lisfinish somewhere along the way,” Gordon said. “It Chicago left the turf at Soldier an unenviable task at Wake ten to noted Irishman Bono. could possibly be worse than that when you get to Forest — replacing first-round “I really don’t know too much Talladega and Martinsville, those places where the Field shredded, and by the time the Bears played their next game about (U2) ... but (my son) asked draft pick Aaron Curry. unknown is there.” there, the surface had been The fifth-year senior has startme if I was still alive when the resodded. ed all four games in the spot that Steve Miller Band was play“I probably shouldn’t be so used to be filled by Curry, who ing,” O’Brien quipped. “I told quick to say no, but it’s been was the fourth overall pick in the him, ’No, I’m still brain dead. I done in the past, and I know haven’t been around since then.”’ NFL draft. Jones has 19 tackles. there haven’t been problems,” “It’s not as bad as I guess peoO’Brien said. “We won’t know ple would think it would be,” JAYBO IS BACK: Georgia until it happens.” Tech’s Jaybo Shaw is expected to Jones said. “I’m just striving to O’Brien was the grand marbe the best I can be.” return and could give quarter-
Can anyone catch the Hendrick drivers?
After Wake Forest, NC State takes on U2 traffic
It Didn’t Get Away
’Canes sign G Cam Ward to 6-year, $37 million deal RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have locked up goaltender Cam Ward for six more years. The Hurricanes on Wednesday signed Ward to a $37.8 million contract that begins next season and runs through 2015-16. The new deal will pay the fifthyear goalie an average of $6.3 million per year. He will earn $3.5 million this season under the terms of his current threeyear deal signed in 2007, which expires after this season. The new deal prevents him from becoming a restricted free agent.
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Scott Whiteside holds up his 32.5 pound grouper off of Tybee Island, Ga., that he reeled in on Saturday, Sept. 9. Whiteside took part in a fishing expedition sponsored by Amicks Deep Sea Fishing.
“The pressure’s going to be there to play like an elite goaltender now that I’m being paid like one,” Ward said. “That’s not something that I’ve shied away (from) in the past, and that’s why I ultimately chose to be a goaltender, to handle that pressure and play up to that.” The 25-year-old allowed an average of 2.44 goals last season while leading the Hurricanes to their first playoff berth since 2006, claiming consecutive road victories in Game 7s at New Jersey and Boston and helping them reach the Eastern
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Conference finals. Already the club’s winningest postseason goalie with 23 playoff wins, his career record of 120-77-18 is 10 victories shy of the franchise record. The deal was announced two days before Carolina opens the regular season against Philadelphia, and Ward became the second young star in two years to sign a long-term deal shortly before the season started. All-Star center Eric Staal, 24, signed a seven-year, $57 million contract last September that takes effect this year and also expires after the 2015-16 season.
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Nation Today Baby taken in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said happened when she struggled with the woman kidnapper posing as an immigration agent, authorities said Wednesday. The mother, 30-year-old Maria Gurrolla, told reporters she had never seen the woman before she showed up at her door Tuesday evening. She said the woman got a knife from the home and stabbed her several times. Gurrolla said she did not see the woman take the baby because she ran to a neighbor’s home to get help. When she returned, her 3-year-old daughter was unharmed, but her son was gone. Gurrolla said the woman, she described as a robust white American, did not say anything about wanting to take the baby, who was lying on the sofa.
Incendiary device found
PRINCETON, Minn. (AP) — An eastern Minnesota school superintendent says a suspicious package found outside his town’s high school on Wednesday contained an incendiary device. Princeton schools Superintendent Rick Lahn says he learned that in a meeting with Police Chief Brian Payne. Lahn says the chief couldn’t give him details but told him it was “very suspicious and it contained some explosive material.” Lahn says he doesn’t think it was a large device but doesn’t know what kind of damage it could have done. The package discovered by a custodian outside the high school was one of three found in Princeton on Wednesday morning. Lahn closed
the district’s schools as a precaution but says classes will resume Thursday.
Suspects being watched NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a “handful” of men in New York are under surveillance as possible associates of the chief suspect in a potential terrorist bomb plot. The only person arrested so far is Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Denver airport shuttle driver. But an official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that investigators expect to make more arrests.
Killer dies in prison TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — John Evander Couey, a convicted sex offender awaiting execution for kidnapping, raping and burying 9-yearold Jessica Lunsford alive in 2005, died of natural causes Wednesday. Couey, 51, had been ill for some time and died in a Jacksonville hospital, said Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger.
Boy, 6, begged killers BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy pleaded with his captors — a man and his adult son — as they stripped and sexually assaulted the child inside a mobile home before strangling him, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday. The comments were made during opening arguments in the trial of David Edenfield, 61, who faces the death penalty if convicted of the March 2007 slaying of Christopher Michael Barrios. The boy was missing for a week before police found his naked body dumped off a road and wrapped in trash bags. Church News Every Saturday
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Getting swine flu shot is top business concern By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD AP Business Writer
When it comes to preparing for a swine flu outbreak, the top concern for most U.S. business leaders is getting enough vaccine for their employees, according to a new survey. The Business Roundtable found that most businesses have a plan to deal with the flu, but don’t know how or when they will get enough doses of swine flu vaccine for their employees. The new vaccine will first go to the groups most at risk — children and young adults, pregnant women, the chronically ill and people caring for infants. Health care agencies also will be a top priority, with about 90,000 sites — mainly hospitals, clinics, doctors’ offices, county health departments and pharmacies — expected to receive doses. Businesses outside of health care may have to wait months to offer the shot, if they get it at all. Business Roundtable President John Castellani said almost 90 percent of the industry group’s members — including several Fortune 500 companies — had a plan to deal with flu season that they have updated since the swine flu appeared in April. “Companies are on top of the situation,” Castellani said Wednesday. Business owners are not the only ones worried about the costs and other damage from a potential outbreak. Another report released Wednesday estimated that closing U.S. schools and day care centers because of swine flu could cost nearly $50 billion.
The Brookings Institution’s Center on Social and Economic Dynamics estimated that the cost of closing all schools in the U.S. for four weeks would be between $10 billion to $47 billion. The Washington think tank called that a conservative estimate. The government is urging schools to close only as a last resort. But as of Monday, there had been at least 187 school dismissals across the country affecting at least 79,678 students, the Education Department said. Companies are waiting to see how big the economic impact will be, and how much extra sick time they might have to grant, Castellani said. That all depends on the severity of the flu. About one-third of companies said they want more up-to-date information about the flu’s severity, according to the Business Roundtable survey. The businesses were dissatisfied with the World Health Organization’s flu pandemic warning system, which tells how far the flu is spreading rather than how sick it is making people. Companies are stepping up their own efforts to communicate with employees, by e-mailing them updates on sick leave policies and referring them to sources where they can learn more about the flu, according to the survey. About 225 million doses of the swine flu vaccine are expected to be doled out through this winter. The federal government is covering the cost of the vaccines and related supplies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
BoA’s Lewis leaving as CEO by end of the year NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company, succumbing to nearly a year of strife that followed his company’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. The bank said in a statement late Wednesday that Lewis, 62, would retire as CEO and also leave the company’s board by the end of the year. The company said his successor will be selected by the time he steps down Dec. 31. The news, coming after shareholders had stripped Lewis of his chairman’s title earlier this year, wasn’t surprising because of the heavy pressure he came under after the Merrill deal. Lewis had said he would stay on as CEO until after the company’s financial problems were resolved, a process expected to take several years. However, with the bank also under heavy criticism from government officials, Lewis was increasingly seen as vulnerable. Since the Merrill deal closed Jan. 1, it was learned that the investment bank with the knowledge of Bank of America executives, gave billions of dollars in bonuses to employees even as it asked for more bailout money from the government. The deal was forged a year ago at the height of the financial crisis.
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In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Bank of America Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ken Lewis testifies before the House Financial Services Committee. Bank of America Corp. on Wednesday, said Lewis will retire from the bank by the end of the year.
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Stocks down as indicator in surprise slide
Jeff Buzhaker looks at HP and Compaq laptop computers at P.C. Richard & Son appliance store in New York. Americans’ worries about job security flared up in September, causing a widely watched barometer of consumer confidence to dip unexpectedly and raising more concern about the upcoming holiday shopping season.
By TIM PARADIS AP Business Writer
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NEW YORK — The stock market has ended a strong third quarter with trading that reflected investors’ mixed emotions about the economy. The major indexes closed slightly lower after zigzagging through the day. Prices got a lift from the government’s latest reading on the gross domestic product, then plunged on news of a surprise drop in Midwestern manufacturing. The Dow Jones industrial average ended down 30 points as investors remained uneasy about economic data and shifted bets as the dollar strengthened. The drop shaved only a modest amount from the Dow’s 15 percent gain for the July-September period, its strongest quarter in 11 years. The day’s slide-and-bounce performance was a fitting one for the end of the quarter. When bad news hits the market, reminding investors of the economy’s fragility, stocks slide. But within a few days, or even the same day, they start to recover as investors seem to grab hold of the fact that no one expects the recovery, or stocks, to have an unbroken path upward. “Any legitimate decline in the market is just seen as a buying opportunity,” said David Waddell, senior investment strategist and CEO of Waddell & Assoc. “That pattern has continued now ever since tNot all the news rattled investors. The Commerce Department said the economy didn’t sink as fast in the second quarter as it had estimated. The gross domestic product, which is the broadest measure of the economy, slid at a pace of 0.7 percent, rather than 1 percent as it had projected. Occasional squalls are to be expected after the quarter the stock market has seen. The Dow’s gain was its biggest since a surge of 17.1 percent in the final quarter of 1998, when the dot-com bubble was still inflating. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow ended down 29.92, or 0.3 percent, at 9,712.28 after falling as much as 134 points. The broader S&P 500 index fell 3.53, or 0.3 percent, to 1,057.08. It rose 15 percent for the quarter after gaining 15.2 percent in the previous quarter. The index, which is the basis for many mutual funds, is up 56.3 percent since hitting a 12-year low in March. The Nasdaq composite index fell 1.62, or 0.1 percent, to 2,122.42. It rose 15.7 percent for the quarter. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 6.17, or 1 percent, to 604.28. Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.8 billion shares compared with 1.3 billion shares traded at the same point Tuesday. Meanwhile, bond prices were little changed Wednesday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.31 percent from 3.29 percent late Tuesday. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices rose. Crude oil rose $3.90 to settle at $70.61 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Experts see recovery slowing By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — The unfolding economic recovery will probably lose some momentum in the final three months of the year as rising unemployment and still hard-to-get credit weigh on consumers. The economy will grow at a pace of around 2.5 percent in the just-started October-December quarter, according to projections made by analysts at Wells Fargo, IHS Global Insight and Moody’s Economy.com. If accurate, that would mark a slowing from the projected growth of at least 3 percent that many economists think occurred in the just-ended third quarter. The economy shrank at a rate of 0.7 percent in the AprilJune period, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. “It’s a recovery, but it is not a rapid recovery,” said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight. The third quarter’s performance is expected to mark a turning point for the economy, providing the strongest signal yet that the worst recession since the 1930s is over. Many economists say consumers likely came back to life in the third quarter, boosting spending at around a 2 percent pace. If they are right, it would be the strongest showing since the first quarter of 2007, before the recession started. But consumer spending, which supplies about 70 percent of economic activity, could turn out to be flat or post an increase of no more than 1 percent in the
fourth quarter, according to economists’ projections. People will be wary of splurging, given shrinking wages and rising unemployment. “We’re fairly pessimistic about the holiday shopping season,” said Mark Vitner, economist at Wells Fargo Securities. “Wages and salaries are down, meaning people don’t have the means to spend.” Wages in the second quarter fell 4.7 percent from the same quarter last year, the government said Wednesday. Both businesses and consumers are still having trouble getting credit — the oxygen of the economy, analysts said. Such forces are “likely to constrain the speed of recovery,” Donald Kohn, the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman warned in a speech Wednesday. The Fed and most economists have grown increasingly confident that the recovery will be lasting. But the risk of a “double dip” recession, where the economy would slip back into negative territory, can’t be dismissed, some analysts said. “It’s not out of the question,” said Gault, adding that much will hinge on the behavior of both consumers and businesses in coming months. Higher auto sales, boosted by the government’s now-ended Cash for Clunkers program, was a major factor behind the third quarter’s expected improvement. People were offered rebates of up to $4,500 to buy new fuel-efficient cars and trade in old gas guzzlers. The government’s first estimate of how the economy fared in the
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third quarter will be issued in late October. Fourth-quarter results won’t be available until late January. The recession was winding down in the spring. The 0.7 percent dip in gross domestic product for the April-June quarter followed the 6.4 percent annualized drop in the first three months of this year, the worst slide in nearly three decades. In the final quarter of last year, the economy sank at a rate of 5.4 percent The new reading on secondquarter GDP showed the economy declining less than the 1 percent pace previously estimated. It also was better than the annualized 1.1 percent drop that economists were predicting. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in September said the recession, which started in December 2007, was “very likely over.” But he warned that pain will persist — especially for the nearly 15 million unemployed Americans. Because the recovery is expected to slow to a more plodding pace in coming months, the nation’s unemployment rate — now at a 26-year high of 9.7 percent — is expected top 10 percent this year. Economists predict it will have nudged up to 9.8 percent for September when the government releases that report Friday. The economy has now contracted for four straight quarters for the first time on records dating to 1947. Economic activity shrank 3.8 percent since the second quarter of last year, marking the worst recession since the 1930s.
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Moderates to propose shield for big banks WASHINGTON (AP) — Moderate House Democrats are drafting a proposal that would continue to shield big banks from potentially tougher state regulations of credit cards, mortgages and savings accounts. The plan would differ from President Barack Obama’s proposal to give states a role in regulating large financial institutions that operate nationwide. The lawmakers say it would be more practical and less expensive not to force the banks to comply with 50 different regulatory regimes. But their proposal, discussed at a hearing Wednesday, isn’t sitting well with consumer advocates who say banks shouldn’t be allowed to skirt state regulations if the restrictions don’t suit them. “That’s the system we have now. That’s the system that failed,� said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director for U.S. Public Interest Research Groups. Bean’s proposal is the latest effort by some lawmakers and business groups to pare back — or at least put a finer point on — Obama’s sweeping proposal to rewrite the rules governing financial institutions. Obama has called for a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, or CFPA, to protect the average American using credit cards or buying a home. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who is leading the legislative effort in the House, has agreed to exempt certain businesses from CFPA oversight, including merchants, real estate agents, auto dealers, telecom companies and lawyers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which opposes Obama’s plan, said Wednesday that Frank’s bill is written so broadly that it would still cover many of those businesses. The current regulatory regime allows banks to follow either state or federal regulations. Whereas community banks often follow state rules, large banks typically opt for federal oversight so they can operate in various states under one set of regulations.
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E-health records advancing By DAVID TWIDDY Associated Press Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dr. James E. Sanders is a big believer of switching patient records from old paper files to sophisticated computer databases. The electronic medical records system at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Kansas City Medical Center gives Sanders and his staff almost immediate access to medical histories, allowing them to seamlessly treat veterans from other states. But when patients aren’t in the VA’s system, it could mean hours or days before doctors have crucial information to properly care for patients. “It’s increasingly frustrating for us and other providers that it’s difficult to find a workable interface,� said Sanders, chief of staff for the Kansas City veterans hospital. “Our systems don’t talk to each other.� Interoperability, or allowing providers to share records and view them from anywhere, is a requirement for facilities to receive some of the more than $17 billion in stimulus funding that the government is offering to encourage the adoption of electronic medical records. Congress will likely penalize providers who aren’t doing so by 2014, cutting their Medicaid and Medicare payments, the Obama administration said. But the debate over interoperability among health care providers, which has been going on for years, could take well beyond the 2014 timeframe to be solved, industry experts say. “A private sector effort started 11 years ago and is still a going concern,� said Carla Smith, executive vice president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. “Every year they solve an X number of problems. They’re eating the elephant one bite at a time.� For an integrated system to work, developers at different companies have to agree on how their hundreds of programs uniformly present information and connect with each other. For example, if one uses its own set of abbreviations, the information would be useless to a doctor who uses a different program. As opposed to a “national� system, some
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment, ensuring another high-profile battle over the rights of gun owners. The court said it will review a lower court ruling that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. Gun rights supporters challenged gun laws in Chicago and some suburbs immediately following the high court’s decision in June 2008 that struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia, a federal enclave. The new case tests whether last year’s ruling applies as well to local and state laws. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld ordinances barring the ownership of handguns in most cases in Chicago and suburban Oak Park, Ill. Judge Frank Easterbrook, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, said that “the Constitution establishes a federal republic where local differences are to be cherished as elements of liberty rather than extirpated in order to produce a single, nationally applicable rule.� “Federalism is an older and more deeply rooted tradition than is a right to carry any particular kind of weapon,� Easterbrook wrote. Evaluating arguments over the extension of the Second Amendment is a job “for the justices rather than a court of appeals,� he said. The high court took his suggestion Wednesday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then an appeals court judge, was part of a three-judge panel in New York that reached a similar conclusion in January. Judges on both courts — Republican nominees in Chicago and Democratic nominees in New York — said only the Supreme Court could decide whether to extend last year’s ruling throughout the country. Many, but not all, of the constitutional protections in the Bill of Rights have been applied to cities and states.
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Texting, talking while driving called ‘epidemic’
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, talks with Associated Press President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Curley, left, and Meredith Fuchs of the National Security Archive, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, prior to the start of the committee’s hearing on government secrecy.
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WASHINGTON — Driving while distracted is a growing peril in a U.S. reluctant to put down its cell phones and handheld devices even behind the wheel, the Obama administration declared on Wednesday. Officials said Congress and the American public must team up to reduce the danger. Opening a two-day meeting to find ways to reduce drivers’ use of mobile devices, the Transportation Department reported that nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million were injured last year in vehicle crashes connected to driver distraction. That includes drivers talking on cell phones and texting. “To put it plainly, distracted driving is a menace to society,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood office was to order more govern- said. “Distracted driving is an epidemic and it seems to be getting worse every year.” ment transparency. The meeting gathered experts to examine the “In the face of doubt, openpotentially deadly mix of driving with cell phones, ness prevails,” Obama said at the mobile devices, and other distractions that divert time, and information should not be withheld to avoid embar- attention from the road. LaHood said he would offer recommendations on Thursday that could rassing public officials. lead to new restrictions on the use of the devices He revoked Bush’s November behind the wheel. 2001 executive order allowing While the meeting focused on drivers using cell past presidents to exert executive phones and mobile devices, participants noted that privilege to keep some of their distractions could include reaching into the back White House papers private. seat, applying makeup or eating. Obama also instructed federal “I have nightmares about the last moments of my agencies to be more responsive mother’s life,” said Greg Zaffke of Chicago, whose to FOIA requests. mother, Anita, was killed in May when a vehicle Attorney General Eric Holder rear-ended her motorcycle at 50 mph (80 kph). The immediately began applying driver had been painting her finger nails at the Obama’s call for a change of time of the crash. culture toward the presumpCongress is watching the issue closely. Sen. tion of disclosure, according to Charles Schumer and other Democrats are pushThomas J. Perrelli, the Justice Department’s chief FOIA officer. ing legislation that would require states to ban texting or e-mailing while operating a moving vehicle An agency within the Justice Department began training law- or lose 25 percent of their annual federal highway yers and access experts, set new funding. “We need every state to put safety first,” Schumer ways to measure how the govtold participants. ernment responds to informaLaHood said the government would draw lestion requests, and required chief sons from past efforts to reduce drunken driving information officers to report encourageLEFT motorists to wear seat belts,TO urging BOTTOM CHANGE $1299 annually on how their respective and a “combination of strong laws, tough enforcement agencies are improving compli$1599 BOTTOM RIGHT CHANGE 1 CT TW and ongoing public education.” ance with the law, Perrelli told $1399 TO 1 CT TW $1499 the committee. Curley said agencies are still trying to hide information sought by reporters, which isn’t much different from past years.
Media: Still too many secrets groups. The hearing was the first status report on the Office of Government Information Services, created by Congress this year at the National Archives and Records Administration to review the government’s compliance with open government laws and to mediate disputes with the public. The office’s newly installed director, Miriam Nisbet, told the panel that she arrived a few weeks ago and is in the midst of hiring the first five employees. The office was established by a bill from Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, that made several changes in the law, including requirements to better track information requests and reduce processing delays. Those changes kicked in just as President George W. Bush was leaving office after eight years of secrecy about how he was fighting terrorism. Bush administration officials repeatedly testified before Congress that revealing techniques of finding potential terrorists abroad and on U.S. soil would compromise national security. Obama’s first public act in
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Too many agencies are still holding their secrets close nine months after President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to open the flow of information to the public, advocates of access said Wednesday. Some are trying to circumvent the 42-year-old Freedom of Information Act through special provisions slipped into legislation “without debate or public scrutiny,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said. News organizations and media groups said new legislation was needed to limit how much information agencies may keep secret and for how long. “The secrecy reflex at some agencies remains firmly in place,” said Tom Curley, president and chief executive of The Associated Press. And FOIA still contains relatively weak penalties for those that don’t meet disclosure obligations, he said. “We appreciate the change in policy direction, but the change hasn’t yet reached the street,” said Curley, testifying on behalf of the Sunshine in Government Initiative, a coalition of media
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tions needed to be tightened to guarantee they would be ironclad. He said his goal was to incorporate the restrictions into law, “so we don’t have to go through it every year.” In recent years, Congress has prohibited federal funding for most abortions through annual spending bills, and Hatch’s proposal would have eliminated the need for those yearly votes. But abortion rights supporters said the proposal would have expanded the current restrictions, and could deny coverage for abortions to working women signing up for coverage through private plans. Its approval would be a “poison pill ... if it is hung on this legislation,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. The committee also rejected a proposal from Hatch to strengthen existing legal protections for health care professionals who refuse to perform abortions or other procedures on grounds of moral or religious objections. Both failed on nearly party line votes of 13-10, with Snowe siding with most Democrats in opposition, and Kent Conrad, D-N.D., voting with Hatch. Republicans also failed in their attempts to require applicants for federal health programs to furnish photo identification as proof of eligibility, an issue that dealt with illegal immigrants. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the goal was to prevent fraud, but Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said the proposals went beyond a required birth certificate required as proof of citizenship. Conservatives also are determined to strengthen prohibitions against illegal immigrants getting federal funding to buy insurance. Grassley offered an amendment he said was designed to cut fraud in health care programs for the low-income.
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WASHINGTON — A White House-backed overhaul of the nation’s health care system survived a long day of Republican challenges over abortion, illegal immigration and other issues Wednesday, and the bill’s architect claimed enough votes for passage by the Senate Finance Committee, possibly by the end of the week. Emotions in Congress are running high as both houses edge nearer to floor votes on the legislation that is President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority. Republicans expressed outrage that one House Democrat summed up their alternative as an invitation to sick Americans to “die quickly.” “We’re coming to closure,” said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the Finance Committee chairman who has presided over daily sessions that began last week and occasionally stretched deep into the evening. “It’s clear to me we’re going to get it passed.” Baucus sidestepped when asked if he expected any Republican support. Olympia Snowe of Maine is the only GOP senator whose vote is in doubt, and she has yet to tip her hand. While she has voted with Democrats on some key tests — to allow the government to dictate the types of coverage that must be included in insurance policies, for example — she has also sided with fellow Republicans on other contentious issues. Passage would clear the way for debate on the Senate floor on the bill, designed to accomplish Obama’s aims of expanding access to insurance as well as slowing the rate of growth in health care spending overall. The bill includes numerous consumer protections, such as limits on
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enate Finance Committee members, from left, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Fla., takes part in the committee’s hearing on health care overhaul reform legislation, Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington.
co-pays and deductibles, and relies on federal subsidies to help lower-income families purchase coverage. Its cost is estimated at $900 billion over a decade. While the legislation would not allow the government to sell insurance in competition with private companies, as Obama and numerous Democrats would like, the White House was working to make a version cleared committee. Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, a Democrat who has been outspoken in his criticism of features of the bill, said Obama called him earlier in the day to seek support. “I was noncommittal,” the senator said. The committee met as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced the full Senate would begin debate on health
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Issues of color still ripple America Dear Abby: “Wondering in Goldsboro, N.C.,” asked why President Barack Obama is considered to be African-American when he’s biracial. While your response was accurate, you missed an opportunity to educate your readers by failing to give the historical context as to why most people refer to him as African-American. There was a time in this country when “blacks”/African-Americans were considered only to be threefifths (3/5) of a human being. Also, if a person had one drop of “black” blood they were considered black. Although as a society we have progressed intellectually and in our understanding of what a human being is, we continue to hold on to archaic beliefs about skin color that not only pigeonhole an individual, but may force an individual to choose what so-called racial group that he/ she identifies with most. I can clearly see that the conversation regarding “race” and skin color must be continued in this country. Though we’ve “come a long way, baby,” we still have a long way to go in understanding this country’s deeprooted responses to skin color. — Living in America Dear Living: I think if one digs deep enough, we will come to the realization that there has always been a component of economic
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exploitation and perceived economic threat that is, and has been, at the root of racial discrimination. (But that’s just my opinion.) Read on: Dear Abby: In Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father,” he calls himself a black man of mixed descent. His decision to do that is as much a political decision as it is a personal one. In our society, most people who do or don’t know of Obama’s mixed background would treat him as a black man. (If you saw him walking down the street, would you say, “Hey, that guy’s half-white!”) By embracing his political identity he supports and strengthens all black people in the U.S. by standing proudly as one of us. — Nicole Dear Abby: African-American does not denote skin color, but an ethnic culture, a term that describes those of us who are descendants of captive Africans in America. It holds the same level of pride as it does for those who pronounce they are Italian-American or Asian-American. — Michelle
Flu season is approaching quickly Dear Dr. Gott: I hear repeated announcements on television that the flu vaccine this year will be in short supply. I’m 78 years old and wonder how serious it will be if my doctor doesn’t have enough vaccine for me. Dear Reader: I recommend you phone your doctor’s office and get on a waiting list for the fall. You will then have the peace of mind of being sure to get the vaccine you need. Influenza is a contagious respiratory illness that is caused by an influenza virus. Statistics reveal 5 percent to 20 percent of the population of the United States will be affected with seasonal flu, and symptoms will vary from mild to severe. Winter is traditionally flu season. Cases have been reported as early as October; however, January and February are commonly the hardest-hit months. The most appropriate time to obtain the vaccine from your physician is middle to late October. In that way, you will have the protection later in
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In the year ahead, an interesting development could lead to a welcome change of occupation. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Unless you treat your assignments or responsibilities with seriousness, your efficacy will be reduced. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — It is important to spend more time accomplishing something rather than relaxing or playing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — A show of envy doesn’t become you. It doesn’t matter that you believe an undeserving person gets all the breaks. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Stop fantasizing about those big ideas, and start taking positive action. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Unless you are on your toes, you could end up buying the pitch instead of analyzing the product. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Be candid, especially with those deemed to be important in your life. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Analyze the reason for singling out and helping one acquaintance over another. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Budget your day wisely, and don’t waste precious time on insignificants. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Friends or associates will notice if you don’t honor your word, so be on guard. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Take plenty of time to schedule and map out a course of action. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you get careless or let down your guard, you could get sidetracked. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Be careful about forming an alliance or partnership with a total stranger; a conniver plans to use you.
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Vacation year round Live at beautiful Cleghorn Country Club 2BR/3BA furnished, fireplace, newly decorated, gas logs. $1,000/mo. 287-0983 or 223-1112
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RENT or RENT TO OWN! 3BR/2BA in good condition! Call 287-8558
Single wide Shiloh: 2BR/2BA No Pets! $400/mo. + $300 dep. 245-5703 or 286-8665
FOR RENT: 2 Bay Garage/Storage Bldg. $300 per month Call 429-1037 or 429-0637
2 & 3 Bedroom Mobile Homes in Chase area. No Pets! Call 429-6691
12x60 Central H/A, 2BR/1 BA, No pets! Section 8 Welcome 828-247-1976
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Richmond Hill Senior Apts. in Rfdtn 1BR Units w/handicap accessible units avail. Sec 8 assistance avail. 287-2578 Hours: Mon., Tues., & Thurs. 7-3. TDD Relay 1-800-735-2962 Equal Housing Opportunity. Income Based Rent.
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3BR/1.5BA Fernwood Circle in Rfdtn. Lots of updates, big backyard! $139K Call 305-0555
2BR/1.5BA Cabin in Gilkey community Cent. h/a. No inside pets! 828-437-6754
3BR/2BA Brick Home Natural gas heat & cent. air. $80,900 Call 828-229-0308
Nice, above average rental 2BR/1.5BA Multi purpose sunroom, Historical home, all new updates. Exc. neighborhood! Close to hospital, walking distance to downtown Rfdtn. No pets! Ref’s. $650/mo + $650 dep. 429-3092
Homes For Rent 2BR/1BA in Caroleen $375/month + deposit No pets! Call 828-980-3719 2BR/1BA, dual pane windows, ceiling fans, window a/c, w/d hookup, East Court St., Rfdtn. 1.5 blocks to downtown $310/mo. application 828-748-8801
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3BR/2BA in Rfdtn. Spacious, private, $650/mo. + securities. 286-1982 or 748-0658 RENT TO OWN: 2BR & 3BR Spindale area. H/a. Small DP $425 & $400/mo. 429-3976 2BR 1BA on private lot in Caroleen $80 per week or $325 month $100 deposit 429-0449
Notice of Municipal Election Town of Spindale, North Carolina
Notice of Municipal Election Town of Rutherfordton, North Carolina
A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the town of Spindale, North Carolina to vote on the office of Commissioner (2 seats). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at:
A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the town of Rutherfordton, North Carolina to vote on the office of Mayor and Councilman (2 seats). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at:
•Spindale Community Building 100 E. Main St. Spindale, NC
•County Annex Building 289 N Main St. Rutherfordton, NC
Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications.
Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications.
One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009.
One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30- 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009.
All residents of the Town of Spindale who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop.
All residents of the Town of Rutherfordton who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop.
For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030.
For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030.
Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
PRN Registered Nurses, LPN’s and Certified Nursing Assistants needed for the Hospice House and Hospice Home Care program Apply at the Carolina Event and Conference Center 374 Hudlow Rd., Forest City Monday-Friday 8am until 5pm or email resume to klowery@hospiceofrutherford.org
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of LEROY SILVERS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said LEROY SILVERS to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of December, 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 17th day of September, 2009. Linda Silvers Baynard, Administrator 1027 Gilboa Church Rd. Rutherfordton, NC 28139
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of EDITH EVELYN MCGINNIS WEIR of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said EDITH EVELYN MCGINNIS WEIR to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of December, 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 17th day of September, 2009. Kathy Lynn Weir, Administrator 942 Old US 74 Hwy. Bostic, NC 28018
The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, October 1, 2009 — 17 Notice of Municipal Election Town of Forest City, North Carolina
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A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the town of Forest City, North Carolina to vote on the office of Mayor and Commissioner (2 seats). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at:
Wee The People Child Care, has openings for 6 weeks to 3 years of age. Located on West St., Spindale
•First Baptist Church Social Hall 211 W. Main St. Forest City, NC
288-2844
Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications. One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009. All residents of the Town of Forest City who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop. For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030. Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
WILL BUY YOUR JUNK Cars & Trucks Pick up at your convenience!
Call 223-0277
Help Wanted
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Community agency is seeking Mental Health QPs and Licensed Therapists (must be NC Board Eligible). If interested please e-mail resume to esherlin@umhs.net
For Sale Local Natural Beef for Sale 1/4 or 1/2 $1.75/lb 453-0396 or 223-3397 Snapper Riding Mower 10HP Good condition Call 286-2066
Want To Buy I PAY CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $10 per 100 ct. Call Frank 828-577-4197
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2005 Mercury Sable Auto, a/c, pw, pl, cd, cruise. Excellent condition! 88,000 miles $5,200 Call 287-0057
Trucks 1994 GMC Pick Up P/w, p/l, good a/c, new tires. Runs good! Call 828-305-3627
Motorcycles 07 Buele Blast 500cc 3,800 mi. Windshield, new rear tire. Exc. starter bike! $2,500 287-3843
Pets AKC Shih Tzu puppies 9 wks $300 Call 828-429-5290 or 828-429-3866 Free kittens to a good home. 828-289-9990
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Black/Tan w/Silver Stripe,Yorkie-Terrier mix Tags /Charlie Last seen 7/3 Bostic area Reward! 245-1468
2 FAMILY YARD SALE Forest City 595 Tanners Grove Rd. Sat. 7A-til Too much to mention!
LOST BILLFOLD Contained DL, college ID & student loan money. Lost Fri. 9/25 btwn 3:30-4pm behind Mall. Reward offered! 429-5008 or 429-0312
3 FAMILY FC: 149 Firethorne Dr. (off Trojan Lane) Sat. 7A-until Projector and screen, oil heater, fine china, chairs, clothes, more!
Found Yellow female kitten Found 9/29 near the FC Police Dept. Appears healthy & very friendly. 429-0487
Yard Sales 3 FAMILY SALE FC: 170 Greenbriar Dr. (Weatherstone) Sat. 8:30A-1P Broyhill sofa like new $75, nice clothes, lamps, drapes, and much more! 111 Issac Dr. Chase (area off Trojan Lane) Sat. 7A-until Primary teaching materials, men’s/ladies clothing (large/extra large), girls (8-12), household and more! 3 FAMILY Spindale Bill Self Auto Sales Sat. 6:30A-11A Shop with us before you go to the Octoberfest! Large variety!
Notice of Municipal Election Chimney Rock Village, North Carolina
Notice of Municipal Election Town of Lake Lure, North Carolina
A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the Village of Chimney Rock, North Carolina to vote on the office of Councilman (2 seats). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at:
A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the town of Lake Lure, North Carolina to vote on the office of Mayor and Commissioner (2 seats). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at:
•Chimney Rock Fire Department 109 Terrace Drive Chimney Rock, NC
•EMS-Library Building 150 Bills Creek Rd. Lake Lure, NC
Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications.
Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications.
One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009.
One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009.
All residents of Chimney Rock Village who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop.
All residents of the Town of Lake Lure who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop.
For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030.
For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030.
Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
Notice of Municipal Election Town of Ruth, North Carolina
Notice of Municipal Election Town of Ellenboro, North Carolina
A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the town of Ruth, North Carolina to vote on the office of Mayor and Commissioner (2 seats). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at:
A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the town of Ellenboro, North Carolina to vote on the office of Alderman (3 seats) and Alderman (Unexpired Term). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at:
•Ruth Town Hall 199 Northview Dorsey St. Rutherfordton, NC
•Ellenboro Fire Department 175 Depot St. Ellenboro, NC
Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications.
Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications.
One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009.
One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009.
All residents of the Town of Ruth who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop.
All residents of the Town of Ellenboro who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop.
For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030.
For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030.
Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
3 FAMILY FC: Long Branch Rd. (off of Poors Ford Rd.) Saturday 8A-until Clothes, what nots and much more! 5 FAMILY YARD SALE at Patz Salon 231 Oak St., FC Sat. 7:30A-til Household, antiques, children’s clothes, toys (lots), jewelry, designer clothing (Lauren, Hollister, Aeropostale, Banana Republic, Kasper- all sizes). Too much to list! BIG SALE Forest City: 302 Knollwood Dr. Saturday 8A-until Lots of Stuff! Big, intersection of Poors Ford and Hwy 221, Sat., 8AM-12PM, baby furniture, bunk beds, childrens name brand clothes, Scrubs and more Estate Sale FC: 267 Coffey Rd. (off Mount Pleasant Church Rd.) Sat. 8A-til Clothing, household items! Rain date 10/10! 248-3806 First time ever, multi family yard sale, 1190 Hwy 120 near Earls Save-More, Sat. 7AM-until. Something for everyone Forest City Fire Dept. Multi Family Yard Sale Sat. 7:30A-until Furniture, household items, clothes: women’s, men’s, children’s (all sizes) GARAGE SALE inside/outside FC: New Jerusalem Rd. (off Chase High Rd.) Sat. 8:00A-until Lawnmowers, Princess House, electric wheelchairs, TV, movies, jewelry OK LADIES ANOTHER BIG ONE Rfdtn: 112 Arnett St. (behind Food Lion) Fri. & Sat. 8A-12P Lots of everything! YARD/BAKE SALE Forest City: 230 Mountain View St. Thurs.-Sun. 7A-until Collectibles, clothes, ab lounger, weight bench & weights. Something for everyone!
Yard Sales
GARAGE SALE Rfdtn: 151 Davenport Rd. (off Poors Ford Rd.) Fri. 7A-7P & Sat. 7A-until Girls toddler clothes, Nascar items, woodworking tools HUGE 3 FAMILY Caroleen: 128 Lavista Circle (off of Kelly Rd.) Sat. 7A-until Crib, highchairs, new baby clothes, lots of toys, Little Tykes, books, clothes and lots of everything!
Huge 3 Family FC, 1415 Old Henrietta Rd. Sat 10/3 7AM-until Household items furniture, clothes and misc. items
Indoor Yard Sale at Exotic Tan in Spindale Fri. & Sat. 7A-until Big candle sale & more! MULTI FAMILY Gaffney: 1794 Cliffside Hwy (221A, at the state line) Saturday 7A-Noon Furniture, clothes, a little bit of everything! MULTI FAMILY FC 210 Holly Hills Dr. (off Bethany Church Rd.) Saturday 7A-12P Appliances, furniture, exercise equipment, and much more!
MULTI FAMILY Union Mills Hwy 221N left to 208 Nanneytown Rd. Saturday 7A-until Large assortment! Multi-family Ruth, parking lot of old Ruth Farm & Garden Sat., 8AM-until Avon product, clothes, tools and more Rfdtn: Silvers Lake Rd.(off Hwy 64 1 mile from Little Cubbard) Fri & Sat 8am- until Decorations,office supplies, pictures clothes and toys
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ONLY $20! Ad runs Thursday, Friday & Saturday Comes w/20 words, yard sale kit, and a rain day guarantee! Deadline is
Wednesday by 2pm
“If You’d Listed Here,You’d Be Sold Now!” Thousands of folks who have sold their cars, homes and merchandise on our classified pages, know that the Classifieds work harder for you. And, so do all the people who have found cars, homes and bargains on our pages. Not to mention jobs, roommates, financial opportunities and more.
Next time you have something to advertise, put the Classifieds on the job.
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18 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, October 1, 2009 IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RUTHERFORD COUNTY 09 SP 316 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY KIM JEAN SHELLEY DATED APRIL 14, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 896 AT PAGE 89 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to a Court order and 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 1:30 PM on October 7, 2009 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Union Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Situate, lying and being in Union Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being all of the 2.00 acre tract shown as lot #22 on plat of Grandview Estates, as shown on plat of record in Plat Book 21, at page 40, Rutherford County Registry. And Being more commonly known as: 429 Grandview Dr, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Kim Jean Shelley. 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 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 September 16, 2009. Grady Ingle Substitute Trustee 8520 Cliff Cameron Drive, Suite 300 Charlotte, NC 28269 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ 06-85628
Notice of Municipal Election Town of Bostic, North Carolina A Municipal election will be held on November 3, 2009 in the town of Bostic, North Carolina to vote on the office of Mayor and Commissioner (5 seats). Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. The polling place will be located at: •Bostic Town Hall, 104 Pearidge Road Bostic, NC Absentee ballots are allowed. Requests for an absentee ballot must be made in writing and received in the Rutherford County Board of Elections office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Absentee voting begins on Friday, October 2, 2009 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2, 2009. The Board of Elections will meet on October 13, 20, 27, 30, November 2, and other times as may be necessary for the purpose of approving absentee ballot applications. One-stop voting will be held in the Board of Elections office beginning Thursday October 15, 2009 and ending Saturday October 31, 2009. One-stop voting hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 and on Saturday, October 31, 8:30 - 1:00. Canvass Day will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Rutherford Board of Elections Office in Spindale, NC on November 10, 2009. All residents of the Town of Bostic who are registered to vote with the Rutherford County Board of Elections may vote in this election. Voters who are previously registered need not re-register for this election. Those residents of the Town of Bostic who are not registered to vote must register on or before October 9, 2009 in order to be eligible to vote at the precinct. A person may register at the Board of Elections Office 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale or may register by mail. Persons wishing to register and vote after the registration deadline may appear in person at a one-stop absentee voting site, complete the voter registration application form and provide proof of residence by presenting valid documents showing current name and address. Any voter who has moved since the last election must notify the Board of Elections in writing by October 9, 2009 to insure there will be no delay at the polls or may vote at One-stop. For additional information contact the Rutherford County Board of Elections at (828)287-6030. Syble T. Scruggs, Chairman Rutherford County Board of Elections
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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RUTHERFORD COUNTY 09 SP 313 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY SUZETTE ANGELIQUE DUPUIS AND PAUL DUPUIS DATED JANUARY 23, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 882 AT PAGE 400 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to a Court order and 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 1:30 PM on October 7, 2009 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an existing iron pin set 21.08 feet from the centerline of U.S. Highway 64-74A and Highway 9; which existing iron pin marks the southwesternmost corner of the property now or formerly owned by Ernest Hohimer and wife, Joann Hohimer as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 464, at Page 655 of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office; and running thence from the Beginning point thus established and with the northern line of said U.S. Highway 64-74A and Highway 9, South 89 deg. 01 min. 03 sec. West 249.98 feet to an existing iron pin set 19.66 feet from the centerline of said U.S. Highway 64-74A and Highway 9, and which existing iron pin marks the southeasternmost corner of the property now or formerly owned by Brenda Brackett Crawford and husband, Timothy Lee Crawford as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 690, at Page 571 of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office; thence continuing with said Crawford eastern line, North 00 deg. 53 min. 07 sec. West 199.11 feet to an existing iron pin which marks the northeasternmost corner of the said Crawford property and lies in the southern line of the property now or formerly owned Loretta E. Wilson and O'Brian O. Wilson as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 412, at Page 622 of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office; thence continuing with the said Wilson southern line, South 89 deg. 25 min. 28 sec. East 3.21 feet to an existing iron pin which marks the southeasternmost corner of the said Wilson property and the southwesternmost corner of the property now or formerly owned by R. Steven Stewart as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 730, at Page 477 of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office; thence continuing with the southern line of the said Stewart property and lies in the southern line of the property now or formerly owned by Joan S. Strom as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 696, at Page 747 of the Rutherford County, NC Register's Office; thence continuing with the southernline of the said Strom property six (6) courses and distances: North 88 deg. 37 min. 44 sec. East 24.79 feet to an existing iron pin and South 88 deg. 56 min. 44 sec. East 24.95 feet to an existing iron pin and South 84 deg. 25 min. 27 sec. East 25.08 feet to an existing iron pin and South 79 deg. 36 min. 42 sec. East 25.73 feet to an existing iron pin and South 77 deg. 42 min. 34 sec. East 25.28 feet to an existing iron pin and South 71 deg. 01 min. 58 sec. East 26.54 feet to an existing iron pin which marks the northwesternmost corner of the said Hohimer property; thence with the western line of the said Hohimer property, South 00 deg. 58 min. 01 sec. East passing an existing iron pin set at 165.81 feet for a total of 175.00 feet to the Point and Place of Beginning; containing 1.12 acre, more or less, as shown on that unrecorded plat captioned "John Boyd McLaughlin and wife, Meredith Orr McMaughlin" dated January 23, 2001 by Professional Surveying Services and bearing map number 20118L; which is incorporated herein by reference. And Being more commonly known as: 2182 Memorial Hwy, Lake Lure, NC 28746 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Suzette Angelique Dupuis and Paul Dupuis. 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 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.
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