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SPORTS Tom Metz of Rutherfordton showcases a 1938 Zenith Radio during the Forest City Antique and Art show, Saturday. “It works great,” Metz said. “In 1938 it sold for $69.95 from Zenith. I had it restored and now I can hear stations on it from Cuba.” The asking price for the unit today is $475.
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RUTHERFORDTON — Purpose Prize winner Jock Brandis recently brought samples of simple technology he has developed to Rutherford County in hopes some of it can be adapted for use by small farmers here. Brandis’ “The Full Belly Project” is helping people in Africa and Central and South America as they work to feed themselves and develop a market economy. “We can basically make the world better by helping farmers get more product out of their land and out of a day’s labor,” Brandis told a crowd of about 35 to 40 at EarthPerks, a new farm supply business on Poors Ford Road. Please see Simple, Page 11A
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FOREST CITY — County Democrats elected delegates for the state convention and heard from various candidates as part of the 2010 Rutherford County Democrat Convention, Saturday. Outgoing state representative, Dr. Bob England was the guest speaker and during his remarks he encouraged party unity and told candidates to stay the course. “If you read the newsprint and listen to the media, we Democrats ought to tuck our tail between our legs and hide,” England said. “But that isn’t going to happen in Rutherford County. I truly believe we will ultimately see the good benefits of the work we have done at the national level and state level.” England focused on the money he had kept in the Department of Health and Human Services budget in Raleigh which he said was paying for medical treatment for seniors. He also highlighted money he fought to keep in the state budget for education. “The real guest speaker here today are these candidates,” England added. “I encourage you (candidates) to go through the smokescreen they’re going to hit you with and focus on some things we have done for the good.” England’s remarks received a standing ovation from the crowd. The convention elected 23 delegates to send to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee for the 10th district and 17 delegates to send for the 11th district. Chairman Gene Mitchell also stressed party unity in his remarks. “Let the Republicans be the ones who tear each other apart,” Mitchell said, to raucous applause. “All the candidates in the primary should be respectful to their Democratic opponents and the other candidates.” Several primary candidates were on hand to speak. “I’m the right man to send to Raleigh when it comes Please see Dems, Page 6A
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Parents, grandparents, friends and family of children and babies took a three mile jaunt for babies Saturday morning at the annual March for Babies event held at Isothermal Community College, sponsored by March of Dimes. The event is the largest fund raiser for March of Dimes as the money will help premature babies and other babies with problems have a better start in life.
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Junior Miss program set next weekend By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer
SPINDALE — Seventeen high school juniors will vie for Rutherford County Junior Miss next Saturday at The Foundation, Isothermal Community College at 7 p.m. The winner advances to North Carolina Junior Miss competition next February. Hannah McMillan, North Carolina’s Junior Miss for 2010, will be among guests performers. Emcees will be Sarah Warrick and Ashley Warrick Garland will be the emcees.
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Rachel, daughter of Vern Harris and Amy Harris and for her talent competition, she will do a jazz and Broadway dance to “I Want to be Like You” by Swinging Fire Balls; Taylor, daughter of Harrell and Sondra Childress, will sing, “At Last” by Etta James; Adrienne, daughter of Wayne Reavis and Julie Reavis, will present a character dance, “Hey, Big Spender” by Sweet Charity; Lauren Rivas, daughter of Cookie and Glenn Conner will present a theatrics number, “Doll on a Music Box” by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Morgan Sisk, daughter Kim and Jeff Sisk, will present a jazz/tumble, “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis; Lacy Nance, daughter of Chuck and Sheila Nance, will sing and play the guitar, “Can’t Buy Me Love” by The Beatles; Victoria Helton, daughter of Angie and Jeff Stevens and Tony Helton will clog to, “Magic Carpet Ride” by Steppenwolf; Sarah Coyne, daughter of Glenn and Gaylynn Coyne, will play the flute, “Concerto No. 2” by Mozart; Jordan McKinney, daughter of Mark and Kaye McKinney, will present jazz/hip hop to “One Girl Revolution” by Super Chick; Kaley Smith will do a jazz dance to “Red High Heels” by Kelly Pickler; Tammy Camby, daughter of Charlene Camby, will sing, “First Cut Is The Deepest” by Sheryl Crowe; Wynee Bermudez, daughter of Bertha and Marvin Bermudez, will present lyrical/jazz, “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes; Jordan Hawkins, daughter of Sarah and Scott McKinney and Ted and Tina Hawkins, will play the clarinet, “A Whole New World” by Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle;
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Participants are Rachel Anne Harris, R-S Central; Taylor Brooke Childress, Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy; Adrienne Danielle Reavis, Chase; Lauren Rivas, R-S; Morgan Ashleigh Sisk, East Rutherford; Lacy Caroline Nance, R-S Central; Victoria Elizabeth Helton, Chase; Sarah Coyne, R-S Central; Jordan Nicole McKinney, R-S Central; Kaley Morgan Smith, TJCA; Tammy Michelle Camby, R-S Central; Wynee Bermudez, East Rutherford; Jordan Renee Hawkins, East Rutherford; Macey Michelle Strickland, East Rutherford; Kayla Hoyle, TJCA; Mercedes Nicolle Brush, East Rutherford; and Courtney Brooke Atchley, Chase.
Macey Strickland, daughter of Mike and Pam Strickland, will tap dance to “Do Your Thing” by Basement Jaxx; Kayla Hoyle, daughter of Richard and Mendy Hoyle, will sing, “Shy” by Chris Commisso; Mercedes Brush, daughter of Steve and Carol Brush, will present a gymnastics/dance routine to “Every Time We Touch” by Cascada; Courtney Atchley, daughter of the late Frankie Atchley and Allison Atchley will sing, “Someone’s Watching over Me” by Hilary Duff. Tickets are $12 in advanced from any participant or $15 at the door.
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Local VOLUNTEER WEEK National Volunteer Week will be observed April 18-24 and among Rutherford Hospital volunteers is Mary Webster, Surgery Waiting Vvolunteer since 2006. With Webster is Ginger Dancy, Rutherford Hospital Director of Volunteer Services. “We treasure our volunteers at Rutherford Hospital, and we try to thank them each time they come for doing a world of good with the talents that they share,� Dancy said. Contributed photo
RUTHERFORDTON — The Rutherfordton Garden Club has donated $1,000 to Foothills Connect Business & Technology Center to help fund the development of its “Horticulture as Science� program within Rutherfordton Elementary School. With the funds, Foothills staff will purchase materials for raised beds, seeds and transplants, childfriendly garden tools and kits, educational materials, and other items to enhance the program at the school. Mrs. Karen Gray, Forest City Daily Courier_Ruth Co People_1.833inx3in a physical education instructor, got involved with the horticulture program after inviting Tim Will, executive County Commissioner District 1 candidates are: Eddie Parker (D), Bill director at Foothills, to speak to a group of Eckler (R) and Paul McIntosh (R). students at the school County Commissioner District 4: about local food. Margaret Putman Helton (D), Gail McBrayer Strickland (D) and Roger Foothills Connect (Bo) Richard (R) runs a successful County Commissioner District 5 candidates: Bob Howard(D), Rodney program called the Farmers Fresh Market Robbins (D), Robert (Rob) Bole initiative, which con(D), Julius R. Owens (R) and Harry nects local farmers with Waters (R). Charlotte area chefs Candidates for sheriff are: Jack L. Conner (D), Chris Francis (R) and Darren Hodge (R). All candidates are indicated they will attend.
CPC holds county forum FOREST CITY —Proponents of a new Community Center Pet are hosting a public political forum Monday at 7 p.m. at Cool Springs Administration Offices, Forest City. Candidates for county commissioner and sheriff have been invited to attend and will respond to five prepared questions during the forum. The questions were sent to candidates prior to the meeting. They will have an opportunity to state their platform with regards to the new animal shelter and the Daniel Road project. Keven McCammon and Fred Bayley will moderate the forum.
Garden Club gives Foothills a grant through an online market at www.farmersfreshmarket.org The elementary school garden consists of strawberries and arugula in raised beds that were dug by student volunteers from R-S Central High School’s sustainable agriculture program. Gray recently bought blackberry, raspberry and blueberry bushes at the local Cooperative Extension Service’s 4-H plant sale, paid for through funding from a “Learn and Serve� grant. Plans are under way Page to construct additional beds for vegetables and herbs, and also to plant a butterfly garden. The donation from the Rutherfordton Garden Club will be used to expand the interactive and educational aspects of the garden, Foothills representatives noted.
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Photo contest deadline is April 20 RUTHERFORDTON — Photographers are invited to submit up to three works to “Through the Lens,� a photo competition and exhibition sponsored by the Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild. Applications can be downloaded from www.rcvag.com or picked up at the Visual Arts Center. Applications are due by April 20. Photographs will be judged on composition, creativity, photographic quality and technical expertise. Cash awards for first, second, and
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THINKING ABOUT SELLING? If you have been entertaining the idea of selling your home, a real estate agent can provide you with statistics that can help you arrive at an informed decision. Among the factors to carefully consider are the number of homes listed for sale in your immediate market and the number of months that it would take to absorb the supply at the current sales rate. Another way to get a feel for the local market is simply to take notice of the number of for sale signs and vacant houses in the area. The important point to remember is that old adage about “location, loca1 tion, of 1 location� being the most important factor in real estate has never been more true.
third place entries will be announced at the opening reception on April 30. The exhibit will run from May 1 to May 31 at the Visual Arts Center 160 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton. Photographs must have been taken by the entrant since Jan. 1, 2007. Full information about the application process, size limits, hanging requirements, and entry fees can be found on the Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild website at www. rcvag.com or call 828-288-5009.
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fter health care, many probably thought that Congress was through with heavy subjects for the year. That is certainly not the case. The Senate is setting up now to take on a proposed overhaul of the nation’s banking and financial regulatory system. They could begin as early as this week. Already the partisan battle lines are drawn. The financial system overhaul is a critical piece of legislation. One need only think back to the near financial collapse that put us in our current economic doldrums to realize just how important this issue is. This gives our lawmakers one more chance to demonstrate that they are in Washington working for the people. The public right now has very little confidence in the nation’s financial system. There remain bitter feelings about the massive bailouts used to shore up the shaky system The message our lawmakers need to get now is simple. They need to complete a financial system overhaul that accomplishes two things: it prevents the activities that led to the recent problems and it implements monitoring that could spot future pitfalls.
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Which Dem will be facing Burr? RALEIGH – Three weeks prior to the May primary, polls show nearly half of likely Democratic voters don’t know who they will choose to challenge incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Richard Burr. There’s an obvious reason for that indecision. Most voters have never heard of or only recently heard of all but one of the six Democrats running. The one exception is Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, the first woman ever elected to statewide office in North Carolina. Marshall, 64, holds a fairly obscure office. As secretary of state, her two biggest jobs are overseeing business filings and lobbying regulations. She has made a name for herself as a fairly blunt politician who speaks her mind. But that trait didn’t help her much in 2002, when she lost in the primary for U.S. Senate. Marshall also isn’t the favorite of the party establishment in Washington. That distinction belongs to Winston-Salem lawyer and former state Sen. Cal Cunningham. Those party regulars see 37-year-old Cunningham as the biggest threat to Burr. He’s articulate, telegenic and has a nearideal resume for non-incumbent. He has some political experience
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but not a long track record that can be used against him. Cunningham also is an Army reservist lawyer who did a stint in Iraq in 2007. Those advantages helped him to raise enough money to recently go up on state airwaves with a biographical ad, something his opponents have yet to do. The big question for Cunningham is whether being the party’s establishment candidate carries more risk than reward. In public appearances, he’s seemed a bit over-coached and over-rehearsed. Ken Lewis, a 48-year-old Chapel Hill lawyer, comes into the race having worked behind the scenes for several Democratic candidates, but never having held office himself. Lewis does have a strong professional background, having worked for two major law firms in state. He’s also a graduate of Harvard Law School. The field of Democrats also includes Lumberton lawyer Marcus Williams, Gastonia school teacher Ann Worthy and
McDowell County photographer Susan Harris. Most pundits aren’t giving those three much of a chance. Williams, though, is a viable candidate, active in the State Bar Association, who will get some support come Election Day. In fact, no candidate is likely to get the 40 percent of the vote needed to avoid a run-off. The candidates aren’t simply struggling to become known to the electorate. The front-runners generally haven’t set themselves apart on major issues. All agree with health care reform plan passed by Congress. Only Marshall has criticized the troop buildup and continuing role of the United States in Afghanistan. Most oppose President Obama’s plan that could open up the coast of North Carolina to oil drilling, with Williams being an exception. By the way, Burr has three primary challengers. None of the three – Asheboro City Councilman Eddie Burks, Hendersonville business owner Brad Jones and disbarred lawyer Larry Linney – expect to raise as much as 1 percent of Burr’s $15 million campaign fund-raising goal. Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.
Let us all prepare for another day of Pentecost The season of Pentecost is soon to follow the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord. It follows the course of events described in Scripture as Jesus was born, baptized, ministered, was crucified, resurrected and ascended. Interestingly, at the Ascension, Jesus instructed His disciples to go back to Jerusalem and tarry there for they were, surprisingly, not prepared to fulfill the Great Commission. Something was lacking in their lives they would need to continue their spiritual journey. This has always rather interested me considering the fact that these men and others had actually been with Jesus. The 12 had been constant companions to the Savior. How many of us have thought how wonderful it would have been to have lived in that day and walked hand-in-hand and looked face to face to the Messiah? What is intriguing about this is with all of the closeness the disciples had with Jesus he told them that after he ascended He would send them another Comforter. Think of it: they were there, seeing it all and hearing it all yet they needed something else. The question is why? We first must consider
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what happened and why. Discouraged, depressed and uncertain, they were told to wait in an upper room and pray. They had been told they would “receive power after the Holy Spirit came upon them.” The world would never be the same. The Biblical narrative about the day of Pentecost is incisive. Acts 2 records the events. They were in one place in one accord. They were in a place of obedience to Jesus’ command to assemble in Jerusalem. They were following the orders of their spiritual commander. Jesus had gathered them in one place much as we should do as the church. I am not talking about one denomination or building as such. Being in one place is a mindset, an attitude of heart and soul, one place with God. They were in one accord, and he wasn’t talking about a Honda, as a preacher once said. They were in unity of heart and mind. Conditions must be met for
a church or a family to function appropriately. So it was here as obedience leads to blessings. Continuing, once their hearts were one in obedience and expectation, the Spirit comes to them as a “rushing mighty wind.” Wind, in the Greek, means respiration, or to breathe. God was breathing Life into this group that would become the church. One’s mind is quickly taken to the first instance of God breathing into someone, Adam. Adam was perfect as he lay on earth that new no death, corruption or curse. All was perfect as God’s creation was made. God’s son lay upon earth from which he had been formed. He was unblemished, pure and a specimen of what man must have looked like before the sinful fall. Yet something was missing. As Adam lay there in all of his perfection, one more thing had to be done. God’s breath of Life must be breathed into Adam for him to rise and see, bless, and be fruitful in this New Creation. God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul. Just as Adam was complete as a new creation man after the breath of Life, so a New Creation was completed at
Pentecost. The church is called the “body of Christ” in the New Testament. Just as Adam was a son of God, Jesus, through the incarnation, was the Son of God. As Eve was taken out of Adam’s side, so the church was taken out of the side of Christ, as symbolized through the pierced side of Jesus on the cross. The church on the day of Pentecost was, in one sense, the forming of another body, a new creation, as Scripture declares. In fact, believers are described as a new creation in 1Corinthians 5:17, “If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. Old things have passed away and behold all things have become new.” The day of Pentecost was the breathing in of God’s life and spirit to the body of Christ. No individual, church or denomination will ever fulfill God’s plan without that Spiritual life. Jesus knew what the role of the church was to be in the earth. He also knew that without Spirit, holy, Lifegiving breath, the church would not be successful. The source of our victories is not found in earthly ways or means. A family, business, government or any pursuit, will not
remain if not breathed into by the Life of God. Nations and kingdoms have risen and fallen because they were not raised up by the breath of God. That is why the Word declares that all that is not of God will ultimately be destroyed at the Last Day. God’s life is eternal life. Adam choked to death spiritually on a spiritual piece of fruit. Many are asphyxiated spiritually by the offerings of the devil today. To lose your breath for a sustained time is to lose your life. That same breath that breathed upon the 120 in the upper room at Pentecost is the same breath that keeps us going today. Sin has choked out spiritual life for many. The church is in need of some spiritual mouth-tomouth resuscitation. That intimate touch from the lips of God is the best kiss anyone could ever have or want. It would truly be a kiss of life. During this coming season of Pentecost take a few deep breaths of the Spirit and really live. The life in the Holy Spirit is the only life worth living. Rev. Lankford is pastor of St. Luke’s Church. He can be contacted at 286-8078 or revjlankford@ gmail.com.
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Obituaries Ruth Bradley Ruth Bradley of Elm Street, Spindale, died Saturday April 17, 2010 at Hospice House. She was a member of Spencer Baptist Church and a retired beautician. She is survived by two sisters; Ruby Bradley of the home and Reola Melton of Florida. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Crowe’s Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at Spencer Baptist Church at a time to be determined. Burial will be in the Sunset Memorial Park. A detailed obituary will be in Tuesday’s issue.
This sweet Siamese /mix kitten is available for adoption in the cat room at the Rutherford County Animal Shelter on Laurel Hill Drive in Rutherfordton. The shelter’s hours are noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. For more information call 287-6025. For the Community Pet Center volunteers office call 287-7738.
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Spindale to set hearing date SPINDALE — Spindale Town Council will set a public hearing date for the new animal control ordinance as part of their April meeting on Monday, 6 p.m. at the Spindale House. In other business the board will review and set a disposition on an economic development grant for Dest Family Dentistry from the N.C. Rural Center. The grant would be for $156,000 to help with renovating the former Coldwell-Banker real estate office in White Oak Plaza. The F.A.S.T. Southeast Hill
Climb representatives will present more information on the route for their event. The group was given permission to proceed by the board in March. The race will feature only cars from 1939 and older. Last month, the board asked the group to consider changing the race route from a proposed tenth of a mile on Callahan-Koon Road to Oak Street. Police Chief Andy Greenway will present a report on crowded downtown parking areas to the board. Clayton Parris will address
the board and ask the town to extend a sewer line to his home. The board will consider a budget amendment for renovations to the air conditioning system in the library. Mayor Mickey Bland will present a proclamation naming April 20 through 30 as Spring Clean-up. Fire Chief Jimmy Powell will present information about FEMA fire assistance grants. Finally, the board will take a vote on phase two of a joint storm water story with the Town of Rutherfordton.
Property owners to loan developer money FAIRVIEW (AP) — Residents in luxury golf communities in the Carolinas plan to lend their developer at least $62 million to help build golf courses and other club amenities. Cliffs Communities president Jim Anthony and Cliffs resident Steve Humphrey
announced the financing deal Friday at home of the first Tiger Woods-designed golf course in the U.S. The Citizen-Times of Asheville reported that the deal will ensure completion of that course at High Carolina. Humphrey said about 600
Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 147 E-911 calls Friday.
Rutherfordton n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 49 E-911 calls Friday.
Spindale n The Spindale Police Department responded to 28 E-911 Friday.
Lake Lure n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to two E-911 calls Friday.
Forest City n The Forest City Police Department responded to 48 E-911 calls Friday.
Arrests n Matthew Jason Dobbins, 35, of 238 Arther Enson Rd.; charged with misdemeanor cyberstalking; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD) n Rebecca Harris Hickman, 28, of 296 Willow Run; charged with two counts of simple possession of a schedule IV controlled substance and simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance; released on a $1,000 bond. (FCPD) n Lance James Marshall, 16, of 1078 Rock Rd.; charged with misdemeanor larceny; released on a $1,000 bond. (RCSD) n Brent William Hankin-
son, 25, of 226 Reid St.; charged with assault and battery; released on a $5,000 bond. (RPD) n Normany Ray Padgett, 49, 1007 Race Path Church Rd.; charged with driving while impaired, having an open container after consuming alcohol and failure to stop at a hit and run with property damage; released on a $1,500 bond. (NCHP) n Joshua Matthew Tessnair, 22, of 629 Dewitt Owens Rd.; charged with assault on a female; released after 48 hours. (RCSD) n Michael James Hawkins, 37, of 273 Mountain Creek Rd.; charged with failure to appear on felony possession with intent to distribute cocaine and failure to appear on misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia; released on a $50,000 bond. (FCPD) n Linda Faye Blanton, 26, of 190 Burgess Ln.; charged with assault and battery; released on a $3,000 bond. (RCSD) n Steven Ray Evans, 55, of 136 Moore Rd.; charged with assault on a female; released on a $1,000 bond. (RCSD) n Phillip Searcy, Jr., of 2511 Bill’s Creek Rd.; charged with domestic criminal trespassing, communicating threats and injury to trees or crops; released after 48 hours. (RCSD) n Ronnie Dell Riley, 45, of 121 Smith St.; charged with assault with inflicting serious injury; released on a $25,000 bond. (FCPD) n Stephen Devae Woods, 23, of 154 Browning Dr.;
Mickey Michelle Nantz, 41, died Friday, April 16, 2010 at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. She was a native of Cleveland County. She worked in the textile industry and attended Freedom Baptist Church. She is survived by her mother Debra Kay Hamrick Euten of Forest City; one daughter, Jody Price of Ellenboro; two sons, Michael Williams of Mooresboro and Randy Price Jr. of Ellenboro; five sisters, Ann Goforth of Bostic, Rena Wells of Forest City, Belinda Barnes of Charleston, S.C., and Sandra Vest and Melissa Thompson both of Sumter, S.C.; five brothers Keith Euten of Belfair, Wash., Chris Euten of Forest City, and James Euten Jr., Jamie Euten and Ellie Euten of Sumter, S.C.; and seven grandchildren. A celebration of life service will be held by family and friends at a later date. The family will be at the home of Rena Wells, 283 Old WAGY Rd., Forest City, N.C. 28043. Online condolences may be made at www.crowemortuary.com.
n Ellenboro firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident and a smoke report. n Forest City firefighters responded to a gas leak. n Hudlow firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident. n SDO firefighters responded to a house fire and were assisted by Rutherfordton and Sandy Mush firefighters. n SDO firefighters responded to a chimney fire and were assisted by Cliffside and Sandy Mush firefighters. n SDO firefighters responded to a house fire and were assisted by Cliffside and Sandy Mush firefighters.
Deaths Carlos Franqui SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Cuban writer and political activist Carlos Franqui, an important figure in the Cuban revolution who later became one of the most outspoken critics of Fidel Castro, has died. He was 89. Franqui died Friday in Puerto Rico. The son of a poor farmer, Franqui entered leftist political movements as a youth, joined and left the Communist Party and became a journalist who eventually joined Castro’s rebellion against dictator Fulgencio Batista. He edited the movement newspaper Revolucion before and after Castro’s insurgents defeated Batista, but increasingly clashed with hardliners who were restricting cultural and political dissent. Franqui moved abroad in 1963 and openly broke with the communist government in 1968 when he denounced the Soviet invasion of Czechsolvakia. In a 2006 interview with the Mexican magazine “Letras Libres,” Franqui said he had rejected Fidel Castro’s offer to be a military commander and later a minister. “What I wanted to create was a cultural revolution, not a bureaucratic one, and invite the whole world to get to know Cuba and its Revolution,” he said. In the end, he said he decided that freedom of expression was incompatible with revolutionary thought: “Culture is liberty and the revolution is the negation of liberty.”
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Katie Francis Watkins of Apt. 309D Church Street, Forest City, died Thursday, Cliffs club members will April, 15, 2010 at Crawley invest in bonds expected to Memorial Hospital, Boiling yield 12 percent a year for Springs. seven years. She was the daughter of Humphrey says it’s a way the late Ralph and Lillie for members to protect the Watkins. investment they’ve already She is survived by four sons, made in property as the LeVonne Watkins, Charles recession takes its toll on Watkins and Eugene Watkins high-end real estate. of Forest City and Edward Watkins of Rutherfordton; four daughters, Lisa Watkins and Melinda Watkins of Forest City, Lillie Watkins of Ellenboro and Katie Watkins of Spindale; four sisters, charged with resisting a Thelma Smith of Forest City, public officer; released on a Sandra Watkins of Spindale, $1,000 bond. (RCSD) Vanessa Flint and Tribby n Jerry Darrell Lovelace, Watkins of Greensboro; three 54, of 1103 Wells Church Rd.; brothers, Ralph Watkins and charged with communicating Melvin Watkins of Forest threats; released on a $1,000 City and Sammy Watkins of bond. (RCSD) Greensboro; 15 grandchiln Elvis Hugo Sanchez, 29, dren; and 14 great-grandchilof 255 Wilkins St.; charged dren. with driving while license Services will be held revoked and driving with no Tuesday, April 20 at 1 p.m. registration; released on a at New Bethel Independent $1,500 bond. (NCHP) Church with the Rev. Wallace Gregory officiating. Burial will follow at New EMS/Rescue Bethel Independence Church n The Rutherford County Cemetary. The body will lie EMS responded to 18 E-911 in state one hour prior to the calls Friday. service. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory THE DAILY COURIER Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue Published Tuesday through Sunday responded to eight E-911 mornings by Paxton Media Group calls Friday. LLC dba The Daily Courier USPS
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Asa Blanton Hamrick Asa Blanton Hamrick, age 91 of Holly Court, Eastwood Village died Thursday, April 15, 2010 at Fairhaven Home. He was a native of Rutherford County, NC and a son of the late George Crayton Hamrick and Ella Lancaster Hamrick; a member of Florence Baptist Church, Forest City, NC where he was a member of the Sanctuary Choir, Virgil Webb Sunday School Class and was active in his church. Asa also was a former member of a men's quartet and was an avid golfer. He retired from Coca Cola Company as a Route Supervisor and was a former resident of Parkton, North Carolina before returning to Rutherford County. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary Emily McMillan Hamrick in 1992. Survivors include his wife, Mamie Flack Hamrick of the home; a daughter, Sylvia Hamrick Saunders and her husband, Ray of Charlotte, two step-children, Geary Michael Flack and his wife, Teresa of High Point, NC and Tanya Flack Thrift of Salisbury, NC. There are also two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and four step-grandchildren and three step great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at three o'clock Sunday, April 18, 2010 in the Florence Baptist Church with the Reverend Dr. Bobby Gantt officiating. Visitation will be in the church narthex from two until three o'clock prior to the service. Interment will be held on Monday, April 19, 2010 at two o'clock in the Parkton Cemetery in Parkton, North Carolina. Memorials may be made to Florence Baptist Church, 201 South Broadway Street, Forest City, NC 28043 or Hospice of Rutherford County, Post Office Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is available at: www.padgettking.com Paid obit
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Calendar/Local WALK FOR LIFE HELD Volunteers with Hands of Hope for Life participated in the prolife group’s annual fundraiser the Rutherford County Walk For Life. The group included (back row) Lil Guettler, Joann Cilone and Robin Hunter and (front row) Alicia Lane, Paulette MacDonald and Wanda Gregorio. “Hands of Hope for Life is located on 129 N. Powell Street in Forest City behind Graham Cash. We are open Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.,” said director Karen Hill. “Our mission is to help women in their pregnancy experience to supplement baby items, baby clothes, maternity clothes, etc., they might need help with. We also help with diapers and wipes. All of these items are earned through a program called Earn While You Learn. The girls watch the educational DVD’s and Videos, do the homework, and earn coupons to spend in our Clothing Room.”
Red Cross The following blood drives are scheduled: April 23: Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy; 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m, Mooresboro. Call Jennifer Hoyle at 657-9998 ext. 7. April 26: Red Cross Blood Drive at the Chapter; 2-6:30 p.m. House 838 Oakland Road. Call at 287-5916. April 28: Concord Baptist Church Blood Drive; 3 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Call Kim Jones at 245-6130. April 29: Union Mills Community Development Center; 2 to 6 p.m. Call Pat Taylor at 245-8554. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a cruise for two. Classes Adult, Child, Infant CPR: April 17, begins at 8:30 a.m. First Aid: April 22, begins at 6 p.m., preventing disease transmission. Lifeguard Class: April 5-8, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Isothermal Community College; students must attend all four classes. All Red Cross classes must be paid in advance. Call 287-5916 for further information.
Meetings/other Committee meeting: The Farmer’s Market building committee will meet Monday, April 19, at the county annex, beginning at 8:30 a.m. The agenda will include an overview of site visits. PWA meeting: The Professional Woman’s Association meets the third Tuesday of each month. The next meeting is Tuesday, April 20, at Big Dave’s Restaurant in Forest City, beginning at noon. Dutch treat lunch. Guest speaker, Della Rose Stacey from the Homeless Prevention & Rapid Rehousing Program. For further information, call 287-5928. Planning committee meeting: Cool Springs High School Class of 1961 will hold an initial meeting to begin planning its reunion on Tuesday, April 20, at Hickory Log Barbecue, beginning at noon. Humane Society: The Rutherford County Humane Society will meet Tuesday, April 20, at the county annex. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Young at Heart Club meeting: Saturday, April 24, 11 a.m., at 197 Tiney Road, Ellenboro; covered dish lunch; all senior citizens welcome; contact Roy McCain at 245-4800 for more information. Breakfast and Politics event: The Rutherford County Republican Party Executive Board will host a Breakfast and Politics event Saturday, April 24, at Green Hill School Community Center. The plans are for local Republican candidates to cook and serve breakfast and meet residents. Breakfast will be served starting at 8:30 a.m., and the event will end at 10 a.m. There is no charge. Open house: The R-S Central JROTC Rifle Team will hold an open house Saturday, May 1, from noon to 5 p.m. Adults $4, children under 12, $2. Free to watch. Awards will be presented to the top shooters of the day.
Miscellaneous Networking seminar: Focuses on Social Media Marketing. Two part series teaches the use of Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms for business purposes. Part I, April 22, 6 to 10 p.m. Part II, April 29, 6 to 10 p.m. Isothermal Community College, Communication Technology Building, Room 108. Fee $5. Contact Dee Spurlin at 2863636, ext. 229. Geneology class: “Climbing Your Family Tree”; every Tuesday in May from 5 to 6 p.m., at Mountains Library, Lake Lure; the guest speaker will show participants how to access the N.C. Live sites. Low-cost rabies clinic: Saturday, May 8, noon to 1 p.m.; Thunder Road Animal Hospital; $10 cash, one-year rabies; $12 cash, three-year rabies; other discounted vaccines available; call 286-0033.
Music/concerts Piano concert: Isothermal’s music instructor, Jonathan Jones, will present a concert featuring the works of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms, on Sunday, April 18, beginning at 3 p.m., at The Foundation. An informal reception will follow. Free event. Sponsored by the Isothermal Cultural Events Committee.
Reunions Hollis School reunion: Saturday, June 5, at Big Springs Baptist Church FLC; doors open at 3 p.m.; meal served at 5 p.m.; $10 person; deadline May 15; call 453-7457 for more information.
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FC will hear new industry request FOREST CITY — Commissioners on Monday will hear a request from George Ferencz for the town to run water, sewer and electric services to the River Textile Services plant on Meadowbrook Road. The town’s current policy is to take service to the meter. The healthcare laundry facility is expected to employ at least 40 on startup Sept. 1 and 55 by the end of the year, a letter from Ferencz states. Commissioners also will be asked to allow the town’s water towers to be used to facilitate high-speed Internet service. The request is being made by Foothills Connect Business & Technology Center. Board members also will consider a request to name Forest City’s fountain in honor of Whitney “Jack” Leake, a Marine “who not only dedicated his life to our country but to our local community as well,” a letter from N.C.
Sen. Debbie Clary notes. In other business, the board will: n Hear a request from Arthur Camp to remove scrap metal from woods in the area near the McNair Field parking lot. n Discuss water drainage on Greenfield Drive. n Consider adopting a resolution approving a Water Shortage Response Plan for the town. n Consider approving the North Carolina League of Municipalities Municipal Environmental Assessment Coalition project participation agreement. The cost for the town would be $500. n Consider requests to sell a garage vehicle inspection machine and a Fire Department weather alert system. n Consider approval of budget amendment ordinances for police vest, Fire Department, CDBG-R and downtown revitalization grants.
n Hear a request to submit application for an N.C. Rural Center grant for Gregory’s Restaurant. n Hear a report from Mayor Dennis Tarlton on the meeting with the Forest City Owls. n Look at information regarding the policy for rubbish and limb collection in conjunction with the Alexander Mills Mill Village cleanup day on May 1. n Be notified of the 2010 Public Power Policymakers Conference Aug. 13-14 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. n Hear public comments. n Enter closed session to consult with the town attorney for advice regarding settlement of a claim. n Have a brief discussion of 2010-11 budget preparation. The Board of Commissioners meets at 6 p.m. upstairs in the Council Chambers at Town Hall.
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to bringing jobs back to our county,” N.C. House District 112 candidate Jim Proctor said. “I can remind the Commerce Committee that our county is still here when it comes to locating new companies.” Two Democratic candidates for Clerk of Court were also present. “I am the candidate with the most experience in this race,” said Ramona Hall. “I have over 21 years experience as clerk of superior court and I thank Keith Melton for giving me my first chance at that job. I think we need a Democratic clerk’s office again.” Fellow candidate Donnie Hinson highlighted his leadership abilities Scott Baughman/Daily Courier and personal responsbility. Dr. Bob England was the guest speaker at the 2010 Rutherford County Democratic “If we younger folks aren’t willing to Convention Saturday. Party Chairman Gene Mitchell (right) introduced the longtime take the torch of leadership from our legislator. elders, then soon we won’t have any leaders,” Hinson said. “I want to show “We need to work more with the Democratic primary, added, “A lot of people that the Democrat party is still Economic Development Commission Republicans have told me they expect a good party.” to get jobs back in the county,” Helton to win big after healthcare and all of County Commission candidates said. “Because we don’t want to lose this has passed. But our candidates Margaret Helton, Eddie Parker, Gail our children as they have to move in Rutherford County are local people Strickland and Rodney Robbins also away to find work.” who everyone knows and I think they spoke. Strickland said, “I have worked for are all going to make good candi“There are several projects going on county government for many years dates.” in the county that need to be done,” and I have a lot of experience that will Robbins said. “And I think I can help help me if elected.” Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughget them done. I’m just running to man@thedigitalcourier.com. Parker, who is not opposed in the represent regular people.”
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Police Notes Dalton will lead JOBS meeting in Asheville RALEIGH — Lt. Governor Walter Dalton’s Joining Our Businesses and Schools (JOBS) Commission will be meeting at UNC Asheville on Monday, April 19, to hear from educators, business leaders, and the public about the needs of the western region of North Carolina and how to work together to prepare students for 21st century jobs. The 20-member JOBS Commission is charged with making recommendations to the State Board of Education and the General Assembly about how the state’s early college high schools can align themselves more closely with the economic development needs of their regions. The Commission has also focused on enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education in the public school system. AdvantageWest, the economic development entity in that part of the state, will be making a presentation on regional initiatives and trends in workforce skills requirements. The meeting will feature a panel of business leaders including representatives focusing on: green industries, health and wellness, advanced manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and the creative arts. Other presentations will be on the challenges of creating partnerships between business and schools in rural counties, on the hospitality and tourism sectors, and on creating a future-focused work force for western North Carolina. The Commission will also take questions and comments from the public.
Adam Baynard joins McMahan’s staff RUTHERFORDTON — John F. McMahan of McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services announces that Adam Baynard of Forest City has joined his staff. A native of Rutherford County, Baynard has been serving families of Rutherford County for 13 years. Baynard He is an honor graduate of Fayetteville Technical Community College and licensed as a funeral director and embalmer in North Carolina. He is also a member of the Rutherford County Rescue Crew and attends Sulphur Springs Baptist Church.
State jobless rate declined in March RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s unemployment rate dipped slightly in March even though more workers entered the labor market with hopes they could now find a job. The state’s Employment Security Commission on Friday reported that the unemployment rate for March
dipped a fraction to 11.1 percent, down from 11.2 percent in February. The new unemployment data also showed there were nearly 2,800 fewer people on the unemployment rolls in March than the month before. An additional 18,000 people have jobs.
He says the more companies push their people, the greater the pressure to hire extra workers.
Mushroom Man finds own way to survive An AP Member Exchange By JERI ROWE News & Record of Greensboro
chamber of commerce in that solidly Republican city just north of the nuclear facility. “I think it has worked exactly like the way Washington had in mind. ... I see it every single day.” Indeed, opposition to the president and the stimulus were fierce in traditionally conservative South Carolina, which Republican John McCain carried comfortably in the 2008 presidential election. GOP Gov. Mark Sanford led angry residents in the charge to keep stimulus money for education out of the state, saying it would ultimately leave the economy in worse shape when the money dries up next year. So far, though, that chunk of the $787 billion appears to be doing what the
HAW RIVER — It’s crunch time for the Mushroom Man. That’s Eric Dunlap. He doesn’t like to have his picture taken. But he does like to talk about his mushrooms, his pickles, his salsa and the nearly two acres of vegetables he’ll soon grow near his barn. Right now, he’s doing anything — like growing and selling mushrooms — to make it. He lost his job. “I’m fighting for everything that I have built and created and saved for for the past 26 years since graduating from college, and I’m fighting to keep it,” he says. “And that’s with mushrooms, tomatoes, salsa, pickles. “This is not a hobby. This is survival.” In the Piedmont, you’ll find many like Eric. They’re the faces behind the unemployment numbers, the highest in many years: 11.8 percent in Guilford; 15.2 in Rockingham; 12.9 in Randolph; 13.2 in Alamance. Like a drumbeat, these numbers roll out every month, and the stories you hear of the unemployed all share the same ominous ring. “There’s millions of people in my position in the country,” says Eric, 49. “I’m nothing special.” It was a Friday afternoon in 2008, Halloween of all days, when he got the call from the company president. Eric learned he was being let go. For six years, he had worked from home as a marketing director for a company that built presorting mail machines.
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Megan Elliot, 26, uses her camera to document the decomissioning of the P-Reactor at the Savannah River Site Monday near New Ellenton, S.C. About $1.6 billion in stimulus cash was used to create 3,100 temporary jobs in a rural corner of the state cleaning up the Savannah River Site, which already employed about 9,000 and churned out radioactive metals for the nation’s nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Stimulus a boon in S.C. area that did not want it By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Writer
AIKEN, S.C. — A majority of people in South Carolina didn’t vote for Barack Obama and many didn’t want any part of his stimulus cash, and folks in a particularly poor, hard-hit swath near the Georgia line were no exception. Until the money showed up. About $1.6 billion was used to create 3,100 temporary jobs in a rural corner of the state cleaning up the Savannah River Site, which already employed about 9,000 and churned out radioactive metals for the nation’s nuclear arsenal during the Cold War. “I am convinced it’s what kept Aiken’s economy stronger than most communities during these poor economic times,” said David Jamison, president of the
Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., center, listen to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., during a financial reform news conference on Capitol Hill Thursday, The overhaul of the nation’s financial rules is shaping up as the next big battle in Washington.
Furniture maker to expand in N.C. RALEIGH (AP) — A national manufacturer of residential upholstered furniture has announced plans to open a third plant in North Carolina. Gov. Beverly Perdue’s office announced on Friday that United Furniture Industries NC LLC will open a plant in the vacant Stanley Furniture distribution facility in Lexington. It would create 150 jobs and invest more than $3.3 million during the next three years. The move is possible in part through a $125,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund. United Furniture Industries NC is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Furniture Industries Inc., of Okolona, Miss. Its other North Carolina plants in Archdale and High Point employ about 400 people. The new positions will pay an average annual wage of $29,032, not including benefits.
Campbell University business school dean Ben Hawkins says another hopeful sign is that manufacturing workers were asked to put in longer hours.
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Obama: New financial rules critical WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is destined to endure a new economic crisis that sticks taxpayers with the bill unless Congress tightens oversight of the financial industry, President Barack Obama said Saturday. The overhaul is the next major piece of legislation that Obama wants to sign into law this year, but solid GOP opposition in the Senate is jeopardizing that goal. “Every day we don’t act, the same system that led to bailouts remains in
place, with the exact same loopholes and the exact same liabilities,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. “And if we don’t change what led to the crisis, we’ll doom ourselves to repeat it. “Opposing reform will leave taxpayers on the hook if a crisis like this ever happens again,” the president said. A proposal that Senate Democrats are readying for debate creates a mechanism for liquidating large financial companies to avoid a melt-
down. For the first time, the government would regulate derivatives, those financial instruments whose value depends on an underlying asset, such as mortgages or stocks. Derivatives can help hedge risks. But derivatives can produce steep losses, or huge profits, if the value of their underlying asset sinks. The proposal also would create a Please see Rules, Page 8A
8A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, April 18, 2010
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He was bringing in at least $75,000 a year and living on a five-acre spot he and his wife, Amy, bought in 1995. It’s a beautiful place, with a winding driveway shaded by dogwood trees in a stretch of Alamance where sometimes all you hear is wind and birdsong. Then came the phone call. Then came nine months of sending out 150 resumes. Then came nothing except one phone interview and one face-toface interview. You’d figure Eric would be a shoo-in for a job. He has a civil engineering degree from West Virginia University and an MBA from UNCG, with a decade of experience in the mail-processing business. But the brutal truth hit him hard. He felt he was too old, too qualified, making too much money in an industry that was fading. Yet, he told Amy, who works as the business manager in the registrar’s office at UNC-Chapel Hill, one thing time and again: “We are not going to lose our house. There is no way.” So, after nine months of nothing, Eric looked to start his own business. He found an idea in the pages of Southern Living magazine and the needed guidance as close as N.C. A&T: growing shiitake mushrooms. Eric will warn you not to arm-wrestle him. He’ll beat you because his business has him working seven days a week with hundreds of logs weigh-
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president promised: keep unemployment rates already among the highest in the nation from skyrocketing and give residents some hope that they could fight through the worst economic decline since the Great Depression. The recession has wiped out 8.2 million U.S. jobs, making competition for openings fierce. On average, there are five or six unemployed people competing for each opening, according to government data. That image is sharp in South Carolina, where unemployment in March was 12.2 percent, the sixthhighest in the country, according to Labor Department figures released Friday. Near Savannah River, Allendale County had the state’s second-highest jobless rate at 22.4 percent. Two other nearby counties, Barnwell and Bamberg, were 19.9 percent and 17.7 percent in February.
The new hires came from a broad area including parts of South Carolina and Georgia, and unemployment rates have continued to creep upward even since the positions were filled. It was unlikely the jobs would strongly impact rates in any single county, but Obama has said the recession would have been worse without the stimulus and jobs like those at Savannah River. The cost? Around $500,000 per job — but that money covers overhead and other costs at the site. Thousands of applicants flocked ket for derivatives, which contributed to job fairs and waited hours in the hot sun for a chance to speak with to the nation’s economic problems Savannah River recruiters. after their value plummeted. Bob McClearen worked at But Democrats haven’t agreed on Savannah River for 18 years until how far such regulation should go, and all Senate Republicans are unit- he was laid off in 1997, working on company presentations and business ed against the bill. That opposition complicates Democratic efforts to get development. McClearen then struggled for more than a decade to make the 60 votes necessary to overcome ends meet, opening a shipping store likely GOP procedural roadblocks. with his brother-in-law until that
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ing up to 75 pounds each. He drills and fills the logs with mushroom spawn and sets them aside for up to nine months. Then, he soaks the logs in tubs and later moves them to his Mushroom Humidor — the heated, insulated spot in his barn — before harvesting time. Then, he starts the process again. He sells his mushrooms to wholesalers in Greensboro and Chapel Hill. And soon, he’ll start setting on store shelves 720 pints of his bread-andbutter pickles and his two types of salsa. That represents nine months of work, growing cucumbers, growing tomatoes, coming up with a recipe — one he concocted in his kitchen — and getting it tested and registered with the state. He has a part-time job. He works at West Burlington Wine Co., a store run by a friend. And soon, in the field near his barn, he’ll grow cucumbers, squash, yellow and red peppers, and tomatoes — lots of tomatoes — and he expects to sell his vegetables every Saturday at the Hillsborough Farmers Market. For all his work, seven days a week, Eric’s expects to gross $21,000 by year’s end. Maybe. Eric feels the ache of tendinitis in both elbows, and he worries about the rising expense of health insurance. But he says he’s making it with what he creates. “You’re happier than I ever remember you being,” a friend told him. The Mushroom Man didn’t answer. He knew she was right.
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business closed last year. Scrambling to pay the mortgage on the shuttered store, McClearen said he jumped at the opportunity to return to Savannah River when a friend still onsite told him about the new jobs. Now, McClearen is a technical editor, helping engineers plan cleanup efforts for the reactors and making sure photographs are taken before and after the work. Megan Elliott had just graduated from college when she learned about the new positions. Now, she sees her job doing communications for Savannah River as a resume-builder. The 26-year-old had sent her resume to companies from New York to California before being hired in June 2009. McClearen and Elliott might owe their jobs to the stimulus, but several prominent anti-stimulus voices envision a more dire outcome. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who didn’t support the stimulus and has called the effort a failure, said he’s worried the massive influx of cash won’t be properly managed. He also has warned of looming higher taxes that he says could shutter the businesses the package was supposed to help. “The fact that the stimulus created some economic activity in that area is a good thing,” Graham said. However, he said, “I worry about, has this money been absorbed in a rational process? Is it going to projects that are worthy?” Dennis Saylor, who chairs local Republican efforts in Aiken County, said he supports any growth at Savannah River but wishes the current expansion were more permanent. “Aiken County was strongly against President Obama, but we are benefiting from his administration right now through some of the stimulus money,” Saylor says. “I just wish it was a better funded source as opposed to newly printed money.”
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Obama’s asteroid goal tougher, trickier than moon By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a man on the moon was a towering achievement. Now the president has given NASA an even harder job, one with a certain Hollywood quality: sending astronauts to an asteroid, a giant speeding rock, just 15 years from now. Space experts say such a voyage could take several months longer than a journey to the moon and entail far greater dangers. “It is really the hardest thing we can do,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. Going to an asteroid could provide vital training for an eventual mission to Mars. It might help unlock the secrets of how our solar system formed. And it could give mankind the know-how to do something that has been accomplished only in the movies by a few squarejawed, squinty-eyed heroes: saving the Earth from a collision with a killer asteroid. “You could be saving humankind. That’s worthy, isn’t it?” said Bill Nye, TV’s Science Guy and vice president of the Planetary Society. President Barack Obama outlined NASA’s new path during a visit to the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. “By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space,” he said. “We’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history.” On the day the president announced the goal, a NASA task force of scientists, engineers and ex-astronauts was meeting in Boston to work
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This 2000 photo provided by NASA shows the north pole of the asteroid Eros. The crater seen on the surface of Eros measures 4 miles across. President Barack Obama on Thursday said he expected astronauts to land on an asteroid in the next 15 years.
on a plan to protect Earth from a cataclysmic collision with an asteroid or a comet. NASA has tracked nearly 7,000 near-Earth objects that are bigger than several feet across. Of those, 1,111 are “potentially hazardous asteroids.” Objects bigger than two-thirds of a mile are major killers and hit Earth every several hundred thousand years. Scientists believe it was a 6-mile-wide asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Landing on an asteroid and giving it a well-timed nudge “would demonstrate once and for all that we’re smarter than the dinosaurs and can avoid what they didn’t,” said White House science adviser John Holdren. Experts don’t have a particular asteroid in mind for the deep-space voyage, but there are a few dozen top candi-
Crawley. Also, asteroids contain such substances as hydrogen, carbon, iron and platinum, which could be used by astronauts to make fuel and equipment — skills that would also be necessary on a visit to Mars. While Apollo 11 took eight days to go to the moon and back in 1969, a typical round-trip mission to a near-Earth asteroid would last about 200 days, Crawley said. That would demand new propulsion and lifesupport technology. And it would be riskier. Aborting a mission in an emergency would still leave people stuck in space for several weeks. The space agency may need to develop special living quarters, radiation shields or other new technology to allow astronauts to live in deep space so long, said
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NASA chief technology officer Bobby Braun. Even though an asteroid would be farther than the moon, the voyage would use less fuel and be cheaper because an asteroid has no gravity. The rocket that carries the astronauts home would not have to expend fuel to escape the asteroid’s pull. On the other hand, because of the lack of gravity, a spaceship could not safely land on an asteroid; it would bounce off the surface. Instead, it would have to hover next to the asteroid, and the astronauts would have to spacewalk down to the ground, Yeomans said. Once there, they would need some combination of jet packs, spikes or nets to enable them to walk without skittering off the asteroid and floating away, he said. “You would need some way to hold yourself down,” Yeomans said. “You’d launch yourself into space every time you took a step.” Just being there could be extremely disorienting, said planetary scientist Tom Jones, co-chairman of the NASA task force on protecting Earth from dangerous objects. The rock would be so small that the sun would spin across the sky and the horizon would only be a few yards long. At 5 million miles away, the Earth would look like a mere BB in the sky. “It’s going to be a strange alien environment being on an asteroid,” Jones said. But Jones, a former astronaut, said that wouldn’t stop astronauts from angling to be a part of such a mission: “You’ll have plenty of people excited about exploring an ancient and alien world.”
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John Gardner, center, glances at the gallery after he pleads guilty to both counts of murder, flanked by his attorney’s Michael Popkins, left, and Mel Epley, right, Friday in San Diego Superior Court. Sex offender John Albert Gardner has pleaded guilty to killing two San Diego County teenage girls. Gardner agreed Friday to enter the pleas in the deaths of 14-year-old Amber Dubois and 17-year-old Chelsea King. In exchange, prosecutors will not seek the death penalty.
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Nation/State Today Massa claims forgery WASHINGTON (AP) — Former congressman Eric Massa said Saturday that someone forged a $40,000 salary increase for his chief of staff, who has accused the ex-lawmaker of sexual harassment. The New York Democrat also denied authorizing a check from a campaign account in the same amount to the same official, Joe Racalto, according to a statement released by Massa’s attorney. Racalto’s attorney denied the allegations and said both transactions were done at Massa’s direction. The exchange came one day after Racalto reavealed he had filed a sexual harassment complaint against the former congressman, who announced March 5 that he would resign. The payment to Racalto came as allegations about his boss sexually harassing young male staffers in his office were becoming public.
Wandering cat flying CHICAGO (AP) — No one knows how a tabby cat named Charles traveled the 1,300 miles from his New Mexico home to Chicago, but he’s set for a complimentary flight home on American Airlines in a carrier donated by an Albuquerque business. Charles disappeared about eight months ago while his owner was out
of town and a friend was caring for him. “Oh, I was crushed, and I found out while I was away volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, and I was so upset because I was in New Orleans so there was nothing I could do,” said Robin Alex, of Albuquerque. Then earlier this week, Alex received a call telling her Chicago Animal Care and Control had picked up her wandering cat as a stray. Staffers reached out to Alex after finding that Charles had a tracking microchip embedded between his shoulder blades, said the agency’s executive director, Cherie Travis.
Holder: More work to do RALEIGH (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the country still suffers from racial inequality in everything from unemployment to the length of prison terms. Holder spoke at a conference in Raleigh to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of pioneering civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Georgia congressman John Lewis said civil rights veterans should act as a counterbalance to the conservative Tea Party movement. Lewis is a former chairman of the organization and told the crowd the commitment they showed as young people is still needed.
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God saw him getting tired, a cure was not to be. He wrapped him in His loving arms and whispered “Come with me.” He suffered much in silence, his spirit did not bend. He faced his pain with courage, until the very end. He tried so hard to stay with us but his fight was not in vain, God took him to His loving home and freed him from the pain. The family of Gene Jones would like to express their deepest gratitude and appreciation for all of the love, kindness and thoughtful gestures that were shown to them during their time of great loss.
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Slain teen’s parents made tough choice on plea deal SAN DIEGO (AP) — The parents of Chelsea King faced a torturous decision. Should they insist that prosecutors seek the death penalty against a man charged with raping and murdering their 17-year-old daughter? Or do they settle for life in prison in exchange for his plea of guilty to the murders of their child and a 14-yearold girl whose killing would have otherwise gone unresolved? John Albert Gardner III pleaded guilty Friday to raping and murdering both Chelsea and Amber Dubois in a plea agreement that called for life in prison and he would reveal details about how they vanished and died. He also waived his rights to appeal. Chelsea’s parents said they agreed to the deal because they wanted to spare their son the strife of continuing litigation as well as provide Amber’s grieving family a measure of peace. “The Dubois family has been through unthinkable hell the past 14 months,” Brent King said at the news conference, reading a joint statement with his wife, Kelly. “We couldn’t imagine the confession to Amber’s murder never seeing the light of day, leaving an eternal question mark.” Prosecutors said they were confident they could win a conviction against Gardner in Chelsea’s death but conceded Friday that they didn’t have enough evidence in Amber’s killing. After Gardner, a 31-year-old registered sex offender, was arrested in Chelsea’s death in late February, he was named a suspect in the death of Amber, who vanished while walking to school on Feb. 13, 2009. Gardner led authorities to Amber’s bones on condition that prosecutors couldn’t use that information against him. They would have to build a case on their own. At the news conference after Friday’s hearing, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said investigators tried to connect Gardner to Amber’s death independently of his confession but were unable to.
“Accepting this plea has been an extremely difficult decision,” she told reporters. “We have the evidence to pursue a murder charge against the defendant for Chelsea’s murder but not for Amber’s murder.” Even if prosecutors rejected the deal, the King family would have had to endure decades of appeals if he was convicted and sentenced to die, Dumanis said. Maurice Dubois, Amber’s father, also appeared at the news conference with Amber’s mother and the Kings and thanked law enforcement in a brief statement. He said he was surprised by “this turn of events in the case,” which he learned about Thursday. Amber’s case had produced few promising leads since she was last seen near Escondido High School, only about 10 miles north of where Chelsea disappeared. Amber, a Future Farmers of America member, went to school with a $200 check to buy a lamb. It was never cashed. Chelsea King, a straight-A, collegebound student, disappeared on a run Feb. 25 in a San Diego park. Gardner admitted in court that he attacked her and dragged her to a remote area where he raped and strangled her within an hour. He buried her in a shallow, lakeside grave. Gardner was arrested three days later outside a Mexican restaurant in suburban Escondido. He was linked to the killing through DNA found on Chelsea’s clothing. Gardner also pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to rape a woman Dec. 27 near the spot where Chelsea King vanished. The woman escaped. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 1. Defense attorneys left the courtroom without speaking to reporters. The deaths stirred strong emotions in San Diego and across the nation because Gardner served five years of a six-year-sentence for molesting a 13-year-old neighbor in 2000. Under a plea agreement, he could have been spent nearly 11 years in prison and a court-appointed psychiatrist strongly urged the maximum penalty allowed by law.
Shuttle is headed for earth CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Discovery and its crew left the International Space Station on Saturday and aimed for a homecoming in two days to wrap up one of the last missions of NASA’s storied shuttle program. The space station residents were “really, really sad” to see their friends go. “But it’s time,” said Oleg Kotov,
the station’s Russian skipper. “We enjoyed every minute of it,” shuttle commander Alan Poindexter said as Discovery backed away. Discovery undocked as the two spacecraft soared nearly 220 miles above New Guinea. Poindexter and his crew will spend Sunday getting their ship ready for re-entry. Landing is scheduled for Monday morning.
George Washington owes hefty library fines NEW YORK (AP) — If George Washington were alive today, he might face a hefty overdue library fine. New York City’s oldest library says one of its ledgers shows that the president has racked up 220 years’ worth of late fees on two books he borrowed, but never returned.
One of the books was the “Law of Nations,” which deals with international relations. The other was a volume of debates from Britain’s House of Commons. Both books were due on Nov. 2, 1789. New York Society Library head librarian Mark Bartlett says the institution isn’t seeking payment
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of the fines, but would love to get the books back. The ledger also lists books being taken out by other founding fathers, including Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and John Jay. The entry on Washington simply lists the borrower as “president.”
Cayden Blaine Holland celebrates his 5th birthday on April 18th. He is the son of Charles and Stephanie Holland of Cliffside.
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“And in order to do that, you simply have to give people very, very basic tools. Our motto is, you cannot have prosperity without efficiency. “If you can come up with technologies that will double someone’s output if they are doing post-harvest processing, if you can double their output by giving them a dry-season crop because they can get water, if you can do things like that, you’ve made a change in their lives.” Brandis, from Wilmington, and his crew of volunteers brought with them such devices as corn crackers, corn shellers, peanut shellers and a small irrigation system to show area farmers that agricultural needs can be met through unexpectedly simple techniques. Brandis’ visit was sponsored by Foothills Connect Business & Technology Center in Rutherfordton, one of whose goals is to increase entrepreneurship in the county through small-scale, specialized horticulture. Tim Will, executive director of Foothills Connect, is also a Purpose Prize winner, for 2009, and he received his award in San Francisco from Brandis, a 2008 winner. The prize carries a $100,000 award, which Will donated to Foothills Connect. The Purpose Prize is awarded by the Civic Ventures Foundation to recognize persons more than 60 years of age who are leading social innovators in their “encore” careers. Will told the audience at EarthPerks, “We take for granted all the infrastructure in this country. But it doesn’t exist elsewhere. “What Jock has done is reverse engineer a lot of equipment. Some of you probably remember some of it. It goes back several generations. “I asked him to come out and inspire us. Appalachia is three generations behind in agriculture. Agribusiness techniques aren’t working for us.” Brandis told his Rutherford County audience last Monday, “I’m basically a city boy with a degree in anthropology. I’m here to learn. Every time I go to Africa I learn something.” He urged Rutherford County farmers to tell him what they need to be more efficient and productive. “What is it you need on a small scale like this?” he asked. Brandis is confident that some of the basic technology he brought with him can be adapted to serve those needs. For example, he unloaded a peanut sheller from the back of a pickup truck. The sheller was made of concrete and some metal parts. “If you are shelling peanuts by hand, and you are an experienced African woman with calloused fingers, you do one pound of peanuts per hour,” he explained. “This machine can basically do it 50 times faster. And that is a huge difference in terms of a market economy. The big bottleneck with peanuts is the speed with which you can shell them. If you get past that, you can start thinking about peanuts for cooking oil.”
Brandis (left photo), standing beside a corn sheller, talks about making farm work more efficient. Above, he demonstrates a wooden rocker device used in a simple irrigation system for small farmers.
But he reminded his audience that The Fully Belly Project tries to think in more comprehensive terms. He pointed out it was initially thought that bringing mechanized peanut shellers to south Guyana, a small nation next to Venezuela, would allow farmers there to reach a level of efficiency that would allow them to sell peanuts to the Tandy peanut butter plant in that country. Brandis noted the plant was buying tons of peanuts from China, half a world away, and was still able to do it cheaper that way than by using peanuts grown in Guyana. The peanut sheller seemed like the perfect answer. But the idea didn’t work. The farmers only got enough rain on their fields to produce a supply of peanuts sufficient to feed themselves. Part of the problem, then, was helping ensure an adequate crop. And that brought
Brandis to the inexpensive irrigation equipment he brought with him. “Four pieces of concrete, a piece of wood and some pieces of truck inner tube,” Brandis said, pointing at a strange-looking contraption with a hose attached to it. “ Some nuts and bolts, and you’ve got a water pump. You can hook a 200-foot hose onto this, and you can do spot watering. So they can be spot watering 2.8 acres of land. “The problem with hunger probably doesn’t have anything to do with food; it has to do with water,” Brandis explained. He noted that with a water source and the pump, the farmers could grow 8,400 pounds of peanuts on 2.8 acres. “And if you can get three crops a year you can grow 25,000 pounds of peanuts,” he added. Brandis emphasized that The Full Belly Project is not about bringing in a piece of
equipment and then leaving. It’s a wideranging approach to solving problems, he said. “It’s not just a gizmo, but a system,” he commented. “Not, ‘Here’s a gizmo. We’re out of here.’ “With peanuts, how can they plant faster, how can they thresh faster? How can we get them a dry-season crop? What are the market opportunities? We’re getting a surplus of peanuts now; Africans growing peanuts and importing cooking oil from India or China. “We simply have to teach them how to press their peanuts for cooking oil, and feeding a high-protein peanut cake to their livestock back home, or, more likely, to their children back home. So we try to come up with some sort of system.” Brandis explained how very important it was to provide the struggling farmers with a dry-season crop. “We have the cold season, they have the dry
season,” Brandis said. “They have the exact same situation that you do. In their case, the rains come. Everyone plants. During the rainy season all the plants grow at the same speed. You all harvest at the same speed and the same time. You all bring your crop to market at the same time, And the price isn’t very good—all selling product at the same time. “If you could wait three months, and plant your crop at the end of the rainy season, and irrigate your crop with some very simple technology, you can wait until three months into the dry season. The price is double, and your crop is just getting ready. That’s a revolution.” One of the keys to success implementing such a revolutionary approach is making machines that are easy to use and easy to fix if something goes wrong. “We try to make things transparent,” Brandis said. “When I talk about a transparent technol-
ogy, the worst kind of machine you can have is a machine that you are really relying on, because you need to get water to water your animals or they will die, and you need a crop to harvest. And your machine stops working, and there are six wires going into this little black box and two wires coming out of it, and you suspect that the problem might be in there. That’s the worst kind of machinery you can have, because it sucks you in, and when you really need it, there’s nothing going for you.” As a first step to helping small-scale Rutherford County farmers, Brandis is leaving some of his machinery in the county so it can be used on a cooperatively available basis. Brandis also made stops at R-S Central High School and at Kudzu Cow Farm, on Duncan Road. Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier. com
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Crash victims memorialized in Poland WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 100,000 Poles filled Warsaw’s biggest public square Saturday, joining together for a memorial and funeral Mass for the 96 people killed in a plane crash a week earlier. The thickening cloud of volcanic ash over Europe caused some world leaders — including President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper — to cancel plans to attend Sunday’s state funeral. Still, some European leaders said they would drive to Krakow. Obama “waited as long as possible before he made the decision because he wanted to come,� said Lee Feinstein, U.S. Ambassador to Poland. “But it was impossible for him to travel.� The crowd in Warsaw’s Pilsudski Square waved white-and-red Polish flags with black ribbons of mourning affixed to them. A massive white stage, a large cross in the center, was flanked by oversized photos of the dead, including President Lech Kaczynski. The names of the dead were read aloud, starting with the president and his wife, Maria, while Marta, their only child, and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president’s twin brother and former prime minister, looked on. Others at the service included former President Lech Walesa, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and acting president Bronislaw Komorowski. “Our world went crashing down for the second time at the same place,� Komorowski said of the crash near Russia’s Katyn forest, site of a World War II massacre of Polish officers. Tusk called the crash a calamitous event that was “the greatest tragedy in Poland since the war.� The crash claimed the lives of a swath of Poland’s elite, including numerous lawmakers, the central bank governor, the commanders of the country’s armed forces and the head of its Olympic committee, among others. The coffins bearing Kaczynski and his wife were taken to a Gothic cathedral in Warsaw for an evening Mass, carried on artillery caissons pulled by army Humvees escorted by Polish soldiers on foot and horse-riding cavalry behind them. After the Mass, their bodies will remain in the cathedral and then flown early Sunday to Krakow aboard a military transport for the state funeral, said Presidential Palace spokesman Jacek Sasin. The bodies of the first couple had lain in state in the Presidential Palace since Tuesday. “During those few days when the palace was open, some 180,000 people came through the palace� to pay their respects, he said. Some people waited as long as 14 hours in line.
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Farmers team up to rescue cattle from exposure to the toxic volcanic ash at a farm in Nupur, Iceland, as the volcano in southern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier sends ash into the air Saturday. The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe landbound is far from finished spitting out its grit. Associated Press
Volcano continues to spew ash PARIS (AP) — The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade. Facing days to come under the volcano’s unpredictable, ashy plume, Europeans are looking at temporary airport layoffs and getting creative with flight patterns to try to weather this extraordinary event. Modern Europe has never seen such a travel disruption. Air space across a swath from Britain to Ukraine was closed and set to stay that way until Sunday or Monday in some countries, affecting airports from New Zealand to San Francisco. Millions of passengers have had plans foiled or delayed. Activity in the volcano at the heart of this increased early Saturday, and showed no sign of abating. “There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight,� Icelandic geologist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson told The Associated Press on Saturday. “The activity has been quite vigorous overnight, causing the eruption column to grow.� Scientists say that because the volcano is situated below a glacial ice cap, the magma is being cooled quickly, causing explo-
sions and plumes of grit that can be catastrophic to plane engines, depending on prevailing winds. In Iceland, winds dragged the ashes over new farmland, to the southwest of the glacier, causing farmers to scramble to secure their cattle and board up windows. With the sky blackened out and the wind driving a fine, sticky dust, dairy farmer Berglind Hilmarsdottir teamed up with neighbors to round her animals and get them to shelter. The ash is toxic — the fluoride causes long-term bone damage that makes teeth fall out and bones break. “This is bad. There are no words for it,� said Hilmarsdottir, whose pastures near the town of Skogar were already covered in a gray paste of ash. Forecasters say light prevailing winds in Europe — and large amounts of unmelted glacial ice above the volcano — mean that the situation is unlikely to change quickly. “Currently the U.K. and much of Europe is under the influence of high pressure, which means winds are relatively light and the dispersal of the cloud is slow,� said Graeme Leitch, a meteorologist at Britain’s National Weather Service. “We don’t expect a great deal of change over the next few days.�
A Dutch geologist who is in Iceland observing the volcano, Edwin Zanen, described it to Dutch state broadcaster NOS: “We’re at 25 kilometers (16 miles) distance from the crater now. We’re looking at a sunsoaked ice shelf, and above it is looming a cloud of ashes of oh, 4 to 5 kilometers (2.5 to 3 miles) high. There are lightening flashes in it. It’s a real inferno we’re looking at. “There’s absolutely no sign that the thing is calming down. On the contrary, we can see that at this moment it’s extraordinarily active,� he said. With the prospect of days under the cloud of ash, pilots and aviation officials sought to dodge the dangerous grit by adjusting altitude levels. Germany’s airspace ban allows for low-level flights to go ahead under so-called visual flight rules, in which pilots don’t rely on their instruments. The aviation industry, already reeling from a punishing period, is facing at least $200 million in losses every day, according to the International Air Transport Association. Scandinavian airline operator SAS AB said it has given notice of a temporary layoff of up to 2,500 ground service staff in Norway as a result of the flight disruptions.
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Just need a little patience “Daddy, can you button this for me,” asked Rio, my 3-year old rock star. I turned and said, yes, but that I had to finish washing my face and then I would be available to help. “Mommy, can you button this for me,” asked Rio, my 3-year old rock star, as she plodded down the hallway looking for assistance elsewhere. Patience is a tough trait to teach a child. It’s even tougher to exercise patience as we get older, especially in an age of instant gratification. Former Forest City Owls third baseman Kevin Mahoney is, currently, caught in the professional baseball version of elementary school. Mahoney, who was drafted last summer by the New York Yankees, was assigned to extended spring training in March on an 80-day assignment. A lot of minor leaguers go through a similar experience, but it can be testing. Mahoney has no real choice, but to wait for the Yankees to decide what they are going to do with him and, more importantly, where they are going to send him. “I could end up in Tampa or Charleston by June,” said Mahoney. It’s a tough spot to be in for Mahoney, who will marry his longtime girlfriend, Kimberly McTigue in October of this year. “It has it’s ups and downs,” Mahoney said, of the minor league experience. “Everyone here is just so talented. They all look like future big leaguers. “It’s tough competition — you have your bonus babies (players signed in the early rounds for big money) and blue chippers and I just want to out-work them.” He doesn’t have a choice if he wants to make the big leagues. And, there in lies the dilemma for many a young ballplayer with a college degree. How long do you commit to your baseball dream? How hard are you willing to work to get to the big leagues, if you could simply apply for another job and earn four times as much money as your current minor league salary? Those are some of the questions that face most minor league players at some point. Mahoney and McTigue have bought a house in Tampa and sound like a young couple ready to begin the grand adventure that is married life. But, Mahoney knows he must continue to be patient if he is to have a shot with the Yankees. The Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Garrett Jones can easily relate to what Mahoney is going through. In 1999, the Atlanta Braves drafted Jones in the 14th round. Now, at age 28, he is an overnight sensation — if by overnight I meant 11 years. Jones bounced all over America for the last 11 years pursuing the one dream that millions of American boys have had at one point or another. He spent three years in rookie ball, another four in AAA. Yet, Jones could very well be the only Pirate to play in this year’s All-Star Game. Someday, that could be Mahoney. Mahoney, who’s nickname is ‘Dirt,’ has always displayed a great work ethic. It will be that ethic and a little patience that could one day find him in the big leagues.
Charlotte Bobcats forward Gerald Wallace, left, goes up for a breakaway dunk against the Chicago Bulls in the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 14, 2010, in Charlotte. Orlando Magic C Dwight Howard, above. Associated Press
Magic-Bobcats offer fiery playoff twist ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Matt Barnes sent the playful, trash-talking text messages and voice mails for a week until finally getting a call back from Stephen Jackson. The two shared a laugh, caught up and made plans to hang out in Orlando until Sunday evening. Then their friendship will be put on hold. “We know once that game starts,” Jackson said, “we’re going to play like we don’t know each other.” The two best friends and former teammates give the first-round play-
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off matchup between Orlando and Charlotte a friendly-fiery subplot. Barnes, the Magic’s feisty forward, makes a living using his pushy play to irritate opponents. Jackson, the Bobcats’ leading scorer and often emotional swingman, also loves to be the bully. So with the best-of-seven series pitting them against each other, there’s sure to be a clash with two of the
NBA’s most physical forwards and stingiest defensive teams. “I’m sure it’s going to get heated out there between us,” Barnes said. “We’re both competitors, pretty much the same mentality, same kind of people. We both go out there and play as hard as we possibly can, and we have our team’s back. If that’s a bad thing, I don’t want to be good.” There’s also a parallel between their friendship and this series. The two were playing for Golden Please see Bobcats, Page 5B
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Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe, above in this file photo, is looking for Skylar Jones to step up and replace Riley Skinner.
Is Sky the limit for QB Jones at Wake? By JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer
WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest is hoping the Sky’s the limit for its new-look offense. Skylar Jones had 59 total yards and directed two scoring drives Saturday in the Demon Deacons’ end-of-the-spring scrimmage. Plenty can happen between now and the Sept. 2 opener against Presbyterian, but as
spring workouts wound down, there’s little doubt that Jones is the front-runner to replace record-setting Riley Skinner. “I would think, coming out of spring, Sky’s the guy right now,” coach Jim Grobe said, citing Jones’ durability. “There’s not anybody on our football team, quarterbacks included, that don’t understand that every day, you’ve got to earn your job. ... Please see Wake, Page 4B
FOREST CITY — Ninth-ranked Coastal Carolina scored eight runs in the third and 11 runs in the seventh to spark a 24-10 win over Gardner-Webb Saturday at McNair Field. The Chanticleers (31-5, 10-0 Big South) rapped out six hits and took advantage of a pair of walks and a hit batter in the third inning to seize control for good. A three-run home run by Chance Gilmore and a two-run single by Scott Woodward were the big blows. Gilmore hit a solo home run in the fifth to put the Chants up 11-0, before Gardner-Webb scored on an RBI double from Benji Jackson in the bottom half. Coastal plated another run in the sixth before its 11-run explosion in the top of the seventh. The Chants used five hits and took advantage of two errors to go up 23-1, using a two-run home run from Josh Keener and a grand slam from Taylor Motter as fuel for the big run. Gardner-Webb scored three runs in the eighth on three hits, with Jackson starting the brief rally by legging out an infield single. The Diamond ‘Dogs rallied again in the ninth, getting a leadoff double from Stefon Johnson, an infield single from Benji Jackson and a wild pitch to make the score 23-5. Zeke Blanton’s line drive to left was dropped to keep the rally alive and Josh Shabram drove in the sixth run with a single to left. Kurt Fulginiti then cleared the bases with a grand slam, cutting the Chants’ lead to 24-10 before Coastal Carolina reliever Dan Lombardozzi could retire the side and end the game. Anthony Meo (7-1) cruised on the mound for Coastal, scattering five hits without allowing an earned run in 5.0 innings of work for the win. Meo fanned four and walked one. The Chanticleers had 18 hits in the game, paced by Woodward (3-for-3, 2 RBI, 4 SB) and Gilmore (3-for-3, 2 HR, 4 RBI). Jackson (3-for-4, 2B, RBI) and Kurt Fulginiti (3-for-5, HR 5 RBI) paced Gardner-Webb’s 13-hit offensive effort. The two teams will wrap up the three-game series on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
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Scoreboard BASEBALL South Mountain Athletic Conference 3A/2A Conf All W L W L Patton 7 0 15 2 E. Rutherford 6 1 14 2 Chase 4 3 7 7 R-S Central 3 4 7 8 Burns 2 4 4 10 Shelby 2 5 5 11 Freedom 0 7 2 14 (through April, 17) National League East Division W L Pct Philadelphia 8 2 .800 Atlanta 6 4 .600 Florida 6 5 .545 Washington 6 5 .545 New York 3 7 .300 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 7 3 .700 Pittsburgh 5 5 .500 Chicago 5 6 .455 Cincinnati 5 6 .455 Milwaukee 4 7 .364 Houston 2 9 .182 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 8 3 .727 Arizona 5 5 .500 Colorado 5 5 .500 Los Angeles 5 6 .455 San Diego 4 6 .400
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Cleveland Cavaliersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; LeBron James dunks against the Chicago Bulls during the second quarter of Game 1 in the first round of the NBA basketball playoffs, Saturday, in Cleveland.
LeBron, Shaq lead Cavs over Bulls, 96-83
CLEVELAND (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got more depth. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got more size. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got Shaq. And, of course, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve still got LeBron James. The Cleveland Cavaliers have a different look this postseason. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We,â&#x20AC;? James said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;have the look of a champion.â&#x20AC;? Completely healthy and well rested, the Cavaliers took their first step toward an NBA title on Saturday as James scored 24 points and Shaquille Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal looked and played 10 years younger in a 96-83 victory over the Chicago Bulls in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference series. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal, playing for the first time since tearing a thumb ligament on Feb. 25, had 12 points, five rebounds, four assists and three blocks in 24 minutes as the top-seeded Cavs won a testy opener between two teams that obviously donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care for each other. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no friends in that locker room, except for Danny Green,â&#x20AC;? said Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joakim Noah, who was plagued by foul trouble and booed for much of the game by Cleveland fans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know nobody on that team and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really care.â&#x20AC;? The Bulls, who trimmed a 22-point deficit to seven in the fourth quarter before wearing down, will get a chance to even the best-of-seven series Monday night in Cleveland. Derrick Rose had 28 points and 10 assists for Chicago, which had the misfortune of being the first team to face the Cavs in these playoffs. Cleveland has been rebuilt for a championship, adding starters Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal, Antawn Jamison and Anthony Parker to a team that made it to the Eastern Conference finals last year.
Hawks 102, Bucks 92
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Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Chicago Cubs 7, Houston 2 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 8, Florida 6 Washington 5, Milwaukee 3 Atlanta 9, Colorado 5 St. Louis 4, N.Y. Mets 3 San Diego 6, Arizona 3 L.A. Dodgers 10, San Francisco 8 Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Houston 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Washington 8, Milwaukee 0 San Francisco 9, L.A. Dodgers 0 N.Y. Mets at St. Louis, late Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 4 Florida 5, Philadelphia 1 Colorado 4, Atlanta 0 Arizona at San Diego, late Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Cincinnati (Arroyo 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 0-1), 1:35 p.m. Colorado (G.Smith 1-1) at Atlanta (Jurrjens 0-1), 1:35 p.m. Florida (N.Robertson 1-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 2-0), 1:35 p.m. Milwaukee (D.Davis 0-1) at Washington (Marquis 0-2), 1:35 p.m. Houston (W.Rodriguez 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 1-0), 2:20 p.m. Arizona (I.Kennedy 0-1) at San Diego (LeBlanc 0-0), 4:05 p.m. San Francisco (Zito 2-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-0), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Maine 0-1) at St. Louis (Wainwright 2-0), 8:05 p.m. Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Colorado at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. American League New York Tampa Bay Toronto Boston Baltimore Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Chicago Oakland Seattle Texas Los Angeles
East Division W L Pct 8 3 .727 6 3 .667 7 5 .583 4 5 .444 1 11 .083 Central Division W L Pct 9 3 .750 6 4 .600 5 6 .455 4 7 .364 4 8 .333 West Division W L Pct 9 4 .692 5 6 .455 5 6 .455 5 7 .417
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Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Texas 1, 6 innings L.A. Angels 7, Toronto 5 Boston 1, Tampa Bay 1, tie, 9 innings, susp., rain Minnesota 10, Kansas City 3 Oakland 4, Baltimore 2 Seattle 11, Detroit 3 Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Texas 3 L.A. Angels 6, Toronto 3 Minnesota 6, Kansas City 5 Oakland 4, Baltimore 3 Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Tampa Bay at Boston, late Boston 1, Tampa Bay 1, tie, 9 innings, comp. of susp. game, late Detroit at Seattle, late Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Chicago White Sox (Floyd 0-1) at Cleveland (Carmona 1-0), 1:05 p.m. Texas (Harden 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 1-0), 1:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (E.Santana 0-2) at Toronto (Romero 1-0), 1:07 p.m. Tampa Bay (Garza 2-0) at Boston (Lester 0-1), 1:35 p.m. Kansas City (Hochevar 1-0) at Minnesota (Pavano 2-0), 2:10 p.m. Baltimore (Matusz 1-0) at Oakland (Bre. Anderson 1-0), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Scherzer 0-1) at Seattle (Snell 0-1), 4:10 p.m. Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Tampa Bay at Boston, 11:05 a.m. Kansas City at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Detroit at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. Baltimore at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.
x-Thursday, April 29: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD Orlando vs. Charlotte Sunday, April 18: Charlotte at Orlando, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21: Charlotte at Orlando, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 24: Orlando at Charlotte, 2 p.m. Monday, April 26: Orlando at Charlotte, TBD x-Wednesday, April 28: Charlotte at Orlando, TBD x-Friday, April 30: Orlando at Charlotte, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Charlotte at Orlando, TBD Atlanta 1, Milwaukee 0 Saturday, April 17: Atlanta 102, Milwaukee 92 Tuesday, April 20: Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 24: Atlanta at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. Monday, April 26: Atlanta at Milwaukee, TBD x-Wednesday, April 28: Milwaukee at Atlanta, TBD x-Friday, April 30: Atlanta at Milwaukee, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Milwaukee at Atlanta, TBD Boston vs. Miami Saturday, April 17: Miami at Boston, late Tuesday, April 20: Miami at Boston, 8 p.m. Friday, April 23: Boston at Miami, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Boston at Miami, 1 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Miami at Boston, TBD x-Thursday, April 29: Boston at Miami, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: Miami at Boston, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Lakers vs. Oklahoma City Sunday, April 18: Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 20: Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22: L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24: L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, TBD x-Friday, April 30: L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, TBD Dallas vs. San Antonio Sunday, April 18: San Antonio at Dallas, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21: San Antonio at Dallas, 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 23: Dallas at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Dallas at San Antonio, 7 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: San Antonio at Dallas, TBD x-Thursday, April 29: Dallas at San Antonio, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: San Antonio at Dallas, TBD Phoenix vs. Portland Sunday, April 18: Portland at Phoenix , 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 20: Portland at Phoenix, 10 p.m. Thursday, April 22: Phoenix at Portland, 10 p.m. Saturday, April 24: Phoenix at Portland, 4:30 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Portland at Phoenix, TBD x-Thursday, April 29: Phoenix at Portland, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: Portland at Phoenix, TBD Denver vs. Utah Saturday, April 17: Utah at Denver, late Monday, April 19: Utah at Denver, 10:30 p.m. Friday, April 23: Denver at Utah, 10:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Denver at Utah, 9:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Utah at Denver, TBD x-Friday, April 30: Denver at Utah, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Utah at Denver, TBD
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Vancouver 1, Los Angeles 0 Thursday, April 15: Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Saturday, April 17: Los Angeles at Vancouver, late Monday, April 19: Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 21: Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. x-Friday, April 23: Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m. x-Sunday, April 25: Vancouver at Los Angeles, TBD x-Tuesday, April 27: Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD Phoenix 1, Detroit 1 Wednesday, April 14: Phoenix 3, Detroit 2 Friday, April 16: Detroit 7, Phoenix 4 Sunday, April 18: Phoenix at Detroit, 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 20: Phoenix at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 23: Detroit at Phoenix, 10 p.m. x-Sunday, April 25: Phoenix at Detroit, 2 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Detroit at Phoenix, TBD
RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup Samsung Mobile 500 Lineup 1. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 191.327. 2. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 191.232. 3. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 190.9. 4. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 190.88. 5. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 190.712. 6. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 190.255. 7. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 190.248. 8. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 190.188. 9. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 190.121. 10. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 190. 11. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 189.9. 12. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 189.833. 13. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 189.753. 14. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 189.707. 15. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 189.454. 16. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 189.381. 17. (43) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, 189.029. 18. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 188.91. 19. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 188.871. 20. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 188.864. 21. (42) J. Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 188.811. 22. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 188.778. 23. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 188.772. 24. (55) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 188.745. 25. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 188.699. 26. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 188.692. 27. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 188.64. 28. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 188.633. 29. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 188.567. 30. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 188.317. 31. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, 188.094. 32. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 188.088. 33. (66) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 187.996. 34. (09) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 187.944. 35. (34) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 187.859. 36. (21) Bill Elliott, Ford, 187.839. 37. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 187.826. 38. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 187.676. 39. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 187.169. 40. (38) Kevin Conway, Ford, 186.78. 41. (71) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 186.645. 42. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, Owner Points. 43. (32) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 187.071.
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FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal 1, Washington 1 Thursday, April 15: Montreal 3, Washington 2, OT Saturday, April 17: Washington 6, Montreal 5, OT Monday, April 19: Washington at Montreal, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 21: Washington at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Friday, April 23: Montreal at Washington, 7 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Washington at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Montreal at Washington, TBD
ATLANTA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; For one magnificent half, the Buffalo 1, Boston 1 Thursday, April 15: Buffalo 2, Boston 1 Atlanta Hawks did nearly everything right. They Saturday, April 17: Boston 5, Buffalo 3 made shots. They blocked shots. They dunked and Monday, April 19: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 21: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m. defended and did their best to run Milwaukee out Friday, April 23: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m. of the building. x-Monday, April 26: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Boston at Buffalo, 7 One half was all they needed Saturday to get off p.m. to a good start in the playoffs. Ottawa 1, Pittsburgh 1 Led by Joe Johnson and getting production from Wednesday, April 14: Ottawa 5, Pittsburgh 4 all their key players, the Hawks blitzed the Bucks Friday, April 16: Pittsburgh 2, Ottawa 1 Sunday, April 18: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 6:30 before halftime, survived a lackluster showing over p.m. the final two quarters and held off Milwaukee 102Tuesday, April 20: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 22: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. 92 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference series. x-Saturday, April 24: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7 â&#x20AC;&#x153;We probably played as good in the first half p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played all year,â&#x20AC;? Atlanta coach Mike BASKETBALL p.m. Woodson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We jumped them right away.â&#x20AC;? WESTERN CONFERENCE National Basketball Association The Hawks had mismatches all over the court, Colorado 1, San Jose 1 Playoff Glance Wednesday, April 14: Colorado 2, San Jose 1 taking advantage of the gruesome injury that took Friday, April 16: San Jose 6, Colorado 5, OT FIRST ROUND out Bucks center Andrew Bogut two weeks ago. Sunday, April 18: San Jose at Colorado, 9:30 (Best-of-7) p.m. (x-if necessary) The home team never trailed, building a 20-point Tuesday, April 20: San Jose at Colorado, 10 EASTERN CONFERENCE SM lead in the first quarter and going to halftime with p.m. Cleveland 1,Supplement Chicago 0 Blue Medicare Thursday, April 22: Colorado at San Jose, 10:30 Saturday, April 17: Cleveland 96, Chicago 83 a 62-40 edge. Original Medicare covers a portionat of your medical expenses. p.m. Monday, April only 19: Chicago Cleveland, 8 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you get ahead by so much, you kind of Get additional Thursday, April with 22: our Cleveland at Chicago, 7 F)x-Saturday, April 24: San Jose at Colorado, coverage most popular plan (Plan TBD p.m. 1 get lackadaisical,â&#x20AC;? Hawks guard Mike Bibby said. people 65 and atover. x-Monday, April 26: Colorado at San Jose, TBD Sunday,forApril 25: age Cleveland Chicago, 3:30 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basketball is a game of runs. They made a run at p.m. Nashville 1, Chicago 0 x-Tuesday, April 27: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD us. The main thing is: We withstood it.â&#x20AC;?
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TRANSACTIONS Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Activated 3B Alex Gordon from the 15-day DL. Placed 2B Chris Getz on the 15-day DL. MINNESOTA TWINSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Placed LHP Jose Mijeres on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 16. Recalled RHP Alex Burnett from Rochester (IL). National League PITTSBURGH PIRATESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Placed RHP Ross Ohlendorf on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 12. Recalled RHP Daniel McCutchen from Indianapolis (IL). HOCKEY National Hockey League PITTSBURGH PENGUINSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Recalled D Ben Lovejoy from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).
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Milwaukee Brewers catcher George Kottaras talks with pitcher Todd Coffey during the third inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Washington, Saturday. Associated Press
Jimenez no-hits Braves
ATLANTA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ubaldo Jimenez pitched the first no-hitter in the Colorado Rockiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 18-year history, dominating the Atlanta Braves in a 4-0 victory Saturday night. Jimenez (3-0) walked six â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all in the first five innings. He was helped by Dexter Fowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diving catch on Troy Glausâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; drive to left-center field in the seventh inning. Jimenez was at his best in the final innings, reaching the high 90s with his fastball through the final batter. In the ninth, Martin Prado popped out to second baseman Clint Barmes, Chipper Jones hit a fly ball to left field and Brian McCann grounded out to Barmes on Jimenezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 128th pitch to end the game. Jimenez thrust his arms in the air and was swarmed by teammates as he celebrated history for himself and his franchise. The 26-year-old right-hander struck out seven and had an RBI single in the fourth inning. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baseballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first no-hitter since Mark Buehrleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect game last season. Buehrle faced the minimum 27 batters for the Chicago White Sox in a 5-0 no-hit victory over Tampa Bay on July 10, 2009. Jimenez, from the Dominican Republic, was 15-12 with a 3.47 ERA in 2009. He set a career high in wins while posting the lowest ERA for a starter in Rockies history. The Rockies have only one one-hitter in their history. Jason Jennings, Tom Martin and Brian Fuentes combined on a one-hit shutout in a 6-0 win over Oakland on June 20, 2006.
Astros 4, Cubs 3
CHICAGO (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Roy Oswalt allowed five hits over seven scoreless innings for his first win, J.R. Towles homered, and the Houston Astros hung on to beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 Saturday. The Cubs scored three in the eighth and had the tying run on in the ninth after shortstop Tommy Manzella booted Ryan Theriotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-out grounder. Theriot went to second on a wild pitch by Matt Lindstrom, but Kosuke Fukudome struck out, giving the Astros their second win in three games after an 0-8 start. Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tom Gorzelanny (0-1) gave up two runs in the second and left after being hit in the left arm by Pedro Felizâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s line drive in the third. Alfonso Soriano had another tough day in left field, dropping a fly ball.
Nationals 8, Brewers 0
Yanks top Rangers NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; For the first time since 1926 in the days of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees have won four straight series to start a season. Alex Rodriguez passed Mark McGwire for eighth place with his 584th home run, Derek Jeter also connected and A.J. Burnett (2-0) pitched seven shutout innings Saturday to lead the surging Yankees over the Rangers 7-3. After taking two of three against Boston, Tampa Bay and the Los Angeles Angels, the defending World Series champions swept the opening two games of a three-game set against Texas. Scott Feldman (1-1) gave up four runs and seven hits in 2 1-3 innings as Texas lost its third in a row. Nelson Cruz hit a three-run homer in the eighth off Alfredo Aceves, Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major league-leading seventh.
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Colorado Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez delivers to the Atlanta Braves during the second inning of a baseball game, Saturday, at Turner Field in Atlanta. Jimenez tossed a no-hitter.
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Athletics 4, Orioles 3 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ryan Sweeney hit a game-ending tworun single with one out in the ninth inning, and the Athletics improved to 9-4 for their best start after 13 games since 1992. Jerry Blevins (2-0) pitched an inning for the win. The Orioles fell to 1-11, their worst start since opening the 1988 season with 21 consecutive losses, and lost third baseman Miguel Tejada to a possible leg injury in the sixth inning. Baltimore stranded nine runners and is 2 for 47 with runners in scoring position this season.
Rays 3, Red Sox 1, 12 innings BOSTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pat Burrell hit a two-run homer with two out in the 12th inning to lift Tampa Bay to a victory over the Red Sox in the completion of the suspended game from a night earlier. It was the fourth straight win for the Rays, who escaped a bases-loaded, none out jam in the 11th. Lance Cormier (2-0) worked three innings of two-hit relief for the win.
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CHASE — Chase senior Sydney Millwood is a member of the Trojans Track and Field team. Millwood’s fascination with the sport, came from literally out of nowhere. “I started track because I wanted to try something new,” Millwood said. “I had never thrown the discus or shot put before, but I really enjoyed it.” Sydney’s parents are Ricky and Denise, and there are two sisters, Maggie and Claire in the immediate family. Ricky works at Chase High School and Denise at Harris Elementary. Sydney’s family has played a wide variety of sports. Ricky played football and baseball at East Rutherford. At Chase, Maggie ran track and swam, while Claire has compete in track and cross country. Sydney though is very involved at Chase, claiming that English is the favorite subject of choice. Sydney also joined the Yearbook staff and Bleacher Creatures. A favorite sports moment on the Chase Track & Field team came for Sydney by throwing the discus 55-feet and 6 inches, a personal best for Millwood at Chase. Away from school, Sydney enjoys singing in the youth praise band at Florence Baptist Church, plus cooking. Country Music is Sydney’s favorite genre with Tim McGraw noted as the favorite singer. Sydney’s favorite TV show is Chuck and Scrubs with the Carolina Tar Heels denoted as the favorite sports team of choice. Following Chase, Sydney’s plans include going to Isothermal Community College and then transferring to N.C. State to study Animal Sciences.
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FOREST CITY — East Rutherford’s Dakotah Thomas is a senior member of the baseball team this season. Thomas starts as a first base
or at pitcher for the Cavaliers on most nights and he has a love for the game. Dakotah is the son of Terry Thomas and Suzanne Hinkle. Terry works for Go-Forth Pest Control and Suzanne at Hinkle’s Pet Hospital. When Thomas is away from the classroom, he likes to play baseball, work out, ride four wheelers and hang out with friends. He is a Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves fanatic. He loves to watch the Major League Baseball Network and NCIS. His favorite kind of music is rock. His favorite sports moment so far in his high school career came when he played baseball at Midland, Ohio last summer. He was a part of the CABA World Series championship team and he loves the competitiveness of the high school playoffs. Following his days as a Puzzle Creek Pirate, Thomas will attend Western Carolina and major in Physical Education. He will also play baseball for the Catamounts while attending the university.
Central’s Pugh gets kick out of soccer RUTHERFORDTON — R-S Central’s Alli Pugh is a senior on the girl’s soccer team and plays as a forward or defender when called upon. For Pugh, soccer is a one of a kind sport. “Soccer is the one sport that gives me motivation and drive for life,” Pugh said. She is the daughter of Marc Scripps and Jill Scott. Alli has one brother, Henry and one sister, Sadie. Marc is employed at Eaton of Asheville and Jill works for Mount Vernon-Ruth Elementary School. Marc played football, baseball and basketball in his high school days and Jill was a track athlete. In school, Alli mentions her favorite subject as Science, but she is also a National Honor Society member, Beta Club, Link Club and Student Council member. Out of school, Alli enjoys music, soccer, plus watching
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We’ll get back in August and hopefully have ’a’ guy who’s going to start the season for us. We’ve got three guys that are really competitive right now.” Jones, an elusive redshirt junior who played four series, rushed seven times for 21 yards, was 4-of-5 passing for 38 yards and seemed at his best when improvising. “When a lot of plays broke down, I looked downfield,” Jones said. “I definitely feel that’s something that I have, and I try to use it to my advantage.” A few other quarterbacks showed some flashes, too. Redshirt freshman Brendan Cross, the son of former NFL player Randy Cross, was 9-for-12 for 73 yards and led a scoring drive, and Ted Stachitas had a long gain on a trick play. Then again, with the winningest quarterback in school history now hoping for a shot at the NFL, Grobe doesn’t plan to lean on his QBs quite as much as he did with Skinner. That means a stronger emphasis on the Demon Deacons’ traditionally productive ground game and a likely return to some option principles. “We always had the option in with Riley. We just didn’t have as many instances for him to carry the ball,” Grobe said. “But we’ve added a lot of things with the (different) options for the quarterback.”
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Carolina Panthers football and American Idol. Her musical interests include Colbie Caillat, The Fray and most 90s music. Alli’s most memorable moment in her high school soccer career came as a freshman. That year, Pugh and the Lady Hilltoppers beat St. Stephens in the first round of the playoffs. Following graduation, Alli will head to UNC-Greensboro and major in Psychology.
TJCA’s Bishop has baseball passion Thomas Jefferson student Caleb Bishop is a part of the Gryphons baseball team as a freshman. The pitcher and shortstop says that his passion for the game started at an early age. “I have played T-Ball and then travel ball since I was five years old,” Bishop said. “What can say, I love the game.” His parents are Jay and Christy, and he has one sister named Allie. Christy was a member of the Chase softball team in her high school days. At school, Caleb states that history is his favorite subject. “I am just interested in the past and how things happened in time,” Bishop said. Bishop is on the Academic Team and a part of a very unique fruition at school, the Stock Market Club. While the stock market club is used only in the classroom, it consists of fake monopoly type money that helps create life-like situations in the market and teaches the students about the risks as well. When Caleb is not on the diamond or in the classroom, he enjoys hanging out with friends. Caleb’s favorite TV show is ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, but he listens to a wide variety of music in his spare time. He roots for the Atlanta Braves, the UNC Tar Heels and the Dallas Cowboys in sports, but his most memorable sports moment as a Gryphon happened in being apart of the first varsity win this year. Daily Courier Sports Reporter Kevin Carver compiles the sports profiles twice a month.
ECU’s new offense looks disjointed GREENVILLE (AP) — East Carolina’s new spread offense had a bit of a shaky debut for the fans at the Pirates’ annual spring game. Walk-on Brad Wornick and Rio Johnson each directed two touchdown drives for the offense, but the unit struggled with making the routine play and had about a half-dozen dropped passes that made things a little tougher. Afterward, offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said he was disappointed with the unit’s performance. He said his offense tried to do a little too much at times and didn’t perform like it had in the previous 14 practices of the spring.
NC State gets look at backup QB RALEIGH (AP) — Mike Glennon wasn’t part of the winning team at Saturday’s North Carolina State spring game, but he still had a positive feeling. Based on what the quarterback saw in the passing game, no one could blame him. Big plays were plentiful through the air, and Jay Smith made four catches for 96 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Red team past the White Squad 31-21. “We have receivers who can go up and get the ball and we have receivers who can run right by you,” Glennon said. “I think today we saw both of those things. We just have playmakers out there on the perimeter.”
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They’ll cheer for Big Ben again By TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Columnist
Ben Roethlisberger won’t be prosecuted, and for that he can be thankful. If the distasteful details of things that might have happened in a Georgia nightclub look this bad on paper, imagine them being voiced aloud by a 20-year-old college student on the witness stand. Not that the details of that night will end up mattering much to most Steelers fans. In the end, they’ll be more concerned with the strength of Big Ben’s right arm than the strength of his character, and a roomful of women coming forward with allegations of their own won’t change that. Sure, they’re angry now, at least if talk radio is any indication. They have every right to be, if only because Roethlisberger is making them look silly for standing behind him when another woman filed a civil suit against him for what she says was a sexual assault in Lake Tahoe. But it’s the offseason, and the calls for the Steelers to part ways with their star quarterback will fade as the reality of a new season approaches. Soon they’ll be cheering with each snap he takes. They’ll keep cheering unless Roethlisberger does something really stupid — like throw an interception that costs the Steelers a chance to get to the Super Bowl. The Steelers will get over their anger, too. They’ll give Roethlisberger a proper tongue lashing, perhaps get together with commissioner Roger Goodell to give him a four-game suspension to make sure he gets the message. But don’t expect them to cast Roethlisberger off the same way they cut ties with Santonio Holmes. Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks are harder to find than Super Bowl-winning wide receivers and the last thing anyone in Pittsburgh wants to see is Roethlisberger behind center for some other team in the division. Not to worry. Big Ben will be back, and so will his fans. They’ll show up at Heinz Field in their Roethlisberger jerseys as if nothing ever happened. Might even treat Roethlisberger to a standing ovation to help put his troubles behind him. We’re a forgiving country. And no one forgives more quickly than the fans who worship their sports idols. We saw it last week at the Masters, where people cheered Tiger Woods like he was coming back from a life-threatening illness instead of a sex scandal. We saw it in St. Louis, where Mark McGwire received a standing ovation from fans who claim to revere the very game that he cheated and made a mockery of. And we’ll see a lot of it during the NBA playoffs when Kobe Bryant takes the court at Staples Center to try and lead the Lakers to another title. Indeed, you don’t need to look any further than Bryant’s own sordid case a few years back to understand just how forgiving fans really are. Bryant was also accused of forcing himself on a young woman, and the details of their encounter were equally as disturbing as the reports that came out of Georgia the other day. Unlike Roethlisberger, Bryant was actually charged with a felony crime. That’s how I found myself in a courtroom with him in Eagle, Colo., where Bryant faced the possibility he could be playing basketball in prison for a long time. We may never know the full truth of what happened in Georgia, either. Based on the raunchy details in the investigative report, though, Roethlisberger should be thrilled that the only justice he’s facing will be dispensed by Goodell and the Steelers. About the only thing we do know for sure is that fans will keep cheering for them both.
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State in 2007 when the eighth-seeded Warriors upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks. With the seventhseeded Bobcats in the playoffs for the first time in franchise history against the defending Eastern Conference champions, Jackson is looking to help Charlotte channel those memories. Barnes wants to avoid them. “The confidence level and the feeling that we’re being overlooked is there,” Jackson said. “So there are lot of things similar to that.” That might be where the similarities end. Orlando has won 11 of its last 13 games against Charlotte, using Dwight Howard in the paint to punish the undersized Bobcats. The All-Star center has been a matchup
nightmare for Charlotte, the main reason the Magic kept opposing shooters to an NBA-low 43.8 percent and freed up their offense to set a single-season record with 841 3-pointers made. “Everybody knows what Orlando does,” Bobcats coach Larry Brown said. “They just do it so well.” Realistic expectations couldn’t be more different. The Bobcats, under new majority owner Michael Jordan, had just their first winning season in six years as a franchise. The Magic, who lost to the Lakers in last year’s NBA finals, retooled their roster — most notably acquiring Vince Carter — and will only be satisfied with a championship celebration. “I wasn’t happy last year,” Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy said. “I wasn’t at the end. I wasn’t happy because we were there and had an opportunity and didn’t play well. I think the way
we’re all made up is anything short of winning it and we’re not going to be happy.” The Magic are still keeping things modest. Asked how much hungrier they are this postseason, the always jovial and joking Howard couldn’t resist. “I’m very hungry. You guys should see the plate I have in there waiting on me to demolish now,” he said, laughing. “I have a full plate of ribs, chicken. Then I have another plate of vegetables. We’re all hungry. Stan, he’s hungry. He’s been hungry all season.” So were the Bobcats. They’ve made great strides since acquiring Jackson from the Warriors in November. He’s given his new team some swagger, and has Charlotte allowing a league-low 93.8 points per game. “He’s changed the whole mentality of that team,” Barnes said.
So imagine Barnes’ dilemma now that he’s charged with slowing down Jackson. Their bond goes beyond just being former teammates. Their families always have been close. Their mothers were friends, and Jackson and his family helped Barnes cope with his mother’s death from cancer two years ago. Barnes also was at Jackson’s wedding last summer. The Charlotte swingman made plans to see Barnes’ 1-year-old twins in Orlando this weekend in what figured to be a friendly get together. “It’s going to be a great battle to try to slow him down,” Barnes said. “He’s definitely the leader of that offense. I’m going to do my best to slow him down and get him out of rhythm. “I can’t wait to mix it up with him.” AP Sports Writer Mike Cranston in Charlotte, contributed to this report.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Double-file restarts and the chance for multiple attempts at green-whitecheckered finishes are certainly changing the end of NASCAR races and late-race strategy. Or is it even strategy anymore? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a crapshoot,â&#x20AC;? Kyle Busch said. Going into Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race at Texas Motor Speedway, four of the seven Cup races this season have already gone to NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of overtime with extra laps. Two of those included multiple restarts after the scheduled final lap. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has really made finishes less predictable,â&#x20AC;? four-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if there really even is a strategy now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more what the masses do.â&#x20AC;? The problem this weekend could be getting the race started with rain in the forecast for Sunday. Cup practice was canceled because of rain Saturday, a day after Tony Stewart earned his first pole in five years for what will be his 400th career start. When Busch pulled onto pit road last weekend at Phoenix International Raceway during another late caution, the only thing that could thwart his dominating run, he got four tires. So did Johnson, with crew chief Chad Knaus figuring the odds were good that there would be more than one try for a green-whitecheckered finish.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a gamble, for sure. We knew who we were racing. We were racing the 48 car,â&#x20AC;? said Busch, whose two-second lead over Johnson with three laps left was wiped out by the caution. Except six cars that took only two tires beat Johnson and Busch out of the pits, then only one restart was needed. Johnson moved up to third in that final two-lap shootout while Busch remained eighth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luckily, it was only a green-whitecheckered and not four to go,â&#x20AC;? said Ryan Newman, who snapped a 77-race winning streak by leading the last two laps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty sure that we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have made it to the checkered if it was (more than one restart).â&#x20AC;? Had there been another caution, there could have been up to two more green-white-checkered attempts since NASCAR before this season increased the number of possible retries to three. That would have put Johnson and Busch back into contention for a victory. If Busch and Johnson had come out of the pits still in front, the No. 18 Toyota and No. 48 Chevrolet would have restarted side-by-side with the double-file system implemented midway through last season. Adding to those changes already in place, the spoiler effect is likely to come into play in Texas. Even though the rear spoiler
replaced the wing on the back of the cars two weeks ago, the biggest change at smaller tracks was the more traditional look. The spoiler had minimal impact on racing at the 0.526-mile Martinsville track or even the mile-long Phoenix International Raceway. But that could be much different at the 1½-mile high-banked Texas track that is one of the Cup circuitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fastest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping it will be a little different so we get an opportunity to shake things up and maybe take advantage of the change,â&#x20AC;? Carl Edwards said. The only three-time winner at Texas, Edwards hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won a race anywhere since the 2008 season finale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think no matter what happens here, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a verdict on the spoiler,â&#x20AC;? Jeff Burton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we have a great race, if we have a poor race, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a determination that the spoiler was really good or the spoiler was really bad.â&#x20AC;? But Burton, the only other multiple winner at Texas (1997 and 2007), was quick to caution that it will take some time for â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the teams to get tuned intoâ&#x20AC;? the change. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we have a good race here, I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good sign, honestly,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we have a bad race here, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily mean that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad. ... We kind of just need to run the race and see how the race goes
and then make a determination after that. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Three years ago, NASCAR phased in a new race car that replaced the spoiler with a wing, and the Car of Tomorrow has been used full time since 2008. The wings were taken off last month after several tests, the first with drivers (only four) on the track coming at Texas in January before an open test at Charlotte last month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody has to keep in mind, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just like when we came out with the CoT car initially in the first place, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an adjustment phase,â&#x20AC;? Stewart said. Jeff Gordon has gone 36 races â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the equivalent of a full season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; since his last victory at Texas a year ago that ended a 47-race winless streak. It was his only win in 18 starts at Texas, where he has the only two last-place finishes of his 588 career starts. Homestead is the only active track where he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won. Gordon was the runner-up at Phoenix last week and third at Martinsville the race before that, leading on the final restarts in overtime in both. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been frustrating for sure,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the same time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s encouraging that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting ourselves in that position to be able to go out there and possibly win. I think we are heading in the right direction to get ourselves wins and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited the most about. â&#x20AC;&#x153;
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Mail carriers bring more than letters Call me old-fashioned but I happen to enjoy getting mail in my mail box. And I’m still one of those people who puts outgoing mail in my personal mailbox and I raise my red flag. I’m not opposed to the Internet and I receive literally dozens of emails daily and some are incredibly important and terrific time savers here in the newsroom. I’m fascinated by so much technology and I enjoy anything to expedite my world of work. But at home, that’s a different story. Mail delivery at home could change early next year if Congress approves a request from the U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery. If approved, billions of dollars can be saved over the next 10 years and nearly 50,000 postal workers, full and part time, will be without jobs. Good and bad news. Officials said the changes would save the Postal Service a forecasted $3.3 billion in the first year and about $5.1 billion annually by 2020. The average American receives four pieces of mail daily. By the way, some of the mail I receive such as advertising flyers, would do much better in this newspaper. Going to the mailbox used to be a huge deal for my sisters and I. On Saturday we’d literally run to the mailbox where either Tom or Buddy would hand us the mail through the window. They also took a minute to chat or listen to our tales. They were our friends and we loved them. We weren’t into bills, so anything with our name on it was huge. Back then I loved writing letters to my friends across town, friends I’d met at camp and my cousins in Reno, Nev. I even wrote letters to my uncle when he was a student at Wake Forest and my aunt when she was at Baptist Hospital’s school of nursing and later Gardner-Webb. Some letters included packs of Kool-Aid for their dorm rooms. I often got stationary for birthdays and Christmas and couldn’t wait to get my hands on stamps, bought with allowance. Secrets came and secrets went from my mailbox. Now two generations later when my little nephews visit they’ll ask to check the mailbox. “Brenda!” Joshua exclaimed recently when he saw my first name on the envelope. He’d learned something he hadn’t known until then. A secret. He teased me about it all day, calling me “Brenda.” Is eliminating Saturday mail the best day? That’s when you get to wave to the mail carrier, when the boys bring the mail in and when a working woman takes a much needed break for yard chores. While visiting my grandparents on a Saturday, I’d walk with Grandpa to his mailbox which seemed a long walk. Back at the house, he’d find a place to sit down and quietly read his mail. If he received a letter from one of his children, he’d open it on the walk home. Memories some will never have because of the Internet. Keep the cards and letters coming and going and maybe Saturday delivery will not be a thing of the past. Contact Brenda Jean Gordon via email jgordon@thedigitalcouirer.com or send her a letter at home. Hope it arrives Saturday.
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With the grand opening of the Titanic museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., the grand steamer sales again. The attraction is one half the size of the actual ship that sank 98 years ago en route to America from the U.K.
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ruising down the parkway in this mountain resort town the last thing you might expect to see is the Titanic. But with a new museum focusing on one of the worst maritime tragedies in history, Pigeon Forge is now a Titanic town. Pigeon Forge’s Titanic marks the third museum dedicated to the ship for owner John Joslyn. Joslyn’s Cedar Bay Entertainment also owns and operates a Titanic museum in Branson, Mo. and Orlando, Fla. “We pay respect to Titanic by telling the story of the ship and her passengers,” Joslyn said in a press release. In 1987, Joslyn organized the second expedition to the actual wreck of the Titanic and was among the first to recover and restore artifacts from the wreck site. However, of the dozens of artifacts on display in the museum, none are from the wreck. Rather, they were all somehow taken from the ship that fateful night of April 14, 1912 — slipped into life boats or recovered from the water by rescue ship Carpathia. For the museum’s grand opening event on April 8, my lovely wife and I were able to attend and get a first hand experience at the attraction. The experience at the Titanic’s grand opening was a little too close to reality for some of us. Over an hour of rain delay led to a group of fans and media soaked and cold waiting to get on board the Titanic, similar to her original passengers the night she sank. Thankfully, the tour was well worth the wait, and Master of Ceremonies Regis Philbin provided a sunny disposition despite the inclement weather. Once inside, the tour takes visitors through the various areas of Titanic, with faithful recreations of the boiler room, the coal furnaces, state rooms and the grand staircase made iconic by James Cameron’s film “Titanic” in the 1990s. The staircase isn’t the only area of the ship to be reproduced by the film. The First Class suite is a tribute to Isidor and Ida Straus, owners of Macy’s Department Stores, which was also the cabin used in James Cameron’s movie as Rose’s suite. A small plaque commemorates the indelible scene of Leonardo diCaprio’s Jack Dawson sketching Kate Winslett’s Rose — complete with rep-
lica of the original sketch, drawn by Cameron himself. My wife Meda enjoyed the staircase and replica rooms the most, but said she was a little uncomfortable with a gift shop trying to sell items about more than 2,000 people dying. The memories of the victims and survivors are front and center at the museum. Upon first entering, guests are given a card with a brief biography of one of the crew or passengers. At the end of the tour, you can check to see if your person survived. Meda, who was given the name of a 4-year-old girl, did survive. My passenger, a late 40s English cattle baron was taken by the sea that night. Dishes, linens, silverware and other items from the ship itself are on display throughout the museum. In one area, visitors can watch a recreated staircase fill Contributed Photo with water much as it Fireworks celebrated the grand opening event on did the night the ship April 8, along with two concerts — Beatles tribute band sank. When the water Liverpool Legends and country star Neil McCoy. reaches a certain level in the room, the electricity “burst” in special effects. goes out and light bulbs Other attractions include: n Simulate shoveling coal into a burning furnace. Get into an actual size lifeboat. Try and send an SOS signal. Learn to tie rope knots. n Steer a ship. Touch the side of the steel plates and feel the rivets. n For young guests eight and under there is a special section (Tot-Titanic) devoted to them with various interactive elements for their little hands. n Ever wondered what it feels like to touch 28-degree water as it felt that cold, dark night in the Atlantic Ocean? You’ll find out. How long could you stay in the water? Feel a major iceberg - as it grows every day! n Step into one of our lifeboats and you will hear the stories of the passengers that were on lifeboat number four. Contributed Photo n Full Speed Ahead! Come Stand Faithful recreations of famous locations on the ship litter the museum. Certain on the mighty ship’s bridge and hear areas, like the grand staircase, are available to be rented out for private parties, the Captain’s commands. You can weddings or vow renewals.
Please see Titanic, Page 8
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Children’s Playhouse Raffle
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The NC Forest Service Helicopter refuels at Marchman Field Monday afternoon at the Rutherford Airport. The Helicopter was in action Monday while fighting a woods fire 11 miles south of the Airport.
When David Lloyd, town attorney for Rutherfordton, was asked if he wanted to make a comment during the joint meeting last Monday night between Rutherfordton and Spindale town boards, he said, “Generally it’s a good thing when the attorney doesn’t speak.” During another part of the meeting, when both council members agreed it will be a good thing to work together as much as possible, Spindale Councilman Tommy Hardin replied, “If this was a Baptist meeting, I’d say ‘A men’.” Lisha Logan and her daughter, Makayla Logan, were among those in the audience Friday night for the SilverArts Follies presented by senior citizens. They attended to support Lisha’s mother, Velma Logan, who sang “I Love The Lord” for which she was named winner in the vocalist catetory. Last February, Lisha and Makayla were involved in
a serious automobile accident on Doggett Road, Forest City. Lisha was in the hospital for several weeks and spent 21 days in Carolina Care Partners to continue recuperation. She counts its a great blessing to have survived the accident. The Rutherford County Chapter of the American Red Cross continues to need the public’s help with its cell phone fund raising program. Cell phone collection “drop boxes” are located at the Red Cross Chapter House, at 838 Oakland Road, Forest City; RBC Bank, Forest City and Rutherfordton branches; Eaton Corporation, Goode’s Creek Baptist Church, Cliffside, First Wesleyan Church, Forest City, and Isothermal Community College, physical education office. Any cell phones and batteries that can be donated can be taken to the drop boxes. “We encourage businesses of all types to participate in this program,” sale program direc-
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Bruce Waddingham, Habitat ReStore director, stands with the new children’s playhouse to be raffled by Habitat for Humanity this year. The playhouse will be on display at numerous public events over the next few months.
tor Dale Dobbins, Director of Preparedness and Response. Call 287-5916 for other information.
Enjoying The Follies
Chester Melton and his ICC Building & Construction Technology class have built a 5.5’ x 8.5’ Children’s playhouse to be raffled off to benefit Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity’s 2010 build season. The house is complete with electricity and flower boxes. The playhouse can be seen at the Habitat ReStore in Forest City. The playhouse can also be viewed at the following venues; April 17, Forest City’s Antiques and Arts Fair; May 1, Rutherfordton MayFest; June 5, Kidz Play; July 17, at Bubba’s. The winner will be drawn at Hot Rides – Cool Nights on Aug. 21. Ticket are 3/$5, 7/$10 or 15/$20 and may be purchased at the above venues, at Habitat ReStore or by calling 245-0716. Free delivery within 50 miles of Forest City.
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Lilly Wease, 2, with her program in hand, prepares to listen to her grandmother, Freda Ledford of Cliffside, compete in the SilverArts Follies last Friday night at the Rutherford County Senior Center. She was accompanied by her parents, Eric and Christina Wease. Ledford is a member of the dance team, placed Best in Show for “Kick-It.”
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REaCH students reach out to first graders
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FOREST CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fifteen members of Rutherford Early College High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (REaCH) National Honor Society (NHS) visited first grade classes at Forest CityDunbar Elementary School on March 27, to spread early Easter cheer. The students of REaCH were warmly welcomed by the students and staff, and all quickly became friends with the first graders as they made Easter Bunny bags, played bingo, and hid 860 Easter eggs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The REaCH students really made a connection with the first graders during their short visit. All the hard work in planning the event led to an enjoyable experience shared by the younger and older students. This event will be memorable in the minds of all those involvedâ&#x20AC;? said Christy Marshall, math teacher and a sponsor of the NHS at REaCH.â&#x20AC;? The first grade classes swarmed across the fields and playgrounds of Forest City-Dunbar
Bass selected for summer program FOREST CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thomas Jefferson Student To Participate in Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School The Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of North Carolina has announced that a junior from Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy: A Challenge Foundation Academy has been selected to take part in its rigorous summer program. Jonathan Bass, son of Robert and Tammy Bass of Boiling Springs, is one of 47 students statewide selected to take part in the Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School West mathematics program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The selection of Jonathan is a particular honor for our school,â&#x20AC;? said Joe Maimone, Thomas Jefferson Classical Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headmaster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But above all, his selection is a testimony to his dedication and hard work.â&#x20AC;? The Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of North Carolina is a six-week residential summer program for gifted high school students. Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy is a tuition-free public charter school and was recently named one of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best high schools by U.S. News & World Report. Contributed photo
REaCH students help Forest City-Dunbar first graders make bunny bags prior to an Easter egg hunt.
with their bunny bags in search of Easter eggs, and made many friends in the process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What touched meâ&#x20AC;? said Tyler Nelson, an NHS member and REaCH sophomore, â&#x20AC;&#x153;was that as we were leaving one little boy gave me an
egg and told me â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;this is for you because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re my friend.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We really seemed to bring a sense of friendship to these children and really brought out Easter joy.â&#x20AC;? Lauren Hill, first grade teacher at Forest City-Dunbar said
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having the REaCH students here was such a positive and exciting experience for our first grade children. The fun and educational activities that the REaCH students did with our children made a lasting impression.â&#x20AC;?
56th Habitat Home Dedication Brenda Gleen (center) and daughters, Mikala (left) and Ivana Gleen, stand in front of their new home dedicated Friday evening by Habitat for Humanity. The home is located at 150 Allen Street, Rutherfordton. It is the 56th habitat home to be constructed by the Rutherford County chapter. In addition to habitatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monday and Tuesday crew teams, others working on the home were Chester Meltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building and construction and technology class at Isothermal Community College; and paint crews from Florence, Spencer and Second Baptist churches.
TJCA middle school students raise money for non-profit organizations FOREST CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TJCA Middle School students recently raised funds for community non-profit organizations. The money was raised prior to Easter break through a spare change coin collection over a two week period. A total of $2,857.25 was collected. The 8th grade gave $658.17 to Grace of God Rescue Mission; Hands of Hope for Life received $1,696.74 raised by 7th graders; and Hospice of Rutherford County received $502.34 from the 6th grade class. This project was directed at educating our students on the work these three agencies do for our community and the special needs they are now facing due to the weak economy. After each agency representative spoke to an assembly in early March, the students were challenged â&#x20AC;&#x153;to make the prudent choiceâ&#x20AC;? and to give their spare change back to the community to help people in need.
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RUTHERFORDTON Ââ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The following babies were born at Rutherford Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Rick Toms, Rutherfordton, a girl, Malaya Rose Toms, April 5. Rebekah Hutchins, Rutherfordton, twin girls, McKenzie Alazay Hutchins, and Alaina Brooklyn Hutchins, April 6. Jason and Ashley Mills, Forest City, a boy, Brayden James Mills, April 6. Christopher Huntley and Kelsey Price, Rutherfordton, a boy, Cole William Lane Huntley, April 7. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Randall, Shelby, a girl, Eden Christine Randall, April 7. Contributed photo Christopher A. Clark and Sammie Jo Hoyle, Forest City, a girl, Brenda Mary Clark, April 9. Tim Barnes and Betty Bridges, Forest City, a girl, Emily Jane Barnes, April 9. Jesse Padgett and Donna Spears, Forest City, a boy, Daren Labond Padgett, April 9. found out about the Horticulture Tiana Waters, Forest City, a boy, Aden Joseph as Science program during a Waters, April 9. presentation given to the club Tarrik Lannon Logan and Andrea Marie Boyce, last month by Anna Levitsky, Rutherfordton, a boy, Tarrik Lannon Logan Jr., marketing and Education coorApril 9. dinator at Foothills Connect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The members of the Garden Club were eager to contribute to the program, and felt that Rutherfordton Elementary FOREST CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nominations are now being School would be a great place to accepted for the 2009 Forest City Kiwanis Club start,â&#x20AC;? said Maszkiewicz. The club works to beautify the Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year awards. town of Rutherfordton through Candidates for Young Citizen of the Year should outdoor planting, such as the be between the ages of 17 and 30. All nominees garden at the Norris Public Library, as well as seasonal dec- should be active members of the community, including civic groups, church groups and volunorations with their annual holiteer service; exhibit characteristics of citizenship, day wreath fundraiser. including contribution of ideas, leadership and â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the ways we can keep our tradition going is by encour- genuine concern for the well being of Rutherford County. aging the next generation to Deadline for submission of nominations is enjoy and find value in gardening,â&#x20AC;? said Maszkiewicz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only Friday, April 23. Each nomination should include will the school garden create an the name of the person making the nomination, background of the candidate and any data which engaging platform for learning, supports the worthiness of the individual for the it will provide a vibrant setting award. Nominations for Young Citizen of the Year in which students can experishould be mailed to Karen Clark (First National ence and appreciate the natural Bank), 108 Plaza Drive Ext, Forest City, NC 28043. world around them.â&#x20AC;? Nominations for Citizen of the Year should be The Rutherfordton Garden mailed to Wilbur Burgin, 240 Depot St., Forest Club meets the second City, NC 28043. Questions can be directed to Monday of each month at the Maria Hunnicutt at mhunnicutt@ncbrwa.com. Rutherfordton Club House.
Garden club helps fund school garden program RUTHERFORDTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Rutherfordton Garden Club has donated $1,000 to Foothills Connect Business & Technology Center to help fund the development of its Horticulture as Science program within Rutherfordton Elementary School. With the funds, Foothills staff will purchase materials for raised beds, seeds and transplants, child-friendly garden tools and kits, educational materials, and other items to enhance the program at the school. Karen Gray, a physical education instructor, got involved with the horticulture program after inviting Tim Will, executive director at Foothills, to speak to a group of students at the school about local food. Foothills Connect runs a successful program called the Farmers Fresh Market initiative, which connects local farmers with Charlotte area chefs through an online market at www.farmersfreshmarket.org. The elementary school garden consists of strawberries and arugula in raised beds that were dug by student volunteers from
R-S Central High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainable agriculture program. Gray recently bought blackberry, raspberry, and blueberry bushes at the local Cooperative Extension Serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-H plant sale, paid for through funding from a Learn and Serve grant. Plans are underway to construct additional beds for vegetables and herbs, and also to plant a butterfly garden. The generous donation from the Rutherfordton Garden Club will be used to expand the interactive and educational aspects of the garden, Foothills representatives noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The teachers are excited to have the funds available to encourage hands-on learning,â&#x20AC;? Gray said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through actively engaging in the activities, students will gain a greater learning experience that will be carried into adulthood. Our students will be physically active in the gardening process by testing the soil, planting, measuring and observing growth, and in harvesting the produce.â&#x20AC;? Cheryl Maszkiewicz, president of Rutherfordton Garden Club,
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local Engagements Sarah Dale and Cameron Byers Sarah Nicole Dale and Cameron Joffrey Byers are engaged and plan to be married Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Four Seasons Farm in Forest City. The bride-elect is the daughter of Gene and Sharlene Dale of Rutherfordton. Sarah is a 2005 graduate of Chase High School and attended Isothermal Community College. She is employed by Cherokee Women’s Center, Gaffney, S.C. The groom-elect is the son of P.J. and Abbe Byers of Forest City. Cameron is a 2002 graduate of Chase High School and a graduate of Isothermal Community College, Basic Law Enforcement Training.
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Kristin Elizabeth Melzer and Andrew Blake Wheeler are engaged and plan to be married Saturday, May 29, 2010 at Saint Edward Catholic Church, Richmond, Va. Melzer, Wheeler The brideelect is the teaches at a private predaughter of John and Nancy Melzer school in Charleston, S.C. of Richmond. The Blake is a 2005 groom-elect is the son graduate of Chase of Tommy and Beth High School and a Wheeler of Forest City. Dale, Byers 2009 graduate of Kristin is a 2004 Appalachian State graduate of Monacan University with a High School and a degree in criminal jus2009 graduate of tice. He is employed Appalachian State He is employed by the by Charleston Police Town of Forest City as a University with a degree in sociology. She Department. police officer.
Amanda Danielle Hawkins and Christopher Terry Sherbert are engaged and plan to be married Saturday, May 1, 2010 at the Carolina Event and Conference Center, Forest City. The bride-elect is the daughter of Nigel and Melissa Mintz Hawkins of Caroleen. Amanda is a 2007 graduate of Chase High School and employed by Hospice of Rutherford County, while pursuing a nursing degree. The groom-elect is the son of Terry and Joy Hudgins Sherbert of Spartanburg, S.C., and Latt and Deana Hammett Honeycutt of Forest City. Chris is a 2006 graduate of Chesnee High School
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Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Curtis (right) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on March 16. The Curtises (above) pictured in 1960.
William Hicks and Shirley Duncan Shehan celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 16, 2010 with their children and grandchildren.
Couple celebrates 50th wedding anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Curtis of Ellenboro, were honored with a reception Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Campfield Memorial Baptist Church in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. The reception was hosted by the couple’s children, Scott Curtis and wife, Tammy; John Curtis and wife, Tina; Dovie Wilson and husband, Jay; and Donna Parker. Lindsey Parker, granddaughter of the couple, presided at the guest register, and Shianne and Shane Parker, grandchildren of
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Lacey Fore, Alan Beam exchange wedding vows Lacey Rosalee Fore and Alan Christopher Beam were united in marriage Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Salem United Methodist Church, Ballentine, S.C. The Reverend Ray Kepler officiated at the two oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock ceremony. Musicians were Grace Marie Ward, guitarist and soloist, and Dana Fore, pianist. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Fore of Columbia, S.C. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin H. Beam Jr. of Ellenboro. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an elegant white strapless gown with a pleated cummerbund. Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Surratt Sr. She wore her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s veil of white tulle with lace trim and carried a bouquet of yellow calla lilies and asters, stemwrapped with pearls. Heather Mack of Irmo, S.C., served as maid of honor. She wore a tea-length, Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Surratt Sr. of Poplar Street, halter-style dress of Forest City, were honored with a surprise 61st anniversary celebration on Saturday, April 17, 2010 cornflower blue satin, and carried a bouquet at New Zion Baptist Church in Henrietta. The of miniature calla lilies Surratts were married April 23, 1949. The event was held during a family reunion at the and yellow asters, stemwrapped with pearls. church. Gowned identicalThe couple has five children, Stella Surratt of ly, bridesmaids were Washington, D.C.; L.C. Surratt Jr. and wife, Rose, Crystal Hewitt and of Forest City; Clementine Surratt and Phyllis Surratt, both of Forest City; and Gralyn Surratt, and wife, Sharon, of Colorado Springs, Colo. They also have seven grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. The Surratts are active members of New Zion Baptist Church, Henrietta, where he sings in the choir and she leads the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choir. L.C. retired from Burlington Industries, and Dorothy Mae is a retired home healthcare provider. She also serves on the board at The Church of The Exceptional, Henrietta. The couple has volunteered and served their community in numerous capacities over the years.
the guest register. Immediately following the ceremony, a reception was held in the fellowship hall. The five-tiered wedding cake, made by the brideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, was accented with ribbon around the base of each layer, and topped with a Willow Tree figurine. The cake was cut and served by Jordan Morris. Bridal portraits displayed at the reception were made by Craig Hewitt, brother-in-law of the bride. The brideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aunt, Rhonda Metz, was the wedding director. Sheena McKeon, a friend of the bride, was an interpreter, and Richard Waddell, emceed. The bride is a graduate of Dutch Fork High School and attended GardnerWebb University. She is employed by Cook Out in Shelby. The groom is a graduate of East Rutherford High School and a graduate of GardnerWebb University. He is employed by GWU as a senior web designer. Following a honeymoon to Disney World, the couple will reside in Boiling Springs.
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local Weddings
Wease, Snyder joined in marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thomas Wease of Henrietta, announce the marriage of their daughter, Amanda Lynn Wease, to Phillip John Snyder, son of Clarence Snyder of Wilmington, and the late Shelley Snyder. The ceremony was held Saturday, February 20, 2010 at Rutherfordton Club House with the Reverend Dorothy Miller officiating. The bride is the granddaughter of Mrs. Rueleen Wease and Mrs. Christine Self, both of Henrietta. She is employed as an administrative specialist with Bartlett Nuclear, McGuire Nuclear Station in Huntersville. The groom is the grandson of Mrs. Irene Permenter of Pennsville, N.J. He is employed by The United States Navy, where he has actively served 16 years and is currently stationed at the NOSC in Charlotte. Alexis Snyder of Chesapeake, Va., daughter of the groom, served as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Ashton Wease of Henrietta, and Anne John of Indian Trail. Al Snyder of Wilmington, served as best man. Groomsmen were Jason Wease of Henrietta, brother of the bride, and Walt Snyder of Delco. Jerry Wease was an usher. Kayleigh Peak and Kensley Mode, of Forest City, served as flower girls, and Cheyenne Carter of Cliffside, was ringbearer.
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Dogs are also welcome at Chimney Rock State Park and next Saturday the dogs will be petted and honored at the annual “Bark in the Park” event.
6th Annual ‘Bark in the Park’ event
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip John Snyder
Rebekah Wease presided at the guest register, and Tori Radford, was program attendant. Niki Coffin served as the wedding coordinator. Others assisting with the wedding were Kim Wease, Lisa Bradley, Allison Hamrick, Rhonda Wells, Lori Peak, Dan Lee, and Barbara and David Alley. Immediately following the three o’clock ceremony, a reception was
held with music played by DJ David Coffin. A sit-down, candlelight dinner was served. The three-tiered wedding cake was covered with white icing and trimmed with a black damask design. The cake topper was a bride and a Navy sailor figurine surrounded by red roses made from icing. The couple honeymooned in Gatlinburg, Tenn. They reside in Gastonia.
CHIMNEY ROCK — Guests are in for a dog-gone good time at Chimney Rock’s 6th Annual Bark in the Park set for Saturday, April 24 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The action-packed day will feature sheepherding demonstrations by the working dogs from Possum Hollow Farms. Also, meet guide and therapy dogs and find out how these heroic dogs are changing lives. Dog trainer, John Murias from Home Sweet Home Dog Training, will offer up some basic tips and techniques for training your pup. Pet owners can even have their pets bathed and groomed at Pup ‘n Tub Mobile Groomers; then head over to Portraits at Noah’s Ark to have them photographed for a fun and unique souvenir of the day. Plus, many other dog-related businesses and organizations will set-up booths, and local rescue organizations will be in attendance to raise awareness about animal causes in the area and distribute information about pet adoption, volunteering and other ways you can help animals in need.
“Pet & Owner Look-A-Like,” “Best Dressed” and “Most Phenomenal Pet Trick” contests will be held. “All of our vendors have donated great prizes for the winners,” says Meghan Rogers, public relations and events manager. Prize packages will include: Chimney Rock Annual Passes, lunch at the Old Rock Café and other fun Chimney Rock goodies as well as donated prizes like dog bike baskets, gift certificates, hats and t-shirts and gift baskets. “Leashed pets are always welcome at Chimney Rock. Bark in the Park is our way of showing how much we love it when guests share their Park experience with the whole family,” adds Rogers. 2010 exhibitors include: Best Friends Pet Cemetery, Bone-a-fied Bakery, BowWowzers, Chain Free Asheville, Cultured Canines, Cynthia’s Twigs, Guide Dog Foundation, Home Sweet Home Training, Paws2Care, Pippi Jive, Portraits at Noah’s Ark, Possum Hollow Farms, Pup ‘N Tub Mobile Groomer, Special T’s, TheraPets and Tri Laser Focus.
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Marriage is about sharing love not finding fault Dear Abby: It saddens me when I hear women complain that men don’t do their fair share around the home. When a woman says, “He didn’t put the toilet seat down,” I want to ask, “Did you put it back up for him?” When a woman says, “He didn’t pick up his dishes,” I want to ask, “Did you clean up the oil spot your car left in the garage?” When a woman says, “He left his clothes on the floor,” I want to ask, “Did you dump the unpaid bills on his desk?” I believe marriage is a personal relationship between two loving people. During the 40 years my husband and I have been
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married, we both worked and managed to raise three productive members of society. We have a tacit agreement. Each of us does absolutely everything possible to keep the home running smoothly, never tallying and setting up balance sheets. Out of love, each of us does whatever improves our common good, and both of us find reason for daily surprises as we receive in kind from the other. — Jo Dear Jo: You and your hus-
Singles vaccine no treatment Dear Dr. Gott: Thank you for the letter about the shingles vaccine. I would like to know how it works. Is it like the flu vaccine? I have suffered with shingles for 10 years now. I have asked my doctor for the vaccine, but he said insurance companies wouldn’t pay for it until I am 60. Is it because, as you stated, they have only tested the vaccine on those 60 and older? I am currently taking Valtrex, and it has stopped the outbreak but not the pain. I am turning 60 this year and want to know if the vaccine will not only help me but might also get me off the Valtrex, because it is so expensive. Dear Reader: An outbreak of shingles typically lasts only a few weeks with proper treatment. For those who go untreated, the risk of developing prolonged or permanent side effects, most notably nerve pain but also numbness and tingling, becomes greater. Unless you are simply having repeat attacks, I highly doubt that a single outbreak could last 10 years. You are more likely experiencing some of the side effects I mentioned above. They are likely permanent if you have had them for 10 years. The shingles vaccine is not a treatment. It will not
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help you with regard to your pain; however, it may prevent future outbreaks or lessen the severity and duration of any future attacks. Because you are not yet 60, you are not a candidate for the vaccine simply because it has not been studied in those under 60. However, because you will be 60 this year, I recommend you make an appointment with your physician after your birthday to get the vaccination. I would also like to take this opportunity to mention an error in the column to which you are referring. I stated that shingles is highly contagious and that those who have not had chickenpox can develop it after becoming infected by the person with shingles and that those who have had chickenpox could develop shingles. This is somewhat incorrect. While shingles is highly contagious, it is only so during a small window in which the blisters begin to break open and ooze. Before the rash develops and after it crusts over, the people are not contagious.
band are fortunate to have found each other, and you have obviously worked out a formula for a lasting and meaningful marriage. You should bottle it! Dear Abby: My stepmother allowed me to live in one of her properties for very low rent, which was a great gift. I will soon be searching for a home to buy, and this is where I have a problem. My stepsister, “Diana,” is a real estate agent who has been hit with hard times in this economy. Naturally, my stepmom would like me to hire her daughter, but Diana is lazy, uncommitted and unfamiliar with the area in which I want to buy.
I have another agent in mind who specializes in homes in my area, who can recommend neighborhoods and show me as many houses as needed. I don’t want to disappoint my stepmother if I don’t hire her daughter. What should I do? — In a Bind Dear In a Bind: Hire the real estate agent you have in mind. And if your stepmother brings up the subject, tell her that you did so because the person is more familiar with the area in which you want to live. However, do not tell her that you consider her daughter to be lazy and uncommitted because I guarantee she will take it
personally. Dear Abby: My grandfather died recently, and I missed some school because I went to his funeral out of state. When people ask me where I went and I tell them, they ask if I’m going to be OK and say how sorry they are. The problem is, I didn’t really know my grandfather that well. He lived across the country, and the few times I got to visit him I can honestly say I didn’t really like him. How am I supposed to tell these people? — Not Crying Dear Not Crying: It is not necessary to say that. All you need to say is, “Thank you for offering your sympathy. It was nice of you to do that.”
Ellenboro Elementary planning pet food drive Once again, one of our favorite community partners is stepping up for the underprivileged pets of Rutherford County. Volunteers of the Community Pet Center have had opportunities in the past to work with the children at Ellenboro Elementary School under the guidance of teacher, Frances Clary. We are very excited Contributed Photo about their new project which will Kelcy Bridges and Hunter Kennedy, students in Ellenboro Elementary School’s benefit needy pets First Grade class, with some of the items they have already collected for their Pet Food Drive to benefit the Community Pet Center and the pets of Rutherford and their owners County. who rely on our encouragement of our children. We will Pet Food Pantry to keep them healthy and display items and the names of those who happy. Below is an invitation from Frances and her donate them (unless participants request to be anonymous).” students to participate in their current pet If you would like to donate pet food or prizfood drive. The drive was launched on April 12 and continues through April 23 so there is es for students, please contact: Frances Clary still plenty of time for community residents Ellenboro Elementary School and businesses to get involved and help these P.O. 1419 children meet their project goal. Ellenboro, NC 28040 Ellenboro Elementary School 828-453-8185 First Grade Community Service Project Pet Food Drive for The Community Pet Center “……Each student that donates pet food will have their name entered for a drawing which will take place at the end of the project on April 23. We are looking for participants and busiProduced by nesses that would be willing to donate items Jo-Ann Close and Lynne Faltraco that could be used for prizes for the drawing. Community Pet Center We appreciate your consideration and
IN THE STARS Your Birthday, April 18; Generally speaking, things look pretty good for you in the year ahead. However, be grateful and don’t make the mistake of taking your opportunities for granted. ARIES (March 21-April 19) - How many times does it take for you to learn that until you have the whole picture you can’t tell what the message is? TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Don’t attempt to keep up with the spending of friends or associates today if you truly don’t have the funds to do so. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - It isn’t worth taking an opposing position that goes against the views of your friends merely to satisfy your pride. CANCER (June 21-July 22) - When it comes to anything serious or important in your life at the moment, don’t rely on everything taking care of itself. Meet your problems head on by facing the facts. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - When shopping for something expensive, don’t think you’ll make your best deal doing business with a friend. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Agreeing to do something that goes against your best interests simply because you feel the need to please someone is stupid. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Prematurely boasting about an accomplishment before it is a fait accompli could put you in an embarrassing position if you aren’t able to pull it off. Let the results tell you what you can or cannot say. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Lady Luck may be nowhere around when you decide to take a gamble on something in which you’ll definitely need her help. Your risk will have very little chance of paying off. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Promises you make will be taken seriously, so unless you are prepared to sincerely honor your word, don’t make any pledges. Raising false hopes could turn out to be mean. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Unless you are an expert, don’t attempt to give out any advice. The recipient of your counseling will take you at your word, and a lot of trouble could result. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - The money in your wallet that you are so proud of acquiring for yourself may be short-lived if you succumb to extravagant spending. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - If you want to gamble on taking a dangerous risk, it’s stupid but it’s your choice.
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Give spring a little zing Rhubarb is an old-fashioned favorite. It gives and gives. Rhubarb Blueberry Crunch Fruit: 3 cups rhubarb 3 cups blueberries 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons flour Topping: 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup oats 1-1/2 cups flour 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1/2 cup vegetable shortening Preheat oven to 375 F. Combine rhubarb, blueberries, sugar and flour. Place mixture in a greased, oven-safe pan. Combine brown sugar, oats, and flour. Cut in butter/margarine and shortening until crumbly. Sprinkle mixture over fruit. Bake for 40 minutes. — Skip, Kentucky Easy Rhubarb Cake 1 yellow box-cake mix 3 cups rhubarb 1 cup sugar dash of cinnamon 2 cups whipping cream Preheat oven to 350 F. Mix cake as directed on box, using a 9-by-13-inch pan. Mix rhubarb, sugar and cinnamon together and place on top of prepared cake. Pour whipping cream over the top of cake. Bake 40 to 45 minutes. — Startingover, e-mail Rhubarb Pie 3 cups rhubarb, chopped 1-1/2 cups sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch dash salt 4 eggs 1/2 cup cream (or milk or half-and-half) 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 unbaked pie crust Mix all ingredients together and put into the unbaked
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piecrust. No top crust. Bake at 400 F for 50 minutes. — Cab54, Michigan Rhubarb Crisp Cake 2 cups sugar 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon allpurpose flour 4 cups diced rhubarb 1/2 cup butter 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup milk
Topping: 2 cups quick or rolled oats 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 stick butter/margarine, melted Preheat the oven to 350 F. In a medium bowl, stir together 1 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon flour. Add rhubarb and toss to coat; set aside. Melt the butter in a 2-quart casserole dish. In a large bowl, whisk the remaining 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and baking powder. Stir in milk until batter is smooth. Pour the batter over the melted butter and spread gently so that butter stays on the bottom. Arrange the rhubarb in an even layer. Mix the oats, brown sugar and melted butter/margarine in a small bowl until blended. Using your fingers, crumble the topping over the rhubarb, leaving open areas of rhubarb so the cake batter can rise up through between areas of topping. Bake in the preheated oven until batter has risen up through the fruit and the top is golden brown, 50 to 60 minutes. Let cool before serving. — Sue. Michigan
8C — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, April 18, 2010
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At left, Capt. E.J. Smith christens the Titanic museum. Below, TV’s Regis Philbin was master of ceremonies for the event.
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actually feel the chill of that fateful starry night. Visitors can also carve their names or other messages into
the iceberg that is on display as part of the attraction’s front deck of the ship display. n Stand on the deck of the ship’s stern and experience the different precise angles of the ship as it gradually descended into the
water over a span of two hours and 40 minutes. According to the museum’s Web site: Titanic Pigeon Forge is a 30,000 square-foot, ship-shaped structure situated on 5.69 acres that overlook
the Gateway to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The forward half of the ship will be re-created and will be half-the size of the original Titanic. It holds 20 galleries with hundred of artifacts on two decks. The primary
objective in creating Titanic Pigeon Forge was to build a permanent monument to the 2,208 men, women and children who sailed on her. “Visitors learn the individual stories of those onboard the ship
as they learn about the ship itself,” said Joslyn. “We have spent years researching these people and their stories are absolutely amazing.” For more information, visit the museum’s Web site at www.titanicpigeonforge.com.
Puzzler may have next big thing Last sardine can An AP Member Exchange By BEN STEELMAN StarNews of Wilmington
WILMINGTON — Jack Lyons of Wilmington hands out triangle-shaped business cards. Last Christmas, he baked triangular cookies for the rest of his family. He wore a triangle-shaped hat to the 2009 Sudoku National Championship in Philadelphia. “I think he thinks in triangles,” said his mom, Louise Lyons. Apparently, it paid off. Seven Footer Press of New York just released Lyons book “PyRuKo: The New Logic Puzzle Thats Not for Squares” ($7.95 paperback), a collection of 120 brain-teasers. On April 29, he’ll be host for the first PyRuKo contest at the Sudoku Internationals, also planned for Philadelphia. If Lyons has his way, thousands, perhaps millions of Americans will be starting their mornings with PyRuKo puzzles, just the way they warm up with Sudoku. The new Sudoku, if you will. So whats PyRuKo? Well, like Sudoku its a logic puzzle. It uses the numerals 1 through 9, although, like Sudoku, its not a mathematical problem. Unlike the rectangular Sudoku, however, PyRuKo is based on triangles. A typical PyRuLKo puzzle — Lyons rates them from “Easy” to “Moderate” to “Challenging” — takes the form of an upside-
down triangle. This big triangle is divided into four smaller triangles, each further subdivided into nine three-sided spaces. Each of the spaces in those four small triangles will contain the numerals 1 through 9, with no repeats. Also, the three axes of the triangle will contain the numerals 1 through 9 with no repeats. Some of the blanks on each puzzle are helpfully filled in. All you have to do is figure out what goes in the remaining blanks. “You just go through and eliminate,” Lyons said. If a 4 is here, for instance, it cant also be over there. Easy, right? “If Mom can do it,” Lyons said, grinning, “anyone can.” “Its not like anything else weve seen,” said Robert Kempe, marketing director for Seven Footer Press. “We think Jack has captured something clearly unique and captivating.” A native of the Philadelphia area, the 43-year-old Lyons said he caught the puzzle bug early. “As a kid,” he said, “I remember playing chess on a three-level board” — the “3-D chess” popularized by the original “Star Trek” series. After graduating from Ursinus College, he spent decades working in the information technology field for such companies as IBM, Hewlett Packard and Kaiser Permanente. After visiting Wilmington for years — his mother moved here in 1993 and three of his four siblings attended the University
of North Carolina Wilmington — Lyons moved here full-time in 2007, launching a small business in computer consulting and Web design. He also offers math tutoring on the side. “I worked a lot of Sudoku, but after a while, it got boring,” he said. “I thought, OK, theres got to be a different way to do them. How about 3-D??” PyRuKo evolved as a triangular puzzle although, the publisher points out, the puzzle triangles can be folded into tetrahedrons, or four-sided pyramids — with 1-through-9 numerals on each face.
The game had a positive response last year at the Sudoku nationals, where Lyons passed out hundreds of tear-off PyRuKo puzzles with the answers on the back. Since the event was in Philadelphia, the inventor had a chance to meet up with some boyhood chums and get in some hijinks. “Wed sit in the audience in a triangular formation,” Lyons said. Whats next? Louise Lyons says her son has a mockup for a three-diemnsional PyRuKo puzzle at hom — a sort of pyramid version of Rubiks Cube. Jack Yons says its a work in progress. He also designed variations called Mega-PyRuKo, PyRuKo-X and Master PyRuKo, in which the triangles overlap, and each shares 1 through 9 blanks. “Theyre even harder,” he said, grinning fiendishly.
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PROSPECT HARBOR, Maine (AP) — The intensely fishy smell of herring has been the smell of money for generations of workers in Maine who have snipped, sliced and packed the small, silvery fish into billions of cans of sardines on their way to Americans’ lunch buckets and kitchen cabinets. For the past 135 years, sardine canneries have been as much a part of Maine’s small coastal villages as the thick Down East fog. It’s been estimated that more than 400 canneries have come and gone along the state’s long, jagged coast. The lone survivor, the Stinson Seafood plant here in this eastern Maine shoreside town, shuts down this week after a century in operation. It is the last sardine cannery not just in Maine, but in the United States. Lela Anderson, 78, has worked in sardine canneries since the 1940s and was among the fastest in sardine-packing contests that were held back in the day. Her packing days are over; now she’s a quality-control inspector looking over the bite-sized morsels in can after can that passes by her. “It just doesn’t seem possible this is the end,” Anderson lamented last week while taking a break at the plant where she’s worked for 54 years. She and nearly 130 co-workers will lose their jobs. Once considered an imported delicacy, sardines now have a humble reputation. They aren’t one species of fish. Instead, sardines are any of dozens of small, oily, cold-water fish that are part of the herring family that are sold in tightly packed cans. The first U.S. sardine cannery opened in Maine in 1875, when a New York businessman set up the Eagle Preserved Fish Co. in Eastport.
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