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THOMASVILLE – Organizers of the 20th annual Memorial Day Parade in Thomasville expect this year’s festivities to be the biggest ever on May 31. “We are expecting as many as 30,000 to 35,000 people here in this city,” said former U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Leonard. “We think that this is an opportunity for those that know of the American soldier. They can come out and pay tribute to those here. They can remember and honor those who gave and gave all. That’s what Memorial Day is all about.” Organizers of the parade say their event is the largest Memorial Day celebration that they can find anywhere. The event, which was started by Leonard’s brother, retired Maj. Gen. Hubert Leonard, has attracted 20,000 to 25,000 each year, but organizers are asking for more people to attend the parade. “On Memorial Day, we are going to have people at the sea coast; they are going to be at the mountains; they’re going to be at the barbecue and be laying on the couch watching television in an air-conditioned room. The only thing I would ask them is to think about why they have the right to do that,” Joe Leonard said. “At some point in time in our history, an American soldier brought them the right to do that.” Those who attend the Memorial Day Parade will see the 100 U.S. flags that have flown over the U.S. Capitol at one time or another being carried by military personnel. The Golden Knights, a parachute team with the U.S. Army, will land in Cushwa Stadium with plaques that will be presented to the families of fallen soldiers by Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton. Retired Col. Bruce Guard, an organizer of the parade who served in the U.S. Army for 38 years, said participating in the event is an “honor.” Organizers expect that one-third of those who attend the parade are serving or have served in the military. “The main thing is that people get to mingle and be with people in high places,” he said. “This is tremendous for the average person to come up and mingle with these people.” dignasiak@hpe.com | 888-3657
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HIGH POINT – After 17 years of guiding his antigang organization through thick and thin, the recession finally caught up with Hank Wall last year. When his former High Point-based nonprofit, Brothers Organized to Save Others, better known as BOTSO, ceased operations due to a lack of funds and personnel, it left a void in the community. As one of the few mentoring groups of its kind around, it’s been credited with helping thousands of young black males avoid the clutches of gangs and other pitfalls. “I know that BOTSO is God-led and God-fed, so I just have to depend on God to provide, because He’s done that for me,” said Wall, BOTSO’s executive director. “When we did close our doors, I had to go back on my own saying. I’ve got to believe there’s some kind of way He’s going to bring us back up again. It was a faith test.” Keeping the faith paid off for Wall. After dissolving, BOTSO recently found a home with Win-Win Resolutions, a Greensboro nonprofit that teaches conflict resolution skills in an effort to prevent violence. BOTSO had longstanding ties with the group, having used its services in the past. The two organiDON DAVIS JR. | HPE zations were both working on a project involving Hank Wall has helped revive the BOTSO (Brothers Organized To the Guilford County Juve- Serve Others) organization, after it was disbanded last June. nile Detention Center, and when BOTSO shut down, Win-Win’s board of directors elected to take vide individual mentoring or tutoring. Havit on as a program under its umbrella. ing BOTSO affiliated with them means WinWith a slightly altered name – the “save” Win’s staff of licensed counselors and social has been changed to “serve” – BOTSO’s mis- workers, as well as theater instructors, can sion hasn’t changed, as Wall continues to identify students who need extra help in a work with about 65 boys from age 6 to 18 from one-on-one setting. “Hank’s stats are wonderful over the past High Point and Greensboro, providing one16 years with reducing recidivism – the kids on-one mentoring and other services. “We wanted to keep the branding in the he’s worked with that are court-ordered or community. People know the BOTSO name. out of the juvenile detention system – to not The name is the same. What it stands for is return to that life, to make better choices,” slightly different. Now it’s a program instead she said. “The beauty of the BOTSO program of a separate entity,” said Debra Vigliano, ex- is that they can work with that young boy ecutive director of Win-Win Resolutions. “It from when they’re 6 to when they’re 18. It’s a was a perfect union.” continued relationship to see them grow and She said her organization works with really develop leaders in the community.” groups of students in schools and at other sites, as well as families, and doesn’t propkimbrough@hpe.com | 888-3531
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HIGH POINT – The need remains as great as ever for the revamped Brothers Organized to Serve Others. That’s the assessment of BOTSO founder Hank Wall, who said keeping at-risk children out of gangs is still his organization’s mission. But, like anything that depends on donors and volunteers, the work can be especially tough during times of economic
uncertainty. “They’re saying the community is crying out for solutions, but they’re not putting the funds in for those people who are trying to provide answers and to provide guidance for these young men,” Wall said. “Our resources are so limited.” Wall said BOTSO tried to step up its presence in the community last year by opening a group home off Penny Road, but youths weren’t coming to the facility fast enough to match expenses
and “it really just sank the whole ship.” The program’s economic footing is stronger now, but, as with many nonprofits, financial security is elusive. He said grants and other possible funding sources are constantly being sought. “I’ve got to find some ways to subsidize and keep the program going,” he said. “I really didn’t want to get back to charging the parents like
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Lawrence Locklear (center) leads a Lumbee Sovereignty Coalition meeting outside of Pembroke. The Lumbee Tribal Council has made Nevada-based gambling industry consulting firm Lewin International the Lumbee Indians’ sole representative in the effort to win recognition for their tribe. The Lumbee Indians are watching their best-ever chance at recognition slip away because of a dispute over the role gambling should play in their future.
Gambling debate hampers NC tribe’s recognition bid PEMBROKE (AP) – The Lumbee Indians of North Carolina, tired of being not quite a tribe in the eyes of the federal government, are watching their best-ever chance at recognition slip away because of a dispute over the role gambling should play in their future. Failure would mean the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi would continue missing out on millions in funding for housing, education and health care. “We’ve got the ball and we’re running toward the end zone, and suddenly we’re being stopped,” said Beth Jacobs, a Lumbee who has emerged as a leader among members who say recent decisions by tribal leaders are jeopardizing the recognition bid. The dispute centers on a contract, ratified in March by the Lumbee Tribal Council, that makes Lewin International, a Nevada-based gambling industry consulting firm, the tribe’s sole representative in the recognition effort. The contract took many Lumbees by surprise, because their bill for recognition in Congress forbids the tribe from making money off gambling, and the contract makes gambling the most attractive option for Lewin.
The contract, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, doesn’t make gambling the sole focus of lobbying efforts. However, it specifies that Lewin will try to win passage of a bill “preferably without any language” blocking the Lumbee from getting into the gambling business. If Congress passes a bill that allows the Lumbees to open a casino, Lewin would have dibs on developing the property. In that scenario, if the Lumbees opted not to open a casino, Lewin would walk away with a $35 million payout. Other scenarios in the contract include giving Lewin a shot at developing tribal property for tourism if the current bill passes without gambling. But the region where most Lumbees live isn’t near the resorts in the mountainous west or the eastern seacoast, and the prospects of leisure development there are dicier without an attraction like a casino. “It makes us look like liars,” Jacobs said. “We’ve said all along we don’t want gaming, we want recognition.” Congress will not support a Lumbee recognition bill that includes gambling, said Washington, D.C.-
based lawyer Arlinda Locklear, who had been the tribe’s attorney and lobbyist for 20 years. Blocking newly recognized tribes from making money off gambling has become common over the last 20 years. North Carolina’s senators, Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Kay Hagan, say they remain committed to the bill. Privately, some of the tribe’s legislative allies say the contract and the dispute over it make a full Senate vote hard to pull off. They say the bill may have to be tacked onto other legislation to give it a chance at passing this year. Tribal leaders blame critics of the contract for making an internal tribal matter public — potentially giving opponents ammunition to shoot down recognition efforts. In a letter circulated at the tribe’s spring powwow this month, three members of the council wrote, “Tribal division has been a successful method to defeat American Indians since the first Europeans came to our shores. We are Lumbee people. We settle our differences within the family.”
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“Before I took him to BOTSO, he was constantly getting suspended,” Smoot said. “He’s doing better. He understands that you have consequences for your actions. He’s more focused.” That’s the type of result that Debra Vigliano of Win-Win Resolutions hopes will come about from her new partnership with Wall and BOTSO. “We’ve been in four counties. We were at Parkview and Montlieu elementary schools in High Point,” Vigliano said. “We go to schools with the highest number of student infractions from the previous school year and the highest need. Those are the boys he’s serving and needs to be serving.” In High Point, where estimates of validated and suspected gang members number in the hundreds, Wall is working to re-establish BOTSO’s niche in the community. “We have very few mentoring groups like us in the Carrie Smoot area,” Wall said. “Ninety to Parent 95 percent of the young men we work with don’t have a at Ferndale Middle School, father or any kind of male someone there recom- figure in their lives. We’re mended BOTSO. She said trying to meet the need for the tutoring and mentor- mentors and redirection ing he has received over for these young men.” the past three years have been invaluable. pkimbrough@hpe.com | 888-3531 I did initially in the old BOTSO program, because most of them didn’t pay.” One parent who credits BOTSO with having a direct impact on her child’s life is Carrie Smoot of High Point. She said her son – 14-year-old Ryan Austin, a High Point Central High School freshman – has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. When he was
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Barbers collect hair for spill, but who wants it? RALEIGH – Hair salons in the Triangle and nationwide are sweeping up clippings, stuffing them in boxes and sending them to the Gulf Coast to help sop up oil. But the officials overseeing the massive crude cleanup say they aren’t using any hair. It is all apparently just being stored in warehouses in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. Matter of Trust, a San Francisco-based charity, has been leading the effort, calling on barbers, beauticians and pet groomers to collect human and pet hair by the tons. The hair is stuffed in tubes of women’s hosiery, creating “booms� that soak up oil, the charity says. Hair collects oil from your scalp, so why not crude oil, too? Matt Lewis, owner of the Sport Clips barber shop in
Hair booms are not being used in the cleanup of the exploded BP oil rig, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Raleigh’s North Hills, said a store manager heard about Matter of Trust’s efforts, so Lewis registered the store on the group’s Website, matteroftrust.org. Last week, Sport Clips sent 12 pounds of hair at a cost of $13 in shipping to an address in Louisiana, he said. He even persuaded Sport Clips cor-
porate headquarters to get involved. Syd’s Hair Shop in Chapel Hill and VIPet Resort in Raleigh also are vacuuming up hair and calling the UPS guy. But hair booms are not being used in the cleanup of the exploded BP oil rig, Heath Seng of the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday. Mark Proegler, a spokesman for BP who is at the cleanup site, said crews are using only “regular, absorbent plastic booms.� Even Matter of Trust’s Web site acknowledged this week, “At this time BP is not soliciting or accepting hair donations.� “Our pleasant response to this is, ‘At this time Matter of Trust is simply stockpiling hair booms in donated warehouses all along the Gulf Coast, in case you need them,’ � wrote Lisa Craig Gautier, president of Matter of Trust, on the website. Gautier has not returned voicemails or e-mails for the past week. Lewis, of Sport Clips, said he was unaware that officials are not using hair in the cleanup and that this is not clear on Matter of Trust’s Web site. “I’ve got to think they are doing good with this,� he said. VIPet Resort is hosting a “Groom for The Gulf� benefit where staff members will cut and collect dogs’ hair. Karen Murphree, the owner, said she too signed up with Matter of Trust and was given an address in Florida to send her collected hair. “It’s my understanding they are waiting for the oil spill to come in closer to the coast line,� she said. Syd’s has a large trash can that is almost full of hair,
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Kabana hair stylist Heather Ambrose cuts the hair of Deja Miller in Elizabeth City. The Kabana is sending the hair to be used to help absorb the oil spill. said owner Bradford Scott, who plans to ship it by the end of the week. “We’re still getting e-mails from Matter of Trust that they keep getting more and more warehouse space,� he said, even after learning that hair is not now being used at the cleanup site. “I’m hoping it all works out.� The Matter of Trust website Wednesday night had an “alert� that said, “BP has contacted us and wants to use the boom!� But a Coast Guard spokesman said no plans to use the hair booms had arisen. In a May 5 New York Times story, Gautier, who co-founded Matter of Trust 10 years ago with her husband, Patrice Olivier Gautier, an executive at Apple, said the group had reached a “tipping point,� increasing its network of donors from 35,000 to 90,000 in three days. “It’s truly just a surge of philanthropy,� Gautier said. “Everybody can get a haircut and donate.� The group recently posted
a couple of videos on YouTube. One shows the effectiveness of hair booms collecting oil out of water. The other is a do-it-yourself video on how to make a hair boom. Gautier has sent e-mail messages to salons, saying the group is “Still accepting hair, fur, waste wool, alpaca fleece and nylons!� “There are other HazMat crews and contractors, and we are getting requests for booms,� Gautier wrote in an e-mail message provided by Murphree, the VIPet Resort owner. Thomas Birkland, an N.C. State University public policy professor who is an expert on disasters and environmental policy, said he is not surprised that people are sending hair, even if it is not being used. “In any disaster, wellmeaning people get together materials that they think will help,� said Birkland, who has extensively studied oil spills, including the Exxon Valdez.
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Death toll in car bomb near Baghdad rises to 30 BAGHDAD – Iraqi police and morgue officials say the death toll in a car bombing at an open-air market in a Shiite town northeast of Baghdad has risen to 30. Friday’s bomb struck the town of Khalis, a Shiite enclave 50 miles north of Baghdad in the largely Sunni province of Diyala. Most of those killed were sitting in a cafe in the center of the market. About 80 people were also wounded in the attack. Also, the U.S. military says two U.S. soldiers have died in northern Iraq.
Attack dogs kill 3-year-old German toddler BERLIN – Four attack dogs killed a 3-year-old toddler in eastern Germany and badly injured the girl’s great-grandmother, who had tried to rescue the girl, police said on Saturday. Prosecutors opened an investigation for negligent homicide against the dogs’ owner, the girl’s aunt, police spokeswoman Jeanette Schwahn-Witzenhausen said. The girl and her 70-year-old great-grandmother had been visiting the girl’s aunt Friday evening when the Staffordshire bull terriers attacked the girl, police said.
India plane crashes; 8 survive MANGALORE, India (AP) – Eight people escaped the crash of an Indian jetliner with 166 people on board that overshot a hilltop runway in southern India and plunged over a cliff, officials said. At least some of the survivors managed to jump from the wreckage just before it burst into flames. Firefighters struggled to reach the twisted, smoking wreckage of the Boeing 737-800, which was scattered along the hillside of thick grass and trees just outside Mangalore’s Bajpe airport. But after the first few minutes, there were no more survivors to be found around what remained of the Air India Express flight
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13-year-old US pianist plays with Iraq orchestra BAGHDAD – A 13-year-old piano prodigy from Los Angeles brought an Iraqi audience to their feet Saturday when he made a rare guest appearance with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Baghdad, a city struggling to revive its once-vibrant cultural scene. Llewellyn Kingman Sanchez Werner, who studies piano at New York’s renowned Juilliard School, got a standing ovation from an enthusiastic crowd of about 250 after performing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” and a piano concerto by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
Abbas: No progress in indirect talks with Israel RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinians are ready to swap some land with Israel, although differences remain over the amount of territory to be traded, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday after two rounds of U.S.-led indirect peace talks. The negotiations began earlier this month, with U.S. envoy George Mitchell shuttling between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Abbas’ comments marked the first time a participant has provided details about the talks.
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Insurgents attack NATO’s southern Afghan base KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons launched a ground assault Saturday against NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan, wounding several coalition troops and civilian employees in the second such attack on a major military installation this week, officials said. A Canadian Press news agency report from the Kandahar Air Field said artillery and machine gun fire reverberated through the base, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Kabul, several hours after the attack began. Militants unleashed rockets and mortars about 8 p.m. (15:30 GMT) and then tried unsuccessfully to storm the northern perimeter, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for
the assault – the third major attack on NATO forces in Afghanistan in six days – but the Kandahar area is a Taliban stronghold. On Tuesday, a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the capital, killing 18 people including six NATO service members including five Americans and a Canadian. The next day, dozens of Taliban militants attacked the main U.S. military base – Bagram Air Field – killing an American contractor in fighting that lasted more than eight hours. Navy Cmdr. Amanda Peterseim, a spokeswoman for NATO forces at Kandahar, said at least five rockets struck the base in the initial attack, but witnesses said explosions continued through much of the night.
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United States Army Spc. Kevin O’Connor, of Hingham, Mass., lays in wait under cover of darkness during an ambush set up by 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade, to catch Taliban fighters who had fired on their outpost Friday.
BEIJING (AP) – The youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them. Then 13year-old Jordan Romero took the satellite phone and called his mom. Romero “He says, ‘Mom, I’m calling you from the top of the world,’ � a giddy Leigh Anne Drake told The Associated Press from California, where she had been watching her son’s progress minute by minute on a GPS tracker online. “There were lots of tears and ‘I love you! I love you!’ � Drake said.
Official: 2 detained admit aiding NYC bomb try ISLAMABAD (AP) – Two men detained in Pakistan admitted with pride that they helped the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing, and one of the men angrily accused his interrogators of “siding with the infidels,� a senior intelligence official said Saturday. The pair are among six men officials say have been detained in Pakistan for alleged ties to Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American arrested in the United States two days after the failed May 1 attack in New York. Like Shahzad, the detainees are all from their country’s urban elite, including sev-
eral who were educated in the United States. Details about the six were released late Friday, though officials have not said when they were detained. Five were picked up in the capital, Islamabad, and one is co-owner of a posh catering company that the U.S. Embassy said was suspected of ties to terrorist groups. The intelligence official, part of the team questioning the men, cited the two suspects as saying they did not do anything wrong and “proudly� describing Shahzad as their friend. The official said one of the suspects had even accused his interrogators of “siding with the infidels.�
Astronomer Copernicus reburied as hero in Poland FROMBORK, Poland (AP) – Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on
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Atlantis crew relaxes before departure CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Atlantis’ six astronauts got a little down time up in orbit Saturday on the eve of their departure from the International Space Station. The shuttle crewmen wrapped up the third and final spacewalk of their space station visit Friday. So on Saturday, Mission Control gave them part of the day off. They planned to indulge in their favorite pastime – gazing out the window and watching the world go by – before preparing for this morning’s undocking of Atlantis.
Sharpton: Girl’s death is ’breaking point’ DETROIT – Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton gave a rousing eulogy Saturday for a 7-year-old girl killed in a police raid, challenging the hundreds of mourners to take responsibility and help stop a spiral of violence that has swept the city. Sharpton lobbed some criticism at Detroit police, whose explanation of how Aiyana Stanley-Jones died from a gunshot has been contradicted by the girl’s family. But he mostly offered a broad cultural message to a city where at least three children and an officer have been killed in recent weeks. ENTERPRISE NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
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New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, with his wife Sandra Lee (right) and father Mario (left), acknowledges his supporters in City Hall Park after officially announcing Saturday in New York that he will seek the governor’s job once held by his father Mario.
NY’s Cuomo announces he’s running for governor ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo declared Saturday he is running for governor of the state once led by his iconic father, after a coy stealth candidacy smiled upon by the White House and conducted as he burnished a national reputation as a fighter of corruption. The Democrat announced his campaign online early in the day,
then delivered a speech in the afterBoss Tweed blush.� The announcement noon outside a courthouse in Mancomes months after a hattan named after “Boss� Tweed, member of President a figure from New York City’s most Barack Obama’s adcorrupt days a century ago. ministration sought “The chronic dysfunction of Alto have a struggling bany metastasized into the corrupGov. David Paterson tion of Albany ... and it was a biparPaterson not seek election to tisan affliction,� said the 52-year-old son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo. the seat he gained by default, indi“Albany’s antics today could make cating a preference for Cuomo.
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) – The U.S. must shape a world order as reliant on the force of diplomacy as on the might of its military to lead, President Barack Obama said SatObama urday as he outlined a foreign policy vision that repudiated the go-it-alone approach forged by his predecessor, George W. Bush. Addressing nearly 1,000 graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, many of whom will likely head to war, Obama said all hands are required to solve the world’s newest threats: terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons, climate change and feeding and caring for a growing population. The U.S. military is the “cornerstone of our national defense,� but Obama said the men and women who wear America’s uniform cannot bear that responsibility by themselves. “The rest of us must do our part,� he said.
Connecticut AG, ex-wrestling exec spar for US Senate get the GOP nod. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Blumenthal and Criticism aimed at Connecticut McMahon won Attorney General Richard Blutheir party nomimenthal wasn’t enough to keep nations at convenhim from securing the Demotions Friday for cratic nomination for Christothe post that the pher Dodd’s U.S. Senate seat. Democratic senaBut it was sufficient to help McMahon tor has held since political unknown and ex-wrestling executive Linda McMahon 1981. Dodd is retiring.
Moderate quakes shake California SAN DIEGO (AP) – A series of earthquakes south of the California border Saturday shook buildings in San Diego but there were no reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey says that a magnitude-4.9 earthquake struck at 10:30 a.m.
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Thirst for cash brings push to tax sweet drinks WASHINGTON (AP) – Thirsty for new sources of cash, healthconscious lawmakers in cities and states across the country are reaching for the refrigerator, proposing taxes on sports drinks, teas and soda. Politicians say the taxes will help curb rates of obesity and diabetes and can pay for health programs. But retailers and the beverage industry say the taxes are unpopular, unfair and simply won’t work. Last year, federal lawmakers dropped a proposal to use a penny per ounce drink tax – an extra $1.44 for a 12-pack of soda – to help pay for health care reform legislation. In the year since, however, lawmakers in more than a dozen states
and a handful of cities have become the new cola crusaders, proposing similar taxes either to plug budget gaps or fund new programs. “It’s really picked up since the federal fight,” said Chris Gindles-
Politicians say the taxes will help curb rates of obesity and diabetes. perger, a spokesman for the American Beverage Association, which has opposed the taxes, saying they unfairly single out one product and don’t change behavior.
Next week, the issue may be back in Washington. The city’s governing body, the District of Columbia Council, is mulling extending the city’s 6 percent sales tax to sodas and other sugary drinks, which are currently exempt, as part of budget negotiations. Previously Councilwoman Mary Cheh had floated a proposal for a penny-per-ounce hike, but other lawmakers opposed it. The district isn’t the only place to seize the idea of a tax. Approximately 30 states now apply a sales tax to soda. That includes Colorado, which extended its sales tax to cover the drinks as part of packages of new taxes in the past year. Washington state also started taxing soda this year.
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ROBERT, La. (AP) – Anger grew along the Gulf Coast as an ooze of oil washed into delicate coastal wetlands in Louisiana, with many wondering how to clean up the monthlong mess – especially now that BP’s latest try to plug the blown-out well won’t happen until at least Tuesday. “It’s difficult to clean up when you haven’t stopped the source,” said Chris Roberts, a councilman for Jefferson Parish, which stretches from the New Orleans metropolitan area to the coast. “You can scrape it off the beach but it’s coming right back.” Roberts surveyed the oil that forced officials to close a public beach on Grand Isle, south of New Orleans, as globs of crude that resembled
melted chocolate washed up. Others questioned why BP PLC was still in charge of the response. “The government should have stepped in and not just taken BP’s word,” declared Wayne Stone of Marathon, Fla., an avid diver who worries about the spill’s effect on the ecosystem. The government is overseeing the cleanup and response, but the official responsible for the oversight said he understands the discontent. “If anybody is frustrated with this response, I would tell them their symptoms are normal, because I’m frustrated, too,” said Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen. “Nobody likes to have a feeling that you can’t do something about a very big problem.”
Sheriff says man killed by pipe bomb outside bar BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) – Authorities in West Virginia say a pipe bomb exploded outside of a bar, killing a man. No other injuries were reported. Cabell County Sheriff Tom McComas said the man who was killed apparently brought the bomb to the area outside the bar Saturday morning. It detonated around 2:30 a.m. He says 20 to 30 resi-
dents were evacuated from the area while investigators searched for more bombs. West Virginia State Police said the agency’s bomb technicians defused two other bombs that were found. McComas says the investigation is ongoing. Few other details were released. A phone message left at the Cabell County Sheriff’s Office was not immediately returned.
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Actress Nicole Laliberte poses during a photo call for the film “Kaboom” at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on May 15.
Burton, film jury judge so-so Cannes lineup CANNES, France (AP) – Tim Burton and a jury of his peers in the world of cinema have a tough task ahead: sorting through a mixed bag of 19 entries competing for top honors at the Cannes Film Festival. Burton heads the nine-member jury that was busy Saturday watching the last of the films competing for the Palme d’Or, the main prize at the world’s most prestigious cinema showcase. The 12-day festival ends tonight with a ceremony to announce winners selected by director Burton and his jury – which includes actors Kate
Beckinsale, Benicio Del Toro and Giovanna Mezzogiorno, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and composer Alexandre Desplat. Among the handful of films that earned largely favorable reviews are the British ensemble drama “Another Year” from director Mike Leigh, a past Palme d’Or winner for “Secrets and Lies, and French filmmaker Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods and Men,” a tale of martyrdom based on the true story of seven monks beheaded during Algeria’s civil war in 1996. Two other past Palme d’Or win-
ners also are in the running – Britain’s Ken Loach (“The Wind that Shakes the Barley”) with his Iraq War thriller “Route Irish” and Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami (“Taste of Cherry”) with his cryptic love story “Certified Copy,” starring Juliette Binoche. Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, whose “Babel” won him the Cannes directing prize in 2006, is competing again with the well-received “Biutiful,” featuring a stellar performance from Javier Bardem as a father supporting his family through various criminal rackets in Barcelona.
9/11 statue fails to sell on eBay EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) – A 40-foot bronze statue in Maryland dedicated to the heroes of the Sept. 11 attacks has failed to sell on eBay. A court-appointed receiver tried to sell the sculpture of New York
City firefighters to recoup money for victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme. But the 10-day auction ended Saturday with no bids. The buyer’s name would have been inscribed on a bronze plaque, but the
statue would have stayed in Maryland. The auction sought at least $500,000. Federal authorities have said the sculpture was financed through investor fraud. The statue was com-
missioned by Coadum Advisors Inc. and donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in Emmitsburg. The court took control of the statue after Coadum was accused of bilking investors.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A jury acquitted a man Friday of killing up-andcoming Atlanta rapper Dolla during a shooting last year at a crowded, upscale Los Angeles mall. Berry Jurors rejected prosecutors’ contentions that the killing of Dolla, whose real name was Roderick Anthony Burton II, was a callous act of apparent revenge. Burton and his accused shooter, Aubrey Louis Berry, had been involved in a fight at an Atlanta club less than two weeks before the shooting last May.
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HIGH POINT – A pair of High Point bicycle racing enthusiasts have organized an event they hope will showcase the sport and the city. The High Point City Criterium, a series of high-speed bicycle races on downtown street loops, is planned for Friday and Saturday. Chip Duckett and Rodney Simpson came up with the idea and decided to make the furniture market transportation terminal on E. Commerce Avenue the start and finish point for the races. “The real focus of this is to bring awareness to downtown High Point and have it lit up at night like it is during market,” said Duckett, the owner of Mock Orange Bikes in Winston-Salem and a member of a USA Cyclingsanctioned team that participates in races throughout the Southeast. “The charities we’re trying to support are another big focus, and then, it’s a free event for the people of High Point. They’ve got a chance to be downtown and enjoy a Friday and Saturday night.” Duckett said he expects 300 to 350 racers to take part on each day of the event, depending on the weather. The race course will be different each day and take place within about a two-block radius of the IHFC building. The courses are about three-quarters of a mile, involve multiple laps and speeds of 30 mph and above in spots. Organizers have designed them to include highspeed turns. Races are held in a variety of professional and amateur categories. Spectators will be able to take in the races along the route, and organizers have arranged for other attractions under the transportation terminal that include food vendors, a beer garden and live music on both nights. Organizers said their goal is that funds raised above the cost of the event will go to Open Door Ministries, The Community Clinic of High Point and His Laboring Few Ministries. Duckett said support from the city and the High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau has been a key in getting the event put together. “The city is excited about the goals and potential of this event, and it is hoped that with early success the state championships can be brought here to High Point and eventually grow to a national caliber pro cycling event in two to three years,” said High Point Parks and Recreation Director Allen Oliver.
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Portions of several downtown streets near the furniture market transportation terminal on E. Commerce Avenue will be closed to vehicles during the High Point Criteriums. The closure will be from about 5:30 p.m. until midnight Friday and beginning about 1:30 p.m. Saturday. For complete information about the event, go to www.highpointcitycrits.com.
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HIGH POINT – Westchester Country Day School’s 28-member class of 2010 graduated Saturday morning at a ceremony markedly different from those for larger public schools. Graduation for the private school was held in the sanctuary of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, and graduSONNY HEDGECOCK | HPE ates filed in led by a kilted bag- School music teacher Jaime English leads the chamber singers in a
‘As a class, we’ve celebrated, smiled, laughed and cried together ... Our future is bright, and it begins now.’ Abbey May Pfister Valedictorian piper who performed along with an organist playing the church’s huge pipe organ. Rather than a traditional ceremony in which only names are read, each Westchester graduate selected a faculty member to speak on behalf of or about him or her. Remarks by class leaders showed that members of the
practice before going into the church. small group knew each other well and functioned as a large family. Salutatorian Caroline Elizabeth Owings introduced her friend, Valedictorian Abbey May Pfister, by reciting a multiverse original poem. “Your leadership was strong and never wrong,” Owings said. Pfister gave a light-hearted speech that led with a quote by John Lennon: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” According to Pfister, members of the class of 2010 took life as it came by having a good time first, then accomplishing goals. “We lived in the moment and enjoyed every minute of it,” said Pfister, who down-played
the group’s accomplishments with humor. The 28 class members logged more than 1,000 tardies to class, were late in deciding on colleges and were lax at housekeeping in the senior lounge, she said. They also performed hundreds of hours of community service work, and the 28 graduates have been accepted at 37 different colleges and universities and offered more than $1.3 million in scholarships. Mostly, Pfister said, they reveled in close relationships. “As a class, we’ve celebrated, smiled, laughed and cried together ... Our future is bright, and it begins now,” she said. vknopfler@hpe.com | 888-3601
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GUILFORD COUNTY – Crews for the N.C. Department of Transportation will close one of the Main Street exits off of U.S. 311 Wednesday for sign work. The southbound N. Main Street exit off of
U.S. 311 will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. Crews will install panels on an overhead sign. The exit panels were damaged during the March 28 tornado that ripped through parts of northwest High Point.
The DOT suggests an alternate route off of U.S. 311 onto Johnson Street. Take Johnson Street to Eastchester Drive, then right to Main Street. Also, in eastern Guilford County on Tuesday, the left lane of Interstate 85 will
be closed near Mount Hope Church Road. The closing will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. while crews repair signs. In both instances, inclement weather could affect the timing of the closures, the DOT reports.
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David Lohr THOMASVILLE –David Elias Lohr 65, passed away on May 22, 2010 at Hilltop Center of Linwood after a long illness. Born August 2, 1944 in Guilford County to Roby Franklin Lohr and Alma Pierce Lohr. He is preceded in death by his parents and brother Roby F. Lohr, Jr. David was raised in Thomasville and attended Thomasville High School and lived most of his adult life in Fernandina Beach, Florida and was of the Methodist faith. Survived by his son Brian Keith Lohr and daughter Christy Lohr Rhoades both of Florida, brother Melvin Lohr of High Point and sister Nancy Briggs and her husband Larry of Thomasville, sister-in-law Nan Lohr, and 5 grandchildren and many nieces and nephews A graveside service will be held 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday May 25, 2010 at Prospect United Methodist Church Cemetery with Reverend Dan Shoaf officiating. Arrangements were made through Thomasville Funeral Home.
Donald Hill DENTON – Mr. Donald Efird “Judge” Hill, age 70 of Tysinger Road, Denton, NC died Friday, May 21 at Hospice Home at High Point. Funeral services will be held 4:00 PM Tuesday at Briggs Funeral Home Memorial Chapel The family will see friends Tuesday from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at Briggs Funeral Home in Denton.
Everette Vest ARCHDALE – Mr. Everette L. Vest, 74, resident of Tuttle Road, died Friday, May 21th, 2010 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, as the result of an automobile accident. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale.
Marie Vest ARCHDALE – Mrs. Marie Carter Vest, 73, resident of Tuttle Road, died Thursday, May 20th, 2010 as the result of an automobile accident. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale.
Cosie McDonald DENTON – Mrs. Cosie Stigall Ward McDonald, age 91 of Regan Road, Lexington, NC died Saturday, May 22 at Mountain Vista Health Park in Denton. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Briggs Funeral Home in Denton.
Jesse McAnally King LEXINGTON – Jesse McAnally King “Mack” 87, of Lexington went to be with our father in heaven, Thursday May 20th. He had been ill for a short time. Jesse was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandpa, and brother. He is survived by his loving wife Hazel Meadows King, six children Barbara Jean King, deceased, Judy King Hilton and husband David, Gary Wayne King Sr. and wife Sharon, Teresa King Winecoff and husband Jim, Jesse Craig King Sr. and wife Tanya, Jeffery Mark King Sr. and wife Tammy, and dear close friend Winfred Welch of Lexington NC. Ten grandchildren, Michelle Coleman Rutherford and husband Jeremy, Lori Hilton DeRue and husband Jim Jr., SSgt. Gary Wayne King Jr. and wife Andrea, Amanda Elizabeth King deceased, Jesse Craig King Jr., Jeffery Mark King Jr., and wife Kellie, Jeremy Ashley King and wife Melissa, Julia Colleen King, Angela Robyn King, Meredith Jaclyn King, and Zachary Wilson Winecoff. Eight Great grandchildren, Kaitlyn Elizabeth DeRue, Hannah Lilly DeRue, Jacob Werner DeRue, Coleman Thomas Blue deceased, Kristin Scout Blue,Charlotte Mackenzie Blue, Zayden Ramsey King, Noah Ashley King, and Samual McAnally King. Jesse is also survived by one brother Lee King of Ovida , Fl. He is predeceased by his parents and 13 Siblings. 1st Lieutenant Jesse M. King was a decorated World War II hero. Serving God, Family and our country, 1st Lieutenant King offered selfless service and bravery under fire. While in the Army he earned his Silver Star, Purple Heart, and numerous other medals. His service, values and work ethic are practiced by every one of his surviving family members. 1st Lt. King began his career in the US Army as a Private and rose to become a Drill Instructor, after training others for combat he was deployed to the now famous “ Battle of the Bulge”. Jesse worked for Borden Dairy for 11 years before starting his own businesses. He owned King Mickey Tire Sales Inc, Kings Esso Service Station, Kings Landscaping Co, then moved to Lexington NC to manage his rental properties. Visitation will be on Monday, May 24th 2010, from 10:00 to 11:00 am followed by a funeral service at 11:00am at Sechrest Funeral Chapel, 1301 East Lexington Ave. High Point. Interment with Full Military Honors by the Randolph County Honor Guard will follow the service in Oakwood City Cemetery. Memorials can be made to the Richfork Baptist Church, 3993 Old Hwy 29, Thomasville NC.27360 Please share your condolences with the family at www.sechrestfunerals. com
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Mary E. Murchison HIGH POINT – Mary A. Murchison, a mother to three generations and a true friend to many, slipped away to join her family in Heaven on May 19, 2010. Mary entered this world on July 3, 1931, as Mary Elizabeth Anderson, the only daughter of Raymond and Connie Anderson of Ellerbe, NC. Mary finished high school, met and married Joseph L. Murchison Jr. and traveled the world as an army officer’s wife. She leaves to celebrate her life and passes on her traditions to four children from that union: Marilyn Forrest (Charles), Michelle Little, Mercedes Murchison-Hunt, and Michael Joseph Murchison. Being a passionate believer in education and giving back, at age 54, Mary went back to school and received a bachelor’s degree in education from Shaw University and taught in the High Point City School System. Her love of life and of people coupled with her ability to absorb the best around her made her a welcoming beacon fro everyone she met. She wanted and needed to give an overflow portion of her love to other children through the foster care system. From that endeavor also leaves children raised by her and connected to her heart: Glenn (Popcorn) Williams, Tony Garland, Matthew Curry, Robert Lightner and Shonte Lightner Hayes (Tommy). She loved to cook, sew, draw, and dance if you ask those that knew her well...she was second only to Jesus in feeding the multitudes. Mary cared for others and put God
first in her life through service to others. She was preceded in death by her special friend, Jessie Vick. She was Grandma to: Monica Murchison, Courtney Forrest (Lindell), Charles Forrest Jr. (Tracey), Cory Dawkins, Michael Rorie and Michael Murchison Jr. She was great-grandmother to: Chase Isaiah, Janiah, Kaitlyn, Elijah, Aaron, Cailan, Roan, Kaylen, Aniya, Narianna, Caleb, Christopher, Alston, Cory Jr. and Cameron. As a teacher, caterer, seamstress both in and outside of the home she supported her children, family and friends. Those friends include her “adopted sister” of over 70 years, Ola Mae Stringer and “block buddies” Venus Pinnix and Barbara Dickens. Through her activities with the school system, her church, her many employers and activity with the furniture market, Mary was a friend to many. The Homegoing service will be held Monday, May 24, 2010 at 2 p.m. at Williams Memorial C.M.E. Church, 3400 Triangle Lake Road, High Point, NC. The family will celebrate with those who wish to acknowledge her joyful spirit and remember her at Phillips Funeral Service, 1810 Brockett Avenue, High Point, NC, Sunday, May 23, 2010 from 6 to 8 p.m. The family asks that in lieu of flowers a donation be made to Hospice Care of the Carolinas. Final arrangements are entrusted to Phillips Funeral Service, High Point, NC.
NC State graduating class raises money for bell RALEIGH (AP) – What’s a tower with no bell? The question helped North Carolina State University’s Class of 2010 raise $53,000 to buy a bell for the tower that has become the school’s symbol, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday. The tower has never had bells but uses an audio system to mimic the sound. Matthew Robbins, who graduated in December, discovered there were no bells when he looked into the tower’s history. The tower was planned 90 years ago, but by the time it was dedicated in 1949, there wasn’t money for bells and subsequent fundraising efforts have fallen short. The class of 2010’s bell will be the second-largest in the proposed set and will be housed in the school library until at least six can be installed.
The remaining smaller and less expensive bells can be added later. “Our initial goal was $35,000, which, to be honest, made the class council a bit nervous,” class president Jay Dawkins of Fayetteville told the newspaper in an e-mail. “We had no idea we would see such an outpouring of support.” Dawkins said when students and alumni learned for the first time that there were no bells in the tower, they were easily sold on making a donation. Robbins said initial estimates for the full carillon were $800,000, but he thinks that is less expensive now as metal prices have dropped. The largest bell in the set could cost $100,000. The 2010 bell will weigh nearly 1,300 pounds and will bear the names of about 100 donors who gave $210 or more.
RALEIGH (AP) – A spokesman for a North Carolina state agency says he was directed by staff of former Gov. Mike Easley to destroy a letter sent to Easley in 2007 from the mayor of the governor’s hometown, the News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday. Crime Control and Public Safety Department spokesman Ernie Seneca said the directive came from Easley’s press office, but he wasn’t sure who specifically told him to do it. Seneca sent a copy of the letter to a deputy secretary at the state Transportation Department where Seneca worked at the time with instructions that the letter should be destroyed after reading. Federal prosecutors have sought information about transactions surrounding Easley and his associates for a year. A former assistant pleaded guilty to tax evasion and agreed to cooperate with investigators. The letter Seneca forwarded was from former Southport Mayor Norman Holden, who also was a friend of Easley’s and used to serve as a liaison between the Transportation Department and southeastern counties when Easley was governor. A federal grand jury meeting last week requested documents from the agency related to Holden’s employment arrangement. And Holden appeared at
the federal courthouse but would not comment about why he was there. The letter in question was not destroyed. In it, Holden, who was ending his term as mayor and who had a $19,800a-year contract with the Transportation Department, gave Democrat Easley an update on politics in
Crime Control and Public Safety Department spokesman Ernie Seneca said the directive came from former Gov. Mike Easley’s press office. Southport. He said the new crop of elected officials taking over the coastal town were aligned with Republicans and would be relying on Republican state officials for “contacts, legislative issues, and grants.” The letter also complained about a Transportation Department engineer who was being difficult to deal with on issues at the exclusive Bald Head Island.
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City, garden club honor green initiative J
oyce Kilmer said it best in his poem “Trees’ where stanzas include , “I think that I shall never see ... A poem lovely as a tree” and “A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair” and ends with “Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make a tree!” That may be true but there is a dedicated group of High Pointers ensuring that trees are planted in High Point. Imagine if every street in High Point were lined with natural arbors of trees gently swaying in the breeze. There is something very calming about that scene and the beauty of nature in the urban landscape. The MidABOUT Week GarTOWN den Club is Mary determined Bogest that trees continue to be part of High Point’s landscape. The Mid-Week Garden Club, along with the city of High Point, recently feted an Arbor Day Celebration at the High Point Public Library. This year was made even more special since to celebrate High Point’s Sesquicentennial anniversary (I still cannot pronounce that) in 2009, the Mid-Week Garden Club vowed to plant 150 trees. That goal has been exceeded and, to date, 175 trees have been planted throughout High Point. It was at this time that Chris Whitley, mayor pro tem for the city of High Point was presented with a flag designating High Point as a Tree City USA – for the sixth time – by the Eric Muecke of the NC Division of Forest Resources. Jo Ann Owings, a member of both the Urban Forestry Committee and the Mid-Week Garden Club, which has been a “blooming” force in High Point for most of the past century, introduced the guest speaker, Karen Neill. Neill’s title is urban horticulture agent of the ■■■
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Mid Week Garden Club members (from left) Jo Ann Owings and Susan Connor pose with Eric Muecke of the NC Division of Forest Resources, who presented the Tree City USA flag to Mayor Pro Tem Chris Whitley. Guilford County Cooperative Extension, but we all know her from her television appearances on Fox 8 and her advice on “dos and don’ts,” “should and shouldn’ts” and “can and can’ts” when it comes to gardening. This was the second time within the week that I had the opportunity to meet Neill. She had been part of the Arbor Day Celebration at High Point University, where there are over 17 designated garden areas, and that number is growing thanks to HPU first lady (also a member of the Mid-Week Garden Club) Mariana Qubein who leads the Arboretum Committee. The memorable highlight of the event (in addition to the squawking geese flying overhead as if on cue) was the touching tribute to Roy Epperson, beloved member of
the HPU family who died in January. Epperson first came to HPU (then College) in 1966 as a professor of chemistry, later served as the chair of the chemistry department and more recently was director of special projects, which meant often donning a hard hat as he worked with contractors in his role in the transformation of the campus. While HPU was his vocation, it was love of gardening that was his avocation and the splendor of his garden was his pride. He was president of the American Iris Society and president of the Society of Siberian Irises when he died. In his honor, the Dr. E. Roy Epperson Garden (I bet it will have irises) will be planted near the Hayworth Fine Arts Center. How wonderfully appropriate, given Epperson’s love of the arts and an
ardent supporter of the High Point Area Arts Council and its affiliate Community Concerts. Although Epperson is gone, his memory will remain forever on campus and in the hearts of his HPU family. Now back to Neill, who also attended this event and serves on the HPU Arboretum Committee and was instrumental in receiving the National Tree Campus USA designation. Now, from campus to city. Neill spoke of the importance of community gardens in cities and specifically in High Point. “Community gardens are near and dear to my heart. They create an outdoor learning lab and are a wonderful way to counteract the financial downturn while addressing both the economic and obesity issues.” Interestingly she gave
the community garden at Macedonia as an example. The neighborhood is so diverse many could only nod as a “hi” to their neighbors, but Neill pointed out that everyone is equal and everyone speaks a special language when their hands are in the dirt, not to mention the tasty fruits (and vegetables) their labor has grown. The number of community gardens in High Point are rapidly “growing” and cross all economic and cultural ethnicities. Wish me good luck. I am growing tomatoes for the first time! Now you can add to the beauty of High Point through the new “Plant to Remember” memorial tree program “germinated” by the city of High Point. Still in its “gestation” period, through this program
you can honor a friend or memorialize a loved one by giving the gift of a tree to High Point. You can even specify your preferred location and type of tree. Neill told me that she did this for her children when they were young. To this day, they know where their tree is planted and love to visit it! In addition, the honorees will receive a certificate and their names will be listed on the city’s Web site (www.high-point. net/plan/remember. cfm) and later placed on a plaque that will be on display at a public location. For more information call 883-3626 or e-mail keith.younts@highpointnc.gov. High Point, NC – Tree City USA! MARY BOGEST is an artist and writer who resides in High Point | MSBogest@aol.com.
Looming school cuts Perdue launches statewide aerospace initiative fuel protests in Durham a June 22 Democratic primary runoff. “Not on my watch – not DURHAM – About 250 on your watch,” Cunningeducators, parents and ham said of the prospect children marched from of teacher layoffs. Although the recently the Durham school headquarters to the county passed Senate budget procourthouse Friday after- posal includes significant noon to protest looming budget cuts. The number chanted repeatedly Friday was “13.5,” representing the $13.5 million that would restore 237 teaching jobs that are on the chopping block. The opening rally at the entrance to the district headquarters building at 511 Cleveland St. was highlighted by appearances from state Sen. Floyd McKissick, D-Durham, and Democratic U.S. Senate primary runoff candidate Cal Cunningham. “I’m in this campaign to stand with you shoulder-toshoulder to fight for resources in Washington to make education cuts, McKissick sure that we protect teaching said education was the jobs, educator jobs,” Cun- state Senate’s highest priority. He said the proposal ningham told the crowd. Cunningham, a former would prevent teachers state senator from Lexing- from suffering furloughton, is facing Secretary of related pay reductions State Elaine Marshall in without public hearings. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Organizers asked marchers to come see County Manager Mike Ruffin unveil his 201011 budget proposal at Monday night’s commission meeting.
“Believe me, education is No. 1, preserving teacher pay is No. 1, making sure that you have what is necessary to carry out your mission, your responsibilities is our highest goal,” McKissick said. While most of the $20 million revenue loss that the Durham public school system is anticipating in 201011 can be attributed to state reductions, march organizers hope to persuade the Board of County Commissioners to make up for much of the shortfall. Organizers asked marchers to come see County Manager Mike Ruffin unveil his 2010-11 budget proposal at Monday night’s commission meeting. North Carolina Association of Educators lobbyist Brian Lewis addressed the crowd, suggesting some ways to stave off K-12 reductions. Lewis said that a 5-cent tax hike on beer would add about $200 million to the state budget. A 50cent-per-pack increase for cigarettes – which South Carolina just approved -would raise $300 million in this state, Lewis said.
professionals to make sure the state has education, workforce training, NEW BERN – Gov. Bev and industry recruitment Perdue announced a new partnerships that help the state initiative on Fri- state succeed. “In the spirit of the day for North Carolina to become first in flight Wright Brothers ... born industry, playing on the and bred in many of us, it Wright brothers’ first makes sense ... to take big flight on the Carolina ideas, big dreams and have the guts and tenacity to get coast. Speaking to the Third there,” Perdue challenged Annual Aerospace Forum the group of more than 100 meeting in New Bern, Per- aerospace professionals. “Your partnership is due asked the state commerce secretary to develop essential,” she said, inand convene three work- viting them to call her or ing groups of aerospace Commerce Secretary J. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Keith Crisco to be part of the initiative. Perdue told the forum, where U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan also spoke and attended by state Sen. Jean Preston, D-Carteret, Rep. William Wainwright, D-Craven, and Rep. Alice Underhill, DCraven, that the budget she submitted to the General Assembly includes startup funds for this initiative. Crisco said he and his staff can do the job requested and on the tight six-month and one-year deadlines Perdue announced.
NC museum showcases pre-Civil War furniture maker RALEIGH (AP) – The North Carolina Museum of History is showing off its collection of furniture by Thomas Day, a free black man who owned and operated one of the state’s largest cabinet shops before the Civil War. “Behind the Veneer” is the name of the exhibit
that opens on Saturday at the museum in Raleigh. About 70 pieces of furniture crafted by Day will be on display at the exhibit. The pieces are from the museum’s collection, private lenders and the Thomas Day House in Milton in Caswell County, where Day
built furniture from 1835 to 1860. Free black people were allowed to own property in antebellum North Carolina, and Day used that right to build a thriving business. His work gained the respect of white clients in North Carolina and Virginia.
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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Got to be NC Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jerry and Margaret Broadwell look over a classic Ford Galaxie Skyliner during a classic car show at the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Got to Be NC Festivalâ&#x20AC;? hosted at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh on Friday. The festival celebrates North Carolina and its agricultural heritage features a full carnival, an N.C. Food Show, antique farm equipment, a fiber festival, horse pulls, and tractor pulls.
World-renowned whirligigs relocated in Wilson Park. The Simpson family made the agreement to sell the whirligigs with Wilson Downtown Properties. The announcement was made Friday morning on the site of the park in a lot across from Hi-Dollar Warehouse at Goldsboro, South and Douglas streets. Simpson, 91, is widely known for his whimsical whirligigs, which are
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WILSON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Vollis Simpsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whirligigs are being relocated from the pasture on his Lucama farm to a 2-acre lot in downtown Wilson. The giant wind-powered machines, which draw visitors from around the world, will become the centerpiece of the Vollis Simpson Whirligig
in permanent collections as close as downtown Wilson. They are also widely visited at the N.C. Museum of Art, the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and the High Museum in Atlanta. Elected officials and arts organization representatives, as well as Simpson and his family, were on hand Friday morning when Henry Walston, incoming chair-
Moog Music plans to move NC offices ASHEVILLE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A North Carolina based musical instrument company plans to move its operations closer to Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown.
The Asheville CitizenTimes reported that Moog Music officials announced the move Friday. The company currently is located in Asheville
but plans to renovate four buildings just north of downtown. Moog is named for Bob Moog who created the first music synthesizer.
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man of the Wilson Downtown Development Corp. and board member of Wilson Downtown Development, made the announcement to a large group of citizens gathered in the empty lot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This project began as humbly as Vollis Simpson himself -- with an idea, creativity and the tenacity and will to make something beautiful,â&#x20AC;? Walston said.
HIGH POINT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Westchester Country Day School held its 2010 graduation ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church. The top five graduates are: Abbey Pfister is the daughter of Al and Tina Pfister of Greensboro and will attend the University of Virginia. She is the 2010 valedictorian and was the recipient of the Science Department Award. Caroline Owings is the daughter of Bill and JoAnn Owings of High Point and will attend North Carolina State University. She is the 2010 salutatorian and is the recipient of the SyngentaScience Award. Owings was also named a Commended Scholar by the National Merit Program. Taylor Christiansen is the son of Jeff and Debbie Christiansen of Jamestown and will attend Auburn University on an allexpense paid Presidential Scholarship. He was the recipient of the Peter M. Cowen Outstanding Senior Award, integrity, citizenship, leadership and scholarship. Christiansen also received Department Awards in Math and Art, and was named a Commended Scholar by the National Merit Program. Sara Couch is the daughter of David Couch of Summerfield and Maria Montoya-Couch of High Point and will at-
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tend Duke University. She was the recipient of the French Department Award. Courtney Shannon Shannon is the daughter of Doug and Lisa Shannon of High Point and will attend UNC Chapel Hill. She was the recipient of the Yearbook Award. The graduating class of 2010 is: Ashley Michelle Acuff, Andrew Alexander Bauer, Taylor Jeffery Christiansen, Sara Delle Couch, Elizabeth Ryan Coughlin, William Joseph DiIanni II, Alexander Wilson Embler, Joe Maxwell Floyd IV, Zachary David Gilliland, Austin Grady Greeson, Zachary Kurt Grier, William Leonard Holland, Thomas Carey Ilderton IV, Carly Jennifer Ledford, Christopher Michael Lewis, Thomas Oliver McGukin, Sara Braeden Moore, Caroline Elizabeth Owings, Natalie Ann Payan, Abbey May Pfister, Amy Elizabeth Rowley, Douglas Ray Russ II, Ashley Caroline Saurel, Courtney Louise Shannon, William Sloan Tucker, Katherine Elizabeth Walker, Michael Oliver Williard, Logan Clarke Yeager.
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Church warns scientists not to play God ROME (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Catholic Church officials said Friday that the recently created first synthetic cell could be a positive development if correctly used, but warned scientists that only God can create life. Vatican and Italian church officials were mostly cautious in their first reaction to the announcement from the United States that researchers had produced a living cell containing manmade DNA. They warned scientists of the ethical responsibility of scientific progress and said that the manner in which the innovation is applied in the future will be crucial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great scientific
discovery. Now we have to understand how it will be implemented in the future,â&#x20AC;? Monsignor Rino Fisichella, the Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top bioethics official, told Associated Press Television News. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we ascertain that it is for the good of all, of the environment and man in it, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep the same judgment,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If, on the other hand, the use of this discovery should turn against the dignity of and respect for human life, then our judgment would change.â&#x20AC;? Fisichella, who heads Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pontifical Academy for Life, stressed there is no necessary clash between science and faith.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We look at science with great interest. But we think above all about the meaning that must be given to life,â&#x20AC;? Fisichella told state-run RAI television. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can only reach the conclusion that we need God, the origin of life.â&#x20AC;? Catholic Church teaching holds that human life is Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift, created through natural procreation between a man and woman. The Vatican newspaper, Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Osservatore Romano, called the synthetic cell â&#x20AC;&#x153;an interesting resultâ&#x20AC;? but stressed that it â&#x20AC;&#x153;must have rules, like all the things that touch on the heart of life.â&#x20AC;?
The paper said genetic engineering can do good but acts on â&#x20AC;&#x153;a very fragile terrain.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about combining courage with caution,â&#x20AC;? it said. The inventors said the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first synthetic cell is more a re-creation of existing life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; changing one simple type of bacterium into another â&#x20AC;&#x201C; than a built-from-scratch kind. But genome-mapping pioneer J. Craig Venter said his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project paves the way for designing organisms that work differently from the way nature intended for a wide range of uses.
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FEMA admits employee wrong on faith shirts JACKSON, Miss. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The top officer for FEMA said one of the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s videographers was â&#x20AC;&#x153;absolutely wrongâ&#x20AC;? to ask Mississippi church volunteers not to wear religious Tshirts for a video about tornado cleanup. Angelia Lott and Pamela Wedgeworth, who are sisters, told The Associated Press that the FEMA worker videotaping the cleanup last weekend in the small town of Ebenezer asked them to do oncamera interviews but requested that they change out of their T-shirts because of a Salvation Army logo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We would like to ask you to change your shirt because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want anything faithbased,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Lott said Tuesday. Lott said she asked him why he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to feature faith groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All he said was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done that hundreds of times,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Lott said. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said in a statement issued Monday that the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions â&#x20AC;&#x153;in no way reflect FEMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policies or priorities.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The photographer in question was absolutely wrong,â&#x20AC;? Fugate said. Lott and Wedgeworth attend a small rural church in Smith County. They volunteered through a ministry of Crossgates Baptist Church in Brandon.
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Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roman Catholic cardinal Jaime Ortega speaks recently in Havana. Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s President Raul Castro met with Ortega and Archbishop Dionisio Garcia, another top cleric, to discuss many issues including a recent crackdown against dissidents that ended only after the mediation of the church.
Cuban cardinal wants political prisoners freed nisio Garcia, held a four-hour discussion with Raul Castro at the Palace of the Revolution, the seat of Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government. The church has called previously for freedom for the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prisoners of conscience, but doing so right after such a high profile meeting was unusual. Ortega said in a news conference that he had also brought up the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to bar the dissident Ladies in White from holding weekly marches. The group â&#x20AC;&#x201C; comprised of the wives and mothers of jailed political prisoners â&#x20AC;&#x201C; were stopped
HAVANA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roman Catholic cardinal called for the liberation of some of the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 200 political prisoners on Thursday after a rare sit-down with President Raul Castro, and said he thought his encounter with the Cuban leader was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;magnificent startâ&#x20AC;? to serious dialogue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The church is interested in an alleviation of the situation (of the political prisoners) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the liberation of some of them, for example,â&#x20AC;? Cardinal Jaime Ortega said, a day after he and another church leader, Archbishop Dio-
about conversations with the government, conversations that had a magnificent start yesterday (Wednesday) and that ought to continue in the near future,â&#x20AC;? Ortega said. The meeting was a sign of the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing influence on the island. Garcia, who is archbishop of Santiago and leader of the Conference of Bishops of Cuba, said it was the first time the head of the bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group has met with the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leader in five years, when Fidel Castro was still in charge.
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from protesting for three straight weekends in April and pro-government counter-protesters were brought in to shout abuse at them. The standoff ended after Ortegaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mediation, when the government agreed to allow the quiet protests to resume in return for assurances the women would not expand their activities. The cardinal made clear that no deal on any prisoner releases or easing of measures against the opposition had been struck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not talking about any commitments. We are talking
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If only ... we’d seriously consider moving City Hall As a High Point transplant, I’ve oft wondered if it truly does take an outside perspective to realize that High Point, simply put, does not have a downtown. It has a Market District with City Hall strategically placed therein so as to be all but inaccessible to the citizenry nearly a month out of the year. It’s always been somewhat perplexing watching council after council and committee after committee struggle with the notion of how to schlep an Applebee’s up against the IHFC. This only seems to fan the flames of the ubiquitously entrenched mind-set that strengthening “downtown” and supporting the market are somehow mutually exclusive concepts. They are not – like matter to anti-matter they tend toward mutual annihilation. Is there any hope, therefore, in examining the notion of moving downtown? Seriously – given its current location, City Hall could be sold in about 12 minutes at a healthy premium. Marketgoers would swoon over the parking
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prospects a vacated postal facility would provide. But where to? I’ve certainly read the speculation as to the future of the uptown area. Peering through our man-made forest of utility poles one can certainly see the potential if, of course, one could find a parking space. If only, however, there were 100+ acres of land closer to the geographic center of town where we could start anew. If only there were existing improvements to said property such as ample
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nother class (2009-2010) of The High Point Enterprise Readership Committee just has “graduated” and, already, the search is on for applicants for the class of 2010-11. The 2009-10 class was the best we’ve had since the program began in 2005-06 and brings the alumni total over the five years to 58. Class members were: James Brigham, Kim Cakal, Fran Cook, Charlotte Denig, Matthew Dunn, Carol and Tony Hoglen, Herman Hunter, Lucile Hurley, M.L. Koebberling, Josiane Lackey-Laumann, Mary Jane Lindsay, Babby Ludgin, Beverly McCabe, Gary Phaup, Abigaile Pittman, David Ogren, Bob Segal and Lorraine Thielmann. Two members of the 2009-10 OPINION class, Phil Morris and Alma Sawyer, believed they missed Tom too many meetings and, as a Blount result, have been the first to ■■■ sign up for the 2010-11 class so they can “make up” for what they missed this year. Hunter originally was in the 2008-09 class but, because of injuries and other commitments, was able to attend only half the meetings that year, so he went through the whole year with the 2009-10 class. Morris hopes his wife Karen will apply for the 2010-11 class so that he can tag along for his make-ups. You are welcome and encouraged to apply, you can use the coupon accompanying this column, for inclusion in the Readership Committee Class of 2010-11. You can mail, fax or e-mail the completed coupon to the Enterprise. The class meets at 5:30 p.m. the third Thursday of each month, beginning in September and ending in May. Readership Committee members have the opportunity to learn almost everything you ever wanted to know about newspapers and more. You’ll also understand how and why, in spite of repeated claims by mostly selfstyled experts that newspapers are dead, most newspapers will survive, primarily by transforming themselves into information companies, with distribution of the information they generate and collect in a wide variety of methods. This post-recession period promises to be one of the most exciting in news industry history. You also will get even more hands-on work than the 2009-10 class did and that will better help you understand what we at the Enterprise do and why we do it that way, as well as serving as a focus group, having ample opportunity to evaluate our performance and offer suggestions. The more diverse such groups are, the better they work so recognize that we’re looking for teens, 20-somethings and 30-
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somethings as well as those 40 and older. We could use a few more men: Over the years, we’ve had 32 women and 26 men complete the course. It would be great to have at least a couple of African-Americans, and at least one each Asian, Hispanic and someone of Middle Eastern descent in the class so it will be more representative of the population of the greater High Point area. Those who have completed the Readership Committee courses include: 2005-06 – John Allard, Barney W. Hill, Mary Hunter, Fran Kiser, Ray McAllister, John McGinnis, Robin Paxton, Tom Riddle, Joe Rowe, Henry Shavitz and David Williams. 2006-07 – Anne Andrews, Cicero Crump, Laura Godwin, Al Heggins, Tom Kak , Shahnaz Khawaja, Mary Lou Kyle, Peggy Nelson, Melissa Plunkett and Linda Schumacher. 2007-08 – Bill Brewer, Martha Clodfelter, Scott Diener, Leslie Graham, Jeanne Harrison, Kathleen Killebrew, Jerry Kyle, David Smith, Jim Tate, Reggie Whelpley and Mildred Willoughby. 2008-09 – Tracey Anderson, Doug Brackett, Raylene Fealy, Bob Fogelman, Mike Hancock, Ruth Sedon, Jody Susong. Won’t you join us?
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High Point taxpayers get A a break n city government parlance, they’re called fees, not taxes. But in the language of city residents, the two terms mean the same – money from their pockets. If you’re on a fixed income, as many of the city’s senior citizens are, then High Point’s proposed $6 monthly fee for garbage collection services would be quite a cash grab by city government. But now, residents can exhale and take comfort in the fact that the proposed $6 fee has been axed by City Council. Additionally, some businesses in the city can rest easy. The proposal to raise the city’s highest charge for a business license to $1,500 also won’t happen this coming year, under the city’s 2010-11 budget now being considered. City Manager Strib Boynton and members of City Council made the correct calls Thursday when they decided to eliminate those fee hikes from next year’s budget. Although City Council action leaves open the possibility of those fees coming at some point in the future, at least for now they won’t. “We realized the hardships that the community is facing and wanted to lessen the impact of that burden,” Mayor Becky Smothers said Thursday. To cover the $1,570,000 the two fees would have raised, City Council accepted Boynton’s recommendation for a one-time, $1 million transfer from electric fund profits and a $300,000 reduction in funds allocated for city vehicle replacements. The $270,000 difference is covered by the restoring of beer and wine tax revenues for High Point originally cut from the state budget. That electric fund transfer to offset garbage fees may ease the sting a bit of the anticipated nearly 5 percent hike in city electric rates. But Boynton and City Council must begin now focusing on budget revenue and expense questions for the future. And more temporary measures likely won’t provide the answers, because these uncertain economic times are going to linger. The city has frozen salaries and eliminated a number of vacant positions from the current budget and in next year’s proposal. But perhaps it is time for city officials also to put salary adjustments and work force reduction considerations on the table as potential ways to save taxpayers money. Such issues are not easy to decide. No one wants to see friends or co-workers at the city experience declines in income or job losses. But hard decisions on these and other aspects of city government lie ahead for its leaders.
parking and embedded infrastructure. If only said infrastructure were sufficient not only to house government operations but also advance much belabored and beleaguered community projects such as an arts center, possibly an athletic complex of benefit to both the city and High Point University. If only something like this could be had for a relatively paltry $15 million. If only. JOEL RADATZ High Point
• Palin didn’t win on Republican ticket with John McCain, and he was their best. She should run as an independent and take Joe Lieberman for vice president. What a ticket!
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UNC-TV needs to answer four questions Comet pills and R cap and trade T
he history of civilization is riddled with manipulative doomsayers and gullible followers. Some of the doomsayers were true believers, but many just wanted to impose their will on others for some personal gain. Maybe it’s a natural human weakness that leads people to believe predictions of doom while ignoring the motivations of the doomsayer. Historians have written of mass hysteria leading up to the year 1000 A.D. when doomsayers predicted the end of the world. The appearance of Halley’s comet in 989 and an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 993 were used as evidence of the coming apocalypse. Wouldn’t you think that after thousands of years of failed doomsday predictions, people would learn to be a little more skeptical? A hundred years ago this month, Halley’s comet returned. By 1910, the world had astronomers, and they had telescopes and mathematics with which they could accurately predict that the Earth was going to pass through OPINION the comet’s tail. By 1910, the world also Mike had newspapers, Hughes telephones and ■■■ telegraph lines that helped spread the word – and the panic. People were incorrectly told that the comet’s tail contained deadly levels of poison gas. As expected, people believed the story and chaos ensued. The New York Times reported on a woman who was taken to a local insane asylum: “Her mind became unhinged following a discussion of the comet’s appearance.” The Times also reported on all-night church services, miners refusing to work and children who quit school because of the comet. There were other news reports of people who died from “comet fright,” suicides in Louisiana and Pennsylvania, crucifixions in California and an attempted human sacrifice in Oklahoma. Of course, that could never happen today, could it? Thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate cult committed suicide just 13 years ago, with the belief that they would board a spacecraft that was behind the Hale-Bopp comet. The apocalypse of today is climate change. The doomsayer is Al Gore. The cure being sold by liberal Democrats is “cap and trade.” In 1910, scientists knew that the comet’s tail was harmless, but that information wasn’t widely reported. So people bought “comet pills” to counteract the gas. Cap and trade legislation is no better than comet pills, but we’ll all pay a lot more for it. If Gore really cared about the future of the planet, he’d stay away from the climate change issue. Nobody has done more to politicize the issue and create an environment that’s conducive to corruption. A lot of intelligent people have raised quite a few valid questions on global warming, but Gore has labeled them deniers and dishonestly claimed that there’s nothing to debate. Thanks to Gore, these questions are not likely to be answered anytime soon. As more Americans learn that cap and trade legislation will be ineffective and bad for their wallet, liberal Democrats are trying to hide cap and trade under a new name, the American Power Act. Even the liberal Los Angeles Times called this bill a “gift to polluters” (as they praised it). One investment analyst called it the Mr. Potato Head bill – the features can be rearranged, but it’s still a potato. MIKE HUGHES is a Navy veteran who lives in Jamestown. His column appears here every other Sunday. To comment, visit www. hpe.com and click on local commentary. Email him at mrmike27282@gmail.com.
ecent News & Observer reports that UNC-TV accepted approximately $300,000 from The Golden Leaf Foundation and then produced programming boasting foundation accomplishments were met with disdain. The WinstonSalem Journal ran a critical editorial which concluded by saying, “North Carolina taxpayers, and the UNC system, didn’t create UNC-TV so it could run $300,000 infomercials about publicly funded agencies.” A memo from director Tom Howe to the Board of Trustees of UNC-TV responded to the criticism by saying, “As to the article’s main point – that, by accepting money from Golden LEAF to do positive stories about successful efforts to combat challenges in economic development in North Carolina, UNC-TV does not meet traditional news journalism standards – what the author does not seem to realize is that we do
not define ourselves as a news journalism organization. If we did, the first thing we would need to cancel is our extenMY SPIN sive coverage of UNC-TV’s Tom primary funder Campbell – the North ■■■ Carolina General Assembly.” Shannon Vickery, director of production for the UNC Center for Public Television, has publicly stated that UNC-TV is not a “news provider.” Why not? As North Carolina’s only statewide television network, why shouldn’t UNC-TV provide viewers with statewide news coverage? When the nightly “North Carolina Now” was first envisioned, part of the program’s original mission was to present statewide news coverage within the show. UNC-TV’s own Web site reports that the “weeknightly television
newsmagazine examines the most pressing issues of the day…” Doesn’t that sound like providing news? And what is “Legislative Week in Review” if not a summary of news from the Legislature? Granted, you seldom hear anything critical about legislators or the Assembly, nor will you see balanced, in-depth analysis on the show. UNC-TV receives much of its funding from the very Legislature it is attempting to cover and dares not offend powerful lawmakers, as network officials learned following a televised analysis of a gubernatorial speech that resulted in instructions to ban two insightful political observers from the network. UNC-TV’s management is trying to cloud the issue. It isn’t whether or not UNC-TV meets traditional journalistic standards but rather what standards the network does apply to programming decisions. If the manufacturers of the “Snuggly” offered to pay
for a half-hour infomercial would their offer be accepted? The difference between such a proposal and the Golden Leaf episodes amounts only to a difference in degree. With a new UNC president soon to take office, it would serve the network and our citizens well to redefine the mission, programming standards and accountability for UNC-TV. There are four questions which deserve answering. What is the mission of publicly owned television in our state? How well is UNCTV fulfilling that mission? What governance system is needed to remove conflicts of interest? Finally, how is the best way to fund public television? Public television is too valuable a resource to fail to serve the public, as it did with the Golden Leaf grants. TOM CAMPBELL is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly statewide television discussion of N.C. issues airing Sundays at 6:30 a.m. on WFMY-TV. Contact him at www.ncspin.com.
A Greek tragedy Our debt-ridden America chips in for the great bailout of Greece BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
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he sovereign debt crisis – centered on Greece for the moment, but bound to spread to other heavily indebted national governments – has taken an ominous turn. The European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, and the International Monetary Fund unveiled a trillion-dollar bailout package for the bankrupt Greek government. The intent was to defend the euro, which has been depreciating rapidly vis-à-vis the dollar. Indeed, the bailout worked – for all of a few hours. Then the market dismissed it as ineffectual and the euro resumed its downtrend. The reason for this is obvious to anyone who understands Economics 101: If you greatly increase the supply of something, the value of each individual unit generally goes down. Since the ECB’s bailout includes making available “unlimited” amounts of newly created euros to sop up some of the flood of sovereign debt instruments issued by spendthrift governments, it seems reasonable to conclude that the euro will continue to depreciate. There is, however, another factor that may temporarily offset the effect of this “quantitative easing” (money creation) by the ECB: The Fed is adopting a similar policy. As reported by Bloomberg on May 10, “The U.S. Federal Reserve will restart its emergency currency swap tool by providing as many dollars as needed to European central banks to keep the continent’s sovereign debt crisis from spreading.” (My emphasis.) The Fed’s involvement in this ongoing crackup has received far too little attention. Consider these implications: First, we live in a world of finite wealth and limits, yet central bankers are flirting with an infinitely elastic money supply when they talk about “un-
limited funds” and creating “as many dollars as needed.” Second, who authorized the Fed to bail out European governments? Our own government is drowning in debt, so how can we afford to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to Europe? Is Congress asleep? Where’s the media? Have we become that desensitized to bailouts? Or is it just that the media will give Obama a free pass for his role in pushing for this bailout plan? Third, does anyone think that the other European governments teetering on the brink of insolvency will be able to convince their voters that they should tighten their belts through a government austerity program when the central bankers have made it clear that they stand ready to supply bailout funds? Moral hazard, anyone? The path of least resistance seems to be the creation of additional monetary units in vast quantities for an indefinite period of time. The monetary and political systems of the western democracies are broken. The modern democratic welfare state seems doomed to live up to Alexander Tytler’s dictum, “A democracy … can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from
the public treasury … with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy.” Have we passed the point of no return in the United States? Perhaps. According to the Tax Foundation, some 60 percent of Americans now receive more in benefits from government than what they pay into government. We may think, “Those crazy Greeks,” when we see them protesting proposed reductions in government payments to them, but are we Americans any more willing to bite the bullet of fiscal reality? Let Congress try to cut spending, and we’ll hear howls of protest from Americans who fervently believe that whatever they get from government is social justice and their inalienable right. The president of the European Council, Herman de Rompuy, has stated, “We can’t finance our social model anymore.” The system is broken. In democracies, politicians get elected by making unaffordable promises to voters. This culminates in national bankruptcy. According to the Bank for International Settlements, 11 other countries in addition to Greece – including the United States – are about to “hit a wall of debt.” It now appears that these governments are counting on central bankers to try to print their way out of this fiscal corner into which they have painted themselves. This is the beginning of the end for fiat dollars and euros. The Fed and the ECB have made an “all-in” bet, risking the viability of their respective currencies in a desperate attempt to save a failed political model. The coming years will be tumultuous indeed. MARK W. HENDRICKSON, Ph.D., is an adjunct faculty member, economist and contributing scholar with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City (Pa.) College.
Buy U.S. to put Americans back to work BY KANDY FOLEY
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have read with great interest those that believe that one president or the other has caused us hardships. I believe that many have had a hand in that. Letters have been written about immigration, but have you seen one president take a stand, find a solution? Isn’t that what we pay them to do? And I have yet to hear anyone in government explain why if they are here illegally, why “We The People” are responsible for their health care, taxes and – if they are convicted of a crime – the expense to house and feed them. Their own country should be
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billed for these things. And then there’s our jobs which have been and still are being shipped overseas. Have you seen one president take a stand on this? America used to be proud of the products made here – remember when the big Wal-Mart came to town and the commercials said they were proud to “Buy/Sell American.” I challenge you to find much of anything in that store now that is made here. The products we find everywhere from China and other areas are cheap and danger-
ous (remember the toys with lead, and what about the drywall?). We need to rethink everything we buy. I have a bedroom set that is about 35 years old – built in the United States. It has lasted through my teenage years, through my daughter’s teenage years and is now in my garage waiting on the next generation. And it’s still in great shape. Buy a bedroom set today from China and see how long it lasts. We all need to make a conscious effort to buy American made products. Do your homework, look online and find which products are made here in the United States. Store owners should
put signs in their front windows that say “American Made Products Sold Here.” If enough people do this, we can put America back to work. We can no longer depend on our government. Those that we voted in aren’t looking after us, so we must stand together and do for ourselves. Before you vote in November, go to “Project Vote Smart” and see what our representatives voted for and then make a decision on whom you want in office. America needs to make a stand, and it can start right here in our beautiful state. Buy smart. Vote smart. Buy American! KANDY FOLEY lives in Archdale.
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Fort Bragg builds new memorial to honor war dead FORT BRAGG (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; When the Army dedicated a memorial in 1995 to special operations soldiers killed in Vietnam and other conflicts, organizers figured three bronze plaques would be plenty of space to engrave the names of the fallen. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan changed that. Nine years after the invasion of Afghanistan, the US Army Special Operations Command has revamped its memorial, adding granite panels for the names of the fallen and providing room for expansion for at least 20 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since 9/11 weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a lot of soldiers that have paid the ultimate sacrifice and it is time to notch it up another level,â&#x20AC;? said Col. Frederic Drummond, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command chief engineer, who oversaw the project. The Army Special Operations Command has added the names of more than 200 soldiers killed in combat to the wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We took our casualty rates as of now and put them out 20 years. Hopefully it will last 40 or 50, but if we go at the rate we are now, it will last 20 years,â&#x20AC;? said Daniel Telles, an art director at the US Army Special Operations Command history office who designed the new memorial. The United States has lost more than 4,000 soldiers in Iraq and more than more than 1,000 in the Afghanistan war, including deaths that occurred outside those countries but are still considered part of the war effort.
The Army Special Operations Command isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only unit squeezed for memorial space. The 82nd Airborne Divisionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memorial obelisk at Fort Bragg honoring fallen soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan filled up in 2008 and was expanded to include a granite wall, funded by donations. The names of soldiers who die in service are now engraved on the wall instead of the obelisk. The new special operations memorial cost more than $350,000, according to Drummond. Most of the money was raised by the USASOC Soldier, Family and Command Support Association through individual donations ranging from $50 to $250 dollars. Retired Col. Andy Milani, president of the association, said the commander of Army special operations, Lt. Gen. John Mulholland, approached him and his group about raising the money. The group raised enough money to not only help fund the construction, but also maintain it for years to come. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to create a memorial that was much more fitting to honor the fallen soldiers,â&#x20AC;? Milani said. The old wall, originally adorned with three bronze plaques, had grown to 10 with the names of the dead now. The plaquesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; colors varied, because of the way bronze ages. When Mulholland saw the wall, he ordered a facelift. The new memorial wall has a more solemn look, with the names of the more than 1,000 fallen special operations soldiers
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A statue honoring special operations soldiers stands in front of construction for the new memorial wall in front of the Army Special Operations headquarters at Fort Bragg. killed since the Korean War engraved on 10 black granite panels. Above the panels, in gold letters, is written: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Memory Of Our Fallen Special Operations Soldiers.â&#x20AC;? The black granite facade resembles the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC. Telles said his initial designs lacked something, and Mulholland wanted something on top of the wall to serve as a beacon. Telles designed a massive eagle at the edge of a shield. The sculpture was made from the 10 bronze plates from the old wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was almost magical because the plates fit it perfectly,â&#x20AC;? Telles said. Lorenzo Ghiglieri, a renowned sculptor who has pieces displayed in the
White House, Vatican and Kremlin, was chosen to make the eagle based on Tellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; design. He served as a machine gunner on a destroyer during the Korean War and was drawn to the meaning of memorial as a tribute to the fallen soldiers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The granite is just granite and the bronze is just bronze,â&#x20AC;? Ghiglieri said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a memorial that defines the heroism and the sacrifice that brings this country to its greatness.â&#x20AC;? The memorial wall stands in front of the U.S. AP Army Special Operations Neville Locklear installs lights around construction for Command headquarters the new memorial wall in front of the Army Special Opbuilding at Fort Bragg. erations headquarters at Fort Bragg.
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Double-edged sword Fading inflation helps buyers, borrowers, hurts savers WASHINGTON (AP) – It’s a good time to buy a car, refinance a mortgage, hit the road or shop for clothes. Invest in a saving account? Forget it. Consumer inflation has all but disappeared, the government reported Wednesday. The Federal Reserve may now be emboldened to keep interest rates at record lows well into next year – and possibly into 2012. As a result, banks’ prime lending rate will stay at its lowest point in decades. That figure is used to peg rates on credit cards, home equity loans, some adjustable-rate
mortgages and other consumer loans. Rates on fixedrate mortgages remain low, too, thanks to a growing belief that the Fed will further delay any rate hike. So what do persistent low inflation and record-low rates mean for consumers? • The time is right to buy a car. New-car prices were flat in April. And they’ve fallen 1 percent over the past 12 months. Big banks are offering super-low rates in the 3 percent to 4 percent range, says Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com. Normally, such rates are available
only to companies, not individuals, McBride says. • For homeowners who qualify, it’s a good time to refinance. That’s especially true for those who want the security of a long-term fixed-rate loan. Rates on 30-year mortgages dipped last week to 4.93 percent, the lowest level of the year. Homeowners who took out adjustable-rate mortgages at 4.5 percent in 2005 are now seeing their rates fall to 3 percent to 3.25 percent, McBride says. As a result, they have extra cash to spend. • Minimum payments remain low on home equity lines of credit. The average nationwide rate on a $30,000 home equity line of credit has dipped to 5.14 percent. It’s true that lines of credit have become much harder to obtain since the financial crisis erupted. But for those
who qualify, the rates are historically low. • People planning to drive to a vacation getaway won’t pay as much. Gasoline prices fell sharply in April – 2.4 percent. Analysts expect further declines this summer because crude oil prices have fallen nearly 20 percent since April. • Shoppers who want to update their summer wardrobes, and those hankering for cakes and cookies, are in luck. Prices for clothing and baked goods dropped in April and are down sharply over the past year. Yet for savers, the prospect of persistent record-low rates is a downer. It means no relief from puny returns any time soon. The average yield on a one-year certificate of deposit has sunk to 0.7 percent, according to Bankrate.com. That’s the
lowest since Bankrate starting tracking the figure in 1983. Rates hovered as high as 5.5 percent around 2000, according to Bankrate. Low rates might be leading some retirees to lock their money into longerterm CDs or other savings vehicles in pursuit of higher rates, said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago. That strategy could backfire if inflation were to eventually flare up, Ablin noted. It would erode their savings. Unlike everyone else, savers won’t benefit until the Fed starts boosting interest rates. Yet prospects for the Fed to start pushing up rates in the fourth quarter of the year seem to be fading. More economists now think an increase won’t happen until next year at the earliest.
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HIGH POINT — Even amid an economic downturn, the experience of becoming a small business owner has been a sweet path to travel for Laura Godwin in the last three years. Godwin, owner of Mama Laura’s Chocolates in Archdale, began her business in 2007 and has relocated her chocolate shop to larger spaces twice. She recently relocated the shop from its former 700-squarefoot space in Archdale to a 1,500-square-foot space at 10948-J N. Main St. in Archdale, beside Pioneer Restaurant. The entrepreneur started making chocolate in her home from recipes crafted by her grandmother, also named Laura, to give away as Christmas gifts. Her relocation has allowed her to
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expand her line of offerings from chocolates to some baked goods and Hershey’s hand-dipped ice cream. “It’s a dream come true in times that are so hard to not only see our business grow, but also to take a foothold and keep growing,” Godwin said. But the 37-year-old mother of two is used to sweet surprises. She said she was actually shocked when a friend ordered several pounds of toffee from her one year after receiving the toffee as a gift from Godwin in 2006. “I thought, ‘Seriously? Someone is going to pay me to do this?’” she said. Shortly after, her homemade chocolates began to gain a reputation and a following. “That Christmas, through word of mouth alone, I sold 75 pounds of toffee,” she said. In March 2007, Godwin formed Mama Laura’s Chocolates LLC and operated the business from her home. Her stove was suddenly
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Laura Godwin holds up a dark chocolate turtle that she has just made. teeming with boiling pots of chocolate, caramel and toffee. When the business got too big for her home, she moved into a commercial space at 304-H Trindale Road in Archdale. Her recent move to N. Main Street will allow the business more visibility, more space for her customers, including booths, tables and an area for birthday parties, and an expansion of her products, she said.
“I would like to continue to expand our product line here but stay in the line of sweets,” she said. “I’d like to be your one-stop shop for sweets.” Carrying Hershey’s ice cream has been the biggest addition so far. “Ice cream seems to be a nice complement to chocolate,” she said. “This area didn’t have an ice cream parlor before we moved in.”
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So far, business at her new place has been sweet as well. “You know, you jump in and take a leap of faith when you make moves like this,” she said. “But we moved in during the Mother’s Day rush. Figures off the bat have been almost triple for a normal day than what we’ve done elsewhere.” phaynes@hpe.com | 888-3617
CINCINNATI (AP) – The world’s largest consumer products maker says its online shopping store is open for business. Procter & Gamble Co. said Wednesday the “eStore” is up and running for the general public after months of testing. The Cincinnati-based maker of such household brands as Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, and Olay skin cream has jumped into online retailing with a site operated by Plano, Texasbased PFSweb. P&G insists the venture’s main goal is to learn more about online shopping, and not to compete with stores and online retailers. P&G says it will share the “learning lab” information it gathers and that will help retail partners sell more P&G products. The site offers $5 flat-rate shipping and also P&G’s digital coupons. Initial prices appear comparable to retail stores. P&G says some 2,000 items from across its portfolio are available: one big-brand exception is Pringles snacks, because of shipping quality issues being worked on, such as making sure chips don’t break
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Zach Hoffman, owner of Wiley Office Furniture in Springfield, Ill., was confident his small business would qualify for a new tax cut in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. But when he ran the numbers, Hoffman discovered that his office furniture company wouldn’t get any assistance.
Get it ... if you can Health care small-business tax cut proves elusive WASHINGTON (AP) — Zach Hoffman was confident his small business would qualify for a new tax cut in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. But when he ran the numbers, Hoffman discovered that his office furniture company wouldn’t get any assistance with the $79,200 it pays annually in premiums for its 24 employees. “It leaves you with this feeling of a bait-and-switch,” he said. When the administration unveiled the small business tax credit earlier this week, officials touted its “broad eligibility” for companies with fewer than 25 workers and average annual wages under $50,000 that provide health coverage. Hoffman’s workers earn an average of $35,000 a year, which makes it all the more difficult to understand why his company didn’t qualify. Lost in the fine print: The credit drops off
sharply once a company gets above 10 workers and $25,000 average annual wages. It’s an example of how the early provisions of the health care law can create winners and losers among groups lawmakers intended to help — people with health problems, families with young adult children and small businesses. Because of the law’s complexity, not everyone in a broadly similar situation will benefit. Consider small businesses: “The idea here is to target the credits to a relatively low number of firms, those who are low-wage and really quite small,” said economist Linda Blumberg of the Urban Institute public policy center. The smallest businesses are at greatest risk of losing coverage — assuming they can afford it in the first place, research shows. On paper, the credit seems to be available to companies with fewer than 25 workers and average wages of $50,000. But in practice, a complicated formula that combines the two numbers works against companies that have more than 10 workers
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How members of local delegations voted in the N.C. General Assembly recently:
HOUSE HB589 - Insurance and State Health Plan Coverage/Hearing Aids (Conference Report): Requires health benefit plans and the state health plan to cover hearing aids and replacement hearing aids; and requires the state health plan for teachers and state employees to provide coverage for autism treatment disorders. Adopted 107-0. Final approval by the Senate is required before the bill goes to Gov. Beverly Perdue.
YES Larry Brown, Harold Brubaker, Jerry Dockham, Hugh Holliman, Pat Hurley, Earl Jones, Laura Wiley
ments of four-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson for winning the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup title. Introduced by Rep. Bill Owens, D-Pasquotank. Adopted 109-0. Sent to the Senate for consideration.
YES Larry Brown, Harold Brubaker, Jerry Dockham, Hugh Holliman, Pat Hurley, Earl Jones, Laura Wiley
SENATE SB897 - Appropriations Act of 2010: Modifies the current $19 billion Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2009 and for Other Purposes. Introduced by Sen. Charlie Dannelly, DMecklenburg. Adopted 30-16. Sent to the House for consideration.
YES Stan Bingham, Katie Dorsett
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and $25,000 in average wages. “You can get zero even if you are not hitting the max on both pieces,” said Blumberg. Being close to the upper limit on either of the two measures significantly reduces the credit, she explained. Hoffman used an online calculator to figure his company’s eligibility. At least four are available, including one from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which helped write the legislation. All produced the same result. “I think (the administration’s) intentions are good, but the numbers and applications don’t come out to what they intend,” said Hoffman, part owner of Wiley Office Furniture, a third-generation family business in Springfield, Ill. The Treasury Department, which administers the new credit, did not dispute the calculations. “The small-business tax credit was designed to provide the greatest benefit to employers that currently have the hardest time providing health insurance for their workers — small, low-wage firms,” said Michael Mundaca, assistant secretary for tax policy. “Small
employers face higher premiums and higher administrative costs than large firms and in many cases cannot afford to provide coverage.” Small business owners are a pivotal constituency in the fall congressional elections, and Democrats are battling to win them over. Major benefits of the health care law — competitive insurance markets, more stable premiums and a ban on denying coverage to those in poor health — don’t take effect until 2014. But the health care credit is available this year. It can be a boon for smaller companies paying lower wages. Betsy Burton, owner of The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, estimates that she will get a credit of roughly $21,000 against premiums of about $67,800. She has 11 full-time equivalent employees averaging $26,100. “What it means is that I can afford to carry this insurance and insure people’s families,” said Burton. “I was afraid that we were fast approaching a time when I would have to choose between insuring my employees and closing my doors.”
• Allstate Insurance Co. recognized Allstate exclusive agency owner Bryan Torrence out of Greensboro with the President’s Conference award for high standards in customer satisfaction, customer retention and profitable business growth. His agency is now one of the top Allstate agencies in the nation in auto, property, commercial, power sports insurance and financial services sales. • NewBridge Bank announces the addition of Todd D. Rangel as senior vice president and commercial banking manager for Greensboro, Alamance and Rockingham counties. Rangel, a seasoned banking professional with in-depth knowledge of local markets, is based at NewBridge Bank’s corporate headquarters in Greensboro at 1501 Highwoods Blvd. Also, with the acquisition of Bradford Mortgage Co., NewBridge announces that Paul F. Edmond Jr. is a mortgage loan officer at NewBridge Bank’s Winston-Salem Bradford Mortgage office. He is based at 100 N. Cherry St., suite 400. • BB&T promoted Daisy Ruggiero to assistant vice president. Ruggiero, who joined the bank in 2006, is an investment counselor in BB&T’s Investment Services department based at 620 N. Main St. Ruggiero provides investment advice to BB&T clients in High Point, Archdale, Trinity, and Thomasville.
• Attorney Gerard M. Chapman was selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Legal, Corporate Immigration 2010 of The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. Chapman is the principal of Chapman Law Firm in Greensboro and has been active in many national and state committees of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1987. • Clear Channel Radio announces the appointment of Jeff Cushman as operations manager. Cushman will oversee all five Greensboro market stations programming. • High Point City Councilwoman Mary Lou Blakeney received the Chairman’s Award from the High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau during its board meeting last week. The award is given to an individual or organization that furthers the mission of the CVB. • Marcus Crotts of Crotts & Saunders Engineering Inc. In Winston-Salem was named an honorary member of the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association. The honorary designation is the highest honor bestowed by the association. COMPANIES WANTING to submit business people items and pictures should have the information arrive in the offices of The High Point Enterprise by 4 p.m. of the Wednesday preceding the Sunday of publication. Address information to Business People, The High Point Enterprise, P.O. Box 1009, High Point, NC 27261.
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• The Tri-County Marketplace business exposition will take place June 2 at the International Home Furnishings Center in downtown High Point. The event is designed to help local chamber of commerce members reach other business buyers in neighboring communities. The event is from 1-4 p.m. and will be followed by a three-chamber Business After Hours from 5-7 p.m. Hundreds of chamber members are expected to attend. The expo will feature members of the High Point Chamber of Commerce, the Archdale-Trinity Chamber of Commerce and Thomasville Area Chamber of Commerce. For more information, check the High Point chamber Web site – www. highpointchamber.org – or contact one of the area chambers. • MedCommunities will
leave the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship in Greensboro at the end of May to open a standalone office. MedCommunities, owned by Ernest Puglisi, is a provider of Web-based collaboration platforms and tools for the health care industry, with a focus on nurse practitioners and physicians assistants. The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship is a private non-profit corporation whose mission is to enhance economic development in Greensboro and the surrounding area through creating successful business owners. INFORMATION TO APPEAR in this column should be received in the offices of The High Point Enterprise by 4 p.m. of the Wednesday preceding the Sunday of publication. Address information to Business Notes, The High Point Enterprise, P.O. Box 1009, High Point, NC 27261.
Indian cigarette sales thrive IRVING, N.Y. (AP) — J. Conrad Seneca started selling cigarettes in the late 1980s out of a little trailer alongside Route 20 as it runs through the Cattaraugus Seneca Indian Reservation. Today, he employs 120 people, most of them nonIndians who live near the reservation about 25 miles southwest of Buffalo. On the land where Seneca’s trailer was once parked, he now has his Native Pride Travel Plaza, including a smoke shop and convenience store, full-service gasoline station and restaurant. Out back are his U.S. Customs-bonded warehouse for cigarette imports, Six Nations Manufacturing cigarette factory, licensed stamping operation for his sales in Florida, and a trucking company that delivers cigarettes and motor fuel.
Like many Native American entrepreneurs, Seneca, 50, took advantage of the fact New York state doesn’t collect taxes on the sovereign territories of the Indian nations within its borders. That’s a big advantage now that state taxes are $2.75 a pack. In recent months, though, the state has been working to end that advantage and find new revenue, echoing the efforts of three former Albany administrations. A comment period ended late last month on proposed regulations that would limit the numbers of cigarettes that wholesalers could deliver to reservations without state taxes, but the regulations haven’t been issued or enforced yet. And history suggests it’s questionable whether these latest ones will be, either. “For over 25 years we’ve had various administra-
tions and various legislatures promulgate regulations. It’s made a lot of lawyers rich and the state hasn’t collected a nickel,” said Syracuse attorney Joseph Heath, who represents the Onondaga Nation. Non-Indian convenience stores, health-related organizations, state legislators and even major cigarette companies all support the latest effort to collect taxes on Indian cigarette sales to non-Indians. Their arguments include the need to create a “level playing field,” provide financial incentives that discourage smoking and generate much-needed tax revenue. Seneca Nation of Indians is leading the campaign against the effort, citing federal treaties that arguably prohibit the collection of state taxes on Indian lands. “We have our treaties with the United States
that guarantee us certain rights. It doesn’t matter whether a treaty was made in 1842 or 1794, or New York state is $8 billion in the hole,” said Seneca, who is a member of the Seneca Nation’s council and the son of a former Seneca Nation president. “It doesn’t say in the treaty ‘until New York state needs money from you.’” By at least one estimate, half the cigarettes consumed in New York are purchased from Native Americans who don’t collect and pay state taxes. Seneca, who is a spokesman for the Seneca Nation on this issue, specializes in discount brands that sell for as low as $21.50 a carton. He also carries premium name brands for about $50 a carton. The same cigarettes would cost 50 percent more off reservations.
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Temps cope with uncertain times BY MILDRED L. CULP WORKWISE FEATURES
The rush to temporary agencies won’t stop as the recession grinds on. People may feel more anxious than ever, having survived open-ended unemployment, underemployment and partial employment. How can they adjust to anxieties involving temporary work? For many, the temp-to-perm dream might be just that as businesses ramp up a temporary workforce. “Everyone is eager to go to work,” says Tina Chen, director of Operations at Carlisle Staffing Ltd., in Westmont, Ill, “including those with 10 to 25 years’ experience.” Many mature workers look for flexibility and reduced workloads, according to Anthony Guerrieri, director of Public Relations at Adecco Group America in Melville, N.Y. His company’s Renaissance Program places workers 50 and over.
‘HESITATION’ Some people have reservations about temping. Carlisle’s Chen observes “pay range hesitation” among upper-level workers who fear their temp positions won’t reflect their high-earning skills. They also worry about their
resumes if assignments don’t work out. “Your resume doesn’t get docked,” she says, because you’re still with the agency. Janet Deckman, now age 72, aimed for full-time permanent employment when she interviewed at Express
‘Everyone is eager to go to work, including those with 10 to 25 years’ experience.’ Tina Chen Carlisle Staffing Ltd.
skills and a history of performing poorly on tests made her fear she couldn’t do the work. (She passed.) Then there was the small matter of age. Finally, she was anxious about advancing to a “regular” job. Such anxiety is real. Chen advises viewing temporary work this way: “Take away the ‘temp’ title. Hours aren’t shorter. The job isn’t any easier. The workload isn’t any lighter. You’re working as a full-time employee at a company you would have sought full-time employment with. The only difference is that you’re being paid through an agency.”
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Employment Professionals, a global franchiser in Oklahoma City, in 1999. She retired in April from Internal Credit Services “as Queen of the Credit File Department,” she jokes, at the main plaza branch of the Bank of Oklahoma. Her re-entrance into temping caused anxiety. She was single and in need of work after freelancing for 17 years in Hollywood’s commercial and film industry. “I walked in cold turkey,” she recalls, afraid Express wouldn’t take her. Lackluster typing
Peter Cappelli, a professor of Management and director of the Wharton Center for Human Resources at Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania, advocates a changed mentality, replacing “temp” with a “leased employee. At least with temping, you more or less know going in when the job will end. With regular employment, it may end just as soon,” with little, if any, notice. He also states that some agencies offer more longer-term affiliations than many traditional employers. Cappelli adds “there’s
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Tina Chen speaks with account manager Luis Perez about their growing client base. She is director of Operations at Carlisle Staffing Ltd., a firm in Westmont, Ill., that places temporaries at all levels. some evidence that the agencies may actually treat employees better. They’re interested in getting your skills up, because they can charge more for your time.” They also strive to make certain you don’t leave because of poor management practices. Once on assignment, minimize anxiety about obtaining full-time employment, says Lisa McCarty, vice president of Client
Services at OnDemand Resources L.L.C., headquartered in Great Falls, Va.: • “Learn the organization quickly; • “Make an immediate impact; • “Sell yourself as a do-er for many of these deliverable-driven assignments; and • “Network.” Deckman sums up the challenge when she says, “You have to come to terms
with what’s going on in the workforce. We’re looking at bad times. We aren’t out of the slump. This is a very anxious time for people. It makes for nervous interviews. People are going to have to take whatever they can. If the work is there, that’s what’s important.” DR. MILDRED L. CULP, Workwise Features, is an award-winning journalist. E-mail questions or comments to culp@workwise.net.
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Invitation to Bid The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority will receive proposals in the Authority’s office at the Piedmont Triad International Airport for the purchase of an Airport Shuttle Bus until June 10, 2010,at 2 PM, at which time and place all proposals received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bid Proposals received after the stated time will not be accepted. Copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained by contacting Tom Dunlap at the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority at 336-665-5656 or by mail addressed to PO Box 35445, Greensboro, NC. 27425 May 23, 2010 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority will receive Bids for the Terminal Apron Repairs project, in the Stanley Frank Board Room at the Piedmont Triad International Airport, until Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 2:00 pm, at which time and place all Bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids received after 2:00 pm on June 17, 2010 will not be accepted. The work may be generally described as construction associated with the removal and replacement of select existing concrete slabs and associated joint and crack repair. Work items shall include demolition of concrete slabs, installation of replacement concrete slabs, crack and joint repair, pavement marking installation and removal, and other incidental items necessary to complete the project. Bid Security equal to 5% of the total Bid is required in the form of a cash deposit or a Bid Bond. Contract Security in the form of 100% Performance and Payment Bonds will be required. No Bid may be withdrawn after closing time for the receipt of Bids for a period of ninety (90) consecutive calendar days. A Pre-Bid Conference Meeting will be held at the Stanley Frank Board Room at the Piedmont Triad International Airport on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The purpose of this meeting will be to familiarize the prospective bidders with the proposed project. The meeting will cover contract scope, security badging requirements, bid items, schedule requirements, and any questions from those in attendance. A representative of the Authority and the Engineer will be on hand to respond to questions from potential Bidders in attendance.
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REQUEST FOR BIDS Note: Bids must be received by: 5:00 PM, June 8, 2010 M & M Builders, Inc. is soliciting bids from subs/suppliers including MBE/WBE/DEB certified groups and Historically Underutilized Businesses for the following City of High Point Project: Charlotte Avenue & Delk Drive Stormwater Improvements. Work consists of storm sewer ranging from 15“ tp 60“; sanitary sewer from 8“-12“, manholes, cast in place and pre-cast concrete headwalls, fencing removal, re-installing and replacement, seeding & mulching. Plans and specifications are available in the offices of M & M Builders, Inc., @ 1711-104 Brentwood St.- High Point, NC; CAGS Plan Room in Greensboro, NC or can be purchases from Duncan-Parnell, Greensboro, NC. M & M Builders, Inc. Phone:336-8822533 Fax:336-883-0915 May 23, 2010 Make your classified ads work harder for you with features like Bolding, Ad Borders & eye-catching graphics
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REQUEST FOR BIDS Note: Bids must be received by: 5:00PM, June 2, 2010 M & M Builders, Inc., is soliciting bids from subs/suppliers including MBE/WBE/DBE certified groups and Historically Underutilized Businesses for the following HP Housing Authority Projects: (1) Elm Street Towers/ Astor Dowy Towers - HVAC System Replacement (2) Elm Street Towers/ Roof Renovation (3) Carson Stout Homes Modernization- work includes interior & exterior rehabilitation to units, repair of concrete paving, tree removal, landscaping & other site improvements. Plans and specifications are available in the office of M & M Builders, Inc., @ 1711-104 Brentwood St. - High Point, NC; CAGS Plan Room in Greensboro, NC or can be purchased from Duncan-Parnell, Greensboro, NC. M & M Builders, Inc. Phone:336-8822533 Fax:336-883-0915 May 23, 2010 It;s all in here today!! The Classifieds
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Certain mandatory federal requirements apply to this solicitation and will be made a part of any contract awarded including, without limitation: a. Presidents Executive Order No. 11246 as amended by 29 CFR Part 30 and 41 CFR Part 60. b. Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, 29 CFR Parts 1, 3, and 5. c. Copeland Act, 29 CFR Part 3. d. Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. e. Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964. f. Disadvantaged Business Enterprises participation 49 CFR Part 26 will be required as described in Subpart D of Regulation 49 CFR Part 26, and all pertinent amendments. The DBE goal for this project is 11.7%. By submitting a bid under this solicitation, except for those items listed by the Bidder in a clearly identified attachment to the Bid, the Bidder certifies that steel and each manufactured product, is produced in the United States (as defined in the clause Buy American - Steel and Manufactured Products for Construction Contracts) and that components of unknown origin are considered to have been produced or manufactured outside the United States. Each Bidder must be properly licensed under Chapter 87, General Statutes of North Carolina (G.S. 87-15). Each Bidder shall certify, by submission of a proposal, that neither it nor its principals is presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in this transaction by any Federal department or agency or the State of North Carolina. The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority reserves the right to waive any informalities or irregularities in or to reject any or all Bids and to award or refrain from awarding the Contract for the work, whichever is deemed to be in the Authority’s best interest.
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A S E C e r t i f i e d Mechanics. EOE. Reply in confidence to box 996, C/O High Point Enterprise, PO Box 1009, High Point, NC 27261
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ABORTION PRIVATE DOCTOR’S OFFICE 889-8503
Dapha, a high-end manufacturer of fine quality upholstered furniture, has been a hallmark of quality for many years. Come join us as we continue our tradition of excellence. Currently accepting applications for: Customer Service Representative Experience in furniture industry required Must be a self starter and have good people skills Eager to learn and grow in a multi-tasking environment Dapha provides a full range of benefits that include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), holiday, and vacation. EOE. Apply by submitting your resume to: will.stange@ kohler.com Where Buyers & Sellers Meet
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Piedmont Triad International Airport 6415 Bryan Boulevard Greensboro, North Carolina 27409
Bidding and Contract Documents may be purchased at THE LPA GROUP of North Carolina, p.a., 7031 Albert Pick Road, Suite 302, Greensboro, North Carolina 27409, 336-393-0441 upon payment of a fee of $85.00. Make checks payable to THE LPA GROUP of North Carolina, p.a. This fee will be refunded to bona fide Bidders. If contractors order multiple sets of plans and specifications, a refund will be given for one set of plans and specifications only.
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Questions relating to the Contract and Contract Documents must be submitted in writing to the Engineer no later than 12:00 pm on Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Bidding documents will be available on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 and may be examined at the following locations:
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Stylist needed with Clientele. Booth Rent. Call 336-884-1701 for Details
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BOILER REPLACEMENT FOR ARCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2610 Four Seasons Blvd Greensboro, NC Sealed proposals will be received by the Guilford County School System until June 15, 2010, at 2:00 pm in Conference Room 100 located at 501 W. Washington Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27401, and immediately thereafter publicly opened and read aloud, to finish all materials and labor for the project Boiler Replacement for Archer Elementary School located at 2610 Four Season Blvd Greensboro, NC 27407. Plans, specifications, and contract documents will be available for inspection during business hours from May 27, 2010 until bids are opened at the following locations: in the offices of Triad Engineering Consultants, Inc. located at 2638 Willard Dairy Rd, Suite 100 in High Point, NC (336)454-0225; the Minority Plan Room in Greensboro, NC, Triad AGC Plan Room in Greensboro, NC. A $100 bid deposit is required to obtain a complete set of plans and specifications. The full deposit will be refundable to contractors submitting a Bona Fide bid and returning the plans and specifications in satisfactory condition within 10 days of the bid date. A brief description of work in the project follows: Demolish existing hot water boilers, pumps, piping, electrical, controls, lights, etc in the boiler room. Replace with new condensing boilers, pumps, piping, controls, and modify piping, electrical circuits, etc to accommodate new equipment. Demolish and rebuild masonry chimney wall as required to install new flues in existing chimney flueways. Connect new hot water piping to existing hot water piping to existing hot water piping in the boiler room. The existing chiller, pump, and dual temperature piping loop serving the building must remain in operation throughout work under this contract. Connect new gas piping to the existing gas meter at the boiler room. A prebid conference will be held at the site at 3:00pm June 1, 2010. Attendees shall sign-in at the Main Office to be directed to the meeting room. Although attendance at this conference is not required, potential bidders are strongly encouraged to attend the meeting to examine the existing conditions and to hear particular details of the project and the bidding process. Lack of familiarity with existing conditions or with the bidding process will not be considered a valid reason for any change requests.
MILLIS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - BOILER REPLACEMENT 4310 MILLIS ROAD JAMESTOWN, NC 27282-8912 Sealed proposals will be received by the Guilford County Schools System until 2:00 pm, June 15th, 2010, in Conference Room 100 located at 501 W. Washington Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27401, and immediately thereafter publicly opened and read aloud, to furnish all materials and labor for the Installation of a BOILER REPLACEMENT, MILLIS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, JAMESTOWN, NC. Plans, specifications, and contract documents will be available for inspection during business hours from May 24 until bids are opened at the following locations: call the offices of Sigma Engineered Solutions to obtain a copy; p(919)840-9300. A $150 bid deposit is required to obtain a complete set of plans and specifications. The full deposit will be refundable to contractors submitting a Bona Fide bid and returning the plans and specifications in satisfactory condition within 10 days of the bid date. A brief description of work in the project follows: Replace two hot water boilers, two water pumps, piping specialties and valves. A pre-bid conference will be held at the site at 10:00am, June 1st, 2010. Attendees shall meet at the Main Office. Attendance at this conference is required for all potential bidders to examine the existing conditions and to discuss particular details of the project. Bids will not be accepted from contractors that did not attend this prebid conferences.
A 5% Bid Bond is required for this project. Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds will be required. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for a period of 60 days.
A 5% Bid Bond is required for this project. Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds will be required. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for a period of 60 days.
Minority businesses are encouraged to submit bids for this project. The Board of Education awards public contracts without regard to race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age or handicapped condition as defined by North Carolina General Statutes, Section 168A-3.
Minority businesses are encouraged to submit bids for this project. The Board of Education awards public contracts without regard to race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age or handicapped condition as defined by North Carolina General Statutes, Section 168A-3.
The appropriate forms from the section entitled “Participation by Women and Minority Owned Businesses“ must be submitted with each bid to show good faith efforts to obtain Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise participation.
The appropriate forms from the section entitled “Participation by Women and Minority Owned Businesses“ must be submitted with each bide to show good faith efforts to obtain Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise participation.
The Guilford County Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids presented and to waive any informalities and irregularities.
The Guilford County Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids presented and to waive any informalities and irregularities.
Guilford County Schools John Mann Purchasing Officer
Guilford County Schools John Mann Purchasing Officer
May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
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Sealed proposals will be received by the Purchasing Division of the City of High Point, North Carolina, in the third floor conference room (Room Number 302) located in the Municipal Office Building until 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 24, 2010, This is an informal bid and there will not be a formal bid opening.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Purchasing Division of the City of High Point, North Carolina, in the third floor conference room (Room Number 302) located in the Municipal Office Building until 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 24, 2010, This is an informal bid and there will not be a formal bid opening.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Purchasing Division of the City of High Point, North Carolina, in the third floor conference room (Room Number 302) located in the Municipal Office Building until 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 23, 2010. This is an informal bid and there will not be a formal bid opening.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Purchasing Division of the City of High Point, North Carolina, in the third floor conference room (Room Number 302) located in the Municipal Office Building until 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 23, 2010, This is an informal bid and there will not be a formal bid opening.
HVAC Replacement at High Point Police Department, Bid No. 36-062410.
HVAC Replacement at High Point Municipal Operations Center, Bid No. 37-062410.
Roof Replacement at ter, Bid No. 35-062310.
Roof Replacement at ment, Bid No. 34-062310.
This contract is being funded all or in part by money available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
This contract is being funded all or in part by money available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
This contract is being funded all or in part by money available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
This contract is being funded all or in part by money available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
General contractors are notified that “An Act to regulate the Practice of General Contractors, Section 87-1 through 15“, ratified by the General Assembly of North Carolina, on March 10, 1925, and as subsequently amended will be observed in receiving and awarding general contracts.
General contractors are notified that “An Act to regulate the Practice of General Contractors, Section 87-1 through 15“, ratified by the General Assembly of North Carolina, on March 10, 1925, and as subsequently amended will be observed in receiving and awarding general contracts.
General contractors are notified that “An Act to regulate the Practice of General Contractors, Section 87-1 through 15“, ratified by the General Assembly of North Carolina, on March 10, 1925, and as subsequently amended will be observed in receiving and awarding general contracts.
General contractors are notified that “An Act to regulate the Practice of General Contractors, Section 87-1 through 15“, ratified by the General Assembly of North Carolina, on March 10, 1925, and as subsequently amended will be observed in receiving and awarding general contracts.
A pre-bid conference will be held on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. in the second floor conference room (Room Number 210) located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina. City staff will be available to discuss the project and answer pertinent questions including DBE requirements. All prospective bidders are urged to attend.
A pre-bid conference will be held on Thursday, May 27, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in the second floor conference room (Room Number 210) located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina. City staff will be available to discuss the project and answer pertinent questions including DBE requirements. All prospective bidders are urged to attend.
A pre-bid conference will be held on Thursday, May 27, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. in the second floor conference room (Room Number 210) located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina. City staff will be available to discuss the project and answer pertinent questions including DBE requirements. All prospective bidders are urged to attend.
A pre-bid conference will be held on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. in the second floor conference room (Room Number 210) located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina. City staff will be available to discuss the project and answer pertinent questions including DBE requirements. All prospective bidders are urged to attend.
Contract documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications, are on file and may be obtained from the City of High Point Purchasing Division, located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina 27261. Complete specifications are also available on the City of High Point Web Site (www.high-point.net). Go to Purchasing in the Quick Links Section.
Contract documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications, are on file and may be obtained from the City of High Point Purchasing Division, located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina 27261. Complete specifications are also available on the City of High Point Web Site (www.high-point.net). Go to Purchasing in the Quick Links Section.
Contract documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications, are on file and may be obtained from the City of High Point Purchasing Division, located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina 27261. Complete specifications are also available on the City of High Point Web Site (www.high-point.net). Go to Purchasing in the Quick Links Section.
Contract documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications, are on file and may be obtained from the City of High Point Purchasing Division, located in the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina 27261. Complete specifications are also available on the City of High Point Web Site (www.high-point.net). Go to Purchasing in the Quick Links Section.
No proposal shall be considered or accepted by the City Council unless at the time of its filing the same shall be accompanied by a deposit with the City of High Point of a certified check on a bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid. In lieu of making the deposit as above provided, such bidder may file a bid bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the laws of North Carolina to execute such bonds; conditioned that the surety will upon demand forthwith make payment to the City of High Point upon said bond if the bidder fails to execute the contract in accordance with the bid bond. This deposit shall be retained if the successful bidder fails to execute the contract within ten (10) days after award or fails to give satisfactory surety as required herein.
No proposal shall be considered or accepted by the City Council unless at the time of its filing the same shall be accompanied by a deposit with the City of High Point of a certified check on a bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid. In lieu of making the deposit as above provided, such bidder may file a bid bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the laws of North Carolina to execute such bonds; conditioned that the surety will upon demand forthwith make payment to the City of High Point upon said bond if the bidder fails to execute the contract in accordance with the bid bond. This deposit shall be retained if the successful bidder fails to execute the contract within ten (10) days after award or fails to give satisfactory surety as required herein.
No proposal shall be considered or accepted by the City Council unless at the time of its filing the same shall be accompanied by a deposit with the City of High Point of a certified check on a bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid. In lieu of making the deposit as above provided, such bidder may file a bid bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the laws of North Carolina to execute such bonds; conditioned that the surety will upon demand forthwith make payment to the City of High Point upon said bond if the bidder fails to execute the contract in accordance with the bid bond. This deposit shall be retained if the successful bidder fails to execute the contract within ten (10) days after award or fails to give satisfactory surety as required herein.
No proposal shall be considered or accepted by the City Council unless at the time of its filing the same shall be accompanied by a deposit with the City of High Point of a certified check on a bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid. In lieu of making the deposit as above provided, such bidder may file a bid bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the laws of North Carolina to execute such bonds; conditioned that the surety will upon demand forthwith make payment to the City of High Point upon said bond if the bidder fails to execute the contract in accordance with the bid bond. This deposit shall be retained if the successful bidder fails to execute the contract within ten (10) days after award or fails to give satisfactory surety as required herein.
A separate performance and payment bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required.
A separate performance and payment bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required.
A separate performance and payment bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required.
A separate performance and payment bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required.
The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Award will be made to the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid.
The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Award will be made to the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid.
The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Award will be made to the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid.
The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Award will be made to the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid.
Pursuant to General Statute 143-48 and Executive Order #150, the City of High Point invites and encourages participation in this procurement process by businesses owned by minorities, women, disabled, disabled business enterprises and non-profit work centers for the blind and severely disabled.
Pursuant to General Statute 143-48 and Executive Order #150, the City of High Point invites and encourages participation in this procurement process by businesses owned by minorities, women, disabled, disabled business enterprises and non-profit work centers for the blind and severely disabled.
Pursuant to General Statute 143-48 and Executive Order #150, the City of High Point invites and encourages participation in this procurement process by businesses owned by minorities, women, disabled, disabled business enterprises and non-profit work centers for the blind and severely disabled.
Pursuant to General Statute 143-48 and Executive Order #150, the City of High Point invites and encourages participation in this procurement process by businesses owned by minorities, women, disabled, disabled business enterprises and non-profit work centers for the blind and severely disabled.
T. Robert Martin Purchasing Manager
T. Robert Martin Purchasing Manager
T. Robert Martin Purchasing Manager
T. Robert Martin Purchasing Manager
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May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010
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High-end mfg. of traditional & contemporary furniture needs experienced high-end upholstery sewer. Must be exp. in all aspects of sewing operation. Immediate opening with benefits including health, dental, vision & 401K. Apply in person to Tomlinson/Erwin-Lambeth Inc., 201 East Holly Hill Rd., Thomasville, NC Supervisor Position available for Custom Wood Shop. Must have Auto CAD and CNC Router experience. Applicant must be able to provide references. Apply in person at 1309 Dorris Ave., High Point Ads that work!!
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Britthaven Of Davidson has the following positions available: Staff Development Coordinator Must be an approved Registered Nurse. Must have experience in health related facility, experience in supervision and principles. Candidate must also possess skills in leadership & communication. Please apply in person at Britthaven of Davidson 706 Pineywood Rd. Thomasville AAE/EOE/Drugfree Workplace.
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CLAPP’S NURSING AND REHAB IN ASHEBORO IS SEEKING A FULL-TIME OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST TO JOIN OUR PROFESSIONAL TEAM. WE OFFER COMPETITIVE WAGES AND EXCELLENT BENEFIT PACKAGE. PLEASE FAX RESUME TO 336-625-1927 OR EMAIL TO: pjones@ triadbiz.rr.com
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Piedmont Crossing, a continuing care retirement community, located in Thomasville, has great opportunities to work in an environment where quality care and teamwork are the number one priority. Current positions include: ● PRN Nurses - All shifts (hours also available at our sister facility in Lexington) We offer competitive wages, flexible scheduling and great benefits. Applications available on-line at www.uchas.org Please apply in person or send application to: Piedmont Crossing 100 Hedrick Drive, Thomasville, NC 27360 Phone (336)472-2017 EOE Ads that work!! Piedmont Crossing, a continuing care retirement community, located in Thomasville, has great opportunities to work in an environment where quality care and teamwork are the number one priority. Current positions include: ● PT Dietary Aide 2nd Shift ● PT Cook 1st Shift ● PRN Housekeeping/Laundry Position - will work both Lexington & Thomasville Locations We offer competitive wages, flexible scheduling and great benefits. Please apply in person to: Piedmont Crossing 100 Hedrick Drive, Thomasville, NC 27360 Phone (336)472-2017 EOE
READVERTISEMENT NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority will receive proposals for Acquisition of Remanufactured Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) Vehicle 2010 in the Stanley Frank Board Room at the Piedmont Triad International Airport, until 2:00 pm on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at which time and place all proposals received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids received after the stated time will not be accepted. The Project may be generally described as the acquisition of a remanufactured, 1995 or newer, 4,000 gallon, eight wheel drive ARFF vehicle for use in the airport environment. Bid security in the form of a Bid Bond equal to 5% of the total bid is required. Contract security in the form of 100% Performance and Payment Bonds will be required. No Bid may be withdrawn after closing time for the receipt of proposals for a period of one hundred twenty (120) calendar days. Proposal Requirements may be examined at the following location: Office of the Airport Authority:Piedmont Triad International Airport Attn: Mickie L. Elmore, Director of Development 6415 Bryan Boulevard Greensboro, North Carolina 27409 336-665-5600 The bidders shall certify, by submission of a proposal, that neither it nor its principals is presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in this transaction by any Federal department or agency or the State of North Carolina. The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority reserves the right to waive any informalities or irregularities in or reject any or all bids and to award or refrain from awarding the contract for the work, whichever is deemed to be in the Owner’s best interest. May 23, 2010
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60+ COLLEGE CREDITS? Serve one weekend a month as a National Guard Officer. 16 career fields, leadership, benefits, bonus, pay, tuition assistance and more! joel.eberly@us.army.mil Britthaven Of Davidson has the following positions available: Full Time RN or LPN, Full Time Treatment Nurse Please apply in person at Britthaven of Davidson 706 Pineywood Rd. Thomasville AAE/EOE/Drugfree Workplace. HOST FAMILIES for Foreign Exchange Students, ages 15-18 & have own spending money & insurance. Call Now for students arriving in August! Great life experience. 1-800-SIBLING. www.aise.com Machine Operator & Packing Positions in Food Manufac turing. Stable Work Record Required. Good Pay & Benefits. Call 8615454 for appointment between 3-5pm Only! M O N E Y F O R SCHOOL- Exciting care er field s with US N avy. Hig h demand for nuclear specialists and SEALS. Paid training, excellent benefits and even money for college. HS grads, 17-34, relocation required. Call Mon-Fri 800-6627419 for local interview NOW accepting applications for F/T P/T. Salary plus commission positions available for Sales Associates. Requires: HS diploma or GED, customer service skills, bondable, reliable transportation. Spanish speaking a plus. Hiring for for both locations. Apply to First National Pawn, 110 East Fairfield or Pawnway, 1185 E. Lexington Ave. Call (336) 4347296 or (336) 8837296. Adult Entertainers $150 per hr + tips. No exp. necessary. Call 441-4099 ext. 5 MAKE Extra $$ Sell Avon to family, friends & work 9084002 Independent Rep. Residential, HVAC Installer. Min 2 years exp. Must have tools & Drivers License. Steady Year round work. State exp & salar y requir ements. Reply in confidence to box 995, C/O High Point Enterprise, PO Box 1009, High Point, NC 27261
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AUCTION CLERKS Needed on Wednesdays approx 8:303pm. Data entry exper req’d. Good job opportunity for homemaker, retiree, or college student. Paid dayrate. Fax resume to: HR Director (336) 856-2232 DRIVERS Needed PT on Wednesdays only for Auction. Must be able to Drive Manual Shift Vehicles. Starting Pay $7.50 Per Hour. Great Opportunity for Homemakers, Retirees & Others. Apply in Person M-F 8am-4pm to Human Resources. Greensboro Auto Auction 3907W Wendover Ave Greensboro, NC EOE
NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals will be received by the Purchasing Division of the City of High Point, North Carolina in the third floor conference room (room number 302) of the Municipal Office Building until 2:00 P.M., July 14, 2010, at which time they will be opened and publicly read for furnishing of the following: BID# 01-071410
High Point Fire Department Maintenance Facility.
Quantities and major work items are more thoroughly described herein. General contractors are notified that “An Act to regulate the Practice of General Contractors, Section 87-1 through 15“, ratified by the General Assembly of North Carolina, on March 10, 1925, and as subsequently amended will be observed in receiving and awarding general contracts. Contract documents, including Drawings and Technical Specifications, Triad Plan Room (A.G.C.), Inc. at 4275 Regency Drive, Suite 102, Greensboro, North Carolina and McGraw Hill/Dodge Plan Room at 1001 Navaho Drive, Suite 102, Raleigh, North Carolina. Proposal forms, plans and specifications may be obtained from the Architect: Garner & Brown Architects, PA 1718 East Boulevard Charlotte, North Carolina 28203 704-333-1051 A deposit of $150.00 will be required of General Contractors (Prime) for two sets of plans and one specification. The deposit will be returned to bona fide bidders if all construction documents are returned to the Architect within 10 days of bidding. A separate, nonrefundable charge of $30.00 will be made for mailed sets. Each Bid must be accompanied by a Bid security in an amount of five (5) percent of the total Bid. Security may be in the form of cash, a cashier’s or certified check or Bid Bond made payable to the City of High Point, NC and drawn on a bank, or Trust company insured under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Bonds must be executed by a corporate surety licensed under the laws of North Carolina, as provided for by North Carolina Statues. A separate performance bond and payment bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required. A pre-bid conference will be held June 16, 2010 at 10:00 A.M., in the second floor conference room (room number 210) of the Municipal Office Building, 211 South Hamilton Street, High Point, North Carolina. City staff will be available to discuss the project and answer pertinent questions including MWBE requirements. All prospective bidders are urged to attend. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids, as may in the judgment of the City, serve its best interest and the City further reserves the right to waive irregularities and informalities in any bid submitted. In accordance with the Federal “Americans With Disabilities Act“ (the Act), the City of High Point will not discriminate against individuals and‘ will not do business with vendors who discriminate against such individuals in violation of the Act.
May 23, 2010 INVITATION FOR BIDS Bid Opening: June 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM Housing Authority for the City of High Point 500 E. Russell Ave. High Point, NC 27260 Astor Dowdy and Elm Towers System HVAC Equipment Replacement Project No: CAP-10-378/CFP-10-379 Architect: LDA Architecture, PLLC 3221 Huntleigh Drive Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: (91 9) 876-6600
The Housing Authority of the City of High Point (HPHA) will receive sealed bids on a General Construction Contract from qualified licensed contractor for the Astor Dowdy and Elm Towers System HVAC Equipment Replacement. Bids will be on a stipulated sum basis for Astor Dowdy and a stipulated sum basis for Elm Towers. Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud immediately after specified closing time. Bids received after specified closing time will not be accepted. All interested parties are invited to attend the bid opening. The work includes replacing 105 dwelling units HVAC equipment and common are HVAC equipment in Astor Dowdy and replacing 150 dwelling units HVAC equipment in Elm Towers. Project is to be completed within 180 calendar days from the date of notice to proceed. A site visit has been scheduled for May 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM. The site visit is suggested, but not mandatory. Those interested should report to HPHA Main Office, 500 East Russell Ave., High Point, NC 27260 no later than 10:00 AM. All interested Contractors may obtain RFP documents at Duncan-Parnell, Inc., 4275 Regency Drive, Suite 100, Greensboro, NC 27410 or via their w e b site: www.duncan-parnell.com. Performance and Payment Bonds in the amount of One Hundred Percent (100%) of the contract amount will be required. The Housing Authority encourages minority owned businesses to participate. The Housing Authority of the City of High Point shall have the right to reject any or all bids and to waive minor technicalities and irregularities in the bidding process. Direct all inquires to: Lee Richie, Procurement Officer Housing Authority of the City of High Point Phone (336) 878-2322 E-mail lrichie@hpha.net May 23, 2010
Part-Time
Housekeeper non smoke r. Cats, Jamestown ,4540178 lv msg. PT Parking Lot attendant/Maintenance Position available at The String and Splinter Club. 305 West High St. HP. Hours Mon-Fri 11a-2p. DL and transportation req’d. Apply in person Mon-Fri. after 2:15pm
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Respect, recognition and a welcoming culture are at the h e a r t o f j o b satisfaction. At Randolph Hospital, t h e l e a d i n g heal thcare p rovider in Asheboro and Randolph County, NC, you’ll find the s u p p o r t a n d encouragement you need to thrive. Join our dedicated team and find a Career You Can Trust.
REVENUE INTEGRITY SPECIALIST W i l l a n a l y z e g o v e r n m e n t a l regulations and the impact regarding our revenue cycle p r o c e s s e s throughout the o r g a n i z a t i o n ; prepare and analyze r e p o r t s ; develop/implement o p e r a t i o n a l requirements for CMS’ Recovery Act Contractor (RAC) program; and maintain accurate information for submitting/tracking a p p e a l s a n d outcomes of audits. Requires Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent; 4 yrs. exp. with a d v a n c e d knowledge of the health care industry; k n o w l e d g e o f M e d i c a r e reimbursement/pay ment policies, CMS CLAIMS Manual, audit reviews and analysis, medical terminology, and coding; 2 yrs. exp. with DRG, ICD-9, and CPT-4 medical record coding and UB-92/CMS-1500 claim billing.; and s t r o n g communication and computer skills. RN with Coding cert., a d v a n c e d certifications and/or c e r t i f i e d Professional Coder, RHIT, CCS, or RHIA preferred. F o r h i g h l y competitive pay, f r i e n d l y s u r r o u n d i n g s , generous benefits and a career you can embrace, please visit us online at: www.randolph hospital.org. EOE
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Restaurant/ Hotel
Exp. Waitresses needed for Apply 2-4 Mon-Fri. Sunrise D i n e r 1100 Randolph, T-ville
The Classifieds PRIVATE Dining Club seeking Exp. Evening Waitstaff & Bartenders. Apply in person at the String & Splinter Club, 305 W. High St. M-F 2-5pm.
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BIG MONEY FAST!!! We have more leads than we can possible handle. If you’ve sold home improvements, or any other big ticket item, in the home, we want you. $8-20K PER MO. Travel Salary + Comm. + Bonus! with a min of 2yrs. in home sales exp. Must be willing to travel f/t in and out of state.Run preapproved, TV and internet leads. They Call us. No Cold Calling. No telemarketing leads. 1-800-7060907 ext. 3101
Place your ad today & do not forget to ask about our attention getters!! 1br Archdale $395 Lg BR, A-dale $405 Daycare $3200 L&J Prop 434-2736 2 & 3 BR Apartments for rent in High Point. Call about Spring Specials. Call 336307-0516 or 336289-6127 2BR, 1 1 ⁄2 B A Apt. T’ville Cab. Tv $450 mo. 336-561-6631 2BR Apt Archdale, $450 month plus deposit. No Pets. Call 336-431-5222 3006 D Sherrill, 2BR/1BA Apt. Stove & Ref Furn. WD Hookup. No Smoking, No Pets. $425/mo 434-3371 714-A Verta Ave. Archdale 1BR/1BA Stove, refrig., w/d conn. $350/mo. + dep. Call 474-0058 Adale nice 2BR, 1BA Apt., W/D connect., Stove & Refridg. $450. mo., + $450. dep. 431-2346 APARTMENTS & HOUSES FOR RENT. (336)884-1603 for info.
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Trades
Auto Tech needed. Exp Req’d. Must have tools, NCDL. Email infor to: newtccc@ northstate.net Project/Mechanical Engineer Growing manufacturer of industrial recycling equipment/systems is seeking a Project/Mechanical Eng i n e e r . Responsibilities will include system and facility layout, equipment specification and procurement, system pricing, and project management through startup. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with experience in project design and management. Must have B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or equival e n t . Comprehensive benefits package, vacation and retirement plan. Send resume to: Attn: Gary Kolbet, Vecoplan, LLC, PO Box 7224, High Point, NC 27264.
Apartments Unfurnished
1 & 2 BR, Applis, AC, Clean, Good Loc. $390-$460 431-9478
Where Buyers & Sellers Meet
For Rent 405 Centennial $500 mo & 510 Underhill Apt A, $350 mo. Nice Properties. A/C & W/D Hook up. Ken @ 336-926-3818 Nice 1BR Condo $450 Nice 2BRCondo $575 Convenient location Kitchen appls. furn.
GILWOOD NORTH
Buy * Save * Sell Place your ad in the classifieds! Buy * Save * Sell T’ville 2BR/1.5BA Townhouse. Stove, refrig., & cable furn. No pets. No Section 8. $440+ dep. 475-2080. WE have section 8 approved apartments. Call day or night 625-0052. WOW Spring Special! 2br $395 remodeled $99dep-sect. 8 no dep E. Commerce 988-9589
Commercial Property
1,000 sq. ft retail space near new 85. Reasonable rent & terms. Phone day or night 336-625-6076.
Careers You Can Trust
2800 sf Wrhs $650 10,000 sqft $1600 T-ville 336-362-2119 70,000 ft. former Braxton Culler bldg. Well located. Reasonable rent. Call day or night. 336-6256076
RN’s & LPN’s
8000 SF Manuf $1800
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Apartments Furnished
3 ROOM APARTMENT partly furnished. 476-5530 431-3483
168 SF Office $250 600 SF Wrhs $200 T-ville 336-561-6631 Almost new 10,000 sq ft bldg on Baker Road, plenty of parking. Call day or night 336-625-6076
INVITATION FOR BIDS Bid Opening: Tuesday, June 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM Housing Authority for the City of High Point Conference Room 500 East Russell Avenue High Point, NC 27260 Modernization Phase II: Carson Stout Homes NC6-04 CFP-10-381 Owner: Housing Authority of the City of High Point (HPHA) 500 East Russell Avenue High Point, NC 27260 Phone: (336) 878-2300
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COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL 106 W. KIVETT. Showroom space, Approx. 1500 sq. ft. just off main ........... $985 788 A. N. MAIN. Approx. 1500 sq. ft, gas heat, central air, several compartments..................... $950 614 N. HAMILTON. Ideal for beauty or nail salon. Heat, water, hot water, has central A/C............. $685 652 N. MAIN. showroom, approx. 5000 sq. ft..................... $5000 307-E ARCHDALE RD. Office space, approx. 1000 SF, gas heat, central air ............................... $525 1411 WELBORN. Suite 103. Approx. 1000 sq. ft. gas heat, cen air ........... $800 120-122 W. BROAD Approx. 560 SF Gas ht., air, brick, paved street across from railroad station ............................... $596 116 W. BROAD. 280 SF........................... $298
Architect: LDA Architecture, PLLC 3221 Huntleigh Drive Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: (919) 876-6600
The HPHA will receive sealed bids on a Single Prime Construction Contract from qualified licensed contractors for modernization. The work includes interior and exterior rehabilitation to dwelling units, repair of concrete paving, tree removal, landscaping and miscellaneous site improvements. Project is to be completed within 300 calendar days from the date of notice to proceed. A pre-bid conference site visit has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 10:OO AM. Attendance at the pre-bid conference is suggested, but is not mandatory. Those interested should report to Central Office, 500 East Russell Avenue, High Point, North Carolina 27262. Bids will be on a stipulated sum basis. Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud immediately after specified closing time. Bids received after specified closing time will not be considered. All interested parties are invited to attend the bid opening. A Bid Bond (5%) is required at the time of bidding. Performance and Payment Bonds in the amount of One Hundred Percent (100%) of the contract amount will be required from the successful bidder. The HPHA encourages minority owned businesses to participate. The HPHA shall have the right to reject any or all bids and to waive minor technicalities and irregularities in the bidding process. All interested Contractors may obtain RFP documents at Duncan-Parnell, Inc., 4275 Regency Drive, Suite 100, Greensboro, NC 27410 or via their w e b site: www.duncan-parnell.com. Direct technical inquires to: Lee Richie, Procurement Officer Housing Authority of the City of High Point, Phone (336) 878-2322, email lrichie@hpha.net. May 23, 2010
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COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, RESIDENTIAL NEEDS Call CJP 884-4555 110 Scott.......................1050sf 110 Scott......................One Office 2906 S. Main ............... 2400sf 409E Fairfield ............. 500-1040sf
1638 W’chester ............1000sf 615-B N. Hamilton ......... 658sf 603C E’chester ............1200sf 124 Church...................1595sf 1321 W. Fairfield ............ 660sf 1001 Phillips .............. 1-2000sf 1321 W Fairfield ............1356sf
2012 English ............4050sf 619 N Hamilton........ 2400sf
724 English........... 1200sf 131 W Parris............ 330-795sf
T’ville1672 sf .......... Office 1638 W’chester ........ Dental 108E Kivett ......... 2784-5568sf
1903 E Green ............ Lot 900 W. Fairfield ......... Lot 333 S. Wrenn ..........8008sf
WAREHOUSE 1006 W Green ........10,100sf 2507 Surrett .......... 10,080sf 255 Swathmore...............93000sf
1820 Blandwood ......... 5400sf 1200
Dorris .............. 8232sf 320 Ennis .................7840sf
2136 Brevard.................. 43,277sf
651 Ward ...............38,397sf 2415 English Rd..........21485sf 1200 Corporation ..............3000sf
2330 English ............9874sf 521 S Hamilton .........4875sf 920 W Fairfield .......... 28000sf 3204E Kivett............ 2750-5000sf 1006 Market Ctr ..............20000sf
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2112 S. Elm ............... 30,000sf 2505 Surrett ................ 8000sf 1125 Bedford ............ 30,000sf
3214 E Kivett ........... 2250sf 238 Woodline .......... 8000sf 608 Old T-ville ........ 12-2400sf 1914 Allegany.............. 6000 sf 1945 W Green ........ 25,220+sf 1207 Textile ............. 3500-7000sf
1323 Dorris ...........8880sf 1937 W Green ........... 26447sf
2815 Earlham ......... 15650sf 232 Swathmore ........ 47225sf
SHOWROOM 207 W. High .........2500sf 422 N Hamilton ........ 7237sf
COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL Updated 33,300 sq. ft. Excellent industrial building. Good parking & loading. Lots of offices at 2226 Shore Drive. Very reasonable lease at $3500. Henry Shavitz Realty 882-8111 It;s all in here today!! The Classifieds
Buy * Save * Sell
Call (336) 869-4212
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www.randolph hospital.org
Now hiring RN’s and LPN’s for 7a-3p TuesFri, 11p-7a, Mon-Fri and 7a-7p weekends. Along with a comptitive wage/benefits package, we offer an atmosphere of respect and caring. Candidates may apply in person at WESTWOOD HEALTH & REHABILITATION, 625 Ashland Street, Archdale, NC. EOE
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More People.... Better Results ...
The Classifieds Office 615 W English 4300 sf. Industrial 641 McWay Dr, 2500 sf. Fowler & Fowler 883-1333
Want... Need.... Can not Live Without? The Classifieds OFFICE SPACES Looking to increase or decrease your office size. Large & Small Office spaces. N High Point. All amenities included & Conference Room, Convenient to the Airport.
RETAIL
SPACE
across from Outback, 1200-4000 sq. ft. D.G. Real-Estate Inc 336-841-7104 Off/ Retail/ Shop/Manu f a c / C h u r c h . $425/mo. 431-7716
404 N Wrenn........6000sf 307 Steele St ............. 11,050sf 135 S. Hamilton ......... 30000sf
Craven-Johnson-Pollock 615 N. Hamilton St. 884-4555 www.cjprealtors.com Where Buyers & Sellers Meet
The Classifieds Very nice 1000 sq. ft in small center off S. Main. Good parking. Reasonable rent & terms. Phone day or night 336-625-6076
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Condos/ Townhouses
2BR/ 2BA. New Stainless Applis, Carpet & Paint. Located near Oak Hollow Mall. $695 mo Call 336-772-3699
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Homes Furnished
Emerywood Area. 1BR Cottage, Cable & Wireless Internet, $700. 1BR Condo @ Hillcrest Manor, $600. No Lease, Ref & Dep Required. 8864773 or 886-3179
6 Drivers Needed Immediately! Plus, Also Need 4 Exp. Teams ASAP! • Great pay and benefits! • Home when promised! • Plenty of miles!
1-800-420-1510 Call between 8:00am - 5:00 pm, Mon.-Fri.
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Cost Accountant Coordinator The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a manufacturing environment. This position will have various job duties which will require excellent computer skills, familiarity with financial statements and budget preparations. Very competitive salary with complete benefit package. Mail resume with salary requirements to HR Manager, 1629 Blandwood Drive, High Point, NC 27260 Equal Access/Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Finance Accounting TechIII (Payroll) Guilford County Finance Department Position # 03453 Process payroll on Lawson Payroll System. Complete related reconcilement process & journal entries. Assist with accounts payable. Payroll processing will incorporate Kronos software for use in time entry handling. Must have thorough working knowledge of payroll taxation and overall payroll related processes and regulations and experience with automated payroll systems in a medium to large size organization. Require high school graduation with some additional coursework in bookkeeping/accounting and 4+ years experience preferably in governmental setting. Salary $35,661-$48,142. Open Until Filled. Apply online at www.co.guilford.nc.us, 201 S. Greene St., Greensboro, NC (336) 641-4710. EOE
Carriers Needed Need to earn extra money? Are you interested in running your own business? This is the opportunity for you. The High Point Enterprise is looking for carriers to deliver the newspaper as independent contractors. You must be able to work early morning hours. Routes must be delivered by 6am. This is seven days a week, 365 days per year. We have routes available in the following areas: ● Meadowbrook, Ronniedale, Fairview Rd, $800 mo approx. 2.5 hours approx.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS JACKSON MIDDLE SCHOOL - STEAM BOILER REPLACEMENT 2200 ONTARIO STREET, GREENSBORO, NC
T. Robert (Bob) Martin, Purchasing Manager
Owner: Housing Authority of the City of High Point (HPHA) 500 East Russell Avenue High Point, NC 27260 Phone: (336) 878-2300
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Sealed proposals will be received by the Guilford County School System until June 15, 2010 at 2:00PM, in Conference Room 100 located at 501 W. Washington Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27401, and immediately thereafter publicly opened and read aloud, to furnish all materials and labor for the Installation of a Steam Boiler Replacement at Jackson Middle School, 2200 Ontario Street, Greensboro, NC. Plans, specifications, and contract documents will be available for inspection during business hours at AGC MCGraw-Hill Dodge, Reed Construction Data, and HCAC/ISQft Plan Rooms until bids are opened at the following locations: in the offices of Engineered Designs, Inc. at 5540 Centerview Dr., Suite 315, Raleigh, NC 27606, (919)851-8481. A $100.00 bid deposit is required to obtain a complete set of plans and specifications. The full deposit will be refundable to contractors submitting a Bona Fide bid and returning the plans and specifications in satisfactory condition within 10 days of the bid date.
Church
● Cedar Square Rd, Muddy Creek, Hwy 311, $800-$850 mo approx. 2 hours approx. If you are interested in any of the above routes, please come by the office at 210 Church Avenue between 8:30am-4:30pm.
ABSOLUTE AUCTION THURSDAY...MAY 27th...6pm 6874 Winners Circle Trinity, North Carolina 27370 On-site... Online... Proxy Bidding Available
A brief description of work in the project follows: Replacement of tow existing steam boilers, gas train, sump pump, and five (5) hot water pumps in an existing boiler room. In addition, contractor will be installing a new duplex sump pump and replacing an existing sump pump. A prebid conference will be held at the site at June 1, 2010 at 1:00PM. Attendees shall meet at the Main Office. Attendance at this conference is required for all potential bidders to examine the existing condition and to discuss particular details of the project. Bids will not be accepted from contractors that did not attend this prebid conference. A 5% Bid Bond is required for this project. Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds will be required. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for a period of 60 days. Minority businesses are encouraged to submit bids for this project. The Board of Education awards public contracts without regard to race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age or handicapped condition as defined by North Carolina General Statutes, Section 168A-3. The appropriate forms for the section entitled “Participation by Women and Minority Owned Businesses“ must be submitted with each bid to show good faith efforts to obtain Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise participation. The Guilford County Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids presented and to waive any informalities and irregularities. Guilford County Schools John Mann Purchasing Officer May 23, 2010
4 BR, 3.5 BA in prestigious Steeplegate Community . All the amenities you would expect! Finished basement & main level will need some refurbishing due to resolved utility service issues. Call or see our website for details, photos, etc: www.rogersacutiongroup.com
Jayme Gandee or Bracky Rogers (336) 789-2926 (800) 442-7906 NCAL #685
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Homes Unfurnished
104 Hasty School Rd. REDUCED $695. 3BR, 2B A, Hasty School. Will Not Last Long. Town & Country Realty 336-472-5588 1650 SF Archdale, 5367 Jennifer Ct., $750mo www.ces4. net/rentals/5367/ 1 Bedroom 217 Lindsay St ................ $400 2 Bedrooms 709-B Chestnut St.......... $350 316 Friendly Ave ............. $375 713-A Scientific St........... $395 1140 Montlieu Ave .......... $400 1017 Foust St .................. $400 318 Monroe Pl ................ $400 309 Windley St. .............. $425 203 Brinkley Pl................$500 1704-E N Hamilton ......... $550 5928 G. Friendly Ave............$700
205 Nighthawk Pl ........... $895 5056 Bartholomew’s.... $900
3 Bedrooms 201 Murray St ................. $375 704 E. Kearns St ............ $450 500 Woodrow Ave ......... $500 302 Ridgecrest .............. $575 504 Steele St.................. $600 1200 Wynnewood .........$1400 Call About Rent Specials Fowler & Fowler 883-1333 www.fowler-fowler.com
1st Month Rent Free! ONLY $500 To Move In, Must See! Completely remodeled. 3BR/1BA, Deck, Refr ig. & Sto ve incl. Sec. 8 ok. 421 Peace St, HP. $675 Call 336-307-5862 211 Friendly 2br 414 Smith 2br 118 Dorothy 2br
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Homes Unfurnished
4 BEDROOMS 634 Park ........................$600 3 BEDROOMS 317 Washboard .............. $950 6538 Turnpike ................ $950 603 Denny...................... $675 405 Moore ..................... $640 1014 Grace ..................... $575 281 Dorothy.................... $550 116 Dorothy .................... $550 1414 Madison ................. $525 1439 Madison................. $495 920 Forest ..................... $450 326 Pickett..................... $450 1728 Brooks ................... $395 1317 Franklin ................... $375 1711 Edmondson............. $350 2 BEDROOMS 1100 Westbrook.............. $650 316 Liberty...................... $600 3911 D Archdale.............. $600 306 Davidson ................. $575 208 Liberty ..................... $550 110 Terrace Trace........... $495 285 Dorothy ................... $500 532 Roy ......................... $495 1765 Tabernacle............. $475 610 Hedrik ...................... $460 330 Hodgin .................... $450 410 Friddle...................... $435 10721 N Main .................. $425 1303 West Green ............$410 215-B W. Colonial........... $400 600 WIllowbar ................ $400 1035 B Pegram .............. $395 311-F Kendall .................. $395 304-A Kersey................. $395 412 N. Centennial........... $385 1401 Bradshaw............... $375 1418 Johnson ................. $375 1429 E Commerce ......... $375 517 Lawndale ................. $375 210 Kenliworth................ $350 802 Barbee .................... $350 606 Wesley.................... $325 10828 N Main ................. $325 1223 B Franklin............... $295 1730 B Brooks ................ $295
Miscellaneous
ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE from home. Medical, Business, Paralegal, Accounting, Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial aid if qualified. Call 888899-6918. www.CenturaOnline.com
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Auctions
REAL EST ATE AUCTION: Wednesday, May 26, 1:00PM, 2082 Amelia Church Rd, Clayton, NC 27520. 2 Tracts on and near NC Hwy 42. 1.505 AC and 8.043 AC. Johnson Properties, NCAL7340, 919693-2231, www.johnsonproperties.com.
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Cemetery Plots/Crypts
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Pets
Beautiful AKC tered. Shih-Tzu Ready for New with Papers Call 336-491-9316
RegisPuppy Home $350.
2 Choice Plots in Floral Gardens. Section N-182, # 2 & 4, Retail $2100. ea., $950. ea., Call 704-542-5383
Chihuahua Pup for sale $200., Male, approximately 6 mo. old., Call 336-4713067
SINGLE CEMETERY PLOT IN FLORAL GARDEN, VALUE $3200, SELLING FOR $2500. 697-9780
CKC Boxer Pups Gorgeous-HealthyLoving-Smart DOB 3-22 tails-dewclaws by Vet. Weaned, use paper or doggie door $300 704-495-2014 336-434-4923
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Commercial Property
223 Dorothy St 3BR /1BA, brick, cent. H/A $675. 431-8865
1 BEDROOMS 313 B Kersey .................. $340 203 Baker ...................... $325 205 A Taylor................... $285 117 N Hoskins ................. $200
1800 Sq. Ft. Davidson County, Conrad Realtors 336-885-4111
Cocker Spaniel Pups born 3/26, 1st shots, 1 blonde M, 1 buff F, $175. 336-803-5231
306 Woodbury-2br 901 Meredith-2br 883-9602
KINLEY REALTY 336-434-4146
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$365/mth 1BR, garage, fenced yd, carpet, no appliances, no pe ts! 880- 7670 808 Winslow St.
615 Goodman, A’dale, Spacious 3BR, 2BA , Cent. H/A, Stove, Fridge, DW, EC., Sec Sys. $795. mo + dep. 474-0058 NO PETS
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Shih Tzu, Chihuahua, Cocker, Maltese, Schnauzer, Poodle. 498-7721
885-6149
3Bedroom, 1 1⁄ 2 Bath, 1906 Arden Pl. $600. + Dep. 989-2434 before 7pm 3BR, 2 full BA, Hasty/Ledford area, $700. mo + $700. dep. Call 475-0765 or 848-5166 411 Gatewood Ave. HP, 5BRs , 2.5 BA, $895.mo., Call 4422168 4 BEDROOMS 112 White Oak.........$1195 622 Dogwood ........ $850 507 Prospect ......... $500 3 BEDROOMS 1209 N. Rotary ...... $1500 2457 Ingleside........$1100 202 James Crossing........... $895
1000 Ruskin............ $895 1312 Granada ......... $895 811 Forrest.............. $695 3203 Waterford.......$795 222 Montlieu .......... $625 1700-F N.hamilton ... $625
813 Magnolia .......... $595 726 Bridges.............$575 1135 Tabor...............$575 1020 South ............. $550 2208-A Gable way .. $550
601 Willoubar.......... $525 324 Louise ............. $525 1016 Grant .............. $525 919 Old Winston ..... $525 207 Earle................ $500 101 Charles............. $500 1505 Franklin .......... $500 2219 N. Centennial.. $495 609 Radford ........... $495 127 Pinecrest.......... $500
406 Haywood St, Tville. Remodeled 1BR/1BA, Window a/c, $375/mo. 880-8054 For Rent 1322 Old Thomasville Rd. 5 r oom hous e. Water Furnished. $400 + Sec Dep. 885-6944.
SW Home 5BR, 4BA, 2 kit., 2 Living Rms, 2 car garage, $1350. 817-781-3613 4BR/ 2BA, carpet & hrdwds, stove, blinds $750., HP 869-8668 3BR $575. Cent H/A, Storage Bldg, blinds, quiet dead end St., Sec 8 ok 882-2030 Waterfront Home on High Rock Lake 3 B R , $ 8 0 0 . m o Boggs Realty 8594994. RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL NEEDS Call CJP 884-4555 1 BEDROOM Chestnut Apts ................ $295 1007 Tabor..................... $300 2 BEDROOMS 320 New St .................... $450 1003B Blair ..................... $425 2315 A Van Buren ..........$390 318-B Coltrane ...............$425
502 Everett ............ $450 328 Walker............. $425 322 Walker............. $425 914 Putnam............ $399
3762 Pineview ........... $500 607 Hedrick .............. $325 906 Guilford .............. $325 142 Kenilworth........... $550 2415A Francis......... $500
2 BEDROOM
706 Kennedy.......... $350 2604 Triangle Lake ........ $350 Scientific................. $395 Woodside Apts.............. $450 1310 C Eaton Pl .............. $450 3016-A Sherrill................ $375
2640 2D Ingleside $695
1720 Beaucrest .......$675 1048 Oakview......... $650 1112 Trinity Rd. ........ $550 213 W. State........... $550 503 Monnell ........... $550 101 #6 Oxford Pl ..... $535 1540 Beaucrest ...... $525 1501 Franklin........... $500 1420 Madison......... $500 204 Prospect ......... $500 920 Westbrook ...... $495 201 Charles .............$475 905 Old Tville Rd .... $450 1101 Pegram ........... $450 215 Friendly ............ $450 1198 Day................. $450 1707 W. Rotary ....... $450 111 Chestnut ........... $450 700-B Chandler...... $425 12 June................... $425 205-A Tyson Ct...... $425 1501-B Carolina ...... $425 1100 Wayside ......... $400 324 Walker............. $400 713-B Chandler ...... $399 622-B Hendrix........ $395 204 Hoskins ........... $395 2903-A Esco .......... $395 1704 Whitehall ........ $385 609-A Memorial Pk ..$375
601-B Everett ..........$375 2306-A Little ...........$375 501 Richardson .......$375 1703-B Rotary..............$375 113 Robbins..................$350 1635-A W. Rotary ....... $350
1227 Redding...............$350 406 Kennedy...............$350 311-B Chestnut............$350 1516-B Oneka..............$350 309-B Griffin ................$335 815 Worth............... $325 12109 Trinity Rd. S... $325
4703 Alford ............ $325 301 Park ................. $300 313-B Barker .......... $300 1116-B Grace .......... $295 1715-A Leonard ...... $285 1517 Olivia............... $280 1515 Olivia............... $280 1 BEDROOM 1123-C Adams ........ $450 1107-B Robin Hood........ $425
3 BEDROOMS 3628 Hickswood ............ $995 2449 Cypress................. $975 426 Habersham ............. $495 1310 Boundary................ $425 2603 Ty Cir..................... $600 508 C Lake .................... $625 125 Thomas.................... $625 127 Thomas.................... $625 2013 Wesley .................. $425 2915 Central Av ..........$475
Craven-Johnson Pollock 615 N. Hamilton St. 884-4555
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1 acre Mobile Home lot & 1 Mobile Home fo r rent. C all 336247-2031
CONRAD REALTORS 512 N. Hamilton 885-4111
4 BEDROOMS 2003 Almina ............$575
3 BEDROOMS 503 Pomeroy ..............$480 2418 Dane ...................$600 1442 N. Hamilton ............................... $385 519 B W. Ward ....... $320 1614 N. Hamilton .........$325 406 Summitt................$750 523 Guilford.................$450 1705 Worth............. $598 603 Cork Tree ........... $550
1009 True Lane ...........$450 1015 True Lane............$450 100 Lawndale ..............$450 3228 Wellingford ....... $450
1609 Pershing..............$500
2 BEDROOMS 511 E. Fairfield ..............$398 515 E. Fairfield .............$398 1605 & 1613 Fowler ..... $400
612 A Chandler ...........$335 804 Winslow .......... $335 1500-B Hobart.............$298 2709 E. Kivett......... $398 824-H Old Winston Rd .......................... $550 706-C Railroad ............$345 231 Crestwood............$425 1423 Cook ...................$420 305-A Phillips...............$300 304-B Phillips...............$300 1101 Carter St...............$350 705-B Chestnut...........$390 215-G Dorothy........ $360
1 BEDROOM 211 E. Kendall ......... $345 620-19A N. Hamilton ................................ $310 618-12A N. Hamilton ............................... $298 1003 #2 N. Main ..... $298 Apt. #6 .........................$379 320G Richardson ....... $335
620-20B N. Hamilton ......................................$375
SECTION 8 2600 Holleman....... $398 1423 Cook St.......... $420 614 Everette ........... $498 1106 Grace ............. $425 406 Greer .............. $325
600 N. Main St. 882-8165
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Houses
24 Oak Meadow Lane T-ville, large corner lot, 3BR, 2BA, 1250 sq. ft., 2 car garage, large front porch and back deck, all kitchen appliances and window treatments remain, $110,000. Call 476-5932 / 230-7010 FSBO 3BR/1BA, Brick House, 153 W. Parris Ave. $84,900. Call 841-6618 or 471-3915 Ads that work!! Investment Property, 3BR, 2BA, good n e i g h b o r h o o d $104,000. 472-2187
Yorkshire Terrier AKC She’s so Fantastic, Cute, $550. Cash Call 336-431-9848
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Pets - Free
Free beautiful kittens to a good home, 3-4 months old. Call after 12pm, 336-883-4868
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Motivated Seller 3BR, 2BA seller requires $99.00 deposit No Credit needed 336-6298299 Mountain House 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, Porch, Extra Large F a m i l y R o o m . $190,000, 276-7285555 T-ville3br, 1.5ba, appls incl, circle drive, deck w/hot tub, fenced, wooded,schools. $115K call 687-2293
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Lots for Sale
N. East Vacant lots. Give-Away prize. 2 lots near town. 2 blocks of Main St. Quiet neighborhood, near Cemetery. 213 E. Ray Ave. $13,500. total for both.
Henry Shavitz Realty 882-8111
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Manufactured Houses
2 & 3 BR homes Sophia, Randleman & Elon plus Handyman Homes Fix it and it’s yours! Sophie & Randleman 336-495-1907 Elon 336-449-3090
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Antiques
JAPANESE SWORDS WANTED...Collector Paying $100-$1,000’s CA$H! for SAMURAI S words & D aggers, Armor & Antique Guns.. .Artwor k..WWII Weapons...Buying Col lection s & Estates..Ed Hicks...swordbuyer@aol.com...(8 00) 322-2838, (910) 977-5656.
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Appliances
Frigidaire Stove, half glass door, black and white, $125. good shape, needs some cleaning. 475-8085 Magic Chef Refrige. Side by Side, 19.8 cu. ft., ice maker & water in door, good shape, $200. 475-8085
Mobile Home for rent Archdale and Thomasville area. Weekly or monthly. Call 883-8650
Whirlpool Stove, Almond color, good condition, $85.00 Call if interested 336-8873197
Mobile Homes & Lots Auman Mobile Home Pk 3910 N. Main 883-3910
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Office/Desk Space
All or Part of 950 sqft Office for Sub Lease in Providence Place (Old Westchester Mall). Call 841-6618 to inquire
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Rooms
A-1 ROOMS. Clean, close to stores, buses, A/C. No deposit. 803-1970. A Better Room 4U HP within walking distance of stores, buses. 886-3210/ 883-2996 AFFORDABLE rooms for rent. Call 491-2997 Private extra nice. Quiet. No alochol/drugs 108 Oakwood 887-2147 LOW Weekly Rates a/c, phone, HBO, eff. Travel Inn Express, HP 883-6101 no sec. dep.
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Care Sick Elderly
Will take care of one Assisted living person in my home that has a p r i v a t e A p t . reasonable. Call 4310249
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Computer Repair
SCOOTERS Computers. We fix any problem. Low prices. 476-2042
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Lawn Care
C & C Lawn Care. Mow, trim, aerate, fert., etc. Res & comm. 434-6924
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Painting Papering
SAM KINCAID PAINTING FREE ESTIMATES CALL 472-2203
Rooms, $100- up. No Alcohol or Drugs. Incld Util.. 887-2033 Rooms For Rent 12 Cox Ave. $75$95/wk. Cable incld. 688-1773 / 996-4649 Walking dist.HPU rooming hse. Util.,cent. H/A, priv. $90-up. 989-3025.
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N. Myrtle Beach Condo 2BR, 1st row, pool, weeks avail. $600. wk. 665-1689
Myrtle Beach Condo. 2BR/2BA, Beach Front, EC. 887-4000 N. Myrtle Beach, Shore Dr area. 2 BR, 2 BA. Ocean view condo. Weeks ava. 336-476-8662 MB Condo, 2BR, 2BA, Pool, Oceanview, $600. Wk 869-8668
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Business Opportunities
ALL CASH VENDING! Do You Earn Up to $800/day (potential)? Your own local route. 25 Machines and Candy. All for $9,995. 1-888-753-3458, MultiVend, LLC. Mystery Shoppers earn up to $100 a day, undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments. Experience not required. Call 1-877-688-1572
Auctions
AUCTIONS can be promoted in multiple markets with one easy and affordable ad placeme nt. Your ad will be published in 1 14 NC new spapers f or only $ 330. You reach 1.7 million readers with the North Carolina Statewide Classified Ad Network. Call this newspaper’s classified department or visit www.ncpress.com
***LARGE*** PUBLIC VEHICLE AUCTION!!! TUES. MAY 25th.6:15PM High Point, NC (6695 Auction Rd.)
250+ Vehicles Expected!! **CARS, TRUCKS, VANS, 4x4’s, SUV’s & more., Numerous Bank Repos: Franchise Dealer Trade-Ins. Large Dealer & Public Consignment ***Selling several 2005-00 Toyota P/U Tks. for Davidson Water. Don’t Miss the Excitement @ MAA. Inspection: Tues. 4:00pm til Sale Time. The Public can BUY/SELL @ this auction. MENDENHALL AUTO AUCTION, INC. PO BOX 7505 HIGH POINT, NC NCAL#211 336-889-5700 www.Mendenhall Auction.com
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Vacation
FREE CAMPING for 1st time visitors. Get 3 Days FREE at our beautiful NORTH CAROLINA resort, Amazing Amenities & Family Fun! CALL 1-800795-2199 to Discover More!
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Free Kitten to a good home, 8 wks old, 3 Calico, 2 Black/White, 1 Black, white stripe. Call 861-1100
USED APPLIANCES Sales & Services $50 Service Call 336-870-4380
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FREE Kittens to Good Homes Only. Litter Trained. Call 336475-8075 Ask for Ken
MH For Rent, Stove & refrig, central air, good location, 4315560
1107-C Robin Hood . $425
620-A Scientific .......$375 508 Jeanette...........$375 1119-A English......... $350 910 Proctor............. $325 305 E. Guilford ........$275 309-B Chestnut ......$275 502-B Coltrane .......$270 1317-A Tipton.......... $235
Mobile Homes/Spaces
Buy * Save * Sell 30,000 sq ft warehouse, loading docks, plenty of parking. Call dy or night 336-625-6076
Yorkshire Terrier AKC Pup A great little guy looking for love. $450. Cash. 336-431-9848
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Only $50 includes photo Some Restrictions Apply. Private party ads only.
Food/ Beverage
BERNIE’S BERRIES & PRODUCE You Pick We Pick. 5421 Groomtown Rd, 852-1594 Mon-Sat 7am-7pm
INGRAM’S STRAWBERRIES 431-2369 ingramfarm.com
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Furniture
2 Piece Sofa & Love Seat. $150 for all. Excellent condition. Call 336-886-8602 End Tables $40 for The set Excellent condition. Call 336-886-8602
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Furniture
Leather Sofa & Love Seat. $300 for all Excellent condition. Call 336-886-8602
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Household Goods
7290
A new mattress set T$99 F$109 Q$122 K$191. Can Del. 336-992-0025
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The Classifieds Queen Sized Bedroom Suite. Price Neg. Excellent condition. Call 336-8868602
Miscellaneous
FREE 6-R oom DISH Network Satellite System! FREE HD-DVR! $19.99/mo. 120+ Digita l Channe ls (for 1 year). Call Now $400 Signup BONUS! 1-888-679-4649
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Left over Carpet and laminate from large job. Call Allison 336-978-6342
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Miscellaneous
IF A LOVED ONE Underwent Hemodialysis and received Heparin between Sept. 15, 2007 and May 1, 2008 and died after the use of Heparin, you may be entitled to compensation. Attorney Charles Johnson, 1-800-535-5727 New Amplifier, Marine Radio, Dishwasher, Generator, Used 2 couches, Refrig. & Stove. Call 475-2613
7290
Miscellaneous
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Swimming Pools
$1199 POOLS POOLS $1199 New Family Size 19x31 hard wall pool. Completely Installed including deck, fence, filter with motor, liner, skimmer. 100 % Financ ing. All credit accepted. 1888-256-2122.
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BUYING ANTIQUES Collectibles, Coins, 239-7487 / 472-6910
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Autos for Sale
07 Kia Optima LX, Lt. Almond, 4 cyclinder, auto, 5 spd, 13k miles, ex. cond., 1 owner, AM/FM Cd, Pwr windows, locks, cruise control, 24 mi le city, 34 miles Hwy., warranty, $10,500. Call 8231234 or 476-1904
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Easy Go Golf Cart, Harley Davidson edition, like new cond., Call 336-475-3100
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Motorcycles
07 Boulevard Suzuki, blac k, all tr immings and cover. 2600 mi., $7000. 475-3537
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Trucks/ Trailers
20ft Enclosed Trailer, Diamond Cargo, Exc Cond. 8ft Tall. $4,650 Call 336-870-3255
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08 Harley Electra Glide, Rush pipes, removable ba ckrest, radio, 8k mi., $15,800., 509-3783
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2008 Kawa saki 900 Vulcan, Classic LT. Fully Dressed. Garage Kept, 6K mi. $5,500. Call 336-848-8036
03 Dodge Van 2500. 72K, ABS, GC, White, Work Van. $4,400 Call 336-870-3255
98 Kawasaki Vulcan. 1500cc, 15k mi. Black. Lots of Chrome. $4800. 859-0689 EC
Ford Van 2003, Work van with lock cage and ladder rack, 151k mi., 336-241-2369
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Cad illiac S edan Deville, 01, wife’s car, looks new, loaded, $7995. 889-2692/ 906-4064
Sc ooter 20 10, 2600 mi., well maintained, Call if interested 336887-3135
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AT Quality Motors you can buy regardless. Good or bad credit. 475-2338
9210
91 Cadillac Seville White, 127k, Remote Entry. GC. $2,499. Call 336-870-3255 Need space in your garage?
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Boats/Motors
Like new 90 18 ft. w a l k t h r o u g h windshield bass boat. 15 0HP Merc ury, blk max motor, for more details, $5,500. Call 434-1086
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Miscellaneous Transportation
DONATE YOUR VEHICLE- Receive $1000 Grocery Coupon. United Breast Cancer Foundation. Free M a m m o g r a m s , Breast Canc er info: www.ubcf.info. Free Towing, Tax Deductible, Non-Runners Accepted, 1-888-4685964.
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NEW Norwood SAWMILLS- LumberMatePro handles logs 34“ diameter, mills boards 28“ wide. Automated quick-cycle-sawing increases efficiency up to 40%! www.NorwoodSawmills.com/ 300N. 1-800-6617746, ext. 300N
Classic Antique Cars
Recreation Vehicles
’01 Damon motorhome. 2 slides, 2 ACs, 10k, loaded. 36ft. Very good cond., $52,000. Back-up camera. 431-9891 94’ Camper, new tires, water heater, & hookup. Good cond., sleeps 7, $6,200. Call 301-2789
Vans
Ads that work!! Large Comm. Van, ’95 Dodge Van 2500, new motor & trans., 883-1849 $3000 neg
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Wanted to Buy
Cash 4 riding mower needing repair or free removal if unwanted & scrap metal 882-4354
QUICK CASH PAID FOR JUNK CARS & TRUCKS. 434-1589.
’90 Winnebago Chiefton 29’ motor miles, home. 73,500 runs
good,
$11,000.
FORD ’69. SELL OR TRADE. 429 eng., Needs restoring $1000/Firm. 431-8611
336-887-2033
PLYMOUTH Concorde 1951. Sale or TradeNeeds restoring. $2100 firm. 431-8611
95 Toyota 4-Runner, 135K miles, Exc Cond. $5,200. Call 336687-8204
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Sport Utility
Fast $$$ For Complete Junk Cars & Trucks Call 475-5795 Top cash paid for any junk vehicle. T&S Auto 882-7989
Showcase of Real Estate NEW HOMES DAVIDSON COUNTY
Water View
164 Emily Ann Drive, N. Davidson County-FSBO Desirable Davidson County Schools, gorgeous, custom brick home built in 2005, 2,864 SF, quiet cul-de-sac,3BR,2.5BA,possible 4th BR in unfinished space, spacious modern open floor plan on one level, HW floors, bonus room over garage, custom kitchen w/granite countertops, maple cabinets, SS appliances, and beautiful tile floor, wonderful master suite with HUGE walk-in closet, tons of storage, too many extras to list here. See our ad at http://www.InfoTube.net/236019 for more details or call 336-201-3943. Shown by appointment only. $379,000.00
Lots starting at $34,900 Homes starting at $225,000 Special Financing at 4.75% (Certain Restrictions Apply)
WENDY HILL REALTY • CALL 475-6800
Builders personal home with many upgrades: hardwood floors, jetted tub, separate shower, beautiful granite counters, fabulous kitchen, 2 story family room AND DRAMATIC VIEWS!! Plus much, much more….
WENDY HILL REALTY CALL 475-6800
3152 WINDCHASE COURT 3 BR 2 BA 1164 SF, New carpet & paint, New HVAC, GE Appliances. End Unit $96,900
OWNER FINANCING
1844/1846 Cedrow Dr. H.P. New construction, 3BR, 2Bath, city utility, heat pump, Appliances included $99,900.00
360 Hasty Hill Rd All New inside, Remodeled, 3 Bedroom, 1 Bath. Vinyl Siding, Large Lot. $47,900. Will trade for Land. Other Homes for sale with Owner Financing from
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$30,000 to $80,000.
336-362-4313 or 336-685-4940
336-886-7095 704 RICHLAND
19 Forest Dr Fairgrove Forest, Thomasville New Year New Price. $1,000. cash to buyer at closing. 1.5 Ac. landscaped. 3br. 2baths, kitchen, dining room, livingroom, den & office. 2 Fireplaces with gas logs, crown molding, attached over sized garage and a 50 x 20 unattached 3 bay garage. 2400 sq. ft. $250,000. 336-475-6839
2300 + Square Foot, 5 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Living Room, Dining Room, Eat-in Kitchen, Laundry Room, Gas Heat with a/c, completely remodeled, large backyard, $98,900
Call 336-689-5029 OPEN HOUSE
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3930 Johnson St.
A Must See! Beautiful home set on 3 acres, New cabinets, corian countertops, hardwood, carpet, appliances, deck, roof. Home has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, formal living room, dining room, great room. $248,900.
Contact us at Lamb’s Realty- 442-5589.
6 Bedrooms, Plus 3 Home Offices Or 8 Bedrooms - 1.1 Acre – Near Wesley Memorial Methodist – - Emerywood area “Tell your friends” $239,900. Priced below Tax & appraisal values. Owner Financing
Call 336-886-4602
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398 NORTHBRIDGE DR. 3BR, 2BA, Home, 2 car garage, Nice Paved Patio Like new $169,900 OWNER 883-9031 OPEN HOUSE MOST SAT. & SUN. 2-4
8 Unit Apartment Building Available
All Brick Exterior Built 1987. Paved Parking. Each unit 2BR, 1BA (Approx. 750 square Ft.) Electric Heat & Air Conditioning. Many Upgrades and new appliances, floor coverings, cabinets, paint. Public water & sewer (individual meters). Fully rented with annual rents of $44,400.00 Conveinent to public transportation and downtown. Asking price $350,000.00. For additional information call (336)833-6797.
FOR SALE BY OWNER
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PRICE CUT WENDOVER HILLS Beautifully remodeled brick home at 502 Birchwood 3bedrooms, 2 updated baths, new windows, new appliances, countertops and kitchen floors. Completely remodeled, this is like new. Call for appointment $135,000.
HENRY SHAVITZ REALTY 882-8111
Directions: Westchester to West Lexington, south on Hwy. 109, Community is on the left just past Ledford Middle School. Quality construction beginning at $169,900! Eight Flexible floorplans! - Three to seven bedrooms - 1939 square feet to 3571 square feet - Friendship/Ledford Schools - Low Davidson County Taxes - Basement lots Available. No City Taxes, No Slab, All Crawspace Construction MORE INFO @ PattersonDaniel.com Marketed Exclusively by Patterson Daniel Real Estate, Inc.
Debra Murrow, Realtor New Home Consultant 336-499-0789
2 Bedroom/ 2 Bath Condo. Excellent High Point location convenient to Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Apprx. 950 square feet. Spacious bedrooms and closets. Garden tub in the master bath. Tray ceilings and crown molding in the living room. Private balcony overlooking a wooded area. Includes: Refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, microwave and washer/dryer connection MOTIVATED SELLER. New Lower Price $79,900!
Call 336-769-0219
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1812 Brunswick Ct.
189 Game Trail, Thomasville Enjoy living in a quiet, distinctive neighborhood with no through traffic. 3 BR 2.5 BA, 2300 sq’, open floor plan, vaulted ceilings & lg. windows, Oak floors & carpeted BRs, marble tiled bathrooms, lg. large master bath with separate shower, double fire place in master BR & LR w. gas logs, kitchen w. granite counter tops, double oven, stereo system. 2 car garage, large patio overlooking a beautiful back yard. Low taxes. $329,000 $321,000 Visit www.forsalebyowner.com/22124271 or call 336.687.3959
505 Willow Drive, Thomasville Over 4,000 Sq. Ft. Brick home with 4 Bedrooms & 4 bathrooms, 2 fireplaces, hardwood floors, updated kitchen, 2 master suites, fenced yard. Grand dining room – Priced at $319,900!!
Wendy Hill 475-6800
Chestnut Oaks High Point, NC TOWNHOUSE One Level w/front porch 1760 SQ Ft, 2 BR w/ walk-in closets 2 BA, Laundry RM, All Appliances, Eat-In Kitchen w/ lots of cabinets, Large Dining & Family RM w/ Fireplace & Built-In Storage & Bookcases, Private 2 Car Garage w/storage RM, Large Deck $154,900.
336-475-6279
Located at 1002 Barbee St, High Point 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath Fireplace, New Vinyl, Completely Remodeled. Garage & Storage. $89.900. Have other homes to finance. Will trade for land.
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INDY SPEED: Castroneves takes pole for Indianapolis 500. 4D
Sunday May 23, 2010
YOUNG GUN: Spieth, 16, lurks six back at Byron Nelson Championship. 5D Sports Editor: Mark McKinney mmckinney@hpe.com (336) 888-3556
COLLEGE BOUND: Westchester, HP Christian athletes sign on dotted line. 2D
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Fireworks explode during driver introductions before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord on Saturday night.
No worries for Truex, Biffle BY GREER SMITH ENTERPRISE SPORTS WRITER
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CONCORD – Martin Truex Jr. was worried about starting 20th. Greg Biffle was worried when he failed to pit when just about everyone else did just short of halfway. They had no worries when Saturday night’s Showdown qualifying race ended. Truex sprinted to victory and Biffle finished second in the 40-lap event to advance to the All-Star main event. They were the only two drivers to transfer based on finish positions. Carl Edwards got into the main event by virtue of fan vote. Truex was left with 20th starting position when rain kept Friday’s qualifying from being completed, forcing the starting field to be decided by qualifying draw. Truex was in the top 10 by the time a wreck
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Childress, Harvick announce multi-year deal. 4D between Juan Pablo Montoya and Regan Smith brought out the caution after 17 laps. He advanced to fifth during pit stops under the yellow in which leader David Ragan and second-place Biffle didn’t pit, went into second behind Biffle when David Gilliland and Ragan wrecked battling for second and took the lead from Biffle with eight laps left. “I didn’t know if we could get to the front starting that far back,” said Truex, who won the qualifier for the second time. “But we got up there before the caution came out and then got a break when those two cars bowling-balled into turn three. Getting in clean
air is so important with these cars. When I got to Biffle, I was just trying to run where he wasn’t.” Biffle thought he had no chance of finishing in the top two when he failed to pit. Deciding that track position was more important after that, he went all the way without a change of tires. Truex was the only driver to catch Biffle, who finished about a second ahead of thirdplace Jeff Burton. Paul Menard was fourth with Ragan fifth. “I thought they were going to mow us down,” Biffle said. “I thought they’d drive by us – (Burton) and all those guys. These cars are still just super aero-sensitive. You’ve got to get air on the front of the car. That’s what Martin did, he just moved around. “ gsmith@hpe.com | 888-3519
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hat began as a dreary day at North Carolina A&T’s Irwin Belk Track ended in bright sunshine. There were no beaming smiles, however, to be found on the faces of local competitors at the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A Track and Field Championships. High Point Central phenom Gabby Gray finished fifth – a stunning fifth – in the 100-meter dash and did not advance from the prelims in the 200. The Bison also got a fifth place from Tyreek Sparks in the triple jump and a sixth by Jeremy Williams in the 400 meters. Gray seemed assured of a topthree finish as she flew down the track and was shocked when her name landed in fifth. Coach Wayne Jones, watching at track level, also was stunned. “That’s why they have the photo finishes,” Jones reasoned. “So you can pick out those close races.” Butler’s Vashti Bandy took first in 12.05 seconds, a mere hundredth ahead of Ebony Scott of Southeast Raleigh. A third senior, West Mecklenburg’s Joann Blakney, was third in 12.10.
Then came the sophomores: Wakefield’s Olicia Sharp took fourth in 12.17, just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Gray. “I saw all three SPORTS of us side by side. I think they got Steve something wrong Hanf there,” Gray said ■■■ with a shake of her head. “My time was not as good: I planned a 12, 11.9 – I don’t know what happened.” In the 200, Gray was sixth in her heat and 10th among all qualifiers in 25.87. Despite the disappointment, Jones knows his young runner will bounce back. “She’ll take it in stride, continue to work. She knows you’re going to have bad days,” Jones said. “All the kids she ran against today also are national-caliber athletes, and she’s holding her own against them.” Sparks, a junior, dealt with a scratch by the smallest of measurements on his best triple jump and settled for a fifth-place showing of 45 feet, 5 inches. Steven Bell of Southeast Raleigh won the event at 48-10.
Tigers, Adam Moore took seventh in the high jump at 5-10. Bell Inside... cleared 6-6 to win it. Glenn’s Jaie Maness was secGet to know five area prep senior ond in the pole vault, tied with student-athletes. 3D three others at 14-6. Henry Johnson of Smithfield-Selma won first Still, Sparks made his mark on attempts, with Maness second in the event with his Kermit the ahead of East Forsyth’s Austin Frog socks pulled up to his knees. Vegas and Leesville Road’s Peter “Lime green is my favorite Ficalora. color, Kermit’s a frog – I guess I Southwest Guilford’s Desmond jump like a frog,” Sparks exStearns was seventh in the long plained. jump at 21-81⁄2. The Cowgirls’ The socks are new as of last Shalanda Grier was just outside week’s regional, and Sparks said the points, placing ninth in the he’ll keep wearing them after the long jump. last two weeks’ strong efforts. Vance won the boys team Williams landed sixth in the 400 crown with 60 points, topping in 50.30, with Charlotte Vance’s Southeast Raleigh by three. Jarrett Samuels taking first in Broughton was a distant third 48.12. at 36 points. Samuels won MVP Ragsdale’s Sarah Justice led honors after taking the long jump all local girls with a second-place and 400. The girls team title went time of 24.54 seconds, just barely down to the final event. Wakecaught by Vance’s Dominique field, leading by a point going Weathers (24.45). Cedric Ellison into the 4x400 relay, won the picked up a second for Ragsdale’s event to score 49 points and hold boys in the discus, launching a off Southeast Raleigh (42), Butler throw of 157-5 to better the third(39) and Asheville Roberson (37). place effort by more than 10 feet. Clayton’s Keni Harrison won Just one problem: Asheville both hurdle events and was Reynolds’ Courtland Clavette named the meet MVP. blew away the competition with an effort of 172 feet. Also for the shanf@hpe.com | 888-3526
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f nothing else, the annual NASCAR AllStar race is the spectacle of the year in big-time stock-car racing. Team introductions are a big part of the show. Drivers and crew come out on a stage which features a large television screen and then walk down a ramp and past a mosh pit of fans as rock music plays and fireworks pop in an arena with most of the lights turned off.
Drivers and crews could do so much to contribute to the festivities. The only team to get in the spirit Saturday night was Matt Kenseth’s crew as each member came out dressed in purple robes and wearing crowns to play off Kenseth’s liquor sponsorship. The next best display of showmanship came from Kyle Busch, who led his crew in bowing to the crowd in response to the cus-
tomary booing that Busch usually receives at introduction. After that, throwing T-shirts or hats was the most inspired thing that anyone else did. The format has a lot of possibilities. Too bad very few of the teams contributed to the spectacle.
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Don’t count defending champion Roger Federer and four-time winner Justine Henin among fans of a proposal to hold the French Open outside Paris beginning in 2016. Gilbert Ysern, general director of the French tennis federation, told a news conference on Saturday that relocating the claycourt Grand Slam from Roland Garros is being considered because it needs more space to remain competitive with the three other major tournaments. Three options are being examined, including one next to Versailles castle. Another possible site is near Disneyland Paris. The French Open has been at Roland Garros since 1928.
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PREPS 2D www.hpe.com SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE
Wildcats celebrate success BY STEVE HANF ENTERPRISE SPORTS WRITER
CATCHING UP WITH THE WILDCATS:
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High Point Christian Academy seniors (front, from left) Jessica Whitman, Charity Tillotson and Joseph McManus plus (back, from left) Andrew Barnett and Joseph Powell are set to compete at the college level next year.
HPCA tradition grows BY STEVE HANF ENTERPRISE SPORTS WRITER
CATCHING UP WITH THE COUGARS: HIGH POINT – The still-young varsity athletic program at High Point Christian Academy celebrated a third wave of Cougars heading for competition to the next level. Five HPCA seniors gathered in the school media center Thursday, dressed up, beaming with proud smiles, showing off the colors of their college choices. “It’s definitely cool to get to see more and more people here getting the opportunity to play at the next level,” said Joseph McManus, who has attended High Point Christian since the fifth grade – back before the varsity programs were formed. Several Cougars over the past two years earned athletic scholarships, but this year’s group is taking a more academic approach. First among those is Andrew Barnett, who earned a full tuition scholarship to Gardner-Webb – then waited to see if he could play baseball at the NCAA Division I member of the Big South Conference. “That (scholarship) was one of the big reasons I’m going there, but I was kind of waiting for the baseball thing to work out and a spot opened up,” Barnett said. “If baseball hadn’t worked out, it would have been tough to turn it down, to say the least. But I just had faith and it all ended up working out.” Barnett, a hard-throwing right-hander, will join a Bulldogs’ pitching staff that already includes HPCA product Conner Scarborough. Barnett took several trips to the school this year both to visit his former teammate and check out the G-W program. He liked what he saw and chose the Bulldogs over Catawba when a guaranteed roster spot became available. Jessica Whitman also will attend a DI school. Headed to UNC Greensboro to study nursing, Whitman also decided to try out for the Spartans cheerleading squad and earned a spot for the upcoming school year. “I’d always done it competitively and I’ve only done school cheerleading for two years,” said Whitman, named a captain both years for the Cougars. “So I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep
it going. It’ll be interesting.” UNCG doesn’t give scholarships to its cheerleaders, but they do fall under the purview of the athletic department and gain the same benefits of other athletes: pre-registration for classes, access to the athletic training staff and strength and conditioning coaches, uniforms, shoes, and the chance to travel – on a stipend, no less – with the basketball teams. Joseph Powell plans to study athletic training at Carson-Newman and also walk on to the baseball team. The pitcher chose the Eagles, of the NCAA Division II South Atlantic Conference, over schools such as Montreat and Methodist. “It’s a medium-sized school, so academic-wise, the teachers get to know the students very well,” Powell explained. “I really like the coach, and the program has been very successful.” McManus also had chances to play a long way from home, but waited until late in the basketball recruiting game to choose Guilford College’s successful program. Cougars coach Brandon Clifford played for the Quakers and helped facilitate McManus joining coach Tom Palombo’s squad. Guilford has become a regular at the D-III Final Four. “I was hoping and holding out for somewhere closer and we made the connection with Coach Clifford,” said McManus, a shooting guard who wants to study either business or political science at the NCAA Division III school. “It seemed like the best fit. It ended up being the best program I could have been a part of.” Charity Tillotson also had several options to weigh after making the rounds on the AAU basketball circuit. The small forward spoke with a number of coaches, but Kelly Johnson of the Peace Pacers stood out. “They found me at one of my AAU basketball tournaments and we started talking from there,” said Tillotson, who plans to study biology at the NCAA DIII school in Raleigh. “I got other looks, but he seemed the most interested in me personally.” As the years go on, the same will be said of many more college coaches and many more High Point Christian Academy athletes. shanf@hpe.com | 888-3526
HIGH POINT – Will DiIanni flashed a photo of the flashy championship ring pictured on his phone and then flashed a broad smile. “It’s really fulfilling considering all the work and time that’s been put in,” DiIanni said. “It doesn’t always culminate into things as great as this, but it’s really nice when it does.” Some of his fellow students at Westchester Country Day School certainly could identify with that sentiment. DiIanni and his teammates earned the school’s first-ever golf state championship earlier this month. Days later, the Wildcat baseball players were poised to accomplish the same feat before ultimately falling short in the three-game championship series. Still, the school year ended successfully when five Wildcats gathered Thursday to celebrate their plans to compete at the next level. In addition to DiIanni choosing Coker College, Alex Embler, Joe Max Floyd and Mickey Williard will play baseball and Sloan Tucker is headed to Hampden-Sydney College for soccer. DiIanni earned both academic and golf money to attend Coker, the NCAA Division II school in Hartsville, S.C., that competes in the Conference Carolinas. He picked the Cobras over schools such as Charlotte, Elon, Greensboro College and Guilford. “Playing time was a big part of that and it’s a good school to start out at as far as getting an education, where you can move on and build on that,” said DiIanni, who plans to major in business and attend graduate school. Tucker also saw an opportunity to play a lot for Hampden-Sydney, the NCAA Division III school in central Virginia. Tucker plans to study either biology or economics, and likely will play at center-defensive mid or center/right back. “I can probably get a lot more playing time, and that’s important to me,” he said. “It’s a good group of guys, so I should fit in well.” Tucker was a standout for the Wildcats and coach Adam Schwartz – who heads both the soccer and golf teams at the school – the past five years. “A lot of games, a lot of minutes,” Tucker said. “It’s been fun, a great experience. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” The baseball trio also enjoyed a great ride at Westchester, watching the Wild-
cats rise from mediocrity to second in the state under coaches Joey Hammond, David Couch and Mo Blakeney. “Coach Hammond gets all the credit,” Embler said. “Him, Coach Couch, Mo – there’s something special here. It’s going to be good for years to come.” Embler was good enough to earn a scholarship to Pfeiffer, the Conference Carolinas school in nearby Stanly County. The talented right-hander said he got looks from schools such as Francis Marion, UNC Wilmington and College of Charleston, but was “missing a credit” and not eligible for D-I programs. For all that, though, he’s looking forward to making a difference with the Falcons the next four years. “It’s a good atmosphere, good coaches,” said Embler, leaning toward a sports management major. “It’s going to be a place where I can go and pitch my freshman year, compete for a weekend job and hopefully win a couple championships.” Floyd and Williard each passed up chances to play on scholarship to take recruited walk-on roles. Floyd is headed to Wake Forest after considering Liberty and Furman. “The ability to play ACC baseball right off the bat and get the feel for how successful I’ll be – I really wanted to jump into the fire and see how battle-tested I can be,” said Floyd, planning to major in business. “And Wake Forest University as an academic whole is a great reason to go there, too.” Williard, meanwhile, heads to High Point University with the chance to play in the stadium named after his grandfather, Coy O. Williard Sr. “It’s a better opportunity school-wise than going somewhere small to play. That was always where I wanted to go,” Williard said. “It came down to the coaching staff at High Point. I’d rather spend four years there and maybe not play as much, but actually develop.” Both Floyd and Williard realize they have a tough road to travel from walkon to contributor. “Fall is going to be the key – fall is when the spots are made,” said Floyd, who said he may red-shirt his freshman year. “That’s when you really need to bear down.” Added Williard: “At High Point I’m going to have to compete every day just to be a part of the team. Then one step at a time: once I’m a part, be the backup, then the starter – moving up the ladder.” shanf@hpe.com | 888-3526
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Westchester Country Day School seniors (from left) Alex Embler, Mickey Williard, Sloan Tucker, Will DiIanni and Joe Max Floyd have finalized their college plans.
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Four area teams remain alive in the N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs, which are coming down to the stretch run. Tuesday’s baseball winners will advance to best-of-three regional championship series starting Thursday. In softball, Tuesday’s winners will play Friday in the sectional finals with a trip to the final four in Raleigh on the line. Title series in both sports are June 4-5:
4A WEST SOFTBALL Third round: Glenn (25-2) vs. Davie County (16-12), Tuesday, 7 p.m.
3A EAST SOFTBALL Third round: Ledford (18-8) at Western Harnett (15-4), Tuesday, TBA
4A WEST BASEBALL Fourth round: Glenn (17-11) at East Forsyth (20-7), Tuesday, 7 p.m. ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE | HENDERSON DAILY DISPATCH
Panthers on the prowl At left, Ledford’s Jen Stilley flips the ball to Jessica Christian at first base for the out during the Panthers’ 2-0 win over Northern Vance on Friday. Both runs came on solo homers by Meg Everhart, who (at right) is greeted by her teammates at the plate.
1A WEST BASEBALL Fourth round: Bishop McGuinness (16-9) at Albemarle (19-9), Tuesday, 7 p.m.
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The High Point Enterprise presents: Meet the Seniors
BRIA BYRD
ZACK WALKER
MICHELLE CASSERMAN
MICHAEL SANTARELLI
MEGAN CUMPTON
School: T. Wingate Andrews Sports played: Basketball, tennis, cross country Family: Mom Shirley Byrd, sister Alisha Byrd Favorite restaurants: Barberitos, Ruby Tuesday, Applebeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Favorite foods: Baked spaghetti, Mexican Foods to avoid: Seafood Favorite teacher/class: Fifthgrade teacher Lisa MaxwellKeith; Medlin, Anatomy; Ferguson and Graves, Biology Favorite TV shows: The Fairly OddParents, ER, Man v. Food, Law & Order: SVU, The Amazing Race Favorite movies: Cars, The Game Plan, Love & Basketball Favorite music: Usher, Natasha Bedingfield, BeyoncĂŠ Favorite sports teams: UNC, L.A. Sparks, L.A. Lakers Favorite athletes: Kobe Bryant, Deanna Nolan Biggest rival: Central Favorite memory playing sports: Meeting new people and becoming a better leader Role model: My mom Three words that describe me: Loyal, funny, considerate Celebrity dream dates: Bob Sanders, Hines Ward Dream vacation: Aspen Hobbies: Singing, hanging out with friends, drinking Starbucks Future goals: Attend UNC, Charlotte or ECU and major in Sports Medicine If I become a millionaire by age 20, I will: Invest, donate, give some to my family, save, and go spending crazy.
School: Trinity Sport played: Golf Family: Dad Mark, mom Jennifer, stepmom Ann, sisters Jessica, Noelle, Riley Favorite restaurant: Giannoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Favorite foods: Pizza, grilled chicken Foods to avoid: Green beans Favorite teacher/class: Doug Tuggle, Advanced P.E. Favorite TV shows: The Office, SportsCenter, anything on The Golf Channel Favorite movies: Facing the Giants, Saving Private Ryan, Coach Carter Favorite music: Lecrae, Relient K, Tenth Avenue North, Kanye West Favorite sports teams: Yankees, Orlando Magic Favorite athletes: Dwight Howard, Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera Biggest rival: The Joker Favorite memory playing sports: Hitting a walk-off shot in the Wiffle Ball playoffs Role models: Mom and Dad, grandparents, Steve Hill, Bobby Edwards, Brandon â&#x20AC;&#x153;BJâ&#x20AC;? Johnson Three words that best describe me: Handsome, cool, humble Celebrity dream date: Tossup between Eva Mendes and Anne Hathaway Dream vacation: Australia Hobbies: Church activities, basketball, hustling, repping with the FFB Future goals: Attend Liberty University If I become a millionaire by age 20, I will: Invest and retire.
School: Southwest Guilford Sport played: Soccer Family: Mom Lori, Dad Mike, brothers Jacob and Jason, sisters Amy and Lauren Favorite restaurants: P.F. Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, La Fiesta Favorite foods: Ice cream, fruit and anything chocolate chip Foods to avoid: Tuna salad, ranch dressing Favorite teacher/class: AP Stats, Mr. Parker Favorite TV shows: The Office, Modern Family, The Bachelor Favorite movies: The Hangover, The Proposal and Mean Girls Favorite musical group or singer: Dave Matthews, Sister Hazel, Bob Marley Favorite sports team: Ohio State Favorite athlete: Ronaldinho Biggest rival: Ragsdale Favorite memory playing sports: Beating Reagan and Ragsdale in the playoffs Role models: Mom and Dad, sisters Three words that best describe me: Intelligent, hardworking, outgoing Celebrity dream date: Taylor Lautner Dream vacation: St. Lucia Hobbies: Sports, shopping, painting Future goals: Four-year college, major in Special Education and minor in Languages If I become a millionaire by age 20, I will: Buy my mother an ocean-front beach house.
School: Bishop McGuinness Sports played: Cross country, track Family: Parents Anthony and Joyce, siblings Sarah, Tony, Anna, Joey Favorite restaurant: Village Tavern Favorite foods: Pizza Foods to avoid: Anything with shrimp Favorite teacher: Mrs. Kennedy Favorite TV show: Scrubs Favorite movie: Remember the Titans Favorite musical group or singer: George Strait Favorite sports teams: Cleveland Browns, Ohio State Buckeyes, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers Favorite athletes: LeBron James, Brady Quinn Biggest rival: All Michigan fans Favorite memory playing sports: When I made my first tackle playing football my freshman year Role model: My dad Three words that best describe me: Hardworking, ambitious, optimistic Celebrity dream date: Jessica Alba and/or Megan Fox Dream vacation: Italy Hobbies: Watching football, running Future goals: University of Miami, become a doctor If I become a millionaire by age 20, I will: Pay for college and buy the Browns â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they need all the help they can get.
School: East Davidson Sports played: Volleyball, basketball Family: Dad Ira, mom Natalie, brother James, sisters Miranda and Marissa Favorite restaurant: Olive Garden Favorite foods: Tacos, chicken Foods to avoid: Meatloaf Favorite teacher/class: Mr. Eddinger, Anatomy Favorite TV show: Seinfeld Favorite movies: The Dark Knight, The Time Travelerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wife Favorite musical group or singer: Rascal Flatts, Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wayne Favorite sports teams: University of Kentucky, Duke Favorite athletes: Michael Jordan, LeBron James Biggest rival: Ledford Favorite memory playing sports: Being in playoffs last year for both sports and getting pretty far Role models: Keith Justice, Polly Bingham Three words that best describe me: Friendly, smart, athletic Celebrity dream date: Chad Michael Murray Dream vacation: Cancun Hobbies: Spending time with friends and family Future goals: Attend ECU and get my doctorate in physical therapy If I become a millionaire by age 20, I will: Give to charity, pay off college loans, and take my best friend to Cancun.
Prep junior Spieth trails by six at Byron Nelson ENTERPRISE STAFF, WIRE REPORTS
ters, winning 2 and 1 at Hamilton Farm. Shin will play Sun Young Yoo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 2-and1 winner over fourth-seeded Yani Tseng â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the semifinals this morning. In the other quarterfinals, 10th-seeded Angela Stanford beat Catriona Matthew 5 and 3, and No. 30 Amy Yang edged Haeji Kang 1-up. The 22-year-old Shin is chasing her first LPGA Tour title of the year after winning six times in the last two seasons.
IRVING, Texas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jordan Spieth shot a 3under 67 on Saturday at the Byron Nelson Championship, putting the 16-year-old high school junior in striking distance of the lead entering the final round. Spieth is at 6-under 204 in his PGA Tour debut, tied for seventh and only six shots behind leader Jason Day. The teenager on Friday became the sixthyoungest player to make a cut. WOOD LEADS BY TWO WENTWORTH, England â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WIE FALLS IN QUARTERS Chris Wood shot a 4-under 67 to take a GLADSTONE, N.J. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Top-ranked Jiyai two-shot lead over Robert Karlsson, who Shin knocked out Michelle Wie in the had a course-record 62 in the third round Sybase Match Play Championship quar- of the BMW PGA Championship.
Karlsson finished at 6-under 207, despite a quick turnaround from his home in Monaco after he thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d missed the cut. Karlsson flew home to Monaco on Friday before receiving a phone call saying he was playing on the weekend. He flew to Paris, slept for two hours, then paid $11,000 for a private jet to take him to London, arriving at the course an hour before tee time.
RIEGGER UP BY FIVE RALEIGH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; John Riegger shot an 8under 63 to take a five-shot lead after the third round of the Rex Hospital Open, while high school sophomore Grayson Murray fell off the pace at the Nationwide
Tour event. The 16-year-old Murray shot a 1-over 72 and is at 2-under overall. He became the second-youngest player ever to make a Nationwide cut on Friday.
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Logano captures burnout title BY GREER SMITH ENTERPRISE SPORTS WRITER
CONCORD – Joey Logano may be young, but he knows how to burn rubber. Logano won the burnout competition Saturday that began All-Star activities. He took out a couple of pylons and kept his car in place while smoke billowed from his spinning tires, putting on enough of a show to leave the biggest impression on a judging panel that included former driver Jimmy Spencer, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith, professional wrestler Jeff Hardy and a couple of members of the rock band Creed. Clint Bowyer spun his tires until one of them blew. Kyle Busch was disqualified for clipping the wall during his exhibition.
BETTER RESULT IN HIS TRUCK
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Kevin Harvick (right) speaks as team owner Richard Childress listens during a news conference at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord on Saturday.
Childress, Harvick sign ‘multi-year’ extension R
ichard Childress and Kevin Harvick sat at the table in the Charlotte Motor Speedway media center Saturday, speaking of the future and the desire to win championships. They are able to speak of those goals because Childress now has Harvick signed to what they call a “multi-year” contract. That’s not the way Harvick talked last summer, when he spoke of possibly turning the page when he and all of Childress’ other drivers were just not very good week in and week out. Harvick wasn’t happy because he had not won since the 2007 Daytona 500 and saw no real prospects of the losing streak coming to an end as Childress’ cars scored just 14 top-five finishes and failed to qualify for the Chase for the Championship. Childress wasn’t satisfied to the point that he made a host of personnel moves that included removing son-in-law Mike Dillon as director of competition and putting Jeff Burton’s crew chief, Scott Miller, in that role. Harvick, who was thought to be gone, saw enough improvement that he decided to stay instead of starting over with another team. He decided to stay even though sponsor Shell/Pennzoil announced it will cease sponsorship of Harvick’s No. 29 Chevrolet at the end of the season. “There’s been an incredible turnaround in morale and attitude,” Harvick said. “When you’ve been around a long time, those are the things that you want to work out when you’ve had time and effort invested over years and years. Racing for a championship is our goal and we’ve been able to accomplish that this year.” Harvick contributed the near-
fallout to frustration. “We wanted the same things,” Harvick said. “Sometimes we just butt heads a little bit. We’re the same kind of people and want SPORTS things done right.” Harvick’s time Greer with Childress dates Smith to 1999, when Chil■■■ dress was impressed with the way Harvick didn’t back down in NASCAR Truck series races at Indianapolis Raceway Park and a short-track event in Harvick’s hometown of Bakersfield, Calif. “He was banging on one of his buddies out there trying to win the race,” Childress said. “I watched him a couple of more races and was impressed. When we signed him, I knew he was the real deal.” Harvick proved himself when he won his second Cup race out for Childress after getting promoted upon the death of Dale Earnhardt in 2001. Things haven’t always gone smoothly since then. After winning two races that first year, Harvick has just once scored more than one victory in a season, when he won five times in 2006. He’s gone winless in three seasons and has 12 victories. “We’ve won the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard,” Harvick said. “When you put it on paper and think about what we’ve been able to accomplish, then if I left it probably wasn’t going to end the way it needed to end.” Those aren’t Earnhardt numbers, not even close to Jimmie Johnson numbers, but are still good enough for Childress to want him back. Harvick decided staying was better than starting over. “We’d been talking for quite a
while,” Childress said. “You don’t put a team together and contend for a championship overnight. It takes time to build and build the people. That’s what Kevin has done.” The pieces have fallen into place even more this year. Harvick led the Daytona 500 on the last lap and dominated along with teammate Burton at California before a caution flag gave Jimmie Johnson the upper hand. He finally broke the losing streak at Talladega and will go into next week’s 600 as the leader in the standings. The pieces fit so well, Childress said, that the contract negotiations were minor once they got on the same page. “Once we both decided the direction we were going, it was a matter of changing (a letter here and there),” Childress said. The pieces include the Nationwide and Truck teams fielded by Harvick to use engines supplied by Earnhardt Childress Racing, and for Harvick to get his Nationwide chassis from Childress so he will be driving something similar to the Cup cars. The piece missing is a sponsor. Childress said his organization is in talks with three or four companies, none of them currently in Cup racing. “That’s why this deal today is big,” Chidress said. “It’s a huge plus when you can go to a company and say, ‘We got the driver, the driver has us, and we’re ready to go. We’re going to give you a package where you will get more than your money’s worth.’ ” That’s totally different than what Childress could say 10 months ago. gsmith@hpe.com | 888-3519
Johnson sticks to his story BY GREER SMITH ENTERPRISE SPORTS WRITER
CONCORD – Junior Johnson isn’t changing his tune. Even though his accomplishments include 50 victories as a driver, six championships and 139 race wins as a car owner, and helping convince R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to become sponsor of NASCAR’s top division, Johnson contends his biggest day as a racer will come today when he is one of the first five inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Johnson is part of an inaugural class that includes seven-time champion Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR founder William H.G. (Big Bill) France and France’s son and successor as NASCAR chairman, Bill France. “There is not a bigger honor than going into the Hall of Fame, especially on the first deal,” Johnson said. “It’s unbelievable I got in. But
they couldn’t have done a better job of choosing. The people who have meant the most to the sport are going into the Hall of Fame.” Johnson said Darrell Waltrip, who won three championships in Johnson’s cars, will help with his introduction during the ceremonies that start at 1 p.m. in the Crown Ballroom of the Charlotte Convention Center, which connects to the Hall of Fame. The festivities will begin with the sport’s celebrities taking part in “red carpet” arrivals beginning at 11 a.m. Earnhardt will be inducted by Richard Childress, who fielded cars that Earnhardt drove to six championships. Petty is to be introduced by his son Kyle, with his crew chief and cousin Dale Inman to also take part. Petty, whose career lasted from 1958-1992, originally said he would have liked drivers who preceded him – like his father, three-time champion Lee – to make up the first class.
“I feel like there were people more important in getting NASCAR started than Richard Petty,” Petty said. “I am a big believer in Lee Petty from the standpoint that he ran the very first race. He was the first driver that said he could make a living driving a car and owning a car. People like that laid the groundwork for everything we have going on now. Junior Johnson is a good one. He definitely deserves it. He transcended the sport. He contributed not only from the driver’s standpoint but also from an owner’s standpoint and getting RJR interested in sponsoring the whole circuit. My part of it was just the driving part. I know we won a bunch of races, but that is just part of the overall show. When you look at people to go in the Hall of Fame, records are fine, but how much else did they contribute is important to me.” gsmith@hpe.com | 888-3519
Kyle Busch fared much better in the rain-delayed 200-mile NASCAR Truck race that ended at 12:40 a.m. Saturday. Undeterred by a scrape with the wall that knocked him from the early lead, Busch charged back for his second victory of the season and 18th of his career. Busch skidded out of the groove and hit the wall on lap 41 of the 134-lap event. His crew repaired minor damage during a pit stop under caution on lap 84, setting the stage for Busch to regain the lead with 14 laps to go. “This team did a great job in preparing a great truck,” said Busch, in his first year as a team owner. “Unfortunately, I tried to screw it up. I guess the driver owes the owner a little bit of money tonight.” Todd Bodine finished a close second, with Ron Hornaday Jr., James Beuscher and Elliott Sadler completing the top five. High Point University student Austin Dillon hit the wall on the backstretch on lap nine and finished 35th in the 36-car field. “They left the left-rear lugs loose,” Dillon said. “We don’t know what happened. I don’t know if we didn’t check ‘em or if it was like that in qualifying. It’s really wild. I mean, you can look at the left-rear and see how much it wallowed out. I drove it for too long, but I guess the rookie part of it was not knowing what the vibration was.” gsmith@hpe.com | 888-3519
Castroneves takes Indy pole on wild qualifying day INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Helio Castroneves put his foot down Saturday and proved he’s still the one to beat at Indy. The defending 500 champion and three-time race winner wrapped up a wild qualification day by topping 228 mph on two of his four laps, averaging 227.970 mph to win his fourth career Indianapolis 500 pole. Nobody, including Castroneves, had touched 227.9 in practice even on one lap. The other eight drivers in the new pole “shootout” were relegated to taking aim at the No. 2 spot. Castroneves tied A.J. Foyt and Rex Mays with
his fourth Indy pole and will be joined on the front row by Penske teammate Will Power and Target Chip Ganassi driver Dario Franchitti. Australia’s Power averaged 227.578 and will start from the middle of Row 1. Scotland’s Franchitti averaged 226.990 and will start from the outside of row 1. The day was marred by three crashes including one that took out pole contender Tony Kanaan. Danica Patrick qualified 23rd at 224.217 and will start behind two other women – Brazil’s Ana Beatriz and Switzerland’s Simona de Silvestro.
Charity doubles tourney ends today ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT
HIGH POINT – The 10th annual North State Communications Tennis Classic got into the swing of things this weekend at Oak Hollow Tennis Center. The event, which raises money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Piedmont, features play in several brackets of men’s, women’s, mixed and open divisions. Championship matches are on tap for today and Saturday’s action ended too late to be included in today’s edition of The High Point Enterprise. In matches that ended late Friday night: •David Bolick and David Slate teamed for a 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 victory over Alex Funkhouser-Zachary Tran in men’s open doubles round-robin play •In men’s 4.0 doubles round of 16 action, Kenneth Kreidler-John McCrary, Rick Porch-James Roach, Craig Freed-Eric Nocera and Darrell
Bruce-Fred Bushnell netted wins •In women’s 3.5 round of 16 play, Lisa BruntonLeah Schweitzer, Hayes Mills-Ashlee Ramsey, Sue Ann Lapp-Lori Lynk and Suzanne MichelsenJamie Stoffel posted wins •In women’s 4.0 round of 32 play, Peggy ShufeltMindy Hedrick, Kathy Hedgecock-Robin Lindner and Nancy McNeillSandy Coulson won •Six matches were held in mixed 7.0 round of 16, with Kim Comer-David Skeels, Lisa CassidyMarcus Talcott, Pamela Aikens-Rick Owens, Michael Jacobs-Lori Lynk, Tyler Anderson-Shelly Marshall and Patti Wright-David Harrell posting wins •In mixed 8.0 round of 32 action, winners were Bailey Richardson-Tina Owen Beecher; Debra Brown-Joe Harpole; Kathy Brown-Charles Spraggs; Dawn SperryDavid Sperry; Aundrea Hendley-Gaylon Peel; Amanda Reynolds-Larry Kwan; Kim ComerGreg Cooke; and Darrell Bruce-Diane White
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Duke men roll into lacrosse semis with rout of UNC PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) – Zach Howell scored four goals and fifth-seeded Duke dominated ACC rival North Carolina on Saturday, reaching its fourth straight national semifinal with a 17-9 victory over the Tar Heels. The Blue Devils (14-4) scored seven goals in the first quarter. They’ll take on top-seeded Virginia or No. 8 seed Stony Brook at the Final Four next weekend. Ned Crotty and Maz Quinzani scored three goals each for Duke, which has won 12 of the last 13 meetings with North Carolina (13-3).
Phillies’ Rollins placed on DL again PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins was placed on the 15-day disabled list again Saturday after re-injuring his right calf. Rollins missed 29 games with a strained right calf before rejoining the lineup Monday. He is eligible to come off the disabled list on June 6.
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Washington first baseman Adam Dunn (left) forces out Baltimore’s Nick Markakis during the fifth inning of Saturday’s game in Washington. The Nationals won 7-6.
Dunn, Nationals rally to beat Orioles THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Adam Dunn’s two-run single capped a sixth-inning rally Saturday that carried the Washington Nationals to a 7-6 victory over the Baltimore Orioles, who wasted a bizarre insidethe-park homer by Adam Jones. Washington trailed 6-3 before scoring four runs in the sixth against starter Brad Bergesen and reliever Mark Hendrickson (1-2). After Roger Bernadina tripled in a run and pinch-hitter Alberto Gonzalez added an RBI single, Dunn lined a single up the middle to give the Nationals their first lead in the three-game series that concludes today.
On an afternoon filled with offensive highlights, the most memorable was the second insidethe-park homer in the three-year history of Nationals Park – and the second in four days. With a runner on in the fourth inning, Jones hit a drive to deep center that sent Nyjer Morgan to the base of the wall. The ball hit Morgan’s glove and bounced out, and Morgan immediately went into a tirade. While the ball lay behind him, Morgan removed his mitt, slammed it on the ground and stomped angrily on the outfield grass. Left fielder Josh Willingham retrieved the ball, but too late to prevent Jones from circling the bases.
Geissinger homers twice to spark HPU sweep SPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Drew Geissinger hit two home runs to lead the High Point University baseball team to a 16-11 win over Charleston Southern on Saturday in a weather-shortened eight-inning game. The Panthers improve to 2927 (15-12 Big South Conference) with the win in the final game of the regular season. HPU completed the sweep of the Buccaneers. The start of the game was delayed for an hour and 15 minutes and the game was called after eight innings due to lightning. Freshman Jared Avidon picked up the win, tossing four innings of relief, allowing one run with three strikeouts. “It was a tremendous win today for many reasons,” said HPU head coach Craig Cozart. “We accomplished everything what we set out to do in beginning of year. This is exactly the way we want to head in to the conference tournament. We are playing well in most aspects of the game and I am looking forward to continuing that in the tournament.” This is the first winning season for High Point in the Division I era and the Panthers
clinched the No. 4 seed in the Big South Tournament, securing them a bye in the first round. HPU will play No. 3 seed Radford on Wednesday in Rock Hill, S.C. Radford took two of three from High Point in the regular season. HPU put up four runs in the second inning, capitalizing on four hits and a throwing error by CSU catcher Jesse Cadenhead. Nate Roberts led off the third inning with a double to center field, stole third base and scored on a Max Fulginiti single to left field. It was Roberts’ 84 run scored of the season, tying the Big South single season record set by Charlie Broad of Armstrong State in 1987. Geissinger hit his first home run of the season in the fourth inning to make it a 6-4 game. Charleston Southern answered with a run in the bottom of the fourth, heading in to the fifth inning down 6-5. Matt Gantner hit his eighth home run of the season in the fifth inning, a solo shot to left center field. With a 7-5 lead in the bottom of the fifth, Yevoli gave up a solo home run to Walt Quattlebaum to lead off the in-
ning before loading the bases on two singles and an error. Jaren Sustar cleared the bases with a double to left center and without recording an out in the inning Yevoli was relieved by Avidon. Avidon got the first three batters he faced out, but two fly balls allowed Sustar to score and put the Buccaneers ahead 10-7. Yevoli pitched four innings, allowing 10 runs, seven earned on 10 hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. The Panthers took the lead with a six-run seventh inning, capped off by Geissinger’s second home run of the game. Geissinger hit a three-run blast to left field. The Panthers added two runs in the eighth. Gantner had an RBI single to score Mike Mercurio and Gantner scored later in the inning on a wild pitch. Geissinger had a walk, a stolen base and a single to go with his two home runs. He finished the day 3-3 with five RBI and three runs scored. Fulginiti went 3-4 with two doubles, giving him 25 on the season, one ahead of Gantner who has 24 to finish the regular season.
Flyers’ Leighton shuts out Habs for third time MONTREAL (AP) – Michael Leighton shut down and shut out the Montreal Canadiens again, leading the Philadelphia Flyers within one win of the Stanley Cup finals. Leighton stopped 17 shots for his third blanking of Montreal in four games, Claude Giroux scored twice – including an empty-netter – and Ville Leino added a breakaway goal in a 3-0 win over the Canadiens on Saturday in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. Philadelphia, which has won seven of eight since falling behind Boston 3-0 in the second
round, leads the series 3-1 and can advance to the finals for the first time since 1997 with a win at home in Game 5 on Monday. The Flyers bounced back from a 5-1 loss on Thursday with an efficient and opportunistic performance. They stifled the Canadiens, as they did at home in the first two games of the series. Montreal was held to only one shot in the second period, a frame in which Philadelphia scored twice. “We were pretty tight defensively,” Flyers coach Peter Laviolette said. “We didn’t allow a lot of opportunities. The
neutral zone was really tight, which eliminates rush opportunities. “We had some chances ourselves to score, so it was a good period.” Leighton had a relatively easy day after allowing five goals on 38 shots on Thursday. He opened the series by stopping 58 shots in 6-0 and 3-0 wins at Philadelphia. He became the 13th NHL goalie to have three shutouts in one series, and the first since Toronto’s Ed Belfour and Tampa Bay’s Nikolai Khabibulin did it in the first round of the 2004 postseason.
Post 87 splits two at Finch Field ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT
THOMASVILLE – High Point American Legion Post 87’s Senior Legion team opened the season with a doubleheader split on Saturday at Finch Field. Post 87 drubbed the Virginia Marlins Showcase Team from Danville 14-2, then fell 10-8 to South Rowan in the nightcap. Huston Harrington got the win for Post 87 in the opener. He allowed one run on two hits with five strikeouts in four innings. Aaron Blackman, Jo-
seph Powell and Justin Morrison combined to finish the victory on the mound. Powell went 1-for-3 with two RBIs, while Brock Hudgens finished 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs and Mike Whited was 1-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs. Harrington was 1-for-1 with two RBIs. In the nightcap, David Coffey worked the first seven innings for Post 87, allowing four runs (two earned) with four hits, 12 strikeouts and two walks. Tyler Southcott took the loss in relief. He allowed six runs
(four earned) with four hits and a walk in 11⁄3 innings. Several errors hurt the Post 87 cause. Whited finished 2-for-4 with a three-run homer and an RBI double. Harrington was 1-for1 with an RBI, while Houston Ison was 1-for-2 with a run and Kevin Sanders was 1-for-2 with an RBI. Post 87 takes on Prolific in an exhibition on Tuesday at Northern Guilford High School. Post 87 returns to Finch Field on Wednesday at 7 p.m. for a game against Kernersville.
y porch and house reflect my conviction. While I’ll certainly not dispute that having a refrigerator on your front porch makes you a redneck, I don’t mind. My porch refrigerator is a 1948 Kelvinator much like the one in my Grandmothers kitchen when I was five years old. Mine has a different history. It was originally in Jack Fosters Accuracy International on Commercial Row at Camp Perry for an indeterminate number of years. In 1981, probably because that was the year Jack’s daughter Jean began coming to the National Championships with him, it began to accumulate National Championship stickers. The last years sticker is 2001, probably a few years after Jean’s last year when she shot on the US Olympic Team. I brought it home with me to North Carolina in 2002. My 62 year old Kelvinator runs just great and provides a service by keeping drinks cold out on the porch to quench the thirst of anyone who needs refreshment. The Kelvinator is accompanied by a cast iron sink of similar vintage and a Windsor gas stove that will soon be in condition to fry up some fish or bake a pan of biscuits. I find comfort in the fact that, at one time at least, America could produce something of lasting value. Now, we live in a throw away world. We rarely fix anything, these days; we just throw things away and get another. I realize technology is moving faster than upgrades are possible and I appreciate the technology that allows me to type in my column, correct my mistakes, and push a key that sends it to the newspaper office instantly. I’m not a curmudgeon who rejects everything modern. I love my cell phone, my digital camera, my GPS, and my wireless internet service. I’m just sickened that our society is learning to simply toss things out and get a newer better one. Hardly anything gets fixed anymore. When we do fix things, we don’t really fix them, we just replace a component that’s faulty with a whole new assembly. Cadillac makes a wonderful V8 engine that produces more horsepower than the hottest muscle car of 30 years ago. It’s incredibly fuel efficient and it runs so smooth you can hardly tell the engine is running when you sit in the car. But this wonderful example of engineering is not rebuildable. If one component in the engine like a single rocker arm or head gasket fails, you have to throw the engine away and replace it. The reason is technical and I won’t bore you with the details, but it has to do with the engine being made out of aluminum and the fact the bolts that hold it together strip the metal away if you take it apart. A simple blown head gasket or bad rocker arm results in a repair bill of almost $5,000, including installing the new engine, and means a $3,000 marvel of engineering winds up in the scrap yard because of a $20 part. Consider what would have happened had George Washington’s family tossed everything out that needed repair. They would have thrown away the axe he used to cut down the cherry tree when the head cracked. Instead, I now have it on my front porch. Of course, the Washington family replaced the head and, at some time later, someone replaced the handle, but I still have the axe. My career of cutting grass as a boy lasted about six years. I cut the grass in my yard and sometimes my Granddad’s yard. I pushed that same old, grey, Craftsman lawnmower the whole
time. Every spring, we’d go to Woody Perryman’s little shop to get it tuned up and the blade sharpened. I think eventuSPORTS ally, it had to be replaced beDick cause the frame Jones rusted out so ■■■ bad a wheel fell off. In fact, I think it was repaired the first time a wheel fell off and was retired when Woody decided there wasn’t enough frame left to fix. Now, lawnmowers are disposable, when the carburetor stops up because of the ethanol in our gas (don’t get me started on that one) we just toss the old one and buy a new one. It makes economic sense because it costs $80 to tune up and repair the old one and $149.00 for a new one at Lowes. The reason it costs $80 to tune the old one is because guys like Woody Perryman can’t make a living anymore because we don’t get anything fixed. The newest shotgun I regularly shoot is a 1917 Fox Sterlingworth. It has, at some time been refinished, but it’s functionally perfect and actually works better than any brand new shotgun I’ve ever shot. I have several of these old guns, the oldest being a 1870 Reilly that, as far as I can tell has never been taken apart. It works perfectly, too. I confess I don’t shoot it much because it’s an underlever hammergun and it’s a little unwieldy when you need to get off a third shot but it works every time and locks up like a bank vault. The point of all this is I’d like us all to think a bit about how we pay lip service to the idea of recycling and yet we constantly buy new stuff and throw the old stuff away when the new stuff is really no better than what we had. If we, as a nation, were truly concerned about a sustainable environment, I think we’d be more interested about keeping the things we have and not replacing them when they have a little problem. I know this won’t work on technology items and I know technology is a big part of the economy, but I’m sure with a little encouragement, there could be some real improvements, even with electronics. I write for magazines and newspapers and work with TV. All these businesses make their money by encouraging folks to buy new stuff and throw their old stuff away. New stuff is great, I’ve upgraded a lot of fishing tackle in the last few years because there have been real gains in function. But it really does make sense to buy quality that will stand the test of time and hang onto it as long as possible. I certainly know there’s nothing wrong with recycling ink cartridges or plastic bottles (though I don’t understand why we don’t go back to deposits on soda bottles or why we have to drink water out of a plastic bottle). I do think consumers could influence the way things are made if we put more emphasis on sustainable products. Next time you’re thinking of tossing something that can be fixed or upgraded, consider fixing it and hanging on to it. Your old refrigerator might wind up on some redneck’s front porch some day. DICK JONES IS a freelance writer living in High Point. He writes about hunting, fishing, dogs, and shooting for several N.C. newspapers as well as magazines. He’s an NRA Certified Instructor and teaches shotgun rifle and pistol as well as the North Carolina Concealed Carry Certification and Hunter Safety. He can be reached at offtheporch52@yahoo. com or offtheporchmedia.com
SCOREBOARD 6D www.hpe.com SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE
BASEBALL
CMS SCHEDULE
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Major Leagues
Tampa Bay New York Toronto Boston Baltimore
W 30 26 25 22 14
L 12 16 19 21 30
Pct .714 .619 .568 .512 .318
Minnesota Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland
W 26 24 18 18 15
L 17 18 24 26 25
Pct .605 .571 .429 .409 .375
Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle
W 25 22 21 16
L 18 22 24 26
Pct .581 .500 .467 .381
Philadelphia Atlanta Florida Washington New York
W 26 22 22 22 20
L 15 20 22 22 23
Pct .634 .524 .500 .500 .465
Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Milwaukee Houston
W 24 25 19 18 16 15
L 18 19 24 24 27 27
Pct .571 .568 .442 .429 .372 .357
Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Colorado Arizona
W 24 24 22 21 19
L 18 18 20 22 24
Pct .571 .571 .524 .488 .442
AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division GB WCGB — — 4 — 6 2 81⁄2 41⁄2 17 13 Central Division GB WCGB —1 — 1 ⁄2 2 8 711⁄2 81⁄2 9 9 ⁄2 10 West Division GB WCGB —1 — 5 3 ⁄2 51 61⁄2 8 ⁄2 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division GB WCGB —1 — 2 41⁄2 51⁄2 3 5 ⁄2 3 7 41⁄2 Central Division GB WCGB — — — — 51⁄2 51⁄2 61 61 8 ⁄2 8 ⁄2 9 9 West Division GB WCGB — — — — 21 2 3 ⁄2 311⁄2 51⁄2 5 ⁄2
INTEREAGUE/NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Games Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 0 Baltimore 5, Washington 3 Philadelphia 5, Boston 1 Cincinnati 7, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Texas 2, Chicago Cubs 1 Houston 2, Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City 9, Colorado 2 Chicago White Sox 8, Florida 0 Minnesota 15, Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 9, L.A. Angels 5 Arizona 8, Toronto 6 Oakland 6, San Francisco 1 L.A. Dodgers 4, Detroit 1 Seattle 15, San Diego 8 Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Florida 1 L.A. Angels 10, St. Louis 7 Washington 7, Baltimore 6 Oakland 1, San Francisco 0 Colorado 3, Kansas City 0 Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 7, 12 innings Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Houston, 7:05 p.m. Boston at Philadelphia, 7:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Texas, 7:10 p.m. Detroit at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Toronto at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.
Athletics 1, Giants 0 San Fran ab Rownd cf 4 Renteri ss 4 FSnchz 2b 4 Sandovl 3b 3 BMolin c 4 A.Huff 1b 2 Torres rf-lf 3 MDwns dh 3 Bowker lf 2 Uribe ph 1 Schrhlt rf 0 Totals 30
Oakland r h bi 00 0 01 0 01 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 01 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 03 0
Crisp cf Barton 1b RSwny rf KSuzuk c Cust dh M.Ellis 2b ARosls 3b Pnngtn ss RDavis lf
ab 3 4 4 3 2 3 2 3 2
r 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
h bi 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
26 1 5 1
San Francisco 000 000 000 — 0 Oakland 001 000 00x — 1 E—A.Huff (2). DP—San Francisco 2. LOB— San Francisco 5, Oakland 5. 2B—R.Sweeney (8). SB—R.Davis (15). S—R.Davis. SF— Crisp. IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco Cain L,2-4 8 5 1 0 1 4 Oakland G.Gonzalz W,5-3 8 2 0 0 1 5 A.Bailey S,7-9 1 1 0 0 1 2 HBP—by Cain (A.Rosales). T—2:20. A— 35,067 (35,067).
White Sox 4, Marlins 1 Florida
Chicago
ab Coghln lf 4 GSnchz 1b 4 HRmrz ss 3 Cantu dh 3 Uggla 2b 4 C.Ross rf 4 Helms 3b 4 Hayes c 4 Maybin cf 4 Totals 34
r h bi 00 0 00 0 01 0 02 0 00 0 01 0 11 0 01 0 01 1 17 1
ab Pierre lf 4 AlRmrz ss 3 Rios cf 3 Konerk dh 4 Kotsay 1b 4 Quentin rf 4 Teahen 3b 3 RCastr c 4 Bckhm 2b 2 Totals 31
r h bi 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 410 4
Florida 000 000 100 — 1 Chicago 001 020 01x — 4 DP—Florida 1. LOB—Florida 9, Chicago 7. 2B—Pierre (4), Quentin (10), Teahen (5). HR—Rios (8). SB—Rios (13), Beckham (3). CS—Al.Ramirez (2). IP H R ER BB SO Florida Volstad L,3-5 6 7 3 3 3 4 Sanches 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Pinto ⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 1 Nunez ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Chicago 1 Floyd W,2-4 6 ⁄3 6 1 1 2 7 Thornton 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 Putz H,2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Santos H,2 1 1 0 0 0 0 Jenks S,7-8 1 0 0 0 0 1 Thornton pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. HBP—by Volstad (Beckham). WP—Volstad. T—2:46. A—28,462 (40,615).
Angels 10, Cardinals 7 Los Angeles ab r h bi EAyar ss 5 1 2 0 HKndrc 2b 4 2 1 1 BAreu rf 311 1 Cassvh p 0 0 0 0 Rodney p 0 0 0 0 TrHntr cf 4 2 1 2 KMorls 1b 4 2 3 2 HMatsu lf 4 0 1 2 Willits lf-rf 1 0 0 0 Napoli c 511 2 Frndsn 3b 4 1 3 0 Kazmir p 3 0 0 0 MRyan ph-lf1 0 0 0
Totals
St. Louis ab r FLopez 2b 5 0 Ludwck rf 3 0 Mather rf-cf 2 1 Pujols 1b 4 0 Jay lf 1 0 Hollidy lf 4 1 YMolin 1b 0 0 Freese 3b 3 1 Rasms cf 1 0 Stavinh ph-rf1 2 LaRue c 4 0 B.Ryan ss 4 1 Lohse p 1 0 TMiller p 0 0 Wnwrg ph 1 0 Walters p 1 0 Schmkr ph 1 1 38101310 Totals 36 7
h bi 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 5
Los Angeles 015 020 020 — 10 St. Louis 020 000 113 — 7 E—B.Abreu (4), E.Aybar (4), Willits (1), Lohse (1). DP—St. Louis 2. LOB—Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 5. 2B—H.Kendrick (9), K.Morales 2 (5), Frandsen 2 (2), Mather (4), Holliday (13), B.Ryan (5). HR—Napoli (5), Holliday (5). SB—B.Ryan (1). IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Kazmir W,3-4 7 3 3 3 3 5 Cassevah 11⁄3 4 4 2 0 0 2 Rodney ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 St. Louis 7 6 6 3 1 Lohse L,1-4 31⁄3 T.Miller 12⁄3 3 2 2 0 2 Walters 4 3 2 2 2 2 T—3:03. A—44,091 (43,975).
Twins 8, Brewers 7 (12) Milwaukee ab Weeks 2b 5 Gomez cf 6 Braun dh 6 Fielder 1b 2 McGeh 3b 6 Hart rf 6 Inglett lf 2 Gerut lf 4 AEscor ss 5 Kottars c 3 Totals
Minnesota ab r h bi Span cf 7 0 0 0 OHudsn 2b 4 2 2 0 ACasill 2b 0 0 0 0 Mauer c 7 3 4 1 Mornea 1b 5 2 3 1 Cuddyr rf 6 1 3 1 Kubel dh 3 0 0 1 DlmYn lf 5 0 1 3 Plouffe ss 3 0 0 1 Thome ph 0 0 0 0 BHarrs pr-ss1 0 0 0 Punto 3b 5 0 0 0 45 713 7 Totals 46 813 8 r h bi 11 2 02 2 00 0 10 0 02 1 12 1 11 0 11 0 13 0 11 1
Milwaukee 000 011 005 000 — 7 Minnesota 400 000 201 001 — 8 Two outs when winning run scored. E—Gomez (2). DP—Milwaukee 1, Minnesota 4. LOB—Milwaukee 9, Minnesota 17. 2B— Weeks (8), McGehee 2 (12), Inglett (4), Mauer (12), Morneau 2 (13), Cuddyer (8), Delm. Young (10). HR—Hart (8). SB—O.Hudson (4). SF—Kubel, Plouffe. IP H R ER BB SO Milwaukee Gallardo 6 6 4 4 3 5 1 Estrada ⁄3 2 2 2 1 0 Stetter 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Coffey Axford 1 0 0 0 1 2 Villanueva BS,1-2 2 4 1 1 2 2 M.Parra L,0-3 12⁄3 1 1 1 2 0 Minnesota Slowey 52⁄3 6 2 2 1 5 1 Duensing H,8 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 Guerrier H,8 2 0 0 0 1 2 Mahay 0 2 3 3 1 0 Rauch BS,2-12 1 3 2 2 1 1 Al.Burnett 2 1 0 0 0 0 Crain W,1-0 1 0 0 0 1 1 Duensing pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. Mahay pitched to 3 batters in the 9th. Stetter pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. HBP—by Villanueva (Kubel), by Gallardo (Cuddyer), by Al.Burnett (Weeks). T—4:45. A—39,152 (39,504).
Rockies 3, Royals 0 Colorado ab r h bi Fowler cf 4 0 0 0 Giambi dh 4 0 1 0 Helton 1b 4 0 1 0 Tlwtzk ss 4 1 1 1 Hawpe rf 4 0 0 0 S.Smith lf 3 1 2 0 Splrghs ph-lf10 0 0
Kansas City ab Pdsdnk lf 4 Aviles 2b 4 DeJess rf 3 BButler 1b 4 JGuilln dh 4 Callasp 3b 3 YBtncr ss 3
r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
h bi 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
L10 8-2 5-5 6-4 5-5 4-6
Str L-1 W-1 L-2 L-1 L-1
Home 13-7 13-6 11-11 14-11 8-12
Away 17-5 13-10 14-8 8-10 6-18
L10 5-5 6-4 5-5 7-3 3-7
Str W-2 L-1 W-2 L-1 L-5
Home 14-6 14-6 11-12 8-12 6-11
Away 12-11 10-12 7-12 10-14 9-14
L10 7-3 4-6 6-4 3-7
Str W-5 W-2 W-1 W-2
Home 18-7 17-9 12-11 10-11
Away 7-11 5-13 9-13 6-15
L10 7-3 8-2 6-4 3-7 2-8
Str W-2 W-4 L-3 W-1 L-1
Home 13-8 13-6 12-10 13-10 14-9
Away 13-7 9-14 10-12 9-12 6-14
L10 7-3 5-5 5-5 4-6 1-9 4-6
Str W-1 L-1 L-2 L-2 L-2 W-1
Home 14-9 14-8 11-10 10-11 4-14 9-16
Away 10-9 11-11 8-14 8-13 12-13 6-11
L10 9-1 4-6 4-6 5-5 5-5
Str W-2 L-2 L-4 W-1 W-3
Home 14-7 12-9 13-8 11-7 10-11
Away 10-11 12-9 9-12 10-15 9-13
San Diego at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Today’s Games Cincinnati (H.Bailey 1-2) at Cleveland (D.Huff 1-6), 1:05 p.m. Atlanta (Medlen 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Duke 3-4), 1:35 p.m. Baltimore (Millwood 0-4) at Washington (Lannan 1-2), 1:35 p.m. Boston (Wakefield 0-2) at Philadelphia (Halladay 6-2), 1:35 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Silva 5-0) at Texas (C.Wilson 3-1), 2:05 p.m. Florida (Jo.Johnson 4-1) at Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 3-2), 2:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Price 6-1) at Houston (Norris 25), 2:05 p.m. Colorado (Cook 1-3) at Kansas City (Greinke 1-4), 2:10 p.m. Milwaukee (M.Parra 0-2) at Minnesota (Pavano 4-4), 2:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 4-2) at St. Louis (Carpenter 5-1), 2:15 p.m. San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-3) at Oakland (Sheets 2-3), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Porcello 3-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 5-1), 4:10 p.m. San Diego (Latos 3-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 2-3), 4:10 p.m. Toronto (Marcum 3-1) at Arizona (Buckner 01), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-2) at N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-2), 8:05 p.m. Olivo c 4 Stewart 3b 4 Barmes 2b 3 Totals 35
1 0 0 3
2 1 0 8
1 Blmqst cf 2 0 1 0 1 Kendall c 3 0 1 0 0 3 Totals 30 0 6 0
Colorado 000 001 200 — 3 Kansas City 000 000 000 — 0 DP—Colorado 1. LOB—Colorado 5, Kansas City 5. 2B—Helton (7), S.Smith (5), DeJesus (11), Kendall (8). 3B—Olivo (1). HR—Tulowitzki (3). SB—Bloomquist (4). CS—DeJesus (2), Bloomquist (1). IP H R ER BB SO Colorado 1 5 0 0 2 3 Francis W,1-0 61⁄3 Beimel H,5 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Belisle H,3 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 Corpas S,3-4 1 0 0 0 0 1 Kansas City Davies L,3-3 6 5 1 1 0 6 D.Hughes 0 3 2 2 0 0 Thompson 1 0 0 0 0 0 Tejeda 1 0 0 0 0 3 Chen 1 0 0 0 0 0 D.Hughes pitched to 3 batters in the 7th. T—2:53. A—20,907 (37,840).
Nationals 7, Orioles 6 Baltimore
Washington ab r h bi Morgan cf 4 0 1 0 CGzmn ss2b41 3 1 Zmrmn 3b 4 1 3 0 A.Dunn 1b 5 0 1 2 Capps p 0 0 0 0 Wlngh lf 3 1 1 2 IRdrgz c 2 0 0 0 Nieves c 3 0 0 0 AKndy 2b-1b31 1 0 Berndn rf 4 1 2 1 Stmmn p 1 1 1 0 Walker p 0 0 0 0 AlGnzlz ph 1 1 1 1 SBurntt p 0 0 0 0 Morse ph 1 0 1 0 Clipprd p 0 0 0 0 Dsmnd ss 0 0 0 0 36 610 6 Totals 35 715 7
ab CPttrsn lf 4 Markks rf 4 MTejad 3b 4 Scott 1b 4 Wggntn 2b 4 Wieters c 4 AdJons cf 4 CIzturs ss 4 Bergsn p 3 Hndrck p 0 SMoore ph 1
Totals
r h bi 00 0 12 0 12 0 20 0 12 4 01 0 11 2 01 0 01 0 00 0 00 0
Baltimore 200 202 000 — 6 Washington 002 104 00x — 7 E—Morgan (4), Stammen (2). DP—Baltimore 2, Washington 2. LOB—Baltimore 3, Washington 11. 2B—Stammen (2). 3B—Bernadina (1). HR—Wigginton (13), Ad.Jones (5), Willingham (7). S—Morgan, Stammen. IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore Bergesen 5 11 6 6 1 1 Hndrcksn L,1-2 3 4 1 1 3 0 Washington 1 Stammen 5 ⁄3 9 6 4 0 1 2 Walker W,1-0 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 S.Burnett H,6 1 0 0 0 0 2 Clippard H,9 1 0 0 0 0 1 Capps S,16-16 1 0 0 0 0 2 Bergesen pitched to 3 batters in the 6th. HBP—by Hendrickson (C.Guzman). WP— Stammen. T—2:58. A—30,290 (41,546).
Saturday’s college scores SOUTH Alabama 9, Tennessee 7 Arkansas 7, Vanderbilt 5 Cent. Missouri 3, Tampa 0 Charlotte 5, Richmond 4 Citadel 5, Georgia Southern 2 E. Kentucky 8, SIU-Edwardsville 7 High Point 16, Charleston Southern 11 Jacksonville St. 21, Morehead St. 10 Tennessee Tech 11, Murray St. 1 MIDWEST Nebraska 8, Texas Tech 6 North Dakota St. 8, Oral Roberts 3 SOUTHWEST Baylor 12, Oklahoma St. 7 Lamar 9, Stephen F. Austin 4 Sam Houston St. 16, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 4 Texas A&M 10, Kansas St. 2 TCU 7, CS Bakersfield 0 UAB 8, Rice 5 Utah Valley 21, Houston Baptist 3 FAR WEST New Mexico 7, Utah 6 UCLA 12, California 4
GOLF
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LPGA
Sybase Match Play Championship Saturday at Hamilton Farm Golf Club Gladstone, N.J. Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,585; Par 72 (Seedings in parentheses) Third Round Amy Yang (30) def. Morgan Pressel (14), 4 and 3. Haeji Kang (61) def. Jee Young Lee (27), 1-up. Catriona Matthew (15) def. M.J. Hur (31), 19 holes. Angela Stanford (10) def. Amanda Blumenherst (55), 20 holes. Yani Tseng (4) def. Inbee Park (13), 5 and 3. Sun Young Yoo (28) def. Song-Hee Kim (12), 1-up. Jiyai Shin (1) def. Beatriz Recari (62), 4 and 3. Michelle Wie (8) def. Karine Icher (57), 3 and 2. Quarterfinals Yang (30) def. Kang (61), 1-up. Stanford (10) def. Matthew (15), 5 and 3. Yoo (28) def. Tseng (4), 2 and 1. Shin (1) def. Wie, 2 and 1.
PGA HP Byron Nelson Championship Saturday At TPC Four Seasons Resort Irving, Texas Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,166; Par: 70 Third Round Jason Day 66-65-67— 198 Blake Adams 66-64-70— 200 Jeff Overton 67-65-69— 201 Mark Hensby 68-71-64— 203 Kenny Perry 70-67-66— 203 Tom Pernice, Jr. 69-68-66— 203 Arjun Atwal 69-71-64— 204 Heath Slocum 69-70-65— 204 Jordan Spieth 68-69-67— 204 Corey Pavin 68-67-69— 204 Sean O’Hair 70-65-69— 204 D.A. Points 68-66-70— 204 Gary Woodland 71-69-65— 205 Steve Elkington 66-66-73— 205 Cameron Beckman 69-61-75— 205 Matt Weibring 71-68-67— 206 Johnson Wagner 70-69-67— 206 Alex Cejka 72-66-68— 206 Scott Verplank 70-65-71— 206 Shaun Micheel 68-66-72— 206 Marc Leishman 67-67-72— 206 Jay Williamson 67-67-72— 206 Brett Wetterich 70-70-67— 207 Justin Leonard 72-67-68— 207 Jeev Milkha Singh 72-67-68— 207 Jarrod Lyle 66-70-71— 207 Dustin Johnson 67-68-72— 207
THURSDAY
2 p.m. – Nationwide practice 3:30 p.m. – Cup practice 7:10 p.m. – Cup qualifying 8:30 p.m. – Legends Car races
FRIDAY 7:15 p.m. – World of Outlaws sprint cars (dirt track)
SATURDAY 9:35 a.m. – Nationwide qualifying 11:30 a.m. – Cup practice 12:50 p.m. – Cup practice 2:48 p.m. – 300-mile Nationwide race
SUNDAY, MAY 30
TRIVIA QUESTION
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Q. Who coached the Milwaukee Bucks to a four-game sweep of the Baltimore Bullets for the 1971 NBA title?
SOFTBALL
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NCAA Div. I Regionals
Double Elimination (x-if necessary) Amherst (Mass.) Regional At UMass Softball Complex Friday, May 21 Arizona State 6, Boston University 1 Long Island University 3, Massachusetts 1 Saturday, May 22 Arizona State 3, Long Island University 2 Boston University 10, Massachusetts 4, Massachusetts eliminated Game 5 — Long Island University (38-17) vs. Boston University (35-21), 7:30 p.m. Today Game 6 — Arizona State (43-15) vs. Game 5 winner, 5 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 7:30 p.m. College Park (Md.) Regional At Robert E. Taylor Stadium Friday, May 21 Oklahoma 10, Syracuse 0, 5 innings Fordham 2, Maryland 1 Saturday, May 22 Oklahoma 1, Fordham 0 Maryland 4, Syracuse 1, Syracuse eliminated Fordham 5, Maryland 0, Maryland eliminated Today Game 6 — Oklahoma (45-10) vs. Fordham (49-11), Noon x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 2 p.m. Knoxville (Tenn.) Regional At Sherri Parker Lee Stadium Friday, May 21 Virginia 1, Louisville 0 Tennessee 5, Ball State 0 Saturday, May 22 Tennessee 11, Virginia 2 Louisville 5, Ball State 1, Ball State eliminated Louisville 7, Virginia 4, Virginia eliminated Today Game 6 — Tennessee (44-13) vs. Louisville (41-18), 1 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 3:30 p.m. Atlanta Regional At Mewborn Field Friday, May 21 Oregon 1, Auburn 0 Georgia Tech 5, Jacksonville State 3 Saturday, May 22 Oregon 11, Georgia Tech 2, 5 innings Auburn 15, Jacksonville State 1, Jacksonville State eliminated Georgia Tech 4, Auburn 1, Auburn eliminated Today Game 6 — Oregon (35-19) vs. Georgia Tech (51-10), 1 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 3:30 p.m. Athens (Ga.) Regional At UGA Softball Stadium Friday, May 21 Florida State 10, Radford 1, 5 innings Georgia 10, Elon 4 Saturday, May 22 Georgia 5, Florida State 2 Radford 8, Elon 0, 5 innings, Elon eliminated Radford 3, Florida State 2, Florida State eliminated Today Game 6 — Georgia (45-11) vs.Radford (3816), Noon x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 2:30 p.m. Gainesville (Fla.) Regional At Katie Seashole Pressly Softball Stadium Friday, May 21 UCF 7, Florida International 1 Florida 6, Bethune-Cookman 0 Saturday, May 22 Florida 6, UCF 0 Florida International 2, Bethune-Cookman 0, 10 innings, BCC eliminated Florida International 7, UCF 0, UCF eliminated Today Game 6 — Florida (45-8) vs. Florida International (38-20), 1 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 3:30 p.m. Columbus (Ohio) Regional At Buckeye Field Friday, May 21 California 10, Bucknell 0, 5 innings Kentucky 3, Ohio State 0, 3 innings, susp., rain Saturday, May 22 Kentucky 6, Ohio State 5, comp. of susp. game California 1, Kentucky 0 Ohio State 6, Bucknell 0, Bucknell eliminated Ohio State 5, Kentucky 3, Kentucky eliminated Today Game 6 — California (43-17) vs. Ohio State (39-13), 2:30 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 5 p.m. Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Regional At Alabama Softball Complex Friday, May 21 Lipscomb 4, UAB 1 Alabama 9, Alcorn State 0, 5 innings Saturday, May 22 Alabama 5, Lipscomb 2 UAB 10, Alcorn State 1, Alcorn State eliminated Game 5 — Lipscomb (49-12) vs. UAB (3721), 7:30 p.m. Today Game 6 — Alabama (50-9) vs. Game 5 winner, 2:30 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 5 p.m. Austin (Texas) Regional At Red and Charline McCombs Field Thursday, May 20 BYU 1, East Carolina 0 Texas 6, Iona 0 Friday, May 21 BYU 9, Texas 8 East Carolina 3, Iona 0, Iona eliminated East Carolina 1, Texas 0, Texas eliminated Saturday, May 22 BYU 8, East Carolina 3, BYU advances Seattle Regional At Husky Softball Stadium Friday, May 21 North Carolina 1, Nebraska 0 Washington 3, North Dakota State 0 Saturday, May 22 Game 3 — North Carolina (41-18) vs. Washington (46-6), late Game 4 — Nebraska (29-28) vs. North Dakota State (33-24), late Game 5 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner, 11 p.m. Today Game 6 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 5:30 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 8 p.m. Stanford (Calif.) Regional At Smith Family Stadium Friday, May 21 Hawaii 10, UC Davis 2 Stanford 5, Texas Tech 4 Saturday, May 22 Hawaii 6, Stanford 3 Texas Tech 1, UC Davis 0, UC Davis eliminated Game 5 — Stanford (37-18) vs. Texas Tech (37-17), 9 p.m. Sunday, May 23 Game 6 — Hawaii (46-13) vs. Game 5 winner, 4 p.m. x-Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 6:30 p.m. Los Angeles Regional At Easton Stadium Friday, May 21 San Diego State 3, Fresno State 2 UCLA 11, Saint Mary’s, Calif. 4 Saturday, May 22 UCLA 4, San Diego State 3 Game 4 — Fresno State (39-20) vs. Saint Mary’s, Calif. (30-22), 6:30 p.m. Game 5 — San Diego State (34-15) vs. Game 4 winner, 9 p.m. Today Game 6 — UCLA (42-11) vs. Game 5 winner, 3 p.m.
MOTORSPORTS
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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Sprint Showdown Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (20) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 40 laps, 120.4 rating, $51,760. 2. (5) Greg Biffle, Ford, 40, 133.6, $41,734. 3. (17) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 40, 113.5, $37,459. 4. (12) Paul Menard, Ford, 40, 106.6, $35,359. 5. (19) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 40, 91.9, $34,359. 6. (1) David Ragan, Ford, 40, 120, $32,359. 7. (3) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 40, 89.2, $31,359. 8. (8) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, 40, 105.1, $30,759. 9. (24) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 40, 66.4, $30,259. 10. (26) Carl Edwards, Ford, 40, 70.8, $30,009. 11. (16) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 40, 74.9, $29,734. 12. (7) Bill Elliott, Ford, 40, 69, $29,484. 13. (6) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 40, 68.7, $29,234. 14. (18) Scott Speed, Toyota, 40, 59.1, $29,134. 15. (10) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 40, 57.2, $29,034. 16. (2) Max Papis, Toyota, 40, 62.5, $28,934. 17. (23) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 40, 47.4, $28,834. 18. (4) Kevin Conway, Ford, 40, 44, $28,734. 19. (28) Derrike Cope, Dodge, 40, 40, $28,634. 20. (15) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 40, 36.1, $28,534. 21. (22) Robert Richardson Jr., Dodge, 39, 33.9, $28,409. 22. (13) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 38, 46.7, $28,284. 23. (9) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, accident, 34, 67.9, $28,184. 24. (29) David Gilliland, Ford, accident, 21, 47.9, $28,084. 25. (27) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, suspension, 18, 32.2, $27,984. 26. (11) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, accident, 16, 78, $27,884. 27. (14) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, accident, 16, 73.2, $27,784. 28. (21) Todd Bodine, Toyota, transmission, 13, 32.3, $27,684. 29. (25) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, electrical, 7, 26.4, $27,584. Race Statistics Average Speed of Winner: 103.597 mph. Time: 0 hours, 34 minutes, 45 seconds. Margin of Victory: 1.395 seconds. Caution Flags: 2 for 4 laps. Lead Changes: 2 among 3 drivers. Lap Leaders: D.Ragan 1-20; G.Biffle 2132; M.Truex Jr. 33-40. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): D.Ragan, 1 time for 20 laps; G.Biffle, 1 time for 12 laps; M.Truex Jr., 1 time for 8 laps. Top 12 in Points: 1. K.Harvick, 1,768; 2. Ky.Busch, 1,699; 3. M.Kenseth, 1,642; 4. J.Johnson, 1,637; 5. D.Hamlin, 1,618; 6. J.Gordon, 1,605; 7. G.Biffle, 1,581; 8. J.Burton, 1,569; 9. Ku.Busch, 1,531; 10. C.Edwards, 1,487; 11. M.Martin, 1,475; 12. M.Truex Jr., 1,434.
Indianapolis 500 qualifying Saturday At Indianapolis Motor Speedway At Indianapolis With rank, car number in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, time and speed in parentheses: 1. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 2:37.9154 (227.970) 2. (12) Will Power, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.1876 (227.578) 3. (10T) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.5970 (226.990) 4. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.9027 (226.554) 5. (77) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.0178 (226.390) 6. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.1277 (226.233) 7. (30) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.6319 (225.519) 8. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3514 (224.507) 9. (06) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Honda, 2:41.0831 (223.487) 10. (99) Townsend Bell, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9313 (225.097) 11. (22) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9647 (225.050) 12. (2) Raphael Matos, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9798 (225.028) 13. (32) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.0794 (224.888) 14. (21) Davey Hamilton, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.1053 (224.852) 15. (24) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.2969 (224.583) 16. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3030 (224.575) 17. (37) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3227 (224.547) 18. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3821 (224.464) 19. (8T) E.J. Viso, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.4424 (224.380) 20. (23) Tomas Scheckter, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5270 (224.261) 21. (25) Ana Beatriz, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5402 (224.243) 22. (78) Simona de Silvestro, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5511 (224.228) 23. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5584 (224.217) 24.(36) Bertrand Baguette, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5785 (224.189)
NASCAR Trucks Camping World Truck North Carolina Education Lottery 200 Late Friday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 134 laps, 148.5 rating, 195 points. 2. (9) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 134, 113.3, 175. 3. (5) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 134, 122, 170. 4. (2) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 134, 101.9, 160. 5. (4) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 134, 118.1, 160. 6. (14) Mike Skinner, Toyota, 134, 96.9, 150. 7. (12) Aric Almirola, Toyota, 134, 84.6, 146. 8. (16) Jason White, Dodge, 134, 98.8, 142. 9. (15) David Starr, Toyota, 134, 85.5, 138. 10. (7) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 134, 95.9, 134. 11. (11) Matt Crafton, Chevrolet, 134, 87.5, 130. 12. (6) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 134, 81, 127. 13. (17) Tayler Malsam, Toyota, 134, 83.6, 124. 14. (19) Ricky Carmichael, Chevrolet, 134, 70, 121. 15. (22) Justin Lofton, Toyota, 134, 67.8, 118. 16. (23) Nelson Piquet, Toyota, 134, 63.5, 115. 17. (30) Narain Karthikeyan, Chevrolet, 134, 53.5, 112. 18. (28) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, 133, 42.9, 109. 19. (36) Hermie Sadler, Chevrolet, 132, 45.9, 111. 20. (26) Mario Gosselin, Chevrolet, 131, 55.4, 103.
21. (20) Brad Sweet, Toyota, 130, 47.6, 100. 22. (33) Brett Butler, Chevrolet, 130, 36.4, 97. 23. (31) J.C. Stout, Dodge, 129, 37.5, 94. 24. (34) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 128, 31.5, 91. 25. (32) Terry Jones, Dodge, engine, 122, 43, 88. 26. (3) Donny Lia, Chevrolet, accident, 120, 72.4, 85. 27. (24) T.J. Bell, Chevrolet, engine, 120, 55.5, 82. 28. (10) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, engine, 111, 95.5, 79. 29. (18) Chris Eggleston, Chevrolet, accident, 108, 59.6, 76. 30. (13) Dennis Setzer, Chevrolet, accident, 108, 61.3, 73. 31. (35) Michael Guerity, Chevrolet, engine, 91, 29.2, 70. 32. (25) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, accident, 88, 58.2, 67. 33. (29) Brent Raymer, Ford, accident, 76, 46, 64. 34. (21) Wes Burton, Chevrolet, brakes, 59, 46.1, 61. 35. (8) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 55, 35.7, 58. 36. (27) Mike Garvey, Dodge, engine, 9, 28.1, 55. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 109.653 mph. Time of Race: 1 hour, 49 minutes, 59 seconds. Margin of Victory: 0.228 seconds. Caution Flags: 7 for 35 laps. Lead Changes: 8 among 5 drivers. Lap Leaders: K.Busch 1-26; H.Sadler 27; E.Sadler 28-31; K.Busch 32-39; E.Sadler 40-66; K.Busch 67-84; T.Bodine 85-89; R.Hornaday Jr. 90-117; K.Busch 118-134. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Busch, 4 times for 69 laps; E.Sadler, 2 times for 31 laps; R.Hornaday Jr., 1 time for 28 laps; T.Bodine, 1 time for 5 laps; H.Sadler, 1 time for 1 lap. Top 10 in Points: 1. T.Bodine, 1,068; 2. A.Almirola, 1,066; 3. T.Peters, 982; 4. R.Hornaday Jr., 965; 5. M.Crafton, 902; 6. J.Sauter, 888; 7. R.Carmichael, 886; 8. M.Skinner, 884; 9. J.White, 875; 10. D.Starr, 875.
BASKETBALL
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NBA playoffs
CONFERENCE FINALS Sunday, May 16 Boston 92, Orlando 88 Monday, May 17 L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107 Tuesday, May 18 Boston 95, Orlando 92, Boston leads series 2-0 Wednesday, May 19 L.A. Lakers 124, Phoenix 112, L.A. Lakers lead series 2-0. Saturday, May 22 Orlando at Boston, late Today’s game L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 24 Orlando at Boston, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 25 L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 26 x-Boston at Orlando, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27 x-Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.
TENNIS
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Today’s French Open at a glance
PARIS (AP) — A look ahead to Day 1 of the French Open tennis tournament: Today’s Schedule: Day 1; play starts on all courts at 11 a.m. EDT. Today’s Top Men’s Matches: No. 5 Robin Soderling of Sweden vs. Laurent Recouderc of France; No. 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France vs. Daniel Brands of Germany; No. 10 Marin Cilic of Croatia vs. Ricardo Mello of Brazil; Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina vs. Ryan Sweeting of the United States. Today’s Top Women’s Matches: No. 2 Venus Williams of the United States vs. Patty Schnyder of Switzerland; No. 6 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia vs. Sorana Cirstea of Romania; No. 10 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus vs. Gisela Dulko of Argentina; No. 15 Aravane Rezai of France vs. Heidi El Tabakh of Canada. Today’s Forecast: Sunny, high temperature of 81 degrees. No. 1-Seeded Man: Roger Federer, defending his first French Open title. No. 1-Seeded Woman: Serena Williams, trying to win the French Open for the first time since 2002. 2009 Men’s Singles Final: Federer beat Soderling 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4, becoming the sixth man in tennis history with a career Grand Slam. Federer also tied Pete Sampras’ record of 14 major titles, a mark Federer since has eclipsed, taking his total to 16. 2009 Women’s Singles Final: Kuznetsova beat Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 for her second Grand Slam championship. Key Statistic: 31-1 — Four-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal’s career winloss mark in the tournament; his record 31match winning streak at Roland Garros ended with a fourth-round exit against Soderling last year. Prize Money: At the current exchange rate, the total is about $20.7 million, with about $1.4 million each to the men’s and women’s singles champions. Sunday’s TV: Tennis Channel (5 a.m. to noon EDT), ESPN2 (noon to 6 p.m. EDT). Online: http://www.rolandgarros.com/index. html
At Strasbourg, France WTA Tour Internationaux de Strasbourg Saturday at Centre Sportif de Hautepierre; Purse: $220,000 (Intl.) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Championship Maria Sharapova (1), Russia, def. Kristina Barrois, Germany, 7-5, 6-1. Doubles Championship Alize Cornet, France, and Vania King, United States, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, and Anastasia Rodionova (2), Australia, 3-6, 6-4, 10-7 tiebreak.
At Nice, France ATP World Tour Open de Nice Cote d’Azur Saturday at The Nice Lawn Tennis Club Purse: $556,000 (WT250) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Championship Richard Gasquet, France, def. Fernando Verdasco (2), Spain, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5). Doubles Championship Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares (3), Brazil, def. Rohan Bopanna, India, and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, 1-6, 6-3, 10-5 tiebreak.
At Duesseldorf, Germany ARAG ATP World Team Cup Saturday at Rochusclub Purse: $926,500 (World Championship) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Championship Argentina 2, United States 1 Juan Monaco, Argentina, def. Sam Querrey, United States, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3. Juan Monaco and Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, def. Robby Ginepri, United States, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-5. Bob and Mike Bryan, United States, def. Eduardo Schwank, Juan Monaco and Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-1, 6-2.
6:18 p.m. – Start of Coca-Cola 600
At Warsaw, Poland WTA Tour Polsat Warsaw Open Saturday at Legia Tennis Centre Purse: $600,000 (Premier) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Championship Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, def. Zheng Jie (5), China, 6-3, 6-4. Doubles Championship Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spain, and Meghann Shaughnessy, United States, def. Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Yan Zi (1), China, 6-3, 6-4.
HOCKEY
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NHL playoffs
CONFERENCE FINALS Sunday, May 16 Chicago 2, San Jose 1 Philadelphia 6, Montreal 0 Tuesday, May 18 Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0 Chicago 4, San Jose 2 Thursday, May 20 Montreal 5, Philadelphia 1 Friday, May 21 Chicago 3, San Jose 2, OT, Chicago leads series 3-0 Saturday, May 22 Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0, Philadelphia leads series 3-1 Today’s game San Jose at Chicago, 3 p.m. Monday, May 24 Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 25 x-Chicago at San Jose, 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 26 x-Philadelphia at Montreal, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 27 x-San Jose at Chicago, 8 p.m. Friday, May 28 x-Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 29 x-Chicago at San Jose, 8 p.m.
Flyers 3, Canadiens 0 Philadelphia 0 2 1 — 3 Montreal 0 0 0 — 0 First Period—None. Penalties—Laperriere, Phi (roughing), 5:32; Hamrlik, Mon (roughing), 5:32; Bergeron, Mon (holding), 11:24. Second Period—1, Philadelphia, Giroux 7 (Timonen), 5:41. 2, Philadelphia, Leino 4 (Pronger), 14:53. Penalties—Subban, Mon (holding), 6:59. Third Period—3, Philadelphia, Giroux 8, 18:47 (en). Penalties—M.Carle, Phi (delay of game), 6:35; Asham, Phi (goaltender interference), 13:08; Lapierre, Mon (slashing), 19:19; Timonen, Phi (high-sticking), 19:36. Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 5-13-7—25. Montreal 7-1-9—17. Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 0 of 3; Montreal 0 of 2. Goalies—Philadelphia, Leighton 5-1-0 (17 shots-17 saves). Montreal, Halak 9-8-0 (2422). A—21,273 (21,273). T—2:24. Referees—Stephen Walkom, Kelly Sutherland. Linesmen—Jean Morin, Brian Murphy.
LACROSSE
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NCAA Men’s Div. I
First Round Saturday, May 15 Duke 18, Johns Hopkins 5 Maryland 11, Hofstra 8 Cornell 11, Loyola, Md. 10, 3OT Stony Brook 9, Denver 7 Virginia 18, Mount Saint Mary’s, Md. 4 Sunday, May 16 Notre Dame 8, Princeton 5 North Carolina 14, Delaware 13 Army 9, Syracuse 8 Quarterfinals Saturday, May 22 At Princeton Stadium Princeton, N.J. Notre Dame 7, Maryland 5 Duke 17, North Carolina 9 Today’s games At Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium Stony Brook, N.Y. Cornell (11-5) vs. Army (11-5) , Noon Virginia (15-1) vs. Stony Brook (13-3), 2:30 p.m. Semifinals At M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore Saturday, May 29 Duke (14-4) vs. Virginia-Stony Brook winner, 4 or 6:30 p.m. Notre Dame (9-6) vs. Cornell-Army-Syracuse winner, 4 or 6:30 p.m. Championship At M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore Monday, May 31 Semifinal winners, 3:30 p.m.
NCAA Women’s Div. I First Round Saturday, May 15 Maryland 20, Marist 5 Pennsylvania 14, Boston University 9 James Madison 9, Stanford 8 Syracuse 15, Georgetown 8 North Carolina 18, Navy 5 Northwestern 19, Notre Dame 7 Sunday, May 16 Virginia 14, Towson 12 Duke 16, Vanderbilt 15 Quarterfinals Saturday, May 22 Maryland 15, Pennsylvania 10 North Carolina 17, Virginia 7 Syracuse 7, James Madison 3 Northwestern 18, Duke 8 Semifinals At Johnny Unitas Stadium Towson, Md. Friday, May 28 Maryland (20-1) vs. Syracuse (15-6), 5:30 or 8 p.m. North Carolina (17-2) vs. Northwestern (191), 5:30 or 8 p.m. Championship At Johnny Unitas Stadium Towson, Md. Sunday, May 30 Semifinal winners, 5:30 p.m.
FOOTBALL
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Former NFL Hall of Fame lineman Jones dies
DENVER (AP) — Hall of Fame lineman and defensive line coach Stan Jones has died. He was 78. The Denver Broncos said in a statement that Jones died Friday. No cause of death was given. Jones played on the offensive line for the Chicago Bears in the 1950s and ’60s before switching to the defensive line in 1962. He was chosen to seven straight Pro Bowls from 1955 to 1961, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991. Jones was a defensive line coach for the Denver Broncos for 18 seasons until he left the team in 1988. He moved to Broomfield, Colo., in 2003. Relatives are planning a memorial for Jones on June 4 at the National Western Stock Show.
TRIVIA ANSWER
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CALENDAR, WOMEN’S LACROSSE THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 www.hpe.com
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BASEBALL ATLANTA BRAVES TRIP – The High Point Parks and Recreation Department is accepting registration for a trip to see the Braves play the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies May 29-31. Trip includes three games and two nights lodging plus a Beach Boys concert following the Monday night game. Contact Richard Shore at 883-3483 or Richard. shore@highpointnc.gov for info. GUILFORD COUNTY PLAYER OF THE YEAR SCHOLARSHIP – The North Carolina Baseball Academy is accepting nominations for the NCBA Guilford County High School Player of the Year Award. The inaugural award, sponsored by Easton Sports, is open to all juniors and seniors currently competing in a Guilford County high school. The award will be given to the player who exhibits academic strength, strong baseball accomplishments and good sportsmanship. Candidates can only be nominated by a current Guilford County high school head coach. The winner will receive a $500 scholarship toward his education and an equipment gift from Easton Sports. Deadline for nominations is June 1. For more info, contact Scott Bankhead at 931-1118 or scott@ncbaseball.com, or visit www.ncbaseball.com. CENTRAL DAVIDSON PITCHER & CATCHER CAMP – 22nd annual camp set for June 28-29 from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for kids ages 5-18. Camp will be held at Central Davidson High School. Appalachian State head coach Chris Pollard will be featured instructor. Cost is $60. Call Mike Lawson at 239-0139 or 798-2909 or Jonathan Brown at 357-2920 for more details.
BASKETBALL T. WINGATE ANDREWS KIDS CAMP – Red Raiders coach James Abell is hosting the T. Wingate Andrews Kids Camp from June 14-18, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to noon on Friday. Camp is open to rising third- through eighth-graders. Cost is $125. Camp offers personal instruction from current Andrews players and coaches and fee includes T-shirt, personal progress reports for each camper, plus shooting, free throw, dribbling, 1-on-1 and team competitions. For more info, contact Abell at 558-7144. LEDFORD PANTHERS BOOSTER CAMP – The Panther Booster Camp will provide a positive basketball experience with an emphasis on teaching and developing basketball skills and a love for the game in a fun and competitive environment. A staff of high school coaches and current and former players will help campers improve their game while promoting the principles of good character, teamwork and sportsmanship. Camp set for June 7-9 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Ledford High varsity gym. Open to grades 1-8. Cost is $50 – team, sibling and returning camper discounts available – and includes insurance, T-shirt and pizza on final night. Register in advance by contacting Scott Dalton at 847-1879 or Andrew Stone at 816-1058. On-site registration is available Monday at 4:30 p.m. DCCC SUMMER CAMP – Davidson County Community College coach Matt Ridge will host the DCCC Camp from June 28 to July 2 at Brinkley Gym from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Cost is $75 and open to rising fourth- through 12th-grade boys and girls. Campers will receive instruction from members of the DCCC staff and players as well as other area coaches in fundamentals with an emphasis on team play and sportsmanship. Campers will be divided into groups based on age and ability level. For info or to register, contact Ridge at 239-3819, or mail checks to DCCC (memo: basketball camp), P.O. Box 1287, Lexington, NC 27293. SCOTT CHERRY BASKETBALL CAMPS – High Point University men’s coach Scott Cherry will feature two individual camp sessions, two team camp sessions and a father/son basketball camp. The individual camps are open to boys entering kindergarten through 10th grade and will run June 28-July 1 and Aug. 2-5. For
the first time, the Scott Cherry Basketball Camps will hold a father/son camp at HPU June 11-12. There will also be two team camps held this summer. Team camps are open to all middle school, junior varsity and varsity boys’ basketball teams. The two camps will run June 1820 and June 25-27. If you are interested in any boys’ basketball camp opportunities, contact Director of Basketball Operations Tripp Pendergast at 841-9329 or tpenderg@highpoint.edu or visit http:// www.highpointpanthers.com. VILLAINS BOYS CAMPS – Bishop McGuinness coach Josh Thompson and the varsity Villains will host their seventh annual camps for boys in rising grades 3-8. Session 1 runs June 28-July 2 and Session 2 is July 12-16, both running from 9 a.m. to noon at Bishop. Cost is $125. Spots reserved for the first 50 registered campers for each session, which will include two periods of small-group instruction, two sessions of games, and individual instruction, free time and challenge games. To register or for more info, visit http:// eteamz.active.com/villainsboyshoops/ and click the link on the left labeled “Bishop Basketball Camp.” HIGH POINT LADY STARS 13-U/8THGRADE TEAM – Looking for three more players. Contact director Aaron Grier at 991-0597 or visit www.eteamz.com/highpointstarsbasketball for info. WHEATMORE CAMPS – Will be having Warrior Summer Basketball Skills Camp. These camps are designed to instruct participants in the fundamental skills of basketball. Offensive and defensive skills will be taught. We will be offering two camps. The first camp will be held June 14th - June 17th and is for any rising 3rd through 5th graders. This camp will feature 8 foot goals and regulation size basketball for this age group. Our second camp will be held June 21st - 24th. This camp is for rising 6th through 8th graders. Both camps will run from 8 a.m. to noon. Head varsity basketball coach David Spell will be the camp director. His coaching staff as well as other area coaches and Wheatmore varsity players will be instructors. The camp price includes a T-shirt and a pizza lunch on the last day of camp. Cost of the camp is $65.00. Multiple family registrations will recieve a price break. Registration forms can be aquired at Wheatmore High School or at ArchdaleTrinity Middle School or by contacting David Spell at 687-1233, 431-8832, or at dspell1039@aol.com
EAST DAVIDSON GOLDEN EAGLE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL SUMMER CAMPS – East Davidson softball coach Greg Fowler will lead the Golden Eagles softball camp from June 16-18, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at East Davidson Community Park, while baseball coach Dan Tricarico will lead the Golden Eagles baseball camp from June 21-25, 9 a.m. to noon, at East Davidson Community Park. Camps are open to kids 7-16. Cost of $60 includes T-shirt, daily snack and supplemental insurance. The purpose of the camps is to provide quality instruction on fundamentals to aspiring young players. Individual instruction will be made available to all participants in hitting and the defense position of their choice. For info or a brochure to sign up, contact Tricarico at 476-7633.
GOLF ROBERT MCINNIS MEMORIAL CLASSIC – High Point Chamber of Commerce will hold annual Robert McInnis Memorial Golf Classic Thursday, May 27, at High Point Country Club’s Willow Creek course. Event opens with breakfast at 7:45 a.m., morning tee times at 8:30, a cookout at noon for all golfers and afternoon tee times starting at 1:30. Awards ceremony follows. Individual players cost $125; team of four and hole sponsor fee is $575. Other sponsorship opportunities also available. For info, contact Brian Norris at brian@highpointchamber.org. EIGHTH ANNUAL MEMORIAL CUP – Set for June 12-13 at Willow Creek Golf Course. 36 holes of flighted four-ball with open division and senior division action. Cost is $250 per team and field is limited. Call 869-2416 for more details or to enter.
HPGA MEMORIAL – High Point Golf Association Memorial set for May 29-30 at Blair Park. This 36-hole stroke-play event is open to the first 216 amateur golfers who enter and is flighted after the first round. The HPGA Memorial honors the association’s previous members who are now deceased. The event has been played since 1983. Entry fee is $45 and includes dinner after Sunday’s round and entry into raffle drawing for door prizes given away at dinner. Greens and cart fees for both rounds are separate. Visit blairparkgc.com to sign up or call Bryan Colquitt at 906-3486, or to get info on donating door prizes or becoming a hole sponsor. RONNIE SMITH SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION TOURNAMENT – Third annual event set for Saturday, June 5, at Jamestown Park. Captain’s choice event features shotgun starts at 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Cost is $60 per person and includes cart and greens fee, range balls, hot lunch, giveaways and cash prizes for top-three finishes of each start. Proceeds from tournament benefit scholarship foundation for Smith, a longtime Ragsdale coach who died in 2007 shortly after retiring. To register or for more info on playing or serving as an event sponsor, visit www.coachronniesmith. com or e-mail rsmithscholarshipfoundation@gmail.com. SPRINGFIELD FRIENDS HONORING JOHN HAWORTH – Seeker’s Sunday School class from Springfield Friends Meeting will hold its annual tournament Saturday June 12, at Blair Park. This year’s tournament will honor Springfield member and friend, John Haworth, for his long-time support of the meeting and the tournament, which benefits outreach programs at Sprinfield. Cost is $50 per player and lunch is included. Lunch and registration begin at 11:30 a.m. and tee times begin at 12:30 p.m. First prize of $300 and second prize of $200 offered. To register, contact Ken Hill at 495-0672 or Tommy Bryant at 431-4362.
Costs and times are: ages 3-4 (8-9 a.m., $75); ages 4-6 (9-11 a.m., $95); ages 6-16 (8-11 a.m. or 12–3 p.m., $113); ages 8–16 (8-11 a.m. and 12–3 p.m., $159). Teams also can attend and receive focused instruction to prepare for the fall season. Campers will receive a T-shirt, soccer ball, giant soccer poster and an individual skills performance evaluation. Any child signed up online at least 45 days prior to camp will receive a genuine British Soccer replica jersey. To sign up or for more info, visit http://www.challengersports. com or contact Ben Cook at 877-2637909 or bcook@challengersports.com. HARTLEY DRIVE GRYSA CHALLENGE LEAGUE – Tryouts for the Fall 2010 Challenge Season will be held Monday, May 24, at 6 p.m. at the Hartley Drive YMCA. New teams are welcomed to join the Challenge season, while returning teams must state their intent to stay in their current age bracket or move up to the next level. For info, contact Pat Hunt at 880-2067 or Pat.Hunt@crossco. com. KERNERSVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION – KSA’s U10 Academy, U11 and U12 Challenge and Classic team tryouts begin May 24, while the Piedmont Triad Football Club’s U13-U18 Challenge and Classic team tryouts begin May 26; registration for KSA’s Little Kickers (3-year-olds) and Recreational League (ages 4-17) ongoing through July 15. For more info on any of these programs, call 992-0089 or visit http://www.ksasoccer.com. JAMESTOWN SOCCER CLUB TRYOUTS – Starting today. For info, call 454-6259 or check the web at jamestownsoccerclub.com.
SPORTS PHYSICALS SOUTHWEST GUILFORD HIGH SCHOOL – Will be offering athletic physicals for Southwest students (rising ninth- through 12th-graders) on Wednesday, May 26, starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Southwest gym. Cost is $5.
GRUBB FAMILY YMCA YOUTH BASKETBALL, ADULT SOFTBALL SIGNUPS – The Grubb Family YMCA of Archdale-Trinity is currently taking registrations for its first Youth Basketball league. Registration ends June 6 for ages 6-14, with season beginning the week of June 21. Cost is $30 for members and $45 for non-members. Registration for Adult Softball will run through May 1 and is open to anyone age 18 and up. The fee to register a team is $300. Games and practices will be held at Aldridge fields in Archdale. For more info, visit www. grubbfamilyymca.org, call 861-7788, or visit the office.
HARTLEY DRIVE FAMILY YMCA SUMMER SPORTS SIGNUPS – High Point’s Hartley Drive YMCA currently has open registration through June 6 for the following programs: Summer T-ball, ages 3-9, $52 for Hartley Drive members, $72 for non-members; Summer Youth Basketball, ages 6-14, $55 for members, $80 for non-members; Summer Sports Camps, ages 5-14, costs vary depending on camp, which includes tennis, cheerleading, basketball, soccer, volleyball, speed and agility, flag football, and all sports; Summer Adult Soccer, for co-ed and open leagues, cost per team is $425; Youth Hot Hoops Basketball, ages 15-18, $45 for members, $65 non; and Youth Soccer, ages 12-15, also $45 and $65. For info or to register for any camp, contact Kevin Swider at 869-0151 or kswider@ hpymca.org.
SOCCER CHALLENGER CAMP – The No. 1 soccer company in the U.S., Canada and Australia – Challenger Sports – will hold one of its nationwide programs of British Soccer training camps in Archdale. Archdale Parks and Recreation will host the week-long camp from July 19–23 at Creekside Park. In addition to a daily regimen of foot-skill development, technical and tactical practices and daily tournament style plays, each child will be treated to a rich cultural experience and lessons on respect, responsibility, integrity, leadership and sportsmanship.
TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL – Will be offering athletic physicals on Tuesday, May 25, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Trinity High School gym. Cost is $15.
UNION CROSS BOBCATS FOOTBALL/CHEER PROGRAM – Signups for 2010 season will be held June 5 and 19, July 10 and 24 and August1-20 from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Southeast Middle School in Kernersville. Check the web at www.eteamz.com/ucbobcats for more details.
WESLEYAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SUMMER CAMPS – WCA will again be offering summer sports camps from May through July. Camps offered include developmental camps in soccer, tennis, cheerleading, baseball, basketball, middle school basketball, softball, wrestling and volleyball. Along with these specific camps, an AllSports Camp, advanced soccer school, advanced basketball camp, advanced baseball camp, advanced swimming camp and a middle school volleyball camp will be offered. Camps range from half day to full day camps and are for elementary, middle school and high school ages. For more info regarding dates, times and costs, visit the school Web site at http://www.wesed.org or contact Tammy Russell in the athletic office at 884-3333, ext. 216.
WRESTLING LEDFORD PANTHERS BOOSTER CLUB CAMPS – Ledford coach Bobby House will host the annual Panthers camps for wrestlers ages 6 and up. Camp will run from June 28 to July 1, either in a 9 to noon morning session or 5:30 to 8:30 evening session. Cost is $60. For info or to register, contact House at 687-5711 (cell) or 472-2324 ext. 3630 (school).
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Tar Heel women oust grieving Virginia THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHAPEL HILL – The season ended for Virginia’s women’s lacrosse team. Who knows if the grief ever will? One day before slain teammate Yeardley Love was supposed to graduate, the Cavaliers lost to North Carolina 17-7 on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. Virginia (14-6) was playing its first road game since Love’s death three weeks ago. “I don’t think that there’s any way that you can really move on from” Love’s death, senior midfielder
Brittany Kalkstein said. “Obviously, it’s going to be in our thoughts forever.” Virginia’s players again wore T-shirts that said “One Team. One Heart. One Love.” Their orange jerseys bore black patches on their chests with “LOVE” in white. A moment of silence was held before the game to remember the popular senior whose death jolted the Virginia community. A player on the school’s men’s lacrosse team is charged with murder. North Carolina (17-2) advanced to next week’s semifinals in Towson, Md. – its second straight berth in lacrosse’s final four.
NORTHWESTERN 18, DUKE 8 EVANSTON, Ill. – Katrina Dowd had three goals to break the NCAA tournament scoring record, and five-time defending national champion Northwestern rolled into the NCAA semifinals with an 18-8 win over Duke on Saturday. Dowd has 42 goals in tournament play, eclipsing the mark of 40 set by former Wildcat Hilary Bowen. Second-seeded Northwestern (19-1) will meet North Carolina in Towson, Md., on Friday. Kat Thomas, Christie Kaestner and Lindsay Gilbride had two goals apiece for the Blue Devils (14-6).
WEATHER 8D www.hpe.com SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE
High Point Enterprise Weather Today
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Local Area Forecast Kernersville Winston-Salem 76/62 76/63 Jamestown 77/64 High Point 77/64 Archdale Thomasville 77/64 77/64 Trinity Lexington 77/64 Randleman 77/64 78/64
North Carolina State Forecast
Elizabeth City 78/63
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Asheville 82/58
High Point 77/64 Charlotte 83/63
Denton 78/64
Greenville 79/64 Cape Raleigh Hatteras 79/64 74/65
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ALBEMARLE . . . . . .79/64 BREVARD . . . . . . . . .82/58 CAPE FEAR . . . . . . .81/69 EMERALD ISLE . . . .74/65 FORT BRAGG . . . . . .80/66 GRANDFATHER MTN . .71/54 GREENVILLE . . . . . .79/64 HENDERSONVILLE .82/59 JACKSONVILLE . . . .80/64 KINSTON . . . . . . . . . .80/64 KITTY HAWK . . . . . . .68/62 MOUNT MITCHELL . .78/56 ROANOKE RAPIDS .79/64 SOUTHERN PINES . .80/65 WILLIAMSTON . . . . .77/63 YANCEYVILLE . . . . .76/62 ZEBULON . . . . . . . . .79/64
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ALBUQUERQUE . . . .86/49 ATLANTA . . . . . . . . .92/65 BOISE . . . . . . . . . . . .57/38 BOSTON . . . . . . . . . .65/55 CHARLESTON, SC . .84/68 CHARLESTON, WV . .73/62 CINCINNATI . . . . . . .86/61 CHICAGO . . . . . . . . .89/71 CLEVELAND . . . . . . .79/60 DALLAS . . . . . . . . . .92/73 DETROIT . . . . . . . . . .81/63 DENVER . . . . . . . . . .82/50 GREENSBORO . . . . .76/63 GRAND RAPIDS . . . .86/62 HOUSTON . . . . . . . . .91/73 HONOLULU . . . . . . . .86/74 KANSAS CITY . . . . . .86/72 NEW ORLEANS . . . .91/77
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LAS VEGAS . . . . . . .71/55 LOS ANGELES . . . . .67/54 MEMPHIS . . . . . . . . .92/72 MIAMI . . . . . . . . . . . .86/74 MINNEAPOLIS . . . . . .87/72 MYRTLE BEACH . . . .80/65 NEW YORK . . . . . . . .69/58 ORLANDO . . . . . . . . .90/69 PHOENIX . . . . . . . . . .85/59 PITTSBURGH . . . . . .76/58 PHILADELPHIA . . . . .73/61 PROVIDENCE . . . . . .67/55 SAN FRANCISCO . . .61/48 ST. LOUIS . . . . . . . . .90/71 SEATTLE . . . . . . . . . .62/46 TULSA . . . . . . . . . . . .89/71 WASHINGTON, DC . .73/62 WICHITA . . . . . . . . . .88/69
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Lake Levels & River Stages Lake and river levels are in feet. Change is over the past 24 hrs. Flood Pool Current Level Change High Rock Lake 655.2 654.4 -0.1 Flood Stage Current Level Change Yadkin College 18.0 2.03 -0.68 Elkin 16.0 2.01 +0.05 Wilkesboro 14.0 1.57 +0.01 High Point 10.0 M M Ramseur 20.0 1.80 -0.34 Moncure 20.0 M M
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Precipitation (Yesterday) 24 hours through 6 p.m. . . . . . . .0.16" Month to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.46" Normal Month to Date . . . . . . . . .2.82" Year to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16.60" Normal Year to Date . . . . . . . . .16.74" Record Precipitation . . . . . . . . . .1.49"
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Temperatures (Yesterday) High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Normal High . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Normal Low . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Last Year’s High . . . . . . . .80 Last Year’s Low . . . . . . . . .59 Record High . . . . .97 in 1941 Record Low . . . . . .40 in 2002
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Air quality data is provided by the Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department.
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Joe Santora is quick to point out that darts is as much about mental toughness as anything else.
Proving a point High Point’s Joe Santora believes a new darts league will be highly popular
An American Association for Retired Persons driver safety program will be given 12:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the YWCA of High Point, 112 Gatewood Ave. The classroom course is designed to help older drivers become more aware of changes that occur due to aging, such as vision, hearing and reaction time, and adjust their driving accordingly. Students receive workbooks to take home for future reference and a certificate of completion, which may entitle them to a reduction in insurance premiums. No tests will be given. Cost is $12 for AARP members and $14 for nonmembers. To register call Betty Jackson at (336) 230-0569 or (336) 303-9864.
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Hospice of the Piedmont is recruiting area restaurants, caterers and beverage vendors to provide samples at its 22nd annual Hospice Taste of the Town Aug. 17 at Showplace, 211 E. Commerce Ave. Taste of the Town is Hospice of the Piedmont’s primary fundraiser, and all proceeds are used to help patients in the Triad who would otherwise be unable to afford end-of-life care and grief counseling. For more information, call 889-8446 , send e-mail to tasteofthetown@ hospice-care connection.org or visit www. hospicetaste. com.
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ompetitive darts has never had a widespread following in the Triad, but Joe Santora wants to change that with a new darts league he hopes will hit the bull’s-eye. Santora, of High Point, is North Carolina’s league manager for the American Darters Association, or ADA – the game’s official sanctioning body – and he thinks the Triad’s new ADA league starting this week has the potential to stick. “I recently read an article that said more people play darts than baseball,” Santora says. “There’s a large dart community in the Triad area, and in North Carolina in general. I think there’s a lot more interest out there, but people are just not aware of what’s available.” Santora says he expects six to eight teams to be competing when league play begins Monday at locations across the Triad, including three in High Point – Ham’s at the Palladium, Tar Heel Lanes and After Hours Tavern. Teams can still sign up for the new league, he says, but the deadline is today. A similar league is beginning in Mooresville, and Santora is working to set up leagues elsewhere across the state. Leagues are open to darters, as the par-
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To sign up for a local league sponsored by the American Darters Association (ADA), or for more information, contact Joe Santora at (336) 438-3174, Ext. 3, or jsantora@adadarters.com. For more information about the ADA in general, visit www.adadarters.com.
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Most sets of darts run about $30 to $50, but some can go for as high as $200.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Kelly Monaco, 34; Jewel, 36; Drew Carey, 52; Marvin Hagler, 56 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Be aggressive when it comes to negotiations or financial or health matters. Speak up and take the lead if you are going to control your situation. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; uncertainty burden you or bring you down. Get rid of the responsibilities that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t genuinely belong to you. Your numbers are 2, 7, 11, 22, 30, 32, 41 ARIES (March 21-April 19): A problem at home can be resolved with honesty and compromise. Becoming emotional will be your downfall and must be tempered with facts and practicality. Playful, spontaneous action will bring the best results. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Plan a special day with a friend, lover or relative. Your responsible attitude will show how much you contribute to your current relationships as well as the situations you face. A trip will pay off in experience and information. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Get involved in a cause you believe in and offer your services. The people you meet will give you positive reinforcement, boosting your ego and helping you get on with some of your own issues that you have left pending. Bring a secret to someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; CANCER (June 21-July 22): Focus on love and keeping things positive between yourself and the people you love. Spending time with a group of people you respect and enjoy will lead to good suggestions and advice, helping you feel more confident about your future. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk about what you want to do, take action. Challenges will make you aware of how much you know and what you can do. Get involved in something that interests you and you will make new friends who can contribute to your goals. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Get in touch with your past. A little fun will enhance your relationship with someone you love. An old debt may finally be paid. Think big but keep things simple. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Focus on accomplishing your personal goals. Be careful how you treat the people you are close to. Take responsibility for your chores or whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being asked of you. By doing your part, you will avoid criticism. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Someone may not be honest with you. Your efforts should be put into creative accomplishments, enjoying the people who are most supportive and changing your personal life to better suit your current situation and your future direction. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Follow through with your plans but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect agreement from everyone about what you are doing. Love is likely to lead you in the wrong direction. You can have fun but know where you stand and what you must do to get to where you want to go. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s negativity or emotional turmoil slow you down or cause you to miss out on something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been looking forward to. Make changes at home that will please everyone but not at the expense of giving up something you want for your own good. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Looking back will help you make the right choice now. The help needed will become available if you are honest regarding your intentions. Face your past and you will know what you need to do to improve your life. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Focus on changing anything you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like in your personal life and your residence. With a little effort and imagination, you can revamp things to better suit your needs. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let someone dump a burden in your lap that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong to you. â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;
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ear Abby: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ethanâ&#x20AC;? and I have been married 36 years. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good and caring husband, but he has a habit that irritates me no end. He opens our mail â&#x20AC;&#x201C; whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addressed to him or not. I have nothing to hide and I always show or mention what I receive. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open mail thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addressed to him and would appreciate the courtesy of being able to open mail thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addressed to me. However, Ethan wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop and insists that there is nothing wrong with what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m to the point of opening a post office box in my name and having my mail sent there, but it seems silly to go that far. Am I being overly sensitive? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frustrated in Texas Dear Frustrated: If this were just about Ethan opening your mail, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say that after 36 years you might be overreacting. However, it seems to me that whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really bothering you is less about your mail being opened and more that your husband continues to disregard your wishes and does it over your objection. THATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S what you need to get across to him, and if opening a post office box in your name will make the point, then thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you should do.
Dear Abby: I have a question that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t earth-shaking, but concerns a lot of people my age. Each year as I grow older and read my friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; obituaries I think ADVICE about my own and how I would personDear ally like mine to read. Abby I would like to spare â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; my family the difficulty of trying to sort through the details of my life. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m wondering just what is supposed to go into an obituary. As a professional, I have information about that side of my life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the personal part Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m wondering about. Are there any rules on this? What is expected or accepted? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure there are others who would also welcome suggestions on this. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thinking Ahead in Eau Claire, Wis. Dear Thinking Ahead: Most obituaries are paid advertisements, and they can be as long or brief as the family wishes. Some are simple, mentioning date and place of birth, the names of the deceasedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents, as well as spouse, siblings, children
and grandchildren. Business and personal achievements are often, but not always, included. However, I have also seen obituaries that were excerpted from eulogies. To find out more information, you should inquire at your local newspaper. Dear Abby: I have been searching for a new job (unbeknownst to my current employer), and have been fortunate enough to get a few interviews. For the most part, they have been scheduled during business hours. I feel guilty making excuses to get out and attend them. What would your advice be for someone in my position? Is there a better way to get around having to make up excuses to my employer? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Feeling Guilty in Texas Dear Feeling Guilty: I can think of two. When your interviews are being scheduled, let your prospective employer know that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still working and ask if your interview can be before or after work or during your lunch break. If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not possible, then rather than lie to your boss, ask to come in later or leave early and have it subtracted from your â&#x20AC;&#x153;personal time.â&#x20AC;?
Books will give you reason to use the oven Summer doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t often inspire us to crank up the oven. But some dishes can make it worth enduring the heat. Berries and peaches light up with just a touch of heat, and tomatoes become even sweeter. And what picnic would be complete without a juicy pie or some big, chunky cookies? To help you along, a few new cookbooks show you how to make the most of summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bounty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sono Baking Company Cookbook,â&#x20AC;? (Clarkson Potter, 2010) for example, folds plump summer blueberries into tender, sour cream muffins. And chunky, chocolate-stuffed kitchen sink cookies practically scream â&#x20AC;&#x153;picnic.â&#x20AC;? But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s savories that set it apart. Baker John Barricelli
for Dessertâ&#x20AC;? (Ten Speed Press, 2010) promises visceral satisfaction starting with the cover, which invites you to drag a greedy finger through a cakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thick chocolate icing. Inside, almond cookies become cobbler crusts and Guinness-spiked gingerbread gets topped with lime frosting. Even classics get just a little extra kick, such as a nectarine-raspberry upside-down cake with a gingerbread base.
damom, while the hollows of fat summer melons are filled with berries, wine and herbs. If you do turn on the oven, a berry and peach cobbler gets crunch from corn flour, and easy folded pies are filled with grapes or mulberries, blackberries and other summer treats. A right-side-up cake piled with fresh fruit and just a touch of butter offers a lighter take on the traditional buttery-sweet upside down cake. David Lebovitzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ready
nestles sweet kernels of corn against luscious crabmeat in a decadent French tart, and creates a Jarlsberg-topped cobbler of red, yellow and orange cherry tomatoes. If you live in a place where leeks and asparagus are still popping, show them off in his custardy leek, asparagus and corn tart. Vegetarian cooking guru Deborah Madison also has worked as a pastry chef. And she has put her knowledge to good use in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seasonal Fruit Desserts,â&#x20AC;? (Broadway Books, 2010) a book stocked with no-fuss desserts that exploit summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just-fromthe-farm sweetness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fruit lends itself to improvisation,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really delicious to start with it gives you so many possibilities.â&#x20AC;? Some of her simplest desserts require no baking at all: plums are gently sauteed with a touch of car-
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ticipants are called, of all experience levels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every sport has a competitive edge to it, but what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found in the darting community is that, whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re brand new to the sport or a veteran, people openly welcome you and accept you,â&#x20AC;? says Santora, who began shooting darts as a teenager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another thing is that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to have any athletic ability to be able to play darts. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s similar to pool in that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit of science to it, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun and also mentally challenging.â&#x20AC;? One competitor in the upcoming league will be Randy McMillan, a 43year-old Thomasville man who took
â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Every sport has a competitive edge to it, but what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found in the dartng community is that ... people openly welcome you and accept you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Joe Santora Dart league organizer up darts about five years ago when a bar buddy got him interested. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get off work and go by to get a beer, and he got me throwing darts,â&#x20AC;? McMillan says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As competitive as I am, I hate losing, so I went home and practiced and got better â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I got to where I could beat him on a regular basis.â&#x20AC;? The key, he says â&#x20AC;&#x201C; other than simple practice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is mental focus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not letting other people get in your head talking to you,â&#x20AC;? McMillan
says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to have mental focus. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I try to drown out every other thing in the room.â&#x20AC;? Santora agrees that you need more than luck to be a good darter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely skill and an art to it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have a muscle memory of how it feels when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re throwing. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the mental aspect â&#x20AC;&#x201C; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be able to hone in on what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re aiming for and block out everything else.â&#x20AC;? Some players insist on using pricey equipment, but Santora says thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most players usually bring their own darts, and they can be as inexpensive or as expensive as you want,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can spend five bucks or you can go crazy and spend $200 on a set of darts, but the average person probably uses darts in the $30 to $50 price range.â&#x20AC;? Teams consist of four to six players who will compete in singles and doubles. In the singles competition, known as singles 501, players start with 501 points, and points are subtracted based on what the players hit; the first player to reach zero wins. In the doubles competition, called doubles cricket, teams compete until one has hit each number between 15 and 20, plus the bullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-eye. While the league starting Monday is open only to ages 18 and up, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open to men and women. For the younger crowd, a youth league may be established this summer, according to Santora. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of fun and friendly competition, and a real camaraderie among the players,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Darters are a real tight-knit group of people. We have a lot of fun.â&#x20AC;? jtomlin@hpe.com | 888-3579
Try other options before heartburn surgery D
ear Dr. Donohue: I read about an outpatient procedure on the esophagus that prevents gastric acid reflux. My wife saw her doctor, who told her that she wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to throw up or digest food if she had that surgery. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s afraid of the procedure or if the doctor scared her off. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had this problem for all the 26 years weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been married. Should she get a second opinion? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; N.R. Before she gets a second opinion and before she has surgery, your wife can do some things that could put an end to her acid reflux, or GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), as it is called. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the upward spurting of stomach acid into the esophagus. The result is heartburn. A few changes in diet are helpful. She should avoid fatty and fried foods, chocolate, caffeine, garlic, onions, tomatoes, tomato sauces, citrus fruits, carbonated drinks and spicy foods. If her symptoms are worse during the night, then 6-inch blocks under the posts at the head of the bed will keep stomach juices in the stomach. All those with GERD who are overweight will have a decrease in their symptoms if they lose weight. Has your wife tried medicines called proton pump inhibitors? Here, â&#x20AC;&#x153;protonâ&#x20AC;? means â&#x20AC;&#x153;acid.â&#x20AC;? Prevacid, AcipHex, Protonix and Nexium are prescription-requiring proton pump inhibitors. Omeprazole can be obtained without one. One surgical procedure, done when the above fail and if symptoms are severe, involves wrapping the top of the stomach around the bottom of the esophagus to create a barrier to the upward spurt of stomach juices. It often can be done with a laparoscope. This is not an outpatient procedure. Procedures done through a scope in the esophagus can tighten the lower end of the esophagus to achieve similar results. These usually are done on an outpatient basis. None of these surgeries results in the dire things told to your wife â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at least, not 99.9 percent of the time. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never heard of those complications. Dear Dr. Donohue: I was recently
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Forcing a child to eat is a losing battle Q
uestion: Should a parent try to force a child to eat?
Dr. Dobson: No. In fact, the dinner table is one potential battlefield where a parent can easily get ambushed. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win there! A strong-willed child is like a good military general who constantly seeks an advantageous place to take on the enemy. He need look no farther than the dinner table. Of all the common points of conflict between generations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bedtime, hair, clothes, schoolwork, etc. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the advantages in a food fight are all in the childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor! Three times a day, a very tiny youngster can simply refuse to open his mouth. No amount of coercing can make him eat what he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to eat. I remember one 3-yearold who was determined not to eat his green peas, despite the insistence of his father that the squishy little vegetables were going down. It was a classic confrontation between the irresistible force and an immovable object. Neither would yield. After an hour of haranguing, threatening, cajoling and sweating, the father had not achieved his goal. The tearful toddler sat with a forkload of peas pointed ominously at his sealed lips. Finally, through sheer intimidation, the dad managed to get one bite of peas in place. But the lad wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t swallow them. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know everything
that went on afterward, but the mother told me they had no choice but to put the FOCUS child to bed with the ON THE peas still in FAMILY his mouth. They were Dr. James amazed at Dobson the strength â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; of his will. The next morning, the mother found a little pile of mushy peas where they had been expelled at the foot of the bed! Score one for Junior, none for Dad. Tell me in what other arena a 30-pound child could whip a grown man! Not every toddler is this tough, of course. But many of them will gladly do battle over food. It is their ideal power game. Talk to any experienced parent or grandparent and they will tell you this is true. The sad thing is that these conflicts are unnecessary. Children will eat as much as they need if you keep them from indulging in the wrong stuff. They will not starve. I promise! The way to deal with a poor eater is to set good food before him. If he claims not to be hungry, wrap the plate, put it in the refrigerator and send him cheerfully on his way. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be back in a few hours. God has put a funny little feeling in his tummy that says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gimme food!â&#x20AC;? When this occurs,
do not put sweets, snacks or confectionery food in front of him. Simply retrieve the earlier meal, warm it up, and serve it again. If he protests, send him out to play again. Even if 12 hours or more go by, continue this procedure until food â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all food â&#x20AC;&#x201C; begins to look and smell wonderful. From that time forward, the battle over the dinner table should be history. Question: Does the middle child really have greater adaptive problems than his or her siblings? Dr. Dobson: The middle child does sometimes find it more difficult to establish his or her identity within the family. She enjoys neither the status of the eldest nor the attention given to the baby. Furthermore, she is likely to be born at a busy period in the life of her parents, especially her mother. Then, during her preschool years, her precious territory is invaded by a cute little newborn who steals Mama from her. Is it any wonder that she often asks, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who am I, and where is my place in life?â&#x20AC;? DR. DOBSON is founder and Chairman Emeritus of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80995 (www.focusonthefamily. org). Questions and answers are excerpted from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guideâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bringing Up Boys,â&#x20AC;? both published by Tyndale House.
diagnosed with senile cataract. I am 78. I have been myopic since I was 19, but I see pretty well in both eyes. I want to be able to drive my car. What should I do? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; J.P.
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Do you understand what a cataract is? Dr. Paul Right behind your pupil Donohue is a lens, like the lens â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; in a pair of glasses. A cataract is a smudge on that lens. An extensive smudge blurs vision. Treatment is replacement of the natural lens with a new, clear, artificial one. Myopia is nearsightedness. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t veto cataract surgery. As a matter of fact, the new lens can compensate for it, and you might not have to wear glasses. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in charge of determining when you need your lens replaced. When reading becomes difficult or when driving skills are lost to cloudy vision, then have the procedure. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still be able to drive.
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Dear Dr. Donohue: Is apple cider vinegar really as beneficial as it is cracked up to be? What exactly are the benefits of taking apple cider vinegar three times daily? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; J.D. I get lots of letters extolling the benefits of apple cider vinegar for such a large and unrelated variety of medical conditions that it sounds like miraculous stuff. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find documented support for the enthusiasm generated for it. Plenty of testimonials sing its praises, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve yet to find medical proof of its effectiveness. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if it works. I do know that it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt you if you want to try it. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to destroy the faith of those who believe it does wonders for them. DR. DONOHUE regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475
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Orlando with teens: Go for big rides, high tech BY BETH J. HARPAZ AP TRAVEL EDITOR
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RLANDO, Fla. – Raising teenagers is not always easy. But as I walked around Walt Disney World recently, observing crying babies, melting-down toddlers and whining 6year-olds – not to mention stressed-out parents – I felt lucky that my only challenge in visiting Orlando with two big kids – ages 12 and 17 – was to find the fastest, craziest rides. We spent two days in theme parks, one day at Disney’s Epcot and Animal Kingdom, and the other at Universal Orlando, and I can honestly say we had a blast. And in the end, not all of our favorite attractions were fast or scary; my kids gave points for interesting shows (including “Flights of Wonder” at Animal Kingdom) and high-tech design as well. Here are some of the best attractions, in their opinion, for the middleand high-school set. UNIVERSAL ORLANDO: Many attractions at Universal Studios Florida and its sister park, Islands of Adventure, seem tailor-made for the teenage mindset. Like “Disaster! – A Major Motion Picture Ride. Starring YOU” or Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, a 65 mph coaster, 17 stories tall, where they get to customize their own soundtrack, choosing from classic rock/metal, club/electronica, country, rap/hip-hop or pop. Visiting this park was more fun than staying home from school to play video games (not that such a thing would ever happen in my house). I did not personally experience Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit – no way could this mom handle it! – but I did spring for the $35 DVD, a personal video of my kids screaming their heads off and laughing hysterically as the coaster shook them silly. Every time I watch the tape, I start cracking up too – it’s that funny. Their No. 2 favorite at Universal was Dueling
Dragons, which consists of a pair of inverted roller coasters, each with its own unique design, one called Fire, the other, Ice. Dueling Dragons goes 55 mph, 125 feet in the air, and riders on one coaster pass within inches of riders on the other. The kids liked it so much, they did it twice so they could experience both coasters. I skipped Dragons, but I did join the boys on other rides. We aren’t big fans of “The Simpsons” show, so for the first few minutes of The Simpsons Ride, as the story line was laid out in an anteroom, we weren’t all that engaged. But once we were strapped into our seats for the high-tech ride, we loved it. You feel like you’ve stepped right into the cartoon and are part of the animation. Sadly, my boys seemed a bit too big to love the relatively slow-paced Jaws water ride, but we all liked Jurassic Park River Adventure, a raft ride. Other attractions that were fun for all of us: Revenge of the Mummy, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, and Men In Black Alien Attack. All are dark rides in vehicles on tracks, with plenty of special effects and surprises. Men In Black is a shooting game; mom’s score for electronic zaps was the lowest in the family. A final coaster that the kids did alone was Incredible Hulk. We’d visited Universal Hollywood in Los Angeles in the past and really enjoyed the live shows that give a behind-thescenes look at the movie biz, so we wanted to be sure to catch one of those in Orlando too. We chose “Disaster!” and loved it. I hope to never be on a real subway during an earthquake with fire breaking out all around me and buildings falling down, but Universal’s fictitious depiction sure was some crazy fun. Our trip was too early in the season to catch the big news at Universal this year – the opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter on June 18. We’ll have to go back for that.
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Universal Orlando Resort photo shows visitors on Dueling Dragons at Islands of Adventure theme park. DISNEY WORLD ANIMAL KINGDOM: No surprise here: Expedition Everest was the favorite at Animal Kingdom, for our whole family. The coaster was thrilling enough for the kids but not so stomach-churning that mom couldn’t handle it. Our No. 2 pick in Animal Kingdom was “Flights of Wonder.” This live show features birds – owls, falcons, hawks and more – swooping over the audience as their handlers explain their behaviors. We found it exciting, captivating and often funny. The show was not as highly recommended to us as many of the other live
animal attractions at Animal Kingdom, yet my boys preferred it to Kilimanjaro Safaris, a ride through a landscape inhabited by African wildlife, and Maharajah Jungle Trek, a self-guided walking tour to see tigers, bats and other Asian wildlife. My guess is that for kids who are veteran visitors to zoos and animal parks, the opportunity to see interesting behaviors like those shown in “Flights of Wonder” is more exciting than seeing animals lazing about their natural habitats. Other Animal Kingdom attractions that the big guys gave a thumbs-up to were Kali River Rapids, a
water ride, and Dinosaur, a fun and wild dark ride. DISNEY WORLD EPCOT: A confession: The kids’ favorites here were rides that I got queasy just reading about, so I did not personally experience them. But Mission: SPACE, Test Track and Innoventions: Sum of All Thrills all got high marks from my boys. Yes, they love anything with a motion sickness warning at the entrance. Sum of All Thrills doesn’t get as much attention from Disney-philes as some of the other attractions, so here’s an extra plug: This attraction lets guests design their own
rides using a computer program. They then climb into a capsule attached to a rotating arm that turns and swivels according to the program they created. They liked it so much, they wanted to do it twice. Family favorites at Epcot – rides that we went on together and all enjoyed – were Soarin’ and Spaceship Earth. Our family has visited many theme parks, and we still find Soarin’ – which we first tried at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. – to be one of the most beautiful, exhilarating rides ever – tame enough for a chicken like me but exciting enough for a teenager.
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Tysinger - Frandsen Amy Frandsen and Mark Tysinger, both of Greenville, North Carolina, were united in marriage May 22, 2010, at Tuscany Gardens, Browns Summit. Pastor JJ Jacobson officiated at the 4 p.m. ceremony. Wedding musician was Marilyn Wienand, harpist. The bride is the daughter of Peter and Jackie Frandsen of High Point. She is the granddaughter of Jack and Dorothy Wahler. The groom is the son of Tom and Jan Tysinger of Greenville. He is the grandson of Ruth Tysinger, and William and Emily Whiteside. Escorted by her father, Peter Frandsen, the bride was attended by Kristen Tibbetts, maid of honor and Hannah Proctor, matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Mamta Melton, Kim Sibbach and Sarah Tibbetts. The groom chose Tom Tysinger to serve as best man. Groomsmen were Adam Tysinger, Jay Pigford and Bryan Shackleford. Amy Frandsen Ushers were Trey Overman, JonaWeds Mark Tysinger than Frandsen and Brian Fleming. Flower girl was Michaela Wahler. The wedding reception was held at Tuscany Gardens. The bride received a Master of Science in Recreation and Park Administration from East Carolina University. She is employed by Gander Direct Marketing in Greenville. The groom received a Bachelor of Science in Leisure Services from East Carolina University. He is employed by the City of Greenville Recreation and Parks Department. Following a wedding trip to Riviera Maya, Mexico, the couple will reside in Greenville.
Eastlack - Williard Wayne and Lora Eastlack of High Point announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Eastlack of Lynchburg, Virginia, to Robert Williard of San Diego. The wedding is planned for September 5, 2010, at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. Miss Eastlack is a graduate of Wesleyan Christian Academy and soon-to-be graduate of Liberty University. Mr. Williard is the son of Jerry and Sharon Williard of High Point. He is a graduate of Wesleyan Christian Academy and North Carolina State University. He is employed by the state of California.
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Smith - Bowick Michael and Sarah Smith of Sophia announce the engagement of their daughter, Anna Marie Smith, to Daniel Reid Bowick of Sophia. The wedding is planned for August 7, 2010, at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church. Miss Smith is a 2005 graduate of Trinity High School. She is attending Guilford Technical Community College in the Dental Program. She is employed by Trinity Elementary School. Mr. Bowick is the son of Donald and Debbie Bowick of Archdale. He is a 2004 graduate of Randleman High School. He is employed by Kraft Nabisco.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) – Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone National Park opened for the season on Friday. The pass is on the road that connects Tower/ Rossevelt and Canyon. At nearly 8,900 feet, it is the highest elevation roadway in Yellowstone. All park entrances and interior roads will be open for the season. Park officials warn that visitors should still be prepared for winter and spring weather conditions and say that snow tires may still be required on some roadways.
James and Barbara Beck of Archdale celebrated 50 years of marriage May 16, 2010, at the couple’s home. Mr. and Mrs. Beck were married May 14, 1960, at Lebanon Methodist Church in High Point. Mrs. Beck is the former Barbara Neal of High Point. The couple
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have one child Leigh Kuhnly and husband Brian of Archdale; and one grandchild, Lauren. Mr. Beck is retired from carpentry. Mrs. Beck is retired, following 36 years of employment at North State Communications.
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A. You may be able to get disabled widow(er)’s benefits at age 50 if you are found to meet Social Security’s disability requirement. Your disabling impairment must have started before age 60 and within seven years of the latest of the following dates: the month the worker died; or the last month you were entitled to mother’s or father’s benefits on the worker’s record; or the month your previous entitlement to disabled widow(er)’s benefits ended because your disability ended. Contact (800) 772-1213 to make an appointment to file for benefits. People who are deaf or hard of hearing may call the toll-free TTY number, (800) 325-0778, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Monday through Friday. Q. I’m a noncitizen. Can noncitizens receive supplemental security income (SSI) benefits? A. You might be eligible receive SSI if: You were lawfully living in the United States on Aug. 22, 1996, and you are blind or disabled; You were receiving SSI on Aug. 22, 1996, and you are lawfully living in the United States; or You were lawfully admitted for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act and have a total of 40 Social Security work credits in the United States. (Your spouse’s or parent’s work also may count.) There are other categories of noncitizens that may be eligible for
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Voters line up early at the Briarwood precinct in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday for the primary election.
Ballot box bulletin Tuesday primaries leave some panicky incumbents BY RON FOURNIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON — Go home. Stick to your guns. Keep your nose clean. Distance yourself from Washington, or even better, your own party. That’s the advice political operatives are giving incumbents and establishment-backed candidates after voters delivered a harsh message to insiders Tuesday night: Enough! One Senate incumbent,
‘My advice to candidates would be, roll up your sleeves. You’ve got some connecting to do.’ Chris Kofinis Democratic consultant Arlen Specter, lost his seat in Pennsylvania. A second, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, was forced to defend hers in a runoff. And an establishmentbacked candidate in Kentucky, Trey Grayson, lost badly to a tea party favorite who said voters don’t want “the same old, same old politicians.” Fingers planted firmly in the wind, Washington incumbents will be dialing up their consultants and asking how to survive this angry-as-heck headwind.
Some early answers:
RECONNECT WITH VOTERS Too many incumbents take their seats for granted, comfortable in the thought that their monied connections, tailor-made districts and name recognition will carry them to victory. Not so much this year. “My advice to candidates would be, roll up your sleeves. You’ve got some connecting to do,” said Democratic consultant Chris Kofinis. “Pay attention to your knitting,” said Republican consultant Ron Kaufman. “Get out of Washington and back to your district.” Consultants in both parties point to Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah as the classic example of an incumbent who lost touch with his constituents. He was denied a spot on the ballot at a Utah Republican convention earlier this month. “You could say he lost because of the political environment and the tea party,” said Kaufman. “You could also say he was tone-deaf.”
DON’T FLIP-FLOP Specter’s Democratic opponent cast him as a political opportunist who switched from the Republican Party just to get re-elected, a charge that stuck with voters because, well, Specter confessed to it. “My change in party will enable me to be re-elected,” Specter said at one point, handing his rival fodder for a devastating TV ad. Voting against Specter on Tuesday, college professor Tom Cragin said, “He must think we’re idiots.” Lincoln changed positions on legislation important to labor unions, undercutting her credibility.
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Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., along with daughter, Alex, speaks to members of the media at a primary night watch event at the Valley Forge Military Academy & College in Wayne, Pa., Tuesday. Sestak beat incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary. Ben Ginsberg said politicians of all stripes might start distancing themselves from their party leadership. “I expect candidates will start telling voters how they fought against Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell,” the Democratic and Republican leaders, respectively, in the Senate. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Bennett lost in part because he was “too reasonable,” meaning he was a getalong guy when voters are looking for somebody who will buck authority. “People want folks who have an edge,” he said, “and will fight.”
DON’T GET IN TROUBLE The first House incumbent to lose his seat this year, Democratic Rep.
Alan Mollohan of West Virginia, fell in a primary to an opponent who highlighted ethics issues. As if incumbents didn’t have enough trouble in the primaries, both parties had other issues. Rep. Mark Souder, a conservative Republican from Indiana, abruptly announced he would resign effective Friday, admitting he had had an affair with a woman on his congressional payroll. Democrats said his resignation would make the seat competitive in the fall. And Democrat Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general running for the Senate, disputed a newspaper report that he once lied about his Vietnam record. Republicans focused on the report, hoping it would
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increase their chances of winning the seat. These are scary days for career politicians. “I’m against the establishment. They’re all crooked, unreliable and selfish for power,” said Bill Osburn, 79, a military retiree from Murray, Ky., who helped tea party favorite Rand Paul win the Senate GOP nomination. “We need citizen representatives, not political politicians.” Paul, a political novice, defeated Grayson in an early test of the so-called tea party, a loose affiliation of disaffected voters — mostly conservatives. “It cannot be overstated that people want something new,” Paul said. “They don’t want the same old, same old politicians, and I think they think the system is broken and needs new blood.” The same could be said in Pennsylvania after 80year-old Specter lost his bid for a sixth term. His rival for the Democratic Senate nomination, Joe Sestak, accused party leaders of trying to foist Specter on Pennsylvania voters. In Arkansas, Lincoln didn’t do well enough Tuesday to avoid a June 8 runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, putting her 17year career in Congress at risk. Gingrich said the high unemployment rate is driving the public’s discontent. On top of that, “they’re sitting around watching the government fail to deal with the oil spill in the Gulf, fail to deal with terrorist plots in Detroit and New York, and fail to protect our borders from illegal immigrants. “So now you’re a politician, looking slick and smooth with lots of money and maybe an insider’s pedigree,” Gingrich said. “Maybe that’s a liability.”
Sen. John McCain’s re-election bid lost its campaign manager and another veteran Republican official, part of a shake-up for the Arizona lawmaker locked in a tight primary race with radio host and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth. The pair of GOP hands — who started before Hayworth entered the race — will instead work on the Republican National Committee’s effort in Arizona. Campaign spokesman Brian Rogers said neither Shiree Verdone nor Mike Hellon, a former Arizona GOP chairman, was fired. McCain, his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, drew a Republican primary challenge that has forced him to the right. The one-time champion of a moderate, bipartisan approach to immigration now is running ads demanding Washington finish “the danged fence” he once mocked. McCain, who is seeking a fifth term, also has dropped his maverick label. Hayworth, a High Point native, who hopes to tap anti-incumbent sentiments, has campaigned against McCain as a Washington insider who is weak on illegal immigration. Arizona recently adopted one of the toughest immigration laws in the country.
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio orders approximately 200 convicted illegal immigrants handcuffed together and moved into a separate area of Tent City, for incarceration until their sentences are served and they are deported to their home countries, in Phoenix. A reader-submitted question Arizona’s new immigration law is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called “Ask AP.”
Questions concern crime by immigrants, El Nino’s effects THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some supporters of Arizona’s strict new immigration law say illegal immigrants are responsible for a lot of the state’s crime. Is this true? That’s one of the questions in this edition of “Ask AP,” a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers’ questions about the news. If you have your own news-related question that you’d like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to newsquestions@ap.org, with “Ask AP” in the subject line. And please include your full name and hometown so they can be published with your question. You can also tweet your questions to AP, using the AskAP hashtag. Ask AP can also be found on AP Mobile, a multimedia news service available on Internetenabled cell phones. Go to http://www.apnews. com/ to learn more. Q. Do you expect hurricanes to become stronger due to El Nino? Bill Suarez Cape Coral, Fla. A. No. Dr. Gerry Bell of the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center explains: “El Nino acts to suppress Atlantic hurricanes, both in number and intensity.” However, Bell adds, El Nino isn’t the only climate factor affecting Atlantic hurricanes. Another is a set of tropical conditions that varies over decades at a time and is responsible for high-activity and low-activity eras. “The Atlantic has been in a high-activity era
since 1995,” Bell says. “The previous high-activity era lasted from the mid-1930s to 1970.” Randolph E. Schmid AP Science Writer Washington Q. One of the reasons being given for the need for Arizona’s new immigration law is that illegal immigrants commit a high percentage of the crimes in Arizona. What are the statistics for this, and compared with the country in general? Is it a valid claim? C. Ford Portland, Ore. A. There are no definitive studies or government reports that quantify the percentage of crime committed by illegal immigrants throughout Arizona and nationally. Advocates on both sides of the immigration debate say attempts to do so have suffered from a lack of complete data from the government. In some cases, police agencies take the word of jailed people on whether they are in the country legally. Some police agencies track immigrant arrests, while others don’t have the ability to readily check on the immigration status of those booked into jail. The best indicators are snapshots. The Arizona Department of Corrections said 15 percent of the more than 40,000 people serving time in the state’s
prisons are illegal immigrants. The figures, though, don’t include people who are convicted of misdemeanors or serve their sentences for felonies in county jails. In Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county — where 60 percent of Arizonans live — Sheriff Joe Arpaio said 14 to 18 percent of those booked into county jails are illegal immigrants, depending upon fluctuations in the size of the jail population. Illegal immigrants account for 7.2 percent of the 6.3 million people who live in Arizona, according to the federal government’s latest general population and illegal immigrant estimates. The Pew Hispanic Research Center estimated that illegal immigrants account for 7.9 percent of Arizona’s population. Neither estimate specifies the number of illegal immigrants living in Maricopa County. The Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for strict immigration laws, says screening efforts by some police agencies in Arizona and other states show high rates of incarceration for illegal immigrants, but adds that it’s unclear if those communities are representative of the country. The pro-immigrant Immigration Policy Center points to the latest federal crimes statistics that show Arizona’s violent crime rate has fallen each year from 2005 to 2008 and its property crime rate has dropped each year from 2002 to 2008. Jacques Billeaud Associated Press Writer Phoenix
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Friends remember Marine’s spirit BY HOPE HODGE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE
JACKSONVILLE – Family, fellow troops and teammates of a Camp Lejeune Marine who died unexpectedly in March gathered to remember him last week at the base. Lance Cpl. Libardo Anthony Jimenez Jr., 21, of Bellmore, N.Y., and a member of Camp Lejeune’s All-Marine boxing team, collapsed in the base’s boxing gym
on March 20 and died at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville three days later. Friends remembered him as fiercely competitive, dedicated and passionate about athletics. First Lt. Chad Shannon, Jimenez’s platoon commander for two years and the coach of his company basketball team for one year, said Jimenez had a personality that demanded that people get to know him. “I will always remember the tenacious Marine
that always wanted to finish first,” Shannon said. Second Lt. Brian Geisen, a member of Jimenez’s platoon, said his drive to excel had extended from sprints in daily physical training and his talent at basketball to his ambition to join the boxing team. “He only knew one speed and that was 100 percent,” Geisen said. Jimenez’s fellow Marines had gathered around him in support in his final days, visiting him faithfully.
Triad mall seeks vitality BY MICHAEL D. ABERNETHY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE
BURLINGTON – More proof that everything old is new again: Alamance County’s only indoor mall is once again named Holly Hill Mall. The mall’s new, local owners have already stamped the side of their building with the name
and are petitioning the city for permission to erect signs bearing the Holly Hill Mall and Business Center logo at four spots in the Huffman Mill Road mall’s parking lot. The owners – which include David Morton, Chad Sharpe and Clark Lindley – must get the city of Burlington to sign off on a rezoning to be able to build the new signs. The city’s
planning board will hear the conditional business rezoning request on Monday. If the planning board gives it the thumbs up, the Burlington City Council would have to approve the changes at a later meeting, probably in June. The rezoning won’t change the 39.9-acre property’s use or the types of businesses that could lo-
cate there, Morton said Monday. Under the rezoning application filed with the city, no more than four pole signs with a maximum height of 40 feet would be allowed. The mall’s two existing signs would be updated and two more – on International Drive and Anne Elizabeth Drive – would be added.
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voting at CMT.com through June 8 to determine the winners. Underwood, Paisley Lady A, Jason Aldean and Taylor Swift lead the pack with three nominations each. The awards will air live from Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bridgestone Arena on CMT and CMT.com on June 9 at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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In this April 24 photo, patrons enter Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The coffeehouse opened 50 years ago in May of 1960.
Iconic coffeehouse marks 50 years BY CHRIS CAROLA ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
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ARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; On a Friday night 50 years ago this week, folk singer Jackie Washington stepped up to the tiny stage of Bill and Lena Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new coffeehouse. He was Caffe Lenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first performer, and thousands of singers and countless songs later, the coffeehouse started by the artsy couple from Boston is a folk music icon. On May 22, a half century plus a couple days since it opened, the
85-seat venue â&#x20AC;&#x201C; considered the oldest continuously operating coffeehouse in the United States â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a concert by Arlo Guthrie, who has described Caffe Lena as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a national treasure.â&#x20AC;? Guthrie, whose hits include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurantâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;City of New Orleans,â&#x20AC;? played at Lenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early in his career and at a few fundraisers held for the coffeehouse over the years. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headlining the anniversary concert being staged at a 550-seat theater at Skidmore College, located in this horse racing and resort town 30 miles north of Albany.
Mark Moss, editor of Sing Out!, the 60-year-old folk music magazine, called Caffe Lena â&#x20AC;&#x153;almost indescribably significantâ&#x20AC;? to the folk music scene, then and now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The core of this music really is about community,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Caffe Lena has created and sustained a community around it.â&#x20AC;? The venerable coffeehouse is located on the second floor of an old building set amid a bustling downtown entertainment district lined with bistros, bars and boutiques.
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Guilford County Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Cheese toast or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Macaroni and cheese or chicken fillet sandwich; choice of two: tossed salad, green beans, glazed carrots, pineapple tidbits, roll, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Sausage biscuit or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Taco or peanut butter and jelly; choice of two: tossed salad, pinto beans, Spanish rice, chilled applesauce, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: French toast sticks or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Lasagna or peanut butter and jelly; choice of two: tossed salad, sweet yellow corn, chilled pears, garlic toast, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Pancake sausage on a stick or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Corndog nuggets or turkey and gravy over rice;
choice of two: tossed salad, blackeyed peas, mixed veggies, fruit cobbler, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Cheese or pepperoni pizza or roasted barbecue chicken; choice of two: tossed salad, mashed potatoes, fruit cup with fresh NC strawberries, raisins, roll, milk.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Sausage biscuit or yogurt with Grahams or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Hamburger/cheeseburger or cheese or pepperoni pizza or turkey, ham and cheese deli sub; choice of two: tossed salad, oven baked okra, fruit cobbler, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Egg and cheese biscuit or poptarts or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Taco or chicken pie or chef salad; choice of two: green peas, sweet pota-
to souffle, french fries, pineapple tidbits, roll, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or yogurt with Grahams or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Turkey and gravy over rice or cheese or pepperoni pizza or turkey, ham and cheese deli sub; choice of two: tossed salad, broccoli and cheese, orange wedges, roll, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Breakfast pizza or super donut or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Hot dog or nachos with chili or chef salad; choice of two: sweet yellow corn, green beans, french fries, fresh NC strawberries, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Ham biscuit or pancake sausage on stick or cereal and toast, juice or milk. Lunch: Buffalo bites or cheese or pepperoni pizza or turkey, ham and cheese deli sub; choice of two: mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, fruited gelatin, roll, milk.
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Davidson County Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Cinnamon bun or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or chicken tetrazzini or turkey and lettuce wrap or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: green beans, steamed carrots, tossed salad, applesauce, whole wheat roll, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Chicken filet biscuit or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Mini corndogs or beef teriyaki nuggets or taco stick or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: tater tots, broccoli and cheese casserole, lettuce and tomato, mixed fruit, whole wheat roll, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: Super donut or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken nuggets or twisted pizza sticks with sauce or manager’s choice or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: mashed potatoes, oven fried okra, tossed salad, peaches, whole wheat roll, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Breakfast break or cereal and toast, assorted fruit,
juice, milk. Lunch: Nachos or spaghetti with Texas toast or pepperoni or cheese sub or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: corn, green peas, tossed salad, pears, cherry crisp, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken fillet or rib-b-que sandwich or hot dog with chili or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: baked beans, onion rings, coleslaw, lettuce and tomato, pineapple, milk.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Cinnamon bun or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or chicken tetrazzini or turkey and lettuce wrap or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: green beans, steamed carrots, tossed salad, applesauce, whole wheat roll, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Chicken filet biscuit or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Mini corndogs or beef teriyaki nuggets or taco stick or chef salad meal
with crackers; choice of two: tater tots, broccoli and cheese casserole, lettuce and tomato, mixed fruit, whole wheat roll, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: Super donut or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken nuggets or twisted pizza sticks with sauce or manager’s choice or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: mashed potatoes, oven fried okra, tossed salad, peaches, whole wheat roll, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Breakfast break or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Nachos or spaghetti with Texas toast or pepperoni or cheese sub or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: corn, green peas, tossed salad, pears, cherry crisp, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich or cereal and toast, assorted fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken fillet or rib-b-que sandwich or hot dog with chili or chef salad meal with crackers; choice of two: baked beans, onion rings, coleslaw, lettuce and tomato, pineapple, milk.
Randolph County Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Sausage biscuit or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Beef taco or hoagie with lettuce, tomato and pickles; choice of two: shredded lettuce and tomato, pinto beans, pineapple tidbits, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Maple-bit pancakes or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Barbecue sandwich or hot dog with chili; choice of two: potato wedges, carrot sticks with ranch, cole slaw, fruited gelatin, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: Breakfast pizza or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Macaroni and cheese or chicken nuggets with roll; choice of two: green beans, candied yams, sliced pears, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or teriyaki beef nuggets with rice; choice of two: tossed salad, buttered corn,
steamed peas and carrots, applesauce, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Eggs and sausage with toast or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Lasagna with whole wheat breadstick or chicken fillet sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pickles; choice of two: tossed salad, broccoli and cheese, sliced peaches, milk.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken nuggets with roll or meatloaf with roll; choice of two: steamed cabbage, parsley potatoes, fruit crunch, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Hot dog with chili or barbecue sandwich; choice of two: cole slaw,
broccoli with cheese, potato wedges, sliced peaches, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Spaghetti with whole wheat breadstick or chicken fillet sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pickles; choice of two: tossed salad, green peas, pineapple tidbits, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or chicken taco with lettuce and tomato; choice of two: buttered corn, pinto beans, applesauce, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or breakfast pizza or sausage biscuit or sausage griddlecake or cereal or poptart or muffin, fresh fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Macaroni and cheese or corn dog nuggets; choice of two: green beans, candied yams, fruited gelatin, milk.
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Thomasville City Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Fish nuggets or barbecue pork or chef salad; choice of two: oven fried potatoes, cole slaw, cherry cobbler, fresh fruit, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Biscuit or cinnamon roll, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Oven fried chicken or turkey roll up or chef salad; choice of two: creamed potatoes, green peas, stewed apples, fresh fruit, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: Cereal with munchies, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or chef salad; choice of two: seasoned green beans, chilled pineapple, chilled peaches, fresh fruit, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Pan-
cake on a stick, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken fillet or chef salad; choice of two: potato tots, seasoned corn, fruit sherbet, fresh fruit, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Chef salad or spaghetti; choice of two: tossed salad, California blend veggie, chilled pears, fresh fruit, milk.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Monday – Breakfast: Chicken biscuit, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Fish nuggets or barbecue pork or chef salad; choice of two: oven fried potatoes, cole slaw, cherry cobbler, fresh fruit, milk. Tuesday – Breakfast: Biscuit or cinnamon roll, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Oven fried chicken or turkey roll
up or chef salad; choice of two: creamed potatoes, green peas, stewed apples, fresh fruit, milk. Wednesday – Breakfast: Cereal with munchies, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Pizza or chef salad; choice of two: seasoned green beans, chilled pineapple, chilled peaches, fresh fruit, milk. Thursday – Breakfast: Pancake on a stick, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Chicken fillet or chef salad; choice of two: potato tots, seasoned corn, fruit sherbet, fresh fruit, milk. Friday – Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, fruit juice, milk. Lunch: Chef salad or spaghetti; choice of two: tossed salad, California blend veggie, chilled pears, fresh fruit, milk.
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three-toned pigeon and a gargoyle-like, bent-toed gecko with yellow eyes. The Foja Mountains are in the western side of the island of New Guinea, a part of Indonesia that has been little visited by scientists. So the environmental group Conservation International, with the support of the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian Institution, began investigating the area. The results of their 2008 expedition were announced recently. Milensky said the expedition was incredibly difficult. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was extremely wet, heavy downpours every day,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The camp just turned into a complete mud bog.â&#x20AC;?
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