North State Journal — Vol. 1., Issue 30

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CHILDHOOD CANCER

Chelse Sanborn draws blood from Nathan Prince, 7, at Duke Children’s Hospital in Durham on Sept. 16.

Nathan, of Holden Beach, was diagnosed with leukemia in January 2016 and comes into the hospital for weekly treatments.

Former Charlotte mayor Cannon released from prison Morganton, W. Va. Patrick Cannon, the former mayor of Charlotte who was convicted on corruption charges in October 2014, was released from a West Virginia federal prison Thursday after serving 22 months in jail. Cannon, 49, spent just 115 days as Charlotte’s mayor before he resigned after an FBI probe uncovered he had solicited about $50,000 in cash and gifts from undercover agents. He was later found guilty of honest services wire fraud and sentenced to 44 months in prison. Prior to being elected mayor in 2013, Cannon, a Democrat, served two stints on the Charlotte City Council.

Blue Cross Blue Shield hit with biggest fine in state history Raleigh Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin on Thursday fined Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina $3.6 million as part of a voluntary settlement agreement.

The fine was levied after the state fielded numerous complaints from customers regarding billing errors, incorrect policy cancellation notices and difficulty getting refunds. BCBSNC says the problems were due to technology failures.

Funeral services for former NCAE president Rodney Ellis

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Winston-Salem Former N.C. Educators Association president Rodney Ellis, 49, was laid to rest in Winston-Salem on Saturday. Ellis was a vocal advocate for the teachers union, leading the charge for raising educators’ salaries. He passed away on Sept. 10, just two months after stepping down from his post as head of the NCAE. He served the organization for eight years as a powerful voice for public schools.

Gov. McCrory issues executive order to ease gas shortage fears Raleigh To calm fears of gas shortage related to Colonial Pipeline disruption, Gov. Pat McCrory issued an executive order Thursday that instructs the N.C. Department of Transportation and N.C. Department of Public Safety to waive the maximum hours of service for truck drivers transporting essential fuels for a period of 30 days.

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How baseball will reinvent downtown Fayetteville. B1 Previewing the NASCAR Chase for the Cup. B4-B5 Sports Join us on the farm for a barbecue revival. C1 NCSU college of Vetrinary Medice hosts the Dog Olympics. C3 the good life

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Awareness month shines light on children with cancer

By Liz Moomey North State Journal MORRISVILLE, N.C. — After a doctor’s visit, Nancy Lenfestey’s and Liz Ferm’s lives were changed.

Before, their stresses consisted of what after school activity to attend or what household appliance to buy, but those small worries were suspended the moment they were told their sons had cancer.

Scott Lenfestey was diagnosed in November 2011 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was 3. Alex Ferm, 8, was diagnosed in July 2013 with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Both immediately began receiving treatment at UNC Children’s Hospital in Chapel Hill.

“Life for us stopped instantly,” Lenfestey said. “And everything that was important, and everything that was a priority in our life just kind of fell away. The day before Scott was diagnosed, our biggest dilemma was do we go to the PTA magic show later this week or do we go to martial arts.”

Ferm echoed Lenfestey.

“Life was like a sledgehammer,” she said. “It just stopped. We were shopping for dishwashers, and I was so stressed out. Which one will I get? It’ll be 10 more years.

I was like, ‘Really, I stressed out about that? The little things?’”

Cancer is the leading cause of See CANCER, page A8

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View of the NCAA basketball trophy as confetti falls after the championship game between the Villanova Wildcats and the North Carolina Tar Heels at the 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Four at NRG Stadium in Houston on April 4.

H.B. 2 ball now in Charlotte’s court

By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory’s office announced Friday that he is willing to call the N.C. General Assembly back into a special session if the Charlotte City Council repeals its ordinance that triggered the controversial House Bill 2.

“For the last nine months, the governor has consistently said state legislation is only needed if the Charlotte ordinance remains in place,” said Josh Ellis, communications director for McCrory. “If the Charlotte City Council totally repeals the ordinance and then we can confirm there is support to repeal among the majority of state lawmakers in the House and Senate, the governor will call a special session. It is the governor’s understanding that legislative leaders and the lieutenant governor agree with that assessment.”

Several versions of a compromise deal have been in the works, some offered by lawmakers, others by lobbyists — including the N.C. Restaurant and Lodging Association, who said they are working to stem what they say is collateral damage to the tourism industry in

the wake of the law.

The announcement comes after the Atlantic Coast Conference followed the NCAA in announcing it would move 10 college sports championships from North Carolina in protest of the controversial House Bill 2 law. On Monday the NCAA announced it would relocate seven championship sporting events.

The decision sparked outrage and accusations of playing politics ahead of the November gubernatorial election.

“This is 100 percent about the North Carolina governor’s race, and the out-of-state forces trying to decide it for N.C. voters,” said one insider close to the issue. “The NCAA hasn’t made a single decision that costs them a dime. They have no skin in the game and the only ones hurt are the student-athletes and the fans. It’s all political posturing.”

The H.B. 2 measure, enacted in March after McCrory called a special session of the General Assembly to override Charlotte’s ordinance, requires individuals to use bathrooms in government buildings that correspond with the biological sex listed on their birth certificate if See H.B. 2 deal, page A8

NC Secretary of State policy certifies illegal aliens as notaries

By Jeff Moore North State Journal RALEIGH — The National Notary Association defines a Notary Public as an official of integrity appointed by state government to serve the public as an impartial witness in performing a variety of official fraud-deterrent acts related to the signing of important documents.

However, according to constituent reports, North Carolina Secretary of State, Elaine Marshall (D), may be granting those certifications to illegal immigrants. By relying only on temporary work authorizations issued as part of President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in order to qualify applicants as notaries public, the office

may be in conflict with state law on the subject.

North Carolina General Statute 10B-5 states that among the requirements to become a notary in North Carolina is that an applicant must be a legal resident of the United States, and speak, read and write the English language.

Completion of six-hour class is also required which then provides the application and instructions to submit the documents to the Secretary of State’s office.

According to a western North Carolina notary student, who wished to remain anonymous, other students in their 2016 notary class required translators during class time. Aware of the requirements for English profiSee SEC, page A3 North Carolina’s Secretary of State Elaine Marshall addresses a crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters in Durham on Sept. 6.

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THE BACKSTORY Forest, Coleman face off in Wilson debate

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WILSON, N.C. — Vastly different viewpoints on North Carolina House Bill 2 came into the spotlight during a debate between the two candidates vying for lieutenant governor.

Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest and his Democratic challenger Linda Coleman faced off this week in their first debate.

Sponsored by the NC Institute of Political Leadership and the Wilson Chamber of Commerce, the event was held on Barton College’s campus.

Kelly McCullen, host of “Legislative Week in Review” and “North Carolina Now” on UNC-TV, served as the debate moderator while panelists Corey Friedman, editor of The Wilson Times, and Bobby Burns, editor of The Daily Reflector in Greenville, spawned a fast round of questions tied to H.B. 2 and the recent announcement of athletic tournaments withdrawing from having North Carolina as a host site.

“How many jobs or how many basketball games are worth the protection of the life of a women or child in North Carolina being assaulted in the locker room?” said Forest. “Or a girl having to be exposed to a man in a locker room at a young age? What is the price tag we are going to put on that? An NBA game, a NCAA basketball game? I don’t put a price tag on my wife or on my daughter.

“Charlotte passed an extraordinarily extreme bathroom ordinance that is against the law. It was unconstitutional and we had to fix it,” he added. “The hypocrisy of the NCAA or anybody else — PayPal — comes out and says they have to leave North Carolina. The law in North Carolina was the same as the law was prior to being passed — you have to have your signs on bathrooms, men use men’s rooms,

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girls use girls’ rooms.”

While Forest focused on the efforts to protect women and children, Coleman viewed the bill has harmful to the state’s economy and discriminatory toward the transgender community.

“H.B. 2 has cost the state of North Carolina millions of dollars and the City of Charlotte a quarter of a billion dollars,” said Coleman.

“The NCAA will cost even more.

We don’t know what the total cost of H.B. 2 will be for North Carolina in terms of revenue over the next several years. The cost is too tremendous for the state of North Carolina to bear.

“This is a toothless law. It is a solution in search of a problem,” she added. “There is not one documented case where we have women in a bathroom where men came in to assault them. There are a lot of other issues that we need to consider when we think about protecting women. We have abusers and sexual predators out there who we need to look at and bring to justice

instead of people who consider themselves transgender.”

Aside from the spotlight on H.B. 2 that consumed much of North Carolina this week, candidates were strong in presenting their ideas on why voters should place them in office come November.

When asked the top three items they plan to focus in office, education, jobs and healthcare made the list.

“I will work to restore funding to public education, to ensure our environment is working the way it should and to place an emphasis on healthcare,” said Coleman. “We have to work every day on restoring Medicaid to North Carolina, because it is having a devastating impact on North Carolina and its people.

“We absolutely need to change the leadership. The conversation in Raleigh is all wrong,” she added. “They disrespect teachers and have taken away so many things.

They took away the Teaching Fellows program, the Teacher Acade-

Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor Linda Coleman, left, and current Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, right, shake hands following a debate at Barton College in Wilson on, Sept. 13.

my and tenure. We need to respect that profession and bring teaching back because that will be the future of this state if we are going to have one. They have gutted public education in North Carolina.”

While the views on education between Coleman and Forest are different, both feel voters need to look to education when making a trip to the polls.

“Education is No. 1. That is where we spend the majority of our time,” said Forest. “We have spent more than we have ever spent in the history of North Carolina. We have given them the largest raises in the country three years in a row. We are not done. We continue to invest in education, whether it is textbooks, technology or infrastructure.

“Elections are about choices,” continued Forest. “The previous administration cut teachers and teacher pay. We hired teachers and raised teacher pay. I hope people look at education, jobs and the economy.”

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Refab Wood turns old barns into new furniture Raleigh company reclaims wood from dilapidated structures

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Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and quarterback Derek Anderson run off the field at the end of the second quarter against the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.

Panthers pass $2B value, slide three spots on Forbes NFL list

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The Carolina Panthers’ run to Super Bowl 50 helped push the team’s value past the $2 billion mark, according to Forbes’ annual val­ uation of NFL franchises.

The Panthers actually dropped to No. 22 in the Forbes list, from 19th in 2015, but the franchise’s value climbed to $2.075 billion from $1.56 billion the year before — a growth of 33 percent. The team’s revenue also grew by $37 million, from $325 million in the 2015 valua­ tion to $362 million.

The Panthers, who were an NFL-best 15-1 in the regu­ lar season last year, lost Super Bowl 50 to the Denver Bron­ cos, 24-10, in February. Car­ olina reached the Super Bowl one other time in team history, falling to the New England Pa­ triots, 32-29, in 2004.

Forbes also ranked Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, the reigning NFL MVP, as the league’s top-paid player for the period of June 1, 2015, to June

SEC from page A1 requirements for English profi­ ciency to be certified, the student raised the issue with community college staff and the students in question were removed from the class as a result.

Curious to learn more, the concerned student discovered that other classmates were DACA recipients, and that oth­ er DACA immigrants had been certified and were working as notaries public at private busi­ nesses in the area and even at the local Register of Deeds office.

Investigating the claim with a call to the Secretary of State’s office’s notary public section, North State Journal (NSJ) spoke with a staffer and asked if DACA related work permits would sat­ isfy the legal residency require­ ment.

“Yes, you would just send us a copy of [the DACA work author­ ization], a front and back copy,” said the staffer.

NSJ followed up with George Jeter, director of Communi­ cations for the N.C. Secretary of State, on the policy. He ex­ plained that, in their view, U.S. Homeland Security employment documents associated with the DACA program satisfy the gen­ eral statute requiring applicants to be a legal resident.

1, 2016. Forbes said Newton earned $53.1 million in sala­ ry, bonuses and endorsements.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who played most of his college career at NC State, ranked No. 5 at $41.8 million.

Panthers owner Jerry Rich­ ardson and several investors paid $206 million in 1993 for the expansion franchise, which began play two years later. Go­ ing by Forbes’ numbers, that makes the team worth more than 10 times what Richardson and the ownership group paid nearly a quarter century ago.

The team is one of 24 NFL franchises valued at $2 billion or more by Forbes, led by the Dallas Cowboys ($4.2 billion) and New England Patriots ($3.4 billion). The Los Angeles Rams, who relocated from St. Louis for the 2016 season, doubled in val­ ue, jumping to No. 6 at $2.9 bil­ lion from $1.45 billion (No. 28) in last year’s valuations.

The Washington Redskins slid from third in 2015 ($2.85 billion) to fifth ($2.9 billion) this year. Every NFL franchise grew

in value according to Forbes, with the Redskins’ $50 million growth the smallest among the 32 NFL teams. The Buffalo Bills, at $1.5 billion, were 32nd in Forbes’ list but still added $100 million in value compared to last year. The Bills were pur­ chased by Terry Pegula, who also owns the NHL’s Buffalo Sa­ bres, in 2014 for $1.4 billion.

Other than the Rams’ mete­ oric climb up the list, the Oak­ land Raiders jumped the most from last year to this year, go­ ing from second to last in 2015 ($1.43 billion) to 20th ($2.1 bil­ lion) this year. The 11-spot leap is likely fueled by rumors the franchise could be relocated to Las Vegas.

According the the Pro Foot­ ball Hall of Fame website, the New York Giants paid a paltry $500 (about $7,000 in today’s money) franchise fee to join the NFL in 1925. The last expansion team, the Houston Texans, paid $700 million (approximately $935 million today) to join the league in 2002. The Texans are now valued at $2.6 billion, ranking ninth on Forbes’ list.

“You can become a notary even if you are not a citizen,” said Jeter. “The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on that very topic.

That would be Bernal v. Fainter, and Fainter was the Secretary of State in Texas, and they defini­ tively said that as long as you’re a legal resident and you meet, basically, the morals part of that stuff, you can be a notary.”

Indeed, in that 1984 case, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law requiring no­ taries to be citizens, ruling that legal aliens fell under the Equal Protection Clause, and therefore could be commissioned as nota­ ries public.

Even so, on the topic of legal residency status of DACA indi­ viduals, the N.C. Secretary of State’s legal reasoning might conflict with that of the De­ partment of Homeland Security (DHS) and, therefore, be in con­ flict with the relevant state stat­ utes requiring a notary be a legal resident.

Although the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does issue employment authoriza­ tions through DACA, it also ad­ vises that DACA “does not confer lawful status upon an individu­ al.”

“Deferred action is a form of prosecutorial discretion that does not confer lawful perma­

nent resident status or a path to citizenship,” says the DHS web­ site.

Melissa Crow, director of the Legal Action Center at the American Immigration Council, writing for the Supreme Court of the United States Blog, states the suggestion that intended benefi­ ciaries DACA would acquire a lawful immigration status, con­ ferring certain benefits, such as legal residence, is simply not true.

“An individual with deferred action is by definition lawfully present in the United States,” wrote Crow. “But just because someone is lawfully present does not mean that he or she has a lawful immigration status — a term of art that refers to being in the United States in a specif­ ic immigrant or non-immigrant visa classification and complying with its terms.”

The apparent discrepancy be­ tween the N.C. Secretary of State and the guidance from Home­ land Security regarding the le­ gal status of DACA beneficiaries may warrant further investiga­ tion. Meanwhile, current N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Mar­ shall (D) is running for re-elec­ tion to the post she has occupied since 1997. She faces Republican businessman Michael LaPaglia on the November ballot.

RALEIGH — Mitchell Alex­ ander has always been around woodworking. His father worked in carpentry in one way or another his entire life, and his grandfather took it on as a hobby after retirement.

“I was really fascinated by that when I was a kid, because he had his own little wood shop out in his backyard,” Alexander, 27, said of his grandfather’s later-in-life undertaking. “And I have always been kind of handy. And after he had passed, I inherited his tools.

So I had them and I started do­ ing a little woodworking on my own just for fun.”

Alexander now owns Refab Wood, a Raleigh-based compa­ ny that reclaims wood from old­ er structures, often barns, and builds dining sets, desks and oth­ er furniture and items.

The company was born fourand-a half-years ago after Alex­ ander left a furniture restoration shop to pursue his own business.

Seeing all the old roadside barns and structures that were going unused and just waiting to fall over, Alexander figured he could salvage at least some of the wood and repurpose it for furniture.

Alexander reclaimed his first barn over the course of a few months and the wood lasted him about a year. Alexander had found that barn himself, but word of mouth and the internet have led to people calling him up to take away their old barns and structures.

“From there it’s just a matter of determining whether or not they’re a good candidate to be reclaimed,” Alexander said. “Be­ cause most of the time they ar­ en’t. … I’d say about one in five barns we check out we can actu­ ally use for furniture.”

When he does find a barn with enough good wood to make it worth his while, Alexander and his workers essentially provide a removal service for the owners of the structures with their pay­ ment being the raw materials Re­ fab needs to make furniture.

“We don’t charge to take down unless it’s a special case,” Alexan­ der said. “If there’s a barn that is mostly, let’s say 50 percent, trash wood, then the rest of it’s good, we might have to charge them because we at least have to have them pay for getting a construc­ tion dumpster to throw all the waste in.”

The useable wood is then recycled by Refab to make ta­ bles, chairs, desks, coffee tables, benches or truly anything, with Alexander offering predesigned pieces on the company’s website, refabwood.com, or doing custom furniture for customers.

But Refab isn’t a one-man show. Alexander, a Raleigh na­ tive and NC State graduate, has forged a partnership with his alma mater to provide in­ ternships and apprenticeships through the school.

“We were trying to find a way both to find passionate workers; because you can try to hire peo­ ple hourly and they’ll work, but the people who work the best are the ones who really want to learn,” Alexander said. “So since we’re so close to State and I was an alumni there in wood prod­ ucts, we just kind of came up with the idea if there’s something like that exists let’s find out, and it turns out there was.”

While most of Refab’s interns and apprentices come from re­ lated NC State programs — for example, one current intern is studying Sustainable Materials & Technology — some come from totally unassociated disciplines.

Even Alexander’s 22-year-old brother Paul, the minority owner in the company and its only oth­ er full-time employee, graduated from Wake Technical Communi­ ty College with his degree in web technologies.

For the students, the threemonth internship includes a sti­ pend and some have earned class credit for their work at Refab.

Alexander moved the busi­ ness into a bigger space in May, included spending about $5,000 on air conditioning, and said most of the profit Refab makes goes right back into the business.

The brothers live together in a place on their father’s property, but said they got any brother­ ly bickering “out of their system when they were younger.”

The Alexander brothers have explored other ideas, like making guitars, but the heart of the busi­ ness is still turning reclaimed wood into furniture.

“We have to have the best stuff for furniture because it’s got to hold up for a long time,” Alexan­ der said.

With satisfied customers pro­ viding positive word of mouth both for their work in removing old structures and making re­ claimed furniture, Refab hopes to be around a long time itself.

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Owners Mitchell Alexander, right, 27, and his brother Paul, left, 22, work in the shop at Refab Wood in Raleigh on Sept. 2.

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Apple wagons west

There’s no denying fall is one of the best seasons in North Carolina. Between the bright and beautiful foliage, crisp air, and, of course, a visit to a nearby farm for pumpkins, corn mazes and apples. Picking your own fresh apples in North Carolina, the seventh-largest apple-producing state in the nation, is an autumn rite of passage. Each orchard in North Carolina offers something different. The Orchard at Altapass is a 105-yearold apple orchard turned preservation project The Orchard at Altapass and cultural center. Justus Orchard is now Spruce Pine in its fourth generation of family growers.

Sky Top Orchards made Travel Channel’s list of America’s Top 5 ApplePicking Farms.

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RALEIGH — Rick Catlin, a former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and president of CATLIN Engineers and Scientists, has been appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory to The Coastal Resources Commission.

“It’s an honor to still try to make things better in North Carolina,” said Catlin in response to the appointment.

Catlin resigned from the N.C. General Assembly on Aug. 15.

The Coastal Resource Commission was created in conjunction with the 1974 passing of the Coastal Area Management Act by the N.C. General Assembly. The commission establishes policies for the N.C. Coastal Management program and implements rules for both CAMA and the N.C. Dredge and Fill Act; regulating everything from the permitting of local seafood dealers, to if and how a coastal property owner can dredge boat slips or construct docking.

While representing District 20 in the legislature, Catlin served as co-chair of

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Henderson County alone produces 65 percent of the state’s apples. From Hendersonville to Chimney Rock, HWY 64 turns into “Apple Alley,” with an abundant amount of pick-your-own orchards. Not only can you pick the freshest Fuji, Gala, and Pink Lady varieties, you can take home fresh apple cider and pastries, find the perfect pumpkin for the front porch, and many offer hayrides and corn mazes for the kids. With harvest running from late August to early October, it’s officially apple season in North Carolina, and what better way to ring in fall than to visit one of the many orchards found throughout the state.

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Grandfather Vineyard and Winery sees best harvest in years Avery County During the hectic, two-month period of harvest, grape picking, crushing, pressing, and barreling can turn a normal day into a 15-hour workday. Dylan Tatum, general manager of Grandfather Vineyard and Winery, saw the best growing season of his six years in the Grandfather Vineyard and Winery and expects to produce 4,000-4,500 cases of wine this year.

High County Press

Federal documents released of child’s death at Blue Ridge Parkway Buncombe County Two Blue Ridge Parkway rangers found Seth Willis Pickering stabbing his daughter, 6-year-old Lila, to death. Federal documents released on Tuesday showed Pickering was only allowed to have supervised visits with Lila after he had been placed in temporary custody by the Buncombe County Department of Health and Human Services. On Sept. 9,

Pickering reportedly took Lila and left her custodian’s house without permission. The rangers, who were not yet aware that Lila was missing, saw Pickering alongside Blue Ridge Parkway starting an illegal fire. When Pickering saw the rangers, he lunged forward, stabbing and killing Lily.

Pickering was charged with firstdegree murder.

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Protester hit at rally as Trump decries ‘deplorables’ comment Buncombe County A protester was punched at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Asheville as the Republican presidential candidate decried his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for dismissing his supporters as “deplorables.” An apparent Trump supporter grabbed a male protester’s neck then clenched his fist and punched him, video from NBC and ABC showed. The protesters were then escorted out. Reports said four people were arrested at the rally. The Buncombe County clerk’s office confirmed the names of three arrested adults in the article but could not confirm the location of the arrests.

piedmont Firefighters, EMS crews switching from EpiPen to syringe Rockingham County Reidsville fire and EMS crews made adjustments on how they administer epinephrine. In the case of extreme allergic reactions, five fire departments are switching to the syringe as opposed to the traditional EpiPen. Forsyth and Stokes Counties have also begun to use the syringe method. Guilford County continues to seek a more cost-effective alternative, while the whole nation feels the impact of the rising price to save a life.

FOX8 News

U.S. Whitewater Center announces ropeless rock climbing Mecklenburg County U.S National Whitewater Center announced deep water soloing, also known as psiobloc, is coming soon.

This allows rock climbers to free climb, without a rope, over deep bodies of water. Currently, USNWC has a temporary deep water facility

for Tuck Fest. Yet, the new 25- to 45-foot three-angled walls will be officially open to the public the first weekend of October.

Charlotte Agenda

Man helps feed drivers stranded for hours on I-85 Alamance County More than a hundred drivers and passengers were stranded for seven hours on I-85 between Hillsborough and Durham Tuesday night after a fatal wreck. One man found a way to aid others stranded.

Thomas “Dinky” Brown ordered pizza and supplied drinks to those sitting on the highway. With the help of his brother, who exchanged the pizza and beverages from the other side of the highway, Brown handed out food and drinks. Other drivers and passengers appreciated his graciousness. Brown declined an interview, telling FOX8 News, “I’m just a good old country boy, raised that way.”

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It’s harvest time!

Plan a family outing and visit a pick-your-own orchard to take home the freshest of the fresh. Or look for locally grown apple and fresh apple cider at one of the many roadside markets or in your favorite grocery store.

To find an orchard or roadside market near you, visit www.ncapplegrowers.com NC Apple Growers Association

the House Environmental Committee and is professionally certified as both a geologist and engineer. Beyond that, Catlin has significant experience in coastal regulation.

“Prior to being an elected official, I was chairman of the Wilmington/ New Hanover County Ports, Waterways and Beach Commission for almost 20 years; I was chairman of the N.C. Water Resources Congress; and I was also chairman of the N.C. Beach, Inlet, and Waterway Association,” explained Catlin. “So I’ve got a lot of history on coastal issues.”

The transportation infrastructure that makes the North Carolina coast so attractive for commerce and leisure are some areas Catlin would like the commission to focus on.

“The maintenance that we have on our inter-coastal waterway and our inlets is in worse shape than it’s been in a long time, and that’s something we need to work on,” said Catlin. “[I] also want to make sure that our ports have the adequate resources to be able to grow business for the State of North Carolina.”

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No injuries after a school bus catches fire

Baby born on the way to the hospital New Hanover County Brandon Bradley was driving to a Wilmington hospital as Debrann Tunnage was in labor. Bradley had to take a detour when he realized the Interstate-74 bridge was closed for repairs. During the detour, Tunnage gave birth to a baby boy as Bradley gave her instructions from 911 during her delivery. The umbilical cord was tied off using Bradley’s shoestring.

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Cumberland County No one was injured when a school bus caught fire Wednesday in western Fayetteville. Bus driver Vaster Robinson said she noticed smoke coming from her school bus and hurried to get 15 middle school children off the bus. The bus, moments later, became engulfed in flames. Parents, crew and the transportation director have called Robinson a hero for her quickthinking skills. No one was injured.

Robinson has been a school bus driver since the 1990s.

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Suspect charge with kidnapping 6-year-old Wilmington girl

Manteo’s Elizabethan Inn up for bids

New Hanover County A judge on Friday kept bond at $9 million for Douglas Edwards, 46, a registered sex offender charged with first-degree kidnapping and two counts of indecent liberties with a child. A 6-year-old girl was subject of a statewide amber Alert after Edwards allegedly abducted her late Wednesday from her home.

The girl was found chained to a tree Thursday a couple miles away from her Wilmington home.

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The Elizabethan Inn, a Tudor-style motel off U.S 64, will be up for online auction Sept. 19, with bids starting at $2 million. The property totals 4.57 acres including the inn, manager’s quarters and La Dolce Vita restaurant. The 78-room Elizabethan Inn comes equipped with a sauna, indoor swimming pool and gym.

Dare County tax records value the property at around $2.7 million. The Inn will be up for auction until Oct. 6.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — County commissioners in Western N.C. say a new measure attached to the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 will give that part of the state more control over the forests there. The amendment sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) would require that the U.S. Forest Service get county approval before designating land in the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests as a wilderness study area.

“States and counties know best how to manage and conserve their own land — not federal government bureaucrats.

However, in North Carolina, we have seen the federal government grossly overreach by preventing residents in many counties from utilizing their own land as they see fit. My amendment will help ensure that North Carolina counties ultimately decide whether to designate new land as wilderness, empowering local officials and hardworking taxpayers with a key say in the decision-making process,” said Tillis.

County commissioners around the forests say that the current system is a blow to property tax values and keeps residents from using the land for hunting and fishing.

“Swain County is totally opposed to any new land being designated as wilderness or wilderness

study areas,” said David Monteith, Swain County Commissioner. “Nearly 90 percent of Swain County is already controlled by the federal government and we cannot afford to give any more of the remaining private land to federal bureaucrats.”

“The United States Forest Services owns 48 percent of the property in Clay County, N.C., and our rural county has Tier 1 designation as a very impoverished and economically distressed county,” said Clay Logan, the Clay County Commissioner. “One of the biggest draws of our county is the recreation provided by the national forest lands. People seek out our county to take advantage of the hunting, fishing, hiking, and camping opportunities that are available here.

These lands have a large impact on our economic development. Any additional lands that are put into wilderness study areas will be very detrimental to our county in numerous ways. Lands that are designated as a study area will not be accessible by road and there will be no way to enter the land except on foot. This kind of access will eliminate handicap access and it also will eliminate the timber harvesting which supports our school system.”

The amendment was approved by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry this week.

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EDITORIALS | Drew Elliot

What we stand for From Lincoln to MLK to Reagan, the most persuasive figures in America’s history have been ones who have changed minds by appealing to Americans’ shared values and ideals.

The national anthem was about to begin, but Claude Reynolds struggled to get to his feet. On the sideline at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium to see his Tigers play Duke, “Chuck” was in pain and exhausted from the cancer that would end his life a year later.

His family members told him he didn’t need to get out of his wheelchair, but Chuck shook his head.

“I don’t sit for the national anthem,” Chuck declared as he gained his feet.

Reynolds, 84, was stubborn as ever, a streak that had carried him from a modest farm in Iredell County to Reidsville — where he helped win a state football title — to Clemson, where he played on legendary coach Frank Howard’s first team in 1940.

Thoughts of Chuck, whose daughter is my aunt, came to me after hearing former NFL coach Tony Dungy’s commentary about NFL players’ protests during the national anthem, a trend that began when San Francisco 49ers reserve quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced he would not stand when the anthem was played.

In a well-reasoned editorial, Dungy recalled his father telling him — in the wake of the silent protest by two black American athletes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — that whatever he chose to do, he should “do what you think is going to make the situation better.”

Dungy didn’t mention Kaepernick. But he certainly seemed to be saying that while protests could be important and effective, one could go about it the wrong way.

John Carlos, one of the men who raised his fist on the medal stand in Mexico City, said last week that the only way to effect change in America is “when you shock them.” Far from it. From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King to Ronald Reagan, the most persuasive figures in America’s history have been ones who have changed minds by appealing to Americans’ shared values and ideals — the “better angels of our nature.” It wasn’t the fact that black Americans held marches in 1965 Alabama that shocked anyone.

It was the extreme reactions to the marches — beatings, arrests, deaths — that shocked and shamed the nation, hastening change.

Kaepernick lost any moral authority he might have had after photos surfaced of him wearing socks that depicted police officers as cartoon pigs. That buffoonery contrasts with what Dungy said: “There was a time… when I didn’t stand up for the national anthem. But as I grew as a Christian man, I felt like that wasn’t the right thing to do for me. There was something I could do to make it better. So when I saw racial injustice that I perceived, I stood for the national anthem, but I bowed my head and I prayed that God would make us a country that really was the land of the free and the home of the brave — I thought that’s the way I personally could protest but make the situation better.”

At Clemson in 2003, Chuck Reynolds was also able to look back on a life of striving to make the situation better. He flew planes for the Navy in World War II, once spending 24 hours in the Pacific after being shot down by the Japanese. By the time he returned to North Carolina to marry Reidsville’s Genie McDonald, he had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.

Chuck and Genie’s two children, who now live in WinstonSalem and Wilson, are on opposite ends of the current American political spectrum but both continue to fight for what each believes is right. And they continue to follow the example Chuck Reynolds set throughout his life — striving to improve the country and acknowledging that American democracy, while not perfect, is the best hope for human freedom and progress. It is that hope, combined with the remembrance of the sacrifice that keeps it alive, that is worth standing for.

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EDITORIALS | Ray Nothstine

NCAA, ACC decisions elevate hypocrisy and political activism Defenders of gender norms, or perhaps just opponents of progressive bullying, pointed to a lengthy list of NCAA hypocrisy.

It seemed, for a time, North Carolina might survive the social justice warrior onslaught against long-recognized gender norms. However, the NCAA and ACC this week announced the removal of championship games from the state. Much of the outrage against H.B. 2 has a manufactured feel to it. After the NCAA and ACC sent down their decrees, wounds were supposedly ripped open afresh. The lament is usually something like: If only N.C. lawmakers would cave, all would be well and a supposedly “intolerant” state could revert to normalcy.

It’s unclear, outside of virtue signaling, why the NCAA decided that this issue was so critical in order to warrant a politically charged punishment. Defenders of gender norms, or perhaps just opponents of progressive bullying, pointed to a lengthy list of NCAA hypocrisy.

Much has already been made of the fact that the NCAA rules do not allow for transgender males to compete against females. Attempts to do just that run afoul of Title IX laws pertaining to female participation in sports. Despite the Obama Administration’s daft attempts trying to redefine sex and gender identity as meaning the same thing for Title IX, a resolution on the matter is still undetermined. A change of that magnitude should require a legislative outcome and not merely judicial activism against the clear meaning of the Title IX text.

The hypocrisy of the NCAA again is perplexing given that for many athletes, especially in football, the collegiate governing body essentially runs a modern day plantation system. Unlike other students on scholarship, athletes — many who are minorities — are not allowed to use their skills for any kind of earning opportunity. It’s a cruel and outdated system that rewards the NCAA and many schools with obscene profits at the expense of the student athlete.

The North Carolina Republican Party lambasted the NCAA governing body in a statement for its inconsistencies in protecting women from sexual assault at places like Baylor. Gay activists too have pointed out the hypocrisy of the North Carolina decision, wondering why the NCAA has done nothing to limit participation of religious schools, such as Brigham Young University, that uphold worldviews incompatible with homosexuality.

“Frankly, that they have allowed BYU to remain speaks to the lack of true commitment to equality on behalf of the NCAA,” declared an editorial at Out Sports.

Essentially everybody knows that the NCAA or ACC will take no action that harms its bottom line. Instead, it’s a cheap decree. Will the ACC now move their offices out of Greensboro? Will the NCAA do anything to protest Louisiana

for its harsh sentencing laws or the highest incarceration rate in the world? What about sanctions against New York City for having an obscenely high abortion rate? Picking and choosing sanctions on the basis of politics becomes not only divisive but also illogical.

At a deeper level, people of faith and those that favor traditional norms know that America, along with the rest of the Western world, is being repaganized. Sports are no exception.

In fact, sports are specifically targeted by the social justice warriors for the very reason that its traditionally been viewed as an escape from the political sphere. Those spaces are now vanishing and as social conservatives have pointed out that even if you just want to be left alone, “you will be made to care” about social engineering.

But if you’re constantly being berated for being on the “wrong side of history,” it’s probably good that your morality is beyond fixed events.

The NCAA decision teaches us a lot about political activism and political hypocrisy, but at its highest level it’s a reminder that trying to offer perspective or pause on issues of human sexuality is no longer allowed.

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Guest Opinion | Bill thunberg

CAL THOMAS

Clinton still a congenital liar n 1996, The New York Times columnist William Safire diagnosed Hillary IClinton’sreal problem. He called her a

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This photovoltaic solar array, installed by Strata Solar near Warsaw, N.C., can produce 68 MW of electricity at full capacity.

Clean Energy – New economic opportunities for N.C.

A Solar, wind, biomass and landfill gas-toenergy projects across our state are revitalizing local economies.

s the former Mayor of Mooresville and a small business owner who also serves on the Board of the Centralina Economic Development Commission, I’ve seen firsthand how North Carolina’s economy has transformed over the last two decades. Farming, manufacturing and banking are still vital bedrocks of our economy, but we’ve also attracted new industries and jobs such as renewable energy and advanced, high-tech manufacturing in the past five to 10 years.

Solar, wind, biomass and landfill gas-to-energy projects across our state are revitalizing local economies. Rural areas have been struggling long before the recession hit to attract new jobs, investments, and tax revenues to fund basic government services like schools and roads. Those communities now have reliable revenue streams for growth and better quality of life thanks to clean energy.

I’ve seen the rapid growth and success of North Carolina’s clean energy industry — now a $7 billion industry with over 26,000 jobs in every region of our state — which is why I find the ongoing attacks being leveled at clean energy in N.C. so puzzling. I’ve done some research and found that the Civitas Institute and other groups attacking clean energy in our state didn’t use facts or data regarding North Carolina’s Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) law, but instead rely on national averages and exaggerated or outdated information. Thus, they have no real basis for urging our state legislators to take such drastic and unwarranted action to repeal our state’s clean energy laws.

The facts are clear: clean energy is benefiting North Carolina, which is why it has broad, bipartisan support

among our legislators and our citizens. In fact, a 2016 poll conducted for Conservatives for Clean Energy found 85 percent of N.C. voters support politicians who advance renewable energy options.

I had the privilege of serving as mayor of Mooresville for two terms, from 2005 to 2009. A city of nearly 35,000 people, Mooresville is probably best known as the home of numerous NASCAR racing teams and drivers, which has helped us earn the nickname “Race City USA.” But, it’s not just Mooresville. North Carolinians by nature have racing in their blood and want to finish first. After legislators approved the REPS law in 2007, rapid growth and construction of large-scale solar projects quickly shot our state into the top 10, and in 2015, N.C. was ranked No. 3 in newly installed solar energy.

However, it’s not just the growing number of largescale solar projects found in eastern N.C. or the Shelby or Hickory areas. I recently learned that the Charlotte Motor Speedway is home to a landfill gas-to-energy project, which generates power out of waste produced at racetrack events. How innovative! And several racing teams and drivers have installed solar, including Martin Truex, Jr., Jeff Martin & JR Motorsports (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.) because it makes good business sense.

Clean energy was a silver lining during North Carolina’s recent economic recession and continues to create new economic opportunities, investments and jobs across our entire state. I urge our state legislators to keep us on the right track — maintain North Carolina’s REPS law and look for new opportunities to grow and expand our state’s clean energy economy.

Bill Thunberg is the owner of Alexander Zachary Jewelers and former mayor of Mooresville.

Columnist | BRADLEY BETHEL

Candidate caricatures hurt voters welve years ago, Howard Dean let out a voice-cracking yelp at the conclusion of a T presidential campaign speech. The incident became

Johnson’s gaffe was reported across the news media, and the commentary was especially smug.

known as the “Dean Scream,” and the news media used it to portray Dean as “unpresidential.” News executives have since admitted they overplayed the story and misrepresented Dean.

Yet fast forward to the current election, and the news media’s propensity for misrepresenting candidates continues.

Donald Trump undeniably deserves the news media’s scrutiny. His speeches contain an unprecedented number of false claims, and the only consistent feature of his campaign is fear-mongering.

However, in the news media’s haste to exploit the next outrageous Trump claim, they have at times misrepresented him. Most notable was the widely repeated accusation that Trump insinuated an assassination attempt on Hillary Clinton.

During a speech Trump gave in Wilmington, he warned, “If [Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Out of context, the ambiguity of the line warrants severe criticism. However, in context, Trump’s comment conforms to a longstanding pattern of NRA rhetoric that champions armed resistance in defense of the Second Amendment. Trump began the speech lauding the NRA, and a moment after his controversial comment, he repeated his praise of the organization. He went on to say, “If you don’t do what’s the right thing, you’re not going to have a Second Amendment or you’re not going to have much of it left.”

Situated as part of his appeal to NRA supporters, Trump’s comment clearly reflects the sentiment most famously expressed by the late NRA leader Charlton Heston in 2000 at a national NRA convention in Charlotte. Enshrined on NRA bumper stickers across the country, I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! is a declaration of its members’ defiant willingness to fight in defense of their right

to own guns. Trump’s comment about “Second Amendment people” was thus an attempt to pander to his NRA supporters by reasserting their call to engage in armed resistance if necessary. He was not suggesting assassinating Clinton.

More recently, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson became the subject of the news media’s ridicule after he blanked on a question about Aleppo, a Syrian city besieged by the civil war there. During an MSNBC panel interview, commentator Mike Barnicle asked Johnson, “What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?” A puzzled Johnson replied, “And what is Aleppo?”

Johnson’s gaffe was reported across the news media, and the commentary was especially smug. Yet nearly every report quoted only the gaffe, excluding the exchange before it. Johnson and the panel had been discussing his criticism of the two-party system, and he was barely finished addressing that issue when Barnicle fired the Aleppo question. Without time to shift gears, Johnson blanked. However, as soon as Barnicle mentioned Syria, Johnson regained his bearing and responded.

The public loses when the news media mischaracterizes presidential candidates. After Trump’s Wilmington speech, we should have been challenging his and the NRA’s heedless allusions to armed resistance. Instead, we were worrying about a manufactured assassination threat. After Johnson’s MSNBC appearance, we should have been discussing his legitimate criticism of the two-party system.

Instead, we were making fun of him for blanking on the name of a city most Americans couldn’t identify.

As long as the news media continues to prefer making presidential candidates look bad over offering nuanced examinations of their ideas, voters will remain insufficiently informed to make the best decisions in the voting booth. This election, we need the news media to do better.

Bradley Bethel is a a documentary filmmaker and former teacher who lives in Carrboro.

“congenital liar.”

Congenital is defined as “having by nature a specified character.”

Following Hillary Clinton’s health scare Sunday in New York, we may have reached the conclusion author Mary McCarthy did when speaking of playwright Lillian Hellman: “Every word [Hellman] writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

A person’s character is a clue to the entire person and both Clintons have displayed over many years severe character deficiencies. Abraham Lincoln said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

Or her.

Hillary Clinton has had power as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state, now she wants to achieve the ultimate in power, the presidency of the United States. Along this road we have seen her record and it is a trail of cover-ups, misstatements, dissemblings, halftruths and outright lies. It is increasingly difficult to give her the benefit of the doubt on anything because doubt would imply there might be some reason to believe that at least some of the things she says are true.

The perception is always that she is hiding something, which, if discovered, might harm her chances of winning the White House. But, from the inconsequential to the substantive, Hillary Clinton is about as transparent as lead.

Her weak-kneed near collapse is just the latest example. Diagnosed last Friday with pneumonia, her campaign blamed her recent coughing fits on seasonal allergies. When a video shot by a bystander at the 9/11 memorial service showed her supported by Secret Service agents as she stumbled and was helped into a van, she disappeared for 90 minutes with no press allowed to follow her.

Most people would regard such an incident as worthy of a trip to the hospital, possibly the emergency room, but as The New York Post reported, Hillary’s aides took her to daughter Chelsea’s apartment instead because they wanted to “keep the details of her medical treatment under wraps.”

Transparency is the key to credibility, but in Hillary Clinton’s case she and her handlers want us to believe the facade.

Transparency is the key to credibility, but in Hillary Clinton’s case she and her handlers want us to believe the facade.

The campaign says it will release more medical records later in the week, but who believes these will tell the entire story? Maybe the records will be like those emails, which she claimed at various times to have released. She said she released all of them. This was not the truth.

This is the challenge when it comes to character. Think of people you know who have consistently lied to you. Would you trust them to pay back a loan? Would you let them babysit your kids? Would you trust them as president of the United States?

Some Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned about Hillary Clinton’s health and credibility. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler wants the DNC to identify a potential backup candidate should Hillary Clinton be forced to leave the race.

Fowler told Politico, “Now is the time for all good political leaders to come to the aid of their party,” adding, “the plan should be developed by 6 o’clock this afternoon.”

The hour for such a decision may be long past six o’clock. For the Democrats, for Hillary Clinton and for the coming election less than 60 days away, it may be approaching midnight.

Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist. His latest book is “What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America.”

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NATION& WORLD Clinton visits NC in campaign trail return; Trump up in polls

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A young girl dressed as the Living Goddess Kumari takes part in the Kumari Puja festival Sept. 14 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Commuters take selfies beside billboards showing photographs of cats inside Clapham Common underground station Sept. 14 in London.

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Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is guided by U.S. National Park Service Ranger Heath Mitchell on a visit to the Lincoln Memorial Sept. 14 in Washington, D.C.

H.B. 2 deal from page A1 a gender-neutral “family” bathroom is not available. In N.C. the sex listed on a birth certificate can be changed with a notarized statement from a doctor who performs reassignment surgery.

The law also bars local governments from enacting local anti-discrimination ordinances more stringent than state law. It was passed after the Charlotte City Council passed an ordinance that made any differentiation in sexes in public accommodations illegal in the city.

Ruckus gives rise to the right N.C. faced criticism for passing H.B. 2, overshadowing the Republican Party’s primary campaign messages of lower taxes and touting the state as one of the fastest-growing economies in the nation. However, as backlash continued from the left, a poll from the right-leaning Civitas Institute indicates that McCrory may be getting a boost out of H.B. 2 among staunch Republicans. The poll finds McCrory with a two-point lead on his challenger, Democrat Attorney General Roy Cooper.

McCrory led North Carolina to join 21 other states in filing a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court claiming that President Barack Obama’s policy expanding Title IX protections to include gender identity is government overreach without the legislative process.

“The issue of redefining gender and basic norms of privacy will be resolved in the near future in the United States court system for not only North Carolina, but the entire nation,” said McCrory in a statement released Wednesday.

On Thursday, Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham and head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, wrote an open letter to the commissioner of the ACC, John Swofford.

“While I recognize this legislation — and legislation like it in other states — is complicated by society’s continued blurring of the lines of gender and sexual identity, I also recognize the profound hypocrisy of the ACC, the

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hillary Clinton got back on the campaign trail Thursday, visiting Greensboro after taking three days off for pneumonia. The Democratic presidential candidate faced a more challenging political landscape, with Republican rival Donald Trump rising in opinion polls.

Senior Clinton aides said they always expected the race to the Nov. 8 election to be close. But it was clear from a raft of new polls that Trump had halted a summer swoon after taking steps to give a less freewheeling, more polished performance on the stump.

Clinton, 68, appeared in good health during the appearance, leaving the stage to the tune of James Brown’s “I Feel Good.” Clinton told reporters she kept her pneumonia diagnosis last Friday quiet, telling only senior staff, because she thought she would be able to “power through” the illness and keep campaigning.

“From my perspective, I thought I was going to be fine and I thought that there was no reason to make a big fuss about it,” she said.

On Sunday, Clinton nearly collapsed while leaving a ceremony marking the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York.

Her illness coincided with a surge

by Trump, who has drawn even or taken a slight lead in national polls. Polls in battleground states where the race is likely to be decided showed Trump now leading in Iowa, Ohio, Florida and Nevada, and tied in North Carolina.

Bob Shrum, a Democratic strategist who managed 2004 candidate John Kerry’s unsuccessful campaign, said that what has hurt Clinton is not the

NCAA and other companies and organizations who are making calculated business decisions disguised as moral outrage,” said Graham.

Title IX The ACC and NCAA’s decisions surrounding H.B. 2 contain a larger issue. According to legal experts, the organizations may be setting themselves up for future courtroom battles. If the groups will no longer host events in N.C. because of H.B. 2, according to House Speaker Pro Temp Paul Stam (R-Wake), there are 28 other states with similar laws. If the ACC eliminates those states as well, lawmakers have suggested the group’s tax-exempt status could be challenged if they are making financial decisions to influence state laws and elections.

Among the reasons the NCAA gave for pulling the games is that H.B. 2 “has the only statewide law that makes it unlawful to use a restroom different from the gender on one’s birth certificate, regardless of gender identity.”

The governor’s office was quick to point out the ways in which this common misconception about H.B. 2 is wrong. Supporters assert that H.B. 2 only applies to government-owned buildings with multi-stalled bathrooms and changing facilities in them. Private businesses and venues can implement any facilities policy they want. The biggest single impact of the law is on public schools, where the majority of users are under 18.

The NCAA’s decision has led to questions on whether the association plans to adopt all of the Obama directive regarding Title IX recognition of transgender and gender identity in sports. NCAA policy currently requires that those wishing to compete on a gender specific team other than that on their birth certificate have a diagnosis of gender disphoria or be in treatment with hormones for reassignment, a bar higher than that of simply “identifying” as an opposite gender. In the current NCAA policy, males identifying as females cannot play on female-only teams unless the

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C. on Sept. 15, as she resumed her campaign schedule after a bout with pneumonia.

time taken off from the campaign trail but rather her decision to keep her diagnosis secret until forced to disclose it — which reinforced a perception among voters that she has a penchant for secrecy.

“Fairly or unfairly, what this was taken as was more evidence that she was not transparent and that’s what hurts her,” Shrum said. “She been far more transparent than Trump but she hasn’t gotten any credit for it.”

With the candidates’ health in the spotlight, Trump, 70, released details Thursday of a recent physical examination, a day after Clinton released specifics on her medical condition.

Trump’s campaign said results of his physical showed the fast-food fan has normal cholesterol with the help

team reclassifies as “mixed” or the athlete undergoes one year of testosterone suppressants. Females identifying as males can play on male-only teams.

“NCAA rules state that a male participating in competition on a female team makes the team a ‘mixed team.’ The mixed team can be used for sports sponsorship numbers ... and counts toward the mixed/men’s team minimums within the membership sports-sponsorship requirements,” the policy states. “Such a team is ineligible for a women’s NCAA championship but is eligible for a men’s NCAA championship. A female on a men’s team does not impact sports sponsorship in the application of the rule. The team still counts toward the mixed/men’s numbers. Such a team is eligible for a men’s NCAA championship.”

It also would create problems for their substance policies because the hormones required for gender transitions are among those banned in athletes. The NCAA, however, does have an appeals process to allow testosterone or testosterone-suppressing drugs to be approved. Sorting out those details will take time and legal wrangling if the NCAA adopts the White House policy.

For now, the ACC decision will affect 10 championships in soccer, football, swimming and diving, basketball, tennis, golf and baseball that were to be held at neutral sites across North Carolina. The NCAA decision will affect seven games. New locations for the events have not been announced.

The NCGOP deemed the NCAA’s action hypocritical.

“Perhaps the NCAA should stop with their political peacocking — and instead focus their energies on making sure our nation’s collegiate athletes are safe, both on and off the field,” said North Carolina Republican Party spokeswoman Kami Mueller.

While legislators and lobby groups work behind the scenes to find a compromise, the Charlotte City Council is scheduled to meet on Monday to cover zoning issues, but as of press time the controversial ordinance is not listed on the agenda.

of a statin drug, weighs 236 pounds, and has normal blood pressure.

The Trump campaign said his medical report showed he “has the stamina to endure — uninterrupted — the rigors of a punishing and unprecedented presidential campaign and, more importantly, the singularly demanding job of president of the United States.”

Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri said “one upside” of Clinton’s unplanned break was the chance to “sharpen the final argument Clinton will present to voters in these closing weeks.”

Clinton’s visit to Greensboro came the same day that Trump’s daughterin-law, Lara Trump, opened a campaign office in Cary and announced that Trump will visit High Point and Kenansville on Tuesday.

Cancer from page A1 death by disease among children in the United States. About 15,000 children were diagnosed with cancer in 2014, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Dan Wechsler, the chief of pediatric hematology-oncology at Duke University Medical Center, said although the number of people diagnosed with cancer as a child is low, there is still an urgency in research to find cures.

“Pediatric cancer is pretty uncommon in the scheme of things,” Wechsler said. “There are 12,000 to 13,000 cases of pediatric cancer compared to 1.5 billion total cases of cancer, so it represents 1 percent of all cancers. But the issue is when a kid gets cancer and they cure them of cancer, they have their whole life ahead of them as opposed to someone in their 80s who gets cancer.”

Recognizing September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month shines a light on the fact only 4 percent federal funding for cancer research goes toward childhood cancers.

Organizations like St. Baldrick’s Foundation have brought childhood cancer research to the forefront. Wechsler is a St. Baldrick’s grant recipient and has shaved his head multiple times at the nonprofit’s annual events.

St. Baldrick’s also was a support network for Lenfestey when she was struggling with the idea of Scott losing his hair.

“It was emotional for me,” she said. “It felt premature to me. I wasn’t ready to see that. We went there that day and he was so happy shaving it off. It turned things around for me, because I felt that cancer robbed us of so much at that point. Life stopped. I stopped working. The kids. Everything was disrupted. I was going to let it dictate when he’s going to lose his hair, too. [Instead I] let him do it.”

With research findings throughout the years, 80 percent of children stricken with cancer are now cured, but Dr. Wechsler said he doesn’t concentrate on percentages with patients.

“The thing with percentages are it’s fine if you have 100 kids, but if you have one kid, that kid is going to make it or is not going to make it, so we don’t spend a lot of time talking about percentages with

families,” Wechsler said. “Our goal is to cure everybody.”

Wechsler added that he is always reminded that no matter what phase of treatment they are in, they are still kids.

“When people see kids who have lost their hair, they’re still kids, and they want to play and they want to be active, and they want to be treated like everybody else,” he said.

Ferm said she realized one day her son was still a kid and was still happy throughout treatment, and it helped change her attitude.

“It dawned on me at clinic one day that we are so worried and the kids just want to be kids,” Ferm said. “Of course, it is hard to. They are more resilient, so that’s what inspired me, because I’m like, ‘He is so happy and joyful, how can I be sad?’”

Lenfestey said Scott’s outlook throughout treatment helped her stay strong. She recounted a time he was receiving a part of chemotherapy that is referred to as “the red devil.”

“During this really intense phase, Scott had this chemo that is red,” she said. “It turns your urine red. There are some kids that when their tears come out their tears were red. I was like, ‘Oh gosh, this is so hard to watch it come.’ And Scott is like, ‘It’s fruit punch.’ And I’m like, OK. And then a bright yellow one came and he said now ‘it’s lemonade.’ I was like, ‘That is not what I would be thinking. Thank goodness that’s your mentally.’”

Ferm said one of the difficult parts of cancer treatment was Alex watching his friends in the hospital die and wondering if he was going to as well.

“You wouldn’t want any of your kids to have gone through this, Ferm said. “They’ve seen death.

The biggest thing that I wouldn’t have wanted them to see, they have.”

Even though it is often a traumatic time for these children and their families, Dr. Wechsler notes the joy he finds in working with kids.

“A lot of times people say it is so depressing dealing with kids with cancer and sometimes it is,” Wechsler said. “But the majority of the time it isn’t, even when their outcome isn’t good, you’re still helping them in an incredibly difficult time.”

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unc football

the Sunday Sideline report 1. Buffalo Bills fired offensive coordinator Greg Roman six days into their season after falling to the Jets 37-31 on Thursday.

2. Denver Broncos players fined by the NFL for illegal hits on Cam Newton in Week 1 opener.

3. UNC linebacker Allen Artis was suspended from the team and turned himself in on misdemeanor sexual assault charges after student alleges she was raped in February.

4. NCAA moved seven championship events from North Carolina, including NCAA Tournament games, while ACC moved eight events, including the football title game in Charlotte, citing HB2 as a reason for relocation.

@NicoleAuerbach: I’d argue the NCAA/ACC decisions to pull events that have been in NC for so many years is a bigger impact than NBA pulling All-Star Game.

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UNC-Chapel Hill sophomore Delaney Robinson, flanked by attorney Denise W. Branch and father Stacey Robinson, speaks to the media on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 to announce that they have filed misdemeanor charges against a UNC football player for an alleged sexual assault that occurred in February.

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By Brett Friedlander North State Journal

@ESPNNFL: The Los Angeles Rams have still not scored a point since Dec. 24, 1994.

HAPEL HILL — The North Carolina football team was expected to make headlines this year after winning its C first ACC Coastal Division championship in 2015.

@ProFootball Talk: Offense stunk in Week One, defense stunk in Week Two; so who gets fired? Not the guy who shared a womb with Rex

NFL

Ex-Wake Forest star Whitlock suspended 10 games without pay New York Giants fullback Nikita Whitlock received a 10game suspension, without pay, for violating the NFL policy on performance enhancing substances. Whitlock was an All-ACC defensive tackle (nose guard) for the Demon Deacons in 2011-12.

MiLB

New Kinston baseball club narrows team name choices to five finalists After receiving more than 1,300 submissions, the Carolina League’s new Kinston, N.C.-based club narrowed its team name to five options: DownEast HamHawks, Down East Eagles, Down East Hogzillas, Down East Shaggers and the Down East Wood Ducks.

Fans can vote for their favorite choice on the team’s website over the next two weeks.

GOLF

Dustin Johnson moves to No. 1 in FedEx Cup standings with BMW Championshp win Dustin Johnson used a strong showing on Sunday at Crooked Stick to hold off Paul Casey and claim his third win in eight starts at the BMW Championship. Johnson, the reigning U.S. Open champion, now has the No. 1 spot in the FedEx Cup Standings prior to the playoff finale, the TOUR Championship (Sept. 22-25).

UNC student accuses football player of rape

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A rendering of what a downtown baseball stadium would look in Fayetteville, which is working on a proposal with the Astros to bring baseball back.

How baseball will revitalize downtown Fayetteville

By Will Brinson North State Journal AYETTEVILLE, N.C. — If you build it, they will come.

F The famous “Field of Dreams”

line is entirely appropriate for modern-day Fayetteville, which is heading down the path of building a dynamic new facility in downtown, highlighted by a baseball stadium.

The City Council recently approved a plan to finance the stadium, by a 9-1 vote, which will be located behind the Prince Charles hotel in downtown Fayetteville.

Baseball is the crown jewel in of the downtown renovation, but Ralph Huff, president of H&H Homes in Fayetteville and a recent appointee to the Public Works Commission, sees it as the catalyst for finishing off a revitalization of downtown and making Fayetteville a destination.

“We have on the drawing board a $65 million state-owned Civil War History Learning Center. It’s not a museum. It’s a Civil War History Learning Center,” Huff told the North State

Journal. “And so there’s three transformational things going on at one time, and the fourth will be our own performing-arts center downtown, which will replace the auditorium that needs $35 million worth of renovation to bring it up to modern standards.

When we can build a replacement downtown for $45 million.

“All of this is in the the works and we want it all and we want it all now. We don’t want to talk about it for 15 years.”

At the center of the city’s vision is the baseball stadium. But bringing baseball back to Fayetteville is about much more than just construction at the heart of the already revived downtown.

It’s about returning Fayetteville to historical roots and a connection with one of the greatest players to ever take part in the national pastime. When George Herman Ruth, Jr., first signed with the Baltimore Orioles in 1914, team owner Jack Dunn was forced to become his legal guardian in order to lock him down on See baseball, page B3

Only now the Tar Heels are making the wrong kind of headlines.

Just three weeks into the new season, Carolina has already been embroiled in two unwanted controversies — the first over the hiring of abusive former Illinois coach Tim Beckman as a volunteer assistant and now, as a result of rape charges against reserve linebacker “Rather than Allen Artis.

Artis was suspended from the team in- accusing him of definitely on Tuesday after a fellow UNC anything, the student took out self-sworn warrants against him in collection with an incident at the investigators Ram Village dormitory last Feb. 14. The spoke to him 6-foot-1, 215-pound junior turned himself in on Wednesday and was released on a $5,000 with a tone of unsecured bond. comradarie.”

He is charged with sexual battery and asDelaney Robinson sault on a female, both misdemeanors.

Coach Larry Fedora initially declined comment on the situation, other than issuing a statement saying that the UNC football program takes “these matters very seriously and (is) cooperating with the appropriate authorities.”

While neither the football program nor the athletic department were directly involved with the investigation, the alleged victim — 18-year-old Delaney Robinson of Apex — is upset with the way other university entities have handled her case.

She reported the incident as soon as it happened and during a press conference Tuesday, saying she “did everything a rape victim is supposed to do.”

And yet, six months later, no action has been taken by either UNC officials or the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Upset with what her lawyer Denise W. Branch described as See UNC, page B6

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The Panthers are set to try and win their first game of the season in Week 2, hosting the 49ers in an East Coast-West Coast football battle. San Francisco surprised everyone with a strong 28-0 win against the Rams in Week 1, while Carolina fell short against the Broncos in Denver during a Super Bowl 50 rematch. R. Cory Smith previews the early Sunday matchup. B6

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NS J beyond the box score

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Ryan Lochte: The Olympic swimmer was ambushed by protesters after his performance on “Dancing with the Stars” on Monday night.

Josh Rosen: UCLA’s talented sophomore QB slammed the NCAA, telling CBS Sports the studentathlete experience is “like indentured servitude.”

NFL Shop: The NFL temporarily banned the use of Harambe as the name for customized jerseys from its online shop.

Yasiel Puig: An unsuspecting fan wasn’t ready for the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder’s toss after the final out in Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.

Unfortunately, the ball knocked out the fan’s tooth.

Twerking: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown was flagged for a “sexually suggestive” dance in the end zone after a touchdown after a touchdown against the Redskins Monday.

Scott Darling: The Chicago Blackhawks goalie debuted a new helmet for the 201617 season featuring Wayne and Garth of “Wayne’s World” fame.

Chicago White Sox: The baseball team’s “Bark in the Park” game on Tuesday against the Indians was such a hit the club broke the Guinness World Record for most dogs at a sporting event.

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NFL

The NFL’s Color Rush uniforms made their 2016 debut Thursday night in Buffalo for Bills-Jets. The monochromatic Nike-designed uniforms will be worn for all the remaining Thursday night games except for the action on Thanksgiving Day. The Panthers will be in all blues for their Color Rush game on Nov. 17 against the Saints.

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“Winning football games. That’s why I’m here. I’m not here to worry about retirement plans. ... I’m here to win football games. Simple and plain.”

Cam Newton

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NFL

$42,540 The total amount of money between the two fines levied by the NFL against Denver Broncos defenders Brandon Marshall ($24,309) and Darian Stewart ($18,231) for their helmet-to-helmet hits on quarterback Cam Newton in the Panthers’ Week 1 loss.

WFU FOOTBALL

14 Cade Carney’s three-touchdown performance in Wake Forest’s win against Duke in Week 2 was the first by a Demon Deacon freshman in 14 years (Chris Barclay, 2002 vs.

Purdue).

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Arizona’s football team wore these special uniforms honoring the sunken battleship USS Arizona to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor in Saturday’s college football game against Hawaii in Tucson.

New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz called out cornerback Josh Norman for not covering Antonio Brown in Week 1. “Who really frickin’ cares? Come out with a W and win the game,” Norman responded. “That’s hogwash.”

TENNIS

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After winning the U.S. Open, 31-year-old Swiss tennis star Stan Wawrinka told Charlie Rose he’ll never be No. 1. “I won three Grand Slams, but I’m not consistent enough during the year,” he said, complimenting World No. 1 Novak Djokovic’s consistency.

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Former Duke women’s golfer Virada Nirapathpongporn holds a pose after striking the ball.

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Virada Nirapathpongporn

returns ‘home’ for Duke Hall of Fame honor

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

like that. That just made my day when I heard his voice on the other line.

irada Nirapathpongporn was one of the most successful V women’s golfers in Duke history.

A member of four straight ACC championship teams, she became the second Blue Devil ever to win the NCAA Division I individual championship in 2002, tying an NCAA scoring record in the process. That same year, her sophomore season, she helped lead the Blue Devils to the NCAA team title.

In 2004, Nirapathpongporn won the 2004 Nancy Lopez Award as the top female amateur golfer in the world. Her list of honors also included winning the 2003 U.S. Women’s Amateur, earning four All-ACC berths, four All-Americans, three Academic All-American honors and the 2002 Honda Award as National Player of the Year.

Nirapathpongporn left Duke with school records for single round and 72-hole scoring as well as career top-10 finishes.

After graduating, Nirapathpongporn spent seven years on the professional golf tour, winning two tournaments. She retired at the age of 28 and has helped lead the next generation of Thai golfers to LPGA success as coach of her home country’s national team.

Nirapathpongporn took time to reflect on her Duke career before being inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame recently.

North State Journal: What does it mean to be a member of the Duke Hall of Fame?

Nirapathpongporn: In college golf, I think it’s the highest I have achieved. The NCAA championship, the team championship, all of that, of course: It was like a checklist, and this is another one on that list. Actually I never thought I

baseball from page B1 the team’s roster. Other players took notice and gave Ruth the nickname “Babe,” short for “Jack’s Baby.”

The first stop for the prodigious power hitter in his professional career? Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the Orioles were holding spring training. It was there that Babe Ruth began his career, launching himself into rarified air and hitting the first

Q: How did you end up deciding you wanted to go to Duke?

Growing up in Thailand, I never knew about Duke. Duke?

What is Duke? It’s because of three lady golfers that I became introduced to Duke. Jenny Chuasiriporn, my junior golfing idol Beth Bauer, who pretty much won everything there was to win in juniors. The third one was my future dorm-mate Candy Hannemann. We went to (high) school together in Florida. It was because of them that I chose Duke.

What have you been doing since retirement?

Virada Nirapathpongporn Age: 34 Hometown: Bangkok, Thailand College: Duke Nickname: Oui Tournament Wins: 2002 NCAA Champion, 2003 U.S. Amateur Champion, 2005 Jalapeno Futures Classic, 2005 Chip In For A Cure Classic Other Accomplishments: Thailand women’s national team captain would be considered, but it’s a great honor. Just incredible.

What memories does this honor bring back?

I think it was just yesterday when I was a student-athlete here. I guess reality hit when I received an invitation for my 10-

home run of his professional career. The Bambino never forgot.

“I got to some bigger places than Fayetteville after that, but darn few as exciting,” Ruth said.

And neither did Fayetteville — Huff imagines a team helping to honor Ruth’s North Carolina legacy, with a potential team name (the Fayetteville Bambinos would be tremendous), perhaps a stadium (Babe Ruth Stadium anyone?) and various historical attractions centered around Ruth,

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Former Duke women’s golfer Virada Nirapathpongporn speaks at the Duke Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Nirapathpongporn was the 2004 Nancy Lopez Award winner for the best female amateur golfer in the world.

year reunion for my graduating class.

One of the best memories was when Coach (Dan) Brooks replied to my letter and said he wanted me to come here on scholarship. The next four years were the best. I had the best team I could ever ask to play for, the best teammates. Coach and the girls were the best human beings I could ever ask to be friends with.

mentor and everything. This is his moment, and for me to go in along with him is very special. I owe everything to him.

What has your relationship been like since your graduation? Do you talk often?

He’s pretty much the rock of my college career. He was a father figure. He was the coach,

Yeah, not so much with Coach. I think with him, he and I would always know … we don’t need to talk. He’s not so much on Facebook, so it’s harder to keep in touch with him. And he’s very short in emails, but I never take it personally. We are very close. I know that any time I need him … Like yesterday, I got into the country and was like, ‘Hey, Coach!’ And he was like, ‘Where the hell are you?’ Things

arguably the greatest baseball player in MLB history.

The city almost never went downtown too. For whatever reason, it was focused on a baseball site miles away from the city’s center. It made no sense, not with the burgeoning quality of attractions in downtown Fayetteville and the potential for economic investment.

“I was absolutely all in on getting the people to understand we had to build it where it made eco-

nomic sense, where it was walkable and where additional development would happen around it,” Huff said. “I think that there’s going to be $70 or $80 or $90 million worth of private investment that will be built within a block of this stadium that will make a huge difference to our downtown.”

There are still plenty of steps before baseball is back in Fayetteville. But the city and the Astros are on the same page, inter-

Q: Coach Brooks is also a member of Duke’s Hall of Fame class of 2016. What does it mean to be able to get inducted alongside him?

Good question. I knew I was going to get asked that. I’m still very much involved in golf.

I couldn’t get away. I really thought after I retired, ‘I want to do something so different,’ but I know that returning to golf was probably the right way to go. I do enjoy teaching now. I teach the kids who are not so serious, but they want to have fun. They have other things in life. So that’s one of the group of people I teach, and then, at the other end, I also coach the girls’ national team.

They’re more serious. I can really bring in my experience as a player to help them. I also do some golf TV program hosting.

So those are the things that keep me very busy.

Do you miss the competition of the tour?

Not really because it was — I know — it’s so tough. I miss playing the really good course conditions that the tour offers.

But especially these days, I see the girls so strong. I don’t think I can compete. It’s better for me sitting watching them.

est is high and the city is ripe for a return of the national pastime.

Once it’s back, prosperity will come.

Similar investments into the downtowns of Greensboro and Durham, both featuring minor-league baseball teams, have resulted in blossoming centers for those North Carolina cities.

Fayetteville is an equal when it comes to quality and poised to thrive with a similar economic boost.

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Predicting the Chase

Prior to the start of the Chase, R. Cory Smith looks at the top storylines to watch, Chase spoilers and championship predictions.

Sunday marks the official start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Three years after the start of the elimination-style format, NASCAR’s playoffs have taken on a completely different life with the tension ratcheting up every weekend.

Chicagoland is the first race, but the ultimate target is making it to Homestead-Miami with championship hopes in

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tact. Only four drivers will have a shot by that point, with the highest finisher being crowned the champion.

Ten races away from that point, I tried to come up with a perfect bracket for the Chase. While I’m sure it will be completely busted by Homestead, throwing caution to the wind is fun. Hours away from the playoffs kicking off, here’s a look at the top storylines to watch, Chase spoilers and championship predictions.

CHICAGOLAND/ NEW HAMPSHIRE/ DOVER

18 Kyle Busch

11 Denny Hamlin

19 Carl Edwards

20 Matt Kenseth

22 Joey Logano

14 Tony Stewart

34 Chris Buescher

3 Austin Dillon

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4 Kevin Harvick

78 Martin Truex Jr.

48 Jimmie Johnson

42 Kyle Larson

41 Kurt Busch

24 Chase Elliott

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18 Kyle Busch

11 Denny Hamlin

19 Carl Edwards

20 Matt Kenseth

41 Kurt Busch

42 Kyle Larson

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4 Kevin Harvick

78 Martin Truex Jr.

22 Joey Logano

48 Jimmie Johnson

24 Chase Elliott

18 Kyle Busch

11 Denny Hamlin

19 Carl Edwards

22 Joey Logano

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4 Kevin Harvick

78 Martin Truex Jr.

20 Matt Kenseth

Brad Keselowski

Jamie McMurray

CHARLOTTE / KANSAS / TALLADEGA

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MARTINSVILLE / TEXAS / PHOENIX

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HOMESTEAD - MIAMI

18 Kyle Busch

4 Kevin Harvick

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22 Joey Logano

Brad Keselowski

NASCAR sprint series champion

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storylines to follow

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Chaos in Kansas, revisited

Will the single-car team shine again?

Smoke’s last ride

Young guns making waves

What started in Kansas between Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano boiled over into Martinsville, ultimately eliminating both from contention. After being taken out in Kansas by Logano, Kenseth responded by slamming the championship favorite into the wall at Martinsville. Both happened to be in the lead on each occasion. After a recent scuffle with Logano’s teammate Brad Keselowski at Richmond, the bad blood between Kenseth and Team Penske will be fun to watch in the Chase.

Martin Truex Jr. has never experienced the type of success he’s having with Furniture Row Racing, a single-car team out of Denver. After making the Championship Four at Homestead-Miami last year, he’s on track to do so again in 2016. Carrying two wins into the Chase — including a dominant performance at Charlotte — Truex is rewriting history for FRR.

It’s been a wild season for Tony Stewart, to say the least. Despite missing the first eight races of the season due to a back injury, Stewart shocked the NASCAR world with a win at Sonoma. He then racked up five top-five finishes and seven top 10s to make the Chase. While his last few seasons have been tumultuous on and off the track, Stewart is driving like he has nothing else to lose. Going off past results — 2011 being a great example — Smoke could very well be in the thick of the championship mix late in the Chase.

When Tony Stewart won his first Sprint Cup championship, Chase Elliott was 6 years old. Now, Elliott joins Chris Buescher as the first pair of rookies to make the Chase in the same year. The only previous driver to accomplish the feat as a rookie was Denny Hamlin. Along with the rookies, Kyle Larson, at the ripe old age of 24, made his first Chase after winning at Michigan. The young guns are slowly pushing the veterans in NASCAR, and this season is further proof that the next wave is extremely talented.

homestead horoscope

Chase spoilers Kyle Larson For two straight years, NASCAR fans watched in awe of what Kyle Larson could do behind the wheel. He challenged some of the best drivers on a constant basis as a rookie, but didn’t make the Chase. The only question was: When would his first win come? That question was answered at Michigan, where Larson dominated on the final restart to clinch a Chase berth. One of the most aggressive drivers and willing to sacrifice anything for a win, another checkered flag could propel him to Homestead.

Austin Dillon Coming into 2016, Dillon looked like a solid driver who would never live up to the hype of driving the No. 3 car.

This season changed all that. Dillon amassed more top-five finishes (four) and top 10s (10) than he had in his entire career. Always seemingly a step behind Larson, who won the 2014 Rookie of the Year over Dillon, the N.C. native can separate himself this fall. Expect a strong showing from the lone Richard Childress Racing driver with the entire team’s focus on his performance.

Chase Elliott Despite a huge amount of hype prior to his first NASCAR season, Chase Elliott lived up to every bit of it by making the Chase. How he got there, however, wasn’t exactly ideal. Elliott looked like a lock early, finishing inside the top 10 in 11 of the first 15 races. Then the secondhalf struggles saw Elliott finish outside the top 20 five times in the final 11 races. Which Elliott will we see in the Chase? If it’s first-half Chase, NASCAR might rename the whole postseason after him.

Jimmie Johnson It’s weird calling Johnson a Chase spoiler, but the sixtime champion has been far from his superior self. His two wins, seven top fives, 10 top 10s and 266 laps led are all career lows. He hasn’t finished better than 10th in the new Chase format since its inception three years ago. Even with all this negativity, Johnson is still capable of pulling off wins at tracks like Charlotte, Martinsville or Dover in the Chase to break into the Championship Four. Let’s not forget who this is we’re talking about here. Johnson is one title away from a record-tying seventh, and he’s still capable of getting there this season.

Brad Keselowski The Blue Deuce has been on fire all season, racking up four wins — two of which came at tracks in the Chase. Keselowski has also finished inside the top three in six of the last 10 races. With 10 races remaining, Kes already has one less win and top five from his 2012 championship season. Part of a Ford fleet that will be introducing Stewart-Haas Racing next season, look for Keselowski to hoist the Sprint Cup trophy and prove Team Penske is still the top of the Ford stable.

Joey Logano Had it not been for the aforementioned annihilation of Logano at Martinsville by Kenseth last year, he may have won the championship. Logano won three races in the Chase last year, but hasn’t quite shown that dominant form this season. The No. 22 team has one win and 10 top fives, while also finishing outside the top 20 five times. Sliced Bread will get the job done again in the Chase, but will finish second in the Team Penske garage.

Kyle Busch Last year, Kyle Busch had one of the best rebound stories in sports history. This time around, Rowdy isn’t sneaking up on anyone with 1,234 laps led and four wins — leading or tied in both categories. Busch could very well be at the top of this list, but his last four races prove he’s inconsistent this season. Expect Busch to suddenly flip the switch once the Chase starts, but he’ll come up just short in the finale.

Kevin Harvick Only two drivers — Busch and Truex — have more laps led than Harvick’s 1,211 this season. Somehow, he only has two wins and four top-two finishes to show for it on the year. Here’s the thing though: Harvick has always survived in this format to finish inside the top four.

He’ll do exactly that again this year, likely clinching his seventh win in the last nine attempts at Phoenix before the finale. However, his consistency won’t win him a title if he can’t win in Homestead.

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Five things to watch: 49ers vs. Panthers

By R. Cory Smith North State Journal t’s only Week 2, but the Panthers already have as many Ilosses in the regular season as

they did during the entire 2015 season. Heading home on Sunday is the perfect place to get right, especially considering Carolina won all eight games last season in Charlotte.

Plenty of positives and negatives came out of the season opener in Denver. Kelvin Benjamin looked great, but the running game struggled. Cam Newton thrived in the first half, but was rocked in the helmet one too many times — without penalty on most occasions.

There’s a lot to unpack before the Panthers take on the 49ers in a game they should win, as they are nearly two-touchdown favorites. Before the game kicks off Sunday at 1 p.m. on FOX, here are five things to watch for the Week 2 showdown.

Protecting Cam Newton was sacked three times and was struck by five separate helmet-to-helmet hits. San Francisco’s front seven is one of the team’s biggest strengths, with NaVorro Bowman and Arik Armstead leading the way.

Rather than sulking on the head shots, Newton is focused on Sunday.

“My job is to win football games. My job is not to lobby for my health,” Newton said Wednesday. “I feel as if there’s times I’ve been taking hits, they haven’t been called. But that’s understandable. And sometimes I’ve been hit and they’ve been called. So I can’t just point the finger and say, ‘I haven’t gotten calls,’ because I have.”

UNC from page B1 “inaction and indifference” from campus police investigators and a “blatant disregard for the new sexual assault policy” of the university’s Title IX office, Robinson decided to press charges on her own.

Under North Carolina law, self-sworn warrants can only be issued for misdemeanors. Artis could face up to 18 months in jail if found guilty of the two charges.

The case will likely come down to a question of consent.

In the arrest warrant, Artis is charged with having sex with Robinson “by force and against the will of the other person” when he “should have reasonably known that the other person was mentally incapacitated and physically helpless.”

Robinson admits to have been drinking on the night of the incident.

Branch said while her client is intent on having her alleged attacker “held accountable for his

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (left) greets head coach Ron Rivera prior to the game against the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver on Sept. 8.

The Broncos defeated the Panthers 2120.

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Don’t expect as much pressure to be applied to Newton as Denver’s ridiculously good defense, but there will still be adversity for the offensive line. Protect Newton, and this offense can get rolling against the Niners’ secondary.

Benjamin’s scoring touch Kelvin Benjamin picked up exactly where he left off his rookie season. Even against the best defense in the NFL, Benjamin racked up six receptions for 91 yards and a touchdown.

The Niners defense limited the Rams to 120 passing yards along with two sacks and two interceptions. Then again, it’s tough to tell if San Fran’s defense is that good or if L.A. is that bad.

From the look of it, we’ll go with the latter.

actions,” her other motivation is calling attention to problems and bring about substantive change to UNC’s Public Safety and Title IX departments.

It is not known when or if either Fedora or anyone else in the athletic department was made aware of the incident before Robinson went public on Tuesday.

“We have not gone to anyone in the athletic department to notify them,” Branch said. “We depended on the university to actually take appropriate steps to notify those individuals that needed to be informed. We cooperated thoroughly with the Department of Public Safety and did not go outside the bounds of communication. We provided the information that we were asked to provide and didn’t disseminate further than the reach we were asked to.”

Robinson alleged Artis received preferential treatment because of his position as a scholarship athlete, citing recorded interviews between Artis and UNC

Benjamin still has some work to do as he only caught half of his 12 targets against the Broncos. But with 10 days in between games, look for Benjamin’s chemistry with Newton to shine again in his first game in Bank of America Stadium since January 2015.

Controlling Carlos Carlos Hyde really likes season openers. In his first three seasons, Hyde has rushed for a combined 306 total yards and four touchdowns. In the other 19 games, he’s compiled 585 total rushing yards and five scores.

Now the Panthers are charged with continuing that trend for the former Ohio State back.

Unlike years past, the focus likely won’t go away from Hyde.

Chip Kelly establishes the run-

ning game to set the tone for his fast-paced offense. After getting ravaged by C.J. Anderson (139 total yards, two TDs) and a bulldozing 28-yard score by Andy Janovich, Carolina’s run defense looked porous in Denver.

Sunday afternoon will be another staunch test for the Panthers rush defense. And with Kelly looking to make a statement, controlling Carlos could go a long way in slowing down the Niners.

Can the ground game get going?

While Denver ran wild, Carolina’s ground game struggled.

Cam rushed for 54 yards and a touchdown while Jonathan Stewart had 64 yards on the ground. It was yet another game where the Panthers totaled more

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Department of Safety investigators.

The North State Journal issued a public records request for these recordings but as of printing, copies of those recordings had not been made available to the public.

“Rather than accusing him of anything, the investigators spoke to him with a tone of camaraderie,” Robinson said. “They provided reassurances to him when he became upset. … They told him

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Attorney Denise W. Branch holds up a photograph of UNCChapel Hill sophomore Delaney Robinson from the night of her alleged sexual assault.

‘don’t sweat it, just keep on living your life and playing football.’”

Artis, a 21-year-old native of Marietta, Ga., has seen action in 27 games during his career with the Tar Heels. He played sparingly UNC’s first two games this season, making one tackle while playing mostly on special teams.

Team spokesman Kevin Best said Artis’ suspension is consistent with a university policy that mandates athletes immediately

than 100 rushing yards, but it certainly didn’t look impressive.

The 49ers were able to bottle up Todd Gurley last week, forcing the 2015 Rookie of the Year to finish with 42 total yards. It was an impressive showing against the N.C. product, who averaged 4.8 yards per carry last season compared to just 2.8 against the Niners.

Then again, the game plan for San Fran appeared to be tempting Case Keenum to drop back.

Asking Newton to do that is not exactly the same. With plenty of weapons in the pass game and concern over Newton’s rushing ability, the ground game will be much more efficient Sunday.

No place like home Charlotte has been the ultimate home-field advantage for the Panthers dating back to 2014.

The last home loss for Carolina came on Nov. 16, 2014, to the Atlanta Falcons. Since that point, the Panthers have rattled off 13 straight home victories, including three playoff triumphs.

“The mentality at home is totally different,” linebacker Thomas Davis said. “We understand that this is our turf, this our home, and we don’t allow anybody to come in and just take over our territory.

“Our fans do an amazing job when we’re home getting behind us and giving us energy every week. It’s the reason we’ve been so successful.”

Sunday’s game is yet another sellout, marking the 140th straight time. What makes this year different? It’s been 12 years since the Panthers have enjoyed a season opener as NFC Champions. And with a rebuilding team on the other side, 14 in a row looks likely.

be suspended indefinitely when charged with a misdemeanor crime. Best said the suspension can only be lifted after consultation with athletic director Bubba Cunningham, Fedora and university officials.

Fedora was noncommittal when asked how he thought this latest controversy might affect the public perception of his his program.

“I don’t know that our image has taken a hit,” Fedora said after practice on Wednesday. “I mean that’s up to you, for you to decide if you feel that way.”

Other than an increase in media attention prior to Saturday’s game against James Madison, Artis’ teammate T.J. Logan said the Tar Heels have been going about their business as usual.

“We know what’s going on. We know what’s happening,” the senior running back said. “There’s not really much we can do about that because it’s really the law handling that.”

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Week 2

Fantasy Football Start/Sit Each week we’ll provide two start and two sit options from each position for the upcoming week in fantasy. To be clear: if you own Aaron Rodgers or Antonio Brown, you should start them. These recommendations should never supersede the obvious.

Quarterback

START

SIT

Eli Manning | Giants (vs. Saints)

Andy Dalton | Bengals (at Steelers)

You know what? This actually is a spot where you could bench Aaron Rodgers.

Manning has tons of weapons and the Saints are once again terrible on defense.

Last year the Giants lost to New Orleans 52-49. Gobs of points available here.

Kirk Cousins | Redskins (vs. Cowboys)

Dalton was winging the ball to A.J. Green like crazy against the Jets, who have a good defense. But the Steelers are a better team and this will be a rock fight. Don’t expect tons of points.

Russell Wilson | Seahawks (at Rams)

People will be scared off because of Cousins’ horrid Monday performance against the Steelers. But there are a lot of weapons on this Redskins offense and the Cowboys defense is substantially worse than what Pittsburgh brought.

Wilson had his ankle stepped on by verylarge human Ndamukong Suh during Week 1 and now faces an angry defensive line wanting retribution for being run over by the 49ers. He won’t get you rushing yards this week and that’s a big negative.

running back

START

SIT

Rashad Jennings | Giants (vs. Saints)

Frank Gore | Colts (at Broncos)

The Giants, with an improved defense this year, could get up big against the Saints and try to run the ball in the second half. If that’s the case, Jennings is a big beneficiary and he’s a nice start regardless.

T.J. Yeldon | Jaguars (at Chargers)

Denver still has a scary defense and it’s entirely possible the Colts are forced into throwing the ball a bunch during Week 2. Gore had a pedestrian 14 carries last week. No reason to think he’ll be better against this defense.

Jeremy Hill | Bengals (at Steelers)

The Jags didn’t have Chris Ivory in Week 1 and probably won’t have him in Week 2. If Jacksonville is winning, they’ll feed Yeldon. And if they’re losing, he could see tons of catches a la our “start ’em” Spencer Ware in Week 1.

Hill scored a touchdown in Week 1, but he was hardly a dominant runner against the Jets. He got just nine carries for 31 yards, so the fantasy point total is a little misleading.

Pittsburgh will be a tough challenge.

wide receiver

START

SIT

Dez Bryant | Cowboys (at Redksins)

Tyler Lockett | Seahawks (at Rams)

This is cheating a little because Dez is a first- or second-round pick for almost every team. But after making just a single catch, people will consider sitting him this week. Don’t do that.

Love Lockett this season, but right now he’s just too risky. His speed requires a healthy Russell Wilson with plenty of time to throw and neither of those things are the case right now.

T.Y. Hilton | Colts (at Broncos)

Golden Tate | Lions (vs. Titans)

It’s hard to sit a guy as good as Hilton, but this is a nightmare matchup for him. It wouldn’t be surprising at all to see Chris Harris shadow him all night given their size/speed similarities.

The Titans gave up a bunch of yards to Stephon Diggs with Shaun Hill under center. It’s entirely possible Matthew Stafford lights it up at home in Week 2 and this guy will be the beneficiary.

START

SIT Jared Cook | Packers (at Vikings)

Owners got burned last week with a bad showing by Fleener, but you drafted him early, so it’s best to keep trotting him out there in a game that could be a complete shootout. He should see a bounceback this week.

People drafted Cook hoping he would be a stud in Green Bay, but Aaron Rodgers barely looked his way most of Week 1. He’s also listed as the No. 2 tight end on the depth chart, which is kind of bad news. Drop him if needed.

DST

START Ravens (at Browns) Baltimore just posted its best yardage game in five years after holding the Bills to 160 total yards in Week 1. Now they get an offense starting a new QB after Robert Griffin III went down for a while.

NFL LINES Giants (-4.5) vs. Saints Over/Under 53 THE PICK: Take the over if you can. New Orleans isn’t interested in stopping anyone and the Giants aren’t facing a rookie quarterback this week. We’ll take the points and New Orleans, too.

Panthers (-13.5) vs. 49ers Over/Under 45.5 THE PICK: Lot of points being given from an 0-1 team to a 1-0 team. Carolina looked great in a loss and the 49ers were good in Week 1 last year before cratering. Go Panthers.

Redskins (-2.5) vs. Cowboys Over/Under 45.0 THE PICK: Washington should bounce back after a horrible Monday night and faces a much easier defense. Kirk Cousins won’t be throwing from third-and-long every time out this week. Take the Skins.

Patriots (-6.5) vs. Dolphins Over/Under 41.5 THE PICK: Cruel start to the year for Miami.

They can keep things close here, however, even if Rob Gronkowski plays.

Steelers (-3.5) vs. Bengals Over/Under 48.5 THE PICK: Cincy can’t stuff anyone without Vontaze Burfict, and DeAngelo Williams is plowing through defenses and looking fresh while spelling Le’Veon Bell.

Browns (+7.0) vs. Ravens Over/Under 42.5 THE PICK: Just gonna dip back in this stinky well and say that Cleveland, with Josh McCown, will be better on offense than it was with Robert Griffin III under center.

Lions (-5.5) vs. Titans Over/Under 47.5 THE PICK: Detroit looked exceptional during Week 1 and Tennessee caved late against the Vikings. Go home team.

Texans (-2.5) vs. Chiefs Over/Under 43.5 THE PICK: Houston’s offense has some serious juice to it and San Diego just averaged 4.8 yards per carry against Kansas City. Lamar Miller could have a day.

Rams (+3.5) vs. Seahawks Over/Under 38.5 THE PICK: See that total? This is going to be a rock fight. Rams really play Seattle well.

Cardinals (-6.5) vs. Buccaneers Over/Under 50 THE PICK: Potential shootout here between a pair of impressive offenses. Cards will be amped after bad SNF loss.

Chargers (-3.0) vs. Jaguars Over/Under 47.0 THE PICK: This line would be higher if San Diego hadn’t totally collapsed against the Chiefs in Week 1.

Raiders (-4.5) vs. Falcons Over/Under 49.5

tight end

Coby Fleener | Saints (at Giants)

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Fantasy FootbalL picks

SIT Chiefs (at Texans) Houston showed a lot of life on offense against Chicago and is clearly willing to feed Lamar Miller. Will Fuller’s speed will be a problem for defenses and DeAndre Hopkins can not be stopped.

No Justin Houston is a problem.

THE PICK: Atlanta is getting faded a little too much here after losing at home to a good Bucs team and Jack Del Rio laying it all on the table for a two-point conversion.

Broncos (-6.0) vs. Colts Over/Under 46.0 THE PICK: Indy is susceptible to teams with a physical defense and a strong running game.

Uh oh.

Vikings (+2.5) vs. Packers Over/Under 43.5 THE PICK: Home dog in primetime against a divisional rival? Aaron Rodgers has dominated the Vikings over his career and Sam Bradford is about to make the first start with Minnesota, so go Packers.

Bears (-3.0) vs. Eagles Over/Under 43.

THE PICK: Major welcome-to-the-NFL moment for rookie quarterback Carson Wentz, on the road against a John Fox defense on Monday night.

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North State Journal for Sunday, September 18, 2016

duke football

Duke’s best not good enough for Coach Cut

By Shawn Krest North State Journal here’s an internet meme that pokes fun at those T inspirational posters that

are found on workplace and classroom walls. It shows an athlete suffering through the agony of defeat and the caption reads: “FAILURE: When your best isn’t good enough.”

That appears to be the message of the coaching staff to Duke’s football team early in the 2016 season.

After the Blue Devils were upset at home by Wake Forest in the second week of the season, head coach David Cutcliffe said, “They played hard. They gave it their all.

But we didn’t play well.”

After watching the film, Cutcliffe doubled down. “I mentioned after the game that our team played really hard, and they did,” he said. “I mentioned that it was really important to them, and it is. You cannot play harder. They gave their best.”

“But what I told them,” Cutcliffe continued. “The way I view that is: Sometimes your best isn’t your best.”

In other words, the players were at their best, given the way they’ve been practicing.

“You have to go find your best on the practice field,” Cutcliffe said. “Your best means consistently doing your best. The best means pushing yourself to the next step and the next level. And that’s only going to happen with work. Right now, we are a work in progress.”

Coming off the team’s first bowl win in a generation, the Blue Devils appear to be in danger of

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Wake Forest’s Brad Watson, left, and Duke’s Anthony Nash, right, battle for a ball in the end zone during a football game at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, N.C. on Sept. 10. Wake Forest beat Duke 24-14.

taking a big step back this season.

It’s a result that Cutcliffe spent the offseason trying to avoid. He emphasized fitness and weight training over the summer, getting his players to bulk up for what he termed, “The Year of the Beast.”

The beasts have been unusually tame on the practice field, however, and the frustration is beginning to show.

In the first practice after the Wake loss, Cutcliffe wasn’t pleased with the effort on the field. “I would have liked to see us hungrier, to be honest with

you,” he said. “It was hot, which is good. It was a grind, which is good.”

Duke is a young team, but Cutcliffe isn’t willing to write off the practice problem to youth.

Instead, the change is in the culture, which now boasts a history of winning. Instead of a group of players building up from a decade of losing seasons this team has no player that’s ever played a college season without going bowling.

“I think there’s some of that [youth], but I also think there’s been a lot of success here,” he

said. “I think things that are really hard can be great for you.

When we go back to what we first started with and how we started, it was all hard. I’m not sure that we have anyone around here that’s felt ‘hard’ yet. There has been a whole lot of success, which is great. We know it’s more difficult to handle success than it is adversity.”

The first month of the season isn’t complete yet, but Cutcliffe is already undergoing some soul searching as he looks to turn around what he’s seeing.

“We’ve never practiced poorly,” he said. “We’ve been inconsistent.

When they’re giving what they think is their best, sometimes that’s confusing to an athlete. To be honest with you, I’ve had to look in the mirror, because I don’t think my best is my best, and I mean that sincerely. All of this is on me, and I’m not being gracious to the players. I know what my best is and what a good football team should look like and prepare like. My best is going to get better, and that’s the mentality I have. I hope everyone in the program will take on the same viewpoint.”

If they don’t, they won’t be seeing the field anytime soon, and they may not be long for the team.

“I believe that we can be minimally two deep on defense, with good players who have earned the time to play,” Cutcliffe said. “The way I view our backups—and we have some of this on offense too — if I am a two, I’m basically willing to do anything to become a one.

That’s what we need right now is competition on this team, from within. I can’t create that that. I can’t declare that. That’s just individuals being really hungry go win the job. Unfortunately, people want to talk that, sometimes, and you don’t see it on tape. I met with a couple of them this week and showed them some stuff on tape. If you’re going to be a part of this, you’re going to do this. This is how it’s going to be.”

“Everybody wants to talk,” Cutcliffe concluded. “I want to see. I watch them every single day.”

He’s seeing a team that’s at its best.

It’s not enough.

H.B. 2

ncsu football

ACC moves all neutralsite championships from NC due to H.B. 2

Stephen Louis becoming a household name for NC State fans

By R. Cory Smith North State Journal After the NCAA announced earlier this week it would move all tournament games from the state of North Carolina, the ACC is following suit.

The ACC Council of Presidents released the following a statement on Wednesday afternoon that it would move all neutral site championships from N.C. due to House Bill 2: “As members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the ACC Council of Presidents reaffirmed our collective commitment to uphold the values of equality, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination. Every one of our 15 universities is strongly committed to these values and therefore, we will continue to host ACC Championships at campus sites. We believe North Carolina House Bill 2 is inconsistent with these values, and as a result, we will relocate all neutral site championships for the 2016-17 academic year. All locations will be announced in the future from the conference office.”

ACC commissioner John Swofford also weighed in on the announcement.

“The ACC Council of Presidents made it clear that the core values of this league are of the utmost importance, and the opposition to any form of discrimination is paramount,” Swofford said. “Today’s decision is one of principle, and while this decision is the right one, we recognize there will be individuals and communities that are supportive of our values as well as our championship sites that will be negatively affected.

“Hopefully, there will be opportunities beyond 2016-17 for North Carolina neutral sites to be awarded championships.”

UNC president Margaret Spellings told media Wednesday that she regrets the ACC’s decision.

“We appreciate that the ACC shares our commitment to creating an inclusive atmosphere for all, but we regret that

today’s decision will penalize affected host communities and fans throughout the state.

Intercollegiate sports and the ACC are integral parts of North Carolina’s economy and way of life,” she said in an emailed statement. “As we have said many times, UNC institutions do not discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, and we are fully committed to being open and welcoming to individuals of all backgrounds. We remain caught in the middle of this issue and welcome a speedy resolution by the court.”

The sports affected by the decision are women’s soccer [WakeMed Soccer Park], football [Bank of America Stadium], men’s and women’s swimming and diving [Greensboro Aquatics Center], women’s basketball [Greensboro Coliseum], men’s and women’s tennis [Cary Tennis Park], women’s golf [Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro], men’s golf [Old North State Club, New London] and baseball [Durham Bulls Athletic Park].

With the ACC leaving town, several organizations including the Carolina Panthers and Durham Bulls released statements about the decision.

One of the biggest losers in the fallout from the NCAA and ACC is the Town of Cary. Along with the estimated $2,535,000 lost in direct visitor spending from six total events between the two organizations, the Town of Cary has also planned on renovations to keep those championships in N.C. Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht weighed in on the ACC and NCAA’s decision.

“Cary shares the NCAA’s and ACC’s values of inclusiveness, and we have an impeccable record of providing events that welcome everyone,” Weinbrecht said. “Unfortunately, because of H.B. 2, the perception nationwide and globally is that North Carolina is no longer a progressive state but instead is moving backwards. Many label our state as discriminatory, which is embarrassing.”

By R. Cory Smith North State Journal RALEIGH — One year ago, Stephen Louis watched NC State pull off a third straight win to start the season at Old Dominion. Two shoulder injuries — one to each shoulder — caused Louis to watch on as he recovered, redshirting an entire season.

Rehabbing to get back on the field was nothing compared to having to sit on the sidelines as a spectator.

“The most difficult part was probably watching football,” Louis said. “Since I started playing football when I was seven, I never actually had to just watch football without being able to play. So sitting out a whole season was pretty tough for me.

“But I had to support my team, that’s what kept me up the whole time.”

Louis’ hard work has paid off already this season. Despite the 33-30 loss in Greenville, Louis put together the best game of his career against ECU, finishing with four receptions for 146 yards and a touchdown.

Though he’s never shown that performance on the field, it was far from a surprise for his teammates.

“I see that all the time,” fellow receiver Bra’Lon Cherry said. “It pretty much was nothing new, just actually in a game. But that’s just Steph. … He’s a playmaker just like the rest of us.”

A year after going down with an injury of his own, Louis’ opportunity this season comes from another injury. Jumichael Ramos will miss the entire season for a knee injury, propelling Louis to the No. 2 spot alongside Cherry.

Louis earned high marks from coach Dave Doeren during the offseason, but didn’t record a catch in the season opener. Wide receivers coach George McDonald said he finally saw Louis’ hard work pay off against ECU. “That was just a product of him having a great training camp,” McDonald said. “He’s had a whole year of rehabilitation from his injuries and got stronger. He’s been putting work in and hopefully he can continue to build on it.”

Strength and conditioning coach Dantonio Burnette, better known as “Thunder,” worked with

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North Carolina State Wolfpack wide receiver Stephen Louis (12) leaps for a catch against East Carolina Pirates defensive back DaShaun Amos (39) before returning it for a touchdown in the second quarter of the college football game at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville on Sept. 10.

Louis to get him back on the field following the injuries. Now Louis has improved since his quiet freshman year — both physically and mentally.

“Coach Thunder and his staff did a great job of building up his body,” McDonald said. “But him getting a chance to step back has really developed his mind and helped him play the mental game a lot better.”

The exclamation point for Louis’ breakout game was an 80-yard touchdown pass from Ryan Finley on the first play of NC State’s drive.

Louis caught the pass at midfield, shed what appeared to be a sure tackle and sprinted toward the end zone.

Recording the second touchdown of his collegiate career was a product of putting in offseason work with Finley. While the transfer quarterback from Boise State has only been with the team for mere months, Louis said the work began immediately.

“Finley came in and started building chemistry with us right away,” Louis said. “During the summer we were catching balls with him and Jaylen [Samuels] almost every other day, on weekends. We went paintballing a lot

and did a lot of offensive bonding stuff this summer. So it was really easy for him to come in and be a part of us.”

Since he became the starter, Finley hasn’t been known for his down-the-field passing game. But with Louis, it looked natural. Finley made a pass to Louis 30 yards down the field look like an extended handoff.

The 80-yard touchdown alone was more yards than his entire career (72) before the start of the season. Though his family couldn’t make the trip up to Greenville for Louis’ breakout, they were watching at home. Knowing that he made them proud meant more after the game than his performance.

“It was a great moment, and it was even better because my whole family got to watch the game,” Louis said. “I knew they were watching, so that made me even more excited. … They were really proud of me.”

The best part of the touchdown?

“They pronounced my name right,” Louis said with a smile.

If he continues to post numbers like he has to start the year, Louis’ name won’t be mispronounced much longer.

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frolic

SUNDAY

9.18.16

Greensboro rejoiced in America’s cultural roots as more than 300 musicians, dancers, and craftspeople descended on the area for seventeen days of near non-stop festivities.

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the good life IN A NORTH STATE OF MIND

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MADELINE GRAY | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Ryan Butler, who created Green Button Farm, stands among the pigs he raises in Bahama on September 7. In February Butler, along with barbecue pitmaster Wyatt Dickson and chef Ben Adams, opened Picnic restaurant which focuses on whole hog barbecue.

A barbecue revival is coming to North Carolina

By Alison Miller for the North State Journal

W

earing knee-high rubber boots, barbecue man Wyatt Dickson stands alongside farmer Ryan Butler in a pasture filled with hogs, some big, some small, some rooting for food from the earth, others wallowing in a mud hole.

“This here is pigvana,” says Butler with a smile.

Along with Chef Ben Adams, Dickson and Butler are partners of the newly opened Picnic restaurant in Durham, where Dickson’s whole-hog pork — cooked over hardwood coals for 18 to 24 hours — pairs with Adams’ deftly fried chicken and sides. Ryan Butler and his wife, Alicia, own Green Button Farm, Picnic’s pig supplier.

Some of the pastures here are planted with kale and See GATHER, page C4

Inside

THE SEED

September is wine month in North Carolina.

We celebrated the occasion with a visit to Grape Day at the State Farmers Market and a toast to our state’s thriving wine industry.

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Ryan Butler, who created Green Button Farm, holds spent brewer’s grain from Ponysaurus Brewing that he feeds to the pigs he raises.

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history marked

4 ways to avoid falling off the fitness wagon

September 19, 1918

By Alton Skinner For the North State Journal hen it feels like it is cold, dark and damp W outside and you’re cuddled up

with a cup of hot chocolate, the last thing on your mind is gearing up for the gym.

Colder weather and a homebody mindset make it a lot more difficult to stay active.

But studies show that when you stop working out — even for three to eight weeks — you could be decreasing your cardiopulmonary fitness by 20 percent.

These tips will keep you moving this fall.

Use the cold to burn more calories Studies suggest that when exercising in the cold, your body works harder to stay warm, which can help boost metabolism. Once properly bundled and hydrated, you may find you actually prefer working out in the cold.

Get creative at home There are hundreds of online fitness programs and apps that suggest workouts easy to accomplish at home.

The contagion known as the “Spanish Flu” appeared in the port city of Wilmington. Within a week the hard-struck city reported some 400 cases of the illness. It was a sign of the devastation yet to be wrought by the pandemic.

September 20, 1920

Grocer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Ralph Ketner was born in Cabarrus County. After college in Indiana and service in World War II, Ketner and two partners opened their first Food Town (renamed Food Lion 1983) store in Salisbury in 1957.

Find healthy recipes for favorite foods The eating season is almost upon us. There are about six weeks before Halloween candy, Holiday cookies, office parties, college bowl and Super Bowl parties are everywhere. Find healthier alternatives and keep heading to the gym and avoid the 5-11 pounds many people gain during this period.

Staying active is important for your body as well as your mental health. Regular exercise promotes a healthier lifestyle and helps fight depression and anxiety. Some of us are more likely to feel the blues throughout the changing seasons, so it is important to avoid falling off the fitness wagon during the fall.

the word Outdoor fall decorating is here and one of the showiest season openers is the chrysanthemum. This plant goes to the head of the class as a fall garden favorite year after year because it is bright and versatile, flourishes in cooler weather, and makes a perfect container plant. Mums come in many different varieties which means you can choose your bloom time, flower shape, and color.

You can mix and match them with other fall plants on your porch or make that display really pop by placing a bright yellow mum inside of a hollowed out white pumpkin.

September 23, 1946

The Charlotte Center opened to offer evening classes to recent World War II veterans. Established as part of the post-World War II GI Bill, the Charlotte Center got its start in the basement of Central High School. It was the largest of a network of 14 temporary institutions that officials created across the state to help curb the overcrowding that was anticipated at traditional colleges and universities. The state slated the center to close in 1949 as the demand generated by returned soldiers began to dissipate. In 1958, the college was accepted into the North Carolina Community College System, Information courtesy of N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Find a workout buddy Exercise is good, exercising and catching up with your friend at the same time is even better. You are less likely to cancel workouts, and you can encourage each other to show up or to work out harder.

just a pinch

turn the page Crisp mornings are just around the corner—you can feel it in the air, so we reached out to our friends in Sylva at City Lights Bookstore for a few children’s book suggestions for fall. Crack open a book and enjoy reading with a nice cup of pumpkin spice anything!

“The Quiet Book”

by Deborah Underwood released September 6, 2016 ages 4-7 years

“They All Saw A Cat”

by Brendan Wenzel

released August 30, 2016

y’ought to go Sunny Side Oyster Bar | Williamston

By Laura Ashley Lamm North State Journal Oysters have long-remained a staple of the South. There’s nothing quite like a bowl of oysters, a crisp beer and a warm fire as the seasons change to fall and winter. It’s a time for good food, good friends and good ‘ole North Carolina traditions. And the Sunny Side Oyster Bar is one such place y’ought to know.

Back in the 1930s, the C.T. Roberson Family was working the family’s popular gas station and grocery. Duck hunters would stop by on their way to Lake Mattamuskeet to buy supplies, swap hunting stories and share the tales of eating oysters at the lake.

Oysters wouldn’t make it further than the docks, people were vying for a taste as soon as the bushels made it off the boat. So, in 1935, Roberson decided it was time to bring oysters, shrimp and the classic saltine crackers inward to Williamston. And the rest, as the cliché goes, is history.

“Today, you can come inside to eat at the bar and it will be just as it was in the 1940s and 1950s. We have the original bar in the back where the shuckers are,” said Doug Chesson, one of the four owners of the Oyster Bar today.

While the all-wood structure remains with some renovations in the 1990s, the menu has evolved to add snow crab legs imported from Canada, scallops, and the Southern side of broccoli and cheese.

There’s also the famous Sunny Side Cocktail Sauce where the recipe has long remained a secret. (Hint: There’s horseradish and pepper in the mix.)

There’s also a friendly dose

ages 2-5 years

“The Water Princess”

by Susan Verde and Georgie Badiel

released September 13, 2016 ages 5-8 years

“Panda Pants”

by Jacqueline Davies released September 13, 2016 ages 3-7 years

Voices Contributors to this section this week include: Laura Ashley Lamm Alison Miller Alton Skinner

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of Southern hospitality as sunny side knows not everyone can eat shellfish.

“We know not everyone can eat seafood. We don’t mind if people stop by one of the local restaurants in town and pick up a plate of food to bring in,” said Chesson. “There is nothing fried on site in Sunny Side. You can even bring in a tub of slaw or hushpuppies if you’d like.”

In 1992, Chesson along with Berney Stevens, Raymond Andrews, and Bill Jones, purchased the Sunnyside Oyster Bar from the Roberson Family to ensure the local hotspot they grew up knowing remained open and thriving. All four owners grew up in the area, have professional jobs by day and this “expensive hobby” as Chesson calls it, by night.

“The Sunny Side has always been one of the fruits of Williamston. It is a neat place our community has,” said Chesson.

The name Sunny Side was derived back in the 1940s from the Glenn Miller Orchestra’s rendition of “On the Sunny Side of the Street.”

“When we are open and the sun sets in the afternoon, the sun will shine through the front windows and cast the image of our neon sign against the wall,” said Chesson.

Reservations are not accepted and the wait to secure a place at the 32-person bar can be anywhere from 15-30 minutes to two hours. But, people know this already. People come in droves to sit at the bar with a cold beer or soft drink, to visit with people they know and make friends with people they don’t know, and to turn an evening of dinner out into a night at the Oyster Bar. Some of the oyster shuckers have been there for 40 plus years and know the regulars by name.

“Once we open for the night, we don’t go home until everyone is full,” said Chesson.

Sunny Side brings in as many as 100 bushels of oysters a week. For the start of the season, oysters will be brought in from Maryland and Virginia.

Once the North Carolina oyster season hits at the end of October, the oysters then become all local.

Sunny Side is the second oldest Oyster Bar on the East Coast and is registered with the National Register of Historic Places.

Now go on and find the sunny side of life when the bar opens for the season on September 21 and see if you can figure out what makes their Secret Sauce so secret.

accolades A festival to celebrate the Muscadine vine Muscadine season has arrived and beginning on Friday, Sept.

23 Kenansville is rolling out the vine-covered carpet to celebrate. North Carolina is home to the nation’s earliest grape cultivation, so naturally we want to celebrate this fact with a festival.

We’ve been crazy about this grape since 1585 when Gov. Ralph Lane wrote to Sir Walter Raleigh, “We have discovered the main to be the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven, so abounding with sweet trees that bring rich and most pleasant gummes, grapes of such greatness, yet wild, as France, Spain, nor Italy hath no greater...”

Fittingly, over 430 years later Duplin County will host the Muscadine Festival to honor

what is, according to the North Carolina Muscadine Grape Association, “nature’s healthiest grape.”

Growers turn this high fiber, vitamin-rich, wonder grape into everything from wine and juice to lotion, and they bring those products to the festival to compete in all manner of contests with prizes ranging from monetary to placement ribbons.

The Muscadine Festival runs Friday, Sept. 23 through Saturday, Sept. 24 and includes wine tastings, music from Blackwater band, Northtower, The Embers with Craig Woolard, Steve Owens & Summertime, as well as a Shag Contest.

Information for the event can be found online at: muscadineharvestfestival.com

PHOTO COURTESY OF The Duplin Times

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paw prints Dog Olympics | NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine

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eady, Set, Bark!

Those adorable and lovable four-legged companions came together to compete for gold medals, prizes and plenty of doggie treats.

The Companion Animal Wellness Club of North Carolina State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine hosted the 25th Annual Dog Olympics on September 10 as dozens of dogs and their owners competed in games to raise money for a good cause.

“It is always a good opportunity for students and the community to get together. We’re building relationships and educating the public on rescue animals and what we’re doing at the Vet School,” said Laura Keener, third year student and president of the Animal Wellness Club.

The Dog Olympics recognizes the family dog, cheers for canine athletics, celebrates the bonds between humans and animals, and raises both funds and awareness of homeless dogs.

According to Keener, the Dog Olympics raised $4,300 that will be divided equally among the 13 shelter and breed rescue groups who participated in the annual event.

“The Dog Olympics started as students and faculty with their dogs competing and doing tricks in the fields behind the Vet School. It has since grown into the community event it is today,” said Keener.

Dogs of all sizes and breeds, from Great Danes to bulldogs to boxers to Chihuahuas, participated in competition categories such as the Limbo, Musical Sit, Roll Over Rover, Frisbee Toss, Howling Contest, High Jump and Longest Tail.

Beyond competing in the organized events of the day and demonstrating feats of skill, the American Kennel Club was onsite to promote the polite dog with free Canine Good Citizenship testing to attendees. In order to receive the CGC certificate a dog must be able to complete tasks such as: greeting a stranger politely, sitting politely for petting, walking calmly through a crowd, react calmly to another dog, react calmly to distraction, and sit and stay in place—basically all of the things a dog owner would hope their pet would do when called upon in public.

The N.C. State K9 Unit even showed off their special tracking skills. These dogs went through extensive training and have

Sully, a Chiweenie, sits in his owner Marie Morgan’s arms at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Dog Olympics.

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A Sheltie named Nivy jumps over a hurdle in the American Kennel Club obstacle course with her owner Elizabeth Sandling, of Raleigh, during The NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Dog Olympics in Raleigh on Sept. 10.

joined the N.C. State Campus Police at football games this season as an extra layer of protection for the public.

The day’s activities also included a demonstration ring for the youngest canine handlers to present their pet’s skills. Other demonstrations from animal groups included Flyball with Dog Gone Fast, Helping Paws International, and a demonstration by Triumphant Tails.

The College of Veterinary Medicine opens its doors to the public throughout the year and next to the spring Open House (mark your calendars for April 1, 2017), the Dog Olympics is always one of their most popular events.

Open Houses and events like the Dog Olympics provide the school with opportunities to not only welcome the surrounding community into their home and show them a good time, it gives the school a chance to show off their remarkable facilities to prospective students.

This year 2,500 people attended this event that has grown from a fun and games demonstration to the fundraiser and public service it is today. “It’s a fun way to spend the day at the Vet School and have a great day with your dog,” added Keener.

Oliver, who was paralyzed as a puppy, sits in a wagon at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Dog Olympics.

Fun for a good cause Louie, a Goldendoodle, jumps over an obstacle with his owner Alex Byrd, of Raleigh, at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Dog Olympics.

This year marked the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine’s 25th annual Dog Olympics. A canine competition of skill, agility, and some luck — put on by the staff and students at the NCSU-CVM to honor our faithful companions.

The fun is all to benefit the following local rescue groups: Blue Ridge Boxer Rescue CARE for Animals Carolina Border Collie Rescue Chihuahua Rescue and Transport Great Dane Rescue Alliance

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gather NC Barbecue Revival | Bahama

Pigs stand in a pasture at Green Button Farm in Bahama.

Barbecue pitmaster Wyatt Dickson loads a rack into the smoker that he uses to cook whole hogs at Picnic restaurant in Durham.

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“They’re eating acorns, pumpkins, butternut squash, apples — all the fall seasonal things we like to eat, they like too. And you can change the flavor of pork in about 30 days.”

— Ryan Butler

turnips. Others, rye or millet. “They move from pasture to pasture seasonally,” Butler explains. “This not only feeds them well, but also gives the land a chance to recover.”

One grazing ground is a natural oak grove. When brisk temps usher acorns off the limbs, the pigs feast. “The pork in November and December is the best of the year,” says Butler. “They’re eating acorns, pumpkins, butternut squash, apples — all the fall seasonal things we like to eat, they like too. And you can change the flavor of pork in about 30 days.”

A couple of times a week, the pigs get a special treat in the form of spent brewer’s grain from Durham’s Ponysaurus Brewing Company. “A virtuous circle,” notes Dickson.

The farm, which recently entered conservation status via the Triangle Land Conservancy, sits on 38 acres in rural Bahama (pronounced BahHAY-ma), 12 miles north of downtown Durham. In five short weeks, the bucolic landscape will swell with wanderlusting foodies and barbecue royalty as the first-ever North Carolina Barbecue Revival kicks off here on Oct. 28.

Eastern North Carolina barbecue was born of whole hogs and hot hardwood coals. Today, although barbecue establishments proliferate across the state, few adhere to this original method. Even fewer source hogs straight from the farm. Instead, pits have come to house shoulders instead of whole hogs, and electricity and gas have replaced — or come to the aid of — real wood.

“Fifty years ago, all pig farms looked something like this,” says Dickson, extending an arm across the horizon at Green Button Farm. “As the growing practices changed, and the pigs were bred to grow faster with less feed, it dramatically affected the quality of pig, and thus the quality of the barbecue. What I have the opportunity to do is show people how much better barbecue can be.”

At age 35, Dickson is among the next generation of barbecue masters — a growing legion that includes Elliott Moss of Asheville’s Buxton Hall, John Lewis of Lewis Barbecue in Charleston, Bryan Furman of B’s Cracklin’ in Savannah, and Sam Jones, the sixth-generation pitmaster of Skylight Inn in Ayden and Sam Jones BBQ in Winterville. All will be in attendance at the Barbecue Revival, a series of events unfolding Oct. 28, 29, and 30 that range from a high-dollar private dinner to a head-to-tail butchery class.

Dickson, Jones and Moss will cook whole hogs overnight to prepare for Sunday’s family friendly pig pickin’, complete with bluegrass band, hayrides and a pie auction.

Barbecue is a passion-fueled food, and arguments will persist over sauce, pulling, chopping, the size of the hog and how long it should cook.

But one thing this new wave of barbecue diehards agree on? It’s got to be whole hog, and it’s got to be cooked over wood.

“Barbecue is sacred to the people of North Carolina,” says Dickson. “If you’re going to do this, you have an obligation to be a good steward of our state cuisine. I can’t think of a better way to do it than this.”

Top, Barbecue pitmaster Wyatt Dickson prepares a pig at Picnic restaurant in Durham. Bottom, A plate of hand-pulled pork and a variety of side dishes, including sweet potato puree, sits on the table at Picnic restaurant.

Weekend schedule of events Dates: October 28, 29, & 30 Location: Green Button Farm For details and to buy tickets, visit ncbbqrevival.com

Friday, October 28 High On The Hog 6:00-10:00 p.m.

With Chefs Justin Burdett & Ben Adams Ryan and Alicia Butler welcome guests to their home at Green Button Farm for a five-course private dinner* with champagne pairings by sommelier Inez Ribustello. Get up close and personal as you dine with the country’s best pitmasters — Wyatt Dickson, Tyson Ho, Sam Jones, Elliott Moss, John Lewis, and Bryan Furman. Chef Ben Adams of PICNIC Durham welcomes guest chef Justin Burdett from Asheville’s Local Provisions. Dishes from Hallyburton Pottery will be featured throughout the meal. Enjoy a tour of the farm, a cooking demo, and a hog calling contest. *very limited seating for this intimate dinner Limited to 30 guests | $250 per person or choose your table and pitmaster, $1,500 per 8 seats

Saturday, October 29 Go Whole Hog 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Top, Chef Ben Adams, left, prepares orders as server Alec Porter, right, of Roxboro, carries plates out to customers at Picnic retstaurant. Bottom, A kale salad sits in the kitchen at Picnic restaurant in Durham.

The Picnic restaurant sign lights up at night at its Durham location on Sept. 7.

Hog farmer Ryan Butler & Chef Steve Goff give a lesson in Hog Butchery Step into the barn at Green Button Farm for a lesson in head-to-tail butchery. While Chef Steve Goff breaks down a 200-pound heritage breed hog, Ryan Butler will regale us with tales from the farm and insights into farming sustainably.

Limited to 15 guests | $45 per person Ham Biscuits & Coffee to tide you over ’till lunchtime.

A Gracious Plenty 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Pastry Chef Phoebe Lawless of Durham’s Scratch Baking joins Pastry Chef Maddy DeBoer of Picnic Durham No pig pickin’ is complete without a pie, or two. Learn the tricks to baking swoon-worthy Southern pies from these lard-loving ladies, in Ryan and Alicia’s beautiful home kitchen overlooking Green Button Farm. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves, roll out the dough, and dig your spoon into sweet and savory pies in this hands-on class.

Limited to 15 guests | $45 per person

Southern Sides Are Served 12:00-1:30 p.m.

With “Buxton Hall BBQ’S Book of Smoke” Chef Ben Adams and “Barbecue Man” Wyatt Dickson of Picnic welcome Buxton Hall’s Elliott Moss for a vegetable-focused lunch celebrating Southern sides and Moss’s brand new cookbook. Enjoy talking with

this James Beard award nominee for “Best Chef: Southeast.” This family style lunch will be served in the pasture at Green Button Farm. $50 per person | $80 per person includes lunch and one afternoon class “Buxton Hall BBQ’s Book of Smoke” will be available for purchase & signing

Know Your ‘Cue 2:00-3:30 p.m With Barbecue Expert Robert Moss, author of “Southern Spirits” BBQ expert Robert Moss, author of “Barbecue: History of An American Institution,” sheds light on the facts and myths surrounding the time-honored tradition of a pig pickin’. Guests will gather in the main barn and sip cocktails from Moss’s newest book, “Southern Spirits.” $45 per person

“In The Trenches” with Wyatt & Friends 2:00-3:30 p.m.

With Wyatt Dickson & Friends You’ll find Picnic’s “Barbecue Man” Wyatt Dickson and visiting pitmasters in the South Pasture as they trade tall tales and prepare the hogs for Sunday’s pig pickin’. Ponysaurus and Fullsteam will be there to keep your whistles wet. $45 per person

Bourbon Tasting Class 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Bourbon Mash Bill Tasting with The Crunkleton Gary Crunkleton, owner and bartender of The Crunkleton in Chapel Hill, will be leading the charge in bourbon appreciation, education and tasting.

Starting with wheated bourbons, then moving to traditional bourbons and finishing with high rye mash bills, you will have more than enough bourbon to satiate your palate. Guests will leave with a better understanding for how and why bourbon tastes the way it does. $45 per person

Flask & Jug 5:00-6:00 p.m Put on your boots for a conversation and farm walk across acres of verdant pasture land with Green Button Farm’s Ryan Butler and the Triangle Land Conservancy. We’ll fill your flask and give you an earful about what it means to own and operate a sustainable family farm, and how local land conservancies protect our agricultural heritage in perpetuity.

Come One, Come All | Free

Oyster Roast & Progressive Farm Dinner 5:30-10:00 p.m.

As tradition has it, the oyster roast begins once the pigs are smoking! Guests begin at Green Button Farm’s pond with Locals Seafood and Saltbox Seafood for shucked oysters, Brunswick Stew and more, before heading up the pasture to a feast in the tent featuring Arrogant Swine’s Tyson Ho, Lewis Barbecue’s John Lewis, Savannah’s Bryan Furman of B’s Cracklin and many more. Once you reach the barn, you’ll discover bluegrass and s’mores by the fire.

Talent: Black Twig Cider House, Dash, Gan Shan Station, Piedmont, Videri Chocolate, Durham Distillery, Fullsteam, Ponysaurus, The Crunkleton, Txotx & Black Twig Cider House, Wine Authorities $125 per person

Sunday, October 30 BBQ Church 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

As North Carolinians, we worship at the altar of the “Barbecue Man,” and have for generations. Take your seat on the pew under the big top tent for our barbecue symposium with Rien Fertel, author of “The One True Barbecue,” and BBQ Expert Robert Moss.

Fertel and Moss will be joined by N.C. pitmasters Wyatt Dickson, Elliott Moss and Sam Jones for a discussion about the past, present and future of whole hog barbecue. We’ll screen a Southern Foodways Alliance film featuring a barbecue pitmaster, pass a plate, and honor a pitmaster with a Lifetime BBQ Achievement Award.

Come One, Come All | Free

Sunday Pig Pickin’ & Picnic 12:00-4:00 p.m.

PICNIC Durham Hosts Sunday Pig Pickin’ & Picnic at Green Button Farm A community pig pickin’ with Wyatt Dickson, Sam Jones, and Elliott Moss. Featuring Durham and surrounding N.C. chefs for festive side dishes and sumptuous desserts … all you need to bring is a picnic blanket. Bluegrass music, pie auction, hay rides, and more in the pasture at Green Button Farm. Look for the wine & beer garden featuring Ponysaurus, Fullsteam, and Wine Authorities, offering glasses and cans for sale.

Local Participating Restaurants: Crawford & Son, Lucky’s Deli, Luna, Old Etowah Smokehouse, Piedmont, The Counting House, The Pig, Toast, Scratch, Stanbury $25 per person | $10 for kids ages 11-15; ages 10 and under eat free

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playlist September 18-24 ESA Eastern Surfing Championships Nags Head The largest amateur surfing organization in the world hosts the season’s grand finale where the best of the best surfers go head to head. surfesa.org

September 20-24 Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival Manteo Billed as three days of down home cookin’ and good ole Southern pickin’, the Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival at Roanoke Island Festival Park is an event full of food and fun. bluegrassisland.com

September 21-25 Mayberry Days Mount Airy Four full days of fun for the whole family with activities and events for the fans who long for the days when life was simple and the sheriff didn’t carry a gun. There is so much to do during the festival. You can watch the parade, meet special guests, laugh at Colonel Tim’s Talent Time, or take in all of the music at the many venues. mayberrydays.com

September 22-25 AutoFair at Charlotte Motor Speedway The AutoFair annually attracts more than 100,000 visitors, as well as more than 1,500 collectible vehicles of all makes and models will be available for sale in the car corral that rings the 1.5-mile superspeedway.

The AutoFair will also feature a collector car auction. charlottemotorspeedway.com

September 23-24 The Kruger Brothers presents Carolina in the Fall Music & Food Festival Wilkesboro On the old Courthouse Square in historic downtown Wilkesboro, The Kruger Brothers will host some of North Carolina’s best folk/roots music bands. They will be joined by bands from other areas that tip their hats to the rich musical history of Wilkes, the heart of American Folk Music. They will also showcase some of the region’s best food with the Carolina in the Fall Food Truck Championship. carolinainthefall.org

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National Folk Festival | Greensboro

By Laura Ashley Lamm North State Journal GREENSBORO — Bringing people together from all walks of life in song and dance, making joyous harmonies, and celebrating both the culture and heritage of each American create the tapestry for a festival designed to inspire love.

“Often people think of ‘folk’ as the music of Bob Dylan or Peter, Paul and Mary,” said Eleanor Schaffner-Mosh, deputy director of ArtsGreensboro.

“Folk is music of the people.

This is a tapestry of the music traditions that make up the fabric of America that have been passed down from our forbearers,” she added.

The music of the people were brought together during the 76th Annual National Folk Festival held in Greensboro the weekend of Sept. 9-11. A celebration of the arts and culture from around the nation and world, the festival brought in more than 100,000 visitors to the city.

“All colors, ages, religions and socio-economic statuses came together and danced together,” said Schaffner-Mosh. “It was a beautiful festival of love. The festival was about respect and bringing people together.”

The National Folk Festival began in 1934 and this marks only the second time Greensboro has served as the host site. Cities compete through the National Council for the Traditional Arts to be selected, and Greensboro was chosen out of 33 cities to serve as host for a three-year stint.

“The beauty of the National Festival being organized in such

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Fans dance as DJ Grandmaster Flash performs in the Dance Pavilion during the 76th National Folk Festival in Greensboro, Sept. 11. For more photos visit nsjonline.com/gallery.

a way is the local community builds the infrastructure to enable their community to hold a statewide festival going forward after the three years as host,” said Schaffner-Mosh.

The National Folk Festival remains a free event due to the generosity of sponsors and donors. More than $900,000 was raised to support the three days of events and 122 performances.

The Festival brought together many of Greensboro’s art, cultural and civic organizations as well as the City of Greensboro, which provided bus rides free of charge during the weekend, and

the North Carolina Department of Transportation, which provided discounted rates on train tickets leading to Greensboro for the festival.

Audiences were treated to authentic blues, rockabilly, gospel, jazz, polka, tamburitza, cowboy, bluegrass, klezmer, old-time, Cajun, rhythm and blues, mariachi, western swing, honky-tonk and zydeco, as well as traditional music and dance from Native American, Celtic, Acadian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, East Asian, Appalachian, Latin American, Eastern European, African and Pacific Island cultures, among

others. The festival also featured workshops, demonstrations, children’s activities, ethnic cuisines, craft brews, storytelling and parades.

“We have one state with many worlds living here,” said Schaffner-Mosh. “We have people from Rowan and the Sudan. The Folk Festival shines a very bright light on the traditions on these North Carolinians from their homeland.”

Carolinians are encouraged to make plans for next year’s 77th Annual National Folk Festival, which is scheduled for Sept.

8-10, 2017, in Greensboro.

the seed

Grape Day | State Farmers Market the process.

“Ultimately it is community supported,” said Whit Winslow, executive director of the N.C. Wine and Grape Council. “To have that designation 85 percent of the fruit in the wine must be from that region. It allows for marketing and helps the wineries with promotions and identification.”

North Carolina now has more than 150 wineries in 28 counties, and on Sept. 16 the people came together at the State Farmers Market to celebrate the commodity that makes it all possible for grape day. In a state with an official state toast, it just makes sense the wine industry is flourishing — “here’s to the land of the long leaf pine.” Cheers.

By Jennifer Wood North State Journal Our North Carolina grape genealogy has a very long vine. Halifax County was home to the first commercial winery in the state.

Sidney Weller founded his vineyard in the community of Brinkleyville in 1835, by 1840 it was renamed Medoc Vineyards and led the nation in wine production.

Weller’s vineyard had company by the 1850s as N.C. saw an expansion of more than 25 wineries and multiple vineyards across the state. The late 19th century brought devastation to the industry due to the Civil War in the 1860s, followed by a turnaround in the 1890s as farmers were encouraged to inject the economy with a boost from agricultural profits.

Just as North Carolina wines were gaining a foothold on the international stage (picking up medals at the Paris Exposition in 1900), as well as holding their own at home (winning grand prizes at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904) along came that pesky little Prohibition law squelching the state’s wine industry altogether.

Fast forward to the 20th century and wine is back and going strong. North Carolina currently

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Max Mancini, 2, of Apex, eats a scuppernong grape during Grape Day at the North Carolina State Farmers Market in Raleigh on Sept. 16.

has four American Viticultural Areas: The Yadkin Valley, Swan Creek, the Haw River Valley, and the Upper Hiwassee Highlands (shared with Georgia), and a fifth coming up for approval before the end of the year located near

Boone, further highlighting the importance of wine to the state.

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau determines whether or not an area can be designated an AVA, and there are several requirements that go into

with duplin

duplinwinery.com • 800.774.9634 505 n. sycamore street • rose hill, nc 28458

“Ultimately it is community supported.”

— Whit Winslow, executive director of the N.C. Wine and Grape Council

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TAKE NOTICE New Hanover

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 460

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 898

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 1594

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 15 SP 82

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 115

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Timothy L. Cotton and Ruth W. Cotton, (Ruth W. Cotton, deceased) to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of April, 2010, and recorded in Book 5483, Page 840, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 20, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING ALL of Lots 63A and 63B, Section II-B, of Wooden Shoe Subdivision, as the same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Map Book 28, Page 33 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

Also being the same property described in a deed to Timothy L. Cotton and wife, Ruth W. Cotton recorded March 9, 1988 in Book 1407, Page 1604 of the aforementioned Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5701 Dekker Road, Castle Hayne, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Darren B. Sell and Melissa E. Sell (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Darren Bronson Sell and Melissa Everhart Sell) to Frances Jones, Trustee(s), dated the 11th day of December, 2009, and recorded in Book RE 2924, Page 4246, in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on September 21, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lot 88 as shown on the Plat entitled LONG CREEK VILLAGE, SECTION I, PHASE 2, which plat is recorded in Plat Book 46, Page 102, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1561 Finwick Drive, Pfafftown, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee.

If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bruce K. Wilson and Sandra Robinson-Wilson (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Bruce K. Wilson and Sandra Robinson Wilson) to Jodi A. Ernest, Trustee(s), dated the 11th day of March, 2008, and recorded in Book R 7094, Page 2422, in Guilford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Guilford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse, West Door U-G Level in the City of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:45 AM on September 21, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Guilford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 43, Cardinal Commons, the Cardinal, Section 11, Map B, a part of Cardinal West Subdivision, as per plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 86, Page 66, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Guilford County, North Carolina.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3307 Van Allen Circle, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee.

If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made

by Willie Bryant Pettway and wife Mamie Lee Pettway, (Willie Bryant Pettway, deceased) to Scott Whitesell, Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of September, 1999, and recorded in Book 969, Page 258, in Pitt County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pitt County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 2:00 PM on September 27, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Pitt, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land lying and being in Fountain Township, Pitt County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the center of rural paved road 1246, which point is located 456 feet South of the intersection formed by the center of N.C. Highway 222 and rural paved road 1246; running thence in a southerly direction and along the center line of rural paved road 1246 100 feet to a point, cornering; running thence in a northeasterly direction and perpendicular to rural paved road 1246 200 feet to a point; cornering, running thence in a northerly direction and parallel to rural paved road 1246 100 feet to a point, cornering; running thence in a northwesterly direction and perpendicular to rural paved road 1246 200 feet to the point of beginning, containing 2,000 square feet.

By fee simple deed from S.L. Dilda and wife, Aileen H. Dilda as set forth in Book K-40, Page 16, dated 11/13/1970 and recorded 11/01/1970, Pitt County Records, State of North Carolina.

Together with improvements thereon, said property located at 2241 King Farm Road, Fountain, NC 27829 Parcel# 18019 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 4521.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kavin O. Dockery and Summer D. Whitley to Philip R. Mahoney, Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of March, 2010, and recorded in Book 1316, Page 858, and Modification in Book 1539, Page 230, in Stanly County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Stanly County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 28, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 4 Anderson Ridge, Phase 2, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Plat Book 21 at Page 110, Stanly County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular metes and bounds description. Together with improvements thereon, said property located at 116 Anderson Ridge Drive, Albemarle, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee.

If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1185170 (FC.FAY)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1178714 (FC.FAY)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1180304 (FC.FAY)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1150620 (FC.FAY)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1189373 (FC.FAY)

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