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NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. and his racing team shoot a selfie with President Donald Trump as the president welcomes them, along with Sherry Pollex, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-08), Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC-10), Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07), and N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, to the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 21.

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Officials warn Congress of election hacking threats Washington, D.C. Senior Trump administration officials warned Congress on Tuesday of ongoing efforts

by Russia to interfere in the 2018 midterm congressional elections as the federal government prepares to hand out $380 million in election security funding to states.

At a Congressional briefing, the heads of FBI, Homeland Security Department and the director of National Intelligence told members to urge states and cities overseeing elections to be prepared for threats. In 2016, 21 states’ elections systems were hacked, but officials say no votes were changed. N.C. was not among them, but the state will get about $11 million, including the state match, from the fed to shore up N.C. ballot boxes.

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State treasurer calls for public vote on new state debt Raleigh State Treasurer Dale Folwell said Monday the proposed Build NC Bond Act should be put on the ballot for a public vote. The draft before the state legislature would allow the N.C. Department of Transportation to issue up to $3 billion in bonds over the next decade, paid using money from the Highway Trust Fund.

Fowell said taxpayers should have a vote on whether the state takes on more debt. Rep. Kelly Hastings (R-Gaston), the House Transportation chair, said he shares Folwell’s concerns. Gov. Roy Cooper is also calling for $2 billion in school construction bonds, and voters just approved in 2016 $1.8 billion in Connect NC bonds.

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Republicans demand inquiry into FBI conduct N.C. congressman leads call for new investigation

By Patricia Zengerle Reuters WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of Congressional Republicans, led in part by Freedom Caucus leader Congressman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), on Tuesday demanded the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate the Department of Justice investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign, Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.

At least 18 lawmakers support a resolution calling on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a special counsel to investigate what they describe as “misconduct” by the department and the FBI. A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice declined comment.

For months, conservatives have been criticizing the department, the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Rus-

sian interference in the election, but their rhetoric intensified after Trump suggested on Friday that the FBI, under former President Barack Obama, might have planted or recruited an informant in his presidential campaign for political purposes.

On Monday, the Justice Department agreed to investigate “any irregularities” in FBI tactics related to Trump’s campaign. The agreement was made during a meeting between Trump, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

“It is time for transparency, and it is time to allow the American people to know the truth,” said Meadows in a news conference announcing the resolution introduced on Tuesday.

There was no immediate response from House leadership aides on whether the measure might come up for a vote. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has said repeatedly, however, that he believed Mueller should be allowed to continue his work.

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More than 10,000 teachers turned out last week in Raleigh for the Rally for Respect on the first day of the legislative short session, calling for more raises and increased education funding.

Legislature resumes for the short session

By David Larson For the North State Journal RALEIGH — As the North Carolina House and Senate resumed this week, many are working on key issues around education, school safety and the state budget. The business on Jones Street is quieter now following last week’s NCAE teacher rally that welcomed lawmakers back to Raleigh.

The rally last Wednesday started at the North Carolina Association of Educators headquarters, moving to occupy the legislative complex. The teachers took time away from their classrooms to make their voices heard on a

number of education-related issues. Some districts anticipated so many teachers attending the rally that school was canceled for the day.

Both the House and Senate galleries, where visitors can sit and watch session, were packed with teachers in red. At one point in comments from the chamber floor, Sen. Dan Bishop (R-Mecklenburg) looked toward them and said, “We have lots of visitors, all wearing red. I’ve never seen so many Republicans in one place,” jokingly referring to the GOP’s association with the color.

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NC bishop wows royal wedding Curry brings a Southern flair to the Brits, ending with “we’ve gotta get y’all married”

By Andrew Heavens Reuters WINDSOR, England — Former N.C. bishop Michael Curry electrified the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Saturday with a barnstorming sermon on the power of love that won smiles in the ancient British chapel and praise across the internet.

The Most Rev. Curry was elected to head the Diocese of North Carolina in 2000 and in 2015 became the first black head of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He brought a distinctly Southern U.S. flair to the royal wedding started by quoting civil rights hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and powered on citing

spirituals, medieval poetry and the experiences of slaves in the American South.

“There’s power in love. Don’t underestimate it. Don’t even over-sentimentalize it. ... If you don’t believe me, think about a time when you first fell in love,” he said at the start of an address that jolted the congregation after a long period of serene choral music and ceremony.

By the end, he was referring to Harry and Meghan as “my brother, my sister,” and telling them “God love you, God bless you” before the opening notes of the soul standard “Stand By Me” started up.

Meghan smiled throughout as Harry looked on intently.

“It was a moment for African-Americans. It was like we were at church. It was the word that love conquers all,” said Karen Long from Houston, who came See BISHOP, page A2

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NCGA from page A1 the floor in support of the rally, teachers applauded. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, who presides over the Senate, paused to ask them to respect Senate decorum.

Moments later some protesters began chanting, “Education is a right; that is why we have to fight,” and were escorted out. The Senate quickly adjourned, avoiding the need to “clear the gallery” — a process that in the past has led to confrontations between protesters and the sergeant-at-arms staff and police tasked with maintaining order.

“We came here today to speak up for education because our voices have been ignored for far too long,” said Cabarrus County high school teacher Jeremy Hachen, saying the 19 percent raises touted by the GOP were not cutting it. “That’s tepid support. It’s just so they can claim they did something during their elections.”

Durham County teacher Scott McFarlane added, “They are setting us up to fail while creating a separate system to take over when we do,” referring to school choice initiatives like charter schools and voucher programs.

Estimates by the National Education Association (NCAE’s parent organization and the nation’s larg-

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Lava flows downhill, in this image from a helicopter overflight of Kilauea Volcano’s lower East Rift zone, during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, on May 19.

to Windsor with her sister and friend, all dressed as bridesmaids.

“It was a perfect blend between her culture and the royal culture. As an African-American woman, it was made in heaven,” she said.

The reaction online was overwhelmingly positive.

“Quoting Dr. Martin Luther King from the altar of a British royal wedding. This sermon

by Rev Michael Bruce Curry is very American, very boisterous, very passionate. Love it,” said New York Times reporter Katie Rosman on Twitter.

Karen Attiah, global ppinions editor of the Washington Post, called the whole wedding “an overt celebration of black American culture.”

“I wrote back in the fall that I didn’t think Meghan Markle was going to be very outspoken about race once she married into the royal family. Maybe she will prove me wrong?”

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Hawaii faces new threat of fumes from volcano’s lava

By Terray Sylvester Reuters PAHOA, Hawaii — Hawaii faces a new hazard as lava flows from Kilauea’s volcanic eruption could produce clouds of acid fumes, steam and glass-like particles as they reach the Pacific, authorities said this week.

Civil defense notices cautioned motorists, boaters and beachgoers to beware of caustic plumes of “laze” formed from two streams of hot lava pouring into the sea after cutting across Highway 137 on the south coast of Hawaii’s Big Island late on Saturday and early Sunday.

The bulletins also warned that reports of toxic sulfur dioxide gas being vented from various points around the volcano had tripled, urging residents to “take action necessary to limit further exposure.”

Laze — a term combining the words “lava” and haze” — is a mix of hydrochloric acid fumes, steam and fine volcanic glass specks created when erupting lava, which can reach 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, reacts with sea water, Hawaii County Civil Defense said in a statement.

“Be aware of the laze hazard and stay away from any ocean plume,” the agency said, warning that potential hazards include lung damage, as well as eye and skin irritation.

Under Sunday’s conditions, with strong winds and copious amounts of lava hitting the ocean, the laze plumes could extend as far as 15 miles, mostly along the coast and offshore, though the hazard would diminish the farther out to sea it blows, according

est teacher union) says North Carolina is 37th in teacher pay nationally and below the average in per-pupil spending for 2017.

But GOP leaders are quick to point out these numbers are changing fast and want some credit. One day prior to the protests, the GOP House and Senate leadership were prepared to refute what they see as unfair attacks on their education record. Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) held a joint press conference where they addressed some of the issues while also unveiling a website, ncteacherraise.com, that gives more sources and data.

Berger said that in addition to being unfair to the students who were forced to miss school, the rally was tinged with political motives pointing out NCAE’s close ties to the Democratic Party. While GOP leaders agree that the rankings for N.C.’s education spending are low, they argue that this was due to lower budgets provided by their Democratic predecessors.

“Last year we were the No. 1 state in America for increasing teacher pay; this year we were No. 2,” said Moore. “You can’t go in and try to deal with a mess that we inherited in 2011 in just one swoop.”

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Authorities cautioned, however, that wind patterns can change abruptly. The U.S. Coast Guard was “actively monitoring” the area to keep away all vessel traffic except permitted tour boats, the civil defense office said.

Laze killed two people when a lava flow reached the coast in 2000, and even a wisp can cause eye and respiratory irritation, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Acid rain from laze has corrosive properties equivalent to diluted battery acid, the agency said.

The section of coastal Highway 137 and a nearby a state park in the area where lava was pouring into the ocean were both closed, and another road in the vicinity was restricted to local traffic as a precaution due to elevated levels of sulfur dioxide gas.

An air quality index for Kona, about 40 miles northwest of the eruption site, was at “orange” level, meaning that older individuals and those with lung problems could be affected.

Earthquakes, ash eruptions Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, began extruding red-hot lava and sulfuric acid fumes through newly opened fissures on the ground along its eastern flank on May 3, marking the latest phase of an eruption cycle that has continued nearly nonstop for 35 years.

The occurrence of new lava-spewing vents, now numbering at least 22, have been accompanied by flurries of earthquakes and periodic eruptions of ash, volcanic rock and toxic gases from the volcano’s summit crater.

“We came here today to speak up for education because our voices have been ignored for far too long.”

Jeremy Hachen, Cabarrus County high school teacher tisan Fiscal Research Division confirmed the figures on teacher raises under recent GOP leadership. After increases in five consecutive budgets, the average North Carolina teacher will receive $53,600, a total increase of 19 percent, or $8,600 on average per teacher since 2014.

While teachers from every county were represented in the protests, not all teachers agreed with the NCAE’s day of activism. One Durham County teacher, Terry McCann, wrote an op-ed for the Herald Sun describing why he was choosing to work that day. A teacher of many decades, McCann says he received “zilch” in raises in the historically Democrat-run state until McCrory and the GOP took over.

McCann told the North State Journal that he has everything he needs to teach and succeed. He questioned what kind of budgeting

The lava flows have destroyed dozens of homes and other buildings, ignited brush fires and displaced thousands of residents who were either ordered evacuated or fled voluntarily.

The volcano has also fed a phenomenon called vog, a hazy mix of sulfur dioxide, aerosols, moisture and dust, with fine particles that can travel deep into lungs, the USGS said.

On Saturday, authorities reported the first known serious injury from the eruptions — a homeowner whose leg was shattered by a hot, solid lumb of lava called a “lava bomb” while standing on the third-floor balcony of his home.

Mark Clawson, a friend of the victim who did not want his name used, lives near where his friend was staying as caretaker, and heard screaming and saw the harrowing aftermath, he told Reuters.

Apparently a fiery 5-pound “lava bomb” about the size of a dinner plate was launched from a fissure about 200 yards from the house, Clawson said.

“Most of them (lava bombs) arc high in the air, but every now and again there’s one that gets shot like a rifle, more horizontal, and that’s what happened here,” he said.

It also started a small fire, which Clawson helped douse.

He said doctors had to pick sharp, hardened fragments of lava out of the wound, but the prognosis is good for his friend.

The Hawaii National Guard has warned of additional mandatory evacuations. Authorities are working to open up alternative evacuation routes as some become blocked by lava.

school districts must be doing to not be able to provide supplies or even toilet paper sometimes.

“What will really improve education is pushing for more accountability for teachers and higher expectations for students,” he said. “If you don’t ask much of students, you aren’t going to get their best.”

McCann said he’s received support from other educators and even in a personal visit from one who gave him school supplies as a “thank you.” According to McCann and others who chose to stay home Wednesday, they felt pressure to keep silent if they differed from the NCAE’s message.

The GOP majority is also focusing on message as they try to answer their education critics, including Gov. Roy Cooper and Blue. The attention of political leaders, as well as that of the thousands of teachers who showed up to the rally, show education is a priority issue and the messaging battle will continue.

Evidence is in the legislative calendar for this week, which has more press conferences scheduled than committees — mostly by Democratic members, including Sens.

Jeff Jackson, Mike Woodard, Jay Chaudhuri and two from Floyd McKissick Jr. Leadership says committee work will continue and the budget should be out by June 1.

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The Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry, primate of the Episcopal Church, gives an address during the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in Windsor, Britain, onMay 19.

“Discover love” Members of the royal family, including Harry’s brother Prince William, could be seen on TV smiling during the lengthy address. Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, nodded several times as the bishop spoke.

Some commentators took to Twitter to point out the facial reactions in the chapel to the bishop’s sermon. In particular, a close-up of the queen’s granddaughter, Zara, with her mouth open became a focus for social media. Harry’s cousin Princess Beatrice was spotted giggling.

Barely glancing at the transcript of his speech in front of him, Curry talked directly to a congregation that included Queen Elizabeth and celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Elton John and David Beckham.

Leaving the prepared text of his speech far behind him, he told them that love was not just for young couples but part of God’s plan with the power to change the world.

“We will let justice roll down like a mighty stream and righteousness like an ever-flowing brook. When love is the way poverty will become history,” he said channeling King channeling the Bible in a rare nod to politics during a highly orchestrated British state occasion.

Curry grasped the lectern, then waved his arms to punctuate his points, shaking the candles in front of him. “Love God, love your neighbor. And while you’re at it, love yourself,” he said in a sermon that used the world “love” just short of 70 times.

At one point, realizing that he had been going on for a while, he paused and promised: “With this I’ll sit down. We’ve gotta get y’all married.”

The Episcopal Church — the U.S. arm of the Anglican Communion which also includes the Church of England, headed by the queen — has taken a strongly liberal stand on social issues, including gay marriage, which it allows.

Curry was born in Chicago in 1953 and went on to become the bishop of North Carolina.

At his installation as the head of the Episcopal church in 2015, he called for economic and racial unity at a time of rising racial tensions.

In 2016 he said he lamented the decision by the wider Anglican Communion to slap sanctions on the U.S. church over its support of gay marriage.

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The Unites States Treasury certified 252 areas in the state as official North Carolina Opportunity Zones on May 18, potentially opening a new source of investment capital for regions of the state that need it the most. In April, the state recommended all of these areas for federal consideration and with last Friday’s decision, Treasury officially declares these low-income census tracts can participate in the investment program.

“We’re pleased that communities in every corner of our state will be able to utilize this new development tool,” said Napoleon Wallace, Deputy Secretary at the N.C. Department of Commerce.

“With the certification of our proposed zones, our local and regional partners can accelerate their work to identify and prepare projects and investments in their areas suitable for equity capital.”

The recently passed federal Tax Reforms and Jobs Act created the Opportunity Zone concept and authorized each state to designate up to 25 percent of its total lowincome census tracts as qualified Opportunity Zones. Low-income census tracks are areas where the poverty rate is 20 percent or greater and/or family income is less than 80% of the area’s median income. The legislation creates a tax benefit for qualified investors who wish to re-invest realized capital gains into Opportunity Zones, avoiding standard capital gain tax obligations.

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Trade war fears ebb as U.S., China agree to continue talks Boeing, Caterpillar shares rise, dollar up, as agriculture interests cheer “cooling off” in trade war

By Emily Roberson North State Journal BEIJING/WASHINGTON — Washington and Beijing both claimed victory on Monday as the world's two largest economies stepped back from the brink of a global trade war and agreed to hold further talks to boost U.S. exports to China.

Over the weekend, the two sides pledged to keep talking about how China could import more energy and agricultural commodities from the United States so as to narrow the $335 billion annual U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China, although details and a firm timeline were thin.

The United States appeared to have won promises of more imports by China, although there were no specifics.

Economists at Morgan Stanley estimated exports of U.S. agricultural products, primarily beef, and energy, mostly liquified natural gas, could add between $60 billion and $90 billion to sales to China over a period of years. That is far less than the $200 billion reduction in China's trade surplus that President Donald Trump had demanded at the start of talks.

"China has agreed to buy massive amounts of ADDITIONAL Farm/Agricultural Products - would be one of the best things to happen to our farmers in many years!" Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday.

North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler said, “I am encouraged by the latest reports of potential progress on

trade negotiations with China.

Any reports of progress is welcomed news. China is one of our largest trading partners and our farmers welcome the opportunity to continue to do business with them. I’ve encouraged our farmers to remain upbeat as these negotiations are likely to continue to evolve.”

China's government praised the cooling of trade tensions with the United States, saying agreement was in both nations' interests while state media trumpeted what it saw as Beijing's refusal to surrender to U.S. economic threats.

Questions remained over the Trump administration's handling of ZTE, a Chinese company that had been sanctioned by Washington and effectively put out of business, but whose fate was made a precondition of last week's trade talks in a conversation between Trump and President Xi Jinping.

Trump agreed to allow ZTE to stay in business and the United States and China struck a deal to drop their tariff threats while they worked on a wider trade agreement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday.

Washington had threatened to impose tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports unless Beijing rectified its theft of U.S. intellectual property. After China responded with its own tariffs on U.S. agriculture, Trump threatened to impose duties on an additional $100 billion of Chinese goods, a move that hit global stock markets hard due to fears of rising protectionism.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will travel to China next week to help finalize a trade agreement, Mnuchin said on Monday.

Most observers say a firm deal is likely to take a long time.

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“China is one of our largest trading partners and our farmers welcome the opportunity to continue to do business with them.”

N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler In an interview earlier with CNBC, Mnuchin characterized the U.S. tariff plan as suspended, but warned that "the president can always put tariffs back on."

Speaking at a daily briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said both countries had clearly recognized that the reaching of a consensus was good for all.

"China has never hoped for any tensions between China and the United States, in the trade or other arenas," Lu said.

Stocks with major exposure to China such as Boeing Co and Caterpillar Inc gained on news of a softening in the trade rhetoric of recent weeks. The dollar also gained against a basket of currencies.

Goldman Sachs noted the lack of specifics in statements by U.S. and Chinese officials, which it viewed mainly as evidence that both sides wanted to continue talking.

"We do not rule out the possibility that the Chinese team offered some tangible concessions which helped the progress of the talks, but as other aspects of an agreement are still in flux, has avoided stating these offers in public," Goldman Sachs wrote in a research note.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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WEST Heavy rains cause road collapse Transylvania County Heavy rains and flooding last week caused the partial collapse of a road in Transylvania County. Wilson Road was closed after about a third of the road had been washed out following the storm. The NCDOT estimates that the road should be able to reopen sometime in the middle of the week.

Flooding also caused short-term road closures, including Hannah Ford, Island Ford and East Fork Road.

Man faked cancer to get donations Macon County Gabriel Bruce Bolick was arrested and charged with obtaining property under false pretenses after he faked cancer in order to get sympathy and cash donations from area residents. At least 14 victims gave Bolick nearly $4,000, as he went door-to-door, asking for money to help pay for surgery. Bolick is in custody on $20,000 bond and will appear in court on June 7.

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PIEDMONT NC officials travel to Hawaii for volcano aid Lee County Ten officials from North Carolina left on Saturday to help with the disaster response to Kilauea, the volcano erupting in Hawaii. Emergency managers and fire service officials from Lee, Bladen, Gates, McDowell, Moore and Onslow counties traveled to Hawaii, where they will be on site for about two weeks supporting the Hawaii County Civil Defense agency. The Cary, Charlotte and Greensboro fire departments also sent representatives.

Flooding causes mudslide Texans owner awards scholarships to area students Rutherford County Houston Texas owner Bob McNair awarded more than $1 million in scholarships to North Carolina students. The Robert and Janice McNair educational foundation gave 192 students at three Rutherford County high schools $5,600 each.

McNair grew up in Forest City, N.C., and attended East Rutherford High School.

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Cafeteria worker charged with stealing school funds

Edenton man wins Mega Bucks

Alamance County April Walker Chandler of Burlington was arrested and charged with felony larceny by employee. The 45-year-old worked in the cafeteria for Western Middle School. On May 10, the school’s nutrition director discovered that $300 in cash was missing. An investigation revealed that the money had been missing since February. Chandler was eventually identified as the culprit and arrested. She was given a $3,000 secured bond.

Chowan County Maurice Fleming won the top prize on Mega Bucks, a scratch-off lottery game. Fleming purchased the $5 ticket at a Speedway on Virginia Road in Edenton. He traveled to lottery headquarters in Raleigh early last week to present the winning ticket and collect his $200,000 prize. Fleming netted $141,003 after taxes. There are still four other $200,000 prizes remaining, lottery officials say.

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Governor visits center helping to rebuild from hurricane Robeson County Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper visited ReBuild NC, a disaster-relief center helping Robeson County recover from 2016’s Hurricane Matthew. The storm caused more than $4 billion in damage to the eastern part of the state, and ReBuild is helping provide aid to families still looking to repair and rebuild. There are an estimated 325 families in the area still homeless from the storm. Cooper said the state is looking to release funds in the very near future to help expedite the recovery.

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Avery County Heavy rains and flooding triggered mudslides, killing at least one person in Tryon. Avery County reports several road closures, and Polk County officials are searching for a woman whose home was crushed by the advancing mud.

Interstate 26 was also closed for several hours over the weekend.

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State trooper killed on I77 Winston-Salem schools battle whooping cough Forsyth County Officials from Forsyth County Schools confirmed that multiple students have been diagnosed with whooping cough.

Cases of pertussis, as the disease is commonly known, from North Forsyth High, Mount Tabor High and the Career Center have been confirmed and reported to the state health department. The health department warns that pertussis is highly contagious, and anyone with symptoms should see a health care provider as soon as possible.

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Yadkin and Surry counties Trooper Samuel Newton Bullard, 24, a three-year veteran of the State Highway Patrol in Surry County, died following a chase and crash on Interstate 77 in Yadkin County Monday night. Bullard was killed in an accident at mile marker 80 while pursuing a black BMW ran a drivers license checkpoint. “Our SHP family is devastated by the loss of Trooper Bullard. We are struggling to find words that describe the hurting we feel right now,” said Col. Glenn M. McNeill Jr., commander of the State Highway Patrol. Trooper Bullard was pronounced deceased at the scene. The SHP is actively working with allied agencies in a search for the suspect or suspects involved.

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Fugitive arrested visiting inmate at jail Pamlico County Kimberly Rossi was arrested on an outstanding warrant when she attempted to visit an inmate at the Pamlico County Detention Facility.

The 53-year-old Rossi was waiting in the lobby when deputies discovered she was a fugitive. As officers approached her, Rossi was seen taking a pill bottle later found to contain several types of controlled medicine from her pocket and handing it to a child. She now faces several drug charges as well.

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Steer rescued after causing car crash Duplin County A steer was rescued by Duplin County Animal Services after allegedly causing an accident on I-40 last Wednesday.

The steer was being transported by trailer, when he suddenly shifted his weight forward, causing the trailer to strike the road. Animal services were called to free the animal, who had gotten his head pinned between the trailer wall and his body. Rose Hill firefighters and a vet from the Warsaw Animal Hospital also provided aid to the steer, who was moved to another trailer.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump recently nominated Fayetteville native Robert Wilkie to be secretary of the Veterans Affairs. Wilkie was confirmed unanimously in 2017 to be the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and previously served as a senior adviser to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on national security and defense issues.

“Robert is one of the most honorable and decent human beings I’ve ever worked with, and anyone who knows him has seen his drive to serve his country and his passion for honoring our nation’s veterans and servicemembers, qualities that will be tremendous assets at the VA,” said Tillis in a statement following announcement of Wilkie’s nomination. “As my senior adviser, Robert was instrumental in advising me

on veterans’ issues and the legislative priorities of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Robert holds pragmatic and commonsense views on modernizing the agency and upholding its core mission of providing veterans with the best health care, resources, and support possible.”

Wilkie previously served as assistant secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs under Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld.

He also served as special assistant to President George W. Bush for National Security Affairs and as senior director of the National Security Council under Dr. Condoleezza Rice.

Wilkie, 55, would replace David Shulkin at the head of the VA. He has been acting secretary of the department since Trump fired Shulkin in March over concerns about unauthorized travel expenses.

First school safety bill of the session passes House

By NSJ Staff RALEIGH — School safety legislation designed to boost student access to licensed psychologists passed the state House of Representatives last week and was sent to the Senate. The bill came from the interim committee on school safety, which passed it unanimously. The committee of more than 40 lawmakers was set up amid concern in N.C. after multiple school shootings in other parts of the nation.

House Bill 933 (Reciprocity/School Psychologist Licensure) requires the State Board of Education to expand the number of school psychologist licenses to include people credentialed by the National Association of School Psychologists.

“Currently, there is no agreement in place to allow our school psychologists from out-ofstate to practice in North Carolina without going through the cumbersome application process and licensing procedure,” said Rep. Josh Dobson (R-McDowell) during debate on the House floor. Dobson sponsored the legislation along with Reps. John Torbett (R-Gaston), David Lewis (R-Harnett) and Marvin Lucas (D-Cumberland). “This bill would change that,” Dobson added.

According to the state legislature, current law requires that school psychologists

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licensed in other states must complete about 75 hours of additional training and obtain a professional educator’s continuing license from the Department of Public Instruction.

According to DPI, there are more than 70 vacant school psychologist positions in North Carolina that the General Assembly funds through the state budget but are not filled.

Increasing the presence of mental health experts on N.C. campuses was among the top issues called for during the teacher protests last week.

“This is not the end. This is simply the beginning, and we will continue to work to keep our kids safe in the schools,” said Torbett, the House school safety committee co-chairman.

In order for school psychologists to obtain the national school certification, they must take 60 semester hours in a graduate-level program, perform supervised practicums, complete 1,200 hours of school psychology internships, and pass the school psychologist Praxis test. Currently 32 states, including Florida, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, recognize NASP certification as meeting or partially meeting licensure requirements for school psychologists.

HB933 passed first reading in the House on Tuesday and was referred to the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate Rules.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

Public-private partnerships: Socialize the upside and the downside

Successful businessmen used to be proud to be able to finance their own football stadiums on their own without taxpayer funding.

WHAT IS “welfare” in the government sense anyway?

Merriam-Webster defines it as such: “aid in the form of money or necessities for those in need.”

This definition should be clarified with a friendly amendment: “… or who have the political clout to get elected officials use public taxpayer money to pay for what they want.”

Case in point: Should any public money be used to refurbish or replace Bank of America Stadium now that hedge fund billionaire David Tepper has purchased the NFL Carolina Panthers and Bank of America Stadium from Jerry Richardson?

From purely a philosophical musing viewpoint, the answer is no. Rich people are rich and will remain rich regardless of whether the average taxpayer antes up any tax dollars to help them pay for the stadium for the professional sports team.

They are “business people.” The NFL is a business. They are not investing in any professional franchise unless they are really confident they are going to make a profit when they sell it one day down the road.

Local municipal and state governments have been persuaded many times to obligate their constituents with user taxes or loan guarantees by the promise of more jobs created and economic growth generated from the “public-private partnership” of building a professional sports stadium.

But the “public” part of that partnership ends when the profits roll in. Then it is all “private.”

In 1995, former Washington Bullets, now Wizards, owner Abe Pollin privately financed the construction of the MCI Center, now

Verizon Center, in the middle of downtown Washington, D.C. His personal riskassumption and financing sparked a renewal and rebirth of downtown D.C. which still has momentum today.

Jack Kent Cooke privately financed the construction of The Forum for his NBA Los Angeles Lakers and the construction of Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, now FedEx Field, in Landover, Md., for his NFL Washington Redskins.

Successful businessmen used to be proud to be able to finance their own football stadiums on their own without taxpayer funding, or “corporate welfare” as it is now known.

Rich business people didn’t get that way by not being smart and savvy. They understand financial and political leverage, and they use it to lower their out-of-pocket costs in any business transaction — including the purchase of professional sports franchises and construction of new stadiums.

If they are going to use leverage to get a lower cost for their private investment, shouldn’t local municipalities use their financial and political leverage to get more in return if they are going to do it anyway?

Why not ask for a set-aside of, say, 10,000 seats per game for a lottery for any taxpayer who wants to attend an NFL game? Hundreds of thousands of Mecklenburg County residents probably have never attended a Panthers home game in the last 22 years. If they are on the hook for any public funding in any way, shouldn’t they get to go to one game for free in return for their investment of public taxed dollars?

If a locality floats a tax-exempt or general obligation bond to help build a stadium,

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whether those bonds are retired quickly

by PSL licenses or not, shouldn’t they be considered part of the “ownership” group in some way?

Perhaps the locality should ask for a 10 percent convertible ownership stake in the franchise so that when it is sold for $10 billion 25 years for now, $1 billion will be made available for the local budgets to build new schools, pay teachers more or pave the darn local roads.

If elected officials are going to be sold on “public-private partnerships” for professional sports, why not “socialize the upside” as well as the downside?

Or follow the lead of Abe Pollin and Jack Kent Cooke and privatize both sides of the equation.

EDITORIAL | TROY KICKLER

The lost state of Franklin

The Franklinites essentially ignored the North Carolina General Assembly and formed their own state.

YOU MAY be familiar with the Civil War story of the Free State of Jones and Newton Knight. The 2016 movie popularized the account. But have you heard of the 1780s “Lost” State of Franklin?

Before North Carolina’s borders became what they are today, the state claimed land all the way to the Mississippi River. During the 1780s, there were two primary western settlement areas. One was in the Cumberland River area. There, many North Carolina veterans of the American Revolution hoped to acquire land. Another more populated settlement area was near the Wautauga and Nolichucky rivers.

Approximately 5,000 people lived there.

As bonds with North Carolina were becoming more and more tenuous, a strong sense of regionalism existed in this part of North Carolina that later became eastern Tennessee.

In 1784, North Carolina tried to cede much of its land to the United States. Communication traveled slowly, however. The inhabitants of Washington, Greene and Sullivan counties had formed The State of Franklin. The name Franklin (originally Frankland) was chosen in honor of Benjamin Franklin. The statesman disproved of the regional independence movement in Appalachia, however.

Amidst the different and in-depth debates regarding state or national control of western land, the Franklinites essentially ignored the North Carolina General Assembly and formed their own state.

In 1785, the State of Franklin General Assembly had elected John Sevier as its first governor.

The Virginia Gazette reported on June 4, 1785, that Franklinites had “declared themselves independent of the state of North Carolina … the people of the western country found themselves taxed to support government, while they were deprived of all the blessings of it.” Other news outlets reported that the westerners had “revolted … under the pretense that the extent of the territory renders a fair and equal government totally impracticable.” These stories were reprinted in the London Chronicle.

A couple years after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the independence movement in the Appalachian Mountains undoubtedly intrigued the British. Some British were amused that some Americans expressed alarm that the Franklinites might join forces with disaffected “Vermonteers and New Hampshire Grants.”

In its declaration of independence from North Carolina, Franklinites had a list of grievances. They had three primary complaints: the far distance from the state capital, a lack of protection on the frontier and the General Assembly’s disregard for their concerns.

The State of Franklin also had a state constitution. The initial proposal was rejected. It called for a unicameral legislature. Citizens would have approved legislation. Property qualifications to vote would have been barred. Ministers, lawyers and doctors would have been excluded from holding public office. In the end, the State of Franklin modeled its constitution after the North Carolina Con-

stitution.

During the State of Franklin’s existence (17841789), the U.S. was drafting and ratifying the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, Article 4, Section 3 states: “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state.”

State legislature and congressional approval were needed.

Gov. Alexander Martin avoided sending militia to quell the “revolt.” The state lacked the funds to do so, and Martin doubted the will of many North Carolinians to fight other North Carolinians. Diplomacy was his “best weapon.” His successor, Richard Caswell, shrewdly appointed westerners to positions; they divided loyalty among the Franklinites.

In time, Sevier’s term expired, and the Franklin legislature never reconvened. In 1789, Franklinites appealed to North Carolina as the authority.

Charged with treason, imprisoned, yet never tried, Sevier later took an oath of allegiance. Shortly afterward, he served in the N.C. Senate.

Eventually in 1796, a new state was formed: Tennessee. John Sevier was its first governor.

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GUEST OPINION | REP. JASON SAINE

Tax cuts make North Carolina special

It’s not just businesses that are feeling the impact; employees are reaping the benefits as well.

“IT’S GOING TO BE something very special.”

That’s what President Trump has called the latest efforts to pass a second round of federal tax cuts, following the successful passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. One look at the past four years in North Carolina will tell you that the impacts of tax cuts are very special indeed.

Business is booming in the Old North State these days, and it’s due in large part to one thing — recently enacted tax cuts. We have seen an influx of businesses from across the country moving to our state. In fact, North Carolina ranks third for cumulative domestic migration in the country, as more people and businesses move here to take advantage of our growth.

Because of this success, other states are looking to North Carolina to emulate our pro-free market climate.

This past week, I attended an event led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Grand Rapids, Mich. While I was there, I spoke about the impact the recent federal tax cuts, as well as the tax cuts the North Carolina General Assembly passed in 2014, are having on businesses. I also discussed why these tax cuts should serve as a model for other states around the country that wish to usher in similar economic prosperity.

According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, North Carolina’s corporate tax rate currently ranks third best in the country. In 2015, after passing state level tax cuts, North Carolina went from 22nd best for corporate taxes to fifth in 2018. Since that time, we have seen unprecedented economic growth across our state, the net result of which is that our citizens and businesses will retain almost $4.7 billion of their hard-earned money.

To date, more than 500 employers across the country have announced pay raises, bonuses and other employee benefits since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed, benefiting more than 4 million hard-working Americans. Not only are workers seeing greater take-home pay, but job creators are providing additional benefits such as higher salaries and 401(k) hikes. This compound effect has rejuvenated our nation’s economy. It’s not just businesses that are feeling the impact; employees are reaping the benefits as well.

Just pull out your most recent pay stub and compare it to one from last December. Chances are you’re taking home more money to spend as

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President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on tax reform at the Cleveland Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio on May 5. you wish. You may have even been a recipient of a bonus some companies gave as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This is a good thing, especially for working families who know that even a little bit extra can go a long way to helping them do any number of things: making additional home improvements, saving up for their children’s educations or continuing their own, even just being able to buy a set of new shoes for their kids as summer approaches.

Tax cuts are a tool that gives both our citizens and our businesses a hand up instead of a hand out. I welcome more opportunities to make strides toward raising up all North Carolinians by finding additional ways of putting money back in employees’ paychecks rather than the encumbrance of additional taxes. Lowering our tax burden has made us special. It’s made us an even more desirable place to do business and has improved the lives of our citizens. We welcome other states to follow our lead.

Rep. Jason Saine represents the 97th North Carolina House District and is 2018 chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council.

COLUMN | BRIAN FITZPATRICK

The case for political appointment of judges

Independence and accountability have little to do with the method of selecting judges. They have more to do with the method of retaining judges. Life tenure maximizes independence and minimizes accountability.

Re-election or reappointment maximizes accountability and minimizes independence.

THERE ARE FOUR methods of selecting judges in use in the United States: partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, political appointment and appointment by a technocratic commission (sometimes called the “Missouri Plan” and often dominated by the bar). As we know by its adoption by the founding generation, the oldest of these systems is political appointment. It was the best method then, and it is the best method today.

This essay will not revisit the theoretical considerations that led the founding generation to select judges by political appointment.

Instead, it will answer an empirical question: Given the qualities that commentators have identified as part of a good judicial system, which method of selection maximizes those qualities? As I show, political appointment is hard to beat.

What are these qualities? Over the years, commentators have listed several: 1. Independence: Judges should follow the law even when the public won’t like it. This is especially important when the law is clear. By contrast, in ambiguous cases, we may want judges to follow the preferences of the public or policymakers (see below).

2. Accountability: The public should be able

to stop judges from misbehaving, including, perhaps, issuing decisions they believe are erroneous.

3. Competence: Judges should have technical

legal expertise.

4. Integrity: Judges should be free from

external corruption and should not use the office for personal gain.

5. Legitimacy: Judicial decisions should

command respect and acceptance by the public.

6. Diversity: There should be racial, ethnic,

gender and other demographic diversity on the bench.

7. Viewpoint representativeness: Judges should share the policy preferences of the public. This is important if you believe that judges consciously or subconsciously resolve ambiguities in the law consistently with their own world views.

What does the data say about these qualities?

First, independence and accountability have little to do with the method of selecting judges. They have more to do with the method of retaining judges. Life tenure maximizes independence and minimizes accountability.

Re-election or reappointment maximizes accountability and minimizes independence.

How you retain judges has no necessary connection to how you select them.

Second, there is no good evidence that any method of selection produces more competent judges than any other. This is a surprising

ROBERT MUELLER’S investigation into whether President Donald Trump and the Russians colluded to rig the 2016 presidential election so far has borne little fruit. The Democrats and their media allies would love to find some Russian collusion and interference. I can help them discover some, but I doubt that they will show much interest. Here it goes.

For years, Russia has been the world’s largest oil producer. Within recent times, the U.S. has edged Russia out of the No. 1 spot. Much of the increased U.S. production is attributable to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the shale formations in Texas and North Dakota. Now the U.S. is a net exporter of oil. Exports of oil have exceeded oil imports since 2011. This hasn’t sat well with Russia, which has taken measures to hinder our oil productivity.

An American Spectator magazine story points to the kind of Russian collusion and domestic meddling that meets the approval of Democrats, leftists and their media allies. The story is aptly titled “Russian funding of U.S. environmental groups shows how collusion is done.” A 2014 U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report identified that the San Francisco-based Sea Change Foundation receives funding from a Bermuda-based shell company known as Klein Ltd. Klein Ltd. was created by attorneys from Wakefield Quin, a law firm that has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Klein Ltd. operates as a “pass-through” organization for foreign funds going into the U.S. The IRS requires nonprofit organizations to file 990 forms that report their activities. Those 990s show that Klein Ltd. contributed $23 million to the Sea Change Foundation in 2010 and again in 2011.

That’s about half of the contributions Sea Change Foundation received during those years. Those same 990 forms show that the Sea Change Foundation distributed more than $20 million in grants in 2010 and 2011 to environmental organizations.

It gave more than $40 million in grants to leftist environmental groups, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Sierra Club Foundation, the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the Tides Foundation, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the World Wildlife Fund.

result, but scholars have looked at it every which way we know how.

Third, there is no good evidence that any system produces more racial or gender diversity than the others. Some studies say one thing, other studies say the opposite. Nothing can be concluded.

Fourth, there is a bit of evidence that elections fare the worst on integrity. Elected judges are sanctioned more often by judicial disciplinary bodies. The studies on this are not very numerous or compelling, but I will count them as a slight plus for commission and political appointment systems.

Fifth, there is fairly strong evidence that elections fare worse on legitimacy than the other systems do. This is because of campaign contributions. When scholars ask the public what they think about judges sitting on cases where one of the lawyers or one of the litigants gave the judge money, the public does not trust the judge’s decision. The same reaction has been found when the judge benefited from independent expenditures from one of the lawyers or one of the litigants. I do not think you can run an election without campaign contributions or the right to make independent expenditures. This is another plus — a bigger plus — for the commission and political appointment systems.

If you have been keeping track, there is a tie thus far between commissions and political appointments. The first two criteria were irrelevant; the next two were a wash. The fifth was a small plus for commissions and political appointments. The sixth was a large plus for them.

To decide between these two systems, it comes down to the last factor: viewpoint representativeness. There is emerging evidence that shows that the views of judges selected by commission systems are further away from the public’s views in their states than those of judges selected by political appointment. Why would this be the case? The leading hypothesis is that, because the lawyer population is so much more liberal than the general population, if the lawyer population is not screened for ideology during judicial selection, then the population of judges will look more like the population of lawyers than the general population. The commission system (and, the studies show, nonpartisan elections) do not screen as well for ideology as political appointment (and partisan elections) — or, even worse, reinforces the existing leftward bias in the lawyer population by asking the bar itself to do the screening. These studies break the tie: political appointment wins.

All this goes to say that sometimes the best answers are the ones that have been staring us in the face all along. Political appointment of judges is one of them.

If environmentalists can thwart U.S. oil production, Russia stands to gain greater economic and political power.”

Brian Fitzpatrick is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

In return for the grant money, those leftist environmentalists were “to promote awareness of climate change,” “reduce reliance on high carbon energy,” “educate the public about climate and clean energy” and “promote climate and clean energy communications.” A U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee report, titled “Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media,” details that the environmental groups used the Russian money to protest the process of fracking and fight the building of the Keystone XL pipeline. If environmentalists can thwart U.S. oil production, Russia, which is a major energy supplier to Europe, stands to gain greater economic and political power.

Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, has raised the possibility that those complicit in the scheme to use American environmentalists to advance Russian propaganda and interests could be in violation of federal statutes that apply to foreign agents lobbying in behalf of foreign interests.

Russia is also a major supplier of natural gas to all of Europe. U.S. natural gas producers long wished to export some of their product to Europe and Japan to take advantage of higher prices. But up until 2016, they were blocked by natural gas export restrictions. In the case of natural gas, the Russians didn’t have to bribe environmentalists to do their dirty work. They had willing support from U.S. industrial giants such as Dow, Alcoa, Celanese and Nucor, members of America’s Energy Advantage. These U.S. companies lobbied against natural gas exports, saying that it would be unpatriotic to allow unlimited natural gas exports.

Export restrictions kept natural gas prices artificially low and gave U.S. manufacturing companies a raw material advantage. The lifting of export restrictions has raised natural gas prices in the U.S. but lowered them in the recipient countries and weakened Russia’s economic and political hold on Europe. In my book, that’s a good thing.

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“We’re a better team when we feel like people are doubting us.”

Mike Fox, UNC coach

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UNC coach Mike Fox leads the top-seeded Tar Heels into this week’s ACC Tournament.

the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT

SPORTS

GOLF

Wake’s Kupcho wins NCAA’s women’s golf championship Stillwater, Okla.

A year after finishing second at the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championships, Wake Forest’s Jennifer Kupcho got her redemption. The junior from Colorado jumped to an early lead with a course-record 7-under 65 in the first round and finished the tournament Monday at 8 under par to win by two strokes at Oklahoma State’s Karsten Creek Golf Club. Kupcho is the first Wake Forest woman to win an NCAA individual golf title.

LACROSSE

Duke advances to men’s lacrosse Final Four Annapolis, Md. The Blue Devils beat Johns Hopkins 14-9 Sunday in Annapolis, Md., to advance to the men’s lacrosse Final Four for the 11th time in school history and ninth time in 12 seasons under coach John Danowski. With the win, Duke will take on former ACC rival and top-seeded Maryland in the national semifinals Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in Foxboro, Mass. Second-seeded Albany and third-seeded Yale will play in the other semifinal.

HOCKEY

Aho named top forward; Hurricanes sign Finnish teammate Maenalanen Copenhagen, Denmark While Finland was upset in the opening game of the medal round of the IIHF World Championships, Hurricanes forward Sebastian Aho still finished with nine goals and nine assists in eight games to be named best forward at the tournament. One of his teammates at the tournament, forward Saku Maenalanen, will be joining Aho in North Carolina. The Hurricanes signed Maenalanen, an unsigned 2013 fifth-round pick by Nashville, to a one-year entry-level contract on Friday.

The 6-foot-3½, 185-pound Maenalanen had 17 goals and 29 assists for Karpat of SMliiga last season.

Parity provides wide-open tournament for ACC baseball said Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall. “That top 10 is loaded with ACC teams. The national perception is that the league is down, but there’s a lot of teams at a little bit

By Shawn Krest under that .500 mark. Every team North State Journal from one through 12 has a couple good starters and a couple good relievers. I think our league is as DOWN? Or wide open?

As the 2018 ACC Baseball good as it has been and probably Tournament opens at Durham deeper than it ever has been.”

So, have the top teams fallen Bulls Athletic Park, opinions on back to the pack, or has the rest of the state of the league are mixed. the league caught up to The classic powthem? That’s a question ers have fallen on hard that the NCAA Tournatimes: Virginia, the ment will help sort out, 2015 national cham- “I think our starting next week. For pions, are the 10 seed. the time being, howevFlorida State, winners league is er, the leaguewide parof two of the last three as good as ity ensures a wild week tournaments, is a six at DBAP. seed. Perennial pow- it has been “If you gave me six er Miami needed a 10- and probably teams to pick, I could game winning streak deeper than very easily lose,” said to get over .500 in the it ever has FSU coach Mike Marleague. tin, “because somebody In their place are been.” else would win it. Any North Carolina, NC of 12 teams can win this State and Duke, Trianthing.” gle teams that have re- Danny Hall, “Any time the bottom sided in or near the top Georgia Tech half catches up to the 10 all season and are coach top half, it makes for a the top seeds in three of great league,” said Louthe tourney’s four pods — Clemson tops the fourth pod. isville coach Dan McDonnell.

Here’s a look at the four pods It’s the first time that three teams from the state are in the top four and what to expect this week: seeds since 1991.

“All you have to do is look at the national rankings and the RPI,” See BASEBALL, page B3

N.C. schools hold three of the top four seeds

JIM DEDMON | USA TODAY SPORTS

Kevin Harvick takes the checkered flag during the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Open at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Harvick continues strong season with All-Star win NASCAR’s restrictor plate and spoiler package results in competitive racing Field Level Media KEVIN HARVICK has dominated NASCAR this season, and there was no reason to think he wouldn’t do it again at Saturday night’s All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

On a restart with two laps to go, Harvick chose the outside lane, and the help of Ford stablemate Joey Logano pushed him past Daniel Suarez and into the lead.

That move was worth a cool $1 million when Harvick held off Suarez for his second victory in the All-Star Race.

“Our car was super fast and would accelerate well, and I just felt like if we could get to Turn 2 even we could take it on the backstretch,” Harvick said after the race on FS1.

And that’s how it unfolded, which for Suarez was bittersweet.

“It was not bad, but it hurts to be close and not win it,” he said on FS1.

But the biggest winner could be NASCAR after the way the cars ran against each other at Charlotte Motor Speedway. In fact, it

might be worth a fortune to the sport’s sagging ratings and reputation.

A race package that had restrictor plates being used as well as a taller spoilers led to hard racing all over the track, if not necessarily always at the front, but even so the lead car couldn’t just check out and run away. That’s been lacking at 1.5-mile tracks such as Charlotte for years.

That package will not be used for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte or the rest of the year because of an agreement with the race teams, but might be used in 2019 and beyond.

But fans may be clamoring, even demanding, the change before they go to sleep. Social media was decidedly in favor of the new package after the events.

And one track similar to Charlotte seemed convinced, with Texas Motor Speedway’s Twitter account showing, complete with a begging kitten GIF, “@NASCAR, one #AllStarRace package plz.”

Harvick, who has won five points races this season, took the first 30-lap segment of the race, holding off Martin Truex Jr. as the laps wound down.

Kyle Busch took Stage 2 with Suarez second after another 20 See HARVICK, page B4

INSIDE

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association baseball tournament is ongoing, but Topsail High School was kept from participating due to an ineligible player.

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TRENDING

Tom Jurich: The fired Louisville athletic director agreed to a $4.5 million buyout with the university.

Louisville announced Friday that Jurich would receive the buyout in addition to nearly $2 million in deferred payments. As part of the settlement, Jurich is officially “terminated without cause.”

Louisville placed Jurich on administrative leave and parted with head coach Rick Pitino after FBI investigators alleged Adidas paid $100,000 to a recruit for Louisville and that an assistant coach knew of the payment.

Johnny Manziel: The former first‑round pick didn’t find any NFL takers, so he will resume his playing career in the Canadian Football League. Manziel signed a two-year contract with the Hamilton Tiger‑Cats, who extended a qualifying offer in January, and is committed to the CFL through the 2019 season.

J.J. Watt: The Houston Texans star defensive end will pay for the funerals of the 10 people killed in the shooting at Santa Fe High School on Friday morning, the team confirmed. Ten more people were wounded in the attack, which occurred when a 17-year-old armed with a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at the high school, which is roughly 30 miles from downtown Houston.

Watt was selected as the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year in February and named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in April after he raised more than $37 million to help relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston and more of the southwest.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

HORSE RACING

Triple Crown Fever is alive and well, thanks to Justify’s hard-fought victory Saturday afternoon in the 143rd Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Justify sped to the front out of the gate in the middle jewel of the three Triple Crown races, battled with Good Magic until the turn for home and pulled away in the stretch before holding off late-running Bravazo in the final strides to win.

KYLE TERADA | USA TODAY SPORTS

“She was telling me how I need to wash my mouth out, saying to wash it out with soap.”

Golden State’s Stephen Curry on his mother, Sonya, letting him know she didn’t approve of his explicit language from Sunday’s Game 3 against Houston.

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MLB

NBA

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“Growing up, he was my favorite player. That was really a special moment for me.”

Celtics rookie and former Duke forward Jayson Tatum on accepting criticism from former player Kobe Bryant on his ESPN show.

PRIME NUMBER

105

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PATRICK GORSKI | USA TODAY SPORTS

Nineteen-year-old Juan Soto, the youngest player in the major leagues since the 2012 season, hit a threerun home run in the first at-bat of his first big league start Monday night to trigger the Nationals to a 10-2 win over the visiting Padres. Teammate Bryce Harper was the last teenager to homer, back on Sept. 30, 2012.

After winning last Tuesday’s NBA Draft lottery, Phoenix Suns GM Ryan McDonough said, while it’s unlikely they’d pull the trigger, the team will consider all options with the No. 1 pick next month, including a trade. He said Friday an offer including a rising star with a few years under contract could be tempting.

NHL

Speed in miles per hour of two sinkers thrown

by St. Louis Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks on Sunday, making the rookie just the second player to hit that number on the radar gun.

The Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman is the only other pitcher to hit 105 mph since pitch tracking started in 2008.

AMBER SEARLS | USA TODAY SPORTS

Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby made 24 saves in a 3-0 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning, forcing a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference finals. T.J. Oshie scored twice, including an empty-net tally, and Devante SmithPelly also produced a goal for the Capitals, who will return to Tampa, Fla., for Wednesday night’s series finale.

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North State Journal for Wednesday, May 23, 2018

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Topsail teen’s family trying to understand baseball ineligibility

BASEBALL from page B1 North Carolina: 37-17, 22-8 ACC, top seed Mike Fox’s Tar Heels hit a late-season skid, losing to Coastal Carolina and dropping a series against Duke. The Heels appear to have righted the ship against Virginia Tech, however.

“We lost to some good teams,” Fox said. “The ball didn’t bounce our way. We didn’t get the big hit, didn’t get it done out of the bullpen. But the tournament is a different animal — everybody plays at a high level. We’re a better team when we feel like people are doubting us. We play with a little bit of an edge. Maybe we came out of the exam period and lost a little bit of that. Maybe we got it back last weekend.”

The Heels will need to get past No. 8 Georgia Tech and No. 12 Pitt to advance to the semifinals.

UNC should get a boost from the return of ace starting pitcher Luca Dalatri, who missed 12 weeks with an injury before returning to the mound last weekend.

Clemson: 43-13, 22-8, No. 2 seed

Alex Postma’s father says school system still hasn’t explained why his son’s team was denied a spot in NCHSAA playoffs

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal BEING A PART of the Topsail High baseball team was probably the best thing happened to Alex Postma this school year.

Until it became the worst thing that happened to him.

The Pender County teenager, who despite being intellectually gifted is considered disabled because of a severe anxiety and depression condition, became the center of a controversy earlier this month when he was unexpectedly ruled ineligible for competition.

His change of status forced his team to forfeit all but one of its 17 wins and cost it a spot in the 3A state playoffs.

It’s a decision that has brought about two separate investigations to date and sparked a variety of emotions, ranging from disappointment to outrage to disbelief, throughout the Topsail community and beyond.

According to Postma’s father, the situation has done considerably more damage than just the premature end to an otherwise successful season.

“Alex usually struggles this time of the year anyway, and with this on top of it, it doesn’t help,” Michael Postma said of his son, a senior.

“We’re trying to get him through to graduate, but he’s been sleeping a lot and not being very productive.

We’re kind of just pushing him to the finish line and hoping he can get through it.”

Complicating matters for the Postma family and others connected with the Pirates’ baseball program is that no one — including those who made the decision — seems quite sure why Alex was ruled ineligible.

A meeting between Alex’s mother, Julie Postma, and Topsail principal Berry Simmons the day after the ruling provided little clarity.

The family is hoping that a scheduled meeting with Pender County School Superintendent Steven Hill on Wednesday will help them gain a better understanding of the situation.

But Michael Postma isn’t optimistic.

“Hopefully we’ll get a little more of an explanation there,” he said.

“Quite frankly, I don’t think even (Hill) knows all the facts. … We really don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. We suspect it’s not just about Alex. We think there’s something more going on.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN BLEVINS | STAR-NEWS

Topsail’s Shane Nolan drops the ball as Ashley’s Lee Fentress dives back to second base in a Mideastern Conference baseball game April 6 at Ashley High School.

The elder Postma believes his son’s problems can be traced to a “crash” Alex experienced early in the school year that caused him to fall behind in his coursework and — despite a move to an online program — ultimately drop two of those classes.

“The anxiety hits him, and cognitively he cannot function very well,” said Michael Postma, a former teacher and school administrator who has worked extensively with twice-exceptional children such as his own. “It’s hard to even get him out of bed. He internalizes, then he starts spiraling negatively.

Even the simplest of tasks become very difficult. He reasons his way out of them in his own mind.”

Michael Postma said his son has suffered from numerous such episodes. What made this one different from the others was baseball.

“In mid-November, he really made the decision to get competitive again, because he’d been out of baseball for three years, and he knew he needed to get in shape and get back in the game,” Michael Postma said. “We started practicing, and he was working out almost daily. It was quite courageous that he went out for the team. I didn’t think he would do it.”

Alex didn’t just try out for the team. He was actually chosen to become a member of it.

It’s a position his father said he earned, despite a characterization in the media since the controversy came to light that his son was only taken on the team because of his disability.

“He’s been made out to be some kind of charity case. He’s not,” Mi-

“This was a new Alex we were seeing, because he loves baseball. ... When he was playing ball, working out, he was in there cheering. He was talking to the boys and had become fairly close. That’s a huge thing for a kid like that.”

Michael Postma, Alex’s father chael Postma said. “He made the team on his merit. The coaches and players had no idea what he was dealing with, and he’s a good ballplayer. He made the team, and we were thrilled.”

So was Alex.

Although he saw only limited action for the Pirates, batting three times with one RBI while making most of his contributions as a courtesy runner, the experience of playing, practicing and simply being a member of the team was therapeutic for the usually noncommunicative young player.

“This was a new Alex we were seeing, because he loves baseball.” his father said. “When he was playing ball, working out, he was in there cheering. He was talking to the boys and had become fairly close. That’s a huge thing for a kid like that.”

Then, in the blink of an eye, it all came to an end.

The ruling likely stems from

those two online classes Alex wasn’t able to finish during the fall semester. If so, the problem should have been caught before the season ever started.

But when coach Aaron Rimer submitted his roster to athletic director Barry West for approval, all members of the team — including Alex — were certified as eligible.

“It’s frustrating,” Michael Postma said. “I think the worst piece is that the entire team got penalized for something that no one really quite quantified until late in the game.”

The forfeits and playoff disqualification were a devastating blow to a team that had a legitimate shot at winning a state championship.

As heart-wrenching as the decision was, the rest of the players on the squad have remained solidly behind Alex.

“The kid didn’t even know he was ineligible,” senior Colby Emmertz told a local Wilmington television station shortly after the ruling was announced. “It wasn’t his fault.”

That’s a sentiment most of Alex’s teammates have expressed to him via text.

His father said the messages have meant a lot to his son, even though it might take a while for him to respond to them.

“He needs time to process this all,” Michael Postma said. “I think in a few weeks, he’ll come around again. They’ve told him this is not his fault and they still support him.

I think that’s important for him to understand, but this still a burden on him.”

Duke football takes service trip to Guatemala Duke long snapper Ben Wyatt and 12 other members of the Duke football team spent a week in Guatemala building a house and stoves for impoverished people in the Central American nation.

Blue Devils spend week building homes, stoves

By Shawn Krest North State Journal SUMMER BREAK is usually a time for college athletes to rest, recharge their batteries and begin preparing for the next season in the weight room.

For 13 members of the Duke football team, however, it was a chance to change the world for the better.

The Blue Devil contingent spent the week between Duke’s spring semester and first summer session in Guatemala, doing work for Habitat for Humanity.

“This was not a tourist trip,” said Gabe Brandner, Duke’s starting left tackle for the last three years. “It was very much a service trip.”

Brandner and backup quarterback Parker Boehme, both recent graduates, were joined by nine current Duke players — long snapper Ben Wyatt, linebacker Brandon Hill, running back Elijah Deveaux, linebacker Koby Quansah, quarterback Daniel Karlin, cornerback Antone Williams, tight end Daniel Helm, defensive tackle Scott Jones and linebacker Kevin Gehsmann.

“We also had (coordinator of player personnel) Will Cole, who manages our recruiting, our team pastor Mitch (James Mitchell) and Dean Sue (Wasiolek), our dean of students,” Brandner said.

The team has worked with Durham Habitat for Humanity on several short-term projects during

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEN WYATT

the school year, and that organization helped them find an assignment in Guatemala.

“The big selling point was allowing us to have the experience and opportunity to go to another country and go through this as a team,” said Wyatt, whose family has a charity organization that does similar work in Costa Rica. “The camaraderie built over the week was unbelievable.”

The Blue Devils stayed in hostels in Antigua and worked in the village of El Rejon on a pair of projects.

“We had three different groups that rotated,” said Wyatt. “One group would go help with a house.”

The team members helped to build the foundation for a Habitat

“The camaraderie built over the week was unbelievable.”

Ben Wyatt, Duke long snapper house, working with experienced masons from the area.

“The work ethic of the people we were with was amazing,” said Brandner. “They were 70-, 80-yearold men doing very intense labor. When they don’t have groups helping out, that’s their job. They get paid per house. And they were showing up these 20-year-old football players.”

Still, the size and strength of the

football team certainly came in handy.

“We were able to get a lot of work done in that time,” Wyatt said. “Being able to have the physical aspect, coming from the football team. We were a lot of hard workers.”

“They told us we saved the masons two weeks of work,” Brandner added.

The other two groups built stoves for existing homes in the village.

“Habitat told us that 70 percent of Guatemala lives in poverty,” Brandner said. “And of that 70 percent, 30 percent lives in extreme poverty, which is earning one to two dollars a day. The house was part of the 70 percent, and the stoves were the 30 percent.”

“These women are literally cook-

The only pod with no in-state representative will have Clemson battle No. 7 Miami and No. 11 Notre Dame.

Miami enters what will be retiring coach Jim Morris’ final postseason on a 10-game win streak. “Your goal as a coach is to be hot entering the postseason,” he said. “We look a lot better than we did two weeks ago.”

NC State: 40-14, 19-11, No. 3 seed Elliott Avent’s Wolfpack drew the big names, in UVA and FSU. The pool play rematch with the Seminoles will give the Pack a chance to avenge a tough series loss to close the regular season. State lost back-toback walk-off heartbreakers. “That series was about as good as it gets,” said FSU’s Martin. “It was extremely exciting — a great way to spend a weekend watching very good college baseball.”

“They’re fresh on my mind,” Avent said of the Noles. “We just got through playing them. They’re just as hot as they can be right now.

Good teams are good teams, but good teams on a roll present quite a problem.”

Duke: 39-14, 18-11 No. 4 seed Chris Pollard’s pod includes No. 5 Louisville and No. 9 Wake Forest and is a microcosm of the league.

“It looks like the toughest pool to me, on paper,” said Wake coach Tom Walter. “The four-five-nine pool is always tough because there’s no difference between one through five.”

Wake and Louisville are both very young and appear to have jelled as the season went on, while Duke has had one of the best seasons in school history.

“I’m proud of our club,” Pollard said. “We had what is in a lot of ways an historic season. We played some of our best baseball down the stretch.”

ing on the floor with soot,” Brandner added. “I couldn’t stay in one of those houses more than 20 minutes. They do that daily — they have to go and cut down firewood and carry it.”

The players did five-to-six hours of labor a day, working from 9 a.m. until about 3 p.m. After that, they got to experience Guatemalan culture.

“We were able to have some fun,” Wyatt said. “We were able to go to some salsa dance classes, which was absolutely hilarious. I’m not the best dancer, but everyone tried their best. We also got to hike an active volcano.”

The players also took breaks during the day to challenge local school children to games of soccer, learning a hard lesson about what the rest of the world calls football.

“They were first- through sixth-graders,” Wyatt said, “and we got our butts kicked. We lost like 4-1 every time.”

Seeing the extreme poverty was moving, but it wasn’t what the Blue Devils took away from the trip.

“There was such happiness there,” Brandner said. “It was eye-opening, inspiring. It was a lesson in being happy with what you have. There was such a satisfaction and enjoyment in daily life that is maybe kind of absent here in the States. Everybody was so appreciative. That’s what you remember, not the difference in quality of life.”

“I think biggest win from this trip was the experience that the people gave us,” Wyatt added. “The attitudes they had that we could learn from. The graciousness and humility of these people was really something amazing.”

“I didn’t want to leave,” Wyatt said. “It was that powerful a trip.”

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North State Journal for Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Hayes dedicated his coaching career to leading HBCUs Former Winston-Salem State and NC A&T football coach, NC Central athletic director enshrined in N.C. Sports Hall of Fame

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal

PHOTO COURTESY OF NC A&T ATHLETICS

Left, Bill Hayes won a combined 195 football games in 27 seasons coaching at Winston-Salem State and NC A&T. Right, Hayes was enshrined into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on May 4, the eighth time he has been inducted into a hall of fame.

RALEIGH — For some, coaching is a profession. For Bill Hayes, it was a calling.

That’s why he decided to jump off the ladder of mainstream opportunity just as he began climbing it in 1976 to take the head coaching job at Winston-Salem State.

Some, including his wife, considered the move a step down from his position at Wake Forest, where he became the first African-American assistant coach in ACC history. But it quickly became a passion for Hayes, who spent the rest of his career toiling and winning in relative anonymity at historically black colleges.

“I remember when I was at Wake Forest, and Winston-Salem State asked me to come be the head football coach. It was crazy,” Hayes said earlier this month when he was inducted as one of the newest members of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

“I had to take a pay cut. My wife said, ‘A re you an idiot?’ But I just had a sense in my heart and soul that those kids needed a guy like me, a guy that was going to be there every day and give them a full day’s work.”

Hayes fulfilled that obligation to his players and then some while going on to become the winningest coach ever at both Winston-Salem State and NC A&T. He compiled 195 victories over 27 seasons before moving into administration in 1987, winning three CIAA titles and three MEAC championships, to go along with Historically Black Colleges and Universities national crowns in 1990 and ’99. He also sent several

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“I just had a sense in my heart and soul that those kids needed a guy like me.”

Bill Hayes players to the NFL. Hayes has earned his share of recognition for his accomplishments, including induction into seven other halls of fame along the way. But it hasn’t been the kind of acclaim he might have gotten had he recorded the same success at Power 5 programs.

It’s a fact that was driven home in 1977 when Hayes was named as the national small college Coach of the Year, the same year Lou Holtz won the award in the major college division.

“I’m on the stage at a convention with 8,000 coaches, and it’s me and Lou Holtz, two old North Carolina guys,” Hayes said. “I didn’t get the kind of credit Lou Holtz got and didn’t make that kind of money, either. But I was there.”

It was an eye-opening experience that could easily have led Hayes to reconsider his commitment to the HBCU ideal.

Instead, it only reminded him of how important it was to him.

Not that he didn’t have opportunities to return to the ACC. “Mack Brown said, ‘Bill, why don’t you come and work with me?’

Hayes said of the former North Carolina coach. “He told me this back in the ’70s and ’80s. He said, ‘I don’t know why you waste your time at those schools.’

“But those kids needed me, a

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BRIAN SPURLOCK | USA TODAY SPORTS

Danica Patrick makes a qualifying run for the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Patrick qualified seventh.

laps. Real drama started to unfold near the end of Stage 3 as Alex Bowman wrecked with two of the 20 laps to go to bring out a caution.

That left drivers and teams to decide if they should pit for fresh tires with the overtime shootout to end Stage 3 and then the final 10 laps of the race, or stay out for track position.

Another crash meant double-overtime to end Stage 3, with Truex, Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch and Brad Keselowski taken out of contention in the wreck.

Harvick passed Suarez on the outside of Turn 4 on the final lap of Stage 3 to take it, setting up the final 10-lap sprint to the finish.

Bowman, Suarez and A.J. Allmendinger advanced out of the All-Star Open, held earlier to allow those not already in the big race to get into the All-Star Race.

Chase Elliott got in via the fan

hard-charging guy, no-nonsense, highly disciplined, got-to-playby-the-rules guy. That’s what they needed. That’s what I gave them.

So God put me there. It wasn’t my choice.”

Even if it was, he probably wouldn’t have changed a thing. He knew from experience that the turf wasn’t necessarily greener on the other side of the college football hill.

Although times and social attitudes changed and improved as his career progressed, Hayes knew from his experience during the early ’70s that it wasn’t always easy being a black coach at a school in the Deep South.

“It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it,” he said. “I just knew that I had to outwork everybody, that’s all.

When (Wake Forest coach Chuck Mills) told us we each had to go out and get three blue-chippers, I’d get 10. If coach said we’re going to be in at 7 o’clock in the morning, I’m going to get there at a quarter past 6. I knew what it was like. I knew who I was. I knew what I had to overcome, and I did it.”

That success is admittedly his most cherished accomplishment.

He’s especially proud of the fact that, even as HBCU schools have begun to assimilate into mainstream conferences and diminish in significance, the three programs for which he is most associated — Winston-Salem State, A&T and NC Central (where he served as athletic director) — are still among the best and most respected in the business.

His association with those schools may not have earned him a fortune, but at the age of 74, it continues to bring him fame.

“This is as good as it gets,” Hayes said of his latest honor. “It says it all to be in your state’s hall of fame.”

vote for the third year in a row.

Bowman won the first stage of the Open, Suarez the second and Allmendinger took the overall honors after the stages of 20 laps, 20 laps and the final 10 were done.

That set up the big event, run in four stages with nothing on the line but $1 million to the winner. How much of that million the drivers see is based on their contracts, as the purse is paid to the team.

Elliott, likely to take the mantle of NASCAR’s most popular driver now that Dale Earnhardt Jr. has retired, was thankful.

“Hopefully this time next year we will be in the big show and we don’t have to worry about it,” Elliott said of the fan vote. “Being the third year in a row, that does mean a lot to me. It is pretty special as a racer that the folks at home voting have my back like that.”

Elliott finished fifth in the AllStar Race.

Carpenter wins Indy 500 pole Charlotte residents Danica Patrick, Josef Newgarden among 33 drivers in the Monday’s field Reuters News Service HOMETOWN favorite Ed Carpenter won the pole for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, topping 230 mph to help restrict Danica Patrick to a third-row start for the final race of her career.

Carpenter, a local resident and the penultimate qualifier, averaged 229.618 mph for four laps to claim the third pole of his career, holding off the powerful Penske team of Simon Pagenaud, Will Power and Josef Newgarden.

“That first lap blew my mind,” said Carpenter after he hit 230 mph on his opening run to huge cheers from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway crowd.

He was the only driver to top 230 in any of their four qualifying laps.

Frenchman Pagenaud (228.761) and Power (228.607) will join Carpenter on the front row for the May 27 race with Newgarden (228.405) on the second row.

Patrick (228.090) will lead off the third row in seventh place

with Brazil’s three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves, who had the fastest average speed on Saturday, beside her. Patrick, recently retired from NASCAR Cup racing, and Newgarden, who races for Team Penske, both live in Charlotte.

“It’s all good and I am glad that part is over with,” Patrick, who is retiring, told ABC television.

“Now it is time for 500 fun miles.”

Carpenter, who owns the team for whom Patrick drives, also started on the pole in 2013-14 but has never won the famed Brickyard race.

“It means everything to me to put us in a position like this,” the 37-year-old Carpenter, who grew up in Indianapolis, said. “It is always nice to start up front, because you can control things a little bit.

“It certainly feels good knowing I got clean air in front of me as long as I get a good start. Of all the pole runs I’ve had here, this one, believe it or not, came the easiest.”

Carpenter, whose best Indy 500 result came in 2008 when he placed fifth, had shown his car’s potential on Saturday when he came on strong to finish second fastest in qualifying runs.

Frenchman Sebastien Bour-

“Now it is time for 500 fun miles.”

Danica Patrick, who qualified seventh for her final race. dais, who missed last year’s race after a horrific crash while fighting for pole, showed no fear as he returned to the Brickyard, grabbing fifth place (228.142).

The former Formula One driver said the crash impacted his run on Sunday.

“It was probably the hardest weekend we have had to go through. It was hard, really hard,” he said.

“I had a little moment there in (turn) one, I didn’t trust it, got my foot off it a bit and it showed big time on the speed.

“What happened last year you can’t just disregard,” he continued. “I probably would have stayed in it pretty easily last year but thought twice about it this year for sure.”

Reigning champion Takuma Sato of Japan will start on the sixth row after posting an average speed of 226.557 in a Honda.

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Kevin Harvick celebrates after his million-dollar win after the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Open at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018

the good life IN A NORTH STATE OF MIND

ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM IV

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Meghan Markle arrives at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle for her wedding to Prince Harry in Windsor, Britain, May 19.

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Queen Elizabeth II arrives at the wedding of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel.

BENTLEY MULSANNE SPEED

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The newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, leaving Windsor Castle after their wedding to attend an evening reception at Frogmore House, hosted by the Prince of Wales, Windsor, Britain.

the royal garage A look at the vehicles at the Royal Wedding

By Clay Abernathy North State Journal PRINCE HARRY and his actress bride, Meghan Markle, married on Saturday in a dazzling ceremony that infused the the 1,000-year-old British monarchy with a blast of modernity. But in between the historical and the current came a parade of vintage vehicles that made traveling from point A to point B luxurious and fashionable. From the queen’s vintage 1950 Rolls-Royce Phantom IV to a Bentley that probably still had that new car smell, Harry and Meghan had the royal car treatment.

Before the key arrivals and the

all-out coverage of Markle’s travels across Windsor, Meghan and her mother, Doria Ragland, arrived at their hotel in a blue Land Rover Range Rover. The top-of-the line Range Rover has a long history as a people-mover for royals. Land Rover’s royal relationship dates to a royal warrant granted by King George VI in 1951. The king has previously received the 100th production Land Rover in 1947 as a gift from the manufacturer.

Queen Elizabeth II has been seen behind the wheel of a Range Rover on many occasions, including driving Kate Middleton around in one in Scotland in 2016.

The star of the car show was arguably the 1950 Rolls-Royce

Phantom IV which carried Markle and her mother on their journey from Cliveden House Hotel to Windsor Castle and then showed up again to drop the bride off at St. George’s Chapel.

Delivered in 1950, Rolls Royce made only 18 Phantom IVs. The most exclusive Rolls-Royce ever, the Phantom IV was delivered strictly to heads of states and members of ruling royal families.

This particular vehicle was delivered with a public announcement that it was “designed to the special order of Their Royal Highnesses, the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.” The car was originally painted Valentine green with a red stripe down either side

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Doria Ragland, Megan Markle’s mother, arrives for her daughter’s wedding.

but was repainted with the royal color scheme of royal claret over black in 1952.

Taking exclusivity up a notch from the Phantom IV, Queen Elizabeth II arrived in the Bentley State Limousine. Only two of these special limousines were ever built, and both are in the queen’s garage. The armored car is capable of withstanding guns and bombs and is rumored to be airtight in case of a gas attack. Also decked out in the royal livery of claret over black — the color scheme of all royal limousines — the Bentley provided ample views of the queen and Prince Philip as they arrived at St. George’s Chapel.

Ragland, like the queen, arrived in a state-of-the-art ride made by Bentley. Ragland strode from a Bentley Mulsanne Speed to the ceremony at St. George’s Chapel after trekking to Windsor Castle with her daughter in the RollsRoyce Phantom IV. According to the British press, this particular vehicle was put into service in 2018. The Mulsanne Speed was

one of the most powerful sedans to make the slow turn inside the walls of Windsor Castle with its 6.8-litre, 522-bhp V8. While surely sporting some royal upgrades, the price for this vehicle on the private market starts at more than $325,000.

While William and Kate favored an Aston Martin to depart their wedding festivities, Harry and Meghan opted for another classic British sportscar by selecting a Jaguar E-Type Concept Zero, which is a modified 1968 E-Type with its gasoline engine replaced by an electric powertrain at Jaguar Land Rover’s Classic Works facility.

Described as “the most beautiful car ever made” by Enzo Ferrari, the Jaguar E-type has been modernized under the hood, and Jaguar says the electric engine pushes the vehicle from 0-62 mph in 5.5 seconds — one second quicker than the original Series 1 E-Type powertrain.

Reuters contributed to this article.

North State Journal for Wednesday, May 23, 2018

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May 25-28 Freedom Balloon Fest Fleming Loop Park, Fuquay Varina See the sky filled with color at the Freedom Balloon Fest in Fleming Loop Park. The four-day festival features more than 30 competing balloons, a variety of local food offerings, live entertainment and tethered balloon rides benefiting charities. Go to visitraleigh.com for more information.

NeCessities! history marked May 23, 1987

May 26, 1884

May 28, 1845

Vietnam monument at State Capitol dedicated

The Watauga Club and the origins of NC State University

John Reed and the N.C. gold rush

On May 23, 1987, the North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the grounds of the State Capitol in Raleigh. Named “After the Firefight,” the memorial honors the more than 206,000 men and women of the state who served in the Vietnam War. Designed by Abbe Godwin of Colfax in Guilford County, the monument depicts two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade to a nearby landing zone to await medical help. The clothing and equipment of the soldiers portrayed were sculpted from items loaned to the artist by Vietnam veterans.

During the four years she worked on the project, Godwin immersed herself in the conflict, collecting artifacts, reading histories and literature from the period extensively, and talking to Vietnam veterans.

The monument was the first on the Capitol grounds to be authorized since the World War II-era and is the first to be sculpted by a woman. It is also the first on Union Square to depict an African-American.

On May 26, 1884, the Watauga Club was founded.

Comprised of a number of influential young leaders under the age of 30, including William Joseph Peele, Josephus Daniels and Walter Hines Page, the progressive organization championed several causes that its members hoped would set the state on a positive course into the future. Improved roads, more effective farming and agricultural techniques and better schools were all touted by the club as it attempted to bring the state into a more modern era.

But perhaps the most important and successful of the group’s goals was the establishment of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts.

That institution was founded three years later, in 1887, and went on to become North Carolina State University. The Watauga Club remains in existence today and includes about two dozen members, most of whom are influential leaders in the Raleigh area. NC State University commemorates the club each year with its Watauga Medal. Two or three outstanding people are chosen to receive the honor, which “recognize[s] individuals who have rendered significant and distinguished service to North Carolina State University.”

On May 28, 1845, John Reed, the owner of the property where the first documented discovery of gold in the United States took place, died. In 1799, Reed’s son, Conrad, found a 17-pound yellow rock in Little Meadow Creek. Conrad brought it home where it was used as a doorstop for years. The elder Reed made several unsuccessful attempts to discern the rock’s value. In 1802, a merchant in Fayetteville paid the family $3.50 for it. Later Reed discovered that the rock was in fact gold and that the merchant received $3,600 from its sale. In 1803, after turning a substantial profit selling nuggets found along the creek, Reed ventured into a partnership to purchase slaves to search for gold. The venture was rewarded with a 28-pound nugget, the discovery of which sparked an era of gold fever. The Reed Mine helped establish North Carolina’s mining industry 20 years before the California gold rush. So much gold was discovered in the Charlotte area that, in 1837, the Federal Government established a branch United States Mint there to transform it into currency.

In recognition of the mine’s contribution to state history, the Reed Gold Mine is now a state historic site.

May 25-27 Animazement Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh Celebrate Japanese visual culture at Animazement — a fan-run and volunteer-based anime convention. See fans dressed in unique costumes, listen to J-pop/ rock concerts, watch martial art demos and enjoy a variety of anime vendors and much more.

Visit animazement.com for more information.

May 25- 26 Swain County Heritage Festival Riverfront Park, Bryson City Discover the culture and roots of Swain County at the Swain County Heritage Festival. Listen to gospel talents, bluegrass and country entertainment, and see log-sawing contests, sack races and much more at this family-friendly event.

Festival hours are Friday 6-9 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

May 25

PHOTO COURTESY OF DENNIS MIYASHIRO CC

Beloved chef ‘Mama Dip’ left a flavorful legacy

Downtown Sundown Concert Series North Water Street, Wilmington Back for the summer is Wilmington’s free downtown concert series featureing concerts on the riverfront every Friday night.

This summer’s lineup includes cover tunes of Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and many more favorites. Visit wilmingtonandbeaches.com for more information.

May 26-27

PHOTO COURTESY OF MAMA DIP’S

Garden Jubilee Main Street, Hendersonville Explore downtown Hendersonville where eight street blocks will be filled with beautiful plants and flowers for the Garden Jubilee. Shop from more than 200 vendors selling annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs and garden accessories. Go to visithendersonvillenc.org for more information.

May 26 Lawn Mower Races Fairgrounds, North Wilkesboro Take your lawn mowers to the street for the annual Lawn Mower Races presented by the Rebels and Rednecks Mower Racing Association. The event will be filled with lots of noise, dust and fun as racers compete on dirt tracks on their fully equipped lawn mowers.

Visit lawnmower-racing.com for more information.

Mildred Council, founder of famed Mama Dip’s Kitchen in Chapel Hill, died May 20 at the age of 89. Council, who opened her restaurant in 1976, named it for the childhood nickname given to her by her siblings — her height and long arms allowed her to “dip” all the way into the bottom of the rain barrel.

Born in Chatham County to Ed and Effie Edwards Cotton, Council learned to cook by watching her family and neighbors who used a method of cooking by taste. The style — known as “Dump Cooking” —involves no recipes, just measuring by eye, feel, taste and testing. Mama Dip worked in other restaurants early in her career where she honed her craft. In 1957, she worked with her mother-in-law at a small takeout kitchen, where they made a reputation for turning out great country cooking.

Council authored two cookbooks, “Mama Dip’s Kitchen” and “Mama Dip’s Family Cookbook.” Those books went beyond recipes into stories about Council’s life and food.

Council was featured on “Good Morning America,” “The Food Network” and appeared on an episode of Rachael Ray’s “$40 a Day” show.

Memorial Day travel will be largest since 2005 NSJ Staff RALEIGH — U.S. travelers will hit the roads, rails and airports this Memorial Day Weekend by the largest numbers in more than a decade, despite the highest gasoline prices in four years according to AAA, the nation’s largest automotive advocacy group. In the Tarheel State, AAA estimates a 5 percent increase from last year.

Nationally, more than 41.5 million Americans will travel 50 miles over Memorial Day weekend, a national holiday to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country and its armed forces.

Over 1.26 million North Carolinians are expected to hit to road for the weekend which marks the unofficial start of summer.

This year will mark the highest travel volume since 2005, when

there were some 44 million travelers, according to the AAA. “Although Carolinians will be filling up at the pumps with the highest gas prices since 2014, that won’t keep them at home,” said Tiffany Wright, AAA Carolinas spokesperson. “A strong economy and growing consumer confidence are giving Carolinians the motivation they need to kick off what we expect to be a busy summer travel season with a Memorial Day getaway.”

The 88 percent of travelers choosing to drive will pay the most expensive Memorial Day gas prices in four years. Gas prices average $2.73 in North Carolina — a 52-cent increase from the $2.21 Memorial Day price in 2017. These higher prices are not keeping holiday travelers home, with automobile travel expected to increase for the fourth straight year.

“A strong economy and growing consumer confidence are giving Americans all the motivation they need to kick off what we expect to be a busy summer travel season with a Memorial Day getaway,” said Bill Sutherland, senior vice president at AAA. While road trippers will pay higher prices at the gas pump this year, travelers can expect some relief in their wallets when paying for airfare, car rentals and most midrange hotels. According to AAA’s Leisure Travel Index, airfares are 7 percent lower than last Memorial Day, landing at an average price of $168 for a round-trip flight along the top 40 domestic routes. At $59, the average daily cost of a car rental this Memorial Day is the lowest rate in the past four years and 11 percent cheaper than last year.

Top Memorial Day travel destinations for Carolinians: ​ By vehicle: Myrtle Beach, S.C. Washington, D.C. Orlando, Fla. Asheville, N.C. St. Augustine, Fla.

By air: Alaska Italy Dominican Republic Bahamas Jamaica

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TAKE NOTICE CABARRUS AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 15 SP 657 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Yolanda R. Lowery to Costner Law Office, PLLC, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of November, 2014, and recorded in Book 11195, Page 281, in Cabarrus 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 Cabarrus 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on June 4, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 432 as shown on Subdivision Plat of The Mills, Phase 3, Map 2, recorded in Book 63 at Pages 100-101 in the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Public Records. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2271 Drake Mill Lane SW, Concord, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1163023 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 507 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Juan C. Rodriguez (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Juan Rodriguez) to Henry V. Cunningham, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 22nd day of June, 2009, and recorded in Book 8793, Page 57, and Modification in Book 11273, Page 299, and Modification in Book 12389, Page 173, in Cabarrus 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 Cabarrus 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on June 4, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 36 of TUCKER CHASE, Map 2, as same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Map Book 48, at Page 82, in the Cabarrus County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 11639 Tucker Field Road, Midland, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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 posses-

sion 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: 1220711 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

JOHNSTON NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 43 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Faheem Allibhai and Starlena Barnes to Allan B. Polunsky, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of July, 2013, and recorded in Book 4322, Page 224, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 5, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 2358, Riverwood Athletic Club, Ravens Ridge, Phases 2D and 2F, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 77, Page 418 and 419, Johnston County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of said lot.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 432 McCarthy Drive, Clayton, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1232694 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 723 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James H. Briley and Elsie G. Briley, (James H. Briley, deceased) to PBRE, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of July, 2009, and recorded in Book 3739, Page 595, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 5, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Beulah, in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Situate in Beulah Township, Johnston County, North Carolina, in the outskirts of the Town of Kenly, North Carolina, and fronting 200 feet on the east side of State Road No. 2159 and running back between parallel lines to a depth of 432.15 feet from the center line of aforesaid road. It begins at a nail and cap in center line of aforesaid road which said BEGINNING point is South 14 degrees 53 minutes East 464.30 feet from a nail and cap in center line of road in property line of Albert Holland and Bobby E. Barnes and from this BEGINNING point runs thence South 83 degrees 47 minutes East 432.15 feet to an iron stake a new corner with Bobby E. Barnes; thence South 14 degrees 53 minutes East 200 feet to an iron stake a new corner with Bobby E. Barnes; thence North 83 degrees 47 minutes West 432.15 feet to a nail and cap in the center line of State Road No. 2159; thence along center line of aforesaid road North 14 degrees 53 minutes West 200 feet to the point and place of Beginning, containing 1.85 of an acre according to a map prepared by Ragsdale Engineers dated December 15, 1976, and entitled “Property of Ronnie Gerald Lane and wife, Elise Glover Lane.” See Book 810, Page 227 and Book 1047, Page 561. Together with improve-

ments located thereon; said property being located at 878 Bay Valley Road, Kenly, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1230515 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 606 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by David C. Wolfe and Diane Parker (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Diana Parker and David Wolfe) to Douglas Douglas, Connie Iampieri, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of March, 2006, and recorded in Book 3092, Page 175, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on May 29, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 29 of the Horse Creek Subdivision, Phase II, as shown on a plat recorded in Plat Book 50, Page 35, Johnston Count Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 168 Horse Creek Trail, Middlesex, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1225195 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 16, 2018 and May 23, 2018

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 14 SP 74 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Matthew D. Mayle and Brandy Mayle to Frances Jones, Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of November, 2011, and recorded in Book 4052, Page 264, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 5, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 165, Creekstone Subdivision, Phase 7, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 49, Page 395, Johnston County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of said lot. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 115 Sunrise Circle, Benson, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1129335 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 202 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Marco E. Stallings and Virginia R. Stallings, (Marco E. Stallings and Virginia R. Stallings, both deceased) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Katherine G. Crowder) to John M. Hunter, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of January, 1996, and recorded in Book 1492, Page 762, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 5, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron stake in the northern right of way of State Road No. 1550, said point being the intersection of the right of way of State Road No. 1550 and Ashley Drive; runs thence along the right of way of State Road No. 1550 North 64 degrees 07 minutes East 110 feet to an iron stake; runs thence North 25 degrees 53 minutes West 200 feet to an iron stake; runs thence South 64 degrees 07 minutes West 110 feet to an iron stake in the eastern right of way of Ashley Drive; runs thence continuing along said right of way line South 25 degrees 53 minutes East 200 feet to an iron stake at the intersection of the right of way of Ashley Drive and State Road No. 1550, the point and place of BEGINNING, and being all of Lot 45, Orton Acres, as shown on map and survey of Arthur R. Denning, R.L.S., dated October 20, 1969. Johnston County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 527 Winston Road, Clayton, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1229677 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 202 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Marco E. Stallings and Virginia R. Stallings, (Marco E. Stallings and Virginia R. Stallings, both deceased) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Katherine G. Crowder) to John M. Hunter, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of January, 1996, and recorded in Book 1492, Page 762, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on June 5, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron stake in the northern right of way of State Road No. 1550, said point being the intersection of the right of way of State Road No. 1550 and Ashley Drive; runs thence along the right of way of State Road No. 1550 North 64 degrees 07 minutes East 110 feet to an iron stake; runs thence North 25 degrees 53 minutes West 200 feet to an iron stake; runs thence South 64 degrees 07 minutes West 110 feet to an iron stake in the eastern right of way of Ashley Drive; runs thence continuing along said right of way line South 25 degrees 53 minutes East 200 feet to an iron stake at the intersection of the right of way of Ashley Drive and State Road No. 1550, the point and place of BEGINNING, and being all of Lot 45, Orton Acres, as shown on map and survey of Arthur R. Denning, R.L.S., dated October 20, 1969. Johnston County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 527 Winston Road, Clayton, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1229677 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

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TAKE NOTICE RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 105 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bentley P. Merritt and Patricia K. Merritt to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of May, 2012, and recorded in Book RE 2285, Page 692, in Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on May 29, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 2, containing 5.36 acres, more or less, of a survey entitled “Final Plat for Family Division Estate, rerecorded of Plat Book 51, Page 29” as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book 85, Page 43, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Randolph County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6615 Maplegate Lane, Pleasant Garden, North Carolina.

Together with a 50 foot easement for ingress, egress and regress to Whitt Hunt Road more particularly described as “50.0’ access easement for private road” on Plat recorded in Plat Book 85, Page 43, Randolph County Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1238199 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 16, 2018 and May 23, 2018

STANLY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 65 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Wayne H. Anderson, Jr. and Amanda Anderson to Investors Title Insurance Co., Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of August, 2016, and recorded in Book 1575, Page 588, 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 June 6, 2018 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 No. 6, as shown on plat entitled “Subdivision of Land for Clayton R. Mauldin”, dated May 12, 1994, surveyed by Rogell E. Hunsucker & Associates, Inc., and recorded in Plat Book 16, page 29, Office of the Clerk of Superior Court for Stanly County, North Carolina, reference to which being hereby made. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 38428 Log Cabin Drive, New London, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1237801 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 23, 2018 and May 30, 2018

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 221 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Alfredo G. Sandoval to North American Title Company, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of April, 2012, and recorded in Book 05728, Page 0516, in Union 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 Union 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 Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on May 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 98 of Charlestown at Brekonridge Subdivision, Phase 2, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet J at File 366, Union County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular metes and bounds description.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4614 Tradd Circle, Monroe, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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 prior 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 SingleFamily 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: 1238342 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 16, 2018 and May 23, 2018