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President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un sign documents that acknowledge the progress of the talks and pledge to keep momentum going, after their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore, on June 12.

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House races in Virginia, S.C. draw primary voters Richmond, Va. Voters in five states turned out to the polls on Tuesday to select candidates for November’s midterm elections. A fierce Democratic battle in Virginia will choose someone to face Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock, one of the top targets for Democrats in the drive to pick up the 23 seats for a U.S. House majority.

South Carolina, Nevada, North Dakota and Maine also chose candidates for the Nov. 6 races Tuesday, including two of the most competitive Senate races.

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Trump economic adviser Kudlow in “good” condition after heart attack Washington, D.C. Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, a staunch defender of President Donald Trump’s tough stance on global trade, was in good condition in a Washington-area hospital after suffering a heart attack, the White House said on Tuesday.

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North Korea to get security in exchange for verifiable denuclearization following the historic meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un

By Steve Holland, Jack Kim and Soyoung Kim Reuters SINGAPORE — The world watched intently Tuesday as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to provide security guarantees for its old enemy.

The joint statement signed at the end of their historic summit in Singapore gave few details on how either goal would be achieved but Trump fleshed out some details at a news conference.

“President Trump committed to

Bill could study state Medicaid expansion Raleigh On Monday, the N.C. House voted in favor of an amendment that would direct the state Department of Health and Human Services to study the health outcomes and cost of any changes to the state’s Medicaid system. The amendment was tacked onto H.B. 998, supported by Democrats and about two dozen Republicans.

It is now before the Senate Health Care Committee.

Trump, Kim agree on denuclearization provide security guarantees to the DPRK and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” said the statement.

DPRK is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the formal name of North Korea.

Trump said he expected the denuclearization process to start “very, very quickly.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean officials would hold follow-up negotiations “at the earliest possible date,” the statement said.

Trump told the news conference that the process would be verified, and that the verfication “will involve having a lot of people in North Korea.”

He also said Kim told him North Korea was destroying a major engine-testing site used for missiles but maintained international sanctions on Pyongyang would stay in place for now.

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Damaris Toma, who is looking for her daughter Emily, reacts at the site where her house is buried after the eruption of the Fuego volcano at San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Guatemala, on June 9.

In the shadow of Fuego NSJ writer visits Guatemala the tile road, sharing the narrow shortly after volcano eruption street with chickens, stray dogs

By Shawn Krest North State Journal NSJ’s Shawn Krest had months-long plans to travel to Guatemala to help his daughter settle in for a summer of teaching English through a service project organized by Raleigh’s Temple Beth Or. Little did they know that less a week before they were set to depart for Central America, Guatemala’s Fuego volcano would erupt, killing more than 100 people.

SAN ANTONIO AGUASCALIENTES, GUATEMALA — The village is alive with weekend activity. Small children play in

Senate passes Farm Act of 2018 The measure would offer farmers some legal protections by raising the standard of a “nuisance” suit and setting a deadline on filing them

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sleeping in doorways and the occasional goat. The bread man and milk man make their morning deliveries, the latter calling out “leche” as he passes each house. The thundering rumble off in the distance is largely ignored.

“Siempre,” says one woman when asked about the sound.

Always. It always does that.

It’s the rainy season in Guatemala, but the slow, low growl doesn’t portent approaching rain. The sound comes from deep within the earth, not above it. A mere 15 miles to the west, Fuego Volcan towers over the mountain village.

RALEIGH — The gallery of the N.C. Senate erupted in applause Monday night as senators cast a 33-13 vote in favor of the Farm Act of 2018. The measure provides some protection to N.C. farmers from “nuisance” lawsuits. The bill came in response to nearly 30 class-action lawsuits filed by personal injury attorneys on behalf of neighbors of hog farms. Supporters of the group N.C. Farm Families were there late to see the votes cast. All Democrats present voted against it.

Last month a judge ruled against Murphy-Brown LLC, the hog-farming division of Smithfield Foods, awarding $50 million to 10 neighbors of a hog farm in Bladen County. The neighbors complained of strong smells and flies emanating from the hog farm, saying it impacted their ability to use their property. The owner of that farm had a contract

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“Farmers care about the environment, they care about their community, and they want to do the right thing and be able to make a living on their land.”

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Legislature overrides Gov. Cooper’s budget veto Spreadsheet error in governor’s budget draws fire from the state legislature

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By David Larson for the North State Journal RALEIGH — In a battle of dueling plans and priorities, the GOP-led N.C. House and Senate finalized short session budget adjustments over the objections of Gov. Roy Cooper and his party. Last Thursday, the Senate voted to override the governor’s veto by a vote of 34-13, and their counterparts in the House voted 73-44 on Tuesday to finalize the override motion.

Much of the back-and-forth between the legislature and the executive branch focused on education and taxes. Cooper felt the 6.5 percent teacher raises in the GOP budget were not sufficient, as he had proposed an increase of 8 percent. Surrounded by teachers, the governor had a press conference to lay out why he believed teacher raises and other elements of the legislature’s budget just don’t “cut it.”

There was also controversy about the numbers themselves.

The governor disputed analysis from the General Assembly’s nonpartisan fiscal division which revealed a deficit of around $469 million in his plan. Republicans saw this dismissal as an unusual and unnecessary slight against neutral number crunchers.

Paul Coble, who oversees the legislative services office, a collection of nonpolitical support services, stood behind the neutrality of the fiscal staff.

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The executive mansion in Raleigh houses N.C. Governor Roy Cooper, who again vetoed the General Assembly budget, leading to another veto override on Tuesday.”

“They call it like they see it,” Coble told North State Journal. “It’s a staff of professionals that serve legislators of both parties. They just run the numbers they’re given.”

Cooper also received pushback when a “spreadsheet error” was identified that significantly changed the numbers he had presented for his budget. The day of the override vote in the Senate, Cooper’s press secretary said the problem had been fixed and more accurate figures given, but not before Republicans jumped on the error.

“Senate Democrats followed Gov. Cooper’s lead and supported a budget that will lead to a roughly $470 million deficit due to a half billion dollar ‘spreadsheet error,’” said Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham). “They don’t explain which taxes they will raise or which 7,000 teachers they will lay

off to pay for it.”

The governor was likewise critical of the GOP-led legislature’s budget.

“I will not sign my name to a budget that protects corporations and the wealthy at the expense of schools and students,” said the reading clerk, presenting Cooper’s veto message during Senate session. “This budget falls short of what our teachers and public education need. North Carolina will not stand for a secret, unchangeable budget born of a broken legislative process. Therefore, I veto the bill.”

Senate Rules Chair Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick) moved to place the bill on the calendar for immediate consideration with a motion to override the veto. A number of Republican senators stood up to defend the budget and urged fellow members to vote to support the

motion.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown (R-Onslow) accused Cooper of “playing the blame game” while putting forward a “budget that would be out of balance.”

Brown argued that under a budget like Cooper’s, teachers wouldn’t be able to continue getting raises which, as Republicans leaders are quick to point out, add up to 19 percent average increases spread over five consecutive budgets.

Berger later said, referring to the legislative fiscal staff’s analysis of both plans, “We’ve got that comparison on your dashboard, and what it shows is, the governor’s budget fails that simple test of competence.”

After expanding on what he described as increased spending and tax increases in Cooper’s budget, Berger said, “That’s quite an accomplishment to go from half-abillion-dollar surpluses to a half-abillion-dollar hole in one year.”

Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue (D-Wake), the only Democrat to stand and speak against the override motion in the Senate, said he saw issues as well.

“The budget the governor vetoed was riddled with holes and landmines, and people will come to see that in the coming weeks.”

In the House vote, Rep. Duane Hall (D-Wake) broke with his party, voting to override the veto.

Speaking during debate, Hall said he did so as a sign of support to state employees, who received “living wage” increases in the budget.

The votes fell otherwise along party lines. With both chambers voting to approve the veto override motion, this budget (S.B. 99) becomes law.

Speaker of the N.C. House Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) unveiled a ballot measure to make voter ID a constitutional requirement for elections. After a court case threw out an earlier version of the legislation, the new measure promise to be contentious. Polling both in North Carolina and nationally shows more than 70 percent approve of requiring photo identification to vote.

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with Smithfield Foods and is no longer in business.

“North Carolina’s family farmers are under attack by greedy out-of-state trial lawyers, and recent rulings have stripped away the protections the right to farm law sought to guarantee,” said bill sponsor Sen. Brent Jackson (R-Sampson).

Senate Bill 711 was before the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday and is expected to be approved. Among other things, it sets a deadline for any lawsuits against an operation of one year from the operation’s start and requires that punitive damages can only be awarded if the farm had a criminal charge or code violation.

The N.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club, an environmental lobbying group, said the measure unfairly restricted homeowners from suing.

“North Carolinians all deserve a fair chance to protect their health and their homes from environmental hazards no matter the source,” the group said.

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Sens. Bill Cook (R-Beaufort) and Norm Sanderson (R-Pamlico) are also sponsors of the bill.

“It’s good for hog farms, but it’s really good for all farmers — poultry and others,” said Marisa Linton, president of N.C. Farm Families, which organized a campaign in support of the measure.

N.C. Farm Families, formed in response to what they say is repeated legal attacks on the farming industry, said the passage is welcome and those farmers gathered in the Senate gallery celebrated as they look toward the House now.

“Farmers have been meeting in prayer circles,” said Linton.

“It depends on the day, but they are optimistic. You have to be, as a farmer. No matter what the weather throws at you, you have to have faith and overcome.”

The group is working to get the word out about the struggles and contributions of N.C. family farms to the state’s economy and the world’s food supply. Linton encourages neighbors of farming operations to reach out to their

GUATEMALA from page A1 Three of Guatemala’s 38 known volcanos are currently active, none moreso than Fuego. On June 3, it exploded with its biggest eruption in four decades, killing more than 100 and leaving far more still missing in the rubble.

The pyroclastic flow — a toxic mix of mud and lava — can travel more than 400 mph, meaning that it would reach San Antionio Aguascalientes in about two minutes. Another dormant (so far) volcano — Acatenango — and a smaller, nonvolcanic ridge should block the village from a direct hit, but there are other ways for Fuego’s fire to reach them.

“Sobre,” says another longtime resident.

Over top.

That’s what happened to Aguascalientes on Sunday. After a night of rumbling, the volcano erupted in early afternoon.

“When I came out of church at like 1 p.m.,” says Soraya Hernandez, “it was the middle of the day, but it got as dark as early evening.

Ash and rocks were raining down.”

“It was hot,” says Mrs. Perez Zamora, a mother in the village.

“The ash would burn when it landed on you.”

“Have you seen the movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow?’” asks Mrs. Hernandez, Soraya’s mom. “It was just like that.”

The rain of fire lasted about an hour and a half, sending the villagers inside to shield themselves.

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Fuego volcano is seen from San Miguel Los Lotes, in Escuintla, Guatemala, on June 12.

A kitchen of a house is covered in ash after the eruption of the Fuego volcano at San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Guatemala, on June 8.

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A week later, despite several rains, ash is still piled up on the shoulder of roads and in grooves of metal

roofs, more than a half an inch deep.

The rains didn’t offer much relief

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The Dunn family runs a family farm in Wayne County. farming neighbors before reaching out to a lawyer.

“Get the facts, talk to the farmer if there’s a problem,” she said.

“Farmers care about the environment, they care about their com-

from the ash, just spread it around.

“Thursday, we had black rain,” says the elder Hernandez. So loaded with ash from above, it stained whomever or whatever it touched.

The villagers call the ash “harina.”

Flour.

“The flour is bad,” one warns. “It turns your eyes red and makes you sick.”

“I don’t know why Fuego sent us the flour,” says Mrs. Hernandez.

With everyone huddled indoors, the only casualties in Aguascalientes were vegetation. Several trees are already dead. The rest are wilted, choking, their leaves still coated with ash.

“The ash burned their leaves,” says Mrs. Perez Zamora, who worked quickly to save her backyard corn crop. “As soon as it stopped falling, we went outside and washed it off of our plants. We think it’ll be OK.” Meanwhile, Fuego continues to rumble and send up plumes, but the town continues on, cleaning up and putting the blast behind them.

They have dying crops and trees to tend with. Even among older villagers that should remember the previous eruption, nearly half a century ago, there is no comparing that one to this, no attempting to top one tragic memory with another. Life goes on.

The wind worked in Aguascalientes’ favor over the following weekend, pushing the ash in the opposite direction. Of course, that just means that someone else is

munity and they want to do the right thing and be able to make a living on their land.”

The bill would not apply to lawsuits already in the court’s pipeline, but only to future cases.

At least 110 people have died and close to 200 are thought buried under the rubble in the hamlet on the fertile lower slopes of the volcano.

Fuego — Spanish for “fire” — rises between the regions of Sacatepequez, Escuintla and Chimaltenango about 30 mile from Guatemala City, the nation’s capital. getting the flour this weekend. The villagers are well aware that other towns are much worse off.

“You’re a reporter,” says a group of villagers. “Be sure to tell them that towns near here need supplies, but the mayors are not letting anyone in. We have supplies for them but can’t enter the town. Maybe they’ll let in an American reporter.

And you can tell them we’re your helpers.”

Another group of villagers load a truck with a delivery that’s likely bound for one of the areas hit hard by last Sunday’s blast. One at a time, they carry brand new wood coffins out of the shop and secure them to the back of the truck.

“What do you think of our village?” asks one woman. “It used to be so beautiful. Pero entonces?

Triste.”

But now? Sad.

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AT&T Inc, which owns DirecTV, awaited a court ruling on Tuesday that will determine if it can buy Time Warner Inc for $85 billion, a decision that could prompt a cascade of pay TV companies buying television and movie makers and the first big test of the Trump administration’s antitrust teams.

The government argued that AT&T’s ownership of DirecTV, which has 20 million subscribers, would become too powerful if combined with Time Warner, which owns Turner’s sports and CNN news.

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North Carolina has received Area Development magazine’s 2018 Gold Shovel Award, recognizing the state’s success in winning high-impact economic development projects last year. In 2017, North Carolina experienced one of its best years for new job recruitment in over a decade.

The state is one of only five receiving a 2018 Gold Shovel Award. Area Development magazine, which covers site selection and facility planning, considers a state’s top 10 job creation and investment projects when granting the award.

While North Carolina frequently appears among the top five states in respected business rankings, this is the first time the state has taken home the gold from Area Development, which launched its annual Gold and Silver Shovel Awards in 2006.

“We’re honored by this latest recognition of our state’s continued success in attracting new business,” said North Carolina Commerce Secretary Anthony M. Copeland. “And the fact this Gold Shovel is a first for the state, which has received eight Silver Shovels, is further proof we’re building on North Carolina’s already strong momentum.”

The Shovel Awards recognize state economic development agencies that drive significant job creation through innovative policies, infrastructure improvements, processes and promotions that attract new employers and investment in new or expanded corporate facilities. In 2017, N.C. Commerce, working with the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC), and other partners, helped close deals on 150 projects expected to create more than 20,000 new jobs and $4.14 billion in new investment.

By Emily Roberson North State Journal CHARLOTTE — Bank of America has announced a $20 million Veteran Entrepreneur Lending Program to connect U.S. military veteran business owners with affordable capital to help kick-start and grow their businesses.

The program helps increase access to affordable loans and resources through entrepreneurial learning, business lending and technical assistance for veterans, including those in North Carolina. A select network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs) will underwrite the loans with an affordable interest rate, to promote Veteran-owned businesses and job creation.

“Helping our veterans translate their skills and become entrepreneurs driving the U.S. economy is one of the ways Bank of America is thanking them for their service,” said Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan.

Loans will be administered through the participating CDFIs – nonprofit institutions with expertise in lending to small businesses and an understanding of local circumstances, including economic development and job creation opportunities. In addition to deploying capital, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation is providing $1.3 million in grants over two years to help CDFIs manage operating costs.

Each year, more than 200,000 U.S. service members return to civilian life, including 10 percent with a desire to own a business, creating a pipeline of potential borrowers. Additionally, there are more than 2.5 million

businesses in the U.S. that are majority-owned by veterans. Of those, more than 440,000 veteran-owned businesses have employees1, which helps drive economic growth and job creation in local communities. The lending program will kick off in seven U.S. states with CDFIs from around the country administering the loans and offering an interest rate reduction on loans for qualifying borrowers.

The Carolina Small Business Development Fund, a local non-profit CDFI, currently provides small business loans and financial training to start-ups and existing businesses along with lending services to community-based organizations. CSBDF will work with the Bank of America team on this initiative to offer opportunities to veterans in North and South Carolina.

Also involved across the country are Colorado Enterprise Fund, Excelsior Growth Fund (an affiliate of New York Business Development Corporation), Main Street Launch (a California entrepreneur development program), and PeopleFund (a fund offering small business loans to established businesses, nonprofits and start-ups in Texas and Oklahoma).

Prior to receiving a loan, borrowers will participate in a twomonth training program led by learning partners – IVMF at Syracuse University, Veterans Entrepreneurship Program at Oklahoma State University, and VETToCEO by Veterans for Veterans – offering technical assistance and other resources to help borrowers stay on a path of success and grow their businesses.

Entrepreneur Marc Smith, an Army veteran and owner of Patriotic Pig BBQ in Texas, illustrates the impact of this program. Smith and his wife Gina own and operate a BBQ catering company located in Dallas, with a mission to source local food and give back to the vet-

“Being able to get a loan was a game-changer and an important factor in our ability to grow our business.”

Entrepreneur and Army veteran Marc Smith eran community. The Smiths used working capital to buy a large military-themed smoker, which enables them to serve four times as many customers – about 1,000 customers each weekend. With the help of 10 employees, the Smiths’ catering business accommodates up to five barn- and rustic-style weddings per day, with plans to grow in the future.

“We started the business in 2016 and to see it continually grow since then has been incredibly rewarding,” said Smith. “Being able to get a loan was a game-changer and an important factor in our ability to grow our business. We’re thankful and plan to pay it forward by using the smoker on Veterans Day and feeding local veterans.”

Last week Bank of America hosted a thought leadership event, “Empowering Small Businesses to Drive Economic Growth,” on Capitol Hill, including a discussion about the role of small business in the U.S. economy and the opportunities and challenges small business owners and veteran entrepreneurs face in a time of rapid change. Featured speakers included Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, SBA Associate Administrator Bill Manger, and Bank of America Head of Small Business Sharon Miller.

Bank of America is the largest investor in CDFIs, with $1.6 billion in financing to more than 260 CDFIs across all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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This one has the potential for as many as 16 named storms, with five to nine of those becoming hurricanes. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross says recent technological advances will enable scientists to predict storm paths like never before, but would you know what to do if you were in one of those paths? Here are some tips: Before storm: • Review homeowner’s insurance.

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By NSJ Staff RALEIGH — The N.C. General Assembly has passed a bill that would allow four towns in the Charlotte suburbs to open their own public charter schools.

House Bill 514 allows Huntersville, Mint Hill, Cornelius and Matthews to open charter schools to address the rapid growth in their communities.

Opponents of the bill include the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools system, which says it is considering legal action to stop it. Bill sponsor Rep. Bill Brawley (R-Mecklenburg) called into former N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory’s radio show on WBT in Charlotte to talk about the bill.

“The school board isn’t building schools in the suburbs where the growth is,” said Brawley.

“Matthews has an elementary school built for 850 with 1,300 kids in it, and that is the way all of their schools are.

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their own (schools) in addition to CMS — that’s what they are talking about.

They aren’t trying to replace CMS. They are trying to do schools that CMS should be doing and won’t.”

According to the bill sponsors, Huntersville is also expecting up to 40,000 new residents over the next 12 years, requiring new schools at every level, which are not currently in the CMS plan. However, critics say the municipal charters will lead to resegregation of the Charlotte public schools because the suburbs are made up of predominantly white families who could choose to go to a new local public charter in their town instead.

“We are arguing about the economic interests of adults when we should be focusing on the educational needs of students,” said Brawley.

Former Republican House member Charles Jeter is the current lobbyist for CMS, pitting him against his former caucus colleagues on this issue.

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TINT OF CORN: COUNTY NAMES: WEST Reader’s Digest honors C: 0 EMS honored for heart Benton Sans Bold, Caldwell Hendersonville attack treatment M: 12 12pt.

Henderson County The Waverly Inn was honored as Caldwell County the top bed and breakfast in North Y: 59.4 Heart Association The American Carolina, in a Reader’s Digest ranking honored the Caldwell County EMS of the top B&Bs in all 50 states. Built with the Lifeline EMS Gold Plus K: 6 in 1898, the Waverly is the oldest Recognition Award last week.

Caldwell EMS earned the award for implementing measures to improve treatment of severe heart attacks.

“We are pleased to be recognized for our dedication and achievements in emergency medical care,” said Chief Dino DiBernardi.

surviving inn in the town and serves more than 5,000 customers each year. The Waverly is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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State begins treating gypsy moth infestation After 75-year wait, North Shore Road gets money for rebuild Swain County The federal government flooded several areas in Swain County to build the Fontana Dam in 1943. Included in that construction project was the promise to rebuild the 30-mile North Shore Road that was a victim to the flooding. Now, it appears that the funds have finally been cleared for the rebuild. Last year, Sen. Thom Tillis helped secure $4 million for North Shore, and the remaining $35.2 million is expected to be earmarked in 2018.

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BLACK RULE: Western region: Piedmont PIEDMONT EAST Green Sheriff’s office warns of warrant/ Solid .5students pt weightfine scamPiedmont region: NState Moreblack, than 11,000 More than Red 100 arrested graduate this week in massive drug bust Eastern region: NState Navy Lincoln County Wake County The Wake County Public School System held 25 graduation ceremonies, starting on May 8 through Wednesday of this week. Approximately 11,000 students Wake County students turn the tassel this week, many at the Raleigh Convention Center in the capital city. Last year’s graduation rate hit a record high at 88.5 percent.

According to WCPSS, the county’s seniors earned $160 million in scholarships, state universities, Ivy League schools and U.S. military academies.

Scammers are using the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office’s name to try to trick people into paying nonexistent fines, police warned. Someone is calling residents of the county, telling them that there is a warrant for their arrest and getting them to pay a fine over the phone. The sheriff’s office said that they do not accept payment to lift a warrant. Police shut down a phone number that had been making similar calls several months ago and will look to do the same.

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Johnston County A yearlong investigation ended with the arrest of more than 100 suspects as police broke up a drug ring in Smithfield, Selma, Four Oaks and other towns in Johnston County.

More than 60 officers made the arrests simultaneously last week, with Johnston Sheriff’s Department, State Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshalls all contributing.

The suspects were charged with producing and selling cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana and prescription drugs.

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Ashe County The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will be treating around the state to try to stop a gypsy moth infestation. Baldwin Gap, located between Watauga and Ashe counties west of Boone, is one area that has been targeted. The larvae of the gypsy moth feed on more than 300 different trees and shrubs and, in large numbers, can wipe out all the greenery in an area.

Aircraft will spread around organic moth hormone to try to interrupt the mating period and stop the infestation.

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Tornado-damaged schools won’t be ready by next year Guilford County Three local schools damaged in the April 15 tornado will not be repaired in time for the start of the 2018-19 school year, Guilford County School officials confirmed last week. Peeler Elementary, Erwin Montessori and Hampton Elementary also suffered serious damage, and the students were reassigned to other schools for the remainder of the school year. It appears the reassignments will have to continue into next year, as well.

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Couple arrested for embezzling from veteran’s groups Alexander County James Marion Benfield was arrested for taking more than $5,800 from the Disabled Veterans Chapter 84. The 65-year-old Benfield was the group’s treasurer. Upon investigation, police found that the American Legion of Alexander County and the Veterans of Foreign Wars also had reported missing money. Benfield is also an officer of those organizations. His girlfriend, Elizabeth Dixon, was also arrested.

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Hit and run on I-95 kills South Carolina man Northampton County Vernon Guest of Fernandina Beach, Fla., was arrested and charged with felony hit and run after killing a 77-year-old South Carolina man on I-95. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon, near exit 48 in Northampton County and tied up traffic for two hours. Phillip Stone of Camden, S.C., slowed down as I-95 narrowed to one lane for bridge repairs, but Guest never slowed, rearending Stone. Guest kept driving, later telling police that he panicked.

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Pender County Lea Island is small, undeveloped and doesn’t show up on many maps of the state, but the 80-acre habitat is now up for sale for $4 million. The island is just south of Topsail Island and has no reported roads, cities or manmade landmarks and is home to loggerhead turtles and birds. The listing was posted in May and offered potential buyers the opportunity to “live off the grid.”

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Driver killed after hitting school bus Craven County Deanna Edwards was killed after colliding with a Craven County school bus near the middle school last Wednesday. Edwards struck the bus while pulling out of NW Craven Middle School Road when she struck the bus on Spring Garden Road. There were about 10 students on the bus, but no injuries were reported with the children. Edwards’ passenger, 72-yearold Marion Monette, was airlifted to the hospital and was reported to be in critical condition.

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RALEIGH — A bill working its way through the General Assembly would create a statewide tracking system for evidence taken following an alleged sexual assault. The bill sets up a working group to recommend a uniform protocol for handling evidence kits and requires that the 15,000 evidence kits stored at the county and local level be processed where possible.

“There is a misconception that there are untested rape kits at the State Crime Lab, which there are not, they are current,” says Rep. Jamie Boles (R-Moore). “The rape kits in question are still sitting in sheriff’s departments and municipality police departments. They are not in the custody of the state.”

The bill stems from a recommendation from the legislative Committee on Justice and Public Safety that wanted a comprehensive overhaul of the handling of rape kits, after thousands of backlogged kits were reported. The backlog occurred while current Gov. Roy Cooper was attorney general, which he attributed to not paying analysts enough and the increased time they spend in court defending their findings.

The N.C. General Assembly appropriated money over the last 15 years to clear up the backlog and increase salaries. Last year, the legislature passed a law requiring municipalities to report the number of locally stored kits. They had a 92 percent response rate, and Boles says its time for the next step.

“First of all, we don’t even know how they’re stored,” said Boles.

They could be in a building that is 18 degrees in the wintertime and a 160 degrees in the summertime. Are they testable? We don’t know.”

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According to bill sponsors, a thorough audit of untested kits held at the local level will likely lead to appropriations to have viable kits tested.

I commend the Senate Judiciary Committee members for approving legislation to track sexual assault kits,” said N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein. “This bill, which my office developed, is a step in the right direction, but we have a long way to go. We need funding from the legislature to begin outsourcing the more than 15,000 kits waiting to be tested today and to develop the tracking system. We must bring justice to sexual assault victims and put dangerous criminals behind bars.”

Steins comments come a week after he called lawmakers “irresponsible” for not including funding for processing the kits in the state budget.

A group of lawmakers shot back, accusing Stein of playing politics.

“Josh Stein should know better and should be ashamed of this partisan attempt to deflect blame and defend the failures of his predecessor Roy Cooper,” read a group statement from Sens. Shirley Randleman (R-Wilkes), Kathy Harrington (R-Gaston), Joyce Krawiec (R-Forsyth), Tamara Barringer (R-Wake), Cathy Dunn (R-Davidson), Deanna Ballard (R-Watauga) and Trudy Wade (R-Guilford).

“Under Democratic and Republican budgets dating back to the 2003-04 budget, state taxpayer money was set aside to test these rape kits. And it is unconscionable that during his 16 years as attorney general, Gov. Cooper not only failed to heed the pleas of rape victims … but then lied to the people of North Carolina and said he had fixed the problem.”

The bill passed the N.C. House on Tuesday and is now before the state Senate.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

What do China and the EU fear more than a trade war?

Free and fair trade can only be accomplished in a tariff-free world.”

TOTAL FREE AND FAIR TRADE. Unmitigated by tariffs, trade barriers or artificial restrictions established by government to avoid pure unadulterated business competition.

Our trading partners around the world, as well as many business leaders in America, like the way things are right now. The more protection they receive from government, the harder it is to wean them off government assistance to compete on a fair and level playing field worldwide.

President Trump is right to call for an end to all tariffs and barriers and move toward a global free trade zone. He should press to lower nationspecific U.S. tariffs by 10 percent per year and tell each trading partner nation that as long as they lower their tariffs on U.S. goods and services by commensurate percentages annually, the U.S. will continue to trade with them and lower tariffs until they hit zero on both sides of the equation.

Countries will have to reduce their dependence on unfair trade barriers such as overregulation and currency manipulation which will obviate the need for tariffs in the first place.

The very existence of mutually agreed-upon tariffs between nations sets up the threat of retaliatory tariffs that lead to trade wars later. Free and fair trade can only be accomplished in a tariff-free world.

Tariffs are used typically to protect domestic industries in developing countries that want to grow up the economic ladder to modernity.

However, once protected, an industry always wants to “stay protected,” be they in America or overseas.

The Canadian tariff on U.S. milk is 270 percent to protect the interests of 11,000 Canadian dairy farmers. Not the consumers.

In 1791, America was “China” in terms of trade piracy and protectionism. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton wrote the first “Report on Manufactures” which encouraged the nascent government to pay spies to steal English textile manufacturing secrets and bring designs of textile machines back to New Jersey.

It worked. Soon textile mills were all over New England only to be lured to North Carolina and the South a century later by the attraction of cheap hydroelectric power supplied by the Southern Power Company, soon-to-be Duke Power, and other trade incentives such as “cheap labor” costs.

Once a nation has established itself as a stable economy and player on the world stage, the need for prohibitive tariffs and trade barriers diminishes exponentially.

China is now the second-largest economy in the world behind the U.S. They are no longer a “developing” country in need of tariff protection.

They are an economic powerhouse.

China achieved economic success partly due to economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping in 1978 but predominately through unfair trade practices. The Chinese government has engaged in imposing excessive regulatory hoops for foreign companies entering the Chinese market; deliberate manipulation of their currency to maintain price advantages over foreign competitors and serious theft of U.S. technology and ignoring U.S. trademark and patent protection that would make even Alexander Hamilton blush in admiration.

Milton Friedman argued that American consumers benefit from other nations acting so stupidly since they are using their resources to provide cheaper products to American consumers which meant Americans could enjoy a higher standard of living regardless of how unfair foreign trade practices were.

That may be true. But wouldn’t every person on this planet benefit from a perfect trade world absent any tariffs or trade barriers?

Prices would fall precipitously across-the-board around the globe.

Nations that hold natural competitive advantages in certain resources and talent would produce and sell top-quality goods and services to the rest of the world and receive high quality goods and services from other nations in return.

Economic reality ultimately trumps human manipulation of trade at every turn. We don’t need new trade agreements built on mercantilist tariffs and protectionism.

We need a new world order of zero tariffs and trade barriers.

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EDITORIAL | TROY KICKLER

Many factors led to Roanoke expeditions

In many ways, however, the Roanoke expeditions were not about nation building.

They were about making money.

IN RECENT MONTHS, Elon Musk celebrated the successful rocket launch of his Falcon Heavy. The entrepreneurial space adventure has reminded me somewhat of the earliest European explorations across the Atlantic Ocean. Both were entrepreneurial and economically competitive adventures to learn more about what is unknown.

The recent discoveries at Site X in northeastern North Carolina once again prompted this thought. Site X is where archeologists have discovered remnants of pre-Colonial English pottery. Along with other indicating factors, the artifacts indicate where part of The Lost Colony relocated sometime between 1587 and 1590.

In 1587, John White had returned to England to provide a good report about Roanoke and the surrounding area. When he returned three years later, nothing remained on Roanoke Island.

If something unfortunate were to happen before another expedition returned, he had advised settlers to go approximately 50 miles westward. In today’s geographical terms, that would mean paddling or setting sail from Roanoke Island and traveling westward on the Albemarle Sound until one reaches a modernday Bertie County location on the Chowan River.

Site X was an excellent point to lookout for rescue missions or for pursuing enemies.

For a century, there had been an economic race among Portugal, France, Spain and the Netherlands. In the late 1500s, England was a late, yet soon-to-be dominant, player in the

exploration game. The Roanoke expeditions were that nation’s first minutes in the game. In many ways, however, the Roanoke expeditions were not about nation building. They were about making money.

One had to be adventurous or desperate to set sail on the potential stormy waters of the Atlantic Ocean and head toward somewhere that few of your colleagues knew much about.

Indeed, to cross the Atlantic in the 1580s, one had to be fleeing something or be searching for something. Many on the Roanoke voyages were searching for ways to make a profit. In some fashion, whether via labor or money, many had invested in the endeavor. Some invested money in the expeditions, and others had purchased items, for instance, in Europe to be traded once across the Atlantic.

In some ways, the Roanoke expeditions were scientific missions. Thomas Hariot was one of the greatest scientific minds on the expedition if not in England. Not only did he understand navigational instruments that few understood in 1500s England, he was an excellent cartographer. If one lays one of the earlier maps over a modern-day map of coastal North Carolina, it seems as if one map was almost traced from the other.

John White’s sketches also reveal agricultural and natural interests. In one sketch, White draws ripe corn, green corn and newly sprung corn.

The Roanoke expeditions hoped to discover copper. It was known that the various Native

American tribes prized copper. Using longestablished trade routes, many in eastern North Carolina had traded for copper with Native Americans from what is now Ohio and New York.

The Roanoke expeditions included alchemists or “mineral men.” Some were considered experts locating and mining copper. Some of the Roanoke expedition brought copper with them. For trading purposes, many of the Native Americans tolerated the English presence; copper was a symbol of wealth, and local goods could be traded for the mineral.

The Roanoke investors also had plans for a larger settlement. Planners and investors wanted lapidaries — gem cutters — and apothecaries — in essence, a 1500s pharmacist. Indeed, many European merchant investors were interested in finding and learning more about medicinal plants — like “roche alum” — that were used in the cloth-making process.

Initiative and hard work were prized during the Roanoke expeditions. But some men, Thomas Hariot believed, had become too settled; they cared most about “pampering their bellies.”

Much like privately funded space research and scientific explorations, the Roanoke expeditions were efforts to learn more and prospect for potential sites.

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COLUMN | MICHAEL BARONE

California results suggest blue wave has crested and ebbed

The latest results, taken together with the generic vote, undercut the many gleeful predictions of a blue wave.

THE NATION is just past halftime in the 2018 primary election cycle. Twenty states — containing the majority, 228 of 435, of House districts — have held their primaries, and all but the three with runoffs have chosen their nominees.

The latest results, taken together with the generic vote — polls asking which party’s House candidate you’ll vote for — undercut the many gleeful predictions of a blue wave that will produce a big Democratic majority in the House and perhaps the Senate, as well.

The RealClearPolitics average of recent polls shows the Democrats’ lead over Republicans on the generic vote declining from a 13-point margin (49 to 36 percent) last December to a 3-point margin (43 to 40 percent) going into Tuesday’s primaries.

Given Democrats’ disadvantage of having so many of their voters clustered in heavily Democratic seats, that suggests a statistical tie. That would mirror the CBS News estimate of 219 seats for Democrats and 216 for Republicans, with a plus or minus nine-seat margin of error. Donald Trump’s 44 percent job approval rating, well above his 38 percent favorable rating in November 2016, points in the same direction.

Tuesday’s results tend to confirm this. Most closely watched was California, with its 53 House seats. The main focus there was on the seven seats held by Republicans but carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016. These obvious Democratic targets represent almost one-third of the net gain Democrats need for a House majority.

Both parties got some good news from these seven districts’ results.

Democrats feared that the combination of California’s having a “jungle primary,” in which the top two candidates regardless of party go on to the general election, and the large number of enthusiastic anti-Trump Democrats running would produce “lockouts” — i.e., general elections with two Republicans.

That didn’t happen. Nor do Democrats seem to have nominated many flaky candidates as parties sometimes do when flocks of enthusiastic newcomers run.

The good news for Republicans is that these districts look less Democratic than they did in November 2016. Clinton outpolled Trump in all seven then, but this time Republicans got combined majorities of between 53 percent and 63 percent in six of the seven. And in the seventh, the total Democratic lead was just 51 to 48 percent.

More good news for Republicans: They won’t suffer from a lockout in the top statewide race as they did in 2016; they’ll have a gubernatorial

candidate, John Cox, this November. And though there’s time for opinion to shift, past jungle primary results in California, Washington and Louisiana have often been good indicators of the vote in November.

Issues can make a difference, too. Voters in the intersection of Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties overwhelming (by an 18-point margin) recalled a Democratic state senator who had voted for a gas tax increase, and they installed a Republican in his place. In the overlapping 39th Congressional District, vacated by veteran Republican Ed Royce and considered a prime target by Democrats, Republicans outpolled Democrats by a 10-point margin.

Writing before Tuesday on the left wing blog Daily Kos, Daniel Donner argued that in 201718 state and special elections, “Democratic overperformance is concentrated in red states and districts that shifted red in 2016” — places where whites without a college degree gave Trump higher percentages than more conventional Republicans.

In other words, those results look more like the divisions that have prevailed in all but two off-year cycles starting in 1994. Similarly, California’s seven Clinton/Republican districts — which swung away from Trump in 2016, with their high percentages of college-educated whites and/or Hispanics — seem to have swung some distance back to the 1994-2014 norm this year.

This would be in line with polling that shows Trump enjoying almost universal job approval among self-identified Republicans — higher than all but one post-World War II president enjoyed at this stage in their tenures from their fellow party members.

The 1994-2014 partisan divisions have been unusually long-enduring, aside from the shortlived shift to Democrats in 2006-08, and the actual number of Obama/Trump voters who switched 100 electoral votes to the Republican was small by historical standards.

Will a reversion to that norm give Republicans a narrow House majority once again this year?

That’s one result — though certainly not the only result — consistent with the primary results we’ve seen so far. Opinion can shift; perhaps another blue wave is building. But the one almost everyone was expecting six months ago seems to have crested and ebbed.

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics.

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Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox speaks at his election night headquarters after placing second in the California primary in San Diego, Calif., June 5.

NUMBER OF THE DAY | SCOTT RASMUSSEN

6.7 mil Job openings in U.S. more than number of unemployed

AT THE END of April, there were 6.7 million job openings in the United States. At the same time, the Labor Department reported that 6.3 million Americans were unemployed. It’s the first time on record that there have been more job openings than unemployed workers (data available since 2000).

This is a remarkable turnaround. In 2010, coming out of the last recession, there were more than 15 million unemployed and only about 3 million job openings.

These numbers are the latest sign of an extremely tight labor market. The official unemployment rate is at 3.8 percent. The last time it was lower was in 1969. That figure was artificially low due to the fact that young men were being drafted for the war in Vietnam.

The tight labor market is having a variety of economic impacts. Twenty-three percent of small business owners say finding qualified workers is their biggest problem.

Additionally, it has led to pay increases and other benefits for workers. After raising the base pay for all workers earlier in the year, Walmart recently offered college tuition benefits for its 1.4 million U.S. employees.

Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.

WALTER E. WILLIAMS

Diversity and inclusion harm IN CONVERSATIONS with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians and race hustlers, it’s not long before the magical words “diversity” and “inclusiveness” drop from their lips. Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas. We’re told how it’s doing so in science, in an article by Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, titled “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences.”

Mac Donald says that identity politics has already taken over the humanities and social sciences on American campuses.

Waiting in the wings for a similar takeover are the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math. In the eyes of the diversity and inclusiveness czars, the STEM fields don’t have a pleasing mixture of blacks, Hispanics and women. The effort to get this “pleasing mix” is doing great damage to how science is taught and evaluated, threatening innovation and American competitiveness.

Universities and other institutions have started watering down standards and requirements in order to attract more minorities and women. Some of the arguments for doing so border on insanity. A math education professor at the University of Illinois wrote that “mathematics itself operates as Whiteness.”

She says that the ability to solve algebra and geometry problems perpetuates “unearned privilege” among whites. A professor at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education published an article in a peerreviewed journal positing that academic rigor is a “dirty deed” that upholds “white male heterosexual privilege,” adding that “scientific knowledge itself is gendered, raced, and colonizing.”

The effort to get this ‘pleasing mix’ is doing great damage to how science is taught and evaluated, threatening innovation and American competitiveness.

The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are two federal agencies that fund university research and support postdoctoral education for physicians. Both agencies are consumed by diversity and inclusion ideology. The NSF and NIH can yank a grant when it comes up for renewal if the college has not supported a sufficient number of “underrepresented minorities.”

Mac Donald quotes a UCLA scientist who reports: “All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?” Mac Donald observes, “Mathematical problem-solving is being de-emphasized in favor of more qualitative group projects; the pace of undergraduate physics education is being slowed down so that no one gets left behind.”

Focusing on mathematical problemsolving and academic rigor, at least for black students at the college level, is a day late and a dollar short. The 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka The Nation’s Report Card, reported that only 17 percent of black students tested proficient or better in reading, and just 7 percent reached at least a proficient level in math. In some predominantly black high schools, not a single black student scored proficient in math. The academic and federal STEM busybodies ought to focus on the academic destruction of black youngsters between kindergarten and 12th grade and the conferring of fraudulent high school diplomas. Black people should not allow themselves to be used at the college level to help white liberals feel better about themselves and keep their federal grant money.

Mac Donald answers the question of whether scientific progress depends on diversity. She says: “Somehow, NSFbacked scientists managed to rack up more than 200 Nobel Prizes before the agency realized that scientific progress depends on ‘diversity.’ Those ‘un-diverse’ scientists discovered the fundamental particles of matter and unlocked the genetics of viruses.” She might have added that there wasn’t even diversity among those white Nobel laureates. Jews constitute no more than 3 percent of the U.S. population but are 35 percent of American Nobel Prize winners. One wonders what diversity and inclusion czars might propose to promote ethnic diversity among Nobel Prize winners.

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

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Nation & WORLD

Ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort to be arraigned on new charges Friday Washington, D.C. Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, will be arraigned Friday following a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that lodged additional charges on accusations of witness tampering. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Manafort’s criminal case in federal court, set the arraignment to coincide with a previously scheduled hearing over whether Manafort’s bail conditions should be revoked in light of the witness tampering accusations. Manafort is currently under house arrest and required to wear GPS monitoring devices.

Suicide bomber kills 13, including women, outside Afghan ministry Kabul, Afgahnistan A suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded more 25 during rush hour on Monday at the entrance to Afghanistan’s rural rehabilitation and development ministry in Kabul as workers were leaving for home, government spokesmen said. Islamic State claimed responsibility, its AMAQ news agency said, without providing any evidence. The attack comes as security has deteriorated in the city during recent months ahead of elections scheduled for October.

Three Hong Kong democracy activists jailed up to 7 years for rioting Hong Kong Three protesters from Hong Kong’s radical youth opposition were jailed on Monday for taking part in a violent unrest, receiving the harshest sentences handed down to democracy activists since the city returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Edward Leung, 27, one of the leaders of a movement advocating Hong Kong’s independence from China, was jailed for six years for rioting and assaulting police in a 2016 overnight protest that turned violent. He was found guilty of rioting by a jury and had pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer.

Pope Francis accepts resignation of three Chilean bishops Vatican City Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops following sex abuse scandals, including Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, the city at the center of the uproar, the Vatican said on Monday. In an unprecedented move, all of Chile’s 34 bishops offered to resign en masse last month after attending a crisis meeting with the pope over allegations of a cover-up of sexual abuse in the South American nation. Church administrators were appointed to run all three diocese.

Finland’s health care reform vote to be pushed back by months Turku, Finland The Finnish parliament will not be able to vote on the government’s major health care and local government bill until August at the earliest.

The troubled reform package, a key measure in the Nordic euro member country’s bid to balance public finances, faced new challenges earlier this month when parliament’s constitutional law committee said the draft bill breached the constitution.

Finland’s health system has been struggling under the financial weight of an aging population.

The reform would establish 18 new counties and shift responsibility for the provision of services from local governments to new health care regions.

Report on FBI’s Clinton email probe coming Thursday

By NSJ Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. — A report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s internal watchdog is coming later this week, likely on Thursday, President Donald Trump’s birthday. The inspector general will report on the agency’s handling of an enquiry into the management of emails by former presidential candidate Hilary Clinton.

Congressional committees are also currently investigating the FBI’s handling of the inquiry in 2016. Last week, fired former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe sought immunity from prosecution for testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The U.S. Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, said in a letter that most of the process to sign off on the report and protect classified information it may contain “is now complete, and we anticipate releasing the report on June 14, 2018.”

He also said in the letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that he will appear at the committee’s June 18 hearing on the FBI’s actions in advance of the 2016 presidential election.

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Firefighters battle Colorado wildfire under dry, hot conditions

By Brendan O’Brien Reuters DENVER — Firefighters battling a raging wildfire in southwestern Colorado faced more hot, dry conditions and gusty winds on Tuesday, officials said.

The 416 Fire has already forced people to flee about 2,000 homes in the 11 days since it started while pre-evacuation notices were issued for another 127 homes on Monday, officials in La Plata County said.

Temperatures would reach the mid-80s and winds up to 25 miles an hour on Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service said.

Humidity was expected to stay low, at around 6 percent, it added.

After doubling in size from Saturday to Sunday, the wildfire, 13 miles north of the small city of Durango, covered 20,131 acres and was just 15 percent contained, the service said.

The 416 Fire — named after its emergency service call number — is by far the largest of at least a half-dozen blazes raging across Colorado.

A 32-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 550, which has served as a buffer for homes on the eastern edge of the fire, was closed, officials said.

All 1.8 million acres of the San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado were due to be closed to visitors by Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, citing the fire danger.

No buildings have been destroyed so far, but flames had crept to within a few hundred yards of homes. Aircraft have been dropping water and flame retardant, according to fire information website InciWeb. The site said containment was not expected before the end of the month.

The National Weather Service posted red-flag warnings for extreme fire danger for large portions of the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

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Former FBI Director James Comey arrives for a taping of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in New York City, on April 17.

Judiciary and Oversight Committees also announced on Thursday they will hold a hearing the next day on June 19.

The inspector general’s report will conclude an examination into former FBI Director James Comey’s statements in August 2016 that no charges would be brought against Clinton, and his subsequent announcement days before the election that the FBI was reopening its investigation into her use of a private email server while

secretary of state.

The agency was concerned that Clinton’s use of a nongovernment computer server may have jeopardized classified information.

The report also is expected to address whether active and retired FBI agents in New York leaked information about investigations of the Clinton Foundation charitable organization and the discovery of a trove of Clinton-related emails shortly before the November 2016 election.

Law enforcement officials previously told Reuters information about the email trove was leaked to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an adviser to the Trump campaign who subsequently discussed the contents on Fox News Channel days before Comey informed Congress of the discovery.

Horowitz’s office has sought to determine whether the leaks influenced Comey’s decision 11 days before the election to announce the reopening of the Clinton email investigation.

“This issue has the potential of energizing a GOP red wave, offsetting the highly touted Democratic blue wave,” said Raleigh-based political analyst John Davis. “At the very least, the IG report will give President Trump enough Twitter ammunition to discredit Mueller’s investigation throughout the fall elections.”

Those close to the process have said on condition of anonymity that the report is longer than the 500-page report of the Fast and Furious scandal of the Obama administration, in which officials allowed the sale of illegal firearms in order to track them. Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was cited for contempt in the case.

Reuters News Service contributed to this report.

NORTH KOREA from page A1 Trump said joint military exercises with South Korea would be halted. He said the move would save Washington a tremendous amount of money and would not be revived “unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along like it should.”

“Some things were agreed to and not reflected in the agreement,” Trump said.

Kim earlier said the two leaders had a historic meeting “and decided to leave the past behind. The world will see a major change.”

The document made no mention of the sanctions and nor was there any reference to finally signing a peace treaty. North Korea and the United States were on opposite sides in the 1950-53 Korean War and are technically still combatants, as the conflict, in which millions of people died, was concluded only with a truce.

But the joint statement did say the two sides had agreed to recover the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action so that they could be repatriated.

Russia, China positive China, the third party to the truce, said it hoped North Korea and the United States could reach a basic consensus on denuclearization.

“At the same time, there needs to be a peace mechanism for the peninsula to resolve North Korea’s reasonable security concerns,” China’s top diplomat, state councilor Wang Yi, told reporters in Beijing.

Russia’s deputy foreign minister said the Kremlin had a positive assessment of the summit but “the devil is in the details,” the Tass news agency reported.

If the summit does lead to a lasting detente, it could fundamentally change the security landscape of Northeast Asia, just as former President Richard Nixon visit to China in 1972 led to the transformation of China.

But Li Nan, senior researcher at Pangoal, a Beijing-based Chinese public policy think tank, said the meeting had only symbolic significance.

“There is no concrete detail on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and the provision of security guarantees by the United States,” Li said. “It is too early to call it a turning point in North Korea-U.S. relations.”

The dollar however jumped to a three-week high and Asian shares rose on news of the agreement.

Trump said he had formed a “very special bond” with Kim, and that the relationship with North Korea would be very different in the future.

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Koreans watch as President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on television at the Korean Association in Singapore, on June 12.

“People are going to be very impressed and people are going to be very happy and we are going to take care of a very dangerous problem for the world,” Trump said.

He called Kim “very smart” and a “very worthy, very hard negotiator.”

“I learned he’s a very talented man. I also learned that he loves his country very much.”

During a post-lunch stroll through the gardens of the Singapore hotel where the summit was held, Trump said the meeting had gone “better than anybody could have expected.”

Kim stood silently alongside, but the North Korean leader had earlier described their summit as “a good prelude to peace.”

Both men walked to Trump’s bulletproof limousine, nicknamed “The Beast,” and looked in at the rear seat, with Trump apparently showing Kim something inside.

They then resumed their walk.

Old regimental mess They had appeared cautious and serious when they first arrived for the summit at the Capella hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa, a resort island with luxury hotels, a casino, manmade beaches and a Universal Studios theme park.

But, with cameras of the world’s press trained on them, they displayed an initial atmosphere of bonhomie as they met on the verandah of the Capella, a refurbished 19th-century British regimental officers’ mess.

A body language expert said both men tried to project command as they met, but also displayed signs of nerves.

After a handshake, they were soon smiling and holding each other by the arm before Trump guided Kim to the library where they held a meeting with only their interpreters. Trump had said on Saturday he would know within a minute of meeting Kim wheth-

er he would reach a deal.

After initial exchanges lasting around 40 minutes, Kim was heard telling Trump through a translator: “I think the entire world is watching this moment.

Many people in the world will think of this as a scene from a fantasy ... science fiction movie.”

As the two leaders met, Singapore navy vessels, and air force Apache helicopters patrolled, while fighter jets and a Gulfstream 550 early warning aircraft circled.

One of the world’s most reclusive leaders, Kim visited Singapore’s waterfront on Monday, smiling and waving to onlookers.

The Swiss-educated leader, who is believed to be 34, has not left his isolated country since taking office in 2011, apart from visiting China and the South Korean side of the border Demilitarized Zone, which separates the two Koreas.

But just a few months ago, Kim was an international pariah accused of ordering the killing of his uncle, a half brother and hundreds of officials suspected of disloyalty.

“Signing the joint statement would show North Korean citizens that Kim Jong Un is not a leader just within North Korea but also in international society, especially with his position equivalent to Trump,” said Ahn Chan-il, a defector from North Korea who currently lives in the South.

Following the summit, Trump told reporters that Kim will begin the denuclearization process immediately. The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it was prepared to take on verification duties after Trump’s agreement.

“The International Atomic Energy Agency stands ready to undertake any verification activities in the DPRK (North Korea) that it may be requested to conduct by the countries concerned, subject to authorization by the IAEA’s Board of Governors,” Director General Yukiya Amano said in a statement.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2018

BRETT FRIEDLANDER | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

NC State athletic director Debbie Yow has a lot to be excited about at the end of an academic year in which 12 Wolfpack programs finished their season ranked among the nation’s top 25 in their sport.

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SPORTS

NASCAR

Stewart-Haas Racing, Fords dominate at Michigan Brooklyn, Mich.

With Clint Bowyer winning Sunday’s Firekeepers Casino 400, Kevin Harvick running second and Kurt Busch coming home third, StewartHaas Racing swept the top three positions in a NASCAR Cup Series race for the first time in company history. The trio led seven Ford drivers who finished in the top eight at Michigan on Sunday, a dominant performance for the manufacturer in its home state.

MLB

Rodon loses in return from shoulder surgery Boston White Sox left-hander Carlos Rodon surrendered four runs (two earned) on six hits with two walks and seven strikeouts in five innings in a 4-2 loss to the Red Sox on Saturday, his first start with Chicago since September. Rodon, a native of Holly Springs who played collegiately at NC State, was placed on the disabled list before the White Sox’s season opener. He was limited to just 12 starts last season due to injuries and underwent shoulder surgery in September.

He was the third overall pick in the 2014 MLB Amateur Draft.

NHL

Daniels returns to Hurricanes bench as assistant coach Raleigh Jeff Daniels, who has spent the 21 years in the Carolina Hurricanes organization as a player, assistant coach, AHL coach and scout, will join former teammate Rod Brind’Amour as an assistant on the first-time coach’s staff.

Daniels, 49, was an assistant coach on the Hurricanes’ 2006 Stanley Cup-winning team captained by Brind’Amour, and both reached the Cup Final in 2002 as teammates.

A draft pick of the Penguins in 1986, Daniels won a title in Pittsburgh as a player in 1992 and later played for Florida, Hartford, Nashville and Carolina. He was head coach of Carolina’s top affiliate from 2008-15, both in Albany and Charlotte, before becoming a scout.

NC State’s Yow eyeing ‘next level’ for Pack In part one of a two-part Q&A, the NC State athletic director talks about her initial plans, goals and how to push the school’s programs even further

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal

JEFFREY A. CAMARATI | UNC ATHLETICS PHOTO

Michael Busch is greeted by his UNC teammates after his threerun homer in the seventh inning against Stetson on Friday in the NCAA Super Regionals in Chapel Hill.

Heels reach CWS, matchup with Oregon State next games of their Super Regional series against Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, and extending their winning streak to five in elimination situations this postseason with an 11-2 victory on Sunday, the Blue DevBy Brett Friedlander ils dropped a 6-2 decision Monday North State Journal that ended the winningest season in school history.

The Red Raiders hit three home REMEMBER that NCAA regional disappointment that has runs, then broke the game open by haunted the North Carolina base- scoring twice in the eighth to end a season in which Duke (45-18) set a ball team since last June? school record for wins in a season Neither do the Tar Heels.

At least not anymore now that and tied a program mark with sevthe bitter taste of those stunning en Major League draft choices.

“There was nothing upsets at the hands of Daabout what we did where vidson have finally been I felt we didn’t play well, cleansed from their palwe didn’t compete well,” ate. They officially be- “To say coach Chris Polcame a thing of the past we’re excited Duke lard said. “I thought Saturday after a 7-5 we competed great. I win against Stetson at about going thought we stayed in the Boshamer Stadium that to Omaha is moment well. But we sends coach Mike Fox’s just didn’t come up with team back to the College probably the that one big hit when we World Series for the first biggest needed it.” time since 2013.

UNC, on the other “What happened last understatehand, got plenty of big year?” third baseman ment.” hits against a Stetson Kyle Datres deadpanned pitching staff that came when asked about the into Chapel Hill with the motivation that has fu- Mike Fox, nation’s best ERA and an eled him and his team- UNC coach 18-game winning streak mates throughout the dating back to April 22. season.

Datres got things going earTwo days after UNC exorcised the ghosts of its NCAA tournament ly with a single on the first pitch of past, rival Duke was provided with Saturday’s clincher to spark a decia rallying cry for next year by barely sive first-inning rally that saw UNC missing out on its first trip to Oma- score four times to take a lead it ha since 1961.

After splitting the first two See TAR HEELS, page B3

UNC tops Stetson to advance; Duke falls one win short of reaching Omaha

RALEIGH — Debbie Yow raised some eyebrows and invited plenty of social media snark back in June 2010 when she introduced an initiative she called “Wolfpack Unlimited” upon her hiring as NC State’s new athletic director.

It was a bold strategy that proclaimed the status quo to no longer be acceptable while setting the goal of turning State into a top-25 national program.

That seemed like a longshot at the time, with the Wolfpack having finished 89th in the Directors’ Cup standings the previous year and only two of its programs ranked in the

national polls at the end of their season.

But eight years later, Yow’s vision has become a reality.

State finished 2017-18 with a school-record 12 ranked programs, with 21 of its 23 teams advancing to the postseason to go along with 12 individual national champions and three team conference titles. Although it will be a few more weeks before the final Director’s Cup standings are announced, the latest update had the Wolfpack at No. 11 — third among ACC schools behind only Duke and Florida State.

As Yow heads into her final year as athletic director, here are her thoughts on the successes her tenure has already achieved and the remaining goals. In part two next week, she will discuss what she still has left to accomplish before her anticipated retirement in June 2019: See YOW, page B4

INSIDE

SHAWN KREST | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

NSJ’s Shawn Krest got the dirt on one of baseball’s mysteries — mud. From the banks of the Delaware River to umpires’ locker rooms across the country, find out the history of baseball rubbing, how it’s done and the way it impacts games from Class A to the majors. B4

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6.13.18

TRENDING

Shohei Ohtani: Los Angeles Angels rookie two-way phenom could undergo Tommy John surgery that would sideline him until the 2020 season, according to reports.

Ohtani was placed on the disabled list Friday with a Grade 2 sprain of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. There are three grades of UCL injuries, and the Angels are waiting to see if Ohtani definitely requires surgery.

Dustin Johnson: The 33-year-old reclaimed his spot atop the Official World Golf Rankings after winning the FedEx St. Jude Classic on Sunday, bumping reigning FedExCup champion Justin Thomas to the No. 2 spot. Johnson, who held the world’s No. 1 ranking for 64 consecutive weeks before Thomas’ tie for 11th at The Players Championship in May knocked him down to second, shot a 4-under 66 on Sunday and capped his win with a highlight-reel holeout for eagle. Johnson will be grouped with Thomas and Tiger Woods for the first two rounds of this week’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, N.Y. Dwane Casey: The reigning NBA Coach of the Year agreed to a five-year deal to become coach of the Detroit Pistons.

ESPN reported Monday that Casey, who was fired by the Raptors after a second-round playoff loss to the Cavaliers, was selected from a coaching pool that also included Michigan head coach John Beilein. The Pistons had relieved general manager Jeff Bower and coach Stan Van Gundy of their respective duties following the season.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

NHL

Alex Ovechkin, the captain of the newly minted Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals, continued the postgame party days after his team beat the Golden Knights on Thursday in Las Vegas in Game 5 to clinch the team’s first NHL title. Ovechkin won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, cementing his legacy as one of the game’s all-time top players. He threw out the first pitch Saturday at the Washington Nationals game, accompanied by the Cup.

GEOFF BURKE | USA TODAY SPORTS

“I’m not in any state to talk. …

I don’t have a lot of clarity right now. That’s self-inflicted.”

Capitals coach Barry Trotz on delaying talks to renew his expiring contract with Washington until he’s done celebrating the team’s Cup victory.

BRAD MILLS | USA TODAY SPORTS

NBA

HORSE RACING

DAVID RICHARD | USA TODAY SPORTS

“I should be making more money if all that’s on me.”

NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant responding to a question about whether he “ruined” the league’s competitive balance by joining the Warriors two years ago.

PRIME NUMBER

10 Countries represented on the Stanley Cupwinning Washington Capitals. Players born in or nationals of the United States (6), Canada (6), Sweden (3), Czech Republic (3), Russia (3), Germany, Denmark, Australia, Great Britain and Austria played at least one game in the postseason for the Capitals. Nathan Walker, born in Cardiff, Wales, became the first Australian to play in the NHL earlier this season.

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KEN BLAZE | USA TODAY SPORTS

Justify stormed into history by winning the 150th Belmont Stakes on Saturday, becoming the 13th horse to win the Triple Crown. Jockey Mike Smith navigated Justify through a field of nine challengers to give trainer Bob Baffert his second Triple Crown winner, joining American Pharoah, in the last four years.

Stephen Curry and the Warriors won their second championship in as many years and third in four seasons when they swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. Despite missing 31 regular season games and the first six of the playoffs, Curry was second on Golden State with 25.5 points per game in the postseason.

TENNIS

SUSAN MULLANE | USA TODAY SPORTS

Rafael Nadal won his 11th French Open title on Sunday as the top-seeded Spaniard cruised past seventh-seeded Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 in the final at Stade Roland Garros in Paris. Nadal, 32, now has won 17 majors, just three shy of Roger Federer’s men’s record.

He also improved his own record of most titles at a single Grand Slam.

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North State Journal for Wednesday, June 13, 2018

From ECU club ball to the pros Tanner Duncan didn’t make the Pirates as a walk-on, but his hard work on the school’s club team led to a pro contract

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal BUIES CREEK — Everyone knows that in baseball, three strikes means you’re out. But Tanner Duncan isn’t one to take no for an answer.

So instead of giving up on his dream of playing professionally, he just kept right on swinging despite three failed attempts to make the team at East Carolina as a walk-on.

Duncan’s persistence led him to his school’s club team, where he improved both his confidence and the velocity on his fastball on the way to authoring the most improbable of success stories.

Offered a tryout by the Houston Astros after pitching ECU to the club national championship in 2017, the 23-year-old Tabor City native made the most of his opportunity by earning a free agent contract. He is now racing quickly up the minor league ladder after being promoted to Buies Creek of the Class A Carolina League in mid-May. “It’s an unconventional thing that’s happened, for sure,” Duncan said last week after a game against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. “I’m happy to be here, though. I’m just trying to take everything in stride, work hard and get better every day.”

That’s the same approach he’s been taking since the first time he was cut at ECU, as a good high school shortstop who was admittedly not ready to compete at the Division I college level.

He became a fixture in the weight room, determined to get bigger and stronger as he turned his focus to the Pirates’ well-run club program. Because he was playing behind an older, more established teammate, Duncan began pitching in an effort to get on the field as a freshman.

It turned out to be a career-changing move, though not

quickly enough to earn him a spot on the varsity team.

In retrospect, he never stood much of a chance regardless of what position he played.

“The tryouts weren’t very extensive,” said the South Columbus High graduate, whose cousin McKenzie Gore was the first player selected in last year’s MLB draft, by the San Diego Padres.

“That’s how that works. You go out there with a positive mindset, but you kind of know what they’re thinking already.”

Resigned to the fact that he’d never represent ECU on the intercollegiate level, Duncan began concentrating on earning his degree in kinesiology while continuing to play club ball. He filled out physically, evolving from a 175-pound freshman to a 215-pound senior, while his fastball jumped from the mid-80 mph range to the mid-90s.

He also developed a fierce competitiveness that was on full display in the 2017 club national championship game against Central Florida, a game he thought might be the final pitching performance of his life.

Locked in a scoreless duel only a few days after throwing 120 pitches in an early round win, Pirates’ coach Ben Fox told Duncan before the start of the eighth inning that he’d be taken out of the game if he allowed another runner.

So he didn’t.

He mowed down the next nine hitters in order before his teammates pushed across the winning run in the bottom of the 10th.

“When he makes up his mind that he’s going to do something,” Fox said, “he doesn’t let anybody stop him from doing it.”

Ironically, the first coach that cut Duncan from ECU’s varsity — current Yankees’ scout Billy Godwin — was among those that helped get the hard-throwing youngster onto the radar of major league teams.

It was former Pirates’ star Cory Scott, however, that made the biggest impact when he contacted Astros area scout Tim Bittner about Duncan after his performance in the club title game.

Three days later, Duncan got a

text from Bittner inviting him to Virginia to a closed tryout with two other pitchers.

“I had a good feeling about it,” Duncan said of the tryout. “Probably about 30 minutes later, I got the call asking if I could go (to extended spring training in Florida) the next morning.

“It was incredible. It was a pretty emotional time. It was a free agent contract, but it was a really big deal to finally have all my hard work pay off.”

Duncan’s contract might only have been an undrafted free agent deal. But as Buies Creek Astros pitching coach Drew French points out, it doesn’t matter how much the team has invested in you. Once you put on the uniform and start playing, the only thing that matters is performance.

And Duncan has performed well thus far.

He compiled a 2.16 ERA with 31 strikeouts in 37⅓ inning in Rookie Ball last summer. Then after starting this season at Quad City of the Class A Midwest League, recording three saves in six appearances, the 6-foot2 right-hander was promoted to the more advanced Carolina League.

The new assignment was doubly exciting, since it’s close enough to home that his friends and family can attend his games.

They’re not the only ones upbeat about what they’re seeing.

“The great thing about him is that we can mold him,” Buies Creek pitching coach Drew French said of Duncan. “He’s like a piece of clay we can start to drip some of our stuff on. He’s got really long arms and legs, so he’s got to learn to use the power and strength he has in the most athletic way on the mound.

“He’s starting to come into it. He’s a slow process. But from where he comes from, it’s a long way from where he’s been. He’s a good piece to our puzzle. We feel like his best days are coming.”

Though Duncan still has a long way to go to even begin thinking about the possibility of someday pitching in the majors, his club coach said it would be a mistake to count him out.

“Most people would have heard no and let it get to them,” Fox said. “They would have stopped chasing their dream. But he heard no from a lot of people a lot of times and that just pushed him. It gave him fuel to prove people wrong. It’s a great story about perseverance.”

JOE DWYER | BUIES CREEK ASTROS

Tanner Duncan pitches in a game for the Buies Creek Astros of the Class A Carolina League.

TAR HEELS from page B1 would never relinquish.

The Tar Heels (43-18) also beat the Hatters 7-4 in a game that followed an eerily similar script.

For the second day in a row they built what appeared to be a comfortable lead, only to have to hang on for dear life in the ninth inning as Stetson brought the potential goahead run to the plate in the form of cleanup hitter Brooks Wilson.

On Friday, Wilson hit a towering drive that left fielder Ashton McGee tracked down on the warning track for the final out. Saturday, Wilson hit the ball even harder and farther. But again, his blast was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

This time Brandon Riley made a leaping catch against the wall, right in front of the 400-foot sign in straightaway centerfield.

“He hit it to the deepest part of the park and that helped,” right fielder Cody Roberts said. “The

question was if it was going to hit the wall before he got there.”

He did, setting off a joyous dogpile of Tar Heels in the middle of the diamond. It was a celebration a full year in the making.

“I’m unbelievably happy for these kids,” Fox said. “They get to experience something that’s going to be a lifetime memory for them. This is one of the more special teams I’ve been able to coach here. There’s something about them. To say we’re excited about going to Omaha is probably the biggest understatement.”

UNC will play Oregon State in its College World Series opener this weekend in Omaha. It’s a rematch of the 2006 and ’07 championship series in which the Beavers beat the Tar Heels to win back-to-back titles.

“Being a senior, this is why I came back,” second baseman Zack Gahagan said. “It’s just an amazing feeling. No amount of money could change this feeling.”

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BRETT FRIEDLANDER | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Appalachian State football coach Scott Satterfield poses with the 2017 Dollar General Bowl trophy during a summer caravan stop in Raleigh on Friday.

Spurred by football, Appalachian State athletics on the rise The Mountaineers’ move to FBS has been a success, and the rest of the school’s teams are following suit

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal DURHAM — To many around the nation, Appalachian State is best known as the David that knocked off Goliath Michigan in 2007 in one of the most stunning upsets in college football history.

The reality is, however, that the Mountaineers are no longer one of the little guys.

They moved up to the FBS in 2015.

And while they still have a way to go before being considered the equal of such traditional powers as the Wolverines and Tennessee, which they took to overtime in their 2016 opener, they’re off to a strong start at football’s highest level.

That success was on display last week during a pair of statewide caravan stops in the Triangle.

Displayed proudly on a table in a prominent part of the room was the trophy coach Scott Satterfield’s team brought home from its history-making 34-0 victory against Toledo in the Dollar General Bowl last December.

It was the third straight postseason win for App State, making it the first former FCS team to win bowl games in each of its first three years of eligibility.

“We expected to do that, quite frankly,” Satterfield said. “We had a great run at the FCS level, and you make the jump to FBS, your intentions are to compete for conference championships, go to bowl games and win bowl games.

“As a football coach we have high expectations. You never really know if you’re going to make it, but you do everything you can to make it happen. We’ve had really good student-athletes, good coaching staff, good administration and some of the best fans in the country. All that goes hand in hand.”

Satterfield’s Mountaineers have been co-champions of the Sun Belt Conference in each of the two years they’ve been able to compete for the title.

An even greater measure of their success, however, is the caliber of nonconference competition they’ve been able to face.

Unlike many upstart FBS programs, which are forced to play Power 5 opponents on the road in so-called “guarantee games,” App State has already attracted the likes of Miami and Wake Forest to Kidd

Brewer Stadium in Boone, with future home games against North Carolina, East Carolina and South Carolina already on the schedule.

Satterfield said that speaks both to the respect the Mountaineers have earned over the years, as well as the program’s commitment to future growth and improvement.

“We’re trying to beef our schedule up,” Satterfield said. “We want to compete at the highest level with these guys. You’ve got to be able to play those games to continue to elevate your program. It’s exciting for our fans, our students and our alumni to come back and see a bigtime atmosphere game.”

It’s often been said that football is the front door to a school’s athletic department, since it is the program that generates the most income and — in most cases — exposure.

As such, App State athletic director Doug Gillin believes that the school’s gridiron success is having a positive effect on all of the Mountaineers’ programs.

“The future is bright,” Gillin said.

“There’s a lot of momentum with our program. We’ve got a lot of facility upgrades. We’re put in new video boards last year in football, and we’re breaking ground this December on a new indoor facility. So there’s a lot of momentum around Appalachian athletics right now.”

The Mountaineers’ wrestling team has won three straight conference titles, their cross-country team is the defending Sun Belt champs, and both their men’s and women’s basketball teams made positive strides during the 2017-18 season under coaches Jim Fox and Angel Elderkin, respectively.

Fox’s men’s team was picked to finish 11th in the Sun Belt but ended up fifth with a 9-9 league record.

Elderkin’s women’s squad is coming off its first conference tournament win, a game in which freshman Lapresha Stanley provided promise for the upcoming season by scoring 27 points against Arkansas State.

“We’re not where we want to be yet,” Gillin said. “But across the board, you can see where we’re headed.”

According to Fox, who served his coaching apprenticeship as an assistant to highly respected Davidson coach Bob McKillop, the goal is to create a winning culture similar to the one football established under former coach Jerry Moore and continued by Satterfield.

“Obviously, getting good players is the first step,” Fox said. “But it’s just doing the little things every day, and it’s constant. You have to be doing those things all the time. But it’s fun, and we’ve made great progress already.”

JEFFERY A. CAMARATI | UNC ATHLETICS PHOTO

The Tar Heels celebrate their Super Regional victory against Stetson on Saturday with a postgame dogpile at Boshamer Stadium.

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North State Journal for Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Baseball’s dirty secret

A large jar of rubbing mud will run you $100 — and had better last the season.

A behind-the-scenes look at the ritual of rubbing mud

By Shawn Krest North State Journal IN A SMALL TRAILER beyond the right field wall at Zebulon’s Five County Stadium, close enough that batting practice home runs clang off the metal roof, the two umpires for the night’s Carolina Mudcats game sit dipping their hands in a jar of mud.

The same thing is going on simultaneously in dozens of ballparks around the nation, and it will be repeated every night of the summer. And each time, the mudsmeared umps will sit in their shorts and undershirts, preparing for the game.

“Rule No. 1,” says Reed Basner, the senior member of the crew, “is you don’t do this in your good clothes.”

Welcome to the strangest and least-understood ritual in baseball. *** In the classic movie “Bull Durham,” Crash Davis explained to his teammates what life in The Show is like.

“You never handle your luggage in the show,” Davis said. “Somebody else carries your bags. The ballparks are all cathedrals. You hit white balls for batting practice.

The hotels all have room service.”

That’s not entirely true.

At every level of professional baseball, from the low minor leagues up to Fenway and Yankee Stadium, the balls aren’t exactly white.

Oh, they come out of the box white, glistening and shiny new, just like you’d expect a game ball to look. That generally lasts for less than a minute, thanks to the half-naked umps and their mud.

Every ball that a professional pitcher throws — whether in a game, warming up to enter as a reliever, or on an off-day throwing session — is first rubbed with mud to make it easier to grip. The shiny white balls that impressed Davis in the movie were actually smeared with various shades of brown.

Carolina Mudcats pitching coach Bob Milacki opens the wrapper of a Carolina League game ball and hands it to me. “Feel that,” he says. “Try to grip it.”

In order to preserve the leather, baseballs are coated with a gloss before being shipped to teams. It makes the surface of the ball slick to the touch and tough to establish a firm hold with fingertips, let alone direct it to break in a specific direction at 90-plus miles per hour.

The mud removes that glossy coating and makes the ball easier

YOW from page B1 NSJ: What was the biggest key in getting the program where you envisioned it could be?

Yow: Getting there has been a process, and there are multiple initiatives that had to be successful. We focused on hiring the right coaches. It starts there.

We had to focus on elevating the amount of resources financially and otherwise that were available in 2010. And we had to hire staff who shared the vision and were willing to put the work in behind the scenes to help in any way possible to make the vision become a reality. There is a grind factor in all of this, but you start with the pieces. One without the other won’t work.

What were some of the biggest obstacles you encountered?

We had never had an allschool deal for apparel, so that was something we needed to tackle. We had one of the lowest payouts for multimedia rights in the nation, which was stunning to me the first time I saw it.

Then I realized that this is where we were starting from, so let’s buckle up and go to work.

Did the plan yield the desired results sooner or later than you expected?

We had a strategic plan from 2012 through 2017 and the goal was that in 2017 we would finish in the top 25. But we’re going to do it in 2018.

How much satisfaction do you take from accomplishing that goal?

A lot of my satisfaction is rooted

“They don’t go over this in umpire school.”

Ben Phillips, Carolina League umpire

PHOTOS BY SHAWN KREST | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Umpire Ben Phillips prepares a game ball prior to a Carolina Mudcats games in Zebulon. to grip. But not any mud will do. In fact, there’s only one specific mud that has been used by baseball since 1939 — Lena Blackburne’s Baseball Rubbing Mud. Blackburne, as legend has it, was a player-coach in Philadelphia and happened to live near a small stream that was an offshoot of the Delaware River. The mud at the bottom of that stream was smooth and fine, perfect for removing the shine from a ball without scuffing it.

Since then, his company has provided the mud to all of baseball.

“They’re notoriously tough to deal with,” says Ben Phillips, Basner’s partner in the Carolina League. “They keep the location a secret.”

Over the years, representatives from Lena Blackburne’s Rubbing Mud have told reporters that the mud is harvested by teams of scuba divers, taken blindfolded reporters, one at a time, to the location, only to have the reporters compare notes later on and conclude that they weren’t taken to the same place.

While the location is kept under a veil of mystery, the process of preparing a ball with the mud isn’t so much a secret as entirely up to the user.

in understanding what it could mean for the future of NC State athletics. This university is on an upward trajectory in almost every area under the leadership of chancellor (Randy) Woodson. It’s entirely natural that athletics would be part of that picture. My job for my tenure at NC State is to build a foundation, get us to a certain position where we can then take it from there to the next level.

So what’s the next step for the program?

From a coach’s perspective, having been a coach, I can tell you that the first winning team you have or that first time you’re in the rankings is thrilling. But very shortly thereafter, people want to know what you’re going to do next. And the next thing is consistency. Is it a one-shot deal? What more do we have to do for this to become the norm.

Once you establish that as the norm, the next challenge is “how do we take it even higher?” At some point, you establish in the top 25 then you start looking at how you can get past that.

I’ll tell you this, one of the keys to doing that is not comparing yourself to your neighbors. We have two schools within 30 miles of Raleigh that have been excellent across the board for decades. So it makes no sense to do that. We’re competing against ourselves.

Considering the geography and the competitiveness of the rivalries, how difficult a task is it to stay focused on yourself, rather than others — especially when you have fans from other schools trolling State fans about their school’s lack of championships in the highest profile sports.

“They don’t go over this in umpire school,” says Phillips. “They don’t talk about it at all. You kind of know in the back of your mind you have to do something with it, and then on your first day, they tell you, ‘OK, you have to do this.’”

As a result, each umpire develops his own personal style, at least until they reach the upper levels of the minor leagues and the Majors, where clubhouse attendants treat the balls for them, allowing the umps to keep their hands clean.

Each two-man crew of Carolina League umps is given one jar of rubbing mud at the start of the season and told to make it last.

“That’s a hunny right there,” Basner says as he pulls the jar out of his equipment bag. He’s referring to the price: $100 for a large jar that contains — well, exactly what is advertised on the label.

It’s a jar of mud. Wet, slimy and smelling faintly of rot.

The directions on the jar are deceptively simple: “Apply small amount of mud to palm of hand.

Massage onto both palms. Place ball in hand and massage thoroughly. KEEP MOIST.” Phillips fills the jar’s lid with a small amount of bottled water, which he uses to dilute the pinch of mud he takes from the jar. He

That’s the interesting dynamic, because we’re not in the Coastal Division and it appears that we’re never going to be in the Coastal Division. Clemson is going to be Clemson. Florida State is going to be Florida State. Louisville is going to be Louisville. It would be easier if we were in a league that didn’t have this level of excellence so that what we achieve might be the top of the pile. That’s now where we are. That’s why it’s foolish to say anything other than what new benchmark can we set for ourselves? The primary one eight years ago was, “Can we become a top-25 program?”

The money required for a level of excellence in the Olympic sports pales in comparison to the investment we make in football and men’s basketball. It should and it always will. But I don’t want to sit at a table at a coaches meeting every month with two coaches that are doing really well and coaches of 21 other sports that are mediocre or bad.

You cannot develop a culture of excellence like that.

How can you sum up the kind of culture have you developed at State over these past eight years?

We had a banquet recently that celebrates our athletes’ achievements from the past year, and I heard one athlete say to another: “We’re sitting in the midst of excellence.” That was precious to me because it matters. It changes who you are in a material way as an athletic program if you feel that anything is possible.

That’s what we need to do. We need to reinstill hope for all of them, with football and men’s basketball leading the way.

then picks up a ball, cradles it in both dirty hands and gives it a firm massage. It takes a few seconds, and he’s on to the next one, running through several cases in a matter of minutes.

His partner, Basner, takes an alternate approach, first misting two open cases of balls with a spray bottle he pulls from his bag.

He then puts large globs of mud in each hand and bends forward, smearing the mud across the 24 balls in a scene that would elicit gasps from Crash Davis and the other white-ball purists. He then picks up each filthy ball to rub the mud in, making the ball’s color an even light brown. He learned the method as a rookie ump from his senior partner and has done it that way ever since.

Durham Bulls pitching coach Rick Knapp, who has far fewer balls to do in a day — the umps mud close to 100 for a game, while Knapp might do a dozen for bullpen work —f orgoes the water and follows the jar’s instructions to the letter. He has a smaller jar, one that sells for $40 on the company site, and likely has less pressure to make it last the year. So he doesn’t need to dilute it with water.

As the year goes on, the Carolina League umps may find themselves running low, meaning late-season balls may not get quite as much mud as in April and May. And travel mishaps can threaten a crew’s mud supply.

“We’ve left the jar in clubhouses before and had to meet up with other crews to get an emergency supply,” Phillips says. “Just

scoop some in a cup, and we’ll try to keep it moist until we get to the next city.”

One legend — Basner won’t name the crew but claims to know their identities — had a pair of umps finding themselves mudless while working in the Northeast.

“We’re not that far from the Delaware River,” one ump said.

“That’s where they say it comes from. Mud is mud, right?” A short time later, they were rolling up their pant legs and wading in to harvest their own substitute.

With each umpire figuring out their own style, there is very little consistency from game to game, which can be a source of frustration for pitchers, trying to get a grip, and hitters, who want a nice white target to swing at.

Even among pitchers, the amount of mud makes a difference.

“A pitcher who’s a control guy, grip is going to be really important to him,” Milacki says. “He’ll want to make sure there’s a good amount of mud. The power pitchers on the other hand, they just want to get it and throw it.”

Toss in the fact that clubhouse attendants take over the task at upper levels, and the mud ritual gets even less consistent.

“I can remember there were some places where they seemed to put more mud on than others,” Knapp says. “Cleveland, for whatever reason, their balls always seemed to be dirtier than most.”

It’s an odd, inconsistent, dirty practice, and it may be going away soon. Equipment companies are rumored to be working on a new gloss-free ball, which is supposedly being tested in Japan — although no one spreading the rumor seems to have any concrete details.

Until that happens, fans at stadiums around the country will be watching balls that, if they look closely enough, are just the slightest bit off-white.

Day 2 of Big Rock sees two marlins Honey Hush lands first 500-pound fish of the tournament NSJ Staff THE 60TH Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament got off to a slow start Monday, but fishing off the Crystal Coast heated up on Day 2.

A day after no blue marlins made it to the docks, the crew from Honey Hush out of Hatteras one-upped the South Carolina-based Game Changer with both boats putting fish on the scales on Tuesday.

Honey Hush angler Robert Gorrell landed a 518.5-pound blue marlin for the big catch of the tournament so far. Captained by Chuck Lidner, who said he’s been fishing the Big Rock for 42 years, the Honey Hush — a 61-foot Spencer — is the early leader. Unfortunately, the boat did not land the WinnerTake-All $501,500 bonus for the first 500-pound fish caught since it was not entered in Level V category.

“I’ve done it several years,” Gorrell said of fishing the Big Rock during a Facebook Live interview done by the tournament. “Finally bringing one to the dock — it’s an amazing feeling.”

Lidner echoed his angler’s statement.

“It feels pretty good,” he said.

“It’ll feel better on Saturday, though.”

The six-day tournament will end that day, with the boat boating the biggest qualifying blue marlin (at least 400 pounds or 110 inches) de-

clared the winner. In the event of a tie by weight, “the marlin having the largest total measurement of girth plus length shall be declared the winner,” the official rules state.

The entire purse for this year’s Big Rock Tournament is more than $2.5 million.

The Game Changer, a 48-foot Viking, weighed in the first marlin of the tournament earlier Tuesday, with Michael Perry reeling in a 409.2-pound fish. Captain Geoff Rosenberry said it was his first time fishing the tournament.

“It’s the Super Bowl of the East Coast, for sure, for marlin fishing,” Perry, of Hilton Head, said of the Big Rock.

Last year, the crew of the RunOff won the tournament with a 533.8-pound blue marlin caught on the tournament’s first day. In all, the Run-Off walked away with $1.16 million for the catch, bagging the $467,500 Winner-Take-All bonus and another $693,950 for taking first place in the tournament.

Day 1 was not without its successes.

Wallhanger, captained by Gray Blount of Morehead City, won more than $53,000 by catching the first release of the day to win $5,000 and winning the Level VIII daily release prize for $48,521.

The Eye Catcher, captained by Derek Jarrett, boated a 41.1-pound dolphin on Monday, reeled in by Bob Sinclair. Angler Van Jones caught a 19.9-pound wahoo on Monday as well on the Mark Chambers-captained Reel Country.

The 183-boat tournament will continue all week in Morehead City.

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June 13–16 60th Annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament Evans Street, Morehead City Discover the spirit of Carteret County at the Big Rock fishing tournament in Morehead City. The tournament celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and will be a don’t-want-to-miss event.

June 14–20 3rd Annual Soundside Funfair S. Croatan Hwy, Nags Head Kick off the summer with family and friends at the 3rd Annual Soundside Funfair in Nags Head.

The event features carnival rides, a giant Ferris wheel, game concessions and everyone’s favorite fair foods like cotton candy and funnel cakes.

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Tributes to chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain are placed outside Brasserie Les Halles in New York, on June 11.

Celebrity deaths draw attention to suicide epidemic

By Julie Steenhuysen Reuters HIGH PROFILE DEATHS of celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain are generating renewed interest in suicide prevention and treatments for depression as new statistics show a growing problem in the U.S. Suicide is now the 10th-leading cause of death among Americans, claiming one person every 12 minutes, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This spike in suicide rates in the United States along with startling celebrity deaths has cast fresh light on the need for more effective treatments for major depression, with researchers saying it is a tricky development area that has largely been abandoned by big pharmaceutical companies.

U.S. health authorities said last week there had been a sharp rise in suicide rates across the country since the beginning of the century and called for a comprehensive approach to addressing depression.

Kate Spade's husband Andy Spade said in a statement this week that she had suffered from depression for many years and was working closely with her doctors. A representative for Andy Spade said he had no further comment on Saturday. A representative for Bourdain could not immediately be reached for comment. Reuters was not able to determine if either Bourdain or Spade were getting drug treatment.

The CDC said suicides were rarely caused by any single issue.

In addition to mental health conditions and suicide attempts

June 15–16 5th Annual N.C. Food Truck State Championship Commerce Square, Randleman Enjoy some of the best and most unique food offerings at the 5th Annual NC Food Truck State Championship. This free, two-day event features incredible competition and live music throughout the evening. The competition kicks off at 5 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday.

N.C. Rhododendron Festival N. Mitchell Avenue, Bakersville

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Anthony Bourdain, chef and television personality, died June 8. as risk factors, other contributing circumstances include social and economic problems, access to the means to commit suicide, and poor coping and problem-solving skills, the health agency said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report The CDC found that suicides had increased in every state except Nevada, where they decreased by 1 percent. However, Nevada had the ninth-highest suicide rate in the country.

North Dakota had the highest increase, at nearly 58 percent over the studied time period.

Montana had the highest suicide rate, at 29.2 per 100,000 people per year, while the District of Columbia had the lowest, at 6.9 suicides per 100,000 people per year. North Carolina’s suicide rate was 15.3 suicides per 100,000 people in the most recent study.

The CDC recommended a broad approach to suicide prevention, including boosting economic support by states, supporting family and friends after a suicide, and identifying and supporting people at risk for suicide.

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Designer Kate Spade died June 6.

With the availability of numerous cheap generic antidepressants, many of which offer only marginal benefit, developing medicines for depression is a tough sell.

Some say anti-depressant drugs take too long to become effective, if they are effective at all.

About half of people with depression fail to respond to current therapies, said Dr. Husseini Manji, global head of neuroscience at Johnson & Johnson's Janssen unit.

Dr. Julie Goldstein Grumet, a behavioral health expert from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, said 122 people in the United States took their lives by suicide each day last week. Many were never even diagnosed with a mental illness.

"We're missing opportunities to screen people for the risk of suicide," she said.

According to a recent New York Times article, suicide rates have increased across the board, but nearly 84 percent of people who commit suicide are white and about 77 percent are men.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs examined recent suicide statistics and found that after adjusting for differences in age and sex, risk for suicide was 22 percent higher among veterans when compared to U.S. non-veteran adults. After adjusting for differences in age, risk for suicide was 19 percent higher among male veterans compared to the general non-veteran male population and the risk for suicide was 2.5 times higher among female Veterans when compared to non-Veteran adult women.

“These findings are deeply concerning, which is why I made suicide prevention my top clinical priority,” said VA Secretary Dr. David J. Shulkin. “I am committed to reducing Veteran suicides through support and education.

We know that of the 20 suicides a day that we reported last year, 14 are not under VA care. This is a national public health issue that requires a concerted, national approach.”

NSJ Staff contributed to this article.

Celebrate the beauty of Roan Mountain in Bakersville at the 72nd Annual Rhododendron Festival.

The festival features a 10K run, car show, ducky derby, arts and crafts, street dances, a beauty pageant and much more.

20th Annual Edenton Music & Water Festival S. Broad and W. Water Street, Edenton Get outside and discover the waterways of Edenton with a sunset paddle to kick off the 20th Annual Edenton Music & Water Festival.

The two-day festival includes paddling, sailing, music and fun that the whole family will enjoy. Visit www.visitedenton.com.

June 16 Stills & Grills: Chicken Cookoff & Moonshine Festival Tenth Street, North Wilkesboro Spend the evening in downtown North Wilkesboro enjoying Wilkes County’s finest food and drink.

The festival includes a Kansas City Barbeque Society competition with a People’s Choice Award for best wings and BBQ chicken.

Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh

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Join NC author, Jennifer Bleakley, for a heartwarming introduction into her recent book, “Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See.” Bleakley shares the story of an unlikely horse named Joey who brings people together through friendship, trust and redemption. A portion of the book sales benefit Hope Reins, a Raleigh ranch dedicated to helping abused or neglected children.

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NeCessities! history marked June 13, 1940

June 14, 1908

June 15, 1970

USS North Carolina launched

John Scott Trotter, arranger for Bing Crosby and Charlie Brown born

The mixed fortunes of the Land of Oz

The USS North Carolina (BB-55) was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, beginning a highly decorated career.

Commissioned on April 9, 1941, the ship became the first of 10 fast battleships to join the fleet in World War II. The North Carolina and her sister ship, Washington, comprised the North Carolina Class of battleship. At the time of her commissioning, the North Carolina was considered the world’s greatest sea weapon. Armed with nine 16-inch guns in three turrets and twenty 5-inch 38-caliber guns in 10 twin mounts, the North Carolina proved a formidable weapons platform.

During World War II, the North Carolina participated in every major naval offensive in the Pacific theater, including the Battles of Guadalcanal, Marshall Islands, Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, earning 15 battle stars along the way.

In all, the USS North Carolina carried out nine shore bombardments, sank an enemy troopship, destroyed at least 24 enemy aircraft and assisted in shooting down many more. Although the Japanese claimed six times that the USS North Carolina had been sunk, she survived many close calls and near misses. By war’s end, she had only lost 10 men in action and had 67 wounded.

Arranger, composer and orchestra leader, John Scott Trotter, was born in Charlotte.

A piano student from a young age, Trotter began playing piano professionally with Hal Kemp’s band after meeting Kemp as a student at UNC. At the end of his first year, Trotter left college to continue with the band, serving as their arranger and pianist. In 1936, Trotter left Kemp’s band and began orchestrating for Bing Crosby, an association that would last for almost 20 years. In the 1950s, Trotter, known for his easy-going style and large physical size, began working in television, first as music director for The George Gobel Show and later on several specials for Crosby. Trotter later directed the music for the Charlie Brown specials, receiving nominations for both an Oscar and a Grammy for A Boy Named Charlie Brown.

He is credited with the idea of using the trombone for the teacher’s voice that became a hallmark of the animated movies. Trotter died in 1975 in Los Angeles and is buried in Sharon Memorial Park in Charlotte.

On June 15, 1970, the Land of Oz theme park opened on Beech Mountain in Avery County. The theme park, based on the book and movie The Wizard of Oz, was the brainchild of entrepreneur Grover Robbins, the same man who opened Tweetsie Railroad. The park featured costumed characters reminiscent of the movie with a recreation of the city of Oz, complete with a yellow brick road. In its early years the theme park attracted many visitors and experienced much success. That began to change in December 1975 when a fire caused major damage to many of the park’s structures. The park began to experience financial troubles and attendance declined. It closed in 1980. The property was abandoned for several years until the landowner restored the park in the late 1990s. A few former employees decided to hold an “Autumn of Oz” festival to commemorate their days of working at the park. The festival became an annual event.

Today the “Land of Oz” is used primarily as a venue for special events and private parties. Individuals can also rent the facility and spend the night in Dorothy’s house.

TAKE NOTICE JOHNSTON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 390 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Larry L. Flowers, unmarried to The Shoaf Law Firm, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of September, 2004, and recorded in Book 2764, Page 818, 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,

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 723 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Scott C. Foster and Candice F. Foster, Husband and Wife to National Title Network, Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of July, 2011, and recorded in Book 4001, Page 101, 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 19, 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:

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 204 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Devin R. Brown and Jessica E. Brown to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated the 13th day of August, 2015, and recorded in Book 4641, Page 12, 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 26, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being

18 SP 135 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Tyler J. Fish and Ashlee B. Selin to Ronald D. Haley, Trustee(s), which was dated September 30, 2014 and recorded on October 2, 2014 in Book 4507 at Page 138, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is locat-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 237 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ralph H. Brewster and Rhonda R. Brewster to Timothy S. Ayers, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of June, 2002, and recorded in Book 2247, Page 906, 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 26, 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: ALL THAT certain lot containing 0.92 acres, fronting 110 feet on Heath Road, in Ingrams Township,

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 19, 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 160, Waverly Point Subdivision, as depicted in Plat Book 56, Pages 1-6, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 90 Peggy Court, Raleigh, 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 convey-

ance “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.

The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Johnston, State of North Carolina, and is described as follows: Beginning at an existing iron stake in the western right of way if Natalie Drive, control corner, said point of being the eastern most point of Lot 130, Waverly Point Subdivision, as depicted in Plat Book 56, Page 4, Johnston County Registry; thence from said point of beginning and with the original lot line of Lots 130 and 131 according to the aforesaid plat South 68 degrees 16 minutes 54 seconds West 201.72 feet to an existing iron stake, corner with Lots 129 and 130, thence a new line North 67 degrees 04 minutes 42 seconds East 85.05 feet to an iron stake set; thence North 69 degrees 09 minutes 31 seconds East 116.70 feet to the point and place of beginning and being 180 square feet according to a recombination map for homes by Greg Johnson, Inc. Lot 131 Waverly Point, by L. Dennis Lee, P.A., Professional Land Surveyor dated May 18, 2000. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 106 Natalie Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Parcel ID: 06F99011D Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

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

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

dered 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.

more particularly described as follows: Situated in Boon Hill Township, Johnston County, North Carolina, and described as follows: BEING all that 1.12 acre as shown on a map entitled “Survey for Daniel Guion Williams, Jr.” which map is recorded in Map Book 81, Page 285, of the aforesaid Johnston County Registry. The metes and bounds description shown thereon is incorporated herein by reference. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5556 Princeton Kenly Road, Kenly, North Carolina.

And being a portion of the property conveyed to Daniel Guion Williams, Jr. and Diane Williams (now deceased) by deed dated May 23, 2002, and recorded in Book 2236 at Page 739 of the Johnston 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.

ed, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 29, 2018 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 18, Creekstone Subdivision, Section Two, Phase One, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 44, Page 263, Johnston County Registry to which plat reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of said lot.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 136 Creekstone Drive, Benson, NC 27504.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PAR-

TY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/ are Tyler J. Fish.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to 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 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 no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

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.

Johnston County, North Carolina, together with the residence situated thereon, designated as Lot 9 of SANDERS LANDING, PHASE I as shown on plat by W. Stanton Massengill, Registered Land Surveyor, dated January 24, 1994, Drawing No. 94-14-B, and recorded in Plat Book 41, page 291, Johnston County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. This is the same property conveyed to Green Tree Mortgage Services in Trustee’s Deed from Jackie A. Sadler, Substitute Trustee, dated April 18, 1997 and recorded at 10:45 A.M., April 23, 1997 in Book 1594, page 376, Johnston County Registry.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 520 Heath Road, Four Oaks, North Carolina.

Reference is expressly made to Affidavit of Robert P. Crawford, Foreclosure Supervisor of Greentree Financial Servicing Corporation, indicating that, in holding title to the above tract under Trustee’s Deed recorded in Book 1594, page 376, Johnston County Registry. Green Tree Mortgage Services, a Division of Greentree Financial Servicing Corporation, was acting as agent for Green Tree Financial Servicing Corporation and actual title was vested in Green Tree Financial Servicing Corporation, Grantor herein, said Affidavit being recorded at 1:40 P.M., July 16, 1997 in Book 1616, page 678, Johnston 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), which-

ever 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.

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: 1239621 (FC.FAY)

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 provid-

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving

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,

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

ing 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.

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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.

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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.

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Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-00057-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 13, 2018 and June 20, 2018

PUBLICATION DATES: June 13, 2018 and June 20, 2018

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TAKE NOTICE JOHNSTON 17 SP 247 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Katrina Ford and Terrill T. Merritt to Randy Warlick and Amy E. Johnson, Trustee(s), which was dated May 21, 2004 and recorded on May 27, 2004 in Book 02699 at Page 0957 and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on March 27, 2017 in Book 04930, Page 686, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county

RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 157 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Michael L. Janney and Paula M. Janney to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated the 31st day of March, 2006, and recorded in Book RE 1967, Page 395, 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 156 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Johnnie Huggins, Vickie J. Hallman, Alan K. Hallman and Crystal D. Huggins (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Johnnie Huggins and Crystal D. Huggins) to McGill Law Office, Trustee(s), dated the 31st day of May, 2007, and recorded in Book RE2028, Page 283, and Re-recorded in Book RE2092, Page 1713, and Modification in Book 2383, Page 438, 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

STANLY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 76 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sheila R. Shelton and William R. Shelton, (William R. Shelton, deceased) to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of June, 2009, and recorded in Book 1288, Page 960, 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 20, 2018 and will sell to the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 114 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kem F. Almond and Tammy G. Almond (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Tammy Gregory Almond and Kem Floyd Almond) to Glenn R. Walker, Trustee(s), dated the 14th day of December, 1998, and recorded in Book 0690, Page 0838, 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 27, 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

UNION AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 533 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Amy Nevills and William Mims (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Amy Deverie Nevills) to Neil W. Phelan, Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of April, 2002, and recorded in Book 1799, Page 800, and Modification in Book 6336, Page 876, 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

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 613 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Mattie Garmon, (Mattie W. Garmon aka Mattie Garmon, deceased) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Antonise M. Garmon) to Chris Oddleifson, Trustee(s), dated the 4th day of December, 2000, and recorded in Book 1475, Page 865, 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 June 28, 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:

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courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 29, 2018 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: Beginning at an existing iron stake in the western right of way line of Austin Street in the Town of Four Oaks, said existing iron stake being South 01 degree 18 minutes 25 seconds West 214.79 feet from a point marking the intersection of the center lines of Austin and Keen Streets, said beginning existing iron stake also marking a southeastern corner of property now or formerly owned by Ethel Mae McLamb (DB 1273, Page 819, JCR); thence as a western right of way line of Austin Street South 04 degrees 03 minutes 51 seconds East 250.03 feet to an existing iron stake, a northeastern corner of property now or formerly owned by Johnnie C. Stewart (DB 745 PG 419, JCR); thence as the northern property line of the said Stewart property South 86 degrees 06 minutes 53 seconds West 105.65 feet to an existing iron stake in the eastern property line of property now or formerly owned

by Shelia Collier Vinson (DB 1314, PG 221, JCR); thence as a portion of the eastern property lines of the said Vinson property and the Four Oaks Ceme-

tery North 03 degrees 48 minutes West 249.93 feet to an existing iron stake, the southwestern corner of the above described McLamb property; thence as the southern property line of the said McLamb property North 86 degrees 03 minutes 27 seconds East 104.50 feet to an existing iron stake, the point and place of beginning, containing .603 acres, as depicted upon a map for Dennis W. Pope and wife, Sherry P. Pope, drawn by L. Dennis Lee, P.A. , Registered Land Surveyor, dated December 8, 1995 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 202 Austin Street, Four Oaks, NC 27524.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Katrina Ford a/k/a Katrina Ford Merritt and Terrill T. Merritt.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to 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 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 no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)].

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.

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.

of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on June 26, 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 36, WHITE PINES SUBDIVISION, Map 2 of 3, according to the plat thereof, recorded in Plat Book 95, Page 90, 91 and 92, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2796 Whispering Way, Sophia, North Carolina.

Parcel ID Number: 7736 42 1147 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 convey-

ance “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.

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.

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County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on June 26, 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 No. 27 of Mill’s Acres Subdivision as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book 94, Page 11 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina, to which reference is herein incorporated. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 513 Booker T. Womble Road, Randleman, North Carolina.

Included in the legal description is 2007 Giles Manufactured Home with Serical Number GM-7640A which is permanently affixed to the real property described above.

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

highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being Lot 5 in Block “G” of an addition to Anderson Heights Subdivision and being bounded on the north

by Lot 6, on the south by Lot 4 of the subdivision and on the west by Cherrywood Lane and being more particularly described as follows: THE POINT OF BEGINNING being a found iron pipe in the margin of the eastern right of way of Cherrywood Lane, that said point is located by way of the right of way 90 feet south of the intersection of Cherrywood Lane with Sprucewood Street. Thence from said POINT OF BEGINNING running with the line of Lot 6, S. 78-05-07 E. 199.87 feet to a found iron pipe; thence S. 11-55-57 W. 100.01 feet to a found iron pipe, being the northeast corner of Lot 4; thence with the line of Lot 4, N. 78-03-21 W. 200.01 feet to a found iron pipe in the margin of the eastern right of way of Cherrywood Lane; thence with the right of way of said road, N. 1200-33 E. 99.91 feet to THE POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 0.46 acres as shown on a Physical Survey for Kelly Smith and Amy Smith, dated April 25, 1994, prepared by Survey Tech, Jimmy R. Ellison, Certifying R.L.S. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 505 Cherrywood Lane, Albemarle, 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), which-

ever 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.

as follows: BEGINNING at an existing iron stake in the centerline of State Road 1919, said iron stake being 0.2 miles from N.C. Highway 138, and running N. 45-59-34 W. 56.75 feet to an existing nail in the centerline of SR 1919; thence running N. 43-52-45 W. 122.03 feet to a new nail in said centerline, thence running N. 39-4302 W. 71.22 feet to a new iron spike in the centerline of S.R. 1919; thence turning and running N. 26-01-08 E. 425.75 feet to a new iron pipe, said line passing through a new iron pipe at 32.93 feet; thence turning and running S. 54-31-20 E. 120.01 feet to a new iron pipe; thence turning and running N. 35-28-59 E. 137.36 feet to a new iron pipe,; thence turning and running S. 38-00-07 E. 203.32 feet to a new iron pipe; thence turning and running S. 35-29-11 W. 548.65 feet to an existing iron stake, the point of Beginning. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 32645 Chapel Road, Norwood, North Carolina.

This property being 3.34 acres more or less, subject to the right of way of State Road 1919. This description is take from a survey prepared by Rogell E. Hunsucker, RLS, L-2488 for Kem F. Almond, dated June 13, 1985.

For reference see Deed Book 334, Page 496, Stan-

ly 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.

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 June 21, 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 12 of Southern Estates Subdivision as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet A at File 120-B, Union County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4721 Linda Kay Drive, Waxhaw, 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 convey-

ance “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.

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.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property

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BEGINNING at an iron located in the northwesterly margin of the intersection of Richardson Street with Union Street, and running thence along and with the northern margin of Union Street, S. 71-30 W. 150. feet to an old iron, a common corner of Lots 24 and 25 of the Vann V. Secrest, Jr. Subdivision; runs thence with a line of Lot 25 of the Vann V. Secrest, Jr. Subdivision, N. 18-30 W. 75 feet to an iron, a common corner of Lots 24 and 23 of the Vann V. Secrest, Jr. Subdivision; runs thence with a line of Lot 23 of the Van V. Secrest, Jr. Subdivision, N. 71-30 E. 150 feet to an iron in the western margin of Richardson Street; thence down and with the western margin of Richardson Street, S. 18-30 E. 75 feet to the point and place of Beginning and BEING all of Lot 24 of the Vann V. Secrest, Jr. Subdivision as shown on survey and plat by Carroll L. Rushing, R.L.S. dated November 16, 1977. For further reference, see Lot 24 of the Vann V. Secrest, Jr. Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book 3 at Page 95, Union County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 305 Richardson Street, 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,

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 fore-

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

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.

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

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

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closure 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.

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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.

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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.

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PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018

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.

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TAKE NOTICE WAKE 17 SP 403 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Samuel Hassell and Amy D. Hassell, husband and wife to W.J. Kellam, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dated November 30, 2011 and recorded on November 30, 2011 in Book 014560 at Page 00968, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 20, 2018 at

16 SP 1789 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Rita R. Thomas to Judy H. Woody, Trustee(s), which was dated August 30, 2006 and recorded on September 1, 2006 in Book 012149 at Page 01895, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is locat-

18 SP 210 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shadrach Ramnath and Laura Fernandez to Prlap, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated May 31, 2007 and recorded on May 31, 2007 in Book 012580 at Page 01729, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is locat-

12 SP 2752 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Alice M. Holden to Jeffrey M. Ruben, Trustee(s), which was dated February 25, 2000 and recorded on February 29, 2000 in Book 008529 at Page 00018, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county court-

10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 36 as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2011, Page 370, Wake County Registry and as further described below and reflected in Deed Book 13033, Page 572 and Deed Book 14537, Page 141, Wake County Registry.

Tract 1: BEING all of Lot No. 36, Block 21, according to plat entitled “North Ridge, Additions to Haymarket Village, Section Four, Part B, North Ridge, Inc., Developer, Raleigh, N.C.”, dated March 24, 1972, prepared by John A. Edwards & Company, Engineers and recorded in Book of Maps 1972, Page 73, Volume I, Wake County Registry.

Tract 2: BEGINNING at a point in the northern right of way line of Ravenhurst Drive, the southwest corner of Lot 36, Block 21 shown on the recorded map hereinafter referred to: thence a new line through Lot 35, Block 21 three (3) calls as follows: (1) North 09 degrees 11 minutes West 77.07 feet to a point, (2) North 05 degrees 26 minutes East 69.21 feet to a point and (3) South 83 degrees 02 minutes East 5 feet to a point, the northwest corner of Lot 36, Block 21; thence along the dividing

line between Lots 35 and 36, Block 21 South 0 degrees 18 minutes East 144.36 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing .0237 acres and being a small portion of Lot 35, Block 21 North Ridge Subdivision recorded in Book of Maps 1972, Page 73, Wake County Registry according to map entitled “Lot Revision, Lot 35 & 36, Block 21, North Ridge, Raleigh, N.C.” dated September 24, 1976 prepared by John A. Edwards and Company, Engineers.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 7701 Haymarket Lane, Raleigh, NC 27615.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Samuel Hassell and wife, Amy D. Hassell.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to 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 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 no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this prop-

erty 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.

ed, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 20, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 9329, The Villages of Wakefield Parkside, Phase 2 as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2001, Page 610-611, Wake County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 12521 Garden Tree Lane, Raleigh, NC 27614.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND

THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Rita R. Franklin and husband, Guy Edward Franklin.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to 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 prop-

erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of 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 no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

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 chal-

lenged 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.

ed, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 20, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in the City of Raleigh, St. Matthews Township, WAKE County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 47, in Bison Court Subdivision, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2006, Pages 1302-1305 (with said Lot being shown on Page 1303), Wake County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description of same.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3811 Bison Hill Lane, Raleigh, NC 27604.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred

Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Shadrach Ramnath and Laura Fernandez.

An Order for possession of the property may be

issued pursuant to 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 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 no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

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.

house for conducting the sale on June 27, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 5, PHASE 1, SOUTH VIEW SUBDIVISION, AS DEPICTED IN BOOK OF MAPS 1996, PAGE 1349, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY. BEING THAT PARCEL OF LAND CONVEYED TO ALICE M. HOLDEN FROM SON-LAN DEVELOPMENT CO. INC. BY THAT DEED DATED 04/18/97 AND RECORDED 04/23/97 IN DEED BOOK 7427, AT PAGE 137 OF THE WAKE COUNTY, NC PUBLIC REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 216 Southerby Drive, Garner, NC 27529.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the

remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Alice M. Holden.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to 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 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 no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. 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.

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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-01877-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-20617-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-19382-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 6, 2018 and June 13, 2018

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Aaron B. Anderson Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5710 Oleander Drive, Ste. 204 Wilmington, NC 28403 Phone: (910) 202-2940 Fax: (910) 202 2941 File No.: 16-19749-FC01 PUBLICATION DATES: June 13, 2018 and June 20, 2018