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Veteran’s Day 2019 Bagpiper Andy Maness, of Kannapolis, plays during a flag ceremony honoring veterans in Asheboro on November 11, 2019. The installation included 700 flags and was sponsored by the Asheboro/Randolph Chamber of Commerce and Asheboro Rotary Club. Asheboro Mayor David Smith said the event was about honoring heroes. “It’s an impressive display that highlights the feeling of appreciation and gratitude that we should all have for our servicemen,” said Smith.

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Dem party chair will run for insurance commissioner North Carolina’s insurance commissioner from 2009 through 2016 wants the job again. Democrat Wayne Goodwin announced Tuesday he’ll run for commissioner next year, setting up a potential rematch with current Commissioner Mike Causey, the Republican who beat him in 2016. Causey already announced he’s seeking a second term. Goodwin has been the state Democratic Party chair since his defeat.

Illegal immigrant under ICE detainer charged with killing two in car crash Felix Antonio Juarez-Antunez, 34, an illegal immigrant wanted on an ICE detainer, is being charged after a crash in Johnston County during the weekend left a grandmother and teenager dead. According to arrest warrants, alcohol and speed were factors in the crash that injured two others. Hailey Wagner, who was recently crowned Miss Garner’s Outstanding Teen, was injured along with her 14-year-old brother. Marjory Howell Wagner of Selma, Wager’s grandmother, was killed. Ethan Michael Handley, 15, died from his injuries.

Hyde County votes to reopen Ocracoke Hyde County commissioners have moved to reopen Ocracoke Island after it was ravaged by Hurricane Dorian.

Acting on a recommendation from the Ocracoke Control Group, the Hyde County Commissioners on Monday adopted the proposal to open the island to visitors on Nov. 22, or when N.C. Highway 12 is reopened to traffic. An evacuation order has been in effect since Sept. 4, when Dorian approached the North Carolina coast. Once the evacuation order is lifted, visitors will have immediate access to Ocracoke. Ferry operations will return to the paid reservation system. Food service, gas availability and lodging are limited on the

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Tillis files bill to limit sanctuary policies Two bills would clarify detainer rules, allow victims to sue sanctuary cities

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), working with fellow-Republicans in North Carolina’s U.S. House delegation has introduced two bills aimed at sheriffs who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials who are seeking assistance in detaining illegal immigrants facing deportation. So-called ICE detainers usually ask local law enforcement officials to keep a subject in custody for up to 48 hours beyond the time they would otherwise be released to allow federal authorities to pick up the subject.

“I think it’s wading into some of the liberal, progressive narrative that these are good people and you shouldn’t be punitive towards them because they’re illegally present,” Tillis said on the reasoning of these sheriffs during a phone interview with NSJ. “But now we’ve got specifics. These are people who have removal orders issued against them. These are not people who are in jail for being illegally present. They’re in jail because they committed a crime after they violated our border laws.”

In a recent example of how this dynamic is playing out in North Carolina cities, an illegal immigrant who had been released, after the the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office ignored an ICE

detainer, was re-arrested by federal officials on Nov. 4 after a week-long manhunt.

The man, a Mexican national named Jose Barajas-Diaz, was arrested originally for driving while impaired and felony death by motor vehicle on January 29, 2019 by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. According to ICE, they submitted an immigration detainer the next day, asking that when he is released, he is done so into their custody. The Mecklenburg County sheriff, Democrat Gary McFadden, refused to cooperate with this detainer request and released him.

“I’m thankful to the ICE officers who enforced our nation’s immigration laws in spite of the local officials who refused to cooperate and made their jobs harder,” said Tillis in a press release soon after the arrest. “It’s becoming increasingly apparent why Congress needs to pass my bills to hold sanctuary jurisdictions like Mecklenburg County accountable and put an end to their dangerous sanctuary policies.”

McFadden, according to Tillis, has released a number of illegal immigrants who were charged with state crimes including murder, rape, indecent liberties with a child, assault and heroin trafficking after ignoring ICE detainer requests.

“They’re illegally present, and then they committed a serious crime,” Tillis said. “This is not hypothetical. These are all cases in North Carolina alone where over 500 people have been reSee SANCTUARY, page A2

General Assembly considers new congressional maps Legislators were urged to redraw the lines by state court

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina legislators are still shaping proposals for the state’s congressional map as the General Assembly reconvened Tuesday in response to a judicial ruling encouraging approval of replacement lines.

A joint House-Senate committee met on Tuesday as lawmakers and staff worked on mapmaking computers for four hours. The committee also met four days last

week and in all generated at least 18 congressional map configurations. The panel took no votes on a favored map.

State judges last month blocked the current map’s use in the 2020 elections, saying it was likely plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging extreme partisan bias in the lines would win. But they stopped short of demanding new lines.

The full legislature returns to Raleigh on Wednesday with public hearings on redistricting expected that day, but it’s unclear when there will be actual votes on a replacement.

A new state congressional map could make it more difficult for See MAPS page A2

Program promotes transportation jobs for veterans

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — A program launched by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration aims to help military service members and reservists find jobs in the interstate trucking industry.

“Our country has a shortage of truck drivers. This resource will help military service members translate their training into good-paying jobs safely operating commercial vehicles across the country,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao in a press release.

Launched in June, the Under 21 Military Driver Pilot Program seeks to connect 18-20-year-olds that have a U.S. military equivalent of a commercial driver’s license with jobs at participating trucking companies.

The program comes amid a See VETERANS page A2

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Then and now: How Trump impeachment hearing is different The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The public impeachment inquiry hearings this week usher in a rare and momentous occasion in American history as Congress debates whether to remove a president from office.

There are consistencies in the process — televised hearings, partisan rancor and memorable speeches — but each impeachment process also stands alone as a reflection of the president, the Congress and the times.

Even if the two most recent impeachment proceedings — against Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — offer instructive clues about the path ahead, there are notable differences in the case surrounding Donald Trump.

A look at then and now: THEN: During the Clinton impeachment, the House held no serious hearings because the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, had delivered dozens of boxes of evidence with recommendations for charges. Even during the Nixon proceedings decades earlier, lawmakers were considering evidence gathered through months of investigations by specially appointed prosecutors — first Archibald Cox and later Leon Jaworski. In both cases, the impeachment proceedings followed extensive law enforcement investigations.

NOW: The House Intelligence Committee has taken on the primary role of assembling a case against Trump, with no supplemental Justice Department investigation. These impeachment proceedings are unfolding simultaneous to the investigation itself.

“The House actually having to investigate on its own with the benefit of nobody else’s resources, that’s new,” said Frank Bowman, a University of Missouri law professor and legal historian and author of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump.”

VETERANS from page A1 continued decline in number of truckers nationwide. The National Trucking Association’s 2019 annual report found the industry was short 51,000 drivers in 2017.

That shortage rose to 61,000 drivers in 2018 and if it continues, the number could reach 100,000 by 2023 and 160,000 by 2028.

“Over the past 15 years, we’ve watched the shortage rise and fall with economic trends, but it ballooned last year to the highest level we’ve seen to date,” the American Trucking Association’s chief economist Bob Costello said in July. “The combination of a surging freight economy and carriers’ need for qualified drivers could severely disrupt the supply chain.”

To qualify, applicants need to have heavy-vehicle driver training and experience while in military service, carry a designated MOS or job rating approved for the pilot, and be hired by a participat-

SANCTUARY from page A1 leased because we’re not cooperating with ICE.” A common rebuttal from progressives and urban sheriffs is that these detainer requests from ICE have dubious legal standing because they aren’t considered legal warrants. Tillis’ bill is meant to address this lack of clarity.

“We heard a few jurisdictions saying that one of the reasons they were having challenges cooperating with ICE was they were being subjected to potential lawsuits because they were holding some of these people that had ICE detainer orders too long,” Tillis said on his recently-proposed bill — the Immigration Detainer Enforcement Act. “So what we wanted to do was just clarify the law to give them a full 48 hours to safely transfer them.”

Tillis said he believes that in many jurisdictions this as an excuse, but he also says, there is “a legitimate concern” and this bill would help avoid lawsuits.

“It’s just providing some clarity,” Tillis said. “What we’re trying to do is just remove any of the legitimate objections any sanctuary jurisdictions would have. Even for cities that don’t have sanctuary policies, this would give them clarity that there would be no doubt they could hold them and honor the detainer request.”

Representative Richard Hudson, a House sponsor of the bill, said in a statement that the bill “is a good step to crack down on sanctuary cities and protect our community from illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds.”

Tillis’ other bill, the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, was introduced in July and would create a path for victims of illegal immigrants who were freed by sanctuary

THEN: During Watergate, the Senate held televised hearings that served to turn public opinion against Nixon, and he eventually resigned before a formal vote by the full House. The most sensational moments — including the testimony of White House counsel John Dean and Sen. Howard Baker’s famous question, “What did the president know and when did he know it?” — occurred not during House impeachment hearings but during special Watergate hearings in the Senate.

NOW: The House hearings represent the public’s first time hearing witnesses involved in the controversy. The three witnesses up first have appeared behind closed doors, and transcripts of their private depositions suggest the potential for dramatic and quotable testimony. One State Department official, George Kent, accused Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani of leading a “campaign of slander” against the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Another, William Taylor, has said he had a “clear understanding” of a desired quid pro quo: military aid in exchange for investigations of a political rival.

Even if the two most recent impeachment proceedings — against Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — offer instructive clues about the path ahead, there are notable differences in the case surrounding Donald Trump.

ent that he wasn’t going to be able to hold the ground,” said William Howell, a political science professor at the University of Chicago.

NOW: There have been sporadic grumblings of discontent from Republicans in Congress, most notably from Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, but the Trump impeachment proceedings are unfolding in a considerably more partisan and polarizing time than the Clinton and Nixon eras, and there’s no reason to think there’s going to be any significant abandonment in support of Trump from his own party.

THEN: There was no internet during the Nixon administration and it wasn’t yet in widespread use even during the Clinton era.

Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms were years away.

When Americans tuned in to Senate Watergate hearings, they participated in a communal experience, watching the same live programming.

THEN: Nixon’s exit was sealed when members of his own party came out against him, with some breaking ranks and voting to adopt articles of impeachment. Three top Republican leaders in Congress, including Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, visited Nixon at the White House in August 1974 to warn him he faced near-certain impeachment. Even Democrats who voted against convicting Clinton made clear their disapproval, with then-Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut famously taking to the Senate floor to call the president’s conduct immoral.

“When we look back on ‘74, it wasn’t that all Republicans turned on Nixon — far from it. But enough did that it became appar-

NOW: It’s safe to expect that the president, known to consume television news shows in the morning and tweet in response to what he sees, will be keeping careful track of the impeachment proceedings. He’ll likely counterpunch in real time. That instantaneous response could rapidly shape the public narrative, while TV networks that have surfaced since the

ing motor carrier.

Over the course of the next three years, the FMCSA’s pilot program will attempt to determine potential benefits of 18-20-year-old drivers to operate commercial vehicles. The pilot will collect and compare the safety records of the Under 21 Military Drivers with that of a control group to look at the impact of age on commercial driver safety.

The Under 21 Military Driver Pilot Program’s website maintains a list of job opportunities with trucking employers nationwide. Active service members, reservists, National Guard, and military veterans who possess the CDL equivalent can use the site to learn more about job opportunities that are available with participating motor carriers.

North Carolina has the third largest military population in the country. The Old North State is home to six military bases with almost 113,000 active duty ser-

vice members and a reservist and national guard population of roughly 21,000.

Companies participating in the Under 21 pilot include GoLub, Gully Transportation, Lily Transportation, May Trucking, PI&I Motor Express, Prime Inc., UPS Freight, Total Transportation of Mississippi and Werner Enterprises.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, tractor trailer drivers in May of 2018 earned between $21.00 to $23.00 per hour.

In 2018, the BLS listed North Carolina as employing over 58,000 heavy and tractor trailer drivers at an average annual mean wage of $44,030.

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation also offers a wide range of other transportation job opportunities for veterans based on their military skills and experience in areas such as air traffic control, commercial piloting and railroad operations.

policies to sue those jurisdictions.

“I’m not somebody known for wanting to create opportunities for trial lawyers, but if this person become a victim, at least in part, because they released somebody that could be in ICE detention, then there should be consequences for that,” Tillis said.

As an example, Tillis said if someone had been arrested for trafficking heroin, and was then freed rather than given to immigration officials to be deported, someone whose child died of a heroin overdose connected to that person could then sue under this law, saying “If they were in ICE detention, they wouldn’t be trafficking heroin. And we’ve had almost 2,500 people die of heroin overdoses in the last year.”

“It is clear that sanctuary cities’ failure to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement has had a real cost on society, both economically and in terms of human lives,” Rep. Ted Budd, another House sponsor of the bill, said in a statement. He says the bill “allows families and victims of sanctuary city policies to sue the city for failing to comply with detainer requests from ICE.” Because of the current makeup of the U.S. Congress, Tillis is not hopeful that much can get done immediately in this area. He said that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was too focused on impeachment to do much else. At the state level, Tillis was disappointed that Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have required N.C. sheriffs to honor ICE detainers.

“Roy Cooper is a sanctuary governor, and that’s why he vetoed the legislation on this.

He seems to think sanctuary policies are okay,” said Tillis.

Cooper called the bill, which was supported by the N.C. Sheriffs’ Association, “unconstitutional and politically motivated.

MAPS from page A1 national Republicans to retake control of the U.S. House.

A special House-Senate committee met for the first time last week and set rules for proposed replacement boundaries that the full legislature could vote upon this week. A key legislator warned the process will be more complicated than when the GOP-controlled General Assembly redrew several dozen legislative districts just two months ago.

On Oct. 28, a state judicial panel blocked use of the state’s 13 U.S. House districts for the 2020 elections by determining it was likely the voters who sued to overturn the 2016 map alleging excessive partisan bias favoring Republicans would win their case. The GOP currently hold 10 of the 13 seats in the state’s congressional delegation, even though North Carolina is considered a presidential battleground entering 2020 and regularly holds close statewide elections.

The same judges struck down state House and Senate districts in early September by agreeing with similar arguments that political gerrymandering violated the North Carolina Constitution.

While the judges wrote in their preliminary injunction that it lacked authority at the time to order the legislature to draw new congressional districts, they suggested the General Assembly could redraw them on their own now and avoid delaying the congressional election calendar.

Candidate filing for all 2020 races begin Dec. 2, and the state Board of Elections has said congressional primaries could still occur March 3 as scheduled if

Watergate era to appeal to partisan interests — Fox News Channel on the right and MSNBC on the left — could strengthen or reaffirm preexisting views.

THEN: Sure, Nixon railed against his critics, including the media. And, yes, Clinton and his supporters attacked Starr. But both — one a career politician, the other a Yale-educated lawyer — accepted their fates and respected the institutions that decided them.

Clinton delivered a Rose Garden statement as the House moved toward impeachment, and though he didn’t mention the “I-word,” he conveyed contrition.

The president accepted “responsibility for what I did wrong in my personal life” and pledged to push the country forward. Nixon accepted a Supreme Court opinion that forced him to turn over incriminating personal recordings and resigned before he could be impeached.

NOW: It remains to be seen how willingly Trump will accept whatever courts and the Congress decide. Trump famously equivocated in 2016 on the question of whether he would accept the election results if he were to lose to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

He’s similarly called the impeachment inquiry a hoax, just as he did special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The White House has sought to stonewall the impeachment inquiry by directing executive branch employees to skip their appearances, but many officials defied the directive and showed up anyway. That recalcitrance raises questions about how prepared the president is to comply with directives from the court — should they come — or to accept whatever outcome awaits him in Congress.

“The president has never had the gall to essentially just tell Congress to go screw itself in an impeachment investigation,” Bowman said.

“Over the past 15 years, we’ve watched the shortage rise and fall with economic trends, but it ballooned last year to the highest level we’ve seen to date.”

Bob Costello, chief economist of the American Trucking Association

a replacement map is finalized by Dec. 15.

“The court respectfully urges the General Assembly to adopt an expeditious process,” the judges wrote last week.

The legislature worked at lightning speed in September to redraw nearly 80 of their 170 legislative districts in barely over a week, following the judges’ criteria such as ignoring political data and election results and to improving district compactness when able.

The court has provided no such specific criteria for the congressional remap.

But committee members agreed Tuesday that it made sense to mimic much of what it followed during the legislative remap.

For example, live video of the committee meetings again will be online, as will the displays of the computer terminals where any mapmaking will be performed.

The committee also agreed that those computers would contain neither elections results — a key element in determining a district’s partisan slant — nor racial information about voters. The committee will decide later this week whether they want to use a previously drawn map to serve as the base plan for their work, or create a new map from scratch.

Mitchell County Republican Sen. Ralph Hise, a committee co-chairman, said drawing a congressional map will include additional challenges. For example, each of the 13 districts must have exactly or almost exactly the same number of residents. Based on the 2010 census figures, that’s 733,499 people per districts. Legal rulings allow for more flexibility in General Assembly district populations.

“Equal population makes it much more complex,” Hise said.

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Report says election vendors are ‘prime targets,’ need oversight The Associated Press ATLANTA — The private companies that make voting equipment and build and maintain voter registration databases lack any meaningful federal oversight despite the crucial role they play in U.S. elections, leaving the nation’s electoral process vulnerable to attack, according to a new report.

The Brennan Center for Justice on Tuesday issued the report, which calls on Congress to establish a framework for federal certification of election vendors. The authors say this could be established as a voluntary program similar to how voting machines are certified, with incentives for state and local election officials to use vendors that have completed the process. It would include the establishment of federal standards and the ability for federal officials to monitor compliance and address any violations.

The report’s co-author Lawrence Norden acknowledged it was too late for any of this to happen in time for the 2020 presidential election.

“Even if (Congress) had the will, it couldn’t be passed in time,” said Norden, director of the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center. “This is another security vulnerability that Congress hasn’t addressed.”

Norden said congressional inaction has increased the pressure on state and local election officials to secure their voting systems and have measures in place should something go wrong. Although Congress sent $380 million to states last year for election security, Norden said it was a “drop in the bucket” of what is needed as state and local election officials look to fund the replacement of outdated and insecure voting systems, increase cybersecurity personnel

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In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo, a man feeds a ballot card into a digital voting machine during a demonstration in Raleigh, N.C. and add security upgrades.

The Brennan Center, which is based at New York University School of Law, said the most logical agency to handle federal oversight of election vendors would be the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. But that agency has been hobbled in recent years by reduced federal funding and leadership vacancies.

Although two commissioners were added this year, the agency is searching for a new executive director and general counsel.

The report acknowledges the commission does not have the authority that would allow it to certify election vendors. But the commission could take steps through its existing certification program for voting systems to ask vendors to provide details on cybersecurity practices and ownership information, according to the report.

There have been concerns about foreign ownership of election companies operating in the United States.

“Private vendors’ central role in American elections makes them prime targets for adversaries,” the report said. “Yet it is impossible to assess the precise level of risk associated with vendors or how that risk impacts election security.”

The report notes that just three companies provide more than 80% of voting systems in the U.S. and that other systems like voter registration databases and electronic pollbooks are also supplied and, in some case, maintained by vendors.

A report by The Associated Press last year found the leading voting-related companies had long skimped on security in favor of convenience and operate under a shroud of financial and operational secrecy despite their critical role in elections.

Federal officials have sought to boost communications and information sharing through the formation of a group that brings together representatives of the Department of Homeland Security and election vendors. This includes the ma-

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jor firms of Election Systems and Software, Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic.

There are also efforts to develop a program that would allow authorized security researchers access to election equipment so vulnerabilities within election systems can be identified and addressed. The industry, historically opposed to such outside reviews, has signaled a willingness to explore this. All the major firms have sought to reassure the public and election officials that it takes security seriously, but experts say it’s difficult to confirm given the limited visibility into their operations.

A spokeswoman for Election Systems and Software said the company “fully supports” additional oversight and increased security testing of elections equipment, adding the company has submitted its equipment to testing by independent security researchers.

“ES&S agrees that all vendors should be held accountable for following best practices for all aspects of security, as ES&S does, and agrees that vendors should be American owned and operated, as ES&S is,” said spokeswoman Katina Granger.

The report noted that other industries also viewed as critical to national security, such as defense contractors, face substantial oversight and must comply with various requirements.

Norden said much of the focus within election security has been on the machines and how best to secure them but critical questions remain about how secure the vendors themselves are. He noted that former special counsel Robert Mueller described in his report how Russian agents in 2016 targeted employees of a voting technology company and installed malware on the company’s network. Details on the extent of the breach have not been made public.

“Vendors are responsible for election security in a way that folks probably don’t understand,” Norden said. “When we talk about election security, we talk about what election officials are doing, but we’ve left this big part of the puzzle out of the discussion.”

Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a fund-raising fish fry for U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer, D-Iowa, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Sanford suspends GOP primary challenge to Trump Concord, N.H. Mark Sanford dropped his challenge to President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, saying the focus on impeachment has made it impossible for his campaign to gain traction.

“You’ve got to be a realist,” Sanford said outside the New Hampshire statehouse. “What I did not anticipate is an impeachment.”

The former South Carolina governor and congressman announced his decision to suspend his campaign on the eve of televised impeachment hearings in the U.S. House.

He centered his campaign on warnings about the national debt, but said Republicans were more interested in defending Trump from the threat of impeachment.

“It was a longshot, but we wanted to try and interject this issue, how much we’re spending, into the national debate which comes along once every four years,” Sanford said.

“I don’t think on the Republican side there is any appetite for a nuanced conversation on issues when there’s an impeachment overhead.”

Impeachment aside, Sanford’s campaign faced other hurdles as a handful of state parties canceled their primaries and other nominating contests, including in Sanford’s home state of South Carolina.

Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and former Rep. Joe Walsh are still mounting GOP primary challenges to Trump.

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Bloomberg registers for 2020 ballot in Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas Michael Bloomberg has filed paperwork to appear on the ballot in Arkansas’ March 3 presidential primary.

The billionaire former New York mayor hasn’t formally announced a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. But his trip to Arkansas on Tuesday is the latest indication that he is leaning toward a run.

Bloomberg sent staffers to Alabama last week to file for the primary there.

He’s moving toward a presidential bid as he warns that the current field of Democratic presidential candidates isn’t equipped to defeat President Donald Trump next year.

Bloomberg plans to skip the traditional early voting states and focus more on Super Tuesday states, including Arkansas and Alabama.

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Klobuchar says a woman with Buttigieg’s record would miss debate

By Sarah Burnett The Associated Press CHICAGO — The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign drew a record six female candidates to the field. But with just less than three months until voting starts, only one has risen to the top tier.

Is it sexism or just politics?

That’s the debate that erupted Monday as one of those candidates, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, publicly complained about gender bias in the race, saying voters and the media were giving rival Pete Buttigieg, a small-town mayor, more support and attention because he’s a man. A woman with a similar resume, Klobuchar argued, wouldn’t be taken seriously enough to make the debate stage.

The comment seemed to touch a nerve in an election where gender politics is never far from the surface. Many in the party believe Hillary Clinton was a victim of sexism and voters who hold women to a different standard when she lost to Donald Trump in 2016. They’re still hungry to elect the first female president and vigilantly working to combat signs of bias.

Still, Klobuchar’s comment was striking as it seemed aimed at a candidate also attempting to make history by becoming the first openly gay president.

The three-term senator from Minnesota said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she believes Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is qualified but that she’s the better candidate.

“I’m the one from the Midwest that has actually won in a statewide race over and over again,” Klobuchar, 59, said, adding that she can bring in voters like those in Kentucky and Virginia who supported Democrats in last week’s election. “Those are the kind of voters I have won. And that’s not true of Mayor Pete. That’s just a fact.”

Buttigieg has been one of the surprises of the Democratic presidential primary, rising from an unknown to a top candidate who has raised more money than almost all his rivals.

He is a Harvard graduate, Rhodes scholar and military veteran who is gay and married to his husband. He’s won over voters who say that he’s intelligent and that they appreciate his calm de-

meanor, his oratory skills and his message of generational change.

“I think, obviously, sexism is a force in politics. I also believe that I’ve gotten to where we’ve gotten to by having the right message, the right organization, reaching out to voters and convincing more and more of them to join this vision,” Buttigieg said Monday. “And if I can continue to do that, then we’ll win, and if I can’t, well, that’s what we’ve got to do.”

Kimberly Peeler-Allen, a visiting practitioner at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University and co-founder of Higher Heights, which supports black women in politics, said Klobuchar’s comments were about more than Buttigieg.

She said there’s an expectation of what people in leadership, particularly the presidency, should look like in this country, and pointed to female mayors of cities that are similarly sized to South Bend who likely wouldn’t be taken seriously as presidential candidates. That’s particularly true for black women, she said.

“It is more of a callout of the electorate and the powerbrokers and media and how they’re covering people than on Mayor Pete himself,” Peeler-Allen said.

Buttigieg’s own sex could wind up hurting him if a man wins the nomination, she added, because a male Democratic nominee will almost certainly choose a woman, likely a woman of color, as a running mate.

African Americans and women make up the backbone of the Democratic Party, and a candidate can’t win without a strong perfor-

mance in both groups. There’s a strong sense among party members that the Democratic ticket must include a representative of one or both groups.

Buttigieg also has faced bias over his sexual orientation, which some people see as a barrier to his being elected, particularly among African American voters, and he has encountered anti-gay protesters at stops on the campaign trail.

Klobuchar has never lost a campaign, dating back to her bid to be the top prosecutor of Minnesota’s largest county and her first Senate race in 2006, when she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.

She won her third term last year with 60% of the vote in Minnesota, which went for Clinton in 2016 but which Trump hopes to make a play for in 2020.

Buttigieg has run for statewide office once, in 2010, when he was the Democratic nominee for treasurer in the red state of Indiana.

He lost to the Republican by more than 400,000 votes, winning about 38%.

He easily won his second term as mayor of South Bend, a community of about 100,000 people, with just over 8,500 ballots cast for him.

Buttigieg said performance in previous elections may not be the best test of a candidate’s electability. Trump had never held public office before he won in 2016.

“If the measure of whether somebody can become president is how many votes they’ve gotten in previous elections, we wouldn’t be here,” Buttigieg said during a bus tour through New Hampshire.

Deval Patrick mulling Democratic White House run Washington, D.C. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is considering making a late run for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to two people with knowledge of his deliberations, underscoring some Democrats’ deep uncertainty about the party’s current crop of contenders.

Patrick, a close friend and ally of former President Barack Obama, ruled out a presidential bid earlier this year but has since been talking with Democratic operatives and donors about launching a campaign. He has not made a final decision on whether to run, but he is expected to do so quickly, given fast-approaching deadlines to get on the ballot in key states.

The people with knowledge of Patrick’s deliberations spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

He would face big hurdles to launching a campaign at this late stage. Patrick would have to quickly raise money to build out a campaign operation and boost his familiarity with voters.

Some of his former political advisers are already working for other 2020 candidates, including his former chief of staff Doug Rubin, who is working for Tom Steyer.

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WEST Man, dog bitten during fight with mama bear Mitchell County Wildlife officials say a man and his dog were bitten by a black bear that was trying to defend her cub. A homeowner’s Great Dane got into a fight with the mama bear Saturday in the yard of a Spruce Pine home.

The man was bitten on his arm while breaking up the fight. The dog also suffered puncture wounds. Both were treated and released from hospitals Saturday night. Wildlife officials took samples of the bear’s blood and fur in the yard. They won’t seek to euthanize it.

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Cherokee County Five people were arrested at a hotel in Murphy after police received a tip that drugs were being sold out of one of the rooms. Police conducted a series of traffic stops of people who visited the room, seizing grey powder heroin, black tar heroin, methamphetamine and prescription pills. Police then raided the room and arrested Benjamin Highsmith of Rome, Georgia. Also arrested were Heather Ramsey, Jessie Crist, Louis Tarantino Jr. and Sherrie Marie Brooks, all of Murphy.

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Teacher charged with indecent liberties Alamance County Authorities have arrested a high school teacher accused of exchanging indecent messages with students. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office arrested 58-year-old Kenneth Ray Lockner, a teacher at Western Alamance High School. Investigators said they discovered messages between Lockner and students that were considered to be indecent. The teacher was charged with three felony counts of indecent liberties with a student. Reports say the case is ongoing and more charges could be filed.

Bear bites man, both roll off cliff Homeless family relocated from New York City Rutherford County A family that was homeless in New York City was relocated to Rutherford County through a special program.

New York City’s Special One-Time Assistance (SOTA) program paid to bring the family to the state. Area homeless advocates and county leaders weren’t aware of the program, and they don’t have any details on the family.

Haywood County An attempt to tree a bear has ended with a hunter injured and the bear dead. The hunter rolled off a slight cliff with the 350-pound bear on Saturday.

The hunter was with another man who had shot the bear while it was in a tree near Mount Sterling. The bear fell out of the tree and began biting the hunter.

Wildlife Resource officers found the bear dead on Sunday. It was taken to a state lab for rabies testing. The hunter was taken to a hospital in Asheville with several injuries.

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President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation designating November as National Veterans and Military Families Month.

In his proclamation, Trump said, “The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who fight to defend our liberty embody courage, patriotism, and loyalty.” The month, which includes the Veterans Day holiday, “is intended to honor and express our deep appreciation for these brave men and women and their families,” said Trump.

North Carolina is home to the third largest military population in the U.S., including more than 59,000 school age children of active duty military, Guard and Reserve. Fort Bragg is one of the largest military bases in the world at over 163,000 acres and has the largest military population at more than 235,000 people. Here’s a look at the military installations around the Old North State.

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Student injured during chemistry class Guilford County A high school student is recovering after her family says she was injured during an explosion in an on-campus chemistry class at Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. The student — identified by her family as Aimee Green — was in good condition on Friday at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.

The student’s mother said in a public Facebook post that her daughter’s hair, face, chest, hands and arm were burned.

Restaurant fired cashier who refused to serve officer Person County A Cook Out in Roxboro has fired at least one employee after a cashier refused to serve an officer. Roxboro Police Chief David Hess said a police sergeant visited the restaurant in Roxboro last week and was denied service by a cashier. Hess said that after word about what happened spread on social media, the cashier was fired.

Man hit by 3 vehicles while trying to cross street Wake County Police in Apex say a man who was hit by three cars while trying to cross the street has serious injuries. The man was hit Thursday evening. The driver stopped and tried to check on the man. The pedestrian was then hit by two more vehicles. Witnesses told police the second and third vehicles didn’t stop. Officers are searching for those drivers. The driver of the first car cooperated with investigators at the scene. McKinney says the man is in his 30s or 40s. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

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RALEIGH — North Carolina’s schools superintendent has decided he’ll run for lieutenant governor next year instead of seeking re-election. Mark Johnson announced on Tuesday he wants a different office than superintendent of public instruction, which he won in 2016.

Johnson had hinted that he was considering an executive branch position.

Now he’ll join a crowded March GOP primary field with at least six other announced candidates.

Power to the superintendent’s position actually increased during Johnson’s term after a 2016 law shifted responsibilities away from the state education board.

Responding to Johnson’s announcement, the N.C. Association of Educators released a statement. “After years of making bad decisions for our public school students and educators, we are glad that Mr. Johnson has realized that the role of state superintendent was not a good fit for him personally or professionally,” NCAE President Mark Jewell said in a written statement.

There are at least six announced Democratic candidates including Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board member James Barrett, former N.C. Department of Public Instruction employee Amy Jablonski, education consultant Constance Lav Johnson, N.C. State professor Michael Maher, UNC Greensboro professor Jen Mangrum and Wake County school board member Keith Sutton.

On the Republican side, Catherine Truitt, chancellor of Western Governors University NC, said in August that she was considering a run for state superintendent if Johnson did not run again. Truitt previously served as associate vice president of University and Pre-K–12 Partnerships at UNC General Administration and as senior education adviser to Gov. Pat McCrory.

Sources on Jones Street say that Rep. Craig Horn (R-Union), former state Rep. Chris Malone (R-Wake) and former state Board of Education legislative director Zane Stillwell are considering GOP primary runs for the top education job.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Credit agency concerned about North Carolina budget impasse EAST North Carolina man accused of shooting father after argument Nash County A man is accused of shooting his father in Bailey. The Nash County Sheriff’s Office said police and deputies responded to a home and found a man with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest. The sheriff’s office said emergency personnel performed life-saving measures before the man was hospitalized. Neither his name nor condition has been released.

The man’s son, 36-year-old Justin Bailey, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Investigators say he drew a gun on his father after an argument.

Family turns in escaped boy, 13, suspected in double murder Robeson County A 13-year-old suspect in a double homicide who escaped custody has been returned to authorities. The teen’s mother, Nikki Jacobs, turned him over to U.S. Marshals in Lumberton on Wednesday night after he escaped from Juvenile Court around noon Tuesday.

He spent Tuesday and Wednesday at his grandmother’s abandoned old house.

He then found a bike and rode it to his uncle’s home. The uncle allowed the boy to shower and eat before calling authorities. The teen and 19-year-old Derrick Deshawn Hunt are charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of two brothers.

Man killed after trying to take deputy’s gun Cumberland County A police officer at a hospital for an investigation intervened in a struggle Wednesday between a deputy and a suspect trying to take his gun. The suspect was killed and the deputy was injured. A deputy had taken the suspect to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center for medical attention. While there, the suspect tried to take the deputy’s gun, Wright said. The suspect, who had been arrested on charges involving a home invasion, was killed, while the deputy suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

2 charged after college student abducted Pitt County Police arrested two men who they say abducted a university student who managed to escape her captors by sending a text message to a friend.

Greenville police said 27-year-old Joshua Worsley of Robersonville and 33-year-old Cornelius Langley of Greenville were both charged with firstdegree kidnapping. The men lured the 20-year-old East Carolina University student into their car last Friday, and Worsley tried to sexually assault her.

The victim texted a friend who was able to follow the car until it stopped outside a motel. Police said the friend confronted the two men, who released the victim.

The Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina’s lengthy budget impasse is getting attention from a leading credit-rating agency, whose top score for the state allows it to borrow very cheaply.

Moody’s Investors Service writes the lack of a final two-year budget agreement between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-controlled legislature “reflects governance weakness and is credit negative.” The state still holds

Moody’s triple-A rating.

Moody’s analysts pointed out last week that state law and several approved “mini-budgets” alleviate most spending limitations for now, but the standoff during healthy economic times doesn’t bode well for when revenues and the economy stagnate or decline.

Cooper vetoed the budget in June. His veto has not been overridden.

North Carolina’s top rating from the top three credit agencies is considered the gold standard for a state’s fiscal health.

Former state senator will challenge for his old seat NSJ Staff RALEIGH — Former state Sen. Wesley Meredith (R-Cumberland) announced last week that he would run against current state Sen. Kirk DeViere (D-Cumberland).

DeViere defeated Meredith by 433 votes in 2018. Meredith was one of six GOP senators who lost a seat to a Democrat in 2018.

In his announcement, Meredith focused on the state budget impasse and said DeViere’s support for Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto was throwing away “the largest infusion of cash in the history of our community.” DeViere and Cooper have been vocal supporters of Medicaid expansion for able-bodied adults. Meredith called DeViere a “one issue Senator,” saying the freshman senator was “so fixated on winning the battle for Medicaid expansion

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that he is losing the war for the citizens of Cumberland County.”

Following Meredith’s announcement, DeViere tweeted: “It’s simple folks: Medicaid Expansion works and it helps families live more healthier lives.” DeViere also tweeted his support for Cooper’s veto of a teacher pay increase that the governor said was not enough and for the veto of a bill that would have required illegal immigrants identified by the court system to be removed from the voter rolls.

DeViere is a former Fayetteville city councilman and owner of an advertising and PR agency. Meredith is also a former Fayetteville city councilman and works as a landscape contractor. He previously served four terms in the state Senate where he was majority whip and chaired the Transportation, Commerce and Insurance committees.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

Destroying the fabric of democracy

Appointing a special master reduces the massive responsibility of redistricting to just one person, not the 170 elected representatives and senators in the NCGA.

WHEN MRS. POWEL asked Benjamin Franklin at the end of the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 what sort of government they had created, he replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

A “democratic republic” he meant. A democratic republic literally means “Public Thing of The People” from its Latin and Greek derivations.

It does not mean “Public Thing Run By A Few People.”

America is a “representative democracy” where free people get to elect representatives who then go to Washington, D.C., and state and local assemblies to vote on our collective behalf.

The founders wanted to create a connection — a fabric of democracy, if you will — between all voters and all elected representatives. All of them.

Not just a few.

Had the founders wanted to delegate representational redistricting and reapportionment duties to a few select people, they would have put it in Article II or III of the Constitution, not Article I which outlines legislative powers, not executive or judicial powers.

Voters used to have the assurance that the person they voted for in the first election of each decade to represent them in Washington or Raleigh would be the same person, if repeatedly elected, they could vote for during the next four elections before the next census.

That went by the wayside in North Carolina in 1981 when new districts were drawn under the Voting Rights Act by Democratic majorities in the NCGA. Congressional maps that would make Picasso proud were drawn to protect Democrat incumbents and allow minorities a better chance to get elected in one of those Democrat districts.

Gerrymandering in North Carolina did not start with Republicans in 2011. In 1980, Democrats held nine of the 11 Congressional seats in North Carolina. The only reason they didn’t have 11 Democrats in Congress was because they packed as many Republicans as possible in the 9th and 10th districts to get them out of the other nine districts to protect Democrat majorities.

Starting in the 1980s, Republicans litigated to redraw more fair and balanced congressional districts which continued through 2010. North Carolina produced dozens of new congressional maps during that time.

Since 2011, Democrats have run to the courts to demand multiple

congressional map redrawings. If the NCGA does not produce a new map that the three Superior Court judges on the special panel approve by Dec. 15, then there is the possibility that the courts will appoint a “special master” to draw the districts.

Superior Court judges are not elected statewide. Most need less than 50,000 votes, or about 0.5% of the state’s population, to get elected. Many are appointed to fill an open seat by the governor. Three people in the state might get to choose what is “right” and “fair” in redistricting rather than the legislative body that was elected by the entire state. Appointing a special master reduces the massive responsibility of redistricting into the hands of just one person, not the 170 elected representatives and senators in the NCGA. Voters need time to get to know their elected representatives. They might need help on passports and visas or getting their Social Security checks straightened out. They need to see the voting history of their representative over time. They might even get to shake his or her hand along the way.

Repeated legislative redistricting and map reconfigurations leads to voter disengagement and disenfranchisement from their elected representatives. Many people have no idea who their elected representatives are anyway; repeated redrawing of districts confuses them even further.

No wonder so many people are disenchanted with politics. Many stay at home as a result and don’t vote anymore.

Court-mandated redistricting in 2019 based on 2010 census data is a peak of absurdity. Do it in 2021 based on 2020 census data.

It is time for both sides to stop the weaponization in the courts over our political redistricting process. Go back to the days of constitutional integrity: take a decennial census, redraw the lines and be done with it until the next census is taken.

Our democratic republic, and Ben Franklin, will thank us for it.

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

Never underestimate the power of prayer

A prayer, a kind word, a hug, especially when you know somebody is going through something, that’s like the best thing you can do for a person.

THE POWER OF PRAYER IS A WONDROUS THING. I read a story last week about two football players from rival high schools in Texas who were photographed earlier this month praying together after the game.

Gage Smith from Sherman High School and Ty Jordan from West Mesquite High School had played 7-on-7 flag football over the spring and summer for the past couple of years and become friends.

But recently they met on the football field on opposing sides, with Sherman High winning the game. But at the end of the game, something very special happened.

Smith went over to Jordan to ask if they could pray together for Jordan’s mother, Tiffany. Jordan’s mom is battling stage 4 lung and bone cancer.

The image went viral, with many who shared it talking about how it symbolized kindness, compassion and a belief in something much greater than ourselves.

Tiffany Jordan told NBC’s “Today” show that the image left her “speechless.” She went on to say, “The fact that [Smith] took the time to pray with Ty for me, that took my breath away.”

In the aftermath of sad news, including personal tragedies, catastrophic events and mass shootings, one of the first offers you see people make is the offer of thoughts and prayers.

Unfortunately, those offering thoughts and prayers after national tragedies are often mocked on social media as being insincere, as not really caring about the victims.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

When someone is suffering, whether a family member, friend, coworker or someone you don’t know, oftentimes it’s hard to know what to

say that would give that person a significant degree of comfort.

A surefire way 99% of the time is to let that person know you’re thinking of them and praying for them. It lets them know you care, that you want things to get better for them and their loved ones. It’s also a powerful reminder of God’s strength.

I have even seen nonbelievers tell people who offer them their thoughts and prayers how much it touched them to know they were praying for them.

Various family members of mine are having health issues. Like most people, I deal day to day with struggles of my own. When I tell friends about them or write about them on social media, it provides an immeasurable amount of comfort for me to hear and read people tell me they’re keeping me and my family in their thoughts and prayers.

After 9/11, I turned to prayer first and foremost. I had been in New York City the day of the horrific terrorist attacks, and though I wasn’t at Ground Zero, being in the same city where the planes hit the towers absolutely shook me to the core.

The first Sunday after 9/11, I was in church with my family because the only thing that could help me through the guilt and grief I felt was praying, and by being prayed for.

“A prayer, a kind word, a hug, especially when you know somebody is going through something, that’s like the best thing you can do for a person,” Tiffany Jordan told the “Today” show.

Indeed. Never underestimate the power of prayer.

Stacey Matthews is a veteran blogger who has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a regular contributor to Red State and Legal Insurrection.

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NUMBER OF THE DAY | SCOTT RASMUSSEN

$7B will be spent on legal sports gambling in the U.S. within five years.

MORGAN STANLEY estimates that $7 billion will be spent on legal sports gambling in the U.S. within five years. That’s up dramatically from $833 million this year.

A year and a half ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that states could legalize sports

betting. So far, 14 states have done just that, and more are expected to follow.

While $7 billion in legal sports betting is a big number, sports betting is dwarfed by the $42 billion spent gambling in casinos during 2018.

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GUEST OPINION | NANCY MCLERNON

‘Made in North Carolina’ is an international enterprise These international companies employ more than 260,000 North Carolinians.

That includes 119,500 employees in manufacturing jobs — or nearly 46 percent of all North Carolina jobs created by international companies.

ALONGSIDE TRAFFIC AND COFFEE, news radio is a staple of my morning commute. As I flip through the stations, I’ll sometimes hear a pundit lament that “nothing is made in America anymore.”

In reality, there are nearly 13 million manufacturing workers in the United States, including 460,000 in North Carolina. Some of these folks are employed by U.S.-based firms. Many others work for companies headquartered abroad.

These international companies employ more than 260,000 North Carolinians. That includes 119,500 employees in manufacturing jobs — or nearly 46 percent of all North Carolina jobs created by international companies.

According to the latest government data, the number of North Carolina jobs created by international companies jumped by 28 percent over the past five years. For comparison, the number of private-sector jobs overall in North Carolina increased by 13 percent.

North Carolina isn’t an anomaly. International companies created 62 percent of new manufacturing jobs in the United States over the past five years, according to the latest available government data.

More than 960 different international companies employ North Carolina workers. Many of them are household names, including BP, DHL and Ikea.

International firms pay better. Americans who work for global companies earn 26 percent more compensation than the average worker in the same geographic area, according to a new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

International companies benefit all workers, not just the ones they employ directly. When an international firm sets up a manufacturing plant and creates 1,000 new jobs in America, workers in that geographic area at domestic firms experience a collective $16 million boost in wages. For every local job that an international firm creates, the wage pool for employees in the area increases to the tune of $16,000 annually.

International companies also benefit U.S.

small businesses. Over the past decade and a half, international companies increased the amount of business they do with U.S. suppliers by nearly 30 percent — jumping from $1.5 trillion to $2.4 trillion, after adjusting for inflation.

In the manufacturing sector, business between international companies and domestic suppliers rose by nearly 70 percent during that same period.

That is more than 14 times greater than the overall growth rate achieved by all U.S. businesses.

The economic well-being of local communities depends on international companies and their relationships with suppliers in the United States.

For example, Honda operates manufacturing facilities across Ohio that directly employ more than 13,000 Ohioans. It also relies on a network of more than 600 suppliers across the Midwest, almost a third of which are based in the Buckeye State. In fact, Honda spends $10 billion in Ohio annually to obtain intermediary goods from regional suppliers.

Sourcing locally is important for reasons beyond just economics — it allows U.S. small businesses to demonstrate a commitment to social equity and environmental sustainability.

For instance, French food company Danone’s American division, Dannon, is the leading U.S. yogurt producer. Seeking to establish a more sustainably sourced array of products, Dannon formed partnerships directly with seven family dairy farms and two dairy co-ops across the United States, which now supply all of the milk Dannon uses in its products. In doing so, Danone set high standards for animal welfare and sustainable agricultural practices that must be upheld by their suppliers.

As we celebrate local manufacturers statewide, let’s recognize how international companies catalyze local economic growth — giving a whole new meaning to “made in North Carolina.”

Nancy McLernon is the president and CEO of the Organization for International Investment.

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A RECENT SURVEY conducted by the Victims of Communism and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that one in three millennials saw communism as “favorable.”

Let examine this tragic vision in light of the Fraser Institute’s recently released annual study “Economic Freedom of the World,” prepared by professors James Gwartney, Florida State University; Robert A. Lawson and Ryan Murphy of Southern Methodist University; and Joshua Hall, West Virginia University, in cooperation with the Economic Freedom Network.

Hong Kong and Singapore maintained their lead as the world’s most economically free countries — although China’s heavy hand threatens Hong Kong’s top ranking.

Rounding out the top 10 are New Zealand, Switzerland, the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Mauritius. By the way, after having fallen to 16th in 2016, the U.S. has staged a comeback to being in the top-five economically free countries in the world.

What statistics go into the Fraser Institute’s calculation of economic freedom? The report measures the ability of individuals to make their own economic decisions by analyzing the policies and institutions of 162 countries and territories. These include regulation, freedom to trade internationally, size of government, sound legal system, private property rights, and government spending and taxation.

Fraser Institute scholar Fred McMahon says, “Where people are free to pursue their own opportunities and make their own choices, they lead more prosperous, happier and healthier lives.” The evidence for his assessment is: Countries in the top quartile of economic freedom had an average per-capita GDP of $36,770 in 2017 compared with $6,140 for bottom quartile countries. Poverty rates are lower.

In the top quartile, 1.8% of the population experienced extreme poverty ($1.90 a day) compared with 27.2% in the lowest quartile. Life expectancy is 79.5 years in the top quartile of economically free countries compared with 64.4 years in the bottom quartile.

The Fraser Institute’s rankings of other major countries include Japan (17th), Germany (20th), Italy (46th), France (50th), Mexico (76th), India (79th), Russia (85th), China (113th) and Brazil (120th).

The least free countries are Venezuela, Argentina, Ukraine and nearly every African country with the most notable exception of Mauritius. By the way, Argentina and Venezuela used to be rich until they bought into socialism.

During the Cold War, leftists made a moral equivalency between communist totalitarianism and democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, “Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature.”

Walter Durant called Stalin “the greatest living statesman ... a quiet, unobtrusive man.” George Bernard Shaw expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith visited Mao’s China and praised Mao Zedong and the Chinese economic system. Gunther Stein of the Christian Science Monitor also admired Mao and declared ecstatically that “the men and women pioneers of Yenan are truly new humans in spirit, thought and action.”

Michel Oksenberg, President Jimmy Carter’s China expert, complained that “America (is) doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values,” and urged us to “borrow ideas and solutions” from China.

Leftists exempted communist leaders from the harsh criticism directed toward Adolf Hitler, even though communist crimes against humanity made Hitler’s slaughter of 11 million noncombatants appear almost amateurish. According to professor R.J. Rummel’s research in “Death by Government,” from 1917 until its collapse, the Soviet Union murdered or caused the death of 61 million people, mostly its own citizens. From 1949 to 1976, Mao’s Communist regime was responsible for the death of as many as 76 million Chinese citizens.

Today’s leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from that of past tyrants. They should keep in mind that the origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were simply the result of a long evolution of ideas leading to a consolidation of power in the central government in the quest for “social justice.”

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

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NATION & WORLD Brexit Party shifts tactics, won’t challenge Tories in vote The Associated Press HARTLEPOOL, England — Brexit Party chief Nigel Farage changed course Monday, announcing that his party would not challenge Conservative candidates in nearly half of the U.K.’s districts, a tactical move that may make it easier for pro-Brexit forces to prevail in the Dec. 12 election.

Farage said his party will not put forward any candidates in 317 seats that the Conservatives won in the last election so as not to split the pro-Brexit vote. The move should boost the chances that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives win a majority in an early election that Johnson sought to increase his Brexit mandate.

A Conservative majority would likely mean that Johnson’s Brexit divorce deal would be passed

by Parliament, clearing the way for Britain to leave the European Union at the end of January.

Farage said he was putting country before party by unilaterally forming a “leave alliance” with the Conservatives at the expense of parties seeking to slow or even stop Brexit. Those parties include the opposition Labour Party, the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party.

All 650 seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs in the Dec. 12 election, the first December vote in nearly 100 years. Right now, the governing Conservatives have 298 seats and Labour has 243.

Farage has been under huge pressure from Brexit supporters not to run candidates in seats where there is a risk of splitting the Brexit vote.

“If we field 600 candidates, there will be a hung Parliament,” Farage said, warning that might well lead to another referendum on Britain’s EU membership that

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“I think this announcement today prevents a second referendum from happening,” he said. “And that to me, I think right now, is the single most important thing in our country.”

After three years of negotiations and repeated delays, Britain is now scheduled to leave the EU on Jan. 31.

Monday’s move represented a substantial change in tactics, for only last week Farage had threatened to run against the Conservatives in every seat in England, Wales and Scotland unless they agreed to team up with his Brexit Party.

Johnson refused the offer, which included a demand that he drop his Brexit divorce deal.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Monday called Farage’s decision “a Trump alliance,” saying it reflected a desire to please U.S. President Donald Trump, who had pushed publicly for Farage and Johnson to unite in a pro-Brexit front.

“One week ago Donald Trump told Nigel Farage to make a pact with Boris Johnson,” Corbyn tweeted. “Today, Trump got his wish.”

Corbyn also claimed the “Trump alliance” would allow profit-driven U.S. drug companies to get a foothold in Britain’s financially-stressed National Health Service — a constant theme of his campaign.

Over the weekend, several right-wing British newspapers urged Farage to change tack, saying there was a risk that Britain might not leave the EU if the Labour Party comes to power.

On the campaign trail, Johnson told reporters he was “glad that there’s a recognition” that only his party can get Brexit done. The prime minister said he had not discussed any election deal with Farage.

Earlier in the campaign, Farage had been strongly critical of Johnson’s EU divorce deal — saying it wasn’t a real Brexit — but he softened his tone Monday.

Farage said he had been encouraged by recent comments from Johnson that rule out extending the Brexit transition period beyond the end of 2020. He said the plan now is “to take the fight to Labour,” which he accused of betraying 5 million of its supporters who had voted to leave the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

“The Conservative Party say they want Brexit, but have been taking that in a very questionable direction. But overnight the prime minister signaled a change of direction,” Farage said.

Farage made his announcement in Hartlepool, a former shipbuilding town in northeast England that has voted Labour for more than 50 years, but also voted strongly in 2016 to leave the EU. It is one of the Brexit Party’s top election targets.

While the Brexit Party favors a no-deal exit from the EU and the Conservatives back Johnson’s Brexit deal, Labour has vowed to renegotiate the EU divorce deal.

Then Labour says it will hold a new referendum for British voters to decide whether to leave on those terms or remain in the single market of over half a billion people.

Even though the British government desperately wants to leave the EU, the bloc itself desperately wants a new U.K. commissioner on its executive team, even if only for a few months.

EU Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen has given British Prime Minister Boris Johnson until the end of the week to come up with a candidate to fill the void at the EU executive, which must have a representative from each member nation.

Even if Johnson has promised to take Britain out of the 28-nation EU by Jan. 31, it would create a legal issue of the U.K. did not have a commissioner in the meantime.

“Time is running out. This is why the president-elect is expecting an answer very soon,” said spokeswoman Dana Spinant. “At any rate, before the end of this week,” she added.

The EU Commission under von der Leyen is slated to start its work on Dec. 1.

Campaign helps military members get home for the holidays Lynchburg, Tenn.

The Tennessee distillery that produces Jack Daniel’s whiskey is once again teaming up with a military support group to help service members and their families get home for the holidays.

For the ninth year, the distillery is working with the Armed Services YMCA for the “Operation Ride Home” campaign. It provides financial assistance to active duty juniorenlisted military members and their families to travel home during the holidays.

Distillery officials say that since the campaign began, about 7,230 service members and their relatives have been assisted. Jack Daniel’s says it has again donated $100,000 to kick off the campaign.

Military members have been able to travel to all 50 states thanks to the program.

Jack Daniel’s is the flagship brand of Louisville, Kentuckybased Brown-Forman Corp.

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Czechs to sign deal to buy 12 US military helicopters by year’s end Prague The Czech defense minister says the government is planning to sign a deal with the U.S. government by year’s end to purchase 12 military helicopters.

Defense Minister Lubomir Metnar says the deal is worth the worth 14.6 billion Czech crowns ($631 million) and the helicopters are to be delivered in 2023 to replace the obsolete Soviet-made Mi-24s.

The Czechs will get eight UH1Y Venom choppers and four AH-1Z Vipers from U.S. maker Bell Helicopter.

Metnar said Tuesday the contract includes equipment, ammunition, spare parts and training of the personnel.

He said the deal best covers the need of the Czech air forces.

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Court says EU states must label Israeli settlement products

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The leader of Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, center, swears in as a member of the parliament during a gala inauguration of a new four-year term of the national parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019.

Polish opposition celebrates taking control of Senate The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s opposition parties elected their candidate as speaker of the Senate on Tuesday, a small victory that allows them to check the power of the populist right-wing ruling party.

Senator Tomasz Grodzki was chosen speaker in a 51-48 vote with one abstention during the first sitting of the new parliament that was elected in October. Grodzki hailed the move as a victory for democracy. Until Tuesday’s vote, it was not certain that the opposition parties would manage to take control of the Senate.

For the past four years, the ruling Law and Justice party has put through laws giving it much greater power over the judicial system.

The European Union has often expressed its concerns that the party was eroding judicial independence, warning that rule of law in the young democracy was on the line.

In many cases, with control of both houses of parliament, the party would rush laws through without allowing opposition lawmakers any say.

Now, the Senate will be able to slow down and influence, though not block, the passage of laws. Perhaps more importantly, the Senate has the power to appoint the heads of some key state bodies and the opposition — if it maintains its majority — will be able to block the nominations of some ruling party loyalists.

Law and Justice has tried to win over some opposition members in

Senate, but has so far failed.

Earlier Tuesday, the lower house of parliament, also named its speaker — Elzbieta Witek of Law and Justice.

President Andrzej Duda opened the first day of parliament’s fouryear term with a speech that paid homage to Poland’s tradition of being a land of tolerance and a place where many ethnic and religious groups lived for centuries in relative harmony. He also paid tribute to Roman Catholicism and strong family traditions that he credited with preserving the social fabric over a difficult history.

The parliamentary election on Oct. 13 gave a second term Law and Justice party, which won nearly 44% of the votes, the highest percentage of any party since Poland returned to democracy 30

years ago.

But the election also created some complications for the party and its 70-year-old leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, as it continues its plans to reshape the nation.

Aside from the loss of the Senate, the ruling party must now contend with the fact that a farright party, Confederation, got almost 7% of the vote, winning 11 seats in the assembly.

Law and Justice had sought to prevent any party arising in parliament to its right. That strategy had led Kaczynski and other leaders to try to appeal to the far right, and they even marched with them on Independence Day in 2018.

In another change, a left-wing alliance won 49 seats, after a hiatus of four years, after getting nearly 13% of the vote.

Brussels The European Union’s top court ruled Tuesday that EU countries must identify products made in Israeli settlements on their labels, in a decision that was welcomed by proPalestinian groups but sparked anger in Israel.

The European Court of Justice said that when products come from an Israeli settlement, their labels must provide an “indication of that provenance” so that consumers can make “informed choices” when they shop.

The EU rejects Israeli settlement expansion, saying it undermines the hopes for a two-state solution by gobbling up lands claimed by the Palestinians. Israel says the labeling is unfair and discriminatory and says other countries involved in disputes over land are not similarly sanctioned.

The volume of settlement goods coming into Europe, including olive oil, fruit and wine but also industrial products, is relatively small compared to the political significance of the court ruling.

It is estimated to affect about 1% of imports from Israel, which amount to about $16.5 billion a year.

The EU wants any produce made in the settlements to be easily identifiable to shoppers and insists that it must not carry the generic “Made in Israel” tag.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry rejected the ruling, saying it set a “double standard” that unfairly singles out Israel when there are dozens of territorial disputes worldwide.

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SPORTS

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Quarterback Chris Reynolds and the Charlotte 49ers would qualify for their first bowl appearance in program history with a win in one of their final two games.

New group of NC teams projected to be bowl-bound

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NC State gives coach Moore 700th career win Raleigh Elissa Cunane scored 18 points and No. 14 NC State cruised to an 80-40 win over UNC Wilmington on Sunday, giving Wolfpack coach Wes Moore his 700th career victory.

Moore, 700-227, began his coaching career at Maryville College (Tennessee) in 1987.

He was an NC State assistant after that before going to Francis Marion (South Carolina) and Tennessee Chattanooga. Moore took over the Wolfpack in 2013 and is 142-58. He is the 11th active coach and 22nd Division I coach overall to reach the 700-win milestone.

Duke up to No. 2, UNC sixth in latest AP poll New York Duke climbed two spots to No. 2 in latest Associated Press Top 25 basketball poll after beating Kansas last week, trailing only new No. 1 Kentucky. The Blue Devils also beat Wofford last week to start the season 2-0. Kentucky climbed to the top spot after beating last week’s No. 1 team, Michigan State. The Spartans slid to No. 3. North Carolina jumped three spots to No. 6 after a home win over Notre Dame last Wednesday and a victory at UNC Wilmington last Friday. Davidson and NC State, which each appeared on preseason ballots, didn’t receive any votes this week after losses to Auburn and Georgia Tech, respectively.

NHL

Hockey commentator Cherry fired for rant over immigrants Toronto North Carolina hockey fans might know Don Cherry best for labeling the Carolina Hurricanes “a bunch of jerks,” but Canada’s most polarizing and opinionated hockey commentator won’t be coining the team’s next nickname.

Cherry was fired Monday for calling immigrants “you people” in a television rant in which he said new immigrants are not honoring the country’s fallen soldiers.

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Brandon Robinson’s injury in a preseason exhibition was another hit to the North Carolina lineup.

Early-season injuries limit Heels, Wolfpack Coaches Roy Williams and Kevin Keatts are hoping to get back missing players

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal Roy Williams is the kind of coach that can find a dark lining in any silver cloud, especially early in the season when he’s looking to kickstart his North Carolina team toward its full potential.

But Saturday night as he addressed the media following the Tar Heels’ 86-72 win at UNC Wilmington, it was evident that the Hall of Fame coach wasn’t in the mood for playing head games.

He was genuinely concerned about the health of his team and how an already dire injury situation could impact it as the season goes on.

“I think it is going to have to be something we deal with all season and it concerns us a great deal,” Williams said. “But they don’t let you go out and draft, and there’s no list that we can take anybody off the waiver list.”

The manpower shortage is the result of an epidemic that began before two of UNC’s current players ever arrived on campus.

Freshman guard Jeremiah Francis is still recovering from a series of knee injuries that cost him both his junior and senior seasons of high school. Fellow incoming recruit Anthony Harris, who originally committed to Virginia Tech before coach Buzz Williams left for Texas A&M, also suffered an ACL injury during his

“They don’t let you go out and draft, and there’s no list that we can take anybody off the waiver list.”

UNC coach Roy Williams on the Tar Heels’ thin roster

final prep season and has yet to be cleared to return.

Junior big man Sterling Manley is also dealing with a knee ailment, a mysterious pain that limited him to just 18 games last year and won’t seem to go away.

The injured list continued to grow when senior wing Brandon Robinson suffered a badly sprained ankle in the Tar Heels’ exhibition game against Winston-Salem State and again Saturday when freshman big man Armando Bacot suffered a concussion less than three minutes into the game against UNCW and didn’t return.

“Needless to say, we’d like him to play more than two minutes and 41 seconds,” Williams said.

“We’re pretty thin as it is anyway.”

How thin?

UNC was left with only seven available scholarship players for the rest of the evening once Bacot departed. And one of them, junior big man Brandon Huffman, is still very much a project who was See INJURIES, page B3

Only Wake Forest and App State have punched their tickets to the postseason already

By Shawn Krest North State Journal For the last five seasons, four teams from North Carolina have played in FBS Bowl Games.

Based on national bowl projections, the state appears to be on pace for receiving a similar number of bids. They’ll just be coming from a different combination of teams than in the past.

The Triangle ACC teams — Duke, UNC and NC State — have combined for 23 bowl bids in the last 11 seasons. There’s a possibility that all three will be home for the holidays for the first time since the 2007 season and just the fourth time in the last 30 years. Throw in ECU and the eastern half of the state might get shut out for the first time since 1987.

Here’s a look at the bowl prospects for the local FBS teams with three weeks to go in the regular season.

Wake Forest: The class of the state The Deacs became bowl eligible on Oct. 19 and are holding out hope that they can make a CFP New Year’s bowl. Of the 13 major national bowl projections, six have Wake headed to the Orange Bowl — Sports Illustrated has the Deacs facing Notre Dame, while 247 Sports, CBSSports.com’s Jerry Palm, Stadium’s Brett McMurphy and Bleacher Report have Georgia as the opponent.

USA Today projects Wake to play Florida.

Other possible landing spots for Wake, should the Deacs fall short of the New Year’s Six: Pinstripe Bowl vs. Michigan State, Belk vs. Mississippi State, Sun vs. Cal or Arizona State, Music City vs. Indiana, Camping World vs. Texas.

Appalachian State: The class of the state, part 2 App is the only other N.C. school that’s a unanimous bowl choice. The Mountaineers also became eligible on Oct. 19.

Nine outlets have the Mountaineers headed to the New Orleans Bowl. Bonagura, 247, Palm, McMurphy and College Football News all have the opponent as Southern Miss. Schlabach and Banner Society have App playing Louisiana Tech.

Athlon and Bleacher Report predict Marshall.

The other options for App are the Arizona Bowl (San Diego State or Nevada) or the Cure Bowl (Cincinnati or UCF).

North Carolina: Work to do but hopes are high The Tar Heels need to win two of their final three — home against Mercer and on the road at Pitt and NC State — to become bowl eligible. They’ll likely be favored in at least two of the See BOWLS, page B4

1987 The last time all four of Duke, ECU, NC State and UNC did not reach a bowl.

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TRENDING

Melanie Coleman: The college gymnast from Connecticut has died following a training accident.

Officials at Southern Connecticut State University say the 20-year-old Coleman died Sunday at Yale New Haven Hospital, two days after suffering a spinal cord injury during practice. She was a junior nursing student at the New Haven school. Coleman was a former All State gymnast at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut.

John Chayka: The Arizona Coyotes general manager was signed to a long-term contract extension, the team announced Monday. Chayka has built the Coyotes into playoff contenders since becoming the youngest general manager in North American major sports history at 26 in 2017.

Arizona came up four points short of the postseason in 201819 and is off to a 10-6-2 start through Monday’s games.

Charles Rogers: The former Michigan State star and Detroit Lions receiver died Monday, according to a former coach. At Michigan State, Rogers had 135 receptions for 2,821 yards and 21 touchdowns in two seasons. He was college football’s top receiver in 2002. He was the second overall pick in the 2003 NFL draft.

He scored twice in his NFL debut, but suffered a broken collarbone that ended his rookie season and suffered the same injury a year later. Rogers failed a drug test in 2005 and was cut entering the next season. He had 36 career receptions for 440 yards receiving and four touchdowns in 15 NFL games.

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NBA

Zion Williamson says he expects his absence from the New Orleans Pelicans because of his knee injury to be less than half of the regular season but is offering no specific timetable for a return. When the 6-foot-6, 285-pound Williamson — who was the nation’s top player last season at Duke — had surgery on his torn right lateral meniscus Oct. 21, the Pelicans announced that his recovery was expected to last six to eight weeks.

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“It was a nasty divorce, but it was a well-deserved divorce.”

Andrea Walker, the mother of Celtics guard Kemba Walker, in a mid-game interview during Boston’s game in Charlotte on her son’s decision to leave the Hornets.

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BASKETBALL

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“Frosty handshake?

Yeah, it was freaking 30 degrees.”

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney on his brief postgame pleasantries with NC State coach Dave Doeren.

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Kelvin Leerdam scored in the 57th minute goal off a deflection, and Victor Rodríguez and Raul Ruidíaz added the cappers to lead the Seattle Sounders past Toronto FC 3-1 on Sunday to claim the MLS Cup title for the second time in four years. The 69,274 in attendance was the second-largest to witness an MLS Cup final behind last year in Atlanta.

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Rick Pitino, coach of the Greek national basketball team, said he plans to try and get the country qualified for the 2020 Olympics without Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo. Greece will try to reach the Olympics by winning a qualifying tournament, but dates could clash with the 2019 NBA MVP’s schedule.

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10 Consecutive games to start the season that the Charlotte Hornets have trailed by double-digits during the game. The Hornets are 4-6 after losing three straight games at home to Boston and New Orleans and on the road in Philadelphia.

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East Carolina’s receiver Tyler Snead caught 19 passes against SMU, the most receptions in an FBS game since the Pirates’ Zay Jones had 19 against UConn in 2016. Snead, who is 5-foot-7 and 167 pounds and had 24 catches in the first nine games, set career highs for receptions and yards (240).

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Appalachian State adjusting under new basketball coach Dustin Kerns

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Dustin Kerns, App State coach

The Mountaineers, 11-21 a season ago, are learning to play in a new system

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal It wouldn’t have been the most stunning upset Appalachian State has ever pulled off at Michigan.

That honor belongs to the Mountaineers football team in 2007.

But it still would have been notable had App State’s basketball team been able to complete its stunning comeback from a 30-point second half deficit and spoil the debut of new Wolverines coach Juwan Howard.

The Mountaineers got as close as three before falling 79-71. But even in defeat, the opening game performance and the resiliency it showed last Tuesday bodes well for their own first-year coach, Dustin Kerns, as the 2019-20 season progresses.

Kerns, a former Clemson player who spent the past two seasons at Presbyterian, inherits a team with four returning starters and seven veterans in all, although the new coach acknowledged that “four starters from an 11-win team doesn’t mean anything.”

App State did go 11-21 a year ago for its eighth straight losing season and was picked to finish ninth in the 12-team Sun Belt Conference.

But even with that history to overcome, Kerns acknowledges that there’s still plenty to work within the veteran nucleus of his team.

“We’ve got some guys that really have a high basketball IQ,” Kerns said. “The way they absorb things, have picked up on things has been very good and quick. But we’re still trying to build habits and getting guys to play with one another.”

Their first major bonding experience came in the second half in Ann Arbor. After falling behind

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First-year Appalachian State coach Dustin Kerns is looking to get the Mountaineers back to a winning record for the first time in nearly a decade.

67-37 with 12:59 remaining, the Mountaineers outscored Michigan 32-6 to get back into contention.

The charge was led by 6-foot2 senior guard Justin Forrest, a preseason second-team All-Sun Belt selection who scored 18 of his game-high 27 points in the second half.

Forrest, who ranked second on the team in scoring last year at 16.2 points per game while leading

in steals with 37, followed his big game at Michigan with a 17-point performance against Division III Ferrum last weekend.

The Mountaineers played East Carolina on Tuesday.

Although 6-foot-9 senior Isaac Johnson, a third-team preseason all-conference pick, is off to a strong start after averaging 12 points and eight rebounds a year ago, the foundation upon which Kerns is building his first Moun-

taineer squad is a backcourt that also includes returning starter sophomore Adrian Delph, a 6-3 sophomore, and 6-3 redshirt junior Michael Bibby — the son of the former Arizona and NBA star of the same name.

“I think a strength of ours is (that we have) bigger guards that can attack the rim and get to the free-throw line and find ways to score that way,” Kerns said. “Especially with the 3-point line moving

Joe Gibbs walks fine line managing 3 NASCAR Cup Series title contenders Hall of Fame coach-turnedNASCAR team owner has the sport’s most dominant stable of drivers

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Joe Gibbs is a retired Hall of Fame NFL coach with three Super Bowl titles who changed course in his early 50s to wade into NASCAR and see if he couldn’t build a second career and a family business.

Gibbs not only developed a championship-winning organization that gave both of his sons leadership roles, but he also turned Joe Gibbs Racing into one of NASCAR’s elite teams.

Gibbs is taking three drivers to Sunday’s championship-deciding finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where the Toyota trio of Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. will race Ford driver Kevin Harvick for the title. The highest-finishing driver wins the Cup. Gibbs has an interesting week ahead as he figures out how to manage three teammates racing for the same thing.

The business model in NASCAR can be messy for multicar teams and those with alliances with other teams. Each car has its own sponsors to keep happy, its own individual team members and drivers laser-focused on winning a title. Gibbs often says that model makes team-wide orders impossible, but there have been instances that have raised eyebrows, including Hamlin’s pivotal victory Sunday in Arizona.

Hamlin had to win to make the final four and a late restart put his chances in jeopardy. He lined up next to fellow contender Ryan Blaney for the three-lap shootout to the finish, and once he cleared Blaney to claim the lead, Busch wedged his car between Blaney and Hamlin as a buffer for Hamlin to drive to the win.

Could Busch have caught Hamlin and won the race for himself? Or did he ride it out in second for the greater good of Gibbs and Toyota?

Busch, who has grown crankier as he’s gone 22 weeks without a

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Joe Gibbs, owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, will field three of the four drivers in Sunday’s winner-take-all NASCAR Cup Series championship race at Homestead.

Cup Series victory, said he would have passed Hamlin for the win if he could have caught his teammate.

“I was racing for me at that point,” Busch said. “I couldn’t really get close enough to (Hamlin).”

In the season finale a year ago, Hamlin won the pole and had first choice of pit stall. But Hamlin was not racing for the title, Busch was, and the team had Hamlin defer so Busch could claim the position. Hamlin wasn’t happy about it but understood the team decision to give Busch every advantage possible to win the title.

Starting with the JGR team meeting Monday all the way into the final debrief before Sunday’s race, Gibbs has a pressure cooker to handle his three drivers, who have very different personalities. Busch is the regular-season champion and won the title in 2015; Truex won the 2017 championship driving for former Gibbs

18 Combined wins in 35 races this season for Joe Gibbs Racing’s four teams.

affiliate Furniture Row Racing and is in his first season as a fulltime Gibbs driver; Hamlin has never won a title and lost chances in 2010 and 2014.

“What I love about our sport is we work together at the race shop, try to prepare things, solve problems,” Gibbs said. “When we get to the racetrack, it will be three cars going for it. Three drivers want a championship. Their sponsors mean so much to us,

each one of them, and it’s a separate story, each one of those.”

He then referred to his past: “When I was in football, it is one team and you’re trying to win with one team. This is four teams.

Then when you get to the racetrack, it’s four teams competing against each other. I love that aspect of it. I’m thrilled to be a part of it.”

It’s been probably the best season for JGR since Gibbs launched the team in 1992. His drivers have won 18 of the 35 races, and even though Busch, Hamlin and Truex have been among the strongest teams all season, it seemed unlikely one organization would grab three of the four slots in the finale.

But this is a special year for “Coach Joe,” who has mourned the death of his eldest son, J.D., all year. The JGR president and co-chairman died in January after a long battle with a degenerative neurological disease. Since then, the organization — particularly Hamlin, who was discovered by J.D. Gibbs — has honored the late leader of the entire season.

Hamlin led a 1-2-3 Gibbs sweep of the Daytona 500 in February and the team has not stopped rolling since. Gibbs never forgets to credit J.D. after every victory and directs the public to a legacy fund that benefits Young Life Ministry.

On a personal level, Gibbs this year was elected into NASCAR’s Hall of Fame in a class that includes Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart, the first drivers to win championships for the organization. Stewart will sit alongside Gibbs this weekend in the traditional prerace preview from the team owners.

Gibbs, for now, is figuring out how to handle this unusual championship situation.

“I would say at the racetrack, obviously, it’s going to be, you know, our three teams going for it as hard as they can, each one of them,” Gibbs said. “This is going to be kind of a wild week. I think it will be an unbelievable race. I think our fans will enjoy it.

I think you got four heavyweights in there. Everybody has a reason to want to win it.”

back, even though it’s a little bit.

Our team has heard me say this a lot — our defense has to dictate our offense.”

That commitment to becoming a more aggressive and efficient defensive team is job one for Kerns after last year’s team allowed an average of 79.3 points per game.

That figure ranked next-to-last in the Sun Belt in 2018-19, ahead of only Louisiana-Lafayette at 80.5 points per game and ranked App State 333rd among the nation’s 354 Division I teams.

But while changes in the way the Mountaineers do things were necessary, Kerns said that the adjustments haven’t been as major as he thought they might be because of the personnel with which he has to work.

“I’m always going to be married to my players and not my system,” the new coach said. “Fortunately, we are able to get some guys returning that fit what we want to do anyway.”

Besides Forrest, Johnson and Delph, the fourth returning starter is 6-9 senior center Hunter Seacat, who shot 55.9 percent from the floor last season. The other returning players are 5-11 senior guard O’Showen Williams (3.8 ppg in 2018-19) and redshirt sophomore James Lewis Jr., a transfer from Chattanooga who sat out last season under NCAA rules.

The top newcomer is 6-5 freshman wing Donovan Gregory, who posted 10 points and eight rebounds in App State’s 83-56 win against Ferrum. The rest of the freshman class consists of 6-7 forward Kendall Lewis, 6-1 guard J.C. Tharrington and 6-6 forward R.J. Wilson.

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“That’s what we have, seven and eight,” Williams said. “I’ve always liked to play nine or 10. We’d like to get some of those other guys back.”

Presumably, Bacot will be the first to return, depending on the severity of his concussion. Williams said that Harris is getting close to being cleared and that Robinson is no longer using a “cute little scooter” to get around and is out of a walking boot.

But Williams added that there’s still no timetable for Harris’ debut and that Robinson probably won’t be ready to play until the Tar Heels’ trip to the Bahamas in two weeks.

UNC’s rival NC State is already starting to get some of its walking wounded back. But like Williams, Wolfpack coach Kevin Keatts is also dealing with a short bench at a time of the season when teams are usually at their healthiest.

State was without star point guard Markell Johnson for its season opener against ACC rival Georgia Tech because of an ankle injury suffered in practice a few days earlier. His presence would likely have made a difference in a game the Wolfpack lost in overtime.

While sophomore wing Jericole Hellems and graduate transfer big man Danny Dixon have also been dealing with minor ailments — without missing any game time — State’s depth has also been challenged by an indefinite suspension to junior forward D.J. Funderburk, the departure of reserve guard Blake Harris just before the start of the season and an NCAA ruling that will force freshman wing Dereon Seabron to take an academic redshirt.

Instead of having a nine- or 10man rotation that would allow Keatts to use his pressing, up-tempo style to full advantage, the thirdyear coach must now be more judicious in how he deploys his troops.

It’s a reality that hit him during one second half sequence against Georgia Tech.

“I looked out there a couple of times and I told the assistant coaches that we had five guys on the floor we’d only had maybe once or twice at practice together,” Keatts said. “So we were in a different situation than we normally would be.

“But you’ll never hear me complain or cry about injuries because I consider injuries as part of the game. We just had a short bench tonight.”

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Hurricanes hope offensive eruption a sign of good things to come What looked like an easy November schedule turned sour with four straight losses — until Carolina scored eight goals on Monday against Ottawa

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Panthers coach Ron Rivera reacts to a call during Carolina’s loss Sunday in Green Bay.

Panthers embrace analytics … kind of Coach Ron Rivera’s deep dive into the numbers is remiscent of some old-time football

By Shawn Krest North State Journal Let’s go back to the golden age of Carolina Panthers football, and perhaps the greatest head coach in franchise history: Red “Peppy” Schmidt, who went from being a two-way, leather-helmeted player in the 1930s to a gruff, no-nonsense Panthers head coach.

I’ll never forget his classic press conference in 1946, when a reporter had the chance to ask him about the forward pass, a newfangled fad that was gaining popularity around the league.

“Maybe it’s just that I’m an oldschool guy,” ol’ Peppy said, with a glare that almost knocked the fedora off the reporter’s head, “but give me the chance to stick the ball in someone’s gut. I’ll take that any day and twice on Sunday.

“You see,” Schmidt said, “these kids talking all the time about how it’s the fastest way to get the ball down the field. What they don’t realize is that sometimes, a guy doesn’t catch it. Forward pass only works if the end catches it, you see.

“If they’d wanted us to spend all day throwing and catching the ball,” he added, “they’d have made it round.”

Then, satisfied with his chance to educate the media, Peppy stuck his cigar into the corner of his mouth and went about his business.

A few years later, a brave member of the press corps worked up the nerve to challenge Peppy again, asking why he wasn’t taking up the new practice of recording games and practice, and showing players the film, so they can work on mistakes.

“A lot of you got here today by

“There’s the momentum.

Things you can’t put into numbers. You can’t calculate those things with analytics.”

Ron Rivera, Panthers coach driving automobiles, I’ll bet,” Peppy said. “Probably those trendy Muskrats or Mustangs or whatever they’re calling them. Not me.

Give me a good old dependable Model T any day.

“Anyway,” he self-corrected, getting himself back on track, “how would you feel about taking some black paint and putting it all over that windscreen — I guess you call them ‘windshields’ now — painting that black, and just driving around by looking into your mirrors at what’s behind you.

“That’s what game film is, you see. It’s stuff that’s already happened. Call me crazy, but I prefer to focus on what’s going to happen.”

Traveling more than a half century into the future—and jumping from fiction to real life—the winningest coach in Panthers history, Ron “Riverboat Ron” Rivera has been very outspoken about analytics.

The Panthers started an analytics department over the offseason, hiring a hearty few who probably know how the team staffer felt years ago, when he tried to get Peppy to use a headset to talk to coaches in the booth upstairs.

The week after Cam Newton, who Rivera blamed for not throwing the ball downfield in the opening loss and not telling the team about his foot injury in Week 2, was placed on season-ending injured reserve, Rivera deftly piv-

oted to a new scapegoat for the team’s struggles — the math guys.

“If analytics were so perfect,” he said. “This league would be 8-8.”

In a nursing home somewhere, Red “Peppy” Schmidt leapt out of his recliner, spit out is cigar butt and yelled, “Gol-durn right!”

If everyone used analytics, Rivera reasoned, “All you’d have to do is just follow the numbers, but it’s not. This game is played by humans, and there’s emotions involved. There’s the momentum.

Things you can’t put into numbers. You can’t calculate those things with analytics. I use them as a guide, to be honest with you.”

After the loss in Green Bay, in which Rivera used a classic analytics tactic by going for two down 14 in the fourth quarter — perhaps hoping it failed so he could once again point to the problem with math nerds — Rivera explained, “Some things you can’t judge in analytics.”

Like what?

“Momentum, how it’s going to affect momentum, weather and injuries.”

Rivera did a good job of identifying one of the most popular topics of football analytical study … in 2014 (momentum) and 2016 (injuries), both of which have been studied extensively, despite his belief that it’s impossible to quantify.

“Last week, there was no analytics for a fake punt,” Rivera said, looking like he was ready to drop the mic. Perhaps that’s because many of the more popular studies on fake punts and field goals were done back in 2012.

“It’s about winning,” Rivera said. “The numbers are put together, and based on those numbers it’s supposed to increase your opportunity to win. It doesn’t mean you’re going to win. It just increases those opportunities.”

So Rivera has astutely determined that analytics cannot guarantee a win. Therefore, they can be ignored in favor of his gut feel — presumably undefeated.

“There’s a lot of factors you have to take into account,” he said. “Each game is an individual game. I can tell you that much right now.”

Spoken like a true Panthers legend.

BOWLS from page B1 three, if not all of them. As a result, 12 of the 13 outlets have put Carolina in a bowl. Bleacher Report is the only pessimist.

The most likely landing spot is everyone’s favorite: The Independence Bowl. Seven outlets are sending the Heels to Shreveport.

Bonagura and McMurphy have the Heels playing Louisiana Tech.

College Sports Madness says Louisiana-Monroe. Other potential opponents are UAB, Kentucky, Western Kentucky or an in-state showdown with Charlotte.

Two outlets send the Heels to the Belk Bowl to play Buffalo or Tennessee.

Then there’s the Quick Lane Bowl (Nebraska), Pinstripe (Illinois) and Birmingham (Cincinnati).

Charlotte: Ready to make its debut The 49ers are one win away from bowl eligibility for the first time since the program was revived. Eight outlets think Charlotte makes it. The Bahamas Bowl is the choice of three outlets (Buffalo, Ohio or Miami, Ohio). There’s also the Independence showdown with UNC, the Gasparilla Bowl (UCF), New Mexico (Nevada), Bir-

RALEIGH — Without a doubt, it felt like a breakthrough.

The Carolina Hurricanes’ 8-2 win over the Ottawa Senators on Monday at PNC Arena seemed to release the building tension that comes with a four-game losing streak, especially one that saw the team struggling to score.

“It’s nice to see the puck go in,” a relieved Rod Brind’Amour said following the win. “The last couple weeks here it’s just been tough sledding to find the back of the net.

Tonight, we were able to capitalize on our chances.”

Two nights earlier, Carolina looked lost against the lowly Senators in Ottawa.

Anders Nilsson, a 29-year-old journeyman goalie on his sixth NHL team, made 38 saves in the Hurricanes’ 4-1 loss.

That followed a disheartening loss last Thursday in which Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist put on a performance his coach, David Quinn, called the best he’d seen by the future Hall of Famer in his nearly 18 months behind the New York bench.

Coupled with Lundqvist’s heroics were uncharacteristic breakdowns in the Hurricanes’ play.

Turnovers, sloppy play and frequent line shuffling were all on display as Brind’Amour looked for answers to his team’s funk.

This wasn’t how November was supposed to go.

Carolina started the month 8-31 and had easily its most friendly scheduling coming up. None of the team’s first 13 opponents in November made the playoffs last season and among them, only Buffalo and Florida looked like teams that could reach the postseason this year. The last two games of November — home against Nashville on Nov. 29 and at Tampa Bay the next night — would snap the Hurricanes back to reality heading toward the holidays.

Instead, the realities of the NHL came at them much sooner.

After an easy 7-3 win at home over Detroit to open the month, Carolina dropped games to New Jersey and Philadelphia before losing at home to Lundqvist and the Rangers and then in Ottawa. Carolina managed just seven goals in those four losses and — if you take away the seven-goal game against the Red Wings — had just 23 goals in 11 games since they started the season with a five-game winning streak.

A month of games that was supposed to be about piling up points

of three — at Wake and home against Syracuse and Miami. Only two outlets have the Devils doing it. S.I. has them in the Quick Lane against Illinois and USA Today has them in the Military against Temple.

East Carolina: Eliminated ECU suffered its seventh loss this past weekend against SMU, meaning the Pirates can’t win six to become bowl eligible.

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NC State and North Carolina could be battling for a bowl berth when the teams play Nov. 30 at Carter-Finley Stadium. mingham (Tulane) and Boca Raton (Tulane).

NC State: Bleak outlook for Pack State needs to win two of three — at Georgia Tech, home against UNC and Louisville. Only three of the 13 outlets like the Pack’s chances. TSN has them going to

the Texas Bowl against TCU. McMurphy is sending them to Quick Lane vs. Michigan State, and College Sports News has them in the Gasparilla against Florida Atlantic.

Duke: Not looking good for Devils Duke also needs to win two

The teams that haven’t gained eligibility yet have one last-ditch hope if they don’t reach six wins.

There are 39 bowl games, meaning a total of 78 teams are needed to fill all the slots. If they don’t get enough six-win teams, the slots are filled with five-win teams based on their APR (a measure of graduation rate for the team over recent seasons).

Currently, 53 teams are eligible, meaning the bowls are 25 teams short. Three teams — Virginia Tech, Liberty and Hawaii — have six wins but need a seventh, either because they play 13 or because they played two FCS teams.

Still, they have priority over the five-win teams. So Carolina, State, Duke, Charlotte and ECU are

“The last couple games, it hasn’t gone our way. We haven’t played the right way.

Just before tonight’s game, he kept on reminding us to play our game, and good things happen when we do that.”

Defenseman Joel Edmundson following Carolina’s 8-2 win Monday and creating a cushion for a return trip to the playoffs instead raised questions about whether the Hurricanes were the same team that stormed their way to the Eastern Conference Final last season.

“When you don’t score, it puts a lot of stress on everything, and everything gets magnified,” Brind’Amour said Monday morning before the second Senators game. “Every mistake you make gets magnified because then that becomes the crucial point of the game, versus if you’re scoring a couple here or there, then you don’t talk about, maybe, some of these other mistakes.”

On Monday, “a couple here or there” became a crooked number in all three periods, starting with a goal just 44 seconds in by Warren Foegele and ending with Joel Edmundson — who got both his first and second points with the Hurricanes with third period assists after being held off the scoresheet in his first 17 games with Carolina — ending the barrage with a goal for the second three-point night of his career.

“It’s kind of how it should look when you’re getting a lot of chances,” Brind’Amour said. “You should get a few that kind of bounce your way. I feel like, over these last little stretches, we played pretty well at times and just nothing.”

The six-goal margin of victory marked just the ninth time the Hurricanes have won by that much in a regular season game since the move to Raleigh and the first time in nearly nine years, a 7-1 win over, yes, the Senators on Nov. 17, 2010.

Historically, the Hurricanes haven’t parlayed big victories into long winning streaks. Only once in the other eight times the team has won by six or more did the Hurricanes parlay that into a threegame winning streak. In fact, four of the last five times Carolina has won big like Monday, they followed it up with two consecutive losses.

One night of getting rewarded doesn’t mean everything is automatically fixed.

“It’s not always going to look like that as far as scoring the goals, but I think we definitely got what we deserved tonight,” Brind’Amour said.

down to 22 slots.

Throwing out teams that are already bowl eligible or can’t reach five wins, Duke is at the top of the list. So if there aren’t enough sixwin teams, the Blue Devils are the first five-win team selected. Of course, Duke still needs to win one more to reach five.

NC State is 21st, but only eight teams ahead of the Pack have already reached the five-win mark.

NC State needs to win one more and then hope a lot of teams ahead of them lose out.

Carolina is 37th, and 11 teams ahead of them have won five. The Heels need to win one more to reach five. Since they play State, at least one of the two teams are guaranteed five wins. But both teams still need a lot of help to take advantage of the rule.

Charlotte is 55th and 18th among teams that already have five wins. That means that if another four of the 54 teams ahead of them in APR reach five wins, the 49ers are out unless they win a sixth.

East Carolina, meanwhile, is tied with two other teams for 60th, and 20 teams ahead of them already have five wins. So the Pirates need to win out to even reach five, then hope that 39 of the 40 teams ahead of them who haven’t already reached five wins lose out.

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By Jordan Golson For the North State Journal BOSTON — The first thing I noticed about my 2019 Lexus UX was the color. Nori Green Pearl.

Usually I don’t notice a color unless it’s a bright orange sports car or something. Car colors are usually so boring. This one is a brilliant, deep, dark green that sucks you in.

Nori is a delicious type of Japanese edible seaweed and it’s perfect for this color. We’re off to a good start, little Lexus.

New for 2019, the UX is Lexus’ answer to the fast-growing subcompact luxury crossover segment alongside things like the Volvo XC40, BMW X1, Audi Q3, and Cadillac XT4. Pricing tends to start in the mid-30’s and run up from there, with my UX 200 Luxury dropping in right at $41,200.

Lexus says the UX stands for Urban Explorer, and it’s a great little city car. Large enough to haul your groceries but small enough to parallel park almost anywhere.

For the coupled-up with no kids, there’s enough room in the back (ish) to fit another couple for a double date night, but don’t plan on throwing skis or a ton of luggage in the back. It’s a tight fit unless you fold the seats down.

I love Lexus vehicles. They’re always solid, with smooth engines, comfortable and quiet rides, and a wildly-annoying touchpad to control the infotainment system. The UX is no different. It has a 169-horsepower two-liter four-cylinder engine mated to a “ten-speed” continuously-variable transmission that doesn’t actually have ten speeds. But you wouldn’t know it to drive it, which is good enough for me. Some people hate CVTs, but I think this one gets the job done just fine.

It has the full Lexus safety suite, with adaptive cruise control, lane centering (so you can take your hands off the wheel for a moment on the highway and it’ll still keep you in your lane), auto high beams, a heads up display ($500), a gigantic 10.3-inch display that looks great when you’re using Apple CarPlay and terrible when you’re using Lexus’ built-in infotainment system. Android Auto isn’t here, but will be for 2020.

As you would expect with a Lex-

us badge, the UX is a comfortable place to be. The seats are supportive and visibility is excellent. A four-hour, early-morning road trip out to the Catskills from my home in New Hampshire passed by with ease. Lexus deserves special praise for its steering wheels, which are particularly lovely across the range. The weight is nice, the size is nice, the whole package is excellent — and, it doesn’t have the weird Toyota/Lexus cruise control stalk sticking out of the bottom right. Thank goodness they got rid of that thing.

I especially like that the HeadsUp Display can display road sign information.

Forward-looking cameras located above the rearview mirror are constantly scanning the road ahead and are smart enough to pick up speed limit and stop signs, among others. If you’re coming up on a stop, the sign appears in the heads-up display. It might seem silly and redundant — who can’t see a stop sign? — but it only needs to save you once for it to be incredibly useful.

Speaking of saving you, make sure to opt for the Parking Assist feature ($565) which includes Rear Cross Traffic Alert with braking. This will warn you of oncoming traffic when you’re backing out of your driveway or from a parking space, and will even automatically brake for you if a collision is imminent. I’ll always opt for a feature that can help save me from myself, no matter how diligent a driver I think I am.

The tiny engine might give some pause, but this is not a big vehicle and it’s got plenty of pep.

It delivers terrific fuel economy: 29/37/33 city/highway/combined, which was about right in my testing. Even better, it doesn’t require premium fuel like some cars in the segment.

You can get larger cars for less money. The average new car is somewhere around $36,000 and $41,000 can get you a lot. But if you spend a lot of time behind the wheel — or you just don’t need all that space — these small luxury crossovers are the perfect entry into the luxury world. And once you discover all the little pleasures of a very nice car, you won’t want to go back. Sort of like when you first try Nori.

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turn the page ‘Andromeda Evolution’ is sequel to Michael Crichton book “The Andromeda Evolution,” Harper, by Daniel H. Wilson The Associated Press TO CELEBRATE the 50th anniversary of the publication of Michael Crichton’s epic novel, “The Andromeda Strain,” the author’s estate commissioned Daniel H. Wilson to craft a sequel, “The Andromeda Evolution.”

After the events of 50 years earlier, protocols were put in place to watch and prepare for the next time the microbe made an appearance. With the original team that battled the first visit of Andromeda having passed away, scientists aren’t sure what to expect when the microbe finally does reappear, and it’s doubtful that it will come back.

When a drone uncovers a strange anomaly in the Brazilian jungle, Project Wildfire is reactivated. It appears the virus has come back, and it’s spreading rapidly. A small team consisting of experts, military personnel and the son of one of the original

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scientists proceeds to uncover the truth and stop the threat.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking rapidly, and if they don’t neutralize it in five days, it may be the end of the world.

Wilson has crafted many books about problematic issues surrounding robotics and technology, so it’s a bit strange that he is writing about the world of micro-organisms and viruses.

But his scientific skills and background play perfectly into the narrative. He’s able to convey complex scenarios and situations and make them understandable to the non-scientist, something the late Crichton had a gift for as well. Wilson’s stellar cast of characters makes the story more than just a series of events but a tale that carries weight.

The structure of the novel reads as if the reader has been granted access to a top-secret file that provides an overview of the incident, which follows the exact layout of Crichton’s classic novel.

Wilson invokes the best of that story, and updates everything with terrific flair.

in the garden Take advantage of seasonal pause to make 2020 plans

By Dean Fosdick The Associated Press THE OUTDOOR GROWING season is over in most of the U.S., and it’s time to pause and take stock. Review those gardening impressions that delighted you as well as those that disappointed. Apply what one veteran planter calls “creative staring” to improve the look of your landscape and the rewards of your harvest.

Begin your evaluation with the soil because it’s the key to all plant growth, said Leonard Perry, an emeritus professor of horticulture with University of Vermont Extension. He recommends testing soil samples every couple of years.

“The type of soil likely hasn’t changed, but the fertility may have,” Perry says in a fact sheet.

One key to successful gardening is keeping a personal

diary for recording what took place around the property during the course of the year, said Pamela Hubbard, a master gardener and writer for Penn State Extension-Monroe County.

“I make a list of new goals toward the end of each garden season while it’s still fresh in my mind,” Hubbard said in a telephone interview. “I carry it with me around the yard while I determine what worked and what didn’t.”

There are many different types of garden journals.

Some are homemade and resemble family scrapbooks, while commercial versions at bookstores incorporate such things as plastic sleeves and worksheets. Computers, laptops and phone cameras also make evaluation easier.

“Record the dates of each year’s seasonal landmarks: weather patterns, when the first

spring flower bloomed, arrival of butterflies and hummingbirds, the first and last frost,” Hubbard said. “Also, note when pest problems appeared and what you did about them.”

Other questions to ask yourself include possible budget changes, drainage system improvements, installing more efficient irrigation networks, and whether climate change is impacting the things you grow.

Gardening is unusual in that it offers so many opportunities for improvement. Be prepared to uproot, relocate, prune, divide, rotate or simply trade away what no longer satisfies or provides interest. Plants and people change substantially over time.

Tree limbs may have begun brushing up against dwellings.

Shrubs might have grown so high they’re blocking the sun from flower gardens. Perhaps you want more screening or privacy in your yard and less lawn to mow. Plant predators like deer may have become troublesome enough to require barriers.

“I just lost a major shade tree and now I have to decide what to do with that area,” Hubbard said. “I may need to exchange all my shadetolerant plants for some needing full sun.”

Maybe you have a busier job schedule or there’s a new baby in the house or you simply want to cut back on the workload as you age.

“I’ve replaced quite a few flowers with those that require less effort,” Hubbard said. “I only grow a small kitchen garden now. We know what we like to eat and we stick with that.”

Gardening, said Hubbard, is “never static. People put their garden in and think: ‘That’s it.

I’m done.’ But you’re never ever done.”

holiday help Glam holiday décor that gets the party started

By Kim Cook The Associated Press HAD ENOUGH of all that serene winter wonderland decor, the birch trees and reindeer and sleighs? Ready to change it up this year and boogie down?

Then consider digging out the legwarmers and Donna Summer CDs before you start decorating.

British retailer John Lewis, known for Christmas décor and evocative holiday commercials, has declared “Party” to be one of the big themes for 2019. Flamingo, cassette tape and balloon animal ornaments join holographic ribbon bows and sequined tassels in their collection.

Home Depot’s trend and design director Sarah Fishburne sees the look as a twist on vintage holiday décor.

“Christmas is about embracing the overthe-top, and no other era says over the top like the ‘80s,” she says. “We’re seeing a resurgence of flocked trees and larger, multi-color light strands. To incorporate the iconic retro vibe, think about a bright, rainbow palette and layering metallics across ornaments, trees and tabletop décor.”

Etsy’s trend expert Dayna Isom Johnson echoes the call for color: “One of the biggest trends on the rise is using neon tones to

deck the halls, a bright look inspired by city lights and billboards.”

What’s great about the glam look is that you can have fun decorating with it regardless of how you celebrate the season.

Just bear in mind that you’re aiming for Dance Floor rather than North Pole, so forgo any rustic cabins or woodsy red-andgreen plaids.

Home Depot’s Twinkly 600-light, 7.5-foot-tall Swiss Mountain tree lets you use an app to program whatever coloredlight gymnastics you’d like. And for the front of the house, there are multicolored laser lights that project eight holographic moving patterns like swirls, fireflies and starbursts.

Turn a traditional green tree into a playful decorative element by adding several strings of hot pink or purple lights; Walmart and Target have options in mini and regular sizes.

For a small living space or entryway, check out West Elm’s slim pop-up cone tree, which is enrobed in silver tinsel and trimmed with multicolored metallic dots.

If you’ve got a little more room, go with one of their bushy gold or blush pink tinsel trees. You’ll find pretty glitter-encrusted, mirrored glass, and gilded-beads ball ornaments here, as well as glass rainbow

and confetti balls.

Target has mini champagne bottle and glass ornaments to set the festive tone.

And there are boxed sets of mirrored glass disco-ball ornaments in loads of colors.

Feeling crafty?

Consider making your own party tree by hotgluing those shiny ornaments onto a tree-shaped wire frame, available at big-box craft stores.

Or make a jazzy wreath out of them, using a circular wire frame.

String mini versions onto satin ribbons, or use sparkly black ornaments on hot pink, lime or candyred ribbon.

Neon-bright paper, felt and crocheted ornaments and garlands can be found on Etsy.com.

At Pier 1, there are sparkly teal, champagne or pink glitter-encrusted curly picks and red faux-fur pompon picks —

party favors for the tree. Also here, pretty pink flamingo ornaments with glitter-encrusted beaks and real feather wings. And at White Company, there are snowy, whitefeathered bauble ornaments.

Cassette tape and ‘80s cell phone ornaments can be found at the Ornament Shop, and personalized if desired.

Smoked-glass balls filled with dark sequins, inky wood garlands, cheetah- and leopard-print ornaments, and glass balls that look like black marble all add evening drama to CB2’s holiday collection.

Dress up the base of your tree in Horchow’s satiny pink faux-jewel-encrusted tree skirt, or perhaps a ruffled, multicolored one that seems to say, “You should be dancing.”

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The Duke Energy Foundation awarded $100,000 to the More Powerful NC campaign and $400,000 to the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC).

The More Powerful NC campaign was created by the North Carolina Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services, as well as other partners, to raise awareness about the opioid crisis and to encourage North Carolinians to take action in their own communities.

“The opioid epidemic is ripping through North Carolina and leaving a trail of sick and grieving people in its wake,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “That is why I am so proud to team up with this diverse and passionate group of government and corporate leaders.”

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Impeachment aside, federal budget remains a pressing matter

By Andrew Taylor The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Impeachment hearings for President Donald Trump come at the very time that Capitol Hill usually tends to its mound of unfinished business.

The politically explosive hearings and the possibility of impeachment and a trial create yet another layer of complications for senior lawmakers pressing for an agreement on $1.4 trillion worth of federal agency budgets or finalizing a rewrite of the North American trade rules.

Public hearings into Trump’s actions with Ukraine promise to generate all the attention in Washington and stoke the partisan flames inside the Capitol ever hotter.

Yet the coming weeks could still be the last, best opportunity for lawmakers to wrap up their work on the budget and the trade deal, even as stakeholders admit the timetable could easily slip amid foot-dragging and partisan flare-ups.

As the House returns from a quick break, the sole piece of mustdo business before Thanksgiving is to pass a governmentwide stopgap spending bill to avert the second government shutdown within a year.

Avoiding a shutdown shouldn’t be a problem, at least for now, with passage of a temporary, governmentwide spending bill to perhaps Dec. 20 virtually assured. Top leaders on Capitol Hill, however, are struggling with a full-year solution on the appropriations work, where progress is overdue and at least some risk of being derailed remains.

Most notably, a recurring fight over Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border fence and immigrant detention practices is making it difficult for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to make progress on a broader, fullyear $1.4 trillion spending bill. That measure is needed to implement the terms of last summer’s hardwon budget agreement, which distributed budget increases to both the Pentagon and domestic agen-

“I think it would be a terrible mistake if we were still in a continuing resolution after the first of the year for a whole host of reasons. ... It has been difficult with the White House because ... they have not always been consistent in what they want.”

Patrick Leahy, top Senate Appropriations Committee Democrat of Vermont cies.

McConnell is personally invested in a successful budget outcome and both he and Pelosi have long histories on appropriations. A meeting on Tuesday among the bipartisan leadership of the Appropriations committees could produce an agreement on the stopgap measure — but efforts to smooth agreement on wall funding aren’t going nearly as well.

The other top issue is a legislative update to the landmark North American Free Trade Agreement, which is especially sought by Trump’s GOP allies and the party’s Main Street supporters.

Pelosi is the key figure on trade, which is always a tricky issue for Democrats, even if the politics of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement are nowhere nearly as divisive as NAFTA was 26 years ago.

Passage of NAFTA in 1993 badly split House Democrats, but Pelosi, who represents the Port of San Francisco, voted “aye,” as did Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and powerful Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass).

Neal is leading a working group on the measure and says the group is “on the 5-yard line” and the optimistic take is that he and Pelosi will bring USMCA in for an easy landing.

No. 1 milk company declares bankruptcy amid drop in demand The Associated Press NEW YORK — Dean Foods, America’s biggest milk processor, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday amid a steep, decades-long drop-off in

U.S. milk consumption blamed on soda, juices and, more recently, nondairy substitutes.

The Dallas company said it may sell itself to the Dairy Farmers of America, a marketing cooperative

owned by thousands of farmers.

“Despite our best efforts to make our business more agile and cost-efficient, we continue to be impacted by a challenging operating environment marked by continuing de-

The trade updates are generally seen as an improvement over NAFTA, whose provisions enforcing Mexican labor and environmental rules are considered inadequate by many Democrats. The selling points for the new pact are that it updates NAFTA for the 21st century with hard-won provisions on digital trade, intellectual property, financial services and agriculture trade.

Still, any impeachment-related delays could tax patience and thrust politically freighted issues like the border wall and the updated U.S. trade pact directly into the heat of the presidential primary campaign.

The forces favoring an agreement are powerful, and McConnell — a top force behind the July budget pact — appears ready to get engaged more actively.

Capitol Hill veterans say hardliners on both sides — including House progressives and White House budget chief Russell Vought — are an impediment to the kind of split-the-differences agreement that the current balance of power can produce.

And there is still time for action if the momentum stalls, even if the odds get dicier in a presidential election year.

One of the benefits of limiting the duration of the upcoming stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, or CR, is that is means another is needed before Congress adjourns for the year.

Any December stopgap measure could also provide a way to ship some unfinished business on taxes, health care and pensions to Trump’s desk as part of a must-pass package. Top lawmakers hope that a full-year spending bill would serve the same purpose but acknowledge there are considerable obstacles.

“I think it would be a terrible mistake if we were still in a continuing resolution after the first of the year for a whole host of reasons,” said top Senate Appropriations Committee Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont, citing shifting signals from the White House as contributing to the delays. “It has been difficult with the White House because ... they have not always been consistent in what they want.”

clines in consumer milk consumption,” CEO Eric Berigause said in a statement.

Since 1975, the amount of milk consumed per capita in America has tumbled more than 40%, a slide attributed to a number of reasons but mostly the rise of so many other choices, including teas, sodas, juices and almond and soy milk.

That has hit dairy farms and milk sellers hard, leading some smaller family farmers to quit the business.

Another blow to Dean Foods

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came when Walmart opened its own milk processing plant in Indiana last year.

Dean Foods has lost money in eight of its last 10 quarters and posted declining sales in seven of the last eight.

The company said it will continue operating normally while it puts its finances in order under Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It has lined up about $850 million in financing from lenders.

Its stock rose 2.3% in morning trading.

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Watcharin Photangtham carefully eyes the slot as he drops ballots for he and his husband into a ballot drop box Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, in Seattle.

Affirmative action measure still losing in Washington The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. — Nearly a week after the election, a measure that reinstates the use of affirmative action in state employment, contracting and admission to public colleges and universities was continuing to be narrowly rejected by Washington voters as counties move closer to finishing their vote counts.

As of Monday afternoon, Referendum 88 was being rejected by 50.4 percent of voters with a margin of just under 13,000 votes.

More than a dozen counties were set to update their vote tallies on Tuesday afternoon.

R- 88 asked voters whether they want to approve or reject Initiative 1000, which was passed by the Legislature in April. I-1000 amends current statutes that prohibit state government from discriminating against or giving preferential treatment to individuals

or groups based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, or public contracting.

The initiative would allow the consideration of being part of a minority group to be a contributing factor for a qualified applicant.

Along with race, sex, and ethnicity, the measure allows consideration of age, disability and honorable discharge or military status.

It would prohibit using factors such as race as the sole qualifier and bans mandatory quotas but would allow state agencies and public colleges and universities to establish diversity goals and timelines. A commission would be created to direct and oversee compliance.

I-1000 was supposed to take effect in July but was put on hold after opponents collected enough signatures to force a referendum.

The measure was losing in all but four of the state’s 39 counties,

but strong support in King County — the state’s most populous — has kept the margin close.

“What this shows is that there are a lot of Washingtonians that are ready to have a conversation about equity and fairness,” said April Sims, co-chair of the Washington Fairness Coalition that supported passage of the measure.

Washington is one of eight states — including California, Florida and Oklahoma — that ban affirmative action in state government and public colleges and universities, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Washington’s ban came with 1998’s Initiative 200, which was approved by 58% of voters.

I-1000 opponent Linda Yang said it was important for voters to have a say in potentially changing that 21-year-old law.

“It is a very close race but we are very encouraged by the numbers, she said.

Education non-profit hires first president and CEO

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The education non-profit group myFutureNC has hired Cecilia Holden to be its first president and CEO. “We are pleased to unanimously endorse Cecilia Holden as president & CEO of myFutureNC,” said Peter Hans, president of the NC Community College System.

Holden, who has an MBA from Duke, previously served as a lobbyist for North Carolina State Board of Education and had also served as chief of staff for the North Carolina Department of Commerce as well as sitting on the NC Works Commission. In addition, Holden also held positions at IBM, Guardian Capital Advisors and the Department of Public Instruction.

“As a native of rural North Carolina and a product of our public and private institutions, I am passionate about the education and economic prosperity of the people of our great state,” said Holden.

According to the group’s website, the organization is made up

of business leaders, politicians and education officials with a current “call to action” of ensuring 2 million North Carolinians have a high-quality postsecondary degree or credential by 2030.

The call to action has received bi-partisan support from Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden), Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) and Gov. Roy Cooper and became state law via House Bill 664 in June of this year. The law adopts the myFutureNC’s 2030 goal and tasks the group with providing annual progress reports to the legislature.

“This work will be state led but must be locally owned,” said Holden about the call to action.

“We will be working to localize the goal so that communities are able to see how their efforts can help meet the statewide goal but most importantly, how they can align the educational attainment with the needs of local business and industry to help drive economic prosperity for their citizens,” Holden said.

Holden said the group will be working to “identify and champion state level policies and pro-

“Change is inevitable, and system alignment across all sectors is critical for this work. ... Operating in silos hasn’t fully maximized the collective impact we will have when working as a unit and migrating towards a natural interaction between business and education.”

Cecilia Holden grams” and identify opportunities gaps in order to accomplish the 2030 goal.

The organization seeks to close gaps in obtaining postsecondary credentials and align the state’s educational programming to meet business needs.

NSJ asked Holden about recent reports of increased need for high school remediation well as

NEW YORK — Boeing hopes to resume deliveries of its 737 Max jet to airlines in December and win regulatory approval to restart commercial service with the plane in January.

Boeing shares rose in midday trading Monday.

The company spelled out several steps that it needs to complete before the grounded plane can carry passengers again.

Pilot training has emerged as a key issue around the plane’s return — and an area where Boeing failed when it introduced the plane in 2017. The timetable that the company laid out Monday would allow it to generate cash by delivering planes even before the Federal Aviation Administration approves new training material for pilots.

Boeing said it has demonstrated changes to the plane during sessions with the FAA in a flight simulator. It still must show regulators those changes during one or more certification flights.

Boeing’s expectations around the timing of the Max’s return have proven too optimistic many times before. Even after the FAA approves a training regimen, airlines will need time to retrain pilots, and they plan to conduct flights — likely with executives and reporters on board — to demonstrate to the public that the plane is safe.

Two big U.S. customers — Southwest and American — say they don’t expect the Max to carry passengers until early March — a year after the plane was grounded following crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people.

Boeing has continued to pump out about 42 Max jets a month at its factory in the Seattle area, but it has been burning through cash because it can’t deliver those planes and get paid by the airlines.

Pilot training has emerged as a key issue around the plane’s return — and an area where Boeing failed when it introduced the plane in 2017.

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In this April 10, 2019, file photo a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane being built for India-based Jet Airways, takes off on a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle.

declining reading and math proficiency and stagnant career and college readiness levels and the impact that would have on the group’s work.

“Change is inevitable, and system alignment across all sectors is critical for this work,” said Holden. “Operating in silos hasn’t fully maximized the collective impact we will have when working as a unit and migrating towards a natural interaction between business and education.”

Holden said that implementing college and career readiness remediation courses in N.C. high schools is already happening and programs in career and technical education are working to “align credentials and curriculum in our K-12 and community colleges, with business and industry needs.”

“These plans and the implementation of them will be instrumental in ensuring our education system is aligning with the labor market needs,” Holden said. “Recognizing that many of the population we are targeting cannot take advantage of the traditional classroom setting, we will need to expand and build on competency-based learning models that allow educational attainment in a non-traditional way.”

Joining Holden at myFutureNC are high-profile figures like Ann Goodnight and former interim UNC President William Roper who were founding members of myFutureNC. Co-chairs

of the board include Peter Hans, Dale Jenkins and Andrea Smith.

Jenkins currently is serving as chairman of the board for The University of North Carolina Health Care System and Capital Associated Industries. Smith is the chief administrative officer for Bank of America.

Other state officials on the board include State Board of Education Chair Eric Davis, Geoff Coltrane as Gov. Cooper’s designee, Sen. Deanna Ballard and Rep. John Fraley as designees for Berger and Moore respectively.

Also on the board are Jack Cecil, president and CEO of Biltmore Farms; Hope Williams president of the NC Independent Colleges and Universities; MC Belk Pilon, president and board chair for the John M. Belk Endowment; David Mounts, chairman and CEO at Inmar; and Anna Spangler Nelson, the chairman of Spangler Companies.

Funding for myFutureNC has come through grants from the John M. Belk Endowment, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Goodnight Education Foundation.

The Goodnight Education Foundation has issued two grants worth $250,000 each to the University of North Carolina for the myFutureNC program. The Gates Foundation has contributed two grants, totaling $525,000, and the Belk Endowment has contributed one grant of $100,000.

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entertainment

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In this April 3, 2019, file photo characters from Disney and Fox movies are displayed behind Cathleen Taff, president of distribution, franchise management, business and audience insight for Walt Disney Studios during the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2019, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Beyond Netflix: Disney Plus joins the streaming fray The Associated Press

Disney Plus

NEW YORK — Disney is throwing its hat into streaming Tuesday with the debut of its Disney Plus service.

It is hoping the $7-a-month service, years in the making, will attract millions of subscribers with its mix of Marvel and Star Wars movies and shows, classic animated films and new series.

There’s a lot riding on the gamble, as traditional media companies seek to siphon the subscription revenue now going to Netflix and other streaming giants.

With an advertising blitz, low entry price and coveted library of older movies and shows, Disney should “blow the doors off initially,” said Pivotal Research Group analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak.

But the challenge will be keeping those subscribers in the long run.

Disney is not alone in making the gambit. Here’s a look at the new streaming challengers and what you get with each:

Disney’s entertainment service, featuring shows and movies from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic.

Launch date: Nov. 12 Price: $7 a month or $70 a year.

Getting Disney Plus with ESPN Plus and Hulu, both owned by Disney, will cost $13 a month.

Promotions: Seven-day free trial. Free year with all Verizon Wireless unlimited plans and when customers switch to Verizon’s Fios Home Internet or 5G Home Internet.

Original shows: “The Mandalorian,” a live-action “Star Wars” series created by Jon Favreau. A prequel to the “Star Wars” movie “Rogue One.” A series about the Marvel character Loki. A rebooted “High School Musical” series.

A documentary series focused on Disney.

Other shows and movies: Animated classics, including “Aladdin” and “The Jungle Book,” will be available at launch; others will be added as streaming deals with oth-

er services expire. Movies released in 2019 or later will go to Disney Plus rather than a rival streaming service first. Disney Plus will also house past seasons of “The Simpsons,” which Disney got through its purchase of Fox’s entertainment business.

Apple Tv Plus Apple’s entry into the streaming business.

Launch date: Nov. 1 Price: $5 a month Promotions: Seven-day free trial. A year free to buyers of a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod Touch or Mac. Original shows: A Jason Momoa series called “See” and “The Morning Show,” a comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carrell. The service will launch with nine original shows and movies, with more expected each month.

Other shows and movies: None.

Peacock

Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ is a very pleasant (fast) ride The Associated Press COPS MIGHT do well to position their speed traps near movie theaters wherever the new film “Ford v Ferrari” is playing. They might fund their whole year’s budget busting speeders peeling out of the parking lots.

This infectious and engrossing story of the 1966 showdown on a French racetrack between car giants Ford and Ferrari is a high-octane ride that will make you instinctively stomp on a ghostly gas pedal from your movie seat.

But you don’t need to be a motorhead to enjoy Matt Damon and Christian Bale as a pair of rebels risking it all for purity and glory.

Yes, director James Mangold takes you down onto the raceway, with cameras low to the ground and care to show the crack of gear shifts and feet on pedals.

Yet he’s not created a “Fast and Furious” film — this is more a drama about a pair of visionaries who fight against a smarmy bureaucracy. That vision happens to be on a track.

The first three-quarters of “Ford v Ferrari “ sets the stage for the furious 40-minute restaging of the exhausting Le Mans race — a 3,000mile, 24-hour slalom through country roads. So meticulous have

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This image released by 20th Century fox shows Christian Bale, left, and Noah Jupe in a scene from “Ford v. Ferrari,” in theaters on Nov. 15. the filmmakers been that they built an entire accurate Le Mans in Georgia because the original has been too altered in the intervening years.

(There are not many cases when Georgia acts as a stand-in for La

France.)

Damon plays the legendary American driver and car designer Carroll Shelby, who won Le Mans in 1959 but gets sidelined from driving due to a bad heart. He con-

A souped-up version of HBO from AT&T’s WarnerMedia, with some 10,000 hours of video at launch.

Launch date: May 2020 Price: $15 a month Promotions: Free for about 10 million existing HBO subscribers — those who get HBO through AT&T distribution platforms such as U-Verse and DirecTV, and those who get the HBO Now streaming service directly from HBO, rather than a cable or online partner such as Amazon. Free for customers of AT&T’s higher-tier wireless and broadband offerings.

Original shows: A “Game of Thrones” prequel called “House of the Dragon.” ‘’Raised by Wolves,” a sci-fi series directed by Ridley Scott. “Strange Adventures,” a DC Super Hero anthology series.

Other shows and movies: HBO shows and movies, including theatrical releases that HBO licenses. Programs from the Warner Bros. studio, including “Friends,” ‘’The Big Bang Theory,” ‘’The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Pretty Little Liars.” The animated comedy “South Park.” New CW shows “Batwoman” and “Riverdale” spinoff “Katy Keene” will also be available to stream after the season ends.

siders the best driver in the world to be Ken Miles, a daredevil British missile played by Bale.

If Damon is a bad boy, then Bale is a bad-bad boy, a role perfectly in his wheelhouse, another intense, almost-over-the-top role. But it’s Damon, almost subdued with little fireworks necessary, who shows real compassion as a man caught between corporate responsibility and honor.

Le Mans by the mid-60s was a plaything of Ferrari, which dominated year after year. Lee Iacocca, then an executive with the Ford Motor Company, convinces his boss, Henry Ford II, to enter the racing world and win Le Mans — not necessarily for glory but to make the company appealing to young buyers.

“James Bond does not drive a Ford, sir,” Iacocca (played by Jon Bernthal, perfectly cast, showing layers) tells Ford. “We need to think like Ferrari.”

Ford initially tries to do that by just buying Ferrari — but Italian head Enzo Ferrari tells the Ford delegation to “go back to Michigan, back to your big ugly factory.” Boo! That naturally ruffles the feathers of Henry Ford’s son (Tracy Letts, lighting up every scene with unpredictable energy) and so Ford is now ready to build its own race team.

The screenwriters Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth and Jason Keller have fleshed out the tale with glimpses into the personal costs to Miles’ family (the enchanting Caitriona Balfe as his wife and their young son.) Their quiet moments at home may be a little hokey but are a welcome relief

to the roar of the track. You can tell the writers have some stage chops with tight scenes that build to great lines. “Go to war, Carroll!” Henry Ford II bellows to Shelby.

The film at some points should be called “Ford v Ford” as Shelby and Miles butt heads against an army of Ford executives in Brooks Brothers suits. The marketing paper-pushers are constantly trying to insert themselves into the race and especially don’t want Miles to drive because they deem him “not a Ford man.” Shelby fights back: “You can’t win a race by committee.”

The film then goes to the 24 Hours of Le Mans — fake grainy TV and radio broadcasts help set up the tension — and you can almost smell the burnt rubber. “She’s hot, mate. Crack on!” one driver says of the Ford’s GT40 Mark II. Enzo Ferrari glowers from his box in the stands and the filmmakers don’t bother to translate everything the Italian team says, so clear is the acting.

Many of the songs we hear are well placed — it’s got a soundtrack of The Animals, The Sparkles and The Quarrymen — plus, you’ll marvel at another past technology: Sunglasses in the 1960s would make anyone look cool.

Perhaps the only thing overshadowing the two Oscar-winning lead actors in this film are the cars.

They’re truly drool-worthy. But be gentle on your gas pedal on your way home.

“Ford v Ferrari,” a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 for “some language and peril.” Running time: 152 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.

The service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal will carry 15,000 hours of video at launch.

Launch date: April 2020 Price: Undisclosed Promotions: Free for many Comcast cable and internet customers.

Original shows: Reboots of “Battlestar Galactica” and “Saved by the Bell.” Comedy series “Rutherford Falls,” from Michael Schur, creator of “The Good Place” and “Parks and Recreation.”

Other shows and movies: “30 Rock, “Will & Grace,” and “Cheers,” though these won’t stream exclusively on Peacock. Peacock will get “Parks and Recreation” and “The Office” once existing deals with Netflix expire. “Bridesmaids,” ‘’E.T.” and other movies from Universal Pictures, Focus Features and DreamWorks Animation.

HBO Max

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TAKE NOTICE WAKE NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 2378

Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Wake, State of NC, and is described as follows:

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sherry Montgomery to National Title Network, Trustee(s), dated the 9th day of April, 2010, and recorded in Book 013911, Page 02505, and Modification in Book 15586, Page 2335, and Modification in Book 16250, Page 0353, and Modification in Book 17223, Page 1608, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the

Being all of Lot 67, Anderson Pointe Park Townhomes, Phase 2, as shown on map recorded on Book of Maps 2006, Pages 777-778, Wake County Registry. Including the Unit located thereon; said Unit being located at 341 Gilman Lane, Unit 106, Raleigh, North Carolina.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 2393

Manor, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1981, Page 292, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1446 Aversboro Road, Garner, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Polly K. Lawrence to First Advantage Title, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of July, 2009, and recorded in Book 013649, Page 01323, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 9, Block B, Section One, Georgetown

CABARRUS NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 598

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Scott A. Bonnett and Arlene T. Bonnett to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of March, 2013, and recorded in Book 10439, Page 0191, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 76

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Andy J. Wilson (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Andy Wilson) to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of March, 2010, and recorded in Book 09097, Page 0343, and Modification in Book 12926, Page 0197, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the high-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 67

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Christopher Whigham to Allan B. Polunsky, Trustee(s), dated the 31st day of May, 2018, and recorded in Book 13023, Page 0168, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax ID:

CUMBERLAND AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 15 SP 1998

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Lisa Susan Replinger to Timios Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of May, 2014, and recorded in Book 9427, Page 525, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Seventy-First, in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain parcel of land situated near the City of Fayetteville, Seventy-First Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows:

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

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

County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situate in the County of Cabarrus, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 100, Farmington Ridge, Map 6 as the same is shown on map recorded in Map Book 45, Page 38 in the Cabarrus County, North Carolina Public Registry, reference being hereby made for a more particular description of said property. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5024 Sunburst Lane, Charlotte, North Carolina. **FOR

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The improvements thereon being known as: 5024 Sunburst Lane, Charlotte, NC 28213 BEING the same property conveyed to Scott A. Bonnett and Arlene T. Bonnett from NVR, Inc., a Virginia Corporation, by Deed dated December 17, 2004, and recorded on December 23, 2004, in Book 5721, Page 130, as Instrument No. 42479, among the Land Records of Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

est bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEINGallofLot103ofWILLOWBEND,PHASEI,assame is shown on map thereof recorded in Map Book 23 at Page 24 in the Cabarrus County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 531 Viking Drive Southwest, Concord, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any rep-

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Lying and being in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 216 of Iveydale as shown on map thereof recorded in Map Book 31, Page 70 of the Cabarrus County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4616 Hampton Chase Drive Southwest, Concord, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors,

in Book of Plats 101, Page 160, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina and the same property conveyed to Raleigh T. Vaughan, Jr. and wife Kathi W. Vaughan by Deed recorded in Book 5370, Page 780 Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4439 Pleasant View Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Together with an easement and right of way for the purposes of ingress, egress and regress over and upon the following described property:

Being all of Lot 1 in a subdivision known as Bayfield West, Section I, according to a plat of same being duly recorded

BEGINNING at an iron stake in the northern margin of State Road 1836 (Pleasant View Drive), said iron stake being the southwest corner of Lot Number One as shown on plat entitled “Zero Lot line subdivision Bayfield West, Section I” and being recorded in Plat Book 101, Page 160 of the Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry; and runs thence with the northern margin of State Road 1836 (Pleasant View Drive) North 77 degrees 42 minutes 59 seconds West 26.97 feet to an iron stake; said iron stake being the southwest corner of Lot Number Sixteen as shown on the above referenced plat; thence leaving said road North 34 degrees 18 minutes 11 seconds East 117.18 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence North 02 degrees 11 minutes 00 seconds West 58.32 feet to a point in the western line of Lot Number Sixteen; thence North 88 degrees 28 minutes 27 seconds East 25.00 feet to an iron stake at the northwest corner of Lot Number One; thence with Lot Number One South 02 degrees 11 minutes 00 seconds East 66.27 feet to an iron stake; thence South 34 degrees 18 minutes 11 seconds West 115.31 feet to the point of beginning, and being a 25-foot ingress, egress, easement and being a portion of Lot Number Sixteen as shown on the above referenced plat recorded in Plat Book 101, Page 160, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The following described property:

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Deana Blanford, who acquired title as Deana Peterson and Stephen Blanford, (Deana Blanford who acquired title as Deana Peterson, deceased)(Heirs of Deana Blanford aka Deana Peterson: Stephen Blanford, JaMya Blanford, Lillie Timothy and Unknown Heirs of Deana Peterson Blanford aka Deana Peterson) to Grady I. Ingle and Elizabeth B. Ells, Trustee(s), dated the 7th day of July, 2016, and recorded in Book 09897, Page 0232, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the

Situated in the City of ty of Cumberland, State

Hope Mills, Counof North Carolina:

Being all of Lot No. 234 in a subdivision known as Brightmoor, Phase 9-B, (Revision) as shown on a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 85, Page 192, Cumberland County, North Carolina, North Carolina Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5611 Walkabout Road, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

Assessor’s Parcel No: 0414-41-7719Trustee 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,

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

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

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

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

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whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this no-

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),

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tice 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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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 Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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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.

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1045

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Larfue Williams, Sr. and Joyce K. Williams to H. Terry Hutchens, Esquire, Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of October, 2016, and recorded in Book 9968, Page 0465, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Hopella L. Renwick to Rebecca W. Shaia, Trustee(s), dated the 4th day of August, 2006, and recorded in Book 7323, Page 889, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1350

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Rafael Rodriguez and Wanda R. Rodriguez, (Rafael Rodriguez, deceased) (Heirs of Rafael Rodriguez: Wanda Rodriguez, Jose F. Rodriguez, Vincent Rodriguez, Natalee Rodriguez and Unknown Heirs of Rafael Rodriguez) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Rafael Rodriguez) to Tom Wood, Trustee(s), dated the 13th day of May, 2015, and recorded in Book 09647, Page 0577, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Dean Holzapfel and Rebecca V. Holzapfel (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Dean Holzapfel) to Tom Wood/USAA Federal Savings Bank, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of July, 2015, and recorded in Book 09694, Page 0094, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1324

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Brenda L. Flowers, (Brenda Leona Flowers aka Brenda L. Flowers, deceased) (Heirs of Brenda Leona Flowers aka Brenda L. Flowers: James Michael McCoy-Flowers and Unknown Heirs of Brenda Leona Flowers aka Brenda L. Flowers) to BB&T Collateral Service Corporation, Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of March, 2010, and recorded in Book 08359, Page 0047, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location

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Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Leonard Duane Wilkins, Jr. and Carissa Shapiro (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Carrisa Shapiro and Leonard D. Wilkins, Jr.) to Transtar National Title, Trustee(s), dated the 18th day of May, 2016, and recorded in Book 09867, Page 0311, and Modification in Book 10159, Page 0148, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 court-

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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 tendered in

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the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

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the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ricky E. Locklear and Diane T. Locklear (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Ricky Enman Locklear) to Barrington & Jones, Trustee(s), dated the 31st day of December, 2007, and recorded in Book 7779, Page 0431, and Correction Affidavit in Book 8208, Page 830, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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

resentation 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

Being the same property conveyed to Lisa Susan Replinger by Deed from Raleigh T. Vaughn, Jr. and wife, Kathi W. Vaughan recorded 07/24/2013 in Deed Book 9252, Page 689, in the Register of Deeds Office of Cumberland County, North Carolina.

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1364

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sheronda Booker to Clint Bonkowski, Trustee(s), dated the 21st day of October, 2017, and recorded in Book 10192, Page 0382, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax Id number(s): 9497-50-8373-

house door in the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain parcel of land situate in the City of Hope Mills, County of Cumberland and State of North Carolina bounded and described as follows: BEING all of Lot 64, in a subdivision known as Braxton Village, Phase One, Section One, plat of the same being recorded in Book of Plats 131, Pages 69-70, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 316 Derby Lane, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

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Being the same property as transferred by deed dated 11/02/2012, recorded 11/07/2012, from Braxton Village Developers, LLC, a North Carolina Limited Liability Company, to Stone Bay Partners, LLC, a North Carolina Limited Liability Company, recorded in book 9037, page 245.

of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 10 & 12 of the Atkinson Property per Plat recorded in Plat Book 9, Page 5, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1732 Railroad Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-

particularly described as follows: Real property in the City of FAYETTEVILLE, Township of CROSS CREEK County of CUMBERLAND, State of North Carolina, described as follows: Being all of Lot 48 in a subdivision known as Green Valley Estates, Section One, Part Two, according to a plat of same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 33, and Page 38, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1557 Mintz Avenue, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Being all of that certain property conveyed to LARFUE WILLIAMS, SR. AND WIFE JOYCE K. WILLIAMS from MICHAEL D NEPSTAD, SINGLE, by deed dated NOVEMBER 16, 2006 and recorded NOVEMBER 21, 2006 IN BOOK 7426, PAGE 420 of official records.

Commonlyknownas:1557MintzAve,Fayetteville,NC28303 APN#: 0429-10-0896 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the

Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 107, Section 1, and Section 1 Part 2, A Recombination of Lots 105-113, in a subdivision known as FOX MEADOW, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 109, Page 200, Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3925 Batesburg Drive, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

PIN #0424-05-1309 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,

of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 231 as shown on plat entitled “Bridlewood, Phase Three, Part Three” duly recorded in Plat Book 115, Page 160, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5925 Blue Sky Lane, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

A.P.N.: 0422-46-6940 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 convey-

will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 81, in a subdivision known as Crosswinds, Section 4, Part 2, and the same being duly recorded in Book 127, Page 55, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2572 Spinnaker Drive, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

Parcel ID: 0425-41-2501 Property Address: 2572 Spinnaker Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348 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 convey-

designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: A parcel of land situated in the State of North Carolina, County of Cumberland, with a street location address of 928 Kaywood Dr.: Fayetteville, NC 28311-6828 currently owned by Brenda L. Flowers having a Tax Identification Number of 0520-80-0359 and being the same property more fully described in Book/Page or Document Number 6669-805 dated 9/7/2004 and further described as RES 928 Kaywood Dr Lt 8 Warrenwood Ests. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 928 Kaywood Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-

Land situated in the City of Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland in the State of NC. Being all of Lot 220, in subdivision known as Remington, Section Two, Part Two, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 83, Page 133, in Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1191 Curry Ford Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Commonly known as: ry Ford Drive, Fayetteville,

NC

1191 Cur28314-1858

The property address and Tax Parcel Identification Number listed are provided solely for informational purposes.

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 agree-

Being further conveyed by deed dated 07/25/2014, recorded 08/01/2014, from Stone Bay Partners, LLC, to Leonard D. Wilkins, Jr. and wife, Carissa Shapiro, recorded in book 9481, page 660.

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 re-

cord and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or

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

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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.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective

on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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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 tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing

written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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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 Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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 pri-

or to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

nation. 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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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 pri-

or to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

nation. 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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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.

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

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

the effective date of the termination.

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ment, 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 Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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TAKE NOTICE CUMBERLAND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1351

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Michael Duane Norwood to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of June, 2012, and recorded in Book 08932, Page 0041, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November

19 SP 958 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Gladys Taylor f/k/a Gladys Chandler and Haywood Taylor to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), which was dated May 28, 2015 and recorded on June 1, 2015 in Book 09658 at Page 0621, Cumberland 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 November 22, 2019 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax Id Number(s): 9487-10-2370Land Situated in the City of Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland in the State of NC Being all of Lot No. Two Hundred Thirteen (213), in a subdivision known as Cliffdale Forest, Section IV, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 55, Page 48, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 7686 Beverly Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Commonly known as: 7686 Beverly Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28314 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).

SITUATED IN COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, TOWNSHIP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING ALL OF LOT NUMBER 28 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS ST ANDREWS, AND THE SAME BEING DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 76 AT PAGE 87, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. BEING THAT PARCEL OF LAND CONVEYED OR ASSIGNED TO GLADYS CHANDLER, SINGLE FROM OWNER OF RECORD BY DATED 01/21/2003 AND RECORDED 01/27/2003 IN DEED VOLUME 5971 ON PAGE 849 OF THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 6117 Garden Ct, Fayetteville, NC 28311.

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

JOHNSTON 19 CVS 2425 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION

v.

Debora S Stout; Any Spouse of Debora S Stout; Steven Strothman; Any Spouse of Steven Strothman Defendant(s).

To: Any Spouse of Steven Strothman; Steven Strothman; Any Spouse of Debora S Stout; Debora S Stout

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF JOHNSTON GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION

Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff,

That Court determine the Deed of Trust recorded on July 2, 2007 in Book 3374 at Page 502 in the Johnston County Registry was drafted and recorded in a manner

ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 815

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Anthony A. Reyes to Lenders Title Solutions, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of November, 2017, and recorded in Book 4705, Page 463, in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 21, 2019 and

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 869

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Wilson Araujo and Leslie K. Araujo to Donald P. Eggleston, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of June, 2013, and recorded in Book 4016, Page 491, in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 21, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Jacksonville, in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 832

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jennie Turetsky, (Jennie Turetsky, Deceased) (Heirs of Jennie Turetsky: Lillian Rodriguez, Kerry Gray Blakely, Maranatha Baptist Church, American Red Cross, Humane Society of the United States, Paralyzed Veterans of America and Salvation Army) to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of January, 2011, and recorded in Book 3546, Page 974, in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 821

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Zavier M. Dahl to John B. Third, Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of February, 2018, and recorded in Book 4735, Page 29, in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 21, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 860

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Eddie L. Eismon and Frances V. Eismon to Henry V. Cunningham, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 11th day of April, 2012, and recorded in Book 3759, Page 973, in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 21, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe in the western edge of a 28

will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Onslow, State of NC, and is described as follows: BEING all of Lot No. 314 as the same is shown and designated on the map of FOXHORN VILLAGE SECTION IV, as recorded in Map Book 28, at Page 16 and 16A in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Onslow County, North Carolina, reference to said map being hereby made for a more particular description of the aforesaid lot. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3027 East Windgate Court, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Subject to Restrictive Covenants recorded in Book 1020, Page 524, Onslow County Registry.

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known Court,

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as 3027 E. Jacksonville, NC number

Wind28546 050681

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the

Jacksonville Township, Onslow County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 15, Block J according to plat entitled “Subdivision Map No. 9 of Northwoods II, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, NC” dated March 1959 prepared by Herndon Edgerton, Engineer, and recorded in Map Book 6, Page 1, Onslow County Registry, NC Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 611 Aztee Road, Jacksonville, North Carolina. **FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY** THE improvements thereon being known as 611 Aztee Road, Jacksonville, NC 28540 Tax

ID

No.

014734

BEING the same property which, by North Carolina General Warranty Deed dated November 6, 2009, and recorded on November 6, 2009 among the Land Records of the County of Onslow, State of North Carolina, in Book 3319, Page 97, was granted and conveyed by Ira Sanders and wife, Susan V. Sanders unto Wilson Araujo and wife, Leslie K. Araujo.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the

foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 21, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: ThelandreferredtohereinbelowissituatedintheCounty ofOnslow,StateofNorthCarolina,andisdescribedasfollows: Being all of Lot No. 7 as shown and designated on the map entitled “Foxhorn Village Section V-A” as recorded in Map Book 35, Page 6, Slide J-513, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Onslow County, North Carolina, reference to said map being hereby made for a more particular description of the aforesaid property. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2024 Derby Run Road, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Parcel

ID:

056722

Commonly known as 2024 DERBY RUN RD, Jacksonville, NC 28546 However, by showing this address no additional coverage is provided

BeingallofLot8asshownonthatmapentitled,“TheCottages at Petersburg” prepared by Gairy Canady Land Surveying, dated March 14, 2011 and recorded in Map Book 62, Page 18, Slide N-52, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 202 Cottage Brook Court, Richlands, North Carolina.

Subject to Restrictive Covenants recorded in Book 3592, Page 473, Onslow County, Registry.

Subject to Reservation of oil, gas, mineral or other subsurface rights of record if any.

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

foot wide access easement, said iron pipe marking the easternmost corner of the 2,592 square foot parcel depicted on plat entitled “A Survey for James Randolph Thornton Heirs” recorded in Map Book 62 at page 125; then, from said POINT OF BEGINNING, running along the western edge of said access easement South 5 deg 5’ 2” West 138.29 feet to a corner at the Austin Browning property [Deed Book 3672, page 659]; then along the boundary of the Browning property North 68 deg 34’ 0” West 284.99 feet to a point in the center line of a branch; then with the center line the branch North 61 deg 31’ 0” West 25.70 feet and North 30 deg 31’ 0” West 75.85 feet to a corner at the Carl Thrasher property [Deed Book 3003, page 377]; then along the boundary of the Thrasher property North 75 deg 48’ 30” 191.61 feet to the southwest corner of the 2,592 square foot parcel referred to above; then along the southern boundary of said parcel South 86 deg 6’ 30” East 184.67 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, consisting of 1.047 acres, and being a portion of the Joseph Randolph Thornton Heirs property [Deed Book 1345, page 98], adjacent to but excluding the 2,592 square foot parcel referenced above, and being the property conveyed to CMH Homes, Inc, by Deed recorded in Book 3716 at page 360, Onslow County. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1794

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 Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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($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.

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.

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

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 Omnipotent Investments, LLC. 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

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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.

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sufficient to give a reasonable title searcher notice of the interest of the Plaintiff’s lien on the property located at 147 Canyon Road, Clayton, North Carolina 27520.

That the Court reform the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 3374 at Page 502 in the Johnston County, North Carolina Public Registry to include the intended Grantor: Steven Strothman.

That the Court enter an Order that such reformation shall relate back to the original recording date of the Deed of Trust on July 2, 2007 in Book 3374 at Page 502 in the Johnston County Registry.

That the Court enter an Order declaring that the Deed of Trust recorded on July 2, 2007 in Book 3374 at Page 502 is a valid first lien on the Property as drawn.

In the alternative, that the Court enter an Order that the Defendants hold title to the Property subject to a constructive trust and purchase money resulting trust in favor

of Plaintiff.

The Court’s Order shall be duly recorded in the Johnston County Register of Deeds and indexed according to those parties named in said Deed of Trust for the purpose of establishing record notice of this proceeding in the chain of title to the Property.

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 tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

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

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

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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 tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

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

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

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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 pur-

chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Highway 172, Sneads Ferry, North Carolina.

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

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

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

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

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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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.

For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.

This, the 30th day of October 2019.

BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC ____________/s/_________________ Thomas E. McDonald, NC Bar #40498 Attorney for Plaintiff PO Box 3004 Wilmington, NC 28406 Phone: 910-392-4988 x 4080

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than December 17, 2019 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

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TAKE NOTICE ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 576

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Tyler R. Ford and Ellie L. Ford (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Tyler Ford and Ellie Ford) to Stuart Clarke at Thorpe & Clark, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of February, 2014, and recorded in Book 4116, Page 585, in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville,

RANDOLPH 17 SP 256 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Casey A. Spear and Nakiya S. Spear to Donald P. Eggleston, Trustee(s), which was dated September 29, 2004 and recorded on October 13, 2004 in Book 1890 at Page 1055 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on August 12, 2014 in Book 2402, Page 362 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on October 18, 2016 in Book 2516, Page 498, Randolph 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

19 SP 277 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Miles Winston Frank and Lauren Elizabeth Frank to John B. Third, Trustee(s), which was dated June 7, 2017 and recorded on June 7, 2017 in Book 2549 at Page 822, Randolph 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

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 210

Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 21, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 7 Davis Plantation as shown on the map recorded in Map Book 42, Page 88, Slide K-1215, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 168 Dolph Everett Road, Holly Ridge, North Carolina.

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

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

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Grantors and Grantee herein covenant and agree that:

ALSO CONVEYED HEREWITH is a perpetual right and easement to construct, maintain, repair and use septic tanks, septic lines and related facilities (the “Septic Facilities”) upon the property owned by the Grantors herein and described as ‘Septic Easement for Lot 3 Phase 1’, being approximately a 60’ x 60’ square (see plat incorporated herein by reference for greater detail and metes and bounds description), more or less, as depicted on the above described plat recorded at Plat Book 90, Page 40, Randolph County Registry, which Easement lays across the lands of the Grantors being Lot 2, containing 1.20 acres, more or less as depicted on the above described plat. The

(3) Any damage caused by the construction, repair or maintenance of the Septic Facilities in or to pavement, growing grass, trees, shrubbery, plants or other vegetation occasioned by the Grantee shall be repaired and paid for by the Grantee and the property of the Grantors shall be returned as nearly as possible to its original condition prior to the construction, repair, or maintenance.

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

Said property is commonly known as 2418 Staley Cove Drive, Staley, NC 27355.

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 Casey A. Spear and wife, Nakiya S. Spear.

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.: 17-10376-FC01

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 19, 2019 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 21 OF KERSEY ACRES, MAP 1 AS SHOWN ON PLAT THEREOF DULY RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 57, PAGE 17 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, SAID PLAT HAVING BEEN RE-RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 60, PAGE 22 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 5033 Leigh Ln, Sophia, NC 27350.

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 Miles Winston Frank and wife, Lauren E. Frank.

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.: 19-11569-FC01

vember 21, 2019 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 that certain Lot or parcel of land situated in City of Indian Trail, Union County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

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.

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

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

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

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

resentation 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 Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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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 pri-

or to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 19, 2019 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 3, Phase 1, Staley Cove Subdivision, containing 1.36 acres, more or less, as shown on a Plat entitled “STALEY COVE, PHASE 1 AND 2”, dated December 14, 2001, prepared by Joseph D. Moore, PLS, and recorded in Plat Book 75, Page 29, Randolph County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

Also included herewith is that certain 2002 Oakwood manufactured home bearing serial number HONC07715156AB, which is permanently affixed to the real property described above.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Judith Fang to Joan H. Anderson, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of April, 2008, and recorded in Book 04885, Page 0763, and Modification in Book 06547, Page 0736, 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 No-

BEING all of Lot 126 of SHILOH TRACE, Phase 3, Map 2, as the same is shown on a plat thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet I,File223,intheUnionCountyPublicRegistry. Togetherwith improvementslocatedthereon;saidpropertybeinglocated at 1205 Langdon Terrace Drive, Indian Trail, North Carolina.

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foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on November 21, 2019 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 1 of MAJESTIC FOREST, as shown upon plat thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet B, File 229-B, of the Union County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1436 Majestic Lane, Waxhaw, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Donnie William Deese and Patricia Baucom Deese, (Donnie William Deese and Patricia Baucom Deese, Both Deceased) (Heir of Patricia Baucom Deese: Matthew W. Deese and Unknown Heirs of Patricia Baucom Deese) to E. Ned Stafford, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 3rd day of July, 2002, and recorded in Book 1860, Page 895, 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Miten G. Shah and Charulata M. Shah, a married couple to John C. Markey II Atty at Law, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of November, 2012, and recorded in Book 05878, Page 0093, and Correction Affidavit in Book 6060, Page 0789, and Modification in Book 6953, Page 0584, 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 November 21, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Thomas D. Haywood to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 4th day of October, 2004, and recorded in Book 3579, Page 595, 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 November 21, 2019 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: All that certain lot or parcel of land situat-

WAKE 19 SP 2217 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 Phyllis M. Nielsen to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), which was dated June 14, 2005 and recorded on June 20, 2005 in Book 011420 at Page 02663, 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

Parcel ID: 07093674 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 convey-

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 agree-

lowing real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 7, Block 4, Hunter Oaks Phase 10 Map 8 as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet H. at File 474, Union County, North Carolina Public Registry.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 818 Lillieshall Road, Waxhaw, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any rep-

ed in the County of Union, State of North Carolina, more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 10 of Colton Ridge, Phase 1, Map 1, as same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet F File 984, 985, and 986 of the Union County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2002 Monaco Court, Indian Trail, North Carolina.

BEING the same property conveyed to Thomas D. Haywood by Quit Claim Deed from Maleah Haywood, dated 06/24/2003, recorded 07/02/2003, in Book 3124, Page 059, Union County, North Carolina Records.

Parcel ID Number: 07114370 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

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 November 20, 2019 at 12:00PM, 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 108, Block 23, Unit 305A according to plat entitled “Midland Townhomes, Phase I, Six Forks Township, Wake County, North Carolina” dated March 20,1985 prepared by Triangle Engineering Services, Inc., Engineers and recorded in Book of Maps 1985 Page 464, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 7700 Sandra Lane, Raleigh, NC 27615.

(1) Grantors will not construct any dwellings, buildings, driveways, ditches or other structures so as to interfere with the use and maintenance of the subsurface sewage disposal lines. Grantors further covenant and agree that they will not grade or disturb the soil in any way that might disturb or interfere with the operation of the Septic Facilities.

(2) All costs of installation, repair, and maintenance of the Septic Facilities shall be borne by the Grantee.

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 Phyllis Nielsen.

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,

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nation. 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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is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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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.: 19-03624-FC01

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property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 20, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Lot 701, Bryson Village, Phase 6, per plat and survey thereof recorded in Map Book 2015, Pages 1192 -1195, inclusive, Wake County Registry.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Albert K. Prude to Bagwell Holt Smith P.A., Trustee(s), which was dated March 18, 2016 and recorded on March 18, 2016 in Book 016323 at Page 00102, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

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

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

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.

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ber 20, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Wanda Allen a/k/a Wanda M. Allen to Walter F. Jones, Trustee(s), which was dated November 19, 2003 and recorded on November 20, 2003 in Book 010553 at Page 02099, 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 Novem-

19 SP 1042 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 Lorene Wright to GBTC, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated July 24, 2015 and recorded on July 24, 2015 in Book 016096 at Page 00586, 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 Novem-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 2216

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by George Henderson, (George Henderson, Deceased) (Heirs of Anthony Henderson, George E. Henderson, II, Marcus A. Henderson, Lisa A. Henderson, Carol Henderson and Unknown Heirs of George Henderson) (Carol Henderson, Deceased) (Heirs of Carol Henderson: Unknown Heirs) to Vantage Point Title, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 9th day of November, 2017, and recorded in Book 016967, Page 01046, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1722

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Willow G. Terry and Randolph Terry, (Randolph Terry & Willow G. Terry, both deceased)(Heirs of Willow G. Terry: Joseph Gordon, Samuel C. Gordon, Dorothy M. Wilkins, Lizzie Alford, and Unknown Heirs of Willow G. Terry) to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 23rd day of April, 2007, and recorded in Book 012520, Page 00739, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1158

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Rafael Alvarado and Yulma Yanet Alvarado (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Rafael Alvarado and Tulma Y. Alvarado) to Brock & Scott, Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of March, 2006, and recorded in Book 011888, Page 02445, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on No-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 221

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Robyn M. Olmo and Greta Vigre to David A. Harris, Trustee(s), dated the 9th day of June, 2011, and recorded in Book 14371, Page 1434, and Modification in Book 16129, Page 2765, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on No-

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 14 SP 2693

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jessica Miller and Jon Mitchell to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of August, 2003, and recorded in Book 10409, Page 2343, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe set in the western right-of-

Said property is commonly known as 7802 Weathered Oak Way, Raleigh, NC 27616.

BEING all of Lot 298, Chastain Subdivision, Phase Eight, as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 2002, Page 989, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3316 Perkins Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27610.

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.

ber 20, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

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 Albert K. Prude.

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

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 Wanda Allen.

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

DEED.

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.

PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-02586-FC01

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.

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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.

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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.

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Said property is commonly known as 6803 Horseback Lane, Raleigh, NC 27610.

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 Lorene Wright.

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

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

location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in Mark’s Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

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

the effective date of the termination.

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

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

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

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

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

nation. 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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BEING all of Lot 69, Sumerlyn Subdivision, Phase 3, as shown on that map recorded in Book of Maps 2008, Page 253, Wake County Registry.

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

All of Lot 145 in Amber Ridge Subdivision, Phase 8, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2006, Page 1438, Wake County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2256 Ballston Place, Knightdale, North Carolina.

Commonly Known As: STON Place, Knightdale,

2256 NC

BALL27545

Parcel ID: 0349245 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

foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 9 as shown on plat recorded in Map Book 1962 Page 9 Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 600 Poplar Springs Church Road, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical,

vember 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 4 according to a plat of survey entitled “A Minor Division of Lot 1 creating Lots 3 and 4 for Robert A. and Annie Mae Leach” dated May 19, 2000 by M. M. Weeks Land Surveying and recorded in Book of Maps 2000, Page 1580, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 9957 Fanny Brown Road, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agree-

vember 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 240, Braxton Village Subdivision, Phase 3, as shown on plat thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2003, Page 88, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 220 Talley Ridge Drive, Holly Springs, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors,

way line of Cypress Street in the Town of Wendell, said iron pipe being located North 08 degrees 15 minutes East 17 feet from the point of intersection of the western right-ofway line of Cypress Street with the center line of Haywood Street); runs thence from said beginning point North 81 degrees 41 minutes West 145 feet to an iron pipe, said iron pipe being set in the eastern property line of the W.H. Bradshaw property; runs thence with the Bradshaw line North 08 degrees 13 minutes East 104.88 feet to an iron pipe: runs thence South 81 degrees 49 minutes East 145.05 feet to an iron pope set in the western right-of-way line of Cypress Street; runs thence with the western right-of-way line of Cypress Street South 08 degrees 15 minutes West 105.18 feet to an iron pipe, the point and place of BEGINNING and containing 0.35 acres, more or less, according to a survey entitled “House Location for Jonathan P. Huff and wife, Kelly Lassiter Huff, Town of Wendell, Wake County, North Carolina”, prepared by Williams, Pearce and Associates, Registered Land Surveyors, dated August 24, 1992. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 240 South Cypress Street, Wendell, North Carolina.

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

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.

File No.: 16-18170-FC02

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 LLP P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1280861 (FC.FAY)

c/o Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1278606 (FC.FAY)

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TAKE NOTICE WAKE 19 SP 852 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 Elsie Womack to Ormond Harriott, Trustee(s), which was dated March 29, 2001 and recorded on April 3, 2001 in Book 8865 at Page 02475, 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

19 SP 1635 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 Susan Page Hornaday to Rebecca W. Shaia, Trustee(s), which was dated June 11, 1999 and recorded on June 11, 1999 in Book 8332 at Page 2442, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 20, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

NA DUNN,” MARKS CREEK TOWNSHIP, WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, DATED JANUARY 31, 1970 AND PREPARED BY HAROLD B. MULLEN, REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR.

BEGINNING AT AN IRON STAKE IN THE WESTERN RIGHT OF WAY OF THE SMITHFIELD ROAD (N.C.S.R 2233); SAID STAKE BEING LOCATED 27.4 FEET FROM THE CENTER LINE OF SAID ROAD AND BEING THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE ROBERT FAIRLEY PROPERTY, RUNS THENCE AS FAIRLEY’S NORTH LINE SOUTH 57 DEGREES 10 MINUTES WEST 209.30 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE AND SOUTH 76 DEGREES 27 MINUTES WEST 100.3 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE, O’NEAL’S CORNER; THENCE AS O’NEALS NORTH LINE SOUTH 79 DEGREES 47 MINUTES WEST 96 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE; THENCE NORTH 16 DEGREES 42 MINUTES EAST 117.45 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE IN THE JAMES H. WATSON SOUTH LINE; THENCE AS WATSONS’ SOUTH LINE NORTH 72 DEGREES 13 MINUTES EAST 300 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF STATE ROAD 2233; THENCE SOUTH 44 DEGREES 01 MINUTE EAST 69.80 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, AND CONTAINING .82 ACRES OF LAND, ACCORDING TO A SURVEY ENTITLED “PROPERTY SURVEY FOR CORIN-

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

for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit:

EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

Being all of Lot 93 in Stafford Townhomes Subdivision, Phase II-A, Block 28, as shown on a map recorded in Book of Maps 1984, Page 1774, Wake County Registry to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

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 Susan Page Hornaday.

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

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 November 20, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder

Said property is commonly known as 502 Crabberry Lane, Raleigh, NC 27609.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 2323

ly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 12, Carolina Country Club Property, as shown on a map recorded in Book of Maps 1942, Page 44, Wake County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of said lot. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2503 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Wallace K. Renfrow to CB Services Corp., Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of July, 2011, and recorded in Book 014401, Page 01497, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particular-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1846

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jimmy D. Perry and Sherri C. Perry to DB Title LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of January, 2018, and recorded in Book 017033, Page 00917, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 25, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more par-

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1644

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ernest Leslie Davis, Jr. and Lureen Delois Davis, as tenants by entirety, husband and wife to Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of November, 2016, and recorded in Book 016607, Page 01385, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on No-

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 553

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joan D. Silvey, (Joan D. Silvey, deceased)(Heirs of Joan D. Silvey: Adrienne Silvey, Marc Silvey, Sr. and Unknown Heirs of Joan D. Silvey) to John B. Whitley, Trustee(s), dated the 12th day of October, 1999, and recorded in Book 008441, Page 02121, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 1998

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Robbie Gale Phillips (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Robbie Gale Phillips) to Roy E. Kelly, Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of June, 2000, and recorded in Book 008603, Page 02568, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Wake, in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particular-

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 1305

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jeaniece Forte to Gurley & Cookson, PLLC, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of September, 2005, and recorded in Book 11605, Page 2168, and Modification in Book 16043, Page 561, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on November 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash

Said property is commonly known as 5524 Dunn Road, Knightdale, NC 27545.

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 proper-

ty 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 Elsie Dunn Womack.

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.

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.: 18-09951-FC01

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

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.

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

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

File No.: 14-25234-FC05

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 Single-Family Residential Real

Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

c/o Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1284901 (FC.FAY)

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

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

c/o Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1279287 (FC.FAY)

chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or

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

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 pur-

the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a stake in the southeastern line of Sanderford Road, said stake being distant in a northeastern direction as measured along the southeastern line of Sanderford Road 105 feet from the point where the southeastern line of Sanderford Road begins to curve into Fox Trot Road, said stake also marking a common corner of Lots 158 and 159 as shown on map to which reference is hereinafter made; runs thence along the southeastern line of Sanderford Road North 22 degrees 46’ East 90 feet to a stake, a common corner of Lots 159 and 160; runs thence along the dividing line between Lots 159 and 160 South 67 degrees 14’ East 135 feet to a stake; runs thence South 22 degrees 46’ West 90 feet to a stake; runs thence North 67 degrees 14’ West 135 feet to the point of Beginning; and being Lot 159 of Foxfire Subdivision, Section 1, according to map recorded in Book of Maps 1969, Page 337, Wake County Registry, See survey by Triangle Engineering Assoc., Inc., dated March 20 1970. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2209 Sanderford Road, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

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

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or 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 Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1237101 (FC.FAY)

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

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,

ticularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 60, Blaney South Subdivision, as shown recorded in Book of Maps 2016, Pages 21012104, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4025 Kaylor Creek Drive, Apex, North Carolina.

Property Drive,

Address: 4025 Kaylor Apex, North Carolina

Creek 27539.

Tax Map ID: 0438776 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,

vember 18, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Situated in Wake County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 221, Phase 5, Sumerlyn Subdivision, as depicted in Map Book 2009, beginning at or including Pages 23-26. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6336 Slopeside Court, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Being the same property as conveyed to Ernest Leslie Davis, Jr. and Lureen Delois Davis, as tenants by the entireties, from George Rose Builder, Inc by that Deed dated March 1st, 2011 and recorded March 4th, 2011 in Deed Book 014288, Page 02318 in the Wake County Records.

Parcel

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ly described as follows: All that certain property situated in the Township of Wake in the County of Wake and State of North Carolina, Being described as follows: Being all of Lot 13, Riverknoll, Phase Two, Part B. Being more fully described in a Deed dated 02/28/1992 and recorded 03/02/1992. Among the land records of the county and state set forth above, in Deed Volume 5122 and Page 0800. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1932 Ranch Mill Circle, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any rep-

the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 43, Battle Ridge North, Phase 3, as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 2004, Page 21932196, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6400 Guard Hill Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative

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

resentation 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 Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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

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

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the effective date of the termination.

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